Appreciating August

1st August (Sat) 

of colouring sheets hand-drawn by my art club kiddos and national day songs with & for the residents in the morning... 

then met up with the chuas in the evening to celebrate 蔡妈咪's hatchday @ Swensen just cos the 猫山王 ice-cream cake sold there is the only cake our birthday auntie would eat... 😅😅😅 

Stay healthy & at peace everyday oh... luv u... 😘😘😘

Appreciating July

30th July (Thur)

mugshot day @ work

then met up with the 2S7 ladies for zaza's hatchday meal @ longjing suntec, mx's favourite restaurant @ the moment... heee

cos 30 July is also Happy International Friendship Day, mx got me a bouquet too... always thankful for having mx in my life... 😍😍😍 

29th July (Wed)

thankful for a P who luvs gifting sweet treats... these for doing OT on hot hot afternoons!!! 

27th July (Mon)

pretty pretty sky spotted during evening walk walk with joyce... 😍😍😍

26th July (Sun)

jas & I took shelter for close to an hour due to this 倾盆大雨... but still managed to clock 10k steps... yippy ya yo!!! 

25th July (Sat)

freshly groomed and taken on a pee-trip to wlds by mistake... 😅😅😅

24th July (Fri)

yummy dinner @ little pond, northpoint with rss

23rd July (Thur)

weekly evening walk walk became an ice-cream date cos Joyce's shoes gave way... 😂😂😂

tummy received lots of love this week from julia, claire & baidah...😍😍😍

22nd July (Wed)

dressed for the occasion > Racial Harmony Day

20th July (Mon)

yummy lunch @ pretty Bibik Violet, Temasak Shophouse with my favourite mini boss & favourite lobang queen... missing both of ur already lah!!!... 😭😭😭

by AI imaging stylist, Sylvia... heee

19th July (Sun)

3rd consecutive sunday 5+3km morning walk walk with Jas... 😍😍😍

14th July (Tue)

save $$$ on hanfu photoshoot when i have Sylvia... 😍😍😍

10th July (Fri)

sumptuous dinner cooked by Claire's mummy in between 2 rounds of our favourite game... 

9th July (Thurs)

Last day of Dragon Kiln Art LJ for our fives and chers got to create with the kiddos... 😍😍😍

it was also a 炸鸡 汽水 榴莲 for lunch with cy & evening walk walk with joyce day !!! 

8th July (Wed)

Genki lunch on Genki day with old & new kaki... 😍😍😍

6th July (Mon)

state court hearing that made me so so so freaking mad & disgusted.... 6 months for the SBT is way too short... FUMMING!!! 😠😠😠

pacified myself with an atas Italian dinner @ Fortuna with the chuas who had been a blessing during this horrid time!!! 

4th July (Sat)

of colouring and songs with and for the residents in the morning... 

then mx accompainied me to Fullerton hotel to recee Yip Yew Cheong's Grumpy Cat exhibition as my art club LJ in August... 

the need to keep 30+ P3&4 kiddo engaged in such a small gallery cost me $80 on stickers!!! 

enjoyed the remaining of the afternoon @ jypsy then went to marine parade for dinner with mich & claire... 

I Read ... (in progress)

quite proud of myself for re-developing a reading habit and in this 3rd year, i read...

(12) Completed on 18th July

make a good gift for an impressive art kiddo this year... 😍😍😍

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(11) Completed on 30th June

omg!!! it was such a cheem cheem cheem book that i had to ask my favourite Personal Assistant, Miss Gemini, to give me a simplified layman's term summary... it is an attempt to standardise how art criticism should be...     

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(10) Completed on 21st May 

first hard copy of the year cos it was a 'reward' for sharing @ StarChamp Q&A segment... 😅😅😅

It was a TIMELY read. It was a good read. it was a necessary read. gonna try out some of the facilitation strategies shared in this book for my NLC lesson ob in Term 3!!!

Wait . Hesitate . Ask . Listen . Explain

She is smart AND bossy vs She is smart but bossy

YES i hear your perspective AND there are many possible reasons for that perspective to make sense. Would anyone like to add to it? 

What make you say that? Anyone else with the same sentiment? 

  

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(9) completed on 9 May

too much work on my end... i choose to not work then... 😅😅😅

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(8) completed on 18 Apr

yup, not everything & everyone deserve my F*CK

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(7) completed on 3 Apr

Money, Money, Money

Must be funny

It's a Rich Man's World

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(6) completed on 12 Mar

learnt about the relation between pain & leisure, how over indulgence and addiction messes up lives, why is it so difficult to quit an urge and how will and awareness are critical to overcome them... 

