quick bites!

sorry for the lack of updates, these few weeks are bad house weeks..even though i m having 1 wk break, i have been going to school everyday -_-. Staying in the darkroom for 9 hrs a day is making me drowsy and huhry.....and tmr i m going back again to rush my work...i spent 2 days doing one print.=~[ will post up if they survive my prof's portfolio review....*cross fingers*

got tonnes of assignments and research to do, and not to forget a term test and history oral presentation right after this week, and just as i m typing this, IT IS FREAKING WEDNESDAY ALR OMFG!


oh! dear people, meet my darling.



Say Hi! to my mulan....aka mumu!! =)

ashes..to snow

abt one and a half years ago, when i was still working as an MA, flipping magazines and newspapers were part of my job.

One fine morning, as usual, i was flipping through the papers, Life! section, I saw a picture that caught my eyes. it was a picture taken in the wild, with orang utans and a lady on a tree. Although i m know nuts about a good photography but i think that was the first ever picture that feels sublime...it makes me feel that theres still some hope for this world, seriously. I was thinking, if one day, someone ask me about my favourite picture/photographer. It has to be this series by him.

ever since i got my macbook, it has been my wallpaper (Think i blogged abt this before) ...and from time to time, i naively will go to the webpage to see if theres discount or some sale for the collection. or just drool over the pictures and curse n swear about when the hell is it gonna be exhibited in Singapore...

one and a half years later..last week, homework for one of the photog classes , when ask to search for 3 favourite images, i actually forgot abt this!!...until i went home n switch on my mac, when it struck me.

and so this series landed on a page for my homework and did a youtube search for the video.

presenting, Ashes and Snow by Gregory Colbert.








http://www.ashesandnow.org
enjoy

now back to daguerre...for mon's presentation arghhhhhhh damit!

better late than never.

as these few days, i m free from work, i've the luxury of my own time (really appreciate this especially when sch term is commencing in few days time). This mid-noon, I was walking along blk 201 to the central bustop, when i saw this old man frm quite a distance, holding on to his umbrella, tapping it twice before making his every step forward.

I was not in a hurry, walking slowly, looking at him, alot of things went through my mind and before i realised it, i had walked passed him. Suddenly, my legs made a decision to turn back. i don't know whether my legs controlled my mind (although technically, it shd be my brain thats sending a msg to my trotters) or some part of my sub-conscious is still working amidst of the scorching sun at 330pm.

He was walking right by the curb to lead himself, but as i hold him, i realised that it could be dangerous as he might just tripped over the curb and also, the ground is not flat. I walked him to the 202 coffeeshop. On the way, I asked him if he does that everyday since it's so hot, he told me he visit the coffeeshop twice a week for coffee. From his eyes, i could see a very thick greyish matter in his eyes. I supposed he's got quite severe glaucoma, yet, he can still make his way from amk central (where he lives) just to have a cup of coffee.

through the walk, i realised alot of things including those i learnt n forgot. Since young, I m always few steps slower than most (yeah, i m not the smartest people around). I am glad that I turned back in the end because I might just regret ( not to jinx anything but i m that sort who would think abt 'what if i did that'...) I mean i really want to minimise these kind of hesitation and not give regrets any chance.
Secondly, sometimes, being in a closer position (be it physically or emotionally), allows u to see things at their position clearly and I m really thankful for my legs in this situation. (read: 3rd paragraph first and second line).
Thirdly, of course, the uncle's coffee-spirit lol despite the difficulties in his mobility and the angry mid-noon sun.
it's nothing major but it's always these little bits of things that remind and bring me back on track.

After I found a seat for him and ordered his coffee. He offered to buy me coffee to thank me...but he had already thanked me with a lesson.


nothing beats school of life.
where nobody graduates.

smiles.

boom deeyadaaaaaaaaa!

ookay, half a week n counting to...



does the entire clip spells n.o.s.t.a.l.g.i.a.

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sometimes, i just wish to agree that parents will selflessly protect their children.
but i beg to differ.

or at least add an addtional line behind, 'to a certain extent.'

to all unscrupulous parents.
cheers to the successful attempt of ur aims.
and the gain of eternal disappointment from your kids.

i begin to doubt parental relationships. hate to say this but whatever kinds of love has been long toxicated by the root of all evil, i suppose. and like pesticide (or whatever-u-call-it) in animals, they carried through generations in the chain of life.

and if death can solve every problems, humans would have been longed extinct. Maybe thats how dinosaurs died and fossils formed. but wait, they are beasts.


indifferent.

today as i was surfing the net for some song titles, i came across some old chinese songs...(not theresa teng that kind of old, but jacky cheung's era...his cantonese songs still sound as nice as when i was 9.. i made my my dad bought the wen bie's album which was in gold colour. Cheung was my first idol ok, at 9. before that it was tom n jerry sticker album craze (those with numbers for specific stickers...that made our parents broke hahaha), i still remember the satisfaction when i completed a book. Especially when competing with nono.

