Welcome 2008

Well I know I know, I haven been putting in effort to drop by and write anything. Its been a pretty busy month came back about 3weeks ago from UK. Although I was only there for 3 weeks, but it seem like forever. It sound like i hated that place but in fact I am slowly growing to miss that place. Everything was nice there espcially the weather it was cold hard to adjust to but once u got adjusted to it everything was fine. As usual been shopping there as well as back in SG, well I manage to get Fred Perry's stuff in London at also a price that was cheaper then in SG as well as a shirt from Paul Smith, well the shirt wasn't something that I thought I would get but the sales that was going on just made me do it.

While I was in UK visited a few states like Birmingham, Nottingham and Lecister where my Uni was. It was an eye opener espcially knowing the fact that this place has a richer and longer history then SG. I always got a strange habit of just standing at one ground and just trying to feel the surrounding. Everything just felt so different, maybe thats what they say what you isn't what you might get!! Haha…

It was a good experince while I was there, the vibe as well as the culture. Would love to visit the place again in the future!!

Well here comes my new resolutions, it may sound cliche but still i got to list them down, hopefully I would be able to achieve them.

1) Start using Illustrator

2) Learn how to use Indesign

3) Focus on getting my license

4) Graduate

5) Win Awards

6) Open myself to more opinions

7) Know more friends

8) Better Time managment

9) Speak with more confidence

10) Tidy up my room

Oh ya before I forget here are the pixs of my trips in UK:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15249368@N00/


HAPPY 2008!!! CHEERS…

a little somethin

i am not : going out on sundays.
i am: sick, thats why.
i hurt: too little.
i love: too much though.
i hate : the smell of stale air
i fear: confined areas and nuts.
i hope: to fly.
i play : musicf.
i cry : when things get to sentimental
i care: too much about my appearance.
i wish: i could talk to someone I could Trust
i always : try not to party too often
i listen: to lounge and indie
i sing: like a crow.
i dance: like a swine.
i search: for the perfect anwser.
i learn: things the hard way.
i feel: that we all need to learn.
i know: the theory of "out of sight , out of mind" well enough.
i succeed: sometimes.
i fail: at math.
i dream: all the time.
i sleep: alot.anytime. but not anywhere.
i wonder: when's my turn to critic on others work
i need: to stop sweating.
i want: to get laid. ha!
i worry: that i m aging too fast.
i have: a bad habit
i fight: for the things that matters.
i wait: for everything. cab. food.
i think: too much.
i can't help the fact that: i think too much?

shopping and shopping and shopping

Another post that is about my crappy life…went to the Fred perry Laurel Store at Ann Siang finally after so long of a wait. Got my self some stuff.

Not forgetting i cook my own cabonara. Well I think cooking the cream of mushroom is much easier and also I think it taste better. I just love stuff that are creamy. Though the first try wasn't that fantastic, but I guess I will improve. So expect more cookeries from me hahaha!! Pixies.








Vain me I just got my short sighted specs…

been awhile now!!

erm finally got some time off from sch work to put in an entry!!
So much reports to be written with so little time, after about 5years off from writing essays I am back at it once more. The feeling is like a whore who repented and was force to work as one again…haha jus jokin! Pretty stress at times but nevertheless its fun I get to learn more espcially on my language, of cause not forgetting the many privillage I could enjoy as a student.

Met up with my buddies over the weekend and guess what Daniel made a special appearance after 2months with his lovely gf Ami. Ami's really a wonderful girl, oh did i mention shes from Japan. Shes really sweet and demure, everyone of us were like so envious of Daniel…on Friday we had dinner at a Jap restraunt in chijmes, the food theres really authentic and I think its like one of the best ones I have been to! And again Daniel was the dude who paid for it…

On sat, we gathered at Dang's apartment again, this time to try out Ami's cooking. Ian and I bought a sushi platter from genki sushi and also about a dozen Hooegarden(we are all so in love with that beer), with Seng later ordering another platter from SAKE sushi.
At about 7.30 the feasting begin, the food Ami cooked was simply "delicious". Everything looks so yummy, for once we had lots of sushi left over, usually its the fastest to get cleared out when we gather. Ami's cookinig is really fantastic, her sukiyaki and Miso soup is really authentic not forgetting Daniel's effort in cooking curry which wasn't too bad either. All in all we had tons of fun and of cause great food.

Thank You AMI and Daniel for being such great host. Not forgetting James for the GOD OF WAR2 game its freaking awesome!!

