Just a little disappointed :3

I kind of expected it so I guess I am not feeling as depressed as I should. I got into the top 20% of the SYPA competition but received a score of 11 out of 25 from the judges according to some person on DA. That is like an average of 2 points per judge T_T
Then again, the competition this year was really strong so I guess I will settle for the top 20% and submit better images 2 years from now<3

So it looks like today will be my last day sitting in a cold room without food for a Sunday 8D
Although I can sort of predict that I will probably be under the sun without food from next Sunday on(:
I have half a mind to use my awesome negotiation skills to save the sleeping Dana from her life of fugly-ness doom. In fact, I just finished tearing out replacing the fantastically dreadful purple wig on her.
God bless my soul and wish me good luck (:

Ah wells. I should get back to sorting out the 3 backlog-ed shoot I have. YESSU I only have THREE SHOOTS to sort out!!!! I can't believe I am actually left with only three!!! Sorting and clearing is always a nightmare for me but right now, my calculated work flow efficiency improved by over 83 percent! Imagine those days where I was using Adobe bridge with Picasa and dying over the inconsistencies of all the images. Sorting in Jpec while editing the RAWs, I would spent over 4 hours on one folder and I am talking about less than a 100 images! I was so slow that it should be made illegal to be this slow>.>
So, thank you Phrase One!

Right now, I am shooting purely in RAW and I edit and process in the Capture One LE. Thank you Phrase One! Next, resize and retouch if necessary in photoshop and slide show in Picasa 8D Thats it!
I no longer have to view the Jpecs from Picasa, edit the RAWs in Bridge, retouch and resize in photoshop, wait for the programme to hang while process my RAWs, manually synchronise any deletion of Jpecs and RAWs, select the image I want and slide show in Picasa. Thank you Phrase One!

Alrights! Tsu just came to visit me and killed 2 hours of my time 8D So I have another 4 more hours to go>.>

Since a few of you guys are wondering why am I going through the trouble of locking my blog and or shifting it to wordpress so I thought that I would explain it on a whole rather than typing emails after emails on the same topic>.<

Firstly, traffic for my blog has increased by quite a bit for access points in Singapore. yessu I do keep track
So, to prevent more stalkers unknown people who claims they know and 'like' me, I decided that locking it up might keep those weirdos away. Here comes the ranting part 8D
 
I am especially annoyed with a particular guy who has been bugging me to model for him. I just snapped so let me be really mean and make this clear for that particular person.
I AM NOT INTERESTED. Unless you are Zhang Jing Na/ Mark Cleghorn or some other awesome stylist/ photographer, you can forget about having a shoot with me as your model. I just lost my patience in dealing with your conversations so please get the hint that I am not interested. It is not funny looking at the flashing screen with your name and a starting note that goes haro miss rika. Rika does not exist anymore so I am fed up with you calling me that. Please stop asking if you can show me something because the last thing I want to do is to click a link that goes to a picture with my face photoshoped onto some body. It is not funny. I know who you are Charles Wong. So please stop whatever plans you have in your head whereby I am in the picture. Just get some other models to model for you and no I am not angry with you. I am just really annoyed. Checkmate.
 
Secondly, I am pretty worried about the images which I post up here. Although I reduced the file size and dpi, it is still a fact that you could just right click it, save it as an image and photoshop my watermark away...
 
Thirdly, sometimes when I have too much thoughts in my head, the things that I blog about starts to get personal so I have to really consider the stuff that I type which gives me extra things to think about>.> It also restricts the stuff which I can discuss as I have no idea who my audience are.
 

 
 
The good news is that I gave it some thought. Under pressure from Noru 3 years back, he forced asked me to start a blog which documents the happy things that are going on in my life. Looking back, I had less than 2 post per month when I started>.> Blogging has been a really good source for me to reflect on the happy things in my life amongst the not so happy things and I really enjoy it.
It helps to sort out thoughts, clears my mind and its a source for me to dump my images online.
So the verdict is that I will not lock my blog nor move it to wordpress(: I had this blog for over 3 years now making this my 278th post and throughout the years, many of my friend's blog went missing or they stopped blogging completely. But I kept going and I write what I want and answer to no one but the one who gave me my name so why should I be afraid? If I have the guts to post something online, why bother hiding it.
myperfectbutterfly.blogspot.com is here to stay(: Although I have half a mind of changing the URL to something like myalice.com but this is Jamie's Diary so I guess I should not add my name inside and devote it completely to Jamie(:

But part of this blog should go out to you guys who never fail to send me mails of encouragement so that I am able to move on. Yessu! I promise to do a proper post soon so in the meantime, take care!!!!
 

Picture credit to Kel<333

I miss my long long hair T___T

 

Tag replies:

 

Chanel: yessu!!! 'So beautiful!'

 

FanofAlice: I had a 'date' with one of my photo lecturer<3