CGOverdrive 2007

I'm kinda excited today. I'm really glad that after much deliberation (for stupid personal reason), I've finally decided to step out of my comfort zone and just accompany JH (or rather, tag along) to EXPO for her shoot.

In the name of "work", we're headin there to interview some high profile CG designers.
There's four of them.


As a coordinator, my work are mainly behind-the-scenes, which in another words means, administrative end.

So what I did was basically to arrange the interviews by liasing with the CGOverdrive PR exec and followed by hiring freelancing crewmen to help us out with the production. It's a pretty rushed job considering the fact that I was informed about the need for all these 2 days prior to the actual shoot. (or need to shoot.) bah!

woke up damn early in the morning to travel to expo first. surprisingly, the train station is pretty packed and as i walked along from the train station to expo, there are huge boards all over shouting out the multiple events held and here's s shot of the board for CGOverdrive.


CGOverdrive 2007 (Click photo to enlarge)
Along the pathway from MRT Station to EXPO

Being there that early means the place is still pretty quiet with little people around.
Most of them are either the staff or the speakers and you get to see lotsa foreign speakers with all their suitcases and blazers walking around.


Banner of kawaii-ko hanging up above

We started the shoot at 10 and the crew was super punctual. they were asked to meet us at 10am and at exactly 10 am they called to say they reached. 10:00am exactly!

whoa... hahahahaha

anyway,
a few hiccups here and there but that sorta added to the experience of being where I was and knowing what are the kind of variable circumstances and hiccups a shoot can face.

we couldn't find a good enough area to conduct the interviews since there wasn't one prepare by the organizers so we just had to find a spot which we thought was the quietest and least disruptive.

the speaker's lounge wasn't enclosed so sounds could probably echo in. bad choice so we skipped that. the most headache part was that there was this software clinic nearby which a huge speaker? hahahah every 5 mins or so the host would start talking and his voice will boom thro the external speakers and we'll be all wide-eyed and have to cease filming immediately to wait for him to stop talking. eventually we unplugged the external speakers wahahahha but then there is this conference hall nearby and once the various workshop ends, hoards and hoards of ppl would come out and gosh all the chittering and chatterings!?!? but actually, they weren't TOO noisy so we continued with the shoot. occasionally when the girls or people nearby start talking or giggling too loudly, i'll be the one running about asking them to tone down their volume.

we finished some of our interviews earlier than what was planned.

oh yes one screw with the tapes. i guess i won't divulge too much but it was too damn funny.

the directors and co-directors and staff creating Final Fantasy was there! hehehehe

we intereviewed one of them.

also the CG designer of Transformers and SL from Imaginery Friends.


Car motiff by Imaginery Friends

All in all everything else went smoothly. we even had our lunch covered (free!!!) cos they had buffet style catering for the speakers and media staff hehehehe

we finished shooting at around 3pm in the afternoon and i had to head back to office and when i got back there... tons of work was piling up and waiting for me. *cry*

i wanted to post the pictures i took of our interviewees but after much consideration, i kinda thought perhaps it might not be too good an idea to do so.

there was displays of some submitted digital art works and there was a couple that i liked quite a lot and too picture of but i can't post their pics here since it's not my work and i haven't gotten their permission.. so. yeah hahaha

all in all i learnt much from that trip and was quite happy to be at least out of the office once in awhile.

Heard from my boss that i might even get to go with my producer during his shoot for WCG (World Cyber Games) Asian Championship 2007 that's to be held in Suntec City in August!!

Here's a lil PR:

Animax is the principal partner for WCG Asian Championship 2007!!!

Date MMS received from Lloyd: 26th June 2007, 12:22AM



MUSHROOM BABIES!!!!
this just in...!!!!
Mushroom with 3 baby kittens!!! and they're just 3 days old!

OMG LAH! (bad lloyd! kept this secret from me and surprise me with an mms!)

they look so... squishy!
i'm so gonna equip myself with my digicam and go invade his house lah!
they havent even opened up their eyes yet!

Date MMS received from Lloyd: 26th June 2007, 12:36AM


bundle (literally) of joy!

omg they are like.. all tangled up!!

Date MMS received from Lloyd: 26th June 2007, 12:43AM


*sprawl* ehn.. where's mom?

Lloyd's gonna giveaway two kittens when they are old enough.
He's fave is the black one (it has white belly and paws!)
I like that one best too!
Will be it's self-proclaimed human god-ma and haress it lots!

can't wait! will surprise khim with the news tml and start planning when to invade Lloyd's hse.

Was surfing the web randomly and found this video on Yahoo! that's really interesting.

Learn something new today!

How to make a star-shapped ribbon

The vid teaches you how to make a star shapped ribbon, especially useful for gift wrapping, and it's surpisingly simple but the end result is very nice.



