Pocketful of Stars

Remember Orisinal? The sweet, soft, fluffy games that I (n mel n yt) used to play on the com in TJ art room. Apparently it's quite well-known now, won some prize earlier, and is on wiki-pedia (what isn't!?). I went to visit the site after such a long long time, and I totally fell in love with the games all over again. I'm so happy that i can easily find the wonderful music in youtube now, it was so rare and unknown then. 我就是需要这种治愈系的东西来舒缓我扭曲的心灵。看太多血腥的电影跟玩杀人的游戏只会让我祈求世界尽早毁灭。我知道我很灰暗，但这不是我的错。是这个世界美好的东西太少了，而丑恶的事却只多不少。

My temper's been getting real bad, well it has never been good but now it's like at maximum level. I get irritated at the slightest things, and i just snap at ppl. I seriously need to find some way to control it. I am conscious of it, but sometimes the mouth just acts faster than the mind thinks. 怎么办～～

H2O

Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket

Bizarre video but seriously cool stuff.

I can't figure out how it works exactly though.

Btw, this fella is one of the winners of vimeo festival.

Milky

Vinamilk "Jump" from Frank Barton

And Merry Christmas!

Tron

Tron : Legacy

Joseph Kosinski

Tron is awesome! I would love to get one of those tron-cycles, It's so damn cool! I like the transformation they did to the Disney castle logo. A few years ago it was still the 2D one. Then it evolved into 3D. And now a tron castle. Wow. I'll definitely catch this movie a 2nd time, in 3D. My first ticket was free anyway, benefits from knowing ppl who work in lucasfilm =D

Bookworm

Been reading (more like re-reading) 没营养的东西 non-stop for the past week. Stuff like Harry Potter and One Piece and random novels. Because my memory really sucks, it feels like i'm reading them for the first time. If i could just happily retire inside a library, the books would last me for an eternity, because every book will be like a new book to me after a year or two. I dunno whether to be happy or sad over this fact...complicated feeling.

But behold the wonder of books, pulled me away from internet and television for the week. If only textbooks could have this effect in the past. And if only work could attract me this well.

I need to get a job soon...cos Mr Children is having a concert next year March!!! Gosh. I din expect them to have it so early...arrr hope i can find smth by Jan, at least will have some money. But then i won't know if i can take leave anot T_T

Dance under the stars

Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward

A beautiful and inspiring piece that reminded me of my days in 2D class.

My lecturer had us animate a really short dance sequence, and mine was of course, nowhere near this. In fact, it was pretty disastrous. Looking back, I wished I could have done more, but having to juggle a few studios and some other stupid courses just killed me totally. Worse thing is, history repeats itself, every semester.

No Touch

Punga - The Underwear Rule from Not To Scale

It's sad to know that we need this kind of ad nowadays.

くそっ！

咎狗の血 アキラ&シキ ～ちみ軍服せっと～

I am pissed with myself.

Saw this set of Togainu no Chi figures up on Animate site. I was tempted to get it but I hesitated. When I finally set my mind on it, it was gone! Sold Out!! In just one day! One freaking day!! Not to mention it's been up there for about a week already. Why did it have to be sold out just when I wanted to get it... *grumbles grumbles* and now I can't find it anywhere else online...stupid exclusives...

I have half a mind to set a bomb on the world now, not that it's possible...

闇

I'd wish for Earth to be destroyed and restart from zero rather than for it to be salvaged.

生きる為のレシピなんてない

这就是感动。

Have been seeking solace in their songs recently.

Am somewhat in a depressive state.

Why so dumb?

Smart Car - Against Dumb from Buck

"We buy stuff we don't need left and right, that's dumb."

Totally describes me.

This is a promotion ad for an eco-friendly car by the way.

Love is War

Yea, microsoft totally hates mac. And still they devised the look of windows7 very much based on mac. And blue-ray on a 15" screen? That's dumb. Human eyes can't tell the difference between blue-ray and HD on such a tiny screen unless you scrutinize every pixel onscreen.

Although i agree mac can be really stupid sometimes, but sorry to say, i still love the wonderful trackpad of a mac.

Life's a merry-go-round

Just in case if u didn't know of the Human Organs Transplant Act (HOTA), it means that the state is able to harvest ur organs once u're pronounced dead, without direct consent from u or ur family members. Unless u choose to opt-out while u're still alive.

My whole family has already opt-out, without me, cos i was still underaged at that time. I just suddenly remembered that, n I'm filling in the opt-out form now.

Not that I'm being selfish, I just dislike the fact that the officials are doing it so forcefully. There's a huge difference between asking nicely for it and seizing it, even if it's for a good cause.

Rainbow

More peacock fun =D

Meow

Another piece of humor.

Sometimes animation is not all abt grandeur.

Stick 'em up mate!

This is hilarious!

Avada Kedavra

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Would be nice to go there for a visit. It's like Disneyland, but British version =D

There is only darkness

Mr. Children 最高！！ Every time i listen to their songs, i'll just get 莫名的感动. Just finished watching one of their DVDs, また感動しました。

Their concert is one of the things i've sworn to go in future, alongside with Joe Hisaishi's. Hope they don't retire too soon yet.

So far this is the only reason i can think of to convince myself into getting a job soon. With a salary, i can go japan as much as i want to. How motivating.

btw, Mr. Children's official fanclub is called Father&Mother. How amusing.

A Tangible World

Silestone -- 'Above Everything Else' from Alex Roman

You'd probably think this short's not bad, but nothing special huh?

Let me tell you. It's 100% pure CG.

Kahn's Exeter Short Film from Alex Roman

His older work.

And yep, 100% CG again.

This guy is amazing. It's really hard to create something that looks exactly like reality. His lighting, texturing and framing is really well done. Every shot is beautifully composed.

I'm awestriken.

むかつく！

AAAAAAA~~ found out tat Kaname went to serve at the butler cafe for a while on tat first day of AFA...T_T of cos he did it juz for fun, so it was unplanned. Those who managed to catch him there are soooooo lucky!! Some girls also managed to get his autograph when he was wandering around the booths area （￣へ￣）

I am so going to stalk him next year! ヽ(ｏ`皿′ｏ)ﾉ

More happiness

Using stag beetle as bottle opener...lol

Open Happiness

I just realised that CocaCola Open Happiness song had so many different versions unique to each country. Although i'm not a fan of cocacola, i just love their series of 'Open Happiness' ads.

China ver.

Pretty nice job done by Wang Leehom. You can juz skip to 1:10 where the song starts.

HongKong ver.

i guess i just don't like her voice.

Korean ver.

I quite like tis ver =3

Thai ver.

Not bad huh. I keep hearing chinese n cantonese though =_=

Japan ver.

They did a total 360 degrees change! Doesn't even resemble the original other den the 走音 tune at the start. Don't ask me why this is japanese when the lead singers are ang-mohs. It is a japanese band, and they are singing jap. I like this band =D

Sg ver.

After hearing all the cooler ones in front, i was kinda expecting smth from sg, maybe chinese mixed with english? and then...wth! they just took the original as it is, din bother changing beat or adding anything. n i totally hate her voice.

why did i even bother having any expectations at all.

遊びに行こうよ

Went to AFA(anime festival asia) today at Suntec with a group of ADM fangirls including yt. We were kiasu and decided to be there at around 8am, and the doors open at 9am. We already got our tickets beforehand, so no need to buy on the spot, which was a good thing, cause the queue was already freaking long even at 8pm. Think those ppl at the front of the queue came at like 6 or 7. Apparently our kiasu-ism came to waste, cause there wasn't much crowd queuing to get in. Everyone was queuing for ticket. So we entered at around 915 as someone came late. No, that someone was not yt, she did a even greater job by coming at 2pm.

