posting from singapore

just thought i'd drop by and post something since i'm online and not doing anything much anyways. had dinner at cedele, nori salmon as always. went to the doctors in the afternoon-ish, then checked out muji and then i bought some papers. not much really.. still need to check out clothes. i need new clothes desperately!! well that is all, peace out.

well good morning..

i am determined to make today a good day.

i want to go home..

feeling random mood swings. i should really just sleep it off, it's the best way to cure it....

i hate it when this happens

when i have done the work and yet the "school" is not even cooperating with me. then again, i should be blaming my internet instead. why won't it load?!! i am so over school right now and it's only monday today.. great!! monday sucks. school sucks. life kinda sucks at the moment, if you haven't already realized.

this is the homework that i was supposed to hand it. it's a powerpoint. shame it won't upload. there goes 20 marks for this class..

how long has it been?

i don't even know anymore.

eye candy

something i was working and experimenting on.. pretty happy with the result.

my "working" table. it's the sturdiest one i have so far =) definitely a keeper.

let me introduce, my current boyfriend..

having your laptop next to your bed is not a good thing. it's the last thing i see/touch before i sleep and also the first thing i see/touch when i wake up. but i am not complaining cause i am loving it. all is good in the hood.

weekend dining

friday night: assorted salad, tomato cream soup, roast beef with mushroom sauce, strawberry shortcake.

saturday night: crap food, crap ambience, the only thing that was nice was the interior design and layout. it's amazing how the crowd really affects the place.

i am getting very very bored of the food here. need to get away for a while to be able to crave for some of the food here. right now it's so hard decide what to eat cause i'm just bored of everything and everywhere.

one thing i am still crazy about.... nachos!! they are love. especially with queso.. reminds me the times when i watched movies in new york. good times.

haven't been very creative lately. actually i've hardly written on my notebook for the past week or so which is quite sad. i don't know what's wrong. i guess this is what they call a mental block or an artist block. i better get out of it soon enough or else i might lose it all. *touchwood*

hmm.... not feeling very inspired as well these days. i think i do need a getaway just to freshen myself up, that would do me good.

i wonder why there are so many updates available when everything is still so new? weird. i'm also kinda scared that if i do install anything anymore, it will lag the computer and that is going to suck. so i guess no updates for now..

this is getting boring. bye.

content

random page from my notebook.

just finished doing my work for the day. microsoft word on mac is awesome, it actually makes me want to do my work. loving the whole look of it. i will have to pick my brother up from school soon.. it seems like i always have to on fridays. oh well.. i need to get a bag anyways.

okay i still don't know how to put photos on here because it's not working which is weird. the image shows up at the bottom of the page instead of in the box where i am writing this. confused. i guess i have to just start doing it the url way.

it's raining again now. i wish i was curled up in bed.. and drinking chai latte. that would be heaven. i hate hearing the rain other then when i'm bed. it sounds so much more soothing when i'm in bed. when it's anywhere else, it just sounds scary to me.

holy mac-aroni

i finally got it.

super duper productive

i've been working so hard today. mondays are always like that. maybe i will relax a little tomorrow. can't believe april is nearly over. i'm pausing with every full stop in this paragraph. weird. i think i might go home now. i hope there's no traffic. what am i gonna do when i go home? i think i might paint some more. okay this is officially a weird post. i think it is because of all the work i've done today. i'm like a robot. anyways bye.

random doodle on illustrator

happy as i am

i have tons of work to do so this is gonna be a short one.

as of today, i am very thankful for what i have and i should live it and enjoy it while it lasts. it has gotten to a point where maybe i am supposed to be where i am today and just work it the best as i can. it has been a very good monday morning.

another page of my watercolor notebook. i should really start scanning the colored versions of these.

save polaroid!!

i've just signed all the petition available in order to save polaroid films and you should too!! how will the world be without this wonderful instant film?

there are currently 4299 signatures in total for the fujifilm petition and 18096 for the save polaroid petition. honestly, i still don't think it's enough for either companies to respond but i have my fingers crossed.

go to savepolaroid.com for more information.

image credit: somewhere in flickrworld

i want to do more than just exist

i found that quote ^ up there when i was browsing yesterday. i thought that it really describes how i feel at the moment. don't you love it when you find a quote or a song that describes exactly how you are feeling while you read or listen it? i guess that's why words are so strong..

i decided to scan in the notebook that i bought when i was in new york. it is pretty much filled with what i did while i was there. it's such a great feeling to be just looking back at it.

the front cover, i bought the postcard in barnes&noble

the back cover, postcard was also bought in barnes&noble

the inside cover

alright, i should be doing my homework now. i have been kinda lazy updating this blog cause i've been painting more these days. it relaxes me in a way.. will be posting up the paintings as soon as i think i am finished with them.

feeling very uninspired

i have been really slack towards my notebook this month.. there has only been a couple of days that i completely complete the pages. i think it has a lot to do with the fact that i am really really bored of my current notebook and it really is very dull for me at the moment. i know that whole feeling will change once i look through it again in the future but right now, i really have to just deal with it and continue writing in it until may comes along.

