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23/1/2009 Passion of Two Thousand and HATE.
Well i Suppose its time i started writing my yearly log... Shit man its been a truly Tragic year for me ... i mean its been a roller coaster of mild perks and big descents... Anyway.. i started the year slowly with nothing much happening in January, the Career jobs weren't knocking back after 3 months racketing, the lucky ones seem to get something as soon as they slip their final assignment in the drop box while I'm the type that slips through the crack... I thought maybe i had to actually get my Degree in the form of plastic paper (it feels like money) for it to work. anyway I Dishonour student'd myself and then went 2 Canada for two months and Hong Kong for about 4 days (still writing the log 4 those, oh g0d) The next few months flew by like a blur ... the fastest time (wasting) i ever felt in my life. While there were several positive things that happened in 2008, honestly, it barely out weighs and in some cases is the cause of the negatives... Frankly I'm really disappointed in what I have done with the year, it has been the least satisfying, least rewarding, and unfulfilled, after much hard work. (makes me feel like i havent worked hard enough see.) What I'm trying to say is maybe I'm starting to really feel reality now... Life cannot be experienced like Spongebob does forever because it has come to the stage where you realise that dreams are supposed to happen or start happening now or who knows if when they will... like a tilted wall shelf where fine china once sat still now one by one rolls off in bullet time and smashes to a million a piece on the floor, representing your dreams and possibilities... In in simpler words.... Its harder to stay focused and reach goals because they seem to be falling apart... Of course this comes from comparing yourself to those around you, people you meet and people you have known for along time, and practically anyone else around your age and what they have achieved. I feel So0 used (and underused) this year, offering my services for next to nothing if not nothing and getting nothing and little to no recognition for it... Tragic, and the problem is I'm not sure when this phase will end or what I'm going to do next year, ha some kinda paranoia. of course I've lo0ked at some possibilities (details on that later), but when you are that unsure of what to do, it only feels like a weak shame that you cant make a decision. pretty much all of my life has been planned out until now, i had a bit of this after high scho0l but here it is again, bigger, longer, badder and uncut... what the fuck next, i don't even know what i will do tomorrow, that's how awesome it is. My involvement with VSA this year is.. well considerably less at first, but escalated with the the multimedia i did for them, i had to do some prime time News like videos for a trip to canberra which was in april and also another for the Ball in november?. In addition to all that at the Ball, Me and quoc were suddnely swamped with the responsibility of doing the sound which we although we had little experience in, had a logical approach. we also performed as a boyband, namely like the backstreet boys, which can somewhat be put in the things 2 do b4 u die
list* Suppose we are dwelling on the negatives here, but i need to get it out of the chest... I've lost touch of time really, its practically like losing your mind (which is a terrible thing to lose, Einstein or someone said that) I've been turning up late for practically everything and some simple tasks have taken a very long time to getting around to do and also a very long time to do. however, cursed with apo0r short and immediate memory, i supposedly forget things promptly to move on to thinking about the future... After returning from my rather spoiled and now apparent, pointless trip i think my focus was shattered. I created an epic video invite (hard labor of time) and celebrated my Birthday withYnot , although it was successful and went better than expected, it did take a lot from me. All seemed prosperous, a return, a birthday, an unpaid internship and my graduation ceremony, i finally go my Plastic degree ... however the Career jobs to this point still weren't knocking back after Eight months. I've had plenty of interviews and i must say they escalate in terms of importance as the year progressed,yeh of course i still manage to screw them up or other. lets run through the employment or lack of* adventures i had... late last year i did a Xmas promotional video for Space, the nite club above the shark bar, i did this for free more or less expecting some sort of paid work afterwards, needless to say that didn't happen. working withQuoc, I had quite a bit of fun doin it... here it is on the top left of the video page on the Elation site and is by far the best. this was right before my overseas trip. http://www.elationevents.com/video.html I was accepted into an internship for an music management agent?, they manage several Australian bands, evermore is about the only one i heard of.. i lasted two days at this unpaid internship where i would take dishes to the kitchen, and fill jugs of water... log in toMyspace and Facebook accounts to act as the respective bands and respond to fans or Friends*, i don't even like music that much let alone know or like these bands enough to pretend to be them.... yes this job felt like a lie... i amused myself by putting all the band statuses to Ninja - i was then told to change it to something promotional like "cant wait for newEP or "insert album title here" to be released" the next day. One particular band website had a forum that was spammed to hell with porn... while one enjoyable job for a man is one which he can be a pervert in ...umm yeh, tho this wasn't what i was after... porn has its time and place and in this job.. i didn't think so. They also made me do errands like go to the post office and tape up band posters on the streets to the cross... which was illegal as i found out on the second day of posting as i met a ranger removing the ones i posted on the first day... i actually convinced her to take a roll of 15 or so posters so it would seem like i did some work before getting told off, so that i could goMcD's for a shake n read the paper. Needless to say.. the internship didn't teach me much aside from the lies of the music industry and the shit kicking