Name : Juliana S.Y. Chan
Known as : North Swallow / Hoku Tsubameko. Currently renamed to NS Chan Studio
Occupation:
- Current: Architect
- Others: Freelance graphics designer and Illustrator
Societies:
- Alumni of NUS Students' Comics and Animation Society
- Artists Society of Singapore (ASOS)- Secretary
[Profile in ASOS can be view
here.]
Hobbies:
- Painting
- Drawing
[More Introduction can be viewed at my Official Website
here.]
: Achievements :
Year 2015
- Pencil Drawing “Young Memories” featured in American art magazine, “Strokes of Genius 8”. Oil Painting “Simple. Happiness” exhibited at “SG50 National Day Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition 2015”, organized by Ngee Ann Cultural Centre Ngee Ann Kongsi. Oil Painting “Sri Mariamman Temple in Chinatown, Singapore” selected for “Arising Star” FASS Artists Grand Art SG50 Exhibition, organized by the Federation of Art Societies (Singapore). Oil Paintings "Her Family" and "Still Life No.3 - Together with Joy" selected for "Blossom and Flourish" Singapore National Women's Art Exhibition 2015 (in conjunction with the celebration of SG50), organized by the Federation of Art Societies (Singapore).
Year 2014
- Pencil Drawing “Honesty of Time” featured in American art magazine, “Strokes of Genius 7”.
Year 2012
- Assistant Treasurer of Artists Society of Singapore. Works featured in art publication of Artists Society of Singapore.
Year 2010
- 2nd Prize Winner for Open Character Design Digital Category in Extravaganza - Graphite 2010 competition. Exhibition and Prize Ceremony held with Anime Festival Asia 2010 at Suntec Hall, 14 Nov.
Year 2009
- 2nd Prize Winner for Open Character Design Digital Category in Extravaganza - Graphite 2009 competition. Exhibition and Prize Ceremony held with Anime Festival Asia 09 at Suntec Hall, 21 Nov.
- Thesis project selected for City Exhibition (NUS Architecture Graduation Exhibition- "How does your garden grow?") held at Iluma Urban Entertainment Centre, 13 Jun.
Year 2008
- 2nd Prize Winner for Open Character Design Digital Category in Graphite 2008 competition. Exhibition and Prize Ceremony held with Anime Festival Asia 08 at Suntec Hall, 22 Nov.
- Exhibited individual installation for team exhibition “Site, Situation, Spectator” collaborated among Department of Architecture, University Scholar Programme and NUS Museum. Installation is exhibited in NUS Museum.
Year 2006
- Selected for Student’s Exchange Programme (SEP) to Lund, Sweden.
- Design Projects (Year 3 semester 1 and semester 2) selected for Department exhibition.
Year 2003-4
- Head of Manga Sub-Committee in NUS Students’ Comics and Animation Society.
- Pioneer as Head of 2004 “Graphite” Organising Committee to organise first TERTIARY manga drawing competition for 3 universities: NUS, NTU and SMU.
- Design Project (Year 1 semester 2) selected for Department exhibition.
Year 2001-2
- Assistant Secretary and Head of Publicity of Hwa Chong Junior College Chinese Orchestra (HCCO).
- Won gold medal in team competition (HCCO) in Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) 2001.
- Performed duet in HCCO concert at Victoria Concert Hall 2002.
- Awarded First in comic illustration for competition organised by HCJC’s Comics Club 2002.
Year 1997-2000
- Awarded Best in Art Elective Programme (AEP) subject in 1997, 1998 and 2000.
- GCE O’ Levels: 9 distinctions, includes Higher Art Distinction in AEP, 1997-2000.
- Selected by school NYGH and Ministry of Education to represent Singapore in 1999 to Atlanta, Georgia, USA for overseas summer programme in Atlanta College of Fine Arts.
- 3rd prize winner in Singapore Story – Youth Edition Art competition organised by National Youth Council in 1998.
- Merit Prize winner in Care-for-Nature Spot-Art competition at Sungei Buloh Nature Park in 1998.
Year 1996
- Awarded 2nd position for Lions International Peace Poster Contest in Southeast Asia.
: Career History :
Associate at DP Architects, 2014-Current
Architectural Executive at DP Architects, 2012-2014
Architectural Assistant at DP Architects, 2009-2012
Freelance Graphics Designer, 2008-2011
Internship at K2LD Architects, 2007-2008
- Completed interior project for renovation of apartment at Hillington Green, Singapore.
- Completed interior project for creation of wedding banquet showroom at G-Hotel, Penang.
Internship at DP Architects Pte Ltd, 2006
- Participated in A&A works for Saint Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore.
