My exams end tomorrow!! Hoho! Even though I still have 4 untouched lecture readings, even though I didn't buy the textbook (which I've heard is important), even though I haven't been to a single lecture (except to sit for the quizzes before leaving after turning them in), AND even though I didn't S/U it because I'm a complacent pig-head, I still wish it was a morning paper so it be over sooner!! But its in the evening!! Sighhh ): ): ):

Anyway more to come! Really I promise! I haven't blogged for one entire semester so there is A LOAD of stuff to blog about! (Including our christmas sleepover! Haha sorry my dears!!)

The weather's been nothing but wet these couple of days and I swear bugs are just freezing in midflight and dropping dead everywhere. My block's corridors are littered with bodies, but that's not the worst part. The worst, is when you wake up in the morning and really need to wee, but every single cubicle is occupied by some bug or other. Case in point:

Scene: Hall 10, Block 50, Level 5, Girls' toilet
Time: Early morning

Cubicle #1 occupant: a 2.5 inch long dragonfly at the base of the toilet bowl
Cubicle #2 occupant: a similar dragonfly (but much less fortunate) in the toilet bowl
Cubicle #3&4 occupants: misc. collection of bug remains in and around the toilet bowls

What does one have to do to get a clean toilet around here? ):

The weather is also really cold! I feel like I'm in some hilltop resort on holiday now. Need to enjoy this feeling of freedom (!) before all the hall work kicks in. It would be a lie to say that I don't regret joining so many activities. Hall life is getting rather weary and the need to participate in so much just to secure a room is beginning to seem like less than a fair trade. Too late, old boy, too late! The two saddest words in English history.

I seem to be posting nothing but youtube vides lately! But youtube is kind of a good resource the way wikipedia is. Anyways here's an air safey demo video by Virgin America! It's truly one of the best of its kind that I've seen! A good demonstration of how far the limits of information communication can be pushed (:



( more airline safety here... )

Airline standards that I'm sure many a testosterone charged male person or two would love to have today:

Southwest Airlines commercial circa 1972


( more airline commercials here... )

If you've watched all those videos, you must be out-airlined by now, so here's a non-airline related commercial which is pretty amusing (and banned I think):

Watched Enchanted and Hero today! Movie marathon with my darling! Hoho :D

Hero was pretty exciting at some parts, but makes references to the TV special, so if you'd missed it you might not follow some parts.. But it did feel like watching a tv program on big screen, so you might be better off with a vcd/dvd.



Enchanted, on the other hand, is a totally different story!! It was FANTASTIC! Yes!! So if you haven't watched it, or don't plan to, GO NOW! The story is predictable but this is a movie where the plot doesn't matter so much as execution does. And the ending credits art is just beautiful!

I felt the animation and drawing style was different from previous Disney styles and learnt from Wikipedia (as we all do) that the animation was outsourced to another company because most of their 2D artists were laid off after the CG boom. What! Why?? ): They should hire better writers, not lay off their treasures and what makes them Disney. But the animation was still pretty good, if you ignore the grotesque anatomical errors (Disney princesses had exaggerated figure proportions, but wait till you see Giselle's). The music and dance scenes were fantastic! Just like old school! The most fun part about the whole thing was trying to look for references. Reading the official reference list makes me want to watch it a second time!


Behind the scenes.
Warning: spoilers! You might want to watch this after you've seen the movie (:

All this is making my psyched for Rapunzel! But that's only coming out in 2010. Sigh! What's revealed looks very promising though, what with Fragonard being their inspiration and all. I love Fragonard's work, and if they do succeed, the graphics for Rapunzel will definitely be an unprecedented breakthrough! I do hope that after the retooling they scraped the pop culture references (ala Shrek and Chicken Little). They're funny, but somehow diminishes the magic of the animated world, especially seeing that they'll most probably be marketing this one as another Princess film, and why would people want to be reminded of the real world when watching a Princess film? X:


Left: Fragonard's The Swing | Right: Rapunzel art. Source.

Poster for VisComm End of Semester Show. Bigger here.

Exams are over! In fact they were over exactly one week ago (my exams ended last monday, 11am), and I'm already back from my holiday! Chiangmai/Chiangrai is really really good, wayyy better than claustrophobic Bangkok! Lots of things to see + lots of things to buy + good food! I haven't uploaded the photos though cause am still clearing my laptop for disk space (:

Enjoy your holidays people!!

I am so totally NOT readysteady for asian art history (aptly abbreviated as AAH!!!) tomorrow!! And I haven't started on history of graphic design (tuesday morning) either!!!

In times like this, everyone wishes they had Doraemon and his magical Memory Bread. No kidding. Google for 'doraemon memory bread' and will result in 5000000 other pre-exam-frenzy-induced-cries-for-the-unobtainable like this.

You can buy it here but I highly doubt that it will work. Or be digestible.

For the people who have no idea about what on earth this whole post is about:



P.S. (why is crazy a smiley face??!??)

Finally! Submissions! Are! Over!

