MONDAY 

 
8:00 wow i woke up exactly when im supposed to be in the office. I think I can squeeze everything in 30 mins. forever a late owl. 

 

8:45 reached the office. lemme finish the lip-sync animation. 
 
9:00 shivonne peered over and said I should pause cuz I have a new task. the company is working on a new toothpaste commercial and I had to storyboard. alright then a task with a solid deadline. she then complained to me how people spelled her name wrong, like sivan, silvan, siobhan, zevon, etc. I told her siohban is an awesome spelling and that sivan is someone's surname. she chuckled and asked me if people ever spelled my name wrong seeing that i have a difficult name. i told her id rather not tell. 

 

9:12 she left. i somehow feel guilty cuz I remember the video, and that upcoming zephyra concert. why am I sorry for her? of course she's gonna be there, supporting her friend. should she even be in that concert? it feels wrong for me after watching what i recorded. 

 

9:13 nevermind. never. mind. lets just do this storyboard. 
 
12:00 finally. lunch break. aaaaaagh gotta reupload gotta reupload. last batch of my molome photos. im uploading by 50s cuz my sd card doesn’t have a lot of memory space. i should get a 8mb one. 

 

12:13 leftover pizza lunch with travia in the kitchenette. azka and ingvald are still brainstorming on another project im unfamiliar with, theyre gonna join later. I told travia about zephyra's upcoming concert and shes just as envious as I am. we wished on those little pizza prongs like it’s a wishbone, just for fun. the one with the most legs gets their live concert first. 
 
12:15 travia got more legs. booo. well im glad anyway cuz at least one of us get to experience what zeph will be having n step up to her level. 

 

12:16 oh hey azka and ingvald. gaaaasp azka has the same striped halter-top as shivonne how come no one is mentioning this eeeeeee. ok. she glared at me. i know she's gonna think im gonna use her to copy shivonne throughout the day. shes not falling for that again. woookay this is gonna be a challenge. 

 

12:42 headed back to the desk early cuz I wanna finish one more page of the toothbrush commercial storyboard and then draw copies of dwy's recent instagram sketches. also uploading the last 10 photos uh god finally, I thought this uploading is taking forever. If molome has an automated export-to-tuding feature, complete with the description and all, I wouldve saved time and continued with my lip-sync animation by now. 
 
13:06 ahah finally! I can upload the pending sketches from last sunday! 

 

13:13 lets check zephyra's instagram... more jamming sessions with her band. oh wait this is her at the grand battleonian? and she met shivonne and gioven? why didn’t I see her with the crowd during the waterfall acrobat show? 

ah here's a copiable one. I'll ask travia and her team if they can recreate these few jamming shots of zephyra and her band. I'll upload on my tuding since trav doesn't like to share photos. 

 

13:21 alex says hi & asks if im done with the storyboard. i told hir ive finished them and theyre ready for hir to proofread or edit. ze's the editor and is with me in this project. ze's also working on a lot of odd projects in this company so I kinda understand how ze feels. 
 
13:37 'alex wait', i told hir, 'if youre going outside or down a few levels I kinda need you to follow shivonne and know what shes up to. shes probably gonna visit gioven and have lunch at the food court downstairs, if youre going there with your friends can you like, eavesdrop or something? i know it sounds wrong but im just concerned about their relationship and something about zephyra and her upcoming concert.' 

 

14:23 hey look travia's in the middle of making jingles yet again. guys I need you to do a few poses for me, it's for my tuding. smile trav. smile everyone. cheeeeese. ok now on to the next pose. 

 

14:26 oookay the poses are all done and uploaded. now to update some pending ideas for my webcomic. original ones, thankfully. strangely the storylines are full of self doubt and concern for others' wellbeing, that is so unlike me. 

 

14:49 oh hey alex is back. ze told me gioven might be taking shivonne to see a movie tonight, and zephyra's concert is this wednesday. i joked to hir about sneaking in backstage and ze asked me if I love zephyra's music and support her that much. honey, I said, the line between admiration and envy isnt that thin. I think ze gets it. 

 

15:01  berwald walked over, said the circles under my eyes grew darker. told him I havent slept enough cuz I was reuploading my molome photos in tuding which i finished just now, along with my recent sketches copied off of dwy's and travia's team's photos copied off of zephyra and her band's. he said he doesnt understand why id waste my time copying dwy and zephyra's pictures when I can draw and snapshot something else. 

 

15:06 back to work 

 

17:12 got ingvald & azka to eat supper with me at the food court. ok now get them to copy some dialogues from gioven & shivonne without azka suspecting anything... and... go. 
 
17:15 yas! success, ingvald is taking azka out to the same movie cuz of my recommendation! whew thank alex for the super secret snapshots. Now im just gonna go to that table over there & snapshot these two dweebs at the same angle as shiv & gio. 
seriously azkie you and shivonne have the same built & height too, that top looks good on y'all. now if only you have similar hairstyles. heheheh. 

17:16 azka told me shivonne is actually closer to my height, though both of them do, in fact, have the same built. huh. never noticed it, ive always thought she always had the impression of wearing heels to me.

17:17 our bibimbap is here yay. gimmie that extra bowl of kimchi. 

