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.
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...
hmm.. blurz.. blurz.. wallet also forgot to bring.. haha..
ermz.. doing stuff with pple of a different mindset is a challenge. But can learn a lot too. Will realise a lot of stuff that you never knew before. Good and bad. And might end up bringing out ur own potential. hmm...
hee. and if you really have NO time to talk AT ALL, instead of putting DND, just appear offline?? I do that now that I starts to unblock pple. And it works!!! haha. obviously, cos no one CAN talk to you unless they sms or call you. Discussions will sometimes miraculously still carry on, if you appear offline only after you join a group/or talk to the person.
Or just don't respond? Then the person will get the idea that you are busy. And really busy. And perhaps, away from comp.
lol... ya lor.. this time too rushed and tired until blur...super blur
hmm mindset.... i tried to sound nicer here by saying mindset... ya style and ideas etc does play a part and let u expose to different ideas and u get to learn something. That one i agree. wat i meant oso here is the attitude towards professionalism... hehe
oh nvm, haha~~
oh DND but still online becos sometimes there are serious discussions or i still need to some specific people. But there are times i really go offline, juz rare~ haha
Maybe that person also hinting you la....