後いう間～

In a blink of an eye, the end of May approaches and thus the 30 day countdown to AX begins (..in an hour). The month has blown by quickly... mainly because of the speed work has been.

As soon as work started up that week, everything was face-paced. I was thrown into design after design after design... The redesign of an application already established is quite a handful. Thy want a completely new look, workflow,... basically everything redone before they go into "commercialization" in mid-June (they're in beta right now). Basically, I'm the little (/big) bottleneck for their application, so they depend on me to get things started. However, it's unexpectedly really fun to do. I guess this is how it feels like to be in a career you like doing? :D (btw, google: Calgoo)

I'm finally watching movies (more frequently) again! Watched Spiderman 3 (full of sap) and Pirates 3 (omg, Orlando Bloom how come you look not-so-hot after your transformation?!)... Up next: Ocean's 13! What was ironic though... I had to drop my mom off at the airport @5am so I had McDix for breakfast and decided to watch Super Size Me during the meal. :D A bit explicit but nothing new that wasn't already known. So, no change in MY eating habits! :b

So about AX... I was disappointed for the longest time without any announcements for any other major guests until NOW! I figured it would be last minute but not THIS last minute. Now I hope AX keeps up this streak and announces even MORE. Just hoping... with fingers crossed n all :B~

Last year of the night market I hear. Who knows... they said that last year too. Ah well, we should just use that excuse to go more often this year, is all.

Ooh I got myself a new wallet (coughpreordersale240,originally500+but50%off!hackcough).. um, I should watch my spending before AX. Even though I -DO- have an order of manga coming in the mail... and another soon (hopefully it'll ship and arrive before AX tho)... if not, I might have to resort to pay more for express shipping!! (that actually sounds quite exciting lol)

I still haven't finished FFX omfg. Just thinking about having to make 1 million gil to bargin with Ultima totally keeps me from playing. Tedious money making... But I'm determined to do as many side quests possible before finishing it up. That's just my way of playing :b Ok, FFX, you're gunna be held off a bit longer...

I also love my new Monokuro Boo sunshade! <3

First Week of Summer Work

Hi, I'm in my second day of my summer job being a graphic designer (!) and web developer for a calendar application known as Calgoo [google that, foo]. Now the current application and site looks pretty shit right now, which is why I'm here. But there's just sooo many things that need major overhauling, I've got 110% pressure on me. I've been bombarded with insane meetings every other hour so far and my brain [or actually my back - more on that later] hurts.

Now about my work desk...
I lack a laptop (BUT NOT FOR LONG DAMMIT! ><!! *determined to get one*) so I requested a desktop which they purchased for me... had to work with a laptop for the first day (that had VISTA - OMG VISTA IS SO ANNOYING XD asks you 10x for permissions before you can do a simple task) then requested dual monitors, but they only have old 17" CRTs so far... so I'm dealing with a single LCD for now... two LCDs may be on their way, MAYBE. The only desk left was a glass desk (>< - dangerous and cold, and finger printy) and it's far too high for me (D: ... I'm too short, they keep saying lol)... so I'm hoping to get a new desk, wood, of that variety, hopefully. then the chair... to accomodate my shortness (D:!), they found a chair that can go really high BUT, making me sit so high, my monitor so low and with no arm rests, makes my back hurt D:... then this new mouse that came with the computer kept getting spasms.. so it kept spazzing all day until I gave up on it and switched to an old school ball mouse

lol seems like I'm high maintenance but hey, I'm a graphic designer... I need to be in the utmost best enviroment to work in because the sucess of their visual communication depends on me ;) ...and the internet is all about visual communication, so as long as I prove my worth.. I wouldn't be asking for too much at all >:]

the upcoming four month outline is basically: complete product UI redesign, new feature implementations, the icon/image portion is quite big, website redesign, then second project website design... shrug... then prolly will continue throughout the rest of the school year too... it's actually kinda exciting, if you don't try and think and do all the tasks at once.. bit by bit is the way to go!

