Back to School

It's been about a month since I started my Web Dev course! I really enjoy adding these skills to my repertoire of knowledge. I may not be very smart, but when I get really interested in a topic I almost get obsessed with it and find it difficult to talk about anything else. I guess that is just one of those things I gotta work on.

We just started the HTML and CSS lessons this week. The most interesting things we learned about were forms and the grid system. I kinda got a headstart on the super basics before the course, using Codeacademy (which is a great site for learning code, btw!) and from previous website building attempts as a young teen. A little bit of history here~ I made my first website when I was 14 and it consisted of fail pixel art and neopets user lookup layouts ^p^ The whole notion of being able to put a mark on the web was a very curious endeavour at that time. I also participated in the TVNZ Web Challenges when I was in Year 9 and 10. Now as a 20 something, I'm back to doing web again. It took long enough to discover what I really wanted to do. Try explaining this career prospect to older adults though haha. The world wide web is really starting to take over!

I feel like I am adept at understanding the bare basics of the coding (at the moment anyway!), but there is much improvement needed to be done in improving the design aesthetics and usability. I aim to enable the user to have the most pleasant website viewing experience possible. Hopefully, I will match up to the pros one day~

The things I want to make a habit of is to:
> Keep up to date with the design trends
> Follow good web twitters and blogs
> Keep a visual diary of ideas that come my way
> Keep following tutorials to learn new techniques
> Keep coding until I get the desired (or decent) result
> Make dummy websites to get more fluent!
> Read books!

I feel like such a nerd right now, but sometimes I feel like I have to be if I want to have a high level of competence! Maybe I have just learned a lot about priorities since the last time I studied, as well as the experience of job seeking.

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On another note, since its not too hectic just yet ... I want to do a "Create something" challenge. To do something creative everyday whether if its a drawing, poetry, type, design, craft, etc. Anything to do with creating from scratch. Something simple. At the end of the week, I shall document these creations! Okay, hope this goes well >u<)b

Clothes: 040213

When I went back to the family home in the weekend, I forgot to bring any non-work clothes so I was pretty much stuck with super frilly ones that I only wear occasionally these days. I forgot how much fun it is to dress in lolita-inspired attire since I started to dress more conservatively. I feel like a child again~ haha. Apparently the 2nd of February was Twin Tail Day in Japan so I decided to celebrate a day late.

Headband: $3.50 from Japan store

Blouse: $15 from Paper Bag Princess

Skirt: $10 from Trademe (IT WAS A STEAL!)

And today, I decided to keep going with the girly co-ordinates. I don't think the low twin tail hairstyle is too bad either. Might use it more often ^-^ Oh youth~! uhoo.

Sailor Jacket: Aliexpress

Frilly Shorts: Wholesale-dress.net

Blouse: Kmart

Bow: Japan store

I drew pictures today. I wanna get faster~

Drawing is more fun now that the pressure is off! I knew it was more a hobby thing for me. Sometimes I wish I has realised this sooner xD Of course I still enjoy it, but if I had to do it all the time for both work purpose and hobby purpose I would probably tire of it. Whereas more logical stuff like web design seems to drive me more in terms of productivity.

Yeah, I did the Graphic Design degree. But after some thought, I am truly more of a left brain thinker as opposed to the right brain thinker a designer is assumed to be. I like being creative and designing stuff, but I also like rules and I like knowing exactly how things are supposed to work. 

If only it was so easy with other things that I struggle with... the rule thing anyways;; Some aspects of life don't have a very defined set of rules to follow, because its too complicated and varied. Well, ganbarimasu! Will keep trying ^-^

Also read Death Note again, and damn I can't get over how evil Light becomes as series progresses. SO EVIL! It's interesting to read from a villain's standpoint though haha. I think that was what drew me to the series the first time I read it. There was no other story like it before~

If you like my artwork, check out my art blog too over here!

Black Rock Shooter Nendoroid

After two years of sitting perfectly inside packaging (this seems to be a trend..), Black Rock Shooter Miku is finally free from the plastic!!

 

The Front 

 

...And the back

Japanese packages are so nice! They seem too good to throw away~ 

Even the food ones sometimes...with their endearing characters and all.

 Contents of the box. It consists of a DVD Movie and Nendoroid with different facial expressions, leg, arms, model stands and her weapons! (Bazooka and sword)

Close-up of all the different parts. This is the first time I ever owned a full size nendoroid, so I didn't realise how flexible they were with poses and facial expressions! It's pretty cool how all the parts are interchangable~ And if you had other nendoroids, you could also mix and match the outfits and hairstyles too, and go nuts with it hahaha.

Black Rock Shooter Miku Nendoroid in all her glory. So adorable! 

This is the default pose of how it is packaged in the box.

 I decided I would have her with the "girl with attitude" face on my shelf though ^u^

"Come at me, bro!"

It's really fun filling up my shelf with cute things >u<

The next one will probably be my tiny Inazuma Eleven figurines uhooo~!

And random thing I saw yesterday...

 Someone left a whole pizza outside McDonalds, and all the pigeons were scrambling around it for a giant feast. Oh man xD It can be fun watching birds sometimes ...