Singapore's L stands for Leisure world 'cruise'

blogged under Singapore's A to Z blog challenge just because the activity could be made into a day trip out of Singapore island.... =) ... my journey started at 730pm and i was back in Singapore by 230pm the next day


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went on an overnight 'cruise' with joyce and other ex-colleagues only to find out that it was more of a gambling ship than a cruise kind of cruise ship.... wahahahaha... no wonder the ticket price was only $13 la.... 真的是上贼船 ah..... 

apparently, the ship seems to be anchored on international sea...  i assumed that it was so that its many many casino rooms could stay operated 24/7 bah.... so we had to take a 40 minutes ferry from tanah merah ferry terminal to batam terminal then take another 15 minutes ferry to board the 'cruise' ship and oh boy... what a 'lok kok' ferry we were on!!!! worse than budget airline.... but luckily, we only spent 15 minutes on it.... 

we top up $35 for a room for 4 so that we could have a bed for the night.... the bottom beds were not too bad but not the upper deck where the mattresses were way too thin

the mini window behind the curtains  

the attached toilet with a tiny shower area

there was only one restaurant  where we had all our three meals....supper on arrival, breakfast and lunch the next day before we depart....  

supper and lunch were acceptable.... nothing fantastic that's worthy of any picture... breakfast was horrid!!!! 

slot machines everywhere, even in the restaurant.... worse was, smokers were everywhere too... my hair, my shirt and i stink ... =S 

anyway, while some went to try their luck at the slot machines and table games, the rest of us spent the night in the lounge .... i heard beer was cheap....  

 wanted to roam around the next morning but it was raining.... =S 

minimal other activities such as massage, educational tour and arcade room etc were available but somehow the mood wasn't there to check them out.... probably i just felt too depressed surrounded by old gamblers who were wasting their time and money away.... 

dun understand why would people and companies want to target other's 血汗钱 and 棺材本 as their profit.... how come they can do it 心安里得-ly leh???? haiz.... 

observing the way these old people interacted with the crew on board and the way they slumped themselves in front of the slot machines and how at ease they were in the restaurant (machiam having their daily meal in their own kitchen), i am very sure that 99% of them are frequent customers.... the 1% were all those in my group lo..... 

but it was a unique experience and a great catch up session, especially with my admin lady.... miss chatting with her during my time back at the old company 8 years back oh.... 

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other posts in the Singapore's A to Z blog challenge series:

A stands for Art garden 2013

B stands for Botanic gardens

C stands for Chinatown heritage centre 

D stands for bloodbank @ Dhoby ghaut 

E stands for Esplanade

F stands for Fire station

G stands for Garden festival 2014

H stands for Haji lane
I stands for Ice exhibition & I-light 2014
J stands for Just a bad day (theatre forum)
K stands for spa @ Ktm resort  
L stands for Leisure world 'cruise'
M stands for Musical - hairspray
N stands for Night festival 2013
O stands for art transit tour by art Outreach
P stands for 50 greatest Photographs of national geographic 
Q stands for Qoo10
R stands for River safari 
S stands for Staycation @ mbs
T stands for Terminal 1, 2 & 3 of changi airport 
U stands for Universal studio singapore 
V stands for Vision challenged activity @ dialogue in the dark
W stands for Water theme park - adventure cove 

X stands for ?????

Y stands for wheeler's Yard cafe 

Z stands for Zoo

IVP4403: New Media (7 & 8) - Technical Challenge 3 & 4

Challenge 3:

"Take a portrait in response to a news article"

first article we had in mind was about cultivating a nose grown on a man's forehead and our response to it was to attach Mr Potato Head's face parts onto our own faces and then give the impressed / disgusted expression. 

