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| what happened you may ask?
LIFE happens
seems like life takes you off your feet and picks you up like a leaf and make you travel through the wind in a place where time just breezes away...
and yes I finally sat down and just wanted to break at everything.
one of my great friends/bRHOther TJ always told me when I first became active in the RHO to take everything in b/c everything will just zoom by you. I never really took that to heart until it actually did zoom by me. and here I am in the brink of graduating....to a new step of life. Yes it did zoom by me, but I've had the most amazing, memorable experiences I could ask for and I love it. I will cherish those memories forever. Thank You God.
Three years since my last entry? what have I've been doing you may ask? oh sooooo many many many things. I never really took the time to sit down and write b/c it never really entered my mind b/c there were so many things i was caught up with. But why now??? Wellll I kind of reached the critical point of being busy this past week with the SDSU theatre production of HAMLET:BLOOD IN THE BRAIN. Today is pretty much the last day of crazineesss b/c the opening show is tomorrow, but it kind of opened my eyes. and I just needed to breathe.
and here I am breathing....
Taking up the role as video/projection designer for this production ... is definitely an eye opener. it literally took up so much time and effort. That now it just makes me feel like I need to back off ...back off of a lot of what I'm doing and just take it slow. Im the past three years I did as many things as I could to further my career, skill, etc. People always think I'm "working" and always "working" ...yes sometime I am actually working and getting paid...the other times I'm actually just doing what I like to do. People don't really know all the things I'm doing...I do tell some people...but for the most part I don't really say anything about it...to be honest I don't really know why. I am not one to brag or show off. But i know, I should at least tell my friends, etc. what's going on in my life. and to that note...
let me give you a brief status of what's goin on in my life...
I'm in the brink of finishing my role as video/projection designer for Hamlet...watch it if you can. You'll like what I have done in the show. I'm at a stall with my animation project...which is an independent study ...but I will pick things up next week for sure. I'm also at a stall with my last film which is my friend's film called "Mickey and Sue" (I'm editing it). The film is very good and once it is finished I would like to show it to you. The biggest deadline I am going for now is the april 14th deadline for Pixar's internship application. I would like to finish my website portfolio a week before that and hopefully I'll make that deadline b/c I have so much to show and I'm hoping I will get the internship..that will just make my diploma so much more prized and deserved. if not...i will be fine with it b/c I'll just further my skill and somehow, some other way...i'll get to where I want. I think I'm also back at work soon at KPBS...yay....cuz i need money like no other...I'm broke as a joke with loans up the beee hind. and yes I'm still with my love and wonderful lady...miss april riego. we are actually planning on goin to disneyland this sat which I'm eggcited for b/c i need a brake with all this Hamlet stuff. I would also like to hang out with my boys...I miss em...havent seen em in a while. Another good thing also that I'm very proud of ...is that my drawing skills are exponentially growing like no other...I've seen my drawings improve so much in the past year and I would just like to say that. You might wanna see all the stuff I'm talking about and yes I have so many things to show all of you and I'm been bad at it but this website I'm making will show all of this. in due time....
that's basically in a short brief summary of where I am at in life...I graduate in less than 3 months...get ready for this...it's going to be a party....a pant's party.
Jhomar J. Josue
*signing off *
p.s. I would like to say R.I.P. Andy Lee....to a friend and a brhother. You'll truly be missed. Thanks for sharing the memories and experiences especially during pledging. I'll catch you later and then tape you while your drunk again ha...great times. peace out brho. till next time. | | |
| I AM STILL HERE... BiZZZRRR!!!! | | |
| So here will be the LONGEST entry i have written since A LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG LONG TIME Ago.
back to the early days of fall 2004 spring 2005 school year.
first i will talk about that summer in a brief session and then into the school year and about my life as i know it.
