It's the 20th month of bulletin-ing.
It doesn't seem like much work when I look at the finished piece myself, and I wonder why it takes so long to do... The process can be enjoyable, especially when I don't get stuck too much. May there be a fountain of ideas flowing in my head, so this is easier to do. And may it be pleasing onto You, 'cause I did what I can.

yawn.

Oh and this block..
I have 9 days of school out of 4 weeks.
HA HA HAHAHA.

And I was quite happy with what I came out with I guess, not entirely satisfied, 'cause I tried so hard exploring different styles, but I guess it still worked out alright. (I can't show you 'cause I was stupid and didn't take photos of the final products -_-)
Packaging gives the most wonderful sense of achievement i guess, 'cause not only you see something that was on your screen on huge paper before you so tangible, you see it all pop up and 3D.

End Block weekend was good, and uh, hello Lap 3 of the 4month marathon, the only block I get to terrorise YT, yayyy.

Sunday Today was spent with the MinOps unit for caregroup.
Qianjin's God Bless You game was really quite entertaining, and Shuz asked important questions.

I think many questions have been circling in my mind, and I am cranky and making life difficult for some... which isn't good. I do not know what to do about it, but I still trust God is in control. To people who got cranked by cranky me, I am sorry, especially to the shepherd Philo too.

Am encouraged by the people who have been walking down those aisles of Nexus for both CliqueHere services. Thought what Raphael shared was powerful and what he said about "If life without God is good, life with God can only get better" is noteworthy. hehe.

I missed out on the by far most successful after service activity on Saturday, but had a good deal, was with the group of dearest people celebrating a very important birthday. :D



so cute....awww. hahaha.



the usual culprits.
who have been the usual culprits for countless birthdays,
this is sort of our 5th year we celebrate birthdays so much,
and the 6th that we know one another.
We. are. getting. old.



we got her this pretty pouch from Etsy and clothes.
Etsy people are so different from normal online sellers, so much more sincere.
The pouch is handmade, came with bubblewrap and this really cute tape sealed with a customised sticker in the envelope, with a note thanking the buyer.





This is the first time we are celebrating past midnight into the important date, and perhaps that's why we got a little...



Normal.
pokpokkay.

No amount of photos can potray the comfortable friendship we are holding on to, one that has gone beyond popcorn and laughter, one that have been helping one another do better on this path we call life. :)

Tenth anniversary aye, we are halfway there lo.

I think...
Friends are...
people you can be totally yourself in front of,
not having to be oh-so-cautious in your speech and actions,

and knowing full well they don't hate any of that,
and won't misunderstand you
though you may not be all lovable.

and I'm meeting some tomorrow. :D

We have self-declared to have finished Studio Lighting.

These are some joyshots of us stuffing our head in the diffusion tube we built.







We are using the photo below for the cover, maybe CCY will go -__-"
I wonder if the 600watts light caused our hair to be like that. Static?



I am grateful that school went quite smoothly and well today.
It's great fun working with Ama and Yanni, singing, eating cookies, sighing together.
It's good to be able to involve God in school work and He has blessed us so.
This is the first time I work like that with schoolmates that's not from Hope actually :)
We completed the killer exercises in a much shorter time than expected. ;D

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Got home quite early and took out the very-dusty guitar from the bag and did some strumming. I have liked guitar since I was a kid but yeh, I never learnt how to play it. I remember liking guitar after listening to Guan Huai Fang Shi by Pang HuiShan Chen Hanwei and girl-whom-I-never-remember when I was seven (?). I vaguely recall jumping around on my parent's bed with my toy guitar and crying when the one of the strings broke. ._.



It's not like I never attempted learning. I remember attending basic guitar workshop by Ms KC Lau (HAHAHAHAHA) with Pang and Jasm (HAHAHAHAHA) and she made us buy 20bucks music stands just to put our files on. The stand is stuffed in some corner of my room and we all have this certificate of participation and all I remember was we learnt the she'll be coming 'round the mountains when she comeeeee~ song.

When I joined Hope, guitar became an almost necessary skill and Emu, being far-sighted, sent Pamyeo and I to Ian for guitar lesson. We had not much idea of who he was until we saw him and like "oh my gosh, the guy who play and jump on stage. Yihui sabo..." We must be the only disciples of his that still can't play guitar after 2-3 months with him. Well, Pamyeo has talent, but she hates guitar. I have passion but my talent is probably on the negative scale.

Ian: *strums C, *strums D. Can hear the difference?
Me: Uh.... not really...
Ian: Uh, okay try again, *strums again, slowly. Can hear the difference?
Me: *sheepish look* No... >_<

I remember how malu-ating it was when I lug my guitar, a birthday present from my brother-in-law, for caregroup for Yihui to play and guitar enthusiasts will come and ask me if I play the guitar. Got stranger ask before lor, and Christian asked early last year. And I still dutifully carry a guitar pick in my wallet all the time. For what I also don't know ._.
Caregroup worship Prac sessions with Kar were always so funny because we are both poorly skilled.