Then, i suddenly remembered that i always wanted to find this particular song for many years, not kidding. It was a theme song for a hk/taiwanese drama called 京港爱情线. This drama aired 3 times in Singapore. I watched all 3 times. Before the recent Korean wave, my mum was amazed by how captivated i was by a drama. hahaha and Now i am just as amazed by the mother with how she can watch 愛上女主播 or rather 張東健 every.day. for quite awhile.

Anyway, back to the song. It is by Jeff Chang. DAMN NICE OK? hahahai still remmeber how fustrated n annoyed when i couldn't find it in IRC.... @FIND @FIND ...browse lists n lists of jeff chang's songs until my eyes popped out n in but still with no avail.... and the fact that i was only able to touch the computer at wee hours in the morning...ya..those were the days...when i was using dialup...ok, now i m beginning to recall the dialing tone and the eeeeeeeeeeee with 28.8k modem...beige with a green strip that lines a stretch of flickering red lights...
what? oh, how i remembered so clearly?...thats because everytime i dial up, i would stare eagerly at the tortoise modem. until it gt connected, cos time is precious, especially when u can only use the internet after everyone's asleep. kanna gui . it's pathetic.

haha maybe u guys have watched it before. It's a really nice show. It's about love relationships between 2 couples from Hongkong and Beijing.... i still remember i really like jacqueline ng's (wu chien lien) character in it. Yeah, I luv it a more than decade years ago, when i was in primary sch...i still have deep impression of her character in there as Fong Ming. and u can see Moses Chan aka Pretty ok in 唐心風暴...if u all wanna watch it, i gt the VCD. err yes, VCD...got it for 5 bux. hahahaha enjoy.



Just as i thought that theres 3 more weeks of hols, weiching just reminded me that it's only 1 week left of my precious precious holidays!!!...time flies... and i'ts journey to the west for me everyday...literally.

n ian, haha yeah, i wanna car pool!!!!!!! send me ur schedule!!!!!!!!! rawr...

just what is wrong.

dear blog
yours truly has got a job afew days ago. Very happy, as it can fill up the hole in my pocket and as well as to earn money for the next semester. Just wanna earn as much as possible during these few weeks and not sponge from the house. Work is at my previous previous co. in bouna vista. =)

work aside, these 2 days haven been gd...felt super low, especially yesterday..i m alr very low within, and during work, some of my colleagues brought up a very sad case...and if it's not enough, my shoes straps snapped.=/

at the end of the day i felt i really need to talk to someone...but those few whom i can talk to were not exclusively available...so end up calling tris and company...as usual, end up only the 3 of us. anyway it's sorrow dripping session, so 3 is not a crowd.

wanted to go to a peaceful place, so tris suggested afew...and we ended up in keppel marina..really nice place. even though we dressed like shit, esp zw, in his usual tees and berms. I thought i would tear ....but i didn't. Sometimes, we can't deny the fact that life is really what u watch on tv..dramatic, so reel yet...so real.

Just as i thought i've felt abit better, on the way back home, after dropping zw...the car infront of tris's great white made an e-brake and the next moment, *bam*!. his car got kissed by a taxi behind. Lucky thing, his car was alright, otherwise i'll be damn guilty.... i know i shd count ourselves lucky, as it could have been worse *touchwood*....thank all gods.

anyway, hope this dull emo season will phase out soon...

peace.




i hate facebook. as much as friendster.

nope, not booking in.

i finally did it after 2 years.










process!








Thanks for all the donations, my dear people!

screw it

still at chapter 5. i am so dead. got a D for quiz and i should SERIOUSLY learn to S/U.
damn it.

