Kurt Wenner

I've always admired Kurt Wenner's drawings.. When I read on papers that he came to Singapore to do a drawing @ the National Museum for its opening festival.. I've wanted to go down to take a look at the exhibit.

It was said that the work was done in pastel chalk and would not last for long period but I juz didnt managed to find time to go down until today, hours before heading to Esplanade for Budak Pantai's performance...I went down juz to take a look at the drawing! It was good that it's free entrance on Friday night.. (or izzit not? anyway..) Even if I had to pay for entrance to see the drawing I would do so... I am really am that curious and keen to see the drawing in real life instead of juz from pictures!

I'm still in awe how he managed to do it juz with chalk and I admire him for his ability to visualise the views so well... This picture was snapped via the lens provided for visitors to get a more 3D view of the image...





This is really a wonderful piece of work.. Fantastic.. however, I thought it might be better if the drawing fits the surrounding better to make it fit in more naturally juz like many of Kurt Wenner's works... The historical landscape seems so out of way in the modern looking museum now and the color theme used is so off the color of the tiles too... Giving the impression of very erm.. "paste on" effect... quite disappointed in that sense.. oh well... Erm can't really find a better way to describe the "fitting in" part.. prob for anyone interested, pls visit Kurt Wenner's website u'll get wat I mean if u compare the differences in the effects of the drawings at the different venues.. :P

And of cos the worse of the worse are kids who ran in and STEPPED on the drawings! OMG OMG OMG.... they should huff made few layers of barriers to prevent kids from going in too!!! Imagine the damage caused if anything happens to the drawing!! Gosh..

Merry Christmas to all my dear friends!

BA toys

These are the toys the 3 of us in the team have at our little cubicle.. the croc is on my table the froggy on my sup's.. and the pig for the other guy... But seriously.. I have no idea which kranky person go place the reindeer & pig in that manner... Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeks..

Anyways.. the frog, croc & pig used to be fav toys of Rocky, my sup's doggy =)

Pikachu

Poor pikachu.. being tied up like a big 大閘蟹!!! This is all cos a colleague didn't know what to get for the office gift exchange.. he decided to wrap the pikachu up as a gift! Someone supplied him with some ribbons and this is what pikachu ended up as after his "wrapping".... poor pikachu.. and it seems like he's not really keen to release pikachu from its "agony" =P

Wish List 2006~2007

While surfing the web and drooling over CARMEN which will be staged in Taipei over
the Christmas weekend, I chanced upon another upcoming performance in Taipei..

They'll be staging CATS in 臺北巨蛋 Taipei Arena!!! OMG OMG OMG... a spectacular performance in a spectacular venue! Awwwwwwwwwwww.. this is juz soooooooooooooooooooo TEMPTING!!! I wish I can be there to watch it!!!

The temptation to want to watch it is soooooooooo high I quickly did a search for air tickets availability and pricing and the availability of the performance tickets... and this is what I found...

Hmmm not too bad.. affordable (to me la... am a poor working soul.... slogging hard @ work :P)

Lastly, a quick check on availability of tickets for CATS... what's the use of flying there when tickets already been sold out for the show ya?? And the findings are positive... tickets are selling fast but still available!!

I'm going crazee.. someone helppppppppppp me ... or are there anyone willing to help me fulfil the wish? *hiakz*

(Image obtained from Kuang Hong Arts, ERA tickets and Jetstar)

Christmas Presents

My first Christmas in a new environment... volunteered to chip in to buy a present for everyone in the dept with 3 other colleagues.. and this is the "gift pack" everyone received from us... :)

It's amazing how much joy it brought to the recipients =)

Here's a few pressies that I've received this year... the coaster is special as what yr said.. yellow + blue == green.. therefore its the perfect coaster for me! haha.. But I really liked it.. it's so cute.. and special.. and I wonder how Jocelyn knew I had wanted to go get a coaster for myself!?! *hiakz*

The cap is something I got from the dept gift exchange at work... I really liked it! Initially thought it wouldnt fit me but it did! I had been looking for a cap earlier this yr but had to give up cos I simply can't find one that fits my big head! And how glad I am that this cap fits me nicely and without cost! haha....

The pack of "Sophie" ... is a present from my "SENIOR" aka my sup. at work... He's been so nice so caring so sensitive to my "needs" .. to take care of me physically, mentally and watever not! haha..
And in case u thought I had the words typed wrongly.. I didn't... it's really a pack of cotton candy made to look like it's something else ;P
How thoughtful of my "senior" ... the one who always claim he's an angel bringing out the evil in us ;)

Blessed Christmas to all my friends out there reading this blog ^_^

The power of love

A blog setup by 2 parents of a baby who only barely managed to survive for 9 days in this world. It has touched many in HK and hope it touches u too... It shows the wonderful love of the parents, the love they have shown the new born and the struggles they went through when they have to let go of the new life...

http://www.speech.com.hk/kolamlam/index.htm

Keychain

Finally decided to throw away my old keychain which I've been having for the past 18 yrs! I loved it for being simple, compact and light... But I guess if I had known who it was from, I won't really want to use it. But too late, only got to know abt it recently.

