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.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
爱的掌门人 + binge drinking issues
hehe before i get into the main topics for this post, wanna say something abt my cny visitings~~
i think the 2nd day of visiting is more interesting. this afternoon we went to a mum's old fren house as usual ever since dunno when. yep they are really close frens and working colleagues since young. i wish that when i am that old, there are frens i can visit like close relatives. Anyway, that fren of my mum has both son and daughter. even the younger daughter is already married last year. This year she and her hubby came over to her mum's house and thus able to see us too. and slowly we spoke of architecture cos they rather interested in my horribly long course. ANd they had juz renovated their nice HDB flat. so we intended to visit their house too!!!!
Damn shiok. This couple both share interests and hobbies such as travelling and oso that life is one time thingy, so they rather take chance now to travel and play and enjoy life. So they oso got this damn cool sports car in red!! They think that only this time they can fit the image of riding in sports car. When u are old liao, u cant even fit the image of having one lor. Hahaaha, den they said everything look nice at the outside but actually everything are under loans and loans... hahaha~ so funny. both of them very young.... i think they are 28 and 30 years old that kind lor. So me and sis sat in their red hot sports car! my first time in that kinda car hehe~~~~
their house damn nice and cosy~~~ and they had this big fish tank embedded in this wall that goes through to the next room behind. Bascially is a hole in the wall. there is this minimalistic style for the whole flat but not very strong and consistent or extreme la. but impressive already since they are both not studying design. one related to sales, one is marketing one. since they can come up with things so nice, it is really impressive.~
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ok now let's start the issue of binge drinking. i was reading some newspaper at the mum's fren's place. and saw this article on this topic. i think binge drinking is like purposely one time drink quite alot of strong liquor until u get knocked out.
Experiences by some ppl are recorded and interviewed. One girl did in one night. another one is an ang moh girl who did such drinking for one month. Then they show the after 1 day and 1 month photos of the girls respectively. my god! i think anyone of u sees them, u will be so damn shock and scared of drinking too much. For the pretty girl who tried the one night one, the next day she woke up she found herself having puffy eyes and neck, and bloated checks and lips. She's damn sad lor.... This is still not as bad as the 1 month one which is a really heart-aching for me to see... cos she's a darn chio ang moh gal. and very young looking like anyone of us. after that one month, she looked a decade older with wrinkles on face and neck, fish lines at the eyes, puffy eyes and so on. like a 50 plus person. She's damn depressed. So their advice is drink moderate....never too much in one time.
i think the article is from New paper. go check it out if u wan.
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ok now to the drama series on channel 8, 爱的掌门人. It juz ended its 30 chapters of episode last friday. overall i find the story not bad. acting is gd too~~~ and ya, they taught us a few things ... For example there's this wedding planner acted by Jacelyn Tay who believes that for a marriage couple, their wedding ceremony muz be perfect and grand, den couples will be happy. finally til the end, she learnt that a happy marriage does not need a perfect or grand wedding ceremony. u can have a simple but very very sweet one. And another issue is abt what constitutes a person as ur perfect lover? wat u mean by perfect?
and also at the end, i oso get another message from the show. some ppl think that he/she may not be a suitable person for him/her and told the latter that he/she will find someone else better. This happened between lance and chunchun, and ruiyi and lance in the show. they said these to one another lor.... but from the show, wat i think is that, u may think that u couldnt take care of someone well and hence letting the person go and find another person who can take care of him/her better than u. U may think that is good for that person. IT is actually WRONG. That is selfish. cos u did not consider how the other party thinks. And it is not abt him/her wanting to receive better care and attention. Sometimes they dun care. what they want to to be with u even though u are not the 'perfect lover' to him or her. Take lance and chunchun as examples. Lance was a flirty chap at first. When he was that bad a person, the nice and innocent Chunchun was his gf and though saddened by wat he did, she still cares for him cos she sees the good side of him still. Finally once she got into accident after chased out by lance, lance sort of woke up and was upset and blamed himself. He think that he is not able to take care of her well and he is not worthy of this nice gal. Also, given his personality of wanting freedom, he never tot of settling down. And so he wanna let her go and told her she would find someone better than him. He tot this is best for her. however he never know how sad the gal is. She doesnt care as long as she is able to be by his side. So quietly she did alot of things and helped him. It was so touching. Finally in the end, Lance even gave up on wat crappy freedom is and at the end he's back to chunchun. she finally deserved a good ending after all the effort put in though she never tot he would get back to her. she juz help him becos she wants to only. ANyway, it is not exactly true to say u are tied down once u get married etc. U will never know that u can actually fly to a different world with the person u love. OR take that couple whom i visited today. They travelled to places together, explore and find alot of things they could never accomplished alone.
