Quote by kuroimisa
Nope, it probably hit another part of Sydney. I live close to the coast, so we
rarely get any hail. The last time we had a major hail storm was 10 years ago.
Most of the time when they say hail in Sydney, they really mean the inner areas
PS: I will reply your previous post soon... just a little pressed for time
X_X
Quote by MapleRosejust wondering, is
this project still going on? and if it is, do you have to be UA member to
participate?
Dood, I totally suck I didn't see your reply to this thread and what's more I clicked on the d
instead of the g to reply to you. Argh D: Sorry >w<
But yeah, I'm planning to open it up to everyone, as long as the group avatar
and whatever I wrote is included on the entry. It's still going because we have
very few entries
Lol, I know what you mean, the links are all one next to
another, and there's no confirmation thingy for deleting..Sometimes I go to
click "edit" and ended up deleting the post DX ...
anyway, it looks interesting, I'll see if I can come up with something for it
Quote by kuroimisa
Lol yeah. I have a feeling Photoshop was just taking too much RAM. I took Ken
and Jak's advice and lowered it (it was 50% before, now it's 30%) and it seems
to not make so many horrible noises. I think the fan is working since there's
air coming out the back. I have enough space too, because well, >30GB free
space :P I think I might get more RAM later on though.
Haha yeah. By then we'll all be still young It's
not too much of a biggie. Enjoy it while it lasts
Australian architecture... it's because we're such a mix we don't have our own
style. The best we got was the Australian verandah (because of our climate).
Murcutt just simply designed these sort of enlongated sheds for living in
isolated areas and they were environmentally friendly/ good for the climate. We
have no distinctive architecture lol - Sydney just looks like any other city.
But we do have some great buildings, of course
Yep, same here. We had 2 A1 sheets for our last presentation. It took me like 3
days to draw because of the rendering. Thank God for drafting film!
Well, my philosophy about lecturers asking questions is not to trick you... they
just want to understand what you were thinking and what you were trying to do,
that's why they asked. There's this guy who asks a lot of questions and I know
someone who hates him because of that. But the truth is, he's only asking to see
how well you've thought about things... it's not that you're scared you can't
answer... you're scared of answering a stupid answer, which will then trigger
other questions. Questions aren't really that scary - they just prove how much
work you've done :P
Lol artblock. Most of my artblock was because of the damn computer noises. I
don't want to fry my RAM card again The
first time it did, I was scared because the computer wouldn't turn on
I was planning to just change it back to the Chen Shu Fen avatar I had before
lol. I'm planning to alternate between the two. I have a feeling if I don't
change my avatar, people won't take me seriously >:\
haha
Owh? You can actually change the precentage of a programme's usage? Hm, never
actually heard of that but basically it just takes lesser space in the RAM, is
that it? Hmm.. *touches chin* Maybe I should do that with the pc soon.
Australian's buildings are mixed? Interesting. It's just that few weeks ago
students from the Architecture class were really busy doing research in the lab
and the photocopy machine was full of Rococo, Bauhaus texts the words just sip
into our brain. But owh, I have to agree that architecture can be very
interesting. ^^
Yeap, I do know why they ask those kind of questions but it really pisses me off
the fact that they even made the peace sign after that.
They're really testing our communication skills and how much research we have
done on our work, but ahah stage fright got my tongue tied.
Ooh, that Chen Shu Fen avatar. Now
that you mentioned it I really miss my old Kingdom Hearts avatar.
Quote by kuroimisa... oh yeah. I forgot
about those kinds of people. They work hard to show off their good marks. I
nearly forgot they existed ROFL.
Hmmm I don't think we have any State Unis. Well, I go to the University of New
South Wales. It's a very good university (one of the best - but then there are
only a few that fit into that category) but I don't really know if it's Govt
owned or not. I know that since we all pay our fees, the Uni does a good job
keeping itself neat. We always have a building under construction each year,
too. Yeah, of course :3 I need to get rid of my bad time management
35mm film cameras are nice but you have to buy the film and process it - worse
still, you have to scan the photos in if you want them digital. Call me lazy,
but I'd rather plug in my camera and get the photos, resize them however I want
and print them out. Also with 35mm film, you don't know the result until you get
the photos from the photo guy. With a digital one you can check if it's blurry,
keep it or delete it. Then you don't have to take the same photo twice.
Well I was just gonna change it back to the Chen Shu Fen one... the only other
avatar I've used. Just because I liked it.
Lol well thanks to you both anyway - I've changed the memory settings and it
seems a lot better. I'd rather Photoshop be a little slower than having my
computer slice itself.
LOL... you, busy almost everyday... of course you won't notice those peepz. And
besides, it's just a waste of time to understand them, hehehe!
Hmm... unlike grade school and high school, state unis are "almost"
free (you still need to pay tuition fees and miscellaneous expenses). If your
uni's tuition fee is lower than some regular universities there, I guess it's
subsidized by the government. You're lucky you got some good facilities there.
our uni only working on the external environment these days (the outer image of
the school to be exact). Well... the uni president is making our uni a lil bit
"commercialized". I kinda understand him, though... in order to get
more budget for the uni (cuz the stupid government's making our budget lower and
lower, ). Oh well... hehehe! You know, you can start by writing your
sched on a pocket notebook. It's a good start... you're already good on saving
some money (with regards to your bank accounts, hehehe! I'm not good at saving
money, budgeting... I'm better) so I guess you can do it, too!
