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.
情人眼里出西施.... so i guess there is a perfect someone else for all the someones out there. And i wun say itz wrong or selfish of the ppl to let their other half go, thinking that they are doing something that falls under the term "self-sacrificial"... To let go of something you own is hard enuff, let alone someone u love. To really be able to let your other half leave for better pastures isn't selfish, more like the opposite. Whether itz wrong or not is another problem that depends on perspective. It could possibly turn out to be for the better sometimes...
And erm... actually marriage will take away quite a lot of ur freedom lar... For one when u sleep u dun have the whole bed to urself anymore =P And not to mention all the stuff that a couple has to do. Don't tell me u dun have to look after the other person's needs? Sometimes even above ur own, isn't it? Being willing to do that and being able to do that are also 2 different matters altogether (which brings us back to the last line of the previous para)
Since i'm tokking in circles now i guess i should stop =P
Gong Xi Fa Cai~!!!!
hmm.. it is advisable not to drink at all eh?
Aniwaez, I believe in psychologocial egoism. Every single decision that anyone makes carries self-interest. Is that equivalent to being selfish? Letting go sometimes mean not considering the feelings of the other party too. Who feels worse? The person who made the decision or the person who didn't have the chance to?
oh great, i haf got comments and opinions that refute my assertions. I am glad this is going to be like my IVLE forum discussion for the usp forum. Yes ed, i do agree that to let go something u owe or love is painful. However, the prob i see from those examples in the show are that they know wat is the problem that is causing hurt to the other, yet not willing to change their bad habits and thinking for the other person. In this case, it is selfish. U juz dump the person away cos u cant fit with the other person whom u claim u like him/her. Of cos changing takes time, but those cases is they dun even wanna try. (later in the show Lance did change alot for someone and thus realise that is becos he truly loves her).
As for marriage, i also agree that marriage do take certain priorities and freedom away from u. There's definitely commitment. But if one decide to marry, he or she shld be willing to take them, and it may be happiness for him/her, and become no longer a chore or burden. What i meant in the last few lines that despite all the "burdens", they are compensated with something new, or exciting. Even travelling or backpacking together will even be more fun.
Jovie, yup there's this argument on whether watever we do, we do for self-interest. sometimes self-interest can be gained in other ways. Doing something, even self-sacrificing for someone to make the latter happy. Seeing the other person happy is ur aim, then that is also call self-interest. If we ere to reason out things each and everyone, it is probably all for self-interest but not necessary selfish as the example i juz stated above. As for who feels worse, the one who make decision and the one without chance to, i think everyone has own views so i aint going to touch on that. Maybe their pain is on different issues, hence not elusive to compare or debate on.
Achieving ur aim (of wanting others to be happy)doesn't really mean self-interests, in some cases, that sounds more onto the self-less side.
A more direct way of seeing it, is to sacrifice so that YOU YOURSELF will feel better. Seeing another happy NOT because u want him or her to be happy, but because deep inside, YOU will feel better if it is that way. That's psychological egoism.
Another view would be, sacrificing so that YOU will gain some recognition/sympathy from other pple. So everything done is surrounding YOU and YOURSELF.
haha. yupz.. that's self-interests. If that's the case, there's ulterior motive to benefit oneself in every single action one is doing. Every single action is driven by that egoism conciously or subconciously within oneself. It's a rather pessimistic view of ren2 xing4.
But i believe it is true, people use their own 'well-being' to determine their own actions towards others. And it actually brings about more good than bad. This reminds me of the ethical aspect of Adam Smith's invisible hand. Oki.. enough of ethics...
lol jov~ yup, u have ur views and perspectives from the psychological egoism studies. I wonder if my biosemiotics class would touch on it. So far we did not go into that yet, but we only define self-interests as it is in layman terms of benefits that are not limited to monetary items per se. As i said, u gain when u make the person who want him/her happy to be happy. And yes, when u dive deeper for understanding will raise this question: "why would u feel happy when u make ur loved ones to feel happy?" from the sacrificial or seemingly selfless methods used, one may see them root from the psychological egoism theory jov spoke abt. There maybe other theories out there which i do not know whether they exists.
ps: oh dear, love and marriage issues into psychology/ethics discussions. muahaha