During poly, it's mainly my IS modules that got me my As...now..its C all over =(

gt back my results. luv Qing man! hahaha he upgraded me from a C- to an A- for drawing || . i am so motivated to take advance
drawing. hahahahahaha
this sem's results, thou can't complain much but i would prefer no Cs.....but quite impossible. loL just saw my degree audit
cgpa...3.58.... if it's in poly, i would have jump for joy but not here in ntu. it's on the fence man...and astro may just do me in! damn it. Although, studies ain't all abt results but it's just an answer to gratitude to my people, especially my uncles. ( ok, enough of long-winded corny lines)

one year of "fun" inmidst of hair-tearing, heart-sinking-to-right-to-the-bed-of-my-lungs (ok, exaggerating,. just heart sank), tear-jerking nights. yeah. i survived year one.

on a lighter note,
Iphone is here. I heard nono screaming "iphone! iphone!' in the next room with steve jobs presentation conference playing. Yet just then, he complained that the 3g sux. I personally think that Ipod touch is good enough. I don't wanna be able to do so many things with a multipurpose device and eats up all the batt needed for proper calls n msgs...it's ultimately iPHONE unless it runs solar.

a phone should just be..a phone. let ipod touch do the jobs for entertainment man. MP3s, vids, safari! woohoo... give me an ipod touchhieeeeeeeeeeee

ok, gt to go back n chew pages!

muchlove.

=( mug mug mug

boo! i m only at chapter 2 of 8.......damn damn damn

i wanna go shopping.

please be nice.

Had my first astronomy lecture today. lecturer was...nvm... but the dvd played was quite interesting.

the line. of the day: I am from outerspace, made from the heart of a star

just learnt that we are star-stuff =)

but i just blew 42 bux on the textbook today...-_- i hope tmr and thursday will be just as interesting, but i really look forward to the star/sun gazing sessions. join me la...i try to smuggle u in hahaha

now that the holidays are here, my lazy mode is tuning in, i was still lazing on the bed at 1145am despite the fact that i got a class at 130 and have yet to print notes for the lecture. Tongiht is the final night in hall, i'll miss this little privacy of my own.
*horrendous thought of the travelling hybrid journey of mrt>bus or bus>mrt>bus with hybrid concessions. The > is made up of squeezings, waitings, wastings, agonies and endless wtfs.....*

on a lighter note, i'll be catching up with people whom i haven met since ages as well as movies which i have been waiting for =)

Tomorrow: movie with the guys in cine: forb. kingdom...not very enthu abt it thou, don't really appreciate jackie chan's stuff
Friday: dinner with chris and lisa!! =D
Saturday: Mommy's day celebration...anehasehyo~ yeah mummy's all into korean and kimchis...
Monday: Hansel and Gretel ( tentative)

oh and talking about movie..IRONMAN is damn worth the 6 dollars movie tix la! like the technology, like the story, love the ironman and the man inside the ironsuit. LOL tony stark damn hot la. ok, thats too bimbo a review of a movie from a student who did film critic last sem...haha not sure if i'll even pass man...*cross fingers*
I wouldn't mind watching it for the second time =)

and as usual, whenever i commented about hot guys, ching will always link it to our good ol tve ziggy..uh, she said robert downey jr looks alot like him..., i told her that she only identify those moustache n goatee and just whack. but she forgot the tummy. =X
3.5yrs after grad, she still refuse to let me off the ohp incident.......-_-

and KUKUs long-awaited dinner next thurs....i think...hee

Next, my dear people/passerby/annonymous...

please be kind this holiday/may/june/july, support the Children Cancer Foundation's Hair for Hope event. Contribute abit of your allowance, salary to help the kids. I know climate is going crazy, economic is slowing down, and I am not getting paid for this but your little donation and support will be appreciated. well, at least yours truly will.

i'll be contributing my hair this july, kindly support me morally and the kids financially.
http://www.ccf.org.sg/hfh/webApp/shaveeBIO.php?shaveeId=48

ok, cs3 time.
to all happy days, pple!

a step a way from nirvana.

one step away from nirvana.

consecutive weeks of hell. just 3 more days.

i am sick. my head hurts like shit. i need to sleep
but i have to work on the wooden sheets.
talking abt sick..i'lve been sicking on n off...
i m a tired and sicky with humongous eyebags thats so dark that u might even pop it to let out some air

twodee down...fourdee down yesterday. well. what can i say. i have a hunch that i'll get a c for twodee...
and fourdee blew my 300 bux away.

final deadline is monday!..finally....but not before i finish my final piece and my rectilinear form exercise
and my freaking long-overdued portfolio...=(

come holidays, i'll wanna sleep for 3 days 3 night. i'll be meeting people whom i have seen...i'll be sleeping beside my grandma and disturb her every night with *ahma...ahma...hahaha call for fun*

i'll be taking special term -astronomy. i hope i can be exempted from business PE...i hope i'll have a room next sem...although it's not possible. i'll make use of this special term to practice the torturous train + bus journey.
i wanna look for job that accomodates my schedule. if i can't find one..i'll go back to brainless graveyard shift in motorola..hahahahahaha

yesterday met stp to pass her back her friend's erhu at HSA, which i used it as a prop for fourdee photog installatn. n together at tingting's suggestion, we ended up in tcc. i slept there while they talk....whenever i opened my eyes...ms ting will ask me to go back to sleep...in hope that i'll not go back hall that night....lOL....just give me one more week, i'll be able to go home with youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu haahaha

heres some shit i pooed.















toys =)






























on site. I installed it in the lift to have a drawing of the veil effect upon the opening of the lift door..




























finally, the freshly made final form for 3d.........

