Lomography Singapore held its first official outing last month to celebrate the grand opening of its Gallery Store (that was just two days ago) as well as foster interaction within the local lomo community.

Read more about it on Rediscover.sg and Lomography.

The haunted house was just.

Let’s put it this way – Elen and I underestimated the high school kids. Japanese high school kids. No one would’ve expected two fearless grown ups to be screaming their way out of the dark classroom, hand in hand. That was some good fun we had in a while!

Simultaneously, there were activities on Nike Running SG‘s Facebook page to keep the hype up, such as the RUN BUDDY RUN, where you can either challenge others by synching up and accumulating your runs to Nike+ to win free places on raceday or free goodies, or send customized (de)motivational posters to your friends..

It was obvious I didn’t sign up after realising my personal running distance limits, which is ridiculous short, at the Run Like A Girl 5k event. In fact, I threw in the towel at exactly 3km. So how the hell is 100km even humanly possible??

Anyway, these are for Justin and Joshua who are highly anticipating the run, along with Nural and Chari, though I suppose 10k will be a breeze since they have been through a marathon more gruelling.

And to Elen: we can only watch and sigh in relief because we’re not in it. On an unrelated note, listen to the Death Waltz, if you haven’t. It’s kind of addictive actually.

I only exist because this day happened.

Thank you, to the most wonderful Dad and Mum in the universe – you’ve dedicated your lives to walking this path together which many have considered giving up all too easily in the face of better things of that moment, choosing to believe, instead, in a future when circumstances were then bleak. You showed me what love was all about; no words would convey it better. Growing up in this family was the best present I could ever receive, if I deserved any at all.

Now, I know you are reaping the seeds you’ve been sowing for the 25 long years – let me wish you even more:

Robust health,
fulfillment,
and days overflowing with love, joy and peace
to last you a lifetime.

Happy Blessed Anniversary <3

Been experimenting with making baileys flavoured tiramisu with the friends lately, on a real random whim. I made two trays of it last night; this second attempt definitely garnered more positive responses from the colleagues without having to see people cringe from the sugar overdose.

For all the lovely people of Kinetic: because Kinetic day is tomorrow <3

While today ended with an unofficial farewell dinner at the Korean bbq buffet near office – we’re sad to have someone leave, it’s only been this short a time here – till the end of tomorrow let’s all think of nothing but put our body muscles to good use in the outdoor activities lined up for the fit, enthusiastic, and some reluctant ones. :D

Nokia Black Box
Launch Event: 16 June, 6.30pm – 10pm
Open To Public: 17-19 June, 10am – 10pm
@ 30 Maxwell Road

A project that took an entire year to materialise, Nokia Black Box is “An experiment. An Experience. An exhibition featuring works of the industry’s top talents.”, housed in an old building a short distance away from the Red Dot Museum. The entire building, interiors, right down to the door frames and window panes were coated in black to match the theme.

Pre-event. While some of them helped out extensively with the conceptualisation, promotional materials, overseeing of the ongoing construction works and an endless list to make this event possible, I got the opportunity to decorate the stairway together with Leng – we are all awed by her amazing and spontaneous flow of abstract shapes and forms to form a mural that spans for about 5m wide. Talking to her certainly inspires me :D

Took us the entire Wednesday (as a result having to sniff in huge amounts of chalk) to complete, but for a change I more than gladly welcomed, it’s blissful to be out of my office seat, my eyes off the computer screen doing some hands on work. We didn’t use as much chalk as they thought we would, though. Some rather random scribbles of mine here..

Everyone also contributed to filling in empty areas along this stairway meant as a space for visitors to doodle and scribble their thoughts, make their marks, etc.

Launch event was held on Thursday featuring DJ Ko-Flow to kick-start the evening.

An installation by illustrator Kuanth.

I got the group (except Charissa, awwww) to attend the event as well! :)

(image courtesy of G.)

Installation by Kinetic – Pann Lim, Gian Jonathan, Clay Kwok and Linus (see bottom pic for the proper setup).

How has October been treating you so far? While a lot of people have quoted the line “Wake me up when September ends”, I found Sept to be quite an eventful month; a fair mixture of ups and downs throughout the past weeks. For one, our company attended the CCA’s GONG Show and Shang-ri La (the same place for the Crowbar Awards show, and also where I celebrated my 21st) where Kinetic won big in the Design Category, where Gian was named New Art Director, as well as the only Design Gong award that went to Pann’s ‘Soundtrack for a Book’.

Following this formal event, was Gen’s non-traditional wedding at Sentosa’s Amara Sanctuary Resort on a Saturday, which was featured in Chnl U’s ‘Wedding 101‘. By non-traditional I mean everything from the black and white theme, the simplicity of the invitation and carefully chosen/handmade decors, her beautiful unmistakably Japanese-styled beige dress and black baby doll evening gown, to the quiet photographic projections on the screens and layout of the ballroom. I must say it was most unforgettable.

Hasn’t time flown? It has been nearly 5 months since I started work, and having more or less gotten into the momentum, I don’t end up dreading waking up early anymore. Not that much. One more month till the end of probation and four more months to the annual company trip! Hopefully by that time I’d be geared up for a harsh winter in Europe :)

Currently in the works is the first full flash website project I’ve been assigned to, which spells lots of stress even in its proposal stage. Also, the other day we received a new brief to redesign a certain board game and to our delight we had a good two hours of fun in the conference room having lunch and teaming up to play against one another just to derive some form of inspiration.

Aside from work, there was the mini gathering at Hajar’s for Hari Raya: (photo by Charissa)

after which we had ramen and OUAM, and spotted this huge chow chow – well I can’t say being walked, more like being paraded through town – in a pram complete with two clip-on fans by a domestic helper while the owners strutted around like they’re so used to the commotion caused by photo-snapping passerby. Oh the rich. And the cute:

One cafe we have been frequenting would be the Dessert Factory at Bugis; it’s a five min walk away from the mrt, in the building along the entire stretch of steamboat restaurants. They’re relying mostly on word-of-mouth plus online publicity, and since they serve genuinely good milk tea and desserts – cupcakes, brownie with ice-cream and bread pudding – of all I had tasted I found nothing to my dislike, I think they deserve a mention here.

(photo by Charissa)

Although the branding and illustration style irks us all (oh how reminiscent of blah blah blah), the place is small, cosy and a great hangout nonetheless. Ask about the story behind their specially concocted milk tea; which I’m sure the friendly waiter will be more than glad to relay.

Since my last drawing, I’ve started quite a few more, adding on to those that I haven’t gotten enough time or motivation to complete yet. This is quite a bad habit isn’t it, starting things and not finishing. Just like how I never finish learning Mahler’s piano quartet piece. But I tell you that’s rather impossible for me haha. And just like how I never finish some books I’m suppose to have read and returned to people, my goodness.

And so I’m lying against the headboard typing this at 5 in the morning.. I think my fever’s subsided significantly.

9/7. A leisure trip with the entire company to Johor, my first in many many years, to mark this day. It was great to know I could speed on in the impromptu races while go-karting – no need for a driving licence – minus the minor crash incident which earned me bruises and a weak wrist, as well as submerge myself in the satisfaction of street photography once again (dad has gotten the Fujifilm F30 fixed, and I’m bent on selling my Canon point-and-shoot; a long story but it goes all the way back to the Japan trip, which I never got to blog about) surrounded by a quite disparate kind of flavour.

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