 

18:30 caught the bus. made it home. probably gonna sleep early tonight 

 

20:00 wheeeeeew what a long monday. monday always feels the longest. 

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TUESDAY 

 

7:45 yawn. hm I was expecting to wake up at 7.15. whatevs. 
 
8:30 alright made it in the office. oh wait dwy's approaching me uhhh try not to act awkward. she probably knows about my webcomic already. someone must've told her. who told her? aaaaa- 
 
8:31 oh lol. shes just asking about my progress on the storyboard. told her alex is taking care of it now, editing and stuff. dwy said I had to help her with some animating today, the whole day so I'd have to leave my lip-sync animation for now. she also talked about the voices she heard when she stayed over in the office last night, she says it kinda sounded like two people fornicating. there was one girl, and she wasn’t sure if there's one or more guys. 
i suddenly remembered the voice clip from last week & played it to dwy. she exclaimed it sounded just like the voices she heard. 

 

8:34 as usual here comes shivonne, checking for progression. dwy said she's taking me under her wing for today, she needed assistance. 

 

8:35 dwy showed me her work desk. she's got three freaking monitors, two of them rendering. thats nuts. 
moved my desktop completely to the empty table in her room. she needs me to animate some faux-3d stuff using animestudio for easier rotation control, while she takes care of the actual 3d stuff she's currently handling on 3ds max and blender. whoa, i'm scared. no wonder she's head animator. 
 
8:36 lets see here... ive worked with too much adobe flash & toon boom studio, gotta get used to anime studio again. to be honest i never did use this software well. ah well i'll do what i can. 
 

9:00 dwy told me how everyone in this company doesnt need to be tied up to one responsibility, one job type or even one software. we all share responsibilities, we are all catching the same set of different deadlines. 'but remember to finish what you have to do first, wait until you're completely free to make room for a new task' she says. this really gave me a new perspective of our company, wow. 
 

9:20 dwy went to the bathroom. heh. time to search around for her super secret stash of unfinished sketches and take snapshots so i can beat her to it! they say i sketch fast, they dont call me lightning stroker for nothing. 
 
9:21 oh dingus. footsteps. shes back oh no. ah wait its just travia. hey girrrrrl~ 
she responded with another 'hey girrrrrl' and we danced like we're keisha fabo and breadquanda briefly. yknow that sims video that became a meme. she brought me some tacos cuz its taco tuesday. its also travia tuesday so shes been working on some original songs and wants to feature me in some of them. eeeeeeeee 
 

9: 25 and dwy's back, travia got her some tacos too, and told her that the song for this animation here is about 90% done. dwy told her good job. 
 
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13:57 we probably worked for 4 straight hours now, been sitting too long, i can even barely feel my butt. yep, it's numb. 
 
14:12 my turn to go to the bathroom. shouldnt have drank too much herbal tea but it was good... i hear a running bidet next to me, did someone forgot to turn it off or are they doing... uhh... something else? 
 
 

14; 14 back to work. 
 
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17: 30 it's done, it's finally done! aaaaaaaa 
dwy and i are hopping in her cubicle grasping each others hands and squealing. thats so unlike us. welp time to render out the scenes then, which means all 3 of her computers, and mine, will be busy for like 3 more hours. man. at least we both have personal laptops for other uses. 
 

17: 36 shes taking me for early dinner since we couldnt eat lunch, thank god for travias tacos though. we went downstairs with dwy's foodie friend natsuki, who just told us that the bakso soup stall has a new addition in their menu: bakso sup jagung. omg. corn bits and bakso together?! yas! 
 
 

17: 40 this... isnt really what i expected. they couldve at least added more spice. but theres still corn and bakso together in one soup and thats all good. i texted travia to come over but shes currently busy. 
 
17: 41 hey it's hajar and asmad in that corner. 2 out of 4 is good enough. gonna drag them to try the bakso sup jagung. 
 

17: 42 hajar said they couldve used cream of corn soup to give it more kick, but natsuki told her that it will be a completely different dish since bakso soups are generally clear. asmad and dwy nodded. natsuki told everyone to take position cuz she's taking a few group selfies for her instagram. great, another instagrammer. 
 
17: 45 she sent her photo to everyone's phones. well just dwy's. then she sent to me and then i sent to hajar and asmad. chain reaction lol. i asked hajar if heloise is fine with bakso now or is she still in her vegetarian week. she said heloise doesnt really set her diet according to weeks, she just eats whatever she wants in a day. 
 

18:00 talked with natsuki about a stuff since i just got to know her. told her i dont use instagram and i showed her my tuding profile on my phone. she scrolled through it and- oh no. she's dwy's friend! why did i let her scroll through my tuding, some of my sketches are copies and parodies of dwy's work! aaaaaa 
 
18:01 she handed me my phone and said nice artworks, whew. she didnt notice. she told me she's a salesperson working at a tech emporium on the 3rd floor. It bores her that sometimes people just come to look at things and not buy them since they cant afford them, or are they still planning to. Although occasionally, people buy one or two and thankfully she's never witnessed anyone returning purchases. pretty satisfactory. 

 

18:30 it was the first time dwy sent me home with her car. didn’t know she even has one, or that she could drive. shes going back to the office though, for an all-nighter again. compiling all the scenes with travia's audio files and then rendering them while she sleeps so in the morning the animation is ready for broadcast. shes used to sleeping in the office. 
 
