Ver. 11: The Spaces in Between

[Nov. 25th, 2009|11:54 pm]

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15Nov09, Sun: Why Y

Started working on my Typography 1 Letter Journal. At the beginning of this semester, each student had to pick a letter to concentrate on. This letter will be a running 'theme' throughout all typography assignments for the four months. My letter is 'y'. Why? Because it's the second letter of my name. So there :-) My letter journal consists of approximately forty-three 'y's in various typefaces and styles which I had cut out from magazines or found on deviantart.com. Below each 'y', I wrote a three-liner that I felt encompassed the letter's feel or 'spirit'. Here are a few of my favourite examples:

On a completely unrelated note. While Boo and I were heading back home from hall, the car was getting all wonky along the highway. We started freaking out when all the warning lights and icons started flickering, the touch screen monitor went dead and the steering wheel was stiff and almost un-turnable. Boo exited the highway and quickly turned into a small, dark lane along Thompson Road. She tried re-starting the car again but nothing happened. At all. It was in a coma of some sort. She quickly called Bey, who upon hearing what had happened, went into his curse & swear mode before giving her the number of some car servicing thingy. The person on the phone who had absolutely no idea what happened to our comatose car, told us to contact the emergency towing service which eventually came after an hour of wait. Big bro dropped on by and picked us up from the middle of nowhere. In Singapore, this is considered an adventure of sorts :-)

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16Nov09, Mon: Rawr

Ah, the many faces of Domo :-D

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17Nov09, Tue: Extra Curricular

Just watched 'Paranormal Activity'. The film begins with Micah testing out his new camera with fiance, Katie. Later, it is revealed that the reason why he purchased it was to capture paranormal activities that have been taking place in the home, especially their room. Every night, Micah places the camera facing the doorway of the bedroom and Katie even hires a psychic for advice on their strange problem. The occurrences don't seem to be letting up but Micah is bent on getting to the bottom of this mystery and protecting the love of his life, no matter what it takes.

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18 & 19 Nov09, Wed & Thu: Wonky Spine

Spent the week finishing up my final two journals of the semester due on Friday :-) Plus, the 129 episode korean drama that I've been following rather religiously is almost at an end! Just 20 more episodes to go. The drama is getting even more drama than before.

"Sarang Heeeeey"

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20 - 22 Nov09, Fri - Sun: "Try your hardest, but don't try too hard"

Spent the last few days studying for AAH, Japan :-D~

Jane and I are such hardworking university students, so awesomely hardworking that at one point, we started watching HP Space on youtube :-D We got kinda stressed out after midnight and for entertainment, started traumatising each other with our most 'tiko' voices. Her phlegm-y stalker voice won my squeaky pubescent beng voice hands down!

*Duh-bah-bom*

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23Nov09, Mon: Willow-like Snow Boat

The AAH exam went well. All thanks to Junyi who provided us with the AAH Helper powerpoint slides, he truly is lord of AAH :-D Pieces that came out during the exam:

1) 'Tales of Genji'
2) 'Ink-Splashed Painting'
3) 'Tamamushi Shrine''
4) 'Hell Scrolls'

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24Nov09, Tue: When Pigs Fly

Had my second exam of the week, Creative Design in Communication and Marketing. Another two more to go next week! So tired and yet here I am still up at one in the morning watching 'So you think you can Dance?' :-D

Anyway, the exam today consisted of a question that required one to create the name, tagline and logo of a new budget airline, taking into consideration the economic downturn and pandemics. I started brainstorming and a few words came to mind: Hope, Guardian, Strength, Flight, Future, Joy, Protection and Care.

I needed a single representation of all these words that had nothing to do with animals (definitely not pigs) or inanimate objects. The idea of an angel stood out most because it encompassed all the characteristics that I wanted the brand identity of this budget airline to comprise of. However, naming it Angel Air might be a tad cliche so I started thinking of other alternate names and remembered that a Seraphim is an ethereal being. In the end, the finalised the airline name was, 'Seraphina' :-D And the tagline, "We'll take you there."

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25Nov09, Wed: 'Lim Pei'

Boo borrowed 'Where got Ghost' and 'Sophie's Revenge', we spent the afternoon watching both dvds. 'Where got Ghost' is a local production which features three separate ghost stories. 'Sophie's Revenge' stars Zhang Ziyi as the spunky and clutzy Sophie whose boyfriend (Jeff) leaves her for a famous actress (Joanna) right after their wedding invitations have been sent out. Trying desperately to reunite with Jeff and failing miserably at first, Sophie then teams up with Joanna's ex, Gordon (a photographer), and through this partnership, attempt to scheme their way back to their ex's hearts. As plans unfold, revenge becomes the least of their problems.

| Joyous Casacde 09|

[Nov. 15th, 2009|05:40 pm]

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26Oct09, Mon: Burning Beyond the Midnight Oil

I am like drowning in assignments. Too. Much. Work.

Mah brain is melting. Was designing the collaterals for the Comm and Marketing final project (Biomimicry) till 4.30am in ADM. Amanda was compiling the presentation slides, Shane was designing the advertisements and Angela & Shirley were putting together the Brochure layout. We managed to get a lot done, but it's far from over.

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27Oct09, Tue: The MacBook Zombie

Spent 17 hours in the VisCom computer lab. Nuff' said.

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28Oct09, Wed: Filling Voids

Today was our Comm and Marketing final project presentation. We managed to finish everything on time but had to get an extension for the hard copies and process workbook. Immediately after class, I went off to get paper, have the project printed and compiled. Was done by 10.30pm, thank God.

An interesting passage I read recently called, "Electrical Tower" by Uma Durer. The entire short story seems very surreal, like a dream.

"She went walking at a park that was along an old and deep canal, it was full to the brim and rippled a grayish blue under the chalky sky. And as she enjoyed her evening stroll, the girl caught sight of a familiar face darting quickly past her. He wore a white, loose-fitting, wife-beater singlet, dirty khakis, black rubber sandals, left lobe pierced through with a diamond stud, sporting a shaved head with a pair of sunglasses hanging precariously behind the ears. As soon as she recognized who he was, by sheer reflex, shouted out to him, and almost immediately slapped both hands across her mouth. She wasn’t supposed to know his name. Everything else fell silent, as he turned around mid jog and shouted back in response. He wasn’t supposed to know hers either. The girl asked him something casually but he seemed to be in a rush somewhere. Nearby, an electrical tower stood coldly with a scattering of young men tampering with its wires. The boy was part of the group. He told the girl to wait for him while he delivered a parcel to his friends. She looked on curiously at the foot of the electrical tower. A short while later, the boy came back down and handed the girl a piece of plain paper that was folded in half, then gathered up with the rest of his cousins who were walking off into the distance. The boy looked back at her, waving goodbye and was soon out of sight. The girl held the note in her hands and opened it. Scribbled in quick handwriting, the boy wrote about how he’d love to know her more, and that if she’s willing, he hopes to speak with her again at the place where they first met. She stared at the note, stunned, and absolutely over the moon."

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29Oct09, Thu: Pseudo Ethereal Beings

The Biomimicry project is over and everything's been handed in. I'm so relieved. Here's the final logo design:

The colours have been changed from a black & white image to soothing blues and greens. An arrow frames the pictorial logo to represent a self-sustainable eco-system.

ADM Halloween Party in the night. Jane babe and I were dressed up as angels, well, I was actually a devil in disguise (white feathered wings and black tail). The party was fun, took loads of pictures with quirkily dressed friends :-D

Naresh is some gay guy who changes lights for film and Lydia is Jubilee from X-Men.

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30Oct09, Fri: Fright Night

Attended the Sentosa Halloween Spooktacular 2009 with Honey, it was amazing :-D The event was held at Images of Singapore in Sentosa. Originally a wax museum, the venue was converted into a haunted mansion with all sorts of ghouls and creatures roaming both the outside and interior. Honey and I arrived at about 9pm and were told that the event was no longer entertaining anymore visitors for the night, but when the staff doubled checked the ticket availability again, we were in luck, we got the last two tickets for the night! The queue for tickets was long but the queue for entrance into the haunted mansion was even longer. Thank goodness there were ghouls roaming the vicinity, entertaining us and taking pictures with everyone, but all the while, being very professional and staying in character. Ghouls performing outside included:

Jiang Shi, Twitchy Doctor, Nurse with giant syringe, Pontianak with baby, Traditional dead chinese bride, Woman in red gown, Screamy killer with chopper, Creepy bloodied couple, Japanese soldier, Death on a Segway, Wailing Encik.

After a total waiting time of an hour and a half (Woah, that's long), a batch of eight of us entered the haunted mansion. There were ghouls hidden in corners, waiting to freak us out. Some were even disguised to look like wax figurines. Loved the costumes and make up, everything was done so well and I was highly entertained throughout the entire thirty minute walk through. Twenty-eight dollars well spent :-)

After all the excitement and hoohah, we were famished! Ordered up a delicious supper at WaveHouse. Awesome meal. We even had some live entertainment nearby. There was some birthday party going on with breakdancers tearing up the floor :-D So you think you can dance, Singapore style.

The night was fantastic. This was the best Halloween I've ever had :-)

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31Oct09, Sat: CG Insanity

I just saw the extended clip from the movie 2012 and it's insane! I have no idea how many cars they had to destroy or how much footage of water/glass/debris/fire/earth they had to film in order to get the amazingly real scenes of destruction. The film stars John Cusak who plays Jackson Curtis, a divorced Limo driver/writer who stops at nothing to save his family from this globally cataclysmic event. I am so watching this.

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1Nov09, Sun: The Young & The Restless

Spent the day writing my Zeitgeist exhibition brief for History of Graphic Design and was doing some research on SOTA (School of the Arts). I would really like to visit it someday and maybe even teach there? :-) Who knows.

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2Nov09, Mon: Type that's Good enough to Eat

Last presentation of the semester for Typography class. HELVETICA. Joanne made cakes in the shape of the Helvetica typeface. It was so cool :-)

Here's Astrid, our Typography 1 professor nipping the 'a' away :-D

One of my classmates getting ready to eat 'c'.

Sprinkles to decorate the cake :-)

Looks like confetti.

A very 'hearty' snack :-D

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3Nov09, Tue: Doodlers

My history of graphic design, Zeitgeist exhibition invite:

The concept of the invite is to make it look like a primary school jotter book which has been doddled on by a very expressive and creative young child. The exhibition showcases posters from the 1930s that were designed for the Worker's Progress Administration, Federal Arts Project under the USA Government. It's purpose is to educate Singaporean parents with young children about design and how influential a designer is to society. The 'Posters by the People, for the People' Exhibition aims to bring across the message that art and design is not supposed to be obscure and frivolous, on the contrary, it is a practical means of conveying important announcements and information through visual communication to the masses :-)

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4Nov09, Wed: When Honesty isn't always the best Policy

Joe Khoo, my lecturer for Graphic Design 1 was pretty pissed with me today regarding my final project progress. I shan't elaborate but I basically felt embarrassed and misunderstood.

During Fantastic Art, Dada & Surrealism class, Kate introduced us to German Expressionism in film. She showed us two short vintage films, both portraying similar themes of the creation going against its creator. Some strange and bizarre stuff, not entirely surprising for Kate's class :-)

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5 - 10 Nov 09, Thu - Tue: Lean (Lynn) Mean Design Machine

Spent the rest of the week on my final projects. Typography 1's 'Haiku' and Graphic Design 1's 'Connecting Nature & Humans'.

My 'Haiku' project is based on the quote, "After the game, the king & pawn go back to the same box".

And I'll be re-designing Nature News by Nature Society (Singapore) for "Connecting Nature & Humans". It's a bi-monthly bulletin that lists upcoming events and activities for the Nature Society members to participate in with fellow nature lovers.

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11Nov09, Wed: Bird Voyeur

Presented my final graphic design project for the semester. I had a lot of fun researching on numerous bird species. Was looking through pages and pages of Deviantart.com photography to pick out the loveliest images of our beautiful feathered friends.

After class ended, met up with Jane babe and the both of us had lunch at Jurong Point. We went shopping around for Vanessa's birthday present, I got her a travel journal and 'Draw Your Mind' note book from this really pretty stationery shop :-)

Met Honey, Nens and Vanessa in Bugis. We hung out at J.co till late. We were planning our vacation together for the December holidays, I'm really excited :-) Places I'd love to visit in the future: Hong Kong, Bangkok, Melbourne, Sydney, Hokkaido, London, Switzerland, Denmark.

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12Nov09, Thu: Farewell Atlantis

Had lunch at Ikea with Vanessa and Honey. We ordered up a smorgasbord of food :-) Went shopping there for awhile and I bought this box of heart shaped gingerbread cookies which are absolutely delicious.

Honey and I bought tickets to the movie, '2012' which was only starting in two hours. So to kill time, we visited the archade and played a bunch of games like Silent Hill, Digital Drummer and Manic Panic. We had tea and chilled awhile in Coffee Bean before making our way to the cinema.

The movie was a whopping two and a half hours! Honey and I decided to walk from Downtown East to Pasir Ris Park's Summer Breeze Restaurant for our dinner. Vanessa and her colleagues were coincidently in the restaurant just beside ours.

It's been a long but fulfilling day with my ol' buddies :-)

Got home and popped in the 129 episode Korean Drama Series my mom and I have been watching.

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13Nov09, Fri: Billowing

Yay went shopping today and bought a blouse and dress from Max & Co. I love retail therapy :-)

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14Nov09, Sat: A Decade of Friendship

There is a course in the University of London for a Masters in Branding and Identity. The entire course duration is 11 months. I fainted. My dream course! I have a new found motivation to do exceedingly well in NTU ADM :-)

Vanessa came by and picked me up for our shopping trip with Honey and Nens at Ion Orchard. We took some lovely photographs of us four basking under the sparkly Orchard Road Christmas lights.

Dinner at the Marmalade Pantry (Ion Orchard). I highly recommend the Steak burger, Tagliatelle and Crab meat pasta. Their food is fantastic though a little pricey.

We shopped around Far East Plaza for a while and then had dessert at East Coast's Starbucks Coffee before making our way home. I still can't believe we've all been friends for a decade now. A decade!

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[Oct. 26th, 2009|04:56 pm]

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12Oct09, Monday: Blame it on the Men

This is so wicked.

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13Oct09, Tuesday: "She was like Phoebe from friends, but worse"

Jerome, Amanda and I finally finished our presentation for History of Graphic Design class, Zeitgeist being, The Modern Movement in America. We served our entire class, Donuts. On each donut was a toothpick and on each toothpick we pasted a lovely sticker associated with our presentation on Graphic Design in America during the 1930s.

After two months or so, Seraphina and I met up for dinner and had a lot of catching up to do :-D She told me about her travels to Australia and New Zealand plus all the wonderful (and sometimes traumatizing) characters she met while on her backpacking trip.

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14Oct09, Wednesday: V. Dentata

A long wednesday in school as usual. The only class I actually looked forward to was Kate's because this was the lesson where she introduced Salvador Dali to us. His work is mind blasting. I have always been fascinated by Dali paintings and have even visited a Museum dedicated solely to him in Japan but it's a shame that I never completely understood what his work and the symbols within his art meant until today. Kate first gave us a brief introduction of Dali's life, his relationship with his father, his views on sex, women & death plus a Freud in fifteen session where she condensed complex Freudian theories for us to understand, such as:

1) The Oedipus Complex
2) The Id, Ego & Super Ego
3) Dream Interpretation

Why bring in Freud? Because to understand Dali's paintings, it is essential to understand Freudian theory. One of the main things that fascinated me about Dali was the relationship he had with his wife and muse, Gala. Previously married to Paul Eluard, a Surrealist poet, Gala had met Dali briefly while still in a relationship with her ex-husband. Thereafter, Dali became highly infatuated by her and she in turn took a great liking to him. Interesting enough though, the one who was responsible for igniting their high profile relationship was non other than Paul Eluard himself, who gave his wife over to Dali most willingly. Dali loved his new wife with almost an obsession but unfortunately had trouble being intimate with her. He had always been fearful of women, associating them with the female praying mantis (they chew the heads off their mate during intercourse) and thus equating sex with death. Pretty bizarre stuff eh?

Dali's work aims to shock and even disgust the viewer. His paintings are done on small canvases which forces one person at a time to examine the piece up close and most personally. Even though the subject matter of his paintings are strange and disturbing, things you wouldn't normally see in the real world, he depicts them through paint, so realistically that the mind becomes confused with what is real and what isn't.

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15Oct09, Thursday: The Academic side of Me

Got back our AAH (India Art) exam scripts. Scored a B-, very average grade. Got to push harder for the next exam on China Art. Really struggling with my history modules in ADM, I guess that's the price I have to pay for slacking in secondary school, my mind isn't disciplined enough to study subjects that require memorization of dates, places and periods. Well, better late than never :-)

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16Oct09, Friday: Copy cats

Met up with my group mates in ADM. We got down to discussing the logo design for our final Communication and Marketing class project. The topic that we're concentrating on is Biomimicry (Pro-green theme) and we're supposed to brand the company that deals with Biomimetic solutions for businesses. Biomimicry is the science of mimicking nature to solve everyday problems. Velcro is an example of Biomimicry, inspired by the Burdock's hook haired seeds that attach itself to the fur of animals or clothing for dispersal. Since Biomimicry uses nature to solve urban problems, I designed a logo around that concept:

The reflection represents the act mimicking. We see a silhouette of the Singapore skyline and at first glance, a grey rippled reflection of the city beneath it. The actual image though is a forest with trees that mimick the exact heights of the buildings above.

Took a train all the way from Boon Lay to Simei, it was a long long long ride home, thank goodness I had my music player. Got back and crashed for a few hours. Woke up and finished off my Environmental Typography assignment on Taiwan.

The five panels represent five days in Taiwan. All chinese typography was photographed there, isolated and edited on photoshop then imported to Indesign for layout.

Panel One, Day One: Departure from Singapore, arrival in Taiwan (minimal chinese type). Passport stamp placed beneath the aeroplane icon to look like a runway.

Panel Two, Day Two: Most memorable activity of the day was duckling racing, hence the silhouette of a duck :-D

Panel Three, Day Three: Visited my favourite spot in Taiwan, Jiu Fen. A mountainous village with red lanterns that sway beautifully along the roof of teahouses and shops.

Panel Four, Day Four: Back down to the city of Taipei and a visit to 101. Rode the lift all way up to the 89th floor, it was one lightning fast elevator.

Panel Five, Day Five: Back home to Singapore away from the Island of Taiwan.

