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Monday Blues, Saturday Estacy.

The assignments just keep piling non-stop.

Once I'm done with one, I've got to start on another one.

But the teachers are really nice enough to postphone the deadlines of our assignments, and even to postphone one of the tests and make it an open-book one instead. I really appreciate that so much.

As usual, the monday blues kicked in, and IT lesson wasn't that exciting, and unfortunately there weren't any internet connection this morning in the classroom. Naturally I wandered off to play around with photoshop.

I was wearing a t-shirt that uncle Jacques got for me, so I was inspired to do this:

And then my mind wandered off to ANTM and immediately thought of Tyra, so I started to do this as well:

Weekdays doesn't matter as much to me; it's the thought of the arrival of Saturdays that makes my heart flutter.

Missed Photoshoots and Castings

Screw the overseas immersion program.

Make me miss out on so many photoshoots, casting calls and jobs.

DAMN.

CURRENT MOOD: wants-to-procrastinate-essay-homework-but-can't-bear-to

Did this during the short lesson break.

I'll go back to state where I'm still struggling to start writing my essay. Or not.

Phone vibrate non-stop

CURRENT MOOD: relieved and irritated.

Relieved: I've finally finished the Business Communication assignment.

Irritated: I've got some unknown number who kept on calling 7 times non-stop while I was doing my BC assignment. My phone vibrated like hell. And no, I didn't even have the chance to turn the mode to MUTE. Siao lah. This persistant fellow have got some gut. Wait till I find out who that asshole is, I'll skin him alive. That is if I can find out who THAT is and get my hands on him. Or her.

One assignment down. MORE to come my way.

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*UPDATE*

After what-seemed-like-tons-of-phone-calls, this person took the heart to message me. And it turned out to be some random guy asking if he could talk to me on the phone. WTF?! I don't even know you, kiddy.

In the past weeks I've been getting these unknown-number missed calls, but they only call 1 or 2 times, then give up. This is like the worst I've seen. BAH.

IDIOT.


I just ended a bloody conversation with a freaking irritating ah tiong.


Since I forgot my original QQ number which I first set up during Media Applications Lesson, I registered for a new one. Why? Of cos, because they got this function where you can design and dress up your own character, and put it as your QQ display picture.






And there's this place where the public can see your personal particulars like your name, country, birthday, so on and so forth. So just for fun, I put my country as Seoul. (Although I've spent most my childhood life in Singapore.)

And this random guy come along and added me. There's only 3 obvious reasons:

1. He wants to chat up with a pretty girl (cos I made a chio girl as my display picture). Of course, they won't be so dumb as to believe that my real person will look like my display picture right.
2. He wants to have a Korean as a friend.
3. He wants to learn Korean language from an authentic Korean.

It started innocently enough. And I'm right, he fits into option 3 as you see above.

He says he just started learning Korean by himself. Of course, he will be curious to know what the hell would a Korean be doing in China using QQ. So I told him I've been learning the cheena language since young and my school arranged for me to come China and study. Fair enough, I wasn't lying.

He said he wants to improve on his korean. So I told him to go google about it himself. Mind you, what era is this already, don't tell me you don't know how to google about it yourself? There's so many Korean language websites which teach you, whether professionally set up or not. So I presume you DO know how to do that, since you already know how to switch on your computer and download QQ, and USE it.

As a Singaporean, typing in cheena is such a daaammnnn hard thing to do. I only do it for assignments and I already find it time consuming. Imagine I've already typed a whole paragraph of English. If it was supposed to be in cheena, I tell you, I would have only typed out 1 sentence. I may be wrong, but this seems to be the case. Firstly, I have to translate my sentence into cheena, then I'd have to think of its HAN YU PIN YIN, then type it into then box, THEN I still have to choose the correct word from the millions of options. See how this is a waste of time and energy? You should be grateful that I still bother to answer your basic questions.

Example of those silly questions?

"How long have you been learning chinese" or "Where did you learn your chinese from" or "Is either one of your parents an ah tiong" or "Can you teach me korean" and other nonsensical stuff that I can't be bothered to recall and list out.