Well here are some pics over the weekend. Taken on Daniel's cam, sorry for the low res.

Friday






Saturday

been ahwile!!

Well been a busy 3weeks since school started, projects are pouring in. I am pretty much settling back into a student's life. Walking the same route to school which I did 2.5years back. Strange at first, but slowly getting use to it. Its less of a hassle as I've got more time to work on the stuff I have, which I hope I won't abuse it.

Went over to KL for day just to catch Stefan Sagmister's talk!! It wasn't all fantastic, with the norm of the speaker showing his work. Not exactly inspiring but of cause he made some sense about aspiring young designers like myself and my mates! If your into design you would most probably have seen the morbid posters he made for confrences(himself naked) as well as some very famous CD covers. He recently did a CD cover for JAYZ despite rejecting his record company, saying he wasn't keen but JAYZ loved his work so much, he took out the extra cash to pay him for the design fee! Well thats segmister, before the talk a few mates and I actually caught up with him up close, haha well it was a coincidence actually, he was out for cigar and there my maes were puffing on some cheap ciggis, but he was real down to earth, he walked out we greeted him with a smile and he came over and said hi! We told him we travelled for 5hrs to KL for his talk and he was like! OMG, I would never travel more then 20mins to come listen to someone talk!! Best part he called us a crazy bunch haha…and during the talk he actually thank us for making the trip down to KL just for his talk. COOL!


Thats the digital greeting we had from him HELLO! I think he used the font FUTURA.



Well, thats a group photo at the venue, nice building very new. When I first receive this photo, I wasn't able to find myself!! Hope you guys can.

To see more his work visit www.sagmeister.com or you could wikipedia him to know more about him!

a new term

School has finally started this week, it has been a wait of 3 gruelling weeks. This is like my first time stepping back to school after 3.5years. Everything felt different, probably due to the new compund I will be studying at! Till now I felt that it was still a week that was managable, though we already had our first brief on Monday, which the project is due on the 17 Aug a week just after National Day. So that means I will be working on this brief through National Day so that leaves me with ample time to work on the design aspects of the project.

This BA course proves to be a challange for me, as it not only test me in the discuipline of design but also reports and I mean tons and tons of them. I admit I am not a perosn who enjoys challanges in life, but of cause I also firmly believe that a person could not get too comfortable in a place cause it sort of make you stagnant. Well no matter how lazy a person is, I thought he or she should make an effort to move on.

Enough said. Got a couple of rubbish on my wishlist to get, which I hopefully can get em if not I will be damn damn disappointed. Haha. Till then cheers!!

dekonstruct

Todays bloody hot, and it sure was so hot it melted my white air safari's sole. I didn't even realise the soles were tearing apart until I was at Jurong East station, and to think of it I was still happily walking that 900meters from BBDC to Bukit Gombak station crazy!!
At class I was bombard with question by the instructor, fuck man…worse still some questions I was not able to anwser them though I have passed my basic. Stupid me, got to revise some stuff first before I take on my pracs.

Well with my worn out Safari's I still manage to bought a box of 10 muffins from Tanjong Pagar, its really delicious if any of you guys happen to be at the old tanjong pagar market be sure to check them out real nice. Eat them while they are still hot, I promise you will be in for a treat!!

Well class again tml, which i think will be crazier cos I will be going for 2 classes straight. Cheeries.


The muffins!!! I had to queue to grab em!!


The damage to my 87 white Air safari, who has been with me for 3years!! RIP…

pixies

Well I was talking to you about some new furnis in my room as some pickups this month…well been spending a little too much this month. Got to save up abit for next mth I want to get my sony ericsson 800I haha…

So cheerios here are some of the pics!


Asics Onitsuka Tiger, I think…nice colorway




A new desk for my baby Ibook!! Sitting comfortably under those lights(thats where all my net research are made)


And heres where my big boy sits!! Abit messy though!!




Heres the expedit Ikea Cupboard which I have like waited so long to have… and finally I made my trip to Ikea and bought it.
(Sorry for the inverted images!)

Well got to save up nw for a bean bag and of cause a new mobile phone!!

hey hey

Ermm a long break for me indeed…never felt better! Went to Ikea Tampines twice, there were so much stuff to be bought there. Had the opportunity to grab some new furnis for my room, though it still looks like thrash but I am slowly trying to make things happen!!

Been brainstorming for ideas this two weeks for my own book, they look rather exciting and I hope they are. Cause at the moment its still very sketchy and I hope things would work out rather fine! Wish me luck yo!


