NIEL & CHANGJO!

STILL CAN'T GET OVER THE FACT THAT CHANGJO HAS ABS AND HE'S ONLY 17 YEARS OLD! WAAAAAAH!

A demure dog and two affectionate dogs. 

Taken at Hong Kong, Lamma Island.

Wasted 20 minutes answering survey questions by a surveyor who went door-to-door. I'm always skeptical about this kind of thing, especially when they asked for my name and phone number. At least they did not get my IC no. But I got $3 Mcdonald's voucher (:

Now I'm worried about whether it's a scam company and if my information will be disclosed. Dumb.

Have been lazing around for the past 2 weeks and I felt uneasy just doing nothing because I'm so used to getting busy and doing lots of work. Wrote my notes during free time but apparently I wasn't motivated to do that because all I wanted to do was to watch videos and slack around. Happy times don't last. I was given piles of work to do last week and I have like 5 assignments on hand now, excluding my final year project. And exams are like a month away from now! Then it will be internship for 3 months, back to school in January 2013 for school again, school's out in February, and graduation ceremony in May 2013!

Just want to share this playlist created by a Hong Kong blogger whose blog I've came across last week.

Ed Sheeran- The A Team

Capital Cities- Safe and Sound

Flight Facilities- Crave you

Florence and the Machine- Shake it Out

Semisonic- Closing Time

Build me up buttercup- the Foundations

Hey There Delilah- Plain White T's

Bowl of Oranges- Bright Eyes

All the songs are really nice!


I was rummaging through my drawers to find the box where I stored all the alcohol bottle caps at because I got this idea of using the bottle caps to make an art piece. I used to collect alcohol bottle caps whenever I drink because they have nice designs on it. I guess I threw the box away together with the caps because I can't find it anywhere in the house. I have to re-collect the caps again. If I hadn't threw away the caps, I would have like more than 10 already! Dang.

When was the last time you...

ate home-cooked foods prepared by your mother,
played with your father,
had a birthday party,
took a family photo,
went out with your family?

Mine was a long time ago.

I was supposed to shop for clothes that I can wear for internship but instead I went to Kinokuniya and got the picture book that I've always wanted! And I thought that I was just going to get pens and notebook at Popular today, but I came across my all-time favourite author/artist 幾米's new book!

I very happy now can?! :D

Left: Today's Levitation by Natsumi Hayashi

Right: Hug by Jimmy (幾米)

Below is the synopsis/description for each book:


"Today's Levitation"
Natsumi call herself the "yowayowa camera woman" (yowayowa is a Japanese term meaning "weak" or "feeble"). There are over 30,000 hits everyday on her blog and she was so famous and called as "Levitation Girl". She wondering around Tokyo with her heavy Canon EOS 5D Mk2 camera (it is really heavy to her), shooting and create her Levitation diary of self-portraits. With the function of 10 seconds self-timer of camera, Natsumi press the shutter button and run as quickly as she can to the position that she already framed, and jumping at the magic moment of shutter open. Maybe the "Levitation" works looks easy to be taken, but sometime it will take over 300 times to shoot at the same position for one perfect work. In the case of the distance over 10 seconds of running, she will ask her friend as the model for framing and exchange position while shooting. She also shoots as many times as she could to get the perfect works. With her unique aesthetics, Natsumi use the traditional concept of capturing moment by camera and the new digital technique that can repeat trying for perfection. She create the images with full of narrative and imagination. She was so famous in the internet world and already makes a tendency that people imitating a lot. There are already many special interview on introducing her works, such as the front page of Yahoo!U.S. and NEWS and lots of Japanese magazines and France magazine "Philosophie Magazine".

《擁抱》

一隻紅毛獅在草原上睡午覺，突然天上掉下來一個盒子砸在他頭上，他生氣地把盒子咬碎，盒子裡掉出一本書。一本叫做《擁抱》的繪本。
紅毛獅打開繪本，書裡滿滿是各種動物與小朋友在溫馨擁抱，一開始紅毛獅非常反感，覺得噁心至極，甚至還吐了。後來，紅毛獅忍不住把書丟了，但不久又伸出獅爪偷偷把書拿回去。
慢慢地，紅毛獅覺得繪本的動物和小朋友好甜蜜喔。
漸漸地，紅毛獅被書裡面的幸福所困惑。
紅毛獅開始羨慕起來，他想找其它動物擁抱，但是沒有動物願意，他是一隻到處被拒絕的獅子。突然，他的身體記起曾經有過類似的擁抱感覺：當他還是一隻 小獅子時，他是這樣溫柔地被一個小男孩抱著，擁有無限的溫暖。他也想起分開的那天，男孩在路上狂奔，對著載走紅毛獅的卡車猛揮手。
紅毛獅深信在這世界的某個角落，一定有一個男孩也正在想念著他。於是，他決定出發去尋找這個溫暖熟悉的擁抱⋯⋯

(Just use Google translate if you can't understand)

And the cute thing about the 幾米's book is that it comes with a bag (I don't know what's the name for those kind of folder/bag). It has like cute drawings on it, all drawn by the author himself!

I have an extreme fetish for paintings or drawings or photos with animals in it! When I saw this book, I literally went 'OH MY GOD! I HAVE TO GET THIS BOOK IMMEDIATELY!'

I'm going to read/look through both books during my semester break, which is like one and a half months from now D:

My eyes got teary just now on the way home. It's weird because I was listening to an upbeat song yet I'm feeling the other way. I wanted to alight halfway through the journey and walk back home. I always like walking at night, under the streetlights, along the silent pathways, with my iPod playing my favourite playlist, and thinking about anything.

I have so many concerns now. With school, finance and family. Yesterday was Friday the 13th, it didn't exactly affect me but something happened to someone I know which I'm worried about now. I'm not supposed to talk about it as I've promised that person, so I shan't being because I want to be a credible and reliable person.

It was awkward, just the two of us, so many things to say but kept them inside us. It was an awkward eye contact.

New York City Ballet "Pointe Shoes" from Galen Summer on Vimeo.
 

The Laduree Dream

 

I'm not sure of the author/poet who wrote this but I got this from Allison Harvard's twitter. Yes, my all-time favourite model (:

Saw Sam this morning and it has been long since we last took train to school (she's heading for her internship company today though). We spent the entire journey from Kovan to Buona Vista reminiscing our Korea trip, and speaking of plans to go overseas for holiday together after our graduation. Didn't expect to have a conversation with her throughout the entire journey since we don't do so last time, but I appreciate the chat we had today. I love my friend.

I'm supposed to be working on my new project, final year project, experiment report and a few assignments, but I spent the past few hours and the whole of yesterday watching videos and just lazing around. I haven't even settle the Health Mapping Exercise event and it is 2 weeks away! As always. You don't call yourself a student if you don't do last minute work, it's part of the routine.

The Actual '73 Giving Tree Movie Spoken By Shel Silverstein

From Lasalle Show 2012

This depicts my mood for today. I've submitted a group proposal and that's one load off but there's the tedious final year project which I have to collate all the data and get the results done by this Friday. Thank goodness there's only a one-hour lesson tomorrow. I really need to take a breather. And I'm sort of doing so now by re-watching Ugly Betty!

To You
The Back of My Hand Brushes Against
Crazy
Baby U
By Teen Top

My current favourite playlist. I'm always listening to these songs through iPod or laptop everyday, without fail. I always create scenes in my mind as I listen to these songs, fertile imagination gone wild. But those imaginary scenes do not include you.