Then the article was changed to the ridiculous queue of people at the launch of iphone gold where our response was focused on vanity + gold + bling

we dusted bronzer all over sherine's face for the gold effect, added super dramatic lashes for the vain effect and captured this

 but as we din use the studio lights correctly,  the effect din turn up as glam as shiny as we wished it could be... 

so sherine decided that we should seek professional help (aka tuition) from her sis and bf... so on one sunday, we popped by their work place and by this time, we had changed our article for the 3rd time; too much vitamin will harm kids


look at the props she brought!!!!

a total of 3 (left, right back) LED lights were used to cast the necessary shadow and that glow behind the model. 



to make our job easier, they even lent us their high tech camera and lens so that we would not be limited by the variables. 

took more than 50 shots and after a few round of short-listing, the 3 selected photos below were slightly photoshop to make sherine look older and + stressed + worried .... oopx....she really is 牺牲色相 for this assignment... 

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Challenge 4: Then & Now

"Recreate a photo which is at least from 10 years ago"

as always, i thought it shouldn't be too difficult as i did come across such photos as seen in these here and here and many more on the net...

Browse through my photo album and found that i dun have many individual photos from primary to uni days... so no choice have to look for pre-primary photos liao... 

reason for choosing: 

Mr Ang has his convo gown and mortar board at home.

reason why it was not used: 

 Paul asked, "Do you still have the backdrop?"
i answered, "of cos not!"

reason for choosing: 

mummy still has this chinese new year 'plant' with all the deco... i just need a yellow dress

 reason why it was not used: 

 Paul asked, "Do you still have the cabinet, the gigantic bottle of Martell and the Goddness?"
i answered, "no."

so i went home and did another round of browsing.... making sure that i must find one with a PLAIN background .... wahahahaha.... 

so the weekend before i was to take a selfie of myself in ridiculous kidish clothing, i found this super duper cute photo of alvin chua back in woodlands home... 

taken in 2001 when he was just 6

now at 18

dragged him to the soccer field opposite our house in the middle of the night to take this photo.... it had rained in the afternoon and both our feet were soak in muddy water.... ewwwwkkk!!!!! 

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this is part 3 of 7 parts to the series "Advanced Diploma in Primary Art Education". A series of blog posts that are updated weekly (from aug - nov) to document the activities, progress and learning point(s) from the week's lessons... =) 

Part 1 - IVP4401: 2D Exploration 
             (1), (2 - 4), 

Part 2 - IVP4402: 3D Exploration 
             (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7 - 9) 

Part 3 - IVP4403: New Media Exploration 
             (1), (2), (3&4), (5 & 6), (7 & 8), (9 - 12)

Part 4 - IVP4404: Visual Literacy 
             (2), 

Part 5 - IVP4405: Artistic Development of Children

Part 6 - IVP4406: Methods and Materials 
             (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6&7), (8), (9)

Part 7 - IVP4407: Curriculum Development and Assessment 

IVP4403: New Media (9 - 12) - stopmotion

To begin the lesson, Paul shared some time-lapse and stop-motion videos which are all so cute...

Keith Loutit's works... the camera angle he used to capture the images and the post production effect he added made life-size buildings and people all look like teeny weeny miniatures.... 

he even made one of Singapore and this video has been trending in Facebook shortly after too 

another one that paul shared in class that caught my attention... =) 

the amount of effort, man-labour, creativity is ridiculous... check out how the video is made in the video below.... 





Jingle bell Jingle bell Jingle all the way... 





conclusion: in order to create this kind of amazing time-lapse or stop-motion video, a HUGE team of talented and committed people, a HUGE sum of money and a HUGE amount of time are required. 
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our last assignment for this module was to create a 1 minute time-lapse or stopmotion ... i assume something simple should be good enough since we, as student teachers, do not have an entourage of  people to brainstorm for ideas together or help us in the production nor have the huge sum of money to create props and stuff and engage talent and definitely not have the huge amount of time to think, do and put-together a mega video.... =P 


anyway, my first idea was to do a time-lapse of the sunset over sentosa and hopefully get to capture USS's fireworks at 9pm too but 天不作美.... it was cloudy and there wasn't any firework that weekend due to Halloween special... =S... 



realised that i had forgotten to credit the  royalty free music from incompetech ..... =S... will get to it coming Monday when lesson is conducted in the mac studio, the only place where i can have access to Photoshop & Premiere.... 

not too bad for a first timer....at least not too choppy and not too stagnant... but kind of boring right???? ..... and i was ding donging between wanting to capture long exposure for the beautiful lightings or freeze frame for the movement of the ferries as the night fell .... =S .... wanted to play a little with the zoom lens but didn't have the guts to go about trying it.... i'm just not a risk taker  when it comes to time constraint and assignments... =S 

and i have to agree..... no risk no gain....