Anyway, found a nice nice one... simple and nice.. The star-shaped key ring caught my attention first... However, its too unique till I had a hard time getting my keys into it! *sighz* Anyway, it's still ok to put my keys at the another end... =P

::: 愛上卡門 :::

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*sighz*
Anyone wants to sponsor me for this show??? 愛上卡門

Only got to know about the show 3 hrs ago! *Ouch*

I want to go 臺北巨蛋 Taipei Arena to watch a performance... I'm sure the experience will be great... The show seems nice.. Ah Mei's singing is powerful, no doubt about it.. hearing her live in a musical will have great entertainment value..
I wish I can be in Taiwan to watch the show tomorrow
=(

(Image obtained from http://www.superdome.com.tw/carman/index.asp)

Updates

Gonna add a few posts on updates..

Pictures of things happening ard me for the past few mths... Hope can finish getting them up during this Christmas holidays =)

IMF -- International Marriage Forum 世婚大會

看了一場 世婚大會
原以為會個類似 SDU 般“催婚”作用
其實我倒覺得搞笑成份多了
也微微諷刺了一些社會現象﹑歌曲等
觀眾席間也多了好些名人... 見著了Abigail, 梁文福﹐ 劉雪芳﹐葉佩芬 .... etc...
或許因為今天是首場演出﹖或者參與演出的多數是前﹑現任藝人吧

雖然覺得歌曲的選擇有些挺無理頭的﹐
幸好演員多數演技精湛
為此據挽回了些許的分數

觀據前﹐就非常期待看張永權的演出
事前並沒機會看他的現場表演
終于有機會了.... 好開心
好喜歡他在劇裡分飾的角色
尤其是那個帶有那濃濃馬來西亞口音的華語
真是維妙維肖...
豐富的舞台經驗﹐一人分飾幾角肯定難不倒他
贊﹗

王建復的音質也不錯
聲音很亮... 挺喜歡的... 是眾人中﹐較喜歡的音質之一
陳松伶的角色很討喜
傻傻地...但粉可愛

不過稍嫌故事有點“薄弱”
搞笑意味太濃了
似乎除了搞笑沒太大特色
不過忙碌了一天﹐能笑一笑
何樂不為

(Image obtained from Etceteras website)

Not bad.. u remembered...

to return the books =P
thot I could have a chance to bill u for watever overdue fines + extra "processing charges" that I need to incur haha =P

anyway thanks for remembering...
if u r reading this
=)

Sharks + ice cream == diabetes??? --- The story unveiled

I think I'll get hamtum for sharing this silly story but I think it is really cute and really wanna blog it down...
To parties concern...erm.. pls dont take it too hard ya? I'm sure u know it's meant as a joke ya? =P

One day at work, got a msg from a fren that he missed his flight
FOund it a bit amusing .. probably he's the last person I'll expect to be huff miss the flight ba...
I mentioned it to my team mate at work, P

N our story starts from there..

Me: my fren just missed his flight to sg! think I shall suggest to him to swim here with the ice cream

P: how can u ask ur fren to do tat? got sharks u noe

Me: Oh got sharks in that area? never mind la, at most I'll see a skeleton + ice cream when he finally reach sg ma

P: No....

Me: Oh.... ya .. ice cream will melt along the way.. ok ok.. I'll see skeleton + tubs of MILK SHAKE!

P: NO... the shark will eat up the milk shake! And next day newspaper headlines will show that a shark is found to be diagnosed with diabetes .. which is rarely found in sharks.

Me: Eh.. he gonna bring quite a lot of tubs this time.. so probably more sharks will get it instead of just ONE shark?

P: OK... that will alert the authorities to come out with ways to help sharks reduce weight to help ease the diabetes problem. and pple may write a white paper for it..

Me: Ok....if u ever see such a white paper... it may be from me.. so remember to read it ok?

P: OK...

Me: N since diabetes can be passed on to generations thereafter genetically it is important they help sharks reduce weight...
And maybe...after sharks start to grow smaller in sizes pple might just forget abt the idea of eating sharks fins since they'll no longer find any joy in eating small fins!

P: OOii.. u ok or not?? U no eat medicine today izzit?

Me: ..... Ya =P


***** DISCLAIMER: The above is just a silly story / entertainment on a stressful working day. Pure senseless entertainment. No sharks or humans were hurt in the making of the story. Any unintended offence to any sharks / humans is greatly regretted.

