Ayob's way of saying things...

Hmm.

I had V.I. this morning, and the interesting thing about the whole thing was the feeling inside of me. It wasn't exactly a happy one.

I reached there on time, and I had to wait for my senior, Melissa, and apparently, she would be late, according to her peers. No problem, so I had to wander aimlesssly around the studio for about fifteen minutes, before she finally strolled in, and I had to call her twice before she finally came to.

As I couldn't do anything while she wasn't around, I had decided to pull out my concept drawings which were required of us for presentation to Ayob. My stool concepts were pretty much rendered in pastel and markers (remember something familiar guys?) and I thought they were ok.

Then Melissa came in, flipped out her pocket mirror to check her looks. Only when I stopped sketching and looked at her in the eye for five mintues then she realised what I was doing, and showed me her concepts. I almost choked with disgust. Man... she drew three kinds of japanese-influenced stools which were illustrated in colour pencils, and I thought they reminded me of those children's drawings, except that maybe the perspective was almost, barely there.

Anyhow, then Ayob called us to present our presentation, and he almost didn't even consider Meilissa's concepts, but went on to mine immediately. Gosh, I dunno how Lao Kui she would've felt, but I have to say this: It ain't gonna be just a little lao kui, maybe like a little too ashamed that her drawings couldn't make it.

And I'm not trying to say I'm the most brilliant person ever to hold a pen, marker or pencil, but seriously, anybody in my cohort could draw better than Melissa, actually not all, just exclude Zelda.

I'm serious, Zelda really can't draw for nuts, and that's saying something when you're in a course which requires drawing skills. Melissa has the perspective, just that maybe she needs to work on her lines and shading. Also, her ideas were almost pretty stereo-typed: japanese altar-kinda stuff.

Anyhow, I didn't want to put her down so easily, but that changed when Ayob finished talking, discussing our plan with us. As I sat down to work out more concepts, I would've thought Melissa would want to try and juice out more concepts and maybe gain more ground, but as I was busy sketching and rendering my drawings, she was busy slacking off, chatting and having a coffee break.

Righto, and when my classmates came over the chill, they realised what a great senior I have: one who can't really draw, is absoluetly vain, and really is a total slacker. They said this (I'm not lying):

'What a wonderful combo: enthusiastic, hard working junior, with a slacker senior.'

'Maybe that's why they were put together, then maybe something feasible can come out, or else it would be a total disaster'

Ok, enoguh bragging, but seriously, I take my course and projects seriously(pun intended). And I don't think it wasn't unfair of me to sya this to her sfter she had slacked off for twenty minutes:

'Melissa, would you like to work out some more concepts today? Maybe get some work done you know?'

And my classmate was howling with laughter. Imagine me, a junior saying that to a senior.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy