GCM ESTIMATING NIGHTMARE

Earlier, K.Lee and I (actually more K.Lee) were working hard at figuring out the cousin's ESTIMATING question.

THAT'S RIGHT KIDS. ESTIMATING. A.SETO ALLLLL OVER AGAIN WITH OUR PAPER PRICES AND PRODUCTION COSTS.

Thank the lord K.Lee did everything because if i was to do this problem on my own, i think it would have taken me a solid 8 hours to finish - with errors mind you.

As i was "assisting" him with the problem it made me realize how useless my time in GCM was or the fact that i remember ZERO terminology.

And i was SO stressed trying to figure it out with him too. It really felt like doing one of our homework questions in 4th year that i could NOT figure out without the help of Coco or A.

It was seriously pure GCM fail guys. No kidding.

That said, K was amazing, figured out the problem (most of it) and even did up an excel chart and everything for her. I totally owe the guy a hugeeeeeee one. Thank god for friends still in print!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

Colorstrology

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Catch-Up

I feel like i havnt really "blogged" in weeks, due to the past 2 weeks being horribly stressful and mentally/physically exhausting. I worked over 75 hours (didnt make 100! but sure feels like it) in the past 2 weeks on coordinating and setting up my company's 10ftx25ft booth at Graphics Canada (Canada's largest Printing and Graphic Arts Trade Show). Along with that, i was in charge of creating, branding and designing my company's "new" product's corporate image and its accompanying literature that needed to be printed for the show. That said, i pretty much solo-ed everything and was in sweats, hoodies and runners for 2 weeks everyday at the office.

Thank god its all over now thus the need to catch-up on blogging.

Everyone pretty much know about how stressed and tired i was and i just commented on that so theres no need to go on anymore in risk of repeating myself. Graphics Canada 09, the mother of all trade shows that occur every 2 year officially marked its end yesterday at 4pm. As much as i bitched and complained about the WORK involved in making the show a success, i honestly loved and was excited to be part of it this year. I love Print as much as i say i hate it. I think what made it really successful to me, was the fact that i got to see old classmates and also the family when they came by. Yesterday, the mister and almost everyone in the fam dropped by and pretty much hung around my booth for a good hour. I think that to me was the best part of my 3 days at the show. I havnt seen the kids in so so long and seeing them yesterday made me realize (again) how much i miss them and how much we must work at staying in touch because what we have is a fortunate blessing. It was also really nice to see the mister, all this working has made phone time and going out time very limited if not non-existing. He really didn't have to come because he wants to derive away from Print (haha) but he did anyways and wore an embarrassing visitors badge that had a silly made-up company name i made up for him. haha The fam and i then all drove 20 minutes to the west and had Goat while FB-ing and comparing pics of hot girls from GCM, it was so completely random but so completely us. Hope to see everyone very very soooooooon. =]

Oh yeah im goin back to GCM to be a "guest" lecturer on Tuesday..... Isnt that hilarious? Im going back as one of the people i use to hate listening to a year ago. lol sighs, oh the irony!

Moving on. i received my first official birthday cake last night and its my first since...2nd year when the girls surprised me with a McCain chocolate cake in the lab lol all thanks to Karyn. You're amazing my dear, it was so thoughtful and i was seriously SO surprised, i thought the 2nd box had "ET"'s body and was an extension of his head haha thank u again and lots of lurve =]

Btw, i dont like celebrating my birthday hence the lack of thoughts on it.

Today was suppose to go dress shopping with the cousin but i was forced to stay home to do budgeting and activity logging for 3 months worth of work. It was a complete fail. I did it for like...40 minutes and somehow ended up on my bed and was knocked out until dinner time. I'm sorry about bailing out so last minute! i hope u found your dress though.

