Filed under: photo-entry, rambling, random, ugh | Tags: art, awesome, boys, love, reflective, sad, sigh
i found this really wonderful website full of quirky, vintage, strange, whimsical, etc etc illustrations from all over the world, some in watercolour, some in black-and-white (or cream, as the pages have yellowed in time), some in stranger mediums like the airbrush (i never knew they had airbrushes back in 1930!), but they’re mostly a group of pictures from artists ranging from the well-known (van gogh) to the relatively arcane (dutch children’s picture books illustrators). there’s no real way to describe this website, but maybe if i could describe it in one word it would be “intimate”, as if you’re taking a peek into a book from a shelf of a person from the past. i love the ones of animals and plants! nobody really draws that anymore, which i think they should, at the rate all of those animals are becoming extinct. and also i love the details on the mushroom illustrations!! i never knew there were so many! (and they all somehow look delicious, even though they’re mostly poisonous. idk maybe that’s just me being ravenous at 4 in the morning) here are some examples that i liked a lot:
watercolour illustration of france
old but cool looking illustration of a town from the 15th century! (that’s jerusalem i believe) the blog calls it “travel literature”, how refined!
an artist in the 1930 imagines what life would be like in 2030, using airbrushes. love how art deco this is! and i don’t mean the modern type illustrators try to replicate with using computer software
check it out here!
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i wanted to type something else, but i changed my mind because i didn’t know how to go about expressing myself. and i don’t know what to say. see i just deleted the paragraph i typed. this is so frustrating. this is the first time in my life that words have failed me? hm. i shall sleep on this and hope it gets better tomorrow.
Filed under: daily, memories, rambling, videos | Tags: friends, random, john mayer, video, boys, love, lyrics, reflective, fangirl, gaga
yesterday we celebrated with a yummy (but slightly expensive) buffet at straits cafe @ rendezvous hotel! had fun chitchatting and eating with tony, shoban, guang, ham, edsee, pam! gosh it was hilarious. first of all tony and his alfalfa, basically it’s this moss like thing that tasted like grass. pam was throwing him eye-rolls and grimaces when he was eating it like some bovine organism. and the disgusting durian creme and puff. oh god if i ever have the pleasure of eating (forced, tricked, accidentally or otherwise) anything with durian in it i swear i will use one whole bottle of listerine in one sitting. then we watched a movie called gomorrah at cathay picturehouse (it was between that and christmas carol 3D, but since pam’s 18 we chose the former m18 movie LOL). it apparently won the top prize at the cannes film festival (plus certified 91% fresh via pam’s rottentomatoes), but it turned out… as i quote the birthday girl “this movie was such a milestone for me” well. i still prefer the heavily-stylized 40s american mafia movie a la the godfather. gomorrah was too hyper-real imo. :/ anyway have fun in malacca girl!
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birthday girl!
fewd!
edsee laughing at at tony eating his alfalfa
group shot! slightly blurred. (and my face looks like the full moon lol)
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anyway i’ve finally gotten down to listening to the fame monster. gaga is a genius. perhaps i should consider turning from a free-thinker to joining a pagan occult that worships her, LOL. i’m joking, i’m joking, don’t stone me. anyway alejandro is my favourite on the album!! best thing is, it samples czardas (the very hungarian gypsy tune we learned for guitar) at the start. and i love the intro of dance in the dark too!!
