Another doubtful post title and maybe depressing for some of you. Trust me, I’m not really living a stressful life or living in depression (although everyone has their moments) it just seems like bad things just happen to me, but in the end if I keep hope, then hopefully things will turn around. Anyway:

Happy July 4th to you guys. I’m rather late, but for the past 2 days I’ve been working on catching up from my mishap last blog post, and I can finally say that I’m caught up to where I was. Which is a plus and negative since I definitely wanted to be farther than that, however I did do other things that didn’t include watching fireworks or celebrating the independence of America with other people.

Let’s recap my weekend and make a new list for myself for this week.

Recap of the Weekend + More

1. As I mentioned, I redid my CSS styling for the wordpress theme that I’m currently working on with Vtension. And now I’m left to do the comments, the archives loop page, and making the portfolio function, as well as contact pages and forms, and finally theme options for it. And THEN I have to fill the content up so that it looks nice as a demo. So close, yet so far. This will my top priority.

2. Worked on a friend’s site for his business. As much as I wanted to push this to the side, for some reason I did most of the work that needed to be done for it this weekend. I basically took an old looking site with super awesome TABLES and great ASPX technology, and wrapped it in some plain divs and css and it magically put itself together. And I also put up his site for his other section of business that will hopefully do well. In the end, I worked a lot more on it than I expected and got a lot more done than I expected and so this was a plus for my weekend.

3. I watched all the episodes that are currently subbed for Schemes of Beauty. Those of you that know about dramas especially asian ones, can know that it’s almost a task just to keep updated, or catch up, or watch these dramas. However, I guess I’m glad I had some insomniac as of late since I’ve been watching these episodes pretty late at night. Then again, once I watch one clip, I just can’t stop until my eyes just quit for the day. Schemes of Beauty is a really good drama and I’m glad Vina recommended it to me. Now I’m kind of anxious because, now I have to wait for the other episodes to be subbed and who knows how long that will take.

As a result, I’m looking for another show to watch, so korean, chinese, japanese…whatever recommendations you may have, feel free to give me some.

4. I got a piano! But I haven’t used it fully yet. I need to organize my room for space, but the midi to USB converter I bought works well with my Mac and Synthesia, so when I get the chance I hope I can entrance myself into the world of music. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, but never had the time and motivation to do it. But I think with the way my life is going now, I have good motivation to practice. (Can’t say that I have time, but I do have the strive). I’d like to thank my teacher for lending the piano for me. It saves me money, plus it’ll probably give me a good feel of using a piano again after having not touching one since highschool. (although I was bad back then too)

5. Getting rid of more stuff. My 2nd monitor is up for a prize tonight, and so is my iPod Touch, but my friend helped me on that by giving away his old iPhone 3GS to me and so I no longer needed an iPod Touch. More and more I want to live life to its minimal state, but it’s getting harder as time goes by. I definitely need to go through my garage and make a garbage corner since I’m desperately looking for a place to live now and don’t want to own so many things.

6. It feels like I did more, but probably didn’t. In all, I had a work-filled holiday. I’ll get to posting some things this week. I owe you guys a tutorial, and I think I might do a list of links since I recently compiled a list for someone that wanted some inspiration and sites to look at.

Yeah, I’m aware I’m late for a lot of things, like a tutorial, journal update, and so forth, but I assure you, I’ll catch up sometime.  After reviewing my site, I had a little discussion in my head on what’s really needed, and what’s not needed.   I decided to do a points game with my site and basically you look at every element and give it points based on whether you really needed it, or not.

New Creative-Le Studio Site?

I looked at my site with the perspective of a regular user/bored blog reader like yourself and thought to myself, is this necessary, or junk.  In all, I removed a few things, I tightened up some graphics at the same time giving some space.  The navigation reflects the direction of the blog, being both personal but also a studio blog to post tutorials, resources, inspiration, and other things.  My goal is to bring you guys a design that’s easy to read, and visually pleasing that doesn’t distract you at the same time.

And as a result, we have the new Creative-Le Studio Blog that’s ready to be populated (I still have to make some pages to talk about my group).

Collins College Contest #2

On a lighter note, I’m starting to live a more minimal life (trying to get rid of unnecessary things I own).  I’m getting rid of my 23″ monitor to one of my teacher’s class to give as an award for the “Best Flash/Interface Design” in her class.  Today is the last day of their submission, and I’m pretty stoked to see the final projects.  I’m bad at judging because I tend to get biased, but I’m glad that’s why I have multiple judges.  I’ll be posting their work soon if I get permission, so be on the look out for some great interfaces or not.

Old Updates and Pictures

Hopefully one of these days I’ll find the time to post some old pictures that I’ve taken when I was in Las Vegas with Intothedarkroom.  The company trip to Las Vegas was really fun and inspired me to hopefully raise enough money through freelancing to take my company there as well.  (I really want to see another Cirque du Soleil show)

Music Inspired…

I don’t know why, but lately I’ve been getting in the mood to learn the piano.  Perhaps I’ll buy one in the near future, but at the moment, I’m saving my money and watching piano videos constantly.  There’s really only a few things I want my life to consist of and if my theory works then I should be in a good state.