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.
Monday, May 29, 2006
Aint gd, aint gd
I think it is hard for this restless bird to rest properly. I did so much running here and there in the office cos rushing for a report to hand up by today. I didnt went out for lunch too but asked someone to help me dabow bopiah.
At the end of the day, I ran and walked damn fast all the way from office out to st andrew to meet my team leader. and walked all the way back, weaving through the thick crowds.
Worse still, I wanna catch my Superband show after work!!! Argh, so i chiong out again and walked damn fast all the way to mrt and from mrt to home. I think my spine is really going to recover real slow at this rate. Anyway, I managed to get to watch all 10 teams in time!! haha Superband 魅力无法挡!! U muz be thinking wat's wrong with Julie. Why she's so obssessed with bands? Well, as i said, I am interested in all sorts of arts. They are cool, inspiring and interesting and in their own way a profession, a craft, a skill. Not everyone can equip unless through hard work or inborn with it or both to master well. So I respect people who do arts, not only the other professions such as doctors etc. For arts, regardless it is dance, music, or drawing, I love them all and wish i can do all of them too duh. but I know I cant, at least not at the moment, so I always admired these people from everywhere.
Yea sometimes i have a crazy thought. I keep wondering if I can meet my alter ego somewhere in this world. Whether ornot she lives inside me or somewhere out in this world, i wonder how would she be like? What would she be doing? Sometimes as my thoughts geared towards the fantasy mangaish side, I would imagine her as a jap rock singer of a band, or someone who is damn good in fighting with some weapons etc etc. I dunno. There's never a conclusion cos my brain and mind likes to drift and find new ideas and get inspired all the time. Yea, by looking at this circumstances, I am going to be thrilled with my own thoughts most of the time. And will I leave any time for this world? Of cos I did! In fact now I am deprived of having my own fantasy world. I gave this world too much of me; of my time; of my soul and mind; of myself.
beautiful Sunday~~ Another narration of the day
well I had a nightmare before I woke up this morning.. not abt ghostly stuff but i dreamt that i had 2 of my front teeth dropped off!! what the hell! What does this mean~ >.<~
Woke up with the rainy weather which had set comfortable climate for sleeping but of cos I didnt juz sleep the day away. Woke up at noon and started doing some stuff and chatting. I was planning to go school early to collect my 2 heavy portfolios and go orchard to shop before going to Toa Payoh for dinner outing with the sixoneders. However, the rainy weather stopped in late evening and so after I set off to sch. I got my archi fren to help carry my portfolios down before he went off shortly for his summer programme. I got myself a grumpy taxi driver and in the end i tried to carry my porfolio abit to the taxi, ending up straining my back further more. By the time i was sitting in the car, i knew things are not ok with my back. When I reached my house, Dad as usual insisted and helped to carry my portfolios up from the taxi. And I realised age caught up fast on him especially when one always slacked at home and did no work. I could see him no longer able to handle the 2 portfolios like he used to. Quite sad and heart-aching to see so I insisted on carrying one of them. Finally after these were done, it was abt 5pm already... and I couldnt walk properly anymore.
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We had food at Sizzler and due to past experience at similar branch in suntec, this time round I didnt order main course. The salad bar is sufficient to make me full and indeed my stomach is bulging now. >.< darn, i ate too much? The rest of them were saying wat a rare sight to see Julie eat so much. Well, I think i mentioned before that if the food is desserts or snacks, I can eat alot. So the stuff at the Salad bar turned me on. hehe~
Crap, the cream i applied on is not only cooling but also biting into my bones... still it feels shiok. I think if Wm hadnt been so kind enuff to send me straight to my home, my back pain would be in a worse state than it is now. yup, thanks wm!~ Really bu hao yi si to trouble u. Anyway tml i have to work, hence I cant bear to spend 50 min or so to travel back home. Need to settle some stuff for work tml as well.
I am already decidimg whether to skip lunch tml.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
bad posture?
Went to the doc....and she flipped through my past records saying that the previous x-ray showed that my bone is normal... so now, she thinks that I had strained my muscles aka ligaments there at the bottom of the spine, probably due to bad posture for long hours cos I also told her i spent almost every waking hours at my computer desk.
hmm so this is some sort of muscle strain... hmm first time encountering it so this is new experience. My poor ligaments... I have been sitting at my comp etc for so many years.. why suddenly i have such problems now? Is it telling me that I am getting old and my body no longer strong enough to withinstand stress and strain? Or that it is not as hardy as it is after previous incidents of falls and such?
at least i didnt fracture my bones. Thanks everyone for your concern~ Though this needs quite some time to recover, I am fine and genki as ever~ :D
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Spinal Injury?
