Here's a pic of an experiment I did. I put twine in the oven to make them different colours. It was most effective when I put them directly on the bottom of the oven and flattened them with my baking pan, so that they could be heated up the most. Then leave them in for different amounts of time to get different colours. But what I like is how the colour got richer as the twine got tanned. My plan for using this is to try hair wrapping, whenever I'm free (maybe in 2 weeks time when my uni takes a 1 week break) Hair wrapping is when you tie small locks of hair together, although it's too bad I don't have any charm pendants to tie together.See...this is the benefit of having lala culture in Malaysia, surely can find charms easily.

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In other news, I just decided to buy 2 books online, which can be found in the library, but are so hot on demand, they might as well don't have them. Also, they are useful in the long term if I want to go into organic modeling, I think.

I managed to get at least a flip through at the library though, and the books are really packed with information. Also, I learnt something about buying stuff online: you can easily find discount coupons by just googling for coupon codes. Then plan out a strategy for getting free delivery, usually you have to purchase above a certain amount to get free shipping, but in the case of Borders, they have shipping to the branch nearest to you and you can go pick it up there, which is free. The benefit is that sometimes there are better deals online not offered at the store. So in the end, I managed to get 31% and 40% off for each book, and free shipping :D

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This past week has been pretty hectic, so I hope things can get resolved by next week. First of all, I had to plan my Autumn classes, which involved meeting the student advisor and animation school director a few times, with many things not going according to plan.

Then I went looking for 2 of my sculptures that had been left at the uni for firing, which for awhile seemed to have gone missing. Currently, the uni has found them again and I can get them back next week. The director of the school of sculpture was really nice about the whole thing though.

On top of that, I've been finding one of my subjects a little difficult, and have been slightly pissed off at the lecturer for giving bad comments after all my hard work, and pissed off at myself for not being able to achieve the result I want even after so much work, and expecting bad comments next week for my assignment, and seeing that my progress report for that subject is the lowest of all the subjects I've had so far. I'm hoping to use the 1 week break to improve my project though...it's just that I have 2 classes on the same day and I have to draw a line at where I cannot spend more time working on 1 assignment and go on to the next one. So my only conclusion is that I just need more practise at something I am new to. And a little less fear at someone judging my working style and focus more on the final output. As they say, in art, the end justifies the means, right?

Oh yeah, and my apartment sprung a leak from upstairs' shower area, and that small leak turned out to need quite a major renovation in my toilet. Currently there's still a hole in the toilet ceiling where they hacked to get at the pipes. The maintainance guys were very helpful about it and worked very long on that though.

See...being nice makes a difference to people's life. I think I'd be pulling out my hair if most of the uni people weren't so courteous. There have been 9 unexpectedly nice people and 2 assholes in this article, so that is how I got to know the difference. Tralalalala...