Kyuu! Archive-April 2007 ---------------------- The waiting period ---------------------- The worst part about graduating is having to wait for universities to send you offers of admission for first year no doubt. I swear almost everyone I knew got into OCAD for next year. Me, after waiting a week or so (most people got their letters last week), I got a letter from OCAD pretty much saying that right now my portfolio wasn’t good enough to get me into first year Graphic Design, however since this wasn’t a rejection letter they said that if a spot opened up I might be able get in, buuuuuuttttttt, if that happens I won’t know until mid-June (earliest). Great, honestly, in a case like that I would’ve prefered to hear a rejection rather than this overly conditional offer that already gives me a tiny tiny chance of getting in. One could say, at least I have a chance, maybe. But I’m the kind of person who doesn’t like to hear uncertainty in this that affect basically….I dunno, the rest of your life!? -_- Looking back at my interview I think the lady that interviewed me might not have liked me that much, considering the fact that she didn’t even let me finish going through all of my work. >_> (or so I think because the other dude who interviewed me seemed to like me saying that I had a good variety of mediums(considering the fact that no one in the room I was in showed any kind of digital media work, I thought I was lucky >.>) a good rational for my work -i.e. I create things for a reason and they are done in a certain way for a reason). Damnit I was already stressed out and now I get this kind of an answer….*sigh* not exactly pissed about this, just frustrated Dx Luckily though, OCAD wasn’t my first choice anyway (I only applied there because location-wise it’s very convient for me). So if I get in for York I will be ’screw OCAD’, York’s Design program is merged with Sheridan of course I’d go there <3. OCAD is relatively new to the whole university system so York is better anyway for a degree (which looks better nya?). Though, I'll be honest with myself here, if I didn't get in for OCAD I honestly don't know how I'm getting in for York or maybe the whole idea of Sheridan being part of it is the reason why I'm more nervous about this. btw, because I'm sure I'm talking all jibberish to most of you xD Sheridan is basically one of the best, if not the best, Art school in Canada(next to Emily Carr) notable for their Illustration and Animation programs, OCAD is the Ontario College of Art and Design which was still a college until 4 years ago when it became a university and offered a degree instead of a diploma. Both schools are quite difficult to get into and because Design is a growing art fad it makes it even harder. Though talking to my mom about it a couple weeks back about York's design program years ago, she had told me that York used to be really picky about admissions into their design program: out of a couple hundred people who apply, only 25 students would be accepted (25!? that's about the size of an average high school class O_o;;; ) Anyhoo, now I'm off to do Harmony homework and study for my Calc test. *sigh* I don't know how I'm going to break this news to my parents either...."York you’re my only hope” (because I honestly don’t want to go to UofT unless I have to T-T) ||April 3,2007|| ---------------------- old memories ---------------------- o.k. I was kinda bored, and started thinking about random fads that I’ve seen and been through in my life, so…I’m going to blog about them for absolutely no reason xD Childhood->Present fads: -pogs (anyone remember those? honestly it was corny, pretty much the size of poker chips, that you could win in games, haha…child gambling) -power rangers (the time when people used to wake up at 7:00am to watch and imitate them…including me xD) -Barbie (especially all the fantasy versions, this was pretty much what every girl had back then, I actually still have mine too xD) - Polly Pocket (not like the ones now, but the old Polly Pockets which were litterally the size of a compact, just slightly bigger. Now you never see Polly Pockets that small) - Sky dancers (literal meaning, it used to be a cartoon show, and then I bought a toy for it too xD now that I think about it, that toy was dangerous considering the fact that i was launching these spinning dolls into the air o.o ) - yo-yos (hahaha…now everyone was just showing off tricks, and me…i can’t do squat with a yoyo except for just bobbing it up and down) - Backstreet Boys, N’Sync and old boybands (ugh, i still have an old backstreet boys cd, and now…i hate them, i seriously hate them >_< ) -Sailormoon (not a lot of animes back then especially in Canada, SM was basically the first, but after they kept changing Usagi's voice actor something like 4 times, i didn't like it. but i do remember be realy obsessed with it and imitated the character transformations lol, i even made my brother do it too while watching a Chinese dubbed version of Sailor Moon S xD) - Marvel comic heros (mostly Batman and Superman, though Superman came to it's end when Christopher Reeves