Sunday, January 29, 2006
CNY!!!
wah, finally after 1 week of hectic life, it's cny!~ The week had been really mad for me... Doing design abit, but more on preparing portfolio, and juggling with the usp biosemiotics module presentation and its classes. I think i am going to have bad mood this sem due to the usp module... it is damn difficult la. And now hols for cny, we still have to work ar....
Anyway last mon, we sent a korean fren off... and we went to newton hawker centre for farewell dinner... and we had a big spread!! haha curry stingray, satay, kangkong, hokkien mee, oyster omelette.... drinks... lol
The from tues to friday, i had little sleep. ever since last sem til now, i always had to skip breakfast in addition to the main meals.... cos keep waking up late and rushing to sch all the time... :( gosh i am going to wither...
Friday had a terrible presentation for usp class.... it was so bad, cos i dunno wat i am talking and everyone is damn confused... sob sob~~~
Later in the night, meet up with yk,wk,gab,wm,sel and yock for dinner at Ding Tai Feng. Haha another good meal... me and yock left early and managed to get sel a present. Yock is determined to pass him on that day~~ hehe the present quite special hehe... the other guys excluding sel went to watch I not Stupid Too movie.
well i went home and wanna sleep but ended up watching the rest of Hana Yori Dango episodes. THe show is damn nice, and touching that i kept tearing.... lol...
haiz, the f4 guys always wear trenchcoats......to act sey lor....is it like making a fashion statement there. anyway they look nice in trenchcoat~~~ especially Rui~
Well, they are all illusionary Prince Charmings la~~
Actually in real life, if any guys act sey and try to be fashionable or trendy, all the more i feel disgusted towards them.... but of cos i dun mean they have to dress like beggars lar. as long as they juz be themselves and not those showy kinds, they wont put me off.
lol i muz adopt the Makino spirit!!! Fight til the end!!! She's our role model!!! haha~~ those havent watch this jap version, muz go watch!!!
Hereby, i wish everyone Happy New Year!!!!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Quizzes
bored... and after seeing many of my frens tried, i gave it a try too... it is rather true in some parts but... everyone has similar answers....
The Keys to Your Heart |
 You are attracted to those who have a split personality - cold as ice on the outside but hot as fire in the heart.
In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you're told that you're loved.
You'd like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring.
You would be forced to break up with someone who was insecure and in constant need of reassurance.
Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with.
Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.
You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred.
In this moment, you think of love as commitment. Love only works when both people are totally devoted. |
And more quiz........ rather expected for me, but maybe not for others
Your Career Type: Artistic |
 You are expressive, original, and independent. Your talents lie in your artistic abilities: creative writing, drama, crafts, music, or art.
You would make an excellent:
Actor - Art Teacher - Book Editor Clothes Designer - Comedian - Composer Dancer - DJ - Graphic Designer Illustrator - Musician - Sculptor
The worst career options for your are conventional careers, like bank teller or secretary. |
yea~~~ i got cool fench names!
For "Juliana" alone:
Your French Name is: |
 Josette Boulet |
For my full name:
Your French Name is: |
 Trifine Paget |
and somemore! this is true~~
Your Brain's Pattern |
 You have a dreamy mind, full of fancy and fantasy. You have the ability to stay forever entertained with your thoughts. People may say you're hard to read, but that's because you're so internally focused. But when you do share what you're thinking, people are impressed with your imagination. |
Is this juz coincidental?? i were a mouse when i am born in the mousy year?
You Were a Mouse |
 You quietly examine life's lessons and see multiple meanings in things. You are also good at discovering details and remaining in the background. |
Ok final quiz here. and i love this one :)
You Are a Dreaming Soul |
 Your vivid emotions and imagination takes you away from this world So much so that you tend to live in your head most of the time You have great dreams and ambitions that could be the envy of all... But for you, following through with your dreams is a bit difficult
You are charming, endearing, and people tend to love you. Forgiving and tolerant, you see the world through rose colored glasses. Underneath it all, you have a ton of passion that you hide from others. Always hopeful, you tend to expect positive outcomes in your life.
Souls you are most compatible with: Newborn Soul, Prophet Soul, and Traveler Soul |
So.... who got the newborn, prophet and traveller ones?? hhehehe just kidding...
I and myself
suddenly wanna post this out of the blue. ignore this if it doesnt make sense...
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I asked, " At the very moment when i feel like letting go and wanna give up and stop watever i need to do, who is there to encourage and save me?"
"You."
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After hearing this from myself, seeing the world cold and deserted, i braced myself up again.
The rational at work.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
仙剑奇侠传
hmm every saturday got this new show at channel U, yep xian jian qi xia zhuan. I tot this show was shown before? or issit another cast of ppl acting the same title again? anyway i juz watch la. sat is tv day~
Hmm watched 2 episodes of it already, or is it considered 4? since 2 hrs each time... anyway i find the show quite.... how to say.. very dreamlike and so lame at times... the girls in there dunno how to act... all like act teh and cute... especially A-Nu and the 2 girls who keep following Xiaoyao. Den that Ling'er like so expressionless.... ok lar, at least xiaoyao and some of them are good-looking. juz the acting suxs... and the computer effects oso... quite..... funny.... aiyo, i dunno wat to say.... hmm our s'pore bryan is in there... and he's trying to be so decent!!! cos normally we see him in variety shows, he's the very critic type, likes to 'complain' and joke ard. Then in this show he tried to be the decent and gentlemen type abit not used to it... haha so his acting abt weird to me too! oh man.... *slap my forehead* and there's alot of calling of names.... xiaoyao-gege here and xiaoyao-gege there... argh~~~~~~ *shake head*
anyway.... still, i'll be watching it la... though i really speechless abt it.. hehe~~ ending music not too bad too~ :p
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Major Project
We are starting into our major and individual project for the sem proper now... beginning with site analysis again as usual. And I DUN WISH to count the traffic again. I think this time no more anway but it is worse in another sense.... need to be there and measure the rainfall, wind... even the soil!!! yea, cos i am in Environmental Core Studio this time.... oh well....
This time the project is to design a Centre for the "New Elderly". Then today, our studio teacher said something about we need to take care of the temperature and lighting as the elderly feels cold easily etc. and wanted us to put ourselves in their shoes. When i heard this, i was thinking that i no need to be in their shoes to feel it. Cos right now, I am already feeling cold easily and when in any cold places, i can feel the cold biting into my bones... and hence have to wear jacket most of the time.... and so on. As if i have rheumatism as well. I feel old manz.... This is a project that we youngsters suppose to design for the old, while for me, it is like an elderly designing for the old to feel young... ok, wat am i talking... forget about the previous sentence.
Ok, my wisdom tooth also like to take its own sweet time like me to finish a job. Yea, the upper left one is starting to come out more by 0.5mm after sleeping stagnant for a few months. i think the rest had slept for years already. Probably this is also a blessing in disguise, such that i dun get those painful problems like some people. Well, they can take their own sweet time, i dun mind. :)
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Record breaking?
i think this is one of my fastest, if not, the fastest record ever. i woke up late though i slept at abt 2 plus am yesterday. I had lessons this morning at 10am but the teacher only allowed us to 10:10. I got up at 9:30 am to my horror... and rushed~~~ bus came at 9:55... reached sch 10:05... run there and took a lift. the dumb dumb lift took so long to reach 6th floor and therefore i was 2 mins pass 10:10.... and so i was considered late... had to write my name on the board.... argh....
I think i no longer tahan aircon rooms.... cos i feel so cold that i cannot concentrate on work and keep feeling sleepy..... urgh how... we are encountering aircon rooms most of the time in Singapore... so how am i going to cope!! I am a tropical person!!!
hmm, i finally know wat to get for my sis's bdae... a nice handbag which is stylish and young, yet has alot of compartments, and muz be BLUE in colour~ goodness, any recommendations where i can find? lol... headache... haha need to find so many bags this beginning of the year.... tsk tsk... help...
need more shopping!~
Today is the start of the new major project. mostly individual of cos... and so we went down to visit the 4 choices of site they given us. 3 out of 4 near outram mrt and chinatown, while the other one is in McRitchie... well, when we were walking ard chinatown... there are so many nice shops ard! we all felt so gian to shop lor.... haha....
ya kinda reminded me that i have quite some shopping undone... More impt stuff are like finding a nice sch bag and oso a nice laptopbag which look sleek, not bulky, yet i can still put my wires and documents in. I wonder if anyone got good recommendation for the two items?
