Heres a story of how my assignment went! the objective of this assignment is creating a magazine of any topic. initially i had planned to do one on handphones which i have completed like 70% of the work in school with brilliantly edited pictures, short writeups and alll.. we saved our work in thumbdrives and while trying to save mine, realised the size capacity of my device wasnt big enough!

But as usual, quick thinking.. i uploaded the files i couldnt fit into my thumbdrive into a ftp space (it was actually rf ftp. hehh! sshhh hush hush) So i happy happy enjoyed my holidays and all till like 3 days before my assignment was due which is 31st May Wednesday. On monday i decided that i should complete the other 30% and get it printed. I uploaded the contents of my thumbdrive onto my desktop, then proceeded to get the rest from the ftp. once done, i opened the folder and looked for my project file. to my horror, it wasnt there. i had left the most important file out of the thumbdrive and ftp! how dumb was that?

but anyway, i thought.. "handphones are pretty comon and nothing much of interest to many" so then came this idea of doing a magazine on my favourite topic... GAMING.

I had 2 days to do a brand new project from skretch! imagine that.... just 2 days including printing and i dont know where i can get them printed either. anyway, i just trusted that God would help me and started off. grabbing a few materials from magazines lying in my house and the net to get insipiration. opened Adobe InDesign and started work..

*After 3 hours*

yawnn, just completed the cover page and content page layout of the magazine. cool huh? 3 hours for 2 pages.. the requirement was 8 pages and up so i calculated.. if im gonna make it 10 pages that'd take 15 hours.. i thought thats cool, 15 hours is all i need to do a new project from skretch! happily i resumed work.. you know when ure doing too much of something you get kinda like a mental block? yeah thats exactly what happened.. i couldnt think any further. i was stuck at the introduction. so after 4 hours all ive done was cover page, layout of content page and a short introduction paragraph.

Since i wasnt making any productive progress i decided to take a break and see what happens next. i watched tv, played games chatted on the phone and all.. soon it was dinner time. so i said to myself "i'd better continue after dinner". and did i actually follow what i told myself? yup, you guessed it.. feeling full and lazy i slumped onto the sofa and got hooked to the tv for a hour and a half. couldnt really concentrate on what i was watching as my mind kept bothering me about my work!

time was 11.30 finally after procrastinating fer 15 mins.. i counted to 3 and stood up! walked over to the computer and resumed work.. so i worked through the night till 3 and covered the first actual page of my magazine. tired, i decided to get some sleep and work the whole day tomorrow.

woke up at 2 and immediately worked my socks out.. only paused for meals and toilet breaks. by 11pm i was on the 5th page. that was quite some good progess.. only 5 more to go. so on i went.. without taking a shower! hehh! but i dont stink so thats a good thing.. (: hahaha those of you whom i gone out with.. if i dint stink doesnt mean i had my shower! :p just kidding.
ok, just fully concentrated on my assignment without getting distracted by games, people and so on. but one thing that i cant restrain from is SOCCER. at 3am it was an international friendly between england and.. opps forgot. heh, anyway i paused my work to catch the game.. it ended at 5 with england winning 3-1 great goals! really looking forward to the World Cup 2006.

immediately, i popped back to my 3/4 done assignment! did so till about 7 where the sky was bright. all that was left was the last page! ahh i was feeling satisfied, spoke to a friend fer an hour or so and poof! went to dreamland on my bed.. woke up suddenly and took a slow walk to my table top, before i realised it, it was 3PM! i still had a page left and bring my assignment to the printers. without having my breakfast or rather lunch, i sat back down and finished off what was left undone.

finally finishing my project at 6.30, my dad picked me up and fetched me to katong shopping center where i got my project printed pretty quickly.. haha, the girl there kept looking at me! felt so embarrassed. anyways, my dad and i drove down to my insitution and i submitted my assignment. felt so good as i walked away knowing that it was out of my mind. i could now properly enjoy the rest of my hols!

got back fer dinner around 9 and went back to my gaming routine straight after.. playing a couple of matches before chatting and all. alright i have not slept since.. its 7am now! time to get some rest.. nights all! (: