Monday, April 16, 2007

Kanpai for the three of us

We smiled as we left the PPC Lab. I think we did great for the Final Year Presentation. Not much questions were asked, but advices were given to improve the report.

Our supervisor was happy with us and the project. She mentioned how we work well as a team and no major issues happened in the process. Ow, she added that we did more than what we presented today *of course...15 mins can only say so much*. Thanks sup! Moderator A said he will definitely give a high grade for our project in terms of practicatility and how the events met our objectives. But he left the academic part out for the Moderator B and our supervisor to comment. It was pretty funny looking at them, especially when Moderator A was telling us on 'Creative Strategy vs Tactics' and how the other two gave a 'huh...shsstt don't listen' kinda face *wakaka. Ok, I didn't know whether I have to smile or pretend that I was seriously listening to him. Moderator B gave her sharing on the project, how we managed to pull out a good event, consistent designs and creative. Cool.... Thanks Cherie for all the creatives! Thanks Alison for all the reminder and details!

It was not as 'formal, scary, serious, intense, etc' as what people said, or what some of us predicted. It was....normal heh! Blah..anyhow...I am happy and I hope we score high mark for our FYP. Kanpai!

Anyway....it's time to relax after so much hardwork put in *heh...are you kidding me? hardwork?* ...haha.... it's Drama time. Catch up later ^^

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Thanks Sharon for sending me my fave song from the show :)

All I ask of you - Phantom of the Opera
(Andrew Lloyd Weber)

RAOUL
No more talk of darkness,
Forget these wide-eyed fears.
I'm here, nothing can harm you
-my words will warm and calm you.

Let me be your freedom,
let daylight dry -your tears.

I'm here, with you, beside you,
to guard you and to guide you . . .

CHRISTINE
Say you love me every waking moment,
turn my head with talk of summertime . . .
Say you need me with you,now and always . . .
promise me that all you say is true
-that's all I ask of you . . .

RAOUL
Let me be your shelter,
let me be your light.
You're safe: No-one will find you
your fears are far behind you . . .

CHRISTINE
All I want is freedom, a world with no more night . . .
and you always beside me to hold me and to hide me . . .

RAOUL
Then say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime . . .
Let me lead you from your solitude . . .
Say you need me with you here, beside you . . .
anywhere you go, let me go too
-Christine,that's all I askof you . . .

CHRISTINE
Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime . . .
say the word and I will follow you . . .

BOTH
Share each day with me, each night, each morning . . .

CHRISTINE
Say you love me . . .

RAOUL
You know I do . . .

BOTH
Love me -that's all I askof you . . .
Anywhere you go let me go too . . .
Love me -that's all I ask of you . .

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Thursday, March 29, 2007

submitted....finally....

It's all about 278 and 250!


Last Saturday, at my sis' place:

[Stared at the laptop screen blankly]
Okay..start the Appendix NOW! But how to sort them out?
Three main projects in one report... imagine the attachments
Oww ... and add the survey as well k!

Aha *fingers snapped*... [Asked Nophie to pass me her pen and paper]

Jotted down some notes, categorized the attachments *headache headache*

Went to bed at around 3am


Sunday, at *bucks Wisma Atria, 2pm:

[All gathered and sat at one small table with a laptop and notes all over]
Let's edit the report. Grammar, language, style, format, category and arrangement....
Owh..so many things to edit.
Cut out the redundancy, destroyed the crap, revised the references, checked the grammar, made it easier to read and understand, starved till death but still needed to hang on ...

Proposed the appendix arrangement and they agreed.. *yeay*

Pronounced brain-dead at 5plus, so we decided to do it on our own by 6pm. Called it off and brought back the work babes! Let's meet again on Monday yar...

Went to the food court below Lee Meridien for a dinner with Nophie n her friends :)
It's great to have her back in my life...well, I mean physically here lar.

Returned to sis place at around 9pm, and started doing the project from 10pm onwards.

Went to dreamland at around 3am again!