the plan for my next notebook is to just use it for two months. i think that way, i wouldn't be bored of it and by the time i do get bored.. i would have moved on to the next notebook =) my current one is lasting for three months so no wonder i am bored with it. the whole mechanism of it is also very inconvenient!! that is why i hate it so much right now.

t g i f !!

skipped the office/school today. i slept at 7ish last night cause i was having the worst headache ever and i don't even know why i had it. woke up at 10ish unwillingly and couldn't get back to sleep again until about 12 or 1ish. so obviously, i was pretty dead this morning.

picking up my brother from school today. he finishes early so that's a relief or else we'll be stuck in traffic as usual.

years pass by, things change

the only thing that doesn't change is family.
everything else around me changes.
i guess change is a good thing.

the second page of my watercolor notebook. it's full on colored by now.

the "alyss or alice" part was inspired by a children's picture book that my sister bought a couple of weeks ago. it was a really pretty book and a very interesting one too. it tells the story of how "alice in wonderland" was actually based on a real princess called "alyss". i really enjoyed the book because it was an interactive one [ie: there were envelopes you had to open to read letters].

a pair of socks in different ways

i was just browsing through facehunter after lunch and after finishing one of my assignments for this week and i realized there was a repeated occurence of knee length socks. i like the grey combination the best. white is a little school-ish and black is too dark for my liking. but grey with slightly dirty white shoes looks perfect =)

with or without you

like how they say it in the movies, let it go and if it comes back to you then it is meant to be. but if not.. then maybe you're better off. i've always believed in "whatever happens, happens for a reason"

i haven't quite finished this one. as of now, i have only painted the background. i'm still not sure whether or not i want to add more or just keep it as it is. will post updated version soon.

i was having a cashmere mafia and lipstick jungle marathon last night. i must say that i still prefer gossip girl much more than these two probably just because of the age difference but i do like lipstick jungle more than cashmere mafia. not a fan of either brooke shield or lucy liu but in this case, i think brooke shield is somewhat better, just my personal opinion. don't think i'll follow it religiously unless i have access to it easily..

image credit: E!

magazine overload

bought a whole bunch of magazines yesterday to pass the time. there's a particular one that i am super excited about cause it's just a burst of inspiration for me. with so many magazines that are filled with junk and over the top text and images [not saying that i don't like them] but it's just nice to see one magazine with such simplicity. from the pictorials to the typography.. it's just perfect, too perfect that it makes me sick.. but i really do appreciate it. i just can't believe that i've missed out on the previous issues.

so much for fairy lights

i bought some today and tried to put them onto the curtains in my room so that it will fall down nicely and accidentally, i screwed it up and now it won't work at all. it was only because i took out one of the light bulbs trying to make it not flicker and now it has gone down the drain. such a waste of money.... *sigh* won't be buying anymore fairy lights for a while i'm guessing.

i really wanted some in my room. i've wanted it for such a long time and i only got around to buying it today. and now it won't even work. i wonder where i can get some fairy lights that are white instead of green. most of them are green cause they are for trees.. christmas trees to be exact. i was thinking of spray painting mine white or some other color but it's not even working now so there goes the plan too.

image credit: reallylindabarker.co.uk

shoutout to my second sister

it's her 26th birthday today and i'm excited because we went to get a present for her and i think she will be extremely happy with it. just cause it's not what she expected.. at least that's what i think.

so i have the choice to do either full or part time for my current quarter and i don't know if i want to do it full just because i am already a week late. but then it's also true that if i only take up one subject/class, i will end up being really lazy. sigh.. i guess i know what is the right thing to do.

i love eclairs and tarts but most of all, i love strawberry shortcake the best and we'll be having that tonight..

these were from chinese new year a couple of months back.. just never posted the photos up.

early thursday morning

suprisingly i am awake at this hour.. i guess when there's a will, there is a way afterall =) need my coffee to be able to stay up though. not that i have anything to do today but i don't think all that sleeping is doing me any good. i'll save it for the weekend....

what i'm addicted to at the moment..

random doodles. the first page of my watercolor notebook

so i'm still in the process of transferring schools right now and it is taking longer than expected. the whole time difference thing makes it quite hard and annoying. i just want to get it over and done with.

slacking off

i have been really lazy in the last couple of weeks and i really am trying to break the habit of sleeping late and waking up late. the strange thing is.... my dreams seems to be so much more interesting than my life right now. it's weird. i guess it's because i slept too much but seriously, the dreams that i have are like movies.

let's just say i was happy when i made this.

i tried drawing the girl with pen and then coloring it in with watercolors but it didn't turn out very nice. it was fine when it was without the watercolors but once i tried coloring it in, it just went really fugly. i guess i haven't quite mastered the techniques of watercolors just yet.. which is why illustrator comes very handy.