that interns get, they also were taking advantage of at least 3 other interns at the time, seems like they roll themthru like they donut really care, some of them have been there for... well several months. I got a gig to annoyingly cover and interview the cosplayers at Animania, it was a lot of fun and hard work in editing since i didn't have proper sound equipment (i recorded dialogue with a cassette Walkman with a PC microphone). It did give me a fair bit of exposure flaunt some of myapproachableness and lady umm sharpness and other charismatics, I also got a speeding fine of $81 (59 in a 60 zone, common that's not even speed) going home from uni on an editing night which is now $131 because i still haven't paid and its January 10th 2009 (pay your fines kids cause they do lvl up). It was great fun and tiring, I'd like to think that I'm one in a few that has such a dynamic personality, randomly extensive pop-culture knowledge and multimedia training... I even managed to squeeze in work at W on the Sunday. It has been my most successful original Tube although i did use only copyrightanime or other music (my most watched video is an epic Nintendo soccer match game). I still get comments on the video every 4-7 days? got into master of Digital media at COFA and Dropped out within a month and a half... because the only major it had that interested me was 3D Maya, and that seemed to be the hardest thing to do with a life at the time, also the core units were the same things i did before... so all in all it was doing the same things again to get a title upgrade to masters... it didn't seem worth it. I did at least 90 hours of intern? with an online invitation service (for everyone that doesn't know... think facebook events...without the facebook), they treated me alot better, thro prob cos they were a small and new company, also the the dude who lo0ked after me was just a year older (sigh*). i got quite abit of creative freedom there, mostly i designed invitations for ppl 2 make their own with details to their events, other things i did was collect feedback from emails into an excel sheet, gather images, organise and test some content online particularly mine... I also learned a bit about such free service online business. overall it was a good experience and my mentor is a truly co0l guy who takes photos of celebrities on the side as a media photographer, problem with this intern was there wasn't really a mentor or someone to tighten my PS graphics more. During this i had 2 other interviews with job agencies that specialise in media recruitment, pretty much both of them said i have sorry experience but were quite impressed by my portfolio. One interesting interview i had was designer for an online graphical chat for teens. for those who do not know, i dont want to give away the name... u kno how powerful google is now... it is like unichat or a 2d rpg like chatting client that gives you a room in the hotel and you furnish it like in the sims except with your credit card. now the first interview went ridiculously well, a whole hour at a cafe near the harbor, we clicked so0 well it was not funny. fromnaruto , once piece, Nintendo games, the first promotional booklet i found when i was working at Franklin's which happens to be the first product the interviewer/designer worked on music, the music management company they liaise with is the same one i did the 2 day intern at and i was able to regurgitate the company earnings and culture (wikipedia saves my life again). i prepared hardcore for this day, printing my work and researching and also designing a pixely ying yang and crescent glass table in advance (shows my understanding of pixels, transparency, metal finish and cultural taste) till it was like 4am. the next part of their recruitment process is what killed me, first of all they sent an exercise to be completed over the weekend, it contained an attachment about the task so i downloaded it and worked to it. the exercise was basically design some furniture, i kinda already did that so i added to the Asian theme with achun li dress and hair buns, wall lanterns and scrolls and a ying and yang rug and trumped it with a tiger rug. what i didn't realise is that the email detailed that i had to submit this over email, since i only focused on the attachment i didn't realise this and thought id just bring it to the round 2 interview. that weak point as well as meeting with the regional director (makes it a much more serious interview, nonaruto or music talk here) and pretty much stating that i WANT to travel (cos regional director here says he goes japan and other oceanic Asian places) and WANT to do other multimedia stuff beyond pixel graphics like web and video, i topped this shit pile off by forgetting how muchhabbo makes financially and giving some ridiculous amount off my head... must have made them feel like a fo0l for even considering me for the second round. This interview however really made me think about what i do want in life and how any kind of serious job would affect that. drawing many many tiny virtual pixel furniture for at least 2 years would not be rewarding no matter howdesignery they get and is honestly quite sad. After these i had an immensely rushed interview with a creative agency. the recruitment called me up like hours after i submitted my interest and told me to come see him, i did so and then it was off the grill and into the sun, i was never rushed into an interview after applying as fast as well 2 or 3 hours? anyway i tried to relax a bit more and i guess i was too relaxed and casual, my interviewersharingain (copy technique) truly sucked i guess, when they asked if i used the Internet a lot i responded with something along the lines of, too much* which pretty much puts it in negative light... however the designer who was interviewing me with the man liked my portfolio n said that it reminded him of himself. i can pretty much say that if things are happening this fast... u shouldn't let it, don't do an interview on the day you applied for it. I had an interview to do graphics for the negotiator magazine, this went alright, i even suggested that since they had a website going i could do video production to promote local businesses. for those who don't live in areas where this magazine is distributed, it is a magazine that advertises local businesses for like Liverpool i think is one, and there are coupons hence the name