Excuse me. Does LAO NIANG look like she has the time to coach you in Korean? And what do I get in return even if I do agree to teach you? You can teach me back your language ah? Eh, LAO NIANG also know cheena la, why the hell would I want to teach me?

Then you start saying that you want to ask me something 冒昧. So I ask you to shoot. Then you said dunoe whether you should say it or not. So I told you not to be 吞吞吐吐 and just get on with asking. ASS. If you think it's going to sound offensive, then don't say it to me la. And guess what? He asked if I was a girl or not!!! BIG JOKE. Why would I be lying about something as simple as my gender? So I asked why he got second thoughts about this. And he said that, at the end of every sentence, I should conclude with a "吗", "呀", or "嘛"; like that then sound more like a girl, if not I'd sound very rude as a girl if I didn't add "吗", "呀", or "嘛". Eh mister, do know how difficult is it for me to type cheena, and you still want me to add in the "ma", "ya" nonsense stuff.

Next he started telling me that he teaches cheena language to others. I thought he was going to change a conversation topic, so I was about to heave a sigh of relieve, as I thought that the nonsense was going to stop.

NO. I was SOOO wrong. He said that language is actually very important, because language can cultivate a person's character. OK. WHAT THE SH*T. So I said that if he wanted to carry on with this bullshit topic, I wasn't going to talk to anymore.

And he said, "你真不识好人心"．

I'm so damn lazy to translate the rest of the idiotic conversation, so I'll just copy and paste it down here:

공주4:19:30 PM
好人？
你是吗
我又没见过你，我又怎么知道

전설4:19:39 PM
你汉语还不好
你懂吗
你真不识好人心

汉语很深的
去拿个谚语字典查吧
不是韩语
你们学不完的
韩语只是汉语的一小部分


공주4:21:25 PM
什么呀
怎么韩语变成了汉语
你真罗嗦也，我告诉你我现在可是中文系的，读的也是 "诗经，左传"


전설4:23:23 PM
知道吗
中国有句古话叫：狗咬吕洞宾，不识好人心！
语言可以塑造一个人的素养
而你没有被塑造
可惜
和我和我聊，我不稀罕，韩国的朋友很多，你是我建国的第二个无理的韩国女孩子


공주4:26:35 PM
你还真是无聊，无礼，话不投机的中国人
你这种人我见多了
无礼的人到处都是
跟你聊天还真是费时费神
枉我跟你说了那么多


전설4:27:55 PM
意思说你是狗，本来不想欺负你，但是你太自以是了


공주4:28:20 PM
那你呢

전설4:28:18 PM
由此看出，你好不地道

공주4:28:39 PM
你还不是一样
自以为自己中文比我厉害
那你的韩文呢
行吗？

전설4:28:58 PM
说话请加语气词


공주4:29:06 PM
英文行吗？


전설4:29:11 PM
ok

공주4:29:25 PM
好呀
既然你说ok
那你就秀一下你的英文给我看呀

전설4:29:53 PM
把桌子凳子都分性的语言
不想和你聊了


공주4:30:15 PM
什么桌子椅子的
别扯开话题了


전설4:30:36 PM
你在我的面前侮辱韩国女人


공주4:30:41 PM
我本来就不想跟你聊
我早就想转话题了


전설4:30:38 PM
再见
我的朋友还是很好的

공주4:31:03 PM
只是你一直跟我说语言什么的
他妈的
你去死吧


전설4:31:41 PM
还有什么脏话
中文让你糟蹋老
你撒都不懂


공주4:34:04 PM
撒？
是“啥”


전설4:34:00 PM
你些你学老芝麻的懂西就自以为是
错


공주4:34:35 PM
这么多字你都写错
身为中国人你不惭愧吗
你还想跟我纠缠下去？


전설4:34:45 PM
夹行老杀


공주4:34:58 PM
省省吧
88


전설4:35:03 PM
夹行老杀
巴巴



And with that, I put him on my QQ black list and he was blocked.

I'll recap some of those things he said:


"和我和我聊，我不稀罕，韩国的朋友很多，你是我建国的第二个无理的韩国女孩子"


Eh, you were the one who initiated this bloody conversation leh, still say you 不稀罕.



"意思说你是狗，本来不想欺负你，但是你太自以是了"

What?! I'm a dog now?! ASSH*LE. When did I ever 自以是? You were the one were was saying you teach cheena, then still want to correct me, then in the end still say I 自以是? Who's the one who is 自以是 now...



"把桌子凳子都分性的语言"

What table? What chair? What sh*t are you talking about now? Siao kia, start getting 语无伦次 liao. Drink too much liao huh.

"你在我的面前侮辱韩国女人"
Oi. When did I ever do that? Walau, you think I as crazy as you meh. Why on earth would I INTEND humiliate my own kind?

Just because I'm a rude girl? Just because you think I 自以是? And please do some self reflection. Why would I on earth be so rude to you? I long ago already told you I wanted to change topic leh, and you still die-die want to stick to saying all your big knowledge, Mr Know-It-All. And I already said that I wanted to stop talking to you if you carry on talking nonsense. SEE?! Who wants to talk to you la, LOSER.

"夹行老杀"

Still repeat 2 times. Joker. What the hell is that la. I still tried to google that but nothing came out. Aiyo, must be some swear word they use in their area. HAHA.

Spoil my mood la and waste my whole afternoon talking to that freakass.

But after spilling it all out here, I feel much better already. HAHAHA.

See? I'm laughing leh :D

So that means I've already gotten over it, right?

RI-IGHT.

Revival. 2 Studio Shoots.

Oh gawd.

I just logged into blogger and saw that my last published post was LAST YEAR. That made me realise that I haven't blogged for more than a month. So here's a revival post.

And man, I felt so pooped out when I reached home. I started out the day by taking the train to a 'light-painting' shoot all the way in the west, and after lunch proceeded to the North for a 'hi-key' shoot. Yes, both studio shoots.

I've never felt so overwhelmed with tense in a shoot before.

Yeah, partly because it was ages ago when I had my last studio shoot. Another reason being was the photographer was a pretty renowned one, and had shot protrait pictures for the J-team (Jack Neo's artistes). I felt so stiff all over due to me putting pressure on myself. And I kept telling myself: At least one of them has to turn out right. And phew! Although I was feeling stiff, it didn't turn out so!

Well, I'm glad that they're gonna be great additions to my portfolio.

But darn. I'll be leaving for China in less than 2 weeks time and will only be back in July.

Sheesh. I've just only gotton into the mood. And now I've gotta put down these things whilst I'm overseas.

I have to get the feeling back.

Preview:

Birthday meaning and MSN conversation

I was fooling around with the facebook applications yesterday, and I came across this thing. You had to enter the day, month and year of your birthday, and they will tell you the meaning of your own birthday! I believed very in much horoscope and those stuff, so I definitely gave it a try. No harm right.

Yeah. What a spot-on. All that I wanted to think I was like that. But I am right, RIGHT?

And I changed my display picture on MSN yesterday. This is it.

And just had this conversation with a photographer:

Jace Tan says:
nice DP

Mi-Young says:
lol. thanks

Jace Tan says:
who is the art director for yr DP picture? nice
concept.. lots of effort

Mi-Young says:
someone took the photo for me, i did the DI

Mi-Young says:
haha. my MUAs and assistant thought of this

Jace Tan says:
wah, u must be a super hot model... got assistants siah

Mi-Young says:
i had a team of like 5 or 6 ppl that day

Mi-Young says:
but we're all students, no pros

Jace Tan says:
sounds like faye wong...

Jace Tan says:
anyway... its gd...

(yeah. I liquified my face to make it look slimmer. I think I overdone it. Just get me botox la! Then don't need so much photoshop next time... Save the trouble.)

Peaceful moments; nothing on my mind

I practically lazed my whole day in the house today. But not in my own house this time. I went up to the North with mummy to an old lady's house, who is also a good friend of hers.

Besides sitting by the window, enjoying the wind, playing DJ Max 2 on my psp, there was nothing that I did. Yes, I did nothing constructive for the whole 5 hours. Pure relaxation. For those peaceful moments, which were really rare cos mummy wasn't nagging at me for playing psp, I imagined I was in a foreign.

Yeah. Just one of my daydreams again. I was staying at Grandma's house in the countryside, one with just trees and nature all around, and I'm riding on this horse. IF ONLY.

I had brought my notes to study for an upcoming test, but all I read was 2 pages.

Then I started to get bored.

And so I began to camwhore.

I'm a hardworking student ok! RIGHT.

'The Little Red Dress' Shoot on Sunday

Yesterday was the shoot for someone's 'The Little Red Dress' photography competition.

I'm utterly disappointed in that someone's attitude. Totally.

Remember I was saying that the prizes will be some reeeally expensive lens? And he come and tell me: They are JUST lens la. Said it like it was no big deal to him. And you're still using a Nikon D40 camera? Hello?! Then you should be aiming for these lens right? Since they're so expensive and I'm sure anyone will be glad to just add them to their collection, or just to sell them off to someone else to earn some extra moolahs.

When the Muas were busy at work, you keep on repeating yourself that you want this over and done with, because your final-year-paper (fyp) is much more important than this competition, and are already 2 months back in time. Then let me ask you: Why did you join this in the first place? You should considered all the factors, like the time and effort going to be spent, so on and so forth.

Eh, don't keep on rushing the Muas lah. If not they come ALL the way to AMK for what? You say: Aiya, don't need eyeliner la, don't need mascara la etc, like that can already... Excuse me. The Muas are trying their best to do makeup for us models properly, and here you are rushing and pressurising us. If you are sooo concerned about your fyp, just go back up to your house and do la, when we are done with our makeup then we call you down. Instead of pacing up and down, making inconsiderate remarks about you having to complete your fyp, why don't you just sit still, keep quiet, and think of what kind of images you want later?

You expect the shoot to be in 1 hour or so. This sounds ok enough. But you keep on asking the Muas to do makeup faster. That's not-so-ok. Stop rushing us and let the Muas do their work in peace. Is that too much to ask of you?

Seems like you don't know what kind of images you want huh? Ask models what we want to do, what kind of makeup can the MUAs do... And when the MUAs asked if whether you will be taking headshots or not, it's obvious that they need a few of that to add in to their portfolio! So of cause, first and foremost, you need to take some headshots of us right after we do makeup, right? And those shots of JL and the tree scenes, of cause the photos will look dark lah, because the model is back facing the sun. Then I told you maybe you can turn up the exposure. Or if cannot change direction, then maybe change to some other tree or location?

Still say camera cannot focus. And furthermore you're shooting in a program mode. Maybe you can't do a fully manual mode yet. But at least an aperture-priority or shutter-priority mode? Hey, you claimed to have been shooting for 3 years leh. If I just picked up photography a few months back, and already know all the basic techniques and terms a novice should know, how come you don't even know something as simple as an 'ant's view shot'?

I should have brought my canon rebel along. I swear I can take better shots and have better photo composition sense then you do.

Newer models like me or JL expect to be learning something from the photographer during a shoot. But instead, I feel like I AM the one who's teaching you things.

*shakes head*

This is simply not the way it should be lah.

I'll be waiting for the final product to come out. But considering that YOU still have your fyp to focus on, perhaps I can't be too impatient. But oh well, I can't expect too much either, unless your DI (digital imaging) is like superb.

You have been online everyday before the shoot, but ever since then, I don't see you online leh. Maybe just a way of escaping from others (models and MUAs) pestering the photographer for the photos...

Somemore choosing a time near to noon, when the sun is so glaring and scorching. Damn, I hate getting all sweaty and smelling...

More winter clothes, meeting with A.

Wooh!





I went shopping again! More winter clothes. This time it was with Mummy. So I didn't have to come up with the money. Haha.





WANKO is having a post christmas sales! 62.% discount. A lot ok. From an original total of $400++, it went down to $170+. Got so many steals luh. I feel like I'm a big winner today.

Then went down to meet Al from Eleganz. There was this other girl called Martina at the meeting too. There was this Avant Garde theme photo shoot going on at the studio. The model is damn tall and pro can. Because she's a caucasian mah. So cool luh. I could never have her height :( *sobs*

Was just chatting on MSN with the photographer and one of the MUAs regarding tomorrow's shoot. And we just spent ONE freaking hour just to talk about what time should I meet. Damn. I already said I CAN reach at 9am, but this girl insisted that she wants me to reach at 10am. Eh, I don't mind already leh, you still argue that I should come later instead?

