winanga-li 2005
The school magazine came today.
GODDAMN IT I AM SO DAMN DISSATISFIED!!!!!!
It looked like all the articles which were supposed to be done by me I did so horribly it defaced the entire damn magazine. It sure looked like I’m the main reason the whole magazine looks mortifying! Why, why WHY?!! All the layouts I did I duly passed to kh and noone said anything bad about it. And I was the biggest fool of all; thinking that everything was going okay I was blissfully unaware of the actual goings on. It’s all my damn fault. Everything I did came out like crap in printing. The class page, all the articles that were supposed to be mine, the EB page, it looked so screwed up.
The originals that I created looked nothing like the end product; I’ll prove it. This is so damn unreasonable. Maybe it’s my fault that my backgrounds are too busy, too vibrant, too attention-catching until readers forget to read the actual article. But none of it deserved the butchering, the suffering, the damage that was done to it in the end. NONE OF IT. The letter from Ms. Nance Foo (which is still in my inbox) pointed out that all my backgrounds were termed unsuitable for it. Ok. That I can accept. If the background’s screwed, TELL ME DAMNIT. WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME TO FIX IT? OR REDO IT? I WOULD HAVE GLADLY DONE IT A THOUSAND, NO, A MILLION TIMES OVER THAN TO SEE IT SUFFER LIKE IT DID.
TELL ME. Tell me if you want me to redo it just because it didn’t suit the fussy, boring, conservative, old-fashioned tastes of the upper echelon of the administrative board. I won’t show a shred of complaint; I would have brought to you an entirely different layout, tailor-made, no grudges borne here, JUST TELL ME. NO FREAK READS MINDS, AND I FOR ONE CAN’T EITHER. I can’t tell that the job I did was so horrible that it might as well have been redone. I can’t tell that the text was THAT illegible, which I’m quite sure wasn’t.
And then there’s the class page. G4 had theirs nice and clear, and that’s well and good. I just wanted to know why, what was it they did that was so drastically different until a good part of the class pages, S9 included, was so freaking small, cropped, and even the colour page looked dull. I gave a laser-printed hardcopy for you. That’s what you said you wanted. I argued why couldn’t we hand in PSD’s instead. No answer. Even with the hardcopy, it could be scanned at a higher resolution so that it’d turn out (at least) acceptable. Don’t scan with a DPI of what, 72? WHOEVER DID IT NEEDS TO BE SHOT IN THE HEAD.
I feel so damn angry cause Andrew did such a great job on the cover, and I don’t feel a bit proud that I’ve done nothing constructive to contribute to this magazine. Every article, every feature I did (which was quite little if you ask me) was a complete disaster after I DON’T KNOW WHO (AND I SWEAR THAT I’D GLADLY KILL YOU OVER AND OVER AND STILL NOT BE SATISFIED) edited it LIKE THAT. Surely someone had some COMMON SENSE TO NOT MELT A GLASS SCULPTURE TO FORM A SHAPELESS MOLD OF CRAP. AND THE BEST PART IS, ALL THIS SHIT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ARTICLES THAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN CHARGE OF.
I FEEL LIKE I AM THE GODDAMN FUCKING FAULT THAT THIS MAGAZINE LOOKS SO CRAPPY.
The only part of my stuff that really deserved editing was the font. Yea, I used fancy fonts that didn’t really fit. I thought the fonts used in the end were fine, since they looked clearer. So good. That’s one thing I’m not bitching about. And I knew all along the fonts were gonna be different. Since I’m not a good coordinator in that part. That I accept, that’s my fault.
WARNING:
1. I swear, the end result graphic images are graphic to the extreme that it is not meant for human eyes to see, and yet THIS KIND OF SHIT went into the magazine.
2. They have been further uglified to protect the privacy of the people in the pictures. Ignore the photos, and look at the page as a whole.
3. I think the font is Century Gothic.
The comparison I uploaded to YahooPhotos, right here. You judge.
Now I’m not singing praises to my own stuff, I know they’re not top notch, but not until it had to be butchered shamelessly to that extent?
On the other hand, it’s out. Everything’s finished. In print, to the common populace. I enjoyed every minute in the Board, and I never regretted that part. The Board was, is, and will be a part of my memory, and that I wouldn’t trade for anything. Although this came as a crushing blow, it's no use crying over spilt milk. But I have to congratulate Andrew on the cover. It rocks~ and the rest of the book's fine. Personally I felt euric's job on the K3 page was neat. I salute you for that too~ ^_^
