In the early morning breeze,
the play of light and shadow upon the trees
As orioles flit about
chasing each other between the leaves
And the clear blue sky smiles with sunshine
I feel my heart
lifting up
with the passing time.
22 August 2009
16 August 2009
Bad Day
A Bad Day is when...
... your beloved Wacom oldie but goodie classic tablet cannot be installed onto your PC because it's Vista. Damn you, Vista.
... you decide that your Mac should at least be more accomodating and you happily install the graphics software... but it refuses to acknowledge your tablet cos it's too old. Et tu, Macbook?
... you have no choice but to do it the Olde Fashioned Way... paper and pencils and colour pencils...
... you realise that the only eraser in your home is abducted, unknowingly, by a friend who needed to correct something on her records last night, when the whole bunch of them popped by.
... you find a suitable replacement eraser, and start drawing, only to realise you're so used to doing things electronically that it majorly messes with your productivity and confidence. Where is Ctrl+Z when I need it? I used to be able to shift the eyes / nose / mouth around using the lasso tool, but now i gotta erase and redraw??? NOOOOOooooooooo......!!!
... you download a 50mb file and your internet connection keeps dropping, or the download site decides to shut down for a while, thereby interrupting your downloading process and you redownload for the 100000th time.
Dear Day, spare me already. I am on my knees. T-T
... your beloved Wacom oldie but goodie classic tablet cannot be installed onto your PC because it's Vista. Damn you, Vista.
... you decide that your Mac should at least be more accomodating and you happily install the graphics software... but it refuses to acknowledge your tablet cos it's too old. Et tu, Macbook?
... you have no choice but to do it the Olde Fashioned Way... paper and pencils and colour pencils...
... you realise that the only eraser in your home is abducted, unknowingly, by a friend who needed to correct something on her records last night, when the whole bunch of them popped by.
... you find a suitable replacement eraser, and start drawing, only to realise you're so used to doing things electronically that it majorly messes with your productivity and confidence. Where is Ctrl+Z when I need it? I used to be able to shift the eyes / nose / mouth around using the lasso tool, but now i gotta erase and redraw??? NOOOOOooooooooo......!!!
... you download a 50mb file and your internet connection keeps dropping, or the download site decides to shut down for a while, thereby interrupting your downloading process and you redownload for the 100000th time.
Dear Day, spare me already. I am on my knees. T-T
10 August 2009
Weekend Musings
How did you spend your National Day holiday?
Did you go out of town for a short getaway? Go out partying til late at night, every night from Friday to Sunday? Spend some much needed time with the family?
For Intuition and I, this past National Day weekend was a great time to catch up with family members and friends. During the National Day evening, we wanted to meet some friends to play boardgames at our place, but one of them was super enthusiastic about catching the National Day Parade on TV and was recounting to us the highlights of his participation, when he nearly got tickets to the NDP, when he was part of the parade, when one of the high ranking officials stopped by him to comment on his uniform etc. When they had the cheesy medleys (full disclosure: i used to love those songs when I was in Primary school!), I frowned at the bad choice of techno-fying the songs while he crooned away happily.
Inevitably, when 8.22pm came around, he stood up and proudly placed his fist (somewhat) near his heart and recited the pledge. So did another girl in our midst =) And they proudly stood there singing Majulah Singapura while we whipped out handphones to capture the moment on video, threatening "youtube! i'm gonna youtube this! hahaha!"
Is it now cool to be anti-Singaporean? Patriotism is passe?
While the Singapore story is flogged to death in many many many articles from the Gahmen, it is a part of our history, like it or not. Too bad that it's so short that each recounting of history forces us to revisit the same ol' facts :P And of course, there's lots of things to be said about *cough* freedom of speech here, plus the ridiculous emphasis on profits and progress while neglecting our souls and character development, except when it's in line with National Interests. Need I mention the restrictive rules and regulations, the elitism, the cheesy song and dance put up during NDP & election period, and the suffocatingly strict atmosphere in general.
But is it all bad? Surely there are many good things about our country which we like to gloss over. It's honestly more fun to be critical, but hey, being thankful is good for the heart. What about walking along the streets late at night without fear of being mugged (mostly), being able to eat out anytime you want (a real boon, something you'll appreciate if you've stayed overseas for any length of time), and decent infrastructure and amenities? I love the parks available around town, i love the beautiful Southern Ridges and air conditioned public libraries. I like how it's easy to move around... assuming the MRT doesn't break down, the bus comes relatively on time, or if you have a car, preferably without ERP *cough*. I like the quirks of Singaporeans and our ability to laugh at ourselves, from using tissue paper to chope tables to our intelligible Singlish.
Mostly, I just love my friends and family based in Singapore.
Thanks for spending the weekend with me =) It's been wonderful. Have a great week ahead!
