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, July 31, 2007
yucky weekend
too many unpleasant things going on..... so are my dreams.....
recently i had a dream... but a jumble of many episodes.... me and my frens (cant remember who) were like studying in this particular college.... which is like super weird.... I remembered I had to take an open air train (imagine mrt seats without walls and only mere shelter above like those kind of monorail transport u find operating around on the roads in the zoo.) I was abit late and the train started.... i tried to get my luggage up to the 'train'.... but too heavy... And one guy helped by throwing my luggage onto the track, and I quickly grabbed a seat.... actually it doesnt work.... if i were to hold on to my luggage on the track while sitting on the seat, I wld be dragged down to the track due to the luggage's weight. oh nvm, lets continue...
During one of the sch days, duno what happened, both my eyeballs dropped out.... imagine the guy in Pirates of Carribean with the one eye dropping out. Yea.... den somehow i got to pick one and put back on my right eye socket... the thing is both of them has their optical nerves cut off... how issit possible that when i put it back in, i can regain my eyesight? so my next mission is trying to grab back my other eyeball. so sick rite.... there are other weird stuff that i forgot already.
ok back to real life, ever since i realised i have a bulging tummy of fats at my stomach, I had been very upset and trying to get diahorrea in order to 'detox' or 'clear' my stomach and intestines.. but many ppl keep telling me that's not the right way. I tried one slice of papaya with HL banana milk and orange juice one after another. Nothing happened. From this I concluded that I have pretty strong or stubborn stomach .... juz like the rat.... so yesterday I decided to start jogging after 1 year without exercise..... and after I jogged 2 rounds ard the track, rain started to pour. wah lao, thanks man...... eveything juz sux....
and today once i get back to office, my colleagues, happily told me 3 new staff coming in so i had to move back to the isolated junk corner. WTF la. If they sincerely apologise for making me shift again, I would not be so angry. But what's with the f*ish happy face of theirs... what's so happy abt that. happy that i am once again returned to my rightful humble location? wth. and i cant do anything cos the 2 of the new staff coming are perm staff, so they have the status or have the rights to seat at the main office area. watever man, I became very quiet the whole day and I simply cant smile..... so today no one dares to tok to me or tease me.... I had like some sort of black aura ard me.... But by the end of the day, i told myself to look on the bright side and think of the good points at the corner.... I tried to make myself happier and accept things.... but seriously when i told my mum the whole situation right from my 1st day until now, u can see how unfair I had been treated or simply how suay i am. And even my mum agrees that I should have given them some 'colours to see'.... cos though we are interns, we are still year 4 Hons students and should be respected as well and my mum felt quite pissed after hearing my story too. usually my mum is a fair judge and dun believe one sided story. But wat i told her are juz facts....true facts, that's y.
And during the afternoon lunch hour, i travelled all the way to some shop and helped my office to send some files to print and I waited like 2 hours for the prints k.... During this time I walked all the way to Parco Bugis... window shop abit and read some books, and bought waffle and bao for lunch and I sat down at some foyer seats facing the vehicles passing by while eating... I felt super stone.... super melancholy? super miserable.... I tot coming out alone can sort out my tots and collect my emotions before going back office but it made it worse..... oh watever.
argh cant believe this weekend is so sucky. But i believe after a big plunge into the lowest stage of emotions, I will dive up again to move on with life.... cant be too upset at one thing too long. I no longer had that energy and stamina for such anymore. It doesnt mean it will go away totally.... but they juz hung on somewhere in me... until it is stirred again.... I know it's not healthy but cant be help rite? since they cant be totally solved. well, I will move on.......
Sunday, July 29, 2007
1 week ++ of incidents and thoughts. Upset.
omg MIA again? ok la many things to update....
remembered last time I tried durian for the first time during Friday the 13? And remember I gulped down red wine before rushing to Harry Potter movie? One week later on friday again, half of the office ppl went out to this Itlalian resturant near newton or somewhere in Bukit Timah. We had red wine again (yes i gulped it down juz before we set off home). But that isnt the main issue. Well, I tried musscle!!! And pasta with squid ink for the first time. And they are YUMMY!!! hehe~~~ poor boss, he's being ripped off by us..... imagine one bottle of red wine is already 75 bucks....
