Aunt's wedding. Monday, January 18, 2010

My aunt's wedding somewhere last month. Yes im slow. Whatever. So since my blog's somewhat going into the hibernation period again with insane amount of assignments and homework. Gosh i should seriously be doing my homework.
Anyway enough about me! Cousins who didnt even respond to my super bright flash. They were on a PSP or something.
Myself, Kim, Nat, Erica my sister the giant. I'm not short, she's tall at 173cm.People we shared a table with besides my grandparents.
I was VERY VERY COLD freezing my ass off. As you can see. I inverted my cropped top so it would cover my chest. Looks funny yeah but i was REALLY COLD.
Kim doesnt like me camwh0ring. So she kept putting her fingers in obstructing my view.We always try to squeeze as many people in as possible include as many people as possible in a shot. DAMMIT WHY DOES EVERYTHING I SAY SOUND SUGGESTIVE!
The bride and groom

The yum-seng's and whatnots.
Us taking pictures in the toilet.
OMG I MUST TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED THERE.
So i was taking pictures of myself and was adjusting my dress in front of the mirror. I lifted up my arms for some reason and when i moved them back down my hand(with camera in hand) whacked some (short) old lady on her head. REALLY HARD. Like a loud THUD.
Then she glared at me. I actually screamed "OH MY GOD I'M SO SORRY" but she stormed out of the toilet in a huff.
My grandma later told me, in midst of her laughing, that lucky that lady didnt just K.O. after me hitting her head.
Group shot.

Yeah so this is just a short post.
Here's my assigments that i need to complete. All due these next few weeks.

Etiquette : Role play of dining etiquette
So i have to create a script to describe dining etiquette. Should be fun if i can manage to get my group members to be ethusiastic about it.

Mathematics : Find a way out of not drowning in algebra
Argh. Everything was going so well. Just didnt do as well as i wanted to the last test.

ONOW : Presentation on previous event.
Last month i helped senior citizens during some Silver Infocomm day in my school which aims to help singaporeans age 50 above to get in touch with IT.

3D : Lighting up my previous assignment
Lighting is definately not my best. Quite satisfied with the B+ i got for texturing the last assignment.

Design : Corporte identity (logo and stuff)
This makes me panic when i think of the amount of things that need to be done. Design a logo? Design the events brochures, posters, goodie bags, directional maps? yadi yadi yada.

Draw : To design SOMETHING. ANYTHING
Quite unsure still on what the lecturer wants. He seems to be keen on us doing our assignment while participating in a competition.

Programming : To design an interactive poster.
This also makes me panic since programming makes my eyes cross and my head sleepy. Still manage to keep up in class but feel quite chicken headed when i have no help from lecturer.

I am quite determined not to do badly though current situations may prevent me from doing well. I try not to get upset and stress out when things dont go as planned but sometimes it feels as if some people will relish in my failures and it somehow manages to get me down.

Just wish that people dont get so influenced by what others say and not to judge just by what they see. Though i'm guilty of that too, I cant help wishing.

Love,
Vanity

Photo editing again Tuesday, January 12, 2010

So here's some before and afters of my photoshop. Yang and i were to have dinner at Vivo's and he happened to have his camera (Actually he did say he wanted to take pictures but whatever) and so these are my favorite two of the day.
Coincidentally they're the first shots of the location. First was beside the stairs and second was by the water on top Vivo which someone told me was poisonous and caused eye infections. I mean seriously. Why the hell are you swimming in water that people wash their feet in? AND why on earth are you washing your feet in water other people washed their feet in?
Oops offtopic.
Shall talk about this first though it was taken way later.
Walked by the water. Stood there facing Marche restaurant. The first shot.
Before :
After :I removed the part alove the restaurant to make it look like someone's HOUSE instead of Vivo city. Haha. Adjusted light which sadly made the water look creepy/dirty green but made me stand out more compared to the original.

Second one took more effort. Wanted to practice my glow skills. Mini glow tutorial below. Haha. So here's the first shot on the deck above Vivo. First of firsts! Test shot more like and this is the best pose i could come up with. I cant explain it either. Ugh. People behind and stuff.

If you notice,Heh, here's a hairclip on my hand. Haha.

