spring time savannah is a rather happy period. flowers magically POP everywhere. there are trees that are bare with no leaves, but covered in flowers. so instead of having green trees, you see pink or white ones. it's pretty cool. they actually started appearing end of winter when it was still cold and they're still pretty much in full bloom now. so by chrystal's request, here are some pictures of savannah in spring :)

if only singapore did look like this in spring....

but yes. of course when u have flowers....spring also brings about many insects. especially bees. which is kinda gross. and in some places, annoying gnats that FLY IN YOUR FACE AND SUCK UR BLOOD. thankfully it doesn't really occur very often. 

the temperature here is still flipping up and down, warm and cold. naomi the polar bear from new york being so used to the cold decided to wrap her hand knitted scarf by her mum around my neck to keep me singaporean nice and warm. here we are on the bus bringing us to arnold (the supposed safe area) to check out a few housing options....

house hunting was FINALLY successful in the sense that we finally found a good neighbourhood downtown which is not only close to the scad buildings but also safe and nice and affordable. we're gonna have to make a few appointments to arrange going down there on saturday to go see the insides of the house now that we've checked the outside out. to show u how much effort we took into house hunting, we practically WALKED the whole of savannah downtown which is possibly the whole of SCAD map. and savannah, being savannah, is surrounded in ghetto areas. you can have one street being a nice neighbourhood and the other side of the street being the ghetto. which sucks for safety and parental approval but is a plus for price. oh well. but, thankfully due to my persuasion and map studying skills and persistence and stubbornness, i finally got naomi to agree to look at some of the houses i found near the graphic design department. this was finally one neighbourhood that naomi was very very pleased with and it was in no way surrounded by ghetto. i am hoping with all my heart that God will provide so wonderfully for the 2 of us <3 

i now have one problem settled. 

another problem settled was my project with the stupid adobe illustrator's mesh gradient tool which is SERIOUSLY A PAIN IN THE ASS. we had to paint a realistic apple using it and it was definitely not my cup of tea or coffee or milo peng. 

this is really not as simple as it looks.

1.5 problems down. the other half is when we finally secure the house.