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

I didn't sleep the whole night, thanks to the drama that happened.
(edit: drama =/= tv drama ok -_-")
When I wanted to, I realise the sky is brightening already.

Hello dawn, it has been some time since i see you.
I didn't know birds chirp to welcome you.

Maybe tonight I can finally sleep at regular timing since I missed one night of sleep.
Tomorrow at this time I will be out of the house going to school already.

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I like to play hide-and-seek with Disappointment.

And I am so good at it I find him all the time. 0 comments

New layout!

This is going to sound a little sick but customising stuff is stress-relieving for me, not that i really enjoy looking at codes but I still get amazed at how changing a few numbers and letters can create different colours. Think I am sounding noobish for those who are into html stuff... And I can spend an entire day downloading Mac folder icons just to customise my folders. They make me really happy.

So after ploughing through hundreds of blogskins on the ever popular blogskins.com with all the people over-using the collage style and after seeing countless random models piak-ed all over the blogskins I finally found this simple designer. I like her style for most of her pieces. Check her out in the credits section if you are interested.

So after this stress relieving exercise, it is time to face the deadlines.
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So it is finally getting into my puny head that this new block is really going to be new and much more challenging. Will take some adjusting to the new environment, even when I have Terence's "assurance": "relax lah, I where got pangseh my brother" at which I -_-" brother = me? but better than nothing, I have him, Cheah Shern (I am really not used to this spelling) and Kevin in my Marketing Design class. And half the current class in Pcom with me!

Oh, the modules are actually on the website.

Marketing for Designers This subject introduces you to your role in value creation through understanding basic design and marketing issues. By identifying consumer behaviour and different types of marketing strategies, the designer can create products or services to attract targeted market segments. Using consumer trend and lifestyle analysis, you will identify what consumers consider value-added. It also explores how design can act as a key strategy in value creation, and how it relates to the key marketing tactical components of price, place, and promotion. Through these basic concepts, you will be able to create an emotional framework around products or services to increase buyer satisfaction.

Professional Communication for Design Effective written and oral communication play a critical role in advancing a design professional’s career. Designers are expected to be persuasive in articulating their design ideas in order to secure design contracts and employment. Hence, this subject focuses on the use of persuasion in two broad areas of professional communication for designers: client relationship and career self-promotion.

*weak smile.
Maybe I should really do what YT say- go buy business suits. Haha. But I am still excited. A little sick, but challenges make me excited. And we survived so many impossible modules (Think DrawEss A2 and 3D Fun final and Comdi and...), we will survive this!

Guess one plus point of the class going separate ways is that we will have friends who have taken modules we are going to take in the future. Especially since I don't have friends in other classes one. :/

And I wonder when I will receive my results sms, lol.

Thanks for all these months of fun, you great people.
Especially to YT and Zhiying, for all the help you guys gave selflessly.

Haha everyone is being so upset over this...
But life goes on, and soon will come the next split and we will probably be as upset again.
Weird.


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Today is a great day because:
01 Ikimono submission was rather smooth
02 I got to hang out with yt and zy!
03 Ate Edmund's kitchens hawaiian chicken chop again.
04 We took photos and explored red dot museum
05 Got my IDN!
06 They got notebooks at Artbox
07 Met great people at amk!

Today is a bad day because:
01 Red dot is actually closed for some private event
02 Their desired moleskin is gone T_T
03 I had to skip cg to go home to give in to what my mum wants and I feel bad.
04 The guy at the hp store pissed me off for having a i-know-you-so-well attitude. Nope Uncle, I am not your typical teenager, I am fussier (about hps).
05 I got angry at myself for being angry and wasting more time.

sigh.
I don't know why I get so easily upset by bad service.

Happier note, happier note:

And, this is called cooking with love.


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I had y-comm thanksgiving dinner yesterday evening at out of the pan. Thanks for the treat boss Philo! The crepes are great. We were too hungry to take photo of dinner. The above is just dessert. The best thing to go along with good food is great company. (sad that Ben had to leave early and missed the eating.)

It is heartening to hear the thanksgiving point from everyone, especially when the entire team is at different phases of life. I thank God for the privilege to serve Him in an area that i love and enjoy and get burdened about. It was a simple and enjoyable night.

Oh, i am done with my ikimono, kudos to Esther Chan for taking the effort to come downstairs and lend me a hand, literally! That is a great burden lifted off.

