Monday, June 16, 2008

crazyassignment

hey, how are you guys? haah, finally, i finished writing this post draft and able to publish it. It's about one of my last assessment for this semester. This week is the final week for me to submit all of my assignments. I finished all the presentation so I just need to submit all the stuffs that I presented last week. I also had to submit my assignments for other subjects.
Anyway, I had a problem with one of my assignment for CGI Visual Effects class. It was a real one crazy assignment! (thx God it's finished now). The assignment is about Hair and Cloth Effects. We were suppose to give hair and clothes to our character. For some people it worked well, but for others like me and some of my friends it didn't work! I had to use uni comps (cos it's quite a tough task for my laptop). I worked on it days and nights, yea literally, I had to stay overnight at uni for 3 days (first experience stayed overnight at uni because of assignment). I just went home to take a bath and eat a little more proper food - I just had noodles and meatpies for 2 days >.<.
But finally, I could finished it. yaaayy! Well, it was already 3 days late so I had to finish it and submit it like it or not. It wasn't a perfect work. The hair is still going through the character's head and the t-shirt and pants are still going through the character's body as well. I tried to fix it for hours but I only could make it look a little better, just a little. I didn't like the result but yea, I admit it was my fault anyway. I neglected this assignments for like 2 or 3 weeks because I was too concentrate doing my other project and i took a lazy week. Soooooo.... hikkksss....devastated, but it already happened anyway. cant do anything bout that.... hiiikksss.. dammit!! i should got a whip for being a sloth. haaaahhh....

Well, what's done is done! Let's move on and try not to do the same mistake in da future.

While I was sleeping (at uni)....

After trying fixing the problem for hours, finally it looked a little better and I decided to render the whole scene right away. I just didn't want to wait any longer. So I divided the scene into 4 computers and rendered it at the same time, hoping it'd be faster. While waiting for the rendering to complete, I went outside the class to rest a little.
There are a couple of sofas near the uni kitchen on that 5th floor - Animation Department is on 5th floor in that SO2 building (i forgot the name of that building just the number). Anyway I sat on one of those sofas there. Ohhh, I could have 2 sofas just for myself.. hehehe.. I was planning just to relax a little bit but I fell asleep on that sofa. I lost myself in a deep sleep until I heard the sounds of steps, the sounds were so far away but....
it was getting louder....
louder....
and louder... as it was approaching me...
then it stopped. I felt a pressence of something right beside me. I didn't dare to open my eyes but I had too..
I opened my eyes.....
slowly and.........
I saw a blurry face. As my sight was getting more focus, I was shocked!!!
There was a man face, one of uni security guard, smiled at me. I think he was watching me sleeping a moment before. His expression was like he just saw a baby sleeps peacefully. No, I think I just had a funny face while I was sleeping!! (maybe i slept with my mouth open or i laughed while i slept?) daammit, it was so embarassing! I got up straight away. He said good morning to me, then he walked away and laughed. I looked at my phone, it was around 4am. I walked back to my classroom and found my classmate still working on his assignment.. Woww!!
Oo well, I checked my assignment but it hadn't finished rendering yet that time. Sooooo, I pulled up a couple of chairs, lied down and sleep again. At least this time, nobody would see my funny sleeping face (cos my classmate seemed quite busy with his stuff).. I could sleep peacefully til before others come to uni... hehehe...

Friday, June 13, 2008

Silent Brisbane.

This morning, Brisbane was so foggy. Kind of Silent Hill but with no monsters and zombies (phiew..) Well actually, I dont mind if there's any monsters and zombies, as long as I'm equipped with Desert Eagle with enough bullets, machine gun and health potion of course. Ooh, and I always can go back to live whenever I'm dead or game over. hehe...
I took a few pics before I start my workshift at Out of The Box and here's the pic of 'Silent Brissy' (which is not silent at all cos it's full of buses in the morning -_-")




Today is my last day working at the Out of The Box Event. (ooohh, no more attention from people!! T_T) Anyway, after I finished my shift there, I went to the city with my friend, Maya. I need to buy oil resistant sole shoes for working. (yea, got new job at kfc, so I will be working at 2 places start from next week).