ok last summer was ok...i had good times with the friends...summer school was ok..same class same day...bald old guy i see errday...yehpp..as a result i got an A in Geology and a C in History which is so KSHDLFKHDFKFSKDFLSK BUULLLSHITTTTTT!!!!! yeh thats right i said it BULL SHIT ..because it is.... anyways moving on...
so i went to seaworld a lot which is great lots of sea aminals and sTUFF and the formality and the NYR dancing dancing..go kristen NYR DANCER ..uhm yeh and work a lot of it saving up for the allmighty POWERBOOK G4 yeyuhhh! which i got..and yeh the summer was very chill i got to spend a lot of time with my honey who i love so much and have a lil section for her later on if u plan to stick through this very LOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG entry.
so here comes the school year...tadaaa.....
lets start out with the ACADEMICS
ACADEMICS:
The whole reason why i am at this school called SDSU home of the Aztecs. ok so going into the year my GPA was slightly lower than the GPA required for my major. if u don't know my major is FILM AND TELEVISION which is impacted up the heezy. but yeah i went to the counselor which her name will remain ANONIMOUS because she is such a freakin akdjhfakjhdfakjdhfkd ..BARELY NO GUIDANCE at all...she tells me ito petition when i shouldn't have. and she is a theatre person (what the heck is a theatre person doing being a counselor for TFM students?!) yeh exaacctlyyyy. any ways....
so i decided to only take 12 units that semester to get my GPA up. the classes were ok..anthro...RWS200...History and TFM 121
Anthro:it was an ok class learned a lot..prof was good not boring and i listened and i READ! yeh thats right! i read each anthro book given to us yeyuh i was proud of myself because i rarely read novel sized books nowadays. but those books were good..some kinda boring but it was interesting overall.. result of that class = A
RWS 200: i crashed this class.. the prof was interesting he had a lot of stuff that got me thinking and it was a good class and he said you can redo papers as many times as u want until u get an A. so i kept the section. but later on it got kinda repetitive. and he was not on schedule as fas as papers and stuff. and i couldnt really get help in that class and then when it was time for finals..i wanted to redo papers so i can get an A but noo that guy took forever to return my papers. so i couldnt redo them as a result =B
History 110: the prof was this middleaged lady kinda old...but yeh she was boring and had this soft voice and her hair was crazzzyyyy ..it was curly and she kinda looked like a witch sometimes. but yeh it was easy ..all u have to do is extracredits and go to class. near the end of class we had to do a presentation and the people in my group was kool and our presentation ended up being the best..in my pooint of view..because we had a news theme going on..instead of just a regular boring presentation. result= A
TFM 121: AUDIO this class was BULLSHIT! yeh i said it again!..ok see..it was an added section so they have this guy who teaches TFM 321 (advanced audio)...but this guy barely teached the class nething..i was excited because this was the first hands on class...but the prof was wack he taught the class as if we knew what he was talking about when in reality all of us were like WTF?!?! talking about EMPS and watnot..and he didnt even know wat chapters we read overall at the end...geesh...final was so bad...it had these questions i had no clue about. the good thing that came out of that class is knowing some of the film students which was fun working with them. result =C+
so in the end my GPA went up a lil over the mark i was aiming at ...my counselor said it was in the low end but if u have a great samples of creative work you'll be fine..so then i petitioned the following semester..working hard making my portfolio..which i showed some of my friends and a lot of em said it was hella good. but then i fell short...i didnt get in ...it was a very glooomy week that week....sad and even more sad ...it was a crushing blow to my confdence ...no really...it makes me think how good i really am...people say that im good..yeh prolly to them because they havent seen anyone elses work...theres a lot more competitions and good film students out there...ppl just havent seen any of their work. yeah...thats how i felt that week. i got the results of why i didn't get in and its because my grades GPA and the grades i got in one of the pre-reqs..and all it said about the ssamples...is that it listed what i had and then it said "ok" which i dont know what it suppose to mean ...but neways...it turned my whole perspective in what i want to do in life...i wasn't as bummed as i could have been because i talked to my ate and she said some stuff that kinda helped my confidence and reminded me the nature of not giving up..one of the things she said was that "a lot of the greats have failed before making it big and reaching the top" aint she just the greatest ate....
