Regina De Rozario: Notes, pictures, and other fragments

It's midnight and I'm exhausted, but I still have deadlines to meet. Anyway, a quick update before I get on with that.

The last two days have been long, but rather exciting. The NAFA Fine Art Awards Exhibition opened last night with its awards ceremony. I'm very happy to announce that Terminus won the top prize - the Fire Award, which came with a certificate and a nice sum of money, which will probably go towards some equipment and school fees.

Honestly, I was genuinely surprised having seen the rest of the works that were on show. I was quite taken with some of the sculptures, and other video works. Congrats are due too to my former classmate Lim Zi Sin who also won a prize for her Percer series. Watch out for her, she's really good.

Anyway, much thanks to all the people who came to congratulate me and spoke to me about the video. I'm still reeling from it all, and am starting to feel a little anxious actually, wondering if there's more from where that came from, and hoping there is. In the words of tutor Susie, "How will you top this, Regina?"

As if that wasn't enough excitement for the week, today I attended my convocation ceremony, accompanied by Jae and Oi Ee. It was great to see the old classmates again. Received my degree certificate, as well as a medal for Best Graduate. I was a bit overwhelmed. It felt strange standing on stage, facing the audience, and listening to the emcee as he read the citation that was written for me (by my Head of Department, I think). Later at the reception, the very lovely Professor Sue Frost from Huddersfield came over to congratulate me on my First and the award. Needless to say, I was chuffed.

In spite of, or maybe because of, all this excitement, I feel this need to lie down with a cold compress. Things have been going swimmingly well, so much so it's quite hard to believe. Anyway, cheers to everyone who helped me get to this point. I am truly grateful.

Now...back to work :)