First of all, I would like to give a little note of thanks, though it’s been some time, to Irene for the lovely pouch specially posted and sent-to-my-doorstep (because I didn’t think it fitted in my mailbox), to Jacq for the many cattylicious items and the pic of Oguri Shun bought from Japan!, to Hajar for the woven magnet from Middle East — whoa, and Claudyne for the items from Korea! Took me long enough to remember blogging this. =P

The new block’s started, which means PHP = over, Japanese CDS = over. I was surprised at myself enjoying PHP classes. My PHP project group consists of Qinghui and Hajar, and we decided on the title The Screen, inspired by a movie with the same name, and uhh same genre – horror (and gore, thriller as the sub-genres). Ironically while I was animating the site banner (done in like 10 minutes) in Flash, Sadako’s (we used a screenshot from the movie Ring) movements gave me the creeps, even though it was a pic of her crawling, with a head full of long gross hair, and I only made it sway slowly. Grungy/grainy layout, morbid theatre curtains, a big screen and movie tickets to match the theme. I used to rely on others for php tagboard scripts for my blog in the past, but now I’m sure I could manage a simple message board or blog script alright.

Jap CDS was – thankfully – a breeze, I made some new friends because of the groupings and learnt even more about the culture of Japan; it was a fun learning module I conclude. Sensei would mention interesting things about Japan, like once she talked about Erika Sawajiri and how bitchy she was during the shooting of 1 Litre of Tears, other times she played Youtube vids (Nada Sou Sou!) while waiting for students to arrive, when she taught about the royal family of Japan I instantly thought of Hey! Say! JUMP… lol. There were also much new vocab and phrases to learn from the language lessons everyday. I can finally say I AM HUNGRY in Japanese! Whoosh! The first individual presentation was on Ukiyoe (the rest got different topics) and I did a series of simple illustrations of A4. Here’s the combined version:

Jap classes only got more and more interesting as the block went by. Hehe tests were fun, they kinda brought back the feelings of the sec school exam days. My group members for the final presentation totally rock! ADM’s Chia Ying and Serene, and Jun Han from MOI. In fact, our crazy rehearsals leading up to the final skit on the last day only made it more memorable for all of us. Thanks to Hajar for filming our skit, but I don’t think I’m gonna post it up anytime. Embarassing, haha.

On Saturday Adeline called and asked me out, so we ate at Ajitei at Plaza Sing. Ahh! I tasted okonomiyaki for the first time (well it’s one of the food we mentioned in our skit)… it’s like, takoyaki haha, flattened. On top of that, I had a mini salmon sashimi don and a macha milk! OMG great combo. We shopped at Taka for clothes, and of course Kino to check out the usual stuff. Ohno’s art book isn’t up for pre-ordering, sadly. However, I did buy something at last…

I also grabbed a couple of things while we were at PS Daiso: socks and soft clay in black and white. Squishy spongy stuff. I can’t describe how hard it was, though, when I sat at my desk creating something like this on a whim. 3.5 x 3cm. Smile, it’s aaa r a sshi. Crazy extra lightweight hard-to-handle nendo.

I must seriously stop making my mum spend money like water running from a tap. On my hair. It was so bad today I couldn’t bring myself to go to school. Been to the salons twice in two days; got it permed digitally (wth has that gotta do with hair) and cut yesterday evening for over a hundred bucks so that I went home looking like a cocker spaniel who hasn’t washed its hair for 10 years. Come on, I was so disappointed, I showed them a reference pic of Son Ye-Jin with beautiful hair… And then today in a desperate attempt to salvage my hair, I went to yet another salon.. they suggested to dye it in a darker shade of red, and so they did, cut it (omg my long hair, my fringe..) and apply some treatment lotion to make the perms better looking. $180… I’m almost afraid of seeing money now. Please, kill me. And give me back my fringe, arghhh.

I forsee Project 3 (THE P3) is going to be a huge disaster, a huge mental block(it runs for 2 blocks! omg!) and automatic stress feeder, only one degree less stressful than the next – Project 4. Full flash interactive website, 12 pages, at least a video or animation component and a game. My given theme: food. The one and only consolation of this block, is that ComDA starts only the day after tomorrow. So I get to enjoy my birthday more =)

Dear Sho-chan……
Happy 26th Birthday, BABY! *throws a truckload of confetti*

Drawn on the bus on my way home from school, and touched up when I got home. Don’t ask me how I did it =S My sketches turn out very differently under different conditions. Am trying to get the hang of sketching freely because it forces my eyes to find contours and shadows quickly.

Anyways. ?????I somehow got stuck with the busy January schedule I didn’t manage to ‘blog’ until right now. Another quickie sketch of Nino-chan when he was little because I was wasting time the school library, bored and without internet connection.

So, Nino’s big big news indeed shocked all the fans; they’re to release a SINGLE (yeah we all heard the preview already. Step and Go, interesting…). *kills Nino* But the real big news should actually be Ohno Satoshi holding his very first art exhibition from 21-29 Febuary at Omotesando Hills, Tokyo. SQUEEEE, everyone’s dying to go. And dying to grab hold of this, which is sadly out of stock currently. Ohno’s art book.

