hello there, this exists to help my failing memory remember things I would want to remember a few years down the road.

i think that fresh milk tastes like air con, however air con tastes like... ._.

transferring photos from my phone always makes me feel like blogging. so...

zhiying and i went to chinatown last saturday morning to the asylum to collect the ikimono cameras for this photog competition that yt and us have decided to sign up for, largely because the ikimono cameras are uber cute. ._.

see...

that is the actual size of it and it can really take real shots (:
will go phototaking after final assignment i guess...
this is the site to check out if you are interested. click!

the asylum is real kind too. yt was sick that day and they actually reserved one for her because they had a one for one policy and we couldnt collect for her. so, they are very kind.


this is taken at vivocity with my trusty phone, lol. went there for yomag meeting on wednesday and it was rather fruitful, thank God.

oh yah, caregroup yesterday was really fun too. had it at jiali's house and we celebrated eevoon's (belated) birthday in a rather unique fashion. all of us wrote a word to describe her on a post-it and stuck it on her back. so, she has to remove them one by one and guess who the author is. and minops being the masters of deception, some got other pple to write so the handwriting will be different and some wrote with left hands. her forfeit was a really personalised tattoo on her arm by gwen, hehehe.

reached home at midnight and konked out...
i slept for 12 hours i think :X

oh, shall clarify something. contrary to popular belief, i dont really hate kids. i just dont know what to do with them. my nephew is scared of me like how i am scared of him. but, we had a breakthrough recently! one dinner, he wanted smileyfaces on his fingers and the family sabo-ed me because i was the one doodling away on a tissue paper. so he happily ran over and asked me to draw so i held his little hands and drew smileyfaces on all his ten fingers and that happy look on his face was priceless.
this is my 2nd sister's son, keven.


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this block... i am so bored... i keep sleeping. and sleeping. and sleeping. and it made me more tired and restless.

i am so not a morning person ):

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AHHHHHHHHHH, i am bored.

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i had a long but fruitful day.

i shall blog about a part of it and leave the rest for tomorrow...

today during service, i was really filled with thanksgiving about... people.
i do thank God for people rather frequently, but today it's just somewhat much deeper and i see it in a broader picture..

it all started with jonquek showing me a card he wrote for rachfong's birthday, with some stupid photos and long paragraphs. so we had some short conversation before he went off to sing... then halfway through praise, i saw emu yihui in her usual wanting-to-give-her-best to praise sort of way.

then i was thinking about rachel leading her group, karchian leading a now-growing-manymany stnicks and dengky and pete in nea... and... i felt really happy.

i guess we talk much lesser now, but... things would have never been the same without them. and i am so glad we are still serving fervently. (:

then i recall seeing sarah reporting for her first sound duty. very heartwarming... and seepeng being excited about planning cg that night... (: and the people who have stepped into my life and gave their bits of advice and concern- freedy, sunny, cong, ian, lunniechia, giging (hahaha, looks like "giggling") who is always with northeast when we need him..
AND, pamyeo! (forgot about you for a moment... whoops) she who made my life in anderson mcuh brighter.

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halfway through prayermeeting, we were told to pray in our caregroup..
jiali: (jokingly) we go on stage lah.
cong: haha, they not our cg lah. our cg is behind. the mm room.
jiali: then we go there lor!

haha okay this is random crapping conversation, but i was thinking, yah, it's true. the caregroup seats are always not fully occupied because the people are always running around and serving God in their different roles and ministries.
i am proud to be among them too.
i know i am not there yet, in terms of skills and other areas, but wo hui jiayou de.

and of course, i dont live in the church 24/7.
so shoutouts to bernice cheng, jasmine ang, wong cixin, pang huishan, chng renying, joanne tng,
thank you for letting me find a friend in each one of you.

lee yt and cho zy,
thanks for sticking by, when the going get tough.

yay.
this is called card-therapy.
the result of re-reading boxes of cards :X

bedtime.

p.s. i have a goldfish memory.
if i dont put u down, it doesnt mean you dont matter.
it probably means i wasnt thinking about you then.

i am really getting senile.
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my brother in law just lent me his newly bought digi cam which is a mini slr... a digi cam with some slr functions... gona put it to good use for sept bulletin and my final assignment. : )

i think my mum is very cute. she's very happy she can fit into my newly bought shoes and asked if she could borrow them next time.

watched my brother in law and sister change baby isaac just now.
it takes love to bind, it takes mutual understand and dependence to nurture a child.

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thanks to rachel alerting me about a certain blog,
i nearly die of heart attack.

