Thursday, September 2, 2010

Day was bad at first, then turned AWESOME

After a week of endless work, I discovered VRay refused to render my perspectives. And here I thought I would actually finish early for once. Went over to Lyd's place for help, still nothing. Spent 3 sleepless nights editing every setting, and still nothing! So I just used the images as they were (very fake looking), and tried to photoshop some 'lights' in to make it look more realistic. Didn't do a good job, I'll admit. Oh, and then I got conned printing the boards near my place. The woman charged me double of what I usually pay for in Cheras, and the worse thing is I can't say anything because I was desperate. After that, I went to college feeling so dead, with low expectations on the outcome of my final presentation.

I was so so wrong, its almost still unbelievable.
I think I might be the only person to wrap up my presentation in less than 3 minutes (we all get 5 minutes).
I only managed to say about 2 sentences worth of my concept, before I was interrupted and both the lecturers start a conversation about me, in front of me.
Ms Ida said "Actually, we know you can speak very well, I've been listening to you all this while, and I don't need to hear it now, so I'll just -" (This does not sound like a compliment -.-) And here I start thinking "Uh-oh.." (You know things are bad when they don't let you continue)
Then Ms Sii interrupted and said "Oh, then we'll let her speak for 5 whole minutes then -" (And here I go, 'thank you!!")
Ms Ida interrupts again with "Oh, if we let her, I'm sure she can go on until tomorrow.."
And here I thought "Oh crap, she's really not letting me go on, its really that bad?"
And then she continued;
"What you did is simple and direct. Its straight to the point and you did a brilliant job and I love it."
"I really loved what you did, and I think you managed to capture the essence of your client with your design."
"Frankly speaking, you don't even need to come next Monday because there's nothing to change in your design."
I don't think I was the only one who was shocked. I'm pretty sure Ms Sii just stared at her for a while too.
It was all I could do not to throw my arms around her in gratitude.
Of course, there were also comments on my work ethics. Again from Ms Ida.
"The thing I notice is that you love doing last minute work, but in the end, you still manage to work out something good, and that is a huge risk. Its a gamble, and I have to say you are really really lucky."

I'm not even sure if that's a compliment. The 'lucky' bit.
The thing is, I don't do last minute work. Honestly. I usually start out early, but I just have a really indecisive attitude. I can never decide on what I want to do, and I keep over-thinking everything, feeling like I should probably do something more than what I already have. And then, when the deadline looms ahead, I panic and only then do I finally settle on what I really want. If I could only be more decisive.
Went home feeling slightly awesome because I've never gotten comments like this before.
Your work gets picked on (and I say this in a good way) only when you're either the best, or the worst.
I'm definitely not the former, but usually I scrape through with enough points to not be the latter.
That leaves me with the average bunch.

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