negotiator. anyway they have pretty horrible PS jobs, even if i got it ... i think I'd be going backwards on my skills. guy said i came close in the end with 2 other guys with experience . I also got into Radio, indeed one of my dreams, although it was a rather watered down achievement since it was a local community station, i co-hosted the Wednesday morning variety show, we were able to play practically anything on air, pirated, offyoutube , totally random... and well it was fun at first and i was really into it and they guys liked my personality, but i realised how little control i had over the show as the new guy and i didn't want tointerviene the two other hosts even though i was older and more qualified than them.. i respected their experience, they were 17 and 19 or so...sigh* I started coming in late and not turning up on many occasions mainly because i didn't feel that fulfilled with my minuscule contribution, and also I was entering my out of focus on whatim doing an therefore out of touch with time phase. I cant say i left this intern/position on good terms cos the main guy didn't even let me come to the last show, that is the last before Xmas when the team is disbanded and i don't even know what happens with that time slot. I suppose what i was aspiring to was to be a bit like Hamish and Andy, but really theppl you work with would need to click in that direction seriously and strongly forever. The 2 guys were mostly into their music, particularly the band Dragon force (the last stage of guitar heroes). Cant say music is a deeply meaningful thing to me and in addition our taste also differs. Music is an odd thing to get carried away with, id imagine a lot of people are antisocial andemo when they truly madly deeply live on particular music. Of course such can be with anything including video games and movies. During all this yet again... I joined the YAA company creyation, for those who don't know, YAA is an organisation that gathers young individuals to nurture business skills, basically what happens is we form groups of 20 or so to be a company, create a product and sell it. Not sure if its against the rules cause i was technically a honours/masters drop out and no longer a student. Anyway our product happened to be multimedia related.. of course this is right up my alley and my help was so0 dearly needed. the project was really ambitious, create a DVD of interviews that covers well many aspects of university life and help ease the transition for highschoolies . we (when i say we, i mean a select few of the company) took literally near forever on production and interview about 50 people? we cut most of them and ended up with something like 20 or so. No one had any idea how difficult such a production was and i do kinda regret not using my experience to do more than just advise on how to do things and just support the team... i should have been more of a leader, not that the managing director was a bad guy, he was the heart and soul... i just wasn't motivated enough. we did see the production through and ended up with a mediocre product (which i wouldnt really show off), we managed to even sell a bulk tokinokunia and make a small profit (tho really nothing can really make up for the amount of blo 0d sweat and tears that cure cancer). we were nominated for at least 4 awards and got none, I'm so indifferently pissed off that i haven't even opened the envelope of the certificate they sent us all, really makes u wonder if fate is out there pulling the strings and is just watching and laughing at you, crippling my will and soul, my 2009 would be part his best of laughs* DVD collection. after the embarrassing awards dinner that cost us a small fortune i also got fined for not having green P's up by random breath testers. The most important interview of my life came around September, the A-F-A (advertising) (federation) (Australia) traineeship, though it was still a job for like nine months contract. each year about 13 or so advertising agencies get together and recruit 1-4 or so trainees to become part of the team. It was kinda like the apprentice show, out of apparently 300 applicants my entry wentthru as part of 30 finalists. we had to answer 10 questions about ourselves under 100 words each response. the questions were things like what is your favorite advertising campaign, your favorite brand, what have you done since you left university orTAFE and what are the 10 things you plan to do before you are 30 and also which top 3 agencies you like most and why. after that there was two days of the agencies presenting themselves, a few exam like situation short response questions, group mock campaigns and our presentation of them and then.. our own presentation. we have been given theok* to try stand out in them, which is what im sure i can go over the top with..and i think i did. I entered the room dressed as a ninja and described advertising to be similar to ninja arts, takes persistence, practice and execution at the right time. then took the mask off and continued to talk about myself. exaggerating myself as a creative and unstable random guy (I'm sure this scared them) who has experienced a lot of different media production during the year. I even handed out the 120somthing photos of things with jack in them that i collected in my 3 years because they would get the point of what kind of person i am in 3 seconds, as in advertising time. i finished this presentation by showing my graduation photo with my parents (sigh* what was i thinking), i thought it gave it an emotional and passionate touch to it, because they had faith in me... anyway.. i went about 20 seconds over time and I'm sure i lose points 4. But that was the most serious (by which I mean it seemedunserious) presentation i can give about me.. EVER. while i did not get in, it did take alot out of me and i even got sick and barfed outside the galleries on the first day. After such a painful and disappointing experience (among many others this year) i don't know if i can expect much to come from hard work anymore... (though I'm sure i say this every time in previous similar instances) somehow i can still work pretty hard and expect nothing. regardless I'm almost sure i made everyone in that room know who i am. There was another long interview i had for sales of business to business stuff, went thru a similar process in like 2 hours, then i got this email that said i didn't make