Haven’t been on tumblr in a while so I’ll just throw in a quick update. Things are really busy as usual, but I’m feeling great at the same time?? I don’t know, I just feel happier lately. School has been the same, my marks aren’t really going up but they’re not going down either so I guess that’s fine.

There’s been a lot of rumors lately though and everyone keeps telling me my friend would prompose to me..but I’m really hoping it doesn’t happen because I don’t know how I’ll respond. But honestly… I really wished he’d talk about this with me privately rather than having all his friends ask me indirectly. It’s just really irritating, having people in my face continually asking me whether I’d say yes.

I just can’t wait until summer, I’m really excited to go back to Taiwan this year. I’m going for this program where American/Canadian Taiawnese teens teach kids English in Taiwan for a week, and spend the next two weeks touring around Taiwan. I’m not really sure on the details but I’m really excited for it.

And I also just watched the film for The Great Gatsby. I’ve read the book already so I pretty much knew everything beforehand, but I loved the film anyway. The film just brought everything to life and everything about it was just amazing, especially the soundtrack. I was hesitant to watch it in 3D at first too but I’m glad I did. They made the 3D effects really subtle, unlike many other films which go overboard with them I guess. Carey Mulligan was beautiful too. The whole movie was beautiful ok, ahhhh that scene with the green light. Yeah ok it’s late and I need sleep…right after I download the whole soundtrack.

Also vector cereal and yogurt are delicious together.

Starting tomorrow I’ll be 18. I’m going to be an adult, yet I still feel extremely irresponsible, immature, and childish like I always am. I just received an offer from OCAD’s Industrial Design program, and I don’t really know what to feel right now. I’m happy yet I’m scared as well. It kind of hit me a while ago that after all this stress and busy schedules and whatsover from school…we’ll all be on our ways to a completely new environment. I don’t know but the thought of growing up makes me feel uneasy…but it also makes me happy to be able to have more freedom. 

I know I rarely go online, and never update my tumblr, but I just want to let my lovely friends know that I’m still alive and well (: I wanted to see you guys so badly during the march break, and I still do now. We definitely need to plan something, after midterms. I also just wanted to say thanks for putting up with me for so long. I don’t know what I’d do without you guys, seriously, I’m a mess. Even though I rarely get the chance to communicate with you guys (mostly my fault hahah..), whenever we do see each other, it’s as if we were in gr.8 all over again, and that makes me really happy. This is getting real cheesy but man I love you guys.

Hello! It’s been a while. So the past few weeks have kind of worn me out, school and what not. But thank god it’s a long weekend, even though half of it is over already. I’m pretty excited to see some of my friends tomorrow, it’s been forever since I last saw them. 

Anyway, I went out for sushi with some friends yesterday. I felt kind of bad because I’ve been flopping out on them for a while now, and I never really met up with them outside of school much. I don’t know, sometimes I just don’t really feel like going out that much, especially with all the workload I’ve been having lately. Ahh anyways, the sushi was really good though. They got my order wrong, so they ended up giving me free dessert! That pretty much made my day LOL. I mean just look how good that is

It was friggin scrumptious. Desserts are my life. 

Today was the day of the interview I’ve been preparing for so long. I have to say I felt extremely unprepared, even though I’ve been preparing this for almost a year now. I went with my friend who was also applying for the same program, and that really helped me feel less nervous.

We started off with the writing component of the test. I read the instructions given and I completely blanked out for 5 minutes. The instructions said to write about a memorable place, somewhere that left an impression on me, whether it be a familiar place or somewhere I’ve only been to once. The first thing that came to mind was the Louvre. I wrote about the physical qualities that I could remember, but it wasn’t those qualities that made the place memorable. It was the atmosphere around me, the way so many strangers from all around the world could gather in one place, so many lives crossing each other. I don’t remember what I really wrote on the essay, I kind of just wrote whatever came to my mind since we only had 30 minutes to write it.

Next I had the interview with one of the staff and a student. I don’t think I did that badly, but I stuttered way too much. Luckily my interviewer was nice and was smiling the whole time. The questions she asked me were exactly what I was expecting, basic questions, like why I was interested in Interior design, why I chose Ryerson, and asked me about a few of my portfolio works.

The last component was the drawing test. This part was fairly easy, we just had to draw an object that was given to us. After that, we had to draw what we envision as a bright an optimistic future. The teacher told us to go completely abstract on this, so it was pretty fun drawing this.

