posted on , at 15:00.
and so ive got a new blog on wordpress. nicely revamped with a more professional feel.
gonna post about my art mostly. wordpress’s so much better with the photos uploading too. (:
and ive got my own page for my portfolio. niceeeeee.
i haven't updated my blog in the longest time. i've got so much happening yet my blog doesn't reflect a thing. hahaha. so well, basically it's the school june holidays which also happens to coincide with the most fabulous thing that has ever happened to Singapore. which is the GSS, or the Great Singapore Sale. so besides the chilling out, slacking, eating good food, snoozing till afternoons and wasting my life away, i've been shopping and shopping tilll my whole wallet's fat with not cash, but receipts. and there's the perfect excuse: SHOPPING FOR UNIVERSITY CLOTHES(: which is, by the way, so much more fun than shopping for working clothes. or professional clothes. all that ironed, creaseless prim and proper things.
university is so damn exciting. i seriously cant wait till ADM starts. in case you're still confused about what kinda weird course im doing, heres the gist of everything:
im entering NTU's
School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) and pursuing my four year Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with direct honours. (not to be confused with bachelor of arts) im majoring in Visual Communication which is a small intake of about fifty very talented and versatile designers (hahahaha)
and Visual Communication is, by the way,
Visual communication as the name suggests is communication through visual aid. It is the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon. Primarily associated with two dimensional images, it includes: art, signs, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, colour and electronic resources. It solely relies on vision. It is form of communication with visual effect. It explores the idea that a visual message with text has a greater power to inform, educate or persuade a person. It is communication by presenting information through Visual form. There exists a variety of ways to present information visually, like gestures, body languages, video and TV. Here, focus is on the presentation of text, pictures, diagrams, photos, et cetera, integrated on a computer display. The term visual presentation is used to refer to the actual presentation of information. Recent research in the field has focused on web design and graphically oriented usability. Graphic designers use methods of visual communication in their professional practice.
(from wikipedia.com)
p.s. im on the Nanyang Scholarship too :D
i have exactly ten weeks of idling time till my university starts. i'm returning back to teach for only about a week or two and then i'll leave my kids for good. last friday on the last day of school, i had a dreaded feeling as i said goodbye to my kids. i didnt know why, but i felt like i was already leaving them. so yeah, much as i feel like strangling them sometimes, i really still love them a lot and cant bear to leave them ): many of them know that im "leaving for the art school", but they dont know exactly when i'll be leaving. i keep saying they cant rid of me so soon and i'll still see them when term starts, but really, it'll only be for a week. which means i'll only get to see them only
one more time per art class. that's. so sad ): the maths teacher for my form class had HIS last day on friday. and he actually left without even telling them. didnt wanna make a big fuss and all. but i cant bear to do that. though i highly believe i might start to tear when i do get down to telling them.
on a lighter note, i recently bought a guitar for a lil over hundred. nothing too spectacular, i just wanted one to play around with. im self learning guitar (: thanks cherylbaybeh for giving me your expertise comments on getting the guitar. hhaah seriously, i didnt even know whats the difference between acoustic and classical. and hey, im not that bad now cos i can already play some chords well and can accompany for certain, selectively easier songs. like, chris brown's with you! woohoo. and its only day three with my new toy.
and in case you havent seen me, ive had my two-and-a-half year old braces removed and now, in place of it is the worse nightmare in the form of RETAINERS. dang it hurts when i put it on and hurts even more when i try to remove it. the plastic thing fits so friggin well on my teeth that i feel like im yanking out all of my teeth when i take it off. and darn, stupid National Dental Centre takes soooo long just to get my turn with my doc. thank goodness my treatment is so called completed cos i strongly believe my total waiting time at NDC over the last 2.5 years accumulates to over 24 hours. total waste of time. and that's the problem with gahment services (excluding education of course- hello, MOE's curently my employer). you queue forever to wait for your turn for a so-called subsidized treatment, you waste ages waiting for your appointments and finally, the total cost is not unlike another's private treatment. and its so ironic because recently NDC renamed its service counters "Patient Services". a most appropriate reminder for all of us.
and whoa. this must be my longest blog entry thus far.
must have been too deprived of blogging previously. hahahah and wordpress has a wordcount. ive written an essay of 936 words. hahhaha. 938.
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