19:00 alright, time to copy and upload those sketches. sigh I feel like such a traitor but hey i gotta cure this envy. 

 

19:45 uploaded. soup'd and tumblr'd. now to scroll down some more and repost/reblog more things. 

 

20:13  has queen dwy fallen into the potential close friend category? oh no. oh yes... never realized that we actually bonded in this one day. im probably gonna ask her if she heard the fornication voices again tomorrow. 

 

20:22 no way. NO WAY. shivonne dyed her hair turquoise completely! agh! how am I gonna get azka to do it? she's too conservative to actually dye her hair grass green! heh. shivonne probably does it for zephyra's concert tomorrow, if travia or i ever perform a live gig we'd make azka dye her hair grass green. 

 

20:23 ugh whatever. time to catch up to we bare bears' latest episodes. 

 

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WEDNESDAY 
 

9:00 nooooo i woke up too late again!! oh yeah zephyras concert is today. tonight maybe. technically not her concert per se, cuz her performance is just an opening for the jigokoolkids and the helveteens. none of those im familiar with. not big on dance groups. 
 
 

9:32 made it to the office. ugh i saw shivonne and her completely turquoise hair. the envy is burning. she approached me and asked for the lip-sync animation. i told her its 70% done, and complimented her hair anyway. she asked how was working with dwy yesterday. i told her about the thing with openly taking responsibilities and tasks in this company, and she also thinks its a solid advice. dwy has the mindset of a workaholic, shivonne says, thats why she was put on a step higher than the rest of the animators. 
 
 

9:33 she also said i should leech that piece of dwy too since i'm so good at leeching her comic ideas.
i froze. shiv KNEW?! 
'of course, i read your webcomics, and hers. im the director, dont you think i check out personal artworks and portfolios of my underlings?' she chuckled. it wasnt a normal chuckle its more like a ha-busted-i-caught-ya chuckle. 
 
 

9:41 she told me while monitoring everyone in the office she secretly ships some people, like last year she shipped two 3d animators daphne and taufan. and just last month they got officially together and she exploded with joy. heh. exploded. i told her about ilona and berwald and how travia and i ship them. she said she's seen them together a lot too and hope they become a couple eventually. yes, one more crew on s.s. berlona. 
 
 

10:01 alright. time to dedicate myself to finishing this lip-sync animation without distractions! green tea ready, coffee sachets all over my table, aaand go. 
 
 

12:31 yoooooo lunch break. jajangmyeon with azka, ingvald and travia at the food court downstairs. i wasnt in a noodle-y mood but alright. group selfie. not gonna tell azka that im secretly gonna dye her hair green in photoshop. hah. 
 
 

12:33 travia said i should start practicing my parts for her upcoming songs now. i told her to give me the lyrics and her song samples later so i can follow. 
 
 

13:13 haaalright back to work. headphones on and practicing my lines for travia's songs. multitasking rocks. it only rocks when you can nail it. 
 
 

13:37 boopedy doop, transfering photo, recolor azka's hair grass green, boopedy doopedy doop, transfer photo, upload to tuding... hmm what should i write? oh yeah, jajangmyeon wednesday, azka dyed her hair in celebration of travia's first album release. and sent. 
 
 

13:38 aite back to the animation 
 
 

16:40 and done, finally done! now i'll just put this on dropbox and notify shivonne. it's just for one of the work sample displays outside our glass doors anyway. kinda. our portfolio keeps changing, or adding. 
 
 

17:00 dwy isnt in her cubicle... man travias songs are catchy as tennis balls. practicing my lines should be easy. 
 
 

17:28 cant stop thinking abput zephyra's performance either. i mean, if only i could sneak in at the right time, without a ticket. if only i could record everything and manage to recreate the scene if i ever perform live, or if travia ever performs live. that would be neat. that would make one of my grudges go away. 
 
 

17:30 one like on my recent tuding photo. strov. wait, strov has a tuding account? i thought those gamers only have twitch and steam besides youtube, facebook and twitter. i thought they're not the photo-sharing type. 
 

i dm'd him. he doesnt want instagram either but he wants someplace else where he could secretly share photos, and he remembered tuding from when he scrolled through my chirbit songs from my phone and accidentally clicked the home button. also he got the reference with azka's grass green hair and travia's so-called album release. 
 
 

17:32 i texted him about wanting to see just zephyra's performance. he replied that he's still in his apartment, and that their living room has a tv now. asked if i can crash for the night. he's cool with it. 
 
 

18:00 took the bus early, gotta pack some stuff. gotta leave for zeph-i mean strov's. 
 
 

19:17 made it. whew. 7 floors up, is he kidding me right now? oh, there he is at the door. He's in his singlet and boxers. laughed for a good 2 minutes. 
 
 

19:19 prawn crackers crunched. tv is on. 
 
 

19:24 haaaa there she is! oh man she has mauve highlights and that weird makeup on. who is she portraying, or cosplaying? is that her current aesthetic now? dang it. dang it. her song is too catchy get it off of my head ahhhh hey wait maybe I can improvise on travia's songs by taking bits from zephyra's one. that’s an option too. 
 

19:48 strov got bored & went in his room, probably playing his unfinished computer games. 

