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Name: j.
Country: United Kingdom
Metro: London
Birthday: 4/27/1985
Gender: Female


Interests: arts + design +fashion
Expertise: fashion design
Occupation: Student


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Member Since: 10/29/2005

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Friday, November 25, 2005

Currently Listening
100th Window
By Massive Attack
Antistar
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Oh crap! time flies sooo quickly!!!!

I have so much to do this week!

Alea is finally here though which is cool!! I guess it also means that i have to go out this

weekend! oh well! it's been quite awhile since i've done so anyway! so fair enough! i'm looking forward to it!

saw the pre-premier of  Harry Potter 3 this wednesday by the way! it was failry good enough! the acting at the beginning was pretty lame but yeah! i guess it covers up the book=) sweet popcorn! yum!!!!=)

my internet at home still isn't working! i feel so disconnected without it really!!!!

oh well see you again next week i guess!=)


Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Currently Listening
Hana-Bi
By Joe Hisaishi, Takeshi Kitano
Hana-Bi
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Demon Days

                   

 

So here we go again!!! yet another week that's FLASHED right past me!! It's really amazing how fast time flies!!! it literally teleports!!

Usually this would denote that I'm having so much fun that I don't notice time at all anymore, but um.. No. hahah!! I think life is throwing me enough limes (not really lemons) that I just get distracted, but one thing is certain though! stories just pile up so very easily these days!!

so in my earnest attempt to recall the weeks activities:

Friday: Design Class With Mo - school was good but the day was

           very bad!! Ruined my iPod earphones ; queued for 1/2 an hour to

           buy new ones and then quit from work because of work overload

           I don't even want to remember this day! spoke to Ola though

Saturday: Woke up at 1:30 went to Lee Abbey lunch

                 watched Godfather 1 with Tina in Ettienne's laptop! haha

                 *he's so sweet really! *

                 oooooh!! Babysitting the 3 french kids!!

                 saw Sean on the way!!! they were really nice!

                 babysat(whahaha) from 19:45-1:40 am and then went

                 home immediately to Chris' room to watch Scarface.

...it was an Al Pacino Mafia Day I suppose!!

Sunday: Sunday was another 1:30 morning! but I made it in due time

             for lunch though!! =) Tina & Lana slept in or at least refused

             to eat lunch! Noon time was filled with attempts to work in the

             study room!! shortly interrupted by High Tea (18:00) which I

            had with the chinese community here in Lee Abbey!

           ! quite a difference since I'm always with the Spanish & Euros

           went out of Asanka's window to the sort of balcony! it was sooo

           nice!!!!!! DL-led my friend's PR report + proposal to check read

           20:10-was 10 mins late in meeting my friend's boyfriend Raoul

          at High Street where he gave me Barbara's marketing work

          20:20 had to run home to join the asian community for dinner

          They invited me to go with them to their weekly restaurant

          dinner ( this week was at Bibimbub-Korean food AGAIN!! )

          then I treated the guys to McFlurry and then back at halls

          was a Judo/Fight Fest Exhibition by the guys + Haidy who's a

          judo orange belt! this was after the strange Pierre left.

          *Pierre = 3rd year French Med Student*

          Continued working on my corset well until dawn!

Monday: 1:30 morning (again) only had enough time to call Emirates

              prepare my things for school and RUN to school for a

              Marketing Group Meeting(never goes too well-16;30-17:30)

              Followed directly by a marketing class(17:30-19:30)

              Went back home and missed dinner

              Sylvia visits me and we chat for a while! went to Sainsbury's

              with Tina to buy dinner(bread + tomatoes + juice )

              the rest of the night was TIna & Lana telling their rather

              tragic boy tales. I didn't have any to share! whahaha!!

              SO i WASN't able to MAKE my corsets!!

Tuesday: 10:00 morning. slept again. 13:30... skipped corsetry since

               I had no NEW work to show anyway!!!! but it was a pity since

               Corsetry is I think perhaps my favourite class out of all!!

