hello again!

I AM BACK!

SO IS MY BLOG! haha

I finally got the time and this shall be a really long entry :)

It had been one hell-crazy semester in school! Stress like fuck! But I'm so glad I survived!! hahaha Almost got buried alive by the outrageous amount of school work. Lots of suay things happened towards the end.

The worst one was my toes being rolled over by a car! It happened when I just alighted from my dad's car and getting my stuff out. I haven't even closed the door and all of a sudden my dad drove! And the next moment the tyre was on my toes! I shouted for him to stop but anxiety got the better of him as the car continue to drive 4ward till the whole weight of the car with 3 people was on my toe! That was one of the most painful moment man, even past incidents like knocking through the balcony glass door, plucking wisdom tooth, etc can't be compared to this as I scream like a crazy man. Damn pai seh lar, but the unbearable pain caused me to react this way. Luckily a kind uncle came to help, and together with my dad they managed to lift the car up. I saw lots of students standing there watching, which makes me wonder did they just saw it or they saw it long ago but just stood and watch? It would be quite sad if it was the latter, what has the world become? :( At that moment I really thought my toes crashed and sure got blood and all. It was quite traumatizing. But I was lucky, the toe just looked really swollen. I was rushed to the hospital after that 4 xray and sat on a wheelchair for the very 1st time. So drama, haha immediately I feel I was teleported to the Philippines as I was greeted by the nurses. Fortunately for my strong little toe, it got away with no fractures and just swellings. Dad had been really nice to me after the incident, lol, buying me macs breakfast and promising iphone4. :p And one other thing that I realize, all these suay things happened whenever I da bao food for people! Well, the chinese saying 好人难当 is so true! haha

I watched the best movie of the year, Disney's Rapunzel! The visuals were stunning and first time in a 3d disney animation, the characters appear so beautiful! Really love the soundtrack too, glad to hear Mandy Moore once again! And at the part whereby Rapunzel finally see the lights, and her song played, it was the most touching of all and makes me wanna cry.

The end of sem show just ended and I'm glad some of my works got displayed. It was a pity I didn't get to see the show, I thought they would leave the works there for a few days but no, it got removed just after a day. And to our horror, they were treated like rubbish, all dumped into the viscomm studio messed up. There's totally shows no respect and regard for all the hard work we've put in by dumping our works around. My GD momento even got destroyed in the process and I can't find my haiku. Hopefully it's safe and I'm quite disappointed with the school.

I grew to like typography as the assignments got more interesting and I must say @ the end it certainly got more interesting than graphic design although the workload is hell. Here are some of the works I'm really proud of. :)

Grey, first major type assignment.

Photo collage assignment about joo chiat road, fun! :)

Haiku, final project. I really like the haiku I've chosen. It kinda reflects how I feel about the new day now.

Morning or mourning,

the day that dawns bring new grief.

First light, then shadow.

Process book + letter journal - to document the whole sem's work

This almost killed me as I chose to document my work into a comic book. It had always been my dream to draw a comic book, although this is a somewhat simplified version as i didn't really draw much and used alot of repetitive images in order to make up for the lack of time, still it really feels great and accomplished! Oh and it costs me a bomb too. I realise i'm really not accustomed to using the wacom tablet, needa spend some more time figuring it out. The size i bought too small le, regrets. :[

Next up, the Graphic Design works.

This sem I feel I didn't really do that well here as I spent most of my time in type 1. Hmm hopefully next time will do better :)

Momentos brochure and momento- final project

Here is my graphic design momento, about me as a designer. One of my more experimental works as I tried out different materials. Too bad it got destroyed. :(

Advanced drawing works:

I could have done better here. Hope that I can learn more in the upcoming figurative painting class :)

Stop Motion works:

Say hello to Mr Chillee! Somehow this sem I'm kinda angsty and I keep getting the idea of incorporating chillies into my works, which I did here and in graphic design. haha this is my first stop motion puppet made using foam, cute right? It was initially a fierce and scary looking monster. After I gave him cute specs, organic slippers and leafy brows, he got more friendly :D

Finally my stop mo final project, a group work.

Kinda quarreled with my team members for this, which made me quite reluctant to do group work next time. Pair work is the best, I really had lotsa fun teaming up with qi to do the helvetica presentation. Randomness rocks! Here is the uncut version of the video we made.

I am so glad all this madness is temporarily over as a short holiday awaits. But for now I'm still staring at this holiday, clueless of what to do. Suddenly, there isn't anything to look forward to anymore. I still can't wait to get out of this country to go for exchange, but I've to go through another hellish semester first. :( Hmm, I'm kinda filled with negativity nowadays, always thinking of the pessimistic. Will Mr Santa Claus please bring me some joy this x'mas? :o