Internship at The Design Studio of Colin K. Okashimo and Associates, 2005
- Model-making
Freelance Graphics Designer, 2004 - Current
- T-shirt design for NUS Students’ Comics and Animation Society.
- 2 Website Interface designs for NUS Students’ Comics and Animation Society, working with programmer.
- Poster Design for Graphite 2005 Competition.
- Costume designs for University Scholar Programme Rag Day 2004.
- Banner and nametag design for 3rd Great Asian Streets Symposium held in NUS, Department of Architecture.
- Logo and T-shirt design for Hall XI, FOC 2004 “Ignixion”, in Nanyang Technological University.
Multimedia Artist (contract-based), and Graphics Designer (freelance) at AsknLearn.com Pte Ltd, 2003-2004
- Participated in website competition.
- Developed illustrations and digital graphics for website layout or interface design, character design, stories illustrations, logos and icons, brochures, product covers, banners, posters, and simple computer-based animations.
- Participated in computer animated e-Learning softwares for educational uses.
: Qualifications/Education :
- Registered Architect - Qualified Person (QP) from 2012 - current.
- University Scholar's Programme, NUS, Singapore, 2009.
- Master Degree in Architecture, NUS, Singapore, 2009.
- Bachelor (Honours) Degree in Architecture, NUS, Singapore, 2003-2007.
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Phantom of the Opera!!! (is here....inside the dark...)
woo~~ This afternoon I couldnt resist myself so end up watching naruto all the way until I almost forgot the time to leave home for Jurong Point to watch Phantom of the Opera with some of my JC frens.~~ haha
Quickly packed up and set off to JP, haha 1/2 hour late.... I met jo,xh and ed at Mos Burger and all of them waited for me to eat finish by chatting. Finally met up with sel at NTUC and went up to go into cinema. Yk was late, so he came in after 15-20 min of show i think....
The show abit like Moulin Rougue in the sense that they use monotonous scenes for present, and colour scenes for the past. But den it is still very nice, the voices damn shiok. After the show, we all gathered at part of the walkway in the shopping centre and tried to recall some tunes and lyrics... Ahaha, suddenly we all music craze liddat. That's how nice the show it is. And yes, I am urging to sing using my opera voice.... brings me back the young memories of me started my love for singing by singing eng opera stuff. It was many years later den I began to sing the 'normal' chinese pop songs. Now I even took up eng pop songs like evanescene's.
Six of us continued to chat in KFC.... me, bro and ah ba tokking abt Naruto and isolated the others.... haha but later it is only sel and xh, i quit from that topic. N yes... Ed has changed into a violent man..... muz be influenced by *erhem*.... Ard 11, we went home. Now me blogging while waiting for my sis to finish using the bathroom...urgh.... heyhey shall watch finish Naruto with what i have so tml I can conc on my work.... hehe
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
My 'First Times' in the past 2-3 days! COOKING!
wah i feel so ACCOMPLISHED!!!
I woke up very late on Sunday cos of the tiredness resulting from the Xmas party cum stayover. So it's time for lunch... suddenly mum asked me to cook an egg for myself. wah cool. Everyone in the house had to cook their own egg. ok.... exciting man. The pan was already hot, and mum poured some oil on it for me. I was horrified at that big pool of oil... Quickly i poured most of it elsewhere. Mum complained that later my egg would be burnt. Heck, I continued. The egg was cracked into the pan and I began to swirl the pan so as to spread out the egg white. I wanted it thin. After the spreading done, I covered the pan and waited for a while. I didn't put the pan properly on the fire, hence more of the oil flowed to one side. When i opened the cover, I found one side had crispy brownish edge but luckily not near any state of burnt, the other side fully white on the top and bottom. So all in all, it is delicious and near PERFECTION!!! Hurray! I succeeded! See! I almost tasted no oil! so healthy! The only thing that is flawed is that the egg yolk was more cooked than I wanted it to be. I wanted it to be fully liquid/near fully liquid inside. ( I'm fussy, am I?)
The next day, which is Monday... (ooo , juz passed). Today, I woke up late again... so immediately lunchtime, no breakfast. I was lazy to go down to the hawker centre to buy takeaway food. Been eating alot of those for the past few weeks. So I decided to eat noodles, but cup noodles used up, so i went for those in packets. Ok, I know this is very embarrassed to say but I never cooked packet noodles, only cup noodles. But then this cooking is easy lar. I boiled some water in the pot, throw the noodles, waited some time and TADA! Noodles were PERFECT! hehe, my 2nd first-time. so happy abt myself. At least now I did some of this cooking stuff in this hols which I was supposed to try last hols in June. Yea happy! So I rewarded myself by watching more animes until 9pm!!! heehee!