Got a point... it's not like the digital camera, who you can see the output in a
flash. Digital cameras sure come in handy, especially in courses like
architecture. Hmm... I guess it's fine if you have both, hehehe! You can have a
spare if one is broken.
Oh... you mean the girl one? It's good, too, but I still like your current avvy,
hehehe! I know... just change it when New Year comes?
Hahaha... yeah! Jak already told you this, ne? He's using Photoshop 7 on his
Pentium II and it was like AGES before a high quality pic or large pics load.
I'm a witness on that, hehehe!
Btw, CooL new page layout. Just a question, though... what's those lines on the
uppermost right. You did that on purpose?
Quote by kuroimisa Well, I changed the
memory settings on Photoshop and it seems to work a lot better - or at least, it
doesn't sound like my RAM is frying itself so thanks for that
Yeah. I have 3.2Ghz though... hence why I thought it could compensate. I might
get more RAM after I find an external DVD burner drive. Argh.
Are you making those for a business thing or (yes this sounds stupid) for
fun?
Thanks for the help man~
With all that processing power you should back that up with monster RAM. Go for
higher-end memory modules so you're sure they'd last and since memory upgrade is
practically the cheapest and easiest PC upgrade you can have, its highly
recommended.
Yeah, I do graphics now for a living aside from computer repairs. Beats the heck
out of making walls and not getting enough credit and attention for it, add to
that the fact that I earn quite a good sum from it. I'm looking forward to next
year, where I'd be helping to start a line of hiphop apparels. I'm also doing
some web design on the side so I'm quite busy. Add to that the fact that I'm
gonna be joining a local underground hiphop group... I'm draggin' Ken in this
one, too... you can go give him a nice alias if you want....
Quote by Misa
Hmmm sounds interesting I want to make something fantastic, but I can't find any
reason to do so Not to mention after I changed the memory card in my computer,
it makes horrible churning noises when I try to do stuff on Photoshop Sigh. I
want to go to Uni and do it... but I don't know if I should...
Yeah, it's long, but I'll still be young :P I'd be 22 by then o_o Well with work
experience I'd be 23, but life has hardly begun by then Yep, we call our subject
ARCHITORTURE !
I don't think he's done any huge buildings, but he's been doing a lot of work
with the "Australian vernacular" and modernist stuff combined. And
he's been defining Australian Architecture pretty well (our country is just a
mishmash) so yeah, he's pretty good. I hope I don't get scared
Oooh visual design! I think I might be doing that next semester with computers.
So far all of our presentations are hand drawn XO
Lol but that's what design's all about - they say these things and there's no
possible way of having a "perfect" presentation. And the funny thing
is that my last presentation, we had the Head of Architecture as a guest (scary,
yes!) and he was arguing with this other girl. And you know what he said?
"Just smile, nod, and say nothing". >___< LOL!
Yeah, super holidays :P Well I'm starting Uni early because of general education
courses (They are compulsory) and I don't have a job so blah. I do want to wall.
But not on my computer I've been reduced to only typing and doing really simple
Photoshop projects here because I don't want to fry my memory card
Lol thanks for the gallery comment, by the way. Yeah, I know it's kind of rusty
and not my usual busybody kind of wallpaper - but I have a feeling a lot of the
things I'll submit will be very different to what I did before o_o Well, gotta
start somewhere
Owh? Memory card huh? Hm, I get A LOT of problem while I was still using the old
desktop. I only have approximately 30 minutes to 1 hours of time to work on the
pc before it gets restarted by itself. It sucks. Can't do much photoshopping
back then. If I'm not mistaken the fan had something to do with it. Sucked big
time. I'm not so sure about churning noises, but if you really want me to
guess it might have to do with either the cooling fan inside the CPU or maybe
your CPU doesn't have enough memory or there's not much space in your hard disk.
^^ Try checking it out.
Ooh, then you're probably the same as me then. I'm
not sure if my diploma will go well. But in case if it does, then I'll continue
my degree for another 2 years and I'll be graduating at 23 years old too! Yay~!
Lolz, ARCHITORTURE is just right. Then maybe I'll try to come up with something
in my course as well.
Australian Architecture huh? Come to think of it, I've never been to Australia,
so I'm not sure how Australia's buildings look like. But I'm pretty interested
in it though, since I have an interest in history. Thinks
Rococo.
Really? Handrawn presentations huh? We're pretty much doing the same thing as
well. And our presentations requires us to have at least 2 A2 and 1 A1 size
boards during the presentation. Ugh, the torture.
Yeah, you're right. There's just no such thing as perfect presentation. It seems
like they're always trying to pick some minor flaws or ask random questions so
they can shoot at us in case we can't answer. I still remember being shot by
this English lecturer just because I asked the wrong person during out sculpture
presentation. *shakes fist* Ephie needs to brush up her shooting skills, lol.
Presentation in our college means "JOO MUST WIN THE LECTURER OR ELSE YOU
LOSE". How tense indeed.
