littlestar

1. WST
2. tahoe for a liz phair concert at caesar's palace.

i wanted to take parakkum to watch liz phair. the fun thing about the caesar's palace venue is that it's not a typical liz venue. so there weren't a whole lot of people except clueless people from the hotel or die-hard liz fans.

and since there weren't a lot of people, we were able to stand right in front of stage, just a few feet away from liz. this is leave-my-backpack-on-stage-if-i-want-to close. :) very cool.

it seemed like she wasn't that enthusiastic about playing there at first, but she warmed to us really quickly and had a blast. she signed a lot of autographs, including my sketchbook. she apparently liked my pen/marker a lot, since she signed everyone else's things with it and walked off with it later. :P :)

also, she and her band seemed more comfortable with each other compared to the sf concert. they still didn't have her voice cranked up enough though. the other really funny thing was that she went through a lot of guitar strings. sometimes two strings on a guitar would give out in the middle of the song.

we stayed the night in tahoe, since the concert started at 9pm and there was no way we were going to drive back.

if in tahoe and wanting buffet food, harrah's had pretty good buffet. we went for the sunday morning champagne brunch which had all-you-can-eat dungeness crab legs on top of every other yummy thing. it's also on the 18th floor, so you get a nice panoramic view of tahoe and surrounding mountains. caesar's dinner buffet wasn't that impressive, though.

we went to king's beach, which is in north tahoe. it was a nice and open beach where you can also rent jet skis, kayak stuff and some weird tricycle on big plastic balloon wheels that floats on water. we had lunch/dinner at jason's brewery, a nice little restaurant on king's beach, where you have a fantastic view of the lake.

there were also a few art fairs that were interesting to see. i picked up some nice home-made glycerine scented soaps.

Posted by littlestar at 09:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Occupation: Girl - Troy in Fifteen Minutes

troy was full of hotties/cuties. and overall, i enjoyed it. i just thought the first half was really slow and long.

morals of the story: the greeks are bastards. helen is an idiotic tramp (the greeks are bastards and their women are whores). andromache needs to learn that letting the whore who got her husband killed hold her child is not a good idea.

Posted by littlestar at 07:04 PM | Permalink

total hours spent on my calendar....150+ (four week project)

total hours on campus working on projects yesterday....17

total hours spent on projects this morning....6

total hours spent working with adhesives yesterday and today....10

total number of dead brain cells, mine and others around me.... countless

hours i fasted for my stupid metabolic analysis test this morning...14

but no more. :) life is good.

there were reasons why, but i'm forgetting right now. so i will for really go to sleep now. :)

Posted by littlestar at 12:55 AM | Permalink

done with school.

and a lot of significant changes to what i intended for summer.

1) no summer classes. i've talked to friends and teacher and they all suggest that i should just hone my drawing skills instead of trying to start painting or taking more basic drawing classes.

2)which means.... i can go to korea with my mom and sis. probably leaving to stay with my parents for a couple weeks before leaving for korea on a three week trip. i will probably drive down to my parents' around mid june and drive back up after the comiccon.

3) which means.... putting off hair dying. makes me sad, because it means i probably won't have pink/red hair for the comiccon. but somehow, i don't think my grandmother, aunt and other various relatives would appreciate such a colorful do.

4) my trip from 5/21-5/27 to la, visiting family... cancelled.

so now i find that i have to deal with my errands now, rather than a week and half later.

still... i get a good 3-4 weeks to myself to take care of errands and start my drawing regimen before i skip town again.

but for now.... blessed sleep.

Posted by littlestar at 12:36 AM | Permalink

since sjsu has once again put my account on hold, i'm using their guest account for wireless network connection. needless to say. it sucks.

i just wanted to post that i've done all i'm willing to do for the animatiln final. i may go for an extra credit assignment, since it's animating whatever the hell we want.

the calendar is going to kill me. but at least i get to hang out with my classmates from animation while i do it.

Posted by littlestar at 06:16 PM | Permalink

my semester is coming to a close.

this means crunch time.

yesterday was the last day of classes and i had class from 3-930pm. then i stayed up till 3am working on my calendar final project.

today, i will have to take care of some administrative stuff and then work on my animations all day. then i will put together my calendar into its physical form.

all this is due tomorrow. :) the madness will soon end.

Posted by littlestar at 09:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

just trying out a thing:

honeyfields

honeyfields

apparently, i don't get anything other than the color black. that's icky. i like COLORS :)

looking up the aristotle stuff... i'm reading that joe sachs' translations are pretty good. what do people think?

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anyone know which is a good translation of aristotle's nicomachean ethics?

or does anyone care or know the difference between the nicomachean and eudemian ethics?

