Lizards!

My sleep last night was delayed for more than 1 hour when i spotted a slimy gecko lurking at the side of my window grills. YIKES!! i can spot a lizzy from miles away. No matter how much i cajoled, talked and willed it to get out of my room, i just won't listen! Instead it went a merry-go-round across and back my windows. It must have enjoyed the undivided attention i was giving it. Or it must have lost its way... -_-" i was starting to lose my patience when finally my parents awoke from the din i was making. Help is finally here!! They couldn't sleep from the racket anyway... (hee... ) At last! My heroine Mummy managed to chase lizzy out of the window! YAY!! But i couldn't sleep immediately after the incident. Had to shut all windows before i could sleep.

i'm still abit shaken by the incident. i now check the windows every now and then... (T__T

Now, i have to proclaim that i'm not afraid of all house pests. i can get rid of ants, mosquitoes (i'm an expert in using the bait and slap method) and cockroaches but i stop at lizards. i must have heard of too many horror stories of lizards landing on people's arm and the cold slimy body it possesses. Just the thought of the sticky crawly cold-blooded creature brings shivers down my neck. Brrrr!!!

Muffin Review

There're two new muffin stalls around the office. Tried one of them today... This stall M**** Muffin (or rather the female boss) was featured on tv before and had the secret recipe of some great cook. So what!! Don't need to try. It is really yucks! The cocoa chips are only skin deep (i.e. on top of the muffin only), the top is abit burnt and the inside very dry and no taste at all. My colleague ate the coffee one. The inside is not cooked!

The only must-try muffin is the tanjong pagar one. i forgot the stall name... choc n something... i think...

Ivory by SP

The shop's finally up!! Yay!! If you're looking around for some Xmas stocking stuffing, look here! Custom orders are welcome too! (^^,)

[Edit] Wanted to migrate ALL craft posts from Ivory Tower to My Other Life... duplicated them instead... From now onwards, craft posts would be crafted at My Other Life... so do check it out! :p

R.I.P. (II)

Dedicated to my grandaunt

Life is transient. Treasure what you have.

Exactly one week after my granduncle left, his sister (whom i think i've not met) joined him... and that is the last of my grandma's siblings... :'(

Here i Go Again...

i've probably been thinking about this for AGES... Went for 2 pre-assessments in the span of 4 days. i didn't mean to go so many times but one was free... So... Anyway, i'm thinking of Lasik again. But the moment i've made up my mind, i started to get second thoughts at the clinic...

《天冷就回来》2009

It's coming back!! If you still remember, i had LOVED it so much then. i'm definitely going to watch it again! :p From 16 Apr - 3 May 2009. Waiting for ticket sales to start!! According to sistic, the original main cast would be back and 石欣卉 is going to debut in this theatrical musical.

欠扁问答题

i finally remembered this 欠扁问答题... Before i forget...

What is 小白 + 小白??


...........


Give up?! :p

Food

Waraku renovated and changed its Cuppage branch to Waraku de Gohan... i thought they would be selling all sorts of gohan and had wanted to eat omu rice... ended up having soba which is not worth mentioning... i think the original waraku is better...

At the recommendation of WL, went to Bar Stop for drinks and dessert. Very nice atmosphere. Very good place to bring SOs to. But go before 9pm as it could get pretty noisy from the live band. And choose your seat wisely. Some of the sofa are really bad for the back. The chocolate mud pie is sinfully heavening. Definitely for sharing.

Prototype

A new cardholder that i completed this morning. This is the first item that i had calculated and wrote all the instructions on paper before started. But alas, it didn't turn out the way i planned... Dimensions need some tweaking.. and the clasp abit awkward.. Think the old design was better...

But it's the thought that counts! :)

Ivory's Production Line

Had took leave to study for jap test on Thursday. But ended up helping out at Ivory's Line instead. Setting up shoppe is more tedious than i imagined!

Sneak peaks!!!

Ivory's Purses

Migrated from My Other Life

R.I.P.

Dedicated to my granduncle [edit on 26Nov: and grandaunt]...

Life is transient. Treasure what you have.

[Added on 19 Nov] i thought i'm cool... i didn't have much reaction when i heard the news... Maybe cos i don't see my granduncle frequently; only once/twice a year. Usually during CNY. So it feels like he's still there. Just "away" you know. It's only when i was relating to my colleague via IM the next day that i started tearing... Totally unprofessional. i didn't think anyone saw me wiping my tears in my cube... SL heard me though... it's like one whole generation gone... i mean he was the last of the grand-__ left that i see on a yearly basis. And then all the memories just came flooding back... i miss all those who are gone.... but... life goes on....