New walls coming up, YAY! Is really looking forward to it. ^^ I'm still stuck at
the moment. And somehow I can sense that the artblock disease is starting to
kick in.
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ARGH NO! DONT CHANGE THE AVATAR! Ahahha. What kind of avatar are you going to
replace that with by the way?
Quote by kuroimisaYeah, I know it's for
recognition, but it's useless in our course anyway :P Before everyone wanted HD
averages to get into Honours, but there are no Honours for the new program. I'm
happy with just my DN average let alone a HD average @_@ Crazy people.
Hmmm that is quite affordable. At University our lecturer calculated that it was
what, $80 an hour for each student just to sit in a lecture!? Crazy. That's why
I never wanted to skip them. I eventually had to, though. Too much work, and a
day is too short to sit for a lecture.
Lol I have several bank accounts I am planning to get the camera but only if it's cheaper, because I will
still need a memory stick. If the camera uses any old memory stick, then it'll
be much cheaper for me (SONY memory sticks are like $80, but you can get the
same thing for less than half the price from another company). I'm waiting to
see if there are any more sales. I don't want my dad to buy it for me... he
bought me one of those 35mm film cameras a while ago, but I never used it. Why I
didn't get a digital camera then? Because I had no USB Hub on my old computer...
and now I have this one... it has 5 hubs Sigh.
I think our uni is doing it out of spite. There was the other uni (University of
Sydney) - they start later and ended earlier. Now, our uni will start even later
than them and earlier than them. I just hope they don't give us the same
workload as a 14 week semester - we'd all die.
Lol okay okay I won't change it... yet...
I'll try to fiddle around the settings More
than likely it's probably because it's hot and the computer's heating up, so the
fans go mad. But it's particularly bad when I do stuff like zooming in, even
using a brush on Photoshop - then I'm not sure where the sound comes from. Maybe
burning the RAM? Perhaps it's the drive as you suggested. Ah well, it'll fix
itself Thanks~!
Hmm... it's not really the honours I'm referring with. You know some stupid
peepz do that just to hear compliments, blah-blah-blah!
They just want their ears to bleed just to hear those... YOU'RE GREAT, YOU'RE A
GENIUS, YOU'RE COOL! *yuck* THEY SUCKS! Oh yeah, if you really refer them as
"crazy", I tell you, they'll die tomorrow. I should be the only crazy
freak living in this world! *evil laughs*
Well... it's at a State Uni, though. Private college and universities usually
have a tuition fee of around $500 (Australian local currency) and it may go up
higher year by year. $80 for each student just to sit on a lecture? Hmm... can I
study there? geez... our government here reduces the budget on our uni every year
so it's getting harder and harder to have proper facilities. And I'm graduating
now yet I haven't even experienced a proper room, . Btw, you can have a proper time management, oh yeah, that won't help much
but might still try, ne? It'll still be helpful in the future?
Several bank accounts? Wow... that's proper money saving, hehehe!
hmm... so you're just window shopping to see if there're any sales on digicams?
I think 35mm film cameras are good. Why not use it? Geez... 5 hubs,
hahaha!
Yay! *throws confetti over Kuri* don't change it!
I really missed that avvy of yours, hehehe! So much memories... (did I just got
sentimental?)
I'm not really the one you should thank with, it's Jak's words... the hell I
know about computer hardwares? All I know is to browse and type and chat and
dice and slice?
Quote by Ken Quoted from Jak: "You
should get more RAM!
Photoshop's using your drive too much. Other possible solutions include setting
your scratch disks to another drive where the Windows paging file is located. If your using CS2 or lower, its in
Edit > Preferences > Memory and Cache and Edit > Preferences >
Performance for CS3. Setting the amount of RAM that Photoshop uses would also
help. But if it still grinds after that, then you got yourself a dying drive.
Get yourself a couple of SATA drives and if you can afford and if your board
supports it, set it up with data striping (2 identical drives needed), that'd
surely help a lot.
If symptoms still persist, Ken's probably digging through your hard drives.
Probably looking for some things I can't imagine.
Yayyy for Ken and his typo, prolly wet himself while typing out stuff again...
Actually, that's choose scratch disk which Windows isn't using (I know you're using WinXP... I'm kinda psychic
y'know... if you don't... then you're lying...heheheh ).
~insert sarcasm/humour~
Yet still... GET MORE RAM! If you have 2GB of RAM and your machine's still being
whipped to a crawl when using PS like a slave and his master, then get more RAM.
No more extra slots? Then get yourself another board... and another processor...
and another set of RAM. And prolly another set of drives. That'd set you back a
few hundred bucks, but heck, you gotta work on those wallies, projects,
homeworks and of course do moddin' stuff, ne... I'm just kiddin'... hit me back
if you still got problems.
And if anyone out there thinks there's a better solution than mine, go ahead. Be
my guest. At least I won't be alone to screw up your PC. Then again, if you
think about it, you can always have Ken b!tch slap me into submission if your
machine goes awry. I think that's fair enough retribution, right? Hey don't
worry, I got hundreds more broken, busted, corrupted, rundown PCs to work with.
One of them is Ken's machine... which is super old. Like bible-stuff old. You
know, the kind that gets fossilized or something...