Anyway recently I began going home earlier like 8 plus pm. ok i know it is still OT and passed the official knock off time, but to me, it's like... 'WALA~~~~ yay~ early leh.' u know wat i mean? how pathetic. Anyway I taking leave off this coming Monday.... since boss is away in China for the most of the following week. good chance to rest eh~
On Friday (juz passed), was Audrey's bdae. I wasnt invited, maybe cause they think I am not so close to Aud. But anyway when I was at the mrt station and about to sms Aud a happy bdae, I spotted Al who persuaded me to go since I am at the right station already. Well I felt paiseh lor but anyway, the dinner's at Little India's particular shop with a super friendly boss and I am impressed at how he made a heart-shaped naan (bread) with a paper message inside. Very sweet of him hehe... We had a hearty time~~
Ok let me side track to some other issues which are not pleasant and has been bugging me for weeks. I have been thinking and recently I reached a conclusion..... Some frens are no longer what they are anymore... or rather, I do not know them well anymore..... ok, i know i am blur at many times and listen wrongly to wat ppl said and I replied things wrongly..... But little gestures and body language, and even a tiny little gasp are very clear to my ears. Each and every hesitation, each and every pause. Somehow I have an acute sense towards all these and I can pick up all these clues and lead to what that person is thinking or why so. Please dun belittle me on this. Most of my instincts are accurate. Some of these frens..... they can still smile so brightly at you, so intimate with you, tok to you but all these are just an act. It seems so sincere that for a moment I forgot about it or fell into the trap. They used to be such nice people but why are they hiding some issues from me which doesnt harm if I know? Since they have such dishonesty towards me or some kind of barrier towards me, I know they do not treat me as their basic frens anymore. Not that I dun appreciate them but they have rejected me.... I am not asking to be their best or good frens to them, but at least a normal fren, and need not hide things from me, or reluctant to tell me abt their lives or wat they are doing, and not trying to avoid and forget me. I do not wish to be suspicious of their actions and their little gestures, and I do not wish to 拆穿 / expose them as I may have misinterpret them. But after so many incidents add together, I cant help but suspect them. If there are some misunderstanding towards me or something u dun like about me, I appreciate that you can at least treat me as a most basic fren out of courtesy by telling me what are your opinions. I may not have meant somethings I did. I am a person who is easily misunderstood, with weird thoughts, emotions, expressions and mismatch body language. I am a weirdo AB+ kid, so I really need extra reconsideration and revised interpretation from other ppl. Sorry that I am born that way. I am not bullshitting here cos similar stuff happened before. I used to be misunderstood and by the time other ppl realised and wanna make up to me, I am already hurt, it's too late. So I dun wish to see history repeated. I am not as pessimistic as before now, so I am still hoping that one day, things will be cleared up.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Harry Potter and yo hoho with a glass of red wine~
"harry..... harry......." with the soft yet rough eerie voices calling out to Harry Potter does make one shivers a while. Alot of smiliar sound effects and graphical tricks used..... so maybe that's y Harry Potter 5 is not any much refreshing, surprising and exciting than episode 1 and 4. And this episode 5 is filmed in such choppy manner with many skips and cuts that it makes one who does not read the book being confused with the discontinuous play at parts of the movie.
Was rushing to watch Harry Potter last night from office at 8:30pm and the show was starting at 9. But b4 I stepped out of my office, my boss who was drinking with the other colleagues, offered me a glass of red wine. It was more than half filled so Kee poured some out to make it abt half. Hesitant but in the end gave in to try. It was good red wine, not much bitter aftertaste, so I drank the rest down in a huff and bid farewell. After I reached cineleisure, my face started to turn quite red..... ops~~ I can feel the blood rushing to my head. When the movie started until the first 1/2 hour, my heart was throbbing louder or heavier and faster than usual.... Well due to the increased blood circulation, my heart had to pump harder too i guess.... so i had to keep trying to calm my heart down. ok, I know I drank the red wine too fast la...... and I wasnt trained to drink anyway..... so.... hahahaa~~ But that red wine is good, I wanna find out the name from my boss.... I dun mind drinking more of it leh~
Monday, July 16, 2007
Possessive guys
sel: lewd? erm next time we meet up den i elaborate la, not going to say anything here...
