Catching up

So, i left Sydney on 16th Nov Wed.

Said goodbye to my room, and Adam's cats. I might have missed Singapore, but i knew i'd miss Sydney too.

The 8hr flight felt forever.

It helped to have free flow alcohol... when you are alone and somewhat inebrieted you do loopy things like take photos in the airplane loo.

the first Saturday i had, i met the band.

So much has changed... i slipped in time in the afternoon to catch up with Edle... thanks for your gift edle! I gave it to my mum, she now has it by her bedside much to the jibes from my dad, hehe

Turned up for my Grandma's birthday dinner in the evening

It was one of those 13 course 2 hr chinese dinners. With kids running around, aunts and uncles chatting away with cousins catching up with each other on what we've been doing. It was such a lovely evening, with laughs and jokes among people i've known all my life.

Wei, Karl, Me, Mum, Dad, Jeff


What's a big chinese restaurant without the tanks for seafood outside? The lobsters were HUGE. It's sad seeing the fish huddled in the corner waiting to die, mouths gaping in thier last days of life.


Met up with Krissy and her girlfriends afterwards...

Went to Balcony Bar, at HMW. I love the swing seats they had... a little hot though. I suspect krissy deleted all my photos of her when i wasn't watching, so she isn't here... hmmm

But thankfully i got more krissy pics, when i visited her uber exhibition at Suntec on Monday

Pens and Pixels, a collective of singaporean professional illustrators. Wah... big time man! It was an expo for AdAsia 2005, with other exhibitors like MRT, Starhub, HP etc.... Krissy's work was among other great artists, her being one of the pantheon of visual demigods.



Been really exciting meeting all the people i've missed and having a real great time.... and more coming up...

Random Toilet Humor

Well, school's over. Just gotta go once more on Monday for a fun pop quiz about photoshop, and submit my motion graphics dumped to tape. The great plan to have fun is already underway. One of the items already planned is a 4 player session of Dungeons and Dragons; Shadow over Mystara, PC-ROM of the arcade game, with 4 joypads at Adam's place. fwahahaha!

On the right, is some graffitti in my school. F block mens room, right cubicle.

The words "Magic Vanishing Text" was there for weeks. i thought it was hilarious, if not a little uncivic minded. It faded bit by bit everyday.

Then, during this last week of school, i noticed a build up of replies. check it out.








Some randomness:
Simon buying from a store that displays these signs


Man with veges growing out of his backpack


Goin to Glebe market later with Beebee! Yayyy!!!! you know what that means my friends? GIFTS ahahah!

I was a Kaleidoscope

I remember the children's exhibits at the Science Centre. The ones that explain magnetism and they've got gadgets for you to play with. I was always amazed how a heavy metal bar could float above another bar of the same magnetic polarity.

You could look between them, but there is nothing. But you can't force it down. You push, it's difficult, and it always wins or forces you aside last minute. Throws you to the left just when you think you can make the bars meet.

Yet you flip the bar around and they stick together so quickly you have to be careful you don't get your fingers clamped between them.

Do the metal bars know why they do that? Do they want to behave this way? They don't seem to have a choice. It's just the way of their existence. They repel each other, they attract each other. They couldn't do otherwise even if they wanted to.

I'd like to think we have a choice. But sometimes the magnetism works on it own even if we fight it. To say we don't own the yoke of control would be a gross excuse, i'd like to believe we create what we desire... and things happen that make you not so sure.

I feel like a single polarity sphere suspended inside the hollow core of a bigger single polarity sphere. I can't touch any of the walls around me. I can't move any direction, the invisible force keeps me where i am no matter how much the outer sphere moves....




I put on my overcoat and walked into winter - my teeth chattered rhythms
And they were grouped in twos or threes, like a morse code message was sent from me to me. cars on slippery slopes, they're stuck...
People pushing through their mittens as i was beginning to feel it soaking through my shoes, getting colder with every step i took to your apartment, dear.

And i was a kaleidoscope... the snow on my lenses distorting the image of what was only one of you and i didn't know which one to address as all your lips moved.

This is when i forget breathe all the things i scripted, they sound unfounded.
And the look that you're giving me, it tells me exactly what you are thinking...
"this ain't working anymore."

They got their mothers worked into a panic
Sledding down hills into oncoming traffic
The parents layered clothes until the children couldn't move then kept them outside til their noises were blue and I got left there, too.

I put on my overcoat and walked into winter, my teeth chattered rhythms.
And they were grouped in twos or threes like a morse code message was sent from me to me.


-death cab for cutie