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Wednesday, November 26, 2008*

finally back here typing and back from the skating outing with CHEC friends, biao ( big bro big), qiang (little darkside ), lin ( official darkside ) and jessie ( aka lianjie O.o ). but before i go to that, i'll like t talk about something crazy, stupid, but at the same time hilarious....

i was checking my email today and i got to a mail and the subject is Hello. i opened the mail and guess what i found? heres the copy-and-paste

''HELLO

How are you? i hope all is well with you, i hope you may not know me, and i don't know who you are. My Name is Miss Aminata, i am just broswing now and i just saw your mail contact and it seams like some thing touches me all over my body, i started having some feelings in me which i have never experience in me before, so i became interested in you, l will also like to know you the more,and l want you to send an email to my email address so l can give you my picture for you to know whom l am.

Here is my email address (aminatasankoh_1@yahoo.com)
I believe we can move from here!
I am waiting for your mail to my email address above.
Miss Aminata '''

its just so disgusting and gross, i'm sure quite alot of people have receive this kinda emails. this seem ridiculous to me as i've never actually opened much of these emails, usally they end up in my junk mail - not sure how it got into my inbox... very weird... sooo... i just DELETE it!!!

ok now going on the what i did with the fun bunch of CHEC friends... we went skating. at 1st iao ge rented a bike. then joseph, jessie, nanlin and me we rented rollerblades. after awhile joseph and jessie gave up probably tired etc from skating and joseph changed and rented a bicycle instead while jessie chose towalk walk. therefore i and nanlin skated slowly and talked ha during that, biao and joseph kept riding bicycle around us, moved far ahead and kept coming back, its pretty funny ha. the weather was pretty cooling but was drizzling half the time! here are some crazy photos of them ( esp nanlin's )

at 1st i was wondering how come nanlin's darkside did not appear today but after that, joseph and i took some of these candid photos and it released her very unique darkside! haha ok i'll stop crapping for now...
i'll post the proper ones taken by jessie and qiang after that when i receive them :)

had fun at9:25 PM

Tuesday, November 25, 2008*

back to blogging abit. i'm feeling tired, body neck aching all over, probably thats becoz i spent mos of my time infront of my sis's lappie todae. but at least tml can skate abit then got exercise ^^.

currently i'm still working till the 2nd wip stage of my drawing Switch, its rather frustrating... its like i work till i feel kinda satisfied with it, then i tried something, then my confidence lvl went waaayyyyyyyyy down, and after that when i work on those issues on the drawing, i'm happy again, then now i did somethings andi'm feeling less confident on it right now. its also probably due to myself expecting too much from what i'm drawing.... haiz but life has to go on....

had fun at5:51 PM

Monday, November 24, 2008*

yoz back again blogging :) feeling kinda sianz today, was playing msn game with jessie just now. and now i'm on youtube listening to mariah carey's song, rooftop. very soothing, lovely song. i was sitting at my sis's lappie and i was thinking that i'm rather free these few days from now... and i thought of what to do, and what will i be doing after this period - art sch just came to mind as always. i just felt God reminded me how blessed i am already, to be in CHC. i got to know so many great people in church and i do feel i'm heading in the right direction, somehow.. i know God will lead me to the direction he wants me to. i feel another thing that i'm blessed is that i face no pressure in choosing what i want to pursue for my education and career - i don't have parents forcing me to study all the way, to be a doctor/lawyer or anything related. i'm glad for that.

on saturday i went to expo and the Special Musical was great, its a meaningful musical, great young talents, wonderful message. afterhich i went to hall 7 with jeanine to complete the card for Pastor Yock Kiang's ordination and birthday card. the card came out much better than we expected, had a great time making the card and at the same time i got to realized jeanine's talent for being random LOL. hope to post a photo of the card soon thogh its nothing like real professional thingy, but its really fun to make! hope pastor will like it =)

moving on to other things... this wednesday... skating with fellow CHEC friends!! YAY, can't wait will be fun! ^^ skate and talk to one another. and hopefully in dec can ask some of us to come together and draw and do our own craft together :) it'll be great :)

had fun at4:11 PM

Wednesday, November 19, 2008*

many things happened yesterday esp... and today too. well... life is a mystery as they say. i'll just type the more positive things =) today i went to artfriend to get doublesided tape and black board to for making the card for pastor. the most time comsuming thing was the selection of colour pencils!! i needed a long time to find the right colours that i visualize might suit the idea i have for my drawing i sketched out already. and when i got home, i realized i forgot to buy the green colour pencil i chose! well maybe i'll go down someday and get that one green colour pencil haha.

i have been planning and sketching out a concept i had in mind for around a month. its a concept regarding technology. i have beendrawing alot of faces and flowers etc, but i think it'll be good to test outside the bounderies more to draw something, to a certain extend, different than i normally draw. this part of the drawing shown here is just a small, but significant part of the drawing.

the shown part here is in the middle of an A3 paper, i will reveal the left and right sides of the drawing when i start colouring them this is another one of my 'serious' drawings i'm working on and my 1st time trying to complete a proper coloured work, thus i'm quite excited to do so the face structure is done without reference.

currently this photo i took is crappy and is blurry. in actual its abit grainy and brighter in colour ( result of a nightshot with a mobile phone ). i have much to complete on the face, still etc.

heres the drawing work in progress 1, title: Switch

had fun at2:01 AM

Monday, November 17, 2008*

hmmm have been finding pictures and doing a little research this morning for my coming drawing.. all is going quite alright, i just feel uncertain how it is going to come along since i'm not like a real expert in putting my references together to form an idea i have, but practice makes perfect so i know with God's grace i'm able to draw creativity from Him and achieve what i am aiming for this drawing and also my goals in life. sometimes i have confidence in God for my future, but when i'm feeling down, i feel lousy and hopeless. i despise the fluctuating emotions... its stressful especially when there are quarrels etc etc at home and i get tensed up so fast.. i hate that feeling...