For almost 2 weeks, I have been walking around in pain but i juz go on with my life as it is.
Remember that I fall on my butt before? It was ok for at least half a year already. But recently, the bottom part of my spine hurts so much that I cannot bend down or bend up my legs. In other words, cannot strain any of my muscles there. I tried to maintain straight posture all the time but now when I sit down, it hurts still. And I feel some bits of the pain when walking. Of cos, i cannot sit on the floor cos of the hard surface.... so I can only sit on cushioned chair.... Even when I lie down, the pain still throb...
Suddenly I feel old... And how an elderly feel and move abt. In fact I am still in a better health condition than them but I think I may have a side-effect when I grow old... I hope this pain will go away and watever it is will recover. So this sat I'm seeing a doc... mum keeps nagging me to lie down... hhaha, no way.... i dun wan to look bed-ridden.
Monday, May 22, 2006
A beautiful weekend!!
It has been a nice weekend~~ On Saturday, the sixoneders had an outing in Live Music Cafe at marina square vicinity. Well, sort of celebrating jovie's bdae and also getting the chance to pass yock her belated pressies from us haha...a long time since we all went out together huh~~
I didnt sleep much before the outing cos the whole night was trying to make boxes to hold the pressies. First time doing them and trying to imitate those that are sold in those gift shops.... and bought wrapping papers from I-Print shop located at Citilink. so I got pretty excited during the process... yock had a pink one while jo had a purple one. wanna see my product?? hehe...

and now the purple
I am thinking maybe i shld start making boxes to sell.... 3-5 bucks each? depending on size i guess... hehe~~ Julie box shop is at ur service, do place ur orders!! haha~~ ok, back to the outing. Cai Li Lian really has a good voice n we stayed til 11:15 plus pm. Mich left earliest, den yock, and finally the rest of us. I love the special drink we ordered. A nice citrus (yock said it tasted like yakult) taste and have pearls and jellies inside!!! Awww, i love the pearls!! And it has been a long time since I ate them... when is the last time i had bubble tea?? hmm... seems years ago.
Anyway we took a few photos in the cafe: (oo btw, these pics are reduced to smaller size, so if anyone needs larger version, msn me ok~)

1. the 5 ladies~

2. ok this one rite... the gals purposely wan my head to be the biggest in the photo cos jovie kept complaining her head is big.... so my face got the most part of the flash, giving me a white wash over my face, and the rest didnt get the light. this is sooo weird... i look totally like a cut and paste picture on them. I had a sleepish grin and look cos i was thinkning it would turn out looking crap. I tried to reduce the light on my face and this is the best i can do for now :)

3. all right, me and yockie. They said i didnt smile... are u sure ornot. see carefully, i did!!!~~ I aint acting as a 冰山 lady who doesnt smile haha~~

4. Jovie, me, yock, and weimin all ordered the same drink. the special drink. aww so delicious looking arent they~~

5. ok the guys~~ 3 of the guys turned out for this outing... and they are still trying to escape from my camera as usual except yk who is sporting enuff to give his smile for photos. that's the way mah~~
Weimin drove us back with his 'schoolbus' again~~ yay~~ thanks wm~~ lol we girls are so noisy at the back... with mei being too hyper due to sleepiness and me being too nonsensical due to sleepiness... so ended up jovie laughing and crapping with us all the way until we left. Oh the guys juz let themselves entertained by us.
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Sunday, I aint spared from having fun! Mei and I decided to shop this afternoon at Far east plaza and thankfully enuff, the sky gave its grace and brought us nice cool non-rainy weather after the morning shower. And we 2 combed the disorientated shops for hours and we are both glad we bought something. I cleared 3 items from my list while Mei is happy with her half-bodied cardigan. hmm i dunno how or wat to call or name that kind of cardigan..there shld be a name for that type of style. Pretty sad when I realised many of the shops i knew before were gone and replaced by new brands and owners...
Outing, shopping and gaming. wonderful weekend, aint it? :)
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Work Life - healthy or unhealthy
This is the first time I dreaded working life so much.... When I was working as Graphics designer, it seems ok... Maybe cos the company is so near my house, so I get to sleep more, and go home earlier, without those squeezing business on mrt and etc. I could take bus simply from the bus stop at the other side of the overhead bridge, and not walking like mad for 5-10min to reach mrt station.
That's not it. Another thing is there's simply no time for anything. I woke up at abt 7am... 8am left house... When i drop off from work at abt 6:30 -7 pm plus, I reach home at abt 7:30-8pm.By the time I had dinner and rested a while, it's 10 plus and before I knew it, its already midnight and had to sleep. Not to say the time to do jogging or any other form of exercise. Thus usually I am always lack of sleep, of exercise and so on while I get to sit at the chair the whole day in office. After work each day I may get headache due to the work. Unhealthy lifestyle!
But then again, let me think of it in another way. It forced me to sleep earlier, the latest i will stay up will be abt 2am now, so abt 12 midnight to 1am most of the time. Before this, usually I stayed til 4-6am. Bad bad rite?...Now no more. Another plus point is I get to eat my meals!! I HAD to. I didnt get to skip lunch as everyone is eating together and if I dun, I will get hungry easily in the cold office.... >.< One more thing is, I dun get to snack in office. No one ard in offce does that. So i only brought a few pieces of candies to wake me up. That's all. Hmm, good rite. Another thing is, I get to drink water!!! Everyday I will get my mug to fill with water from the pantry. So at least I drink 1/3-1/2 mug of water. It still seems so little but compared to my daily life at home, it is better already, isnt it?
Hey so much plus points, but still I have no time for anything, which is bad. I dun like it. By the time I got off from work, I dun have the mood and energy to shop ard even though marina square is bustling with shops and activities... I feel old and tired. haiz~~ working life... with serious work.... headache....
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Bdae photos
hehe didnt I promise u guys abt the photos for bdae parties? Here they are, but i only choose to show one for each. :)
Firstly, the archi group~ celebrating for the five May-babies

Now, the one for my anime fren. Yea the guy sitting at the back in the middle. He's our anime club's webmaster... aka programmer too. Yea, I bullied him whenever we worked together to build the club webbies. Hmm, lucky that the *erhem* other person never come and bash me or claw at me. :)
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Nightmare: Almost got on a DATE with a stranger!
I almost had a date. and it's something i DON'T want.... not with a stranger at least!
I am not sure whether I told some of u about this... well 2 years ago, a guy named Shin messaged me in friendster and he said he's interested in Architecture and hence tat's y he found me. So out of politeness I talk abt archi stuff to him and thus that's all. Later he started asking me out but I keep refusing many times. Abt a year ago or more than half a year ago, I made it clear to him I do not like to meet strangers. Even if love is also about finding and meeting the one that suits u in the big big world, I do not like to create that kinda chances by manual... like this type of dating. It's awkward oso. I believe in natural way and that's wat in my definition, as fate. I hate to meet strangers ok... So now here the story goes for today:
I logged into msn using windows messenger today from my office... which is quite illegal under the 'rules' there but a number of ppl still use la, but muz be discreet. so after i logged on, a person msned me. becos there's no nick, n only email being shown, i cant really remember who he/she is. somehow i keep thinking it was my ex-colleague from my previous company all the way back to the before-uni times. So I was chatting with 'her' all the way to the evening, thinking she's the person and i never suspected something weird when 'she' mentioned she did art and craftworks in building military models... like tanks and planes models u see ard in toy shops... later 'she' said wanna meet me on Monday for dinner, and so i said "sure, if nothing crops up". After i got off from work and met up with some archi frens, i got sms from 'her' and i find it strange and more strange, especially when she said she's planning where to bring me to eat on monday. Finally I asked who she is and he said, "I'm shin from friendster. Ring a bell?" OMG, damn, it's the person i wanna siam from and I have been talking so nice to him juz now on msn without knowing that is him! my god, no wonder he thinks finally I am giving him a chance after 2 years.... gheez.
I was so scared, dun dare to reply back. I was with ailing, felicia, ros, wenjun, qx and adib at esplanade open-air hawker centre then, so all of them wanna helped me out although they wanna do it out of excitement too. Wenjun offered to meet Shin on monday and intro himself as me... haha erm... Or act as my boyfren to go meet him. But I dun think it will really work... After much persuasion (esp when wenjun became so fierce to order me to solve this problem at that moment), so I replied back in sms, "erm, I'm sorry but no thanks. As I said before, I dun meet up with strangers." And he typed, "Oh sigh... I tot finally I can ask u out after 2 years already..." Den after a few sms, I had to say "Sorry, I'm attached." And his next sms is... "oh well, wish u live long and jovy".... haha but since he's so nice to wish me well, so I said "Thanks! u too!" out of courtesy... At this moment of time, everyone was scolding me for replying him and that i shouldnt be nice anymore... it will make him think he still got chance. So finally he said "It is like u score an A in exams. Den later the examination board told u it is a Mistake." Hmm, so I guess he's makling me guilty. This time I heeded everyone's advice and stopped replying him anything... WHAT THE HELL....
how did he got my number?? it muz be that time when I announced my phone on msn nick. OMG.... wat a wrong move. The WORSE thing is I told him I worked in DPA and it is at Marina Square!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........ and the others were joking that maybe next time I will expect a bouquet of roses sent to the office for me. Wah lao! Nightmare!!!!! Damn it.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
2nd day at work
It's worse. I keep dozing off in the morning part all to the way to lunchtime. Den from lunchtime doze even more until 3 plus. And suddenly it seems I have gained enough brain power that I began to work really hard. And by the end of the day, I've finished amending 5 floor plans. But of course more changes are being told to me, so more work to do still.
darn, i think ppl spot me dozing off cos the partition walls are not very high... gheez~ haha. BUt seriously, looking at plans and plans and nothing but plans is tiring.
Monday, May 08, 2006
First day of work at DPA Pte Ltd
Now i know where DP Architects office are... amazing it's at the topmost floor of marina square... erm the buildling i mean. Wow , i can go go shopping at marina sq or suntec easily!
First day of work.... well it depends on what team and leader u got. Some started to do alot of work. Some of us on the other hand, nothing much to do. For me I asked them wat I can do and they gave me plans and elevations to ammend according to the advice and replies of URA on their particular work. I will NOT reveal the project name and the contents as these are confidential stuff and I have agreed to the rules in the contract.
Anyway, after the lunch and started doing some work, I keep dozing off.... gosh hahaha... and keep doing so until 6pm.... in between some times i would be more awake though. The best is i even dozed off while my hand is rested on the waist, aka 叉腰, so to other ppl behind my back, it seems i am awake and thinking hard and staring at the monitor screen to solve the plans. hehehe~~~
i slept at 3 plus last night cos i went to watch 再说一次我爱你 movie file that a fren passed me. The show is nothing special... and didnt bring me crying like mad, juz feel sad and sniff sniff abit. The show juz wanna make Liu De Hua look charming, sey, and gentle or cool. Yea, that's abt it. Another thing is, this show made me decide all the more I shouldnt learn to drive.
Sunday, May 07, 2006
bdae parties 2
yesterday celebrated an anime fren's bdae at his house. bbq and cakes again! yum~ lol guess wat. today's my dad's bdae too. omg, 3 bdae celebrations and 3 cakes to eat on 3 consecutive days! my stomach is bulging. i love all the cakes, however for yesterday's one, i feel pity for the cake cos it's a haagen daz cake! and becos there's no space in the freezer, it was put at the bottom part of fridge, and it melted really fast after taken out. so in the end, it's quite a sad sight to see. but everyone quickly scoop from it together... wah, like having 'earthquake'* together. (*earthquake is made of several scoops of ice cream, found on swensen's menu)
Yesterday something funny happened at clementi central when i'm on my way to take mrt. There's pasar malam all over and i was trying to get into main lane. Suddenly a man said "hello" behind and I heck care, thinking he wasnt refering to me. Later he went up to my side and said "hello" again. I looked up from the floor and leaned back in shock. It was an early 3o's looking guy. He looked up at me for a while and said in mandarin "where are u from?" aka "你是哪里人?" I was so puzzled and gave him a sad frown and stare and without saying anything, I walked away quickly, and i had to walk on the horrible concrete tiles with holes outside the shelter. Imagine walking on those with heels.... it's irritating. He's so weird, asking me where i'm from.... dun tell me he's from places like china etc and hoping to find his hometown mates here. crazy. whatever the case, i think he's embarrassed for having ppl like me to bo chup him. The people in front and at the back heard him lor cos they turned to look at him and me.... so i guess he will feel paiseh. Sorry ar, cant be helped. I dun tok to strangers. This reminded me of the airport incident where this late 30's -40's big tall businessman-looking guy chasing after me.
