Level 21

And so the day has come whereby I turn twenty one, an important milestone in life. Gone are the days where I get amused and excited easily, well not totally gone. To be honest, it's just like any other day, just that I got a little of the birthdayshinydust when I feel the world's eyes are on me and I can do whatever I want or want my friends to do. Yes! haha. I enjoyed myself a lot this week, going out almost every day.


First of all I celebrated with my friends from SPCO! These people who played a dominant part in my life for 3 years in my poly life. Thank you for dining with me! I've got a hot red Holga, a bag I can carry in 3 ways, 5 SMAP cds 4 K2C original 2nd hand cds kept in very good condition that I thought for a moment was new. Got a shock of my life that I'm now owning 5 of SMAP's album, one of which's their old first album! I like them all very much and I'm using them already ^^

We had a good dinner~

I was really shock when I saw what contained in the plastic bag is this shiny red toy camera.

Had a little drink after that @ Night and Day.

Next was these bunch of my poly classmates, who got me a very good wallet, a hand drawn umbrella (because I have a fetish for transparent umbrellas and they knew) and a balloon. Thank you! :)

Left a place for Jia who couldn't come :P

It's still floating above me right now ^^Thought of hanging this umbrella on my room's ceiling but it came down. Haven't thought what to do with it yet cos it looks best opened. Kept aside for the time being but not forgotten! Wished I'd taken more photos with the umbrella!

Last but not least, spent my birthday out with jx and kets for a good bowl of pork katsu curry
and exploring Ion Orchard.

My funny friends!

And I got some facial masks from my uni classmate PT. ^^

Thank you to the people who wished me well too, some unexpected like my poly java lecturer thanks to fb which was really a nice surprise.

It said:

Hey! Happy 21st, young lady. May your wildest dreams come true. :)

I was talking to J about it then she asked me what's my wildest dream.
I thought for a while and said: Be a hot chick driving a sports car? "May my wildest dream come true" eh ;)

Haa.. Think I haven't really done anything wild enough for as much as I can remember so maybe I could try that few years down the road when I earn enough money! 3 more years to go that is...

So I'll treasure my youth while it lasts and be as crazy and doing things I've never done before. Years later I'll look back at my early adulthood days and reminsce all the sweet, fun and crazy things I've done. For life is only this short and I'm at the prime of my life!

I am level 21 now! *plays ff victory music*

Share your thoughts

I'm kind of inspired by a friend's post. That made me think blogging isn't dead, having fb and twitter in my life now. That feelings and thoughts still can be conveyed through long strings of words, and that it's okay to say them.

"I didn't know somebody else feels the same," I thought.
And that made me feel a little warm and fuzzy inside.

Now if only I can write like that...

Memories

I was moving my things from my old wallet to a new one thanks to my bunch of poly classmates and uncovered lots of neoprints hidden in a corner of my old wallet. Brings back lots of memories when.. I'm still a teen? haha. Well the latest one seems to be taken during May this year. Not too bad! And the machines they have these days can do a lot of shiny pattern one.

This one's one of the rare photos where the six of us were present in an outing. Probably taken last year during one of our birthdays.
And a neoprint to commemorate 20082008! I think I just started uni not long ago.

This one! A rare one taken with my juniors in SPCO. I think it was during an erhu outing when last year's concert ended not long ago. We were all still so high and happy after the concert. When we still call each other ahma, mama, jiejie, didi, meimei and maria.


And then this one with Kets when JEC was still around. Can't really remember what we did but looks like we had a lot of fun taking neoprints. haha.

Me and my friends frequent there almost every week when the arcade and neoprint shop were still around. Now that we've grown up, and this being the digital age, people use digi cam more often now. Not that I'm complaining because I still take a lot of photos. Neoprints are... my retro teen memories.

Totem!

This's a.. happy ugly witch. haha. Didn't really think much and just let my hand draw whatever comes. Not fantastic but I'm gona submit this for Scribble Project anyway! Check it out, it's a really cool scribble website and they update really regularly!

All along I thought school's gona open next Mon, first wk of Aug until I met my friend today who told me.. No we have 1 more week! So.. yay! 1 more week =D

Yes, hello

I'm gona move my works to a new place: http://yuna-ling.livejournal.com/
So whatever personal will be posted here while anything artsy, drawings will be posted there.
Mm. Time to put my lj to good use.


For now I'm thinking of posting an original picture done from scratch per day until the end of my holidays. A mini project to keep me occupied and thinking till school starts. After that, we'll see how it goes. Hope I stay consistent!

To live,

I was bored and wanted to do something productive, so I started playing with a little typography which leads me to playing with dots, and then lines. Everything started from the word create and this is how it turned out...

Anyway today I tried to start watch 2 new series of anime but it didn't motivate me to watch on episode 2. I can play my bro's wii, or psp if I want to but I just don't seem to feel interested in my usual pastimes anymore.

Me says:
I need a new interest
Friend says:
get a guy
> . >
Me says:
other than getting a guy
Friend says:
i just ran
out of ideas
Me says:
there's gotta be more to life
.
.
.
Friend says:
but well.. besides that, theres nothing else
to do,
really
go drink more. go club. go party. go out.
play games. read.
watch tv
wat else is there to do normally?

THERE'S GOTTA BE MORE TO LIFE.
Can I pilot an Eva?

Now where was I

Light up light up. If you've been wondering what I've been doing and where I've been:

Wut

I have a cool friend from my Jap class who invited us over to his house for some sleepover fun. A whole night of Wii play from tennis to Mario kart to DDR and yummy yakitori for supper. Speaking of which I'm a little hungry at the moment.