I kept wanting to blog but have been really unmotivated. I thought that last week's sermon was powerful and daring. I love straightforward sermons, often difficult, but you feel greatly challenged.
Growing old is natural,
Growing up is a choice.

One thing I am very grateful to Hope about is how i grew up in here. Most of the times, if not all, I am surprised at how God chose to use me. I mean, it is one thing to raise your hands and "Use me, use me" at the appropriate time and another thing seeing how it come to past in your own life. I had many opportunities to be used, most of which I did not accept that readily. But looking back, it's been something that I will be glad about, because it did happened.

Have a sudden wave of missing northeast, the family where most of my close church friendships are formed, where i made countless stupid mistakes, where i accepted many challenges.

Had a little reunion for Mid-Autumn's festival on Tue after TCC.

I like the simple fun that NE always offers. (And ding chuen isn't in the photo, sorry :X)

Oh wells.
I guess the week will perk up with people to go out with tomorrow and the weekends.
The JC dudes are off their promos misery (besides the ajcians).
When school starts, who is going to squat over my work with me and tell me how to improve..?

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sigh,
change class, change class.

it's like starting from scratch again. yet another change smacked when the year seems like it is going to end quickly.

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Just got home not too long ago.
And I am in a driven and contented kind of mood.

I am chewing a goreng pisang that I found on the table. and I discovered that there are haagen daaz mooncakes in the fridge. Thank you my dear family. The way to win Lay's heart is to via her stomach. Haha, more like i really enjoy a good dinner/ supper after a long day.

Y!com meeting today was fruitful but i was cranky from headache. I guess in this ministry I can do what I love to do, seeing the impossible come true. We have a workload heavier than elephants but it will all be done, amen.

Yesterday passed very quickly.
When i was with this girl.
(ahh, i got no photoshop now ): cannot edit)

This girl is smart she seems to be is breezing through her J1.
We went to library@Orchard, she read some essays, i browsed thick design books. Oh, and i borrowed the manga nana from there, didn't know they have mangas there, though it is english. shall just give it a try. Oh, and i borrowed princess diaries. LOL. nostlagic lah. Wanted to read the 7th book since... sec 2? :X

Had the usual TCC on tuesday but went to hang out with yihui, siewluan, cong and simon (poor hwa chong guy only stayed for lunch) at ... amk hub. Just stayed for lunch and walk around and cong and i left for:

his great $100 book buy at kino.
Dot dot dash, cool toy design book!
I love the cute gingerbread man plushie that looks like someone had taken a bite out of them.

Oh, i forgot about my take-photo-of-dinner-at-Maxwell thing. But dinner was with ycom, media and yiyou. Hahaha.

Monday's Jump concert's atmosphere was cool. I guess it is a step ahead for Hope for worship. Sat at a random place to eat pizza hut rosemary cheese fondue (lol) then zao-ed for home. Philo and I ran all over the place to realise that we could cab home with Jia and big boss.

So, this sums up my weekdays.
I felt that God spoke to me about my ministry yesterday, and I am excited. It's all in my red diary. I feel weird blogging this kind of thoughts down.

But i am really happy.

Oh, and i lost this:

):

I have been collecting jack and jill hp cleaners since the caregroup at Puay's house. More like people have been kind to give them to me. Thanks.
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took this test
most of it is quite true, some not really. rather interesting.






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just finished watching step up which i stole from someone a few months back.

i think the backstage is a great place.
love the chaos in there.

i think arts is a wonderful thing.
its so great to see photographs that captured moments that would otherwise be forgotten,
watch a dance that energises or blow you away with the moves,
watch a video that speaks your mind or sets you thinking,
see graphics that make you drool and want to go beyond them (!), haha.

creative arts. i really hope that we can touch many with this.
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hols have been expectedly boring. ):

i dont like nights like this when i got nothing to do and no motivation to do things that might actually be worth doing. i wish i had a sibling to bicker with or smthg. i dont like to be left alone nowadays. the days seem very long and i am sleeping so much my eyebags are getting worse. (yea i am weird.)

sigh.

