Literally...

Another lame video introduced by my colleague at workstudy.... yea, it's silly, but at times like these when one is so sian of work, anything out of the norm is good.

Checkpoint after checkpoint after checkpoint... Can't believe I did so many things over the past two weeks. First was the Modern Art presentation. We totally overshot the time limit, but the prof didn't stop us from doing so. She felt that it was a great presentation, and we were even awarded with the highest marks of the groups. The question I tackled was about Singapore and propaganda... and like any other apathetic kids, urgh... it was hell thinking about politics and what not. It set quite some pressure there... and I tackled that question because my other team mates were Indonesian... so... baah. But hey, learned some stuff about the nation's history alright... ah well. The other question was quite hard to dig for info, but managed to get them through some camera shots of the out of print book. The past lectures of Mr Sabapathy's were of great help in formulating my own ideas about the subject and yea, managed to hit the spot for that question that day.

Cleared the animation seminar after that, and though the outcome was not as good as I wanted, it was quite well received. Yin Huey did her part well, and I'm glad she pulled through that stormy week. She fell sick right after the submission day... but did a really great job with the editing and I couldn't have thought of a better way out for the op and ed credits myself.

Prof prac too, didn't thought we could crap those pages out in time. Did the proposal with someone from another major, also called Dorothy but this Dorothy calls herself Dot instead of Doro (haha, should have did a screen capture of the two Dorothys msn-ing me at the same time.) Anyways, I was very amazed at how much she can write within such a short time, it would have taken me a few days to get that out. She has a way of getting what she wants without being very persuasive (or maybe I'm too anything), and quite an open mind. Although everything again was last minute, it was a great feeling to work towards something with someone putting in as much as you did (somehow... just felt she did a lot more than I did... haha. Words... I need to read and write more.... >_<).

And between all those was Glory and Chean's 4 day visit to Singapore... It was amazing how things fell into place. Although I couldn't accompany them for two days, they had some good times with Alton, Ed, Shirley and Tao. Maybe I'll publish that in the next post...

Well... looking at those two weeks... can't say I didn't have time for work... haha. Tired, but not that tired. Maybe the best way to explain it all is with a laugh. Nothing explains more than that now... ..Time to move on to the last three checkpoints!

I'm loving it!

Cliche title, but I'm really loving NLB.



From Bukit Batok NLB.

Supposed to be doing work... but the rainy weather was just too nice for studying.



Wanted to paint a portrait of Jack Doe, a character created by a fellow schoolmate. It started with a random chat though, he was never good at colors and threw up a random idea of getting his character painted. I wanted to do it in digital that time (a year ago), but never really enjoyed digital art till now. Feels as though I'm painting in oil.

Be Water

Ruifan showed this to me today...



There's a lot of meaning to what he said, but somehow, we were giggling away at the video. Something in it just got us laughing, the way the message was brought forward with so much enthusiasm and expression (and accent...). Didn't know he was so expressive. (Aye, didn't watch his movie before.)

After that, Ruifan showed me another clip about that again.



Simple and cool animation, but when the words are taken literally... it just gets amusing >_<.

No art, just a sharing :) Quite long, but worth to see to the end.

The Bald Birdie

Trying to make myself draw as frequent as possible, even if it's all crappy... Well, this is a bird... some mynah I saw while on my way to the 179 bus stand. This bird was walking straight ahead, cross my path, unafraid. It's bald head kind of made me stop to take a look at it. Heard that's what the strong birds who get into fights and wins would end up having, a bald head. There was one which used to fly into my kitchen window and made some noise years back, but never saw it again anymore, guess it probably passed on. This one is a bit different. It still has some black feathers on it's head, just traces of it.

I thought it was the most significant thing I witnessed today (other than hearing a bunch of secondary school kids debating about the definitions of aethist and free-thinker). It is a victor of it's own kind, parading proudly in front of a line of people waiting for a bus. Normally, these birds would just hop by quickly or fly away when someone approaches, this one (I dunno what other words fit it) parade past and in between people, stopped and chirped loudly in front. Probably it's trying to taunt? Or maybe it's trying to say 'hey I came and conquered! What about you little smarties??!!' No matter what it was trying to say, it was pretty brave.