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17Oct09, Saturday: Ponyo wants Ham

DVD Night with Hannah. We watched Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Gake no ue no Ponyo). The entire film was so uberly adorable that I was squealing for the most part of it. The story tells of a young mermaid who, unbeknownst to her father, leaves home and swims out into the ocean where she gets trapped in a glass bottle (the ocean is filthy) by accident. The unconscious little mermaid is found by a five year old boy who lives by the sea named Sosuke. Sosuke rescues the poor mermaid and names her Ponyo. Ponyo licks the blood off Sosuke's glass cut wound, thereby igniting a latent power within the mermaid who also begins to fall in love with Sosuke. Ponyo's father goes in search for her and finally recaptures his daughter. Ponyo having injested human blood, begins to morph into a human child. She eventually escapes from her father again and goes in search of Sosuke.

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18Oct09, Sunday: That Wind Swept Look

Kor bought the DVD for '9'. It's a pretty interesting post-apocalyptic animation film about how machines have taken over the world and the only remnants of the human soul lie within nine stitchpunks that were created by a scientist during the cataclysmic war.

Full family portrait plus cousin Raymond who came back from Canada this week :-)

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19Oct09, Monday: Festival of Lights

HAPPY DEEPAVALI everyone :-)

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20Oct09, Tuesday: Another Thirteen

Had another pop quiz for History of Graphic Design class, Astrid is super xiong :-D

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21Oct09, Wednesday: Best Friend Moments

Visited the Sungei Buloh nature reserve with my Graphic Design classmates. I felt like a primary school kid going on excursion :-) The giant mudskippers and monitor lizards were fascinating. The giant mudskippers that live in the mangrove swamps there are carnivorous and even cannibalistic, eating crabs, insects and mudskippers smaller than itself. They don't have tear ducts so their eyes literally roll back in their heads to moisturize. So bitchy.

Rushed back to ADM for Communications and Marketing class. My group was supposed to consult with our lecturer at the end of the class but had zilch to show :-D We were allowed to reschedule for next week. Thank God.

Kate covered photomontage during Fantastic Art class. Mainly works by Hannah Hoch and John Heartfield. The above collage is by Heartfield, titled 'Hurrah the Butter is all Gone'.

Spent the rest of the night studying China Art for AAH with Jane babe in hall.

Tomb of Wu Ding + Fu Hao, Wuguancun, Anyang, Henan Province = Late Shang Period, 1200BC
Tomb of Liu Sheng + Dou Wan, Lingshan, Mancheng, Hebei = Western Han Dynasty, 113BC
Tomb of the Family of Li Cang, Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province = Western Han Dynasty, 186 - 168BC
Gu KaiZhi (344 - 406AD) Style = Six Dynasties Period, 220 - 489AD
Yungang Caves, Yungang, Datong, Shanxi Province = Northern Wei Dynasty, 406 - 489AD
Longmen Caves, Longmen, Luoyang, Henan Pronvince = Northern Wei Dynasty, 523AD
Vairocana Buddha (627 - 629AD), Longmen, Luoyang, Henan Pronvince = Tang Dynasty
Zhou Fang (8th Century) Style = Tang Dynasty
Gu HongZhong (10th Century) Style = Five Dynasties Period (907 - 960AD)
Fan Kuan (960 - 1030AD) Style = Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1279AD)

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22Oct09, Thursday: Turkish Delights

Sent my environmental typography assignment off to print at Sunshine Plaza. The printing turned out really clear and crisp. Whew. Pricey though.

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23Oct09, Friday: "The Zombies. Are coming."

Attended a fashion show called Manifesto 09 at Zouk with Jane babe and gang. We hung out there awhile and then made our way to Pan Pacific hotel to join Amanda at StereoLab. We didn't go in though because cover charge was twenty eight dollars. Insane.

I got home and played Plants vs Zombies till 3am :-D So. Addictive. Again.

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24Oct09, Saturday: Furry Spine

Today, I made a flip book for my animating grey assignment. Had a lot of fun with it :-)

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25Oct09, Sunday: "This is so Ghetto!"

From 4pm onwards, my group started designing the collaterals for our Communications & Marketing final project. We were done with the logo but posters, brochure and advertisements are still on the way.

Helped Shane with her Indesign project. We ran all around ADM trying to find a working printer that wasn't out of ink. As a final solution, Kwok taught us to borrow the colour ink cartridges from the wonky printer, transfer it to the printer lacking ink and WALA! We successfully printed all the pages out in one shot :-D We binded the book back at my hall and within forty-five minutes, the book was completed. Hallejujah.

| Joyous Cascade 09 |

[Oct. 11th, 2009|03:45 pm]

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28Sep09, Monday: Anti-social Taco Dog

Visited da boo's aunt today, her family owns two adorable chihuahuas, Chanel and Charlie :-D Chanel is much more comfortable with people so she was prancing around the house all excited and even showing us where she slept and how many trendy clothes she owned! Charlie on the other hand, was moping in the toilet. Men.

Met up with Amanda in the evening for dinner at Waraku (delish!), we went shopping after and I bought a brand new bag from RockStar by Soon Lee (Cineleisure), my other backpack which I got from the Zouk Flea was starting to look really depressing and old :-p

Had dessert at TCC and we were chatting till late before making our way home by MRT. I was bushed.

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29Sep09, Tuesday: La Melancolique Harlequin

Late night photoshoot with Jia Liang and Carrie at a playground. I was made up to look like a sad clown :-D

Queen of the Playground

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30Sep09, Wednesday: Taiwan Day Yi

Headed down to the airport at around 8am to get our airplane tickets, check in luggage and wait for our flight to Taipei :-D It took about four and a half hours to reach Taiwan, hate plane rides. Met up with the local tour guide and group in the arrival hall. Our first stop, a wholesale shopping street in Taipei...

Roamed around for a bit, took some pictures, didn't shop much though. Youth fashion in Taipei is basically a mix of boho-chic and hobo-chic styles with a little but of 'lian' thrown in. Not exactly my kind of style :-p

For dinner, the tour guide brought us to a local night market which sold a variety of different foods and snacks, the stalls lined an entire street with gift shops and restaurants flanking them. Da boo, bey and I chose to enjoy our first dinner in Taipei at a cosy restaurant. We ordered up a few bowls of 'mee sua' (there was cabbage in it), some cold tofu (I wouldn't touch it), a plate of what I figured to be khang khong (this was good) and lastly, golden mushrooms (this was the best).

We decided to head back to the night market's entrance and wait for the rest of the tour group to gather. It was starting to drizzle. Finally, the tour guide led us back to the bus, back to the hotel for the night.

ZzzZzzzZZzz.

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1Oct09, thursday: Taiwan Day Er

Day duex in Taiwan was filled with a whole load of venues and activities.

First stop, a visit to some hot springs. The trees there were thriving! The tour group took a walk around the vicinity and took loads of pictures of the steam billowing out from what I would expect to be boiling hot spring water. A refreshing morning walk to start the day :-)

A short stop at a famous award winning Taiwanese confectionary in the city. They sold pastries, bread, little cakes, kueh kuehs and other assorted foods which I didn't recognize, one of which looked like a thick stick of sketching charcoal (black bean).

Our next venue was one of my favourites, Taiwan Storyland, an underground old school street-style museum. The place was made up to look like the streets of Taiwan in the 50s. There were replicas of cars, homes, a toy shop, food stalls, a camera store, hair salon, dental clinic, police station, boutiques, a school and even a bar :-D I had a blast taking pictures in that place.

Time for dinner, we were brought to yet another night market, much larger than the previous one. Da boo and I stumbled upon a snazzy hair salon and decided to get a wash and blow-dry :-D It was one of the best head massages I had ever had. After our pampering session, we were all really hungry, Da bey brought us to a stall which sold noodles, rice, meat and soups. Da boo and bey had noodles while I decided to opt for a bowl of rice with meat, sauce and pickles plus a bowl of Bak Kut Teh soup. The rice was great but the soup was fantastic! We had to finish up our food chop chop because we were already late in gathering with our tour group.

Our last stop for the night, Shangri-La Farm stay :-) The tour bus went meandering precariously up a mountain side, Da boo was freaking out because of how close the huge bus was to the edge of the cliffs. There was a bunch of activities planned for us that night at around 8pm, so we rested in our rooms for abit, I was watching Kill Bill on HBO before heading back down to the main lobby :-D

It was pouring outside, we joined other tour groups from Hong Kong and participated in their first activity for the night, making 'Tang Yuan' followed by a lesson on top-spinning. Da bey was the first to have a go at it, not bad and he even coaxed me into trying it out as well, how embarrassing :-) There was a guy going around getting people to sign up for the top-spinning competition. Da bey eventually convinced me to join in as well. I practiced a few times before the actual event and felt uber malu standing in front of so many strangers, throwing a top onto a wet metallic surface on the ground.

Our next activity was duckling racing! I was of course the first one to grab myself an adorable yellow birdie which was squirming around in my hands, trying its best to break free. They scattered some feed onto the 'racing track' and all five ducklings were let loose on it. Mine came in last :-D By this time, the rain had let up to a light drizzle.

The hosts announced the winners of the top-spinning competition, to my surprise, I came in second! The handed me a certificate with my chinese name on it plus a brand new wooden top and string. I gave it to Da bey who had intended to buy one that afternoon.

The last event, letting loose white wishing lanterns into the night sky :-) We all wrote our wishes on the paper lanterns and the hosts came by to light up the center, making the lantern float effortlessly into the air. It was so beautiful watching them flying off into the distance, bright flames burning bright in the cool of the night.

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2Oct09, Friday: Taiwan Day San

We left the farm early in the morning and headed back to the outskirts of Taipei, Jiu Fen. Jiu Fen is said to be Miyazaki's inspiration for one his most famous films, 'Spirited Away', which is perhaps why I absolutely adore Jiu Fen so much. It's a mystical place with hidden nooks and crannies in every corner, the buildings are decorated with red lanterns and lights that string along above head, adding to the magical atmosphere of the mountaintop village. The paths sometimes lead you to open spaces that give you a breathtaking view of meadows and blue sky, while other routes bring you to clusters of old tea houses. It's too bad we could only spend a measly hour there :-p I was hoping to explore a little bit more and even spend some time relaxing in the tea houses.

The bus then brought us to Tam Shui's Fisherman's Wharf. A wonderfully windy place facing the sea. A large white bridge that was at the heart of the Wharf was the main attraction. Below, a long line of seafood restaurants and snack shoppes waited patiently for eager and hungry customers.

We had our lunch though at a shopping district in Taipei. Spent a pretty long time there. Da Boo and I even visited this small 'Freak' Museum, it was hilarious :-D

A visit to the Sulfurous hot springs next. Some had a bath in the rotten egg smelling water while Da Bey and I explored the area and took a walk outside. We stumbled upon the source of where the water was coming from and boy was it stinky. We were about to walk back to the hot spring spa when I discovered to my horror that a group of dogs were aggressively defending their territory on a bridge which we had to cross in order to get back to our tour group. The dogs really freaked me out and I didn't dare go near them at all. In the end, we sought help from a man who worked nearby and he asked one of his colleagues to give us a short ride (open air van) across the bridge back to our original venue.

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3Oct09, Saturday: Taiwan Day Shi

Day four was free and easy :-D We visited Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper in Taiwan! The lift that went up to the 89th floor was uberly fast, made the ears pop. There was a variety of art pieces on that floor, from paintings to sculptures and gorgeous coral jewelry. The ride back down made my ears pop again :-)

Da bey had booked a half-day tour to Wulai, an aboriginal village on the outskirts of Taipei. Our tour guide came to pick us up from the hotel and drove about an hour to Wulai. Upon arrival, we sat a pushcart (mini train) to the waterfall viewing area and took a nice stroll around in the breezy weather before heading up to the cinema for the 50 minute Wulai dance/skit performance. The choreography was wonderful and the actors did a fantastic job.

At night, we had dinner in Shi Men Ting, a large and popular shopping district in the city. I suggested having Risotto at a shoppe which had an adorable golden retriever leased up outside. Da boo ordered the curry chicken risotto, da bey had some basel clam risotto and I of course went for a tomato based seafood risotto. The boo and I whacked up our dishes but da bey took one taste of his and pushed it away :-D He said and I quote, "It's not that I don't want to eat it, it's impossible to."

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4Oct09, Sunday: Taiwan Day Wu

Our last day in Taiwan, the tour guide took us back to a different area at Shi Men Ting for some last minute shopping. Spent about an hour there getting gifts for friends :-)

It was about an hour ride to the airport thereafter, our flight was eventually delayed to 4.30pm so we occupied ourselves with some shopping and had lunch. The ride back to Singapore was an arduous one, there was turbulence almost throughout the entire journey. Thank goodness I was entertained by the in flight movies during the four and half hours, I was watching 'Year One' starring Jack Black & Michael Cera and 'I love you Beth Cooper' starring Paul Rust & Hayden Panettiere. Had a great laugh on the plane and was uberly relieved when it landed safely in Singapore at 9.30pm! Kor came to pick us up from the airport and I went back, unpacked and arranged all the stuff I got from Taiwan on my bed, it wasn't a very big haul at all :-p

1) A pair of black shorts with red tartan belt ribbon
2) A white tank top with semi-gold embelishments
3) Bilingual name stamp seal with red ink
4) A 'Starry starry night' name card holder
5) A houndstooth make up pounch with mirror
6) An elmo name card holder for Jane babe
7) A Domo Kun mechanical pencil for K.Wang
8) Three old school postcards from Taiwan Storyland
9) A designed wooden bookmark in the shape of Taiwan
10) Assorted snacks

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5Oct09, Monday: To Do

Task 1: Environmental type project
Theme: Lost in Translation
Due: In 2 weeks

Task 2: Animating 'Grey'
Theme: Branded
Due: In 2 weeks

Somebody has to teach me Flash.

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6Oct09, Tuesday: Moholy-Nagy

There was a pop quiz during History of Graphic Design today and I flunked it. I think.

*Cries*

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7Oct09, Wednesday: Surviving Horror

Manifesto poster for Graphic Design class...

Title: The Human Mind is a Battlefield
Method: Vector with pen tool on Indesign

We were studying Max Ernst during Surrealism class with Kate in the evening. His work is freaky and his concepts, brilliant.

Sang 'Bless the Broken Road' by Rascal Flatts for Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations in Hall 11. I was way too tired and way too nervous :-p

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8Oct09, Thursday: Less than 24 Hours

Chatting with K.Wang on Skype today. It's -3 degrees in Edmonton plus there's snow :-D

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9Oct09, Friday: A.M. Cassandre

Spent the entire day researching and writing for my History of Graphic Design presentation. The topics, were surprisingly awesome.

1) Workers Progress Administration: Federal Art Project Posters
2) Transnational Migration: Europe to North America (1930s)
3) Container Corporation of America: Walter Paepcke
4) Sweet's Catalog Service: Ladislav Sutnar's Informational graphics
5) The World Geo-graphic Atlas: CCA & Bayer's Earth Inventory (1953)

Confused? Me too :-D

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10Oct09, Saturday: Seasons of Love

So, yesterday was basically research, today was compiling them all into a PDF presentation. I hadn't left my room or my desk in two days. My legs were numb.

Decided to drag myself out of the house and went out for a movie with Tessalyn & gang. We watched '500 days of Summer', it was a pretty good movie but I didn't like the ending. I thought Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel make an uberly cute couple though, with their dark hair & eyes and quirky dispositions :-D

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11Oct09, Sunday: Federal Art Project

Am obsessed over the WPA FAP Posters, they're all so beautiful :-D These posters were made during the 1930s during the mass work relief effort started by the USA government under President Franklin Roosevelt. Approximately 5,000 artists and designers were commissioned to design posters with regards to government events, exhibitions, programs, announcements etc. The posters can be split into numerous categories:

Art Exhibitions:

Theatrical, Musical & Dance Performances:

Tourism & Travel:

Safety:

Health:

Environment:

Jobs:

Education:

Military:

Community:

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[Sep. 27th, 2009|10:47 pm]

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10Sep09, Thursday : The WAHs and AAHs in ADM

Just found out, we have an upcoming exam for Asian Art History next week. Truly AAH!

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11Sep09, Friday: Fun with Foam

Was having a photoshoot with Jane babe in the Hall 11, block 56, floor 4 female toilet :-D Yes, you read it correctly, a photoshoot. Was helping her with a self-portrait photography project. The shots turned out pretty freaky (in a good way) because we were playing a lot with the dramatics of her hair and shampoo smooshed around in it. In a few of the photographs, she resembled Medusa! In others, it looked like she was slowly being consumed by her own head of hair :-p It's like some bizarre asian 'Fringe' episode.

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12Sep09, Saturday: Flappers

The 20s Affair at Carlton Hotel was not only a stylish vintage shindig but also an event filled with surprises at every segment. Between the Hall 11 Pageant segments were a variety of games, random audience-host interaction and lucky draw giveaways. Jane babe and I had a blast there, we were snapping away like nobody's business :-)

Jane babe and I upon arrival :-)

Stealing a shot with the ADM Pageant guys, Zi jia (M5) and Zhi kai (M1).

Obligatory full length toilet shot!

Lucky draw number 156 win, memory pillo :-D

Getting trigger happy during dinner.

Sony Wearable music player :-D

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13Sep09, Sunday: Bask your Heart out

I have never actually been to Geylang Serai before, the place was packed! Met Astrid, her family and my typography classmates at the Paya Lebar MRT station. Our next assignment is called 'Envorinmental Type', the task, to take photographs of type around a chosen vicinity, afterwhich, to create a photomontage using these images. My Geylang Serai photography session wasn't very successful so will probably be changing the venue at a later date.

Geylang Serai though was a wonderful place. There was a wide range of products and services being sold there. From snacks, rugs, flowers, children's clothes, shoes, furniture, more clothes, toys, curtains, decorations for the home, fairy lights, personalized keychains and so much more. I personally loved the shop selling fairy lights, they were everywhere! I had never seen so many tiny light bulbs in my life :-D

On a side note, there was this white guy basking outside the Paya Lebar MRT Station. He was wearing funky lime green sunglasses, torn pajama pants and T-shirt, a furry tiger tail and fluffy slippers while holding onto numerous grimy looking animal plush toys, 'dancing' to indian music. He was making pretty good money.

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14Sep09, Monday: The Lost Bride

Annie Le, a 24 year old Yale graduate went missing just five days before her wedding. Surveillance cameras show her walking into the Yale research centre, 10 Amistad Street at 10am but she never left. On September 13, Sunday, the day she was to be married, Annie's body was found stuffed in a wall chase at the research center's basement. Her bloodied clothes were hidden separately within ceiling tiles. The suspect of this homicide is said to be Raymond J. Clark, a lab technician working in the same building that Le was in.