it... didn't really care. i had an interview with a company that organises events like high school prom nights and stuff. i think it went quite well with the manager (happens to also be a year older than me) until a designer asked me the harder questions and i just answered them honestly. which really doesn't do me any good cos i had 2 pull out flash websites i consider to be max level 10 and my own which i give a 3 and then he asks me what i feel... and i said intimidated.... Some time during all this yet again (really 2 bad a memory to tell things in order, and they over lap), I also did some voluntary multimedia assist at salvation army's Oasis. they are basically a place that supports youth, get them off drugs and the streets, give them something to do, and multimedia happens to be one of them. i did a lot less than i make it sound, the main project i worked on was with these 2 guys and a rap music video, i hardly did anything except shoot a few angles, the real talent was with these guys. they had some heavy lyrics and they were quite the pro atproto0ls. since they were lo0se youths, their focus on the project's production wasn't too stable and several times i have turned up and had nothing to do, after making some enquires i found myself at salvation army's media headquarters. i had a somewhat interview and offered myself voluntary there, it felt quite good and the guy said he would call me if anything comes up...still waiting...he's not gonna call. On the first of December i got terminated (a more cinematic word for fired) from Big W, all i did was give my staff discount to an associate on the counter (which we do all the time to buy stuff for ourselves) what i didnt expact was she proceeded to discount some friend of hers* which is not staff. i indirectly caused the company to lose $80 i found out afterwards and they didnt like that. So after after three years, ends my Big Wo0lies legacy... really it was about time i left that place... it must have been also the Economic recession, looking 4 a reason 2 frier the olds and take in the minimum wage teens... I took this matter to industrial relations as unfair dismissal and i am currently in a conciliation meeting with Woolworth's next month, however i turned down an interview (ill count that as a failure) by calling in that i would be late and need to reschedule on the last day (of the 21days) to take the case up of unfair dismissal. Really i was disappointed in myself in how i let that happen, cause it means i turned down a job opportunity for an awesome junior position at an ad agency to get legal on the ass of a department store chain that i was fired from and most likely will not get back, ARE U FUCKED JACK!? Around the same time my own business also got off the ground, working with a company that designs monitor mounts. those TVs in shops you see hanging off the walls, id say 70% its from my company, those PC monitors that can spin round in UTS tower at the student center... same deal. now what i do is installation videos for these mounts, i shoot and edit them. i have to say I'm giving a ridiculously sweet deal to them charging too. they are also letting me try packaging design as well, which i i would charge about the same. Although it is fun and all having my own business, it is hardly stable and so far i have only made like $200 as they decided that my voice isn't instructional material ... my sarcasm fails me again. so now i have to wait for them to develop a whole bunch of scripts for a professional voice over artist and pay him the one off and then finish the editing and the project and get the final payment for each video. I'm pretty pleased (and so are they) of my work though. That pretty much sums up my employment related adventures last year (yes I'm still writing this and its 16/1/09) I'm hanging on a thread of positivity now... I'm trying to decide if i should go back to university or study next year... if something that was so0 damn important to you just disappeared ...because you grew out of it... should you go back to it if you had the choice even though it disappeared before because maybe it was time to move on? I assume they call it a bachelor's degree because you become engaged like you are to be married to the field. so once again I'm lo0king at my opportunity to be an honour student, an unessential title to add to my degree for some sort ofselfabsorbed honour. how right is this path? i suppose i should not look at such activity as a dead end, i always do that which is why I'm afraid of commitment (especially when moneys involved), cause if i want to be committed, i seriously am... While i do get some sort of flexibility even though i would be a student once again, i cant help but to think that some sort of chains will be holding me down, that is study or at this level it is considered "research"... like being engaged to be married once again. I still want to fly and travel the world, there is nothing really holding me back, aside from money and employment stability... just whydont I let go? I suppose i understand how important the feeling of FREEDOM is now as Guam once beckoned for. I have freedom now but why am i not enjoying it, why don't i really feel it? At this point i have been rejected from Usyd for a teaching degree of some sort and UTS (i just got this moments ago) for communication honours... so my only hope left is ol UNSW. Of course there has been many many things good that has happened this year, family finally moved out of the old lidcombe home after like 16 years and my uncle who lives with us now also has an adorable baby... i got on a Hollywood film set which was Wolverine to be released some time this year?, and although few i did some other extra work for Swift and shift, The Phone, a holiday season anti-bindge drinking campaign and also Serious crime, a reenacting show launching in a few months... But i think best of all is joining Rumble Pictures, it began with one person i ho0ked up with on a bus, this lady is Maria Tran. RP is a collective of young ppl with interests and goals like mine i suppose, they were into art and film making and the community. the stuff we did together are awesome, its like a cult where everything we do, we do it for expression and with a passion it makes so0 much sense although it is brutal hard work with the final product as the only fruit of our labor. Importantly, this is the year i learned about passion and