Sohs I've been springcleaning my room and going thru my stack of old assignments. So far I think I've reduced the 2 feet++ mountain into 1 foot or so. My guideline to keeping stuff was: Must be either notes/references/good artwork/have some kind of good memory attached to them.

While I was cleaning up my stuff, I saw those long ago assignments and thought...wow...so ugly...But at that time it looked ok to me wor...Nvm, that's probably a good thing, time to raise the standards around here right.I even thought some lecturers were really conciderate to write 'well done' on some sucky artwork.That's called positive reinforcement -_-TT.Those of you who plan to tutor at college take note.One or 2 of the artwork I didn't even recognise as my own, except my name was on them.

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Going thru the stuff stirred up some old memories of course. During the first weeks of college we were required to find the signatures of staff at the college, and I remember thinking "I hope they won't try to make us do something stupid like puting our head in the toilet bowls before signing"(with I heard happens between juniors and seniors at some public unis, and they call it a 'tradition'). But turns out they were very relaxed about it, and the form didn't even need to be completed.

When I first started college, I accidentally got thrown into the last class (I dunno why this always happens to me, it happened in primary school and highschool as well) which was ok and didn't mean i was stupid or untalented(they sorted students by English proficiency), but meant that all the classmates from the last class were chinese school educated and I couldn't communicate with them. Anyways everything got sorted out.

First class I had with my correct class (the first class) was figure studies, where I met Talissa and Reza, only I thought they were called Theresa and Leza. I dunno how that happened, it's not like they pronounce their Rs and Ls the wrong way round.Then, because it was the first time we were taking figures, we had to draw a face so the lecturers could see our capability, and mine somehow ended up looking like De Min. Also, early on in figure studies classes, the lecturers provided references to copy from, and somehow they always look wrong. In fact i think the lecturers purposely positioned some of the pics to make them look even wronger.

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Some of the subjects were more expensive in terms of art material compared to others. One of them was the markers class, which I heard the juniors were doing on the com (using Painter) like 2 terms or so after us. OK, so just imagine buying 60 markers or so per person for this subject, then I helped 3 other people buy their share as well (but they pay of course) and what you get is a very happy Vision Art woman, eventhough she said the profit she gets from each marker is just 50 cents. You can see that she has a very nice car now. Anyways, I gave all those markers to my cousin who's in foundation year now. I doubt she'll be using them for assignments, but she can have them anyways, i never found them to be very intuitive.

The other very expensive subject was typography. Imagine printing A3 sized artwork, sometimes coloured, printed on nice paper, and mostly 5 pieces every week, and I don't have a printer at home. And those were just your rough ideas. The lecturer will use a red pen and write bad comments on them.

Coupled with those (which we unavoidable expenses after all) are those stuff that I bought and have no idea why I bought them. When we went to Multifilla(an art shop that specialises in sculpting material) I bought a bag of cement in sand form. I guess I was supposed to make something avant garde and thought provoking from that. But in the end I just used it to fill up some boxes and be used a weights for one of my projects. So if any of you are interested in owning a bag of cement (i dunno...for home repair works?) please let me know, I'll give it to you free.

Also, there were those countless pieces of unnecessarily photostated papers which I didn't use, and spare markers which caps I never even opened(I just bought them because they were in the list. Good news is that all those paper stuff will be recycled, so I'm viewing my spring cleaning as returning something back to nature in a way.

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That's the end of batch 1, I'll probably be adding more after I've finished cleaning up my room.