On the subject of dresses and shopping, i was lucky (well not really sure if its considered "lucky" lol) and was able to hit CB&UB for their 50% family&friends sale at the mall yesterday morning while waiting for my manager to come get me. Holyshit did i do damage on my visa. I bought the most GORGEOUS dress in the world. Its soooo gorgeous and it reminds me of something Serena (from Gossip Girl) would wear. Midnight blue, rhinestones, one shoulder. I wish Syl's wedding is next month because i want to wear it RIGHT AWAY. HEART HEART HEART. Also with that, a dashinggggggggg fire red one shoulder (again with the one shoulder) with a crazy drape-like side. Erm, the only problem with these dresses is i can't really wear them right now because my body isn't exactly catered to the dresses but i bought them anyways because i feel like i can work on my body to fit into these dresses. It also means even though i have new dresses, its equivalent to not having any new dresses in the first place because i can't wear them out right away. I know, i don't know why i do that either. I am still dress-less for the upcoming few events i've "Accepted" to. Big Boourns.

Ah, i guess thats it.

Now, catching up with Gossip Girl and dreading the work week =[

OH OH, and NEW MOON in five days. I am SOOOO excited. Jacob Black..i am ready for you. pwahahhaha

Last Post about University

Blogging crave again- figured l'll satisfy that crave before it goes away.

Last night it was another GCM (Beyond the GCM years as i call it) event where it was originally K.Li's farewell party that morphed into E & LV's surprise joint-birthday event the moment K.Li announced that he WASNT moving to N.Bay anymore =____='' lol so no DQ Treat for him. As always, our surprises always work out at the end, so good job to us for being such great coordinators lol

There were SO many highlights to the night but a few that stood out and i could type the least amount to describe it was:

• the food fight, chocolate was EVERYWHERE
• the no-exploding power, exploding paper shooters that just created a big mess for the staff at the karaoke place (they must really, really hate us)
• the 20 minutes before our surprise. it took four people to untangle two batches of balllooons that miraculously tied themselves in the car, while trying to cue the people at the place to play Happy Birthday as we entered the room
• i got slapped so many times by k.li lollll
• but in return everyone took turns slapping him to sober up. lol

I figured l'll do my POST-GCM summary entry (the one Ive been meaning to write after convocation) right now to tie up everything.

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It has been a month since i've officially graduated from the Graphic Communications Management program with my Bachelor of Technology of degree and minor in Marketing. With that said, not only have i graduated with an expensive piece of paper, a "title", a shitload of knowledge on the exciting world of Print and a new appreciation for paper and ink- I came out of my four years at Ryerson University with a bunch of people whom I have been calling my GCM family and have grown very fond of, a changed personality and philosophy in life, and a mister who has become my best friend, my listner, my play date and chicken-wings partner.

When i first applied to University, i went for Communications @ York, Fashion Communications @ Ryerson and GCM @ Ryerson...even know I know my heart was set on GCM because my cousin graduated from there some years ago, so choosing it wasnt a tough decision when i was accepted to all three. There were 3 programs however, that I did not apply for and it was Fine Arts @ York, Graphic Design @ OCAD and Design @ York/Sheridan. The reason being was my mind was set on the fact that I was simply not good enough for any art program even though I was applying from a Special Arts highschool (where I had almost as much Art courses, as i did with my academic courses), prior knowledge on how to use all the Adobe programs and recommendations from several art teachers. It makes me wonder and question, what my fate would have been if i had in fact chosen the art route, or any other route for the matter instead of choosing Print. Would i have had grown with a bunch of fantastic, good-hearted people? Would i have crossed path with the mister? Would I have been less bitter? lol The many what if-s will always remain a mystery in this life time.

Four years ago, I entered GCM with a brand new mindset to start fresh, start new, start again. That prior summer was a painful summer that taught me what betrayal felt like and the year prior to that was the darkest period of my life. The period where there was no sunshine, no smiles, no will, no tries. Only pain, darkness, and the will to do nothing but sit where i was because i have fallen so hard. It felt nice, to see new faces and have new goals and ambitions. That was when i met my four girls, the family that held me up and were my pillars for all those "moments".