heart* those wordsment little to me before a long conversation i had not too recently with Tim, the founder of rumble pictures. After all the stuff i went through this year, I was wondering why I do it, why do i fight so0 hard to gain supposedly useless experience that no one recognises... it gets to the point u forget why you were doing it, and thought maybe its all you have... Tim explained something along the lines of (elaborated for cinematics)... its when you want something, but all signs are against you, your logic tells you otherwise, friends, family, maybe even other people disagree with you, and even your guts say to you.... NO* It all hurts but you go against it all and follow your heart, that is what passion is. (kinda like the way of the ninja but more uhh down 2 earth) And really i guess its hard to comprehend this until you feel it. I always thought that all the heart does is pump blo0d, and can be replaced by a mechanical one, and I pretty much still think it does... but i cant find another word or organ... the spleen perhaps (been playing too much no more her0es on wii) to explain the drive that goes against all physical, mental, logic, internal and exterior forces preventing one to chase dreams. As far as we know while asleep the mind cant really control our dreams, with passion, its like pushing boundaries of everything including ones mind, like something that overrides the mind to chase dreams while awake. Passion can be a dangerous thing, and i suppose u need to understand what your passion is to use it at the right time and effectively, or you may get exhausted and perhaps do stupid things. I think if you stack all the videos i did now you get the duration of a medium feature film... which i think is somthing to note. On that note... i suppose i should end this entry now, its already about a month late and I'm too fuzzy to recall the rest that i done last year that was good and bad... hey whats past is past, this is now a Chinese new years blog. while this "Chinese new years revolution" is essentially the same as last years new years resolution and the 2 other years before that ("Be the best me i can be"), i however decided to reword it to give it more zing, and sting...as a passionate message from my own heart to myself... "Keep up with me Jack!" With this let us continue to do not what we can... but what we have a passion for...  7/1/2008 Fo0 Th0sand and Se7enZ.Begin Writing Time: 10:45 8/12/07 Location : UNSW Media labs Lvl 2 I'm trying not to start this blog in a negative way, but let’s see how we go... It is a fact that cannot be denied no matter how hard i try, bottom line is blogging is weak. But I must do it to see if I can find out anything else about myself, to be willing to know thy self better by conducting some sort of measurement is no doubt true strength. But enough talk… HAVE AT ME!!!
December 6, 2007. I caused a car accident, quite frankly I let my thoughts wander about life after uni and my semi-brick PSP at the time (i fixed it) and perhaps I was doped up on cold n flu tablets, which is no excuse really…but more on that later.. Okay, so i haven’t been feeling like the best me lately nor have i truly been trying in the last month or 2, but this has been the best year of my life, yes even better than last year and I can’t let this minor curse ruin the award. I did many many incredible... No, EPIC things this year, let’s go on with the positive list shall we...
1. I joined VSA as Marketing Director for UNSW -VSA Soccer Day -Camp -Canberra protest (tho technically not a VSA event) -Cruise -Night in -and other general hang outs Although my bloodline is not Vietnamese, my parents were born and lived their most of their lives and I do come under the children of the boat people category (which is basically all of VSA). also more than half my relatives are still there, My culture at home is a mix of both Vietnamese but primarily Chinese because it is what I can speak, so it feels like this Vietnamese background is something I never really go much of, aside from my moms co0king and shopping and my parents talking amongst themselves in Viet whenever they want to discuss anything they don’t want me to understand. Can I say I also joined because I wanted to feel more Viet as well? Culture is an important thing to me and with VSA I can’t say I learned a lot about having some Vietnamese heritage in me but I certainly feel something warm and fuzzy.. Would help if I can speak more Viet beyond basic cursing and several dishes... namely PHO*
Here are the 2 Posters i did, click links for a larger image. (so they are not all that (and one is a recycle) but i did these during mild pressures of uni and also there are the bo0bies i had to hide them in the second one)
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/6928/letsrockcfinaltiz2.jpg
My UNSW President even gave me the best randomness award for Xmas...
2. I Finished UNI... - UNI was top priority in my agendas... umm there is a problem with this of course, when you put something at the top and cling to it with all hope and energy it becomes a let down when it ends. 16 years of non-stop study boiled down to the moment I sliped that credit grade report on my group theatre piece… it was unspectacular, hope the graduation is more fulfilling. Now I know uni does not have to end... I could have continued to do Honours or masters in something like digital media (I assumed it’s too late to apply) or maybe even another bachelor? But NO I wanted it to end. I decided to finish this year by overloading my last semester with 5 subjects that is combining 3rd and second year subjects (an idea thanks 2 YnoT) although it did make it harder it wasn't THAT much harder, at times one feels like the number 5 of subjects is unnatural to make an excuse for one's self, but my extra subject was the easiest being theatre and didn't have that much assignments or required that much commitment. All in all it was the most epic academic year with my fast tracked UNI scheme, some notable things I did include:
- Made a thriller/horror movie basically all on my own, "what are ya Buyin'?" basically a saw approach to piracy the movie turned out really good in most parts and really bad in some others... marvellous really for my first film. I got the idea last year when i pirated the Movie SAW II and realized when I was watching it I accidentally included the "Movie Piracy is a crime" segment...the ironing.