We also decided to dress-up abit since it's a anime fest. Theme was white n black suggested by someone who said she only has black n white n brown in her closet. In the end that someone came at 2pm without even dressing up. Nice. Ok...she had an excuse of feeling unwell n going to doctor's. Bad luck huh.

Yea yea..so dress-up. I decided to wear something like ciel phantomhive below!

Note: NOT COSPLAY! just dress like only. I do not cosplay!

Oh ya...went to get new haircut! My hair is finally able to stand and remain standing for more than 10 mins. Went to get colored contacts for fun too! Blue eyes are so nice. Was so excited about the contacts at first, but after I put them on and look into the mirror, I totally wilted....

...not blue de lor!! cheat my money! You gotta look really close to see it sia...like who would walk to within 20cm of your face and stare hard. I'd probably slap that person out of reflex.

There's a butler's cafe this year. Yes, you heard me right. Butler's cafe. I was screaming about it alot during our trip to japan. But that was japan. I didn't even make a squeak this time round. Reason's pretty obvious. But well, my fangirl group wanted to try, since we were already there so might as well go. No crowd, no queue cause we were early, stood at the entrance studying their menu and listening to the waitress's explanation and sneaking a peek...$18 for a cake set, and compulsory for everyone to order one, otherwise you pay entrance fee...so we were thinking...and discussing...and then! There was an announcement that Kaname will be arriving to the stage for a meet-and-greet session, and we spotted him walking up to the stage. We started squealing "Kaname!!! Kaname~! We come back for butler later! Kaname!!!" And we never returned XD

Rest of AFA was nothing much. Just some figurine display, whereby some were repeats from last year. Artist booths, only 4 booths =_= Artist gallery, not great stuff. Tons of anime figure shops. Saw a lot of cosplayers and heavily dressed up ppl, which 90% was painful to the eye. And I really mean painful. There was these trio of girls dressed in pink flowery, lacy, part gothic dress, my first thought was "walking water buckets". And my friend spurted out "three-little-pigs". Yep, so basically all failures.

Only thing I got out of the whole event was being able to see Kaname, managed to capture some pictures of him, and bought one nendoroid. Oh well...Kaname was quite cute, so makes up for everything I guess =3

Arghhh I wanna go jump fest again~~~

天国からの手紙

Monarchs are especially noted for their lengthy annual migration. In North America they make massive southward migrations starting in August until the first frost. A northward migration takes place in the spring. The monarch is the only butterfly that migrates both north and south as the birds do on a regular basis. But no single individual makes the entire round trip. Female monarchs deposit eggs for the next generation during these migrations.

By the end of October, the population east of the Rocky Mountains migrates to the sanctuaries of the Mariposa Monarca Biosphere Reserve within the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests in the Mexican states of Michoacan and Mexico. The western population overwinters in various sites in central coastal and southern California, United States, notably in Pacific Grove and Santa Cruz.

The length of these journeys exceeds the normal lifespan of most monarchs, which is less than two months for butterflies born in early summer. The last generation of the summer enters into a non-reproductive phase known as diapause and may live seven months or more. During diapause, butterflies fly to one of many overwintering sites. The generation that overwinters generally does not reproduce until it leaves the overwintering site sometime in February and March.

It is thought that the overwinter population of those east of the Rockies may reach as far north as Texas and Oklahoma during the spring migration. It is the second, third and fourth generations that return to their northern locations in the United States and Canada in the spring. How the species manages to return to the same overwintering spots over a gap of several generations is still a subject of research; the flight patterns appear to be inherited, based on a combination of the position of the sun in the sky and a time-compensated Sun compass that depends upon a circadian clock that is based in their antennae.

-taken from wikipedia

The above paragraph basically means that the monarch butterflies make the whole migration trip over a span of four generations. How amazing is that?! It's like telling your great-grandson to return to his roots by leaving a message passed from generation to generation. The butterflies are way more amazing in that the message is imprinted in their dna. How they read/decipher it is a mystery though. Maybe there's a heavenly voice that speaks into their head all the time. *imagining a raspy voice saying "you must go north....cough..north...."* =_=

p.s. i'm smelling bacon from my neighbors. and currently the time is 12 midnight. what a delicious smell but at the wrong time. frustrating.