Other mini stuff are like hp pouch, etc.... i hope i wont scratch the new hp before i got it. so most prob such mini stuff i will settle first ba.... urgh~~~ still got so much work coming up.... how to shop... >.<~~ sis bdae coming too~~~ ahhh....
rite, muz catch up with work schedule!
Monday, January 16, 2006
CNY family shopping!!!
My sunday was simply spent juz like that lol but felt happy~~ this afternoon the whole family went out to this big supermarket to buy cny goodies!!!! and i get to choose my favourite goodies~~~ muaha~~ and some extra stuff to munch on when i work. yay~~~
i think today i haf relaxed enuff to chiong work when the major project comes. ^^ yes, very motivated with food ard me... hahaha
Anyway, i seriously think my weighing scale is not accurate.... If i am really 48kg now... i will be severely underweight!!!! It is even lower than the weight i had in sec1 and 2 lor. how can it be.... so i think the scale got problem. I remembered the scale at ed's house measured much higher... like 2 kg higher? hmm....
Sunday, January 15, 2006
second post!
after my previous lengthy post, i decided to post a quiz here. See some of my frens posted so i tried... ooo i got the same results as jov!
Your Power Color Is Lime Green |
At Your Highest: You are adventurous, witty, and a visionary. At Your Lowest: You feel misunderstood, like you don't fit in. In Love: You have a tough exterior, but can be very dedicated. How You're Attractive: Your self-awareness and confidence lights up a room. Your Eternal Question: "What else do I need in my life?" |
Saturday, January 14, 2006
End of the 1-week project!
yay~ it is over finally.... however i am not at all feel ... satisfied...
last night coming to studio to work overnight is such a mess.... I took taxi to sch as it was already near midnight. The taxi took a wrong direction, incurring an expensive taxi fare... and i realised i forgot to bring my wallet!!!!!!!!!! This is the first time i ever faced such situation... of having no wallet to pay taxi fare... but luckily, probably it's the work of heaven's will, i got an ezlink card in my bag. i had it becos before i got out of house i was thinking the current card had very low value so i went to take an extra juz in case.... n so.... didnt know it really come to a good use this time, saved my life.... lol.... with a hp and ezlink card, there's not much of a problem still.... hehe.
I was one of the last people to leave the school after all the submission and crits... everyone juz left to rest and party etc so early... leaving me to finish the voting slip for my group... and stuff like tt.... :(
On the side note, i really wish in the future, i am able to work with a team of ppl who share the same mindset, goal etc with me. :) Yea, let's haf a team manz. haha in future can set up a company/workforce....
A thousand tots, a thousand words... i have nothing much to say.... well... sometimes u wana to push further but it may offend and seems... domineering. And when u try to compromise and dun push, in the end the results u get will be not doing justice to urself. It is hard to realise the certain goal when u faced a few resisting forces against u. There's nothing u can do but to let it go. If a project not graded, it doesnt mean u can give a heck care design to get over with. The attitude to set for a project should not tarnish ur professionalism. We are now not working for grades, but for ur own professionalism, ur reputation, self-satisfaction or self achievement or simply at least take it seriously as a warm up exercise. I couldnt even heave a sigh of relief after this project, but a sigh of unspeakable regrets. Anyway i learnt something from this. I am seeing more things now. Anyway, I will still be in search of ppl who share the same attitude, goal and mindset with me or better still, better than me. Otherwise, alot of things cannot be realised and explored.
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I am more clear of something abt myself after some observations. I now know that i am not a person who like to keep sticking to one person. as in.... i dun feel comfortable if someone keep coming to me and expecting my attention all the time like glue. The more the person wanna bind me, the more i wanna escape and avoid.... esp people who make cry-baby sa jiaoing attitude to gain my attention and make me feel bad so that i will continue to stick to him/her, eg. " T_T, u dun care abt me le~~ never talk to me de... why never reply me? u busy ar? so busy...... " blah blah blah and more of those sad, teary emoticons used. Argh, first few times still ok, but if someone keep doing that to me, I will feel damn frustrated la... u cant expect me to give u ALL my time to one person. I mean... i cannot stand ppl making childish cry baby attitude to me. I cant stand it after several times but no matter wat i will still be polite and nice and stuff like that but there will be this sense of "omg, i wanna stay away from u sometimes manz..." kind of 心态. u get wat i mean? And i dun wish to do that to anyone unless i really cant bear with it.
Btw, just on a side note, this is oso the first time i blocked someone in my msn list. i need a break la. yakkati yak until as if i am so free like u, can chit chat all the time. And never take it seriously what it means when I put a busy mode or "DND" nick.
ok let me get this clear la... When i am on busy mode but my nick is not "DND" means ppl can still tok to me actually, greeting and chit chat still. Only when i tell them personally i cant chitchat anymore, den the person should know when to stop. The problem with this particular person is, I already told him i am busy and he still continued. I put a DND nick to hint which apparently didnt work. So I ying4 chou2 until he's finally offline, den i blocked him so next time he wont see me, thinking i am offline naturally. Den again i dun block ppl all the time. I can remove his block once i am more free to talk.... u cant imagine the suddenly yakkitiyak once u're online from this person. It's scary la. Last last night when i blocked him, he see me not online and so came to sms me!! wah lao... this time i dunno how to block ppl from my hp... there's no such function. i surrendered.
ok back to the main issue of not liking to have ppl stick to me like glue. I dun mind having close friends whom i can go out most of the time n things like that but not the one-to-one stick like glue thing. But those type of sticking during outings with my jc classmates and other outing is ok. But those stuff like sticking and following ard is...... frustrating. There are times i haf things to do and moving ard on my own. I need my own freedom of space. Unless u are exactly me la, then i have nothing to say. i am really not comforable la... even more so if the other person is a guy... who is not as if ur bf or husband, but juz a fren. I really dun feel comfortable la. So... do u think i am a person who wants freedom? am i unreasonable? I think most of us will be like me right? dun like to feel bound heavily by a person and ppl sticking to u like glue.... or when they sa-jiaoing to u most of the time to expect all ur attention. It is freaky!! Seriously, i would be more accepting and impressed if they have mind of their own and have their own personality. I avoid people easily... when they step too close into my ring of privacy without my 'permission'. I do so also to prevent any misleading or misunderstanding from ppl.
hmm i wonder who got me clear so far... am i too confusing? hope not~ :p
I juz had a 6 hours of sleep after i reached home from sch... now still in zombie state... -_-~ haiz...
Thursday, January 12, 2006
>.<
last night i didnt sleep until it was 9am that i decided to take a little nap before going to sch for the project discussion.... i set 3-4 alarms, but they failed... cos i think i kept offing them.... so when mum knocked and popped in to wake me..... it was 1230.... crap... i was late...
Again i had to skipped breakfast and lunch.... later which i ate some sandwiches at abt... 4pm... as lunch..... -__-
By the time i reached home, there is this urge to rest for a while and had nice bath, watched abit of tv... trying to get some piece of mind off the project... hopefully will 'see' light in it after taking a fresh look at it.
I weighted myself again... i lost another kg... the second one.... ok lar, these 2 kgs will be gained back during CNY... so i aint taking serious note abt it... lol....
great i am killing myself.... I was watching this 1/2 hour tv show on finding out health problems from some mediacorp artists.... and i think pretty scary for me. cos allllll the bad stuff they mentioned i was doing it so often for these years since my early childhood....
let me review wat bad habits i am doing:
1) I eat processed food esp for the meat...
2) I didnt eat enuff veggies and fruits
3) I dun drink much water.....
4) I dun eat at regular times
5) I often skipped meals
[these belong to the whole issue of not having proper and good diet]
6) I always bathe late late late at night - danger of rheumatism
7) I didnt have enuff sleep all the time.
8) Sleep at odd hours
9) I didnt exercise
10) Always having alot of stress from work - most of us have this
[stress play a part in balding besides diet and inheritance]
[these factors play a part in fast aging]
hmmm.... so u see.... am i killing myself faster than already is?? omg....
I wish i can stay healthy and happy....
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Not eaten for today!
omg.... i havent eat anything except one cup of milk and 2 pieces of bread with cream. that's it... Woke up at 11 am after sleeping at abt 5am.... Somehow was late for a 12 noon guest lect by 5 min. Immediately was group project discussion and then all the way til 9 plus pm..... oh man.... and we were considered of the earlier ones to leave the studios....
