The "Man Cave" with an accessibility twist!

Jordan and I were paired up to come up with a concept idea for a room that targets accessibility issues. The task was to design a room with a handicapped person in mind and take into account all the issues they would face in a normal home and come up with a concept that would alleviate these problems.

Jordan came up with an excellent idea for a "Man Cave" built for a person in a wheelchair. When he shared the idea with I instantly agreed. What could be cooler for a person in a wheelchair than to have an awesome room that is built with high tech equipment, pool table, full wet bar, and much more. Everything would be custom built with all the height restrictions in mind so that a wheel chair person would be able to get around the room and be able to reach everything and be able to play a game of pool, pour a drink, or even play some Foosball. Although the pool table may be at a lower height it is height adjustable for non handicapped people to play. This height adjustment idea follows through some of the features of this room. Check out the sketches!

The Three victims

I was tasked with running a Gestalt experiment on 3 people of my choice. One of these people has to be a “visual” person-- meaning someone in the art, design or creative fields and the other 2 can be of random choosing. First person I chose was my wife Cherron (of course) because she is always my first choice in anything, I chose my buddy Kevin because he is your average dude and not really design inclined, and lastly Whitney who does interior design as a hobby and really good at it. I tested each of them in private so each subject would not know what to expect. I did test them on both condition options.

After running my Gestalt experiment on my wife and 2 of my friends. What I found is that they didn't see the horse and rider at all until I had to point it out to them, even after going through both conditions. One said, it was exploding confetti, another a bushy tree top, and lastly my wife said it looked like the hawaiian islands in the year 3000 because of all the constant lava flow. The interesting thing that I noticed while my subjects took the experiment is that each person showed their personality when shouting out what they saw in each picture before actually getting to the gestalt portion. For instance, Kevin said, a lot of funny things for each picture, Whitney replied with more of a design aspect, and Cherron had more of a typical girl reaction. All of the replies were amusing as I will post down below.

I personally didn't see the “Horse and Rider” at all when I took the test. Even though it was pointed out to me, it took a few seconds to actually see it (kind of.) In my opinion, this is a horrible example to try and figure out. It is so tough to even see it for a second time even though I know what it is. Knowing this, my subjects were in the same boat, they had a hard time seeing it as well. Maybe now that I know what the Gestalt picture is, I would probably just blurt out “Horse and Rider” and not even try to make it out.

This was a fun experiment to conduct, personality did set each person apart from each other and the replies make it apparent. Read the text version of the test below, hopefully this will make you laugh as much as it did for me..

Test #1/ Condition #1

Subject: Cherron N.

Tester: Isaac

First picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Cherron:Little boy with a yellow shirt

Second Picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Cherron: Wine Bottles

Third Picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Cherron: Kid drowning

Fourth Picture

Isaac: What do you see?

Cherron:Christmas dog treats!

Last Picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Cherron: Tumble Creek house (Our cabin in Cle Elum Wa.)

Gestalt Image:

Isaac: Tell me when you can make out what this picture is?

Cherron:

Step1: No idea

Step2:confetti

Step3:camouflage

Step4:I don't know

Step5:No idea

Step6:Nope

Step7:Hmmm.. Still dunno

Step8:Dunno

Step9:Still nothing

Step10:Can you just tell what it is?

Step11:This is hard.

Step12:.......

Step13:............

Step14:.........

Step15:.............

Step16:..................

Step17:...................

Step18:Oooh, I know, it's the hawaiian islands in the year 3000 after all the constant lava flow makes more islands!

Step19:I give up......

Step20:TELL ME!!!!

Test #1/ Condition #2

Subject: Cherron N.

Tester: Isaac

First picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Cherron:Little oinker! So cute~

Second picture:

Isaac:What do you see?

Cherron: Texas long horn? Right? Wait, is that right?

Third picture:

Isaac:What do you see?

Cherron:Frolicking deer in a field.

Fourth picture:

Isaac:What do you see?

Cherron:Aww, a little lamb-ee!!!

Last picture:

Isaac:What do you see?

Cherron:HAHAHAH a camel with bad teeth..

Gestalt Image:

Isaac: Tell me when you can make out what this picture is?

Cherron:

Step1: Not this again!

Step2:I'm not gonna guess...

Step3:...........

Step4:.........