Have fun trying.

Packed like a can of sardines... Literally!

Went to Bugis Village after work with YL.

I wanted to shop for some earrings and random stuff and since we took a train to Bugis junction first, having to walked through the shopping mall we passed by a fish exhibition.

There were displays of several types of fishes for sale as well as their accompany products such as food, tanks etc etc. Took up quite a big area.

as we happily looked around at the fishes i saw a seriously funny yet weird sight.


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Check out the fishes! the entire tank is so damn empty and i was wondering where all the fishes went to and realised they were all hiding under the log. it's a seriously weird sight cos besides just hiding, a couple was swimming around frantically and the rest was busy stuffing themselves into the log like the above picture... it's like so..aligned.

damn funny sight.

p.s i still think goldfish looks freaky.

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Shopping in Bugis Village has gd returns.

muahaha..

$2 per earring, I bought 2.
Cheap aye?


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I liked the combination of a black strawberry with gold spots.
The metal "fairy" can swimg on it's own hehehe tot it was cute.

Two cute dollies shopping.

Sneak Preview

hehehe

I'm up to something again!



shall not disclose what it is first.
Will post up the final result soon! I promise it'll be something that's really cute.

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As you can see, in my office there's a fair share of rather interesting people around.

Especially from my dept.

For some reason, a really super afro wig was dugged out from our cabinets amidst all the items meant for props... (we have a stash somewhere with tons of random stuff.. parang included *gulps*) and yea so someone eventually decides to put it on. Ms Goh challenged him to wear the wig over to Telepark while offering herself as his 'bodyguard' by accompanying him over and he amicably accepts the idea. in fact, i thought he kinda looked more excited than Ms. Goh to put on the wig.


Yo yo check it out!

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My "twin" at work.
hurhur

YL changed her spectacle frame (it's Red now!).
Here's a snap shot.

remind me never to sign up for anything using the same email add for separate accounts.

fuck man.

fuck youtube.

i'm too shocked and kinda devastated knowing what on earth just happened as i sat n stoned for a few seconds trying to numb myself from my emotions.

2 of my youtube accounts got disabled.
for 1 of them, i accept the reason.
but i forgot. they share the same email thus my second account (totally innocent) was permanently disabled. there goes all my links and favourites!!!!!!!

i have shiteload of favourites saved under that account with tons of vids i love to watch.

fucked up.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHHAHAA...

What maketh of the picture you see below? with all the tiny dusty lil paw prints of our neighbourhood kittehs trampling over wilson's new leather seat.

assuming that the newly cushioned-padded seat with new leather is too irrestible and comfortable for the bed seeking kittehs.

wilson's face is exactly like how the lil animation on the bottom left of the picture depicts.



and the trail continues...



even the box got trampled over.

we shall tie that garfield (saw it hanging ard the area last night) and fry it!

thank god they didn't scratch the seat or something if not i swear wilson will flip.
we spend saturday going around places running errands and i ordered yet another figurine. will show it when it comes... in SEPT. hohoho

we bought new helmets and added extra sponge and new leather cover on the seat.
ahhhhhhhhhhh our butts are happy now.

i think i overspent. haiz.

sunday was roxy square for lunch and we hung around parkway for a while; doing some random shopping and i was in the fish supermart and saw this.

it's those boxes you buy with the miniature food figurines but what you get is based on pure randomness and i got seafood nabe. not cheap but it looks really nice. the soup looks rather realistic. at this point in time, wilson sneaked to the toilet to put on his new tshirt bought from topman. hur. vain pot *hee...* XD



i've been looking around for black coloured earrings of late cos i realised i don't have any to match my clothes with (i have no black earrings) and found this cute neko earring at bugis village for two bucks! cheap!



i think it's damn cute.

wilson wanted to get stickers for his bike but the shop he was looking for wasn't there anymore and he got abit grouchy while i was being attacked by the manicure shop auntie from china.

we arranged to meet burger in chinatown/maxwell to go to tea chapter for tea and food and before burger arrived, wilson n i parked our bike in the carpark just right beside maxwell food centre and realised the construction of a huge temple just across the road has been completed.

i didn't bring my digicam out with me so here's some shots taken with my hp.
edited a lil with photoshop to bring out the colour.


front view (Click to Enlarge)


45 degree side view (Click to Enlarge)

coincidentally while i was standing around admiring the view and taking a shot a woman (not young) walked past and made a stupid comment (to herself but aloud for all to hear).

"why so many people stand around!"
"ceh stand around then the door will open meh!?"

wah kao. pls lor AUNTIE.

ppl stand ard their business right?

CHRONICLE OF THE WINGS

this is a 3D paper stand that I've made while I was in office.
It turned out pretty well and pretty much satisfied with the results.