 

19: 57 alright I got bored with the main performances. not really big on dance groups. just gonna open my laptop and photoshop aaand... 
 
20:36 finished this comic! Its travia and her audio team performing just like zephyra with me as the backup vocalist. cant wait until we record the songs tomorrow. 

 

20:37 showed the comic to strov and watched him play for a couple of minutes. he then offered me some soda from his stash. we drank a lot. he doesn’t seem that much lifted after drinking them... more like lost his mood to play games. 

 

20:41 he looks kinda down after a couple of minutes. things got deep when he mumbled something about not being able to distract himself from the thoughts, even his favorite games cant help. 

 

20:44 oh. my. fart. heloise? he kinda... wait, he LIKES likes her? but... strov, she's a weightwatcher and a nutrition enthusiast, and you're... mister junk food and soda beer cans!
oh wait. 
ohhhh that explains why he's fine with changing to midori jannah last week cuz heloise wanted vegan food, eventhough he wanted chicken wings. He continued about how much she loves furry animals, especially rabbits, and that he himself might be allergic to furry animals but he definitely wont hesitate to take anti-allergy pills if he wants to live with her, though he cant imagine living with her yet. 

20:50 this went on for hours. 

 

21:55 strov got up and hugged me as a thank you & a token of friendship, saying im the only one who knows about his secret. not even hajar and asmad knew, they should never know about it. also he kinda smells like spearmint mixed with eau de wet socks. 

 

22:00 speaking of secrets... I felt like showing him the video I recorded last week which only travia, azka and ingvald know about besides me. they told me to never speak of it again but ngh I was caught up at the moment. 
 
22:02 his reaction though, 'is that... zephyra? and uh... whos the guy?' and I was like 'you wouldn’t believe this but that looks like shivonne's boyfriend to me' and he was like yooooooooooooo and then pause, and then another yoooooooooooo, and paused, and finally he went nooooooo. i told him that this was the reason I always feel guilty and pity whenever i'm face to face with shivonne, or whenever i generally just see her. this envy towards zephyra, and this thing with me trying to copy shivonne and gioven with azka and ingvald, makes me wanna just expose them and blast this video on the main office tvs, but I cant do this when shivonne's so nice to me. i don’t wanna see her break down after finding out about it. And it happened just after her and gioven watched the water acrobats at the grand battleonian. 
 
22:04 strov went full-on realist mode and told me if i do care for shivonne I have to expose this video of zephyra and gioven, and sure shes gonna break down and things will get nasty but at least she will pursue a better life afterwards. I told him I might do that but its not the right time yet. eventually there will be a right time when any of them, most likely zephyra, would unintentionally show their bad side and need to be exposed. he agreed. 

 

22:30 we watched a few episodes of doctor who together 
 
23:46 he gave me a blanket and told me i can sleep on the couch outside. 

 

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THURSDAY 
 

8:00 first time taking public transport from strov's, with strov himself. on the shuttle bus he said not to bother about the things he said last night, cuz we were both faux-drunk and he's still unsure of how he feels towards heloise. he doesn’t wanna ruin their friendship, cuz he'll forever see the four of them as a squad. him, heloise, hajar and asmad. kinda like myself with travia, azka and ingvald, though we're not as close as these gamers are towards each other. 
 
9:00 havent met dwy yet since yesterday, I wanted to ask about the weird voices since I heard them precisely last week in this office. 
 
9: 03 shivonne said dwy is on sick leave. i guess that’s what you get for pulling too much all-nighters in the office, workaholic. 
 
9:06 prawn crackers for everyone! oh hey travia. right. i'm supposed to be in the soundproof room with her right now. Be right back lemme get my notebook I got all the lyrics there 

 

9:08 recording 
 
13:15 at last! my parts in three songs are all done for now! she just needs to compile everything before release, it's gonna be in her soundcloud I'm honored hngh I should draw her album art right now. yeah. I should ask her right now... it would be better if she's going for the same direction of any of zephyra's album covers just because. i think shivonne painted some of zeph's album covers cuz that woman is unexpectedly incredible with oil paint, canvas, color blending and perspective. 

 

13:20 travia moved her laptop to my cubicle, we decided to work side by side cuz shes editing my voice and im drawing her album cover for fun. we're having lunch here too. just blue rice with sambal and a couple of prawn crackers. i've stocked up on prawn crackers. prawn crackers give me life. 

 

15:15 two hours of seemingly endless inside jokes, showing our sides that weve never shown each other before and hoping that one of us would outperform zephyra. I told travia I saw the performance at strov's apartment. she watched it with vanja at their home, yeah she had to go home due to family issues last night. she doesn’t seem to be as envious at zephyra as vanja was at the dancers. 

 

15:16 oh travia. i wish we'd never part ways. i wish we'd leave this office together eventually. we make a pretty sweet team. 

 

15:21 she yawned. i yawned. ctrl+s. hibernate laptops. zzzzz 

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17:59 agh where were we? travia? trav. TRAV. WE OVERSLEPT. and whos blanket is this? sniff. smells like shivonne. I used to have this perfume but i gave it to azka as a last-minute birthday present last year. siiiiigh... looks like were gonna have to catch the 7:30pm bus if were gonna go home. the 6:30 pm bus wont be available this evening, ive checked. 

