Vacation!!!!!!

Nice right.
I thibk I'm havin too much fun with my new phone's vintage/toy camera apps. :D

Im kind of sick and tired of getting a new phone. The whole story goes back to about 2 to 3 months when someone in the family informs me that its time for my turn to get a new phone. At that time, there was no phone that interest me and it was design show period so i didnt hate time to research on it. So it got dragged to may, my graduation day. Had dinner with the designers and dragged along with me to look at m1 phones. Spotted htc hero selling at $198 and gladly informed my dad that night that i want that phone. We went down to the shop the day after and was told by the salesgirl that it was out of stock. Same story at the m1 shop at tamp1. Disappointed but oh well, thats life. Attempt #2 was me checking on m1 web weekly (trying to see if htc legend's price will drop) a month later. PC show came and m1 had this 4days offer for htc desire (yes, that currently ranked first phone) selling at $398. Over my budget but it was a good price. Happily informed my dad that i want that phone and will pay 50% of it. So we planned to get it that weekend. 2days went past and i received comments able having to spend so much money on a phone. Guilt drowned me and i told dad that im not getting that phone anymore. So came attempt #3 last sunday. After cracking my brain for so long, and reading reviewsss. I decided to get SE xperia x10 mini ($188 at m1). Informed dad in the morning and then the horrible news came. Dad told me that he just remembered that im supposed to get my phone under mum's line, not mine so i should be checking on singtel prices and not m1. My weeks of stalking m1 have been for nothing. Fine. Looked through singtel prices. They were close to m1's. So we went down to the singtel shop at tamp1. Looked at the dummy ver of xperia mini and realised its actually VERY MINI. Great. Dad told be its better to buy a bigger screen phone so we didnt get it in the end. Went home, i researched further and listed down a number of potential phones. Thought over and consulted a few peoples for the whole week, i finally decided to buy samsung galaxy spica $88! Which leads us to attempt #4. Went down to bedok yesterday to get it. 2 shops said its out of stock. We went back to TM, century square and tamp1. All no more stock. FINE. Lets order online. When dad selected recontract on singtelshop, the price of the plan came up wrong. We didnt want to risk mum's cheap plan turning into ex plan, dad wrote an email to the consumer service asking how should we proceed buying it. So now, we are waiting for the reply. If we succeeded getting it, i will hate to wait 2weeks before getting it. Great. The wait. This cheap phones going oos thing reminds me of myself buying my current phone 22months ago. The cheap phone i was targeting was oos and so i ended up buying this almost $300 phone (not that one in the photo, its the one im typing on now. The one in the photo is my prev prev phone which i am still using now). So ex. D: anyway, shall slowly wait for the reply. Oh my life. And if there is any phrasing or typo error, dont mind me. They always appear when i blog with my phone.

Currently here! Nice place, nice songs with nice people. Haha... Here with colleagues to celebrate colleague's birthday. Sis! Clara! Im bringing you girls here one day. I want to try the italian strawberry mojito. But im having a cough. Waiting for the rest to arrive now. 9 people have arrived. 5 more to arrive i think. =D kind of hungry. Beef cheek sounds awesome. Forgot to bring camera out. Have to depend on this phone. Haha.

A belated post. This is my 20th birthday present from Sharon. Thank you miss alien. =D

Blogging on train again. This week can be considered as the busiest week since i started working. Its school holidays so schools want there campus to be dolled up during this period. Work have been piling up. 2 days left till end of week. I need a miracle will happen to assist me in finishing these works on time. Yesterday while i was riding on the train home with a colleague, we had a long talk and i was enlightened about the design industry and design trend in Singapore. Then today, the same colleague and another colleague came to me and asked why am i overtime-ing and what project i am working on. Each of them said something which made me stopped doing work, pack my bag and left for home. What they said made me realise how stupid and how much time have i wasted, struggling and dying. Sigh... I guess i will slowly learn more things as i proceed along.
I failed to alight at city hall to change train cos the train announcement was wrong. It was city hall, they said it was somerset. By the time i realised its city hall, the door was closing. Raffles place then.
I overslept today. The latest time to leave my house so that i wont be late is 8am. My alarm rang at 730am, i off it and went back to dreamland. When i wake up next, it was already 815am. Panicked. Haha... Rushed out of the house (mum and sis were still able to help me heat up my curry puff and pack my grapes), and stumbled through the horrible rain, to the train station. When i reached braddell, it was 915am. Officially reached office at 925am. So damn late and i could still grab a bottle of coffee from 7-11 on my way to the office. Haha... Was not the last to reach though.
Now on to world cup. Haha... If you know my sis and me well, you will know we will be watching world cup and supporting portugal. HAHA. Speaking of portugal, last night match of portugal vs ivory coast was damn disappointing. How could it end with a draw. Portugal is supposed to win. And the brazil vs nkorea match (the one that i force myself awake to watch), the first half was boring. However, nkorea was suprisingly strong. Though they lose, they were able to end the game with 2-1, when everyone was expecting brazil to win them by a 10-0 or something. Lol. Both skorea and nkorea are not bad this world cup. Found an eye candy in skorea team. Haha... Totally betraying christiano ronaldo. XD Japan not bad too but they need to play against a stronger team to see their abilities. The only good looking guy in japan team is honda. The rest are... just like that. Haha... There is spain tonight!
Happy Dumplings Day, everyone. =D