But hey, you haven't specified where the sounds were originating. Are you sure
that's a critical sounding-sound and not some regular computer-related-sound
kinda sound? If its coming from your case... then its prolly your drive. In said
case, refer to above mentioned procedures to remedy the situation. Also, check
your fans if they've already burned-up. Just a tip... check them, okay and see
if they're still spinning.
And listen, whenever that thing grinds and your not doing anything, I can
guarantee you its Ken snooping around your hard drive after he turn himself into
one yottabyte of nasty and somehow got into your case. After giving him some
major net time... you never know what he's learned.
Ahhh... i missed saying these things to you... makes me fell... hmmm...
complete... now its ken's turn.
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If your fans crank faster when its hotter, you probably have a dynamic fan
contoller that spins your blowers faster everytime your PC works harder. Its
definitely way hotter inside your case than the outside.
You only have 512mb of RAM? God, I remember when I was still using my old
Pentium II 400Mhz that had only 128mb of SDRAM. Photoshop would go on vacation
everytime something had to load because it took so long.
But back then I was just making websites and wallies. Now I do tarpaulins,
banners and other print media (brochures, shirts, mugs, you name it) where my
PSDs reach 1GB or more.
Ah, I've used Canson paper before and the texture's quite nice, but it buckled
easily I'm assuming you used a heavier type of paper? I only had like
110gsm
Thanks for the tips, next time I try watercolours, I'll be realllly slow
Hi~ ^^
Yeah, I'm using a paper that's a bit heavier, 160gsm. The cover looks like this
^^//
Haha yeah, studying sucks u_u Well, it doesn't because you learn, but it sucks
when you have to do sooo much for so little
I don't get why people work so super hard... it's meaningless in the end
Well, it's affordable here because we have good social welfare. If you don't
have a job, you can get paid provided you are looking for a job. I'm a student,
and I get paid to study. If I had to pay rent though, I would just barely have
money for materials - I wouldn't be able to buy my lunches at the university, or
buy other things I need. So it is affordable, but I think it can be
better.
Lol true true :3 Well I needed the cash because I wanted to "earn" my
first digital camera (blasphemy, I do architecture and I still don't have a
digital camera - well
only on my phone, but the quality's terrible). I guess I can always save up.
Haha remember how I said I was going overseas and said I was saving up? I don't
know what happened to the money..
Thanks! After those two subjects though, I get to be on holiday for another
month and a half
Hahaha... I told you, you can do it after you graduate, hehehe!
Hmm... I don't think it's meaningless. I think most peepz work soooo damn hard
is because they want recognition. You know society... those who are recognized
are the ones who gets the limelight. sad
but true... well, studying sucks but learning is CooL!
Yeah... here, education is cheap but with the school projects and all, it's
already getting hard. My tuition fee on college is very cheap. If I'll convert
it in your local currency, it's only around Aus$10-15. it's a state uni so it's really cheap but some of the facilities sucks,
though... we can still survive here, hehehe!
Hmm... go find it in your bank account (if you have one)? I guess you better ask
your dad to buy one for you. After all, it's for educational purposes anyway...
X-O another month and a half? Wow... you really need that holidays,
hehehe!
Oh yeah... I'll voice out my grievance! DON'T CHANGE YOUR AVVY! IT'S SOOO DAMN
CUTE!
And about your question above...
Quoted from Jak: "You should get more RAM!
Photoshop's using your drive too much. Other possible solutions include setting
your scratch disks to another drive where the Windows paging file is located. If
your using CS2 or lower, its in Edit > Preferences > Memory and Cache and
Edit > Preferences > Performance for CS3. Setting the amount of RAM that
Photoshop uses would also help. But if it still grinds after that, then you got
yourself a dying drive. Get yourself a couple of SATA drives and if you can
afford and if your board supports it, set it up with data striping (2 identical
drives needed), that'd surely help a lot.
If symptoms still persist, Ken's probably digging through your hard drives.
Probably looking for some things I can't imagine.
Forty minutes because that's when my parents come back from exercise ;D
Yup, we've both been away from Mt for several months It's kinda good to be back :3
Woo...! I have that kind of thing with a lot of my undone psds... lol, got to
find motivation to finish them
I'm in uhm, I just finished my 4th semester. 2 more semesters and I graduate!
But I have to do another 4 semesters after that to qualify to be an architect
(it's mandatory to do 5 years' study ). Yep! They expect us to spend an extra 48 hours on design outside of
class... that's the weekend without eating or sleeping D: We have other subjects
too But yeah, I'm glad the holidays are here. I can rewind, and be prepared for
next year. We get Glenn Murcutt D: He's apparently Australia's pride because he
won the most recent most prestigious international award for architects D:
Scary!
Wow! That sounds fun O-O I can imagine that it'd be busy *_* All design subjects
tend to be like that.... it's a crime to be creative
:nyah:
I see.
Yeah, that's true. I miss MT so much. Too much to cope up with. I'm planning to
take part in Vectorness challenge in AP if they announce a new challenge. Is
mad because my last wallpaper was meant for the challenge but I was way behind
deadline. And not to forget the UA's one colour challenge! Yay!
