AHH-choo
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 10:04 AM
Studying with facebook, msn and twitter on always cracks me up seeing impending doom statuses like: "is going to buy a coffin and die in it today" or "I want to buy some time please"

or puns associated with AAH [Asian Art History]
like aah I'm dead or aah bang wall or
"omg hoyu-ji muri-ji genji todai-ji simidai-ji?!"

Though I'm not any better, paper is tomorrow and I haven't read at least 50% of the monuments. At least I like studying about Japan, but that's just too much info for 2 nights of study. I need to digest history from 1st century AD all the way to 1495AD, that's like studying 1495 years of history in 2 nights. After that I only have 1 night to understand Singapore society, which is even much more worse. Nah not the worst because I've got friends still rushing projects at the same time, that is the ultimate worst situation. I'm thankful to have cleared my course projects even if it's only 2 days before my first paper.

It's already 10.40am, I better panic now.
Jiayou AAH.


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Designer by day, fangirl by night
Saturday, November 21, 2009, 12:40 AM
I am finally done for the semester with my submissions! Well other than exams, the first paper starting in 2 days and I haven't started studying. Somehow after miraculously churning out 2 books in just 2.5 days, I feel I can do anything.

These are the 3 babies that I've made this week with much sleepless nights and temptations from watching the next ep of you're beautiful, I am pleased. I was so bad at paper crafts before but now after 3 attempts at perfect binding, I'm glad to say I've improved with each book I made. So I'm really happy with that, though some pages still seem to be on the edge of falling off if flipped too roughly. Now I wished I took more photos before handing them in.

This's my favourite page in the letter journal. Spent at about 3 hours drawing all those Fs while facebooking, blasting music in the middle of the night but I had fun! They look better photographed actually haha. F for fun! :D
One of my haiku page for type.

Though I think I could have done more pages for the letter journal given more time but I think I did my best in this very short timeframe. And I'm so happy right now I'm finally done with submissions this sem! Oh happy day!

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So I spent my night watching dramas and catching up reading reviews, entertainment news. I really need to shut off from design for a while, tonight at least. "You're Beautiful" is currently my drama dose this season. It's like a fusion of Boys Over Flowers [Great set, great fashion] and Coffee Prince [Great crack, great moments] which screams awesome addictive drama for a fangirl. Then I chanced upon more episodic reviews of Love Shuffle and I went to watch the last episode again. It's almost winter, wondering if Nojima Shinji-san wrote any new dramas next season.

Yes I am so enjoying myself tonight it's almost 2am and I'm not even sleepy yet. I think I'm considered quite lucky to have at least 4 hours of sleep the past few days. I don't really believe in staying up all night to do something, because I find that when you get really tired, you spent the rest of your low energy on keeping yourself awake and then you'll do work half the speed. Sleep is for the strong! Yeah so I'm off to bed now, what awaits is another hectic weekend studying for my papers.


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Balloon
Monday, November 16, 2009, 10:57 PM
It was drizzling, I was sitting on the cold shuttle bus back to school. This sombre little song was playing.



Floating, beautifully, slowly, higher, drifting away and eventually disappears. Forgotten.
Please don't forget.
Don't go.

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Maybe
Saturday, November 14, 2009, 9:36 PM

My locker design in school. This's probably my favourite project in graphic design. I hope I made it durable enough to last me another 2.5 years till I graduate. Though one pocket's kinda spoilt now. Hmm maybe it will.

The hope of a yes.
The closest word to translate your impossible dreams to reality.
My favourite word in the dictionary.


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Happy Birthday Captain!
Friday, November 13, 2009, 10:34 PM
Happy Birthday Kimura Takuya-kun! Continue to shine further in your career and stay happy always!