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est ; says:
OHNO’s EXHIBITION!!!
and we can’t see it omg
ka;fakjsdflaksjdfl;kasjdfkajslkfasj
? Adel says:
DIES DIES DIESSSSSSSSSSSSS
maybe we cld go to japan tgt for a holiday and then see it
hahahah
est ; says:
its in feb
21 i think
? Adel says:
OMOTESANDO HILLLZZZZZZZZZ
OMG DIESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
omgomg kill meeeeeeee
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? Adel says:
i feel like hopping on a plane now
est ; says:
hahahah let’s go!!
? Adel says:
hahahaha!
rob a bank!

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Here’s my msn nick 1 or 2 weeks back:
“LET’S ROB THE BANK, FLY TO JAPAN AND SEE OHCHAN’S ART EXHIBITION! like now.”

And here’s Erfa’s:
“Ok Ovie!!! Let’s DO IT!!! *goes arms self*”

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I could have been there for Ohno’s exhibition! Once in 10000 years my dad takes leave.. well he told me he’s gonna take leave from 3-7 March and asked if we all wanted to go to Japan. OMG by all means, even if there’s Project3 going on, I’ll go, but. I’ll miss the exhibition by 3 days?! Right, I’m so serious about my nick.

Last last Saturday. Yiliang invited me to volunteer for the reading programme organised by YMCA, so I went in the morning, expecting nothing of what I had actually experienced. Lots of girls, yes and hardly any guys, of our age went together to the school of the beneficiaries, somewhere near Meridian JC. Oh yeah, it was good seeing Yiliang again, I could hardly remember how he looked like a couple of years ago =P Most, if not all of the beneficiaries are in some way or another physically disabled and they have problems speaking or understanding. It was all very strange, and I found myself quite lost, until I made friends with a few of the volunteers. The reading programme actually involves us splitting into groups along with the beneficiaries, interacting with them and helping them learn by doing things like scrapbooking, doing worksheets and stuff. The level of activities conducted depend on their learning abilities, hence the purpose of grouping them. I was only beginning to learn how to befriend these people. And how to be a friend…

We all parted at YMCA, I took a short walk around PS before travelling to school for the TP Open House ’08. Meeting with Claud and Cathleen, yummy! Claudy came back from Korea recently and she brought stuff for us. Looking at the both of them and how tremendously they have changed (for the bettaaaaar and prettier) over the years, I realise I’m way behind them in terms of dress sense and uhh everything else basically. *depressing*

We all toured around Design, introducing the courses and design works to them. The feeling wasn’t as great as last year’s open house, probably because I was involved then. Got them to see our IMD kiosk games at the Hereafter lab (why was the location so isolated?).. Cathleen hadn’t got a chance to play it properly because my game screwed up! BIG TIME! Fonts, alignment, everything. It was undescribably…. URGH.

Amid the busy block, I’m glad I found time for art (whether crappy or not), and for a movie with Qinghui and Hajar. Qinghui was telling us how excited she was for American Gangster, so we suddenly decided to catch it at TM one evening after our group meeting for INWA. Exciting!!!!! Not. The first half went by really slowly, it was not until the latter half that the pace picked up and it ended rather well. Oh mine, now I can’t even recall any names; only gunfights, city streets of the 60s, all sorts of gangsters, blue magic, Vietnamese drug dealers, nude women packing drugs in an underground drug ‘factory’ =.= and the jail sentence: 70 to 15. Haha.

Anyways. Yesterday I was reading the horror movie reviews at mandiapple (favourite!) and got around to watching 9 Souls, from the same director of Blue Spring. I still like Ryuhei films =) or rather, IN films.. 9 Souls, although highly recommended, I found it hard to watch. Took about one whole day with two breaks in between to finish the film on croll. It might take a few viewings to understand the characters more, and to figure some of the symbolism portrayed in this non-mainstream movie. One last art for the day: young Ryuhei Matsuda in black ink. I attempted lineart and manga style, using just enough lines to show his features (hair is not counted) without having too many stray pen strokes. When I see this I always relate it to robots.. but after brainstorming for so long I gave up trying to incorporate robot and machine parts into this. Don’t know how to draw leh! Here’s Ryuhei for you, the stoned, robotic stare.

Or just taking a nap, whenever you feel like it.
(V_V) ~zzz

that I don’t really know what’s there to do. Yes there are the 1001 things I promised, but for now just let me slack on my chair for a long while listening to Arashi’s Time album, trying to play this crappily insane mario imitation game that Daniel finally found (this one I saw the youtube clip of someone playing and he/she died over 50 times =.=) GO PLAY IT. You’ll regret for sure hahaha. Blog later.

I don’t think I have time to blog until the end of this block (pun not intended, bleah), which will be over soon in about 5 days? Till then, see you, there’ll be *hopefully* nice pics, new art, a vid, some fangirling and lots of words in my next update.

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