5 years? That's like taking Degree after your Diploma. That's kinda long. No,
wait. That's TORTURE. Glenn
Murcutt? Not a familiar name but the buildings he designed, are they nice? To
win the most prestigious international architects award is something really
worth the proud.
Bahaha, well since I'm still learning the basics, so I'm doing the same thing as
Graphic Design for now. But soon I'll learn something slightly different the
next semester though, all excited, visual design!
I'm not sure with other courses but my lecturers are really demanding with the
work we presented. Geez. That's not right, this design looks common, maybe if
you modify this, and that... I know creative colleges are like that but argh~!
Give me a break..
So you're having your hm... summer holidays, am I right? What's your planning,
Misa?
Quote by kuroimisa
Lol you'll probably graduate on time
Noodles lol. *emails them to you* hahaha
Yeah, it's almost 7 days a week because they say that we should be spending
"48 hours" OUTSIDE of Uni on just design. That's the entire weekend
without sleeping! We go to Uni 5 days a week and we've got other subjects to
tackle. By their definition, the only way to pass is to not eat and not sleep
D:?!
Haha nope. Living here used to be affordable. Now it's not. It's gotten to the
point that it's impossible to buy your own home
Inflation is so bad that back when milk was like $2, it's now nearly $4.
Well I decided to not take the job because my friend disappeared on me I'm
assuming the job got taken and he's in hiding because he made me make a resume
and everything. Not that I mind - I don't really need a job, and I needed a mock
resume anyway for the future.
I'll be going to uni early in mid-January to do some general subjects. It's
compulsory that we do 4 random subjects before we graduate. If we don't, we
can't graduate until we do. It's gonna be a looong summer
I really do hope so... making a feasibility study is really a hard job to do.
Already emailed? Err... just ship it here, I'll give you my address,
hahaha!
Ouch... well, I might be experiencing that, too, because of the feasibility
study. In fact, our section's already late for 1 whole month in making it cuz we
haven't seen our instructor for that whole month!
Hahahah... geez, I'd rather fail than not to eat and sleep!
Hmm... in my opinion, it's still affordable to live there. Here... you won't
experience to live in luxury if you don't have the cash. Unlike Australia,
Philippines is not that big in terms of the economy.
Hahaha... now that's what I call "Runaway Friend"! don't
really need a job? But I thought you want to earn cash? oh
well... I'm having a part-time job now but it may not take long,
hehehe!
Geez... now that's a short vacation... well, just good luck on those subjects!
It's okay! I'm pretty late at replying lol... in the mornings I have to put out
the washing, boil water, make tea, boil the rice and soup and hopefully comment
on Mt ... all in 40 minutes! Hahahaha anyway that was random, but the point is,
everyone's got their own life outside the internet square
Yay! I can't wait to see your next photoshop work
Hmmm I've been lazy Yep,
you're totally right about the models and stuff. This semester we didn't make
many models though, it was mostly the drawing that took me a long time. I think
after a while when you get your models and cutting accurate it doesn't take too
long. But the drawings... oh God. The fact I had to use colour as well to make
it look nice took forever *_*
What are you doing at college, Ephie?
Misa~ *beams*
Woo, that sounds like you're really busy and rushing. But why 40 minutes? Ahaha,
I don't mind late replies. That
applies to me as well. Yeah... everyone is busy with their lives, no arguement
there. Don't even have the time to even log into MT for like... how many months.
I already have the scan cleaned and editted, I just the need the motivation to
turn it into a wallpaper. It's been lying in the pendrive for nearly a year
Owh? Which semester are you in by the way? I have a housemate who's taking
architecture, but he's only in the first semester though so I can see just how
busy and frustrated he gets whenever it comes to making models and very very
frustrating drawings. You can find most of our college's 'craziest' students
either in architecture or interior design. So I
can pretty much relate how you feel.
I'm taking diploma in animation and multimedia design. Just finished my second
semester though. And I barely went out alive, with all those pressure and
assignments to work with.
By the time I start my third semester I'm officialy a dead man.
Quote by kuroimisaWatercolours tend to
be so messy, but you controlled it so well in this D: What paper did you use? Or
was that the liquid film masking? Wow!
hello~ Thanks for the comment ^.^ I used Canson drawing paper (it's not that
good as watercolours paper, but it's okey). The liquid film masking is awesome
for those whites I left. Besides that, you need a lot of patience... I used to
hate watercolours
I want to make a tutorial, but it's not finished yet http://hybrid-hallow.livejournal.com/75574.html
I heard down the grapevine that your back, I just had to stop by and see if it
was true =P. I just wanted to welcome you back to MT \o/ So good to see that
you've returned. Hoorah! A celebration is in order, I believe =P
The word "HATE" should reflect the two characters. I think it'd look
awesome if you have the HA parallel to the "ground" line, and the TE
upsidedown on the other side of the line.
the HA and TE can be opposites, too (ie. HA would be white, TE would be black
and upside down)
By the way, thanks for dropping by my page and the greetings as well. I was
really late in logging into MT, so I just realised that a few days ago, sorry.
