High School Students Utter Disappointment about iPad

Everybody's anticipated the new Apple Tablet called iPad that has just been launched 24 hours ago. But immediately after its launching, all the blogs and websites were full of criticism towards the gadget.

Even us, high school students who were supposedly 'spend our school time by learning and doing our school stuff' were trying to keep up with the news about the tablet. To me, the opportunity came when I was in Business class. While the teacher was talking, I browsed the Apple.com and go through the gadget's specs. IT WAS DISAPPOINTING.

Then, during TOK class, I opened my Twitter account and my friend, Michelle, tweeted "for once, i'm ashamed to be a Mac user". I was too. Then jokes began to circulate around the school, like, "iPad! Next time it will come with wings!" and such. Poor Steve Jobs.

A Weird (Day)Dream

After I got home from school today, I was feeling incredibly exhausted although we did nothing in school today. Actually, we had a LOT of free periods today, I don't know why.

Anyway, I was exhausted and as soon as I got into my room, reached the AC remote and turned on the AC, I fell on my bed and started..dreaming.

FYI, the 'driver' in this story is not my personal driver. He's my anter jemput driver and often referred to as Kepala Suku, a nickname that describes his appearance so perfectly and is invented by my friend Cassandra.

I was in the school lobby, approaching my beloved little green car, ready to go home. Suddenly I heard a loud cry from behind me, "Hey, wait up, CC!"

That was from Mr P. And he was walking together with Mr Mike Weider who was still wearing his lopsided sports pants and unmatched SPH shirts. Before I had a chance to even ask, Mr Mike said to me, "Didn't he (the driver) tell you that from this day on we will be riding in your car everyday?"

I was like, "WHAT? WHY?"

Then Mr Mike said, "You young lady, has too many questions to ask. Now get into the car, coz we're blocking the traffic and we do not want that to happen in our school area, do we?"

Dumbfounded, I obeyed his command and got into the car. Mr P opened the door to the backseat and said, "There is NO way I'm gonna fit in there. My legs too long"

So Mr Mike hopped in the backseat and Mr P sat in front. The car started moving and I, as usual, plugged in my earphones to my iPhone and began listening to songs in my Top Rated. And, as usual too, I dozed off...

Until suddenly the car was hit from the back by a pickup, resulting in a WOW from Mr P and a What-in-the-world-was-that from Mr Mike. But before they had the chance to look back, the driver's door was opened and he was yanked away from the car by a person from the pickup. Then, I began to panic and shout.

Mr Mike, a quick thinker and not a panicky person, shouted "P! DRIVE THE CAR! YOU'RE SITTING IN FRONT, FOR PETE'S SAKE!"

Triggered by Mr Mike loud voice, Mr P got hold of the steering wheel while he struggles to get his leg to the other side of the car. He shouted, "I forgot how to drive a manual car!"

During his struggle, the car was practically zig-zagging along the road and we received angry honks from angry drivers around us...

Fortunately, Cassie called and saved me from this awkward, insane dream.

Stunning 2D (or 3D?) Artworks!

These are street artworks and I am stunned by the concept, the idea, the skill, everything! My personal favorite is the "Siete Punto Uno" by John Pugh. Since it is very realistic and I love the idea of a...secret historical site in the middle of the city. Anyway, check out the site and tell me what you think :)

http://ow.ly/1112N

Another Good News

WOOHOO I LOVE THIS DAY! After the acceptance message from La Salle, I got a phone call from my mother. She told me about the term report grades. The way she told me was so...annoying. She asked me to guess first before she told me the real grade. I was so desperate for Chemistry and I guessed that I'd have a 3 on my report. Turns out my teacher is still generous and decided to give me a 4.

Some teachers are way too generous, another are too stingy, another just LIED about my grade to me. I wonder why. IB teachers are weird. But it's okay as long as they give me enough total to get into a good university.

Recent Updates on University Acceptance thing.

So. I got an SMS. it says "Congratulations! You're accepted to the La Salle College Foundation Studies, and blah blah blah". I am glad, because my mom is happy and hope that will compensate for the potentially bad report.

This is a second offer from the university that I applied to. The first one was RMIT in Melbourne, but it requires minimal IB grade of 32. And it was for the architecture major.

La Salle said that if I'm applying for Level 1 Interior Design, I would have to...wait for another decision after the lecturers' meeting. And I might have to go through another interview process. The scholarship thing will be announced at around March and I'm hopeful for that :)

Anyway, I'm still waiting for the acceptance from UNSW. There I applied for the Interior Architecture program. About 2 days ago, I got an email that my application has been received and I just have to wait.