Snack time! Guava yesterday. Grapes today.

Old school snacks. Haha...

Go s.korea! Go tvu player!

Bored people play board games. =D

My new bag!

They are damn good. :D

I miss him. D':

No more? D:

Thank you, awesome colleagues. =D

More snacks from colleague. Im a pig. Haha...

Gifts from colleagues. I have sweet tooth. :D

Its 9.16pm and im still at toa payoh, still walking to braddell station. Im missing my 9pm drama and have yet to eat dinner. No good. Im going to reach home at 10.15pm and will be damn damn tired.
The day had started badly for me with a SPLITTED headache. Ate 2 panadols before setting off to work but the pain continued all the way from tampines to braddell and even when i hav reached my office, it was still toturing me. Today was probably the first time i have travelled such long distance without wearing my specs. My specs make my head hurts more. Speaking of headache, my collegue, Jem was telling me to eat and drink more vit c before leaving the office just now. The both of us were sniffing and sneezing throughout the 8hours. Like me, she had a headache this morning too. Haha... Apparantly, the flu virus, originated from MJ, i think, have successfully travelled to our area.
Everyone take care too. The weather is very unpleasant recently. From a WTF-30°C to extreme-sudden-downpour-which-results-the-office-aircon-to-be-freezing-cold-below-20°C, anyone can get sick. The Toa Payoh North clinic near my office seems to be very prosperous last week and this week. I have never seen it once without patients sitting to the outside of the clinic. Chou dame～

A little recap of last weekend:
Celebrated sister's birthday at RC's house. Baked a cupcakes birthday cake. The photo posted earlier was the first batch of cupcakes that came out from the oven. We decorated them with choc and cream cheese frosting to completed the cake. The cupcakes ended up to be our supper, breakfast and lunch. Haha... Beered and wined this weekend too. Hoho... Awesome stuff k. Wiied too. Wiied a lot to be exact. But surprisingly, my arm was not that jialat today.

Back about work, finally went about informing my boss about applying for leave next fri. Looking forward to next week. My long weekend! Haha... This week is going to be bad i tink. LuC just passed 2 more stuff to do when i still have god knows how much posters to do. No end de. And these posters are due this week. Well, they are not hard to do, but just that im running out of ideas how to layout the images and text. The posters are all starting to look alike. Horror. And the font required changing today. Which was pretty much relayouting whatever i have done last week. I swear i almost died when i received that email. But well, this is the industry. 我忍! Was going crazy to the point that i was typing in chinese to my collegue on msn. Number of posters done so far: 18 and 3/4. Haha... Didnt manage to finish the 19th poster before leaving today. Anyway, Q will be back tml so we will have one more person to help out with the stuff. Yeah.
Blogging on phone seems to take really long. Its 9.51pm now and my train just left paya lebar. Shall stop blogging now so that i can start brainstorming for that project due on thurs. I sense a headache coming. OH NO(satoshiislove)! Rofl. Looking forward to my birthday present from alien sharon! Haha!

Wiiiiiiiiiiiii

Happy Birthday, sister pig!

I need to stop chewing on e ulcers in my mouth or the inside of my mouth will end up rotten.

On my way home. Today's work went well i guess. It's pay day afterall. :D i can clear my debts! Calculated a little and realised that i only have a little leisure money after minusing my debts, traveling for may and lunch for may. D: however, the money i earned for working 1 and a half week is so much higher what earned in a month during internship. Oh wells, internship is also known as cheap labour anyway.
A guy came in to our office to give us a talk on depression. He kept commenting the whole office look damn young. Like 16 or 17 years old. I have to agree with him with the look young part. They all look young! Haha... The guy kept asking us if we are depressed as we refuses to answer his questions. He brought up a whole lot of local suicide cases. So much that my colleague from philippines asked me if singapore suicide rate is high. Oh well. Circle line trains are too cold!