SO GUYS, WHERE R WE MEETING NEXT WEEK?

haha

so cute that i have to stop everything for this!

































whatever happened man

hell weeks

these was what i've been up to in ass-3......2 weekends of camping....

late reject 1.



























reject 2













































































(i like this piece actually)




half reject 3





















final






































in the midst of war with time, this was what i did to philip...




















































anyone needs a haircut?






















and this was where i rest my eyes......pull 2 chairs to try n get some rest in the lab
















































where phil slept....darkroom


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and this is what we spent overnight doing for wed presentation







































































after yesterday's presentation, everyone zonked out in art history...i dozed off and nearly fell of my chair if nt for the foldable desk. i went back after dinner and did my horribly long-overdued laudry (2 weeks long)...i intended to take a nap before doing fdn drawing hmwork......set the alarm for an hour, slept at 9plus...........all the way till 430!!!!!!!! didn't collect laundry nvm..i didn't do my freakin' hmwork!!! haha ended up hanging my laundry at 430am n set the alarm till 530 (planning to rush the hmwk in 2 hrs) ...end up hahahahahahahaha urs truly woke up at 845am for a 9am class =X

i think my body is going on strike, even irritating myojo mee alarm with vibration can't seem to wake me up.























my 2 weeks worth of clothessince before cny till nw..(2 washing machines)


my wish for this recess week is to have abundance of sleep.

IAN! I WANNA GO HOME TMR!!!!!!!! lol

CHI PU TAO!

i've got research to do and installation mockup to do for 3d , art history presentation to do and 2d conceptualizing collage to do, foundation drawing hmwork to do, and reading up to do

n i haven complete one.......it's a crazy scale of 6/10 !!

screwed up last fri's presentation even after all the researching and stuff...so much for skipping film lecture =/


it's only the 2nd wk...n somehow, i find the load overwhelming. hais.


my pants are getting tighter, i am beginning to feel like leonard.

hahahaha

damn!

this morning, i was on the way to bras basah when 2 japanese/korean guys came up and asked me for direction:

guy1: escuse me, we want chipotao, u know?
me: sorry? ( i thought i heard eat grapes, chi pu tao LOL)
guy1: chipotao, (begin to do some funny gestures)
me: err, maybe u wanna show me which one r u talking about (he was holding on to a map)

guy2 came in

guy2: we want chipotal, here the chipotao...very very expensive ( i suppose he's talking about intercontinental)
guy2: chipotal...to stay....not expensive..

me: ORHHHHHH CHEAP HOTEL!!!!! ....(wah lau, chipotao chipotao..i thought u guys wanna eat grapes early in the morning)

so me pointed to some summerview hotel somewhere opposite fulushou....not sure if it's cheap but definitely cheaper than intercontinental.

so funny. well ok, maybe only i think so.


lol, alright. back to work.

new term.

just finished painting hall banner. 10pm alr...there goes my few hrs. Despite i gt to rush a research for friday's presentation. i m stil in a nua mode. still excitd abt my fridge hahahaha thanks to nono who helped me pick up the fridge!!
hahaha.

tonight marks the begining of sleepless nights.

3d concept gt rejected. =( ( shoox! that reminds me that i m supposed to redo n show him tmr! fuke)

with school started, i am once again, piled by presentations and projects. as phil commented " whats with lecturers and final projects, final final and final final final projects on the beginning of term"

yupyup, first week was bombarded with projects and research presentations that due before cny, thus this yr's cny will probably seems extra joyous and worth looking forward to. roam about cemeteries...old and new hdb estates..geylang...
transportation cost me alot last wk.