I still like guitar, and maybe someday I will be able to play something decent. I think God still appreciates it even though it sounds so horrid.

Hehehe.

Thanks to Yanni's ^^, super joyous expression whenever she is playing Taiko no Tatsujin and my supplier, the army boy's efficient help... I am now at it too.


It's quite fun, though I kinda wish I have better Jap to understand it more.

God must be rejoicing in the praises we sing while we work, and blessed us so..!
Cheeyong our photog lecturer said that our rim lighting shot is perfect and he's proud of us, awwww. Though I wasn't physically there to hear him say that 'cause I was stealing songs from someone's shared library taking care of the important and expensive lightsss in the studio. We are left with one last one, the killer diffusion and I can strike StuLight off the list of modules :D

And for packaging to go well... I better go work hard now ):

This morning we were to school aimlessly, shot a few random cast shadow pictures and spent the rest of the time singing praise and worship songs, with yanni >:( at my "ee, i dont like this song" and ama laughing along :D
Then went to Bugis for a little feast with YT.

Had pizza calzone style followed by a uh, unique bubble tea ice cream with weird free pearls, peanut and chocolate chip, dripping our way to the National Lib. She went on thinking about alcohol and lemon while I went in search for the perfect packaging template.







This is us, in varying degrees of yellowness because YT has a cranky camera :D

We were sitting on the steps, admiring the scene...



and up to some thoughtless mischief.

hehehe.
happy day.

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Oh God I pray for unity in the physical family.

Rendezvous-ed with the yishuners at...



Have been wanting to go there with Xin since it's near her school.
So we roped Ber in and nua-ed there this afternoon.



"fishballs"



yes I am unglam and I like to kiaoka



We attempted to play the Simpson game



It's really cute if you are a mega Simpson fan.
But we are tired youths that don't feel like using our brains, so we played...



3D snake and ladder.
old school man.



We glutton-ed there,
we were so suay they ran out of dough for our roast duck pizza.
So we had pasta and ended it with the scones with cream sauce.



Because retarded people make my week better.

JC is killing all my friends.
Please survive well :)

Haven't been blogging 'cause I was waiting for everyone to see the wonderful vid in the previous entry. snigger snigger. Got to go back to blogging before I forget what has been happeningzzz.

Taking

now with Ama and Yanni the good groupmates who always come early and set up :X







It's kinda cool playing with all the lights and stands and accessories.

And this,

was one of our first pictures.

Looks not bad right. Uh, we were ironing the cloth we use as backdrop, HAHA.

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Had Minops1a CG yesterday, Xinyi's first official CG :D
I miss thinking of all those funny chairing ideas and even decor things that I used to do with Kar and Tracie to make CG fun. Everywhere around Rix's pretty much carries some form of memory- our flop bday surprise for Rachel, Facade MCG's games held at the playground nearby, sitting at the void deck with all the chess-playing ahpeks while waiting for people etc.

My attempt at gathering people to watch movie on Saturday night failed,
and the supposedly early night turned into a nice comfortable sharing with Carmen in the North.

Sunday was eat a lot night.
The Zion team met up again, had Magic Wok ("Thai Chinese Halal restaurant"), followed closely by Ben and Jerry Mix 'n' Match (It gets better when you snatch for the last bits of waffle!) and TongShui HK cafe a bus ride later.
I am keeping you guys in prayer :D

Oh yah, special mention to Jasmine Ang!
Who came to my rescue with her EZlink card yesterday so I could borrow books and not make wasted trip. I know I can count on you~

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The chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.



Looking forward to tomorrow..!

Hahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahaha.
='D

The extent people who love God go.
I am proud of all you Andersonian Hopies!
All of you who at one point or another, served hard with us.

The JC dudes are working hard, I see my ex-schoolmates coming to Hope.
Shocking, but a good kind of shocking.

Today I went...
exercising!
Well, sort of.

I walked (aye, not stroll ah, is walk fast kind) around my neighbourhood for like 2hrs for shooting on film.
It's rare to get home early..!



Shot a roll of Holga 120 aka 12 pictures, 10 polaroids and some supersampler.
Uh, the polaroid and supersampler belongs to dear Pammie, not me.
(I will not buy a pink polaroid.)



Some of the polaroid shots.
Meant to be nostlagic to me, so I went to my childhood hangouts and took them :D
That's my new "pet", a cactus. Uh yes the only pets I ever had were seamonkeys and 20+fish but they all died very quickly. Cacti are good, they don't die. And they are as low maintenance as I am. :X
That's the colourful windmill Zhiying bought me, Arigato~

Not superb but I planned to enhance them with illustrations.
That's if I ever get down to drawing...

The block is starting slow,
but I can almost smell the weariness to follow.

Congrats all you end CTs people <3