              Worked on Corsets the entire afternoon and night in the

              study room. Went for a little shopping trip with Haidy

              bought a COAT, BELT + SCARF and on the way back saw Sean

              again!! had dinner & tea.. was showing my things to my

              friends in my room and then got locked in!---the lock on my

              door TOTALLY broke off!! imagine!! had to call reception

              Lana used my printer + room and then I

              did more work in the study room and was

              discussing things with Asanka who discouraged me from Sean=(

              didn't feel too bright at the end of the night

          ....got a lot of work done though at least!! slept at 3:00am

Wednesday: woke up at 7:30 went to school arrived 30 minutes early

                   worked a LOT! ended class past scheduled time(16:30)

                   ended at 18:30 instead. OVERLOADED with work..

                   got home at 19:45. missed dinner again.

                   today is a 4°c day!! it was FREEZING!!!!!!!! it still is!!! hahaha!

                   almost fell asleep on the bus home. TIna is busy with an

                   essay Lana is going to use my printer again and I am

                   currently updating my blog. Considering Sleeping or working

                   more though! 

GOOD NEWS :

No Classes until next TUESDAY!!!!

-- but i DO have a whole load of work that needs much sorting out though!!!

** ISANG PROBLEMA: ako'y nagsisimula nang mairita sa mga peste kong kaklase(kasama). usap lang ng usap sa tanga nilang linguahe nakakapikon, walang modo!!!  Boo!!! kelangan kong tiisin!! peste!

I still like SEAN   my eyecandy=) Never mind if he's a player or whatever. I just wanna look at him anyway! 


Friday, November 11, 2005

Boo! it's yet another Friday and so far all I've managed to do is work! till 3 am in the morning and this weekend isn't showing any signs of letting up either!!

Just so that you guys are aware, I'm stuck in school right now (in the computer room) 'patiently' waiting for my 8 hour Design class to finish! I've already seen my tutor for today so technically I 'could' already go!! ...mind you I might actually go and ask permission to leave early!!

Still working on the 'sportswear designs' and apparently my designs are still too catwalk! so I have to develop 3 designs towards a finalized set for Wednesday's upcoming fused design-sample room session!! wow! the thought of this alone is already exhausting me!

I am very tired so you will hae to pardon me for my bluntness and lack of spark. I guess it's to do with lack of sleep as well!! considering that I only ever got to bed at 3:30 am last night and then woke up at 7:30 am this morning to travel the entirety of London just to get to school!!

My bestfriend Tinita went out on a sort of date (or is it a date??) last night and I'm just soooo happy for her!!!!! Really!! all my friends are pairing up! it's crazy!!! I guess I'm still the last one standing =P oh and I read in the newspaper today while eating lunch that apparently 'lonliness' is genetic! or at least the researchers are hypothesizing. Lol!! who would have thought right???

The events of last night were rather funny as well!! I had dinner with my friends(in the picture) as usual and then there was this other girl(korean) i did not recognize at the table, so i introduced myself and then my friends followed suit and then when it came to the part where they were asking her about what she was studying she told us 'history of design' at the royal college of art,  funny enough I told her I met another girl who was doing the exact same course and that she was korean as well! She then in turn got interested and wanted me to point out to her who this other girl was and this just took me by surprise.

I didn't realize that I didn't even remember actually what the other girl looked like, only that I helped her with boxes and her course and nationality. So i looked around the enitre dining room trying to recall who it was that I met before but just couldn't remember the girl at all so I tell her honestly that I haven't seen the other girl since the first week(late september) and she gives me a query, 'do you think I am the girl you were talking about??'

