99 posts tagged “life”

The night tonight is a little lonely... Ston went back to camp, my parents are asleep, bigbro went out, the TV is turned off and I'm alone at my workdesk, enjoying the peaceful moment I seldom get. Sometimes, just being alone does bring chills up my spine, sometimes I just can't help imagine if one day I'm all alone. Sometimes.. sometimes..
 
 
It's been a while since I sat in my workspace, quietly, concentrating on graphics work (not counting the time I was helping Min out, that was a little crappy). It felt just like being in Ben's class once again, nostalgic.
 
Shi Jin gave me the required details this afternoon. I managed to figure out the mess in the documents and spent the whole late afternoon working out on just the flyer. :/ Ai~yaya, I'm such a slow worker. With no idea in mind, I practically placed my faith on fonts to bring the flavour out from the design (that's not nice, I know) and downloaded over 11+ fonts from the net, heh.
 
Like usual, whenever I work on something, say graphic, I'm impressed with, I'll produce several results of the same thing for my "client" to choose. So, I ended up with like 5 results of just the flyer's design and my brain was totally burnt out in the end. I wonder if I can still do up the poster tonight? Hmm..
 
As I work, I realized I can only do well in graphics if I'm doing it for friends or myself... provided I'm interested in the idea as well. Ah! Can I keep this design and put it as my portfolio? :p
 
 
Today, I was hugging on to the new bag again. I guess I'm loving it. :)

This morning, I couldn't help wasting a few pieces of paper. I was trying to figure out how to fold a gift bag, staring at a real paper bag for quite a while, the thought just kept on going around and round my brain. Yea, not using the brain to think for a long while makes it stale.
 
I heard something new and shocking too! My parents are thinking that bigbro got a girlfriend but I totally don't feel alright about it. I wonder why? But when they talked about bigbro, their expressions was something I never expect... they were so calm about it. How come?!?! Mom actually found it alright... and I thought she will get mad about it.
 
There was a letter for pap today as well and it stated that the payment had been made to Forest Print's account but still the status down at Forest Print is under pending. Oh dear, oh dear... I hope they noticed it soon and send it to me~!

I went out with ZJ today since she haven't got Sylvia any gift yet, I wanted to get greeting cards. We ate over at SP for lunch and I spent just $2 on Honey Chicken Cutlet, wayyyy cheaper than food in RP! Then, we went up the building, towards the office to look for her lecturer. Oh, it was a great conversation with her lecturer even though I am not a student there but the location we were standing and chatting at was great. That level was so windy, I was enjoying the breeze.
 

  
 
Total damages? SGD12.60. Phew!  
 
 
We got Sylvia a hot, lil 'thing' and hope she likes it. :) I saw quite a few interesting wallet at Fossil as well and thought it's cool to get one for pap. I don't think he will cut it up... well, I hope not.

"Not comfortable" today. Really, "not comfortable" today. I'd consider what I felt today as the worse one I ever felt in my whole life, probably because I don't have any important commitment at the moment but definitely, it was "not comfortable" today. :( Physically, "not comfortable".
 
 
I went out in the evening to meet up with Shi Jin even though today was "not comfortable" but at least I felt slightly better when I was all ready to get out. Shi Jin called in the morning to ask me for help so she wanted to meet up with me to discuss things. In fact, she had asked a favour from me a couple of weeks back and I promised her just like I promised Min. It was another graphic design favour. Ahhh... ahhh... -_-"
 
This one is slightly important because the design I'm going to help her with concerns her FYP. If it's not good... ahhhh.. I feel like I'm going to be held responsible to 6 person's FYP grades! I hope it's all good though... I felt the hybrid nature side of me is subsiding.
 
I had a little chat with her while she handed to me the required documents, transferring into my thumbdrive. Luckily I had remembered to format it otherwise all her documents are going to contain virus and I'll be held responsible to 6 person's FYP grades before I even helped out her favour! But I doubt the virus was that strong, at most, it was just a minor thumbdrive trojan. Heh.
 
Business management students really have an interesting FYP project but it's not my cup of tea. That's why I'd prefer to avoid it as far as possible but I wouldn't mind being part of it, I'd probably be stack with the advertising part only, including graphics and web.
 
 
Oh, today is the 1st of July already... Hmmmmmm... 1 more month of sweetness.

I saw Forest Print brand today over at Raffles City, Anthropology Homeware. I didn't get the bag, it was so expensive even though it was under 30% discount. That particular design that was hanging there wasn't what I wanted as well. My parents and Ston forced me to buy it but we still didn't get it in the end.
 
I thought I won't mind getting it over the internet but the price I saw was pressuring me so much, I kept on telling them, "Let's talk about it 10 years later."
 
10 years later, 10 years later. I'm pushing everything I want down 10 years later to talk about.
 
Remembered the Billabong saleslady over at Bugis Junction told me that Raffles City branch will definitely have the product I wanted but I went there and saw nothing similar. Ack, got cheated.
 
I'm guessing the bag and I have no fate to be together. I really want a corduroy bag and Thurdy's aunt isn't coming over yet. I'm getting so, so desperate about having one already.
 