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today,

i was very bored in class. i am puzzled as to why my teacher doesnt know the basic file formats. i want to learn them, but why cant she teach?

i got cheated by the itas printer because engine printer is down.

i discovered that there is a new meiji yanyan look-alike thing called meiji dippy.

the strawberry one is cooler- it has black choc sticks dipped in strawberry.
but i heard it is rather sour, like adultish taste?

i went down to amk to meet phoenix over chicago@ pizza hut.

i am really upset about a stray. if you want to know, i am no animal fanatic. the stray is not a potential pet. would be good if i could keep stray captive..

i randomly bought a pair of green covered shoes. i suspect it is subconscious retail therapy.

i took a very long bus ride home and scribbled on the bus in the diary that i had abandoned.

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was observing the teenagers hanging around amkhub today and i remembered my days of being in sec one. i guess that was the awkward teenagehood period, when you were trying new things, learning how to dine at better places and trying to fit yourself into the group of new people around you.

i see the typical girls with their hair down and shirts tucked out, kids who bother to bring clothes to school to change and are decked out in 77th street apparel, those attention seeking and annoyingly loud "oi!"s, expensive bulky slingbags...

sidetrack... nowadays the teens seem to be very rich. the phoenix and i spotted a grp of 4 pri sch kids lunching at pizza hut... i do not recall myself doing that during "my era". i ate at random kopitiams and bubbletea shops and bought uncountable cupnoodles from 7-11. now, they go to sakae, ajisen... hmm...

i guess lower sec is the time where i found more of a group identity, forming new friendships and gradually being comfortable with the many changes. recently, having talked to my slightly older cg mates, i realise that the time where u truly find your self identity is not so soon.. or more like finding a purpose and pathing your way slowly when you realise that the future ahead is really yours to decide...

hmm, scary.

my turn will come, not so soon i hope.

school is rather slack now.
i end at noon everyday and homework is really manageable. the final assignment is to design for spca. man... i need inspiration.

and,

i ate pizza hut for dinner again... Dad's craving.

i believe i am going to reformat my dear Crumbs soon. Apple update has problem. boo.

i think i ought to get a digicam. so i can be the one to take photos at minops outings and filter out all my personal unglam photos before sending them to people

i realise the government really cares about the grass. there are those people they employ who work on those huge machine mowers to ensure that the grass we have is neat and tidy. and! my school has employed so many people just to make sure our dear triangular garden is kept trim. they pluck weeds under the hot sun once a week...?

all my dear sec4s, jiayou!
my dear jc friends, all the best for promos and mugging!
poly people, gambatte for your tests!

hmm... it is rather weird this morning. met issac at the bus interchange and we were feeling out of place not reading any notes. cause... design got no tests. hehehe.

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for when something skyrockets,
it hits the pits too.

soaked.

can it be fixed?

so at least you can sleep.
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i have one of those random holidays today, one day off to play with text on illustrator (:
typography rocks man.

yesterday was a long day.
robin,sarah,issac,amanda,amaris,zhiying,yingnuo,yt,rayson and i cabbed to ikea tampines after school since we were in holiday mood.

ikea food rocks.
uhm, all the other photos are with the other people.
kind souls, please send me! :)

we had fun eating and talking, then walking around and crapping.
i think ikea is a really nice place, and how it always motivates you to want to do something to your room... i want that metal bed frame since i was in sec4 or smthg. and i wonder why the price never drops.

i have fun classmates... so after ikea and their milky icecream, we went separate ways. half of them went to sarah's house and some went home. i went to stone till its time for caregroup.
the journey to buono vista is rather horrible... but caregroup was kinda fun, with the childish chilli-throwing, kfc-ing and the usual funny people. :)
Thank God philo and i didnt miss our last train from Jurong East after we cabbed to buonovista from ministry house..

hmm, the ministry workload is starting to look more and more real.
y-comm, jiayou!

so to prevent cabbing for the third time in a day, i walked home...
Let my life be whole with my eyes on you.

knowing that it would hurt,
i didnt have the courage to walk the other route home.
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yingnuo reminded me. this is a better site:
(go on, cixin, spend all yr time reading xP)
http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com/

read about this before but keep forgetting to go to the site.

my classmates like to wear neutral colours.
black,white,grey.khaki,etc.

lalala. bored.
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my lecturer is gone for a meeting and i am stoning in class.
until i went blog hopping and visted wong cixin's blog..
and i think sgsecrets is addictive ):
http://community.livejournal.com/sgsecrets

had a so-so weekend.
saturday's praise was therapeutic.
didnt do anything much after service though.
tracie came to 2nd service and kar bought her a donut for her birthday.