hmm i got john mayer’s new album battle studies. spent the whole morning in bed listening to it. i gotta say it’s my favourite album by him yet. the whole thing feels so raw, unpretentious, and intimate. especially love friends, lovers or nothing and the title track, heartbreak warfare. and i shall leave you with the former! the lyrics are really meaningful imo (i’m sure many of us will have felt like this at some point in time or another). the perfect album for single, lonely souls out there, heh:
anything other than yes is no,
anything other than stay is go,
anything less than i love you is lying
Filed under: incoherence, rambling, random, reflective, ugh | Tags: random, life, boys, reflective, tired
and it hit me
poetry and all its associated froufrou only comes when you’re down, or lonely, or dejected, or feeling shitty. like when you wake up from the wrong side of bed and feel like the whole world is against you when it really isn’t
and never when there’s sunshine and rainbows and unicorns (at least for normal people… sans when you’re on drugs because i think when you’re happy and on a trip you might actually make something good… like walt disney)
because the best form of art comes when you’re struggling with something*
think owen facing war and death, soyinka facing racial discrimination, woolf battling depression…
rarely do you get a poet or artist who gets famous because he/she makes happy art
and i look at my xanga and think
wow, i can’t even remember what half of this is about! (but i guess i must’ve been really depressed when i wrote these)
i guess my life must’ve been more dramatic and exciting when it’s viewed through rain clouds.
and in other words
strike when the iron is hot, or protect your ego and retreat back to ground zero
god i need a magic 8 ball to answer all my questions
and random, but i think zune is killing my laptop. that lousy piece of junk! it’s been whirring non-stop for the past hour. or maybe it’s just because i’ve been on for 12 hours. bleh.
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*quote courtesy lady gaga
Filed under: awesomeness, daily, memories, photo-entry, rambling | Tags: friends, fun, school
haha this is gonna be a post loaded with blurry and unclear pictures taken with my lousy kodak 7.1 megapix cam, phone cam and a shaky hand so bear with the unprofessional pictures! yes i’m not pro enough to lug around those big back bulky cameras (i don’t even know what it’s called lol) which seem so hip recently. so many people have got them.
PRE-PROM MASK HUNTING:
we were cheated!! 15 bucks to rent a lousy mask which we didn’t even use in the end. that’s just… nevertheless pams and i had fun with the costumes in the rental shop!
pam: come closer sonny, granny can’t see ya
channelling my inner john lennon
after that got a clutch/bag what was pretty similar to my dress! was quite lucky. on the day itself the schduele was super duper rush! did hair and makeup at isetan scotts with barely time to spare (cos we were supposed to practice the performance item) so quickly rushed down to the class’s rented service apartment and put on dress and we were roaring and ready to go!
AT MARRIOTT:
ze sree musketeers
the only time my fringe managed to stay nice and flat the whole night :(
HAHA I LIKE THIS PIC
me and mr evans! for being such a paitent ct.
guitar god vs amazonian woman (sounds like a bad marvel comic book name)
after it ended, pics galore.
class photo!
kev said high heels can’t possibly be that bad to stand in! well he put it on for 10 secs before he changed back.
kwong, ham, guang, danson, shoban, tony, eddy, pam and i walked back to the service apartment. dunno how i did it but i managed to walk all the way from marriott to centerpoint in 3 inch heels we took pis along the way, with kwong as the artistic stylist.
strike a pose
group shottt
LOL. seeing rain momentarily made me forget the pain in my toes
fail shot at a suave photo. hahaha
FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYY after what seemed like ages we reached the place!
went to supperclub for a bit with kevlim, vik, jun, cher, steph and the bridge gang. lol couldn’t remember much, just that i couldn’t see anything cos the fog machine kept spraying the crowd when they were dancing. and the place was so tiny! oh and my ears still hurt. blehh. must’ve got something to do with my newly pierced ears, like they’re still throbbing.
eventually i met darli, who was sitting prim and proper by the side with valencia and ginni and i asked her why she wasn’t dancing, and she replied “because i want to laugh at people”
…LOL
eventually at 2ish 3 left and went to get kwong/pam’s cake for their surprise. orchard at 2am is really deserted and quiet. haha and there there was this episode with the drunk indian and angmoh. tsk.
cher lounging around as we waited for the receptionist to come back with the cake.