It is quite devastating to find a young girl's dead body lodged in a wall, it's quite another thing to know she was found on what was supposed to be her wedding day. A lot of questions come to mind. My prayers go out to Annie's family and loved ones.

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15Sep09, Tuesday: The Enigma

Spent the entire night with my groupmates preparing our Giorgio De Chirico presentation. His paintings are pretty darn snazzy and I love how they're so mysterious.

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16Sep09, Wednesday: Pittura Metaphysica

During Graphic Design class, we had a photoshopping exercise to do. Joe instructed us to choose five different images and to edit each one on photoshop...

All images used were Giorgio De Chirico's metaphysical paintings :-D

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17Sep09, Thursday: McSnifflesons

My new desktop picture. Look at that face. How can you not love a face like that? :-D And it's eating a banana. So cuuute!

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18Sep09, Friday: 'Gracias'

Inglourious Basterds was a shockingly good movie. I haven't seen a really awesome film in such a long time that I'd forgotten the feeling of walking out of the cinema feeling absolutely refreshed and inspired. It is truly Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece. The movie begins in France, on a milk farm where we're first introduced to the antagonist of the film, Colonel Hans Landa (played by the very brilliant, Christoph Waltz) also known as 'The Jew Hunter', a detective who sniffs out Jews in hiding. From this very first scene, I was immediately roped in. The following chapter brings in the Basterds, a group of Jewish Americans led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt) and their mission, to ignite fear in the hearts of German Nazis, each Basterd under Raine's command has to bring back one hundred Nazi scalps, and he wants his scalps. Concurrently, a Jewish girl, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent), the only surviving member of her family, disguises herself as Emmanuelle Mimeux, owner of a small local theatre in France. Together with her lover, Marcel (Jacky Ido), they hatch a plan that will change the course of history forever. Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), a famous German actress of that era, joins the Basterds and British in a similar mission that brings the film to a climatic and wondrous end :-) The movie is wrought with clever one liners and hilariously gory scenes which will send you into hysterics. Watch it.

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19Sep09, Saturday: 'Oh I was just...doing the dishes'

While my group and I were discussing our final communications and marketing project, Amanda suggested that we look into Biomimicry. It is the science of imitating nature to solve problems in our everyday lives. A great example of this is the invention of Velcro which was Inspired by plant seeds that are designed to hook onto animal fur :-) You can read up on more awesome examples of Biomimicry here.

After the meeting, met up with Jane babe to catch 'The Ugly Truth'. It was an 'ok' movie. Typical story of two people who hate each other and fall deeply in love at the end. 'Nuff said. Anyway, after the movie, we were browsing music at Gramaphone for a pretty long time :-D I bought Colbie Caillat's latest album, Break Through and we shared Zee Avi's.

I am such a huge Zee Avi fan right now, her song 'First of the Gang to Die' is set to repeat mode on my iTunes and I can't stop singing it!

Another artiste to listen out for is 'A Fine Frenzy', I didn't buy her latest album at Gramaphone 'cause it was uberly pricey but I did legally download three of her songs online. 'Blow Away' which has a music video out on youtube.com already, 'Happier' and my favourite of the lot, 'Electric Twist'. Alison Sudol's new sound differs greatly from her 'One Cell in the Sea' album which had songs that made you fall into depression upon listening to them. 'Bomb in a Birdcage' brings out a perkier and even quirky side of Sudol which at first is hard to get used to but when you do, the music gets your feet tapping and you won't be able to shut it off. It's contagious :-)

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20Sep09, Sunday: Velvety goodness

I was making a box today. It was pretty fun. And therapeutic :-)

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21Sep09, Monday: 'The fish are wearing winter coats'

Got a load of assignments printed in the day and went to Haji Lane for some retail therapy after :-D There's this new shop which recently opened up there, can't remember the name but it's owned by a group of young men who seem pretty entrepreneurial and definitely metro. The clothes are lovely but marketed in the messiest and most unglam of ways. Bought a polka dotted blouse from there, I hope 'someone' likes it :-)

Off to the east side now. Bought sushi and ice cream for a potluck at Honey's house. We cooked up a huge batch of Prawn & Mushroom Aglio Olio (garlic-ly delicious!), Fish & Chips (potato-tastic), there was some white wine flown all the way from Perth (warm and zesty), side dish of baby tomatoes and for dessert, Cookies & Cream ice cream (yum yum). That was probably one of the best meals I have ever had, seriously.

After dinner, the four of us sat down, enjoying our dessert and 'Fringe' on the tele.

Before leaving, we made a signed bet on paper. I can't say what it is about but the winner will receive $300 during an event. Will be looking forward to it :-)

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22Sep09, Tuesday: Backfire

Yay! Won a T-shirt during lecture today for answering a question correctly :-D It's an image of a bullet heading back into the barrel of a shotgun and the word 'Victory' at the top. Free to interpret.

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23Sep09, Wednesday: Brain like a spongebob

Studying for AAH with Jane babe. Had Jam band practice mid-way but continued studying after. Realised that I study better when I'm talking my notes out with another person. It's so much easier to absorb :-)

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24Sep09, Thursday: Maheshvara

The AAH exam went well, thank goodness. Artworks we had to write about:

1) Lion Capital from Ashokan column at Sarnath
2) Square stamp seal with Yogin or Shaman (Proto-Shiva Seal)
3) Victory over Mara
4) Shiva and Parvati on Mount Kailasa
5) Monkey Jataka

Especially enjoyed writing about Buddha's victory over Mara (right before he achieved enlightenment) and the Monkey Jataka (One of Buddha's past life stories as a monkey king).

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25Sep09, Friday: 'It's your turn to check'

Finished my locker design today. It is the locker of a post-apocalyptic soldier complete with face masks, latex gloves, a knife, diary, water bottle, torchlight, bag of clothes and recruitment poster :-D All items courtesy of Daiso.

All my assignments are done and Recess week is finally here! Celebrated with a scary movie, 'Phobia 2'. 5 stories, 5 kinds of fear and 5 twists at the end of each short tale.

Story 1: 'Novice'
A juvenile delinquent is forced to hide out in a monastery to escape from the authorities. You may be able to escape the law but fate and karma are much trickier to dodge.

Story 2: 'Ward'
An injured young man's ward-mate is a terminally ill elderly man kept alive through a respirator. Strange things begin to happen during the course of the night that suggest he might be more alive than he appears.

Story 3: 'Backpackers'
Two Japanese tourists hitchhike their way to Bangkok on a lorry. The driver and his assistant aren't as innocent as they appear to be and the contents at the back of the lorry even more so.

Story 4: 'Salvage'
There are horrifying histories behind the refurbished cars at a car dealer's lot, made known to her one fateful night in the most terrible of ways after her son goes missing.

Story 5: 'In The End'
A story of horror movie makers in the midst of filming their final scene when the 'ghost' actress suddenly collapses and is hospitalized, she does insist though that 'the show must go on'. No matter what.

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26Sep09, Saturday: Reflected in the Water

Visited the Dairy Farm Road Quarry after taking a nice walk through the semi-forested vicinity. The place is so pretty and kinda reminds me of China :-)

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27Sep09, Sunday: Smorgasbord

Almost forgot how good Thompson Road's Caesurina Curry's food is. Uber yummm. Loads of philosophical discussions during and after lunch time regarding life after death and our creator. 'Light' conversation :-D

| Joyous Cascade 09 |

[Sep. 10th, 2009|07:07 pm]

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8Sep09, Tuesday: JaLyn Photoshoot

(Photos to be uploaded soon)

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9Sep09, Wednesday: Vision 2050

This is the world of 2050.

An anonymous underground bio-military organization, unknowingly unleashed a devastating plague during a failed and ill contained viral testing sequence. It is known today as, Persephone or The Red Plague, which spread at an alarmingly fast rate. The earth was soon consumed by the virus and her army.

Persephone stays alive even after the body dies and thus reanimates the dead which feed on living flesh. Survivors who adapted quickly and efficiently to the outbreak, united as a society and created safe zones all around the globe. Though Persephone has been contained outside the safe zone walls, z hordes are constantly finding their way and attempting to infiltrate human sanctuaries.

Since there is no cure for the virus, a mass produced recruitment poster to join the human military service, spread across safe zones globally, encouraging survivors to help in the fight against Persephone's army. No one can rest easy until the last z drops well...dead...without waking up ever again.

In addition, the effects of global warming have led to an unnatural rise in sea level. Years of disposing chemical waste into our water sources have resulted in polluted oceans. In areas where water bodies are both highly corrosive and poisonous, humans have taken to the air for transport.

The Earth Project wings which target mainly military crew, provide owners the ability of long distance flight at high altitudes. The device however has to be implanted surgically into the vertebrae for neural control and thus distances mass markets from purchasing it.

Similar to Earth Project's wings, The B.F.F (Boots for Flying) is also a contraption used for flying, however it does not require going under the knife and is thus more popular with the public. Place them on just the same as you would shoes and prepare for take off. Great for flying short distances at low heights and stores easily.

Some forms of aerial vehicles include the Summer Wing 3in1, a costly commodity for the upper class. These machines travel by land, sea and air and come in a variety of pastel colours.

Their direct competitor, Blobble, is a cheaper alternative but only offers the transport option of flight. Shaped like a bubble, this adorable vehicle seats one and is also available in a palette of bright colours.

Public transport by submarine is available in areas where water pollution is at its minimum. Commuters travel by the TST (Torpedo Service Transit), an underwater transport system. Though significantly slower, it is a cheap and fairly efficient way of getting around.

If one is unable to withstand the polluted state of earth, humans who are able to afford rare luxuries have the option to live on our moon instead. There is a fully automated life sustaining system and maintenance crew which take care of all our basic needs for air, water, food, shelter and even recreation. The moon holds a fair number of communities right now which have established businesses and industries for all. If one were to miss earth too much, you will always be welcomed back to the home planet.

Though it is a fact that 2050 earth is in a dreadful state, there are those who dedicate their lives in changing our circumstances. Passionate environmentalists collaborate with engineers, scientists, inventors and designers to produce technology that will aid in making our stay on earth a lot more tolerable.

A sorting bin known as RGB (Rubbish Green Bin) has been newly distributed in all major safe zones to sort out trash and dispose or recycle them according to its ingenious program. Individuals can now purchase them directly from the RGB company for their very own personal usage at home.

Invisibrellas, a brilliant creation is set to protect us from both the sun's harmful UV rays as well as acid rain. This invention uses high frequency vibrations which provide an invisible layer of protection or forcefield around us at all times when activated.

For weather related devices, there also exists smaller, exclusive safe zone societies which have opted for The Weather R.C technology that very simply controls the weather within an allocated vicinity.

With so many urban communities sprouting up and safe zones expanding, fauna have taken to hiding out within our walls, away from frightful zombies. Though animals are immune to the Persephone virus, they instinctively flee from z like a plague, which they are. As such, artists have begun to depict our furry friends in very human environments, a vision of their evolution in the concrete jungle. What will happen to them as the years go by? Will they openly build their homes in our backyards and rooftops? Or shed their colours to become invisible creatures of the city?

A theme of hybridity becomes so much more apparent then in today's art scene not only with animals and humans but with human and machine. A merge of both the organic and mechanic forms which give rise to the classic debate of our dependency on technology and how much really is too much.

As with the Italian Futurists, 2050 artists who are pro-machine depict and use technology positively in their works, almost with worship.

The romantics of the time warn us all of the dangers our mechanical laborers are capable of, opening our eyes to see what the combination of man and machine has done to mother earth, our home.

The failing environment and its effects on humans have become great problems in 2050. Though the green movement started way back in the hippie era, it has taken on a world of importance at this point in time.

A strange illness developed when air and water pollution was at its worst, perhaps also due to the Red plague, humans began spontaneously combusting. Doctors have theorized that the cause may even be psychological, that man have given up hope on themselves and are self terminating, unconsciously.

The disease known locally as, 'The Possession', due to the victims having completely black eyes a day prior to their demise will display symptoms of severe flaking skin, hair loss and fever. Fatalities of this frightening condition has since decreased but is still rampant in highly polluted areas.

To bring awareness of this terrifying problem, a photographer who is well known for taking high speed photographs of 'Possession' victims while they combust makes this pro-green message very clear by showing the literal effects of pollution on the human body.

A paper sculptor, brings across the pro-green message in a much less macabre manner by using tongue and cheek imagery. His work is described as comic and humorous, but effective. In a world where everything has become about death and destruction, the sculptor brings a refreshing and light hearted take on our environment, without the dramatics.

Though 2050 seems bleak, man have found ways to preserve their sanity by indulging in entertainment.

Guys are still just as crazy about sports which has thus kept Nike in business post-Persephone outbreak. Their latest range of soccer boots, Nike Freeform, moulds the shoe to ones size specifications, ensuring comfort and due to its high durability, prevents almost any kind of leg injury during games.

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Women aren't left out either. With ever changing fashion trends still going strong and make up taking on a technological upgrade, women can now beautify themselves with ease using MAC's latest series of products.

And what's entertainment without any music? The Yamaha Linking Pianos used mainly for symphony orchestra performances are superbly light weight multiple pianos, easy to transport, store and they make beautiful music.

This is the world of 2050. Or at least that's how we see it back here in 2009.

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[Sep. 7th, 2009|08:17 pm]

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5Sep09, Saturday: It's just Emotions

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY to Kiyoko Mori! :-D

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6Sep09, Sunday: Flapper

Been researching 1920s fashion for this year's upcoming Hall 11 Dinner & Dance! Found some beautiful black and white shots of yesteryear's women from gettyimages.com which I'd like to share with all of you...

PETA might not approve of this dress but I personally love the style.

Twin dancers posing gracefully in their eclectic gems of a costume.

The trademark 1920s bonnet and pearls combo.

Adore the use of space and texture. The dilapidated wall contrasts wonderfully with Rococo-style furniture.

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7Sep09, Monday: Velvet ropes & Guitars

Lady Gaga's latest Music Video for her single, 'Paparazzi' is aesthetically mind blasting. I think Stefani (her birth name) is insane. Insanely awesome :-D Took screenshots of the video and have split them into two categories. One, Gaga's whimsical and fairly disturbing outfits. Two, the 'Dead Glamour' that keeps popping up in short snippets throughout the video, models in stylistically macabre positions...

Lady Gaga gets flung down her balcony by the evil boyfriend.

Dressed in a mini black bondage-like dress, Gaga performs while relaxing on an exquisite sofa.

She gets out of a limousine after the unfortunate balcony incident with pink diamond studded neck brace, sitting in a wheelchair assisted by dancing male attendants.

They undress her stylishly and reveal the next outfit, a bizarre metallic suit complete with crutches of the same material. Talk about heavily accessorizing.

An obligatory dance sequence commences halfway through where she is fully recovered, rocking out in a snazzy white ensemble with matching back up dancers.

Her headdress looks very much like a horse mane. Could it be symbolic of new found power?

Gaga's final scene, a playful body suit and corset costume which gives Mickey Mouse a 'subliminal' shout out. She approaches the drinks tray to prepare something special for her nonchalant boyfriend.

A close up shot on Gaga's face. The grey lips, pale skin and shades echo the running theme of 'Dead Glamour'. Reminds me almost of those gothic porcelain dolls which are beautiful but creep one out terribly.

Here's a clearer view of the body suit print. You can see that the repeated icons aren't Mickey but a short-haired girl with his ears.

On to the next category, 'Dead Glamour'...

Bunny masquerade got strangled...

...in a wicked looking bathroom.

Glamour pirate (eyepatch) strangled with a leather belt...

...along an extravagant stairway.

Can't exactly make out how she was or wasn't murdered but, love the white fur.

Snazzy shoes...

...on a dead lady beside the pool.

Such funky gladiator sandals...

...belonging to a woman in blue who...

...possibly suffocated to death. Possibly.

Contorted body of a woman who was probably beaten senseless (spade). But with style.

What a beautifully blank expression...

...on a dead face. Nice shoes.

Overdosing on pills never looked so very glamorous.

Sleeping in an overgrown garden?

Not exactly.

Alright, enough morbid imagery. I shall now sign off with a picture from cuteoverload.com to lighten the mood...

All together now. Awwwwwww...

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[Sep. 5th, 2009|11:28 am]

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21Aug09, Friday: Dancing in Heaven

Watched G.I Joe with Jane babe, Joyce, Wan Wei and Niko. What a delightfully action packed B-grade movie :-D Sienna Miller's acting was hilarious, I loved how Jane mimicked her 'stealthy' ninja traipsing walk. The main villain of the movie had the cheesiest lines, after donning a gaudy metallic helmet he proceeded to deliver this line, "You will now address me as...Commander!" after which he gets imprisoned by the Joes. How anti-climatic.

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23Aug09, Sunday: The Adorable & The Abstract

Had an uberly long filming day which started at Chinese Gardens. Alex, Philo and Wenkai had teamed up to do a short film for class called 'Umbrella'. The storyline is basically about a young couple who chance upon each other at the park. The young man, played by Jamel offers the young lady, played by yours truly, shade with his umbrella from the sweltering heat of the day. During their stroll across a bridge, the couple begin to experience an unspoken connection between each other.

Props to the make-up artist Dan Yao who had to make me look seven years younger for the role! The twin braids helped tremendously :-D

The second shoot for the day was held opposite Hall 11 in school. Naresh, Lyhn and Daniel were also shooting a short film based on the same story, 'Umbrella'. The storyline however, differs greatly from Alex's as it is in a much more abstract and metaphorical context about two lovers who search endlessly for each other in a forest, but always narrowly missing the other. There are two endings to this story. The first being, that they never meet. The last scene shows the lovers facing each other with a wall between them. The alternate ending finds the lovers in an awkward reunion where the man (Ben) offers his umbrella to the woman (Me).

Both shoots took about five hours each. It was uberly tiring but awsomely fun :-)

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24Aug09, Monday: "Woulduliketogotothepromwithme?"

My anatomy of a letter poster for Typography class.

Below are examples of Ephemera that I did for Typography class as well...

I had so much fun with this exercise that I became obsessed with finding more, almost forgot to complete my other assignments :-D

Played a new game with Jane babe today called, 'Locker Prom Date'. It's not so much a game as it is an impersonation of a guy. I started first, Jane got behind the locker and pretended to shove some books in while I waited patiently on the other side. As she slammed the locker shut, I started my uncanny impersonation of this guy who shall not be named, obviously. Anyway, it was hilarious! I have no idea how we come up with such random activities to amuse ourselves with.