Step5:..............

Step6:...............

Step7:.................

Step8:..........

Step9:.................

Step10:............

Step11:Nope nothing yet...

Step12:............

Step13:........

Step14:.....................

Step15:.............

Step16:...............

Step17:.......................

Step18:..............

Step19:......................

Step20:Is that the last step? How am I supposed to make sense of this?

Isaac: It is a picture of horse with a rider on top. (I point it out to her)

Cherron: That's stupid, how am I supposed to see that? HAHAHAHA...

Test #2/ Condition #1

Subject: Kevin W.

Tester: Isaac

First picture:

Isaac:What do you see?

Kevin:Small kid running around knocking stuff over

Second picture:

Isaac:What do you see?

Kevin:HAPPY HOUR!!! YEAH!

Third picture:

Isaac:What do you see?

Kevin:Michael Phelps in the early years (Drowning)

Fourth picture:

Isaac:What do you see?

Kevin:Lumps of coal! Bad Dog!

Last picture:

Isaac:What do you see?

Kevin: I gotta pee just looking at this...

Gestalt Image:

Isaac: Tell me when you can make out what this picture is?

Kevin:

Step1:Ummm... Exploding confetti?

Step2:........... Next...

Step3: …. Nope, dunno.

Step4:..........

Step5:..........

Step6:............

Step7:...........

Step8: Holy crap, how many steps are there?

Step9:..............

Step10:............

Step11:...........

Step12:..............

Step13:................

Step14:............

Step15:.............

Step16:...............

Step17:...............

Step18: Really? I have no idea ahahahahah!

Step19:.............

Step20:Is this the last step? What is it? What, another test? Ok...

Test #2/ Condition #2

Subject: Kevin W.

Tester: Isaac

First picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Kevin: Bacon in the making!

Second picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Kevin: Texas A&M? Long horn animal of some sort?

Third picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Kevin:Ohh, discovery channel, where's the lion?

Fourth picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Kevin:Little white..... is that a lamb?

Last picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Kevin:HAHAHAH! Billy Bob dentures!

Gestalt Image:

Isaac: Tell me when you can make out what this picture is?

Kevin:

Step1: (Sigh) This again?...

Step2:Can I just skip to the end?

Step3:............

Step4:.............

Step5:.............

Step6:............

Step7:............

Step8:............

Step9:..............

Step10:.............

Step11: Is this some kind brainwashing tactic or something?

Step12:Gestalt? Is that the name of your brainwashing organization?

Step13:.........

Step14:Hmmmmm...Next...

Step15:Ok so, in the next 5 steps will the picture reveal itself?

Step16:..................

Step17:..................

Step18:................

Step19:................

Step20:Dammit, I still don't know what this is!

Isaac: It is a picture of horse with a rider on top. (I point it out)

Kevin: How the hell do you get that? I just see a bunch of dots.

Test #3/ Condition #1

Subject: Whitney D.

Tester: Isaac

First picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Whitney: Yellow shirt, kid running around.

Second picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Whitney:Wine bottles, waiter opening the front door.

Third picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Whitney:Is that a kid or a dog in the pool?

Fourth picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Whitney:Woo! Can we say, “Cluttered!”

Last picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Whitney:Lush Forest, peaceful..

Gestalt Image:

Isaac: Tell me when you can make out what this picture is?

Whitney:

Step1:Is it a bushy tree top?

Step2:.........

Step3:.........

Step4:...........

Step5:Some sort of Dalmatian spot pattern.

Step6:............

Step7:..........

Step8:..............

Step9:...............

Step10:..............

Step11:.............

Step12:.............

Step13:...............

Step14:.............

Step15:............

Step16:.........

Step17:Hmmm.... What is this?

Step18:.............

Step19:.............

Step20:Oh, is this the last step? What is it?

Test #3/ Condition #2

Subject: Whitney D.

Tester: Isaac

First picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Whitney:Hahahah, aww so cute. Little pig.

Second picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Whitney:Oh wow! Those are some huge horns! I like that brown though.(Talking about the animal's skin)

Third picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Whitney:A running elk?

Fourth picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Whitney:Little lamb sleeping..

Last picture:

Isaac: What do you see?

Whitney:Oh hahahahah, a funny camel smile..

