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This is worse than last year! I've not got 35 minutes before midnight and the end of 2011! Well I suppose one is allowed to reflect on 2011 once it is completely over, that does make sense.
Never the less, I shall begin this report.
2011 was definitely a big year for me, but probably not any bigger than some other years, haha. The biggest thing to happen would be uni I suppose, I finished uni this year and progressed a little in life- by that I mean I now have a job and got my green Ps! I am growing up... I suppose.
I'm not entirely sure I have enough details to go through the year month by month, I might actually leave that for later because over the last couple of weeks I have been thinking of my end of year report and there is one thing that I want to do more than ever this year and that is the thank you's.
To my twitter list (TL)... I don't even now when it all began. I got twitter just before I went to Japan for Burimyu almost two years ago but I only became active on it later in the year. Once I found my cosplay/convention friends on twitter and once I narrowed down the Inazuma fans... twitter just became some sort of life support for me. It's quite ridiculous but ignoring the roots, I know my life has changed because of twitter and the friends I speak to every day through the social network site. It is mostly my "Inazuma bros" as we call ourselves, hahaha! We do little things like say good morning and good night to each other every day. We tweet useless things like "Going out now" and others will respond with a take care or have a nice day. It was these small acts of kindness and friendship that I think bound me to these people. I don't really know what it is, but these days I am ready to reveal some of my weakest moments to the people on twitter because whenever I show that something is wrong, they jump to my side and not only offer comfort but go out of their way to offer me words of advice. There aren't enough words for me to exclaim how grateful I am to them... I just don't know... I really cannot imagine how I would have made it through a lot of my troubles, either real problems or trivial angst, without them. Every good morning, every good night, every hello and see you later, makes my day.
James, Bec, R'Shelle and the Leisure Bandits ... thank you for trusting me. Thank you for trusting a bunch of students and giving us the opportunity to work with all of you.
My JMC'ers, thank you. Thank you for being at my side as we all ran that final leg. Thank you for trusting me with your projects and thank you for encouraging me to do my best and work my hardest.
To the A and B to my ABC, thank you to you both. I've dreamed of having such a solid friendship that you'd think someone had written us for a sitcom. No one knows this, or no one knew until now, that ever since high school I would day dream of someone special coming to pick me up from school or later on, uni. The dream was often a "boyfriend" in some corny, 5-year-old-Princess-imagination, sort of scenario. I held onto this dream for years, literally years, and one day the two of you appeared at the door of my uni and I realised the dream had been made a reality. It's totally insignificant, but it was special to me. It was November 7 by the way, because then we went to 7-11 for 7-11 day. I'm not entirely sure how our little trio came to be, but it's definitely one of the things I am most thankful for this year.
Doing my month by month slowly! Refresh in 24 hours xD
January:
My first act of the new year, Jan 1st 2011, was book a trip for myself, Alice and Ben to Queensland to catch Wicked in Brisbane. I found out this month that James was now too busy to do the video we had hoped for, so it wasn't the best start to my year.
But not long after, it was off to Japan and Hong Kong. This time I had a plan! I had actually spent weeks planning the trip so that we could make the most out of the trip. It was an amazing trip, to say the least! I saw the Inazuma Eleven movie, had Bleach desserts in Ikebukurou and went to Disneyland for the first time in Hong Kong!
February:
The trip to Japan/Hong Kong overlapped into Febuary and the trip again was great. It was sad to leave but at the same time, Hong Kong's pollution was killing me.
So I was back in Sydney for less than a week and it was off to Brisbane with Ben and Alice! This was my second trip off somewhere, but first trip with friends like this and wow it was amazing! Staying with just my two best friends, the three of us just hanging out and living on our own for about 4 days, it was a great trip and something I'd love to do again.
February was also of course James' EP launch which meant I still got to work with him a little bit. Not as much as I had dreamed two months prior, but never the less it was something. More than i could have asked for when I first met him or first saw Wicked. This was definitely something I had been looking forward to all year so to think it really happened, despite things, was lovely. I remember the watching the tape back the following morning and crying a little because I honestly could not believe it had happened.