because at that time i was shown another field on a career which is close to film..and the name is ARTS in MULTIMEDIA...i had a preview of what kind of stuff they do when my PSFA class went there and it caught my interest. so later on i talked to the counselor for that major and he really got me thinking about what i want to do i n life. two of the things he mentioned is that people who graduate with a degree in something dont end up doing something in that field...aint that a wack in the head?! but yeh any ways the other thing is he pointed out that the university makes u focus on the overall broad sense of a career and u later learn how to do a certain job a specific job like uhm a camera operator and you learn to be good at that...later on you will move up and thats when all the things youve learned in the university come in and will help u move on up. so he really knows what he is talking about. a kool guy. makes me think how small or so far i am to where i want to end up. crazy. but anyways he told me to declare this major just in case i dont get in the other one. so i took his advice so as of right now i am a double major. my plan will decide if i get in the TFM department or not. either way i will dod my best and stop being such a lazy ass. which i really am not this year. any ways lets keep going shall we...
SEMESTER #2: Spring semester
ok..due to problems with classes last fall..i really wanted to get my classes straight from the getgo? is that a word? ...
so here were the classes i ended up getting
for my MINOR: which is Media arts and technology
ART: 101
ART: 102
THEA: 107
PSFA: 320
for my major:
THEA 120
so yeah alll where basically for my minor...which i am almost done with: YEYUH!!
but lets talk about those classes shall we:
ART 101: i had this other section at first at the same time...but the prof sounded like an ASS on the e-mail he sent so i crashed another section and thank goodness i did cuz this class was a lot better. The prof . is a grad student named Jack. he was a mellow sounding dood. looked liked an emo artist tight pants tight shirt stuff like that. but he was good he showed us some of his work and it was sic. the class got a lot out of my skills out and improved how i see things. the class would critique my work and it was a really good thing for me and i learned a lot interacting with other students. and i also met a new friend well friends but this guy sean was the one i actually talked to a lot. funny guy. he is also a pre-film guy but moved to arts in multimedia he was the one that first told me about that major. any ways. the class was a good class overall i got = A-
ART 102: it was an ok class...really easy...i didnt learn as much as ART 101 but it was still a good class.. taught by a grad student named curtis. he was good . he had an exhibition later that spring and his work was really interesting. it was a fine art deal but his style of work was sic. easy class. got critiques too..but it wasnt as good.cuz he made ppl say stuff. but this girl named morgan was one of the students who i thought was a really good artist. she was in my art 101 class too. she always had really good critiques about ppl's work and mine too. her work was really good...you could tell she had experience with art in the past. overall grad = A
PSFA 320: a new class...mae for the new minor. taught by mrs. margaret larlham. most craziest old british lady i have ever met in my life. but she was a great teacher. not only was the class weird but it was sooo damn easy. no quizes..take home midterm..no final...lots of presentations...it was great. she made us do these random things like bring plastics and we made costumes out of the things we brought. she made us dance tribal dance? she made us make beats off the top of our head. bad things is she makes u buy this book THICK ASS BOOK which i never even read and this EXPENSIVE ASS BOOK which i never really used and couldve just borrowed. but overeall it was worth the = A!
THEA 120: boring lcture class about theatre but i listened. after the devastating blow to my major ...i vowed revenge so i listened to anderson (the prof) read the plays studied and learned a lot about theatre and so the result was A- YYEEAHAHHHH!!