i hate endless talking, sometimes people should just shut up and listen! i'm constantly receieving so much negativity... and i am not a very nice person myself... sometimes i just feel life is just so difficult to live... maybe its just me feelin down now... maybe i should try to understand people better and try to compromise more... maybe its because i'm listening to a sad sad song hmmmmm....

i'm rather free these few days, i will most probably drop by artfriend at bras basah later on to get myself the colour pencils i need, will need to test the colour pencils before i buy though. but i'm excited to start my colouring for my drawing! ^^ life's too short not to enjoy, but i hope to get out of the crumpled state i feel that i'm in. but i'm glad going to church has made me a better person ( or at least i do try ). i remember i used to have an emo blogskin, but now i just dislike those emo thingy, so icky... i feel full blast emo style whether clothing, artwork, blogs etc etc etc is kinda fake. i know it sounds harsh, but i just feel indulging in negative things all the time, will just lead to a downfall... feeling down is nothing cool nor great... its like you can see something is really plain emo or genuine sadness or emotional.

man and its so difficult to find a good reference of a person looking up with the right emotion that i want to include ha. hmmm now i'm listening to some happy natasha songs... ok back to searching! :) :)

had fun at10:57 AM

Friday, November 14, 2008*

wheeee! just changed my blogskin. i like some orange so there it goes! there are some things i have trouble changin gin the template that the skin looks abit weird but i'll try to see to it somehow.

basically i'm slacking alot these days and i'm trying to cmplete my cell member's drawing, i'll try to complete most of it today if it is possible! during the O lvls exam, i bought Rihanna's album - with quite afew new songs added. i love songs such as take a bow, sell me candy, disturbia, question existing and i especially find rehab a very meaningful and emotional song. i love the songs!

hmm now moving on. i typed on my previous post that i'll be posting my drawing and its details here, so here it is =)

Title: Memories So Real

Poem I wrote:

All these pain, it hurts my soul
i can't forget,
i can't let go...

All the love, masked all the hycrocrisy
its hard to comprehend,
but i finally understand...

All your deceit,
All your cynicism, intoxicated my heart
added so much to the nightmare,
and it is so much more than i can bear...

I will never let you break me
I will never let you feed me with hurt and lies
I will never allow myself to suffer,
living in the burning dreamscape of smog and horror

Now let me come into sanity,
let me wake up from my broken dreams,
i desprately need a breath of fresh air.
God, please take me away from the haunting memories,
Memories So Real.

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Symbolism:
1stly the frame element you see ( at 1st glance= mirror ), but this idea is very much inspired by the idea of marriage/family photo album covers. thus marriage/family albums reminds people of happy times and memories.

for the 2nd part of the concept, i have added other symbolisms like cracks, hand with roots and soil and flowers lined with the black colour ( negativity ), all which veer towards the negative concept and feel that interwines with the idea of the concept i wanted to convey as a whole. many other symbolisms can be understood by the poem which i wrote to go along with this drawing. one of the main objectives still for this drawing is approaching this drawing at a surrealistic approach using a head as if popping out of the frame-like structure. the frame acts as a portal into another world ( dreamscape as mentioned in the poem )

Technical: i drew her eyes bigger as proportional naturalism isn't what i'm totally aiming for. i wanted her eyes to be bigger to convey certain emotion, sadness, shock, probably as if just woken up from nightmare etc. my aim for this drawing wasn't to be too hyperrealistic thus i feel i have not tarnished the purpose of the drawing. this drawing is drawn by imagination except the hands which i used slight reference from looking at my own hands.

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the purpose of the drawing is to be able to relate to the problems that many people face, emotional or physical. the earth is filled with so much terror and hycropcrasy at times that makes us feel intimidated. i believe all the more standing strong will increase our understanding towards life and all its negativity thus builds our character from lessons learnt.

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i'll just blog till here today :):)

had fun at6:23 PM

Tuesday, November 04, 2008*

whew! finnally i've completed my exams! the stupid O level examinations! ^^ haha not literally stupid but stupid for torturing me ( if u get what i mean ) ! soooo irritating exams! ok 1stly here are some pics xiao qiang, tiff, biao ge and ming jie and i went to burn our notes right after our social studies exam! its crazy though. ha its not a crime so chill guys...

here are some kinda crazy pics of me discarding my school notes ^^ it felt great to crush and crumple the school notes esp math! ha

hah, o and right after our last paper, tiff, ming jie, wq, yb, Nanlin, jessie and her friend we went to watch high school musical 3... LOL i didn't want to go but since i thought it would be quite boring to stay at home so i might as well join them and celebrate! the movie at some parts was rather funny but i felt the concept of story was quite lacking. here are some photos of the outing. o yea and here and i with my new glasses :)

the outing was fun la, esp got the nanlin exposing her dark side.... its abit scary but was funny haha. had a great time, hope we all can go out someday again! :) :)

heres a small treat photo. this photo was taken on the day when my sis was in the kitchen. she was frustrated and hit the table. then she heard some rattling sound. kinda freak out, or thought she was thinking too much, she tried again. and there, the sound repeated. then she went to investigate and found a lizard on the wall face down biting a rubberbAND! the lizard could not escape as it was biting unto the rubberband so it rattled its tail against a box in fright ( thats wad made the sound ). i removed the box near the lizard and took a pic! haha

ok i think i'm blogging till here, maybe on my next update then i'll blog about my completed drawing :) :)

had fun at8:00 PM