scaled the peaks and got thrown in pits, i guess it would be the vast green plain.
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these are the people who stress together, who have many meetings together, who people always mistake as having meeting when they are just standing together innocently, who are rather different, who are rather workaholics, who calls their leader "boss". they are called Y-communications and i love them (:

the photo is all blurry but i edited the colours with what cong and matthias joined forces and showed me this afternoon before anniversary service. minops mixed around and had supper together in hope fashion aka sit-on-any-flat-land-that-is-seemingly-clean and chatted. i missed my last bus by a minute. philo and i alighted from the cab to see the bus zoom past across the road. but i think the fellowship was worth the cab, though i really hate giving money to cabs. ):

i guess anniversary celebrations always make me end up in a mildly happy, deeply proud, and altogether thankful state of mind. this year's anniversary celebration was less of a mega one as compared to last year but the whole punk rock theme is really well done. the bangkok guest band blew me away and i thought ps shirley looked so cool after ruizhen the stylist made her her canvas.

i guess this entire month or these few weeks, i keep seeing many images of the times that i served in Northeast and the happy, angry, frustrated moments flash through my mind. and all in all, i am glad it happened. when i hopped down Nexus' stairs to respond during altar call, it was but a "for fun" thing, much like how someone volunteers to go on stage during campfire games. i didnt take the decision as seriously as how many did. i would have never imagined God could use me, many stupid mistakes aside, many lousy ideas aside. it is the perseverance and wanting -to-hold-on that sustained me. and i think i have so much more to go before even creating some impact in His huge kingdom.

i wonder how many people think i am crazy. no doubt if i did not commit to church, i will seriously be the free-est person around, i can spend the time doing so many things. but, how many of them will last? after so time in Hope, i begin to see how imperfect the church is. you know how when you first know someone, everything is fresh and fun, but you gradually realise the flaws he/she has...? but what draws me is that the church's imperfections can look so good, so beautiful because the imperfect people and trying so hard to grow, to be better. such hearts really touch me. and we got a beautiful, perfect savior who will save the day, again and again. wishful thinking? nah, i believe we will get there. i dont know how long. but i will stick around to find out. 0 comments

THE SEVEN MODULES.
i am blogging this down because i am sure i wont remember them in the future.


aka the most words written module
this has got to be the most detestable module for most people but i think i learnt a lot from my intimidating lecture who loves deep V-neck shirts. it was a non-writer's nightmare because it was essays after essays, peer reviews after peer reviews and presentations after presentations. my design icon was lego. hehehe. maybe that is why i enjoyed it. lego rocks.

and this is my comdi group.


aka the most paper wasted module
i thought i would die here but i survived through. did countless sketches and we developed a love hate relationship with dots and lines. dotting a huge shoe on an A3 piece is not really fun.
staying back with classmates in the library with our pencils, 01 pen and 005 pen became a norm and i never drew so much in a month before. the final assignment was a whooping a2 nature piece and i had my first taste of school's night life , with yt and robin, begging the cheers@business to sell us our dinner and scaring ourselves crazy with the sculptures next door.

aka the most "huh?" module
i didnt learn anything much from this module except that i can mutter cool words like intanglio, repousse, chromolithography, incunabula, and so on that i wouldnt be able to explain in detail. most of lesson time was spent drawing for the abovementioned module while hiding behind our computer monitors, whoops. and hyprocrisy was revealed.

oh, but my group was fun.


aka the most "just-stab-me!" module
the picture very well describes the frustrations about the "abstract, abstract", "tsk, tsk, tsk so beautiful", "aiyoh, i dont know you know...", "very flat..." ringing around our ears this entire module. its like having a commentator in class. the horrible late nights, first encounter being chased by mr security and material sourcing.

my final assignment is a blow up piece of plaster. hahaha.

it is simple, not as cool as my classmates but it is my own personal victory, about doing what i believe in. its a long story...

aka the most expensive module
bought the "hammer" (the T-sq), so many mounting boards and other tools, printing and re-printing etc. been to art friend so many times. can go up to 70bucks altogether?
why plasters? because it has to be the block with the most injuries. which inspired the abovementioned huge plasters. the initial square cutting really killed me. i hate brainless work. but towards the end, we got to do our own designs, fun. (:

got this hanging on my wall in my room now.


aka the least number of school days attended module
i think the days attended can be counted with my two hands. i guess it makes me dissatisfied too because i had high expectation but didnt get to learn as much as i hoped but still quite a lot to add on. this is the first time we get to go through the entire design process and create something that we did entirely, no photos to be taken off the net too. guess we will have of such projects in the future.

so... there goes almost one semester.
time flies.
there were so many times we thought it wasnt possible, that it is so difficult.
but each time we made it through (:
i love life in tds.
hair-tearing, tears-inducing, budget-bursting, gastrics-inducing, vending machine-dependent, caffein-reliant, blah blah blah.

crazy.