March:
March as a month was quieter than the previous two, I started my final year of study at JMC and I think that was about it to be honest. I was listening to James' music again, I tried using it as inspiration to draw. I remember between the day I found out we weren't doing the video anymore and seeing Wicked in Feb, I could hardly listen to his music. I reacted to it like a bad break up, I'm not proud |D
Oh right, I did the shoot for the Leisure Bandits this month, a band we had met (well we met their manager) a James' EP launch and had asked us to do a music video for them. This was definitely something that was very exciting for us but also very initimidating because we were sort of hoping for a very cash in hand sort of deal, but this had to be professional and we really had no clue what to do. Never the less the shoot went well and I had fun with a 7D.
I cemented my idea for my major; a short documentary on cosplay. This of course, through months of work, would become In the Closet.
The only thing I really have a record of happening in March was meeting the Phelps twins 8D;;
April:
Eh... I don't have much on April...
Having a look at my calendar, all I see are due dates for assignments, hahaha! I went to a friend's birthday party and I think that was a big step in our friendship. It was an unforgettable night for me and it showed me how I can react to the same things very differently depending on the people that I am with. This was actually a big deal for me, because ... I don't know actually. I've never been particularly close with my cosplay friends and sometimes I was jealous of how close everyone else seemed, maybe because I only hung out with my high school friends outside of conventions while they hung out with each other- and of course, to put it simply, my high school friends just don't understand me the way my convention friends do, hahaha. To put it simply.
So to have had this chance to bond with my convention friends and really see more of them outside of costume, outside of convention air and what not, it was quite refreshing.
May:
My May calendar is almost empty but I'm sure things happened. Of course May shouts birthdays to some very important to me, including my best friend and my baby cousin. With my best friend's birthday, there was also X-Men First Class which I think was the best film for me to have seen in a while- since Toy Story 3 maybe.
I also did the Prince of Tennis shoot in May, one of my first outside-convention shoots to actually be a cosplayer! That indeed was very exciting for me and it was a lot of fun to see everyone and cos with everyone!
June:
I know for a fact that June was when everything was getting very busy and very crazy.
I got my first regular job in retail which was very exciting and also meant that one of my new years resolutions had been done. While I'm not a big fan of retail, clothing in particular, I was and still am, just thankful for having a job because I do understand how difficult it can be to be without one and how hard it is to get one!
I also began production for my documentary, In the Closet. We shot at Supanova and had to begin working on interviews and what not. This was exciting but definitely also very scary.
It was nearing the end of my semester which meant exams and assignments, I was still editing music videos, working and organising my shoots so it was a stressful month.
It must have been just before Supanova that I began watching Doctor Who.
July:
My calendar at this point is quite frightening and in a way it makes me wonder how I ever survived it. On average I was working 3 days a week and at uni 3 days a week. I also had SMASH to worry about for both shooting as well as selling my merch, not to mention cosplay! It might have been around this time that I had another little stress overload with nights filled with nothing but tears. I couldn't quite pinpoint why I was so upset but I'm pretty sure it was just because of how little rest I was getting.
July held a few events, lunches with old friends, the finale of Harry Potter, SMASH and another music video shoot. I was also running around getting my interviews shot.
It was a very busy month where there was very little time to breathe, I found I was always either at work or at JMC, locked up in the edit suite.
Looking at my calendar I realise that July was also a particular friend's birthday, where I met a certain boy that ... set off a small chain of events that was a first for me. For me to go to a party, meet a boy and actually develop a crush on him? And then for him to return the feelings- unheard of! There were weeks of joy and a bit of stress with this, because it was all so new to me I just had no idea how to react. I consider it one of the bigger things to have happened to me in 2011 because for the first time ever, I was almost... dating.
August:
August settled a little, thank goodness. But I was spending even more time in the edit suite now with 3 music videos to edit as well as my documentary which was almost done shooting. I was going on other shoots for classmates, working and seeing Jesse whenever I found time- which wasn't very often. He ended up asking me out and we went on a couple of dates before deciding that it was better for us to be friends. I never the less am thankful for the experience and happy to have met him.
It was mostly work and edit suite during this time, I'm sure, because I had a lot to edit and it wasn't moving very fast.
September:
Come September, it was still work and editing, having finally finished shooting. Animania was this month which meant cosplay stresses but oh was it worth it! Our Inazuma group was stunning and it was positively one of the best days of my life. I just had so much fun! It was my brother's first time cosplaying and I know he had a great time too. I am so grateful to my inazuma-bros for having made it happen. There was more shooting and less sleep, a 4 day shoot with 6am calls and 11pm finishes nearly killed me but with Animania very weekend, it was worth it- how I survived that week considering it was 7 days of extremely little sleep, I have no idea.