 

18:01 hold on... why is there a cool blanket fort over at herr director's room? Are they having a super awesome blanket fort party? why arent all of us invited? Something tells me I should turn bluelight on my phone and- 
 
18:03 OH. MY. SPLATTERED DIARRHEA. FIGURATIVE SPLATTERED DIARRHEA. calm down, hold your breath, don’t even breathe. don’t even move. on second thought I better turn off bluelight and just record in darkness. semi-darkness thankfully. 

 

18:13 alright thats enough footage. these weird voices, I couldve sworn that was shivonne but I don’t think the guy sounded like gioven. how. how did this happen? agh. i cant move quickly, i gotta get outta here but i shouldn’t make sounds. 

 

18:20 I think im far enough now. back to my station, travia is still snoring. Im sorry shivonne but I had to upload this to vidme and reddit... no wait, submit it anonymously on tumblr or something. no wait, convert it into an audio file first. ah screw it all of them at once. i am impulsive. there, I admit it im impulsive and I havent fully accepted that but I will. after this I swear im not gonna talk about it ever again. 
 
18:29 travia woke up. called me after she saw me at my laptop, adding finishing touches to her upcoming album. showed her all three versions but it still looks like shes too sleepy to choose. She got up and tried resuming her songs cuz she has to release them all by tonight. Im gonna try waking her up with this vid I just recorded... headphones on please. 
 
18:31 her reaction is just priceless. her jaws were a solid egg-shape for 2 minutes. She was silent. speechless. 

18:35 and then she continued to twist-pinch my arm so bad I yelled an animalistic growl and startled everyone within a 7-mile radius. 
 
18:36 'why cant you react quieter?' she says, well I cant squeak a soft 'ouch' when the script says 'ARRGRRRRAAHHNNNRRGGGHHEGSSNRGHRGHRG', trav. heh if she ever finds out about my super secret sadistic schadenfreude reddit account she probably already stabbed me repeatedly. with a jagged spoon. 

 

18:42 its gonna be 7:30 soon, are we gonna catch the bus or what? hm looks like she wants to chill in the office until 7:15. shivonne approached us, fully clothed, and asked whats going on. I said travia twist-pinched me cuz uh... cuz i told an offensive joke, and i shouldnt tell it ever again. I gave shivonne the blanket, already folded, and thanked her for it. still wincing and grasping my arm. 

 

17:11 travia asked me for a sleepover again at her place cuz technically the work isnt done. I wont mind. at least theres no vanja to disturb us mid-process now. sweet, two sleepovers in one week. 

 

17:30 welp theres the bus. 

 

18:46 salad dinner, cuz all she has in her apartment are vegetables, olive oil and sauces 

 

20:00 lets finish this thing. travia is teaching me to use some of her more advanced sound-editing and music-making softwares, I asked if she can install them in my laptop. double the stations, half the speed! also I stacked up on the soda strov had cuz this junk is currently my alternative gatorade! 

 

23:59 finally finished! now to upload these on every social media ev- oh no its already 
 

FRIDAY 

 

00:01 we didn’t release it on a thursday! noooooooo! well travia says its fine cuz she knew releasing on a thursday will take a giant miracle, seeing from the work we did just now... I mean yesterday. 

 
00:05 she got a bandcamp account to organize albums easier. well soundcloud does that too. and its only her first album anyway. Im uploading the songs with me in them in my reverbnation... and linking each to travia's soundcloud profile. bloopers on chirbit. bloopers are always on chirbit because lol. 

 

00:12 hey yknow what would be funny? emailing all the music producers we know and just submit mine and trav's online music portfolio. pretty sure theres some that will hire us. hic. pretty sure I still know how to write a cover letter despite already working in a stable animation studio for 3 years now. hic. our jobs might be stable but our passion is the horse! get it, trav? ayyyyyyy hiccup 

 

 

00:30 that’s pretty much 8 record companies already. yawn. cmon lets go to sleep 

 

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7:56 took the shuttle bus to the office. new tasks were already working for us. 

 

8:20 alex got the toothpaste commercial storyboard approved and we all started working on it. azka on the concept art, ilona on the background design, ingvald converts the sketches into vector, berwald and I on the step-by-step animation, and travia got us voice-acting the characters and later she and her team will compile & edit them while farting a short simple commercial jingle which can be done in garageband. 

 

13:20 alright lunch break! rooftop pizza yet again! 
 
14:15 more animators decided to join cuz theyre newly free (after watching a few youtube videos). this will speed the process. alright cross off the scenes we already did so they can pick up where we left off! 

 

15:26 as usual shivonne peered in, amazed this time cuz we look like clumps of bumblebees excitedly gathering nectar. ilona told her its just this toothpaste commercial, its not that important. shivonne said excellent nevertheless, and calculated that it will be done by today if we all stayed the night at the office, or on saturday if some of us cant stay the night, if they don’t mind. as usual I wont mind staying the night in the office, gotta channel my inner dwy. whaddaya say, everyone? 
 
16:00 trav, play our parody of zephyra's song on almost-full blast, everyones gotta hear this 
 
16:03 boy that cheered us up a little and probably got the lyrics stuck in our heads 

 

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20:54 cough. cough. wheeeeeeze. cough. agh. ow my butt. nggahhh.... 