died, Spiderman was still relatively new, but the song, just like the Batman theme, was so addictive xD) - Bugs Bunny and Warnerbros. (undoubtedly one of the most awsome western cartoons ever, it's nicely drawn, animated and it's funny xD Pinky and the Brain was another good one too, the theme was really catchy hahaha) -Disney fairytales and characters (all the classic fairytales and stories: Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Bambi, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy etc. before Kingdom Hearts, i already grew up with them, TLM, Aladdin and Lion King used to be tv shows. first time Disney showed the Lion King was during my childhood too lol, i remember that's actually the one time i dreamed of becoming and animator maybe for Disney. course not anymore lol) -Goosebumps books (they were really popular, though i never read many. they weren't really scary though so i got bored of them) -Pokemon (omg, one of the biggest fads in my childhood, and i don't just mean the cards, and tcg, i mean the games for gameboy and gameboy colour. lol i remember the principal banning the cards from school too O_o;; course i still have all my cards xD) -Gameboy and Gameboy colour (it was all because of Pokemon xD) -N64 and Playstation (the introduction of Legend of Zelda- Ocarina of Time, which brought revival from the old old LOZ series, and the whole line of Playstation games) -Digimon (i remember everyone wanted a digivice and so did i, and to this day, i still want one xD) -Neopets (hahaha...i still have my accounts, after learning that your pets don't die, i think i just got bored with them xD this was a pretty big fad too until there were just too many neopets nyah x_x;;; ) -Internet and MSN Messenger (yes! those were invented in my childhood and I never knew of it's existence until grade 7 xD before i used to talk on the phone with my best friend for 4 hours straight xDDD) -Counterstrike/Half-Life, War/Starcraft (oh MMORPG's, despite people's claim of their addictiveness, i never got addicted to any of these, they just got...boring xD) -Sims (that was hillarious, and i still love the game. honestly i think i spent more time discussing with my friends on how to kill them rather than make them successful ehehehe xDD) -Yugioh and Inuyasha (now Inuyasha's not that great for me, and a lot of fangirls that are young annoy me to death because of their ignorance to the original, Yugioh wasn't too big around where i lived, but i still loved the tcg when i came out and such - that led me to make my first fansite :D) and that's pretty much all i can think of for childhood fads xD i know there's a whole bunch more (like recent fads of Myspace, Hi5, blogging, Facebook and such) but Hikari is tired....and it's 2am xDDD happy Good Friday :DDDD oh and i was bored today so i made an LJ account that i'll probably use as a photo blog lol. if you have LJ add me! :D http://hikarimoro.livejournal.com D.Grayman is awwwwsommmme <333 ||April 6, 2007|| ---------------------- the moderate success ---------------------- Today was midterms for 2nd semester, and I have to say that I was actually pretty happy with my results (no disgustingly low marks yay! :D) my average for this midterm was around 80 (and 83 for my top marks for university^^) , so yep…that’s one good thing today(or…yesterday because it’ 1am right now xD). my lowest mark is Biology (heh, totally expected that), 2nd lowest was Calculus (I hated it from the beginning and still dislike it now despite the fact that it is kinda getting easier). My goal by the end of the year is to only have one mark in the 70’s (lol, reminiscing junior years now x3) And…surprisingly the University of Toronto Scarborough campus (UTSC) replied back to me today with an offer of acceptance for Life Science next year. yay…though UofT isn’t my first choice because Sciences is my backup xD (total Asian rebel xD). My parents are totally being @sses about it though, I swear as soon as they saw the acceptance they were like “o.k. you have to make up your dropped Chemistry this summer”. and I was thinking, “omg! I haven’t even gotten a reply from York (and not a definite one from OCAD) and you’re already jumping to conclusions! argh!!” Seriously I keep telling my mom not to touch my mail either, especially stuff concerning university since I’m the one who needs to see it first(it’s my future damnit >_< ) *sigh* but if I'm not accepted for York or OCAD, UofT it's going to be (ugh..science, I'm so sick of the tedious work and brain cramming facts =_=;;; ), I might consider transfering during first year if I can (that'll depend on how *cough* enjoyable my first year's going to be. Been checking my York-Future Student's account like...every day, 'no decision yet' is what I've been seeing for the last week or so, really hoping I get in (I don'tmind distance if I can enjoy what I study for the next four years of my life <3) and here's a little fun link that I found, very amusing xD (oh, and I'm glad you guys liked my random old school fads. hahaha...good times good times n_n): http://www.wocka.com/10516.html ||April 19, 2007||