Somehow this photo make me think of some portrait poster of some super hero cartoon like um the masked rider girl and her 3 sidekicks? Top left: I kill with thee bunny! 2nd: A seeming innocent power that.. blinds people with her shiny teeth! Bottom left: You know she must be up to something being all curled up in her sleeping bag and last but not least, the masked leader: Yes-I-will-tolerate-all-this-madness. I know I'm not very funny but yeah, you get the picture...

And they still look very in character~

Detachable steering wheels- we were driving!

This is roughly how it looks like in the big picture. Crazy playing on the left, the sleepy audience in the middle and the sane ones on the right. Thanks for having us, I had fun :)

After playing, we sat down and watch a gruesome movie called "The Audition" when a few days before I was really in one. Well kind of..

A zombie in "The Audition"

I think I look really scary there, cos my face's kinda bony. All I did was dragging the easel here and there in the drawing studio along with the eek eek dragging sound. I was so tired, it was the 5th day I didn't sleep properly and some more I didn't sleep at all the previous night to prepare for my games in the day. Whenever the scared freshies went out of the room, I slept on the nearest sofa almost immediately until I hear the door open again. The darkness in the room and me being partially blind without my specs were strong catalysts adding on to me sleepiness. Anyway there were at least 7 other zombies in my room screaming, having fun scaring the freshies. Of course there were other stations and the epic helicopter ending.

I really think the main comm who masterminded this foc are supermen and women. I'm glad I helped out in some way.

Now where was I...

If I had a louder voice

Maybe it was a little lag.
Maybe I haven't seen enough. I definitely haven't.
I'm glad to be in ADM, this school of love and hate, where wonderful people lead their vibrant lives leaving colourful trails spreading onto everyone else, where we struggled through cruel difficult times, where we can't sleep because we want the best. It's a school where it's okay to be crazy, it's okay to be strange, weird and ditzy.

The biggest thing that I learnt from this camp's knowing all the people I used to see around in school and didn't have a chance to talk to. Watching my fellow school mates play, laugh and talk about their lives and dreams made me wondered where I came from. Whether I was a robot conditioned from years of peer pressure, accepting what's given to me, following the crowd, laziness, being where it's safest. Can I get out from that and feel a stronger presence? That it's me and not somebody else.

Why has it come to this

I just want to have a good night's sleep.
I'm tired of partying,
I'm tired of playing so much,
I'm tired of working hard,
I'm tired of saying ok.
I'm not that great.
Can I buy something for myself?
Can I do something for myself?
I just want to have a good night's sleep.

Just like any other Tuesday

I did up my very own cork board today :D
Can't wait to fill it up with more wonderful things.

It was pretty drama today too, the chair I sat suddenly gave way and broke. TO 3 PIECES.

The most epic moment of the day

It was already kinda creaky when I sat on it today. It's a little loose at the seat whereby when you spin, you just keep spinning and can't stop, no friction. But I never imagine it'll end up like this. I was sitting like I usually do, and then suddenly PIAK, the next thing I know, I'm falling backwards. Luckily I reacted in time and stood up.

I think I've been watching so much Japanese shows these days, I'm losing my command of english. Keep wanting to add some Japanese whenever I write something. This is bad. Badddd.

The Queen's Classroom

I've got a lot of feelings regarding this show that I feel a need to gush everything out. [Especially having just finished the entire series and the 2 specials minutes ago] I actually wrote snippets of thoughts of the moment after certain eps but I didn't finish writing. Without sounding too cheesy, this drama being something that I feel everyone will feel something about, here goes...

The Queen's Classroom, a.k.a Kyoou no Kyoshitsu

What is this about?
Akutsu Maya is a teacher from hell. And I really mean hell, not letting the children go to the toilet in the middle of her class, judging the students based on their academic performance. Whoever gets the lowest in the class or disobeys her will be made to do cleaning chores. Like WTH totally, why is this devil who wears the same black clothes with that face entirely void of any emotion even a teacher? What is she planning? This kept me watching.

Not another high school drama, what? The main characters are elementary school kids?
Don't belittle the usual setting. Actually I watched started the first episode last year when I read it's good reviews. But I didn't continue because it didn't appeal to me much. It felt like a normal school, kids growing up drama so I didn't give much thought and forgot about it. Until recently I saw Amami Yuki's performance in BOSS and saw she acted in this too and decided to continue watching. Glad that I did.

What's so special about it?
There were some episodes where I felt deeply for with regards to issues like making choices, the future, difficult situations, bullying, owning up for what wrong you did, life issues in other words. You'll be surprised how the class react to the devil teacher's teaching. and the most interesting thing is, this teacher is consistently 'evil'. This consistency is what I like best about this drama. There was even one episode when I felt I was being scolded by the teacher. Say for example this statement:

The kids that can't do anything are called cute.

Hit any bells? Not saying that it's entirely true, but it does hold something. She's quite something in shooting people.

Overall
After watching the 2 specials, which pretty much explains on the background about this teacher from hell, I'm very impressed how this later 2 specials tie up the story so well. Everything made sense. I'm happy with the ending and I've got nothing much to complain about. I'm even wondering what kind of person this scriptwriter is to come up with a story like this. Inspiring.. and I really like the credits where Maya gets out of character to the actor Amami Yuki and starts doing some modern cheery dance with a good song from Exile. :)