Can't help taking this shot.
Can you take a look at that crazy amount of food stacked up in the trolley??

well, they have two.


going for war or wot?

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anyway, here's one of those multiple blog entries due to my laziness and constant procrastination that resulted in plenty of drafted blog entries with non published.

met up with kelv for lunch with my mom and wilson at east coast road's beach road prawn mee.
as usual, the place was packed with people. business going strong. kelv wanted to meet up with us for laksa at first but i convinced him to a change of plans.

after prawn mee we went for dessert at katong.

the ice is not the typical ice-kachang type.
it's thinner and more flakes-like textured and tasted damn good.


Strawberry Snow Ice

kelv ordered mango and wilson had chocolate.

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Did i mention that i bought a new gfx pen? of course not. lol

oh well, yea i did. like.. FINALLY. so i started using it with my first project to test how good it is to finally be able to use a gfx pen rather than a mouse to photoshop my pictures. (i have no idea how i survived with a mouse)

sano once showed me a website that linked to a illustrator technique - imitating that of scanner darkly's way of editing photos.

i don't have illustrator but photoshop will do anyway.

i havent got the time to sit down and just draw for one whole day so for several nights and a weekend afternoon, here's my completed work.

if you recall, DENZEL the baby visited my office with his folks and so i've directly edited on the photo.

so.. obviously outline wise, it's traced.
but colouring wise, i tried to stick to how the picture is but shading wise, i'm pretty much on my own.

i kinda liked how it turned out. so much for a first attempt!


new hair cut.
and oh yea. contact lens. like finally also.



wilson's funky new do.



wilson n i brought his friend, guo wei, over to toa payoh's botak jones outlet and treated the bdae boy to a triple patty beef burger. his friend is tall and big but NO ONE survives the beef burgers from botak jones! he was so full when he finished his second patty i thought he was gonna puke beef when he struggled with the third.

quite amazing. i was nearly puking beef when i had mine and i ate only 1/2 a patty. geez.

i had fish and chips for a new attempt.
omg lah.
so damn big can the fish.
nearly puked fish.
my plate is not small alrite, and the fish is even bigger than my plate WTH?

while we ate my fries kept falling out of my plate.
when i finished my fish, i hardly touched my fries (too damn full).



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FREE CONE DAY!

yea so like what the name says, it's free cone day @ ben and jerry's.

so along with lotsa stinky students, we queued under the mildly hot sun but thank god they handed out fans!! and the fan is very cute.


meet my twin at work. she got smaller face than me.. DAMN.

almost unsuccessful attempt in group shot.
hand too short. cant hold it any further.

Read this article from a colleague's blog and thought it was pretty sweet so I decided to post it up to share.

Time a 5 min break to read this thro if you can read chinese.

I guess it goes out to show that more than often, we assume too much and think we're right in our line of thoughts and by doing so, we simply misunderstood / comprehend other's actions. i guess it's always easier to think that something is wrong when believing something is right is somewhat just a wishful thinking.

i read about this notion from terry goodkind's novels.

It's a very simple line, and amusingly tho not related, immy n I like to use it quite alot.

"PEOPLE ARE STUPID"

"People can be made to believe any lie, either because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it's true."

when we fear, we instill life into these fears. and when that fear becomes too strong, our emotions overrides reason and without consideration of perhaps even the most obvious contradictions in our line of thoughts, we immediately conclude that so and so has happened. it is due to our fear. truth is, it might just be the opposite.

一度C的溫暖



一對夫妻面對突如其來的經濟變化，那一年的冬天，他的事業幾乎一敗塗地。

他們不得不搬出豪華溫暖的公寓，在市郊另租了一間簡陋的房子．房內陰冷潮濕，一如他們當時的心情。

他對她說〞相信我，會好起來的！〞她信。



白天，他在外面疲於奔命，有時一整天也不打一個電話回來．她理解他，知道他在外面所做的一切都是為了他們的將來。

晚上回到家大部分時間裡，他總是一個人坐在電腦前查資料、整理訊息、打客戶電話，然後昏昏地睡去，他很少和她閒聊。

她理解他，知道他很累，需要休息。



但不管怎麼累，他都要天天洗澡，那是他多年養成的習慣。浴室裡只有簡陋的沐浴，這讓她很懷念那套曾經溫馨的豪宅。

想起以前的日子，她有些傷心，因為她突然發現他不在乎她了。

不再對她噓寒問暖，這從洗澡這件事上就能看出來。



在以前，他總是讓她先洗，他自己卻留著一身臭汗在客廳或者書房裡，直到她洗完。這樣的體貼曾令她自豪和感動。

可是現下，他總是要先洗。每當她要走進浴室的時候，他就會突然說，我先來吧！

然後她便聽見浴室裡嘩嘩的水聲，生活的艱難磨去了他的紳士風度，改變了他們的相敬如賓，更削減了他對她的愛戀，

她想他為什麼不能繼續讓著她呢？這是不是說明他已經不在愛她了？


後來有一天，她終於忍不住了，問他為什麼。他楞了半天說，在外面跑了一天，一身的臭汗不舒服，所以急著沖一下。

她幾乎絕望了．他終於不再疼她了！她不僅僅失去了以前那棟豪宅，並且正在失去丈夫的愛情。


那一天，照例他出去了。她百無聊賴，打開了他的電腦。她驚奇的發現他竟然天天在電腦上寫日記！

她慢慢地讀著、讀著，然後眼淚股股留下。

她看到這樣一段文字︰今天她問我為什麼總是要搶在她前面洗澡？

我沒有說實話，我怕她為我難過，浴室很冷。

但我知道，在沐浴完以後，那裡面的溫度會升高一點點，３度、２度或者１度。



我想，那樣的話，她在洗澡的時候該會暖和一些吧？在這段艱苦和寒冷的日子裡，我想，我至少還能送給她這１度C的溫暖吧？！

omg lah my colleague gave me these links and I nearly went nuts.