Anyway, been uberly obsessed over this Rascal Flatts song called, "Bless the Broken Road". It's so beautiful and I absolutely love the lyrics :-)

"Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart, they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true

That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you"

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25Aug09, Tuesday: "I want to tell you my secret now"

Feel like watching 'The Sixth Sense' by M. Night again. Was reading the summary on wikipedia and actually cried. I'm such a sap.

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26Aug09, Wednesday: "They look like prawns"

Bumped into Amanda Lindstrom (Canadian exchange student) and we went for lunch together. I hung out with her for awhile before meeting Jane babe in school. Had Fantastic art lecture with Dr. Kate in the evening, we were touching on Goya's art today. Uberly bizarre stuff...

Goya, 'Saturn devouring one of his sons' . Based on an ancient myth about Saturn, a powerful god. After receiving a prophecy that one of his sons will overthrow him in the future, Saturn, driven mad with power, started devouring his sons upon birth. The painting by Goya however does not depict his son as an infant but as a grown man. The most disturbing aspect of the piece to me personally has to be Saturn's fingers digging mercilessly into his child's back. That there is this uncontrollable anger and madness inside of him, reflected in this deadly grasp.

Wow. Macabre.

After class, Jane and I met up with Amanda. We took a train down to The Cathay to watch District 9 :-) The movie was really quite good, as is the acting. The ending however did leave a bittersweet aftertaste.

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27Aug09, Thursday: EwwwAwww

Found this picture of an echidna puggle :-D

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28Aug09, Friday: Lived more in 50 than others did in 150

Attended the Barbara Willoughby memorial service. It was beautiful.
To watch it, visit www.tabjoy.org

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29Aug09, Saturday: "Will you marry me? Because I'd like to date you"

After months of waiting, I've finally watched 'The Proposal'! Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds star in this awesome RomCom about "a couple who weren't supposed to fall in love, but did" :-D Bullock plays Margaret Tate, a domineering and shrewish editor-in-chief of a book publishing company while Reynolds works alongside as her passive assistant (sai kang boy), Andrew Paxton. When Margaret faces deportation back to her homeland, Canada, she cooks up a scam to stay by convincing Andrew to marry her. I give this film, 7.5 upon 10! Still can't believe Sandra Bullock is already 45 years old, in the 'nude' scene, her body is amazingly firm and beautiful :-)

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30Aug09, Sunday: "Mommy I want a Labrador!"

Visited a pet farm with King Li and Da Bey today :-) We even bought a variety of fishes back home. Mr. Piranhahaha has three new Betta friends! One male and two females swishing around in their tanks.

Mr. Piranhahaha checking out the new babe who just moved in next to him :-D *Wolf Whistles*

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31Aug09, Monday: Tu Lan Face

I think Astrid might be trying to kill us. By drowning us in assignments! She's still awesome though :-)

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1Sep09, Tuesday: "Not trying to be AA but..."

Was designing the Hall 11 magazine till 5.30am. It's amazing how working till the wee hours of the morning really takes a toll on the mind and already existing eyebags :-D

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2Sep09, Wednesday: <3

Part of my Graphic Design 1 assignment, from item to icon...

The 'frivolous' XOXO Valentines day Balloon and...

The 'Forever' Bookmark Magnet :-)

Both items from the same silly boy.

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3Sep09, Thursday: Hit hard by Z monster

Papa came to pick me up from Hall. I was taking a nap and couldn't hear the phone, he called five times before climbing up to the fourth floor and knocking on my door, which I still didn't hear. Only when he entered the room and called my name did I spring out of bed. I didn't even realize I had fallen fast asleep in just a few seconds. It's been a long week man.

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4Sep09, Friday: Stamping Therapy

Spent the day working on my assignments. Finished two of them. Thank the Lord!

| Joyous Cascade 09 |

[Aug. 21st, 2009|10:33 am]

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8Aug09, Saturday: We need to Walk

Had a really long H2H talk with Da Bey in the evening. We took a walk around my grandmother's estate and I realized it'd been a long time since we had a deep and meaningful conversation. When I was younger, Da Bey and I used to have talks like that daily and I would listen to every word he said as though it were sacred, he truly was my idol. But as I got older, it seemed like these sessions became shorter and less frequent plus I started doubting a lot of the things he was telling me. Now that I'm a young adult, though I do take some of his words with a pinch of salt, what I truly appreciate is the time spent with him, to know that he cares for me deeply and makes an effort to comfort me when I am going through a hard time. He is a wonderful father and I wouldn't trade my relationship with him for anything else.

Excerpt from 'The Spaces in Between' by Ella Alconnor:
"She woke up in the middle of the night, picked up the phone, but there was no call. These horrible thoughts came racing through her mind, that he didn't love her anymore and he never cared. Trying to sleep pain away is one of the most difficult things to do, especially when it comes from the heart. The only thing she could do was hope that the exhaustion from crying could coax her body into an unconscious state."

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9Aug09, Sunday: Super Skilled

K.Wang and I started on this three hundred piece baby bulldog puzzle, didn't manage to complete it though we did piece together more than half the puzzle :-)

Went through my very first carwash too, it was pretty fun and only seven dollars!

K.Wang dropped me off at Honey's place. Spent the entire evening with her, we had dinner nearby at this wonderful restaurant called 'Al Forno's'.

I even introduced her to this new neopets game that I'm playing called 'Spinacles', it's ridiculously addictive! At about nine, Vanessa came over and we went to Haagen Dazs for dessert. The price has seriously skyrocketed beyond reason, don't think I'll be eating there again anytime soon :-D

Vanessa sent us both home in her new Honda :-)

Home sweet home.

Excerpt from 'The Spaces in Between' by Ella Alconnor:
"He doesn't want to see you when he's ill not because he hates you, but because he finds it tough to take care of the woman he loves while having to manage his own body in its weakened state. A sick man has an ego too, it bruises him to know that he is unable to protect and entertain her fully."

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10Aug09, Monday: Soon Lee

Breakfast at the marketplace, went to the salon for a nice head-massaging, hair-washing, blow-drying session :-D

Went home and got get ready to go shopping with K.Wang :-) We were galavanting around Funan IT Mall and even stopped by Orchard Central. Attended a party in the night which ended with the birthday girl and her boyfriend both getting thrown into the swimming pool. The most memorable part of the party though, was the delicious otah :-D

Back to Hall 11, K.Wang hung out with Jane and I for a little while and we even completed the bulldog puzzle that was left unfinished the day before :-)

Was really bushed at the end of the night. Slept like a log.

Excerpt from 'The Spaces in Between' by Ella Alconnor:
"He brought her to the table and without having to be asked, started scooping the food onto her plate. A sense of relief, gratefulness and joy overwhelmed her."

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11Aug09, Tuesday: Almkhlaafy

Good Morning: 8.30am

First official day of school :-) Attended History of Graphic Design with Astrid.

Hung out with K.Wang in the evening, watched some Top Gear youtube videos. Hilarious :-) "Some say he only knows two facts about ducks, and they're both wrong." Uberly random stuff, they even dropped a piano on a car, numerous times. I wonder where they get so many pianos!

Good Night: 1.30am

Excerpt from 'The Spaces in Between' by Ella Alconnor:
"She looked at him pleadingly but he refused to budge. Though initially frustrated, she realised that his inertia was truly self-control, it was the unselfish act of love and respect for her."

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12Aug09, Wednesday: Some Space

'Graphic Design 1' with Joe Khoo in the morning. After class, lunch with Jane babe.

Was slightly late for my next class, 'Creative Design in Communications & Marketing' with Peggy Poo (yes, that truly is an adorability of a name), Shirley's sister, Angela was the only one I knew in the lecture. The in-class activities were really fun and they made you think about solutions to design problems in the most unconventional of ways. Peggy Poo is a wonderful professor, she brings across the message of thinking out of the box, thinking creatively in a clear and humorous manner :-) One of my favorite teachers.

Last class for the day, 'Fantastic Art' with Dr. Kate. The subject covers Fantastic art through the ages that even date back to the paleolithic period.

Wednesdays are my longest days, it's absolutely insane, thank goodness I have Jane babe to keep me company through the week :-) She's been bunking with me about three times a week and will be starting our swimming regime pretty soon. Can't wait!

K.Wang came over with his dinner (home-cooked pasta) and we were watching youtube videos with Jane for awhile.

Went over to ADM rooftop, enjoyed the wonderful view of a clear deep blue sky. The weather was fantastic, so breezy, smelt slightly of burnt chocolate though :-D It was quite tricky climbing up and down the steep ADM slope but there was a railing and a Kevin to grab hold of thank goodness.

It's been a long long day.

ZzZzzZZZzzzzzZ

Excerpt from 'The Spaces in Between' by Ella Alconnor:
"He said to be in her presence was good enough for him."

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13Aug09, Thursday: Surf-ing

A day of relaxation and of youtube-ing, neopets-ing and facebook-ing :-D

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14Aug09, Friday: I was hiding under your porch because I love you

Had to go to work today, did a brochure mock up and postcard FA.

In the evening, scheduled movie night with K.Wang :-) We watched UP! The characters are hilarious, really loved Russell the young wilderness explorer, who gets stuck with Karl Fredricksen, the old man who owns the beautiful home that he flys away with by using thousands of balloons. Through their journey, Russell and Karl encounter a strange bird named Kevin, talking dogs, more insanity, learning to let go of the past and realising that the adventure is nothing if it's not experienced with the right person. I give UP, 7.5 upon 10!

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15Aug09, Saturday: Doppelganger

Designing a special Calendar in the morning :-)

In the afternoon, met K.Wang at Sunshine plaza and travelled to Orchard road for some last minute shopping before he embarks on his exchange to Canada on Monday. He eventually bought this haunted looking black shirt from FCUK :-D

Had dinner at his grandmother's place, the food was great, especially loved the Khang Khong, yum yum. Met his grandmama, aunt and cousin :-) Spent about an hour and a half there before we made our way to the nearby Supermarket, he needed to get chilli to bring along on his Canadian exchange :-D Can't live without some spiciness in his life! Back to Mr. Piranhahaha's abode, watched some tele and listened to chinese music which K.Wang (bilingual) translated of course :-D

Home sweet home.

Excerpt from 'The Spaces in Between' by Ella Alconnor:
"She used to doubt his sad stories, and took them as excuses. But how wrong she was. The so-called stories were not only true but very much alive and speaking to her."

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16Aug09, Sunday: Bubbling Loins

To Bedok South market in the morning to bind the special Calendar :-)

Explored the Singapore Comic Con at Suntec City and even went shopping there with Da Boo. Bought two tops from Cotton On and new pants from Mango! :-D Bought pork loins and wrapping paper from Takashimaya and then was off to K.Wang's abode to cook a nice dinner with him. The Katsu Don was a success! Helped him with some last minute packing (Domo-kun was placed in a small ziplock bag, Tigger and Cookie Monster were squished together in another) before he sent Mr. Piranhahaha and I back to my place :-) K.Wang got Mr. Piranhahaha settled nicely on one of the living room tables, near my brother's other guppies, but not too near. I hope Mr. Piranha won't miss his owner too much.

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17Aug09, Monday: Parting is such Sweet Sorrow

Met K.Wang at Changi Airport in the morning. Had breakfast with Eric and him, took some photos :-) Bid K.Wang goodbye at the departure gate and pretended to cry! Passed him his farewell present, the special Calendar that begins on 17 August 2009 and ends on 1 January 2010, the date he comes back home from his exchange.

I'm going to miss that silly boy.

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18Aug09, Tuesday: Red Alert

Today, I experienced what utter embarrassment is supposed to feel like.

Was designing a poster for Graphic Design 1, which I was rushing to finish by the end of the day. Got up to use the bathroom and realized to my horror that the purple skirt I was wearing had been stained so bad. I shifted it so that the stain was in front and tried as much as possible to remove the blotches. Unsuccessful. I had to use my file to shield the soiled skirt while walking all the way from ADM to Hall 11, it was horrifying! There was this guy who witnessed my awkward attempt at hiding my lady stain, he actually laughed at me. How rude! Finally got back to hall and got cleaned up, felt so much better. The next time, I'm not leaving home or hall without a jacket. Ever.

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19Aug09, Wednesday: Sixty 'Likes' per Minute

Presented a poster on my designer during Graphic Design 1. Ahn Sang-Soo, Korean Typographer.

Met two new exchange friends during Communications & Marketing class. Shane Silver from California and Amanda Lindstrom from British Columbia. Angela, Shirley and I paired up with them for our class activity, it was brilliant :-) We'll be grouping together for our final project as well, it's gonna be awesome.

Fantastic Art lecture in the evening. Dr. Kate covered fantastic works by Albrect Altdorfer and Heironymous Bosch, they were all truly fantastic.

Dinner in Hall 11, there was buffet set up for cultural night. Jane invited Chris over to witness the hall life :-D

Talked to K.Wang over the phone for awhile. He's nicely settled in Edmonton and shopping for clothes and cameras already :-) The call charges are insane though so will have to Skype soon.

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20Aug09, Thursday: Wisdom + Compassion = Enlightenment

Attended the very first Asian Art History 1 lecture with Ying Chua. She started on an introduction to ancient Indian Civilisations and statues that were found in that region. The lecture ended with her touching a little bit on Buddhism, it's origins and how it affects Culture and eventually, Asian Art.

Got back home at night and chatted with K.Wang on Skype for the very first time :-) He showed me Domo-kun who is still kept nice and snug in his ziplock bag. Domo-kun is so lucky to be able to travel halfway across the world without having to even purchase a plane ticket :-D

Sleep time.

| JoyousCascade09 |

[Aug. 8th, 2009|10:49 am]

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23Jul09, Thursday: Pull me Closer

Good morning: 10.30am

Was watching 'Push' in the day, it's a surprisingly good movie though Camilla Belle's acting is a tad stiff. Dakota Fanning deserves a round of applause for her fantastic portrayal of a clairvoyant thirteen year old girl on a quest to fulfill her mother's visions.

Excerpt from "It Started with a Fool"

Onelle: "You ever get those days where you just don't want to do anything. You don't even want to get up from your bed because you don't want to do something that reminds you of him. I've had one of those days, and I never want to experience it ever again."

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24Jul09, Friday: Stop and Smell the Roses

Da Boo and I went to the Botanic Gardens today :-)

Frolicked among the flowers and trees :-D

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25Jul09, Saturday: The Park of Random

Da Boo, Day Bey and I went an-explorin' around Haw Par Villa and took loads of interesting shots with the many statues and intricately gaudy scenes within the park...

Yes, the pig-man is trying to cheekopek the rat-lady. It's super awkward.

This is my little monkey friend, he loves bananas and melons and, provides great shade!

An assortment of bizarre and somewhat disturbing scenes in the background, I look a little bit too happy here.

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26Jul09, Sunday: May I have the Manure please?

Jane babe organised a lovely birthday party for Chris at Wildrocket @ Mt Emily. The food was fantastic and the dessert, Wildrocket's signature Strawberry Cheesecake dish was even better :-) Jane, Joyce, John, Jia Liang, Chris and I hung out till late at this place called the Backyard Bistro situated near Doby Gaut. Played a little pool and even bumped into a couple of ADM friends there too. Happy Birthday Chris, hope you enjoyed yourself!

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27Jul09 to 31Jul09, Monday to Friday: Look like a Lady, Work like a Dog

Last working week at Decision Communications before school reopens on August 11th, Tuesday.

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1Aug09, Saturday: Here in Silence, it's just You and Me

Had Jam band practice in the night at Shaun Ang's house with Shazleen and Shaun Lai. Finally settled on the song I'll be singing for SP Night :-) "Falling for You" by Colbie Caillat, oh so lovey dovey :-D

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2Aug09, Sunday: Human GPS

My aunt Michelle from Hong Kong just arrived in Singapore with her husband and baby daughter :-) I have a new cousin, Lynette! We went to the Science Centre and hung out there with each other for awhile but I had to leave a little earlier because of Hall 11 pre-camp.

During pre-camp, Khronos re-learnt some of our previous cheers and were taught new ones as well. I had one more jam band practice in the night and went back home soon after. Am really excited for camp :-D

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3Aug09, Monday: Let me Show you Funky Chicken

Met up with our Freshmen at the Boon Lay Bus Interchange in the morning :-) Our Khronos flag really stood out with its distinctively Wei Yuan designed, bright orange logo against a black background, complete with hand sewn tassles along the bottom edge, courtesy of Maxton Huang :-D One of my ADM Freshman was in Khronos as well, he was the one who did a hilarious parody of Persephone on the last night of the ADM camp.

The freshmen were introduced to each other, the juniors and the seniors after which we taught them a couple of cheers :-) Next up was lunch and then I had to move off for a programmers briefing on our next event, the Campus Crusade. A game that helps orientate the freshmen around NTU while bonding them together as a group. I was station master of the ADM Rooftop Charades station. While waiting for the groups to arrive, I purchased some tabloid magazines to entertain myself with :-D Aries were the first team to gather on the grassy roof and their task was to split themselves into groups of four or five people. I then passed out a card to each mini team, these cards had sentences which they needed to act out. Once the first mini team was ready to perform, all the other mini teams had to gather around the stage area to figure out what the performing team is trying to convey. When the first mini team's charade has been successfully guessed, we move on to the next until no mini teams are left. One particular card had this story to tell:

"In a crowded bus, the driver suddenly brakes and someone accidently falls onto a heavily pregnant woman who then goes into labor and gives birth on the bus."

Mini teams who acted this scene out, props to you :-D It was hilarious!

After Campus Crusade, it was time for dinner and then 'Special Pal' Interaction. I had to be partnered with a male freshman because there weren't enough female freshies to go around. My SP was really shy and I needed to coax him into talking. We finally found a topic which the both of us could relate to, movies and we seemed to enjoy the same genre of film, which made the conversation so much more interesting than when it first started out. Thank God.

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4Aug09, Tuesday: My Eyes are Burning

Games at Sentosa Beach. Everyone got sandy and drenched in sea water while 'enjoying' the sweltering heat that kept us all warm while wet. I was pretty much burnt by the end of the day, even with sunblock :-D

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5Aug09, Wednesday: Tell me Why

Didn't go for the Field games in the morning but made it for SP Reveal though I had to leave halfway through to prepare for my performance later that night.

