Update 2012-02-25

Time to give an update on life.

I've been job searching, and only had 1 interview lolz.

It was a Junior Graphic Designer position in a corporate company. My uncle's friend introduced me to his company's Graphic Designer team. But sadly, after going through that intense interview with so many embarrassing moments (I had a very dry throat, and no leather shoes), I have failed to pass their 1st test.

It was understandable. I didn't show any graphic design work at all, and all I can say to them is "I'm willing to learn anything at all to get this role". That wasn't enough, they wanted someone professional cuz it's a corporate company, no point hiring a newbie to do high profile works. Oh well... But the interview was fun anyways :P.

Constantly drawing is what I've been doing lately. Wake up and draw, then sleep. Routine repeats. There's still so much to learn, so much to study, but soo little time... I'm meant to be learning Objective C coding as well for Apple Apps development, but lately I threw that aside to do drawings and paintings.... I hope I know where I'm going with this. But discovering painting techniques and brushes are soo much fun! But executing them is another thing <__<'''

Oh how I wish there was like 48hours in a day, or if I could stay awake everyday with just 2 hours of sleep....

I'm currently also constructing my website, I've bought a domain/host space and currently waiting for it to be activated. Gonna make some awesome HTML5 one page portfolio xD. w00t! And by the time I finished my website, hopefully I have some decent paintings to put in it too.

Yeah... that's about it... Still hoping that I'll get a job. Whether it be animation, or janitor. I just need a casual/part time to rake in some income while I pump my art skill xD.

A Surprise visit

Today I had an unexpected visit from a dear friend of mine.

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Damn have I gone very anti social lately hahahaha. It's been awhile since I've caught up with anyone. I've been hermiting at home for a very long time, locking myself at home doing mindless drawings and paintings.

To me it feels like I have everything I need at home to get me going about with drawing and painting, but my friend told me that perhaps I should take 2 weeks off doing nothing and going out to inspire myself, cuz doing things mindlessly is not very efficient for practices. Hahahaha, it's soo right thou. I feel like a zombie, or a town who's walled themselves out from the outside. w00t time to get myself out of teh house xD. Starting next week when I get my new stylus for my Cintiq. (Yeah... it seems that the Stylus that I got from the Cintiq that I bought online was busted.... so hoping this new replacement will put an end to my frustration with the Cintiq).

I kinda liked the unexpected visit, it reminded me back during my childhood days, where my friends would sometimes comeover and call me out to play. Sometimes it would start off from a phone call first, then we would decide where to meet and we would endulge ourselves with countless hours of joy and fun. Ohh how I miss those days. I'd give anything to go back to those times again and enjoy those moments one more time.

But now that we're all at the "working" age, the only times any of us have free time would be weekends, but most of us would pretty much be dead tired from the long week of work, others would probably have extra work, or perhaps a partner(date) to visit. It's sad, but least we're still connected. Like my parents always tells me, "The studying life is always the best." So whenever I hear someone complaining about studying and school being stupid, I shake my head and shrug my shoulders with disappointment. But hey, they won't understand till it hits them.

Anyways, thank you very much for the visit ^^! You're a wonderful friend to me and I hope we can catch up more like this in the future :). Perhaps a drawing session would be fun too xD Doodling our minds out hahahaha.

Paranoia

I've never felt soo paranoid in my life at all.... I can't believe what's going through my head ever since I made that awful payment last Saturday. If only I could reverse time and not make that payment at all....

What happened was, last Saturday, I was surfing around Ebay looking for a second hand Wacom Cintiq, cuz my old ancient graphire is dying (the USB cable is lose, so it has to be bent at a certain angle for it to work, but it'll eventually ware out and die...). I was deciding whether to get a Intuos4 or Cintiq, but I saw some youtube videos on Wacomwcl's channels, that showed heaps of pro Japanese artist drawing with a cintiq, I was blasted at how awesome the Cintiq was.

So then I saw this posting on Ebay, $950 bucks for a wacom Cintiq, but you can make a lower offer. And I did, for $850. Which I thought would be a reasonable price for a used cintiq... anyways, the catch for the low offer was to make a bank transfer instead of using paypal. The moment I saw this bank transfer method, I had a slight tingle that it might be a scam, but the reason for a bank transfer could also mean to avoid Paypal's fees for transfering money out. It was a very hard debate as to whether it's a scam or not... I really wanted the cintiq, but I didn't want to risk losing that much money....

But in the end I took the risk, made the payment, and of course whenever you make your first payment to a third party account that is not in your account book, it'll take 1-2 working days for the funds to be received by the receiver. It's the 2nd working day and he should've received the funds by now, but it's strange that he's not replying to any of my emails sent out to him...... and that makes me very unease that it might be a scam.

Thou, I have his full contact details(I.e Full name, address, phone number, bank account number). I don't think he'd be a fool to give me all his details if he were to commit a scam... but maybe he is a fool, especially since he spelt "straight" as "strait". (I.e Once I've received the funds, I'll pack the item and mail it to you STRAIT away")....

I really hope he mail that cintiq out soon, I'm getting very paranoid and I'm not sure how much longer can I get a hold of myself. Although I kept telling myself to give the person 1 week, but I hope I can last that long.... thoughts anyone :(?

*updated*

I received a reply today, seems that he too was paranoid about it. Cuz of the reverse transaction, but I guess I'll be getting it couriered instead of AusPost. Hope he keeps true to his words..... But it was a heavy relief to see that reply. Or I'll still be shitting bricks around... still there's no resting till I get that Wacom in my hands.