I was a Princess (I had to choose between snow white and a random princess)

No photos. Sorry!

My friend’s friend signed us into MOS. She was the coolest chick ever. While some of my friends have the ability to talk their way into clubs (which is really cool too), this chick went to the front of the VIP line and ordered the bouncer to let us in. She then commanded the door bitches to stamp our arms because they were not fast enough. They can only meekly replied “stamped already”.

I’m not even able to ask for water.

“We sell Evian, 9 dollars”

-_-”

Anyway, more news from my rssreader.

By the way, the next generation ipod is rumoured to have Wi-Fi. Wouldn’t it be great if pandora has it’s own portable player with cheap network access? If there’s anything that can beat ipod’s world domination, that might be it. I wuv pandora.

I’ve got nothing to wear again but when you’re in events, dressing up no longer feels like a novelty. I was trotting over the city with high heels, all day, yesterday. By the end of the day I was literally inching my way home, advancedly evoluted blisters were developing on the balls of my feet and at the back of my ankles (straps). Pain! I think my Halloween theme this year shall be “do not attempt to kill feet again”. If you see me in a bathrobe with my hair bundled up in a towel turban, remember to check out my fluffy bunny bedroom slippers, because THAT is the whole point of the outfit. Where can I buy bubble solutions though? Cuz I’m Bath Woman, saving the world with my lethal bathwater.

Plug: Jacek Yerka, surreal artworks.

Learn something new today!

Good tutorial if you’re a photoshop beginner. I really wouldn’t call that a business layout though.

For personal website development, that is honestly 10% of the work done. It didn’t include integration, content and validation.

For a business website, it didn’t consider branding, investors relations, information architecture, integration, taxonomy, post support and training, copyrights etc. Yup and I’ve still got loads to learn, especially when dealing with web presences of huge MNCs with many different markets.

Anyway, check out my current school project! I did the design in 10 minutes cuz it was urgent. True story.

Plug: This picture is hilarious!

Firefox 2.0 is out! It was available for download through some illegitimate channels before the official launch date (today) and so the whole world is probably using it by now. If you haven’t got it, get it here.

Anyway, in other equally nerdy news, I recently added a log at the left, for posting interesting bits of information I found while catching up with my awesome collection of rss feeds. I took the liberty to sieve through the good information and present you with the best ones!

Check them out!

Random stuff: Follywop says Oprah is my God because I’m always quoting her and living by her rules. Haha

My contacts are grouped into Colleagues, NUS, NTU, Internet, Old Skool and a generic Others.

Digression: Internet are online friends, which makes me sound like that loser who prowls the net for online relationships. People from that list are actually brilliant tech savvy people. Uh I realise that by saying that, I haven’t redeem myself from being a no life loser. Hmm maybe I AM a no life loser.

So anyway, the groups don’t really help me in tracking people, not when they keep changing nicks and given my busybody nature, I couldn’t bring myself to rename them. Maybe it’ll be better if I reclassify them according to the following instead (with real examples from my list)

The Annoyingly Happy
Taylor Woo! Getting new ipod shuffle soon!
Tresure and grab tight of what I have now!!!
My life is technicolor! [insert rainbow]
Wolfie: I wanna go trekking this weekend woohOO!
::Phillips:: You will not enjoy coming to work unless you’re having fun! That’s right!

The Unfortunate
irene @ work: my life is depressing
yt will it ever ever work out right
Man in Pain: FED UP very low morale and down with food poisoning
case studies sucks: my fish died

Stuck in time warp
Kiat: happy national day
Taufik the singing pig and sylvester the guppy
Junye: Goat farm on 24 april

The Why Bother
dC
james
wil
ru
isis
ivan
id
jem

the anti social
Raja: Isolation, do not disturb
Vic: Project mode DND

The long winded
yongfong – 请3个人，发4个人的薪水，做5个人的工作，员工一定会很卖力? 喜欢一个阳光照射的角落，但不能喜欢太多；喜欢一个人孤独的时刻，但不能喜欢太多
aaron: I walk across an empty land, I know the pathway like the back of my hand. AD index grey. contentment is an art that cannot be mastered.