It's the PAPER MUSEUM website.

I NEED COLOUR PRINTER!!! *ROAR*

you guys go check it out yourselves k? If you have coloured printers can even start printing out to make your own paper crafts.


DOLL HOUSES

if you wanna make paper doll houses like the above, just click on the picture and it'll link you to the page automatically. There's a whole bunch of display design you can adopt.



OBENTO

Click on picture to get to direct link.

Go explore urself yea?

Have fun.

Baby Dexter Denzel comes to visit.

don't ask me why but I have this bad habit of calling the baby "Dexter" somehow.
That name got stuck in my head.

Cute lil fellah ain't it?
He's a month old already.

He's dad and mom brought him to the office for all the adults in the office to go nuts for the nxt one hour.

I have no idea why... but somehow that baby just ended up in my arms. (kena sabo)


those cheeks.. very pinchable aye?

Denzel's pretty expressive and alert for a newborn.
Babies are normally pretty disoriented and won't really know where to look but this lil fellah here, he looks right at u! (and the camera)


OI! I tot i say no photo-taking!

my stupid colleagues say the above expression is because my hair was poking the baby.

Sorry lah!

I noticed how near my boobs is to the baby.
panicked for a split second and don't ask me why.

BEHOLD...! THE FURRY MONSTER BUNNY!!



i wanna say it's hideous, i can't.
i wanna say it's cute, it's weird.
it's... hairy. like.. big time.

it's really funny but thank god it's in air con area. how to survive with such a coat!?

i saw it in a pet shop located in novena's shopping mall. think it's now called novena velocity or wadever.

i had fun lookin at the cute bunny rabbits and hamsters and wilson was commenting on how well groomed and taken cared of these animals are. the hamsters looked very healthy and had nice coats of fur.

my nxt breed of hamster to keep will be a roborovski. they look really cute.



i heard they are some pretty fast runners so i guess i better not bring them out too often lest they start to escape. they're not very big in size but life span's longer than some other breeds of hamsters. around 3 years if i'm not wrong and these hamsters are more rare so they're pretty expensive. this hamster was seen at the pet shop in novena as well and they're being sold for $30 per hamster. at pet shop lovers they're being sold at $40 per hamster.

expensive.

my winter whites were only $18 per hamster.

speaking of hamsters, here's a update on my surviving bai bai aka. stinky babies.

the picture below is NOT, i repeat, not showing the hamster peeking out.

what it is doing in fact, is SLEEPING.

no joke! i realised my hamsters don't just close their eyes immed when they sleep. their eyes are open and they are as if in a daze. they only start to close their eyes when they really fall asleep. like deep snoring kinda sleep.

stinky baby below was resting its head on the doorway while it sleeps. quite a funny sight.

it's like me sticking my head on a table and falling asleep.



update on work:

it's busy packing packing packing PACKING and more PACKING!!!!!

i'm moving on down from level 4 to level 2 so we gotta pack away all our stuff be it our own table or the cabinets.. EVERYTHING.

i was busying packing all our tapes our files our equipments, felt like a labourer of some sorts, and decided to thrash all unnecessary items once and for all so i starting checking through all our tape stocks to see what's needed and what's not (can recycle).

the poor content services boys say they were conned up by me when they saw the amount of tapes they have to bring down (two rounds in total) then kept grumbling. *smirk*

but before they came i actually had Helen help look through the pile of tapes I sorted and stacked up for her to look through as well (in case she wanna keep anything).



seeing all these tapes sends shivers down my spine. imagine back in discovery i had tapes stacked on my desk as well to QC. as in.. literally QC. watching all those tapes and writing down notes and watching how one octopus escapes it's tank etc or how sea snakes are etc or how mad mike and mark were being chased by elephants... OMG.

and after much sweat and whining and kao pehing, i've managed to pack everything (almost) away. four boxes at the back are FULL OF TAPES.



can die.

Clay Art Workshop!



ok lah i should've posted this since ages and ages ago but i procrastinated. lol

I attended a workshop about a month ago on the 18th of March in Takashimaya.
It was sorta advertised by TheNewpaper and organized by an arts shop in Taka located just nxt to Arts Friend. (forgot which level lah..)

I paid around $14 bucks for the workshop and it's a one day workshop for 2 hours. (normally, a 2 day workshop with 2 hrs each would've cost me $75!)

it was pretty fun and i did learn much and you gotta use special paper clay and not just any paper clay but those that will actually stick together when you place them together. i got paper clay from arts friend and those were the wrong kind.

i made 3 lil clay art magnets of my own. frankly speaking, their texture is rather rubbery after drying. we were given the not so high quality paper clay but it's fine. felt as if i was playing with plastercine.

quite fun modelling my clay and my favourite was the basket of carrots cos i think i did quite a gd job with it. the cake was alrite but there's room for improvements.

you can click on the picture above to enlarge it.