Start of Spring Term

Is been a week since term starts. I am still trying to get my materials for class. Books are way too expensive and I simply can't bear to spend $200USD on Textbks. That's my 2 months food supply man! So I been busy borrowing books from friends and library...Scan and print out or even using my D50 to take photos of the pages and gona complie and print in school for free. Cheapo me...haha..

I kind of regret taking 2 theory classes and 1 studio. Math and Art History 2 is alright...Is been 10 yrs since i taken Math. I am finding difficulty keeping up...Geez... However, the other 2 classes i have my housemates, taiwan friend and my Gym co-worker taking same class as me...so that's pretty cool. :D

Animation 1 is exciting. Learning from an experience animator who had worked in Disney's films like Little Mermaid, Lion King, Emepror Groove etc. is really an experience i can't get in Singapore. Although i am knock back to basic drawing the weight of bouncing ball, it is really good practise. Listening to his work experiences is very inspiring and i am pretty hype up for 2D animation again! Yippy!

I got my Life Drawing's professor to write a letter of recommandation for my grant application. Lol...what he wrote is really flattering...Thank God for favour. I hope door for grant will open up this year. *Pray pray*

You Never Forsake

Verse1:
When I am cold, your love warm me
When i cried, you dry my tears
When I am lost you guide my path
Your everlasting love embrace me

Chorus:
You never forsake
You never never forsake
because you are my Lord

You never forsake
You never never forsake
because your love is everlasting


Verse 2:
So many times I turn away
So many times I sin again
but you have never reject me

When I come to you brokenhearted
Your amazing love makes me whole

You never forsake...

I wrote a song...Hahaha...Don't know why, just in the mood to do so...Thinking back on how i pass the last few busy months, I know God have never forsaken me. So here pop a song of my thoughts...Lol..I don't even know if it makes a song! Maybe someone can add in the melody? Lol.... :D

My poor fingers...

Spring break is here but there is no break for me. =) Is a chance to earn more $~ I am helping my landlord to clean the kitchen at a pretty good rate on a per hr basic. Guess what, i been cleaning for 11 hours from the pass 2 days and i still not done yet! The oven and stove is the more tedious one. The amount of grease that is accumulated over the years...can you even imagine that? I need to use a butter knife to scrape out the chao ta grease. I spend around 3 hrs trying my very best to clean the oven and it just come to the point that... THAT's IT AR!!! It can't be perfectly clean. I gotta move on...

Tomorrow would be the rubbish area, the kitchen floor and the carpet! ... and the fridge...agrh...n the dinning table....

1 funny thing, i think all the guys are very afraid to use the kitchen now. Hahaha...For the pass 2 days i think i only saw one of them use the microwave and that's it...Lol...

FYI, my kitchen is white carbinet, white table top, white oven, white stove....almost everything white, one grease stain not clean I see liao also buay song....lol... but pity my poor fingers, is so numb now and my skin is cracking bad..is hideous. I should treat myself to medicure after all the cleaning...

Gravity

The big picture?

I was sitting in the school shuttle on my way to my 2nd class. My mind can't stop thinking about how am i going to finish up my animation for the competition. On hand are another 4assignments and 2 tests within the next 2 weeks. Animation is a long process... 1 second = 12 drawings. My animation in total is near to 30s. I think i did around 200 drawings in total over the weekend. Drawing is just part 1... i still need to capture the drawings into computer and then digitally color them. Next composite them in another software with music and sound effects. I can really freak out when i think of the whole big process.

I just start thinking :" Oh God i am so gona stress out this 2 weeks.." Strangely, my mind start thinking about how sometimes I want to know the big picture that God have plan for me and i will think why don't God reveal the big picture to us. Show us in advance man and we don't have to worry so much... I then realise isn't it the same as me freaking out over my animation. The complete animation is the big picture. Knowing how much work have to put into it can freak one out but clearing one stage at a time actually makes one wanted to keep going.

Next time when you want to see the big picture God have for you, think again...Can we actaully handle it? Will we run away like Jonah? If Jonah knows God will forgive the Ninevites, would he still obey God and went to Nineveh?

Now, I just gota manage my time well and go all out for the next 2 weeks! Yeah...I am so excited to complete the animation. Btw, I got 89 for my art history that i thought i would done badly. Heee...Again...Not me, is by God's grace...I made alot of spelling mistakes and i felt i have wrote quite alot of nonsense for the 10pts qn. The professor is really lenient this time round. Phew!

Season of Joy...

Wedding bells are ringing for a few friends, well...4 pairs to be exact. Recently, i also found out my friends are now dating each other. 2 friends are going to give birth in April. 2007 is a year of Joy i would say. (Not my year...i meant happiness.. :)) I can't explain the leap of happiness when i found out my friends are getting married or are dating. I feel so happy for them!!

Love
Someone there when in need
A shoulder to lean on
The endless conversation
Precious in each other's eye
The 1st touch, hug, kisses...
The company
The trust for each other
The gifts and flowers

All i once had but gone...now i am just happy that others are enjoying... till the right one comes along... =)

The random entry of everything...

Wednesday morning, with only 2 hours of sleep i head on to take my 4th art history test. Even given 2 weeks of time to study, my mind went blank for alot of questions and spellings of names of the artworks. Frustrated, but nothing much i can do. I don't even feel like checking my answers. Anyway, i decided to let it go and have a better day ahead of me. :)

This morning, my deprived from sleep body have given in. I woke up with a sorethroat and aching body. Not feeling too well...and I had overslept for an hr leaving me 45 mins to shower and walk to school in the light shower of rain. Reachign home, i decided to give work a miss and call in sick. Thank God i did so because it was pouring heavily for the rest of the evening, can't imagine if i cycle to work, i would b caught in rain and might feel even worse. I end up goign to home group that i had stop going since i start work.

Susan cooked fried steak with brocoli and cheese AND mash potatoes for dinner...yummy yummy... Later on we went crazy with dipping Oreo cookies with milk. I kind of ate too much of that, now my throat is feeling bad again...(see lar...what greed can do...ahahha) After most of them went home, a few of us stayed back to do more worship...it was GREAT...I felt so deprive of just singing and praising God...

Coming Sunday is the 15th of the CNY eh... Is time to gather and eat again! Oh well, I hope my throat will be well by then. :)

2weeks to the end of term..is madness and tiredness and stressness and whateverness...time for healing sleepnesss...