Saturday, December 25, 2004
Xmas Party in Ed's House!
Last evening, a number of the JC ppl went to Ed's house in Sembawang!! I met Venki on the mrt, ahaha both of us reached the latest. cos me wrote cards and wrap presents until 4pm. We walked along the MRT track and reached those classy high rise flats where eddie lives.
Ed's parents are really nice to us and keep feeding us with food and more food! Even supper too! For dinner, we had pizzas from pizzahut (got the special xmas one with a star in the center), ham, 4 legged log cake (which we cut terribly lousy.... cream was very nice!) and cocktails. We played mahjong, chit chat, gossip and ate at the same time. Slowly more ppl came in~ Yuwen, Yuankang and Weimin. After eating, we watched vcd... something like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... ok lar the only impressive thing is the beautiful aubmarine. At first I was dozing off....but woke up when the part got exciting. Finally presents exchange! But sel not there yet. My secret santa was Weikun, who gave me
FullMetal Alchemist artbook and original soundtrack. hehe and Jovie game me the nice nice metal
NAMECARD HOLDER!!! so FUN! so HAPPY! I distributed xmas cards too and most of them took out and read in front of me!! haha... Later sel came and i gave him the present. Me, jo and ah ba kept playing with the soft-toys: white gorilla (ed's bro's), mickey mouse (ed's) and winne the pooh (ed's). crappy and crazy night! After some time, ed brought out a second set of mahjong, so me, jo,ed and xh played. By den, a few ppl had left. later, the 4 of us (2nd set of mj players sat on the floor to chit chat. Finally ard 4 plus everyone of us concussed. None of us slept in ed's rooms as what the parents want us to... so ed brought 2 mattresses for us to zzzz, while he slept at the Massage Chair that incurred pain rather than relieving massages. I woke up at 8 plus, think i'm the first to bathe and wash up etc. The shower tap was so hard to use. Spent a minute to figure how it works... Slowly all of us awakened at 9:30... den some watched tv, some played cards, too lazy to eat breakfast. Ard 12 we went to Woodlands' burger King for lunch and watched Kungfu (movie) there. Very lame and exaggerated movie... funny too... the computer effects not bad~~ After that we headed home, all tired...... haha. Thanks to ed and his parents for taking care of us so well~ They are so sweet~
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世上的人可分为两种。有些人他们受到温暖阳光无微不至的照顾, 在幸福里长大,看到的都是纯真的光芒, 没沾上任何伤痕。而有些他们在长大的过程之中受到热晒雨淋,刮风大雨的待遇,被逼到黑暗的地带里生存、挣扎。 遍体鳞伤的,他们的眼里充满着悲伤、疲惫与无奈。但是只要他们不忘却这世上美好的事物,他们仍然可蹋出郊外,感受到世间的温暖,只是路较坎坷而已。若不忘记自我,再加上身边有那些纯真的爱护下,伤口可复原,而且变得更坚强,也不再迷惘,尽他们所能地用双手去创造美丽的世界来保护他们所爱惜的人,希望这些纯真的人永远快乐。他们有如代替受苦的人类。但他们却看到世界更多的地方。这一切更说明世上存在着一种规律:compensation theory。只要悲伤的人有想保护的人与生命,他们算是找到了幸福,并能黯然的微笑。的确,“过程是痛苦的,但后果是甘甜的”。
悲伤的人们与天真的人们互相看着对方,微了微笑,手牵着手,一起努力创造属于自己渴望的天地。
Friday, December 24, 2004
61 Outing: Mich's Belated Celebration~
Ok, I went to some places... walk til legs tired.... however, not as much as the other shopping, cos I planned out the route already and knew wat I wan to look for and wat I wanna buy.
I set off from home late, cos I hope to do more things for mum before I leave the house. Things like bringing clothes up to dry, boiling and pouring hot water into flasks, as well as seeing to the rice in the rice cooker etc.
I set off and reached Cityhall first. I went to Bodyshop, get something and saw this LONG queue for MNG sale... First time I see police officers regulating the flow of people in the shop for a sale. Like VIP shop liddat. Den I went to get my santa present. Yea......
Ok, next destination in Orchard to get Xmas cards... I went to Taka, alot of ppl..... den brieftly looked at the cards, dun like... so I went to Paragon etc.... In the end, went back to Taka and walked the link again...... finally saw a few very nice ones at a shelf, very bottom row.... aiya... no wonder....