During dinner, Wei Long, one of my freshmen from Khronos came up to me and said he needed to tell me something at the table which he was sitting at with his SP and fellow freshmen. He brought me over and sat me down on the chair first, he then knelt down on one knee, held my hand gently and said, "I Love you, baby". The entire table roared with laughter, he had successfully completed his dare :-D

It was time for the Hall 11 Jam band performance, I started off first with the acoustic version of Colbie Caillat's "Falling for You" and Shazleen ended with another acoustic version of "Pokerface" :-)

Some drama in the night but shan't elaborate.

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6Aug09, Thursday: Let's ION it out

Didn't attend camp today but went out with K.Wang in the evening to chat, shop and have dinner :-) He bought this funky blue shirt which has a printed white message, 'I am a Limited Edition' :-D After dinner, we took a train and loop-de-loop bus back to his place and he sent me home by car. So thoughtful.

Excerpt from 'It started with a Fool'

Onelle: "I spent the entire day in tears, I wanted to drown in them. Never have I felt so much pain in my entire life that didn't derive from a physical cause but an emotional one."

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7Aug09, Friday: Meet me Tonight by the Moonlight

Arrived in Hall 11 at 11am for the Book of Records event. I was to be station master at the block 56 TV Lounge with a 300 piece puzzle set of twin french bulldog puppies :-D Aries won this station with 162 completed puzzle pieces in 20 minutes, pretty impressive.

When Book of Records was over, I was ready to go home. K.Wang hung out with me until Da Boo came to pick me up from Hall 11. Got home, prepared dinner and had a nice time chomping down the corn :-D Played some Wii with Lee Anne and King Li. Slept pretty early, was completely exhausted.

Good night: 11pm

| Joyous Cascade 09 |

[Jul. 23rd, 2009|08:16 pm]

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22July09, Wednesday: At the Back of my Mind

Good morning: 11.30am

Brunch: Da Boo's home-made Macaroni Soup

Youtube must watch: The One Days HK - See Through

Latest Movie trailer: Carriers
A deadly pandemic pushes mankind to the brink of extinction. A group of friends attempt to outrun the disease and in the process discover that the only thing worse than the virus, are the carriers.

Gathering at one of the Lovecrafters' Wendy's home in Clementi. We had a good time playing with Jojo (Wendy's superbly adorable four year old cocker spaniel), 'Taboo', 'Truth or Truth' and 'Shoot, Shag or Marry'. Jojo kept trying to hump Pow's leg, we still have no idea what made him so irresistible to the poor castrated canine :-D

When it hit 6pm, we all left for Orchard by bus. It was a forty-five minute ride that we spent talking about ghost stories, our food preferences, gross insects/creatures, the latest movies and previous vacation spots. Wendy was pretty traumatised when I started relating stories of Botfly larvae to her, even the ghost stories didn't creep her out that much :-D There was one particular tale which I had heard before and it seems to be a relatively popular army ghost story...

An army recruit wakes up in the middle of the night to a full and aching bladder, torn between staying in bed experiencing utter discomfort or going to the toilet in the creepy pitch darkness to relieve himself. He finally gives in to the call of nature but not before dragging one of his friends to the toilet with him. The recruit empties his bladder with much satisfaction and waits patiently for his friend to finish up inside the cubicle. The wait starts to stretch out longer than expected, "Hey friend, are you done yet? I'm getting sleepy.", the recruit enquires politely to which his 'friend' responds, "Are you sure I'm your friend?". The recruit comes to a sudden and horrific realization, he bolts for the door and heads straight to his bunk. He remembered that his friend was on MC and the 'friend' he had brought to the toilet was someone or something else altogether.

Gotten goose pimples yet? :-D

So anyway, we finally arrive at ION Orchard just in time for me to leave for another gathering at Holland Village's Wala Wala. ION Orchard, seeing it for the first time is pretty darn atas. Perhaps too high end for my taste :-) I bid the Lovecrafters goodbye and head for the nearest ATM to withdraw some cash before cabbing down to Wala Wala for Tessalyn's 22nd Birthday. Order up a plate of pasta, Jane babe and I share its yummy mountain of contents (onions, chicken sausage and ham) together while enjoying song covers like 'Cannonball' and 'I'm Yours'. When the second set of live band music starts up again, Chris brings out Tess's birthday cake and the band sings her a birthday song. Tess and her boyfriend, Tim share a kiss and all cameras are out :-D Jane babe and I have a great time grooving to the fantastic music. Time passes quickly when you're having fun, Chris, Jane, May and myself take our leave and share a cab back home.

It's been a long day.

Monologue excerpt from 'It started with a Fool':

Ella: "If you want to be accepted by others, you have to accept yourself first. You always want to be part of a group of people who do not accept you the way you are, leave you out and hurt you. Why do you have such a great need to be accepted by them? You have people who love and care for the real you and yet when these 'friends' call, you'd leave me in a heartbeat, you'd reject me in an instant just so you have a chance to be a part of them. You say 'yes' to their whims and requests and yet say 'no' to me just as easily. When you first started wooing me, you said you'd thought things through and that you were ready to be with me, no questions asked, no hesitations, you said all you wanted was me. I assumed that meant in the event where you had to choose between your friends or myself, your first priority was still yours truly. You seemed so sure. I feel cheated and like you said, shortchanged. I cannot believe we even had this conversation, these priorities shouldn't be issues, they should be understood, they are a given, putting your significant other first should come naturally and not have to be instructed. It's ridiculous. I have made sacrifices for you, can you not do the same for me? And then you start spouting nonsense like drinking, dancing and smoking to rid yourself of all these frustrations and negativity. What ever happened to your self-righteous speeches on how you don't want to depend on such addictions to make yourself feel better? Or are you simply saying these things to infuriate me? I know you cannot change overnight but as long as you're genuinely trying, I will be waiting. It's strange isn't it, how you disappoint and upset me so much to the point where I can even say 'I hate you' and yet I still want to see and be near to tell you, how much I love you."

Good night: 2.30am

[Jul. 21st, 2009|12:45 pm]

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28June09, Sunday: Ever Yours

Letter excerpt from 'It started with a Fool'

Nick Aw: "I wonder if you remember my favourite quote, 'The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future too. We all try to lie out of it but life won't let us.' I found it hauntingly beautiful and true when I first encountered it. I never liked my past. I liked how you never questioned it."

Nick Aw: "I wonder if you have heard of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice? The story of one who played such beautiful music when his wife died that the nymphs and gods wept. He even moved Hades and Persephone, who allowed Eurydice to return with him to earth on the condition that he walked in front of her and not look back until they both reached the upper world. I feel like Orpheus, who has seemingly lost you twice, the second time of which is forever."

Nick Aw: "I cannot live without knowing if you are my life. And with this letter, I am letting you know that I am not giving up."

Onelle: "And I am glad you didn't."

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29June09, Monday: The Horrors on your Hands

Celebrated Cherie and Jaxon's birthday at Nana restaurant in Far East Plaza with the G8 gang. The food there was pretty awesome and we even got a huge bowl of red ruby dessert on the house :-)

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30June09, Tuesday: Going Gaga

Absolutely cannot recall what I did this tuesday, as such, I am going to put up part of the lyrics to my current favorite Lady Gaga song:

"Hold me and love me
Just want touch you for a minute
Maybe three seconds is enough
For my heart to quit it

Let's have some fun, this beat is sick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick
Don't think too much, just bust that kick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick

Let's play a lovegame, play a lovegame
Do you want love, or you want fame
Are you in the game
That's the lovegame"

Oh so catchy :-D

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1July09, Wednesday: Fishes Go-a-Stern

Left my beautiful newly purchased letter set box set at K.Wang's.

Went to visit Mr. Piranhahaha the fighting fish :-D Everything's going swimmingly.

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2July09, Thursday & 3July09, Friday: Your Song

Poetry exceprt from 'It started with a Fool'

Do not sing I pray my poor heart cannot take
The sound, the voice so beautifully haunting
That I might lose sight, fall and let it break
Into pieces if you carry on flaunting
That song which you perform so brilliantly
Make you colour in my black and white world
Where life is just discarded frailty
A plain crate could hold treasures when unfurled
But with an ornate scroll gilded gold
Could contain nothing but dull, blank parchment
Knowledge to use as worthless as it is cold
Beauty is much more than mere adornment
As it is evidently displayed by you
So painfully gorgeous, hopelessly true

Poem inspired by Nick Aw

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4July09, Saturday: AT Fields

Re-discovered Neon Genesis Evangelion. Awesome anime. Spent a whopping five hours watching it :-D

Attended the MAAD designers' flea market with Hannah and her little sister, Trina. There was some sketching session going on there and you could see so much hidden talent within the group of people, most of which aren't even in the field of art or design but can draw exceptionally well.

After the flea, Hannah and I went shopping at Plaza Singapura, we had a lovely soup snack at Saybons (my gawd, it was delicious). I found a pair of snake skin sandals which were absolutely gorgeous but in the wrong size at Charles & Keith. Reserved a pair at the Raffles City branch and went over to collect it. Bid Hannah goodbye when K.Wang came to 'collect' me :-D Poor boy was black faced and limping because of a hockey injury in the morning! So poor thing.

Dialogue exceprts from 'It started with a Fool'

Onelle: "We truly are the funniest, silliest couple ever."

Nick Aw: "You're too 'smart' to be conned and I, too silly to con."

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5July09, Sunday: Every Drop Precious

Lyric snippet of 'Her Diamonds' by Rob Thomas

By the light of the moon
She rubs her eyes
Says it's funny how the night
Can make you blind
I can just imagine
And I don't know what I’m supposed to do
But if she feels bad then I do too
So I let her be

And she says oooh
I can't take no more
Her tears like diamonds on the floor
And her diamonds bring me down
Cause I can't help her now
She’s down in it
She tried her best and now she can't win it's
Hard to see them on the ground
Her diamonds falling down

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6July09, Monday: Rules of Cuteness

Cough cough

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7July09, Tuesday: A Little More Drama

ADM FOC 09 Committee photoshoot with Jia Liang in school. Everyone looked uber serious. Check out the Alliance leaders' photographs on foc.adm.sg

Jia Liang: Romero Alliance

Junyi: Lovecraft Alliace

Jasmine: Poe Alliance

Meihung: Rice Alliance

Audrey: King Alliance

Fareez: Giger Alliance

Daniel: Hitchcock

Elena: Stoker Alliance

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8July09, Wednesday: A Woman's Job is Never Done

Rachel and I trained our man muscles today by shifting the multitudes of easels, chairs, paper rolls, statues and other assortment of the smaller drawing room's trinkets into the larger drawing room.

Great work out! :-D

There was some bash night planning in between where we decided on where the lights and projectors were going to be placed and where the music district stage, skit stage and bar were located at.

After all the shenanigans, it was shower time. Rachel and I found a toilet with shower facilities but the water that came out of the shower head was pretty pathetic. It felt like the shower was slowly peeing on us, thank goodness there was a heater so at least the water was a good temperature.

Stayed over at ADM for the very first time in my lyfe, felt good. The orange couch was comfy plus the blanket, pillow and bolster I brought from home made my stay most satisfactory :-D *cough*spoiltbrat*cough*

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9July09, Thursday: You Startled The Witch

Spent the day researching on Hobo chic wear, popularized by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's going to be the theme for this year's camp bash nigh :-)

Meanwhile, Pow and Ben were playing Left 4 Dead with surround sound speakers. It was awesome! There was a whole bunch of us witnessing the gory zombie massacre. Part of this year's Fright Night or should I say 'The Audition' is based on the game.

Was designing the Hobo chic tickets till late and dozed off shortly after. Absolutely bushed!

ZZzZzzZzzzZzZ...

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10July09, Friday: Everyone Start Spamming

Chionging for subject slots on STARS planner!

Current subject combination and time table:

Monday:
Typography1, 1pm to 4pm

Tuesday:
History of Graphic Design, 1pm to 4pm

Wednesday:
Graphic Design1, 9am to 12pm
Fantastic Art, 4.30pm to 7.30pm

Thursday:
Asian Art History1 Lecture, 10.30am to 12.30pm

Friday:
Asian Art History1 Tutorial, 4.30pm to 6pm

Still awaiting my electives, hope I'll get either Creative Design in Communication & Marketing OR Singing Class :-) Anyway, after subject selections we made our way to the Medical Centre to await the arrival and payment from our ADM Freshmen. Visit the ADM FOC 09: The Exhibition website at foc.adm.sg

Medical Centre closed at 4.30pm, cleared up our booth and brought everything back to school. Da boo came by to pick me up and then it was home sweet home.

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11July09, Saturday: Sh*t Job Worker

ADM FOC 09: The Exhibition preparations

Utter maaaaadnesss :-D

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12July09, Sunday: Red Alert

ADM FOC 09: The Exhibition preparations

Filming Persephone videos with Naresh. Had to smack on a tonne of foundation powder again, more black eyeliner and red lipstick in the centre of the lips. The rest is up to film editing and effects :-D

Also did voice recording for the Fright Night/'The Audition' emergency alert message. Can't wait for the traumatizing to begin...

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13July09, Monday: Find Demeter

ADM FOC 09: The Exhibition - Day Zero

Woke up insanely early with a pounding headache for Amazing Race/'The Expedition' station masters briefing.

Spent the rest of the day writing some of 'The Expedition' storyline clues, designing and eventually printing them out in copies of eight. Discovered to my utmost horror, the unreliability of the printers in school.

When the clues were finished, helped Rachel with the freshmen tags till late. Camp will commence tomorrow, superbly excited! :-D

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14July09, Tuesday: The Decontamination

ADM FOC 09: The Exhibition - Day One

The morning started with freshmen registration. I was giving out and keeping track of the goodie bags while Zen recorded their attendance and temperatures. When all the freshies were settled in and had been sorted into their respective alliances, the ice breaking games began.

Went down to the carpark, the freshmen were painting their alliance flags and getting to know one another a little bit better. Hung out with Jane babe awhile and took some pictures. Boon Ping, Rachel and myself were also getting ready the freshmen tags and sorting them into alliances.

While the freshies were having their dinner, seniors got ready for the next camp segment. Finally, at around eight o'clock, the freshmen were brought into the auditorium for the opening ceremony. In the darkness, seniors came out from backstage with black hoods carrying trays of what looked like sparkling cider in wine cups that had the UMB Corporation logo printed on them. White fog appeared alongside as they made their way on stage, all the while a catchy but ominous sound track boomed from unseen speakers. The music stops and seniors make their way toward the seated freshmen. Chairman Zen makes his speech and introduces the mysterious Dr. Kurt Blome Hartmann, founder of UMB Corporation and creator of The Exhibition. A toast is made and everyone drinks to the beginning of the event. As soon as their cups leave their lips, the projector screen comes down again and an intro video of Persephone plays. While she speaks of the virus that they have just been infected with (sparkling cider is 'drugged'), the freshmen are being blindfolded by their alliance leaders. Persephone video comes to an end and the Decontamination (Initiation night) process begins.

I am station master of the 'Distanza Test', a game where the freshmen have to create the longest line using any items on them as well as their own bodies. It is a great way for seniors to traumatize the freshmen with feather-dusters and masking tape while they're in such vulnerable positions, usually sprawled on the floor, pretty much stretched out and unable to see where they're going. It is also an awesome opportunity for random photo time :-)

Initiation night ends with the freshmen individually going through the very soapy 'Decontamination chamber' slide. While the freshies dried off, seniors are busy clearing up. I was tasked to remove the muck pond with two other seniors. Within this muck pond, therein lies bundles of bee hoon, plastic bags, orange peels and who knows what else. We even encountered a cockroach getting itself acquainted with the rubbish.

When everything was more or less back to its original state, I followed the second bus back to our accommodation, Costa Sands Resort :-)

After showering, there was a briefing with Alliance leaders regarding tomorrow's 'The Expedition'. Had supper before bed and crashed shortly after.

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15July09, Wednesday: The Expedition

ADM FOC 09: The Exhibition - Day Two

Woke up early in the morning to hide cards along the Pasir Ris park beach. Three of which are placed in hard to locate spots while the other five are relatively easy to find in a single vicinity. Alliances were sent out after the rain had stopped and as soon as they found a card, are able to depart to their next destination. 'The Expedition' brings them across arts related venues around the central part of Singapore, with each station presenting them a task when completed will lead them on to the next. The stations are manned by quirky characters who give them storyline clues regarding The Exhibition, Dr. Hartmann and the virus that they've been infected with. 'The Expedition' is not so much a race, as it is a exploratory process for each alliance.

I was unofficially attached to the King Alliance with Fareez (Alliance Leader) and his assistant, Jane Koh :-)

'The Expedition' ended with all Alliances returning back to Costa Sands resort. Storyline clues included:

1. Arab Street: Lab Report on Persephone virus
2. Thieves Market: Diary of previous year Exhibition participant
3. Bras Basah: Email memo of conversing Alliance leaders
4. Substation: Dr. Hartmann's psyche report from his youth
5. Sculpture Square: Newspaper article regarding UMB Corp.
6. SAM: Blurry photograph of zombie creature
7. Old School: Office Memo regarding delivery of Antidote
8. Night & Day: Alliance Leaders' medical reports
9. Costa Sands Resort: Shipping Manifest Antidote drop off location

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16July09, Thursday: The Great Escape, Shipping Manifest and The Audition

ADM FOC 09: The Exhibition - Day Three

Bonding games (The Great Escape) in the morning. I was unofficially attached to Lovecraft Alliance and even got to play a few games with them :-)

In the afternoon, it was free and easy time for alliances to travel back to ADM on their own as well as to get props for their skits on bash night. The seniors travelled back to ADM to prepare for Paint Bomb (Shipping Manifest). I took a detour and 'bumped' into K.Wang at Tiong Bahru Plaza :-D We hung out for a short while and then he headed back to work while I continued on toward Boon Lay.

Upon arriving at SRC, I was tasked to retrieve a loud hailer plus batteries from ADM. Found it in an ice box of all places :-D Delivered the loud hailer to SRC and then discovered to my horror that one of the freshmen was suffering from gastritis. Ran to canteen 2, purchased milk powder and requested the coffee shop uncle to make me a packet of warm milk to go.

Paint bomb begins, the main comm (Zen, Ben, Weiyuan and myself) are in the middle of the battle zone (protecting four parcels, one of which has the antidote in it) with black bombs while the alliances surround us from all sides, armed with colourful bombs. The siren goes off and the battle begins! Everyone is simply flailing paint bombs from all angels, it's every man for himself. Romero retrieves the parcel with the antidote in it but the test tube is destroyed in the crossfire. Oh well.

Photo-taking session and then dinnertime with freshmen.