Each of us, different in our own ways, somehow clicked and stuck by each other through the years despite differences and drama. Let's use these coming years as a test, to see can distance and time apart from each other change that. If it doesnt, bless the higher being, and if it does- it does not change any of those memories we created in the past four years that has influenced us into the person we are today. I love you girls, and this here in this blog entry is my official note of that.

Over the years, memories were accumulated and here is a couple that stands out:

• Getting so wasted for premedia
• Getting so wasted for marketing and management 101
  
• L.Vo, the water fountain that sprayed water because she was so trashed
• Vodka mixed with strawberry bbt
• Peach schnapps and tall jenn
• Drinking in the stairwell at the engineer building
• Downing bottles of baileys right after exams in 2nd year
• Failing premedia twice. Once when the class avg was 46 and 2nd time was boosted by 0.5%
• My secret notes affair
• Our trashed pub afternoon
  
• The night when I thought dai jut lo was going to kill me
• Secret picture stash on my C: (that is not so secretive anymore)
• The candygram jannet bought me for valentines day through the GCM union that I NEVER RECEIVED TO THIS DAY. Its been three years. Hahaha
• Pub Night @ distrik or something crazy like that
• the stories that tall jenn and I wrote in code and nobody would EVER get
• Instrumentations allnighters
• Pickle barrel 5 days in a row
• Hot Gang and the fan club
• The first time I saw the mister in our GRA class- I told Wa to sit beside him because I didn’t wanna sit next to the foreign chinese guy hahaha
• Tall jenn’s camera fish bag
• Robert leung and Deedee wong
• Nice-Arm and Dai-Jut-Lo fantasies
• Blades (Hair)

hahaha : ))))

Then there was the extension to the family with the other kids, and the rez girls whom made life much more fun. I feel so fortunate to be able to go through university and am able to tell people that the people i chilled with at school are like family to me. I think it would have been very different if i was to have been in a program that had 300 people (in the same year). Instead i was blessed with great people and im quite thankful for that. Hopefully everyone else sees this and contribute to making an effort to maintain to stay in touch and remain a fam.

Specifically l'll like to sneak in a smaller subgroup whom ive grown very, very fond of in the past two years. This would be with coco, junior and the mister. Its very different, when i hang with these guys. The mood is different, and i guess we all understand each other very throughly while others may have small misconceptions. We talk about pretty much everything and as simple as that sounds, its actually hard to be do so with other people. It really makes no sense as im rereading this.....but its okay. I'm going to leave it at that. I can almost confidently say, that these guys will not disappear from my life anytime soon- and thats saying a lot seeing lots may change.

Then there's the mister. I don't even know where to start with him, which is why im going to make this short. I met him in year 2, and i remember the first time i saw him in the lecture hall, i made Wa sit beside him because i didnt want to sit beside that "foreign chinese guy" hahaha Who the hell knew eight months later i would be dating that foreign chinese guy whom nobody knew his real age haha : )) Funny how things work out, but im glad it worked out that way for both our fates. Life simply is as perfect as it can be.

After four years, all the drama, projects and personal obstacles that i endured and survived, I can conclude I will be forever, that bubbly talkactive girl that speaks loudly but I don't see myself as being as kind as i was four years ago (seriously lol). I am still as forgiving as ever, but i do remember the little things that have inflicted pain on me. It's because going through four years, i have learned to see the truth in people and the darkness that everyone is capable of. I do strongly believe in karma and it will bite you in the ass if you have ever done anyone wrong. I guess because of all this, it has made me a stronger person. Not the strongest, but notably stronger. (I don't cry as much now haha!) Yay for me.

Also a note on the subject of the TOPIC that my studies surrounded. As much as we all say we hate print, we want to get rid of print and cannot stay in print forever, i find myself loving Print. The other day, i had a 2 hour meeting with an organizer of the Graphics Canada show (Canada's largest Print/Graphic Arts Show that happens every 2 years) and i found every topic that came up during our discussion, was oh-so exciting. I even find myself flipping through the pages of Graphic Arts Monthly during office hours, reading about oh-so exciting topics on Print. Go figure. lol Hate it, love it- im destined to be stuck with Print forever (directly or in-directly).