I’m surely Psychic. If not, can you explain this?

Me neither.

But I CAN tell you that, I’m incredibly smart, filthy rich and simply irresistible.

ps: This post is made in reference to this one.

star laced sun kissed
star-laced sun-kissed
starlaced sunkissed

I swear that google secretly loves me.
I was his top favourite for “blog layouts” until I didn’t want it anymore.

Let’s see if he still loves me.

My skin cleared and I was rejoicing about it last week. After an event, I started breaking out again, real bad. I swear it was the cosmetics they used. I’ve booked an appointment with the National Skin Clinic but they can only slot me in at the end of the month. *grumbles*

Lots of love to all who remembered. Not so much to those who know they’ll be hunted down and smacked if they forget. Less love to those with help from Friendster’s kind reminders. Extra kisses to people who surprised me and apologies to those I don’t even know! Hahaha! The phone numbers didn’t register and I’m too embarassed to ask.

I’m giving you all something useful in return. Insults that you can use when the opportunity arises. Like when people forgets your birthday. Those people la, those people who are worse than OCBC bank, who already wished me a good year and gave me some deals at special rates, those Joelle Xinying people for example. !@#$

“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
John Bright

“He had delusions of adequacy.”
Walter Kerr

“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
Forrest Tucker

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
Oscar Wilde

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Winston Churchill

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”
Moses Hadas

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
Mae West

Ouch. Via The Reluctant Nomads

PS: Pink Jr said she’s giving me love this year and proceed to sing LOVE by Nat King Cole. Priceless.

“Momo not so smoky now hor?”

“Yea.”

“Or maybe we’re used to the haze.”

Miss those entries about my food escapades? Miss it or not there’s one behind the cut.
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To the girls. Have you had experience of girls making very indiscreet catty remarks to their girlfriends about you? I get that a lot when I’m doing events. They can spew mean words while simultaneously shoot dirty looks at you with formidable accuracy. I scared leh.

But Oprah said mean girls are insecure girls who hate themselves, they put you down to make themselves feel better. Damn right she is that Oprah.

And I will not tell people I’m doing infocomms anymore. No one believes me anyway. And I didn’t even say where I’m studying, I just can’t possibly know what that word means. I apparently conjured the story out of thin air. Like magic. Next time I’ll tell them I’m a magician instead. The kind with red noses, curly wigs and perpetual grins. I suppose that’s easier to believe. And because they love being the judgmental people that they are, they’ll tell me that’s really a clown. Whatever people. Because a clown is still better than an ass.

Finally got the site running again after all the flipping caused by feckless replies from the webhost support team. In the end, I still had to roll up my sleeves and tweak stuff that I don’t think I should touch, not when I’m mostly clueless about them, like the .htaccess for example. I don’t have good feelings about half the things I did but since the site seem to be working fine for now, I’m just gonna leave it as it is. Hmmm.

I won’t delve into the whole horrendous saga since it’s over but here is everything else, one huge smorgasbord of backlog.

The Plugs
notcot.org: One of my new favourites. Helps you get design inspirations from just about anything. I’m saving random pictures as msn display pictures. Can’t be any classier stealing than that.

shinybinary.com: One of the best digital graphic designer ever! Nik Ainley combined vectors, 3D graphics, typography and good old photoshop. Super in love with his digital creations.

Random Quote that made me LOL
Lady #1: This stuff is really good. It has antidotes in it. It’s good for your skin.
Lady #2: You mean ANTIOXIDANTS. An ANTIDOTE is a short story.