Seniors to make our way back to ADM for Fright Night ('The Audition') preparations. Everyone is getting 'dolled' up for the event. Was initially tasked to be a judge at the beginning of 'The Audition' but got myself a replacement right before it started. Seated in lecture theatre with Freshmen watching funny youtube videos and then a screening of 'I Am Legend' starring Will Smith.

Tasked to acquire video footage of rooftop action where Freshmen exit a narrow dark tunnel toward the safe zone. The helicopter sound effect is amazing. Really gets the blood pumping. Plus, three soldiers await at the end of the tunnel armed with realistic looking toy guns, walkie talkies, cool sunnies and a medic station.

I walked through the first part of 'The Audition' route but had to exit halfway because the second bus had arrived to bring Freshies back to Costa Sands. All alliances and loads of seniors were packed into the bus including myself.

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17July09, Friday: The Revolution

ADM FOC 09: The Exhibition - Day Four

Getting ready for bash night. Clearing out the small drawing room, shifting metal cupboards against pillars with the help of six strong men, thank goodness. Jane babe and Jia Liang accompanied me to get ice plus paper cups and plates. While seniors got the bash room ready for partying, freshmen indulged in a game of combat skirmish ('The Revolution') as well as practicing for their skits.

Dinner time for all alliances, a special buffet treat :-) Everyone was dolled up in their chic-est Hobo wear.

The host of this event, Rachel (dressed in an androgynous corporate suit) opens the event. Each alliance has a video reference which their act is inspired by. The last alliance, Stoker did a parody of Persephone. Albeit a tad crude, was pretty hilarious :-D All alliances did a fantastic job with their skits however, Dr. Hartmann has already decided not to reward any of them with the antidote. Enter Alliance Leader X, the rebel who heads the revolution. He reveals that Dr. Hartmann has been hiding a large stash of the Antidote and his rebels have obtained it. 'The Exhibition' ends with everyone toasting with the vials of Antidotes, thereby curing all who have infected by 'Persephone'. Bash night's clubbing mode begins and it's partying time :-)

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18July09, Saturday: The End

ADM FOC 09: The Exhibition - Final Day

Freshmen gather outside the auditorium for breakfast, afterwhich they are brought in to watch a compilation video of their days activities and experiences in The Exhibition 09. A prize presentation follows with Best Skit awarded to Hitchcock Alliance, Most Spirited Alliance to Giger and Best Overall Alliance to Lovecraft. Best freshie, female goes to Samantha and best freshie, male to Daniel.

A few words from the chair and vice-chair signals the end of ADM FOC 09: The Exhibition.

Hallelujah!

Dinner at grandmama's place, been a long time since I've visited her.

Late night movie, Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince with Vanessa, Honey and Nen Wen at The Cathay. It was my favorite book but my most disliked screen adaptation. They omitted so many iconic scenes from the book and placed in numerous unnecessary ones. Vanessa and myself, both huge Potter fans were immensely disappointed.

It's been a long week!

Persephone: "Thank you for your participation in ADM FOC 09: The Exhibtion"

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19July09, Sunday: Sissors Paper Stone

Good morning: 2.30pm (wow)

Hung out with K.Wang in Vivo City, had dinner at Marche. Yum. Daiso shopping, K.Wang bought loads of random stuff including a red plastic loud hailer :-D Went to visit Mr. Piranhahaha the fighting fish too.

Good night: 1am

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20July09, Monday: Strings Department

Good morning: 9.30am

Post-ADM FOC 09 clean up and clear out in school with the rest of the seniors.

Shopping at Haji Lane with Da boo.

Shopping at Eastpoint Mall too.

Dinner: KFC

Good night: 1am?

Excerpts from 'It started with a Fool'

Onelle: "You treat everyone so nicely. Exactly the same way you treat me. How do I know I'm special and unique to you?"
Nick Aw: "You are special to me. I treat my friends well but you are my top priority."
Onelle: "I like that you treat your friends well, that's what drew you to me in the first place, you're such a nice guy. I love you so much but sometimes I wonder if you're ever ever sensitive to my feelings."
Nick Aw: "I feel like such a failure, I can't even make you feel special."
Onelle: "Please don't say that, these things can be worked out."
Nick Aw: "I'm just frustrated at myself right now."
Onelle: "Please don't be. If you feel bad, I'll feel bad too."

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21July09, Tuesday: Breaking The Rules

Good morning: 1.30pm

Out with Da boo to Vivo City, blouse exchange in Tangs :-) The blouse was pretty horrendous, hehe.

Met K.Wang at Holland V. The weather was scorching! Visited a bread shoppe and went shopping nearby. Loads of interesting trinkets and items sold at Lim's Arts & Crafts, we even found a teddy there called Logger who shares the same relaxation position as Tigger. Chillax to da max :-D

Ate a Burger King dinner at Sea Breeze Road while watching 'Knowing' starring Nicholas Cage. K.Wang had to leave for camp halfway through the movie. Continued watching after he left, the ending was great. It's really quite an awesome movie.

Excerpts from 'It started with a Fool'

Onelle: "Sometimes I wonder how people can take things for granted so easily, even if it was the very thing they fought most hard for in the beginning, it may be left forgotten at the end."

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20June09, Saturday: Got ambushed & spirited away

Good morning: 10.30am
Breakfast: fishball noodle soup
Morning dramatics: Father down with a ghastly sorethroat
Afternoon leisure: Plants vs Zombies

Youtube-ing: "Post-it Love". Stick with it here

Dinner: Arrabiata at Ambush, Takashimaya
Night purchases: 3 Letter Sets & Stickers

DVD Night: 'Spirited Away' with K.Wang

Good night: 2.30am

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21June09, Sunday: The Letterset Obsession

Good morning: 11am
Breakfast: Fish porridge

Day assignment: Mission clear out and clean up

Lunch: Chai Dao Kueh
Tea: Mrs Fields soft cookies
Dinner: Home cooked meal at grandma's place
Current Obsession: Pretty and Unique Lettersets / Letterpads

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22June09, Monday: Close but no cigar

Good morning: 9.05am
Breakfast: Coffee Bean double chocolate muffin
Day assignment: Carbonated can packaging mock ups
Lunch: Mee goreng, egg, otah, aloe vera + honey drink (great for warm weather)

Latest youtube find: 'Father of Onision'. Appreciate Greg's honesty here

Latest listen: Kristinia Debarge's 'Goodbye'. Give her a listen here

Latest trailer: 'Zombieland'. Get ready for Zombie slaying action here

Evening assignment: Asian can packaging design
Dinner: Home cooked meal
Post-dinner snack: Sushi

Excerpts from 'It started with a fool'

Onelle: "I don't believe in asking someone to officially be your girlfriend or boyfriend and having a specified date that marks the beginning of a relationship. When you're with someone, you'll just know it, it's gradual, natural and there are no need for words or formalities, love is so much more than just a date."

Nick Aw: "I missed my chance when I had it easy before and now that I want it back, it's much harder to get."
Onelle: "Do you think it's like a punishment? Like I am subconsciously punishing you for what you did to me then?"
Nick Aw: "Perhaps yeah, perhaps it's karma."
Onelle: "Have you heard of the phrase, 'God must have a sense of humour'?"

Onelle: "I feel very strongly toward you but not in a good way, I feel mostly anger."
Nick Aw: "Well, at least that's a start."

Nick Aw: "I was afraid you'd pull your hand away."
Onelle: "No I wouldn't, I wanted you to hold my hand."

Onelle: "How do you think I feel about you right now?"
Nick Aw: "Positively? That there might be a chance?"

Onelle: "I was doubtful of your intentions then and I am still doubtful now. What is it that you want from me?"

Onelle thinking: "How I wish we'd have more honest conversations like these, they're beautiful, but by nature he is someone who'd rather roam within safer topics like cookies, oldies and kittens. There's nothing wrong with it, I mean I love talking about food, music and animals but there should be a deeper dimension to a conversation should there not, especially since we've known each other for quite awhile now."

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23June09, Tuesday: Going nuclear

Good morning: 9.10am
Breakfast: Coffee Bean double chocolate muffin (the usual)
Day assignment: ADM FOC 09 Invite/Application/Indemnity forms
All-day work assignment: Asian drinks can packaging design
Latest script: 'Mickey' by Wesley Aroozoo
To do: Write music
Lunch: Thai cuisine

Dialogue excerpts from "It started with a fool"

Onelle: "You seem to like tagging along. Why is it that you never ask me out for your events or outings?Shouldn't the girl be brought around by the guy instead of the other way round?"
Nick Aw: "Is that anger I sense? No problem. If I have outings, I'll bring you along. Only problem is I've got very few of them. Unlike you, I don't have a colourful social life.
Onelle: "Yes anger. You seem to know which of my buttons to push. And this is one of my pet peeves, my boyfriend tagging along. It reflects a lack of independence. I'm so sorry if these words are coming out very harshly but I believe you should know what you're getting yourself into before it's too late. I'm not an easy person to get along with."
Nick Aw: "I have to try pushing every button first to know what to avoid in the future. And what's that about a boyfriend? Did I get promoted lately?"
Onelle: "What makes you think it's a promotion? Push those buttons if you must, just don't regret it."
Nick Aw: "Turn that frown upside down! Or at least save it for me to see your angry face in person."
Onelle: "Fair enough."
Nick Aw: "Ok, I shall stop agitating you now. I'll talk to you tonight?"

Dinner: Home cooked meal
Night time drama: The flu begins to take a toll on Da Bey and Boo's tolerance levels
Good night: 1.30pm

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24June09, Wednesday: Love in my tummy

Good morning: 9.05am
Breakfast: Macaroni chicken soup (delish!)
Day assignment: ADM FOC 09 Invite & Application form
Lunch: Dumpling ramen at White House (double delish!)
Work assignment: Asian drinks can packaging design
Dinner: Fried rice, sliced fish soup, sambal khang khong at Fire Station (triple delish!)

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25June09, Thursday: Identity or Practicality

Good morning: 9am
Morning dramatics: Da Bey announces that Michael Jackson has died at 50
Breakfast: Coffee Bean double chocolate muffin
Day assignment: ADM FOC 09 Invite/Application/Indemnity forms
Lunch: Burger King
All-day assignment: Asian drinks can packaging design
Hang out: Jane babe & YFDS gang at Central Mall
Dinner: Yummy Steamy
Dessert: Starbucks' Fudgey Chocolatey Cake
Good night: 12.30am

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26June09, Friday: It's black, it's white, OH

Good morning: 9am
Breakfast: An assortment of sandwiches
Day assignment: Asian drinks can packaging design mock ups
Lunch: Pasta at Food Republic (double delish!)
Dessert: Chendol in a tall glass (?!)

Youtube-ing: Michael Jackson's 'Black or White' music video. Groove to it here

All-day assignment: Loyalty card design
Dinner: Home cooked meal
Movie night: Transformers 2 with K.Wang
Good night: 3.30am

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27June09, Saturday: Edamame Monster

Good morning: 1.30pm
Brunch: Cookies, porridge with assorted of dishes
Afternoon pampering: Perm & treatment at J's Salon

Youtube-ing: Michael Jackson's 'Do you remember the time?' Dance the Egyptian here

Mid-day snack: Dark chocolate Ferrero Roche
Dinner: Hokkaido miso ramen + Edamame (delish!)
Hang out: Vanessa and KC gang at Vanessa's casa. Playing with dogs, Weiser (6 year old Golden Retriever) and Bugsy (3 month old King Charles Spaniel)
Good night: 12am

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17June09, Wednesday: Getting to the point

Start of work: 10am
Breakfast: Coffee Bean plain bagel with cream cheese
Work assignment: Can drink packaging mock ups
Lunch: Taiwanese food
End of work: 6pm
Dinner: White carrot soup, steamed fish and celery
Dessert: Chocolate pound cake and milo
Drama of the day: Discussion of "The Moment"
Leisure: Watching Project Runway and Tim Gunn's guide to style

Obsession: Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen's paparazzi fashion
My favorite Mk and A outfit, can't tell who is who though.

The blouse is from topshop. Lovely.

Supper: Instant noodles
Sleep time: 2.45am

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18June09, Thursday: Case in point

Start of work: 10am
Breakfast: Coffee Bean double chocolate muffin
Assignment: Hall 11 article layouts
End of work: 6pm
Exercise: Swimming
Dinner: Guo Tiao Mian, dry, chilli

Leisure: 'The Tale of Despereaux' DVD, Animation, 6 upon 10

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19June09, Friday: Lou & Ellen

Morning dramatics: Woke up from a strange dream I had last night, decided to write a story inspired by it.

Love Lottery: Chapter 1 - 'One in a Million'

Lou and Ellen are happily married. They own a beautiful three room apartment, complete with ocean view and front row seats to the sunset every evening. Lou's mother makes her special Shepard's Pie for them every two weeks and Ellen's father doesn't hate his new son-in-law. Yes, Lou and Ellen seem to have it all, or at least that's what they want the rest of the world to think. The newly wedded couple are happy alright but not because they're going to be spending the rest of their lives with each other, on the contrary, their marriage is only going to last, counting today, just 5 months, 3 weeks and 2 days. And they know it. It's all part of the plan. So, when love or sex isn't the main agenda, what is the next best thing? Money of course. How much exactly? Let's just say enough for Lou to retire early, buy himself a private jet to go a globe trottin' while Ellen indulges in a shopping spree everyday of her life in the fashion capitals of the world. That's how much. You might be curious though, as to how this mind-blasting opportunity came about and why is it that the marriage factor came into play. Two words, the Love Lottery.

The Love Lottery, happens once every decade in Tokyo, Japan on Valentine's Day and only serious couples (either you're about to be engaged, engaged or are already married) are allowed to participate in this lottery. Now, Lou and Ellen weren't always a married couple of course, they started out much, much further away than what they are today. Lou's best friend, Leroy was dating Ellen's best friend, Ena. Leroy and Ena love travelling, they had dragged Lou and Ellen on their trips about a dozen times individually but never as a group, until Tokyo. Leroy and Ena decided to participate in the Love Lottery and had decided that if they won, they'd get married straight away. Lou and Ellen were amused of course but would never have imagined their best friends dragging them into the game as well. As quoted by Ena, "Just try it, what are the chances of you winning anyway? It's just for fun, c'mon, pick a number." Perhaps Lou and Ellen were in a spontaneous mood, perhaps they were simply out of their minds but they did it, they picked a number. 532, the winning number of that decade's Love Lottery, was theirs.

It was like everything happened a little too fast, first the number was announced and then the blinding lights from about a hundred cameras. Before Lou and Ellen even realised what had happened, they received a letter from the organisers of the event stating the legal terms in the Love Lottery. Because Lou and Ellen weren't married, according to the terms and conditions they had to be within the next month and stay married for a year before the money is officially theirs. Along with that, there has to be proof, not only on paper but in heart that they are truly a couple. A ceremonial wedding has to be completed, along with witnesses and photographs of the event. Also, if and when the Love Lottery committee does not acknowledge or believe that the marriage is real in one way of another, they have the right to withhold the prize money until further notice.

You can imagine what Lou and Ellen's parents were thinking when they each brought home a stranger to meet them, only to realise that they are to be wed in less than three weeks time. The wedding was fairly simply. A typical dinner banquet, with the couple's family and friends surprised and confused to have recieved a wedding card so very close to the actual wedding day. It was a strange wedding, but still a wedding nonetheless. The photographers were like paparazzi, capturing every single nuance and moment of the event. The final picture was of the newly weds standing outside their hotel room, faces beaming, perhaps of the anticipation of their very first night together, as one. Not really. They never consummated of course. Lou slept on the floor, cushions surrounding him while Ellen snuggled under the covers on the king sized bed. They had a wonderful time dreaming of their soon-to-be money.

The morning after, Lou and Ellen returned to their new home and started unpacking. "If we're going to live together for a year, let's make it the smoothest, best year to big bucks ever ok?" Lou stuck out his hand and Ellen shook it in agreement of their pact. They had everyone convinced, even Leroy and Ena who were probably the most puzzled. During their trip to Tokyo, Lou and Ellen hardly said two words to each other, in response to that statement Lou said, "It was love at first sight, winning the Lottery was destiny welcoming our union with open arms."

But really, this story isn't quite about how Lou and Ellen eventually got their money and went their separate ways, that would be far too easy and it wouldn't be much of a story either. It's about what happens when a lie begins to peel away and two individuals having absolutely nothing in common are brought together by an incredible circumstance, start to realise what the Love Lottery is truly about.

Start of work: 10am
Breakfast: Coffee bagel with cream cheese
Work assignment: Asian can drink packaging
Lunch: Macaroni soup with potatoes
End of work: 5.10pm
Dinner: Spaghetti with garlic sausages, sour kraut and apple juice
De-stress: Shopping with Da Boo
Purchases: Purple tank top, blue polka dot dress, denim dress, white button up sleeveless shirt, gold bagle and Maybelline eyeliner

Leisure: 'Charlie Bartlett DVD', Teenage Comedy, 7 upon 10

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4June09, Thursday: Taylor Swift thanks her lucky stars

Joe Jonas just released his "Single Ladies" spoof video. All I can say is, good luck to Camilla Belle...

Watch Joe come out of his closet here

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5June09, Friday: I think that Jello gave me a fake number

Working on the Hall 11 magazine today. Everything is going swimmingly so far :-)

After work, met up with Vanessa and Honey for dinner at Timbre, the Substation branch. Food was great, was stealing Honey's uber cheesy garlic pizza :-D The weather was really warm and humid though sitting outdoors, thank goodness there was this huge industrial fan right in front of our table whirring away.

Vanessa booked tickets for "Monsters vs Aliens" at The Cathay. Describing the movie as funny, would be a gross understatement :-D Our favorite character in the entire film was definitely B.O.B. (Benzoate Ostylezene Bicarbonate), his lines were the most hilarious. Basically, the storyline centers around Susan Murphy (Ginormica), a soon to be bride who gets hit by an asteroid and starts to grow rapidly in size and strength because of the powerful energy emitted by the huge rock. She gets captured by a secret organisation and is kept in an underground facility along with four other monsters (B.O.B, Dr. Cockroach, The Missing Link and Insectosaurus). The monsters chance to unleash their abilities arrive in the form of an alien invasion. I give "Monsters vs Aliens", 7.8 upon 10! It's a fun movie filled with jaw-droppingly random and amazing scenes :-D

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6June09, Saturday: I'll be back

After watching Terminator Salvation recently, I decided to go back to the roots of the Terminator franchise, which is why I ended up borrowing the first two Terminator movies :-D Finished watching T2 today. One of my favorite and coolest Terminators would probably be the T-1000 played by Robert Patrick. He suits the role perfectly. My brother told me that in Terminator 5, Robert Patrick might be reprising his role as the T-1000 as well as the scientist that helps develop the technology that paved the way to its invention. Some have stated that the T-1000's appearance mimics its creator because he was the very first person it killed and assumed the identity of. It's absolutely mind blasting!