After I paid, I went to look for Mich and Yock who were at Polo Ralph Lauren, where Mich is buying a polo shirt for her bf. We went to Yoshinoya to rest and chat.... I tot there's this nice Fruit Jelly for $1.20. Den when it came, it is those small jelly stuff... like for kids.... idiot....
Ard 5 plus 6pm, we went up to Breeks and more ppl came in. The food was nice, deserts not too bad, still NYDC has the best deserts ard. Then went everyone finished eating, we presented Mich's present and sang bdae song. Later we went to Lido's McCafe there. We sat at the circular table and seats to chat for quite sometime before we all headed home... wat a day....
Now need to write cards and wrap present for tomolo's Xmas party... haiz~~ no need sleep le. haha!
Monday, December 20, 2004
Sunday's Sunburnt and Injuries~ + Mon's Aching + Studio 1 outing = Happening sia
Woo sunday (yesterday) was so tiring, alot of things happen but rather happy.
Sunday at around 9am, I got onto bus 198 to head for NUS's courts to play basketball with my JC frens. I met ahba on the bus. We are the two early birds. I planned the others to come early to the bus stop to sign ed's card. Hence we told ed 9:30 instead of 9. However, wait and wait and no one else came. Weimin went into NUS instead and Mei was stuck on the roads, hence me and ahba went to the courts first. Ahba was pumping his bball when suddenly we spotted Ed coming from the other end!!!!! Darn!!! He's so clever!!! Y he knew we were inside already and where we were and found his own way here without sms-ing or calling us first!!!! why why why.... We were in the 'shock' state and there goes my plan... The rest still not here. So Ed and ah ba went to the toilet to change clothes, and this was when Weimin managed to reach the courts and he saw the 2 of them in toilet. He quickly came out first and came to the court and signed the card. Ok so far successful. Left mei liao.... Finally me and wm spotted mei coming! yea yea! den...behind her were ed and ahba.........ok............
Finally we all gathered, yk would come much later. While the guys were rolling the water away from the wet court, mei wrote the cards and I hid her. Suddenly ed popped in and we managed to bluff him by saying signing someone else's card. heehee.... Finally we began our game in the half court.... Long time no exercise so I am the first to feel super tired. Cant shoot well oso. After some time, Mei's bf came and he's good as expected haha. Later he was my 'coach', teaching me how to shoot. The rest oso started giving me alot of instructions.... haha so paiseh but so funny. I bet those other guys playing at the other courts would laugh at me and they see this funny scene. Xh's ball always kenna stuck at the net and the guys would always try to jump and slap it down. Sadly, I tried to jump and slap it too but I couldnt reach... I slapped it so hard that now my right arm and elbow are aching. Haha can u imagine when I kept shooting the ball to practice and the guys kept slapping to get the ball down. so funny!
Oh yes I must mention the
injuries we've got then. At first, ahba was trying to chase after the ball when it bounced off the court into the grass. However there's this muddy patch at the side, so xh slipped and fell. Gosh.. his right arm and elbow got scratched, pretty long ones too. Den his right knee had a 'hole' and blood kept oozing out from it... scary but as usual ah ba acted like nothing happened. Later a few times, my left fingers kenna bent outward while catching the ball. so my middle two fingers are hurting until now. Think a few days are needed for the pain to go off. The joints of my fingers are red now. Lucky not swollen. In the later part of the game, weimin was chasing and dribbling the ball when suddenly he got into an awkward pose and his right ankle kenna sprained abit.... so ed attended to him .... wm afterwards still ran abit here and there and we kept nagging at him for that. haha. And lastly, during the last break, the guys except wm went to vending machine and dispenser to get more water/drinks. Me and mei were resting at the side, abit behind and underneath the net. wm were shooting the ball and running by himself again... Suddenly when I was about to drink from my water bottle, i received a big whank on my head at the left. I could hear the ringing resonance of the vibration in my head, and my teeth sank into my lips. Blood..... salty.....3 holes and later got swollen.