anyway the thing about the celebration was that kev thought we were celebrating pam’s birthday, and pam the other way round! so in the end we surprised both of them! got pam fruit juicer and kwong a whole box of stuffs. sing song, ate cake. then i went to shower but in the meanwhile the class watched silence of the lambs on star movies. it’s not even scary lor, dunno why ming always seem so scared when we talk about this movie. then after that we played guang’s retarded drinking game (with fruit juice and coke), which was quite funny. like there are rules that you must abide by, and the forfeit is drinking the drinks, and like you can’t got to the toilet. damn sadistic lor! there were rules such as “cannot say the word ‘I’”, “cannot point at others”, “cannot ask questions” etc etc. eventually the game progressed to a point were everybody was talking like r2d2 and were afraid to move around too much for fear of breaking a rule of the game. LOL
then morning came and….
most people fell asleep!
the sky at 8 ish am from my spot on the sofa/chair in the living room. helped make pancakes and (failed) eggs for breakfast
lounged around the rooftop pool watching some of the guys swim. eventually fell asleep for a long while. it was so nice with the warm cushioned deck chairs and shade from the umbrella. bad part was when guang decide to flick water at the chairs when i was in lala-land. :(
cleaning up. and we were signing darli’s long overdue birthday present.
going homeeeeee. later ate with class at taka.
then i met ming and kk while lugging all my stuff cos i haven’t seen them in damn long! watched fantastic mr fox but i guess it wasn’t so fantastic cos i fell asleep in the middle of the movie. or it could be due to a combination of too little sleep and too much walking/jumping around from last night. but the animation was damn cute though, like whimsical and nostalic. somehow it reminds me of my childhood. anw then walked a bit looking at prom dresses for ming and kk, and finally came home. almost died on the mrt. even my flats gave me blisters, plus my calves were aching like just ran 2.4 ten times ontinuously! can’t imagine what professional catwalk model’ll have to go through on a daily basis. then arrived home and cleaned up and here i am now!
hmm shall upload pics on fb tomorrow i guess. kinda sleepy now.
Filed under: daily, rambling, random | Tags: shopping, family, life, tired
hi guys, it’s me, bao again, who else did you expect. anyway prom is in 20 hours. time is of the essence but i’m here blogging away. i’m psyched for it but at the same time i’ll be glad when it’s over! no more trekking though the amazonian concrete jungles of orchard and suntec, no more blisters, no more feeling like my ankles are gonna fall off. but then yet again this pain is all self-inflicted i guess, i could show up in granny slippers and my pajamas (i’ll be wearing a mask anyway, no one would recognise me) and spare myself all these hours shopping for prom-related stuff. well shopping when you know what you’re looking for spoils all the fun. and i’m gonna go for a foot reflexology massage on wednesday to sooth my already creaky old-lady joints (and i’m only 18!)
and then there’s lnat to look forward to after prom. :( it’s this law school test thingy for uk unis that i have to sit for. it’s only mcq compre but it’s so difficult, or maybe it’s just me. if i get less than 20/30 i’ll put my family’s ancestral name to shame. *sobs into silk handkerchief embroidered with Chinese peonies* oh deary me i really do i do well for it D:
BUT! After that I’M GOING TO TAIWAN ON THE 9TH OF DEC!!!!! EXCITING SIAAAAAAAAA, OH MAI GAO!!!! ahem, sorry for that slip of the ah lian tongue. well, i’m looking forward to the hot springs!! :D the tour guide says you have to put on a swimming costume for the outdoor one but who wears swimming costumes into a hot spring!! cmon guys! that ruins all the fun. you gotta go in naked! it’s like skinny dipping you don’t wear a bikini/swimming costume when you skinny dip. so bring it on baby, i’m gonna enjoy the indoor one in my birthday suit glory. :) (my dad says “people will secretly take photos of you and then when you become powerful and influential they’ll blackmail you” BUT WHAT DOES HE KNOW) and i’m looking forward to eating snacks at the night markets and going to xi men ding and shopping and lots of stuff. *whispers* and if i’m really lucky i might see a political demonstration on the street. HEE
haha ok that was retarded. gotta go sleep now, i kinda have a headache. :/ seeya guys, peace out.