And that was it! I feel so much more relieved now. Even though I still have another interview with OCAD, I feel like I’d be prepared for that. I’m supposed to go watch movies with a few of my friends tomorrow but honestly I don’t really feel like going anywhere. I just want to sleep right now, I haven’t slept at all last night because I was so worried about the interview.

I went over to a friend’s to work on our portfolio stuff together. He kept on asking me before, but I always thought he was just joking about it. I guess in the end it was actually helpful. He helped me with my 3D project since I had no idea what I was doing. We didn’t get too much done though, eventually we just grew tired of working on it and watched random movies online. I have to say he does have good taste in movies/tv shows. Although I kind of wanted to watch it alone, we watched Perks of Being a Wallflower, and I have no words to describe it. It was just beautiful okay, and I kind of got depressed towards the end. It was hilarious watching my friend’s reactions though, my eyes were watery but he was completely bawling his eyes out. But anyway the movie was amazing, just like the book; it didn’t let me down at all. Logan Lerman fit the role of Charlie perfectly, and Emma was great as Sam too, and oh god, Patrick’s actor was amazing, and I already loved Patrick’s character so much too. I’ve been listening to “Asleep” all over again now.

Christmas break has begun and I feel great. I have many things I’m planning on doing this break, both work and getting together with friends and family. It’s going to get really busy, but I’m just really happy with things overall right now. 

Friday was a great day, I got to visit a few of my friends from St. A’s, whom I felt like I haven’t seen for ages. I got to meet many new people there as well. After I came back to UHS with my friends I exchanged presents with everyone and I was just really surprised people even bothered getting a present for me. It wasn’t even for secret Santa or anything, they just got it because they wanted to. I now have a life’s supply of Tazo teabags and I couldn’t be happier.

Saturday was slightly busier. I still had classes in the morning to attend, but the day ended nicely. I spent the afternoon with my friend after class, and we wandered around the area, ate lunch and got lost many times on the bus. It was a good day, and even better, my dad finally came back that night.

And finally, yesterday. Yet again, we held our custom of late night movies and watched The Hobbit. This time Matt invited way more people than I expected, I didn’t even know half of them, but it was still nice to see new faces. The movie was amazing of course, and it made me feel really nostalgic. And naturally, my friends who could never take anything seriously, were making their little remarks throughout the entire movie, such as “I wonder what shampoo Gandalf uses, he should use more conditioner like Saruman”. And of course, of all people, Ryan would call Smeagol a “cute little muffin”. 

Today is Christmas Eve, and I’m going to a relative’s house for dinner and such. I still have many things to do in the next few days, such as portfolio prep, school work, and studying. I also can’t wait to meet up with my RHMS friends, and just seeing everyone again.

Oh boy. I’ve been feeling a bit guilty lately for not writing more on this blog. A lot of things happened this past..month. Honestly I’m completely stressed out right now. Not from school work but with portfolio preparations. A few weeks ago I went to OCAD for the National Portfolio Day with a few of my friends. We went extremely early, to avoid the long line. I wasn’t actually expecting so many people to go there. We arrived at around 8AM I think, and the place was packed, and the doors didn’t open until 11AM. Anyways, I was really surprised. There were so many people there and I kind of felt…well, insignificant. Not to mention that I saw a LOT of talented people. A lot. It’s not even the fact that they’re really talented and skilled at drawing, etc. It’s their ideas that they have that are amazing. I don’t think I’d ever be that creative. 

Anyways, when we finally got in there was another long line for every different university. One of my friends came with me to the design section, while my other friends went to the fine arts/fashion section. When I finally got to the OCAD reviewer, he was surprisingly nice. I guess since it’s not the actual interview. Basically he told me about what the expectations would be for the actual portfolio interview, and what I should work more on. I needed more 3D works thats for sure. I only showed up with 2 of them. I went to another reviewer for Parsons University later on. I didn’t even know this school, but they had an Interior Design program so I checked it out. The interviewer was named Peggy, and she’s just awesome. I felt like I was talking to a friend or something. But yeah, she also said I needed more 3D works if I wanted to go into industrial/interior design. I also need to fill up my sketchbook more. 

I’ve been working a lot more on my art since that portfolio review. I’m a bit more worried about my math mark though, I dropped a bit recently and I really need to get back up. Oh and I also watched Skyfall on Friday and it was pretty good. I loved the intro with Adele’s song. I couldn’t help but laugh at the way everyone stands in that movie though. They always have this awkward stance I just can’t take it seriously. Yeah.. I’m not exactly the person you should bring to watch movies with, I can’t take anything seriously.

Ahh anyways it’s almost 3AM and I clearly need sleep. There’s probably a million spelling mistakes in this post.