Ultra Sensitive

disclaimer: This entry has no particular direction.

You think you'd start to understand the people you've been hanging out with for a while & start to get more on a comfort level with one another, but sometimes it's quite the opposite. Cordiality is not as apparent, and, quite frankly, I'm rather offended. STOP IT. Actually, stop... stopping it? Whatever sense you want to make of what I just said, I guess.

It's funny how something so simple is missed and considered "old school." All you're doing is chattering about it instead of DOING something about it.

BLECKH

I'm done observing others & trying to pry in to other people's lives to solve some mystery that I've made up in my head. It's time to focus on things just a leeeeeeeeeeetle beet more worthy of wasting my brain matter .

Missing Savannah

kind of
Back in Spring; home.
I miss going out on the weekends & witnessing the people & stories Cece Fierce & I would make up about them. What am I doing? Sneaking swigs of gin to go with my grandpa's tonic & Marlboro Lights out by the garage. This neighborhood's too manicured & quiet. I remember how the old lady across the street would sit in her rocking chair & smoke outside of her garage too. Where is she now? I think the family's moved out & we have some new neighbors. (Clearly not as exciting.) Can't wait to be in New York with the Savannah fam in a new block.

-Al

GET ME OUT

One of my favorite past times is having the day off to lounge around the house but always with an endless list of things to do. Waking up in the gloomy afternoon and listening to the rain drops hit the trees of my back patio invites me to go away at a Dunhill & black brew of Seattle's Best.

This takes me back to the stories my aunt tells me of the times it would rain the Philippines. The neighborhood kids would embrace the rain and proceed to frolic around bathing in the refreshing and probably murky water. Worries about dampening their freshly done hair or a ruined new shirt were thrown into the dirt roads. Instead they took advantage of the water and made the most of the situation in contrast to the hot sun they'd been dealing with for days on end.

I've taken in the fresh green of the leaves of the south and subtle breeze that makes them dance, and it allows me to take one last breath before diving in to my final projects due by the end of this week. I'm done with my computer class, have a final in business, and 2 neglected drawings. I'm hours away from summer, and it smells damned good.

As many of you know, I have my eye on New York, and I'm hoping that she has her arms open. It's quite the populated city, and only time will tell if I can keep a strong hold.

With that said, one of these days I'm going to retreat from America and embrace the motherland that my family once left. I want to reunite with relatives I haven't seen in over a decade and get a little update as to what's going on. I want to drive through the forests and hike through the mountains. Drink out of a freshly dropped coconut and eat a green mango with salt and bagoong. Most of all, I want to meet my nieces and nephews and assure their family that even though a lot of us live across the Pacific, that they're more than welcome to say hello.

It's not often that I get a chance to stray away from these gray concrete roads, but it sure feels nice to imagine.

2 B a better me

I know my facts, and another memorable chapter in my life is resolved. The only reason I failed is because I haven't improved myself. Comfortable. No new tricks. I let everything go too easy and lost track of where I wanted to go with this. I'm ready to move on, as I preach, and be a better me.

Only good can come of this.

TRUST

A l i l s o m e t h i n t o m e d i t a t e

-Al

Egads!

We're starting on our Illustrator unit for CMPA & we're gonna be working on creating our own logo. I've no clue where to start, so I'm asking all of you to channel in your ideas by describing ME. No answer is a wrong answer, so don't hesitate to s a y w h a t ' s o n y o u r m i n d . All input is greatly appreciated.

Top 3 words thus far: fashion sunglasses fresh

Think you might have something to add? Let Me Know

I'm taking in all ideas and there a bajillion ways to reach me, so

What ARE you WaItInG fOr?!

how do you sleep

when there's so much to be done?

So many people complain about not getting enough sleep, but today I complain about not getting enough awake time!! Trust - I LOVE sleep. However, when thoughts of important lectures, sketches, work, career opportunities, and social hours to escape from said important things cross my mind, there's just not enough time in one day to take it all in.

