The funny thing is, half of this entry was written in 2008 and completed only now. Most of the details have already become fuzzy, but thanks to the AAA 2008 DVD we get to live through their wonderful Kokuritsu performance again and again. Written because.. I owe myself -_- and it wouldn’t make sense to write about 5×10 if I haven’t finished this.
Hello! This year’s TP diploma show is over; the bunch of us IMD alumni gathered for the >60 talk and reception prior to viewing the works from the current batch of graduating designers.
It has been a year since our show! There’ve been changes, yet everyone is still quite the same. To those friends who hadn’t attended the show/whom I haven’t met for ages: how have you been? :)
Photos taken by Hajar, Justin and Charissa.
This was what caught my eye – well honestly, the cover illustration, then the entire concept – while I strolled through the Japanese section’s bookshelves at Kino today.
Rental Children tells a story about, based on what I understood from having read the summary, “Taishi and Fuyumi, a couple who had lost their beloved son Yuu to an illness, were introduced to a children rental/sale company P.I. and from the list, they decided to purchase Yuu without hesitation. However, a month later, the child experienced a sped up aging process; his face kept dissolving.. In a bid to find out the truth, Taishi sneaks into the P.I. laboratory to realise of a terrible experiment being repeated day and night.”
I know it’s quite irrelevant; but I totally adore the drawing style 8D
Having not been out shopping for the longest time, I took the chance to visit a dozen places in the afternoon to conveniently attempt to satisfy my food cravings (but that being actually satisfied, or not, is another story); strike out items on my shopping list; observe the sights (new buildings? huh) and sounds before I forget how town looks like again; check out new magazines and books around Kino; collect something from school and meet Grapes for dinner.
It’s no wonder why my previous ezlink top-up didn’t last for more than a day.. Home > PS > Cathay > Ion > Taka > Tampines > Boon Keng > Vivo > Ang Mo Kio > home. At this rate I’d probably covered a good third/half of Singapore, BUT I’ve fulfilled my agenda for the day so I’m not complaining.
Daily work has taken a toll on the well-being of a certain woman by the name of i-like-the-guy-whose-looks-make-esther-foam-at-the-mouth-and-die. (no, really, that I will NEVER approve. neverrrrrr) But I love hanging out to kill what’s left of her after-work time and commenting on different brands of facial wash and asking for extra honey sauce for our Japanese parfait <3 Weekdays aren’t too bad, afterall.
8D
Just to show you a couple of purchases I made recently. <3 New pens to go with the two new notebooks; plain recycled paper for sketching and white dotted paper for general/work purposes. MUJI
Mini English alphabet stamps from Made With Love @ $2.50
Coloured stamp pads from Made With Love (the colour of the “Pinecone” is off due to reflection on the casing.. it’s closer to black/brown) / Mini Japanese hiragana character stamps from Kinokuniya / Bird in cage stamp from Japan
Xyron create-a-sticker machine from Spotlight @ $12.50 (half-price). You have no idea how amazing this product is, so let me just show you here.. It measures 9.5cm x 10.5cm and creates stickers up to 4cm wide. Grace successfully tempted me into buying this XD Check out what I made with her pink sticker maker: *flaps*.
First you place the bits of materials – be it printed photos, punched shapes, drawings etc – into the slot.
Then as you pull the tape from the bottom, you’ll find the materials encased in between. At this point of time G and I thought we had slotted the stuff in the wrong way because the usual ones would come out “laminated” with clear plastic over and we would have to cut it into the desired shape.
Now you peel off the adhesive layer – p-peel you say? Tada! And there you are, original stickers!
GO FIGURE! I HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT WORKS STILL PLEASE TELL ME.
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