Helped a friend did up his converse shoes with some wierd images that he wanted, but of cause after some editing and censuring before I pass him the shoes…mel if your reading it, yes this was the shoes that I was talking to you about the last time. Alrite cheeries another 2 more weeks before my new School term starts!!






Haha if any of you guys would want to customise your shoes. Just holla me or snail mail me.

Well another meangingless entry

Yo I look like fuck!!



I am like getting lazier everyday!!!
I so don't feel like working wahahahahaha!!!!

Current love…MOJITO!

BACK!!!

I AM BACK FROM
MY HOLIDAYS

End of SERVICE!!

Finally 27th June, yes its my last day at work…Well work was still pack for the day, my things needed my immediate attention, but there I was taking things easy. Due to it being the last day at work, I felt as if it was a Friday haha… Many things would be missed at work, my colleagues a bunch of looney ones(ELLYNA, Cannie my neighbour and KT) not forgetting the mad rushes for impossible deadlines.
Got a small hamper from my crazy Copywriter, a hamper with 2 small peanut butter and a coleslaw sauce which was clustered up together like a men's gential. Hes seriousily crazy man!! Would miss his constant rubbish in the office, the nutty craps and also hes always so full of shit copies for Singtel!! If you guys happen to read any crappy headlines on the singtel mobile and singnet braodband pamphlet its definetly my crazy copywriter dude who wrote them!!!

Learn many things the hard way at Nerf and Alchemy, but like my shifu Jimmy always says: "you've got to endure the excruciating pain before you learn the finest things in life," which I find it very true up till now.
Oh well another life story chaptered in my journal…ermm I think I would titled it " WHERE I GOT STARTED…".

Well tomorrow would be flying off to Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam) with Ian and my uncle, half business the other half pleasure.
This would be like a second trip, after Bangkok which was like what a year ago…haha I should be excited now but still in my heart I am feeling half hearted, I don't know why! I am always like this, before the whole event I would be so anxious about the trip but as the days draw closer I just felt wierd…maybe its just me!!!

After this trip, I've got to get down to real business again, much things on the agenda to accomplish and hopefully everything would go smoothly for me. Plans for lots of big things before my school ends next year and hopefully I can concerntrate and get what I want…

Was talking to a friend tat day and he was telling me about how he felt after seeing his ex-gf again and he felt remorse…which I think he should be…well he was a real disappointment to his gf and I could imagine the devasation he infliceted on his GF… sunddenly old memories boiled again but well no hard feelings just a sundden thought came to mind, TREASURE WHAT YOU REALLY HAVE AND DON'T LET THAT OPPORTUNITY SLIP, CAUSE GOOD THINGS ONLY HAPPENS ONCES IN A LIFETIME!

well think I've written enough already…I tend to get too engross in trying to note down whatever I want to say and I think it simply just bores my readers hahahaa…got images that I took with my phone today in the office!!!

tasty treats

Been so laszy lately, even on weekend i found it so dreadful to sit down infront of the mac to type anything. Many ideas to execute but again like i just mention I am just plain lazy. Gona kick all the bad habits out and work out some shit…cause I am seriousily going back to school already and I've got to get ready for it, yes you heard me right going bac to sch for my BA in design for about a year. I am also down to my last 2 weeks at work, its a good experince to see and learn so much from almost a year at work, which is the reason why I am finally putting all the good practice I've learned during the 8mths into some really creative projects for my book! Talking about life and such at winebar on friday night, and of cause it was awesome, been out with the guys, and guess what I met Terrence there too, he was spotted in short hair. I almost could not recognised him until i saw his satanic tattoos all over his arms.(Well guess thats what they are for!!)

Well enough said for the work and study part, my bro just came back from his holiday in HK and I made him brought back Krispy Kreme. Fuck! those donuts are delicious. I know they are sweet and high in all those calories and shit, but who could resist such heavenly treats.

Before…

After!
Would be going to vietnam at the end of the mth for a short trip, hope to do some photo shoot there. Oh yes, I finally popped by Cafe Del Mar it was really a nice place for peeps to chill out. The ambience theres great not to mention the waitresses haha they simply WONDERFUL!! Witness the moon setting amongst the dark sky and of cause crashing waves at the beach nearby. We chill till, 5am and everyone was like damn tired!! But the place was really relaxing although they won't really playing chill out music but it was all cool. Nice!! Would love to drop by the place again with my buds again, prob in something more casual.