After more than two weeks of 3-4hours of sleep per 3 days (max), I have cleared the last submission! The past week had been particularly hard because there was an exam sandwiched in between two pairs (4 total) of submissions and it was CRAZYY. My eyebags are worse than ever! And a whole pore/blackhead community has found their way to my nose. But that's not the point. The point it that submissions are FINALLY over! (and one paper) And there's only 3 more papers to go! Hoho!



Watched Stardust today! There are sooo many good movies now that I can't watch because of exams ): Hope they'll still be around after I come back from Thailand! Stardust was pretty good entertainment -- pretty and stuff, but background and character development wise, it could definitely have had been better. Company was great though!! Hohoho first date-to with my darling since FOREVER! and before our emminent 3 week separation ): ): Had dinner at NYNY afterwards (: The pumpkin patch soup and bread was super yummy, the garlic bread had cheese on top! But the main courses was just so-so; we have decided to only buy must-have-its from there from now on X:



Drafts for my History of Graphic Design Zeigeist invitation. Will be posting the final and more works up slowly bit by bit! (And knowing me, slowly will really be slowly!)

BAIBAI~~

(P.S. Whaaat??)

makes me want a Milk Tray ):
or some Quality Street



Play Free Rice for guilt-free procrastination! For every vocabulary word you get right, you donate 10grains of rice. It's an initiative by the UN World Food Program, so there might be arguments regarding its effectiveness.. Still, at least someone(s) is trying!

About FreeRice
FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com.

FreeRice has two goals:

1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.

Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your vocabulary can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself.

Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes in hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world, a person is eating rice that you helped provide. Thank you.

(from FreeRice)

P.S. Dummy told me that Hereos is airing tonight! And to think I've spent >1 hr this mornin wiki-ing about it.. Whih IS strange because it was a total random and spontaneous decision! (Anything is better than wiki-ing endoplamic reticulum for the 10^nth time because I keep forgeting what ER stands for. In fact, I had to check my notes AGAIN just to write this)

I must have pre-cognitive powers, or something!

I hate studying when it's pouring! So noisy!! It's giving me a headache ):

(Ironically, the first song to play on my iTunes was 'Tears and Rain')

after being cooped
up all day (and
night), in a room
it is always refreshing

to find (on a much needed toilet
break)
that it is light (a
gain)

I'm definately going to get chronic eyebags out of this semester ):

( Mini Rant )

I'm really upset with my haiku book ): I can't stand submitting work that I don't like. It is a book, but it has no soul ): Gargghh

---



Have you ever wondered how the little guys living in your mouth view the outside world? You can now see the world from their point of view with The Smiley Cam! It's basically a mini pinhole camera -- mini enough just so it fits in your mouth. The creator, Justin Quinnell, has also made a "A Day in the Life of My Mouth" here. The resulting surrealistic images really look like they were taken from another dimension! Frankly speaking I think its really creepy-looking and bordering grostesque.. Really fascinating though!

-via Photojojo

It's almost my one week aniversary to being twenty! Haha yes late birthday entry but still. I'm finally twenty! Not that I feel any different, but it's still kinda sad to no longer be a teen. Somehow it feels like I can't do crazy things and blame it on my hormones anymore! Boo. Twenty is the year of not year, not there -- am not really looking forward to turning 21 though ): Must enjoy 20 while it lasts!!

( Twenty for Twenty )


( <3 <3 <3! )

I really should stop starting work at 3.40am.

(On a happier note I found koala biscuits (!!) in the most recent kitchen raid (#3) that I've been carrying out for the pst >1hr because eating = don't need to do work. I can't find any chocopies! ): )

P.S. It's really difficult to pick dead flying ants out from your drinking cup.

WTB shading skillz


While putting together my process book for GD1, I realised that nothing can be more beautiful than a book block waiting to be bound! I love the sound of the word 'book', especially the way my Type tutor says it - "buK" or something. buK bLoCK. How delicious!

Assuming that people how not forsaken this blog like I have, post a word or phrase that you are in love with right now, and I'll make something from it :D

Ohh projects! I need to start building up my portfolio/ make new things people'd want to buy so I can start earning MUNNY. $.$

P.S. does the overall colour of the above sketch seem too yellow or in any way off? I've been trying (and failing) to calibrate my monitor cause I just realised that the colour I'm seeing and working from is different from most other monitors.. ><

EDIT: I had meant yellow as in their skin colour, the bg is supposed to be orange >< I've found out what the matter with my monitor is: colours seem darker so I tend to make it too light because that achieves "normal" contrast on my screen ):

And I will get around to making things with those words! Soon, soon.

Yesterday my laptop did the Somersault of Death and flipped out of my arms, ending the stunt with a (too) loud resounding BANG! on the floor. When I tried to boot it up it kept flashing the CAPSLOCK! NUMLOCK! SCROLLLOCK! (what does that do anyway?) at me and the screen remained resolutely blank, because obviously the repeated flashing of ALL three locks at once meant that it was LOCKED DOWN LOCK LOCK LOCK!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111oneone

You can tell that I'm getting hysterical and incoherent, because allllllll my projects that I've done so far and their processes, drafts, etc, which will be needed to be designed and bound into a book at the end of the semester (which is like, five weeks away! Six, actually, but five till the deadline I think) are in that laptop and even though chances of me losing my information are slight, I've been told that I might only be able to retain about 50% of the info. PLEASE LET THAT 50% BE MY D: DRIVE PLSPLSPLSS ): ): ): WHY DIDN'T I BACK UP ): ): ):

I'm now using papa's laptop which is the same model and I'm so amazed at how new and snappy it is! (You know, the snappiness that new things have) I feel like such a horrible laptop owner now ):

SO I had wanted to post about many things like Fantastic (the brand, not the adjective) instant pasta and various other things but its temporarily (I hope) unavailable so live your happy lives with your laptops/ desktops and shower them with hugs and kisses because THEY ARE SO IMPORTANT.

