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first, dark stains are stucked under my eyes.. maybe due to long hours of pressuring them.

second, office's bad air is causing me to sneeze a lot recently. so i'm guessing that bad virus had gotten into me.

third, i saw a car going to be on fire anytime soon, STILL running on the highway with smoke puffing out of the car's boot.



ps. i need someone to crack my discomfort neck SOON! hurt it since fyp =(

dear dentist,

MY TOOTH HURTS
can i see you soon?

Things are getting back on track.. after easing my pessimistic mind.

yesterday was a long day.. dropped by school to pass my book to chee yong in the morn. and when you know you're back to school not to attend lectures but just for a visit and saying hi to lecturers like lilie, it felt awesome . haha

headed down to expo just to meet triston to get the images and check out their fine art exhibition booth.


instead, i stayed there for hours, loitering around the exhibition hall checking out those industrial laser cutters and engravers, MASSIVE printers especially HP inkjet printer (the cartridge of the printer was GINORMOUS!) and couple of foreign printer brands.., cool lit up advertising posters stuff, cool lightings effects and some random stuff such as fabric printing, balloon printings branded as India Balloons.

and due to boredom, i started collecting arcylic items that had been cut out from the laser cutter machine. damn cool can. the laser was totally invisible and the cutted out shape just dropped once done. hmmm.. i think i sounded like a mountain turtle. haha.. and one of my acrylic items is my favourite.. an APPLE! =D


ignore my ugly eye. did my make up on the bus this morn. and the background is my office with triston's works all pasted around on the wall.

BUT BUT! to my HORROR.. i also bumped into the two OLD MEN who andrew, justin and i know and afraid of. not that we're afraid of them as the person, but their death 'scent' and non-stop 'speech'. both wore gays pink and went to the same exhibition hall as me! omg. i hope they dont recognise me when i accidentally walked past them.... gosh. worse scenario man..

rushed to office and colourlab after that and my day was gone just like that..... =/

went to meet my family at downtown after that for a MOVIE at cathay in the E!Hub. was my first time there.. and our first time going out as a family (granny, mum and my siblings) after very very long.. maybe since we were really young? i believe granny had a great time =D  though she has bit of difficulty walking too much and after a 2hrs long period of sitting still in the theatre.. >.<





and this morning, a short and sweet message from my baby, which made my day too! =D made me realised that today's our 34th monthly anniversary! two more months to our 3rd year. wow. from 1st and 2nd.. to 3rd now... hmm! also, 4 more months to his ORD! =D cant wait!





ohoh.. something new. after long consideration.. i'd PERMED my hair finally too =X

i'll upload those japan images once i'm more available from work. i've not sorting them out yet too.. =/

having some emtion disorder recently. maybe it's pms? or the absurd mood swings.

HEE! Been through lots of metal and physical stress.. my body still aches till now. Neck especially. I guess I gotta go for tui na soon, provided I have the extra money. Sigh. Talking about money, I'm damn broke. Luckily I have a loanshark at home, my dearest mummy. Gonna repay her once I'm back at work on April. Sniff sniff.. I'll be a full time working adult damn SOON.

BUT BEFORE facing that unavoidable reality...


with my fellow coursemates and lecturer Chow Chee Yong! =D Oh. Anyway, wonder did you guys had read on the Straits Times or Lian He Zhao Bao. My lecturer, Chow Chee Yong held an awesome exhibition with his series of darkroom prints at..



On the opening 29feb, I helped out by waiteressing with Ban at the gallery. Back to a little waitress status. (missed working back in rtc) Hmm.. Was said that about 600 guests were present at the opening and was really a good response!! Congrats to Chee Yong. =D He is one of the people that I really respect and look up to. One of the few people who had extremely strong determination and perseverance upon his passion.