Monday, at *bucks City Hall, 10am:

It was raining outside and I had to force myself to wake up at 8.30am.
Oh no, I was late for my visa application. Sigh~ hope I could still make it in time

Rushed out and walked under the rain at 9.15am. Took the train to Raffles Place.

Called the Embassy of Ukraine:
"Hi, can I check on what are the documents needed to apply for a visa?"
"I am sorry, our consular is not here yet. Maybe in 10-15 minutes time."
"Owh, but can you tell me what I need to bring over?"
"No, you need to check with the consular!"
-___-''

So I arrived 10 minutes before 10am (I took the risk of being sligthly late than having to plan for another trip). Standing there, the staff greeted me by telling me the consular was not in yet. Please wait for 10-15 minutes, he should be here by then. SHOULD BE~
Ouch..and I had my meeting at 10am. He told me to go for my meeting instead ^^''

Arrived at *bucks at 10am sharp and I was the earliest. Quickly hogged a table at the corner with a power point for our laptops. The ladies started to arrive a few minutes later.

Major editing was done again, changed the format and structure. Paraphrased the sentences to save space. Waks..and my part needed major 'reconstruction' for sure... it's just too many things happened and it kinda repetitive then.

Stayed till 14.30 before we decided to do it at home. Apparently our 'battery' can only last around 3 hours.

At 6pm, I was sitting in front of my computer, trying hard to add some necessary details into the report while re-arrange some sections. CUT CUT CUT!! And I almost fell asleep while doing it.

Took a short nap to recharge myself, but I overslept till 11pm when someone knocked on the door and Lele was about to sleep. So, there it went... stayed till 4am to do the Appendix.


Tuesday, woke up at 9am:

My second trip to the Embassy of Ukraine. And sadly, my invitation letter was not comprehensive enough.

"It seems to me you're going there for relaxation."
Heh? (mind-boggling here..so what if I spend money in your country? no tourist allowed?)
I'm going to teach English and do some cultural sharing.
"It's not clear here. I can't accept this."
Rawrrr....

Frustrated me returned to NTU and attended my Japanese class *good news, I didn't feel sleepy that day*

Unfortunately the game was ON. And my whole Appendix was destroyed. It went corrupted. ARGHHHH *pulled my hair out...shiett...the whole 190 over pages were gone..gone..gone..

Oops..I did it (the appendix) again then!

ZZZ at 3am plus when I finished another draft of the Appendix.


Wednesday, meeting in SCI benches at 12noon:

Tiredly woke up at 10.30am.
Let's check my Appendix, see if there were any errors.

WAKS......ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
It happened AGAIN. My Appendix files (note here 'FILES') all went corrupted. Big shiet!!

I was not sure whether to laugh at myself or to cry. SMS-ed my friends to tell them the news AGAIN. No choice but to do it AGAIN.

Afraid of the viruses in my pc, I went to school and did my Appendix there. Thanks that I have saved another Appendix file, although it's incomplete. At least I did not have to start from scratch AGAIN. Spent the whole afternoon in school, and proudly finished it by 6pm. Sent a copy to each of my teammates.

"Tomorrow is the day." Imagine the havoc we had. From cutting the pages to 59 from 74, aligning it to APA Style *which we realized was a concern at 10pm*, rechecked and revised the format and structure... I ended up staying till almost 5am in the morning before I gave up.


Thursday, the day, 10.30am:

Sat in front of the computer and continued where I finished this morning. The format was terrible with all the images jumbled up here and there. Geezz~

Met up with the team at school to print out everything and do last-minute checking.

wrong alignment - check
incorrect punctuation - check
report format - check
wordy sentence - check

At 2pm, we decided to split and print the Appendices. In need of a colour printer, we decided to try the General Office printer. We succeeded, except the fact that it's expensive. In our school, each student received so-called '$50 virtual cash' for printing. So, everytime you print, they will deduct your account. Cherie's account was busted and we did not have enough money in our accounts.