.... 喜歡你 ...

你的變化的確讓我覺得有點措手不及的感覺
你的主動是前所未有
是環境造就出來的?
還是...
我無法肯定

可是偏偏我好喜歡這樣的你
那個會開始向我報告你行蹤的你
那個會問我是否要跟你的你
那個會為我做那麼多的你
真的好喜歡

你會一直這樣嗎﹖
我不想只停留在這樣的你...
我正期待著會給我更多驚喜的你

幸福的定義

友人告訴我
我是幸福的

怎麼我一點都不覺得呢﹖
是我太不懂得惜福
還是友人多心了﹖
我也搞不懂

我只能肯定地說夾心餅真不好當...
不...我想我的處境比較像是一顆球
被踢來又踢去

他總覺得我跟那個他有什麼
那個他同樣覺得我跟這個他有什麼
怎麼我並不覺得有什麼呢﹖

友人說至少我是希望跟他們有什麼的
她說這就是一種幸福

真的嗎﹖
或許我該學習怎麼惜福了

太多

陳綺貞
太多

喜歡一個人孤獨的時刻
但不能喜歡太多
在地鐵站或美術館
孤獨像睡眠一樣餵養我

以永無止盡的墜落
需要音樂取暖
喜歡一個人孤獨的時刻
但不能喜歡太多

喜歡一個喝著紅酒的女孩
在下雨音樂奏起的時候
把她送上鐵塔給全世界的人寫明信片
像一隻鳥在最高的地方
歌聲嘹亮
喜歡一個喝著紅酒的女孩
但不能喜歡太多

喜歡一個陽光照射的角落
但不能喜歡太多
是幼稚園的小朋友
笑聲像催眠一樣打擾我
我們輕輕的揮一揮手
凝結照片的傷口
我喜歡一個陽光照射的角落
但不能喜歡太多
喜歡一個人孤獨的時刻
但不能喜歡
太多

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這幾天腦袋的思緒是無比的亂
想得太多太多

喜歡胡思亂想
喜歡在腦海裡拼湊許許多多的事情

但是不能想太多
這幾天情緒波動得太多太多。。。

是早知如此﹖ 還是措手不及﹖

A walk down memory lane

Was chatting with a friend on MSN
He's gonna to be helping at a friend's wedding the next day as one of the 兄弟
But he's got some work to do and most likely not able to get much rest and will be busy for the whole time tomolo.

Reminds me so much of the time I went to be jie mei for JJ & SH wedding

Was still doing SA at that time and the wedding date happen to be near the end of a semester for us and we had several projects to finish up before the term exams commence. Still remembered I skipped a day's classes for the wedding as it was a weekday.. a Thursday to be precise. I was on the verge of losing my voice from beginning of that week.. still remember I met Paul & Jo (ss: I'm using their names in the right order this time ya? :P) for dinner and by then I had lost >70% of my voice... Paul was nice enough to ferry me ard various places that night after dinner to go look for something supposed to be used to sabotage SH the following day. Was home ard 2am .. still had to go through program codes b4 I try to catch some nap before heading to JJ's house.

Left my place at 4+am I think... By the time I reached her place almost 75% of my voice gone liaoz. By the end of the tea ceremony my voice was almost 85% gone... Started to feel terrible when we reached the hotel to take some rest before the preparations for the dinner starts.. Started to have running nose on top of the husky voice...By the end of dinner which ended almost at midnight.. I was down with fever.. DOwn with flu the following day n had to miss another day of class again..

Seriously I wonder how I survived it back then.. Should thank my dear team mates for helping to do up the project in my absence. But also thanks to my team mate (or rather no thanks) who dowan to do a certain part (for watever reason there is) I had to go down to school on Sat when I was still not well to do the project.. anyway... I got a "scolding" from same person for going down to sch even when I'm not well 2 spread germs...

But oh well... good ole' memories.. seriously dunno how I survived those few days.. And it sure brings back lots of memories of the SA days.. it was tiring, busy, stressful and yet very fun. The childish things done.. the weird events that had happened along the way... pple whom we met from different walks of life...

Am glad I still managed to know many nice friends during the course and of cos with them ard, life in SA was less miserable

Amazed

I am still pretty amazed how we can manage to meet up lidat.
Didn't exactly state exact meet up point
NO way to keep in contact...
I am glad I went there to wait. Almost wanted to give up and then u came =P

Otherwise I wonder if we had to rely on "telepathy" to get in touch again
*hiakz*

Shoulder Massage

Never had such a strong urge to wanna go for a shoulder massage.
N now the urge to go for one is ever so strong...
The shoulder juz feels so stiff...The ache and the pain
And all the discomforts.
=(

*ouchz*

波得多?? 多美多??

如果

波得多 == Potato

那

多美多 == Tomato

吗？