Before : After :Cropped :
Before, there were people in the background, cramping my style. Heh. Anyway, first was to "erase" the humans out of the picture. Removing any flaws of the picture.
Oh ha di ha. I'm not a flaw!
Secondly, adjusting the curves, levels and vibrance of the picture. I think i made my skin to orangey (in effort to remove the greyishness). Made the sky more blue. Dark blue.

























Thirdly, used Pen tool (shit im addicted to the pen) to draw out the glow. Then used the "Stroke path with brush" tool. Looks very weird here still. Thats cuz if something GLOWS, so will the objects around it.

Next was to lighten to parts which were affected by the glow. (The floor, my hands and legs)
Lastly. Added a bluish glow border around for fun.



















Yeap. Thats about it. Have alot more pictures to play with which makes me very happy! ^.^





Love,
Vanity

New Year 2010 Saturday, January 9, 2010

So as every year i celebrate Christmas and New Year in my mum's restaurant. This year was slightly different because i brought few of my Singaporean friends over. Put them up in Lavender Hotel in Permas Jaya. My mum's shop before the event. Late evening i think.
The theme was Moulin Rouge so there was excessive use of lace and fishnets. Haha! I went in a decent dress with a vest just to try to make it look fancier.
Yang took this shot. Hmm.. I feel that my face is damn round. Like an apple. Or orange. Or durian. Just realised alot of fruits are round. Harveena and Kim. She thinks covering her nehneh's nobody wil take pics of her.
Beaver(Yee Lim) is terrified of me for some reason. He actually said "Sharlene do you know you should be locked up? Because you will pose danger to people next time"
Perrywinks, Darren and Beaver.Perry. Hate his new hair. Hahaha. His idea of semi formal is wearing a T shirt and a tie.
Yang(YeowDong) and me. Taken by Perry. Realise how Yang's eyes are super small. HOW DO YOU SEE THROUGH THEM?! *attempts to enlarge his eyes manually*
Harveena. My hair's starts to look crap at 9pm already. HOW SAD?! >=(
Harveena, Kim and me. Ew my lips look so long.
Erica and myself (Natalie's in grey) were in charge of ushering people in again. Here's us flashing the board to unknowing drivers. Hate those people who blow us kisses and show kissy faces. Ugh.

Erica's dressing inspired by Hello Kitty MAC models. Took the ribbon off one of her pants. Dress is mums.
Guys acting gay as usual.
Heh. I was gonna write bukak3 when i realise the amount of weirdos who will find my blog after.Really nice shot. Taken by Yang of Juicy Trap's bar backdrop.

CoffeeTrap's upstairs (Bubu Trap). Jack Daniel themed bar.
Trying to look glam and sexy. I have freaking tall friends luh! (Yes i'm not gonna admit i'm short)Random car. Random shot. I realise vests make my already small assets look even smaller. No more side pictures when im wearing vests Yang!
Totally forgot what we were laughing about.
Place was super packed even at 10pm. Started to become totally packed at 11.30+
Early hours performances. COUNTDOWN TIME!
Lots of confettis and stuff being thrown around. Haha.

My dad. Leading the countdown.
Erica and Natalie having fun flashing armpits and such.
Nat encoraging me to dance. "No no i'll just stay here" says shy me.
Darren is a pervert. Haha. We were dancing in a circle. Forgot what the guys called this stupid dance. (Checks yang's blog). Oh yeah. Techno dance which includes alot of wrist-rubbing and head shaking in a round motion.
Another pretty shot by Yang.
After countdown there was lucky draws. About 5 hampers and one handphone was given away. Here's peope trying to bribe the singers.
Winner of the Nokia phone.
After that was more singign and sexy dancing. Very Moulin rouge uh their dressing. Hahaha.
After lucky draw and some dancing we proceeded outside to watch fireworks. Really loud. Went on for a a long time. Yang was busy snapping shots. I think he has a thing for fireworks. The way he was a thing for Dong. Darren i mean.

Harveena and some of the boys in the yard. Uh. Very tired i think this was about 2am+
Erica posing for the cam.
Myself phailing at posing for the cam. Damn green shirted man. >=(
Another nice shot by Yang. Yeah. More pictures of this event on his photoblog. Really tired after that day. Harveena's dad forgot to get her so she stayed over at my house. We went home at like 4.30am. Ridiculously early. Perry and Beaver left at 2+ but Darren and Yang stayed until we went home. Super fun.

Love y'all,
Vanity, your lovely Sharlene