 

20:55 and were done for the day! well except for the whole compilation of course. cuz we gotta render each scene in all our desktop computers. shivonne is taking us all for dinner to steamboat burger rolls, that restaurant with the weirdest food fusions. hah, those who already left are missing out big time... this includes you, travia but im pretty sure that call you received that evening is pretty important too. 

 

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21:29 arrived at steamboat burger rolls. no travia by my side, this will suck. but sigh, at least azka and ingvald are still with me, and ooh looks like theyre getting closer to ilona and berwald. great, with shivonne bringing gioven and  taufan and daphne are here too, and some of our friends brought their friends, man thats a lot of couple. ahem, wait berwald and ilona arent a couple. i just kept thinking they should be an item. i wish i can bring the gamers too but theyre too busy beta-testing and designing in the process. 

 

21:45 opening soup. yum. 

 

21:52 shivonne took out her keychain cam. group selfie with gioven, taufan and daphne. cmon everyone huddle at azka and use her keychain cam too. 

 

22:06 sweet, my burger arrived! extra pickles like requested. hmmm I see taufan making a crown from uncooked shrimps and toothpicks and putting it on daphne. I wonder if I can get berwald to do the same for ilona. lemme just make the crown outta these pickles. 

 

22:08 egh shivonne is instagramming the couple. hey berwald quick put this up ilona's head, surprise her. lucky berwald is clueless with my intentions. 
 
22:09 he did it. ilona's freaked out, azka's disgusted by the pickles. perfect. smile. im tuding-ing this baby. 

 

22:30 daphne's talking about her pet hamsters at home with taufan. lemme get ilona and berwald talking about slapface the duck, and the other ducks  at the pond last time. 

 

22:40 ooh shiv and gio shared a kiiiiiiss... i glared at azka and ingvald. they glared back. whoop ok im not going there, sucks that they aint comfortable kissing in public. Im gonna sketch them kissing anyway, paint it on photoshop and upload it as a faux-photo on tuding. 

 

23:00 more eating 
 
23:36 CUZ WE... HAD... THE TIME OF OUR LIVES... AND WE'VE NEVER FELT THIS WAY BEFORE~ 
alright then its time to go home... well shivonne and a few others are going back to the office to check on the rendering progress and compiling everything for the final time so we can leave it rendering until tomorrow... or monday. 

 

00:27 made it home. after two nights im back on my own bed. 

 

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SATURDAY 

 

10:27 nghhhh. overslept. 
 
10:32 checked whatsapp. replied all the messages... hmm travia? whassup girl- 
wait, quartzircone? she and her team got signed to THAT record label just this morning? shes kidding right? shes kiddding. 
 
10:56 breakfast time. muesli. bleugh, nevermind its all i got, at least theyre more fun that oatmeal. 
 
11:14 whoop okay shes not kidding, there she is, her team with the manager and producer. 
apparently theyre called travestalk now, sigh im so happy for you. im happy pur pizza-lawn-table wish came true. i wonder if im probably next. will i be signed under quartzircone too? 
 
11:55 told azka and ingvald the good news. theyve heard from travia too themselves and apparently quartzircone is a rival music label with zephyra's music label, how did I not know that? 

 

12:03 oh lemme check dwy's webcomic. theres two new copiable strips, yas! lemme work on that first. not getting any distractions from her instagram sketches this time. gonna finish one thing thoroughly. 

 

12:28 ngh... why do I feel this, uh, uneasiness. I mean im happy for travia that she got her chance of being in a band first, thanks for that, pizza-lawn-table, but I sorta felt this why-not-me vibes, and its getting stronger... heavier. no, i cant let this grow, shes one of my best friends. shes part of the squad, I should be happy for my squad member. 

 

13:30 done. on to another one 

 

13:40 oh come on, strov? why cant you text message me instead of leaving messages in tuding? 'go downstairs im by the burger stand' he says. 

 

13:43 burger stand downstairs. he ordered a mushroom swiss burger, chopped it in half and gave me the other half. i asked why and he said he felt like hes gaining weight from not eating properly so he considered it as his treat for me. aw. and then i pay him for the half. dude thats not what you call a treat. 

 

14:00 i told him about how travia and her team become an actual band, travestalk. how her new record label is a rival to the record label zephyra is under, how I actually feel about it and how I should feel. strovs tip for the whole thing is be happy if I want to but dont deny the fact that im slightly envious. he did hear me literally say I'd eat a horse for a life like zephyras just last week at midori jannah, and seeing travia got her chance without eating a horse is honestly pretty enviable. ah strov, always on point about honesty and being upfront. 

 

14:28 stayed with him for a while downstairs, still at the burger stand and doodling some stuff, sketches to be uploaded to tuding. some sketches were cute, some were angry, some are parodies of dwy's sketches... cute, some were angry, some are parodies of dwy's sketches... uploaded. 
 
14:36 strov noticed, he liked them and pointed out at the angry ones whether thats travia on a noose and if im burning zephyra as if im roasting her for dinner. I brushed it off saying its all a coincidence cuz its how i draw people nowadays. the one on the noose just happens to be wearing a beanie. 

