Black-out

Funnily enough, when I attempted to post this journal, a black-out plunged my entire house, cul-de-sac and street into near pitch-black darkness, giving me only thirty seconds of internet before that went kaput too. The good thing I got out of it was I spent half of that 80min without power outside in the cool night air listening to night noises such as crickets and trying to savour the night sky, which was unfortunately clouded over, while jotting down notes in my notebook despite the fact I couldn't read what I was saying. I have no idea why it happened, and it seemed to affect just my street, but I did hear a lot of siren noises in the distance, which seems bad. Oh well. The black out gave me some badly needed inspiration material that I may be forming into some deviations to be posted over the next few weeks. Not to mention I started appreciating electricity all over again as I usually do.

DLD

I got a DLD today! The piece was "Education is A Gun" and it took me two minutes to realise I was the one being featured instead of being the feature-r. And let's not mention the amount of crazy joy I experienced. I really wish to thank =choirsoftheheavens for the umpteenth time, and that's only after I've glomped her enough for her ribs to hurt. Well, OK, not that much, maybe, not to mention we're separated by 7000km, so glomping is a bit impossible to do anyway. As a gift of my thanks, I shall feature some of her works:



Go check her out, she's a really awesome person who deserves support from you guys!

Thanks once again!!

NaNoWriMo

I'm at 25k now, and I wrote that only after eight days. Since then, I've stopped completely, so I'm behind the wordcount at the moment. I'm not too unduly concerned at the moment, only because I've pulled off a come-from-behind victory last year by writing 17k in one day, so I trust myself and the time I have now to pull that feat off. The reason why I stopped was because of exams and because I got way too inspired for other writing projects that I picked up since November. I'm definitely going over 100, 000 words worth of writing at the end of November, and no, it's not just NaNoWriMo.

Freedom, Real Life, Community Service and Work Experience

Well, I have finally finished major exams, so I've been on a freedom ride for quite a while now, something that's making me extremely happy, considering I was probably close to going nuts having to study all the time, and then be hopelessly addicted to dA at the same time. Not a great combination. The exams weren't too hard, so I'm happy, although their procedures were ridiculous, such as getting rid of "unauthorised material" from the exam room. That includes tissue papers and water bottles. I definitely got dehydrated during the exams. Oh and yes, wristwatches are apparently programmable. Some people really have no life when it comes to cheating. I ended up having to read the clock in the exam room because of that stupid rule.

That freedom will come to an end when next week, I have community service/service learning with a childcare intervention centre for kids 0-6 with disabilities. I hope to find the experience interesting. As Eoin Colfer (one of my favourite authors) once said, "Kids are a great source of inspiration." Also, I feel I could relate personally to them in a way, since I myself had to have similar intervention in childhood for speech therapy, since I couldn't really talk when I was young. I didn't choose where I was to go for community service; my school chose it for me, and I will make the best of it, hopefully.

The week after will be work experience. For me, it'll mean I'm stuck in an office attire working for a bookstore in the city doing clerical duties, but hopefully I'll make the best out of that. It's not like I had too much choice in the matter anyway; all my preferred options were snapped up by eager kids and I decided to make do with my next best love: books. So hopefully that experience would be good as well. Both this and community service would be a good addition to an otherwise woefully empty resume (that is, minus all the academic achievements I have accrued over the years, which I have to admit, is A LOT).

Finally, check the side of my journal!

I've been doing some reorganising on the side of my journal, so firstly, do check out the first thread I've posted in my personal forum! It's about your favourite bands/music, so please do fire away with your favourites in that forum! I look forward to looking at your suggestions.

Secondly, a new custom box for "I Support" has been set up just to honour those special deviants that I have the fortune to meet with and enjoy their company, as well as people who I know in real life. The clubs I support are also in that box. Do check them out if you can, they are all wonderful.

Thirdly, I have revamped my stamp section, to reflect more of me. Hopefully more would be added to it once I start locating more of my favourite stamps.

Fourthly, I have a shoutbox! So start shouting in it!

And that shall be all from me.