had cg at ecp on sunday.
i really dont like travelling to east coast, boo.
but anw, had some fun learning how to rollerblade.
when blading into the park from the shop, i tried.
after that i go lazy and held on to cong while blading back.
and i caused him to fall :X dui bu qi onion!
blading is fun if you can blade fast i guess.

but i still like how the wind is in your face and your hair is flying when you cycle.
i still remember cycling at pasir ris with ber <3
and teaching jasmine how to cycle at bishan park (!)

all very entertaining.
yeh, i miss you people.
i havent heard from everyone for ages. (ages, like more than one month..)

still not very used to not having much programs after school. haha...

i dont like how my eyes cannot open wide this morning.
how i dropped that lolly. and i still like lollies.
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i kind of wasted my holiday today.
did nothing really constructive.

i dont like to waste time :/

guess i will go pack up my room later.
cause right now my tabletop is all covered with random things, with a space for about three quarter of Crumbs to sit on.

:/
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i have no school today (((:

with a ninth cut on my finger, i ended the submission on wednesday.

yesterday just went to school to have feedback session and collect our work. all was well till everyone got a little green-eyed again. sometimes, it is just... unjustifiable? history seems to repeat itself again and again.

although i felt really bad, i dont think it is being un-nice.
it might be even helping in the long run.
"not giving one the fish, but teaching one how to fish."

then again, i feel rather helpless.
why is it so annoying?

so... after lunch with yt,zy,nat,amaris,amanda,robin,isaac,dan at the oldchangkee/shilin/newyork pizza place near centurysq.
dan and nat left while the rest of us went shopping.
^^
^^
^^

God has been very kind to me, blessed me financially with random extra money from my mum so i happily bought stuff that have been on my to-gets list since forever.
shopping with amaris @ bugis is very good, she knows the place very well, lol. so i dont have to demonstrate my "talent" of always bringing people back to the starting point subconsciously. lol.

so i guess yesterday was great.
because all the times during the block we wanted to do so many things but everytime end block everyone just goes off to do his or her own thing. so it was good that we had fun tgt.

hehehehe.

next 4 weeks, school ends at noon.
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for the apple fans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIUkwPybtM

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just reached home and am eating dinner.
time check: 1049pm

today i was thinking about how we could fall into living to impress, especially in the environment i study in. every exercise and assignment is under the scrutiny of everyone and good comments sound sweet to the ears of course.

eventually i conclude the person i need to win most is myself.
i know sometimes i do a pc of work which people think is so-so, but i am so happy with it i am proud of it. that is when it's a victory for me (: and i know heaps of good comments on a pc of work i am unsatisfied with will still be a work that i am unsatisfied with.

did a poster design. hahaha, because i didnt do my homework which is to brainstorm i got to re-use the bulletin concept :X


it was fun to do it in colour though.

everyone is waiting for thursday when this crazy block will finally end.
this block is expen$ive, time con$uming and draining to the max.

i went to resubmit a particular exercise that i got C for, lol.
and it costs me $9.
ouch ouch ouch.
and robin has a magical cutter.

i am glad to have friends to "squat at a corner and frown over our works together" and i wonder if such friends would last till the final year. i guess people do get more and more independent and individualistic as they grow up.

you see it all around you, don't you?

hehehe, we are distorted because we were playing with someone's 2D artwork featuring a fisheye mirror. pretty.

i more block and 3 days more to a well deserved i-dont-know-how-long break.
woah, sem1 gonna be over in a flash.

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this is the state of our beloved 3D fun studio.
thanks to some brainless rigidity and enforcing us a near-impossible deadline.
but chionging for deadline with the right company is fun, lol.

went back down to school after service and dinner on saturday. it was a surprisingly quick and nice busride and i had to creep my way up to the studio and scared yt as i "yt..." her when i was approaching them, hehehe.

so, zhiying, yt, robin, rayson and jiasheng were there.
then we work and work and after a while, jiasheng had to leave and it was all very amusing because he came back 10minutes later and told us he forgotten something and he had to climb the gate in. (when there is a way out w.o having to climb the gate!)

then came a hilarious sight. robin and i were fighting for his attention and we started to raise our hands and go "pick me, pick me!" cause we wana teach him how to walk out the civilised way. then jiasheng gave the helpless-parent/teacher look and "robin, i choose you!" then robin blabbered and i tried to draw diagram and in the end he went "haiya! i just climb the gate again lah!" while yt and zhiying rofl-ed.