The printing went chaotic as we need to separate between b/w and colour printing to save money (note: printing at General Office cost you a fortune as it's based on colour printing charges). Imagine printing three copies of the reports, split between b/w and colours and added with some weird alignments by the computer that ended up with useless copies. It was horrible!

and tiring.

unfinished business


In the end, after a countless trips from CATIlab to General Office, ran here and there, clicked here and there, sorted this and that, noted this and that, asked people to donate their accounts (for printing) ... we finished them at 6pm. Phew~

Oww..apparently, the technician said we are NOT allowed to print colour in school (what? you're kidding right? we pay for this too ok!), telling that it is only for special projects. Heh? So our final year project is not special, and we have to spend hundreds just to print this?
who cares...we just continued haha
But seriously, I think those who don't know, they might spends ALOT just to print three copies of the report.

Looking back....here are the outcomes:
- 278 pages of report
(times three for 3 copies, added with error printing. Count how many trees have we killed today! and we're not the ONLY group.)
- over $250 for printing and binding
(although around $225 is merely 'virtual cash'...imagine how many accounts we stole from)
- tons of stressed and surprises
(ups down ups down ups down)
- the twinkles on our eyes after we submitted the report
(yeay...we made it gals!)
- it's just a month from now...HANG ON

Our presentation is on 16th April. Need to work hard for this too. Pray hard that we scored for our FYP ya. Pray really hard, I beg you.

Exams are on 20th and 25th April.

ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Youth is on 26th and 27th April.

I'm flying off on 28th, if I got my visa *pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

Gosh....need to do my Japanese homework now before I took my beauty sleep

Awrghhhh sugooiiiiii

ps: If you looked into a mirror and found a 'panda' there...worry not, you're not alone!

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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

100 Chairs

So, let's go to 'Behind the scene' on Feb 3rd, 2007:

At the Dance Studio at level 2 which was transformed into a make-up and hair-styling room[L-R, Top-Bottom]:

  1. Charlotte still managed to pose heh! haha
  2. Ar Kar played around with Kenneth's guitar *bored of waiting huh
  3. Sean's hair being styled and he didn't seem to like it *wakaka
  4. Grace, the Emcee, was busy consolidating all the cue cards
  5. Zack and his 'V' sign
  6. A busy hairstylist who asked whether I wanna style my hair *eh..how?
  7. Xiu jing was trying to tie the bandana to the Orange girl
  8. Jessica and her pinkish make-up
  9. Kenneth and his beauty recipes *draw more dude!


  1. Dodo from Medan and a PSB girl posing outside NYC
  2. My publicity team was busy decorating themselves *tee hee
  3. Anson and his hair-stylist haha
  4. Shah Rizzal and his new hair-style *can't stop laughing at his expression lor
  5. Emcee's hair being braided
  6. Cara is one of the chair artists
  7. Kenneth and Jian Kai were rehearsing, and thus the pose
  8. Another Shah Rizzal's expression
  9. Jessica's nice smile
Yup, that's Oscar who raised his hand up to the sky *tsk..tsk..tsk
hehe jk deh, thanks for coming ya Mas Car!

Post-event action!!
Gee... I like these people haha
They always make my day *hugz..we're such a poser
I dunno if I should be happy or sad, the bids are now getting higher and higher and some even go beyond my initial expectation. This is supposed to be good as it means more money to be donated. But it also means, I may lose the chance to possess those chairs that I like *hiks hiks..can't afford to outbid these people lar whoaaaaa
Yah...nevertheless, do bid for your fave chair[s] here!

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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Online auction starts NOW!!

Click here to bid for your face chair[s] here :)


Still don't feel like going to school
Still wanna rest and sleep more
Still wanna have my own time
Still wanna have fun!

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Saturday, February 03, 2007

here we come!

It's 'D' day beibs!!

and I am still lingering here at NYC...gosh

*shoo shoo...zzzZZZzzz

Hope everything goes smoothly...and more adopters :)

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Monday, January 29, 2007

not to be missed

Eh...guys!!!