Im watching you.

Always...

Day out with tofu-chan. On the train now to bedok to find shoes. Finally figured how to blog with my phone. Haha...
A little update on my life. I have found a permanent job. A little earlier than i thought. My colleagues friendly people. The whole office gives a nice homely feeling. So homely that we wear bedroom slippers in e office. Haha... Though i have not been getting enough sleep ever since i started working, im enjoying my job so thats ok. Can't wait to get my pay though. XD

Mos rotting session. D:

I have the cutest nephew ever. :D ♥

I'm lost.
Should I apply for uni, or just go get a job?
Local uni or overseas uni?
Design course or some other courses?
What job?
A design firm?
Specialist in packaging?
Back at CHIC?

Never felt so lost before.

I hate it when life has reached this point.

Up up up!
Displays are mainly all up.
Except some knick knacks that I'm adding 7hours later.

Went to school yesterday with a bad feeling (thanks to sister's ipod touch's The Sims app).
And I was right.
The dimension of the panel got changed.
And I had to reprint.
Somehow my gut feelings told me to bring my thumbdrive.
But sadly, I couldn't find my files in it.
Rang up my heroine, Miss Xiu Yu and pleaded her to email me the files.
However, somewhere in the process of attaching the attachment, I found my working files in the recycle bin folder of the thumbdrive.
Edited, printed, mounted (THANK YOU RAYSON! <- he is the hero of the illus rm. LOL)
Then I realised my border's dimension was wrong.
Chose to ignore after consulting a few schoolmates.
Ended up helping Chee An with her Tiger babes for the rest of the day till 10pm.

p.s. James is awesome. He went about and helped Chee An to find the working file CD from don't know who. [insert glitters and sparkles here]

Well, it was expected to see market spoilers in the design show.
Or should I say, I'm just less creative and awesome than them?
Sometimes I think that maybe I should start thinking this way rather than calling almost everyone market spoilers.
HAHA.
Just kind of sad I got the bad lighting spot for the display.
Blame myself for not 'choping' a spot earlier.
Oh well.
At least I did informed Taipang about the bad lighting.
It's so dark that the front of my L size shophouse could hardly be seen.
Had to keep moving my mockups around to get a much positive lighting.
Chee An and I were discussing that they should give us a spotlight each as the venue is really dim.
The big portfolio's stand is really shaky.
Push and it will fall. XD

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Sometimes I think I annoy people.
Maybe I should stop talking again.
At least my throat will feel better.
But when I don't talk, people starts asking what am I angry about or what am I sad about.

O.O

Me and my life.

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It kind of amuses me how everytime I refresh this page (VSC Graduates Portfolio), there will be people missing or appearing.
Anyway, my photo was supposed to be at somewhere in the middle of a 4th row but now I'm somewhere in the middle of the 3rd row. XD

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School sent an invitation to Mrs Tang.
ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

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It's 4.13AM now.
I have to wake up at 7.30AM.
3 hours and 15 mins of sleep.

GG.

I have a new love! (again!)


Kuroshitsuji ♥

Awesome storyline and gorgeous artwork with gorgeous characters in gorgeous clothes.


It's dark, full of suspense, has hints of comedy in it, lots of weird characters and in Victorian era. ♥


I'm done with the anime (cried at the last episode) and have read the manga to the latest chapter (oh, cliffhanger!)


I was first interested in this anime during my last Japan trip in June, when I saw it playing on the TV in Animate@Akihabara.
But I seems to forgotten completely about it till recently.

Tanaka! ♥

I shall end this post with a gorgeous Sebastian. XD

Just loaded the film into my dad's old SLR.

Shall bring it out to shoot tml evening!

Oh ya,
Yu Aoi is 'appearing' in Nodame Cantabile the movie part 2.
She is dubbing for on of the ang moh character. XD

AND!!

TRICK is going to have a spinoff series next month (focusing on the detective), a new movie in May and also a new 2hrs special someday! XD

AND!

Sato Takeru is in the movie!

I'm seriously going to miss 嵐の宿題くん.

No more Aibaland, no more silly experiments, no more Odoroki no Arashi!, no more Ogura-san, no more pajamas episodes, no more No Money SP, no more red couches, no more silly yet yummy looking food, no more Sho cooking, no more Ohno vs Sho vs Guest drawing, no more producer abuse, no more Aiba abusing, no more big box, no more Matsujun and Ohno hiding behind the box, no more guest abusing, no more flower booth, no more comedians abuse, no more cuddling on couch, no more Sho and his stiff body, no more Ohno failing to intro food, no more fail!Sho-right-after-News Zero, no more pinkness, no more...