DVD night with K.Wang. We watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone! Let the magic begin. Looking forward to Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince this July, my favorite book out of the entire series :-)

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7June09, Sunday: Associating with Muggles

Relaxing at home, watching a newly borrowed DVD, "Spring Breakdown" starring Amy Poehler, Parker Posey and Rachel Dratch from Saturday Night Live. It's about three girls who attempt to re-capture their lost youth by joining a high school Springbreak beach party which goes horribly wrong :-D

Next on the Harry Potter extended movie marathon, "Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets"! When the movie first came out, I actually saw it three times in the cinema and numerous other times on DVD because I had this insane crush on Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) who has since failed to capture my fancy anymore. Madness.

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8June09, Monday: Silly Ger

Typical work day, dinner in the night with Jane babe, Tessalyn and gang at Hardrock Cafe. The food was fantastic! Jane and I whacked up a herb grilled chicken with 'smashed' (yup, that's what it says on the menu) potatoes plus a plate of awesomely delicious Macaroni and Cheese with more chicken :-D There was live music too.

Jane and I left earlier, was supposed to meet another friend but we went for an impromptu movie instead, "Blood: The Last Vampire". It was what one would call a B-grade movie. The CG wasn't very good at all, however I did like the casting, thought that was brilliant and the twist at the end was quite shocking too though the resolution did confuse Jane and I a little. Love these spontaneous bursts of fun :-D Thanks babe!

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9June09, Tuesday: I'll meet you on the corner of 'NE' and 'VER'

Was creating more can and bottle drink packaging mock ups at work today, it's rather therapeutic actually :-)

Got home, relaxed in front of the tele as usual watching another new DVD! Am such a couch potato, hehe. Anyway, this movie is called, "Paul Blart: Mall Cop", the typical story of a man who goes from being a zero to a hero. Paul Blart is an honest and dedicated security guard at a New Jersey Mall who dreams of becoming a state trooper but is unable to because of a mild but inconvenient physical condition. His time to shine arrives together with a group of highly skilled and intelligent thieves who infiltrate the mall. They hold a number of people hostage, one of them being Paul Blart's long time crush, Amy. Throwing away all self-doubt, thinking creatively and on his feet, Paul Blart begins his rescue mission, to take down the enemy and save the woman of his dreams before its all too late.

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10June09, Wednesday: Most likely nocturnal

Spent the work day on a brochure mock up, I was rewarded with papercuts :-D

Night cycling with Vanessa and Honey in the evening. Met up at Honey's house first, went for dinner at this nearby Italian restaurant called, "Al Forna", the pasta there is pretty darn good and the ambient was really cosy too :-) Rented our bikes just before the shoppe's closing time and cycled from East Coast to Vanessa's place first to collect her clubbing clothes. Next stop was Sea Breeze Road to collect my clothes and then a quick dash back to Honey's house to shower and get ready for ladies' night :-D We left the bikes at her place and we took a cab to Clarke Quay's "Zirca". The music was so-so, still can't beat Phuture sounds. Got home pretty late. What a rush :-)

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11June09, Thursday: 49 cents burger, baby!

Designing more banners at work today, playing around with pretty colours.

Discovered this new song called, "Bitterheart" by Zee Avi, a Malaysian singer. Check out her music here

And this group on youtube called "Wong Fu Productions", they're brilliant! A team of three young Asian-American guys from New Jersey who make music videos and shorts. Most of their videos revolve around love and relationships especially to do with Asians in America or Asians in Hong Kong. Check out their channel here.

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12June09, Friday: Matt Lauer can suck it!

Designing some more banners at work today as well as the senior tee for ADM FOC 09 :-)

Dinner at Heeren's Waraku with K.Wang, the aglio olio was awesome! Waraku is probably my favorite place for pasta. Period. Their kimchi pasta and beef patty dishes are delicious too plus the restaurant's decor is simple and unique. Plates and plates of every pasta they sell proudly on display in neat glass cases for their customers to see and get their tummies growling :-D Wow, talking about it makes my mouth water, hehe.

After the wonderful dinner, went to Cineleisure to catch "Land of the Lost" starring comedian, Will Ferrell who plays a brilliant and dejected scientist, Dr. Rick Marshall. Together with Holly Cantrell and Will Stanton, the odd trio embark on an amazing journey to an alternate dimension and encounter the strangest creatures in the most awkward of situations. I give "Land of the Lost", 7 upon 10!

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13June09, Saturday: Whoever cares less

Out with Vanessa at Vivo City today :-) We watched the romantic comedy, "Ghost of Girlfriend's Past". It's about a rich, successful Playboy, Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) who gets a wake up call from his dead uncle about the consequences of his frivolous lifestyle. He is then visited by three ghosts from the past, present and future. These events force him to realise what is truly important in his life and to never be afraid to love someone. I give "Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past", 6.5 upon 10!

When the movie ended, we went shopping. There was some Thai fashion/creative festival going on at the first floor. The clothes didn't suit me too well but there was some interesting accessories on sale. Vanessa and I were getting hungry, so we decided to sit down for dinner at Shin Kushiya, this lovely Japanese Restaurant. Ordered up plates and plates of mini dishes :-D I had some Wild Vegetable Udon (it tasted pretty wild) with Chawanmushi (the prawn was great) side dish while Vanessa had her favorite garlic rice (more mints later) with Salmon Sashimi (drowned in Wasabi) and Foie Gras on a stick! We were uber filled up at the end of the meal and could hardly walk straight!

Met up with Honey at Sentosa's Cafe Del Moar for a little while, had a nice time chatting there enjoying the sea breeze. It was getting late, decided to share a cab back home for the night.

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14June09, Sunday: Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot & Prongs

To market to market for kueh chap breakfast with Da Boo and Bey :-) Did a bit of grocery shopping, found out that discoloured white eggs have double yolks in them! I asked the shop staff how they discovered these twin eggs and he said it was the difference in the length of the egg. Tried comparing it with the normal ones but could hardly tell :-D Anyway, after the marketing was done, mom and I went over to East Point mall to shop a while at 'Panmar', this new boutique we found that sells really pretty dresses and tops. 'Stodella' has great clothes too but in recent weeks, haven't seen anything that I really liked.

Borrowed DVDs (HP3 and HP4) and went home to watch 'Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban'. Though it wasn't one of my most favorite books, I really liked the way Alfonso Cuaron directed it. Out for dinner at the Soup Restaurant with K.Wang, dessert at Esplanade's Haagen Dazs and a photography session with his new DSLR around the vicinity :-D

My favorite shot.

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15June09, Monday: Beware Ah Chiang

Busy day at work designing banners and brochure page mock ups. During my break, was watching some videos of Amy Poehler (Spring Breakdown) and her husband, Will Arnett (Arrested Development). They're one hilarious couple :-D

Went home and got ready for night cycling with G8. Rented bikes for five of us (Ben, Ya Ting, Jerome, Sarah & I). Our first stop was Parkway Parade for some ice cool desserts :-) Our cycling route took us first to Arab Street then along Orchard Road, we stopped for supper at the prata place near Zouk, visited Dempsey and finally arrived back to East Coast beach at 5.30am! We took loads of awesome photographs along the way, here's a few cool ones we shot with Ben's DSLR...

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16June09, Tuesday: Avada Kedavra

Slept in today, was uber exhausted after night cycling, woke up at 2pm for lunch :-p Da Boo made my favorite Macaroni soup *Drools* Took another nap in the late afternoon (was seriously bushed) and when Da Bey came home from work, we went a-walkin' at the Botanical Gardens. Had dinner nearby and then it was home sweet home :-)

Watched Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire before bed, what a great storyline, it's so much better when you watch it the second time. Could not believe I actually cried again when Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson) died! I mean, it shouldn't come as a surprise to me since I've read the book twice but I was still tearing up when his father started bawling over his dead son's body, that really did it. Loved the scene where Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) was 're-created' in the cauldron with Wormtail's help, that was creepy. The ending really pulled the whole story together and the twist was fantastic, it's the kind that makes one hyperventilate, hehe.

One more movie to go before I'm ready for Harry Potter & the Half-blood Prince on 16th July 2009, Thursday.

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28May09, Thursday: A Swift rise to fame

"Fearless" - A love that is spontaneous, effortless and simply fearless.
"Fifteen" - Taylor's freshman year in high school.
"Love Story" - A country take on Romeo & Juliet, with a happy ending.
"Hey Stephen" - An infatuation with a well sought after Stephen.
"White Horse" - A fairytale ending crushed.
"You belong with me" - Loving a boy who belongs to another.
"Breathe" - Picking up the pieces and moving on after a break up.
"Tell me Why" - A dysfunctional relationship, an ending that is inevitable.
"You're not sorry" - Giving chances to someone who doesn't deserve it.
"The way I loved you" - A passionate relationship with an old flame.
"Forever & Always" - The unpredictable heart.
"The best day" - Love of a father to his daughter and vice versa.
"Change" - An up lifting song about striving for the win.
"Our Song" - Plays on the idea that every couple has to have a song.
"Teardrops on my guitar" - Unrequited love with a boy named Drew.
"Should've said no" - A man's infidelity is never tolerable.

Current Top 5 Favorite songs are "White Horse", "Breathe", "The way I Loved you", "The Best Day" and "Fifteen".

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29May09, Friday: A Ravaged Earth

Was reading up some Greek mythology at work today and came across the story of Persephone and her mother, Demeter which I found rather intriguing.

Demeter, an earth goddess had a very close bond with her daughter, Persephone. The epitome of a wonderful mother-daughter relationship.

One day, Hades, god of the underworld who had fallen deeply in love with Persephone, abducted her and she unwillingly became queen of the underworld. During Persephone's disappearance, Demeter refused to flourish the earth until her daughter was returned to her. There was great famine around the world and Zeus grew concerned. With help from above, Persephone escapes but not before being tricked by Hades into eating pomegranate seeds that grew in his domain. There is a law that whoever eats of the food grown in the underworld ultimately belongs there. Persephone rejoins Demeter back home and the earth begins flourishing again but the law that binds her to the underworld requires that she return to Hades every year. Whenever Persephone leaves Demeter, autumn and winter arrive but upon her return, spring and summer are welcomed in again.

Stumbled onto some "So you think you can dance" videos on youtube and the dance routines are really amazing. Especially loved the contemporary and lyrical dances choreographed by Mia Michaels and Wade Robson. Most of the videos I watched are from season 4 of SYTYCD, the winner is this guy called Joshua Allen who is almost always brilliantly paired with Katee Shean, an excellent dancer and SYTYCD's third place winner. Other exceptional dancers include Stephen 'Twitch' Boss and Mark Kanemura. Here are some of the routines that I thought was both emotional, passionate and executed with perfection...

Click here for Joshua Allen & Katee Shean's Lyrical dance to John Mayer's "Slow dancing in a burning room".

Click here for Neil Haskell & Sabra Johnson's Jazz dance to Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" (Are made of these).

Click here for Mark Kanemura & Chelsie Hightower's Comtemporary dance to Me'Shell Nidegeocello's "Beautiful".

Click here for Stephen 'Twitch' Boss & Katee Shean's Contemporary dance to Duffy's "Mercy".

After work, went to watch Terminator Salvation (digital)! Can't beat T1 but it was still an ultra action packed movie with a great twist at the end :-) And because of my closet beaver personality (as observed by Hannah), here's a Terminator timeline according to characters and the actors that played them...

John Connor from left: Edward Furlong (T2), Nick Stahl(T3) and Christian Bale(T4). T2's John Connor looks like a young asian kid, I don't believe Kyle Reese or Sara Connor were asian, at all. T3's John Connor is basically a hobo, not surprising since he has to maintain a vagabound/nomadic lifestyle to ensure that the machines won't locate and kill him. And T4's JC is a husky voiced military rebel trying to locate his teenage father while battling machines.

Sara Connor from left: Linda Hamilton (T1) and Linda Hamilton (T2). Sara Connor goes from gentle, unsuspecting nurse who falls in love with a man from the future to sinewy gun-wielding protector of her son and future leader of the human race. If you were being hunted down by an unstoppable machine bent on your family's destruction, you'd change too :-D

Kyle Reese from left: Michael Beihn (T1) and Anton Yelchin (T4). Ah, the love story that transcends time, literally. Loved Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese, his sheer innocence and loyalty to John Connor was priceless.

Kate Brewster from left: Claire Danes (T3) and Bryce Dallas Howard (T4).
Hot red heads :-D 'Nuff said.

Terminators from left: Arnold Schwarzenegger (T1), Robert Patrick (T2), Kristanna Loken (T3) and Sam Worthington (T4). Arnie plays the orginal Terminator with his iconic, "I'll be back", sunglasses and black leather. Robert Patrick is cast perfectly in his role as the T-1000 or as I used to call him, Mercury Man, an upgraded Terminator that is able to shapeshift. Creepy. Kristanna Loken plays the cyborg femme fatale, T-X equipped to shapeshift, have multiple weapon upgrades, re-program/control other machines and adjust her cup size at will (no surgery needed) :-D Ok technically, Sam Worthington's character, Markus Wright isn't exactly a Terminator but you got to watch the movie to understand what role he plays in Salvation.

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30May09, Saturday: Your jackets all 'nuah' already

Shopping with Da Boo today :-)
She bought a lovely white jacket from Zara for me!

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31May09, Sunday: Cooking brains

Today was International Museum day! Hannah and I were appreciating art at the SAM :-) There was a flea market going on at 8Q too but the weather was just so hot that we couldn't stay out in the open too long, it was sweltering! Bought a funky notepad for Jane babe and Hannah went on a shopping spree in Plaza Singapura too, it's true, I am no good for her :-D After dinner at MOS, we met Meghan and the TabJoy gang at Central Mall. Haven't seen them all in awhile, really miss everyone so much :-)

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1June09, Monday: Queen of the Undead

Filming at ADM in the early morning with Zen and Naresh. Had to buy loads of make-up first before starting. Naresh was my make-up artist for the day but with the lack of a female touch, my face was being dabbed and smeared at rather forcefully by a foundation sponge over and over again :-D The lips were the trickiest! We had to re-do my lip make-up over ten times! We were done at 5pm, then I went home for a nap and left again for Chris's house.

Jia Liang was already there when I arrived, we went to pick up Jane babe from the entrance. She cooked pasta, Chris made chicken, Jia Liang bought Tiramisu ice cream and I contributed Famous Amos cookies :-) During dinner, we popped in a DVD, Marley & Me to watch. I cried. Obviously :-D Had a really nice time hanging out with the gang.

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2June09, Tuesday: The Great Sniffled One

I think I might have caught the flu. My throat feels strange and the nose hasn't stopped running. It's so annoying! *Sniffle*

On radio news, heard that Air France, Flight 447 went missing on 31st May and the plane hasn't been located since then. I was wondering if the plane was flying anywhere near the bermuda triangle...

Well, according to the map, the bermuda triangle location and Air France 447's flight route from Rio De Janeiro to Paris, France do not cross paths. Though they are pretty close.

After work, was pretty bushed. Went home for an early night.

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3June09, Wednesday: I may be high but I'm not stupid

Woke up with a full blown influenza. My throat feels so darn scratchy and though the nose has stopped running, it is still stuffed up. Stayed home from work and slept in.

zzZzzzzzZZZZzZZZZzz...

Rented "Role Models", it's superbly hilarious! Really made my day watching that :-) Also, discovered this youtube personality called Onision and his latest video, a spoof of Metal Gear Solid which is absolutely laugh-worthy. Onision's wife, Skye plays the role of Stonercon brilliantly, it's a must watch for mindless hilarity. Onision really does look like Snake. The part where powder snake is trying to hide from a green toy frog is the best. Watch it here :-D

Ok time for sleep.

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27May09, Wednesday: Not a very old man

Job: Graphic Designer
Salary: ...
Bosses: Zen Ng and Nicholas Chua
Assignments: The usual
Post-work Entertainment: Googling Gary Oldman and Clubbing

Was looking through Gary Oldman's filmography and realised how versatile he is as an actor.

The many faces of Gary Oldman, clockwise from top left: Dracula in "Bram Stoker's Dracula", Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg in "The Fifth Element", Sirius Black in "Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, James Gordon in "The Dark Knight"

Oldman has been divorced three times and is currently in his fourth marriage. He has three children, from two separate marriages to his first and third wife, his eldest son from his first marriage, Alfie Oldman is already 21 years old. His second wife was Uma Thurman! Pimpin' sialll! My goodness, this is so trivia.com material :-D

After work, attended the Hall 11 FOC 09 meeting and went through all the activities and games for the Secret Pal segment which Kenny and I are in charge of. We added some "spice" in addition to last year's program ;-)

Met up with Jane babe when the meeting ended and we walked to Butter Factory for ladies' night :-D The music was pretty good but somehow the 'vibe' of the place still pales in comparison to Phuture. Danced till 1.30am and went for supper at Makansutra. Bumped into an ex-classmate, Linus and his friends from Temasek Poly who work at the Marina Bay construction area, which Jane had been wanting to do a fashion photography series in for the longest time. He brought us into the area and we got to see the NDP floating stage. The view was wonderful :-) My eyelids could hardly stay open so Jane and I took a cab back home, what an awesome night.

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28May09, Thursday: Swift versus Jonas

Jane babe bought me the latest Taylor Swift album, Fearless! I was listening to it the whole day at work :-D My favorite song currently is "Fifteen". A song about Taylor's freshman year in high school, meeting her best friend, Abigail, learning about love and innocence lost. It's no surprise that Fearless has gone multi platinum, all the songs, that are so passionately written by Taylor herself, are brilliant. Forever & Always, a song inspired by her brief relationship with Jonas Brother, Joe not only relates to her personal experience but delivers a universal message of the unpredictable heart, one day someone could say that you are their forever & always, and the next, a 27 second break up through the phone. I'm not saying that Joe Jonas is a jerk but sometimes before you say those three special words or make a huge commitment or promise, it's good to check the intentions of your heart else you might end up breaking someone else's.