 
Sometimes, are you the type that saw what you want but just doesn't want to spend the money on it when you saw the price? I am and I hate this thought.

Argg... I say, passport photo is the most unglam photo you can ever take in life, right?
 
I went out this afternoon with mom and took passport photo but I was not allow to put on my spectacle because it was dark and funny, it was not getting clear at all. The spectacle they provided made me speechless and the photographer was not encouraging me to look nicely at all. So, I took the picture without my spectacle, hairs all up and asked for both the hard and soft copy. It costs $10 for 8 pieces of hard copy.
 
I was so not happy with the result at all.
 
I rushed back home and took my mobile then started taking over 20 portraits; 1200 by 1600 of dimension, wall lights was turned on, stood in front of a white background and waited till the house was all brighten up. Fiddled here and there and finally selected 2 results which I adjusted to 300 by 400, printed out on photo paper and then submit to NTU and hopefully, they accept it.
 
Well, they have to. Compare to the photo of me without spectacle, me with my transition lens look more like me!
 
 
Ohhh~~ please accept it. Please, please, please. For a non-photogenic person like me to take passport photo, it becomes a really nerdy picture. ;(

Ston came back home today but he have to return to camp tomorrow morning, so I had got myself a mate to fool around in the house for the night, the day was not that boring at least.
 
I was checking my email earlier on and noticed that NTU rejected my passport photo due to a few reasons they listed down which I do not find my photo was inappropriate at all. It was the photo I used to give to RP during registration, how come it is unacceptable now? ;(
 
Oh well, they want a recent passport photo within the past 3 months, I will go out and get one tomorrow morning. A decent one! I really do not feel like it, I have got this damn pimple down at my chin there and I do not want it to be on the photo!
 
Is it possible to ask for both hard and soft copy if I were to take it in the shop? I do not mind paying and I hope they allow thumbdrive.
 
Oh, I had got an email for the SCE Freshmen Orientation Camp as well. Fast, huh? They got my email so fast! Too bad, I have no interest in it. :) Camp la... it is the idea of camp that makes me dislike it. I do not like to play camp game when there is no war yet plus I do not want to punch people in the night. For the sake of everyone's safety, better not. :D

Laziness. I had the intention to go for the checkup early but... ya know... the morning was so cooling, I rejected pap's offer to give me a ride there. :p So I woke up a little late, dragged myself around the house, and finally got out 2 hours later.
 
This is crazy but yes, I chose to take the long way to reach NTU instead of taking the shorter one than to find myself lost in the school. Though I did that, I still end up took a while to reach the medical center and found myself having to wait for my turn anyway. At least, it was not for long till it was my turn, I SMSed Zhenjie to kill time. :)
 
The check up went smoothly, just that the doctor noted that my hands were slightly trembling at rest state, no, I was not nervous. I thought I saw a familiar face there though... someone from Primary School. 
 
Anyway, went for a haircut after that and finally felt how light-weighted my head is! Oh, and it was finally a good one after numerous cuts from before.
 
Took the time strolling back home, enjoyed the breeze along the way. Just too bad, I was not holding the bag I wanted. It would feel so much better today.
 
Total damage for the day -- SGD39.
 
 
By the way, I was glad Min's boss decided not to take my design! :D Though glad but I still sighed.

Bad day, I should had known from the frequent turn offs of my mobile. Well, bad day for shopping cause we did not get anything much out from it. No, we did not get anything at all! The saddest part was I had to rush back home at the end of the day because Min's boss requested a change in the mock homepage I did. I can finally understand the feeling bigbro used to have when he was called back to work on days he wants to enjoy - yeap, the weekend. 
 
I was late for meeting with CY and she was having problem transferring money to her mom's account over at ICBC, a China bank. So I went down to Chinatown to look for her, then lend her my IC for the transfer and head down to Bugis Junction. From there, we shopped a little before grabbing lunch down at B1 Wanton noodle store.
 
We continued shopping and found the store Fie Japan, the store I had been wanting to take a look at. Yeah, the price was really sky rocking. The accessories were not bad but the recycled material tote bags, I only have one comment: If you need a piece for restocking, you can probably get one down there since it is foldable. We went out to search about for my bag, CY's necklace and flat-sole shoe.
 
Well, fate brought me and this Billabong bag together but we do not tie. It was expensive and by the time I wanted it, the color I wanted was out of stock. Great, and I thought I could still get a nice bag to bring out tomorrow to the checkup.
 
There were Converse shoes on sale but the pattern the both of us wanted was only size 4. There was another pair we wanted but there was one piece left with size 6. Crabs.
 
We even went down to Bugis Street and not just felt that area do not meant for the both of us, we also could not find a perfect necklace out from that place. I was getting quite bored over there actually while CY was on the search of her perfect necklace and tops. Crammed and crowded are the 2 words I can describe about that place.. therefore, not fun. Is that the reason why there was no business? I saw nice looking ladies, dully sitting in front of a mini TV, slouching like it is another no business day.
 
What is the idea of cramming everything up together? Hm? I thought there was a renovation before.
 
 
Oh well. I'm going for checkup tomorrow, hopefully less crowd and quick check.
 
 
(I can't stand crowds.)