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What the f-

2009-12-01T15:06:19Z

Quick update before I go to bed. I searched for us on Cursebird, just out of curiosity.

This is Chingy's:

Joleong's:

Yoko's:

and, um, mine lol:

Boo, Cursebird. You whore.

Hello apathy

2009-11-11T16:47:36Z

I'm super, super tired. I don't know what to do and I can't really get myself excited about anything.
I think I'm running out of steam and it's, like, not... good.

This song is so 2005 and it's filling me with crazy amounts of nostalgia.
Other songs I listened to recently that also did that: My Friends Over You by New Found Glory and The Best of Me by The Starting Line

On another note: LOL. L-O-FUCKIN'-L
Can't wait for the air to get fresher next week

daveorawk @ 2009-11-04T23:37:00

2009-11-04T15:41:08Z

New song! So excited.
I know it's Leona Lewis, but what can I say... I'm a whore for pop music and "big name writers".

...and anything that Ryan Tedder does lol

New single

2009-11-03T18:53:12Z

How amazing is this?

daveorawk @ 2009-11-03T02:50:00

2009-11-02T18:51:38Z

This album rocks.

Also, today I regaled my classmates with fascinating tales of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. It was awesome.

KELLY KAPOOR LOML

2009-10-30T04:52:03Z

daveorawk @ 2009-10-30T02:58:00

2009-10-29T19:00:33Z

Here's the deal:

I was supposed to spend the last 4 days doing research and conceptualization
But all I've been doing is going to work, sleeping and watching Whale Wars
And I do not have enough work for me to go to a consultation.

So... fuck it. I'm going to skip consultation this week.

Hey there, skank!

2009-10-24T06:18:27Z

Gfad

Something to look forward to

2009-10-15T01:26:06Z

Got up really early for this:

Tzehern and I have been geeking out about this the entire day yesterday.
So we're going! And I can't wait, because it's going to be AMAZING!

Oh my god

2009-10-09T09:29:10Z

This is so funny. This is so so so so so so so funny.

daveorawk @ 2009-10-04T21:50:00

2009-10-04T13:50:56Z

Not happy right now!!!!

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2009-10-01T13:29:29Z

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F1 Rocks/No Doubt

2009-09-29T11:54:19Z

Hellooooo

I know I've disappeared for a while, but I've just been too tired to do anything outside of work. But I mean, whatever. We've been working hard but it's been rewarding so I can't complain. Now that the bulk of the work we've had to do is over with, I'm kinda just waiting for everything to show up so we can see what we've been working on in print. Exciting times...

The next 3 weeks should be... interesting.

Last Friday, I decided I would go to F1 Rocks to see No Doubt. I had tried to find people who would be willing to go to this thing with me, but nobody was willing to spend money. At first I told myself I'd forget about it and not go, which was what I almost went with... but I worked really late the night before the show, and while I sat there photoshopping stuff, I ended up deciding that I really wanted to go. So I went on eBay when I got home and I managed to find a ticket for like $90, which was a steal.

It was an amazing night, basically. The only negative thing, I would say, is having to see certain people, whose existences I've tried to expunge from my mind, who have no respect for anything, who came in and blew cigarette smoke in people's faces. How rude.

September 25, 2009

(1)
So I got to Fort Canning at the end of N.E.R.D's set, and I caught the beginning of Simple Minds.
That kind of bored me, so I went to re-hydrate.

(2)
Came back to see LiLo doing her false introductions, with her back to the audience 99% of the time and getting booed a bit.

(3)
I stayed through ZZ Top's set so I could get a good (as good as possible for the time I got there) place.

(4)
I mean... I had fun. I was rocking out, hahah.

(5)
And then a few false starts later, No Doubt!!

(6)
They opened with Spiderwebs, too. Which was AWESOME

(7)
Gwen Stefani

(8)
Can you believe that body??

(9)

(10)

(11)
Tom Dumont

(12)
Gwen/Tony <3

(13)
Adrian Young

(14)

(15)

(16)
Gabrial McNair

(17)

(18)

(19)

(20)

(21)

(22)

(23)

(24)
I love this so much.

(25)

(26)

(27)

(28)
Tony Kanal

(29)
Hahah

(30)

(31)
<3

Photos by me.

Good times!

All the boys get the girls in the back!

2009-09-25T20:10:54Z

SO MUCH FUN

daveorawk @ 2009-08-30T19:17:00

2009-08-30T11:20:15Z

I wish I cared more about this, but I really can't bring myself to bother fixing things because I'm too tired and there are so many other non-time-wasting things to do.

Friends... lol. What a concept.

daveorawk @ 2009-08-23T10:55:00

2009-08-23T02:56:57Z

I am very very annoyed with you right now, ok?

You're so impossible

2009-08-15T16:20:36Z

I wish I could tell you everything that I've been doing, but I wouldn't want to bore you with the details (I like to go into specifics).

So after much drama, I began my internship on the 27th of July. Although Wenlin and I (we're working together) were already having to do stuff before that. I've been having a really tough time, to be honest. The hard work, occasionally long days, "hurry up and wait"–ing, coming back on a Sunday, standing around forever... all that, I can handle.

But it's a little bit more difficult having to deal with the "You're not good enough", or "What kind of photographer do you want to be?", or "Who's your favourite designer? You should know these things!". Mostly the "You should know these things" – that happens a lot. There seems to be a lot that's expected when it comes to personal development ("Stop mumbling!", "Can you don't be so quiet?") or technical knowledge ("Tell me what a 3–point light set–up is") that's hard to deliver because we're so new and because up until a month ago, I didn't even know Profoto existed, or that shooting tethered was so useful, or that a Fresnel was so beautiful.