Gestalt Image:

Isaac: Tell me when you can make out what this picture is?

Whitney:

Step1:Hmmm... Ok, I'll get it this time..

Step2:..........

Step3:..........

Step4:...........

Step5:...........

Step6:...........

Step7:.............

Step8:............

Step9:...........

Step10:...........

Step11:Does this go to step 20?

Step12:Hmmmm... Ok, it has to do with the pictures I saw.. (Talking to herself.)

Step13:.........

Step14:...........

Step15:...........

Step16:............

Step17:............

Step18:..........

Step19:I think I know what it is..Wait, maybe...

Step20:Ok, it's a lambs face. (She points it out to me)

Isaac: It is a picture of horse with a rider on top. (I point it out)

Whitney: Ahhh ok I see it now. I would have never guessed that.. That's tough to even see after you pointed it out..

Two chapters from Paul Rand

Paul Rand: conversations with students – Michael Kroeger

In the second conversation (chapter 2) of the “Paul Rand: conversations with students” by Michael Kroeger , Rand talks about knowing what design is. He states that in order to know what design is a person must know what he/she is actually doing. What problem needs to be resolved? Design is not something that has been seen on the wall according to Rand, it is part of the process but just decoration. Design accomplishes resolving a problem weather it's a poster or a full identity package. Rand does say that the end product should be simple and that the beginning is usually very complicated. All the aspects going into the project can be daunting. Things like size, color, format, etc. The process is eliminating pieces of it to bring the project to it's simplest form.

Maybe it's because I don't fully grasp what design is according to Rand. I define design as inspiration from something I've seen and transferred to a medium of choice. Granted Mr. Rand does have years of experience in this field I think what he says is just his opinion and what processes he goes through. This is probably why he has been so successful. I probably need to put a few more years in before I truly understand what he means by knowing what design is.

Seventy-nine short essays on design – Michael Bierut

The “How to be Famous” portion in the “Seventy-nine short essays on design“ by Michael Bierut is an awesome chapter. The author gives great advise on aspects of doing great designs, giving a great speech, and tips to winning a graphic design competition.

How to win Graphic Design competitions

This portion is basically if you want to win, your piece should be understandable and capturing within a second or two. Usually the judges look at many entered pieces but can only choose one and that winner is always the cool-looking project that solve easily understandable problems. Not to say that cool-looking hard to understand pieces couldn't win it's just that the majority winner in usually the latter. Another great tip mentioned is, enter a the biggest piece as possible, this way it will stand out from the rest and give a slight advantage of being imprinted in the judges mind.

How to give a speech

Pretty straight forward in this portion, most of the speech is going to involve a slide show but eye contact and forceful gesture helps a lot. The few tips stated were to show slides but not too many of them as the audience can become bored and uninterested. Also when showing slides, don't explain every slide. You can state the problem solved of the design then how you achieved the end result, make it short and sweet. Now to back eye contact, never read your speech it makes you look nervous and unconfident while in front of the audience. Practice your speech as many times as possible and if you need notes write down short sentences to keep you on track. Lastly, your last slide should be chosen wisely. The last slide should be memorable and either end your speech on a funny or professional note.

How to do great design work

Most of all the author recommends to do lots of work, do lots of poster designs, and do lots of freebies. Doing a lot of work can lead to a possible piece becoming famous. Whether doing it for a movie poster or just some art pieces for friends and family. Someone is bound to see it and absolutely love it and spreads the word about the piece to a possible future client. Practice, practice, and more practice is the key to putting out great work.

Both books do have some commonalities and what I have taken away, designs should be simple and easily understandable in order to win competitions as well as having a successful piece of design by eliminating the complication of a piece. Doing lots of work just makes a better designer through experience and the process of getting to the end result. Giving ideas, concepts, and options of resolving the problem for your client or whoever the project is for is what being a graphic design is all about.

Gilchrist's -Seeing in Black and White

After reading Gilchrist's introduction to Seeing Black and White what I gather from the introduction chapter was color perception, the perception of surface color, and human perception as opposed to machine vision.

The author describes that the contents of his book deals the humanistic ways of seeing. Either through reflectance, illuminance, lightness, brightness, and types of surfaces. Perception is the main topic from what gather from this book. Below is an attempt to define the some of the basic principles of seeing.

