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.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
night
It's very late at night yet i dun wanna sleep. Recently i haf been hestitating to sleep... dunno y...
I remembered when i was young, i love to stand in front of windows to let the sunlight or moonlight and breeze to embrace me or carry me while i sing. I can feel a sense of power from the nature given to me then. It is so intangible, but yet i think i can feel it. I often looked into my tiny palms then, and clutched them tight. I feel that i haf this power; the power has given me a strong mental energy to live on with my life and blessed me with a clear path of wat i need or wat to do and decide for the path of my life. I haf always live my life without hestitation and brightness.
When some unfortunate incident actually closed me up and i hid myself in my own dark world, i created my own fantasy world and no one understands me for many many years... I dun care at all until one moment of time, finally i met frens who were so kind who shone me the light and pulled me away from my layers of barrier. Finally now, my last layer from my heart and soul no longer hides and do watever i can for ppl ard me. I think this is all i can do and left behind in this world.
I learnt from Buddhism that actually being too close to frens etc is bad/evil. I think wat it means is that the sufferings are attained from all these attachments etc. I agree... such attachments may bring sufferings... Indeed i haf let go of many things... and treating them as fleeting doves. I still help them whenever i can reach them but never to hold them back ever again, so i let them fly away. Seeing them healthy and free is my form of happiness. I know they belong not to me. As u can see in archi, i never stick on to anyone.... i juz join in whenever it comes...
I know I cannot handle sadness well.... this is my weakness. when i am upset, i may become irrational or unreasonable? i dunno, but if that's the case i think the avoiding of attachment may be a good way for me? I juz keep a few close frens and i'll be contented. However i am not successful in breaking away attachments as proven... there are still things which i wonder whether i shld let go... and hence i am still far from reaching a peaceful self within me.
Now when it's late at night, with the wind blowing and seeing the trees swaying while the moon is quiet.... I may still sing to myself at the windows. There is still a sense of serenity but in my eyes, they reflect some sort of sadness...y? wat is it? As though i haf a feeling that I am leaving this world soon. Holding on to every night, hateful to say goodbye. If that is the case, I haf done all i can... but still with many regrets. The first thing i wld say is sorry to my family that i failed to reach the final goal in my life.
I wonder if it runs in the family... but i think from the 'history' of my family i heard so far, it seems that the main female roles are really tough in the sense that they can bear hardships of life etc... I admire them, including my mom. seriously. Although I am not as noble as they are at this moment, but i can say that i carved out this life of mine with my blood and effort, enduring many challenges and hardships that had came to me in all sorts of form, whether in terms of work, people-to-people, academic etc. To me, I can see the future not as easy but I seem to resort to my fate of hardships... It seems i am destined to fight and endure hardships all the way, digging my own path with bare hands, yet i am determined to go on. This is my will; my perserverence. This is my life that truly belongs to me. I want to go on. If my life is a story, i will wan to read to the very end, as though there'll be a surprise at the back.
I juz hope i am given time to reach to the end. If i cant, i haf done all i could. Said all I could. Expressed all i could.
u sound abit like Wu Qing Kang, the local writer/ radio dj... he wrote "Ling Chen 2359"...also a lot of gan3chu4 at night