A little gaming side note: omg Yunalesca's third form gives me nightmares!

re: .hack//G.U.+ 3

lol I just finished it and I take back what I said in my last entry... I feel so sorry for Haseo... *cough* maybe Haseo X Atori now :X

Yay it's over! ...for now

It's been a hectic week O___O Well, all of April's been pretty crazy so far... Decided to celebrate my birthday with the rest of the extended family this year and paid for the dinner... it was a nice feeling :D

On the actual birth day, on me and my classmate(V!)'s way to Richmond Centre for food and other stuff... I decided to bring back little fruit tarts for the whole class... I realized after I handed all of them out that I created a lot of attention o_O... not intentional, I swear... I honestly wished my birthday was on a non-school day =_=... But anyways, later that night my mom decided to go out and celebrate by having an expensive Chinese dinner (with the delicacies and all that good expensive stuff)... I was content. :]Then my bro who decided to extend his stay another week in asia, provided me the opportunity to do some intense ffxi skilling up... It was very convenient to have both computers at my disposal fufufu~ He returned on a Friday (disappointment? hahah...), and it just so happened to be Good Friday. We went to a ceremony at church in the morning... I couldn't stay for the whole thing and left early to pick him up from the airport. He brought me back a set of headphones as I requested and it's <3 He also bought Itadaki Street Portable (or Po) (for PSP - note the "Portable" part XD) and oooh the evil that's in it >< ... He isn't able to read and understand the Japanese so I playing it in his stead (aka. taken it over for myself)... It's the worse time to get addicted to ANY game during the end of the semester... Well anyways, it's like Monopoly but with Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest characters and gawd, who would've thunk a game like that would keep me playing... for so LONG (cough as in I'm still PLAYING IT NOW o_o!)

Later that day, it was dinner with Shi2 and Mo2 at Shabusen. Wow long time no Shabusen is right.... but it hasn't changed one bit -- the food was the same, the PRICE (!) was the same, and MAYBE the waiters aren't as cute as they once were... But still, fun times. Did lots of catching up... Afterwards, we went by the liquor store and picked up some fun stuff then headed to Mo2's place (which is also my place :b)... As soon as I mentioned drinking, my parents told me to drink downstairs (Mo2's place) instead lol~ I brought some cheesecake downstairs and we enjoyed it with the drinks... THEN Shi2 presented me with DIGIMON WORLD DS O___O which I've heard lots of good things about X3 so yay! But I don't think I'll be touching that anytime soon *coughitadakistreetcough*... then I also got a preorder for the Nth Harry Potter book from Mo2! I haven't finished reading the one before the one that's about to come out so lol... Um, it's on my to do list... I swear.

Saturday rolls around... "mandatory" Dynamis @ Xarc... nothing special... didn't win o_O Did some more research for my essay that was to be handed later that week... Met up with Tek at Metro later that night... had White Spot (YAR!) and we had the opportunity to talk alot since our waitress was extremely busy the whole time... THEN I GOT WILD ARMS PINKY:ST FROM HIM that I planned on getting eventually (maybe AX...) so eeeeeeeee O__O! That reminds me, I should OPEN IT!

Sunday: Worked for a good portion of the day and met up with the family at my aunt's place for the easter weekend dinner thingymabober. The kids were having crazy fun with the Wii that my aunt's kids had... then there was the awsome turkey dinner portion! It never fails to disappoint!

Monday: Yay day off! Doing? I don't even remember... probably more essay researching...

Tuesday: Class in the morning. Finished up our magazine project for good and let us off early... Got home to pick up my mom to Richmond for a number of errands. Bumped into Shi2 XD Wasn't able to get this month's Newtype... reminder: will get it tomorrow. Went to the Fisherman's Terrance @ 330 for a meeting for their upcoming Europe trip, and I went in my dad's stead. Unfortunately we sat in the front so I was unable to rip out my PSP and play to drain out the boring talk... The upside was there was free food though so YAY!

Wednesday: "I should work on my essay." "..." "...nah."