Btw it has been raining all these days.... why why why.... I thank the government or the district minister for making the overhead bridge sheltered... otherwise I think I would have a hard time walking home with the load on my left hand and my near -hungry-til-cant-walk-fast state. yea manz...
I have been waiting for weeks... and y is Bleach not out yet!? y y y....
haiz.... ooo and cant wait to watch the rest of hana yori dango!! hehe~
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
1st day at school~
LOL~~ a bunch of us met up at YIH's munchie monkey for lunch.. the food there is not bad and not expensive, esp their pastas~~~ hehe
Later we all went up to the lecture hall together... very nice to see everyone again, and also those who came back from Korea exchange. We had a fast briefing for the 1-week project as usual. This time this 1 week proj is situated at Orchard. It is a piece of land at the side of cineleisure and infront of the Youth park.... yep, so we have to design the space for the Youths here. lol.....
By right tml is site visit to orchard but most of us went there today and tml is Hari Raya!. lol we all sat there and chit chat while discussing the project ideas. I think most of us pretty slacked at this project lol. Btw, this time, this project is more 'real' cos it is a real project that an association ( the youth council ? cant remember) are really going to build things there for the youths so they need our ideas. yep~~ rather interesting.
though it is such a rainy day we managed to get there la. i think at least this time the site is not far away and that i can sun bian do some shopping.... hehe~~~~
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Last day of hols!!
oh man, i juz woke up from a 10 hours sleep... hehe.... though i still have the last 5-8 percent of the website not done yet... hehe not bad lar, pia 3-4 days for a webby.....
Again becos of the funny hours of sleep, i get to missed breakfast and lunch.... yep 1 meal a day only... i thought i would be growing fat and lumpy after sitting in front of computer without exercising at all this hols. Indeed i feel lumpy but when i stepped on the weight... well another kg lost... But u know, this is not a happy thing la, cos now sch starts, I will get back the weight, cos of snacking through late nights and the CNY!!!. Den again i will lose it when submission comes etc. so it always flunctuates.....
Oh manz, my last day of hols is already 1/2 gone le.... i planned to shop ard to get the necessary stuff that i need to settle. But i think it is impossible liao.... Den i wanna watch animes and stuff like that oso not enuff time le.... still have that last few percent to finish!!! >.< i need to pack my tables too!!!
1st week of sch we have a 1 week project as usual for architecture... so the first week is gonna be hell again.
Hey guess what, i had an archi dream again. I dreamt that we were gonna have this group project again and then everyone formed group liao, left me. Den I had to do the project alone. Den again the theme of the work very funny, cos it is more like fine arts or AEP stuff leh... ehz???
haiz... help.... no more funny dreams ok.... ugh~
Oh my timetable.... i learnt my lessons well from previous sem. It is NOT good to squeeze everything to a 3 days week. it may look nice but when it comes to attending it, u are rushing here and there and not enuff time here and there. ended up exhausted. so this time i made 5 days week but each day 2-4 hours only... so i get enuff time for stuff here and there and not late.
yep that's a little piece of advice for me. Well, to those living near sch maybe can afford to make timetables like that lar... those living far away may not want to come sch everyday...
right, enjoy ur last day of freedom!! to the rest who already started sch, ganbatte for the new year!
Thursday, January 05, 2006
No sleep!!!!!!
alamak!! why haunted by architecture in dreams!!??
Last sem i think i did too much research but unconstructive on Rainwater Harvesting where u reuse water collected from roofs etc for gardening and flushing toilets etc. so guess wat i dreamt of this time? YESH!! Rainwater harvesting!!!!