[Added on 26 Nov] Exactly one week after my granduncle left, his sister (whom i think i've not met) joined him... and that is the last of my grandma's siblings... :'(

Another Zippered Purse

Look what i just made!

Singapore Biennale 2008 (Part 2)

The round's completed! Went to the last venue at Central Promontory Site along Marina Boulevard. It's a Containart Pavilion made of containers and reusable paper tubes just for SB08.

One of the most striking exhibit is the Location (6) where you are transported to a snowy landscape. It does feel like vast snowy land but the tunnel in which this exhibit is housed is really stuffy. So you just can't helped but be brought back to the reality of humid warm Singapore.

Quilting by machine

Went for a free lesson that came with my machine. Managed to sew the cushion cover in 3 hours. Patchwork and quilting is soooo much easier on machine! Imagine that i haven't complete those hand-sewn assignments for my 8-week course!

The free lesson is only 2hours but thanks to the very nice instructor Helen who stayed back to let us finish whatever we were doing. :)


[Edit on 16 Nov] Changed the photo from yday cos it was too dark but it's still crap! i've realised that it's very diff to take craft photos!

iPurse

One little elephant went out to play~ :)

想太多

Last week, when i was struck with a sudden illness, my mind started to wander... Before i saw the doc and before the medicine took effect, i started to imagine the worst things that might happen to me. Especially when the pain was unbearable to the point of paralysing me (momentarily), i thought that i had suffered a stroke or that i was really going to stay like this for the rest of my life. A sudden fear just gripped me and i felt so helpless. i've still got so much things i haven't accomplished. i haven't found my purpose in life. i haven't said goodbyes. i haven't said i love yous. i haven't said thank yous. Well, you got the drift...

The truth is, in the face of "death" (or so i thought it was) or disaster, i just realised that i don't dare to face up to plenty of things, like, stuff that makes you look into your heart and confess / say things out to people who matters to you. i mean, do you say "i love you" to your loved ones? Parents, friends? And if you really fancy that guy/girl, do you dare to tell him/her? Especially when he/she might seem to be (in most people's eyes) wrong for you? Seize the day! Just tell him/her! i can tell myself that but making that first step is the hardest bit. i think i'm out of practice for too long.

i've almost recovered from my neck ache or whatever it was. And i still haven't figured out my mind. i probably think too much le...

籃球火

Had started watching cos of the basketball theme and of course! The 3 main lead Jerry Yan, Show Luo and Wu Chun. Somehow Wu Chun became a calefare. As absurd as it is, the show developed a little too fast and ended quite abruptly too. But i guess it's for its own good... cos it was getting a little draggy from the middle. So much to the extent that for some episodes, the nicest part are the behind the scenes bits! haa... :p Overall i think is quite entertaining. But if you wanna people watch, suggest you catch epi 1-5 for Jerry, 10-15 for Show and 16 for Wu Chun. Show's really cute towards the end. :p

Other than Jerry's closing theme, this song by Show is quite nice too.

Ivory's Back!

SP's finally back to work! Been away from my sewing machine for quite a while. So made the following to warm up! :p

One could never be short of a nice drawstring bag!

Gotta start running thru my zippers!

Wake up call

Been really busy at work since my colleague left, esp the past 2 weeks. Was rushing thesis after thesis. So, i was really glad that i had managed finally to complete them last night. Just need my boss to go through the final version so that we can publish and release it to higher bosses today.

BUT!

:'(

Woke up with a really sharp pain in the neck and back. i didn't know what hit me but i couldn't move. The doc said it was a normal neck ache, probably caused by bad sleeping postition... it didn't feel like a normal neck ache to me though... at least not the same as those i've experienced before. Those were localised pain and managable as long as i didn't disturb it and they didn't shoot through the whole back. Now, i don't know if my next movement or action would trigger pain down my whole back. It totally FREAKS me out!

