Spectrum

So some of you might have seen this series of pictures... Anyways I went to claim my portfolio back and i received some comments from Jing, my lecturer. She said she was conflicted, not sure if the pictures were conceptual enough. But she placed my in the conceptual area at the end of the day...

I personally like them but I dun think it is very well received by her. So I'm not very optimistic about the grade for this sem... I hope I get at least a B+...

I personally regret blowing the pics out to big in the portfolio... I will do it differently if I have time to redo...

Anyways click here to know the idea behind the pics...

7 things

FIERCE!

HAHA Finally this pictures r UP!!! I've been having such difficulty putting them up here! So troublesome! Anyways these pics are just AWESOME!!! Taken at the old creepy Changi Hospital, and all thanks to Marcus the photographer, that these pics turned out so nice! haha

Love them all! So nice!!! There are more but in order to not overload u all these shall be the ones up here! haha (ok maybe cos they are not as nice but still quite good ok! haha)

Anyways if you all r thinking what have I been busy with?! Well this is why! haha my photography module requires me to have a blog! So all my energy right now is dedicated to tat! haha go take a look n comment!

Halloween!!!

BOO!

haha ok I know this is alittle too late for Halloween pics but ya since I got free time now (not really la but as you know I ALWAYS do everything else except for studying haha) So yes decided to update this blog cos B1/B2/BF is telling me how dusty this space is!

So Sabrina dressed up as some cheena ghost n I'm just a fashion disaster! haha

HAPPY STRAW DAY!!!

HAHA yes today is STRAW DAY!!!

So you might be asking 'What IS STRAW DAY?!' Well Straw Day is when you are supposed to drink through STRAWS! haha Even when you are drinking from your water bottle! And when you are drinking through your straws, you feel loved cos you know somewhere out there another person you love dearly is drinking through a straw too! So you are connected with them through straws and feel loved...


So yesterday after going to sch for a project meeting which only lasted an hour, I spent most of my time helping Stacey, the person behind the conception of Straw Day, to prepare for her straw glasses, fans, magic wands and sash for Mr Straw King... (Nope dun worry tat is not me haha) As usual we made a fool of ourselves yesterday in the deck... I wonder why!?




Oh while posting these pics of us in our straw made retro big glasses, I found these pics of Banana/B2 and I at the PHILANTROPHIC (hope I spelt it rite) Civil Defence charity event premier of Max Payne (which sucked big time).


Oh the picture below was after photoshopped cos I realised a flaw after taking this picture tat day... A very sad flaw... So here is the after photoshopped version... Not gonna show you the before picture! haha Oh and the butter/salty popcorn at Lido is so nice! haha But it's so fat and 'heaty'!!!






And I found these pics too SY! haha not sure if I tagged u in this pic but I will do it now! haha Anyways I'm in depression (kinda) cos looking thru these pics, I feel like something seemed to be getting worse... So... yes... Stacey! I need your SELF CONFIDENCE!!!

The Deck

Hello Upper Eastsiders!

Another cam whoring moment with the Es at the Deck last fri! haha Made lots of unnecessary noise which gave weird stares from people around us... So after running and posing and punching around, we were sweating buckets of sweat under our pits! But for viewing purposes, the pictures would not be posted here...

I dunno why I do most of the things I did anyways! I mean they are all so EMBARASSING!!! haha A wedgie?! I had such a hard time putting it in!

Ade took this shot! So nice! haha

Hey Stacey! Dun be emo-y again k! We are all BEAUTIFUL!!! U r making me eat guavas again! cos i feel WORSE!!! haha

Oh had my NM3210 Cybercrime presentation to the entire lecture of 35 people? haha around there la... But it is still damn scary k! I was shaking like an earthquake of a ricktor scale of 122312! So although it was a very rush project, I'm just glad everything is over now! So 1 down 3 more to go! haha

Gotta go find things for my NM2101 and Film and History 2000word essay due the monday after deepavali! So sian!!! Mus do footnotes n stuff! SOMEBOBY HELP M!!! I totally dunno how to do them la! And also I gotta go take more shots for my NM3223 mod!!! So many things to do n I am wasting time HERE?! haha

I wanna watch High School Musical 3 this thursday!!! Wanted to ps JX to watch with SH and SY but they r gonna watch it next weekday so I decided I cant wait! So decided to go watch with JX lor haha

Oh and I'm going to the Biennale this fri! I guess haha with Shifa's group... Hope it's fun!