I have no idea why do NTV wants to end AnS. It has been running for 4 years and the crews are from C no Arashi. It is every Arashi fans' favourite variety show among the 3 they are hosting now.

8 years of awesomeness is ending next Monday.

I do not know if I will enjoy their new prime time NTV variety show, Arashi ni Shiyagare. But AnS will definitely be my favourite Arashi variety show.

RETURN ME MY 嵐の宿題くん!!!

I WILL MISS OGURA-SAN!!!! T.T

BAM!

And more stuff just keep coming in.

Grr...

I was telling mum.

I have yet to finish this item, I've got an email to tell me to do another and it just keeps going on...

And on...

And on...

asdknsioigaievieng

Please reply me, STB and Ferdi.

*decomposes*

FYP was supposed to be over.

Oh, it's really over.

Submission done.

Presentation done.

Taking down of display done.

Post FYP was supposed to be relaxing.

I was supposed to be Facebook gaming the whole day.

I was supposed to catch up with my dramas.

I was supposed to be downloading Toma's videos.

I was supposed to be weaving beads.

But,

somehow, it felt like post FYP is so much more hectic than FYP itself.

A list of things to be done within a week or less.

Online folio to upload, images to prepare, spreads to layout, namecards to be printed, cloths to be bought, more spreads to layout, spreads to be printed, mock set up to be done, discussions to be held, reports to do... blah blah blah.

But still,

I'm happy.

I feel lucky to be busy. :D

Anyway,

I'm constantly checking my email.

Every 30mins, I guess.

Please reply me soon, STB.

I have to submit it by 8 March!

Please please please. D:

And, Clara Loh,

please blog in English or Mandarin so I do not have to rely on Babelfish to understand what the hell you are blogging.

:D

Today, I was shocked to realise that Yu Aoi is already 24, when she actually looks like 16.

D:

FYP is over (pretty much, I think? still unsure about the external presentation part).
Presentation was today (no, yesterday).
Though it got delayed for a whole 2hours, it went pretty well.
Better than I thought.
I'm definitely a happy girl.
Went for a mini celebration (dinner) with sis.
And I'm having another celebration with the whole family tomorrow (no, later today) at Manpuku.
Bravo, $6.50 deal!

<<< Rewind

Went for Napfa on 23rd.
Well, we all flunked it.
ROFL.
We all had terribly sore body for the next day.
Felt a whole 10 years older.
Never underestimate Napfa.

Forward >>>

Recently, I'm really addicted to Photoshop.
Have been photoshopping photos.
Trying to get nice effects.


Ciao.

收工餐

They are here! ♥


I will spend Valentine with this photo. :'D

I remember watching this CM during my last Japan trip.
Very catchy song.

我不想聼 “加油！”
我只想聼 “你需要我幫你嗎？”

I'm broke!

I will start working on my mock-ups later today.
Really.

This is just plain weird.

Since the day i submitted my FYP report, there have been not much progress in my project.
Total fail.
That Fri was shopping day 1.
Went IKEA with clara right after the submission.
Had a super heavy lunch or meatballs, chicken wings and fish & chips in chives sauce.
Shopped and bought 3 plushies for Tian You (though I considering keeping the carrot one for myself. HA.) and 2 metal racks for my FYP.
I'm broke. D=
Bought paper from Urban Write before tabao-ing bubble tea home.
Went for dinner at aunt's house.
Was supposed to go shopping with sis but I ended up visiting IKEA during lunch, so we ended up shopping after dinner.
Got my disposable camera's film to develop, shopped at Century Square.
Bought new undergarments, shorts and skirt.
Still deciding whether to buy a pair of flats from Mondo.