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a huge part of me wanted to do more for this assignment.... spent the whole night and the next morning cracking my brain and surfing youtube for ideas... tons of ideas but most were dropped as either  money (more than $20)  is required to purchase the resources or too much time is required to complete the task... i have only set aside one full day to complete this assignment... 


these are some of the videos which i gotten my inspiration from 

and tatatata... my version 

the intro to solitaire abit too fast lo... =(



the any oh how set up for the job... =) 

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this is part 3 of 7 parts to the series "Advanced Diploma in Primary Art Education". A series of blog posts that are updated weekly (from aug - nov) to document the activities, progress and learning point(s) from the week's lessons... =) 

Part 1 - IVP4401: 2D Exploration 
             (1), (2 - 4), 

Part 2 - IVP4402: 3D Exploration 
             (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7 - 9) 

Part 3 - IVP4403: New Media Exploration 
             (1), (2), (3&4), (5 & 6), (7 & 8), (9 - 12)

Part 4 - IVP4404: Visual Literacy 
             (2), 

Part 5 - IVP4405: Artistic Development of Children

Part 6 - IVP4406: Methods and Materials 
             (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6&7), (8), (9)

Part 7 - IVP4407: Curriculum Development and Assessment 

Halloween @ Woodgrove 2013

i try to make it a yearly activity to pop by woodgrove area every Halloween yet too lazy to purposely travel to woodlands for it.... but somehow there are always coincidences that allow me to be at woodlands on this wonderful day year after year and the coincidence this year was uncle wan's destination from nie was WOODLANDS..... wahahahahahha..... happiness max max....  

wasn't in the mood to snap many pictures as the weather was super humid from the heavy downpour earlier and people were constantly on the move.... and i was also too busy chatting with alvin and alfred who for the first time decided to tag along mummy and I .... it was the first halloween walk @ woodgrove for these two mountain tortoises despite just living one road away from the venue.... =S 

anyway, some pics from the day

蔡 mummy in the best decorated house this halloween ... super effort 

Halloween dance by one of the households... pretty cool... 

with a very noisy alvin and alfred yapping non-stop in the background... =S

Once Forgotten Food Porn from phone (II)

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Once Forgotten Food Porn from phone (I)

 Bacon & Booze @ Punggol Point

only suitable for people who are not in a rush or complain about slow services as stated in their menu... ;P 

food din really take that long but wasn't fantastic .... 

photo taken with vibrant mode so pardon the distorted colour... 

Punggol point is a up and coming leisure area which sits 30 chalets in the shape of a huge wagon... found a few blogs on this area but couldnt find its official website to book the chalet... so weird.... 

riding activities are also available around this area and is managed by gallop stable

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Cenele with mum and angela 

 luv luv their cakes.... 

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 at Wisma with the chuas on Alfred's sponsorship... =)  

Alfred's and Mr Ang's favourite sashimi

look super thick and succulent ah?!?!?

my first try on grilled/bbq puffer-fish .... not use to the idea of eating it but quite yummy actually 

according to alfred, this is their top selling dish  ... really really very yumzzzz.... 

wasn't as adventurous with the sashimi so i ordered the usual ramen... =) 

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Reading Room @ Outram area with mx

story book cover which i opened up 

to see a menu.... so creative... =) 

 very yumilicious cakes again and great company too ... =) 

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Stranger's Reunion with mx and lene 

interesting red packet for sale displayed on their wall 

luv the waffle

surprisingly good given the simple ingredient 

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