I'm am still so very excited

about SCAD Style 2010 commencing next week. Some of my favorite people (Fern Mallis & Kelly Cutrone) are going to be here to give us some pointers. They're really the only ones I know about, but a TON of people are coming in that I want to know (Andrew Bevan, Chris Benz, Derek Blasberg, John Lineweaver, etc). SCAD continues to surprise me with their connections into the industries that I'm trying to get into: Advertising, Fashion, Journalism, and overall design. I already know that I'll be losing sleep this week due to John Rise's class, but research and question-formulating must be done for next week's presentations. I'm more excited about this than I am about opening presents on Christmas.

This quarter is going by so fast.

I constantly have to remind myself to eat, brush my teeth, and said sleep. It's already midterms, and it feels like it's just begun. I know I cry for summer all the time, but beach time and vacations can always be plugged in. That's all we really ask for, isn't it? A little time off. Then it's going back to the things we love. Summer & Fall registration also starts next week, and we all know how that's only going to fuel my fire. Hopefully I'll get all the ADVE/FASM classes I've got my eye on.

Once these next 5 weeks are over with,

it's back to HTX for my brother's HS graduation. Really, Tony, I'm proud of you. Really, I am. I hope you go to Pratt, and if that doesn't work out you can always room with me here at SCAD. Haha. We'll talk.

That week at home

will be another thrill/rush that always results in a buzz kill in the end. I wish I could be home for the entire 3 week break, but it's too much of a hassle to try and relocate temporarily with work. I gotta fund my life somehow, right? Anyway, I'm already starting my list of "Things to Do" when I get back. You already know food, shopping, and bubble tea are in order. The rest of y'all need to let me know what's going on so we can coordinate everything. I can't wait!!

In other news...

I've officially joined tumblr. >_< http://ajbay.tumblr.com. It's a little overwhelming right now, and I feel dirty about it too. I'm mainly doing it to keep up w/ some blogs, but my blogspot and tumblr will eventually be categorized into 2 distinct genres. I might just have to make a popblog and lookbook while I'm at it. Oi. You all can google those yourselves, because my laptop has decided that it doesn't want to run 10 programs and 5 windows at the same time.

You're probably wondering why I've dropped the "12" in "ajbay12." I've come to realize that people go along with "A. J. Bay" more than the other. The evolution of AlanJoseph. I really wanted to use that instead, but it's already taken. Smh.

If you haven't had enough

of my ramblings for tonight, you'll just have to wait for tomorrow.

Hopefully the Savannah rain outside my 2nd floor window will lull me to sleep.

Ciao.

-Al

back to work

hello default; goodbye weekend

Honestly,

I don't remember too much of Thursday before work... Oh!! now I remember...

I set my alarm at 8am to "leisurely" get ready for my 9:30 appointment w/ my advisor, but the thumping aches my head decided to beat got the best of me. By the time I grasped the strength to pry open an eye lid to look at the time, it was "9:30." FML. I knew Fridays were walk-in advising, so I let this Thursday be all whatever and let Lauren have the next 30 minutes free.

No sketching or park-ing had been done. This is the part where I blacked out before going to work.

The Distillery shut down early, so we hit up SEED for $3 Red Bull Vodkas & $2 Yuenglings. Yeahh boii. DJ Bean on the trackk as usual.

Wine & cards @ Adela's casa Friday. Kept it college by pigging out on junk food. In contrast, we were watching Discovery Health. Oh boy. This is what happens when you go to Bio major's turned FASM's apartment.

In more important news...

Have you ever been so so so, so so soo tiired that you're tired from being tired? Luckily for me, inspiring people and inspiring images freshen the daylight in me and all my troubles are gone. I feel kinda nerdy posting this, but dammit, I'm a fan of good work, so I'm just gonna bust out with this link.

Chris New is no one to joke about. I haven't met the guy, but he has shot a couple of friends. These friends never even told me or showed me that they were shot by him. This personally affects me because I'm having conflicts with my decision to minor in Fashion Marketing and Management, and one of my first instincts was to minor in photography. Click on his name to see his work. He's not afraid to blog his processes either & it gives his viewers a little something more to think about than just "here's my photo; like it or not."