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today is ikimono day 1.
after spending so much time, i am on my.... 9th frame, meaning i got 15 more to go.
but it was fun.

the weather was really not on our side. ikimonos need CLEAR skies and when we were about to take our first shot...
we looked up, and the whole sky was cloudy, cant even see the blue.


hit a dead end midway and had to go back to the Asylum to ask for help, only to be slightly embarrassed... :X

my ikimono tale is about a bean dreaming.
let's hope the bean turns out okay. i never knew it was so challenging taking photos with such a tiny camera :/

we took many photos, laughed at this:

and left chinatown after another dead end and hopped on a bus nearby to harbourfont.

took more shots and decided we were really hungry and tired.
which is when... we ordered laksa @ food republic without looking at the tiny prices on the menu board. we ate laksa that costs 7 bucks per bowl, ouch ouch. and it tasted ordinary.

went to pet safari and ogled at golden retrievers.
i never though i liked animals. i guess i do. they are so cute!

but i will never get them because i am a lousy pet owner and i dont like it when they grow big.

this is us. tired and with messy hair.
stopped by pageone and yt realises her beloved moleskin journal is not the same anymore...
so we went to browse the many graphic books, just to feel the stress that there is so much to learn and standards to reach.. oh well. we are taking our little steps there...

oh yaaa, we had a cheap thrill. and we love it.
though it is painless.

whee.

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Wednesday was submission day.


end of block five, end of seven modules.
each block submission day is always a mix of emotions.
got to school at ten plus and dropped my file in the box, hung around and kaypo then went off, relieved.

for ben and jerry's with yt and zhiying. hurhurhur!

the chocolate fish in phish food got us high.


i wonder if this is where "moolah" came from... i have been using it blindly, lol. but the tin is so cute!

they are really super kind.


and marking down a rather significant day.


hahaha. this is so candid our pro photographer, zhiying shoke and its a little blur.
they are a very calm icecream eating duo.. after the sweet icecream treat, we walked around cathay and headed over to chinatown for them to get their cloth to make cute plushies during the hols. i feel like a bimbo looking at clothes n shoes while they are on their search for nice and cheap cloth. and they got their cloth while i got clothes. lol. :X

chinatown has good rare buys! the pro zhiying made me a nice elastic belt with 2.20. shall head back to chinatown for a new shopping place. town is boring.

we went our separate ways and i went to buono vista..
caregroup was quieter with lesser people but it was good. learnt about streams of living water. sounds rather cool aye, its actually about the different pathways that people relate to God with. i read about it from God is closer than you think before. i am relational and creation pathway kind of person.. worship was simple but i really enjoyed myself.

after cg, we saw people fighting at the carpark where puay parked her car and we called the police. but ... they took so long to come we left already. but gosh, it is really scary. i think drunk people are very scary.

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i had a great day, shall elaborate again, am tired now.

thanks yt and zhiying (:
will send you all photos tml!

thanks caregroup people, its good to see you guys, even if it means travelling (:

lalala.
i am a free girl for the next two and a half weeks...
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i slept at 6am yesterday this morning.
just because i was somehow wide awake, and i was talking with yt about many things under the sun. though... my dad woke up and off-ed my modem at 5+am...

cixin's morning call failed on me, and i woke up at almost 1 pm...
panicked and went to rush out the packaging...
(*suddenly remembers i havent do a part of it)
then went to squat at the printshop alone and cold, but things went quite okay, since it is my first attempt at packaging. but the first print tore ):

met cong and his friends since they are nearby then cong n i headed to meet the tcc round 2 people at maxwell food centre.
their food stall names are drop dead amusing.
the photo i took of the BREAD PITT stall is blur ))):
and and they got wonderful stall, that is actually wang-dou fu, cause they sell yong taufu (how do u spell this?). omg so funny.
and promoting this christian western stall that philo recommended:

it's really good. and it's only $4.50
Edmund's kitchen.
go try it.

maybe i should take photo of the dinner/supper i eat every tuesday.
because tanjong pagar has good food...
we are attending team captain's course round 2, and it is at fairfield methodist church, which is the church that lim qiaoling, bernice and i went for the Noah's Ark documentary long time ago... (:

guess i will learn a lot more the next 7 sessions. then got project n presentation, so cute. >_<
the night ended a little heavy, but it set me thinking somewhat.

