Withdrawal Symptoms!!!

Surprise surprise, another post of complaints.
Perhaps the best adjective to describe the sort of person I am would be "(easily) annoyed". Cos' I am so serious when I say I am annoyed practically ALL the time.

Anyway, on with todays complaint(s).

I am SO SICK of the freaking cold weather here. I mean I know it's nice and like different and not humid and you don't sweat as much and my hair doesn't get frizzy and all that crap, but this cold nonsense is getting old. LIKE SERIOUSLY I thought the weather was supposed to be getting warmer since SPRING IS HERE. Whatever natural phenomenon is causing this coldness needs to get the with program already. There are 4 seasons in a year for all the unfortunate countries located far from the equator, and it's only supposed to be cold for ONE out of the four. And F.Y.I., winter is OVER here in melbourne. And I am SICK of being ambushed by icy gusts of wind in my face while i'm walking to school and having to defrost my toes with the help of an ice pick every night before i go to bed. It is not fun.

It was fun the first 5 weeks i was here, but now it's starting to become ridiculous. How in the WORLD do melbournians bring themselves to bathe in this stupid climate??? And don't tell me they don't have to cos' they don't perspire or get dirty or whatever because that's not true. I mean the part about them not getting dirty. People don't just get dirty by perspiring alright. There's dirt floating around whether you decide to break a sweat or not.

ANYWAY, yes. How, for the love of warmth and toastiness, do they bring themselves to bathe??? I have to believe there's some sort of secret device that's been invented for them to get clean without having to strip down or come into contact with water. Because that's the only way I'D be willing to take regular showers. I mean this is totally serious! It's becoming a problem. Like when night-time comes around and I know I have to bathe soon, I start getting this feeling of dread and suddenly all i want to do is curl up in my bed (which is cold initially but gets warmer thanks to body heat) and hide under the blanket. And like, try to muster enough strength to creep gingerly into the bathroom, brave the cold and take my nightly shower. In fact, I wouldn't even really call it "mustering the strength". It's more like... shutting my eyes really tight and praying that if i wish hard enough, I will be magically cleaned without having to move a muscle. (For the record, I have been showering regularly. It's the singaporean in me that demands daily baths... probably by force of habit.. and need for cleanliness.) And get THIS. The bathroom, right, the toilet... the area of the house in which a person is MOST VULNERABLE... has an open window.

Yes. That's right. You heard me.
There is a window on the wall over the toilet bowl. AND IT IS WIDE OPEN.
The only pathetic thing standing between you, in the toilet, and the outside world and all it's freezing cold elements, is a thin sheet of cloth... apparently tacked over the opening to provide some privacy.
I don't even know why they bothered to put that stupid thing there. IT'S USELESS, PEOPLE. Okay, there might as well be nothing there because guess what??! When the wind blows, that thing FLAPS in the freaking breeze. I mean if you think about it, you might as well be standing butt-naked in the middle of your lawn at night, when the temperature's below 10 degress celsius, holding out a piece of cloth to fight the cold and hide your privates. That's pretty much what it is.
URGH.

This cold weather crap should definitely be confined to holidays and holidays ONLY. I can honestly say that I have never made that big a fuss out of singapores hot weather. In fact, I liked being able to sweat cos' it made me feel like... cleansed inside-out, you know? Here on the other hand.... i mean it's like my sweat pores are dried up. And that's JUST NOT NATURAL.

And another thing. How do all these smug little melbournians EXERCISE??? I see them in their little running tights and caps and nonsense and they are jogging at like 8 freaking am, when the sun's just about out and there's still FROST on the windscreens of cars.

Whatever man. They can do whatever they want I'm just going to sit inside the cafes and sip some hot soymilk until that cut on my finger starts hurting again.

Gosh I'm so thoroughly "vented" that I can't even remember what the second peeve was...
OH RIGHT.
Okay. So you know JY likes to get to school like EXCESSIVELY early in the morning right? Yea. That basically means that if i want to catch a ride from AF to the city in the morning, I have to leave the house at 7 am when my lessons only start at FREAKING NINE. And no, it does not take us two hours to get to the city by car. It's only half a darn hour. So I'm there at 7.30 am. And this wouldn't be so bad.... IF the shops were open and the weather wasnt so @#$%&* cold.
LIKE WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM, SERIOUSLY.
gahh...

this family is nothing like our own.
i can't joke around.

or laugh
mainly because none of them are funny so there's nothing to laugh at anyway.

Like oh my gosh, the other day, sam and yvonne came over to visit and they were kind enough to knock on my room door and ask how i was. And i could totally just be myself around them and we were laughing and talking and stuff and suddenly AF comes out of the kitchen cos' we're making quite a bit of noise, and she's like "oh i hear laughing! i hardly hear gretl laugh." and when she said that i was like... oh man. that's so true i don't laugh around them... like EVER.
HA NO WONDER I'M getting so annoyed at everything these days!!! There's a total lack of funny in this place.

-gretl.

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Still on holiday...

