school has finally started and time has definitely zipped it's way around me without me knowing. the first week was crazy, rushing from class to class thanks to the stupid scad bus schedules. i can't wait for my bike to be ready for me to collect at walmart. (haha yes. walmart seriously sells everything. i recently got a all in one printer/scanner/copier for 35 bucks there too. 

during the first week itself i was pretty much pounded with work and i found myself staying up till 4am in the morning and getting only 2 hours of sleep before i had to wake up for non-stop classes. and to top it off i was let off late from one of my classes which resulted in me having to run in the HEAVY rain. bah. 

thankfully i managed to survive, being surprisingly alert and not feeling sleepy at all. on the flip side, I found out once again, as I've always been stupidly doing, that I stayed up late for nothing. why? cos not all of the work was due. just half. GREAT. and to top things off, by the time it reached my turn for my critique, i was given a mere less than 5 minutes, in which my work was brushed off by EVERYONE including the professor because everyone couldn't wait to leave Z__Z awesomeness. 

ah wells. thank goodness i like my classes or i might just die. 

you know how there are many times in your life where you worry whether or not u are in the right job? like halfway through you find yourself scared that you may be wrong all along about what you want to do? that has happened to me MULTIPLE TIMES, but ever since i stepped into my intro to graphic design class and look at my beautifully designed and layout-ed work sheets and project guideline sheets, looking at beautiful looking powerpoint slides and I am DELIGHTED to be in this field. and then i realise with great joy, that I have made the right choice. excitements :)

psychology class was super fun too, with it being pretty much like a leadership training camp, what's with all the personality quizzes and just getting into groups to talk. it's fun learning more about how people work, what kind of person you are etc. it's scary though cos you feel that everything you do, from your body language to the things you talk about, is under scrutinize and analysed by your psycho psychology professor. but it's just cool it feels like one of those church camps with a speaker who prophesizes over people and you're just sitting there going "OH ME NEXT ME NEXT!!!" thanks to my professor and her making us play icebreakers, i feel very comfortable in that class, being able to talk and express my thoughts, which is unfortunately not a very normal thing for me. my only gripe that i have with this class is how my psych prof loves to get SUPER DUPER CLOSE TO YOU. like I found myself in situations in which she was literally 1 inch away from my face. ahem. personal bubble thank you very much. kthxbye haha

i had to very sadly drop art history as my 4th class even though that would screw up my entire college plan :(  ok not really. HAR HAR. ahem. but i had to. for 2 very good reasons;

1. unorthodox teaching method. she was way toooo deeeppp for my understanding. one of those professors with a phd with a very strong opinion about the definition of art. her readings were all about that and i don't care about that. I just want to know the styles of a period etc, not the social background whatsoever. sure no exams, no tests, no essays. easy. no thank you. I don't think my money was put to good use and I don't feel secure about getting a good grade. I'd rather work for it. 

2. since it's heavily discussion format, chances are we will never be let out early cos my class was seriously annoying with some super strong and opinionated people. JUST SHUDDUP ALREADY WILL YA!!! 

goodness gracious me. this is the difference between singaporean students and american students. people here aren't afraid to air their opinions and argue about it. intimidating and annoying. it's kinda cool if they have cool view points, but they should not go on and on and engage in heated debate. RUN AWAY FROM CONFLICT!!!

ok. enough slacking. back to work for graphic design....

amidst all this boredom i find myself blog surfing randomly, before stumbling onto few of those famous people blogs. or rather. people who got famous through blogging. no wonder they got famous. it's too juicy or uber entertaining. their famous lives enable them to be involved in so many cool events, travelling to various places and what nots.

after seeing more pictures, I am more determined to go visit Paris and London and all the other places that we learn about in art history. It's fascinating how other people either learn about the various tourist spots from the history of rulers and wars and yet here, as art students, we have the opportunity to study these wonderful architecture and works in art history :) 

suddenly art history doesn't seem so boring after all ;p

i'm seriously considering keeping my 2 art hist electives for the off campus trips so i can travel down using my school's discount. hur hur hur. ;P

anyhows...i went down to the mall today in hopes of buying the nice clothes su hui and i saw the other day when we went down. i was glad to see bigger and better sales, but disappointed that all the clothes that i liked were no longer there :( oh darn the new seasons. 

on the bright side, i treated myself to a massage to ease my aching muscles. perhaps i should do this more often....after all.....the last time i went for a massage, i was told to do so more often for health reasons. hur hur.

oh. and in an attempt to further educate myself on the art world, i started surfing for various artists and have decided to put JARED SHEAR (http://terrapeer.blogspot.com/) on the spotlight. brilliance in photoshop, terra used a series of photoshop brushes to create a brand new landscape. 

cool eh?

my younger brother emailed me on facebook for some advice. hee

so cute.

