Much Ado Over Nothing
It was the second week of school. It was the most tiring and yet most boring week of school. It was the most revolutionary week for my computer. It was the most slow-paced semester among my 7 years of medical education, or so the seniors say.
In university you can actually choose to become what you want to be. Instead of having been told to attend co-curricular activities in order to obtain marks for your finals, you can actually participate in nothing and stay in the dorm to rot. You can choose which ‘field’ you wanted to excel in - whether it be the computer games master, guru of downloaded cartoons or the CEO of countless societies. Basically, you have the freedom to do anything you like, except that you’ll need to ensure you maintained a certain sustainable level in your studies in order to get your bachelors.
This semester is our easiest and perhaps most enjoyable semester over the next 7 years (according to a lot of seniors). During gatherings they repeatedly tell you to live their spirits they never succeeded in living - go play! Enjoy yourself before the REAL torture comes! My choir senior actually offered to lend me her motorbike so that I can go visit places she never have chance visiting. Unfortunately, I do not have a motorcycle licence and would never risk my life just because so-and-so said where-and-where is more beautiful than the view on top Mt. Everest.
My adaptation process begins last Wednesday when my lessons abruptly ended at 2.30pm. I went to play badminton with my friends, for approximately 40 minutes or so before the tennis students invaded our courts (because it’s raining outdoors). We went wandering for a while before deciding to have an extremely-early dinner. I returned to my dorm at 4.
Realising I have nothing to do for the next 8 hours (till 12 midnight), I studied a little, and turned on the computer. Then the interesting parts began.
I youtubed for the world’s airline advertisements. And after my 5 hour-observation I decided to give my ‘JYSim Best Airline Ad Award of the Year’ to this one belonging to Continental Airlines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjaFRiWCUMg
That night ended peacefully with me sleeping soundly (cos I was tired judging all the advertisements) and Continental celebrating (of course I didn’t know exactly did they celebrated).
Thursday - I have 8 consecutive lessons stretching over the mornings and afternoons, and by 3.30pm I’m already half-dead. The weather is partly to blame. My last lesson was ‘English Translation’. And I was rather looking forward to it. I expected the teacher to do really nice things like translating Shakespeare or newspaper articles. Who knows at 3.50 (he’s late) he hands out a whole list of short sentences comprising mainly of ‘我爸爸去了美國’. Worse, he translated ‘車禍是昨天發生的’ as ‘traffic accident was yesterday’. Nearing a coma, I skipped the lesson at 4.30.
Before I fell into slumber land yesterday night, this design sparked up in my mind for our class T-shirt. I am a photoshop dummy, and worse, my roommate somehow disabled my Microsoft Office, so my one and only source for design was cut off. After breakfast today, I came back to the dorm and my explosive art talent (blush) just cannot subside inside me. After seeking advice from a lot of friends, I decided to give it a try on ‘Paint’ the primitive software. I spent 3 hours redoing the same design (as I do not know how to delete the objects once they’re fixed). This is my final work, edited by Photoshop Intelligent Auto-Beautification whatnot (click to enlarge).
Of course if it ever got selected I’ll need an expert to professionally photoshop it. But till then I’ll parade this whenever and wherever I have the chance - this is my first computer drawing!
Judging by this week’s activities, I should really start flipping the book soon, or else I’ll fail and even though my design is adopted I’ll never see it on real fabric.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:56 am
fuuyoh can add graphic designer to ur resume d