Damn college is getting onto my nerves. But that's over now so I THINK I should
be able to start with the photoshop again. ^^
So how about you? How have you been? So you're in Architecture huh? That must
mean a lot of model board, making models and stuffs like that. O_o
I finally could login, i notice about the change new username formats, i was
logged in my computer when it happen and thats why i could be logged thanks to
cookies and cannot log in in other computers.
Wel anyway i have the old acc back, so thanks for the help.
Oh I see... Sydney sure is a large city, ne?
Hahahah... it's okay. Take your time...
We also happen to have a meteor shower in our area. Umbrellas not recommended.
Ken think's you conjured up a storm because *whispers* he thinks you're a witch and all... *end whisper*
Lol, I know what you mean, the links are all one next to another, and there's no confirmation thingy for deleting..Sometimes I go to click "edit" and ended up deleting the post DX ...
anyway, it looks interesting, I'll see if I can come up with something for it
Hey Kuri... just saw in our local news that a hailstorm hit Sydney. Your place got affected, too?
Misaaa there's no picture of an iceberg in the wonderland thread. And your userpage is fishy.
Owh? You can actually change the precentage of a programme's usage? Hm, never actually heard of that but basically it just takes lesser space in the RAM, is that it? Hmm.. *touches chin* Maybe I should do that with the pc soon.
Australian's buildings are mixed? Interesting. It's just that few weeks ago students from the Architecture class were really busy doing research in the lab and the photocopy machine was full of Rococo, Bauhaus texts the words just sip into our brain. But owh, I have to agree that architecture can be very interesting. ^^
Yeap, I do know why they ask those kind of questions but it really pisses me off the fact that they even made the peace sign after that.
They're really testing our communication skills and how much research we have
done on our work, but ahah stage fright got my tongue tied. 
Ooh, that Chen Shu Fen avatar.
Now
that you mentioned it I really miss my old Kingdom Hearts avatar. 
LOL... you, busy almost everyday... of course you won't notice those peepz. And besides, it's just a waste of time to understand them, hehehe!
Hmm... unlike grade school and high school, state unis are "almost" free (you still need to pay tuition fees and miscellaneous expenses). If your uni's tuition fee is lower than some regular universities there, I guess it's subsidized by the government. You're lucky you got some good facilities there.
our uni only working on the external environment these days (the outer image of
the school to be exact). Well... the uni president is making our uni a lil bit
"commercialized". I kinda understand him, though... in order to get
more budget for the uni (cuz the stupid government's making our budget lower and
lower, 
). Oh well... hehehe! You know, you can start by writing your
sched on a pocket notebook. It's a good start... you're already good on saving
some money (with regards to your bank accounts, hehehe! I'm not good at saving
money, budgeting... I'm better) so I guess you can do it, too! 
Got a point... it's not like the digital camera, who you can see the output in a flash. Digital cameras sure come in handy, especially in courses like architecture. Hmm... I guess it's fine if you have both, hehehe! You can have a spare if one is broken.
Oh... you mean the girl one? It's good, too, but I still like your current avvy, hehehe! I know... just change it when New Year comes?
Hahaha... yeah! Jak already told you this, ne? He's using Photoshop 7 on his Pentium II and it was like AGES before a high quality pic or large pics load. I'm a witness on that, hehehe!
Btw, CooL new page layout. Just a question, though... what's those lines on the uppermost right. You did that on purpose?
With all that processing power you should back that up with monster RAM. Go for higher-end memory modules so you're sure they'd last and since memory upgrade is practically the cheapest and easiest PC upgrade you can have, its highly recommended.
Yeah, I do graphics now for a living aside from computer repairs. Beats the heck out of making walls and not getting enough credit and attention for it, add to that the fact that I earn quite a good sum from it. I'm looking forward to next year, where I'd be helping to start a line of hiphop apparels. I'm also doing some web design on the side so I'm quite busy. Add to that the fact that I'm gonna be joining a local underground hiphop group... I'm draggin' Ken in this one, too... you can go give him a nice alias if you want....
Owh? Memory card huh? Hm, I get A LOT of problem while I was still using the old desktop. I only have approximately 30 minutes to 1 hours of time to work on the pc before it gets restarted by itself. It sucks. Can't do much photoshopping back then. If I'm not mistaken the fan had something to do with it. Sucked big time.
I'm not so sure about churning noises, but if you really want me to
guess it might have to do with either the cooling fan inside the CPU or maybe
your CPU doesn't have enough memory or there's not much space in your hard disk.
^^ Try checking it out.
Ooh, then you're probably the same as me then.
I'm
not sure if my diploma will go well. But in case if it does, then I'll continue
my degree for another 2 years and I'll be graduating at 23 years old too! Yay~!
Lolz, ARCHITORTURE is just right. Then maybe I'll try to come up with something
in my course as well. 
Australian Architecture huh? Come to think of it, I've never been to Australia, so I'm not sure how Australia's buildings look like. But I'm pretty interested in it though, since I have an interest in history.
Thinks
Rococo. 
Really? Handrawn presentations huh? We're pretty much doing the same thing as well. And our presentations requires us to have at least 2 A2 and 1 A1 size boards during the presentation. Ugh, the torture.