Posted by littlestar at 09:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

'Tam Grossa': Eight Extant Medieval Latin Yo Mamma Jokes

i just thought this was hilarious. i don't know if lish reads my blog at any regular rate, but you'd like. especially since you can read and write latin.

anyone else a pro with dead languages? i'm certainly not. :)

dim sum this morning. i was going to call ahead, but they aren't open till 10. :P

Posted by littlestar at 09:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

i own a couple superpowers, one of them being the power to elicit parking spaces in ideal spots. another is talking to customer service agents.

but this is my anti-superpower... my shitty luck with electronics.

back when i got my first digital camera, it had come with three burnt out pixels so i had to send it back. less than a year later, it was stolen. with my new digicam, i managed to lose the battery charger and spare battery in a few months. there are other examples i can't think of just yet.

now... my new uber printer, the one for which i talked a $150 refund from amazon, doesn't do thick paper prints. it did normal prints fine, so i didn't know that it was a dud until i tried to print on heavyweight matte photo paper this morning. i spent the last two hours trying to figure out what the problem is and calling technical service.

as far as they can tell, it's just something specifically wrong with my unit. so they're just going to send me a new one in exchange for this one. they will pay for shipping. i lucked out in that i tried this out today, since with two day shipping it will get to me this week and i really need it for the project that's due on monday.

but as the guy was apologizing to me for the inconvenience... i just couldn't help laughing. stuff like this has happened to me frequently enough that it's bordering on funny now. :)

at least this time, i know to make sure the darn thing works before i ship back my old unit.

Posted by littlestar at 12:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

for my final in animation/illustration, i will be turning in 4 tests: bouncing ball, diminishing bouncing ball across the screen, brick drop and a fourth thing i don't know about yet.

brick drop was yesterday. i got it done pretty fast and, for the most part, it was good. i have a few changes to make. but that's been true about all my animations. i think i that's why i find animation so tedious at times. it's fun to do it initially, but the 10 hours of work afterwards, trying to fix the damn things... and it still isn't fixed. so you try some more.

it's silent hours of work. pleah.

as for my calendar... i think i'm about 40% done. which is kind of discouraging, but i think it will be doable to finish by monday. i hope. :P

right now, i'm trying to war with the horrible music my upstairs neighbor is playing. it's a lot of base, slow, drawn out music. played really loud, i guess. my music is distinctly not that. not that i play it loud, i just want to not hear the bad music.

and i can hear the damn thing everywhere: my bedroom, the living room... even the bathroom. i can't even go potty in peace.

Posted by littlestar at 10:02 AM | Permalink

anyone want dim sum?

mike, ken and i tried, foolishly, on sunday to do it. we waited an hour, and it looked like we would have to wait another hour, so we went to get pho instead.

but i learned that we can call in for a waiting card and pick it up later. :) so that should help with the wait time from now on.

i was thinking friday or saturday morning. basically, if you working people want dim sum, saturday. if not... friday. gotta get that fix in. :)

please post. :)

Posted by littlestar at 09:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

i try very hard not to be at this state of being. i bust my ass for this class at the vague glimmer of hope of an A-. i have no idea how i'm doing in my animation/illustration class at all.

it's just a little sad because the illustration assignment got cancelled so we're only doing animations now. and graphic design was never really what i wanted to do...

so it's that evil combination of having a lot of work to do that i don't have a passion for. i definitely find it interesting... but mere interest can't carry you through 14+ hours of work every day. my own consolation is that in a week and half, everything will be over, whether i do well in the classes or not.

the exhausted icon isn't doing it justice. it needs to be this inaminate melted blob on the floor with all its features oozing off. (i had another collapsing on floor without wanting to get up episode. it was horrible--to be that tired-- yet nice--to lie still.

Posted by littlestar at 10:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

still chugging away with working on the pieces of my mobile calendar, my final project for typography.

this basically means that my laptop is attached to me all day long.

i miss hanging out with people without stuff hanging over my head.

apparently, no brunch this morning since it's mother's day and everywhere would be full of people. that's too bad, because i'd sort of counted on seeing people this morning for a slight return to sanity before i throw myself into work again.

well... since parakkum will be up this week, i can probably use him as an excuse to meet up with people later this week.

i just have to survive till the 20th. then i will be done with school. i visit la from 21-27. then a writing skills test on the 29th, with a trip to tahoe to attend a liz phair concert with parakkum. the concert would be the kick-off to my actual summer break. :)

my plans for summer:
- recuperate, so that i don't burn out and feel unmotivated about doing everything (four weeks before summer school and three weeks after)
- summer school (6/28-8/5) - beginning and intermediate drawing. M-Th 8am-140pm. hopefully the classes won't be full by the time i can enroll (6/18).
- san diego comiccon(7/22-7/25) (parakkum would like a headcount if people are planning to come down.
- i would like to play around with different materials, like markers and pastels. i certainly have the markers now. pastels.... :)
- go through at least one art instruction book

Posted by littlestar at 10:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

so i recently bought a lot of gadgets to help me learn things in art. like a over-sized printer.