Anyway reached my fren's place at near 6pm... and almost everyone was there already... I was supposed to come earlier but ... haiz, actually i am pretty confident in finding his block but never did i realise i will take the wrong direction instead.... haiz. Anyway, I reached there and whoa bbq smoke greeted me and already filled the whole corridor. haha~~ I saw some of his fren's whom I juz get to know beforehand during his gf's bdae last year... so ok la, I dun feel too out. Cos the rest are his pri, sec, JC frens. I am the only odd one out besides his gf. only me and gf is same gang actually but u know la, she is the gf ma... so I am the only lone figure lor. muahahah~~ (qh, dun wack me ar, i kidding). But his frens are really nice, esp. liting and mich cos though they already have own cliques, they never left me out and accompany me. And becos of their positive feedback, I am able to have stuff to talk to them and present myself naturally. We talked alot alot of things. And there are times we go into deeper issues, hence we are not simply having superficial communication. This is amazing. They are really nice and sociable people and they let me have the opportunity once again to be myself and back to that anything-oso-can-talk person who used to be very energetic and hip!
Probably becos we are still new to each other, maybe tt's why we are still polite and considerate. I dunno but we simply have fair share of communication. In most cases when ppl already have close frens or own cliques, they tend to talk more among themselves. But in this case, ppl like liting and mich never did that. I think I am very grateful for that. It has been a long time since ppl appreciate my presence. And actually because they also give positive feedback (response) and sharing us stuff too, that's y i am able to respond back and share stuff as well. I think it is very important in HR (human relations) to have that kind of communication. Remember the Johari window theory? yea. Sometimes, when the other person couldnt give me any feedback, I also have nothing to say. Or maybe when our interests and level of topics or understandings are no longer matched. Anyway, Liting said I have the charisma or in chinese, 气质,and I felt so touched. It has been a long time i hear those words again. I guess only them will see this side of me now. Thanks girls, actually u all are the ones that made me release that side of myself again.
It raked my past memories.. when I lived through the days of hell since late pri school. From that day I no longer understand my worth of presence until I found it through getting good grades. To have ppl appreciate my presence, it seems to work if i have good grades. (this happened in pri, sec sch) so i worked damn hard and top with the rest of the snobbish ppl who used to mock at me. And to find my presence for myself, I found it by drawing, hoping ppl to hear my voices within them. Hence I drew and practised like hell to make sure I can convey thru good drawings. Therefore it built up my days from young.... And going thru so much until now, it made me the way I am today. In some parts of me, I am like a child who has stopped growing after these started. The details have faded in my memories after so many years but the cuts that left behind are still so clear. I still wish ppl will appreciate my presence, like a child wishing to know his/her worth in the society and begging for ppl to hear his/her inner worlds and thoughts. Therefore, whenever ppl stop to hear me speak, I am grateful for every single moments of that. I didnt take that for granted, do u know that? I never did. Some ppl may be too used to ppl hearing them all the time that they simply forget to give chance to others or simply take those moments for granted. It doesnt harm for them anyway, so why they care?
Whatever it is, there's still this child who in the end fought for so many years, and still unable to have ppl stop by to actually listen. But the child's still beam with happiness whenever someone stopped by occasionally to greet and hear the child. The child only listens to the murmurs and keep silent, and sees the blurry motions of the lost time and reaches those who really wans to hear not for superficial reasons.
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Bdae parties!
haha after pervious post on hateful work, now it's about parties!! yea... so many ppl having bdaes~~
well there's 2 recently. One juz celebrated at costal sands, another is tml at ang mo kio. Well today's one is really enjoyable. It is actually a celebration for 5 people becos their bdae clashed during exams or etc so now they have a joint celebration! I am really amazed at the organisation and preparation and with help of so many people. It's heartwarming~ And everything is really nice. food, chatting, etc. I really enjoyed myself. Thanks for inviting me!~ :D making me so envious ahaha~~~ jokes and laughter is all i can say. and everyone is so onz in doing funny stuff especially the bdae people. haha~ I am so full now~~
Tomolo will be another fun and stomach-filling day ahaha~~ gosh... hope i dun grow fat. Well, i will upload photos once i get them from people. Yea my camera is having the freaking red streaks moving across the lcd screen again... in other words, spoilt.
I only left sunday to rest for this week i think and 8th may will be my First day of work in DP Architects Pte Ltd. Yea a huge company that did esplanade and other commercial buildings. So tiring~~~ Hey ppl, next time outing can come to marina square there liao haha. and find me after work!! haha kk~ kidding but seriously i wont have to travel so much if i have town outings after work with frens since it's soooo near town. hiak hiak hiak~~~
Friday, May 05, 2006
Work, work and more work!
hey this hols is aint starting easy...