Thanks Chris for waking me up this Sunday evening.

Who knows what good will come of this week. Only time will tell...

-Al

No Photos, Please

I'm too lazy to upload/edit photos to put up for this blog, but I do feel the need to document my life for the sake of exercise.

The flow of relaxation continues from the weekend and into my academic life, HOWEVER, Miss Porter has decided that we need to interview/speak with at least 3 faculty members of the school. I feel like I should talk to the non-English speaking staff to make my findings more well rounded in comparison to the rest of class. I think they'd appreciate my efforts, no? Wouldn't you?

Finishline's been alright for the week. Number's have been where they need it to be, so I can't complain. I'll be filling in for for someone's shift tomorrow, and a good paycheck is more than enough excuse to skip my 5pm for the first time. (I fell asleep in the last lecture!!) Besides, John's going to be gone for some trade show thing, so my 2pm is cancelled and will be made up @ 8pm next Thursday. I'm going to just take the whole school day off to pursue other things.

SUMMER SCHOOL.INTERNSHIP(S).JOB(S).

A whole bunch of crazy things that need to escape my mind for a good minute for the sake of my sanity. Everything is still up in the air, and my net is more than ready to catch some butterflies. I know for a fact that I plan on staying in Sav for the duration of the summer, so that does narrow my options quite a bit.

Anyone else staying for summer? NEED A PLACE TO STAY?? Come pay The Big Pink (my apartment) a little visit, because my roommates plan on being gone. Until then... I'll have the whole joint to myself. That might not be such a bad idea. Never mind. DON'T REPLY TO THIS POST.

Anyway --I have a date with my academic advisor tomorrow at 9:30am sharp to plan my future. Joy. I'm planning on interviewing her for my BUSN homework after we get the important stuff out of the way. I hope she'll comment on how retarded my homework assignment is. (All out of love folks; love.)

SKETCH.SKETCH.SKETCH.

Maybe I'll get some of that shizz dunn tomorrow during some free time. OR maybe I'll spend some time with the sun in the park. ORR maybe I'll sketch in the park. HRMM!! I smell a no brainer. However, you won't know what my lack of brain has decided until the next post, now will you? SUCKaA.

Speaking of sketches: I have not photographed my finished charcoal drawing for John's class. I lied - I took a snapshot with my phone, but the quality does the piece no justice. It has been "cataloged" per John's request, and until I come in contact with my work again, you people will just have to wait. I know, I know... you were all excited. Trust me --it'll be worth the wait!!

I guess that's it for now. But just so you know, I cleaned my room & went grocery shopping. Life is a little less horrible as of tonight.

-Al

MundaneMonday

Sahrray the only photo I have from the beach is the the one I took on my phone from Spanky's. The rest of the photos are on Alexis' camera or my lomo, so you guys will just have to wait until I get those photos developed.

The trip to the Tybee was much needed after the crazy past 2 weeks I've been having with work. Finally hung out with Adela and Corina at the same time and got to meet Alexis too. I've decided beach weekends are no longer a must in my book, and I'd love to hit up the island on a weekday when there are little chances of running into any army heads or families.

I've dug my head into the ground like an ostrich with all my schoolwork in hopes of producing the best work I've ever done. Still, my drawing skills have improved, but I haven't reached my desired status.

Pictured is what I'm working with, and I'm tired of looking at it!! I'm trying my best to not reference a photo (like I did fall quarter), and I'm doing everything based on what I see. I'll upload my "finished" product after tonight. We'll see what happens.

I just gotta get through tomorrow & the rest of my week should follow through.

Nothing too exciting...

-Al

Zut!!

As the days pass, the more international people I run into. For a good part of this quarter I've had many Latin/Spanish encounters, and I'm always left walking away translating the conversation I just had into Spanish. It's only been more recently have I managed to respond/start small talk in their native tongue. A good other part of the quarter deals with Korean or Japanese. It's becoming more apparent how international SCAD really is --IT'S KILLING ME!! This afternoon some Frenchmen came into Finishline, and picked up on some of the numbers they discussed. I wanted SO badly for all my high school French to come to the forefront and just have a conversation with them about what they were thinking about purchasing. I'm killing myself with this language barrier. Someone get me some Rosetta!!

