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2009-07-01T09:28:00.000-07:00

the dream ended when the plane landed.

all the time =)

2009-06-30T09:16:00.000-07:00

all the time, God is good!
God is good... ALL THE TIME! =)

thoughts in the study

2009-06-29T20:24:00.000-07:00

do you grumble without realising how much others sacrifice for you?

2009-06-29T01:33:00.000-07:00

day FIVE of staying in the study
and i'm getting pimples from wearing the mask xDDD why liddat.

needless to say. be careful talking behind the mask after durian =X

milkshake

2009-06-28T08:34:00.000-07:00

not too sure what to talk about ;D so i'll just blabber. i guess that's something like doodling? :D if i slide into incoherence do forgive me, it's something i'm working on xD

mm let's see. i've done a number of things on the list i drew up! :D:D

1) watched Iljimae - each episode was heart wrenching!! but it happened for 20 odd episodes xD so after a bit kinda makes you wish for more happy bits. still, the story was goooood, but the actors/and actresses were the ones who held the whole show together =) each played a most important role, somehow each fit their role so superbly well that you wouldn't ever think of replacing them :D:D it'd be different if you did.
2) work as a waitress - imma barista now!! :DDDDD i'd love to master the hot drinks. really shows your skill, as they say =) esp the making of foam. they steam either skim/fresh milk to get the foam!
3) create pieces of clothing - well one apron xD more coming sooooon. also helping as costume designer for rag so EHEHE :D
4) WATCHED COFFEE PRINCE!!!! my all time favourite korean drama :D really. it's the best. and the plot is so refreshing. AND kudos to the actors/actresses again!!! really =)

oh no. i've only completed four?

still have to:
1) visit muji!
2) visit ikea!
3) bake xDDD
4) readreadread
5) meet up with rsp colleagues =)
6) buddy date D: you mean i've not done this
7) EXERCISE =X and i've got a 10k run coming up
8) GET UP CLOST AND PERSONAL WITH BED!!!! hahaha i've not met my bed in the last month!!! = three camps back to back and now i'm quarantined in the study. BEDDDDD. at least i've got teddy with me :D
9) climb mt kinabalu! postponed to next year when the guys can make it xD
10) visit eve in msia! xD

4/10. hmm not TOO bad.. i think, but haha definitely needs an improvement =)

camps have been great, didn't particularly enjoy the seminar, but churchcamp was.. really an experience. and sde foc was yet another.

Because of the last we're all under quarantine till wed 6pm. though.. not many are taking it seriously, even while our camp is one of the latest worse-r potential clusters. to date 5 have been tested positive for H1N1. I'm not too sure how this virus works though.. it's pretty much a new strain of flu, but it's more infectious and because it's new no one has immunity to it yet. mm.

i kinda miss archi =) and feeling materials. i miss the quirky teachers and the funky friends and the 3am suppers and the fighting for the stretcher bed. THOUGH i'm going to try not to stay over so often this coming sem xD AND not going to get so distracted. hohumm. manymany distractions in sem 2.

and i kinda miss you.

mmmmm.
(:

there was one last thing on my to do list, the most important of all, spending time seeking Him and just being in His presence. i know i've not done this enough. i'll stop here for now. i am going to do something about it. :)

2009-04-10T01:59:00.000-07:00

yesterday was a miracle.
truly if God had not seen me through - i'd have, as bel puts it, died several times over.

so schedule for the day - final critique, and maundy thursday service at night

first i fell asleep without having set my alarm-
and woke up just in time to cab to school.

i hadn't prepared for my presentation, and was in the morning group-
but they dragged so much i was fourth after lunch.

the work i'd submitted was hardly presentation standard, my pin up was MESSY, and i was so nervous i was stuttering, blanked out, was incoherent-
but the concept was strong enough to see it though, (fong smiled! xD), and my studio mates could understand, liked it and thought it was good.

usually a crit with fong in it would drag-
but he'd to leave at 6.30pm that day.

he left at 7.20 though, and after packing up i left at 7.40, and service was at 8-
but the bus came a coupla minutes after i reached the busstop (TWO 189s at that), sarah siew helped me with the many things i was carrying, and tessa, budd and i dashed into our allocated seats on stage with less than 5 minutes to the start of service!

somehow two of my scores weren't in my book -
but tessa noticed and tried to share her scores, and i could remember half the lyrics.

all in all - crit went well, and people were touched during the service =) praise God, truly.

i've dedicated a page in my book to fong- it's labelled Fong Quotes.
so i'll share some.