Finally ard 12 plus, we ended the game and rest abit before we washed up and changed clothes. After that, we decided to go Holland V to haf our lunch. We got into this eatery place and yk immediately went toilet and sun bian wrote ed's card. Heehe. Mei recommended the horfun and I really agree that the stall's horfun is very very tasty! The chicken is damn good too! haha finally I've eaten some non processed food. My dish was Oyster sauce chicken Hor fun. Yes I made myself silly again: the board wrote "O. sauce chicken Hor fun", so I asked the rest what is O sauce..... How I know it means oyster sauce.....The owner so lazy, 'oyster' oso dun wan to spell whole thing.... use a captial O letter.... of cos i dunno lor.... :p
After that we went to Brecko (or is it Breko??), I didnt order anything.... cos lips pain and I'm full. The rest ordered things like drinks and finger food such as crumbled scallop and potato wedges. We chat and chat again.... Finally we decided many things. One of them is the plan for xmas eve outing and stayover. We decided it at ed's new house in Sembawang~ haha, going to play mahjong etc. Finally we presented Ed's card and present. We bluffed him it is a xmas tree (mini one). And he dunno whether to believe us ornot. Haha, finally he opened it and it is a Casino watch~~ bro spoiled our plans abit by smsing him to ask him if he liked the present even before we gave it to ed... haiya~~~~
At 3:45pm, we all headed home, me and ahba took 198 back. At that time, my headache got abit better. Ever since that bang on the head, I had this twitching and blobbing pain in it everytime i shook my head alittle.
I got home, quickly bathed and went out again for my Archi studio farewell dinner for this Korean exchange guy in our studio. Headache got worse whenever I climbed the bridge or staircase. Anyway, when I reached Orchard at 6:45pm, damn crowded and we waited for everyone else to come and headed to Pacific Plaza's The Gapz. However it was closed when we reached there. Finally we decided to go wheellock place. We ended up in Olio where I said the cheesecake damn good. Me and Huiye shared a pizza. We chat a while and Zhengmei came. Soon we got into the topic of
love and how it started between a guy and gal.... haha minghui said he wanna listen and learn... wooo.... Later Qirong came and after chatting abit, we went to a bar that Qirong recommended.... The aircon bar is more 'closed' than the one I went to with Ailing they all last time. So can u imagine when someone smoked, this whole bar would get really suffocating. Me and huiye almost cannot take it. The Korean guy is sweet and understanding so he helped us fanned the air and acted like as if he was fanning becos he's feeling warm. haha...
The topic of conversatoin was at first boring becos it is all abt architecture stuff and the thing that makes it boring not becos it is abt architecture itself but becos the contents inside was very new and I was blur and haf no comments. I can only listen. Qirong saw me and Huiye stoning there so he changed the topic by relating
Architecture with Gender. How male sees architecture differently from gals. And what is the difference between guy and gal etc.
Another thing is tt the menu there has very weird and kinki names for their drinks. Den got one name I dunno what it means so I asked around but they all juz laff and went shy or cover mouth etc... All dunno how to say and explain to me. Even Huiye knows... When I see these expressions, I think something is wrong and I shouldnt know what it means. I feel like a kid in front of them.....
Finally we talked until 11:45pm, no train le. The guys actually still wanna play pool.... but den later they cancelled that plan. Minghui sent me, huiye and the korean guy home. Haha so nice... So I slept in the car. When I woke up, we haf reached the west already. Ahh~~ whenever I sit in a car, I feel very
幸福 . Very comfortable mah~~ ^_^ I reached home at 12:25..... My whole body/clothes smell of smoke.... YUCKS. I bathed and wanted to go online but fell asleep.
This morning(Mon) I woke up at 8 plus... need to go NUH with mum for her checkup. My whole body aching all over. Limbs, back, head, calves....haiz.... never do warm-up before playing yesterday... my carelessness. And gosh!!! SUNBURNT!!!!!!!!! My nose and above my lips were red and painful to touch! I looked like a red nose reindeer. and my lips were
KETCHUP/TOMATO RED!!!!!!!!! dry too..... whole thing abit swollen.... Argh! I got obvious sock lines and sleeves lines already!! I realised my limbs got darker while my face still remain its 'white' colour. OH NO!!! the contrast got BIGGER now!!! Darn.... no hope le.
Anyway at NUH we waited for very long before we get to see Dr Chew.
Now my mum's conditions are that her wounds are not healing.... Cos her eye tissues are not healthy already. So the patch did not stick all around the hole on the eye. Hence at the top, there's this little hole and the liquid from the eye is leaking out. So now doc said the wound need to heal first. If not, the eye will be deflated. If the wound still does not heal and close up after today and tomolo, she may haf to go for a stitching op. Sian.... after hearing this, mum got pretty upset... haiz... it a ley chey thing to undergo any op... So soon we need another checkup this week before xmas.... haiz.......
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Secret Garden~~!