That's all for the university-thing update for now. Off to bully my cousin ;D

My Current Top Rated Playlist

I regularly updated the songs and playlists in my iTunes. Currently, my Top Rated playlist has 20 songs (woohoo even number!). And they are listed below:

• Two Is Better Than One - Boys Like Girls ft. Taylor Swift
• Down in New Orleans - Dr John (Princess and the Frog)
• Replay - IYAZ
• I'm In The Mood for Love - Jamiroquai & Jools Holland
• Whatcha Say - Jason Derulo
• Down - Jay Sean ft Lil Wayne
• Empire State of Mind - Jay Z ft Alicia Keys
• Your Love Is My Drug - Ke$ha
• Tik Tok - Ke$ha
• Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
• Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
• Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
• Fuck You - Lily Allen
• When We're Human - Michael Leon-Wooley, Bruno Campos and Anika Noni Rose
• Never Knew I Needed - Ne-Yo
• Cry Me Out - Pixie Lott
• What Hurts The Most - Rascal Flatts
• The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script
• Jump Then Fall - Taylor Swift
• Hey, Soul Sister - Train

As you can see, it's quite random. 3 songs are soundtracks of the Princess and the Frog and 2 of them are Ke$ha's song ( I love her songs!). And they are not necessarily all new. My Top Rated is a compilation of songs I would want to listen to the most and some of them are stuck in my head for days.

Looking at this playlist, do you have any suggestion on what songs to download? ;)

LASALLE Interview

I had my La Salle Interview today. Had to fit 13 artworks in a sedan, which is already filled with several boxes of house tiles and 4 adults. I got stuck in a traffic and almost came late because of that.

The interview is in a group of about 12 people. I chose the 12.20 slot and quite surprisingly the applicants were all girls in that slot. I presented the wayang-marionette artwork which can be seen below:

This is the unpolished, unframed version of it. But, this is the only picture of it that I already have in my computer. Other artworks include the series of shoe paintings, installation about Oniomania (shopaholic problem), some sketches on A3 paper, other paintings and drawings, lino prints of Venetian masks and a video art about plastic surgery.

During the 'art discussion' session, I also managed to 'challenge' others' opinions. Basically, I defended my viewpoint that artworks can be morally wrong and still called as art (well, there was this girl that said "i think art MUST be used for positive purposes) and that anything that has a concept or idea behind it can be called as art too. In this case, I took Marcel Duchamp's urinal artwork as an example :)

God, I'm thankful I paid attention to Miss Christine in TOK Arts.

During the Q & A session, I did a rather stupid thing. I stupidly thought that one of the lecturer was a fresh graduate. And when he declared himself as a lecturer, I was like, "Really? I thought you're a fresh graduate!" Hope he doesn't remember me as a girl-who-questioned-his-authority then.

I am so GRATEFUL that I chose to be in the 12.20 slot. In the next session after me, there was this Korean girl that has like, 20 gigantic artwork, each one with texture and mesmerizing color choice that makes you literally stared at her artworks. I would have had an extreme mental breakdown if I was in a room with her.

She made a really big scenery painting by sticking colorful tiny circle papers from paper puncher. Which was REALLY stunning. Amazing patience.

Another one is from tiny origami paper boats, clustered tight together and sticked on a BIG canvas. And then she painted those with acrylic paint and make them look like reptile's skin texture. More like a dragon's skin, because it was dominated with sapphire blue color.

Anyway, today I am quite refreshed and inspired by looking at others artwork and got plenty ideas for my next artworks :D

The IB thing.

Since in my first post I've already mentioned about the IB, I might as well tell what subjects I am taking. You might see this list as a weird combination of subjects, but, oh well. Here it goes:

• Maths SL
• Bahasa Indonesia A1 SL
• English A2 HL
• Business HL
• Chemistry HL
• Visual Arts HL

SL stands for Standard Level and HL stands for Higher Level. Yes, I am taking 4 HL instead of 3. Hmm.

Am I a very clever, always-above-the-average kind of person? No.

Then why did I take 4 HLs and make my life more difficult? Honestly, I've been asking myself the same question.

Why I made a blog.

I was NEVER interested in making a blog. I had that thought in mind until I joined Twitter. Since it's called microblogging, the posts are obviously limited (to keep the 'micro' word alive!)

Then, sometimes, well, lots of times, I feel like 140 characters are just NOT enough for me.

What I write here is literally what is going on inside my head. Be prepared to enter the COLORFUL WORLD OF CAROLINA! ;D

intro intro, here we go.

Hi all!

Yes, that is the best sentence to declare my existence in the blogging world. I tried not to sound too generic, but it's past midnight, so pardon my slow-functioning brain. Can't think of anything creative and catchy.

So. Name's Carolina. Words to describe me, according to myself, are creative, easygoing, cheerful and can be quirky at times. Anyway, I'm never good with introductions. I will try to post regularly about every little thing that happened. If I didn't post... well, assume that nothing interesting is happening in my life. Or maybe I'm just too busy with my IB life.

Oh yes. I'm an IB student. Grade 12. IB is short for International Baccalaureate. It's some kind of an educational curriculum and I think its main purpose is to make students life difficult.

There. I said that.

Gah. Why am I writing about IB in my very first post? See. I can easily confuse myself.

I guess that is enough for intro.