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(5) completed on 16 Feb 

first kiddy picture book of the year... interesting & weird attack tactics some animals have!!! 

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(4) completed on 13 Feb 

reminds me of JC 背 GP essays 的日子... 😅😅😅

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(3) completed on : 26 Jan 

Believe in the butterfly effect: 

take action today, no matter how small that action is.

Think Big

Start Small

Act Now

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(2) completed on : 7 Jan 

oki! need to do up my LPA.. found out that i had a draft 4/5 done in the system back in 2023, just didnt get it certified... wahahhaa... 

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(1) completed on : 1 Jan 

 

at the expense of my patience... 好累 好烦 还不想面对

NLC > Art Conversation in a Museum

17th July (Fri)

@ SAM for session #3... so thankful that the newly opened Cantonment Station exit 1 is less than 10m away from the building else i would be so terribly caught in the heavy rain with the previous transport method... 

the experience in this huge 4-ton passenger lift itself is an art masterpiece, Oasis, by local artist Joyce Beetuan Koh!!! 

enjoyed a curator tour to Hiroshi's Form is Emptiness exhibition

artist's personal collection of REAL fossils!?!?!?!? 

artist considers fossils to be a "pre-photography time-recording device" and in his opinion, are actually the world’s oldest art form

"Fossils work almost the same way as photography: as a record of history. This is the same as the action of photography... to me, photography functions as a fossilization of time."

看似真拍, 结果全是假的

Dioramas Series taken in the American Natural Museum - think Night at the Museum!!!

Portraits Series of famous wax figures from Madame Tussauds 




5 ring pagoda

earth, water, fire, wind & void (emptiness)

Brush Impression - an old art form executed with modern technology

Spot the Heart Sutra

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

色即是空，空即是色

intended shot unknowingly

a poem 'spitting chap' 

attendance pic with our homework cheat-code compiled by Jess & Michelle

art workshops always spoil us with prezzies... 😍😍😍

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13th May (Wed)

roasted pistachio ice cream on pandan mochi waffle in exchange for a hitch from cy to NUS Museum for session #2... =)

museum 的 toilet signage 就是 art 别的 toilet 一等 

the session started off with a guided tour by Curator Jia Le at local artist Ng Eng Teng's new exhibition;

in my humble opinion, i find this masterpiece relates to 1 + 1 = 1 more than the one it's named after... 

faces faces everywhere... didnt know Singapore artist was so avant-garde too, especially during the 1970s... 🙈🙈🙈

@ Ng ENg Teng's 1 + 1 = 1 exhibition 

minis of his much larger sculptures and i learnt that these are call maquettes and are usually created to visualise the composition, proportions and details of a work before the artist commit to the time and expense of full-scale pieces.  

连 sculpture 也在减肥... 我们一起加油!!! kambate!!! 😂😂😂

this artwork, The Last Masterpiece, is one that i think has the most interesting background story, so interesting that we, group A3, did our 'macro-teaching' on... 

Using Visual-Thinking-Strategy :

< Zoom-In Reveal >

Describe what do you see here?

Where do you usually see these items? 

Tell me more. 

< Pick a Role >

Who will use these items as subject matters? 

What is going on in this artwork? 

What makes you say that? 

Do you have similar experience? 

If there's one thing you can change about this artwork, what would it be? Why? 

The Last Masterpiece (2001)

Composed of cotton swabs, cotton balls, plastic tubes, and a syringe. Notably, many of the cotton balls are stained with his own blood. Mr Ng Eng Teng was unable to finish the work before his death due to his failing health. It was completed by his family members based on specific instructions he left behind. 

Full Attendance 

given another book to read!!! 

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13th April (Mon)

just as i was preparing myself to beef up my portfolio for my 3 year cycle towards A (hopefully), i received a to-me invite to join ACM NLC 2026 by Ira from STAR... 天助我想也... 😍😍😍

and on this 1st out of 5 sessions, we were told to gather @ Jurong Primary (ulu far la) where i learnt a plentiful > zoom-in reveal, zoom-out one word reaction, from One to All, Huddle & Share, SEE-ing on transparency, new acronyms; VTS & OBL... 😅😅😅

天助我也 x2... the owner of Adv Dippies 2013 "yellow school bus" is also in this NLC... Woohoo... means got ride home every session!!! 

Thank You Uncle Wan.... shall gift him something nice to show my deep deep appreciation!!! heee