Yea! Finally got the English lyrics of Nocturne, now I can sing the song already~~
Another song of the secret garden, titled "sigma" has a meaningful lyrics:
I search for the sign
That will set my soul free
My heart must be pure
So that I can find peace
My grief cannot last forever
My love will be fulfilled
I pray a sign will help me
Be all that I can be
I search for the sign
That will set my soul free
My heart must be pure
So that I can find peace
The wind is your voice
The rain is your tears
Your burning heart
And spirit is my salvation
I dun care whether this song is for christian ornot, I put religion aside. Juz understand that beauty of the meaning. Indeed, my grief will not last forever~~~
*continues to sing*
Friday, December 17, 2004
Trips to NUH and many more to come...my mum's conditions
Yesterday and this morning had been spending time in the hospital... Yesterday was my mum's operation.
All of us except sis who was working, went to NUH by taxi at ard 3pm, and soon we were led to the Day Surgery Centre. She changed into those greenish cloth thingy and laid on the bed for a long period of time before it was her turn. It was ard 5pm. I had brought my laptop along, so I watched some animes while waiting. After she was pushed into the surgery room, me and dad went for dinner. The food there is average and yet it is very costly. Compared to similar food courts, their food prices are relatively higher, a classic sample of monopoly.
After dinner, dad continued walking ard in the hospital while I went back to the beds there and watched animes until my battery went out completely. So i juz sat there.... it was ard 7 plus... finally my sis came after her work. So we two sat there and talked. Sis suggested playing Bingo.
While we were abt to start the game, mum was back on the stretcher/bed or watever u call that. It was better than last time becos this time she was more awake and could talk. She had another major op the beginning of this year and she was completely unconscious after the op for very long time. We had to carry her back at ard 10 plus. So this time was a great relief to see her awake but den she still vomited alot at the op room. She kept complaining she cant breathe and so on. I am so saddened after seeing all this sight for the first time. Huge needles at her wrist, the liquid bag and all... Den me and sis tried to feed her with spoonful of milo... and kept rubbing her back and front to force out the air in her bloated and empty stomach. She got gastritis yet could not eat anything except a piece of bread early in the morning. It is such a heart aching sight. I was rather loss. Luckily sis was not seeing and doing this for the first time so she knew wat to do here and there. I was juz like an assistant. Mum continued to lie there and from time to time we fed her with milo and water.
At ard 9 plus near 10, mum decided to go home and sleep. All this while, the nurses had to wait there until she left as she's the last patient. Changed back in her clothes and all, we held her arms and put her in wheelchair. Finally got into a taxi and reached home. After a cup of warm cereal, she went to sleep. Meanwhile me and sis continued to do some work. I slept pretty earlier than usual as the next morning (which is today), I need to accompany mum to NUH again for checkup.
Today woke up ard 8 plus. Mum already up and walking ard. Pretty fine~ Ok, ard 9 plus we set off again via taxi. After waiting and seen two doctors, we went home. So now, mum sleeping and me blogging. Dad oso sleeping.... haiz... we all have been walking here and there, so all of us are tired...
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I got to learn more abt what's wrong with my mum's left eye. It is something call Glaucoma. The liquid pressure in the eye becomes too high such that it presses on the optical nerve at the back which harms the nerve and causes some parts of the vision to go off. Initial symptom is the sides of ur vision is black. Without treatment, ur whole vision will slowly close, that is, the whole vision became black and left a hole in the centre that u can see. Finally, totally permanent blindness.
So what the doc had done previously was, they opened up a hole at the top of mum's eyeball to drain away the liquid and patched it up. They also put some plastic stuff and a tube inside her eye. However near the end of this year, the patch at the top later got infected and was painful. And due to that, there's leaking too. Hence, they now removed the patch and cover a new patch on top of the hole. Haiz..... so much things....
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Monday I will need to go NUH again with her to do a second checkup. I think there will be alot of checkups coming up ........
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Little bits here & there
Today I woke up at 10:25am and shucks~ my
USP Online Pre-allocation Module has started. So quickly on my laptop to get online. Indeed in times of urgency, things go against u purposely. I was unable to get connected so I keep switching off and on the router to restart. Finally I got on to the page and login. I made my choices and clicked the submit button. Halfway submitting the connection dc!!!! ARGH! So I restart my wireless and waited abit before it connected and den tried to login again. But the page said I submitted already but den I was worried tt the data sent might be blank so I had to email the administrator to tell him if he can check for me. Well he emailed me later and it was found ok, everything was fine. whew.
In the afternoon, I was nuaing ard, packing some things in my cupboard and wrapping some presents. Before I knew it, it was 5pm! gosh I am meeting 2 of my frens who went with me to Atlanta last time.
On the bus, I saw this
soccer match between Singapore and Cambodia. It was really exciting. I only managed to catch the first halftime. Singapore had 2 goals and Cam was 0. I wondered wat was the final results. Did anyone know? can tell me?
