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Ariadne has officially given up the ghost.

I can’t even start my laptop up now. Feeling seriously frustrated; honestly I’d much rather lose my phone than have my computer break down on me. For one thing, mobile phones cost much less, and it doesn’t have as much important information on it as my computer does.

I will hold Fujitsu’s CEO hostage and set their offices on fire if I can’t retrieve all my documents. My computer holds half my life – photos, music, schoolwork, portfolio stuff, writings. Oh God all my poetry and stuff.

I still haven’t learnt. Was going to backup last week but forgot about it. Just goes to show what I know.

If I move home next semester I guess I’ll look into getting a desktop and hope Ariadne lasts long enough just to go from home to school. If all else fails I have my shuffle and thumb drive to transport files and stuff.

My heart is silently breaking. My laptop. *wails* My precious.

I need all my documents!! I need my portfolio for my interviews when (or if) they materialize.

Which they aren’t.

Yes, I’m still whining about that.

B*anyan T*ree! M*ega M*edia! N*H*B! RESPOND!!!! PLEASE!

:(

Completed paginating the first issue of Pred8tor and I must say I’m really rather pleased with it. Damn, I wish I could just do paginating for magazines my whole life. It’d pay shit but at least I’d enjoy myself.

Have been living a terribly decadent, lazy life. Sleeping till 4pm, watching movies and TV with Bin, doing nothing much at all and wondering why I don’t seem to have work to do.

Well I really should be completing my portfolio for CS331 but that can wait. I’m still obsessing over the damn internship that doesn’t seem to be happening. 50 companies so far and still no sign of mine. Bother. Botherbotherbother.

I have nothing to say because nothing is happening in my life.

More companies have responded and still none of them are the ones I applied for. This is getting most distressing. Max has gotten two interviews, and Xiaobin’s gotten all, and still my companies persist in not replying at all. Blah. Blah to all of them!

I WANT MY INTERNSHIP!

Been AWOL for awhile. My laptop, being two years old now, has decided to take the first step in a leap towards the Big Fujitsu Store In The Sky.

*cries*

The thermal sensor of my dearest Ariadne decided to give up the ghost last night. Now when my computer starts heating up, I get the blue screen of death and it dies.

Shall bring in the computer to 8 Flags later, when Xiaobin and Max get back from their interviews/writing tests…luck to you both right now!

And still none of my internship companies have gotten back to school. The waiting is killing me.

Can’t stay long. Must leave before Ariadne gets hot flashes again.

Cornell’s Note Taking Method: I’ve got to try this someday. It looks like it might actually work.

Advertising with Kate Moss: Someone should offer LA (the owner of the site) a scholarship in advertising.

Bush has a drinking problem: Don’t we all just love the National Enquirer and its honest-to-God truth?

The strippers are back: You know New Orleans is getting back on track when the strip clubs have reopened.

And finally,

Tiramisu delivered right to your doorstep: Truly this is a gift from God.

Behold, the Berrymisu!

My heart aches. For all that berrylicious goodness will never know the sweetness of my kiss.

*sniff*

A man whose domestic troubles gained him notoriety when his former wife cut off his penis in an argument 12 years ago has been arrested and charged with battery on his current wife.

John Wayne Bobbitt, 38, filed for divorce Monday following his arrest last weekend on a domestic battery charge involving Joanna Ferrell, Bobbitt’s lawyer said Wednesday.

Read the full story here

For those who don’t know, John Wayne Bobbitt is the man whose wife chopped off his penis after he physically abused her.

Looks like he hasn’t learnt his lesson. I say go for it, Joanna Ferrell. This time make sure you throw the member away!

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Update: Tee hee. Found out this funny bit of trivia about Mr. Bobbitt: After his reattachment surgery, Bobbitt briefly became a porn star, appearing in the movies ‘Frankenpenis’ and ‘John Wayne Bobbitt…Uncut’, in part to finance the operation which reattached his member. In “Frankenpenis,” Bobbit played a character who was made with spare parts, much like “Frankenstein”, whose penis inexplicably comes off during a rousing session of intercourse. Bobbit then moans, “Oh no, not again.” (from Wikipedia)

So lame!

Stayed up all night paginating Pred8tor and consequently forgot to sleep.

Also forgot to do homework, which is why I’m sitting in hall now instead of in class, rushing three travel ads for CS331.

Sigh.

In fact, I’m almost certain I would like to do the diploma course. It depends, really, on my internship and whether I decide I’ll need the skills.

m4d 5k1||z!

LaSalle’s Visual Communication diploma/degree, which is what I wanted to do 4 years ago; and NAFA’s Visual Communication diploma/degree.