The life of an architect is a one of constant dissatisfaction, but of constant hope.

(about failing, and hoping the next piece of work will be better. this is also why, he says, architects live such long lives, because we're always living for the next opportunity to do it better)

Most of life is about taking the right meanders.

(in relation to the meandering path on the site we were given being redundant)

I'm a hard person, hard on myself, and therefore also, unfortunately, a little hard on others.

he's amazing.

i still remember the days in cambodia.

tag responses!

marcus: haha yes i hope i'll do all that, though i very much think i will xD nothing too ambitious, save for maybe kinabalu. waitressing - i've always wanted to try smth in the service industry =) and you really get to meet many different kinds of people, talk to them.

alaris: i've watched the front of iljimae! was pretty alright i thought, really enjoyed every bit of it =)

david: YO COUSIN. ;D

shelby: melts. xD read your fb reply, yea the song echoed a bit of what i'd been feeling. =)

2009-03-27T13:03:00.001-07:00

xD not supposed to be thinking about this now - but it's always somehow during times like these lists of what i'd like to do during the hols come up.

in no particular order:

watch Iljimae
VISIT MUJI!!!
visit ikea ;D
work as a waitress
bake
create pieces of clothing, and paint them afterward
craft - would like to work with wood, this time
READREADREAD :D
watch coffee prince
meet up with my friends, mentors, rsp excollegues =D
buddy date
exercise.
GET UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH BED.
climb mount kinabalu
visit eve in malaysia!

spend muchmuch time in His presence.

as an aside xD when i'm settled- a nod to salsa ;D

2009-03-24T07:34:00.000-07:00

favour boxes from Telegram

below: adorable items from Shophouse

2009-03-21T07:40:00.000-07:00

these days i've had a little more time to myself and it's just REALLY WEIRD.
it's as though my exsistence is defined by the business of school.
going home at any time before nine is an anomaly - for the past coupla weeks it was nine or i'd be pulling an overnighter.

meals were all at the oddest hours, lunch at 5pm, supper at 3am- breakfasts were the only ones which kept to schedule, and merely because 8 was when macdonalds opened. that was when we actually ate proper meals. some days we survived on chocolates and donuts and music.

my bed was left lonely for 5 out of 7 days in a week - the new bed was tha' ole green stretcher in the corner of the studio. goodness knows how many people've slept in it. lets see... me, natha, xuenie, roy, sylvia, andrew, pq, dominic, anh, jasmine - that's 10 and still counting. sylvia was just saying we should have a log sheet to track who uses the stretcher. though i'd think the one sleeping there would be way to tired to bother, really xD

it's now the eye of the storm. after next week the storm'll brew up into a big one.

as an aside, boys are really not morning people. as tristan puts it: 1 is the new 12. and 2 is the new 1. i was the only one present at 12 today for our meeting - the other four boys were absent! xD one doesn't get up till about 2 or 3 because he sleeps at 6am, another's day starts at 11 or 10 at best, yet another sleeps at all hours - the previous day we were doing work he woke up at 530. and the last was having lunch with his girlfriend. xD things i have to get used to i guess. but they're an awesome bunch =)

finally we'd our acapella gathering :D

how on earth can you tell if someone's gay/les?! apparently boys can.

i don't know me around you anymore.

2009-03-12T20:15:00.000-07:00

Does anybody hear her - Casting Crowns

She is running
A hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction
She is trying
But the canyon's ever widening
In the depths of her cold heart
So she sets out on another misadventure just to find
She's another two years older
And she's three more steps behind

Does anybody hear her?
Can anybody see?
Or does anybody even know she's going down today
Under the shadow of our steeple
With all the lost and lonely people
Searching for the hope that's tucked away in you and me
Does anybody hear her?
Can anybody see?

She is yearning
For shelter and affection
That she never found at home
She is searching
For a hero to ride in
To ride in and save the day
And in walks her prince charming
And he knows just what to say
Momentary lapse of reason
And she gives herself away

Does anybody hear her?
Can anybody see?
Or does anybody even know she's going down today
Under the shadow of our steeple
With all the lost and lonely people
Searching for the hope that's tucked away in you and me
Does anybody hear her?
Can anybody see?

