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I'm alive.

I also have another dA account, which will only be used for Gaia art, probably. I'm using Gaia is a segue for drawing more often.

As you can tell from my dA, I haven't been drawing much from late 2008-now. I mean, I have been drawing, but not as often as I used to.

I've decided to make a comeback :3

Starting anew.

Probably gonna actually do that 100 theme challenge I said I would do three years ago.

He's been getting a lot of popularity, hmm?

I seriously need to start uploading my crap on here. But I'm still alive.

Anyway, update in life.

I got accepted into all of the colleges I've applied to, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Pacific University, and the Art Institute of California San Francisco.

I entered the Art Institute's scholarship poster contest. I ended up getting first place within the San Francisco competition, which earned me $3000 and entrance to the national competition, which gives me a chance to win $1000 to $25000 more toward my tuition. The thing is, I also was awarded the Presidential Scholarship to HPU, which pays for my full tuition. I have to reply by May 1st. And the results of the AI national scholarship competition is May 20-something. Apparently, AI needed to know whether or not I'll keep their scholarship, which only works for their school, in order to let me in the national competition or give it to the 2nd place winner since I'll have no use for the money anyway.

So I was given the decision:
a) Go to a local college that doesn't solely focus on art, but has a graphics program and tuition will be full payed or
b) Go to a college on the mainland that solely focuses on art with a guranteed $3000 toward tuition and a chance to win $1000-$25000 more if I place in the national competition which will probably only pay part or fully for my freshman year.

So.
I forfeited it.

As much as I wanted to go to AI, money is always an issue and I'm supposed to pay for my college according to my parents. HPU, here I come. It's easier this way. All I have to worry about is paying for books and transportation there. Maybe I'll move downtown. Maybe.

Oh, and I got a $500 per semester scholarship thing for UH. Whoop-dee-doo. Yeah, I'm not going there.

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In other news, I'm the chapter president of my school's SkillsUSA team and I am one of two representatives for the school in the Advertising Design competition. The CTE convention was on March 11th to March 13th.

March 11th, the team left the school around 10-ish? I was in Mrs. Lum's, our advisor, car along with my cousin (the Vice Pres), Emily (the secretary), and Amanda (member, Ad Design competitor, and long time friend). We took a detour before heading to downtown to get some breakfast at McDonalds. I swear, I received a commercial-quality Sausage McMuffin with Egg. Haha. Then we planned to meet the rest of the team (8 more members and 1 chaperon) at the Honolulu Zoo parking lot. 7 members and myself ended up heading to the zoo to spend the afternoon there. After a super fun zoo trip, we explored Waikiki then headed to the hotel to check in. After, we headed to the convention for opening ceremony. Then we went back to the hotel, where I was the first to crash, with good reason too. I went to sleep at midnight and woke up at 2 to finish last minute homework and finish packing... and was awake since then. Went to sleep at like 11-1 am? I forget when I fell asleep.

12th, competition day. Woke up at 6 am, stumbled out of the hotel by 7. Left Burger King after getting breakfast to take to competition around 7:30. Got to convention around 7:40. Our (Amanda and I) competition started at 8. There were only 6 other competitors there, three schools, two people each. They reviewed our equipment and told us what the procedures were... then we started the graphics test. We were given 30 minuets. Got done with it under 10 minutes, so I took a little nap (so did Amanda). Then the next phase was to recreate a magazine cover. They gave us the base picture and all the fonts they used. The thing is, I was the only PC user. Only one font out of a bunch of fonts was able to download on my computer. Arrg. I told the judges and they said they'd take note of that. We were given and hour to finish. Looking around, no one was absolutely done. Not to sound conceited, but mine looked the most finished. The next task was to create an original magazine ad for a company. We were given its specs and a bunch of images to use. Time given was 3 hours. I finished within the first hour and half probably. i was completely bored out of my mind, so I just kept tweaking my ad. We ended up finishing our competition at 5. The rest of the team was waiting for us. We then headed back to the hotel to get ready for the Banquet/dance. Haha, so much fun it was. Another night of early crashing.