Which reminds me, The Jonas Brothers have a new album coming out pretty soon called "Lines, Vines & Trying Times". Their single, "Paranoid" and music video are out and I know this is going to sound really mean but... they haven't gotten any better. At all. Plus, isn't it a little too soon for them to be pushing out another studio album? I know the Jonas Brothers are known to be hard workers who enjoy what they do and are passionate about music but I'd rather they spend a longer time producing ONE awesome sounding album with songs that actually make sense rather than keep churning out lousy ones (which hint at their possible schizophrenia) within a short span of time. Their "Paranoid" music video was not bad, it had a modern surreality to it. Kevin J had groups of his clones hanging around him. Joe J entered a wrestling ring instead of an attic. Nick J gets car stalked by a beautiful blonde girl.

I haven't heard the other songs on the album but if this current single is supposed to be the best out of the rest then all I can say is, trying times indeed.

Comparatively, Taylor Swift's "Fearless" album had songs that were written beautifully, not only in melody but in meaning as well. Honest and heartbreaking, most of Taylor's songs bring the listener through her past relationships with various individuals and at the same time, has an evergreen message that crosses over from her voice to our own. An effortless and gorgeous sounding album with tracks that actually did bring tears to my eyes, thanks to Jane babe for getting me Taylor's album!

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17May08, Sunday: Brainsss

Almost done with my second round of Adventure mode on Plants vs Zombies :-D King Li and Lee Anne have defeated the final Zomboss, Edgar and the music video was freaking hilarious!

Zombie lawn pool party! The undead sure know how to live it up ;-D

This digger zombie isn't very threatening but he sure is annoying.

The effects of corn lobbing, stops zombies right in their tracks with butter.

"I know you have a lot of food on your plate but brains are quite rich in cholesterol"

Sunflower! Such a sweet looking specimen powers my entire plant infantry and she sings too :-)

Played the Hard Survival Mode as well and it was amazingly crazy, there were all breeds of zombies just cramming their way on screen :-D Zombie BBQ!

Check out the gang of balloon zombies floating their way over my lawn!

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18May09, Monday: Angels we have heard on high

Job: Graphic Designer
Salary: Unknown
Boss: The Father
Assignment: Packaging Design for drink cans
Extra Curricular Activities: ADM FOC 09 Sponsorship Package

And it's only Monday.

"If you look higher", 21st Century Vector, Macromedia Freehand

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19May09, Tuesday: The Final Frontier

Job: Graphic Designer
Salary: Still very much unknown
Boss: The Father & Brother
Assignment: Packaging Design for drink cans
Extra Curricular Activities: Hall 11 Magazine
Post-work Leisure: The Babes bonding

Jane babe and I met up at Somerset to hang out :-) We took a neoprint at Cineleisure! Take a gander...

We had a lot of trouble with this neoprint. Was attempting to erase the heart background but ended up with this funky border :-D

Checkerboard comic book layout

A simpler frame, "We're ready for our close up"

June calendar girls :-D

Had a quick dinner at Pastamania before rushing for our movie, StarTrek! That movie was uber amazingly out of this world fantastic. Our favorite character was the very logical and ultra sexy, Spock played by the equally sexy Sylar, Zachary Quinto. I think it's the whole mysterious, almost emotionless kind of image that was really appealing to Jane and I, very 'man'. Was never a StarTrek fan but after this movie, I have a new found love for Sci-Fi :-D Anton Yelchin who plays Chekov, a 17 year old Russian StarFleet crew member with an amazingly strong Russian accent also stars in Terminator Salvation as John Connor's father, Kyle Reese! Anton is only 20 years old in real life and has already nabbed such huge roles in Hollywood, overachiever sia...

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20May09, Wednesday: Can it

Job: Graphic Designer & Zombie slayer
Salary: Only time will tell :-D
Boss: The Father & Brother & Xerox machine
Assignment: Packaging Design & Mock ups for drink cans
Duration: 11 hours
Post-work Leisure: Plants vs Zombies

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21May09, Thursday: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water & Carmerlango

Job: ADM FOC 09 Vice-Chair
Salary: 7 points
Boss: Zen Ng
Assignment: Rece PA Holiday Flats
Extra Curricular Activities: ADM FOC 09 Invite, Hall 11 Magazine

Post-work Leisure: Movie night, "Angels & Demons" with Wesley Aroozoo

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22May09, Friday: The Imperfect Fit

TGIF!

After work, went shopping with Da Boo at Eastpoint Mall and then Tampines One. Bought two skirts from TopShop which is very surprising since I have never been able to fit into any TopShop clothing :-D

Attended Tracy's wedding at Novotel, Clarke Quay in the night.

Excerpt from "It started with a Fool"

Onelle: "Unrequited love is painful for the one who gives their all and receives no reciprocation but it is just as miserable for the one who is unable to return that love at all. The heart is a puzzling muscle."

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23May09, Saturday: Asian Muggle Civilization

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince premiers in Singapore, 16th July 2009! Was Googling the posters...

There's loads more where these came from, at least another fifteen different posters.

Attended the Kang Xi exhibition at the Asian Civilizations Museum with King Li and Lee Anne. I never knew Emperor Kang Xi was a poet, he wrote thousand of poems in his lifetime, very beautiful ones.

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24May09, Sunday: Directive

ADM FOC 09 Senior bonding at Sea Breeze Road today :-) Da Boo prepared loads of food like chicken curry, baguettes, bee hoon, otah and two boxes of pizza! The party started out with some mingling and then someone popped in the "Wall-E" DVD. After the movie ended, Zen officially introduced ADM FOC 09's theme and storyline to the SubComm including orientation and assistant group leaders. The night ended with group photos...

There's a reason why we're posing in these particular ways but I am not at liberty to divulge the information yet :-D

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25 May09, Monday: In need of time & space

Job: Graphic Designer
Salary: Still waiting... :-)
Boss: Papa
Assignments: An assortment of miscellaneous work
Extra Curricular Activities: ADM FOC 09 Invite, Hall 11 Magazine
Post-work Drama: "The Resolution"

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26May09, Tuesday: Count on me Dracula

Job: Graphic Designer
Salary: Burger King
Boss: Papa & Yip
Assignments: Can drink mock ups, Envelope mock ups
Extra Curricular Activities: ADM FOC 09 Invite, Hall 11 Magazine
Post-work Leisure: Watching Bram Stoker's "Dracula" on HBO

Haven't seen a Gary Oldman film in years, he is a brilliant actor. All time favorite vampire :-D

Stoker, King, Poe, Rice, Romero, Geiger, Lovecraft, Hitchcock
What do these names have in common? :-)

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10May09, Sunday: Brains are high in cholesterol

I was curious to see how France looked like, so Alex Rene(who is currently back in his homeland for the holidays) told me to look up Google maps for a 360 street view of his home and its vicinity. Way cool. I had no idea satellite technology had gone to such an extent, it's absolutely incredible! Tried searching my home on Google maps too but they didn't have the 360 street view of Sea Breeze Road. Alex said the function is only available in US and Europe. Was having a nice time exploring the entire area and its surroundings, everything was so clear, you could even see people outside their homes and cars whizzing past in a blur. Makes you wonder how private our lives really are eh? Hehehe.

About the same time I discovered Google maps, Honey passed me a youtube link to a music video of this new game called "Plants VS Zombies", I know, what in the world right? It is to me, the most random, adorable and utterly brilliant strategy game I have ever seen in a music video where the sunflower sings about keeping zombies off your lawn. Watch it here.

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11May09, Monday: Tale as old as time

There's a new animation by Disney called "The Princess & the Frog"! A Disney first, the lead character and princess, is an African-American girl named Tiana :-D She's absolutely adorable with quite a spunky attitude. The frog prince is so 'tiko'! Well, he has to be cause he thinks a kiss will break the powerful spell that's been placed on him by this evil voodoo dude. Really looking forward to watching this movie.

The actual story however has nothing to do with Tiana or voodoo magic. Written by the Brother's Grimm, the original fairytale tells of a spoilt princess who loses her most precious and favorite play thing, a golden orb/ball when she misses a catch while tossing it in the garden. It lands in a pond that is too deep for the princess to retrieve on her own. She starts freaking out and soon a little froggie hears her yelps of dismay. He agrees to help her retrieve the golden orb but in return, she has to allow him to follow her back home. The princess, though absolutely reluctant but desperate to get her most treasured possession back, agrees to the deal, but soon after he delivers the golden orb to her, she scurries away and forgets about the frog! While enjoying her dinner the next night, she hears a gentle knock on the door and someone singing about keeping a promise. The princess opens it to find that the frog has followed her home, she freaks out again and shuts the door in his face whereby he continues singing (then go join American Idol la). Her father, the king asks her who it was and she tells him everything that happened yesterday with the frog. Daddy dearest tells the princess to honor her word and do as she has promised. Though quite frightened, the princess let's the frog in and he starts eating off her dinner plate :-D Afterwhich, the frog says that he is now very tired and would like to head to bed. She places him on her pillow and he quickly falls fast asleep. The next morning, the princess is relieved to find that the frog is no longer on her bed BUT he returns that very evening to sleep on her pillow again for the next two nights. On the third morning, instead of a frog, the princess wakes to a handsome (rostiie!) prince staring at her! He explains that a spiteful fairy had cast a spell on him and that she had broken the spell by allowing him to eat off her plate and sleep on her pillow for three nights. The prince and princess head back to his place on chariots with eight horses (wow) and get hitched. They live happily ever after. THE END.

Where got such thing in real life one?! How can you tell little girls this kind of story. First of all, not every female is a princess. Secondly, if anyone heard a frog belting out poetry, they would happily bring it to a lab for experimentation, not let it eat off their plates. And thirdly, a guy would never propose to a woman in three days, that is just ridiculous. Brothers Grimm, you lie...

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12May09, Tuesday: Beautiful Lawn Formation

Omg. I'm addicted to Plants vs Zombies! Check out my uberly awesome plant infantry, powered by sunflower. The zombies can't even get anywhere near my lawn. BWAHAHA.

Day lawn formation. Gatling pea plants + firewood = Zombie Barbeque :-D

Night lawn foundation. Mushroom fumes x 15 = Victory

Day backyard formation. Spikeweeds = Exploding Zombonis

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13May09, Wednesday: Alive, dead or missing

Off to help my papa at the office :-)

Was designing a logo and postcard for ADM FOC 09, took about five hours to finish the logo design, but here it is...

I can't reveal what the design means or the theme because our school's freshman orientation camp hasn't commenced yet and am afraid of sending out spoilers before the actual event. Will let ya'll know soon.

During break time at the office, I started watching this new music video for Ciara's latest single, "Love Sex Magic" featuring Justin Timberlake. The chemistry between both artistes is incredible, one might wonder how Jessica Biel is handling the fact that her insanely famous boyfriend is getting his ear nibbled on my a modelesque, crazy sexy female singer. Other than all the freakiness going down with Ciara and Timberlake, the entire music video was also quite captivating, almost alluring...

Ciara's silhouette, beautiful.

"Crazy Horse" scenes with teasing ballerinas made complete with jazzy lighting and nude colored costumes. The dance choreography is both unorthodox and elegant.

Ciara dresses up in a Zebra print spandex suit and displays her gymnastic prowess. Unleash the animal in you!

Justin Timberlake and Ciara getting close on screen. There were numerous other scenes but I shan't put them up here, it's a tad inappropriate. I did however like one shot of Timberlake on a chair and Ciara curling herself underneath his left leg like a cat, that was cool.

Personally, my favorite scene in the entire video. The girls are dressed up in barely there cocktail waitress swimsuits and orange afros. Their dance sequence is both provocative and absolutely alluring.

Watch the entire "Love Sex Magic" music video here.

Got off work at around 6.30pm and met Jane babe and gang for dinner at Fisherman's Wharf opposite Central Mall. The food there is pretty good, especially enjoyed the chips that came with my creamy dory fillet meal :-) Jane and I separated from the rest after dinner and chilled at Clark Quay bridge, listening to music on my MacBook and taking pictures/videos using the Photo Booth function :-D At one point, there was this group of middle aged French women who were taking pictures of us, they even thanked us in French when we waved to them, haha.

We saw some UFO-like lights swooping around nearby at the open field and were curious to see what in the world those were. There was some nice native/ethnic music playing in the background and people with remote controls in their hands flying what looked like an LED embellished kite with a propellor! Later, Jane and I found out that these people were part of an organization called "Go Fly Kite". The special kites and company was invented and founded in Singapore, hence the ultra Singlish name :-) To join the club however, you'll have to purchase one of those special kites for $580. A trainer will then be appointed to teach you how to use your kite in the proper way and guide you in getting it to lift off. There are five ranks altogether, trainers are usually from the third rank onward. If you're interested, you can visit their website here.

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14May09, Thursday: Emotional Amnesia

Had a De-conflict meeting with the other orientation camps that will be happening during the holidays. Only two camps were being held in the same week as the ADM FOC 09 so there wasn't much of a problem there. Zen and I were more concerned with our accommodation since we won't be able to use any halls in July due to renovations plus all government chalets have been closed due to the swine flu. Only options left were camp sites and most were already being booked up by other organizations within NTU and other schools. You can see how that caused a shudder down our spines at the possibility of our camp being cancelled. With the help of the other committee members, we sieved through a list of camp sites and began making calls to the various places, enquiring on availability during the July period and cost. After all the shenanigans, we finally settled on one location and have since booked several units, all paid for, all confirmed :-D Hallelujah!

Almost the rest of my day was spent on Plants vs Zombies, Youtube-ing, MSN-ing and Facebook-ing. Multitasking to da max!

Dialogue excerpts from "It started with a Fool"

Nik Aw: "I believe in fate, but I also believe that we can choose to go after what we want."
Onelle: "That's great, live life for yourself. Go after what you want, don't hesitate anymore."
Nik Aw: "But what I want doesn't want me."

Onelle: "Everything that happened before was real, all my feelings were true. But once I made that decision to move on, all those feelings went with it as well. I honestly don't understand myself anymore, how could I have felt so strongly about a person one day and feel absolutely nothing the next."

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15May09, Friday: When you're onto day 43

Helping papa in the office today :-) Was listening to David Choi's music on his website while working. "Always Hurt" is such a lovely song, kind of sad but really easy to relate to.

"Always Hurt" by David Choi

I'm feeling kind of scared cause I'm falling in love with you
But you don't care cause you don't know how I feel
I don't want to give my heart to someone new
I've been there before and it's my heart she tore in two
Can somebody please stop me from falling for this girl
I don't want to have to go through love again
Cause it always hurts
It's hard to look away when you say the things that you say
I try to be so cold but you melt the chill away
I don't want to give my heart to you
Cause I'm afraid of what will happen and the things that you'll do
Can somebody please stop me from falling for this girl
I don't want to have to go through love again
Cause it always hurts, it always hurts
Oh I'm fighting oh so hard to keep the feeling inside
But I don't think I can I wanna hold your hand
This man is afraid of the outcome
Can somebody please stop me from falling for this girl
I don't want to have to go through love again
Cause it always hurts, always hurts
Can somebody please stop me, from falling for this girl
I don't want to have to go through love again
Cause it always hurts, it always hurts
I don't want to have to go through love again
Cause I always end up
Always getting hurt

After work, attended a movie screening of "Fireproof" in church. I was sobbing throughout the entire movie! You could hear sniffling all around, even the guys were tearing up :-D The story is about a couple whose marriage has been on the decline for years now. The husband is a fireman while the wife works in a hospital, they have very different work schedules, hardly ever seeing each other at home but when they do, it seems their conversations always end as horrible screaming sessions. The wife wants a divorce but the husband is reluctant, he does want to save the marriage but has no idea how. His father then puts him through a "love dare" for 40 days. In addition, the husband finds God during the process and the dare which started out as just a going-through-the-motions chore, starts becoming more and more sincere. It's a beautiful movie, extremely touching and meaningful, a great watch for anyone whose ever been in love.

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16May09, Saturday: Plants vs Zombies - Spread the addiction

NTU ADM 09 Tea Party in the afternoon with the rest of the ADM Student club, lecturers and freshman. The buffet was delicious! Had loads of sushi, chocolate cake, dumplings and fruit punch :-D

Came back home in the evening. Recently introduced King Li and his girlfriend, Lee Anne to Plants vs Zombies, they created their own account in the game and are addicted to it too :-D

Went night cycling with Honey at East Coast Park, it was an awesome hang out session, the weather was great :-)

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8May09, Friday: Fabulosity

Rece with ADM FOC 09 MainCom and programming SubCom for camp. Uber burning hot and humid day, was walking under the "beautiful" weather for about three hours. Yowza.

Attended the Marc by Marc Jacobs fashion show in the night with Lee Anne. My favorite part was the music playing during the catwalk, I'd seen all the clothes online already :-D Took some pictures with the celebs who were present at the event like Patricia Mok, Ezanne and Joanna Peh, they're all uber gorgeous!

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9May09, Saturday: One Friday Afternoon

Dialogue excerpt from "It started with a fool".

Ana go: "So, since he left, do you miss him?"
Onelle: "Of course, I miss him terribly."
Ana Go: "What do you miss about him?"
Onelle: "His soft and warm hugs, how he always pretends to seem interested in my work, or maybe he sincerely does, haha."

Patrick's college life was becoming somewhat of a routine except for the occasional house party on the weekends before quiz mondays. He hadn't seen Dana in over a year. Both were studying in different schools, separated by oceans and large expanses of land but Patrick still remembered so very clearly, the emotional farewell before their imminent departures the previous spring. He woke up from another dream he had of her, this time she was running through a mall made entirely out of ice but there was beach sand and wet paint all over the floor. Patrick rolled over, stared up at the ceiling which for some strange reason had darts embedded into a picture of cigarettes. "I have got to stop killing shots right before bed." he mumbled under his morning breath. It was a friday, the afternoon sun was seeping through the grey window blinds of his dorm room as he slowly lumbered out of bed and into the toilet. He glanced over at his wall clock, "Oh sh*t I'm gonna be late again." As he hastily jammed his laptop into the haversack, Patrick heard a shuffling outside his room and the sound of footsteps walking away. He finished packing, got on his jacket and stepped outside, looking from one end of the hallway to the next but there was no one in sight. As he stepped out to shut the door, a plain white plastic bag was hanging on the knob. Patrick opened it and inside was a packet of his favorite chocolate chip cookies, there was no note. On his way to class, he munched happily on the snack and wondered who the gift was from when suddenly at the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a familiar silhouette. She had her brown hair tied up high into a bun with a few strands trickling down the face, black glasses framed large eyes, in her hand she clutched a purple sketchbook with palette and paintbrushes strapped to its side and carried a grey haversack that wasn't completely closed. The girl took a seat under one of the trees and started sketching casually, a soft smile enveloping. Patrick thought this was another one of his dreams, he walked over to Dana, his lips quivering. She stopped drawing and looked up at him, "I see you're enjoying the cookies."

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