Spikey

Sooooooooo cute~

mel~teach me how to make clothes someday...i wanna do smth with my sewing machine =(

Woosh~

Some amazing works from Gobelins, a french animation school. The quality of their student works is just awesome! No wonder they are called the powerhouse, indeed.

Rust to dust

Something that i watched over a year ago, left a pretty deep impression in me, hence went to dig it out to watch again. Cool stuff, though personally i think there's too much close-ups, so much that i didn't understand the woody looking lump at the end was remains of a tree until i re-watched it. Nice message as closure too. Makes you think twice about the amount of trash you generate everyday.

Sun with Moon

Went to Sun with Moon at Wheelock Place for dinner with my family. Remember the one art gang went to at The Central, it's the same. The food is still as good. So why did i put up a photo of 2 paper cranes? They have a famous tofu cheesecake that comes covered with a cage, so my dad just had to ask the waitress: 'why is there a cage but no bird?' The poor girl, having already suffered from my dad's 'ka-chiaoing' earlier, answered: 'have, have, you wait awhile.' And so comes a red crane. Then, my dad, obviously having fun, asked if she has another. Hence the blue crane. Dunno what he wants them for sia....

Flowers blooming everywhere~

让我花痴一下。

kyaaaaaaaaa~~

i once thought printing a super large poster of toma and pasting it in my room.

but after considering the questions my dad & mum are going to ask, i gave up.

Rainbow outburst

Nathan Love's "NBC Peacock" from Nathan Love

By the same person who did 'Beard World'.

I luv the look on of that naked peacock. So hilarious!

Although it got slightly gross near the end, it definitely grabs your attention!

YAY for rainbow~

Santa's Beard

Oregon Lottery "Beard World" from Nathan Love

Ignoring the fact that it's a lottery ad, it's cute huh. And i could hardly catch what the guy was muttering in top speed at the end xD

Speaking of which, i've never seen any ads for lottery in sg. Guess there's no need to advertise smth that people already flock to. I've never seen a good 3D animation ad locally either. Not surprising, sg advertisement industry is just sad. The bad tv ads are obvious results of being cheapskate, while the good ones are outsourced to overseas companies.

Back to the subject, christmas is coming! It's only Nov, but the streets of Orchard are already decked out in christmas decor. I think sg is running out of ideas for decoration themes. Either that, or the budget has been cut.

The end of the year is nearing...sigh...

Beautify the world

I Have PSD from Hyperakt

Do you have PSD?

Super lock + Fortress lock. lol

Great Migrations

National Geographic, Great Migrations from Gentleman Scholar

MOVE AS MILLIONS. SURVIVE AS ONE.

I think humans tend to do the opposite...

We remain stationary and try to wipe out others instead.

Bursting with Happiness

Birthday present from my wonderful wonderful fyp mates. It's a pretty big box, and heavy, weighing 7kg according to yt. They refused to tell me what's inside, and what i randomly guessed (big domo, domo suit?!, random assortment of cute stuff) was all incorrect.

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After i removed the wrapping.

Thought process as i was slowing unwrapping:

-saw the word brother "what a strange box to use as a container...hmm maybe yt recycled a printer box from her home "

-saw part of the machine picture "ey? dont look like printer box leh. aiya heck. "

-saw full sewing machine picture "sewing machine? cannot be la...inside must be smth else..."

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*shock* ∑(O_O；)

Serious? No joke? Is this for real? *rub eyes* Those guys are mad! They're crazy! This is the craziest present I've even received!!! Oh man I luv those crazy guys! Awwwwwwwwww~ (´～`)

wow. seriously. i would never have thought of giving someone a sewing machine for a present. It's the strangest weirdest most peculiar but very practical present huh.

oh no. that means i have no excuse to not make stuff from the pile of cloth i've been collecting randomly. And on a sidenote, when i heard that yt initially suggested to give me a pile of cloth as present......in my head i was thinking "that's actually not bad eh". But then again, that is a even odder present then a sewing machine.