Faster faster go to IMM, Lance Court.

15 selected chairs are being displayed there *heee....

So happee...

and yosh...eBay is IN for our online auction portal :)

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the short press release and invite

100 Chairs, 100 Youth Artists, 100 Channels of Blessings, 100% Visual Experience

100 Chairs transformed into works of art by 100 youths will be up for auction starting 3 February 2007, 2pm at *scape Youth Park.



Fully run and led by youth with the support of Young Changemakers and *scape, the 100 Chairs project kicked off on 21 January 2007, with one hundred youth artists gathering to create one hundred collectible pieces of art from one hundred wooden chairs.


Twenty of these art pieces have been selected to give the public the opportunity to bid for them on Saturday. The rest of the pieces will be displayed at the *scape Youth Park while the bidding continues online. As part of the celebration, a day of exciting performances by youth groups and bands has been planned, such as Peepshow, Super Illegal, , Blackstar, The Lentor Incident, NUS Temasek Hall dancers, Studio Wu and PSB Academy dancers.



There are also prizes to be won via our *scape Star Search contest. You are invited to send in MMS of ANY star shape or asterisk that you can find to 9790 6696 on 3 February 2007 [ONLY till 4.30pm].




100 Chairs Live Auction
Date: 3 February 2007
Venue: *scape Youth Park, behind Cineleisure
Time: 2pm – 7pm
Fee: FOC

Come and join us for a fun chair-ity day!

For more details, please go to http://www.100chairs.youth.sg/

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

After a week at NYC

Gosh...

My body aches now even when I sit, especially my back.

I am exhausted and really dislike waking up early in the morning just to get there in time [1.5hr to reach].

I smell the paint, varnish & pylox fumes till I can't sense 'em anymore.

I am used to having my hands and clothes stained by the end of the day.

Potato chips, chocolate bars and biscuits are our dearest friend for this week.

But I am glad that for the past one week...

I made lotsa new friends...from volunteers to artists to corporate reps

I learned alot on handling small unprecedented matters...

I equipped myself with some painting techniques and stimulate my creativity too *haha

I gained experience in handling budget...

I challenged my working style with these people...

I got to know myself better *I can be freakin crappy huh

I had so much FUN and days full of laughters


Friends,

Just make the most out of every single second that you have. ENJOY your life!

Wish you all the best and do take a very good care of yourself k!


More and more chairs.... Yosh

More designs.... lovely!


OK..we are tired k...

coz we need to clean the stained floor, take pics, varnish the chairs and so on... wakaka


We are high in adrenaline... so this was what we did to entertain ourselves :)


L-R: Our infamous graffiti artist in Singapore - Rozaimi, a cute-looking guy, 'SUPPORT' and Mr. Cranky!


A seductive lady and two musicians


Preview of my Street Gang

Dee in action:
Oops... is it clean?


ps: From all chairs that I've displayed here, which one do you think is my fave?

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Bid babe!

You guys must be sick of hearing me promoting my 100 Chairs event, but no choice dearies... I will still be writing about it till it ends, and that means at least another 2 weeks from now.

So, what is this event about?

100 Chairs,
100 Youth Artists,
100 Channels of Blessings,
100% Visual Experience

100 Chairs is a fully youth run event organized by *scape, aimed at fostering youth creativity and promoting the arts as a platform for youths to contribute to the community.

Artists will be invited to unleash their creativity and paint 100 wooden chairs, which will be auctioned off and proceeds from the auction will go to a charitable organisation.

The 100 chairs will be displayed at *scape Youth Park from the launch cum live auction day on 3rd February 2007 till 11th February 2007.

On the event day, there will be on-site LIVE Auctions accompanied by fringe performances [bands, dance performance, fashion and prizes] at *scape Youth Park. Some of the bands performers are Peepshow,The Lentor Incident, Superillegals and Blackstar as well as dance performances from NUS Temasek Hall, Studio Wu and PSB Academy. 20 randomly selected chairs will be up for your bids, so make sure you fight for your fave ones!