Yeah, you're right. There's just no such thing as perfect presentation. It seems like they're always trying to pick some minor flaws or ask random questions so they can shoot at us in case we can't answer. I still remember being shot by this English lecturer just because I asked the wrong person during out sculpture presentation. *shakes fist* Ephie needs to brush up her shooting skills, lol. Presentation in our college means "JOO MUST WIN THE LECTURER OR ELSE YOU LOSE". How tense indeed.
New walls coming up, YAY! Is really looking forward to it. ^^ I'm still stuck at the moment. And somehow I can sense that the artblock disease is starting to kick in.
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ARGH NO! DONT CHANGE THE AVATAR! Ahahha. What kind of avatar are you going to replace that with by the way?
Hmm... it's not really the honours I'm referring with. You know some stupid peepz do that just to hear compliments, blah-blah-blah!
Well... it's at a State Uni, though. Private college and universities usually have a tuition fee of around $500 (Australian local currency) and it may go up higher year by year. $80 for each student just to sit on a lecture? Hmm... can I study there?
geez... our government here reduces the budget on our uni every year
so it's getting harder and harder to have proper facilities. And I'm graduating
now yet I haven't even experienced a proper room, 
. Btw, you can have a proper time management, oh yeah, that won't help much
but might still try, ne? It'll still be helpful in the future?
Several bank accounts? Wow... that's proper money saving, hehehe!
hmm... so you're just window shopping to see if there're any sales on digicams?
I think 35mm film cameras are good. Why not use it? Geez... 5 hubs,
hahaha!
Yay! *throws confetti over Kuri* don't change it!
I really missed that avvy of yours, hehehe! So much memories... (did I just got
sentimental?) 
I'm not really the one you should thank with, it's Jak's words... the hell I know about computer hardwares? All I know is to browse and type and chat and dice and slice?
Yayyy for Ken and his typo, prolly wet himself while typing out stuff again...
Actually, that's choose scratch disk which Windows isn't using (I know you're using WinXP... I'm kinda psychic y'know...
if you don't... then you're lying...heheheh 
).
~insert sarcasm/humour~
Yet still... GET MORE RAM! If you have 2GB of RAM and your machine's still being whipped to a crawl when using PS like a slave and his master, then get more RAM. No more extra slots? Then get yourself another board... and another processor... and another set of RAM. And prolly another set of drives. That'd set you back a few hundred bucks, but heck, you gotta work on those wallies, projects, homeworks and of course do moddin' stuff, ne... I'm just kiddin'... hit me back if you still got problems.
And if anyone out there thinks there's a better solution than mine, go ahead. Be my guest. At least I won't be alone to screw up your PC. Then again, if you think about it, you can always have Ken b!tch slap me into submission if your machine goes awry. I think that's fair enough retribution, right? Hey don't worry, I got hundreds more broken, busted, corrupted, rundown PCs to work with. One of them is Ken's machine... which is super old. Like bible-stuff old. You know, the kind that gets fossilized or something...
But hey, you haven't specified where the sounds were originating. Are you sure that's a critical sounding-sound and not some regular computer-related-sound kinda sound? If its coming from your case... then its prolly your drive. In said case, refer to above mentioned procedures to remedy the situation. Also, check your fans if they've already burned-up. Just a tip... check them, okay and see if they're still spinning.
And listen, whenever that thing grinds and your not doing anything, I can guarantee you its Ken snooping around your hard drive after he turn himself into one yottabyte of nasty and somehow got into your case. After giving him some major net time... you never know what he's learned.
Ahhh... i missed saying these things to you... makes me fell... hmmm... complete... now its ken's turn.
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If your fans crank faster when its hotter, you probably have a dynamic fan contoller that spins your blowers faster everytime your PC works harder. Its definitely way hotter inside your case than the outside.
You only have 512mb of RAM? God, I remember when I was still using my old Pentium II 400Mhz that had only 128mb of SDRAM. Photoshop would go on vacation everytime something had to load because it took so long.
But back then I was just making websites and wallies. Now I do tarpaulins, banners and other print media (brochures, shirts, mugs, you name it) where my PSDs reach 1GB or more.
Well, good luck on that machine of yours...
later
Hi~ ^^
Yeah, I'm using a paper that's a bit heavier, 160gsm. The cover looks like this
^^//
Hahaha... I told you, you can do it after you graduate, hehehe!
Hmm... I don't think it's meaningless. I think most peepz work soooo damn hard is because they want recognition. You know society... those who are recognized are the ones who gets the limelight.
sad
but true... well, studying sucks but learning is CooL! 
Yeah... here, education is cheap but with the school projects and all, it's already getting hard. My tuition fee on college is very cheap. If I'll convert it in your local currency, it's only around Aus$10-15.
it's a state uni so it's really cheap but some of the facilities sucks,
though... we can still survive here, hehehe! 
Hmm... go find it in your bank account (if you have one)? I guess you better ask your dad to buy one for you. After all, it's for educational purposes anyway...
X-O another month and a half? Wow... you really need that holidays, hehehe!
Oh yeah... I'll voice out my grievance! DON'T CHANGE YOUR AVVY! IT'S SOOO DAMN CUTE!
And about your question above...
Quoted from Jak: "You should get more RAM!