Distal Stimulus to me means the way light reflects off of a surface. Light reflecting from angles or directions can differ in amount on a matte surface or a glossy surface. A matte surface is a dull type surface and light reflected off of this type of surface is the same amount from any direction. As opposed to the matte surface, the glossy or shiny surface reflects light at an angle. Neutral or achromatic surfaces reflect the same percentage of light at all wavelengths as compared to matte and glossy surfaces.

Proximal Stimulus is described as where the pattern of light reflected from a surface meets the eye also referred to as retinal image. The intensity at each point of an image is called luminance. This can be confused with reflectance which is percentage, luminance is the intensity of light just before it hits the eye.

Percept is the way a person sees or perceives an object. One may perceive an object one way but in actuality it is a whole different look. This could be due to it's lightness or perceived reflectance.

Lightness and brightness differ in meaning according to Gilchrist, he states that both lightness and brightness are perceptual terms, only lightness refers to the perception of an objective property of a surface or its reflectance. Brightness refers to the perception of a proximal stimulus or the raw intensity of some part of the image hitting the eye .

Lastly, contrast can and has been used differently. Some refer to it as a ratio or difference between a light and dark color on a surface . Gilchrist describes this as contrast as an illusory phenomenon. Or better yet, the way complimentary colors on a color wheel is set up to show a color straight across from another color to be the most contrasting combination. At least that's the easiest way I can explain contrast. Gilchrist also describes contrast as a theory meaning a perceived darkening of a surface when it is placed on a brighter surrounding surface. More of a visual contrast of light and dark when placed next to each other.

What I took away from the introduction portion of this book is that there is a lot of thought or theory behind seeing colors. While reading this portion of the book, I knew what Gilchrist was talking about but I have never thought about the theory behind it all. I now know that I will see things in a new light when it comes to making color choices for what ever I will be designing. It will be a huge tool in my arsenal of design.

Wow it's been a really long time since i've posted

So, it's been a really long time since i've posted anything. A few things have happened since. I finally finished up my AAS degree, got a new car, flew back home (Hawaii) for my Gram's 1 year memorial, and did a lot of work on my house.

As of December 2010, I received my AAS degree in muti-media design and production from Lake Washington Technical College. It has been a long year and a half but so satisfying once I had that degree in my hand..The hard part now is finding a job position to use my degree. I have applied to a few places but no responses yet. Looks like I'll have to go back to network cabling for a little while so I can make some money and also since my classes are at night.

As for the new car I got a 2011 Toyota 4Runner. This rig is straight up awesome! It's black with black leather interior and 4 wheel drive. It has all the cool features, touch screen radio, mp3 player, navigation, back up camera, and a usb slot for my ipod. The radio in my last car died and I never got it replaced. I went for almost 8 months without a radio and that really sucked for long trips. So I'm stoked to have a radio on top of everything else..

House work wise, I have done a few lighting remodels at the house. I've roughly installed over 30 recessed can lights throughout the house. Tons of drywall patching which I really hate doing. We do have plans for redoing the kitchen and a major remodel in the basement. Everything is in the planning stage right now so it may be a few months before we proceed.

Well, that was the latest and greatest in a nut shell. I'll update as we go along with the project.. Stay tuned~!

In Design Project 2

Well here is a glimpse of my Indesign project #2. The overall objective was to make it a 2 spot colored brochure. We had to convert full colored photos to duo-tone. We could use tints to help "make" more colors.

**This is a revised/unfinished brochure for a friend's wedding planner business. It was built off of my original ID project. It is not fully complete but I think it looks good.

Ahhh, school is over for now!

Today was the last presentation/project for the fall quarter. I'm glad it's over, this flash project was the most time consuming and frustrating project out of all the class I took. For Flash grade wise, I think I did ok. I completed all my homework and projects on time. The only thing is that I wish I knew where I stood in grades throughout the quarter in Flash. I think the fact that my teacher is also a student makes things hard too. He conducted a great class no doubt, but I could see that classes he was taking was wearing him down quick. So, I'm not too bummed about him not updating the grades. He runs a pretty relaxed standard for the most part, so i'm not worried I guess.

There was only 3 projects for the quarter. The first one was to build a banner ad (non-animated) within a set guideline as well as start to finish in class (2.5 hours-ish). We had 3 options to do the ad on, Seattle aquarium, NW trek, and Woodland park zoo. I chose NW trek for my project, and it was horrible I though. No real design to it, just some stick figure-ish drawings and slapped it together.