A compliment, IMO
Missus Gabriel(r) Sarang Een Gah Yo?? says (2:28 PM):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassie

in the vid i think she looks a lot like u
Missus Gabriel(r) Sarang Een Gah Yo?? says (2:31 PM):

http://www.mtv.pl/img/198/243/162_cassie2.jpg

something like this
Star*laced//Sunâ—¦kissed/ says (2:39 PM):
oooh
Missus Gabriel(r) Sarang Een Gah Yo?? says (2:39 PM):
bells ringing??
Star*laced//Sunâ—¦kissed/ says (2:39 PM):
yea i know her
ahaha cool
which vid i wanna see
Missus Gabriel(r) Sarang Een Gah Yo?? says (2:41 PM):
erm
search for her me&u i guess
see if youtube has it
Star*laced//Sunâ—¦kissed/ says (2:41 PM):
okok
Missus Gabriel(r) Sarang Een Gah Yo?? says (2:41 PM):
i like the beat in the background
Missus Gabriel(r) Sarang Een Gah Yo?? says (2:48 PM):
doesnt she look a lot like u?
at least, the set of the eyes do, i think
Star*laced//Sunâ—¦kissed/ says (2:49 PM):
she’s so much skinnier though haha

It’s a compliment cuz I’m some malay wannabe, so this is like a promotion. Haha.

Ahhh good to have my site back. I miss it!

Wondered how those tiny little dotty things around this site came about? This little project gives you good practice if you haven’t done any pixel art before. I went a little crazy with it. Nerd. But hey, it was fun!

When while we’re in the topic of blindingly minisculity check out

Urban Fairies
Little People

Finally, check out the amazing Willard Wigan, who takes miniaturisation to unbelievable heights. He makes urban fairies seem ordinarily charming and little people humongous.

One of the first goals I want to achieve since adopting a role model is…

Get the website validated.

But it won’t validate because that tiny piece of counter (see left) is coughing up several errors.

Rest of my goals
2) Validated the css.
3) Put style in stylesheet and not code all over the place.
4) Master css floats.
5) Catch up with school.

Uh.. maybe I should do the school thing first. Anyway, gotta go for classes now. Ta~

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Lyrics under the cut

Honorable Mention
Tarako Theme: Seemingly harmless hypnotizing brainwashing song that will creep into your life and completely take over.
Here It Goes Again: Insanely cute. 6 million views and counting. Need I say more?

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I think I’ve finally found a role model. Mr Mark Allen, because he is an art + technology extraordinaire. You see, I couldn’t decide if I’m more into the arts or technology. Only retail therapy in the form of new fiction novels can compensate my insatiable lust for shiny, new, but often too expensive, gadgets. And when I’m suppose to work on school projects, I’ll get distracted by the lure of modern contemporary product designs, as you can tell by recent posts.

Mark Allen shows that it is not only possible to excel in both, it is also possible to provide a bridge between them. This is like the new media art, only less abstract and more pragmatic.

This means I can indulge in art without feeling guilty about not concentrating on my studies. This means I can indulge in technology without fearing the lost of creativity. No offense to anyone but I think that people who hold strictly polygamous relationship with technology, with no interests in other areas (business, social studies etc), lacks the breadth needed to be optimally effective.

By the way, Singapore really sucks when it comes to promoting the arts, visual arts in particular. Yea we can read, we can write…but when it comes to reading visual images and using them. We’re so handicapped and imperceptive. Pity… the world for us to see but we see so little of it.

Because sight is effortless and fluid, we tend to take it for granted. In fact, visual communication has its own code and constructions. It possesses its own grammar, syntax, idioms, styles and history – as well as its own language, applications and skills to be learned. What’s more, visual literacy demands the same study, experience, and understanding as any form of literacy. – William Ryan

I recently got his book from the library.

Topics in the book include typography, art and illustration (my favourite), photography, print, identity and collateral materials, advertising designs, magazine design, newspaper, new media. Pretty comprehensive and interesting.

Since the focus is on contemporary visual art, there are very little on the rich history and legacy of fine arts for example. However, it is useful if you want to be in touch with popular culture in visual arts and more importantly, become more appreciative.

Hoookay, enough of visual arts. I’m going back to watching Dane Cook’s latest stand up.