If judgment looms under every steeple
If lofty glances from lofty people
Can't see past her scarlet letter
And we've never even met her

2009-02-17T09:55:00.000-08:00

anthony, jc, jaime and tessa
:D
what more can i say. xD
i can't stop thanking God for bringing us together.
did you realise we're all of different ages as well!! :D
amazing.

i doubt anyone slept on sunday night.
as usual xD
an average nus architecture student's week:
7 days a week
7 hours of sleep.

nah i'm kidding xD
but the amount of sleep we get varies VASTLY from day to day.
from something like 20 minutes to 12 hours.

but we love it ;D
i do, anyhow.

2009-02-12T17:37:00.000-08:00

my house didn't have a ruuf ;_;
but thanks BUDD! for your help =) i'd've probably been late if not for you.

these are my new favourite materials:
white glue -because it's STRONG :D and it becomes clear when it dries! for paper and cloth and especially grey cardboard. the only downside is that you can't stick glossy surfaces together = (
grey cardboard - because it's cheap xD well relatively cheaper anyhow. it's a very ruggedly beautiful texture to it. looks great under micro b/w camera shots :D and it's stiff, and it's got a volume to it which makes making right angle joints very satisfying.
penknife -haha but i've always liked this one :D gives you a gorgeously clean cut right down the centre of the paper/cardboard/thumb. it's dangerous though.
my set of drafting pencils - =)) this one's just an obsessive i've-a-set-of-drafting-pencils! to be able to open a thin steadtler tin box and choose from the set of TWELVE lovely blue pencils inside. and each being individual from the other. xD okay i'll stop scaring you guys.
UFO! - haha this one's more an equippment really. xD JBL speakers (UBL?) it's a small portable speaker dock for ipods =D (y'can connect others to it as well) but for sucha small gadget it sure delivers. and what better companion than music when you're working alone in the night xD
MY CUTTING MAT. - absolutely cannot do with this one. and it's got 1cm spaced gridlines on it, so i don't actually have to measure out my dimensions at all xD

okay more another time when i get new favourites. ;D

tomorrow's valentine's day :D happy vday to all the couples out there. i shall be ushering in the day with my fantastic acapella-partners-in-crime! it was really God's hand which brought us together and saw us through these weeks of practice :D <3!

k! model making time :D

2009-02-07T07:28:00.000-08:00

so we were in the studio at near six this morning, having spent the whole night up, and this song played on tristan's itunes.
____________________________

Saturday morning.

Saturday morning
And who's gonna play with me
Six in the morning baby
I got a long long day ahead of me

The parents are sleeping soundly
The neighbors are dead as wood
I'm getting up and coming over
We gotta rock the neighborhood
Nothing's ever gonna happen 'round here

If we don't make it happen
Sleep away the day if you want to
But i got something that i gotta do
It's saturday morning
And this ain't the place for me

I'm giving you warning baby
We got a whole big fat world to see
Nothing's ever gonna happen 'round here
If we don't make it happen
Sleep away the day if you want to

But i got something that i gotta do
It's saturday morning
And who's gonna play with me
Six in the morning baby
I got a long long day ahead of me
_______________________________

talk about apt. xD

2009-02-05T06:40:00.000-08:00

i miss pam already. = /

2009-01-28T03:43:00.000-08:00

torn.
betweet the two focs.

;_;

2008-11-28T09:28:00.001-08:00

hello there y'all!

so perhaps you're wondering why i've suddenly decided to get a blog after years of resisting. a little late coming on but - ever felt you reached a point where what others thought didn't really bother you no longer? mmhmm. xD but okay i don't have to explain this.

cny this year was different. reunions and dinners had almost become the annual ritual; a painful table affair, where the conversation topics would no doubt revolve about the children, where they were studying, where they are going in the coming year, ccas, school work, school life, etc etc (though i've come to realise it's one of the easier things to start a conversation with - now i wonder how the singles hold their own in a conversation with the marrieds) but no! =D haha really this year was awesome! praise God for the amazing time of fellowship and reunion in the truest sense of the word! =DD

samuel, sophia and stefan are really cool when you get to know them. brillant to say the least. xD

saturday night fever! i'd never've expected it from the boys!! but they were so game tha night. =D

and this is our coolest grandmother.

tradition is getting lost in this world though - but there's just so much more than being ahead in the pack. well this chinese new year don't kick up a fuss when you've to go visiting, respect your elders and talk to the little ones, you never know what the Lord has in store for you =)