APPLETASTIC

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.