THEA 107: a fun class we made lots of collages. tina which was the prof. was the art director for real world san diego aint that COOL. and she brought her friend in named MArk and he was a uhm art director for NYPD BLUE and an assistant producer for that 70s show! kool huh. but yeah the class was fun bc it was simple i knew a lot of that stuff talked about got to do a sound project with a group of guys in the class and we did DAWN of the Dead it was great. it was like behind the scenes of a movie..making the sounds..haha..it wasss TYTYYTYYTTTEE...we had a sex scene in there and we used a squirting lotion and a rain stick to make the scene...we got a B. but the final which was to make a model set of a play. LYSISTRATA was my choice we only had two choices. i picked the comedy and yeah i made mine a snow theme. and it looks sic come to my room and ill show you but the result of the class = A
overall I KICKED ASSS THIS SEMESTER YEAHHH!!!!!!!!!!
SECTION II (2004-2005 school year)
so it was my third semester with the BEST DAMN BRHOS i could ever have. the summer was chill...i didnt really get to see a lot of the brhos but the las vegas retreat was def good times. was pretty fun riding up with some of the brhos. full car in big bro j backleys car with david hiro and billie. it was fun. and the hotel was okay. played video games. stuck playing games and goin around vegas with the under 21's me, hiro, and justin sucks but we got the best out of it with the 299 or is it 399 steak and eggs. but yeh wwe did somewa of a philantrophy helping out a filipino politician campaign. that was hmm...HOT....and tiring. neways. moving on to the school year. fall semester was crazy in the beginning did a lot of things before rush week. no one ever really notices (well some do) how much work i put into this fraternity but it doesnt really bother me as much b/c i love this fraternity and the brhos that i'd produce and make and sweat for it to dominate. so at the time of rush i made the design for the shirts and flyers. my first time doing that kind of mass production but it looked good not the best but good. so the theme was "evolution" ...i had to make a rush video and i made a sic one for USFC info night and just piled up old stuff in our info night. and as the semester went by it went well. having those events. and a group of 9 pledges. good pledges and they be steppin up the nest semester. its kinda weird still having to be an active but im getting the hang out of it. i got my first lil bro. i know im not the best big bro at the time of his pledging. im not gonna make excuses for not getting as close as i shouldve got with him but hopefully he knows that i got his back and hopefully we get a tighter brotherhood between us. and my lil sis tara too...she's great...we gotta talk more yo! FALL SEMESTER = good...good times with the brhos..the active dinner was i think the best one yet. and the funniest one. crossed over a very good pledge class theta class. no matter all this battle between classes or whatever its all for fun and it just makes us stay on our toes with doing our shit cuz it makes us wanna be better. thats my point of view when about that. the formals for them was chill the slideshow was pretty good ...i think its as good as the last one. and uhm hmm..i didnt have a date b/c baby was at the PI which was ok..didnt pay and still got food. and the after party was funny. like always. and yeah...
so spring semester comes in and i thought i was off the hook for graphics for flyers and shirts b/c they picked christians theme but guess not. hao calls me up and asks for help. and so i did and had my second mass produced worked. although the shirt was christians idea i just put it in a shirt form. but yeh "deep rooted" was the theme. rush was ok..a lil bit less ppl around than fall but we got a good turn out. i remember i was hella sic and had a stomach flu and they asked me to do a video for USFC ..i was like shit. cuz i couldnt even stand up and so i made a copy of the last one but changed the fall to spring and then went all the way back to school with me about to throw up out the window and yeh..thats right..that was dedication..ha neways i turned out none of the rushees came and it felt like i did all that for nothing. but not really b/c i wouldve done it no matter what. ...TBC | | |
| YES I AM STILL ALIVE...
but yeah....later...
a long ass entry about the wonderful school year of 2004-2005..
so be excited
JAY's DIARY
"you think you know...but you don't..keep it real"
...COMING SOON... | | |
| I've been busy lately...UH GAIN!!!!!!
time is just zooming by me....there will always be something to do
i will celebrate the day when i have NOTHING to do...
but as of right now...its all about deadlines
good thing is....its like FILM....deadlines ..it's preparing me for it...
peace...c u in a random day | | |
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