Ok, back to the
dinner outing. We occasionally met up to chat abt our lives in sch. I am the only one different from their scope of studies.... They were all doing graphics design and animation. It was wat I hoped to do and would be doing if I haf the sufficent funds to accept that letter from UK. I hear them speaking with zest of what they are doing , I feel happy for them and at the same time I feel depressed again. Emotion got over me again, I can't control. So 2 of them hear me out but they cant do anything or say anything to comfort me. It's ok, it is better without it else I will really lose control. We talked til 11pm. By right I shld leave early cos tomolo morning I need to go
hospital with mum and dad. But then I feel bad if I leave the conversation early. After that I quickly rushed home and bathed. Ok here I am blogging.
Oh yes, recently some ppl suddenly asked if I
dyed my hair. They think it is abit brown. I am so surprised cos last time everyone say my hair was pitch black. I oso began to realise the change when I wore black top and my hair contrasted alot from my clothes.... ok.... it is losing colour. my 2 frens today also agreed.... ok, I saved money. No need to spend a cent and yet I haf some dyed hair effect... great. I hope it will not lose black pigment further else my whole head of hair will turn white soon....
Haiz, I think I must, by hook or by crook, find some way to sort out my tots abt the life and archi thing b4 sch starts else I will be trapped in myself. Also, if this goes on, my eyes will suffer from 'dehydration'. I need life charger.
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Anime Chalet damn cool~
Wah shiok! Let me start from Mon 13th. Woke up pretty late in the morning and quickly packed chalet stuff and was asked to bring my laptop over too. I met up with Jo and Sel in bugis to look at presents for a while. Ard 2:30pm I bid them farewell and I went over to Tampiness. Met up with my Anime Comm members and we took bus 29 to our destination. The bus journey very long but we really enjoyed chatting. Finally we reached Aloha Changi. The bungalow we got is pretty cool~~ very big! 5 bedrooms plus one living room and kitchen and 3 toilets!!!!
We settled down and set off to buy BBQ stuff at ard 5 plus~ wah shop like crazy. The trolley was stuffed with food and some shoppers gave us a shocking look. Who cares~ By the time we returned, some more members came already and they started the fire and started cooking some chicken wings as told beforehand. Great. More and more ppl came, so rowdy! Some sponsor ppl came and 2 of our comm ppl went to chat with them. They stood there and talked for 2 hours! Gosh... den after food, we went into the house and watched animes. Ard 10 plus 11, ppl started to leave. The rest were staying back. We were separated into 2 grps at first. One watching anime;the other playing cards. Finally as the time ticked in the late hours, ppl started taking turns to bathe and change other interesting animes to watch. In the end we pia Champloo. 15 episodes. By the time it ended, it was ard 6-7am. Some ppl were already concussed. For me I concussed after the whole anime ended. Ard 9am I woke up and the rest decided to haf breakfast in Changi Village and left directly after that. For me, I played with my laptop and looked after the house while 2 other members were sleeping and 1 was awake with me. Finally ard noon they returned and bought me the roti prata I requested for breakfast. Ahahaha I think it was my lunch too! We continued to watch other animes like Ghost In the Shell, Tsukihime (some vampire anime - very nice, not scary one), School Rumble etc. Sch Rumble damn funny, we laff and laff. soon evening came. Ard 5 plus we all went out to see the yacht club area, the sea, the dirty beach. We didnt managed to play Frisbee, so we decided to go Changi Village for dinner. I didnt eat cos mum cooked at home for me already. Ard 7 we got back to the chalet and a bunch of us left, including me. The rest left at 9pm I heard. Ahaha too bad for those who wanna turn up after that.... we all haf left!
The waiting time for loop bus 29 was long, the bus journey back to Tampiness Mrt was also long... Mrt too..... But the Mrt journey was more interesting as me and 2 other members were chatting abt life in NUS. As usual, I told them the famous experiences of being archi student. Me and one member got off at Clementi and we continued chatting. He lived nearby my area too. Finally we bid farewell. When I got home, I watched the last episode of drama serial on channel 8 before having my late dinner. After that was abit shagged off but still managed to climb up and start blogging here. Will be going to bathe again...... den sleep.
Overall, I think this chalet is so much better than the previous 2 and I really get closer to my comm members and made new frens. Rather happening and fruitful one. Thanks Sam! Ur hard work paid off!
Oh yes! We collected the anime club Tshirts during the chalet too. Wah the printing not bad. Happy~~~
Right everyone, good nitez!! :)
Ps: Bren and Dan! I got the Inu liao!!