I walked around in the city lookin for shoes shops. It's night shopping today so every shops close at 9 pm. Maya and I went to eat at the Japs restaurant first cause we were so damn hungry. After we finished eating, walked to the big mall near there, while we were waiting to cross the street, there was a lady approached me. She asked me to buy a 'Big Issue' magazines, it's only 5 bucks each. I rejected her nicely, cause I didnt really know what is it about. I dont want to buy some nonsense news about 'do you really believe aliens?' or 'how to convert everybody to become a vegetarian'. But then she said to me that she and her friends there selling the magazines to make a living, apparently they're homeless.

I felt bad and I wanted to buy it, but the lights already turned green and I wasnt sure if I have some money left in my wallet, so I smiled and said sorry to her then I walked away. I couldn't stop think about it since then. I keep thinking (even until now), maybe I should buy the magazines, I mean, even only 1 magz, probably it could help them. I told Maya about this. We were about to buy it, but nobody around us seemed even bother to look at it. So we were thinking, is it true? the things that she told me, that she selling that magazines to make a living? But why nobody care about that? or they just wanted to not care about that?

Silent Brisbane, that's what's I was thinking, when I saw people including me stayed in silence, turned our cold back to that lady.

I dont want to be some kind of hero or saviour. I dont want to look like a nice and kind girl in front of others. I just couldn't stop thinking about that. Sometimes I feel bad, like I could buy a 100 dollars pair of shoes but I couldnt spare 5 bucks for people who needs it. But again when I started to think like that, the voices inside me head also started talking.

"No, you didnt do any mistake! You worked for that shoes! You want those shoes, that is why you worked to get it!"

"No, she's wrong! Dont defend her for that! She can please herself, get what she wants, but she has to consider about other people too! She cant be a selfish human being!"

"It's not selfish! She just gives herself a reward after working hard. If they want to make a living, they have to work hard too!"

"They are working hard! Selling the magazines? Hello!! They're trying too! They just need a little help. Some people can reach the top of the mountain by themselves, but some need a help. Every person is different."

And yea, they kept arguing..... still... -_-"

Those 2 people are not helping at all!! They're aguing everytime I have a problem or have a bad feeling even when I'm feel happy! cant believe it! >.<

I've decided, when I see that lady again, I'll just but the magz. I think that's a better way, so I wont be thinking about it anymore.


Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Centre of Attention!!

Hello my friends, after sometime I got a chance to write the update news about my life experience on this blog again. I still have assignments and loads of works to do but I spare some time to share my great experience volunteering for a major event in Queensland.

Yeap, i'm volunteering for Out of The Box, it's a once every 2 years festival for 3 to 8 year olds kids. I'll be working for the event in the animation workshops and as a 'buddy' (basically it's a tour guide) as well for the whole week. At first, I was just doing it for the sake of uni. I have to do 60 hours work experience to graduate, so this volunteer things can give me 15 hours work experience. But after like 3 days helping out there, it's tiring but also quite fun. Well, there were few things that uncool, but the rest is okay.

The cool things are :

1. I get to know new people.

2. Get the unlimited access through the whole QPAC (Queensland Performing Arts Centre) building which is a cool building.

3. Everywhere I go, those kids and some of the parents eyes following me and others with OoTB T-Shirts everywhere, as if I'm the coolest person on earth.. ahahaha!! Ooo yes, I loooovve attention! I'm such an attention seeker.. hahahaha...


They thought every volunteers know everything for that event but actually sometimes I gave the wrong direction and false information to people.. kkkk.. soorryy.. hehe.. >.<

Here's the picture, me on the way to Lyric theatre


Anyway the few bad things are :

- when I worked as a buddy for a big group wasnt that cool at all. The group was consist of parents and their kindergarten kids, the mums kept talking about things that i dont even understand (mums thingy) and the kids kept running around, so there I was, standing silently in the middle of the crowd, ignored!! a a.. I hate being ignored! I totally resent it!!