Here is the Trailer for the Movie if you want to see the full thing, hunt me down http://members.optuszoo.com.au/collector5000/assests/video/wrub.html
- Made a Zombie movie for group work - i was responsible for special effects n supposedly editing but our director helped make the cut, thankfully cause I felt like I was over editing for a very long time after “what are ya Buyin’?” (of course there is no escape from a discovered skill, apparently I’m go0d at editing and many hours were poured in regardless). this movie turned out... Okay because I wasn’t the director or cameraman or anything…
This is also just the Trailer
http://members.optuszoo.com.au/collector5000/assests/video/roh.html
-Made a sitcom, this was pretty retarded but it was still go0d fun, this to0k alot of time n we didn’t really make that much episode wise..2. about 17 minutes all up… again
This is Just a ShowReel
http://members.optuszoo.com.au/collector5000/assests/video/3ac.html
-Made an online Portfolio - while it isnt that complex or flashy, it is mediocre impressive and I did it quite efficiently and it would be used in job hunting. You can find all those videos and more here. (OMG I CAN FINALLY DO FLASH HERE)
sorry, but i cant be bothered to make it pause at the start so refresh* if you want to see my showreel Or see it in its ORIGINAL FORM AT
-Wrote My final Essay ever on the Dark Knight BATMAN, 3.5k words... it did ok with a credit, but for the “film genres” subject I ended up with a pass one point away from credit, and in the previous essay she gave me a credit, rubbed it out n wrote pass.... what a stinge. I announce my results, HD,D,C,C,P for sem 2 and HD,D,C,P for Sem1 so... that’s the entire range of the passing grades. (like im really going bother Posting that here)
Update me.... after about a month of bumming around.. job hunting, struggling with stupid projects and working on flexi-time shifts (im not roster 2 work at all but i rock up since there is always someone who does not turn up n i replace) and due to my unsure of what I’m doing next year, a terrible disposition honestly.. I actually applied for both honours and post grad in digital media anyway… tho a large part of me still does want to get on with my life.. the degree isn’t working … maybe I have to actually possess the piece of paper for it to work, but I will have to wait till April 15 apparently… ill be dead by then.
The Snowboarding trip this year was fine, managed to gather 21 people to go on the bus and it was fun and we did do more than last year, but I felt like it was less fun… maybe cause we did spend a lot of time teaching the no0bies how to board and pretty much failed. Should have gone to perisher tho instead of thereadbro again, but we had to go to a more no0b friendly place, besides we did manage to explore it thoroughly this time.
I spent the last 9 days or so of 2007 in Melbourne, it was a trip to free myself form the lifestyle I just mentioned above. I went with Ynot and 2 of his friends from uni, they left after boxing day so that would have been over 3 days in mel (they drove us all there and drove back), however me and Ynot then decided to stay another like 6 days in mel so we can see NYE somewhere other than Sydney for once in our lives… I cant say it was totally a bad idea.. but it definitely wasn’t I truly smart one.. or economical because.. first of all we lost our ride back to Sydney, costing us $65 for the train back which was a barely comfortable 12 hour ride. After our ride left Melbourne we also lost our hotel (well its not was economical to stay there as the 2 of us) I spent 1 night at an old friend’s 7 share house who happened to be living and studying in Melbourne and we happened to run in to him on a tram like the second day to get his number. The next day another homie came from syd to stay at a hotel in mel, we went attempted clubbing that Friday and well… it was crap, apparently Saturday was the day 2 do it.. but the 3 of us actually was the total in this one club… very funny indeed. That night it turned out it was too late to go home by tram to that place we were staying at and that was the one painful painful night me n Ynot spent on the streets with our heavy luggage including the stupid deckchair and 3x Mexican sombrero hats he bought form the boxing day cricket match. Im sure we lo0ked like idiots sitting around.. carring those things and me Jack, hungry sitting in a 24hour Hungry Jacks cause my home is far far away.. oh the ironing.. the next morning I did manage to make it to my friends place to try sleep… horrible morning, could have been my imagination but I swear I heard woman sigh and moan very loudly (for sexual reasons, use your imagination) at that 7 share house while I slept on the hobo mattress in the living room but I was WAY 2 TIRED and REALLY did not want to Know...
the next day (I woke up before noon) I decided to go find a Buddhist temple (nothing to do with what I possibly heard that same morning) I wanted to get some supposed spiritual guidance for the next year wether I get it, need it or not, besides it was one tourist attraction I can at least know exists everywhere. Of course travel is a problem since I didn’t know the system that well, nor the area and it has to be public, so I decided to go to the nearest one I found online which was a suburb away. It was a tram and a bus ride away, after arriving at the bus stop which I do not know if it was correct or not I noticed it was right in front of a Hungry Jak’s, always a welcoming sight and since I had a possible 10 minute wait on my possibly correct bus I decided to go in for some air con (melboure is hotter than syd, it was 40 degress I think) and ice cream. Inside to my luck I ran into another friend of another friend of mine enjoying a $5 storm meal, Alan, I haven’t seen this dude in almost one year. We chatted and it turned out that he was actually there because he got lost on his way back home from the city and also cause the heat was owning his bomb car… it also turned out he was free that day and he visits the temple 2 times or so a month and it was due before the end of the year, also the temple I was heading for he says is crap cause it’s a small residential one, so he would take me to a real one which was about 20-30 minutes drive. Talk about some sort of twist of fate and positive karma to cause us to meet at that greasy fast fo0d joint on a hot day to go to the most serious temple in Victoria . click link for a larger image.