Alternatively for something much lighter I might try NAFA’s Certificate in Basic Visual Communication. But they teach very basic stuff like InDesign and I don’t really need that.

Sounds interesting to go study some more, too. Then I can study with Resh some more and be at a campus so near him heh.

Don’t particularly want to join workforce so early, though the money would be greatly helpful.

I’ll have to think about this and wait for internship to commence.

Sat through tonight’s Crowbar Awards ceremony mostly reading my Mercedes Lackey novel and occasionally making sarcastic comments to Meddy and Simin, poor girls who had to put up with me.

Essentially, the Crowbars are awards given out to creative work by students, including advertisements, photography, film. As we sat through the ceremony (hosted by M*ark Z*ee, who has a terrible sense of humor), the sense of annoyance and pique grew. Most of the entrants were students from design schools – NAFA, LaSalle, Raffles Design Institute. About 98%, in fact.

The more we watched, the more morose we grew. As Ting Kai put it, it was a firm reminder that no company would hire any of us over a poly or design school graduate, in the creative side at least. We aren’t trained for it. We don’t learn the software, we aren’t taught any such thing. In university, what I’ve really learnt is dabbling. We learn a little bit of anything, and hardly specialize in anything. I decided to go into PR because I knew advertising is a dead end for me – the real fun bit about advertising is the creative side, and none of us have an inch over the poly and design school people. No sane person would hire one of us over one of them.

What am I in university for? Yes, we’re groomed for managerial positions. We’re supposed to be comforted by the fact that we’re supposed to be the ones in charge of the poly students in the end. But we come out into the workplace untrained, unsure, and eventually, unwanted.

I knew it. After A Levels I should have gone to LaSalle to do communication design like I originally planned, get the diploma, then upgrade to a degree in advertising design in only one year. Damn it. Instead I chose the atas route, and look where that got me!

Even worse for PPC people who want to go into design – the people who graduate from LaSalle with a bachelor degree in Advertising Design. Seriously, what edge do you have over them? NOTHING. They have degrees, they can work wonders with graphic design that we will never touch on in uni. The best you can do is learn the stuff yourself and make sure you’re damn good at it. Because our advertising portfolios will be nothing compared to theirs.

(I’d like to see the looks on employers’ faces when they see C*aspar’s portfolio, hurhur.)

What about SADAM people? Will they do well?

So generally we were rather upset because we felt that university isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. We’re supposed to be the “smarter” people, the ones who made it into uni. But we aren’t learning anything that the poly people can’t do better! Does a degree make that much difference? Will you hire me instead of a poly student with stellar grades, just because I’m a graduate? When the poly student expects lower pay, has less airs, works harder (or so I’m told about poly students)? Does a uni grad deserve a managerial position more than a poly student? I don’t get it.

Maybe I should have gone to poly instead.

M*axie tried to comfort us saying we’ll end up earning more money than the poly students. Yeah, that’s if we even get hired in those positions. Blah.

Even our beloved PM in his National Day Speech kept stressing poly students. NY Poly this. TP that. Why the hell did I study so hard to get into university for, if no one wants to hire us?

J*an R*yan’s answer to this: “Work harder! All of you, work harder!”

That helps. :/ But she’s really sweet. I told her I was feeling down because I didn’t see why we were only learning to dabble in this and that and never really learning anything important. I honestly don’t think that we learn anything that the poly students can’t do just as well if not better, because they can do all that graphics stuff and we don’t know how to. We just know how to bullshit, and give presentations, and suck up.

What’s my future in the workplace? I have no edge.

The worst part is that we’re just as able to conceptualize campaigns and advertisements as they are. But they’re able to translate that with their graphic design work into real, working advertisements; able to really create and manipulate photographs and graphics expertly so that the finished product is the real thing. Whereas we’re limited to pictures we frantically search gettyimages.com for, and our layouts are constrained to those pictures. We can’t really create like they can. It’s so frustrating!

Work harder work harder.

Need to find a niche.

Am now seriously considering if it’s worthwhile to do a part-time diploma or even degree in visual communication at Raffles Design Institute or LaSalle. Or even NAFA. Have been looking at them tonight to see if I want to do that. Then can study some more don’t have to work, hurhur. And can buy a Mac :D

I hope internship at SAM pulls through. I really want to work at the museum…it’d be fantastic. I’ve more or less resigned myself to PR because I don’t see a future for myself in advertising. I’m not that creative, plus I prefer dealing with people and corporate communications. HR would be really good too. I like HR.

Please, NHB, get back to me soon. :(

So internship results are out – but only for a few companies – and none of them mine.

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