Fine. Let's just see how it goes tomorrow.

Still holiday, photo shoots coming...

This is already the 2nd week of my holidays, but I feel that I haven't been doing anything much at all. Like totally neglecting everything.

I'm either shopping, eating and more shopping for the whole day.

Or else I'd be lazing around at home. YES. For the entire day again.

Will be going for a few photo shoots soon. I'm kind enough to help out someone in taking part this "Little Red Dress" photography competition. Prizes will be some effing expensive lens. Probably like nearly a thousand dollars just for ONE lens?!

Yeah. That's just about the price I got for my Canon Rebel. No way...

Another will be an interesting theme. It'll be nice to imitate the movie Mission Impossible. Hah. I wonder if I can even pull it off.

First time at St James

Arrived home at 4am this morning.



Was supposed to go home from Clarke Quay after work at 2? But there was a FREAKING long queue at the taxi stand -.-



Do C and me decided to follow the others to St James (J drove us there), then get a cab from there. But it was only until 3.45 before we actually decided to get home.



The whole bunch of us didnt have to pay! :D



Well, so much for an experience.



So I've only woken up at noon to blog.

And I've still gotta go to sph later.



I'm still deprived of a good rest! :(

Letting down hair after a long time

Yay! Today got no school. Haha.

I got so much time that I went down for a casting this afternoon.

And I've got the event job tml! Hehe. That's my first.

*squeals*

Hopefully everything can go smoothly :)

Shucks. I havent done my transcripting and translation yet :(

vPOST makes me v(ERY)...

vPOST makes me v(ERY) ECSTATIC!






Shopping is the pasttime of almost every women! (Well, unless you simply cannot stand walking around for hours and trying out different outfits and shoes.)










Everytime I am really bent on buying something, and must die-die buy something home no matter what, I always end up with no shopping bags when I go home. :(










BUT. Whenever I windowshop and don't plan to spend any money, I ALWAYS see something I fancy and end up parting with my cash. *money flies away*







In the past, my mother has always told me to go to the changing room to try out a dress or shirt, even if my mind is already set on buying it. She's just afraid that it will be abandoned later when I try it at home and find out that it doesn't really seem as nice afterall.









I kinda find it troublesome to go the changing room and change and change and change -.-








It was only after I graduated from sec school that I was introduced to the online world of shopping.





Ever since I was in poly, I got my very first POSB card. Yes, I know, very slow huh. But I went to apply for it all for the sake of shopping! Online shopping normally requires you to do funds transferring (unless you're doing meetups, which I think is a waste of time). So of cos the very first thing I knew that I had to do was to get hold of my own POSB card!





Having shopped on numerous of sprees from hong kong or korea, something struck me:
Why must I let those blogshop owners to earn all those extra little money when I can do shipping myself?!



Plus, I was already more inclined to the western goods like GoJane, Victoria's Secret, Juicy Couture and etc etc.

vPOST of cos is the answer to my shopping cravings!

Not only am I able to get my clothes and whatnots from USA and UK and have it all sent to my house directly, I can also save time and money leh!

Good hor, I don't even have to take the trouble to meetup with all those blogshop owners in order to save on postage.

That's why they call it 'Retail Therapy' :)

Self Entertaining Lesson

Okay. This just one of the MANY pictures that we took while we were having Mr Danny Yeo's lesson last week. The whole series were taken by my laptop's integrated cam, so thus the low quality.

I was initially only using it as a 'mirror' to see if my fringe was out of place. And the next thing I knew, we busily posing in front of the cam and snapping away. You can't blame us for feeling so restless till the point that we had to do such a SILLY thing like this right.

It all started off pretty normal at first...

Then Aaron got even MORE bored...

So bored to the extent that he started eating paper...

Still the usual smiles and poses...

Then we got a little bit more crazy...

Aaron: Is this how you do the 莲花指?

Aaron: Yeh! I know how to de le!

怪叔叔...

Then all hell broke lose!

Aaron act cute... we also follow!

And admist all these 'excitement', Mr YT was unaware of the comotion and remained asleep...

Classic.