(you have to know all 6 of us and see the situation to really think it is really funny...)

so we had more crapping together while we chionged and finally left at 10+ when the security uncle wants to go home.

i guess this block taught me many lessons too.

one very important one is to NEVER never do something just to please a teacher. or, just to get good grades for that matter. i guess many of us fell into it..? we were all so worried about what he likes and favours that we lost our own individuality. and because i was trying so hard to do something that is not me, i had mental block the whole way. the relief is immense when u just do what is yourself but to the best of your ability.

i learn a lot from yt too. last block, she filled three quarter of an A2 paper (for the normal people, A2 = 4 x A4) with grass. this time round, she is making a sculpture has five cardboard beans and used nine pieces of huge cardboard altogether. i see perseverance man!
you go, girl! (:

it is important to make good friends. lol. i guess the rest had fun buying materials together, fretting over material usage together and so on... and staying in sch till so late tgt. i only went for one night. And, no one would be very keen to stay in TDS alone at night, really.

i guess i learn how to put God first all over again too.
back then i was the one holding meetings and cgs so of course i have to turn up, lol. now, i have very understanding leader who could excuse me if i really had to do school work so it really depends on whether i want to make it down for the meeting. but God was gracious to bless me with an approved piece that is coincidentally comparatively easy to make so i went for meeting (though late :X) on friday. it was fruitful and exciting. (:

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hehehe.
i like Claes Oldenburg.

i am sorry i buang-ed (threw) him away in hope to score a better grade by doing nonsense that i know i claim is "abstract". mistakes do happen. and i am glad i switched back in time (;
i dont think my end product will be as fantastic as his, nor as 3D and pretty as many of my classmates, but at least my conscience is clear and i am happy. hohoho.

if you think he is cool, read this -> http://www.popartmasters.com/STATEMENT.htm

got to do work.
may God be with me on friday, it's gona be a long day, while all the jc dudes and secsch dudes are happily holidaying ):
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yea i got tagged by wong cixin.
this is pointless but i feel like taking a break.
locked myself home to do homework all day and have yet to do sculptures, talk about escapism, hehehehe

LAYER 1 : ON THE OUTSIDE
Name : Lim Lay Ling, most people call me Lays
Birth Date : 14 October 1990 (haha cixin, i only need to change one digit!)
Eye Colour : i insist it is brown... or at least dark brown...
Hair Colour : black
Right of lefty : righty

LAYER 2 : ON THE INSIDE
My Heritage : aye.. adam n eve? chinese? what does this mean..?
My Fears : blood, huge knives, rides, moving toys, huge mascots and the list goes on...
My Weaknesses : very weird to write here right... ._.
My Perfect Pizza : (cixin, this is lame) pizza hut bbq chicken supreme

LAYER 3 : YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
My thoughts first waking up : must i really wake up now? then later bus got seat not...?
My bedtime : when i finish the assignments...? standard TDS kid answer...
My most missed memory : the sec2 days and random outings here and there.

LAYER 4 : MY PICK
Pepsi or Coke : coke. hehehe.
McDonald's or Burger King : thanks to overdose of bk, macs!
Single or grouped dates : group?
Adidas or Nike : adidas.
Tea or Nestea : neither.
Chocolate or Vanilla : choco.
Cappuccino or Coffee : frappes, lol.
Boys or Girls: u mean kids? cute quiet ones, gender doesnt matter.

LAYER 5 : DO YOU...
Smoke : nahhh, it's selfish to kill others when you want to kill yourself.
Curse : i try not to... hehehe.
Take a shower : duh -_-
Have a crush : hahahah, not now.
Like someone of the same gender: i love my friends (:
Go to school : yeah.
Want to get married : uhhuh...
Believe in yourself : most of the time..
Think your a health freak : i should work towards this aye..

LAYER 6 : IN THE PAST
Drank alcohol : a few sips?
Gone to the mall : -_-" duh.
Been on stage : i guess...
Eaten sushi : too many time$
Dyed your hair : sadly no.

LAYER 7 : HAVE YOU EVER...
Played a stripping game : ROFL, no.
Changed who you were to fit in : no.

LAYER 8 : AGE YOU'RE HOPING...
To be married : 24,25?

LAYER 9 : IN A GIRL...
Best eye colour : brown.
Best hair colour : how about purple...think bleach character.
Short hair or long hair : long.

LAYER 10 : WHAT WERE YOU DOING...
A minute ago : this stupid quiz.
Hour ago : eating and finding picts for some exercise..
4.5 hours ago : cutting rectangular windows in a3 boards that i cut out of an a1 board -_-"
1 month ago : check the archives, i dont remember.
Year ago : suffering in anderson.