I really hate it when guys are so .... possessive and that they require you to 'report' to them all the time, like ....wat u do, where u go, etc etc...... maybe some gals dun mind that but too bad, I am someone who doesnt like to do that. i come and go and do things whenever needed. Which reflects my chaotic unpredictable daily activities and lifestyle..... so it is very difficult for me to keep reporting. To family members are already quite minimal, not to mention to other ppl. And worse, when a guy who is juz a fren yet showing that kind of intention ....
I shall start with other ppl first. I know of this guy fren who recently get to know this gal online.... He should know that by words thru such internet media is never guaranteed on its truth and responsibility. So when the gal says things like she dun care about appearance of the guy, etc etc, these are juz bullshit or juz words that carry not much sincerity or truth. Maybe some ppl do mean what they say but when it is from a little gal of 14 years old and from the way she act, very high possiblity it is juz fu1 yan3 or juz verbal romance etc... So i have been telling the guy fren of mine how such things are not reality stuff that he should know that he should not take it seriously. And he kept saying ya ya ya ya, and said he's not pinning hopes on it. Though he said that, he kept smsing and msning the gal, and got frustrated when she didnt reply his msges fast or immediately.. And also get jealous when he thinks she is talking and spending time chatting with her frens and not replying him. And always ask her where is she etc... sounds demanding, impatient and possessive. He admited that he is abit possessive... and when he wanna meet the gal, the gal said she wanna bring a fren along.... and he got abit sian like how is he going to tok to her when her fren ard. HELLO!!!!! If i am the gal, i would do that too k. I tell him to think from the gal's point of view. omg, this guy ar, hopeless man. I shant comment about how kiddish and immature he is when he is still into such thing, but he really lack consideration etc etc and never think abt other ppl, but only himself. This guy is hopeless. And so, I am like the Judge and keep telling him where he does wrong. He would listen and agree but that is no use if he didnt change and continue his mistakes. why am i helping him manz. Maybe I cant tolerate such thinking and behaviour from ppl that I juz wanna hit them on their head and tok sense into them.
And for me.... no, mine is not that kinda things. juz that some ppl maybe out of frens-to-frens concern or juz bored or simply wanna find ppl to tok to... that he smses me recently a few times on what i have been doing these days or where did i go. becos i was offline for many many days as i was sucked in the office mah.... so i think it became weird that I was suddenly offline for a few days and juz curious enuff to sms me. ok la, that i understand.... but if other little details add on to it, the whole thing starts to make me feel abit uneasy and feel as if someone wanna know what am i doing, how i doing etc etc. so this act of 'concern' gets abit weird to me la..... it juz feel unnatural. but there are some ppl who sms me out of the blue saying he's bored, and that one i feel ok..... the startup is more natural and right for frens.... unlike a sudden "hey where have u been"....and so on... yup.... when all these apply to gal-gal, it's ok with me.... hmmm seems i still draw a big line between gals and guys? but there are guys whom i can be very comfortable with, juz like with my gal frens . In the end, it may juz be about the right person, right timing, right words and the right atmosphere..... i juz detest it when guys wanna be possesive and demanding and wanna know everything and set things at their control.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
MIAing for the past few days.....
Omg.... didnt have the time to write abt the outing with my sixoneders last sunday....... means i had been MIA for 1 week again. I am totally sucked by the office....
I tot I could take a day off and bla bla but things didnt turn out the way it should be. more work, more work and MORE WORK!
anyway, last sunday at mind's cafe is at this 2nd lvl shophouse.... so it makes me feel that we are going up for Yum Cha... and when we went in, the dim lightings with ppl shouting here and there, holding cards.... I had this feeling of being arriving at an illegal HK black society gambling den..... haha.... except that there is no smoke la, no one smoking..... there are 9 of us... but somehow we did try to play games that can have 9 ppl playing together. The last game we had with the exchanging cards is darn fun, and challenging when we dun tok. yea, too much shouting has made our voice went hoarse..... esp me....