OOOPS! imagine!!! it was soooo embarassing!!!!!! apparently it WAS her!!! imagine talking about the exact same person as though they were someone else! we were all just laughing!! i felt a wee bit stupid but it was alright! we both really didn't recognize each other anyway! so it wasn't anyone's fault!:P

The rest of the night after dinner + tea was spent drawing in the study room and chatting along occasionally with the medical students who are regulars in the study room. Somewhere along the night they were also able to guess that I liked this other guy who was a friend of theirs! apparently it was obvious with the way I was talking about him, but hopefully not to that particular guy though!!! I hardly see him , i still don't actually

but strangely and funnily(if there's such a word) enough, like i was telling karla the other day, I just really really like my idea of him!!! hahahhaa!! imagine!!! i don't even remember what he looks like anymore but i still like him!! I think I'm getting a tad bit desperate with a life of just work not much play and with everyone suddenly taking pairs!!

oh life! talk about peer pressure! hahahah!! i'd never thought i'd be a victim of it! but oh well! it's all funny! I'm not going to do anything about it though since i think that this is all just a passing phase anyway. god knows i loove these phases!!!:P it's like fashion, trend after trend after trend!!!

let's just hope i get around my senses soon enough!!!!!!

oooooooooh!!! and there's this new benz that i loooove so much!!!!!!!  I see it around my neighbourhood a lot and i find it just so beautiful!!!!! here's a picture:

ooooh it's sooooo nice!!!!!!!!=)

well i guess i have to pop back up to class now!!! otherwise i might be classified as 'missing' hahaha!!=) till the next time!!!! xoxo


Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Currently Listening
Sen to Chihiro No Kamikakushi
By Joe Hisaishi
GODS
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& 7 days later....

 

I finally find some time for myself! =) after a week of extreme working hours and very little social activities ( except maybe for making friends with the people in the study room )..

Then again I also had a night out in my classmate's flat just down the road during the weekend! We had a portugese-korean night!! Well basically my friend Barbara & her boyfriend cooked and prepared all these wonderful portugese food and then we had some bottles of Soju (courtesy of the Koreans!) I notice that we never seem to do without alchohol anymore recently!! Which is getting increasingly uncomfy because they insist that I drink with them which I'd really rather not do because I always have so many things to do that getting drunk is just about the last thing I need!!!=P

But apart from this, I was also able to spend a wonderful day out with Tinita!!!!!We went to Covent Garden (to this wonderful bead shop!!) and then to China Town which just brightened my day!!!! and then finally to Japan Centre to buy my favourites snacks and have dinner there too!!!! it was really really nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had sooo much fun this day!!!

And the BEST NEWS of the week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my dear friend ALEITA is comiiiiiiiiiiing!!!!! wooooooooooooooohoooooooooooooo!!!=D I am sooo excited!!!!!!! I really really really miss her!!! my first friend in Lee Abbey last year!! hahaha!!:P

She's going to visit us from spain for a long weekend!!! and i've already booked the campbeds and all!! MEALS included!! hahaha!!:P I hope you miss Lee abbey dinners enough for your visit aleita!!!!;)

The rest of the week brought about more work to my load but I'm happy that at least both Tuesday & Wednesdays have been really good school days for this week!!! I enjoyed school very much and I've really missed this feeling!!!

But now i have a tiny problem. My work load is getting too heavy I think I have to quit my work placement at Browns in order to do really well with my work! I have to deal with this decision soon enough, I will let you know about it!!

But i DO still have my babysitting job though!!! and I formally start this Saturday!!!

3 French kids!! hahahaha!! I never thought I would come to this!!!!!! but alas!! there's always a first time for everything!! and it's not bad at all considering how convenient the place is from mine!!!!=D so I will also keep you posted on that by Sunday!!!

I am missing my vatore twin so much!!!!

..sorry not very humorous at 2:06am :P i'll do better next time!!!=) 


Thursday, November 03, 2005

Currently Listening
Lealy Nahary
A3mil EIh
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No.3  :  Thursday Post

By the time you're reading this it most probably is a Friday. So much for 'high-speed' internet! well I do suppose that the problem is just in my halls!! 'LALondon' crap! Who's great idea was it anyway to split one connection between 200 people??...sheer genius...

