Money matters

Just now I took a walk after the rain and sat by the pool until some crazy residents came around and broke my solitude. This is the swimming pool at Cyberia Clubhouse, the pool that I love the most, despite that I can't swim nor even have a swimsuit. It's much more soothing during night time where the lights are dim and the surrounds are quiet and peaceful. I could spend an hour sitting by the pool, humming songs, paddling the water with my legs and enjoying the gentle breeze. I'm blissful how it could easily ease my pains and worries. Sometimes I do wish I could curl up myself under the water to hide from the world.

Too bad I will not be able to enjoy this privilege after a month or two as I will be moving to the staff apartment. Ah, so sad. It's all because of money matters, it really really does matter.

I believe everyone has their own dreams, beautiful dreams. While most of the time, the main villain that stops them from reaching the dreams is "money", don't you agree? I've been counting my monthly incomes and expenses over and over again. Rental, bills, study loan, personal supplies, parent's need, etc. The conclusion is always the same, merely RM2,000 per month is only sufficient for my "present", it can never secure my "future". The only way out is to get more freelance/part-time jobs.

Oh God, could you generously dump some money down to me? :D

The career talk by Fei from Igloo Digital Arts struck my mind and kind of woke me up. Be it handmade artist, illustrator, photographer or makeup artist, they all couldn't make myself a living for now. So I should focus back on my dream in creating games and animations. I should prove myself some achievement in this field before I reach my thirty. As for the others, I believe it is never too late to pick them up in the future when I wish to slow down my pace. In short, I have sorta clear up some fogs that block my views all these times.

I Love My Job

Last week we went to Malacca to gather information of the project we are working on, aka site-visit. Though we were meant to "work" there, we're having much fun compared to the project trips I have been to as the time given was sufficient hence no rushing! :D

So as a 3D artist, my job was to shoot some photographs of the environment, both indoors and outdoors, as reference for modelling and texturing. I was kind of enjoying myself and eventually I was kind of slacking around... *under gloomy introspection...

At the end of the day, Reza and Alif wondered why I looked so delight. Well, the answer is simple! You get to travel for free (sponsored by company) and yet you get paid (you're working during the trip), so shouldn't you embrace it and be grateful for how lucky you are? So in the future, we will be able to travel around Malaysia where the heritage buildings located. No more sweet-talking all years with the computers in the studio! It's good as it refreshes your minds.

And so, I love my job, more and more now. :)

I don't mind about group photos but sometimes I'm hesitate to take individual photos because I know the outcome will definitely be awkward, no doubt. I'm just shy and afraid to be the focus, and totally not photogenic, seriously, not at all, sob sob.

As an experiment, Gatya lent me her sunglasses while Yunyi took a photo for me...
Yunyi: Stand beside the door~
Jun: OK.
Yunyi: Don't stand like a wood there, pose something~
Jun: er....
*Bee-beep! KA CHAK!*
Yunyi: Nice one, can make it your profile pic at Facebook!
*Like I'll ever do that.... I must have been crazy. Anyway, just for fun! :D