I think i summarized my post-secondary experience up pretty well. It was great, it was undescribeable and ultimately, it was the right choice. No regrets, whatsoever.

Post-Graduate-Post & Other Meaningful Thoughts

I'll be back later to type something because i am actually currently getting ready for work.... but yes! I am finally an undergraduate! Pictures to come.

As of now though bear with me with a teaser! ^^


I did it! ^^


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Back!

I am back now with I guess my last "GCM"-related post EVER because as of yesterday, GCM is literally only memories and can only be proven with the gazillion stalker pictures that ive taken over the past four years and that 25,000 paper that i almost lost....haha

The day started out super early with me getting up at 5:30am to put on my makeup and do my hair. It was kinda blurry that chunk of the morning, i only recall Vo msn-ing me saying she didnt know what to wear haha it felt like an exam morning where she didnt know which class room we were suppose to go to. hehe i going to miss that : ) At around 7:15, LX came to get me and "surprised" me with flowers even though i asked for them a couple of months ealrier.....heh im glad you remembered B.

Our Classic Lurve in the Car Pic

His Purdy Urple Roses : )

So even though we were suppose to be down there at 7:30am, we ended up being fifteen minutes late anyways and enjoyed every minute of it because its OUR DAYYYY.....until i saw A, E and Jennut come out with their gowns on. haha Thats when i began to "run" aka "power jog" in shoes ive worn for about half an hour.

The period between us entering the theatre to be awarded our degrees and lining up in depressing Kerr Hall East was way too long. To past time, we all became each others mirrors and helped each other pin our parachutes (that sash thing) to our bodies and straighten it for each other : )
When the time did come, we did our walk around this giant field then entered the theatre and the ceremony began. Basically it went on for two hours, and the first hour and forty five minutes were boring. It literally took only fifteen minutes to hand out all the degrees to all the GCMers. I tried my best to cheer for all the kids but it was really awakard screaming for you guys from the side and while im walking back to my seat. So i TOTALLY missed seeing my own boyfriend get his award, same with a few other people too. argh. However though, im glad one of our friends (J) got the loudest appaluse from all the asian kids because he was last to go and i think we all secretly love him the most haha

Another thing that i did because i am the biggest dork in the world, was to take pictures WHILE i was recieving my handshakes and awards. haha While everybody was enjoying their moment in the spotlight, you see ME, the dork holding up her camera and taking pics from my perspective. I actually wanted to take a picture with the chinese chancellor man but i actually got REALLY nervous as i crossed the stage so i chickened out last minute............otherwise i would have SO DONE IT and lagged up the line. haha

Yes, I was the loser with the camera

heh heh toooo bad. It would have been THE final act to signify what a big cam whore and freak i am. Once the ceremony was over, we all went outside to take pictures and thats when i fulfilled my own facebook event and gather all the kids together to take a nice large group picture =D Unfortunately i realized that we were missing Khalid and Cowan....but i can always photoshop them in there : ) There was honestly way too many things going on at once after the ceremony.

My GCM family

Even though in my facebook event, i said that my dream picture was to take it with ALL the kids- that was kinda a lie to get everyone together lollllllll NOT, that the group picture was any less important- but the main picture that ive wanted to take ever since year one was with the girls. I think, from the moment we took our first photobooth pictures- i think i knew that l'll be graduating, linking arms and making funny faces we the four girls. It was just something so weird that tied all of us together, different personalities, different background- all brought together to create priceless memories. I think l'll blog more in-depthly about how much i love them in my next post lol.

My Girls <3

Just a side dork story-
After we came out, we all are pretty hyped up about taking pictures and running around all care-free. That was when i realized i did have my degree certificate. You know that piece of paper that costs $20,000????? Yeah i didnt have a clue where it was and that was when i practically yelled- OMG I DONT KNOW WHERE MY DEGREE WENT. Not a good idea because the reactions i received ranged from my brother yelling- YOU IDIOT in his very mean voice, to my parents frowning, i think Albert's parents frowned too haha, to nearby GCMers smirked, to other grads and their families gave me the STUPID GIRL glare, i think Jo said Epic Fail haha and lastly Albert simply said- be glad Coco isnt here because he would have been very angry with you. LOL I mustve been the only grad to have misplaced their degree certificate, half an hour into recieving it. THEN, it hit me that LX had it and that was the end of that. HEH. Only dorky, would lose the one thing you cannot lose. heh lolll


Ok back on track lol
My parents and my brother came to see me on this "big" day and i was very grateful and very happy that they showed up. i realized how very frustrating and hassle-ish the day was for them; but they showed up anyways just to see me in my ugly ryerson blue gown and to take pictures with me. Its one of those things where i cant thank them enough in words but can only show my appreciation through many actions in years to come.

My Parents, Baby Brother and I :)))))))

& the topic of that many have asked me. How was the parents meeting. Ha ha ha. lolllll From a personal standpoint, i thought it was a lil weirdddd....i mean....its parents meeting parents.....not significant other meeting parents.....Otherwise it went well overall haha i dreamt it was much worst to be honest. The thing that made me exceptionally happy was the mister did the introductions. For the longest time i thought i was going to have to do it, I recall telling my cousin about it too. I dont know how to explain it, but it really just made everything even more better by him doing that. It means a lot to me, and i think he probably felt it and knew it even though i didnt say anything. Another item which i need to add to my invisible list of meaningful things he has done for me lol

heart heart smiles im so proud of you<3

Overall i think that was my convocation summarized up? lollllllllllll


Couple of Regrets though.

• i did not take enough pictures. in general. i was aiming for 200, but i came out short with 94.
• i didnt take pics with some people because i couldnt keep track!! im sorry annnh,ernie,jin,khalid, jo,denis,cristal,cowan,denise,ashZ&clearly there were more but i forgot. im sorry :(
• i didnt spend enough time taking pics of the mister. that makes me even more sad
• i didnt take a picture with raymond chang (the chancellor) when i was shaking his hand on stage.
• i didnt get to take a picture with my dream team boys that consists of Chocolate, Junior and the mister : (((
• i didnt take a picture of the GCM building
• i left my camera home when we went for karoke

& i dont remember the others. boooooos. >.<


I was going to write my last GCM-related post, but i am mentally and physically exhausted (which would explain all the grammatical errors) due to lack of sleep, but majority because today work treated me like shit. The day was long and extremely brutal. I've never been this upset on the job before and honestly if it wasnt for LX coming to get/see me after work, and then later in the evening ranting to chocolate and twin- i think i really would have cried myself to sleep.

Because of this reason l'll do that post another time.

Goodnights and outsssss

Gotta Love Quark 8 for looking sexy
Such an improvement from Quark 7, 6, & 5 lolllll
Only printers would understand this

Prom-Envy

I know I JUST attended my formal/prom, but its a TINY bit different because:

a) The mister and i didnt do the whole PARENTS TAKE PICTURE of us thing (b/c thats gay nowadays and even more gay for him b/c of his age haha). In fact! We didnt even take a PROPER picture of us together that night. All we got was this (and many similar ones):

I know! How terrribly unclassy of us.

b) no corsage!
c) no limo
d) no "shes-all-that" moment b/c the mister has seen me in the dress before.
e) no big group picture
f) no sunshine warm weather! (we had rain!!!)

BOOO.

What provoked my sudden urge to want to do prom was while coming home just now, a black limo jeep turned down my street and i suddenly began reminiscing high school prom, the weather, the joys, the fact i can actually call it PROM and not have to put it in quotations whenever i talk about GCMs "prom".

I'm just being silly, but this also means its time to re-watch She's All That : )))
& spy on all the teen highschool girls dress up like they're of-age but they're really not.....yet they look better than me. sighs.