Ugh! well I have to be honest though, I never used to have this problem.... until I moved rooms that is!!  212---->218 

Sure my new room is fantastic!!!!! It's twice the size of the former one and it's got almost enough space for 2 people...2 AVERAGE people that is!! meaning to say that it's just got enough space for ME!    I should actually try and post some pictures of my new room now, but maybe when i get more time!

As of the moment I'm just dropping by quickly again! still the same problem from the past post 'The Vanishing Act' . These days, I'm hardly ever in my room! and this week I don't see any open opportunities sadly. These past days I've been coming home at 11pm at night from a whole day and college and time spent with friends from school. This weekend is already fully booked! I've parties and get togethers already booked since last week! Mind you it all seems nice and fun! and perhaps it is but the thing I have to complain about is that I NEVER seem to have time for myself anymore!!

Always running here and there and working 3/4 of the time!!! It's all rather difficult for now because I'm not yet used to working so hard alongside playing so hard!

Last Night was cool though! another one of those 'korean' nights in a new korean restaurant 'GAMA' in soho + 7 bottles of soju(sake) and the night before was dimsum night with the lovely people from w2B in Yauatcha--posh dimsum bar in Soho as well!!=)

both nights were really really fun but exhausting!!:P

But perhaps time will get me used to it!! My friends hardly see me anymore and I hardly see them myself and I am actually starting to miss them! But all this for a better brighter future!!!!

Tommorow is Design Class, now my tutor is a guy named Mo Ali, and he is BRILLIANT.  But then I should probably also mention that he is terrifying!!! He has such high standards and is seriously one of those tutors who make you feel like you really really have to work!!!

He sends students home if he thinks your work isn't good enough. Talk about ego-deflating.. I am hoping I am not gonna be sent home tommorow or on any other Friday for that matter!!!

and then 2 possible house parties on friday, One supposedly filled with cute British Italian guys and another one filled with Gorgeous Spanish guys. Good if I'm interested but not at the moment to be honest, I think I'd trade this in for another night of work since the entire Saturday I have work(at Browns) again until 18:30 and then a friend's birthday party!!which means going out till the dawn yet again!!!

Sunday is another invitation to a friends flat, with my groupmates in school we're gonna have a Portugese night and drinks as usual! But!!!as I have promised! it's a new healthy good life for me now!  I'm only going to drink socially because as you can already foresee I  have work yet again on Monday 9-18:30 again!!!! and then yes Tuesday brings about Corsetry wherein I am expected to have already finished 2 ultra-complex  corsets!!! imagine!! my workload is really HUMONGOUS!!! I mean I'm not even explaining the other 3 projects I'm supposed to do here!!!! but it's crazy!! I don't even have time to go on my mandatory Fabric research! I really have to stuff that in somewhere in my schedule!! as well as  going to Clyde's to buy myself a Busk for the corset and several steel bonings. the burdens of uni+work....

I also have to worry about organizing all my school things and notes soon so that I won't get confused! But first and most naturally the research!!!! Research research research!!! why do I always end up with this Job in particular??? All my tutors say I'm really good at it but I think otherwise! besides! I ABHOR it! well not really! but I mean I'd definitely avoid it if i could!! hahaha!!=D

then i have to start looking for second term placement opportunities!! (any suggestions?!?!) just in case i don't want to stay where I am at right now! besides i think the more variety the better! because you can only ever learn so much from one place after all!! I hope heaven helps me in this case because I've been so busy lately I haven't even started the hunt yet!!! =S

But it's good that I'm busy though, I'm less depressed since i never get the time to think a lot about one particular thing /situation nowadays!!! and schools been generally better!!! MORE work but I'm a reformed student now!! hope things continue going well for me!!!!!

I miss chatting with all my friends online!! hopefully one of these days my internet will be nice enough to cooperate with me!!!! But for now!! time to work again!!!

 

Picture of Me with my friends here :



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