Thanks to my fabulous fyp mates! Big hug to all of you!!

Tango Fire

Juz came back from watching a Tango dance performance at Esplanade. No such thing as ticket lottery in sg sadly...even though it's not full house. So had to buy pretty expensive tix *heartache* who wants to be sitting all squashed up in some pathetic corner of the theatre hall far away from stage catching only a glimpse of the dancers?! (i tried being stingy once and totally regretted it) Of course buy better seats la!

Oooh the performance was really good! Spectacular! Even if i don't know a thing about tango. The dancers have really good figure. Half the time i was admiring their slender legs and tiny waists *big sigh*

Heck about the male dancers...they were all wearing loose-fitting suits...of course skimpy dresses catches the eye more...moreover they're not that good-looking.

This is what I call 'Poetry in Motion'.

Nagareboshi

The meaning of shooting star rewritten.

Honk If You're Human

p.s. i especially liked the symbol used for politics =D

Itsy Bitsy

Yay~ this arrived in my mail today!

Miniatures! If you didn't know...miniatures has always been my secret love =D

I kinda bought them on impulse, cause it was on sale, ahahaaaa~

Well, the photo only shows half the set, there's still another cupboard and porcelain set. I guess this set was cheaper cause the handiwork is not really very delicate, but it's good enough =)

ワクワクしますね〜

Not so happy meal

McDonald’s Happy Meal resists decomposition for six months

I am disgusted!!

Although I already knew that mac fries don't decompose, I had no idea their burgers can be preserved too!! Glad that I only eat mac once in a blue blue moon since years ago, but right now I am determined to quit it 100% for life. Hurr...maybe I should go grab a happy meal and test out it's resistance.

ふわふわ〜

These are cushions which i sewed for my FYP group mates, customized with different expressions. They are faces of the smore characters in my FYP film. They're of a decent hugging size, as can be seen in comparison to an ipod touch. According to feedback from yt, they're 'very very very nice to hug'. hee..i'm happy with myself. And yes, this is what I do in my free time, making these kind of useless stuff =D

if I could fly...

ROARRRRRRR~

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You're as important as salt is to me

I love this ad. The last scene of crying salt is just cute.

Salty has sequels which you can find on youtube.

And it's a blank...

I haven't started working and I'm already thinking of retirement. How nice would that be...to sit in my house backyard, sip a cup of tea and enjoy doing nothing. I think I have the mentality of a 60-yr-old.

I kinda dread meeting old friends nowadays. The first thing they ask is 'so..what you doing now?'.

Sounds familiar? It's the same thing you get every CNY. The next thing they ask is 'do you have a facebook?'. At least aunts and uncles won't ask that, but cousins do =_= i'm so sick of having to explain why I don't have a facebook. Then the conversation ends there cause I don't know what else to say. A few times I actually considered taking the vow of silence so I won't have to handle all these. I wonder if it's because of my family. My mum can't stop talking. The rest of us don't like to talk. And we're amazed at my mum's PR skills...she always knows what's going on with the neighbors, and she can talk a salesperson into giving her discounts and free gifts. Pity I didn't inherit that.

Redu

HunterGatherer: Redu

A mere 2 minute production, looks simple, but reality is never what it seems to be. It is created using thousands of individual cut blocks. Reminds me of a certain claymation work from N.E.mation. HunterGatherer showcases many of their works onsite, and using cut wooden blocks seem to be their forte. Several beautiful creations, but just thinking about the amount of work to be done gives me the shivers. It'll probably take me a year just to cut the blocks.

Make Some Noise

I have finally decided to get a blog.

The reason being: if i remain nonexistent in the virtual world any longer, my existence will be wiped away in reality.

Cheers to myself.

And may this blog be dust-free as long as i still breathe.