Recently I had the phone interview with a Lian He Zhao Bao reporter regarding being a female wedding photographer. =) Credit to Stef as she informed the person in charge about my presence. But was really nervous instead of excited at the first place as I had NO experience of being interviewed or even appearing on the newspaper yet. Was my first time. >.<  Oh. Took a profile photo too!  Ant was the photographer of the day. Hee. Thanks!

managed to find tt uncle FINALLY and bought him a top up card, so I was able to contact him for shoot since then. I guess i'm finishing up my shoot during 2 of the days next week. but meanwhile will do my post production too.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT! just ONE last month left! omg.

everyone is so damn STRESSED OUT now.



anyway, today i was amazed by how much my classmates spent on their clothes. how trendy u can look even you are only wearing less than 25 bucks on ur whole body (clothes, bags, watch bla..) I WAS REALLY SPEECHLESS by just thinking of it. You just need a couple of trendy elements, you'll just look as good and it doesnt matter how much you spend on the clothes and accessories.

Finally I've cleared all my CUs with only FYP left on hand now.



Being a girly and vain pot self, I realised that I'll become more disheveled when it comes to photography. And guess what topic am I doing for my FYP?

Documentary on Karang Guni Men  "Stacks of Daily Bread"

Please dont feel surprised. I couldnt recall how did this idea came about in the first place too.



Last few weeks during the end-oct and early-nov, I was looking for Karang Guni Men madly and desperately. Idea came about easily but the process of searching for them was horribly laborious, as the natural of the job is to travel around the neighbourhoods and it's tough to have the exact locations of them. While walking around in the neighbourhood ALONE (wishing to have a clone for company), hoping to bump into a traditional Karang Guni man (still using freight bicycle is really rare nowadays) at work isn't a joke at all. Besides that, approaching them is another challenge. It took me a lot of courage to approach a total stranger but has to appear friendly so that they would be willing to let me interview them and get permission to shoot them.

Heart was pounding hard, wondering if he is a decent man for me to follow around, when I finally bumped into one traditional uncle who was working, looking quite fierce. I sat outside the lift lobby 'spying' on him and pondered for bout half and hour, before I decided to try my luck and approached him. The breaking ice moment was really awkward. While I was trying to interview him, passersby kept giving me weird stares which made me felt more uncomfortable in the situation.




Today, I managed to get two karang guni men. One more modern type and the other, the traditional one.




This is the modern one with his wife helping him and travel around with lorry. They're really helpful and kind. The junk collection 'centre' boss address me as their goddaughter. =/ haha.


The traditional uncle. And he's my WANTED MAN now!
Please contact me if you see him somewhere or anywhere! Cos I've lost track of him as he doesnt have a proper cellphone for me to contact him. I'm damn worried. Pleaseee MUST contact me immediately if you happen to see him anywhere! He's usually his this shirt and a darker grey burms and a pair of slippers. He travel around on a GREEN freight bicycle. Appear in Gelyang, Alijunied and Thomson Rd areas.



Been pouring heavily since last Wed. Sigh. It's a bad season to do FYP.

Working as a Karang Guni man is tough. It's unimaginable until you really tried to be one. I've only travelled around with them and I felt tough. Needless to say, them who're travelling around by either lorry or bicycle have to push the trolley with huge stacks of newspapers down the stairs and walking around the neighbourhood looking up to the windows of the flats eying if anyone are willing to sell anything. Sounds aint that tough? But it's a continuous 6 hours job. It's both mentally and physically exhausting, seriously.



I'm so stressed up. Things aint going smoothly. It rains approximately everyday now and then, that affects my shoots as they dont really work during rainy days. Karang Guni uncle gone MIA. Period is coming and I have incoming shoots & wedding shoot on this sunday. Laptop screen's pixels going haywire. Missing and appearing recently. AHhhh... PMS increased my stress level too. Damn.





Cant wait to get over FYP asap and fly to JAPAN for 14 days in March with my lecturer and friends! =D

I miss u, my friends.. 

Finally for the first time, I felt great after clubbing.

But I gotta clarify! I'M NOT A FREQUENT CLUBBER! Dunno why people always think I'm a frequent clubber. =/ I only pathetically went 3 or 4 times?? The Fashion Show in Zouk months ago wasnt counted. Hate the horrendous crowd still though, hence clubbing isnt for me. Unless there's special occasion or smth. =)

Bumped into Boo, Sally, Qi Hao and Matthew just now too. They were apparently shocked to see me in Zouk. haha. I was shocked too.. to find out that my friend, min knows BOO! as the world is really small.

Catching up with my sec sch friends were really awesome. =D And after few hours of continuous dancing, I think I'd shook some fats off my tummy too! YAY! ....my feet hurts though..