sighh i think i have stayed too long at prof's. i have seen both shi hui and bird leave me for ipho and medicamp respectively. :( not feeling very happy right about now. so i have negotiated with prof and we have agreed for me only to come down for clinics! so that made me slightly happier.

another thing that has made me happy and gay: project runway! my new favourite of the favourites tv show! somehow it really reminds me of my art days. so since i'm inspired, i have picked up my pencils after so long and drew! bird must feel rather special. right now, i look behind me and i see bird and myself staring down at me. :) hahaha only bird will understand this. but looks like i'm drawing more often these days and in the future too since i've received quite a few requests for portraits already haha!

from one hobby to another, if u can call it a hobby. bird has re-inspired me to practice the piano!

gosh i have been really inspired these days. :)

i was looking through all my previous photos and i came across this.. my art stuff! for 2 whole years i slogged through getting my instillation done for the o levels: many sleepless nights, sacrificed in the name of art haha, being the last students out of school (the security guards had to chase us out!), being constantly frustrated at the lack of time, yet being supremely satisfied at the outcome. ahhhh, those were the times i learnt exactly what hard work is, and finally got to experience first hand how "hard work pays off".

my colour page. deciding to use greyscale to match the mood of the piece: sexism. although i would personally have much rather preferred the orange/red one.


























formulating the layout of the final piece. but in reality, i actually completed the whole piece before starting on the preparatory work! haha.. real cheater bug :) so was working backwards the whole time.





















how the whole thing came together. with lots of thanks to mr asman the D&T teacher who built the whole inclined platform for me! :) haha i still have the miniature model i made for him as a guide.


wellwell. that was another chapter closed in my life. really hope i can get back to it when i have the time in the future.

i shouldn't have opened my big mouth. now germany's out of the world cup as well. stayed up till 6 this morning to watch the big semi final and the goals had to come in the dying minutes of extra time no less!

but i have to give the game some credit (and justify why i stayed up to watch it): it was too exciting. heart-stopping at certain parts, but not because my dad was yelping and shouting at every scoring opportunity that nearly always shook me out of my semi-conscious state at various parts in the match. it was really end-to-end action. the papers billed this games as several big battles:

the battle of the world's 2 best goalkeepers
the battle between the best attack(germany? although i'm still wondering why and how) and the tightest defense (italy, ok this i concur)
the battle between the playmakers: ballack vs totti (but somehow i still would rather fancy ballack vs riquelme or ballack vs zidane or ballack vs ronaldhino or ballack vs deco)

but in the end i think it was just the battle with luck. italy was just destined to win after hitting the post twice in a minute in extra time. so let's leave it as that. :)
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ooh i found return flights to london at $998! wonderful!

i was laughing at this the whole day today, courtesy of mandy yap! hahaha.

speaking of pretty things, the bunch of retirees from france have just cleared out my many eye-candies from the world cup. thanks to them i have no torres, no kaka, no mr maggimee to look at anymore. thanks zidane. thanks. and germany just defeated argentina, thanks to the second goalkeeper and my messy messi did not even come out to play. urgh. my interest in the world cup is waning.

ok now for my non-football post. (well technically at least)

i think i am just not adapt as recognising roads. neither is bird nor shihui on friday. according to prof, finding his house is full-proof. just turn into linden drive! very easy one! turns out that this very simple task managed to confuse the three of us a great deal, so much as that we were made to make countless u-turns and emergency stops. not to mention all the horrific lane-changing in heavy traffic that followed the u-turns. i must not drive along bukit timah road when/if i pass my test, not for the first month at least. ayee and today's my first revision lesson!!! what good timing.

germany vs argentina at prof's house on friday night. dr rasheed managed to fortell when argentina's goal would come. he proclaimed it just before riquelme took the penalty, then GOALLL! freaky coincidence.. i should have asked him for the result of the next match and go bet some money on them. haha. everyone's betting nowadays. winning money too. but i'm too hamchi. and that stupid shawn can just put down 50 bucks on this match too.. and WIN $100!

mandy's belated birthday dinner surprise last night was entertaining. we had fun during the planning. scooting from newton to thomson to buy flowers, back to newton to get camera card then down to city hall to meet the rest. it was a night of random stuff, and i have some random comments:
- i must say caroline's really strong to successfully hold mandy's eyes close what with all her struggling and all.
- we all also finally saw the elusive julyn, even if it's just a glimpse.
- caught on to where the MIA part of our class will be going to study thanks to our special link nat. hahha.
- learnt about the ranking system in the army, though i don't think i can remember any other than a leutanent is the lowest of the officer ranks.
-made plans to go visit caroline and abuse her staff discount at nike :)
-the weirdest thing was on the mrt train when some strange american guy started talking about how we should save a broken flower, cows and horses and farms. ???

ahha but the magic of the weekend has ended and now it's back to reality. sitting in the dreary office awaiting my next command.