Thursday: Woke up early to get to school early to print out my project's stuff. Got distracted by my brother who decided to wake up early too... ~_~ I still got to school early enough to get it done... Got our marks right on the spot yay! Then we got to leave a early too, double yay! I took the chance to make my way to Best Buy Queensborough before the traffic rush... shit forgot to turn and ended up in Delta somewhere by Annacis Island lol... Tried to call for help but no one was by a computer to google map for me! Aghghghghahg... so I went and asked for help... the guy's instructions were confusing so I went by instinct and SOMEHOW MADE IT THERE IN ONE PEACE@! JOY! *proud of herself*

Decided to go out (!) for dinner that night with family... didn't exactly start my essay until 10pm so yes I didn't end up sleeping that night. Man... couldn't feel the stress nor pressure to do it... (already in summer mode XP)

Felt like SHIT the next morning. The teacher totally forgot we had to present visuals with our essay... and the shit part is, two other people did the same topic as me so they got to talk more than I did... the teacher just ended up asking me a bad question... I wanted to talk about what approach I took MY essay... but then again I suck at public speaking so I wouldn't of been able to talk about it well anyways.... and she knows I suck aaggghhgh... I just hope I didn't fail that part of the essay >_< The class didn't get to end early either! More aghrahgrhghrefij... kept falling asleep throughout other people's presentations... I felt bad but at the same time bah I didn't care anymore

So Friday's class FINALLY decides to finish... I went home and OHO! I was rewarded handsomely for a JOB WELL DONE FROM GOD!! In the mail came my long awaited AMEX credit card (very shiny and pretty btw) and my lovely stack of manga! I was mainly excited for the final fruits basket book! Who cares about sleep, I quickly opened up the box and read that first....... and.....

Aww I cried at the end (actually just tearly eyed >_>).... what a way to end a 6..7..8 (?) year story... thinking back though... the characters have really matured a lot... I'm not so sure about the fast-forward into the future little end bit though... Appropriate? Not?.. yes.. no... I guess I'm not sure XP But nonetheless... wow it REALLY ENDED.. *needs some time to absorb*

The 2nd Furuba Fanbook is quite something too... best chapter countdown, character couplings and groupings, fun little comic in the middle, interviews, and coloured illustrations!

Ok afterwards I ate and crashed. Wanted to do NOTHING BUT SLACK... and thus I did nothing but slack... didn't even go to one of our classmates' class gathering...

Saturday: Dynamis-Xarc again... what a horrible run! Full moon and not a single AF drop... not even any drops from Mr.DL 'cept a coin.. a COIN... he Deaths 90% of us when he was about to die! lol but a good quick less-than-5-minute kill though :3 Really good preparations this time too! After Dynamis I got the whole family out for my actual (immediate) family dinner at Tropika, my treat. Long time no Tropika too so it was extra good... was tempted to use my AMEX to pay...

When I got home, I got some friends to do help me with AF hands... had them open up the doors and then I camped there with my bro and a minute right after they left, it popped :D

One particular manga of note that came with my current shipment: .hack//4koma ... the book's on crack! Some panels include the characters from .hack//Alcor, which I also got but have yet to read... I'll probably get to it after I finish reading G.U.+ 3 ...Atori drives me crazy tho *is pro Haseo X Shino*

Last day of school tomorrow.. gasp, unreal.

バレータるるるる

で、

BARD PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTS!のオイワイ
I swear I should rack up lots of money and get myself Sha'ir body already (or level up the damn craft)... better yet, do more assault and get that Yigit.. frick! Anyways, I -need- Fortune, I swear.

Speaking of crafting... I think I'm gunna aim for main Cloth, Sub Wood and Alchemy. Just looking at the elemental staff prices as of late and I wanna cry. Everything's dropping in price... it hurts to look. >_< Like my Jester+1 was 300k, now it's 60k?! Divine Log was AT LEAST 1mil now it's 500k - that's half! Ouch D:! Sucks to be the seller... Buyers are having a blast though ;_; So right before Dynamis started today, Tiamat decides to pop. Killkill 2 hours.... After the delay, two MNK crowns, THF and my uber pants drop~ My patience paid off :33 Next: Jeuno. Nothing left to get there... hoping for a free lot perhaps.. X3 As for the past week... my bro's out of town [somewhere in China], "spying" for the sake of the family. ufufufu, I say no more >_>

And look... It's almost April.. うそいやだ＞＜

countdown: 3 months....