-another thing is when i worked at the animation workshops, some group of kids are really annoying. I felt like I wanna bump my head to the wall. They just never listen and when they stuck with the software, they started to yell out for help, asked things that has just been explained by the tutor. Crazy kiiidds!! One of them even cried because his partner didnt want to swap the mouse. haaaahh.... -_-"
Anyway, I still got 2 days left as the Centre of Attention!! hahaha.. Yeea, to all the kids who are coming to the OoTB festival, give us your attention!! We've been working so hard voluntarily to fulfill your needs of entertainment.. mwahahaha...

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Seo Taiji - October 4th ( 서태지 - 10월 4일 ) Lyrics w/ English Translation

In the middle of the assignments' attack, I spared at time for myself to do things other than assignments. Y know, sometimes you just need to get outta the routines. One of the things is I'm learning Korean. Well, it's been almost a year I'm learning the language casually. I'm not taking a formal course or Korean class, just some of my Korean friends helping me out and teaching me the language. I tried to study it by myself sometimes, just grabbed a Korean song and tried to translate it, watched Korean drama, read Korean children books. It's quite fun to study other language, Korean is a quite hard to learn tho because the grammar structure is different with my language (Indonesian) and English. But so far, I managed to understand some phrases and words and I can read and write Han-geul (Korean alphabets).. yaay!!
Below is the first Korean song that successfully translated by me.! Well, one of my friend let me hear it around 2 months ago and i love it rite away. So I decided to translate it by myself. The song title is 10월 4일 (October 4th) and the singer is the band called Seo Taiji. My friend sent me some of his songs (most of them are rock songs) and actually I like them all. (고마워 종일 오빠! ^^) They're all cool!
Anyway, I already finished the translation since last week (my friend already checked it and he already corrected some minor mistakes.). I just got the chance to post it on now (I'm busy with assignments and final project lately). I also embedded the song on the right corner of this page. Soo... enjooyy the song!!


웬지 요즘엔 난 그 소녀가 떠올라
That girl keeps rising up on my mind lately

내가 숨을 멈출 때 너를 떠올리곤해
When I stop breathing, I used to think of you

내 눈가엔 아련한 시절의 너무나 짧았던 기억 말고는 없는데
Around my eyes, there is a vague old time, it was too short, i never cease those memories

넌 몇년이나 흠뻑 젖어 날 추억케해
You've completely soaked my mind these years

*네가 내 곁에 없기에
Because you're not beside me

넌 더 내게 소중해 너는 여우 같아
You're more precious to me, you're like a fox


잠깐 내가 잠든 사이에 넌 내 귓가에 속삭였어
When I sleep for a while, you whisphered in my ear

어째서 넌 날 잡지도 않았었냐고 원망했어
why did you say goodbye, i wasnt say spiteful to you

내겐 네가 너무 맑아서 말 뭇했어
you were so pure to me, i couldn't tell you


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네가 없가에 이곳에 없기에 네가 없기에 넌 내 속에서
Because you are not here, you are precious to me

네가 없가에 이곳에 없기에 네가 없기에 넌 아름다워

Because you are not here, you are more beautiful

Romanisation Lyrics :

wenji yojeumen non keu sonyeoga deoola

naega sumeul momchul dae noreul deooligonhae

nae nungaen aryeohan sijeoleui nomuna jalpatton kiok malgoneun obneugyonde

non modnyeoina heumbeok chojo nal chuokehae

* nega nae gyeote obgiye non to nae ge sojunghae noneun yeowu katha

jamkkan naega jamteun saiye non nae kuitgae soksakyeosseo

ojtchaeseo non nal japjido anhasseotnyago wonmanghaetseo

naegen nega nomu malgeoseo mal muthaesseo

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nega obgiye igose obgiye nega obgiye non naesokeseo

nega obgiye igose obgiye nega obgiye non areumdawo