But the most amazing thing is i dreamt of an invention of the system in our modern toilet!! It comprises of some pipes etc.... simple and effective. but whether it is aesthetically workable or efficient i do not know lor.... omg, so real lor.... another realistic archi dream.... urgh~~
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goodness i haven been sleeping~~ yep i starting full blast on my anime webby design. after tormented days and nights thinking abt it, i haf finally decided wat to be like and once that is settled, i can go full blast so i working non-stop on it and got excited as i work.... hehe i gonna love this manz.... too bad i dunno action script or java script, else it will work much better. now i rely on my programmer and "tortured" pretty much too with my... erhem funny ideas up my sleeves. ok la, it works simple to users but the coding at some parts are complicated, at least to me.... poor qh, dun kill me over this ok~~~ take it as ur challenge too! I trust ur skills!! hehe~~
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gonna start sch but i haven shop finish~~~ grrr...... all right gotto enjoy the last few days of my hols...... with the completion of anime webby!!!! ^^
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Ahhh >.<
AHHHH~~ wanna scream..... oh my god.... i think i haf given my new hp num to a pervert!!! These few days i have been updating my contact book and trying to send my new num to those i know.... and i think some of them are out of date... becos juz now i received a call..... "hello... urm is this juliana?" Hmm so i answered "yes? who's speaking?"
"oh, this is Kumar... You ...sent me an sms so i juz call u."
WHAT THE ************** urgH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! idiot! i have a freaking pervert calling me. Immediately, i slammed my phone down. what the hell..... damn.... I aint one of those ladies that give nums to ppl for S*X calls or dating calls ok...... he better not call me again else i will report his num to the police...
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hmm i was watching Hana Yori Dango that Jovie lent me.... I only have 4 episodes... JOVIE!!!! can i borrow the rest plssssss~~~ ahhhh the gal quite chio actually... hehe.... and yes, Rui is the most handsome one in there of cos.... the rest look pretty urm.... weird. Anyway, by looking at Rui and connecting it to our Singapore's Idol Slyvester..... I now more clear of wat type that Jovie likes. Rui has the same features and oso the feel somewhere that is smiliar as Slyvester. Well, it is for u to find out urself. Anyway, it is my own feelings, and opinions la. hehe.... jovie.... tsk tsk tsk
I feel that i have alot of things not done in the hols. I shall list them down:
1) Failed to borrow rest of Inuyasha
2) Failed to borrow DNAngel
3) Failed to watch finish Gundam Seed Destiny
4) Failed to draw the comics tat i wanna draw
hmmm wat else.... alot la. but anyway, these are not in the priority list anyway. I can wait again... for the next hols.... wait wait wait... haiz~
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These nights i cant sleep well. Even if it is 4am i still roll here and there on my bed... cos i will be thinking of too many things... Including designing the new anime website which is troubling me most now... wat the... shld i juz go ahead and do it, no need to be too complicated?
yo-shi! julie san ganbette yo!!!
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Boring New Year
hmm kinda werid.... this year i lost the mood in welcoming the new year. I never wish for it to come soon maybe... Maybe after all the parties for xmas, I prefer to rest at home for the rest of the year. Mnay ppl on MSN knock on my 'door' and asked how come never go out. Things like that. Hey at least some people still care abt me :) Some ppl that I seldom heard from also ask... so nice. Also when the clock struck new year, there are others who come wishing me happy new year and so forth. aww so sweet of them. Thanks ppl~~ So I began to take up some initiative to wish other ppl too~ though some ppl never response back. Well at least I have done my part in wishing them.
These days werent much happy though with those "nightmares" again. So haunted by it. The recent one was juz soooo real and this time i remembered every word said and thing that I have seen. I woke up asking myself if those things are actually existing in the world cos the names sound rather convincing... maybe i shall make a search for those stuff. omg... I have alot of things unsettled still. A year that began as troubled and unsettled as ever. It's not going to make a difference from the rest of the years I had.
The only funny thing is I managed to finish my bath juz before the clock struck midnight. I stepped out of the bathroom in time. Great, hopefully this means that this year i wont be bathing so late anymore. Many ppl keep telling me how bad it is to bathe late... I know I know i would say to them but.... I still did. My bad. Die die lor, die sooner... maybe wont die fast but suffer from illness more etc. That i will leave it to my future lah. My life havent been easy from the start anyway.
All right, what the hell is this girl blabbering nonsense here. Shut up u, stop spouting such crap in ur blog at the start of the new year. U think you very ke lian meh, other ppl more ke lian than u. You 生在福中不知福 issit, grumble so much. Yea so with that i keep my mouth shut. I have been fortunate in many ways, and I didnt haf regrets. I haf no rights to complain nor grumble. Thanks for what I am today and I shall continue to strive better. As long as I am healthy and alive, there's hope and life in every thing. ^^
May all ur wishes come true, everyone. Live your life to the fullest and thou shall not have any regrets!! Life is meaningful, grab it while u can! May u have a blessed year ahead.