for all his 14 years of life. i think this is the first time i feel like a proper elder sibling *blush*

ho ho ho

makes me want to ruffle his grassy palm tree hair <3 

anyhows. i can't wait for school to start so i finally have something to do. i hung out with my professor yesterday (yeah. i was THAT desperate. ahha). actually it wasn't so bad....if you ignored the B.O. and farts that i pretended to not notice. but yah. it was interesting to talk to her and give my opinions on improving the syllabus and hearing about her life story about designing costumes for clowns and stories of clown college (yes such a thing actually exists. FASCINATING)

apparently in clown school, you learn how to ride elephants, how to create gags, how to trip and fall (yes. anyone up for clown college now??? sounds mighty fun!!)

su hui came. su hui's gone. now i'm back to square one of being all alone. for someone who is introverted, this entire being alone episode is kinda torturous. sure, people tire me out, but having lived in the dorm for a whole 9 months, growing up in a noisy house for all 19 years of my life, this whole be alone by myself is horribly eerie and quiet. :S 

ah well, nonetheless, the time with su hui was pretty well spent, though most prob not to it's maximum capacity. for the first time in 9 months of being here, I explored savannah. having su hui here as brought about a good excuse to go on house tours, visit museums and tourist spots. it was a good experience having someone who won't get bored at museum trips, who won't think savannah has nothing to offer. Su hui for one is amazing. she paints a picture of savannah that would probably make anyone come visit me. with her, i realised the importance of visiting and exploring spaces, of just being interested in practically every single thing (except stupid predictable movies...that..i still won't quit). 

having su hui around chased the boredom away though sometimes I felt bad because I knew not what else to offer her here in savannah. after a while, i had nothing left to impress my friend with :( most of our time was spent sleeping and watching movies on netflix. ah well. but thanks to her i watched a few pretty good movies though some just made me want to stab myself multiple times *angry stares at su hui who just laughs*

and to prove that I haven't died from my cooking..here are a few pictures of our meals. 

NASI LEMAK :D the soy sauce chicken actually turned out pretty good even though i just tikam tikam with the seasoning and what nots. LOL.

sweet and sour pork was amazingly and surprisingly good. su hui was doubtful seeing the way i cooked it. coversation was something like this:

su- eh. you sure you know anot?

glory- aiyah. tikam la. just put in anything i think it has. haha.

not the bad sia :)
and roast chicken from krogers. yeah. i can still get good delicious chicken without going to J.O.s to eat oily food. :D and only $5 for a whole roast chicken!

steam egg, potatoes with meat and onions. YUM :) more seasoning could be done though...i wish i had chai poh with me here :(

chicken rice! ok. despite having those prima packets to make it...we didn't really have a full success. us and our bad instruction following. haha.

yummylicious udon :D and last but not least...BAN MIEN :D

also met up with hsing ting and joy (the other singaporean) where we had dinner in my house and we made goreng pisang. HAHA. doesn't look or taste anything like it, but it was still yummy. WOO HOO! horrible cleaning up to do after that though :S took alot of soap to clean out the pot full of oil :S acks. 

cooking ain't gonna be fun anymore for just me myself and i. not to mention no help with clean up :(

oh well.

YAY! su hui is here to accompany me on my would-have-been-lonely summer. 

i found a cheap way to get from the downtown to airport. just a dollar for the bus as compared to the horrible 30 dollar plus tips taxi ride. it was a good moment of catching up and it felt as though while we all went our separate ways around the world to study, time stood still for us and now time is running again. we have changed, things have changed, definitely, but it felt as though in our friendship, nothing has changed. it feels that way with my friends back at church and I am very thankful for that. 

it's strange how there are certain people in your life in which the lack of contact will result in the drifting in relationships. in the end, it comes to nothing and you look back and wonder what had happened. yet there;s another group of friends, that you can't bear to leave, worrying that you guys will drift apart, going separate ways etc etc. but I realised, far away from everyone, that although life continues going on for each and every single one of us, it feels as though our friendship has merely hit the pause button and when we return and reunite with one another, we'll hit the play button and there'll be no need to start all over again. 

sleepovers, movie marathons, laughing and musing over the past, roast duck etc etc etc.

it's scary how we now contemplate about the future. realising that it's really not too far away ahead of us. I realised with great shock and horror that after graduating in 3 or 4 years, i'll be married in another few years (hopefully) and next thing i know, i'll be taking care and worrying about my family :S 

it's hard to picture all of us all grown up, each with our own families. will we still be the same way as we are now? 

interesting food for thought :)

The holidays started looking very bleak and boring with nothing much to do. or even if there was, nothing fun to do when you're all alone. 

had to do groceries yesterday and hence I very excitedly trooped off to krogers with my little red wagon black trolley rolling on right behind my feet. I stepped into the store and took a deep breath in, feeling more alive then ever, feeling like a normal person with the freedom to move around :) i always thought that groceries was really easy. you just take a throw into the cart whatever you want. Now i realized it's not that easy with a wide array of the same products I had to make sure I compared prices and all first, taking into considerations I am only one person and not the same 6 people household that we used to shop for. thus my exciting grocery shopping trip turned into one with confusion and lots of frustrations. nonetheless, I found myself buying ALOT of stuff. :S i never knew just buying a few things here and there would amount to SO MUCH. unfortunately, without a car, I realized after purchasing everything that my lil trolley cart is not able to cart everything back. with a sense of horror, I found myself half dragging the full cart behind me and lugging a bag full of apple juice, milk, bread and eggs while the other cart contained all sorts of knick knacks of fresh produce, frozen foods and condiments. the seemingly short distance that i took when i walked over to kroger became a long ardous one that appeared to never end :( not to mention i became a walking circus as people stared in amazement and amusement i must add as this small lil asian girl lugs her groceries all the way from krogers similar to the horses around town straining as they pull the horse carriages around the cobblestoned paths of savannah. 