The dj console…"Hey, Mr. Dj spin that song"!

The all neon green…

To top it off for this mth, I finally bought my imperial jeans at THE LAWN at katong for a steal @$271 bucks, ah seng and me went home two happy dudes!!! Hahahaha…

Well till then wait for my next entry!!

finally a post

Been busy this days, new projects dropping in almost everyday. For you guys who didn't know I Just went for my first reservist, as a RT(REMEDIAL TRAINING) TRAINER for reservist men who couldn't pass their IPPT.

As always reported at the Police KINS training base feeling nervous and tense, not knowing what I would be doing and what I should be doing as a trainer. Kins training camp reminded me of the Old Police Academy at Thompson Road, but of cause the place looks more pleasent and livelier then PA. Kins troopers could be seen walking here and there in their H&K mp5, that made my dear ex squad mate and now colleague bilal real excited.

The programme started on the monday afternoon, which we clocked about 6kms. Everyone looks pretty shaggy, the attitude was expected from this reservist men. We were told by our lead trainer Simone that we had to clock 40km at the end of the whole 5 days programme. The whole idea of this RT programme was actually like a reality check for some of the guys who kept skipping their IPPT as well as for us the trainers to push them and impart whatever we know to them so that they could prepare themself for their upcoming IPPT at their respective division as for this time round the whole group was from ECHO! I did enjoyed myself for the trekking at Macritchie, we did a 15km trek through their nature trail, had the opportunity to walk visit HSBC treetop walk the sight up there was fantastic, the walk was really treacherous but it was all worth it. If not for this reservist I guess I would never visit this place at all. This whole programme did open my mind in some aspects but also sad as it was the last time I would see my buddy DIN, as he is actually joining the civil defence this coming july. Erm well enough said for all this, would be having a review with the PNS Assitant Director on the RT programme. Work resume for me this coming tuesday which I am pretty much looking forward to.Hahaha.

Well enough said ya!!

Everyone in the office were cheering bout this long weekend, like the ad done by JWT Bangkok on cheers beer.

This week at the office have been working on the CMC brochure which was left behind by Terrence the previous designer. His layout were all rejected, which means I had to redesign a newer layout. Was given a very brief direction on how I should design the brochure, played along the likes of colours and boxes. The client was unsure the look and feel that he wanted for his brochure which made life alittle diffcult.

so much to blog

Finally found some time on this Friday night to actually sit down and do some solid writing in my blog, that I thought I have forgotten. Well have been very very busy after switching up to NERF CREATIVE from Alchemy, as well as today was my last pay cheque from Alchemy.
Less tension could be felt at the new office I am situated at and of cause the people I am working with are more down to earth no hypocrites, everyone gives each other respects.

I use to dread sundays while I was at Alchemy cos it ralways gives me that post monday blue feeling. Sunddenly that feeling don't really bother me anymore, have to agree with the experts that the working enviroment and the people you work with does make a difference in how you feel about work. The office is really cosy furnished, though at times its gets a little freezy but it was all good. They have a large collection of design books and magazine that really helps in our research and refrence while at work. Not forgetting the little pantry we have, which also happens to be Ian's frequent hangout either then his desk....haha, but still I miss the convenience of having a coffee machine which I have the privillage to use.

Working seems to be a big part of my life already, even on weekends I would be working on some shit. Haha...got to tell myself to take a break. Burn my last weekend on some stuff from work, though this week proves to be lesser in workload but still I am juggling on 2 macs and of cause did a crash course on adobe illustrator and indesign. Hahaha don't play play ah self taught man.

Just got my hair cut at Paul's salon and I think its great. So lucky I didn't highlight or dye my hair cos my farking reservist letter is here, they are asking me to report to the KINS(KEY INSTALLATION UNIT) at their base in ULU PANDAN as a Trainer, haha so it means having to start training up again!

Got to do some retail therapy soonz, but theres just so much things I want to get but so little money I could afford to spend. Hahaha. Oh well got to live with it and hope that someday I will make it big and ya big pay cheques will start rolling in...haha. cOoL! Well hope to blog abit more on my work again on the next entry, if time allows. Hahaha.

Some pics of the office and my work desk and Ians cos mine and his are linked. Hahaha.
Nerf creative:


Our library:


One of my workstation:


My two lovely colleagues Ellyna and Cannie:


Ian's kuku station:


Haha will input in more images of our pantry and my second workstation wahahaha...