My boss said that i'm probably too stressed out this week. It's time to take a rest. i know but not this way!! *sob sob*

[Sidenote] There is an dialogue aka complain session this afternoon and there is someone whom i really detest going. i was joking with my colleague then that maybe i would be on mc today so that i could avoid that person. i was just JOKING!! i didn't mean it!! i shouldn't have cursed myself! :'( :'( :'(

Comfort Food

Read from the papers today that the top 3 food that brings the highest happiness level to those surveyed are, ice cream, chocolate and cake. To me, they are no mere comfort food. They are my staples! At least for this week, ice cream is!

Hehe. Back to my 2 tubs of Nestle Chocolate Obsession ice cream i just bought yday! (^^,)

Singapore Biennale 2008

FINALLY visited SB08! Started off with a cool outdoor installation at Raffles City Shopping Centre (it's free btw, go see it!). Paid $7 for entry to City Hall next. We were lucky to be in time for a free hour long tour to selected pieces. The guide was very good and informative. Otherwise i think i wouldn't understand most of them. Spent about 3.5 hrs to cover all the 31 installations in there. Proceeded to the South Beach Development after a short refuel. Took only about an hour to finish all 26 pieces. Most of them are video installations which mostly are un-understandable or simply weird. And the South Beach site is really WARM and stuffy. It's really unbearable to stay in the room for long. Anyway if you don't mind spending $10 or $7 if you have the passion card or $5 if you are a student, go visit the City Hall and enjoy the art installations in air-con environment.

The theme this year is Wonder. i really wonder why are there so many pieces that have a seemingly morbid and melancholy tint. Many pieces also act as channels to express mockery for the artists. As the guide said, there's no right or wrong to modern art. The intent is to evoke deeper thoughts and wonder.

Anyway here are some photos i took today.

Maggots were given the red carpet treatment in te restaurant of the former Supreme Court. A dig at the artist's home country's judicial system. The presence of the maggots signals the rotting and corruption of the system. The fact that they are given the red carpet, cynical. This is one of the site-specific installations in the Biennale. And i think the effect is simply brilliant! (Well only if you understand the artist's background and the site history).

erm... the centre purple looking thing is not a maggot! :p

Guess where the maggots are headed to? The toilet!

My two fave exhibits are side by side. Pity for my incompetency in photography... The photos turn out less than satisfactory...

Blackfield is really pretty! These thin metal plants are planted black on one side and a myriad of colours on the other. i was sitting on the floor at admiring them for quite a while. (^^)

This exhibit, I'm Not Expensive, looks ordinary at first glance. But when you walk pass it, the car simply pops out at you! Amazing! i was really amazed by it i was staring at it from various places till i got dizzy! hehe! :p Oh! Apparently this piece is so massive that it could not fit the lifts, so they had to use cranes to install it!

You call this art!? it's one of the few nonsensical installations. i think the rationale behind this site-specific exhibit is that... oh i can't remember.. i only recall the guide saying that the disc thingy behind is the new supreme court so that is the best place to take over in a country. And something about the aliens looking backward.. as in, not futuristic. more like the ultra-man era...

There's a google earth map where you can vadalise as you wish. i indicated where SP is staying. Oops! Stuck on the wrong place initially.. :p

Don't miss the Kids Biennale which is at level 1 of City Hall. The nicest photos are taken here! hehe. cos they are so cute!

This is a pic done by kids who visited the Biennale. Isn't it CUTE!? :p

A watercolour painting done by a Pri 5 student. i forgot to take down his/her name to give him/her credit. i like this piece cos it reminded me of the patchwork fields in Biei, Hokkaido!

This is my fav corner in my fav room. It's all done up in Alice in Wonderland theme. Very colourful. Very cheerful!

Went over to the Esplanade Bridge to view the last two installations for the day which are best viewed at night cos they are light performance. Wanted to catch the Fog Sculpture #48687 "Noontide" which supposedly will take place under the Esplanade Bridge at 7.15pm and 7.45pm. So we waited... and waited... and waited... after almost an hour... still nothing happened at the spot which we thought was supposedly the location... and that ended my day at SB08. (T_T)

This is the other installation Lightlines under the Esplanade Bridge. It was to be viewed at the Merlion side but was too tired to walk over when it could be viewed from the Esplanade end... Don't ask me what does it mean... i would have thought they were meant to illuminate the sea for some night divers if i'm not on the SB trail.. -_-"

[SP's note on 8 Nov] Finally managed to complete this post! one week later... haa... Hope i can still catch the rest of the exhibits before it ends... Had planned to go this weekend but i'm grounded for health reasons.