13th, award day. We went to some break out sessions. Ours was about learning about the Mac in depth. Um, one problem. I'm a PC. Lulz. It was fun either way. Then we went to the award luncheons. Fun again Fist carrot cake, haha. ANYWAY. I ended up getting gold and Amanda got brozen, making us 1st and 3rd in the state. me being gold, I get to go to nationals in June. Woop! The only other medal get was bronze in Video Production. *sighs* We may not have won a lot, but I swear, it was waaaaaaaay fun. Then we went home.

*sighs* I can't believe that was more than a week ago.

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But I've been busy with that, theatre, other clubs, projects and schoolwork... It's been wearing me down. This quarter was probably my worst. Thank goodness for spring break.


So yeah, that's life so far.


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That's half a decade.


I need to upload more.
*throws confetti*


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A month late, but oh well. I'm alive. But things aren't so happy.

And what's this?! DeviantART transformed without me knowing?! XD Now my awesome battle ID looks funny.

So, right now, I'm sick. And it sucks.

And i didn't finish the 100 Theme Challenge by the end of '08 like I said I would =_=
I should really get back to that.

I wanna upload some stuff, but... I don't. What? haha.

So, it's the 3rd quarter of Senior Year. June 5th is graduation... man.

College crap wasn't that easy to jump into. The idea of me "growing up" hasn't quite set in, and I think my resistance to said "growing up" prevented me from confronting all the college stuff I have to do. I deeply regret it =_=

I applied to UH/HCC, HPU, and AI of San Fran. So far I've only been told that I was accepted by HPU (in person). I hope I get the scholarship I entered for HPU. If I get it, 100% of my tuition is paid and it's basically going to college for free. Whoop whoop. But yeah, waiting for acceptance letters suck.

I'm in SkillsUSA, as my school's Chapter President... Competition is on the 11th, 12th, and 13th of March... and this causes me to miss preview, opening night, and opening weekend shows of the newest production I'm in, Into the Woods. I play Little Red Riding hood's Grandmother, LULZ. But yeah, the director wasn't too happy. Dang competition changed the original date, which is usually after spring break =_=

Um. A lot of stuff happened lately. Within this past week.
- My friend hit his head hard enough to have temporary amnesia. He forgot a good chunk of people and had to go to internships... where he felt really awkward since a bunch of people were saying Hi and hugging him. He said he didn't for get me.
- Another friend was sitting on the edge of the road and a sophomore driving by didn't see her. She ended up getting hit. Right now, she's in the hospital... and she can't really move. What I heard was that her head was bleeding and she has a hip fracture.
- My cousin was kicked in the ribs at Saturday's soccer game which caused it to hit his liver, which did really bad damage on it. By the time he had to go home that night, he said he couldn't breathe. He, too, is at the hospital. They're watching his blood count to see if it's anything serious. He's not really allowed to move either.
- One of my favorite teachers found out she'll be losing her job as Graphics Teacher at the high school for next school year, being replaced by an electronics teacher who thinks he can teach graphics. But seriously, he can't. He doesn't even know what paint thinner to get for cleaning printing screens. Seriously. GTFO.

....

And I don't want to deal with a particular person. I've been ignoring them on purpose for quite awhile; that phase in life is over now. Okay? Okay. Seriously. Leave me alone. If I wanted to talk to you, I'd respond by now, don't you think? Right now, you're just really annoying and I don't think I'll even want to talk to you ever again. Seriously.


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As a senior, I've been getting out more, amazingly. And through those outings, I've been able to meet amazing people through crazy opportunities.

So, yesterday was the premiere for Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure starring Ryan "Nigahiga" Higa and Sean "Fujiboi" Fujiyoshi.

It was pretty good (:
It has its funny parts and I loved the bloopers.

I've contacted Ryan in his Xat chatroom on myspace and became a mod there (which is usually determined by him) within 5 days. I'm pretty sure I've shared this information before XD

But yeah. I told him who I was and gave him and Sean a portrait of themselves. And got them to sign my giant SPAMi can sign. I also go Tim Enos (people know him as Helga) to do so too. Hugged all three <3 My current webcam picture is me with ryan and sean.


Last month I was able to see my favorite comedian perform live at Pipeline cafe. Demetri Martin! I loved it (: I'm sad I couldn't see him like.. after the show to take pictures. Oh well. I'm glad my friend was able to take me (:

I seriously need to work on that 100 Theme Challenge.

PS. Search for "realityteenedition" on youtube (:



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