Wallpaper, 1280 x 900. Picture taken at Tennouji Zoo, Osaka.

この写真は大阪にいた時、天王寺動物園で撮った。
冬だったので、あの日の気温が低くて、人も少なくて、自然な景色を撮れてよかった。
写真に動物がいないのに〜　
午後の静けさに自分で歩きながら、『冬の時の動物園がやっぱきれいだね』と思った。
いつかほかの季節になったら、あそこに戻って行きたいな。★　

写真に歌詞も付いているよ〜

大切な思い出さえ　because even the important memories
いつかは色褪せてくから　will fade of their colours someday
現実から目を逸らして　averting my eyes from reality
夢という言葉に逃げた　I escaped to the word called “dream”

明日の記憶 – 嵐

I kind of suspect I will clock the least number of entries for this year. *sigh* Have got many things to do but I just can’t find the drive / can’t stop sleeping at 6 and waking at 3 in the afternoon (5 today).

Last week was the hectic CNY week; also, a battle with overeating and sore throat and fever and spells of dizziness. Nonetheless, t’was the best time for catching up with my cousins <3 (especially the younger ones) and friends, thanks to the awesome steamboat at Grace’s home. No, seriously, the feast – including the giant container of RED TEA JELLO – was fit for many kings ;)

Monday morning was the stressful meeting at MICA. Although I prepped myself by reading up and making notes about the brand, I was pretty sure I flubbed the portfolio presentation by being so awkward and all. Moreover, they didn’t even require me to talk about what I know about their brand. Oh fail! As I await for the outcome, I find myself hoping for the worst. Because I’m not sure I can handle the job. Anyway the odds of getting it is like, going up to a random person on the streets and having him guess my name right.

I’m currently designing CJ’s wedding card! The London scenery/train ideas sound like they might work, but my hand is not functioning; in other words, my drawings turn out crappier than I hoped. Had better hurry – wedding bells will be ringing.

Work aside. Are we seriously going lan-gaming (L4D2 at that) again this Friday?? Damn the headache-inducing visuals ;_;

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My room – into its 15th year – needs thorough revamping after all. *stares hard at the $200 ikea vouchers from the <3 lovely friends* I envision a smaller bed, brighter wooden flooring, pretty lightings, white walls, gorgeous cupboards and crazy murals :) Maybe lots of Rilakkuma too ^^

Official launch: www.ChildrenSociety.org.sg/fundraising

“Hope is REALised when impossibilities are made REAL.”

REALise is an integrated campaign, which consists of print work as well as an interactive awareness and fund-raising website that promotes to the target audience, youths and young working adults, through unique storytelling, the organisation Singapore Children’s Society.

DesignSingapore Council will be restaging the inaugural Portfolio Show for Young Designers.

Dates: 29 January – 26 March 2010

Location: The ARTrium, Level 1
MICA Building (Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts)
140 Hill Street, Singapore 179369

Entry: Free Admission

Time: 10am – 6pm daily

Now that’s something to be really happy about ^^

So today had me fishing about in the thrash bag/can twice for entirely different reasons I’m beginning to wonder if I’ve an infinity with it. Who the hell rummages in the thrash! -.-

My payment via ATM to a certain online service provider hadn’t been exactly recorded under my name and hence the outstanding, as they claim, amount of $100+. I gingerly poked around in the bag and quickly gave up on the two discarded receipts; it could be explained away, anyway. The second instance had to do with a piece of A4-sized paper scribbled on by my dad with apparently very important work-related details, which he had accidentally shredded – thank God, into quarters not bits – with others the computer table can gladly do without. So I emptied the recent contents of the thrash (oh gross, peppered with used tissue; it was in my grandma’s room after all) and meticulously went through the torn contents, laying them out on the floor until I found what my dad had described in the sms. As I fixed and taped the said pieces together, I thought, this is so turning into a scene you find only in dramas. The next time I’m going to think thrice before dropping things into the bin, really.

By the way, I’m sporting a new hair colour – guess?

A new project in the works: Miracle Moments newsletter, in fact a 32pg A5 booklet, for church; design and general template carried forward from the previous inaugural issue I designed at the end of last year. When, after the Chinese translations have come in and after a round or two of proofreading, this is complete, I’m all set to working on CJ’s wedding card (long overdue! I’m sorry) and have it produced by this month.

Perhaps I should kick myself in the head for making the most unwise decision of this year (oh come on, it’s only February? omg) for agreeing to meet up with the panel of executives in the coming weeks to have them review my portfolio as well as for me to learn about the public installation project. By unwise I mean mindlessly jumping at the opportunity without noticing that you are certainly overestimating your own abilities. What’s installation??

Anyhow, I’m prepared to present myself as a nervous wreck, but first not without some proper reading and research on that certain label that would most definitely put me in the worst possible light if I have zero knowledge of which. It’s the least one can do right?

Now I don’t even understand why I’m crashing headlong into this. *groans*