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it's kinda fun to engage in such projects every once in awhile. =)
it's almost brainless and all i need to do is to just concentrate on using the pen knife to cut out the figures. the only difficulty i faced was probably that it's the first time for me to create such a stand and the instructions are all in japanese. i had my colleague help translate for me most of the instructions but to know exactly what to do, i guess i'm on my own. *sweat drops*

before i started work,
it basically came in a form of a brochure like manner.


chronicle of the wings paper craft

it consists of a few pages and then there were subsequently the cut out designs on each and every page. frankly speaking, i thought it was pretty well designed. the cutting out of areas like the hair and the more intricate parts are slightly more challenging. my pen knife can't do curved cutting all that well and every time i face a "hair" cut-out, i fear slicing out the hair and screwing things up. anyway, all in all, everything went well and it just so happened that i have paper craft glue with me muahahaha

oh. realised that i forgot to mention where i got this paper craft booklet from. i didn't buy it yea. a colleague handed it to me since they know i'm pretty much a handicraft person. *happy* and so they await the result to wow at the cuteness of it while leaving all the 'work' to me. not that i have anything to complain about anyway since i enjoy doing such stuff.

maybe if i'm in luck, i'll get another booklet of my favourite animes? hehehe i'm not exactly fond of chronicle of the wings.

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on labour day, which is a holiday (duh!), wilson and i decided to ask some friends out for dinner.
we've decided for it to be a anti-bike day so we spent the whole day travelling on public transport.. which plaintively means - the bus. muahaha.

NO MORE WEARIN OF HELMETS!

but...! there's inconveniences as well. using ezlink is not all that cheap and it's much more time consuming when you're not on a bike... but AIYAH! hekki dayo hekki!

wilson and i took our time going places and finally we ended up in toa payoh to have botak jones. we were supposed to meet up with his friends there but when we got there, i sensed something not being too right about the place. as in, it's kinda "dead". then i realised that the entire eating house got a day-off cos it's labour day. DAMN. shld've guessed. it's located right next to SPH and a industrial area.

since wilson's friends were already in the area, we decided to wait out for them to arrive to them drop the "bombshell" on them. they were quite stoned haha. anyway we hitched a ride on their van and drove to AMK together to try out the other botak jones outlet.

my god lah.

the entire place packed until siao. the queue was ridiculously long!
wilson's gang not adventurous one!! *grumbles*

all either ordered same as us (which is cajun chicken) or fish and chips.
i thought at least someone might've tried the burgers or hotdogs or wadever. ceh.

i ordered cajun chicken and chilli con carne to share with wilson.


cajun chicken


chilli con carne

this is like a mix of beef and stuff and it taste pretty much like the toppings u get on chilli hotdogs. quite nice. wo xi huan (i like)!

oh yea. and our india office colleagues came to town last week.
*cough* good thing helen wasn't around. i couldn't find the parang.

they gave us a backpack with animax logo. i must say, it doesnt look all the bad and it's huge. pretty heavy too.



the next "present" i got was a bunch of tapes and DVDs. more work with crazy deadlines.
damn.

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shoppings!!

i saw this bag from ESPRIT (brown; left) and went crazy and chiong home to steal my mom's membercard. nice eh? then subsequently bought a small bag from MUJI (green; right).



let me share with you my woes.

the stupid cashier forgot to remove the sensor tag from my MUJI bag. i realised it only at night.
i wanted to go back the next day, along with the receipt, to have them remove the tag but to my horror... my mom chucked the receipt that very morning while cleaning up the room. OMG LA. then she started panicking after having known that and launched multiple attacks at me to dissuade me from going back to the shop in case they suspect me of stealin things. *slap head* i swear i was so frustrated i nearly smashed something.. whatever's within reach. anyway, tks to karen i remembered that i could actually do a printout of my transaction summary via dbs online banking. so i did. made a call to the store before heading down.

guess what?

they did remove the tag for me. but they didn't ask to check for receipt.

WTH. oh well.

bought this magazine from MPH. $12+. quite cheap
it's about beadworks. some of the stuff are really nice.
will try out someday.



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ching invited us over to her us to makan cha soba with herbal chicken soup.
kinda weird combination. we even bought chicken wings to add to the lot.
then there was noodles made by ching's mom. wah lau.

then when we got to her place i was a lil shocked.
plenty of people around.
and the baby that's uber chubby and good to huggle.
wilson's abit scared of carrying babies but we threw the baby onto him to carry anyway.
he didn't score too badly!
think he'll be a good dad.
i liked the look on his face when he played with the baby.
he just needs time to open up and love someone.

while he sits infront of the pc i came up from behind to snap a shot.



i think my gu looks quite handsome here *wahahahahaha* (自high)

test shot with new digicam (fujifilm finepix F31d)

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.