After one more night at that 7 share house I stayed at Alan’s which also was a 5 share or something but the house was cleaner and newer, also it was just gay 2 stay at that other place for more than 3 nights, so my final sleep in mel was at Alan’s.
new years wasn’t really much in mel, I mean the fireworks didn’t seem that high or that much or that long and they didn’t have a bridge to put something stupid at. My last meal for 2007 is honourably a $5 storm meal.. haha over all I spent $570 in 9 days.. which is actually a lot but most of it was from day one paying like 300 for the hotel accommodation and a stupid boat fishing trip. Melbourne is a nice place and it is pretty much like Sydney plus trams, the shopping is about the same, the architecture is better with wonky buildings and more dense shopping malls and the streets are a perfect grid, the people seem to be more friendly but that may have been the festive mood, there seems to be less Asians, tho maybe the quality is better, a lot more Eurasians happening here and people do have a better fashion sense but there also seems to be less Asian ladies.. Maybe that’s just us but the other guys agree. It was actually more of a survival test than a holiday and although there were some painful times, all in all it was a marvellous experience, I wouldn’t do it again but I wouldn’t give up the experience. Coming back I can’t say I learned much tho… heres a cityscape i took with with my crappy phone camrea... yup thats the CROWN Casino there were i lost $2 and won $9... we ended up there pretty much every single day.click link for a larger image.
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Back to the Car accident, I was on the way to pick up my mom from work, I just came from GAME wizards at Lidcombe n had a $9 curry lunch at the Dick smith power house mall nearby. It happened at the intersection of Vaughn street and Woodburn road, a route between Lidcombe and Auburn. I was making a right turn and I failed to give way to an on coming car, very stupid mistake which I managed never 2 make in my almost 3 years of driving. I totalled my dads car and it was written off by insurance, it was a driver’s side to driver’s side crash and I barely felt an impact, sucks that I didn’t experience an air-baggage, but stepping out of the car and looking at it showed the damage, about one third of it was gone, large crumple zone really. Apparently I was really lucky, after the impact I had no scratch and all I did was drop my head in shame… n say shit x2. the ute I collided with was driven by some Russian guy, Vladimir. After we both pulled over he got out of his car lo0ked at me like an Asian driver (so I am) n yelled “don’t you look when your driving”. I responded with a gentlemanly “my apologies” and we pretty much said nothing to each other (second time I used that line that day, earlier I splashed some droplets of water while hopping down stairs on a lady at Lidcombe station). He summoned everything that was unneeded, the ambulance, the fire brigade and the police. All that was really needed was the tow truck, and that we really only needed one for my car, but really to be safe after a crash one should not drive. i was looking for my number plates, turns out it went under the car along with the bumper along with my green Ps...um many spectacular Carolla pieces on the road i didnt have to clean up... click link for a larger image.
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7189/image036dy3.jpg
Over all it was a deeply untraumatic experience and I handled it disturbingly well. strange, it felt things cant get worse at the time so just take it as it comes. I also slept VERY well that night.
Anyway, I picked up illustrator (about time) before I went to Melbourne, and had a very painstalking process (I knew what I was doing, but was I doubt it was efficient) to Vectorize Busty into a Samurai Pizza Kat for this Xmas season. This is the first time she has appeared not as a human in digital with colours and for Xmas. ofcourse i got lazy and did everything else other than the character in Photoshop cause i hate illustrator... as usual click link for a larger image.
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8348/fullresjv3.jpg
In other news.. i failed at going to Asia to celebrate my owning of uni but i may go Canada in a month before i comeback for the ceremony... After the car accident i repaied my PSP i think i was driven by the fact that i cant go to melbourne without one... what happened was i was walking my dog and jaming to few tracks from a brutal collection of about 800 8ibit comodore musiX on my PSP whist walking my 2 dogs(yes i actually got another one after easter this year from twee(spelt Thuy)) it started 2 rain n my PSP was in a case n all n i was having a go0d time so i jammed till it really poured, i mean really... i got home and everything was fine, i even managed 2 play a bit of castlevania SotN, after awhile the sound disappeared n the screen disappeared n i was puzzled... i worked out eventually that the start and select buttons were broken, but those 5 days were very painful with a semi-brick PSP... i resorted to opening the uni a few times and in the end i decided 2 clean what looked like mould sandwiched within the films of the circut ribbon for those keys... after about 2 hours and using sticky tape to resandwich the ribbon... My PSP was as good as 2nd hand which i bought it as... here is a video mid in cleaning and so i realised being brought up by Transformers and LEGO i must be an Engineer in another life alternate universe or whatever...