Sunday, December 12, 2004
Fruitful Shopping!! *thumbs up*
Today supposed to go sim lim with sis before meeting up with Jo for shopping. However when both me and sis woke up, it's ard 12:40pm.... so quickly had lunch and went orchard immediately. Meet up with Jo, Weimin and Gab at the mrt and we started the presents hunt. Hey, it is rather good, we settled 2 presents. haha~ efficient. When we settled, it is only ard 5pm. Pretty fast isnt it? All of us are happy. Jo and me celebrated by eating ice-cream and bubble tea respectively. Weimin and gab ate dinner (?) plus bubble tea! haha~ Haiz, still got some more presents not settled. So troubling~~ haha~
Right, tml is Anime chalet so I will be away for tomolo til tues afternoon. take care all~ Anything juz sms me.
Princess D
Hehe, a show on TV juz ended. The title is Princess D, chinese one is 想飞 (to fly)... It is abt this backstreet gal named Ah Ling who worked in a pub and tried to sell dopes to return debts of her dad and bro. Dad was in jail. The whole family wanted to emigrate to other places but now dad in jail. So Ah Ling tried hard to repay debts and get the 3 of them emigrate. Their mum abit senile and kept thinking dad is going with them.
An animator named Joker acted by Wu Yan Zhu saw her fighting with some bad guys and he imagined her like a person in the digital world with those effects and wanted her to model for his new animation projection and he called her Princess D and his concept is Princess Diana was a pri teacher and became a princess, so a backstreet gal oso become one. He likes her too. He also tried to help her. Meanwhile his project proposal got rejected by alot of companies. And Ah Ling that side facing alot of debt problems. Finally loanshark asked them to carry alot of drugs pass the airport terminal to repay debts. She refused to do that but the bro later silently accepted without her knowing.
One day Joker and Ah Ling pass by a computer graphic poster showing a wonderland with ferry wheels. She told him she liked it and it should exist somewhere and not every computer stuff is imagined. Joker promised to create that land for her. She wondered why humans have no wings like those in animations. With wings, she desire to fly; fly to anywhere she wans. Later Joker gave her money enuff to repay. All the while Ah Ling kept saying she is not the right one for him.
One day she quietly returned him the money and took up the risk to export the drugs when she found out the bag at her bro's bed. She was prepared to be caught and not able to return. This part is so touching. Luckily the mum found out the drugs and took them out to count before Ah Ling took it. So Ah Ling was safe at the terminal and she was so moved and cried. At that time the loanshark kenna caught and her bro quickly called her to come back le. So finally all 3 of them migrated to somewhere and on this day she disappeared, the animation cum game was accepted and released throughout the city. The animation is about the desire to fly of a Princess in an abandoned kingdom.
Joker was sad when he realised her whole family gone le. Some time later, Joker went to a place overseas and found this green plain with the same ferry wheels and finally understand what Ah Ling always desire - desire to fly, and get to know wat freedom really is. The last message is 'Everyone has a dream, only a dream can keep u going'.
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Last time when I watched these kind of shows, I am very engrossed one. And I can feel every meaning in it and I am always inspired. I have dreams and they do keep me going. Now, I still feel it but the feeling is different. I am no longer inspired but feel sad. I used to believe that freedom, now I dont anymore.... I juz think that I may not live to see it. Dreams keep me going but at the same time I am exhausted. How far can it really bring me. I dun wan to know... I juz do everything in my best until the day I close my eyes. Only then I hope I see that light of freedom. Right now, who can bring me out of here...
Saturday, December 11, 2004
Father and daughter shopping.!!??
Actually today I planned to go Science Centre with my anime fren and his fren and ahba. But den last night I get to know there's a meeting with one Graphite judge cum sponsor. So I better not give it a miss. So in the afternoon 2pm we had the meeting and gosh, the guy can really talk for 1 and 1/2 hours. After meeting I suppose to go Sim Lim with sis but last minute she's not feeling well, so immediately I called ahba if he was shopping so I can join him. So it is ard 4pm when I met up with xh and we went to many places. In the end, he has some ideas of wat to buy, but me was more hopeless.... 勉强 (mian qiang) has an idea for my secret santa.... Ok, I think most of us confirm overshoot the budget. Actually there's no budget one lar, depends on what u wan to buy for your partner lar
Welcome to my new blog!
Yoyo!! Finally, it's all done up. Have always been wanting to change my xanga blog to blogspot months ago. And now it's done~ whew~
Here, I would like to welcome u to my nw blog! Enjoy!
Ps: I haven't solve the problem of not showing the comments part until it is clicked on the link. 2ndly, hey no emoicons!