The very next day was shopping day 2.
Pretty extreme too. XD
The whole family drove down to IKEA for hotdog lunch (bravo, $7 family set)
Was there as one of the racks i bought on Fri was faulty.
I got a cash refund from IKEA.
So we went in for me to buy a new rack.
Ended up, mum bought CNY PLANTS x 4 and a kitchen rack.
And, I bought a new rack and a kids easel and paper for the easel.
Was targeting that kids easel since the day I saw it at IKEA.
As for why didn't I get it during my past IKEA trips:
1. Most of my trips to IKEA were by the shuttle bus. How to bring back?
2. Mum will bury me alive for bring such useless and huge stuff home.
3. No money. XDDDD
So, that day when mum was choosing her CNY plants, sis and I were waiting at the side with the trolley.
This easel was right next to us.
I was bored so I told my sis,
"If I can lift this up and place it into the trolley, we are buying it."
And so, it went in successfully.
But point #2 above worried me.
So I said,
"If mum can lift this off the trolley and put it back into the display boxes, we are not getting it."
In the end, dad and mum did not say anything about us getting it. =D
Grabbed a roll if the paper and TAH DAH~
MY EASEL FOR DOODLING!



It's black board at a side and white board on another. The paper drapes over the black board side.


The roll of paper hidden inside.


Was supposed to find my IKEA set of markers (won from some sec school contest) but ended up finding my set of Miffy crayons (won from some school contest agian).
Miffy!

Went Tampines Mall straight after the IKEA trip.
Sister was interested in getting a pair of sandals.
Went Tampines 1.
Uniqlo-ed.
I seriously think dad hates our every trip to Uniqlo.
It will ALWAYS end up to be a big bag of stuff home.
SO, mum, sis and I bought black turtlenecks (LETS HAVE A WINTER HOLIDAY), bought a long sleeve black v-neck for dad, sister bought a black tee, I bought a white tee and 2 black tees.
Hello big Uniqlo bag!
Hello long Uniqlo receipt (hundred plus).
Went Isetan next.
Failed to get anything so we went Cotton On.
Sis managed to get her plain tees.
By then, it was dinnertime.

Sunday was NOT shopping day.
Yeah.
Dad must be happy.
ROFL.
Was chionging my grandma's birthday present.
Her birthday dinner was on that very evening.


The presents (HK from my mum which she bought from Japan, beaded charm handmade by me) and card (POP UP card hand drawn and handmade by me). Spot the similarity in them. XD

And of cos, the feast that evening:


Highlights:

Crispy roasted pork.


Fried gyoza from Market Drive. YUM. We bought like 50 gyozas. XD


Sashimi. I was totally feasting on them.


Sushi. Only ate two from this plate as it was on the other end of the table. It's ok though. The sashimi was at my end. XD

Yesterday, I planned to do my project at aunt's house.
But as I had to wake up at 8+am, I was half awake the whole day.
Napped a little, get woken up by the baby's crying, napped a little again, baby cry again.
Brrr...
Tian You was sooooo noisy.
My achievement for the day was I managed to carry the baby and walk around the house.
The baby was not 'tied down' and was crying.
So to be exact, I was carrying a brawling baby who was moving like a boxer.
And I was VERY worried about dropping him.
As expected, Tian You calmed down after I cooed him.
He loves to be carried by people.
Attention seeker.
Bleh.
Also realised that he seems to have grown longer.
His mother was saying how he did not grow fatter but have grown longer/taller.
Awww...
He has long fingers and is going to be tall.
♥
XD
This is how he looks like when I 'forcefully' remove his 'silence device' from his mouth:


Anyway, went Tampines Mall after that.
HAHA.
Sister made up her mind and bought that pair of sandals.
Mum wanted to buy a pair of flats but they were hurting her just be wearing and they were out of bigger size.
CHARLES & KEITH FAIL.
Mum and I bought a belt too.
A belt.
We were 'fighting' to see the belt should belong to who.
Haha...

Ok, that's all.
I have blogged a long post to prove that I'm alive.

Tired.
Nights.

SCHOOL UPDATES
It is the final stage of FYP.
Final month.
2000 words report to be done.
Touching up to be done.
Display counter boxes to be done.
Plastics to be bought.
Papers to be bought.
Test printing to be done.
Actual printing to be done.

I want FYP to end asap.

I need freedom.

HAIR UPDATES
I went to get a haircut.
No surprise.
But the new hairstyle is kind of a pretty daring decision.
Did not get the result I want but thinks that it still looks pretty ok.
But the right side is really SHORT.

FAMILY UPDATES
My cousin-in-law gave birth to a baby boy on 7 Jan 2010.


My very first nephew.
1 week old now.
Very cute.
Very active.
Shits a lot.
Very noisy when he cries.

ENTERTAINMENT UPDATES
Addicted to The Mentalist recently.
So awesome.
♥

FRIENDS UPDATES
Jess gave up on Kame.
I'm still in a state of shock.
Really.
Like "WOW."

I love the works done by the illustration students.
Kind of made me feel a little demoralized.

MISC UPDATES
I gained weight. D: