Giving Thanks in November

27th Nov (Thurs)

Unlocking the school hols with pressed flowers craft, cute stickers and goodbyes!!! 

All the best at wherever everyone is!!! 

Claire was in an ecstatic mood for completing her 3rd & final PSLE 陪读 with an AL5, she treated us dinner @ SOT and bought us Lucia brownies... 😍😍😍

the day ended with LC & Cyn treating dessert @ Ice & Time... everyone is in a generous mood cos holiday lo!!! 

26th Nov (Wed)

happy happy to have the opportunity to chit chat with YL before she embarks on her next phase of career... All the best!!! 

spent 3.5 hours of my life travel to & fro NIE today for a full day CCE HeART workshop... lucky to be in a class facilitated by an efficient teacher and collaborative table-mates that resulted in a good one hour earlier dismissal than our next door... heee 

a mrt station right smack between NTU & NIE is being built so the iconic linking bridge where we used to wait for either bus 199 or 179 that comes from opposite side of the road is GONE!!! 

感慨啊 ! 感慨啊 !... my first study in NTU was in Aug 2000, 'witnessed' the completion of the NIE campus construction and had complained about having to squeeze with nie students in the buses when this 'new' campus started operation in Dec 2000... 

then i became a student of nie, once in 2006 for ems training and once more in 2013 for art training... wahahahaha

 

24th Nov (Mon)

thanks mx for the yummilicious treat @ coco... she says is to celebrate her moving of Play.able resources from home sweet home to her new permanent establishment @ Enabling Village... 😂😂😂

this pic popped up in fb memory today; such a coincidence that 9 years ago today, mx & i were also enjoying a meal together; a farewell meal @ Wild Honey before she embarked on a 4 month voyage with Peace Boat !!!  

i also wanna travel the world on Peace Boat, but as a participant!!! hmmmm, possible in 2031 ?!?!?!  celebrate my 50th hatch year!!! 😂😂😂

20th Nov (Thur)

iron count is still low but is considered acceptable without daily iron pills... bonus was total wait time for blood test and consult was about an hour-ish and being attended to by a smiley Ms Lolita & a 帅 Dr Ng... 😍😍😍

14th Nov (Fri)

Laurice's hatchday meal @ HyangYeon Korean BBQ 

followed by our super early xmas exchange @ Ice & Time just cos there's not even one day in Dec that ALL 5 of us are in Singapore on the same day... 😂😂😂

a very excited me when Mab took out her 'blind boxes' of mousey for us and say i could be the first to pick... eeni-meeni-mani-more 了老半天, 抽到 my 3rd favourite > orange tabby

mich saw how much luv i had for her 招财猫 mousey and offered to exchange it with me as i had agreed to help her cat-sit her 3 kitties for 3 weeks next month... woah!!! 真的是好人有好报 and i 脸皮厚厚的接受了她的善意... 😍😍😍

每人分了一座山又扛了一座山的爱心礼物回家

the unannounced theme this year is hair care with 3 of us buying hair care products; hair vitamin, hair mask & hair styler for every one !!!

a comfy nighty attire from eyes to toes from me to every one, myself included, for our 20th friendship anniversary in korea next june

13th Nov (Thur)

luvlies from mx from her Hakone trip personally delivered to home sweet home... cos it's day 1 of 2 搬货 day to Play.Able's new venue.... this means that home sweet home's mini reno is NEAR?!?!?! 😍😍😍... provided i dont procrastinate... wahahahha

7th Nov (Fri)

last hatchday celebration with the mcs ladies @ 5.59+ cafe & O'ma spoon

6th Nov (Thur)

happy happy happy.... IT IS APPROVED !!!... a term of paid art learning at my own pace !!! Woohoo !!!

5th Nov (Wed)

boarded the bus and couldnt locate my card holder which housed my ezlink card & school access card... hmmm... why?!?!??! did i leave it on the floor when i wore my shoes??? i remember holding it as i leave the house leh!!!... heng, could pay using credit card...

"Hi, are you candy? Did u drop ur ez link pass?" received a text from an unknown number @ 8.22am... "You're both in the group AM39GE" was in the heading... 

哇靠!!! 我真的是走了狗屎运!!!... national duty colleague Jan saw it on the corridor outside #01-743 and suspected it could be mine since i'm the only Candy she knows in this neighbourhood... so nice & so smart of her!!! 😍😍😍

这两天的好运会延续到 toto day 吗?!?!??! 😂😂😂

4th Nov (Tue)

water heater knob popped out / dislodged / cracked / burst... dont know what's the correct word to describe the damage but water was just gushing and splashing through the crack non-stop... took me at least 25 minutes of testing out this valve, that valve, in this toilet, in that toilet, outside the house to finally found THE one that could shut the water supply off... 

at the same time, was texting P to inform him of the need to apply for emergency leave and so nice of him to suggest time-off for me if i could make it back... then had to inform relief team to allocate someone to take over my job... super heng i didnt have many classes today and that i had relief work prepared for tmr's LJ that could be used today!!! .... it's really a heng day despite the chaos!!! 

救星 arrived 1.5 hours later, 'paid' for his help with a cup of tea, 2 bottles of cough syrup and 3 bottles of chicken of essence for his wife... 😅😅😅

 

was back at work for my last class and had lunch with the 2021 P4 chers at a great HDL-TikTok deal... 

and they reminded me of the singsaver deal that was gifting out iPad for credit card application!!! Mich had told me about this deal 2 Fridays ago and i forgot about it!!! immediately 下单 on my first hsbc credit card upon reaching home... 😂😂😂

3rd Nov (Mon)

tagged along Sylvia to Mono @ Tekka Place and gotten all these for $18... definitely a steal base on monetary value but mega regret cos i 正在减肥 - ing ah!!! 😫😫😫

2nd Nov (Sun)

Grateful for the quiet friendship we kept over the years. We first met as colleagues more than twenty years ago, and though our time working together was short, we always found time for our yearly catch-ups and little updates. Thank you for your uniqueness and the memories. You’ll be remembered with love and gratitude always.

1st Nov (Sat)

a hot hot morning of dances, songs, colouring and taking pics with the CUP-NOODLE couple with and for the residents... 

then went for the SG60 Heart & Soul Experience @ Orchard Library 

The Jetsons vibe

present me vs future me

aging looks terrifying seh!!! gonna be more hardworking at my face exercises liao!!! 

spotted fellow BeKindSG volunteer's design!!! so cool!!! 

this exhibition is free but need registration and can use the bookmark received at the end of the exhibition to claim a $6 discount @ Uniqlo... 😍😍😍

Planner 2026 (in progress) - 3rd Quarter

New bullet journal set-up & Jan to May spreads 

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[ 24th Nov ]

messy messy prep needed to create Eric Carle's The Tiny Seed inspired design 

knowing my 公私分明 work etiquette, having half a page for to-do @ work is more than enough for the 2 weeks of work weeks + 2 weeks of hols during the june school holiday... 

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[ 25th Nov ]

the month of Andy Warhol... 

Planner 2026 - Semester 1

[ 28th April ]

was doing excessive browsing and shopping on shopee for home sweet home 3.0 when i chanced upon this notebook that i think is very suitable to be used as my Planner 2026...

besides the comparative price tag, it has just the right number of pages @ 160 for the monthly & weekly spread + trackers, each page is @ 100 GSM and finally dotted pages that allow for more flexibility & freedom in designing all the pages in whichever and whatever way i want... 😍😍😍

getting ONLY this notebook came with abit of luck that deserved to be documented here... heee

original price of this notebook was at $5.50 but there was a minimum quantity of 3 items per purchase... decided to put in shopee cart first then think of what to do with the other 2 notebooks later on... 25.4 came; discounts, vouchers, rebates here, there, everywhere and the notebook now costs $4.72 each with free express to-door delivery...

the twist came when the two black notebooks came a size smaller and the peach notebook came with 3 stains... 一气之下, requested for return & refund but somehow i only keyed in to return one peach and one black notebook...

so end result, i am left with ONE black notebook, which was what i had wanted right from the beginning!!!