Here's a picture that will make vegetarians sing and carnivores weep.

That's right. Behold. A cabbage.
A cabbage of mammoth proportions.
The mother of all cabbages!!!
Seriously look at it. And look at the apple on the bottom left corner. I deliberately put that there to show you guys how massive the cabbage was. That's a pretty average sized apple, but it's totally dwarfed by that green ball of fibre. HAHAHA like imagine how overdosed you'd be on vitamin K if you ate the entire head yourself xDD

Seriously though, how in the world do they get their veggies to grow so huge! Is that... normal? I mean look at the freaking pee-wee cabbages we have in the hydroponics farms back home! Those at least look edible. Cos' I dont know about you, but when I buy my food I like to feel like eating it, not feel like it's about to eat me. So yeah. Good on you aussies, you've managed to grow large cruciferous vegetables, but... i'm just not going to touch any of them.

HAHAAH CAN you imagine not having a car and having to lug a bag of those cabbage heads home on the tram? MAN that's hilarious. You'd probably get a million stares and maybe a couple of "Breeding rabbits are we?" type comments. Hohoho.

Okay enough about the vegetables.
I've been watching talk shows on youtube, cos like, it's my holiday and everyone knows I love talk shows. So since there arent any good channels on tv with those types of programmes, i just watch them on the internet. woohoo!
Anyway, I just have one thing to say.
People with REAL problems don't go on talk shows to proclaim them to the world.
I mean really. It's kind of a sweeping statement, but it seems pretty accurate to me. Cos' there has to be some amount of voluntarism involved in their decision to appear on tv right. So it's just really hard for me to believe that they would consent to being PUBLICLY analysed by some celebrity if they were truly depressed or had some kind of eating disorder or drug addiction. Like come on... it's dumb. And these people claim to be suffering these conditions for years and years, and suddenly, after being psycho-analysed by someone who isn't even qualified to make assumptions about another persons mental state, their eyes are completely opened and they agree to do whatever the host tells them to do.
uh.. WHUT!?!!
I bet half the time they're just pressured to say yes because they're being questioned in front of all these people in the audience. And besides that... would you really be so willing to go public if you had a psychiatric problem??? It's just way too suspicious man. Srsly.
Talk show hosts should leave that kind of stuff to the professionals. There are probably a ton of psychs with proper degrees and PhDs and stuff watching the shows and going like, "Stop stealing our clients Oprah!!!" and like waving their academic certificates around wildly or something. But... whatever i guess. As long as the people who need help are being helped. HOHO what a politically-correct statement. Seriously though, the talk-show-host-intervention thing annoys me cos' it screams 'publicity stunt', but i'm not going to get into a huge debate about it or anything.

Okay parentals and sisters. It is time to stop. Blogging seems like such a self-centered activity to me... i don't know. It's like a couple of minutes of me writing about myself. I mean HOW MANY freaking times have I used some variation of the word "I" in this entry??? This post must endeth noweth D:

-gretl.

Liesl: Assignments

Hello hello! =D

I have some videos to share!

First, it's this one:

http://guerrillacg.com/home/3d-polygon-modeling/the-polygon

I think you guys pretty much know by now what 3D is... =P But in case you're still not sure, this clip explains it quite well! It describes how the 3D software works.

And the next two links are videos of the assignments that I've done so far. Gretl's seen them already, but I haven't had the chance to show them to the rest of you!

Animating with clay shapes (Claymation!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lran2GD4Z5Q

This is known as stop motion animation. You move the object a little
and take a picture, then move it again and take another picture.
And you repeat this for about a couple of hundred over pictures. D:

Title sequence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_IaGNCsj8I

Haha! For this assignment, we had just learned how to use a
software called After Effects, and we were supposed use that
software to create a short title sequence (10 to 12 secs long) using
our first and last name, and the words "Fall 2009".

Yes! So, that's it for now. I've actually done other assignments like
drawings and stuff, but I didn't think to take pictures of them. D:

Anyway it's getting late now (almost 11pm) and I need to wake up
early tomorrow cuz I have to get some things done before my Photo
Storyboard class, which is at noon.

Goodnight all! Miss you very much! Can't wait to see all of you
again in Dec! <3

Anime Cat by Deborah Chua

Deborah drew a cat for me, she calls it an Anime Cat.

Stray cats

I just had the privilege of watching a cat poop.
It dug a hole in the soil and did a cat-style squat over it... for a good 45 seconds or so. And I'm kind of embarrassed to say that I was totally mesmerised. The cat didn't see me though; which is probably the only reason why it took a dump so calmly. I think mesh covered windows are probably kinda like tinted windows - you can't really look through them clearly.

I haven't yet mentioned that Melbourne is lacking in the stray-cat department.
There are like ZERO-ish stray cats around, which is interesting since they're so prevalent in Singapore. So yes, when I do see a cat jump over the fence from my room, it's pretty exciting.

-gretl.

Donuts

DONUTS FROM AUNTIE FLORENCE!!!! XDDDDD