Geek in Pink

HAHA today was super fun! Met out with the S20 gang to celebrate our yearly WeiQuan and HuiMin's Birthday! It has been a long long loooonnngggg time since we met out in such a big group lots of catching up to do... haha So dear old Benji organised this outing to Minds Cafe which a little problem happened... He invited EVERYONE except the birthday boy haha! Hilarious! Luckily WeiQuan was free la! Blur as hell...

So yes we cam whored lots and made LOTs of noise!!! We were screaming like the entire place was ours alone while playing the dinosaur skeleton game (never played that game cos the box looked damn boring haha so never judge a book/game by it's cover!) which was DAMN FUN!!! haha Luckily I didnt lose cos the things we force them to do are jus humiliating! haha n WeiQuan is damn VIOLENT in the game!!! I suspect he bruised SY! haha but I wont be surprised if it was SY herself cos the game is seriously violent and you never know what u'll do jus so not to LOSE!!! haha

So after the games, those who are free and have nothing better to do decided to go take a hike around City Hall. We marched all the way from The Cathay to Bugis to Miss Clarity's (which was closed for some weird reason) and went to some famous fish slice noodle place which was damn crowded so went back into Bugis Junction! After sweating 1247364million litres of perspiration (pronounced by our Miss Chai as PES-PERATION not sure y the R is silent haha), we decided to go hav dinner at some Hong Kong restaurant which I dun rememebr the name except for the Ah Wang Hong Kong actor guy acting as the mascot! The food is yummy especially the bread french toast thingy!!! AND not to mention we dug up loads of saucy info which I've NEVER heard before man... Filled in all the blanks/most of them anyways haha...

Oh after the entire day of fun and laughter, I realised I forgot to print my photos for my exhibition next week!!! ok it is THIS WEEK cos it's past midnight already... sucks Y am I still online?! I should be sleeping away like a Sleeping Beauty!!! I got 9am class tomorrow morning!!! SUCKS!!! EYEBAGS!!! DARK (ONION) RINGS UNDER MY EYES!!!

OH! haha YuSheng told me he saw the Angel pics and he liked it! Esp the white one! haha THANKS MAN!!! Dun worry you will find u calling soon! haha have fun in ENGINE!!! It sure will be interesting in some way or another! Time will tell! Lucks!

Cant wait for Dec to come!!! haha

To the moon and back

The Es!!!

Ok so yes we cam-whored yesterday at the deck after I got my camera and went to meet the Es for Yong Tau Fu. And seemed like Vicky had something going on and I hope she is feeling much better now... and after awhile, Ms Lopez got in to the upcoming Halloween mood and decided to show me her costume! It was hilarious and embarassing but as usual we are too COOL to be bothered by the frequent stares we receive from the people walking by!

Nice anot?!

So had the cheerleading performance today... I would say it was not bad... The most fun in the past few weeks and not to mention alittle drama... haha ok not tat much drama but quite drama la...

Ok so as I was saying although my 'Chair' didnt go up as planned (very disappointed with myself), it was still fun and exciting! haha this got me thinking about my choice...

So after the performance I left quite fast and for the first time in my LIFE (I think) I ate BK ALONE!!! hai no one wants to come out n makan dinner with me... but aiya I wanted to take some night shots as well so... what der heck haha So after shooting for a million and one times at the MOON, I finally got one decent one which is not shakey/blur/over exposed/under exposed etc... haha well I tot it looked not bad so HERE IT IS!!! It is gonna take over my Handphone Low Key shot.
Oh and this is my fav shot of tonight also! Was trying to act pro in front of this other DSLR user, despite the fact that I was desperately looking for the buttons to adjust the ISO and wonder y cant I adjust the aperture and other stuff... sucks!

Pictures

Oh just realised today (yes it might be alittle late for me to notice it but...) We are officially in RECESSION!!! oh mans... tat means spend less n work more! haha maybe I should since I m no longer cheering... wells gotta go ponder first haha dun wanna commit too soon...

Oh and seems like it is a 3 vs 2 vote for which picture is better for 'Symbolic of the Sun'. And it seems like the girls all like the Sun ray one over the umbrella one... Not sure why... Oh below is another picure taken by me! haha personally I am very proud to take this pic cos I tot is is really kinda considered a Close Up haha And it was amazing how brace the dragonfly was... It didnt fly when I went very close to it haha

Ok this picture is not taken by me... it's by SY and her amazing phone... Omnia i think haha dunno la I suck at technology...