Now something abt my working environment.... I really think it is a place of showing me wat guys are.... they can be so attached but still likes to see gals, and making very very weird comments and ideas.... (and some to me are morally wrong). but I can only keep quiet and listen....... and rolling eyes to myself..... disgusting but I guess that is the real society. Late at night at about 11, boss came back with lotsa durians.... in the end I managed to try one.... so the thing is... on the
Friday the 13, Julie tasted durian for the FIRST TIME in her life :) Another achievement... I told my boss that after I returned from Sweden, I realised I have been so naive and stubborn and ignorant and so I have been telling myself to try things, as one cannot keep saying dun want to try this and that. Yep, good spirit and better attitude now rite :)
Friday, July 06, 2007
NO LIFE!
u muz be wondering, WHY ON EARTH JULIE HAS BEEN OFFLINE FOR ALMOST A WEEK!!! where the hell she went to?
let me tell u.... i have been stuck in the office til 2-3am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
why.... cos i helping my colleague with his tender drawings.... of cos the things i can help are brainless things but very tedious...... but my colleague is really poor thing..... 1 mth to rush out everything and becos i sat beside him, i can feel his tense when he kept gritting his teeth and so has this 'cock crock' sound from his teeth.... and time to time he smiled sheepishly and asked if he can go and die so he dun have to do these drawings.... his sheepish and boyish grin tried to show that he can still crack some jokes.... means.... he is still within hope and still not giving up yet. Which is good! Those who are in really deep shit for submission will not be smiling, eating, craping jokes and making coffee. He's the type who still knows how to balance time and control his emotions and mindset. Very good.... very admirable for someone who always have heavy night life and goes ard chilling and playing and relaxing ard usually. He has good responsibility. when there is need to be serious to work, he really throw all these luxuries away and work at his best.... he had been working in the office til 3am plus these days or weeks, or rather 1 mth plus already... poor chap but admirable! i usually stereotype such ppl to be those very diao er lang dang in work, know how to club n drink most of the time. but he's making me change my way of thinking at many many things.
Somehow my office ppl starting to call me Xiao Mei.... i think becos i am still like a kid to them.... very stupidly with naive way of thinking things.... and many things i dunno.... and i dun catch most of their funny jokes.... so i am like a silly little gal to them.... -_-" Help.... so much so for being the youngest in the office.
I am having good nutrition in the office... we always have good meals..... and very proper meals with meat etc.... so am i going to grow fat? i feel i have tummy liao!!! well well.... Anyway, going to concuss liao.... shall end here. i havent sleep since yesterday..... ja ne!! looking forward to the 'reunion dinner' tml!!! hehe
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Outings and more outings~
For the past week, there has been several outings... not bad~~ it can be more fun but due to my own mistake, i missed out the one with some of my archi ppl for kite flying and dinner at swenson!!!! Long time i have eaten at swenson... sad.
Last sat, I met up with some of the archi ppl for yx's bdae at jack's place in Marina Square..... after which we went to Starbucks and started sharing ghost stories, mainly from guoyi.... wah kao.... we chatted until no more train of cos but thank goodness there were still buses ard....
Then the day after I met up with sixonders, organised by Yock~ We went to Changing Appetite at Marina Square (again! haha), and I have the membership card....thanks to..... hehe. and finally after so long, I made a big woohaa at the end when we were paying up... anyway things got complicated when we realised or rather, the staff realised the free carrot cakes are for uob (or oub?) credit card payers and ah ba only has debit card... so in the end have to pay... so i brought out my membership card to get some discount and they asked me to sign something... and I stupidly sign without knowing that I am actually signing ah ba's debit card! omg... cock up manz. anyway here the photo... rather good turn up:
Anyway, thurs I met up with my sweden sep bunch of frens cos the HK gal, Ah Ma, whom we get to know over there, has finally ended her 1 year stay in sweden and came to singapore right on the day itself (thurs) for a 2 plus day visit here. So we had a dinner gathering in Newton circus! omg, luckily it is 10 min walk from my office. hehe. here's the grp photo:
ps: I was wearing a thick black dress (looks like trench coat) then, so I was trying hard to feel cool from the heaty surrounding...... argh
So the latest one is a movie outing, which is today... with only the 4 of us including me. the rest are yock, ed, and yk. Went to watch 'the gal who leapt back in time'. simple plot but touching, sweet and talks abt love and frenship. At the end of the show, somehow we are reminded that unlike wat the movie shows, time cannot be reversed, so we should treasure ppl while we can and listen to impt things ppl says.... and that chance comes only once.....and be honest with urself, ur feelings..... i almost cried at the end....