 

15:52 took a cab 

 

16:16 at his place once again cuz he needed a nap, but first he wanted to finish a level of this weird game called steffanie, yeah with two f's. what. 
he said its about this dude named laurent who likes hanging out at tennis courts till late night with his friends. the tennis court regulars will have weird dreams involving tennis matches and weird monsters who try to eat you, while irl hes being seduced with a girl named steffanie. at the same time his girlfriends name is stephanie, with a ph, thats nuts. strov sighed and puts himself in stephanie-with-a-ph's position, saying he feels her. im like what. first off he and heloise arent even dating, and shes not even seeing anyone, secondly there arent many guys named strov, its a rare name. 

 
16:20 I told him that game seems like garbage and encourages people to cheat, though at the same time its an exercise for people to curb temptations and stay loyal. he says it all depends on the gamer. 

 

16:55 hes done. bedtime. I used his laptop and skyped hajar just to surprise her. ooh maybe I should call asmad too but he rarely uses his skype. 

 

17:00 lol look at her face. the joy is even greater seeing her burst laughing as I showed her sleeping strov just in his underpants. 
 
17:13 ooh asmad is online. get in here boiiii 
 
17:23 solid 10 minutes of him cackling uncontrollably seeing strov snoring in his underpants, his chortles are contagious, hajar and i were on our knees a few seconds after he started laughing. 

 

17:30 he asks if strov is still playing steffanie, i told him yeah. asmad said hes almost finished the game and he purposely made laurent cheat on stephanie with steffanie making all these bad choices cuz he can. hajar added thats why she thinks the game is garbage and besides the graphics arent really that good, then we did a virtual highfive. asmad argued the storyline and concept is interesting, at least, and he knows in real life cheating is wrong and if hes laurent irl he wouldve stayed with stephanie, and guessed that’s how strov probably plays the game cuz hes a goody-two-shoes. im like i only watched him play for 30 minutes and hes probably unsure with his choices but he said he did feel for stephanie cuz hes currently in love with someone. oh no. why did i say that why why whyyyyyyyyyy 

 

17:34 hajar and asmad gasped comically. they probably know already, just not about who hes in love with. 'also hes probably dreaming about her right now, turn back for one more clue' says asmad. i turned and. what the crap. is that a carrot in his boxers or is he just happy to see someone in his dreams?. hajar and i screamed at the same time and the three of us proceed to even louder cackling. 

 

17:35 he woke up. oh no. nope nope he went back to sleep. whew. 
ok hajar said she and heloise are gonna go shopping for some outfits at the mall and asks if I wanna come with tonight at 8. i said why the frock not? asmad was like 'you girls go ahead with your girly shopping' and I said were gonna buy presentation clothes like suits, ties, blazers and pencil skirts, maybe a few pairs of pants, thats completely gender-neutral, and hajar said asmad doesn’t need all those since the only thing that makes him presentable is his hazmat suit. hazmat asmad, that’s his nickname alright. and he'll make every situation feel like something stinky and contagious just broke out. 

 

18:00 ok he woke up for real this time, gotta go guys. oh awwww nooo he saw y'all! and his pants tent is still up! whop there they go again bursting into laughter 
alright guys im gonna go home now and strov please put some clothes on, wait, go jerk off or something first. its disturbing. bye. 

 

18:35 arrived at my apartment. gotta shower and stuff. dinner not necessary. 

 

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19:37 bus stop. bus is here. hajar was in the front seat grabbing my arm going 'get in loser, were going shopping'. so was heloise, with her bunny clip that made her kinda look like that character from overwatch. some other people got in. the bus took off shortly. 

 

19:51 yay mall time! alright double-h, lead the way! 

 

20:00 elvengrassblade? this stores kinda pricey isnt it? 
 
20:14 heloises got a bunch of stuff picked out while hajar and I only got like one blazer each and pants and pencil skirt. theres like 3 empty changing rooms and we all changed and idk probably took selfies maybe. hajar and heloise did, my phones still in my bag. 

 

20:36 and then heloise tried on her remaining choices for about 20 minutes, i kinda got bored. she brags that shes been balancing out her diet that now she looks good on a lot of outfits. 

 

21:29 ate dinner at breggo's. I asked heloise why she bought a lot of clothes and hajar told me that heloise has a date on sunday. didnt know about that, and im pretty sure strov doesnt need to know about that either. i asked if this is someone she met on twitch and she said no, she came across this person in a vegan coffee shop she was checking out, and they proceed to talk for hours and they realized they pretty much have a lot in common, like the causes they fight for and care about. what a load of cheese. a hot melty load of cheese, at least. who doesnt like cheese. 

 

22:16 of course going out with gamers mean that were stopping at a game stop. its not just clothes, these two are splurging on new games too tonight, for various consoles. 

 

22:45 alright guys we gotta get to the bus stop now the bus is gonna come in seconds 

 

23:17 back in the apartment. time to catch some z's. 

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SUNDAY 

 

10:00 oh hi. i overslept again. 
 
10:24 hmm my new comics dont seem to be getting a lot of comments unlike the usual. 

 

10:25 im gonna leave travia alone cuz she probably has stuff to do with her new manager. lemme ask azka if she can hang out today. whoop. nope. she says she had a date with ingvald today. heheheyy I hope yall came across heloise and her new date... wait where n when did heloise say her date was again? 