Last weekend was spent going to stpi at robertson for an exhibition by an indian artist. it's quite a cool place as artists who's going to hold an exhibition there will do their to-be-exhibits at the place itself..and will have a room to stay so as to allow them to work 24/7, whenever inspirations come. Before that, phil, kwoko and me went chintown, keong saik street to shoot
more redlight houses..haha that day was more like a eating outing, we walked alot, eat alot. first, breakfast @ macdonalds > bread n coffee at toastbox and as if we haven had enough, that 2 went on to eat wantan mee in sunshine plaza.


visited the Gos on sunday, baby corbin is soooo adorable...hehe small man with strong lungs! he can really wail ! hahaha uncle and aunty go, enjoy mummydaddy-hood eh?!

class schedules are hectic...i thought without literature, i can get away with critical analysizing! who knows...this time nd to critic film!! arghh...but lastweek's bollywood movie was quite nice =) "monsoon weddin" u guys shd check it out!

i hope i can drag myself to cityhall national library tmr/wed before/after school to do research...damn those reference books =/

thursday ha! little thing to look forward to, going national museum to draw the Greek masterpiece frm the Louvre...i think it'll be worth going to...even if one is not doing arts.

hope it will be free. =X


ok..i've been random-ing for quite awhile....... nd to get back to work!



ps..why everyone is "huat-ing" about 2008. they'll go ....."2008...HUAT AR!" ...-_-

ting ting.

aka miss yvonne.

she nv fail to make me laugh/annoyed/pekcek with her ti-ki ness and her bimbotic al-natural jokes.
like steph, she always ask me about her changes or whether her new accessories look nice..hahaha (the usual hiao stuff haha)
heres one:

we were sitting at the bustop, waiting for bus and she stood up and shove her wrist with new bracelet towards me.

T.T: hui bu hui nan kan?

me: no.

T.T: hui bu hui hao kan?

me: ya, ok.

T.T: hui bu hui fei?

me: hur?

....wth, it's just bracelet!

hahahhahahaha

i luv this line, i believe she finds it amusing too: i don't want to talk to your breasts.

i heart this silly mafan yet so lovingly annoying girl hahahahahahahaha

eve of 2nd sem

i am back in hall alr but got the urge to go town tmr =/

this holiday haven been working. am quite annoyed with the fact that i m asking money from small cow the entire holiday.
i didn't want to get extra cash from him during holidays. i feel bad and worst. i applied a job in sch...a part of me hope i'll get the job, another part of me pray that i can survive with this additional load, knowing the nature of my course.

friday night saw me, fen and prene went for a long awaited bowling session at OCC. thanks guys for entertaining me at 12 midnight! =) we shall go on the 13th again yeah?!

m kinda tired to do typing...gt alot of pics to post.....but think will post together when i get pictures frm the official photographer of my class...60GB of pics for last sem....lol wtf.

lalala. what is the meaning of life.

first post of the year

happy 2.8k people!

was chatting with mingtien just nw and he politely reminded me that it will be the 24th year on planet earth for us. (mt: if u r reading this..thank you. arbish)

well, hello 24 then. no resolutions for me...making new yr resolutions are merely there to make u feel guiltier at the end of the yr.

instead of talking abt how i wanna change in this yr for the better with whatever-thats-crap-since-forever-and-yet-still-as-crap-til-today , i rather look back at what happened yesterday -2007.

last yr was a turning pt. i decided to take the local toilet paper plunge at the age of 23 where most 19yr olds jc kids go.
the change in environment and lifestyle is quite challenging. but at this pt of time, i am glad that finally i m doing what i've always wanted -this time, for myself. (although i have decide what i want to be, at least, i am in touch with this area).
Sure, it can be really mentally and physically draining..assignments/project u rushed out w/o sleep/rest may end up as load of crap in the eyes of the boss. but still, i always remind myself that these works are still the efforts i made, without feeling guilty of nt doing my best. i still hope that demoralisation in me will nt work it's way up....

although initally or rather till nw i don't really feel great as my results ain't impressive and i most prob sits at the bottom of my class. but yet, some part of me feel glad that i make it through this long sem and i enjoyed and appreciated the things i did during the 3 mths -those things which i nv thought i will do and will nv be able to do if i haven gone back to sch haha thanks to projects.

my classmates are bunch of irritating jokers, stirers with endless self-cooked-up scandals in class. it's funny hw we work and play and fight the power, see the invisible, do the impossible rawr rawr rawr (quote kwokos)

as much as i hate soapy appreciation lines... but

i m really grateful to pple at granny's... esp uncles, honey n amah and brothers...well, thats all the pple haha
i think i'll be their slave in my next life hahahaha.

thanks for allowing me to take the plunge at ur expenses ( also, literally)
love u guys.

studies aside,
friends ard me are at another stage of their life...dearest eddice has officially become a mommy! congrats to the Gos on handsome lil' corbin! sorry dardar, recently having flu...can't visit u but i'll try to be there on the 13th of Jan. =]
heeee, i wanna kiss ur son!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

alright...this post is boring enough.....haha
going back to the jungle tmr. come visit. thank you.






p.s. ok. i admit, i m not very low-maintainance. lol

arbish!

apologise

luv it.