Photoshop's using your drive too much. Other possible solutions include setting
your scratch disks to another drive where the Windows paging file is located. If
your using CS2 or lower, its in Edit > Preferences > Memory and Cache and
Edit > Preferences > Performance for CS3. Setting the amount of RAM that
Photoshop uses would also help. But if it still grinds after that, then you got
yourself a dying drive. Get yourself a couple of SATA drives and if you can
afford and if your board supports it, set it up with data striping (2 identical
drives needed), that'd surely help a lot.
If symptoms still persist, Ken's probably digging through your hard drives. Probably looking for some things I can't imagine.
End of call. 19:36:32 GMT"
That's Jak alright... DAMN YOU JAK!
I see.
Yeah, that's true. I miss MT so much. Too much to cope up with. I'm planning to take part in Vectorness challenge in AP if they announce a new challenge.
Is
mad because my last wallpaper was meant for the challenge but I was way behind
deadline. 
And not to forget the UA's one colour challenge! Yay!
5 years? That's like taking Degree after your Diploma. That's kinda long. No, wait. That's TORTURE.
Glenn
Murcutt? Not a familiar name but the buildings he designed, are they nice? To
win the most prestigious international architects award is something really
worth the proud. 
Bahaha, well since I'm still learning the basics, so I'm doing the same thing as Graphic Design for now. But soon I'll learn something slightly different the next semester though, all excited, visual design!
I'm not sure with other courses but my lecturers are really demanding with the work we presented. Geez. That's not right, this design looks common, maybe if you modify this, and that... I know creative colleges are like that but argh~! Give me a break..
So you're having your hm... summer holidays, am I right? What's your planning, Misa?
I really do hope so... making a feasibility study is really a hard job to do.
Already emailed? Err... just ship it here, I'll give you my address, hahaha!
Ouch... well, I might be experiencing that, too, because of the feasibility study. In fact, our section's already late for 1 whole month in making it cuz we haven't seen our instructor for that whole month!
Hahahah... geez, I'd rather fail than not to eat and sleep!
Hmm... in my opinion, it's still affordable to live there. Here... you won't experience to live in luxury if you don't have the cash. Unlike Australia, Philippines is not that big in terms of the economy.
Hahaha... now that's what I call "Runaway Friend"!
don't
really need a job? But I thought you want to earn cash? 
oh
well... I'm having a part-time job now but it may not take long,
hehehe!
Geez... now that's a short vacation... well, just good luck on those subjects!
Misa~ *beams*
Woo, that sounds like you're really busy and rushing. But why 40 minutes? Ahaha, I don't mind late replies.
That
applies to me as well. Yeah... everyone is busy with their lives, no arguement
there. Don't even have the time to even log into MT for like... how many months.
I already have the scan cleaned and editted, I just the need the motivation to turn it into a wallpaper. It's been lying in the pendrive for nearly a year
Owh? Which semester are you in by the way? I have a housemate who's taking architecture, but he's only in the first semester though so I can see just how busy and frustrated he gets whenever it comes to making models and very very frustrating drawings. You can find most of our college's 'craziest' students either in architecture or interior design.
So I
can pretty much relate how you feel. 
I'm taking diploma in animation and multimedia design. Just finished my second semester though. And I barely went out alive, with all those pressure and assignments to work with.
By the time I start my third semester I'm officialy a dead man. 
hello~ Thanks for the comment ^.^ I used Canson drawing paper (it's not that good as watercolours paper, but it's okey). The liquid film masking is awesome for those whites I left. Besides that, you need a lot of patience... I used to hate watercolours
I want to make a tutorial, but it's not finished yet http://hybrid-hallow.livejournal.com/75574.html
I heard down the grapevine that your back, I just had to stop by and see if it was true =P. I just wanted to welcome you back to MT \o/ So good to see that you've returned. Hoorah! A celebration is in order, I believe =P
She's really finally back, hahaha!
CooL wallpaper btw... haven't seen one for ages, hehehe!
thank you a lot
I
think its an awesome idea 
Now I feel like I suck >-<
The wall's weren't done by me to begin with. ^^; But I wasn't saying that I made them either in my comments, so Don't kill me
Why doesn't MT just add a option similar to the scans? " Not original " " Self Done "...those types of things?
Thanks again..I'm getting into lots of trouble ~-~
merged: 12-06-2007 ~ 06:01pm
o-o;
Now I'm scared to even post an image for fear of getting banned already ~-~
Is it actually possible to get rid of warnings? o.o
Misa~! Owh, you're finally back! ^^
By the way, thanks for dropping by my page and the greetings as well.
I was
really late in logging into MT, so I just realised that a few days ago, sorry.
Damn college is getting onto my nerves. But that's over now so I THINK I should
be able to start with the photoshop again. ^^
So how about you? How have you been? So you're in Architecture huh? That must mean a lot of model board, making models and stuffs like that. O_o
Green mixed with pink becomes DARK GRAY!
Thus your userpage background colour
Hi
Thanks for the help!
I finally could login, i notice about the change new username formats, i was logged in my computer when it happen and thats why i could be logged thanks to cookies and cannot log in in other computers.
Wel anyway i have the old acc back, so thanks for the help.
see ya