 

10:30 texted heloise. her date is this evening and right now she and the rest of the gamers are at asmad's apartment brainstorming a phone game concept based off one of the animated series our company worked on. 
 
10:31 texted ilona, shes out visiting her family and her grandma is suddenly sick. hope she gets better, I told her. ugh this is boring, everyones got things to do this sunday except me! oh wait, I still have that sketch of azka and ingvald supposedly kissing at steamboat burger rolls. gonna digitalize that! 

 

10:41 hah. posted on tuding, tumblr and soup. ok im gonna probably take a walk at the grand battleonian again today at 1, not gonna take a cab this time. im getting better at public transport. oh wait im gonna check shivonnes instagram & tumblr first. pretty sure there are photos of her, gioven, daphne and taufan that ilona, berwald, ingvald and azka dont want me to recreate with them. gonna paint those quickly in photoshop and upload them as faux-photos 

 

10:42 whoa thats a lot. blog post too even. meh, everything will progress. 

 

12:01 has it been a solid hour yet? more than an hour? prawn crackers for lunch is good enough. just prawn crackers. 

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13:00 time to catch the bus 

 

14:15 two buses and a train. this is time-consuming ughhhh. 

 

14:49 bought extensions for my binoculars. they don’t cost much by their standards, of course they cost me two lunches. 
 
15:00 gonna check out the apartment across again. This spot looks perfect, its all glass and I can see a clear view... and theres the window I peeped on last week! wonder who lives there. 

 

15:09 lemme see if I can get out there. hah. found a door. hoodie up, binoculars up. 

 

15:11 nothing much going on there... lets see whats do- yooooo its giovens car! im pretty sure hes the one who lives there. he got out, then shivonne, then some other people I don’t know... are they gonna have a party? man, everyone always has something to do this sunday. 

 

15:15 phone on binoculars. record. 

 

15:24 theyre all watching a movie. no wait, a tv series. 

 

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16:33 has it been an hour? groan. this sucks, no action at all. they probably know theyre being watched. 

 

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18:00 ok im bored, ive wasted 3 whole hours, probably fell asleep on this ledge too. heh. im surprised no one caught me yet and this wiring is surprisingly strong for holding both my phone and binoculars. lemme just go to the cd store or something. 

 

18:25 none of these i wanted. back to downloading music off the net. 

 

19:40 taco del tormentos for dinner. ahh man crunchy crunchy tacos, melted cheese, fresh lettuce... at least they fill a hole in my sunday. 
 
19:45 GASP. who was that WHO TAPPED MY BACK? oh god no its shivonne and the others. oh man the others dragged a table here. looks like im eating dinner with them. hope they dont find out that i tried peeping at them nggggggggggg 
'funny meeting you here' they said. one of the dudes complimented my binoculars, i said its all for aesthetics. the girl beside him said im such a hipster. not sure why. 

 

20:16 foods all here, shivonne filled me in on the toothpaste commercial, which apparently is already on air, on tv stations everywhere. our companys youtube channel gained more views and subscribers, and the lip-sync animation made it in one of the updated showreels. 

 
20:17 she then introduced me to her friends adelya, tracey, marcos and lukman... hey wait a minute, i think i remember luke, he used to work as that game salesman from a few floors down, i remember bumping into him a couple off times and knocking his documents off. didnt know hes one of shivonnes crew. 
 
20:29 i told shivonne about travia and her band getting signed into quartzircone. shes aware of that and acknowledging that quartzircone is rivals with dvmz, zephyras label, she congratulated trav and felt proud that one of her underlings got to live her dream, and said that i must be pretty proud of her too, as a close friend. i nodded shakily. she noticed that im more stammering and trembling. she pointed out im not 100% proud and that im still in denial of my feelings and that its okay to feel envious of your close friends luck. sigh, okay strov, you win. 
 
20:33 she then asked if ive been talking with strov and the others. i said 'yeah, and we shared secrets and advices, and i talked to everyone and they shared their secrets to me and i listened, just listened and had to contain everything and god i cant take it anymore!'. she told me it seemed like i volunteered to listen to their problems and give them good advices. what, what am i, dwy? no im like a 10-percent, no 1-percent of dwy, shes miss work-work-work while im lady chill of slackoffsville. shes more experienced when it comes to giving actually good advices while i just blurt what i think sounds right. 
shiv chuckled, told me to stop feeling so insignificant beside my coworkers. 

 

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22:00 they all drove me home. i asked gioven what he works as, he said hes one of the consultants in this automobile company a few floors up ours. that must be the one where the car displays are. that probably explains why he has a lot of money and seeing that shivonnes our director and sort of one of the underbosses of our animation company... gasp. theyre a power couple. 
 
22:05 they probably heard me murmuring 'no i cant beat them, azka and ingvald cant beat them who am i kidding, i wish they were more like these two though'… 

 

22:35 throughout the trip theyre just asking me what I do in the company. told em I make storyboards, concept characters, webcomics and songs. they said that’s a wide range. the last two is personal. 

 

23:28 home. oh bed I wish we never part. oh hold on lemme check those recorded videos which I mightve slept through this evening. 
 
23:35 see if i can upload this on vidme & reddit via phone... 

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