Very large Detailed image of the circut ribbon. The Crap i cleaned out...(WD-40 is god) http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/682/dsc04336ke6.jpg
Also my family is finally moving out of this shabby home after like 16 years.. so thats most of my life... moving about 2 suburbs away so its still the same area really...i dedicared a uni project to this as well... and my brother is engaged...
Finally, to reflect on my success in achieving my new year’s revolution for 2007, which was “Be the Best Me I can Be” (preliminarily titled “do our best no matter the cost”) I think I got a pass conceded, i did do better than i did in 06 but I’m my own worst critic for this undefinable goal. I think I can do better so the New year’s Revolution (cause resolutions don’t happen) is...
“Be the Best Me I can Be, NO MATTER THE COST” 6/4/2007 Easter drawings
Click to see Full image thought id post some unfinished work... they wont be finished... top one is for Simon's 21st 2 lazy 2 talk now... SF3 3rd strike 14/2/2007 V-DaY and Chinese New PiG!!!
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Hmm... Nuf SAid... i wanted somthing that reflected both western and eastern cultural occasions, the Rake would be familar to Azn as the weapon of the pig dude who hands with monkey journeying to the west, better know and magical monkey* the farm costume is based on the Harvest Mo0n kid's... damn i miss that peaceful game..i threw in the straw hat to add viet flavor .. ive been trying 2 enrich myself with my rather lo0se viet ro0ts/culture. this didnt take 2 long.. liek 8 hours? simple details... i drew everything except the rose.. i added that last cos i was to0 lazy to draw one... the chinese character i got my dad 2 teach me to write. ..ofcourse i always feel i can do better* 23/12/2006 End OF OH-SIXSo0o0... we have reached the end of another year.. Well I cant be bothered to run through the list of things... or can I... ok here we go..
THIS HAS BEEN THE MOST AWESOME YEAR OF MY LIFE!!! +Met even more Fantabulous people (I cant be bothered to list them or the people of the year.. it was lame anyway) +GREW SOME MORE GUTS = i can take on anything! +I can adequately dual wield chopsticks! thats like " \\ //"
+I Hooked 2 friends up! (even though it was semi-unintentional, still my fault...)
+UNI was Troublesome and CHALLENGING +HAD THR333 Jobs at one stage Being Big W - I think ill stay there, cause I meet assorts of ppl there , they hav hired a marvelous new legion of AZNs... must have realised how good I was*`
... and the best thing is many of them speak canto! and they are fine ladies ;D
GLASS Designer - it was a TRAP!!
EXTRA - I was on TV!!! (yeh its bad quality cos i took it with my modial phone... but i make it clear who i am ;D) TO SEE THE AD!!! +One of my best friends Guan came back from Sing 2 go Snowboarding,
its been 3 years since i seen this botha!! and he returns nex year 2 study!!!
+Found a new Dream = SNOWBOARD THE WORLD!!!! +Came closer 2 doing splits horizontal (Chinese splits) by about [---------------------------------------THIS MUCH?-------------------------------------------] (yes, i'm slo) +My drawings have found a new flavor if anyone is paying attention... that is more depth and perspectivey stuff +Rediscovered American Animation - Nuts to U Japanime
+Learned some Flash animation (it will be awhile till I get bac 2 that tho) TO PLAY THE GEEK STEROTYPE GEEK ONE (Incase anyone missed my other one... its in the last post)
Anyway I hope I don’t get Sick of enjoying life and being my own Ecstasy cause I have a feeling that I was this high before n slowed down in high school to its lowest last year... anyway I stuck to last year's main resolution, to be positive no matter the cost and it really worked...either that or its coincidence... but i cant find any true negitives ( - ) as you can see up there... Still there is room for improvement!!! ~regardless...
LET’S GIVE 2007 OUR BEST, NO MATTER THE COST!!!!
CLICK IT 2 SEE FULL SIZE About this Drawing... I needed to do something with my new Tablet PC.... Xmas is always a great time 4 me to pour myself into something... This one was done over a week or 2 in my spare time at night after fulltime glass carrying, cleaning so-called designing.
I think it turned out quite good but part of me expected it to look real professional or diehard ANIME style...
Either i’m still crap, or my westerner style ro0ts is still there.... could be both
Anyway i’m pleased with how it looks better than anything that I done before...
with the costume inspired by a bit of Alchemy (still have not finished it and Tube has killed it xP) with Naruto...
The body seems to be a real forced position... but I think it lo0ks possible enough... I wanted to sh0w some Butt for once...
Of course I wanted 2 add candy canes... but i’m too lazy.
The ~a~ Go G0 title is from viewtiful Joe... not that i’m into it, but its a fancy thing 2 say.. took me 20 or so hours id say...
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