i thus awakened this morning to find myself a very acheing, heavy shouldered person. :(

anyhows. more excitement last night as Ham and I met up with another friend of hers, Anna Dooley (YAY NEW FRIEND) and drove (YES DRIVE!! FINALLY ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY OUT OF DOWNTOWN) out to victory where we went to the cinemas to catch the 9.30pm UP show. that was FANTASTICMO! wonderful show even though I see no point in making in 3d. as in. you have to wear those special glasses to see it 3d. why can't they just make it a normal film like previous 3d animations??? grrr...anyhows. the storyline is uber cute and warming, as are all disney pixar animations. always with a moral behind and always making you feeling warm and fuzzy. great movie :) oh. and unlike the Singapore cinemas, it's free seating here. haha. go in grab whatever seat you want. and thus began by happy journey of the day :)

next thing we knew, we found ourselves gathered outside the cinema as fellow scad students started walking out and at the end, we found ourselves in a mini group talking and laughing. Finally met fellow Singaporeans Ben and Audrey for the first time in real life. now all i have left is 1 singaporean left to meet i believe. yayness :D :D made more new friends, vince and miguel, who were craving for krispy kremes and cheated our feelings by making us go down to the shop only to find that it was CLOSED. stupid koo koos. so off we went to 24 hrs krogers where we bought shady boxed krispy kremes and met a crackhead prostitute with two men (oh the wonders of savannah. gotta hate and love this interesting aspect of town). having no where else to go and have our krispy cremes, we headed down to my house since it was the only place that was already set up and had them marvel in jealousy and my newly beloved pad. 

with warm krispy cremes in hand, we sat and talked and played scattergories. one game i definitely have to buy before i return home to singapore. it's an uber fun game that forces you to think. :D

new friends, new breath of life. fresh air. 

i went to bed a happy person last night :)

yay. got a new job assignment ushering at the trustees. hoho. more moolah rolling in. YIPPEE DEY DOOODAHHH!!!

got myself out of bed for church and I sure am glad that i forced myself to go. Latechurch was surprisingly crowded even though most of the scad population has gone. i believe it's something to do with the 7pm crowd since night service is cancelled. the crowd was way more ra-ra and it was definitely an AMAZING worship atmosphere :) not like the usual half dead non-morning scad student crowd at 11am services. LOL. it was a good sermon with a different speaker from the henderson campus and he was not only entertaining, but clearly passionate about what he was speaking about - sacrifice and surrender in discipleship and following Christ. it's a great pity the usual gang of koreans were not there. 

anyhows. i was almost about to sadly retreat to a small little corner for a lonely lunch when aidan contacted me to have lunch at saigon. ordered a dish that looked like chicken rice but tasted nothing like chicken rice. but it was still a nice familiarity that got me excited until i placed it in my mouth even though i knew it wasn't going to taste like chicken rice. after all. it's just grilled chicken breast meat placed over a MOUNTAIN of steamed jasmine rice. ah well...better than nothing. yummy fried shallots...YUMMY :D 

the two koreans eun sol and aidan abandoned me and left me with vietnam binh who dragged me to eat ice cream at leopard's. not ordering anything due to the ridiculous pricing, binh very generously surprised me with 2 scoops of ice cream so that we could share :) YAY! free ice-cream treat for the hot sunny summer day. 

headed back to the apartment to nua away when aidan called to tell me he and eun sol was coming over to the apartment. next thing i knew we ended up in my room watching some korean romantic comedy after which both 2 korean jokers ended up asleep on my bed. I was thus unable to do my grocery shopping today -__-. now i have to wait until tomorrow. OH WELL. 

headed down to mellow mushroom for pizza after they awoke and met up with another 2 koreans. thus began my journey to korea. throughout 98% of the time, i was left sitting there pretending to be engrossed in my own slice of pizza while they spoked, joked and laughed in korean. awesomeness! ah well. the price to pay for company. i don't know which is better. to be amidst a group that highlights u're differences or to be completely alone :S

hmm...anyhows. i managed to catch the tail end of the graduation ceremony which is always the most fun to hear the inspiring speeches and see the graduates celebrate with the toss of the cap and what nots. i was so happy that i almost cried and goosebumps popped all over me and down my spine. i seriously cannot imagine myself graduating soon even though i know that these years will definitely fly by like it did this quarter and before i know it, i'll be out and back home :S scariness. why? cos this only means it's time to get work, get married, have kids and have no life. sadness. 

anyhows. was surfing design stuff when i saw this cool series of cinema posters in lego style. this was definitely my favourite because they altered the title too. hahaa. 

oh all we art students. what do we do when we have free time????? 

we design blog surf. :D

such is the life