Rouge Rosette

Omg I haven't been blogging in ages.

So hi everyone!


Nowadays, my daily activities include hanging out with my 4 close friends, food, and thesis. Yes, I am going to finish university soon! I am now an 8th semester student currently working on her thesis, which is about creating an illustrated guidebook of universal travel tips.

And what drove me to create this kind of book?

There are many local travel tips guidebooks, but I feel that not many of them are well-designed. An example of travel tips guidebook is 101 Travel Tips & Stories by Claudia Kaunang.

Hi everyone!

So I decided to make a random blog post in the midst of... many assignments. I always do T___T

Mid terms are coming, and my to-do list so far are:

1. Graphic design mid project: redesigning a culture magazine (I chose to redesign National Geographic) and creating the redesigned spreads in InDesign. They are not few -___- but at least it's not a whole magazine.

2. Typography II mid project is still pending. But I have an assignment due tomorrow (I'm so lazy)

3. Digital Animation I mid project: create a 3D model of 4 items and render them.

4. Illustration Design mid project is still pending, but an assignment is due a day after tomorrow T_T

5. Multimedia I mid project is to finish at least 15 screens for our desired website.

*lies on the bed* GRAAWRR

Now I finally understand what real world feels like... in a teeny weeny bite-size.

CONCEPT.

PROCESS.

These two words are basically what is in every project now.... and I have to learn to work with concept and create the design process. Not something I liked doing or am used to doing... but then again, it is Graphic Design. :")

I shall refrain from updating a lot of times in the blog... cause writing takes time :")

Here goes.... the process of my drawing mid term project... that kept me awake until 5 AM... because I did the work like a damn boss! A2 paper, fully colored with color pencils-- that should take a few days to complete.... I did it in below 12 hours (straight). Even until now, I still do my home work by last minute method, and it is unhealthy :'S

Before big projects I would stay lateeeee, maybe pulling an all-nighter like I did with this project. So far, I have not pulled many all-nighters... the first time was when I had sleepover at a friend's house, then I stayed until 4 AM talking through BlackBerry Messenger during New Years, and twice for finishing Drawing subject projects :'D the first drawing project that made me pull an all-nighter was the final project of Drawing I subject. Then came this Drawing II mid term project! If I do not start repairing this bad habit of procrastinating, I am definitely pulling another all-nighter for my Drawing II final project! :'D

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Why did it take so long for me to finish it?

Because while doing the project, I was still pro-cras-ti-na-ting! B-)
I had my iPad beside me, being charged. I will play Gardens of Time once my energy is refilled even just a bit, or play Diamond Dash. Also, I had my best friend and biggest distraction ever-- BLACKBERRY!

I was bbming my friend while slowly.. slowly progressing with the project. These work in progress pictures also existed because my friend asked how it was going for me, and I took it using BlackBerry camera- which explains the bad quality of the picture XD

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I am not a big fan of drawing people + backgrounds, especially when it is colored... because it takes too much time. I prefer line art works, or nicely rendered pencil works (hoping it does not smudge). If I decide to color my art work, I make sure the art work is not on huge papers such as A2... A3 is still okay and A4 or A5 would be perfect. B-)

Speaking of art works... I have not updated this blog with my art work for so long because... I have a blogging-block. Writers block, just in blogging. Do not take the term seriously, I am just mixing up words :P

I should be doing... my Drawing II Mid Term project....

Oh well a "little break" won't hurt right *slaps self*

On the day of photo shoot, not only one person was taking pictures of me, and here are the pictures taken by another friend of mine, Thasya <3


I tweaked the photos a bit too to make them look brighter B-)

Mid term projects are killlliiiinnnggg... but I still procrastinate.. like a boss.

Problem is my stomach is not very cooperative because my eating schedule has gone wild... late breakfast or late lunch or even late dinner T_T

I want to blog more... but.... drawing mid term project...... and then the following projects--- Graphic Design, Computer Graphics and History of Western Art.... GAH! I'm so lazy... *cries*

Last Thursday I became a model for a few of my friends :D






These photographs were taken and edited by my friend Adela <3 you can see her in one of my first posts, me and her took many pictures using Macbook's Photo Booth.
This one was also taken by Adela. She takes nice pictures <3

My recent university life has been finishing assignments and hanging out with my besties and classmates. My schedule is quite hectic, but up until now it has not taken its toll on me.