I had to venture though amazing webbed jungles and battle huge dust bunnies before getting here! Nothing much of an update, just procrastinating while waiting for work to be loaded.

( Career Cruisin'! )

Memes are such strange things; one usually has his/her dream answers in mind, only to growl in despair when they find out that they are actually strawberry icecream instead of chocolate, or Ursula instead of Ariel, or something. If we already know what we want to be, what's a quiz to tell us who we are? But we still keep doing them anyway, because they are so. darned. addictive. And makes for good procratination excuse too!

"I can't do my assignment yet, I need to get in touch with my TRUE inner self!"

Thanks to Nickelodeon's (I had to Google that to learn how to spell it) new Spongebob episodes, I have been watching more spongebob than what is considered healthy over the past two days. (About 8 hours worth) Gah! Squidward is still very funny though.

Squidward: (to Spongebob) One Kraby Patty.
Spongebob: (fixes the burger) There you go! (But remains rooted to the spot)
Squidward: (Exasperated) Now bring it here, Spongebob.
Spongebob: (Can't walk without falling due to untied laces and he's forgotten how to tie them) Hey! I've got an idea. Why don't you come here and get it?
Squidward: Ohh! You're right! That's a brilliant idea! And while I'm at it, I could also go stand at the grill, flip Krabby Patties, turn into a yellow sponge, go live in a pineapple, and call myself SPONGEBOB!!! BRING THE PATTY HERE!!!!!!

:D :D

This blog is dying! I sort of found my old journal from JC, and read through it a little, and I really miss the times when I would actually write the details of the day. I don't do it anymore, either on pen or paper, and am afraid my life will just pass me by without any proof to remind me, later, that I had lived somehow, no matter how wayward or vagrant-esque!

Anyways I do have loads to talk about, and photos actually already uploaded, just too lazy to post, and here are the highlights since my absence!

- Watched Phantom of the Opera at the Esplanade
- Bought a Wacom Intuous 3 6x8" OHMYGOD XD
- Went for Mayday's Jump! concert (Bought a sparkly lightstick thing! :D)
- Went to Malacca for 3D2N

Of course, there are little things (read: less expensive) too, like:

- Finished my first year of university!
- Discovered that Ai Wo, the health food restaurant that fang used to work at at Raffles City is closed
- Met up with Natalie and Wan Lin at AMKHub! XD
- Went back to SNGS with Natalie, Ivy and Vienna! (She's graduated already!)
- Got myself addicted to WoW X:
- Borrowed more juvenile literate from the library that I can read
- Baked and baked and baked (:
- FOC carwash and milo poisoning X: (Which got me running to Jubilee's loo on the way home to puke X:)

Picture will be uploaded in next post!

Save meeeeeeee x_X

I have a MAJOR sculpture assignment due tomorrow that was given to us about 5 weeks ago to complete. Knowing me of course I havent got myself started at all ):

And I still don't feel like getting started!! Someone please come over and kick my lazy butt!


P.S. Dear friends! Exams end this week for me so letza hang out sometime next week!!!!

Why is it that when people write about art they feel the need to structure their sentences in such abstract and complicated ways like "More than that, the restlessness and shorthanded notation of colours, which is an intense series of signs and letters scribbled in extreme excitement comparable to a letter or entry in a diary and forming both a unity during the more distant process of reading as well as a readable message, is in danger of drowning on the canvass in a chaos of pictorial signs and endless spaces." or, "Within this process from the first notation on an empty canvass to the finished image structure, Christian Möller lives through all the ups and downs of inner and external tensions, perceptions, observations and events he encounters in his daily life. He pictorially develops them to the point where he binds himself to one state after many solid and transparent coatings in compact, condensed colours and/or transparent, dissolved colours and leaves them where he feels he has found his inner balance, as he himself points out" ??

Digesting all this is giving me such a huge headache!!

I hate 4D!! ):

I don't update often, but when something epic (and by epc, I really mean epically tragic) happens, I just HAVE to talk about it. Here goes:

I flushed my handphone down the toilet bowl.

This happened on the wednesday that's just past, sometime during the afternoon ): It's what sonnie would call "such a loser thing to do".

I just can't believe that while my hall toilet is incapable of properly disposing of human waste/ excess toilet paper, it has cleanly and perfectly swallowed my handphone whole in a matter of what, 3, 4 seconds?

It's ridiculous!!

(So meanwhile, before I get my replacement sim card, I will be uncontactable. If you get any calls/ msgs from me, it's not me, it's the sewer gods.)