Candy Crush Saga

CANDY Chua is addicted to CANDY Crush Saga

i'm so addicted that i'm very tempted to put this pic as my fb cover pic .... =D

I have been spending all my time outside of school and late nights swiping candies around since 11 Jan (the day i completed my art work for the ATPP exhibition) .... different candy worlds provide new challenges; from having to avoid drowning in a sea of chocolate cubes, to bursting jellies, double layered jellies, coils,  concrete walls, chocolate mousse concrete walls to defusing bombs before they blow, to collecting cherries and water chestnuts/acorn look alike or a combination of any of the above....

it's further made more addictive when u can actually see the levels your friends are at on the candy world map which is so duper cute & colourful

you can also help your friends by giving them 3 additional moves or a life which irritatingly is kept at a max of 5 with a new one bestowed every 30 minutes ....  it's an agony waiting for a life when you run them out.... =S ...

and after you conquer a world, the mascot of that particular candy world would be very happy

you will require the help of 3 friends to give you boarding tickets before you can proceed to the next candy world

  

if you play this game, you will understand the agony and frustration these candies put me through yet i just cant resist the urge to want to conquer them level by level...it's really a 又爱又恨 relationship 

ATPP - The Exhibition

....Finally....after 4 months of once a week lesson on learning how to draw and stressful art creations...it's the ATPP EXHIBITION..... 

it's held at Academy of Singapore Teachers (AST), an open area near the canteen 

Our programme director, Mr Lim Kok Boon, giving the opening speech to thank the Ps, VPs, superintendents, collegues, family members who had attended the opening ceremony

submitted a total of 7 works of which only 4 were chosen for display

(1) Siblings' love 

 “The hand which held the rest is the smallest of them all… I have aged”

(2) 爱就是要退一步海阔天空

(Love should be about Compromising)

忽略微不足道的小毛病是让爱情更加长久更加甜蜜的钥匙

(Comprising is the key to our love)

(3) Blood ties

A cube with five sides is never complete, just like a family without a sensible dad

(4) Personal Portrait that formed the class attendance... =) 

some of my coursemates' work 

one of my favourite due to its interactive nature

photos printed on transparency, folded into hearts, lighted by xmas lights... 

i m amazed at how delicate and how detailed they are

cosy family

omg.... so intricate 

the stress of a 12 year old

A week without handphone

left my handphone at course venue two Fridays (4 Jan) ago and decided to go phoneless for one whole week, friday to friday, ...i was just too lazy to travel all the way to Singapore Teachers' Academy for the aRts (STAR) at malan road, near to labrador station, to retrieve it before rushing to school in yishun by 12nn.... =P

i survived and realised that i can indeed live without my phone.... no withdrawal symptoms at all... in fact, i enjoyed not having a phone at all times...less interruption from the urge to check what's app and facebook and play game at all times....  =P 

i announced my 'misfortune' on fb and informed the office staff and level teachers to email me instead of calling me with regards to everything in school and made a few changes in my way of life for the week.... 

(1) having the watch which i won from the teachers' day lucky draw 2011 attached to my lanyard 

i dun have a habit of wearing a watch, actually i can't have the habit of wearing any accessories due to having sensitive skin.... will suffer from rashes if i don on earrings, rings, bracelets, necklaces or watches for a duration of more than 2 hours especially in non-air-conditioner places... yes, even contact with plastic or leather watches stripes that is moist from my own perspiration will give me rashes.... i seriously think that i am allergic to my own sweat lo... 

so i have been using the handphone as a time telling device since i started owning one in uni and before that, my watch was either kept in my pencil case or hooked around my uniform belt.... 


(2) mr ang sets the morning alarm using his handphone

thankfully mr ang is still enjoying his school holiday so he can afford to wake up as late as me on my working days.... luv luv afternoon session cos it means i get to wake up at 9am every work day.... =) 


(3) documenting my expenses on paper

back to the days when i just started working, i had a habit of documenting ALL my expenses... from big items such as facial packages to minute items such as daily newspaper.... it started with having to draw columns and rows in notebooks to using excel... it only stopped during the planning stage of the house reno cos expenses of all the miscellaneous were just too terrifying to record... 

the habit came back when i finally signed up for data plan after mr ang gotten me my s2 last sept... =) ...  i had been using the 'expense app' to manage my expenditure since then.... so if there's more shopping or food indulgence in the current month means i will try to have less of them in the following month....quite a good app to help manage my spendings... 


that's it..... a whole week without phone went by smoothly without any inconvenience... =) .... really, nothing is indispensable.... =P  

434 msg in a week

qoo10

was introduce to gmarket, now known as qoo10, for the ten thousandth time and decided to check it out..... regretted my decision.... i got hooked... =S

first round of shopping was to get some tiny gifts for my art teachers who had put in so much effort to put up their pupils' artworks for the art exhibition...

(super duper cute cable ties)

and as i browse through the ten thousands of things on sale, i couldn't stop myself from filling up my qoo cart with clicks & clicks & clicks.... thank goodness, it was xmas season so there was a valid reason to click & click & click .... hahahaha..... 

bought 5 of this..... very useful in keeping all the discount cards that were seldom use... kept one for myself.... 

so pretty but was wondering who uses door stopper nowadays.... a question on facebook and indeed there are ppl who are still using them.... 

super useful as well.... love it lots lots cos it dosen take up much space at all and everything is at a glance.... =).... kept one for myself too... 

ATPP exhibition - Cube & Shackles

As mentioned in the Rainbow Tree post, i need to create two 3D art work for the exhibition..... took me a really really long time + alot alot of stress + alot alot of trial & error before this second 3D artwork is successfully created..... =S

(2) Lego Cube & Shackles

Title: Blood ties
A cube with five sides is never complete, just like a family without a sensible dad

this piece of artwork is my 4th attempt at trying to make something to represent people and things which are tying me down in singapore, stopping me from accompanying mr ang to uk for his 3rd year phd program 3 years later..... 

really really glad that i had visited The Art of the Brick exhibition.... else i think i would have submitted the disastrous looking product of trial (3) below for the exhibition..... wahahaha

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1st attempt: tape ball & shackles

initial idea was to make a baggage and decided to use Mark Jenkin's tape sculpturing technique to create the baggage.... i wanted a hollow base so that i can put in things to present things / people which are tying me down 

i took out my 1st ideal base = Mummy's Bonia luggage.... 

stared at it for a good 10 to 15 minutes and decided against it.... it dosen look like something that ties ppl down..... 

think think think ..... and the ball & shackles which i saw in Tuol Sleng Genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia 3 years back came to mind.... it's something that ties / weighs a prisoner down.... it's something that prevents freedom.... and that's what i want to portray.... 

look look look around the house but couldnt find any sphere-like object.... so created my own with things i found in the kitchen cupboard..... heeee

mid production - using layers of newspaper and cling wrap to buff it up to the size i wanted.... it must be big enough to house my art portfolio which i wanted to use it to represent my art career, one of the things that's making me think twice about leaving Singapore 

and after going round and round with 2 big rolls of tapes and removing the base, this was how it looked like 

 but it looked so filmsy....=S.... 

1st trial --> FAILED

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2nd attempt: wire ball & shackles 

saw this wire display outside faceshop one day and decided to make a wire ball & chain instead

went all the way to Art Friend at Bras Basah and gotten some wires.....

but they are not easy to work with at all.... they tangled up easily, they dun stay in place and they hurt my fingers.... =S

2nd trial --> FAILED

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3rd attempt: paper mache ball & shackles wrapped in aluminium foil 

look at it already know is super cui liao..... 

3rd trial -->FAILED