In addition to that, the remaining chairs will be auctioned online from 4 - 11 February 2007. Please log on to www.100chairs.youth.sg for more information on the online auction.
The bid starts from $15 per chair... great investment for cutie chairs *yeah
The artists have different styles of painting heh!
So touched by their effort... *hiks hiks srott..

More poses, especially on Cherie who was looking for inspiration haha

The Charles & Keith chairs... corporate adopters
plus Puff Daddy and Dee at the costume shops searching for Street Gang props
Yah.. end of report.
Exhausted Dee

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

pick your fave chair[s]

I know...

Valentine's Day is coming soon...

Your friend's birthday is around the clock or any time within this year...

CNY is 3 weeks from now...

Your crave for arts is unsatisfiable...

and

we all want something different in our lives.

So, why don't you start picking on your fave chair[s] and get ready to bid for it? *big smile*


The paints that need to be cleared and cleaned every night
*terpentine....hands...wraps...stain...paint...awhh


Stay cool in action baybeh!


Impressive chairs...I like I like... I want!!
Found you fave ones?


Volunteers taking charge, the girl with cutie pose and me painting...suit suit..

Counting down to the day where I'll fly my way home... 24 days

Hong bao na lai....

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Monday, January 22, 2007

Painitng Season starts now!

Rain is finally in town.

And today was the day for his grand concert.

But, today did not RAIN-ing at all.

And the papers call him 'boring'... haha *Im not making any sense here, I know!

Well, I am not so crazy that I would spend $188 to buy the cheapest ticket and look at those dancing dots on stage.

Instead, I spent my whole day at National Youth Centre b'coz today was the starting of our Painting Season *yeay yeay yeay*. From taking cab to get to NYC *aiya...too tired to wake up on time* and finally after spending 12 hours there, I got to take the train back to hostel.

It was FUN FUN FUN!! and so cool to be surrounded by creativity.

Let the pictures do the talking then.


Let me introduce my crew!
Muzzy ~ my Funky Preppy Nerd actor, Allie ~ the boss, Cherie ~ the talented artist and Muzzy and Kumaran 'Puff Daddy'
Really love the volunteers spirit! You go people!

L-R [Top]: Ee Shaun and his reserved 'cat chair' ~ cutie, Jonathan and his birdie and Bates Creative Director's art piece
L-R [Center]Bjorn and his gf under the sun, Samuel with his crayons and the bright red chair
L-R [bottom]: Cara 'the aluminium foil girl', Bjorn and the pinkie puzzle and the Hawai-stylo chair


Top: Our decoration pieces *must come ar*, the lonely pinkie chair and the intricate design *cool
Center: This is so Cherie's style lor, and the impressive piece with huge effort as well as the 'Evolution'?
Bottom: Merry Birdie was almost done, the chair that took our breath away *at least 4 of us wanna bid for it ^^' and another cool black stylish chair

So, don't forget to come down, enjoy the show, bid for your favourite chair, win some prizes and bring home the art piece while contributing to the society, especially the youth!

See you all on February 3rd, 2pm onwards at *scape Youth Park [next to Sommerset MRT].

For more information, please go to www.100chairs.youth.sg.

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Saturday, January 13, 2007

100 Chairs

Here is my dearest Final Year Project q^.*p

100 Chair [for more detail, please go to www.100chairs.youth.sg]

Everybody's welcome!! So, cya at *scape Youth Park on Feb 3, 2pm onwards.

How you can help us....Do your part!
1. Be part of the artists to paint the chair[s]
2. Be part of the volunteers to assist us in organizing 100 Chairs
3. Be part of the Chair Adopters and reserve the chair[s]
4. Be part of the bidder and hopefully the row of successful bidders and bring home your chair[s]
5. Be part of the audience and invite your friend to come along
6. Spread the words around

If you're interested, you know where to find me yah ^.*

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