For the second semester of my university life, I had to take nine subjects.... and they are Graphic Design 1, Typography 1, Computer Graphics 2, Academic English 2, History of Western Art, Photography 1, Drawing 2, Freshmen Enrichment Program 2, and Character Building 2.
Character Building has changed its name now, and Character Building 2 is now Character Building: Spiritual Development. I have a very funny and critical teacher, Mr Anjar, and he is like the biggest test for students with or without religion. He questions many things that we never thought about asking. But he is nice, and is much better than my Character Building 1 lecturer. She cannot even speak English in an understandable manner.... I'd rather have her speak Indonesian instead. Or just don't teach at my uni.. that's better.

Oh yeah! I am not being arrogant or what, but I am both satisfied and dissatisfied with my first semester GPA (Grade Point Average), which is 3.25. I was hoping for above 3.5, but turns out being a straight A Art and Design student is impossibly hard. I hate how my university's scoring system makes the nominal grade 91-100 an A (we don't have A+), and most lecturers are not that generous. I thought Art and Design lecturers are well-known for being a subjective judge because they judge artwork, not on how well a student performs in theoretical exams.

I then hear that there are also lecturers in International Business major who are equally stingy in giving grades, and one is even worse than that. From what I have heard, that killer lecturer gives a maximum grade of C+, which in nominal grade is 65-70. No one has ever gotten a higher score... and most students get either D (55-60) or C (61-65).

I procrastinate quite a lot, and I do not always give my best in every work I do... which later leads to regret of course. The problem is I wish to get a good grade, so I give effort in doing the work but turns out I was not doing it good enough. Phew.

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Current obsession: MAICIH

Photo by @infomaicih

These six packets are the various kinds of extra spicy chips they sell. My personal favorite is the chips one! Keripik, and level 3. I do not have high tolerance for spiciness, so I like level 3 chips the best. The level describes the amount of chili they use; they have level 3,5 and 10. I can still manage level 5, but for level 10.... I might need days or even weeks to finish. I find level 5 too spicy when eaten in large amounts... so how am I going to survive level 10? :/
Photo from Wisata Kompasiana

Here is a perfect photo that shows the yumminess. Once you eat, you just find it very hard to stop. I can finish a pack of level 3 chips in maybe 15-20 minutes if I do not stop at all. They're addicting, and cause diarrhea :$  The stomachache is not that bad if you do not eat too much, but anyways, eating them is your own risk... Haha!

I might update again with makeup related stuff, if I remember! :D

Starting from two weeks ago on Thursday, we are on our mid term exam period. Which means, no class! And we go to campus only if needed, especially for exams and submitting projects.

On the first day of mid term exam period, all majors of my year are having Academic English exam. It was moderately difficult, just because of the essay and very limited time. I'll have to practice writing essays in a fast pace -_-






This was for my mid term Design and Materials project -_- took 2 days to finish. I should start working on these kind of projects earlier... This really eats time and patience when you want to perfect it.


For drawing mid term project, we were supposed to draw still-life setting of our own. The first was the reference I sent my lecturer, the second was the setting I finally made, and I have to add an extra piece of glass-made object hoping it won't ruin the set.

My two best gals

 So on October 26th (Wednesday) I had lots of laugh. I brought iPad to campus and the timing is JUST right. That day I had three classes, from morning to evening. The first two hours was history of Indonesian art and culture, then it was Design and Materials. Our lecturer is known for not being in class after she gave us instructions for the next project,  and that day we're left with our teaching assistant Jasmine :)

In the toilet ;D

Camera parteehhh

Being silly! :*

We look... so sad?

So, I practically ran around a bit and took pictures with my girls. Our lecturer was gone, so it's up to us if we want to do our work and not save the homework for later. I also took pictures of the class, mostly candid ;)

Jap's signature pose that never cease to entertain me LOL

 And of course, our lovely teaching assistant Jasmine (from behind though) :D



She usually does... homework? I'm not sure, but she's usually with her laptop and helps when asked :)

And then later, after Design and Materials we have a 3-hour break before we start our Computer Graphics class. Some others are in class A, so they weren't with us except for two people ;)






We're gonna shoot short videos and then combine them later for our Character Building project. I don't know why the subject is called Character Building, the subject doesn't even talk about our character-- at least for now. We borrowed an empty classroom for two hours. The videos we were going to shoot was good student and bad student and hell, it was so funny. It was epic. Later on, it was the canteen scene, also with good and bad examples, it was the funniest of all. I really can't stop laughing just seeing the video.

And then we had our Computer Graphics class, finish it and film the lift scene. All the videos were filmed using my iPad because my friend Jasmine's cell phone died on us....