Of course I also turned 21 in September, I had a wonderful time with my very closest friends from different social circles. Everyone looked gorgeous and I am again so grateful to everyone that has made an impact on my life.
October:
By October my edit was coming together but I was still going on shoots. I spent countless hours in the edit suite still because I couldn't get much work done at home. I celebrated many birthdays with friends, got my green P's (another resolution!) and was quite settled in at work. There was still very little time for anything else between 3 days of work and 3 days of uni, with the remaining day of the week usually devoted to something like a shoot, a lunch or a party.
In October, my little cousin Daniel was also born.
November:
November was definitely a big month.
I finally finished my project, In the Closet and uni in general. It was all very surreal but I think it'll be even more so when I actually graduate in February 2012.
I took mum to see Jersey Boys and it was Wicked all over again. With Jersey Boys though, I walked out thinking "yeah that was pretty good I guess" and just listened to the soundtrack for a little while... before i realised the show had been absolutely amazing and that i just had to see it again. With uni finished, I was able to pick up some more shifts at work and finally had some time to just sleep in and be lazy.
December:
Early December was very Jersey Boys focused. I managed to meet the cast at stage door- heavens they were so friendly. I went 2-3 times and the second time I was already being treated like a friend, it was amazing. I went to a show where the lead Bobby Fox was performing and discussed a possible partnership, so to speak, in which we do some music videos for him. The possibility of this excited me so much and he seemed quite happy with the offer. Whether or not anything comes of this, I can't be sure, but it's fingers crossed!
I worked as a behind the scenes crew for a pilot that one of my lecturer's introduced me to- unpaid but the experience was interesting. The crew was made up of many of my classmates and a couple of other people.
By the end of the month I was just focusing on work. I began watching Sherlock... that started something too... No regrets.
The end of the year really came and went like any other day. With no holidays planned and really just working every other day of the week, my life is far less exciting at the moment.
I have good days and the occasional event to attend, I really do believe I am entering the real world in this sense. It's not going to be fun all the time and it'll be rather clock work most of the time. But I do have a good deal of time to myself now and I want to use it in a more productive matter in the new year because I am no longer studying.
Overall I had a good year. Nothing too emotionally traumatising happened and i had a lot of high points. I went to the theatre more this year and that is definitely a plus. I am now getting constant work and actually paying more things on my own- something long overdue.
I have become closer with the most important friends that I have and for that I am so grateful. I know there are so many people that would miss me if I were gone, so many people that would listen if I was in trouble and so many people that would smile to see me smile. A lot of the time I think I take these people for granted but when I just stop for a moment and think, I know that I am loved.
I think there were a lot of milestones for me in 2011.
I ventured for the first time into the world of flirting, I began working my way into the industry, doing projects outside of my studies and finally getting a job that could provide a steady of income. Things became so routine by the end of the year... I think I'm a little lost at the moment. I'm taking things slow but hopefully soon I will be able to walk forward with a little more direction. I'm feeling very lazy right now but I hope to pick myself up off my butt soon.
Of course now I have to compare my year to what I wrote this time last year;
(Italics are the 2010 post with bold being 2011 thoughts)
What I'm looking forward to in 2011;
A trip overseas with my family which will mean seeing Japan and Hong Kong again.
This was indeed a great trip that saw many adventures and many fun times. I believe my family and I were more considerate of each other and did our best to make sure everyone was happy at the end of the day. Also; DISNEYLAND.
Hopefully seeing Wicked again if my friends and I book our trip to Brisbane.
Working with one of the leads from Wicked; James Smith.
The Brisbane trip did indeed feel like a step forward, a step forward for my relationship with two very special people in my life. It was the start of something beautiful, let's say. Wicked exceeded my expectations and a great night was had by all.
While things didn't go exactly as planned, I am very happy to have worked with James, even a little. It was a wonderful experience both professionally and personally for me and my own selfish reasons.
Completing my 3rd and final year of uni and working with my classmates again.
We actually merged classes this year, the two DTV classes came together to be one class and I discovered that there were others from the other class that I just got along with much better. Not to say I do not care about my group 1 friends, the ones that got me to 3rd year in the first place, but there were definitely parts of me that I could expose to group 2 that group 1 didn't understand (i.e. fangirling).
I am very happy to have become closer friends with my JMC classmates and despite what I have been thinking the last 3 years, I believe I will miss working with them.