Second project was to build on the project and animate it. Now my original project sucked and now I had to animate it. I did what I could with it and it still sucked but it fulfilled the requirements. I know for a fact that these 2 project are getting scrapped.

Last project, this one still had 3 options, a holiday animated card, animation to a song, or animation to poem. Initially I was going toward a christmas animated card but things changed a few days after deciding on what to do for the project.

During my Illustrator class we had a project on packaging, I had already started to go with an action figure vinyl toy that is customizable. It was modeled after Kid Robot's "Munny" dolls. I took the idea and turned it in to a ninja character and designed a box for it. While working on this project my classmate Nic saw what I was doing and needed a subject to package. I happened to have a few more templates of different characters and I gave him one of them. Nic was also in my flash class and needed a final project idea and said "I should use this for my flash project! We should do a battle scene." This was a great idea, we bounced idea off each other and the "Ninja VS Assassin" series was born. LOL!

I know it is not that good but it was fun and frustrating to build, but giving the presentation in class and getting a good crowd response was well worth it...

Web Design Comp 3

This past Wednesday was final presentations for my Web Design class. Here is my finished project, it uploaded in reverse order.

Borderlands

So last night I got the urge to do a little "glitching" on Borderlands the current game i've been playing. I found a You Tube video on how to do this and after a few tries I got it to work. Maxed out all the stats and now I lost all the checkpoints and progression that took A LONG time to get to. I'm so mad, but it was my own fault. So I have an awesome USELESS character. Gotta start all over.

Web Design Comp Round 1

Today for Web Design class we have to turn in our comps for a client web site that we designed. I got a pretty hard one and I hate it. I have no idea what this company is about. It starts out with a short back story, something about secret military or something like that. In fact...........
Company Name: Takagi Foundation (New York City Branch) Information: The Company was founded in 1971. The founders of the company wanted to prove to the people that there is a capitalist company who is more concerned for their employees and everyone else in the country. In 1995 the Foundation established a Defense Unit (a CIA security/military type group) whose sole purpose is to make sure the company and all the employees and their families are protected and well cared for. The company was close to losing face and the trust of the rest of the world when rivalry companies tried to smear the Founders hard work. This was how the Defense Unit was born. The U.S. Government is keeping a close eye on the Defense Unit and even has a few Pentagon officials working in the company to have the government be more comfortable and understand that the Foundation is not trying to over throw the government. The New York City branch focuses more on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and charity funds. The New York City branch is also the headquarter of the Foundation. Each branch of the Foundation has their own main focus/specialty.

What do you think? Makes no sense to me.


^^My awesome Honda "RAT" Spree!!! 30MPHs of fury~ Totally Random :)

Today is illustrator and indesign class. We have a few things to work on today, project 2 for illustrator and starting project 2 for indesign.

Flash Dummies!

Date: 10/26/09 10:44am (Monday)


Today we were working on adding sounds to our existing flash file that we made last week. There are the "chosen" few that still don't get it. This is beginning to piss me the FUCK off! These "chosen" few don't have the basic computer skills to be in this class, or any computer oriented class for that matter. They like to hold up the class every few minutes. Now, I understand not knowing something during the first week of class but to be in the 4th week and still not know the basic functions is unacceptable. This not only disrupts my learning but holding the class as a whole by having to stop every few minutes to help these people. I believe if you are having a hard time, definitely do some practice at home. Get used to using the function ON YOUR OWN and not only in class.

F5 or F+5?

Ok, today in Flash 1 class, the teacher says to "stretch your frame" (i think?). Anyway he said "The easiest way to do it is to hit F5" then some lady say F5 or the "F" key and the "5" key at the same time or the "F5" key. Ok, now I can see this as being a legitimate question but there is no way anything will happen if you hit the "F" key and the "5" key at the same time. I mean seriously, c'mon!

Moo-ski!