After exams and usp essay assignment, I have been doing some work as well... "wat work?" u would ask... and it will be things like, portfolio to send to the Lund Uni's ppl, next moment will be oh need ur softcopy of AR3323, and need to show wat we did for AR3323 for usp's cbm integration and due to failure of us finishing a report for it as usp assignment, we need to do a report now and proposal of how to carry it forward to next sem. Basically alot alot of end pieces to pick up la. Ended up I am so exhausted packing and looking for files, reducing their sizes, and stuff like that. Now i have no mood to play as well.
weird huh, at first when there's work, i feel like playing. When there's no more impt work, i dun feel like playing. With more stray pieces of work to pick, even more sian to play. urgh. I juz wanna sit at home and rest and really do nothing, and i really mean nothing... okok, maybe stuff like watching tv and animes only. This afternoon going to school made me realise that even climbing overhead bridge is such a chore... and that's unhealthy sign. And to think next week onwards I'm gonna climb so much more overhead bridges, I dun dare to imagine. Yea, hope i'll adapt to the working life again.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Mission Impossible 3
In the end to avoid making more awkward hesitation from the guys, i quit asking them further. Hehe, anyway i asked yock, an ex-colleague and his gf for the movie IM3. Thanks mei for the free tickets. It's really worth it.
It's free seating as I think it is some opening ceremony thing for the new Cathay Cinema/Cineplexes in Douby Ghaut. So at abt 8:30 plus, we went up to the theatre. It's nice~ Screen is damn huge. haha~ the architecture of the building is somewhat similar to Cineleisure cos of the atrium that punctured from the top levels all the way down.
The show is incredible and never regret watching it. I will regret if i didnt watch it manz. The plot is sooo exciting, and of cos again I drool or in better word, amazed and apalled by the wonderful technology and gadgets that the IMForce have. I love one especially. The one that can create skin to wear on ur head to look exactly like the person u wanna imitate, and also your voice can change to his. This time the team comprises 4 people including Ethan Hunt. The following description is what they did:
In Italy, a huge ball is held in a luxurious hall of some grand building. The team had to capture a bad guy who will be coming to the ball. The lady from the team dressed up as a rich HK lady in a posh sports car, while the other guy initally intruded the place as a DHL postman and later changed costume into a photographer to get into the gallery, den quickly dressed as the receiving police guard and came out in time to let her female team mate into the hall. She walked into the hall and spotted the evil guy named David within the crowd. She took out her make-up power kit and pretended to touch up while the cover actually took photos of David. These images of his face is sent to another guy at the underground with the tools to make the face skin. From these photographs, they are placed in a 3D software which generate a 3d head of the guy (in reality it is not possible!). From the 3d file, it is transmitted to this wonderful machine that is a circular loop with tracks that have 2 lasering points to laser out the contours of the skin's detail. The next step, this gadget also spray paints to look exactly like the skin colour of David's. Ethan put it on and then had a voice-changing piece of stuff paste on his throat. Later they managed to catch David in the toilet and forced him to say some particular sentences that dun make sense but they actually helped the team to record all his possible sound waves and stuff. Within 30 seconds, the data is sent to that piece of voice transformer and made Ethan also sound like David! Cool huh.
There's lots more cool action and plot and witty ideas the team used. I wanna applause the brainthinkers of this movie. They had good ideas and yea, I wish i have those technology. Ok no more spoilers. :)
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Bad Mood?
Thanks ed, for reminding me not to bow down to reality all the time. But den again, I usually dont win in that battle. muahaha~
Yesterday night was in a foul mood, probably alot of things triggered me so. And I learnt how words can twist the real intention behind.
There's a few things I hate:
1. When people bo chup me for many times
2. When people treat me as a fool
3. When people promise me something yet in the end never do
wat else. cant remember now. Anyway, these are happening very often, almost daily. But I always kept quiet. Until I can juz burst out one day. Yesterday a few things happened and together with some matters to settle, I juz went 'off'. Actually juz voicing out my displeasure that's all but they sense my silent anger in it bah. I am sick of being nice to ppl when no one appreciates. I wanna be devil. I wanna to be an attitude person. Though I am not cut-out to be one. I am juz sick of having to tolerate so many things. I cant take it. And I dont see why I have this problem all the time. You may tell me that I juz bo chup and dun care them, then that's end of the problem. Sorry no, that's too naive ok. U cant bluff ur own feelings. and dun try to bluff urself. It hurts more in the end.
And one more thing before I end off. There are many things I said, or asked or wat, there isnt much symbolic referencing inside. So please do not think too much sometimes.... it may offend u. And I dun wish to let that happen. :)