but i found out tonight that the price had dropped $150 since i'd ordered it, less than two months ago.

and hooray for amazon customer service, they refunded the money to me after i explained my situation to them via phone. :) since i'd only missed their 30 day refund/return period by a few days.

more money is good. :)

Posted by littlestar at 01:19 AM | Permalink

work work work
and me with no pay
tsk tsk

Posted by littlestar at 09:15 AM | Permalink

my animation/illustration prof (jeff b) is part of a gallery show that opened yesterday at the punch gallery (10th, between howard and mission, if you're interested). it was a show of art pieces done by professional artists in sf. a way for them to just be creative, without having to cater to someone else's tastes.

now... he walks into class and starts talking about some people thinking that he was "psychotic." and looked at me, and i was confused for a while. yes, he is psychotic. but i say that about people about all the time. it's almost equivalent to "really cool." anyway, so i agreed, "yup you are," wondering why this all sounded familiar....

at the show, jeff says "you have a blog."

at that moment, all the little dots in my brain connected and i realized that long ago, i wrote about him. i said he was psychotic. and that he was also a charismatic person, the kind that's a little intimidating.

you know... it's that reaction of "oh shit, you read my BLOG?" "i write all sorts of random crap there because i don't think anyone really reads it"

i tried this out. i think he must've googled his name or something. :) and apparently my blog pops up as one of the listings.

unfortunately, this probably won't work with john l. after all, he has a pretty generic name. a generic name for a generic guy that is a bad cliche of all the bad asian guy characteristics. (not to knock all the other fairly interesting john liu's. i guess there's a director by that name?)

anyway, i will take this opportunity to suck up. ;) i really like my animation/illustration class. the people in it are great. and if it had been any other teacher for a class from 630-930PM, i would probably sleeping through most of it. but jeff brings so much energy into class that it's actually entertaining, even though i'm all ready to collapse because i've been up too long. the classmates are supportive and it's just a fun learning environment.

we were supposed to do a illustration assignment and a series of animation assignments, but because of time constraints we had to drop the illustration assignment. i was a bit disappointed, because i think i'm pretty much set on illustration now (more on that later). at the same time, i'm kind of relieved because it means i might be actually able to turn in all my assignments before the end of the semester.

that whole taking off for a week and half thing kinda screwed me up. not to mention that i write off whole weekends at a time when i'm visiting the home with my parents or my boyfriend in sd and when parakkum comes up to visit.

i'm ready for this long distance relationship to be local one. :P

the gallery was fun. i liked some of the pieces a lot and ended up taking multiple photos of some of them. as i keep saying, maybe i'll actually post some pictures some day.

afterwards, some of our classmates went to denny's for food. it was all fun and stuff, but andrew's car got broken into, which was not so fun. oh, and sophorn and fumi are cheap drunks. :)

Posted by littlestar at 09:06 AM | Permalink

ken is helping me livejournal-fy my blog. :)

yay~!

oh yeah... ken and amanda also got me this uber-cute rabbit themed chopstick set. they got it for me a while ago, but i'm way behind in posting about things, so i'll just mention them as they occur to me. and maybe, when i'm not so busy, i'll post all my stuff and some pictures.

Posted by littlestar at 12:04 AM | Permalink

Ken is testing to see if moods work. Ken is sleepy, because it is getting near his bedtime. See, below you can tell that Ken is sleepy.

Posted by kwc at 11:38 PM | Permalink

i've been incredibly busy lately. this has a lot to do with having intensive classes and then taking off for two weeks (1.5 attending a wedding in japan and .5 for wedding part 2 in san diego).

this probably means that i will be mostly incommunicado. i am still up to doing things but may have a harder time doing so.

update:
- i go to a gallery showing tomorrow (my animation prof has piece in it and i am carpooling with my classmates)
- i have to finish my calendar by next week, so that my prof can pick it apart and i can spend the next week working on it again
- animations!
- translating korean technical documents for my uncle's company
- more typography assignments! (typeface design, typographer paper, etc)
- parakkum is coming up 5/12-5/16
- bunfest at san jose 5/16

busy-ness ensues and christine is getting crushed beneath all the things she needs to do. cra~zy.

Posted by littlestar at 09:13 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

welcome to honeyfields

i finally caved and got a livejournal account. this is mainly to leave comments and look at the "friends only" posts that some friends have been doing.

one thing i like about it is the "current mood" function. i have a little bouncy pink thing that illustrates how i feel. that's just cool.

any ideas if this is a possible function for movabletypo to have? :)

Posted by littlestar at 09:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

♥parakkum and ♥Christine

Are rumoured to have conceived a pair of valuable girls. Enjoy opportunities to write to each other when the time is right. Couldn't be happier.

Orchestrated by ianiceboy

Posted by littlestar at 08:16 PM | Permalink