Goodbye 2010

"2010 is going to be brilliant!"

And it was. In fact, it was over just a bit too quickly. I have never faced an end of the year with such trepidation.

2011 looks so foreign. Just look at the formation of the numbers. So odd. So off. I try to imagine the new year but there's nothing there. I don't know what to expect. Anyways, I'll leave saying hello to this stranger for the next post. This is about saying goodbye.

Triumphs!
I was a happier person. I was fortunate enouh to have housemates in my last year of uni that not only brings put the wacko in me but have the idiotic streak in themselves to play along with me.
Being happy also makes me more receptive towards people around me. I have made friends from strangers.
I poured my sweat and blood into design.
As best as I could, I have kept procrastination to a bare minimum.
Climbed the highest peak in Malaysia.
Made mom so proud she cried.
Spent more quality time with family.
Spent more time than I would have imagined with the two stooges.
Truly living the final year of my life as a student to the fullest.

Failures.
Thought of only myself when it was really about others.
Wasn't able to execute all my ideas due to unseemly time management.
Didn't save a single cent.
Lost a wallet.
Let a friend slip away, knowingly, purposefully.
Giving up without a fight.

This time last year I was with hf and Rui in Singapore. I was looking forward to new year with anticipation. Oh, and I was nursing a heart ache too.

This time this year I am home with family, will be counting down to the new year with them for the first time in years. I have completed a journey rather brilliantly. Ahh... 2011. I don't know what to make of you yet.

Happy new year dear readers!

Ta Peeps!

Gonna pack up soon and enjoy a leisure pre-dawn drive back home. I guess this really puts a full stop on things. Things have gotten sorta complicated as of late. I need a breather away from all this. I need time of my own to decide what is it that I want to do. Time to be away. Time to just enjoy being with me. And of course, with family too.

No one told me when I left home four years ago, it will be permanent. (more on this when I'm in a more emo-ish mood)

Ta..

Last Days of Semester 8

I did plan to show progress on the things I did for the final exhibition. But alas, I finished all advertising executions, portfolio book and promo items all in two weeks, with a major part of them all in the final week. There was simply no time to blog about anything. However, I did manage to snap some work in progress.

In the end I managed to pull off a port book, some coaster drawings, a CD sleeve and some stickers. Nothing fancy, but they did the work.

It was crazy. The exhibition. We weren't prepared at all for the rush that was gonna compel us. It was good fun going through all that with my classmates. At moments like these, you'll come to appreciate those people that you can turn to with a request and they'll just do it for you, no questions asked.

For my own part in the exhibition, I was quite disappointed with myself, for not being able to pull off the things I had in my head for the whole semester. For everything that I displayed during the exhibition, they were the bare minimum of what I had in mind. There was this trepidation in me, for I have asked a lot of people to come. My mom, all my closest friends. But then again, it was also because they are people closest to me that I didn't mind showing them my work. They'll understand.

Wokay... so my work wasn't that bad. Just, not, great. Hah.

I love my mom for being there. I seriously don't care a fig for convocation. Having her here for my exhibition was all I could asked for. When she was done perusing everything, I asked her what she thought, about my work and all. She was like "What is there to say? Aiya..." MOM!!! *facepalm*

Oooo... she got herself a new iTouch. One of the reasons I wanna go home. To play with this new gadget~!

And of course, nothing will be the same without these two crazies. Through thick and thin! Rui came all the way from Singapore for this. I was a bit sorry coz there really wasn't much to see on my side. All. The. Way. From. Singapore. But but but... she had to come!! She's OBLIGATED to come. Bah. Don't care. Thanks Rui!!

And Hooi Fong, for many times our crazy antics had her sacrificing sleeping time when she had to work the next day. Aih. So sorry. But but but... anticipate more of these in the future. Hahahah~

And not to forget, nutty Georgians on the move. Thank you, Chia Li, Chia Yinn, Evelyn, Kar Yee and Yueh Yih. Oh... and my cousin sis, Tres! Some came all the way from Penang just for this. And once again, I couldn't help but wish things were better. But at least you guys got some free cake from Fragments!

And o yeah... Tham, 41 and I attended the Kancil Awards Night on last Friday. We WON!! Merits and a bronze. My so-called one and only achievement to mark the end of my student life. I appreciated the night for the dinner we had on our own after leaving the awards. Just teasing and talking about random nothings. Thank you Tham and 41, you guys were fantastic team mates. I couldn't ask for anything better!

Woohoo~ I love my boots. Gotta get myself a new pair though. It's appearing too often in all my formal photos. Hahaha~

And on the last day of exhibition, when everything was cleared up and it was just us, there, with nothing much else to do.

Just a handful of the fantastic people I have met in my four years in LUCT. Funny, there weren't much photos taken during the whole exhibition. Maybe we were all just too busy running around trying to get our own things finished.

And so, that's it. Four years. Finished on a cloudy, gloomy evening. So many things happened and so many people were there. I wasn't able to absorb the moment. There is only this solitary picture to remind me of what I felt at that time.

All I could remember was a tinge of sadness. Is all.