PERFECT!!!

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[ 1st May ]

decided that it shall be an Art theme planner for 2026 where every design is based on an art style / artist... starting with my name in graffiti, inspired by my exploration into pre-demolised Peace Centre with mx...

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[ 14 May ]

cover page in zentangle patterns... inspired by the art club session that vanessa conducted at the beginning of the year...

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[ 3rd May ]

Hatchday tracker inspired by Henri Matisse's cut-outs artworks; La perruche et la sirène (The Parakeet and the Mermaid) and L'escargot (The Snail)

the curly wurlies really tested my cutting & gluing skill and the power of my 老花眼 seh!!!

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[ 5th May ]

All monthly spread designs take inspiration from an artist whose birthday is / was in the month.

January's theme is inspired by Jackson Pollock's drip painting technique... had fun dripping and splitter splattering paint to create the background for the headers and all the curly-wurly strips...

white & blue were chosen as AI 'tells' me white symbolises a fresh start to the New Year, coupled with blue to evoke snowfall and winter...

what an artistic mess i had created !!!

[ 1st June ]

"artifying" the weekly spreads for the first time since there's ample time and enthusiasm on my part... this 4 part layout; weekly work to-do list on the left, weekly sketch, weekly personal to-do list & a weekly habit tracker on the right, works wonderfully for me since Jan 2025 so i'm just gonna continue with this layout into 2026...

making use of the remaining of the splitter, splatter paper so no fanciful inspiration for Jan's weekly spreads

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[ 8th May ]

designed a parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic with my favourite gothic character and her brother for February... 😂😂😂

[ 29th May ]

abit 跑边主题... by right, the focus should be on Grant Wood's American Gothic but as i had added Addam's family gothic element into Feb's monthly spread; this T1W5 weekly spread focused on the gothic tree which i had so much fun sketching instead... 😂😂😂

made amend in T1W6 weekly spread with the Carpenter-Gothic house and pitchfork in Grant Wood's American Gothic but i just had to add Cousin Itt & Thing from Addam's family in too... 😁😁😁

[ 2nd June ]

took inspiration from another Grant Wood's masterpiece; Young Corn for T1W7 & T1W8 weekly spread...

[ 20th October ]

this spread is so gothically dark for a supposedly lovey dovely Feb seh.... 😅

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[ 11th May ]

this March spread inspired by Piet Mondrian took many many griding, re-griding, re-re-griding and re-re-re-griding so that there's a balance between it being Mondrian-ish enough yet structurally functionable enough for me....

[ 23rd Oct ]

[ 25th Oct ]

spot the error !

holiday 就是连 weekly layout 都不一样... gonna leave it looking like Piet Mondrian's Composition C (1935) till the week it is planned for use... gonna use the 'white' spaces as my 4 sections but dont wanna the headings for the sections to 'spoil' the look of it for now...

[ 8th Nov ]

Woohoo!!! Term 2 weeklies are all dated cos gonna record daily art-did &/or art-learnt to show that i didnt 摸鱼 during my PDL..😍😍😍... happy happy happy!!! 

inspiration from Piet Mandarin's New York City... had used pvc tape for this creation... the page before and after will be so bumpy to write on seh... 😅😅😅

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[ 15th May'25 ]

April monthly spread inspired by Joan Miro, an artist whom i had introduced to my little orange ones long long ago with the Roll a Miro game...

[ 8 Nov ]

Dancer (1925) 

Constellations (1940)

same same but different... Miro's constellation came from his imagination, my constellations came from astronomy

Figures and Dog in Front of the Sun (1949)

[ 9 Nov ]

The Snobbish Soiree at the Princess's House (1948)

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[ 21st May ]

inspired by Keith Haring... his movement lines made his characters look like they are dancing or glowing... my movement lines made my characters look as if they are wobbling from holding on to their positions... 😅😅😅

[ 11th Nov ]

[ 12th Nov ]

[ 16th Nov ]

[ 23rd Nov ]

i will be so sad when this week comes around... 

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The evolution of my planners :

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