It's been 2 years since I started fangirling about anything Takuya, I guess it still applies now seeing me post this now. And he still continues to inspire me with his performances, keep it this way captain! Well he's the only idol that I've spent most time researching, reading on, think I'll still be continuing to do that for some time though I'm currently bought over by the new korean drama "You're Beautiful" and Jang Geuk Suk! Kimura-kun is still my ichiban and I think everyone in the world who knows me knows that =.=
Maybe I should elaborate a little more why. Have I talked about it before?
It's not just about the looks, there's something about his personality, his coolness, and especially his professionalism, an aura bought me over. Though I wonder sometimes if he were to stand in front of me would I go mad and quickly ask him for an autograph, or would I just stand and watch him from a distance. He is cool definitely, in whichever role he is in, to act as a woman, a nerd, a racer, a murderer, a comedian he excels in almost everything and pulls it off his way. Be it singing, dancing or acting, there seems to be nothing he can't do. He enjoys doing it and he shows it. Stretching his vocals longer, exaggerating his movements, he knows how to flaunt it and he does it well. Take his Gatsby ads for example, which other guy can flaunt such sensual moves and not get awkward goosebumps or people watching feeling he's gay. He's also the first guy ever to star in a woman's lipstick ad. How cool and crazy is that, so bold so confident to pull off all these stunts well. Maybe people can say he likes to show off, being in the spotlight all the time but I'd like to think he's just enjoying what he's doing and not afraid to show it. How many people can constantly break out of the box, tryingh new ideas and flaunt it so boldly all the time. He might be a natural born idol no doubt, but who knows what hell has he gone through to achieve something remarkable like that. I don't think it was easy. To sustain this same attitude for more than 15 years is really something.

I remember there was one video on him suddenly announce that he's getting married just before the concert, how shocking is that to the fans in the audience seat. Standing alone on the stage without the other band members, facing thousands of his fans, he delivered it in a sombre, serious yet apologetic manner. He promised to work hard and staying the way that he is just like before, and he did it. That is one hell of an announcement to kill your fans but it was so honest, so sincere I respect, admire his guts for disobeying his company, facing the risk of losing his career and fanbase to give his wife, child acknowledgement. He said it just like that.

I like how he always handle emotional-wrecking situations in such a cool, rational, sincere manner. Take Mori's leaving for example, Nakai being the leader was already crying buckets singing the song so Kimura took over the mic and initiated to ask what the others wanted to say to Mori. His comment for him was also what I thought the coolest, yet most assuring of them all.



To not let down for all those people who are supporting you, you must work hard. I also feel the Mori san from here on is a strong man, don't ever give up okay.
~~~

Watching him has always been inspiring, driving me to work well in my life too.
This is why Kimura Takuya is my idol.
Happy 37th Birthday Captain!

/end fangirl mode

Anyway I had a great day with my Photo Imaging classmates today, we could just keep on talking and talking and talking. Best class I've ever taken this semester and to think I chose this initially thinking it's about photoshopping. We've come a long way, from the start hating all the troublesome processes I have to go through just to develop a photo not to mention the huge amount of money and time spent. But the times spent in the darkroom with my classmates and fellow mates who take photo imaging was priceless, valuable and irreplaceable. It's a little sad that we have to part ways so soon but I'll remember all the times we've spent.

Yeah. Mushy. -.-''
Ok back to reality, back to graphic design!
Kubs.

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Short Break
Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 12:27 AM
For supper tonight, I bought this!

Because I saw this being featured in the ADC Annual Book I borrowed.
One of the rare times I buy snacks for myself, what I like about this caramel corn is while finishing the packet, I discovered roasted peanuts ! There weren't a lot, can't say it's too little too. But it's still nice like this's some kind of sweet surprise packed in only to be discovered after finishing the corns, though I wonder whether they're intentional or not.

Back to the book, what's surprising for me's seeing SMAP's Concert merchandise, posters etc being nominated for the Annual Director's Club too! [So I just had to borrow this!] Then flipping a few pages more, I saw this:



The infobar poster and phone! I first saw this a few years ago [blogged abt it before too] and till now I still think it's best looking phone I've ever seen. I still want it even if it's outdated, no camera, no bluetooth, those buttons are just too itching me to press them. There's infobar2 now already but I still prefer the look and feel of the first version. Perhaps I'll borrow a book on Naoto Fukasawa next. Yeah I will. Ok just reserved it.

Time for bed. Rare that I completed my work and can sleep early. Just tonight.

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Nostalgia
Monday, November 09, 2009, 2:25 AM
A search for old ephemera in the house for my graphic design project had me dug up my long forgotten stash of metal tin boxes I've kept since I was in primary school. Containing things I've wrote during my primary school days: class lists, who's my best friends, cards, letters, 2 liners of what happened in class that day, little gifts that I've kept from my teachers back in children's day, unused, wrapped in a transparent plastic bag and labelled, a paper crane from a boy who was my desk partner back in primary 4...

I wanted to remember everyone in my class.
And I remember them all now, always.

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