LAYER 11 : FINISH THE SENTENCES...
I love : the dear friends, the Guy Upthere, food.
I feel : like hibernating till this block is over.
I hate :
I hide : things that i dont want you to know.
I miss : the Kclan, rofl, having people near my school, zion!
I need : inspiration, before next morning.

LAYER 12 : TAG 5 PEOPLE
this is not fun, shall not tag anyone. :P

i like my series of mouted photos, named the whole series micielo, MUAHAHAH.
more things to do!

oh and my back hurts like @#!#@@$,
maybe i should consider getting osim UPAPA. hahaha.

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i am home early on saturday!
forwent FOP and went to dinner with the other people who didnt go to fop too.. puay wanted to buy bird's nest for her grandma and it was absolutely hilarious, because the whole thing is so cheem with the many different types... i have never been to FOP or any mega worship concert... i think i will go... someday, when i dont have to queue and when there is less work to do...? we were engaging in (literal) people pulling before they finally set off.

bus-ed a long way down to nexus last night to meet philo, but it was good to have yt for company on dear 23, esp when there was a jam and she always waits for 65 to come at the next busstop with me (((: the meetup with philo was fruitful, got me thinking and reminded of many basics that have slipped my mind so carelessly. sometimes we forget the simplest things...

introducing the three injured fingers: lays', zhiying's, yt's.

lol, everyone seems to have random cuts everywhere due to the visual presentation module since we cut everything and carry them everywhere :/
extract from yt's blog on 31st July :
Today is a happy day man.
Mainly because Lays has started to return to her start-lao-ya-pok-car laughter state..
and also because I left all my heavy boards and hammer-looking-ruler-that-has-scratched-m
haha, so i guess i have been rather down in school... i never knew that people would notice. but since school started, i would normally get high and start being a little crazy at 3pm, which is when lesson ends but i haven't been working normally this block, due to the overwhelming pressure.

the frustrating thing is that the pressure does not come from the workload, because i always think workload is pretty much manageable, it all boils down to willingness and prioritising. this block, the 3D fun module, is really a test. i feel stretched in every way, torn between doing what i like and believe in and having to please a lecturer to get good grades. i guess this is the first taste of it, like how everyone says the difference between an artist and a designer is that an artist does whatever he likes and gets paid when someone likes it too, but a designer is paid to design something that someone likes.

read in a past issue of IDN, when they interviewed a Munich design firm called fpm:
...what we learnt from that was that if you listen really closely to your client and try to develop your ideas out of the inner self of an artist, brand or even the project idea, it is not necessarily necessary to make compromises.

if only we dont need to make so many compromises too...
i guess that is why designers need to do some random stuff they like once in a while and not all work, because they will go crazy...

celebrated robin's birthday on friday!
and i have no pictures of it...
it is our fourth class birthday celebration already. (;
though it is typical and like the other three, i am sure dear robin liked it very much, lol. the amusing thing is all the classmates kept to the rules and wrote a message for him on the 10 by 10 mounting board/ compressed foam board/ paper and amaris put them tgt using a wire. talk about obsession about modules...lol. i was being a freak that day. saw a flyer on zhiying's table with uneven edges and i took a scissors to trim the edges SUBCONSCIOUSLY. oh my goodness...
presentation on friday was nerve-wrecking, i never felt so nervous before a presentation before in my life... the stage was like a bbq pit for grilling, they just grill you there lor. the laptop shut down immediately after i quit my ppt, so i didnt turn into bbq chips...

zhiying to me a minute before my presentation, so cute!

to avoid negative thoughts, learn t be grateful, shall apply!
sunday april 15 2007
"are you excited/scared/anxious/nervous about school?"
yah.

having discovered i was not as adaptable as i thought i was in cjc, i am abit paranoid la.
but i really think i would enjoy my time in TDS. (: (the seniors all tell me they think i would too. lol.)

so... if you are a fellow brother/sister,
please pray for me!
that i will have a good timetable, with early wednesdays!!!
that i will excel and do well there and be salt n light!!!
and.. make friends that i would want to keep, that will chiong through crazy seasons with and enjoy the three yrs thr tgt. (:

thank you.

SCHOOL STARTS THE DAY AFTER TML!

so God has been really kind to me.
i have a good timetable, ending at three daily.
and i have great friends that chiong together, so i dont have to face the scary corridors of TDS alone.
as for results, lets wait and see!

i think i ought to do work now...
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