Check out the BICEPS!!! haha

New Assignment: Urban Fantasy/Surrealism

Hi all you all might have seen this pic on my msn display... So here I am to tell u all the story behind the creation of the pic...

Firstly, I got an assignment from my NM3223 Digital Photography module titled Urban Fantasy and using Surrealism (go google it!) for this assignment... So the first thought that came to mind was Consumerism! I mean labels and brands are part of our everyday life! haha so I decided to use the Disney Princesses to channel this idea. I wanted to use Snow White and Cinderella for this particular assignment...

Snow White

Cinderella

However, as you can see, the pics are HIDEOUS!!! Badly done... so after the terrible tutorial presentation on monday, I was racking my brains to get another idea... The tutor and my frens told me to stick to my idea since it is good... So stick with it I did but I got rid of the princesses haha...

Then while I was shopping one day, (yes I knoe I should be studying instead...) I passed by Paragon and I saw the labels on the walls... Then, it was right there, inspiration STRUCK me like a lightning did!!! I decided to make brand names stick out of a person's back like a porcupine or something with that person being tied by other brands as well... However the image evolved and it became Angel wings instead... The initial model I had was Ms Cheryl Low (oops sorry it is Mrs Zhang now haha) but because the image didn't turn out very good, (not because of the model la it's cos of other things I am sure... haha) I decided to use myself instead! (My ANTM moment! So FUN!!! haha) So TADA!!! The pics are here!!!

Archangel

Ok here is the story/explanation behind the image...

• Angel Wings - Glorification of the labels, raising one's status and image, boosting one's self confidence.
• Tattoes - Labels and brands are like a second layer of skin to us, we use them like a necessity no longer as a commodity.
• Strings - We are bound/constraint by the labels and brands we so love. We are victims of consumerism but we put ourselves in this position. We are tied down by their existence trying desperately to pursue the high life.

I originally wanted the image to be black and white or abit yellowish however, after using the 'Blue Label', I decided if I change EVERYTHING to black and white would do it injustice... Hence I decided to just use it as it is... However, the background seemed rather bland... Hence I would like your suggestions on how to make it look better... maybe like what Anli said, 'a background which can convey the meaning of the image as well.'

Here are some of the suggestions I have:

Marcus said the original white background image is good enough... And another way is to turn the angel upside down, making him hang on the top, holding onto the strings as well trying not to fall onto the bed of needles at the bottom of the image... Firstly, I like the idea but that means I mus pose like I am holding onto the strings? and furthermore, I mus change the words as well? so that they do not appear upside down? and also how do u create a bed of needles? haha

SY agreed that the original image is good enough also but maybe if I insist on using colors, use the gradient one? like the blue on top whitening out at the bottom... And the use of a softer color...

I personally like the white background and light blue background... Well wat r ur tots?

Oh and I havent been updating much because I am so BUSY!!! Some of you might know that I cant MULTITASK!!! Have been too busy with school (but the funny thing is I havent start studying for it yet! haha so dead), cheerleading (eh my consistent skipping of trainings is annoying I know cos I'm not exactly a big fan of sweating! sucks... Project hot bod is so not working out this sem...) driving (my driving test is on 29th Dec 2008!!! Yippeee! Wish me luck! Oh did I mention I havent started on parking YET?!), work (hmm ok 2 days a month is soooo not considered work!)

Shit I gotta stop procrastinating and start doing some actual WORK! damn... I even stopped watching my fav shows! Damn it... that means the thing that is occupying my time now is... SOCIALISING?! WTF?! well what to do when you are POPULAR!!! haha sucks...

EMO!!!

My fave SHOT!!!

Hey people! Some might have noticed or was informed of last week's great depression but no worries! It's over! (I hope) But last night took some really nice emo-ish pics of ME!!! haha obviously I'm not the photographer Geng Cheong aka Tim is! n sadly I realised tat my side profile SUCKS big time! haha these are the decent looking ones after 11232million shots of me... haha

So ya emo-ish rite! haha and here are some of the pics I took last nite! not alot but finally something worth showing! haha

Perspective 1

Yes I know this is blur... dunno what theme this suits haha

Perspective 2

Low Key 1

Low Key 1 (take 2)