But I think we're dealing. I kind of feel like it's actually helping, like making us tougher and helping us remember better using negative reinforcements (of nagging). So even though everyday we get nagged and we have to deal with people who have no concept of time, courtesy or respect... I think it helps us, in a way. I'll get over it.

Also, I always try to look on the bright side and talk myself into believing we could be having it much worse (always true) and then trying to convince Wenlin of the same, just because we're in this together (so grateful to have someone I know with me in these foreign situations). Every time we do something ridiculous like walk 5 minutes in Bugis with 2 helium tanks, sweat our asses off in the jungle collecting dead leaves, or just about anything else, for that matter, I take a picture to document the experience. At the end of all this we'll have an entire album full of ridiculous pictures and it'll be awesome.

Anyway, even though we're only three weeks in, it really feels like way longer. Which is great. I didn't think it was possible, but I now, more than ever, feel even more detached from school and the people in it. What gives?

I read all these things on Twitter and Facebook and it actually makes me kind of glad that I'm outside of that bubble and separate from the people who choose to be in that bubble. It's like stepping out of your own body and getting a good look of everything from a different view. I could go on, but I'll stop. It might become too obvious lol

Either way, it's not like people bother to keep in touch, so it doesn't make much of a difference, right? People disappearing, not replying messages, only speaking to you when they need help, socializing with the filthiest of creatures, wallowing in self pity and somehow wanting to involve you in it, creating fake problems for their fake selves, sending you silly messages with no meaning, talking to you only to talk about themselves, or get crabby when you try and make sure they're not dying – why bother with that?

I could do any one of those things, but I think the best one to choose is to just disappear

Ok I'm done alluding to 200 different people in one blog entry now, hahah.

I'm glad I got all of this out. Maybe next time I'll be more positive and I'll talk about some of the things we've been doing. Although, if I do that I'll feel like I'm one of the 200 people who have been doing the exact same thing and that would make me really uncomfortable.

Negativity aside, I've had the chance to meet some amazing people who I never imagined would give me the time of day. But sometimes people surprise you.

Oh yeah, and while I do feel terrible about missing Ms. Katy Perry at the Forum Melbourne last night, or that I'm not going to be able to see Mr. Tyson Ritter at the Palais Theatre, Melbourne, I seriously wouldn't trade it for what we're doing. :]

Well, ok. Some days, I would. But not today.

daveorawk @ 2009-07-25T01:35:00

2009-07-24T17:37:15Z

Dear school people:

Oh my god, I won't be seeing any of y'all for 3 months! 3 whole months! No UC, RAL, PF, FP, AOL, Auntie, Aunties, Special, DD, NC, HID, ER, or anything (I'm sure there's more but I cbf trying to remember right now) for 12 weeks!

How will I survive?

:D

daveorawk @ 2009-07-22T20:58:00

2009-07-22T13:00:06Z

Oh, I still really wish I was going to Melbourne and going to see Katy Perry at The Forum on August 14 and hanging out with my cousins all day long and watching movies til I can barely keep my eyes open. Especially when I listen to "Move On" by Jet.

But I am content.

It's weird, because it seemed so set in stone for so long and now that people are preparing to leave it feels weird to stay put.
I know it's for the best, which is why I chose what I chose, but still...

Ten thirty-four, Flinders Street Station
I'm lookin' down the tracks
A uniform man
Askin' how-I'm-a-pay-it-all
Why would I wanna be there

Yeah I'm gonna have to move on
Before we meet again
Yeah it's hard
If you had only seen
Take control
And don't be afraid of me

It's a sad, sentimental kind of night.

daveorawk @ 2009-07-22T00:56:00

2009-07-21T16:59:36Z

I should really be studying for tomorrow's psych test.

But I can't bring myself to. I just want to continue sleeping and not do anything.

I think I am probably going to fail.

I have to go to the reservoir and collect 2 full bags of dead leaves with Wenlin tomorrow.

I will not get to sleep in this weekend. The weekend before work starts.

I really am damn gae kiang, man.

daveorawk @ 2009-07-14T22:54:00

2009-07-14T14:58:15Z

To all my friends who listened to my endless complaining and whining because of my incessant insecurity:
Thanks

Umm... I'll write about this entire adventure one day when I have time.

daveorawk @ 2009-07-10T01:49:00

2009-07-09T17:50:53Z

To my classmates:

We think we know a lot, but we don't know shit.....
We've half-wasted the past 2.25 years of our lives and we didn't even know it.

Good luck to us.

daveorawk @ 2009-07-06T18:45:00

2009-07-06T10:46:04Z

Actually... I don't get this All Time Low "obsession" either, but whatever, lah.

In Twitter news:

At about 1pm today, I tweeted:

Going to Tampines One right now, have to be back in school by 3. Can't we all just sleep our lives away?about 9 hours ago from Twitterrific

This is the reply I received:

milkcrisis@daveorawk I can!about 8 hours ago from mobile web

Thanks so much, Jasmine!!!

daveorawk @ 2009-06-24T11:03:00

2009-06-24T03:03:47Z

Woooo, internship-less, once again. Thanks universe, you've been so great to me.

FML

2009-06-18T16:44:28Z

So basically, because of the H1N1 virus:

I can't go to Australia
Which makes me internship-less at this point

There is no justice. :(
Fuck you, swine flu.

I am really really really worried.