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November already. It's my birthday month! However, my gastric acid problem didn't get better, it practically came back to square zero. Perhaps. I started vomiting what my stomach rejects ever since when I forgot--- it was one Wednesday, probably on my third week (since we started classes) or fourth. And after I thought I got better, I started to vomit again. In total, until today, I have lost 4 kilograms. HOPEFULLY IT WAS ALL MY FAT!

I slimmed down because I can't eat a lot of things. AND IT'S ANNOYING WHEN I'M EATING OUTSIDE. I can't eat oily/fried/deep-fried food, FRIED RICE, milk (if I want to, it has to be non fat), anything with coconut milk (santan) and especially, SPICY FOOD AND NOODLES (MOREOVER, INDOMIE!). How terrible is that? T_____T

The problem is, I have bacteria in my stomach and it's called Helicobacter pylori. DAMN U. It was caused by unsanitary food, and probably weak stomach. Most likely, the dirty food came from my university's canteen T_T I've spent millions on this stupid stomach problem, though other than that it was caused by stress u_u

I've had a similar problem back in 2010, around February. That day I drank cough syrup (with expectorant) without first eating breakfast cause I was in a hurry, and I ended up vomiting and vomiting until my face was white. My mom then picked me up at school and brought me to doctor. The doctor was not in the least, reliable, cause he wasn't helping at all! He prescribed some medicine and it definitely didn't stop my vomiting. That day, everything I ate or drank, will be vomited minutes later. EVEN WATER. At night, precisely at 11 PM I vomited again and mami papi rushed me to emergency (different hospital). I forgot if I went to that hospital in the afternoon before the emergency... I think I did but I forgot the details.

The doctor then advised that I be injected with some kind of medicine (who knows what it is) and it worked its magic almost immediately I think. I was dieting, and it was a bit extreme, but it was rare for me to skip meals. The portion was just small and I was having personal training sessions in a gym.

The gastric acid problem I am facing right now is a bit different, but still annoying! I have to remember taking my antacid syrup with me all the time to prevent vomiting after having my meal. I MISS EATING SPICY FOOD AND OF COURSE, OILY FOOD TOO! |||||Orz

Maicih!

When my gastric acid problem gets better, this is one of the snacks I'mma eat! Yumminess. They're so spicy and this one is even divided into a few levels. I bought the lowest level available when I bought it, which is level 3 (they had 3,5, and 10) because as much as I wanted to be daring, I must pity my poor stomach.

Still-life drawing

 This week's Tuesday, we were assigned to draw still-life objects from our perspective. Was hard to just believe in your eyes and translate it to the paper, such as the supposed length from the apple to the bottle.

Okonomiyaki

 This Wednesday I forgot to eat before Computer Graphics class, which starts at 4.30 PM. After I finished, I went to the nearby mall and ate dinner. I didn't want anything too much, and wanted to try the okonomiyaki. Bad choice though, my stomach hurt when I got home.

New glasses!

 On Thursday, I took my newly-bought glasses which my mom bought for me last Sunday. It's such a perfect timing that the new spectacles finish on Thursday, because my old spectacles was so annoying that day. The right lens kept on falling! Like when I was washing my hands, when I was examining games in a software store... THANK GOD it didn't happen when I was about to flush the toilet (my lens would go away with my pee!). The strings that were supposed to hold the lens from falling was getting weak, and they were too short for the lens.
I drew myself today :') Lately I was sad, so I drew myself with sad expression.
Not finished yet, but I added the hair. For those of you who know me with my current hair, I hope you think it resembles me 8D because that means I succeed! Nyeh nyeh nyeh.


Yesterday, we were supposed to have Academic English from 07.30 AM to 11.20 AM. However, our lecturer was late because apparently his son was sick. He still came to the campus cause he will have other classes in the afternoon, and when he reached the campus all he did with us was to discuss when will we have the make-up class. Last Friday the class was also canceled because he was sick.


I then accompanied one of my bestie Diva to Ratu Plaza because she couldn't install the game she just bought yesterday. Closest guy friend Marco also tagged along. After business was done, I went to my bestie Angel's house along with Diva. Afterwards, I went with Angel to Starbucks Coffee located near my house. Initially, I only wanted to drop her off, but I went through about an hour of traffic and when I saw a long line of cars across (the road I have to take to get home), I decided I will tag along with Angel. She's having a reunion with her old friends, and thankfully it wasn't any bit awkward even though I never met her friends before.

Today is my lazy day. I only went to the hospital for lab test (pancreatic and bacteria tests, only 3 and so damn expensive.... damn you my stomach and damn you H.pylori!) and went home to create boxes for Design and Materials, virus-scanned my laptop and drew self portrait (above two pictures)


Looooongg entry. I haven't posted in ages. I have a lot to let out :D