Did you go out of town for a short getaway? Go out partying til late at night, every night from Friday to Sunday? Spend some much needed time with the family?
For Intuition and I, this past National Day weekend was a great time to catch up with family members and friends. During the National Day evening, we wanted to meet some friends to play boardgames at our place, but one of them was super enthusiastic about catching the National Day Parade on TV and was recounting to us the highlights of his participation, when he nearly got tickets to the NDP, when he was part of the parade, when one of the high ranking officials stopped by him to comment on his uniform etc. When they had the cheesy medleys (full disclosure: i used to love those songs when I was in Primary school!), I frowned at the bad choice of techno-fying the songs while he crooned away happily.
Inevitably, when 8.22pm came around, he stood up and proudly placed his fist (somewhat) near his heart and recited the pledge. So did another girl in our midst =) And they proudly stood there singing Majulah Singapura while we whipped out handphones to capture the moment on video, threatening "youtube! i'm gonna youtube this! hahaha!"
Is it now cool to be anti-Singaporean? Patriotism is passe?
While the Singapore story is flogged to death in many many many articles from the Gahmen, it is a part of our history, like it or not. Too bad that it's so short that each recounting of history forces us to revisit the same ol' facts :P And of course, there's lots of things to be said about *cough* freedom of speech here, plus the ridiculous emphasis on profits and progress while neglecting our souls and character development, except when it's in line with National Interests. Need I mention the restrictive rules and regulations, the elitism, the cheesy song and dance put up during NDP & election period, and the suffocatingly strict atmosphere in general.
But is it all bad? Surely there are many good things about our country which we like to gloss over. It's honestly more fun to be critical, but hey, being thankful is good for the heart. What about walking along the streets late at night without fear of being mugged (mostly), being able to eat out anytime you want (a real boon, something you'll appreciate if you've stayed overseas for any length of time), and decent infrastructure and amenities? I love the parks available around town, i love the beautiful Southern Ridges and air conditioned public libraries. I like how it's easy to move around... assuming the MRT doesn't break down, the bus comes relatively on time, or if you have a car, preferably without ERP *cough*. I like the quirks of Singaporeans and our ability to laugh at ourselves, from using tissue paper to chope tables to our intelligible Singlish.
Mostly, I just love my friends and family based in Singapore.
Thanks for spending the weekend with me =) It's been wonderful. Have a great week ahead!
09 August 2009
05 August 2009
Old Hobbies Die Hard Part Deux
Here are the other two pictures that I drew last night. It's exhausting drawing so many pics when I'm out of practice; I had difficulty getting out of bed this morning and woke up a good 30min later than I should. My bad.
These two pictures are a tad darker than the previous ones. For the guy with the scruffy hair, it's a goth experiment gone wrong. I got the eyebags and pale complexion, but that's as far as I got. I think it's more grunge than goth. The blue and curled up guy was inspired by a ... somewhat depressing conversation. But anyways, I like it, so I'm posting it =)
These two pictures are a tad darker than the previous ones. For the guy with the scruffy hair, it's a goth experiment gone wrong. I got the eyebags and pale complexion, but that's as far as I got. I think it's more grunge than goth. The blue and curled up guy was inspired by a ... somewhat depressing conversation. But anyways, I like it, so I'm posting it =)
04 August 2009
Old Hobbies Die Hard
Now that life is largely back to normal, I find myself with more leisure time than I've been used to. Besides surfing the net to death, I have also discovered the pleasures of watching anime and beating my own high score for Bejewelled. If these are not brilliant ways to waste time, I don't know what they be.
In the days of yore, before the internet consumed my days and my nights, I had much more productive hobbies -- reading, sketching and playing the guitar. Unfortunately, the wedding obsession with nails have carried on til today; I like my new found nails and damned if I cut it all off. Oops, there goes the guitar playing. Oh well, my APX is in the good hands of Intuition. Now that I stay near and work near a library, reading is another habit I have happily revisited on my long journeys to work. Time passes so much faster when you're reading.
The past two nights, I decided to dust off my pencils and papers and did some sketching, as a result of some inspiration from humongously talented artists who have posted their work online. Here are a few that I had fun doing, will post another two soon =)
In the days of yore, before the internet consumed my days and my nights, I had much more productive hobbies -- reading, sketching and playing the guitar. Unfortunately, the wedding obsession with nails have carried on til today; I like my new found nails and damned if I cut it all off. Oops, there goes the guitar playing. Oh well, my APX is in the good hands of Intuition. Now that I stay near and work near a library, reading is another habit I have happily revisited on my long journeys to work. Time passes so much faster when you're reading.
The past two nights, I decided to dust off my pencils and papers and did some sketching, as a result of some inspiration from humongously talented artists who have posted their work online. Here are a few that I had fun doing, will post another two soon =)
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