hmm, i think i should go tie up all the loose ends for my submission, skip to school and throw it into the box and enjoy the day! planning things to do with a giant now. muahaha.
i wonder where my ikimono is...
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it's funny how you always have something to depend on.
then you realised it is not going to be there forever,
this realisation is followed by some delusion and sadness.
move on, moving on.

i guess it is always easy to work alone.
you do what you like, noone bothers, noone cares.
you have to wait for noone, and the challenge is yours to take up.

but God made us for companionship.
i have very kind and forgiving friends.

yt just told me that my classmates are scared of me...
i very scary meh?
(this situation reminds me of pamyeo alot)
i dont want to be scary anyway.
it seems like it is easier to be the friendly all-smile kind of person, approachable and well-liked.
this year somehow, my head is in the clouds, becoming more and more task-oriented.

squat at print shop tomorrow, whee.



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hello, monday blues.

the day is not really good so far.
this morning when i went out of the house, the sun was smiling and all was nice, then an hour later, i was freezing on bus 23. really shivering and chattering and i am not exaggerating. then i realised that the designer pad (oh the name of our canteen, so cute right ._.) was closed and i got no hot milo ):

lesson was okay. learnt a new software- InDesign. i can visualise working with it for yo! mag man, lol. would be cool... then after class we just stoned about. so in my impulsiveness and impatience, i walked out on yt, zhiying and robin. sorry guys... :/ sorrys.

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at times like this,
i feel like a loser. l-o-s-e-r.

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so everything did not really go well for printing.
but after 4 hours of squatting at the printshop, we were done. hungry, cold and needing to pee. but whee, done.

oh, yt and i got a shirt each in the spur of the moment before dinner.
so... in these 2 weeks, i got four tees. oh my..

i am getting tired of wanting to see you more than you wanting to see me.

2 more days to holidays.
not that i am really looking forward to it...
because everyone else will be busy studying for their promos/Os/As.
whos going to parrrrrty with me...?
i hope my dear classmates have planned stuff to do, whee.

got to do the mockup before i sleeeeep.

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whee it's done.
it is really really nothing impressive not very happy with it... (besides the terrapin)
but... this is what i can manage for now.

hope everything goes well for printing tomorrow.
(:

it's good to share a DONE! moment with a friend.
it's a rather victorious accomplishment feeling.
thank you God and the many worship songs in iTunes that i can sing to and survive.

good morning world.
i still prefer dusks over dawns.

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relief can come in the form of pain,
some irony.
good irony.

my back hurts. ):
any idea what posture is good posture?

and i have no school next tuesday again.
i really have low motivation this block. no good, no good...
but i am halfway through!

i spent the morning accompanying dad to a follow up checkup at gleneagles, this overpriced high-end private hospital streets away from town. the only reason why he is thr is because his insurance-lawyer-whoever, referred him to that place.

the afternoon was spent loitering about in far east and being upset that i cannot find anything i want to buy... while waiting for the late timothy to show up. had the far east chicken rice and walked from far east to heeren for his slippers and from heeren to wheelock. couldnt find a good place for him to mug and ended up at forum. forum is a place with many cute angmoh kids. really many. then it was home.

did i mention how unmotivated i am...?
and it is digiess (digital essentials)
argh, i want to learn more.
*bites lecturer's head off and laughs.

i suspect i have a weird inner child in me.
who likes cute stuff and likes to draw sweet and lovely daisies.
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hahahaha, wong cixin's birthday is a big day aye.
saw this on yiyou's blog:



On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

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i wanted to blog about jasmine's birthday celebration on 3rd sept but cixin has said everything in great detail. so go to her blog. LOL.
(edited) pictures!

went to the nice little food for thought cafe. which sadly, serves cafe food. but we are hungry growing girls.

birthday girl wants 93 birthday messages,

birthday girl gets 93 messages with nice photos.
(i never do anything to our faces... your comp has problem..)

panghuishan, i love you, our sacrificial camera (wo)man!
so, we ended up at miss clarity though there was smthg wrong with their service and quality that night...

and went for more picture taking at the wall near national library.
good walls with holes at right height :)


let's look at the more exciting thing...
the behind-the-scenes work!



i cannot resist but put up the stupid shots. but i am going to make it super small...

so dont try to blackmail us with this.

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