About a week ago while browsing the pet store for some treats for Kona a lady walked in with brown/brindle french bulldog. It was the cutest thing I had ever seen. I asked the lady if we could pet it and she agreed, it was so playful and hyper that almost hung itself with it's leash. After talking to this lady about the dog it seemed a little out of the price range that I would spend for a dog ($1500-$2000 pure breed). My wife just loved this little dog and hinted that we should get one, now mind you we currently own a cat, dog, and saltwater fish so we have more than enough pets. As for me I have never owned a dog before I've owned rabbits and that's it, pretty easy pets to tend to. When we got home we googled "French Bulldogs" and the pictures that showed up just pulled on my heartstrings. It was time to get one if we could find one. The wife is currently healing up from surgery on her back so she was able to locate a few for sale. The price range the woman told us at the pet store was true. Although the puppies being sold were from all over Washington we narrowed the search down to the Bellevue area. We contacted to owner and scheduled a meeting time to "JUST LOOK" at the puppy.

So we head overto the owners house and it was a shit hole, an RV sitting in the driveway with people living in it and crap spread out all over the lawn. The inside was worse, I won't go into detail of how piss-infested this place was. But there she was, playing about with her mom. Very agile and physically fit and with a cow pattern that I totally love. After about an hour we took her home with us.

On the drive home, it looked like she was teary eyed for leaving her mother. First we stopped off at PetCo for some puppy necessities. A kennel, puppy food, harness, collar, and pet tag with name "Lani Moo".

Before meeting this dog I was trying to conjure up a name for "Maybe" new pup and cam up with Tonka if its a boy or Lani if it's a girl. The wife liked both name so I was happy, the only thing is she can't pronounce Lani (like Lonnie) but pronounces it like Lanny. But we stuck with the names I chose.

Now if you are from Hawaii you will absolutly know "Lani Moo". She was a famous commercialized dairy cow. You can probably see where this is going. The cow pattern and the girl name I chose before I met her just somehow worked out. So that how this frenchie got her name.

The question is now, "Will Kona accept her?". We'll have to see what happens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wiebe

I think Steve she be the champion of Donkey Kong. According to what I saw on the movie: King of Kong- Fistful of quarters. Steve traveled to funland and prove to be the 3rd person to ever get to the "Kill Screen" with over 900,000 points. In return Billy Mitchell sent a video tape of "someone"playing Donkey Kong and scoring over 1,000,000 points. I call shenanigans on that.

Billy is a BITCH!!!

On our way to our buddy jimmy's wedding. It is definetly a beautiful day for it. Wheather is in the 80s right now, hot!

Trying out mobile blogging

So I freaked out today

I'm taking some PC tech classes at Bellevue College this quarter and never had a problem with any of my classmates until today. It has been a long time coming and today was the straw that broke the camel's back. There is a girl in my class that is just not fit for the lessons that are taught in this class, for one she does nothing but damage to the classroom computers and I can also see the teacher getting a little irritated with this girl's classroom performance.

Anyway, for one she never sits in the same seat in class although not required, I think you should be consistent on where you sit. WHY? Well, maybe everyone else does. This just irritates me to no end. On top of that, she does not grasp the concept of PC technology or even shows any initiative to even learn it. She is constantly text messaging and doing other non-relevant things during the lab sessions and ends up being the one that holds up the class because she is unable to keep up. I can understand if you are totally new to this concept of computer technology but at least have some sort willingness to put effort into it.

We work with partners during lab and my partner is a girl and not all that competent when it comes to doing hands on exercises but at least she shows initiative to try. She does well on her although a little slow but gets it right.

My partner and this girl are of Muslim faith and one wears the appropriate attire while the other doesn't. Can you guess which one doesn't? LOL! They conversate to each other in swahili which is pretty neat but I don't like the fact that they do it during lectures. I'm in class to learn and not listen to them talk over the teacher.

After 9 weeks of putting up with this, I finally freaked out on this girl. We had a test today and she didn't do all that well on the quiz before the test. While taking the test today, I heard her whispering to my partner in Swahili which means to me that she's cheating. After 5 minutes of hearing this, I stood up and told her, "Quit fucking trying to cheat" , "I don't want to hear you talking while I'm trying to take my test", "It's not my fault that you fail at life!". Fortunatly I was finishing up my test at that point and slammed my chair against the desk, grabbed my bag and left. The teacher said nothing but smiled LOL!

I'll probably have to meet with the teacher and the girl next week to try and smooth this over. I know for a fact that this is not going to happen, I won't appologize for pointing out the fact of cheating. We'll see what happens~

Test

Testy testy!!!!