Not just another Sunday

A little recap on my busy 5 months: my third time going to Waikiki organised by the school sports committee and I'll have to say that it was one of the busiest and best time I've had for a long time! Also one of the best time we get to see everyone who has been working out (or not) for this beach event. 

these 2 pretty ladies are going for exchange for the later part of the year I'm probably more alone than ever.... (i think i should wear a cap more often but many diagree.... hmmmmm)

made one of the sweetest card for the lady at her birthday surprise with a melted cake and a lovely card.

Memorable beach times. And in the later part with pies and coffee and great music.

Really enjoyed the music from this amazingly talented acoustic group: Sam willows. You gotta check them out, they even had a tour in america so they are really doing singaporeans proud. 

Got myself 2 CDs and one for a friend. 

More updates soon as I try to work my way out to create more stuffs. So much to say, but there way more to do than I can imagine. More updates soon! 

Leave a comment on what to blog more cause I have too many ideas already! :D

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Christmas Album!

Finally I was free to actually do some designing for my class next month! do check it out at Plaza sing! We are gonna have a fun time weaving the book together! :D

Here's some of the sneak peeks! Gonna look for photos to add them in pretty soon!

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Wonder.

I enjoyed this video thoroughly by Kelli Anderson whom i think is a really inspiring graphic designer who is someone who is able to take a different perspective in life and head on to do change the way we think of the world. She is able to change the way paper is able to change its quickly, such as the christmas card that puts on the literal photo of receiving the card and makes people think how you open another christmas card. The routine and continual repetitive actions that we do continue to carry less meaning and have to constantly search for something fresh in order to gain our interest and new means to bring colour to our life. What was most inspiring part of her video is the use of paper to make music. Not a usual thing for many to work on and paper do not carry the purpose of just for writing or the various conventional purposes. It can be used to make Music. Lastly, the constant news of war, terror, bad economy and other negative news always creeps up on our lives as we continue to be unhappy of the world around us and the growing polarized country that we live in. We continue to be cynical and put every positivity with skepticism, also adding on our "connected" lives with the pursuit of technology. I would love to receive news one day that are everything that make everyone happy.

It's said to be impossible, but she did it. amazing.

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new upgrades to paige a.k.a my camera!

Went to Funan I.T mall to look at some stuffs for my camera and a new computer headphones (equipped with a mircophone!) I eventually bought 2 new stuffs: A new polarising filter and a camera romote control which would defintely improve my photo taking skills. You can see how helpful the filter is on helping to reduce the reflected light or increase the intensity of the blues! (these 4 photos aren't edited.)

Who knew remote control can be so fun?

1. I was trying on the camera remote control when my brother walks past.

2. I demostrate the use of it.

3. he looks at the little plastic thingy while i told him that it can let you shoot as far as 5 metres.

4. he starts trying on it.

5. he attempts to shoot at a higher angle

6. he proving that the statement for the product is true.

7,8,9. He sees how far can he go using the remote.

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Jump-start my life.

After 14 days from the end of a levels was what it took for me to start scrapbooking! And during these 14 days was endless outings, get together, shopping and slacking! But eventually, i am able to start to put things into place. Still, i am not able to free up time to do more stuffs i want to do after 2 years of suffering. Its good to start nice, like this scrapbook layout. Thanks amel for the help!

4e1 clique gathering was totally fun, loads of catch up to do with what we're doing right now and things about the future. I join them the same day as my wisdom teeth exraction surgery, the pain hard to take, but it still it was worth it to meet up with old friends.

Amelene took this photo i think, great job!

Thanks for being so fun guys... catch up again on this saturday's class reunion BBQ! you can see the photos here.

A meet up at settler's cafe was fun fun fun! we played 4 or 5 board games and enjoyed great times that afternoon! We took some photos to remember them too!

A trip back again to singapore's renowned HSBC treetop walk! The view is still as spectacular and beautiful in all direction! it still takes my breath away to be on the bridge look out! we need to explore more parts of macrichite reservoir! But, of course loads and loads of shots were taken from my favourite camera!

This holiday would be more busy but nevertheless, exciting and learn more things! There is loads more things to come! My life is getting a JUMPSTART!

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hannah's celebration.

Loads of fun things happened during hannah's birthday including a really tone deaf singer and card games. We even had a really later supper together. And one thing i have learnt when giving girls stuff: always have a reciept attached to it, so they can exchange it. :)

click the blog title or here to see the rest of it.

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Outing!!!

The most successful outing we ever had!!! We went to the national museum of singapore to view the greek masterpieces and they look really good (in terms of condition) after soooooooooo many years! Its been an interesting time there look at the pieces and the story behind each and every individual masterpieces.
But the sad thing is, my camera is working real bad and despite long hours of charging, it still went dead in less than an hours. Worse, the museum lights are in purple ( i think its on purpose) such that its really hard for us to take any pictures unless we're taking only the pieces.
Here's one interesting photo of william looking into the pot, I got billy to do the same for another piece but he didn't look real enough. but sadly, this photo is too blur!!! I need a new camera!
Here's one of the student docents speaking to us about one of the pieces... but he's really soft, so i started to take some picture of classmates listening intenly....
This two could make it as one of the pieces!!! Eleanor is just so creative and photogenic in which to take many pictures with weird poses! LOL. keep giving loads of funny ideas!

After all that, we went to the fish & Co. glass house (i think that's what's called) to gather together for debroah's farewell party. (i would call it early retirement..lol) We have a super good time and the food taste really really good!!! There was atmosphere and music all together, forgeting that there were lessons and homework the very next day. To save the photos, click on the slideshow below or this blog post's title.

Edited: i added some photos from eleanor tay.

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Everyday Special.

Went to Ikea weeks ago. Having my favorite supper....!~ Totally enjoyed myself... walking alone at my own pace, looking at every little furniture or product Ikea has....
Here's one message from ikea I like. That's what life artist is about... Mad about the everyday stuffs!




One other special everyday, working on chemical experiments.... look closely... you'll see that the ash has a hint of GREEN.
This isn't something special but a gadget I use almost everyday and something bad bad bad is happening to it. Somehow the lens is not aligned, causing very huge problems in Zooming in or out and it can't retract its lens.... This can hold for the moment if I don't touch the zoom function but, I guess its gonna spoil soon. I thought fixing the memory card would have ended problems... but i was wrong. how am I gonna live without my trusty camera?

This of course, is VERY SPECIAL. Enjoying my favourite fruit...

....its the everyday.

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christmas cards!

okay... something funny that amelene made while studying! i was really laughing like crazy!!! never laughed so hard since yi wei made jokes! LOL!

A really late time posting this, but it's always never too late to send a card! here's one of my favorite cards! here's one to amelene.

This special card has the quote on the outside.

"around this time of year, thoughts of people I've laughed with makes me smile all over again."

here's one I've just made for gersh! pretty cool card with GOLD inking which is my newest stamp pad collection! NICE!
and I used a template from the meiji's meltykiss which comes with 3 different flavours...milk, green tea and some dunno what. LOl. Maybe stopping scrapping and starting on studies. but after sharmaine's chalet! :)

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My life is like a BORING movie.

On tuesday, we had our second class BBQ! YEAH! Got really tired after the cycle and walking up and down from my house to the pit. The food was really great (good job shar and amelene! Nice beef and fish. And thanks mum!) but sadly there isn't enough food due to some of the hungry uninvited guest.

The bbq pit was set up quite late as they had forgotten to buy the bbq net!!! But they set up the pit really quickly! Thanks to the BB boys for your hard work!
so we managed to have some really good food! and the eating and talking was great! Had a good time talking (criticizing) about leng heng fats! LOL! a usual habit of mine while in secondary school!!
They girls were talking about the pasts and gossiping i suppose . :) Loads to talk and laugh about with them. But amelene didn't serve me chicken wing and food! U owe me! :(
Good times. They have change alot since last year. But i realised nothing changed about me. I am one boring person in a boring movie. Nothing interesting about. Pin It

Perspective.

Okay. Amelene! I'm not lazy... I blogged again okay! Lol.

Thursday morning was great, woke up on time. Thanks to my efficient alarm clock(amelene)! Lol.

We cycled to Macritche reservoir park to have some breadfast. But sadly, we have no toast to go along with our eggs. Ben took one that was cooked perfectly and me and amel had eggs that are like almost RAW! arrgghh! not trusting ben with the time again! (we had a little stomache 'egg' later. LOL.)
Later on, we took soem photos up at a top hill. with amazing views and sight and we linger there for quite a while. And then we start our clicking our cameras.

me and amel tried on different.....

per·spec·tive /pərˈspɛktɪv/

1. a picture employing this technique, esp. one in which it is prominent: an architect's perspective of a house.

2. of or pertaining to the art of perspective, or represented according to its laws

3. the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship: You have to live here a few years to see local conditions in perspective.

(amelene's photo)
(photo taken by me)

the difference in one's view from the distance makes this photo different from the other.


one is to look at both the photo and the scenery and the other is to focus on the person looking at it.


But I would be glad to say that amelene's photography skills are really good! haha... this shows that the camera or the pixels it haa does not matter, its the person perspective of the object. and this comes with... practise. hear that, Jeff!





Here's another one we took at the bridge by ghafar. I tried by using self timer and then running there (it was quite far) but it didn't work! so we need some help.
the we went to lower pirece reservoir to take some pictures and we sat in the sun for sometime. (which I later become ruldoph the red nose) The view was great. we went ahead to upper pirece despite amelene's constant protest! LOL. And that was be the last time i cycled to so many places at once! ahhhhh!

After lingering there for a while, when gwee and amel where complaining abt my forgetfulness and leaving my camera at the edge. (yes. i admit it.) I took the camera but I missed it and saw it rolling to the water.

I was doomed! The camera was soaked! We had to dry it with our clothes! It didn't work, the screen went pinkish and the viewfinder went blueish! Its a nightmare! I left it in my bag and off we went to upper priece. The slopes made me too tired to even think of the camera.

Here's one we took at upper pirece... regretful that my camera wasn't working at that time. And great news, my camera is alive and well. everything functional!



I was left to use my camera and surpisingly... the photos are really clear and good! And my phone camera is 3.2 megapixel... same as my good old camera. SEE!!! camera doesn't matter...its the person taking it, jeff!!!



regretfully, we didn't take more as i thought the photo wouldn't go well with my phone camera. I was wrong. Now, no doubt about the powers of my nokia 6500 silde!



Here's one amelene took of me climbing trees, it wasn't easy climb them as they were dry and shredding their bark. Miss doing that when we families use to play rounders there!
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nature.

Walking in the all-green environment is great, fresh air and some occasional animal noises, enjoying the beautiful sights.

Amelene wanted to have some outing and i decided to have the bikes locked up for this trip, so we went on foot to the HSBC treetop walk. it was totally cool as it was after the rain, which makes the journey a whole lot easier.

What's more, she didn't complain unlike others (shall not mention who) during the long 11 km walk. I think its totally worth the walk. And thank god there is a restroom in the park when you need it! LOL!
You could see that she isn't afraid of heights! during the whole trip i was behind her and took most of the pictures at that angle.
I pass her the camera, and she took some of me! Not particualry used to being in front of the camera....
here's a really cool shot... the river reflection of both of us....! and the river water is totally clear and even have small fishes!
another one of my favourite shot.... leaving the camera at the floor of the bridge... how dangerous....
after all that, we enjoyed at NEW YORK NEW YORK, loved the root beer! Cheers to you all! Click the title of this blog post or here if you would like to view all the photos (quite a lot of it..)







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