I'm super nervous about it, but I'm also excited about turning 21. I want to have a nice, formal dinner/partyish thing with friends.. but I don't know what's going to happen there. I have lots of time.
I probably didn't take into consideration how little time I would actually have between work and uni etc, but I did have an intimate dinner with close friends for my 21st, just as I imagined I would. It was a wonderful night.
I don't have any long term plans for 2011, it's all about the early months just like it was with 2010, so who knows what's going to happen. I do have some resolutions though.
My resolutions;
Get my green P plates.
Do well in my final year/work hard on my project(s) with James
Find a new job, preferably a more stable one that ones that end in about 6 weeks due to promotions/seasonal stuff.
Check, check and check! I am extremely pleased that I completed all my resolutions! I was able to pass my greens, I am proud of my final project and the video I did for James, and I am now working in retail.
I suppose now I have to say what I hope for in 2012... this is rather nerve wrecking because I feel like I'm putting pressure on myself. But at the same time I want to set goals and I want to achieve certain things this year! I have a lot of resolutions that I kind of don't want to put down because it seems like I'll be cementing them and I'm not entirely sure they will happen.
Resolutions for 2012:
-Get an industry job // It doesn't have to be anything major, but by this time next year, I don't want to be in retail anymore. I want to be working in the industry. That being said, I will be happy to be working two jobs where I am still in retail but also doing regular entertainment industry related work.
Ideally this will be doing something at a television station, even an internship- so long as it's closer to the industry that being a casual in clothing store. Even if it means I'm an usher a theatre!
-Learn guitar // I'm very uncertain about this one. It's something I feel is on my bucket list but I'm scared to learn i suppose, to start off at the bottom with no prior knowledge, it's frightening. I have always wanted to learn an instrument and I think my laziness is the only thing standing in the way.
-Try a new series/movie once a month // One of my most despised personality traits of myself is how close minded I am. My likes are limited and I am very often not open to trying something new. That being said, there are certain things I am still highly uncomfortable with and that means that I still won't pay to sit through a horror/suspense/thriller film. I mean like try a few episodes of an anime or TV series, or maybe go see a movie that I probably wouldn't have gone to see on my own but don't think I'll despise either. I did okay this year, trying a few new short anime series and what not, I want to venture out more.
Do at least 5 video projects // These projects don't have to be professional, they can be little films I do as experiments, music videos I do for actors or even starting a vlog. The only reason I want this project to go unfulfilled is if one project is big enough to take a large amount of time and leaves no time for other projects, of if I get an industry job. Really, this resolution is to keep me doing videos while not in the industry. This and the first resolution are sort of safety nets for each other.
One CG a month // Considering I use to CG like 3 pics a week, I don't think this is hard. I miss drawing and I'm very annoyed at how little I have improved the last 12 months. I want to keep practising and keep improving.
There are a lot of things to look forward to in 2012. I already have 4 musicals that I plan on seeing (Annie, Addams Family, An Officer and A Gentleman, Legally Blonde) and other events such as James' album tour and the Doctor Who Symphony in Melbourne. I doubt I will be going overseas this year, but I am working hard to save money for things like new camera equipment.
In 2012 I want to become a better person, I want to work harder and be more mature. I want to be less lazy and more creative. My dream since I was young, was to publish a book. I've had my name published before so it won't be some deep regret if it doesn't happen. But never the less, I'd like to publish something like a short novel. Though I should update this scream to write a screenplay that gets filmed, hahaha!
A dream at the moment is to have my name appear on some television credits- I saw a classmate's name appear in some credits on Channel 7 recently and want to be able to have that happen to me too! I will work hard!
I can't say these are all dreams for 2012, but I certainly hope 2012 brings me closer to these dreams.
OKAY, OKAY.
So for 2012, I want to work hard in all my creative fields, it's so much harder not being able to just say "pass all my subjects this year"- which is a first in 16 of my 21 years of life! I guess... I want to be able to adapt to the real world more than anything, I want to begin growing into an adult- though many say 21 is the age where I should be partying... well I want to do that too, just not a lot.
It's been another amazing year for me, 2011. I have a lot to be thankful and not a lot of regrets or bad memories. I'm very nervous about 2012, I feel like a new door has opened for and I want to say that I have a lot of plans for next year but I think i'll just have to take it as it comes because honestly, I really don't know where I'm going just yet.
I'm the kind of person that looks forward to the future because I know there is still so much for me to do, but at the same time, if the world were to end tomorrow, I know that i've experienced so much happiness already, I'd go without regret.
Never the less, I shall begin this report.
2011 was definitely a big year for me, but probably not any bigger than some other years, haha. The biggest thing to happen would be uni I suppose, I finished uni this year and progressed a little in life- by that I mean I now have a job and got my green Ps! I am growing up... I suppose.
I'm not entirely sure I have enough details to go through the year month by month, I might actually leave that for later because over the last couple of weeks I have been thinking of my end of year report and there is one thing that I want to do more than ever this year and that is the thank you's.
To my twitter list (TL)... I don't even now when it all began. I got twitter just before I went to Japan for Burimyu almost two years ago but I only became active on it later in the year. Once I found my cosplay/convention friends on twitter and once I narrowed down the Inazuma fans... twitter just became some sort of life support for me. It's quite ridiculous but ignoring the roots, I know my life has changed because of twitter and the friends I speak to every day through the social network site. It is mostly my "Inazuma bros" as we call ourselves, hahaha! We do little things like say good morning and good night to each other every day. We tweet useless things like "Going out now" and others will respond with a take care or have a nice day. It was these small acts of kindness and friendship that I think bound me to these people. I don't really know what it is, but these days I am ready to reveal some of my weakest moments to the people on twitter because whenever I show that something is wrong, they jump to my side and not only offer comfort but go out of their way to offer me words of advice. There aren't enough words for me to exclaim how grateful I am to them... I just don't know... I really cannot imagine how I would have made it through a lot of my troubles, either real problems or trivial angst, without them. Every good morning, every good night, every hello and see you later, makes my day.
James, Bec, R'Shelle and the Leisure Bandits ... thank you for trusting me. Thank you for trusting a bunch of students and giving us the opportunity to work with all of you.
My JMC'ers, thank you. Thank you for being at my side as we all ran that final leg. Thank you for trusting me with your projects and thank you for encouraging me to do my best and work my hardest.
To the A and B to my ABC, thank you to you both. I've dreamed of having such a solid friendship that you'd think someone had written us for a sitcom. No one knows this, or no one knew until now, that ever since high school I would day dream of someone special coming to pick me up from school or later on, uni. The dream was often a "boyfriend" in some corny, 5-year-old-Princess-imagination, sort of scenario. I held onto this dream for years, literally years, and one day the two of you appeared at the door of my uni and I realised the dream had been made a reality. It's totally insignificant, but it was special to me. It was November 7 by the way, because then we went to 7-11 for 7-11 day. I'm not entirely sure how our little trio came to be, but it's definitely one of the things I am most thankful for this year.
Doing my month by month slowly! Refresh in 24 hours xD
January:
My first act of the new year, Jan 1st 2011, was book a trip for myself, Alice and Ben to Queensland to catch Wicked in Brisbane. I found out this month that James was now too busy to do the video we had hoped for, so it wasn't the best start to my year.
But not long after, it was off to Japan and Hong Kong. This time I had a plan! I had actually spent weeks planning the trip so that we could make the most out of the trip. It was an amazing trip, to say the least! I saw the Inazuma Eleven movie, had Bleach desserts in Ikebukurou and went to Disneyland for the first time in Hong Kong!
February:
The trip to Japan/Hong Kong overlapped into Febuary and the trip again was great. It was sad to leave but at the same time, Hong Kong's pollution was killing me.
So I was back in Sydney for less than a week and it was off to Brisbane with Ben and Alice! This was my second trip off somewhere, but first trip with friends like this and wow it was amazing! Staying with just my two best friends, the three of us just hanging out and living on our own for about 4 days, it was a great trip and something I'd love to do again.
February was also of course James' EP launch which meant I still got to work with him a little bit. Not as much as I had dreamed two months prior, but never the less it was something. More than i could have asked for when I first met him or first saw Wicked. This was definitely something I had been looking forward to all year so to think it really happened, despite things, was lovely. I remember the watching the tape back the following morning and crying a little because I honestly could not believe it had happened.
March:
March as a month was quieter than the previous two, I started my final year of study at JMC and I think that was about it to be honest. I was listening to James' music again, I tried using it as inspiration to draw. I remember between the day I found out we weren't doing the video anymore and seeing Wicked in Feb, I could hardly listen to his music. I reacted to it like a bad break up, I'm not proud |D
Oh right, I did the shoot for the Leisure Bandits this month, a band we had met (well we met their manager) a James' EP launch and had asked us to do a music video for them. This was definitely something that was very exciting for us but also very initimidating because we were sort of hoping for a very cash in hand sort of deal, but this had to be professional and we really had no clue what to do. Never the less the shoot went well and I had fun with a 7D.
I cemented my idea for my major; a short documentary on cosplay. This of course, through months of work, would become In the Closet.
The only thing I really have a record of happening in March was meeting the Phelps twins 8D;;
April:
Eh... I don't have much on April...
Having a look at my calendar, all I see are due dates for assignments, hahaha! I went to a friend's birthday party and I think that was a big step in our friendship. It was an unforgettable night for me and it showed me how I can react to the same things very differently depending on the people that I am with. This was actually a big deal for me, because ... I don't know actually. I've never been particularly close with my cosplay friends and sometimes I was jealous of how close everyone else seemed, maybe because I only hung out with my high school friends outside of conventions while they hung out with each other- and of course, to put it simply, my high school friends just don't understand me the way my convention friends do, hahaha. To put it simply.
So to have had this chance to bond with my convention friends and really see more of them outside of costume, outside of convention air and what not, it was quite refreshing.
May:
My May calendar is almost empty but I'm sure things happened. Of course May shouts birthdays to some very important to me, including my best friend and my baby cousin. With my best friend's birthday, there was also X-Men First Class which I think was the best film for me to have seen in a while- since Toy Story 3 maybe.
I also did the Prince of Tennis shoot in May, one of my first outside-convention shoots to actually be a cosplayer! That indeed was very exciting for me and it was a lot of fun to see everyone and cos with everyone!
June:
I know for a fact that June was when everything was getting very busy and very crazy.
I got my first regular job in retail which was very exciting and also meant that one of my new years resolutions had been done. While I'm not a big fan of retail, clothing in particular, I was and still am, just thankful for having a job because I do understand how difficult it can be to be without one and how hard it is to get one!
I also began production for my documentary, In the Closet. We shot at Supanova and had to begin working on interviews and what not. This was exciting but definitely also very scary.
It was nearing the end of my semester which meant exams and assignments, I was still editing music videos, working and organising my shoots so it was a stressful month.
It must have been just before Supanova that I began watching Doctor Who.
July:
My calendar at this point is quite frightening and in a way it makes me wonder how I ever survived it. On average I was working 3 days a week and at uni 3 days a week. I also had SMASH to worry about for both shooting as well as selling my merch, not to mention cosplay! It might have been around this time that I had another little stress overload with nights filled with nothing but tears. I couldn't quite pinpoint why I was so upset but I'm pretty sure it was just because of how little rest I was getting.
July held a few events, lunches with old friends, the finale of Harry Potter, SMASH and another music video shoot. I was also running around getting my interviews shot.
It was a very busy month where there was very little time to breathe, I found I was always either at work or at JMC, locked up in the edit suite.
Looking at my calendar I realise that July was also a particular friend's birthday, where I met a certain boy that ... set off a small chain of events that was a first for me. For me to go to a party, meet a boy and actually develop a crush on him? And then for him to return the feelings- unheard of! There were weeks of joy and a bit of stress with this, because it was all so new to me I just had no idea how to react. I consider it one of the bigger things to have happened to me in 2011 because for the first time ever, I was almost... dating.
August:
August settled a little, thank goodness. But I was spending even more time in the edit suite now with 3 music videos to edit as well as my documentary which was almost done shooting. I was going on other shoots for classmates, working and seeing Jesse whenever I found time- which wasn't very often. He ended up asking me out and we went on a couple of dates before deciding that it was better for us to be friends. I never the less am thankful for the experience and happy to have met him.
It was mostly work and edit suite during this time, I'm sure, because I had a lot to edit and it wasn't moving very fast.
September:
Come September, it was still work and editing, having finally finished shooting. Animania was this month which meant cosplay stresses but oh was it worth it! Our Inazuma group was stunning and it was positively one of the best days of my life. I just had so much fun! It was my brother's first time cosplaying and I know he had a great time too. I am so grateful to my inazuma-bros for having made it happen. There was more shooting and less sleep, a 4 day shoot with 6am calls and 11pm finishes nearly killed me but with Animania very weekend, it was worth it- how I survived that week considering it was 7 days of extremely little sleep, I have no idea.
Of course I also turned 21 in September, I had a wonderful time with my very closest friends from different social circles. Everyone looked gorgeous and I am again so grateful to everyone that has made an impact on my life.
October:
By October my edit was coming together but I was still going on shoots. I spent countless hours in the edit suite still because I couldn't get much work done at home. I celebrated many birthdays with friends, got my green P's (another resolution!) and was quite settled in at work. There was still very little time for anything else between 3 days of work and 3 days of uni, with the remaining day of the week usually devoted to something like a shoot, a lunch or a party.
In October, my little cousin Daniel was also born.
November:
November was definitely a big month.
I finally finished my project, In the Closet and uni in general. It was all very surreal but I think it'll be even more so when I actually graduate in February 2012.
I took mum to see Jersey Boys and it was Wicked all over again. With Jersey Boys though, I walked out thinking "yeah that was pretty good I guess" and just listened to the soundtrack for a little while... before i realised the show had been absolutely amazing and that i just had to see it again. With uni finished, I was able to pick up some more shifts at work and finally had some time to just sleep in and be lazy.
December:
Early December was very Jersey Boys focused. I managed to meet the cast at stage door- heavens they were so friendly. I went 2-3 times and the second time I was already being treated like a friend, it was amazing. I went to a show where the lead Bobby Fox was performing and discussed a possible partnership, so to speak, in which we do some music videos for him. The possibility of this excited me so much and he seemed quite happy with the offer. Whether or not anything comes of this, I can't be sure, but it's fingers crossed!
I worked as a behind the scenes crew for a pilot that one of my lecturer's introduced me to- unpaid but the experience was interesting. The crew was made up of many of my classmates and a couple of other people.
By the end of the month I was just focusing on work. I began watching Sherlock... that started something too... No regrets.
The end of the year really came and went like any other day. With no holidays planned and really just working every other day of the week, my life is far less exciting at the moment.
I have good days and the occasional event to attend, I really do believe I am entering the real world in this sense. It's not going to be fun all the time and it'll be rather clock work most of the time. But I do have a good deal of time to myself now and I want to use it in a more productive matter in the new year because I am no longer studying.
Overall I had a good year. Nothing too emotionally traumatising happened and i had a lot of high points. I went to the theatre more this year and that is definitely a plus. I am now getting constant work and actually paying more things on my own- something long overdue.
I have become closer with the most important friends that I have and for that I am so grateful. I know there are so many people that would miss me if I were gone, so many people that would listen if I was in trouble and so many people that would smile to see me smile. A lot of the time I think I take these people for granted but when I just stop for a moment and think, I know that I am loved.
I think there were a lot of milestones for me in 2011.
I ventured for the first time into the world of flirting, I began working my way into the industry, doing projects outside of my studies and finally getting a job that could provide a steady of income. Things became so routine by the end of the year... I think I'm a little lost at the moment. I'm taking things slow but hopefully soon I will be able to walk forward with a little more direction. I'm feeling very lazy right now but I hope to pick myself up off my butt soon.
Of course now I have to compare my year to what I wrote this time last year;
(Italics are the 2010 post with bold being 2011 thoughts)
What I'm looking forward to in 2011;
A trip overseas with my family which will mean seeing Japan and Hong Kong again.
This was indeed a great trip that saw many adventures and many fun times. I believe my family and I were more considerate of each other and did our best to make sure everyone was happy at the end of the day. Also; DISNEYLAND.
Hopefully seeing Wicked again if my friends and I book our trip to Brisbane.
Working with one of the leads from Wicked; James Smith.
The Brisbane trip did indeed feel like a step forward, a step forward for my relationship with two very special people in my life. It was the start of something beautiful, let's say. Wicked exceeded my expectations and a great night was had by all.
While things didn't go exactly as planned, I am very happy to have worked with James, even a little. It was a wonderful experience both professionally and personally for me and my own selfish reasons.
Completing my 3rd and final year of uni and working with my classmates again.
We actually merged classes this year, the two DTV classes came together to be one class and I discovered that there were others from the other class that I just got along with much better. Not to say I do not care about my group 1 friends, the ones that got me to 3rd year in the first place, but there were definitely parts of me that I could expose to group 2 that group 1 didn't understand (i.e. fangirling).
I am very happy to have become closer friends with my JMC classmates and despite what I have been thinking the last 3 years, I believe I will miss working with them.
I'm super nervous about it, but I'm also excited about turning 21. I want to have a nice, formal dinner/partyish thing with friends.. but I don't know what's going to happen there. I have lots of time.
I probably didn't take into consideration how little time I would actually have between work and uni etc, but I did have an intimate dinner with close friends for my 21st, just as I imagined I would. It was a wonderful night.
I don't have any long term plans for 2011, it's all about the early months just like it was with 2010, so who knows what's going to happen. I do have some resolutions though.
My resolutions;
Get my green P plates.
Do well in my final year/work hard on my project(s) with James
Find a new job, preferably a more stable one that ones that end in about 6 weeks due to promotions/seasonal stuff.
Check, check and check! I am extremely pleased that I completed all my resolutions! I was able to pass my greens, I am proud of my final project and the video I did for James, and I am now working in retail.
I suppose now I have to say what I hope for in 2012... this is rather nerve wrecking because I feel like I'm putting pressure on myself. But at the same time I want to set goals and I want to achieve certain things this year! I have a lot of resolutions that I kind of don't want to put down because it seems like I'll be cementing them and I'm not entirely sure they will happen.
Resolutions for 2012:
-Get an industry job // It doesn't have to be anything major, but by this time next year, I don't want to be in retail anymore. I want to be working in the industry. That being said, I will be happy to be working two jobs where I am still in retail but also doing regular entertainment industry related work.
Ideally this will be doing something at a television station, even an internship- so long as it's closer to the industry that being a casual in clothing store. Even if it means I'm an usher a theatre!
-Learn guitar // I'm very uncertain about this one. It's something I feel is on my bucket list but I'm scared to learn i suppose, to start off at the bottom with no prior knowledge, it's frightening. I have always wanted to learn an instrument and I think my laziness is the only thing standing in the way.
-Try a new series/movie once a month // One of my most despised personality traits of myself is how close minded I am. My likes are limited and I am very often not open to trying something new. That being said, there are certain things I am still highly uncomfortable with and that means that I still won't pay to sit through a horror/suspense/thriller film. I mean like try a few episodes of an anime or TV series, or maybe go see a movie that I probably wouldn't have gone to see on my own but don't think I'll despise either. I did okay this year, trying a few new short anime series and what not, I want to venture out more.
Do at least 5 video projects // These projects don't have to be professional, they can be little films I do as experiments, music videos I do for actors or even starting a vlog. The only reason I want this project to go unfulfilled is if one project is big enough to take a large amount of time and leaves no time for other projects, of if I get an industry job. Really, this resolution is to keep me doing videos while not in the industry. This and the first resolution are sort of safety nets for each other.
One CG a month // Considering I use to CG like 3 pics a week, I don't think this is hard. I miss drawing and I'm very annoyed at how little I have improved the last 12 months. I want to keep practising and keep improving.
There are a lot of things to look forward to in 2012. I already have 4 musicals that I plan on seeing (Annie, Addams Family, An Officer and A Gentleman, Legally Blonde) and other events such as James' album tour and the Doctor Who Symphony in Melbourne. I doubt I will be going overseas this year, but I am working hard to save money for things like new camera equipment.
In 2012 I want to become a better person, I want to work harder and be more mature. I want to be less lazy and more creative. My dream since I was young, was to publish a book. I've had my name published before so it won't be some deep regret if it doesn't happen. But never the less, I'd like to publish something like a short novel. Though I should update this scream to write a screenplay that gets filmed, hahaha!
A dream at the moment is to have my name appear on some television credits- I saw a classmate's name appear in some credits on Channel 7 recently and want to be able to have that happen to me too! I will work hard!
I can't say these are all dreams for 2012, but I certainly hope 2012 brings me closer to these dreams.
OKAY, OKAY.
So for 2012, I want to work hard in all my creative fields, it's so much harder not being able to just say "pass all my subjects this year"- which is a first in 16 of my 21 years of life! I guess... I want to be able to adapt to the real world more than anything, I want to begin growing into an adult- though many say 21 is the age where I should be partying... well I want to do that too, just not a lot.
It's been another amazing year for me, 2011. I have a lot to be thankful and not a lot of regrets or bad memories. I'm very nervous about 2012, I feel like a new door has opened for and I want to say that I have a lot of plans for next year but I think i'll just have to take it as it comes because honestly, I really don't know where I'm going just yet.
I'm the kind of person that looks forward to the future because I know there is still so much for me to do, but at the same time, if the world were to end tomorrow, I know that i've experienced so much happiness already, I'd go without regret.