-Al

UPDATE UPDATE

Okay, okay. I said I was going to update this thing in Savannah, and it's evident that I never did. SHAME. I've been through enough in this town to know where this blogging thing can get me, and with a little encouragement from CeCe Fierce, who is now interning for another blog, I feel it necessary to follow suit. HERE I AM SAVANNAH -- I'm blogging about'cho bitchass.

The only thing new-new with my life is my hair (see pic above). I haven't had it cut in 3 months --the longest I've gone without a cut in a looong time. I got it done by Molly over at colorboxx around the corner from my house (Bull & 41st). My roomie, Miranda, recommended I test the place out. Good call. It's a little throwback with the mohawk, but it'll grow to a fuller potential featured below.

Here's what I'm thinking:

Meh. Idk. I always work something out.

Any-hoo... This pseudo-blog has had its run. I'll provide more interesting posts as the days go by.

Have a good weekend!!

-Al

Decisions. Decisions.

For those of you that know me, the burgundy TK Supras have been on my mind since before they came out, and when I first saw them @ PremiumGoods, they retailed at $165. Now, they've dropped the price to $100, but idk if I'm fully convinced yet. Given my financial circumstances, personal sneaker selection, and tendency to be a lil outlandish with my spendings, the current question on my mind is, "straps w/ laces, laces, or full-on straps?" LOL. I'm giving myself a couple more days to decide whether or not to purchase a pair, and if my size is there come my future arrival, it's 'fate' that's bringing me together with these shoes.

I did however make a lil hypebeast selection w/ my new silver MonQ Qee (photographed animal-thing on the left). UrbanOutfitters Rice Village is always a fresher sense of air when you've spent days at the Woodlands. I've been wanting something Sanrio for my keys, but this is better. Woot.

Overall, the day was more productive than any other summer day. Got my agnostic test for my truck, took Kathleen to UH to get some books & tapioca, A-Front, TippingPoint, happy hour @ Azuma, PremiumGoods & UrbanOutfitters.

Today was a good day.

Complete Turnaround

Monday night's bummerhood was over realll quick come Tuesday. Short shift @ Solstice, quick drink with Amanda, Bdubbs w/ May & Kat, and got a realll exciting text from Justin asking what we were up to after 5:30pm. Wait, Justin Barbin's home? SHOCK. Kat & I had no idea, but he himself is surprised that we didn't know. Send a lil text next time when you're coming in... not when you're leaving. A lil Facebook alert would've been nice. Bahaha. S'all good. Here's some pics:

My favorite cupcake: chocolate on vanilla

Justin & Kathleen in front of CPK

My delicious Pear Gargonzola Pizza

Justin's 1st time @ Discover Green

My new friend on my new shoe

Chase stopped by to say hey too

Reunited and it feels so good

Finally saw (500) Days of Summer w/ Rosie & Kathleen. Two thumbs up!

Hello Blogger!!

Ever since this whole be-at-home at 10:30 crap has started, I've been searching for different ways to occupy my time. I've watched all 4 seasons of How I Met Your Mother, the Real World: Cancun, NYC Prep, some of the latest Simpsons episodes, a couple of movies, heck-- even Facebook creeped. I'm running out of options here, and my time left in Spring is slim. I still have a hard time coping with the fact that I'm 20 years old & my parents don't comprehend the lifestyles that a lot of us younger people have: the night life IS your life. Day time = work/school time and night time = social life. I was lucky to even be out late for all of the Xshow practices, but even that put a damper into my parent's image of me.

So here it is: I, Alan Joseph Bayoneto, am blogging.

I'm hoping that this is going to help me out with my life out in Savannah. I hope I'll be able to keep up with this better than I did with Xanga too. haha.

Sanity at its finest.

-Al