Thursday, October 31, 2024

#Inktober 2024

it happened again!!! Inktober crossed my mind on this very first day of this yearly challenge and i happened to have the energy & mood & idea to want to give it a go today... completed 23 of 31 in my first Inktober in 2020 ... had lots of fun yet was stressed at the same time... hopefully can achieve higher number of completion this round... 


*update on 3 November... nope... didnt achieve higher number of completion... in fact, it was a pathetic number of completion at just 5 out of 31 by the last day of October!!!... 😅😅😅... but decided to continue with it into the other months as and when i have the mood for some doodling... 


[as of 7/11/2024]



Gonna to :

  • focus on proportion and perspective 
  • train my eyes, hand coordination by doing still-life drawing or drawing based on ref pics of mine if i can locate them within this blog
  • sketch in whichever order i feel like it
  • sketch in pencil then go over with ink into my Work Planner 2024... gonna keep it simple & casual & fuss-free... 😂😂😂



#1 : Backpack  (1/10)






#2 : Discover (6/10)
the best discovery this year for work... what would have taken me many many hours of rephrasing only took less than 4 hours today... 😍😍😍



#3 : Boots (7/10)



#5 : Binoculars (3/11)

VR headgear is the closest i got to a 'binoculars' @ Frida Kahlo Exhibition... heee




#7 : Passport (2/10)





#8 : Hike (3/11) + #26 : Camera

Yuan's Hatchday Hike @ MacRitchie




#11 : Snacks (3/11)


#17 : Journal (7/11)
instead of drawing a journal, i drew in my Work Journal 2025... means the same thing to me... heee



#22 : Camp (6/10)  #13 : Horizon

Mega Joy in October - my favourite month

31st Oct (Thurs)

Halloween, a festive to 放鬼s 放妖怪s... 屠妖节, a festive to slaughter 妖怪s... both fall on the same day this year... 😂😂😂...good news is > it's a public holiday!!! means i can enjoy a fun fun night halloween-ing @ Woodgrove... 

but first, must activate our in-house professional make up artist... 

luv that everyone @ chuas will entertain my request... heee... 陪我闹的家人就是最棒的家人... 😍😍😍


bumped into cy's and connie's family @ our first photo pic stop and got their little ones to join us in this pic... 

人超多... the kids were busy collecting sweets from the many many houses and so the chuas walked on and forsake everyone... 😂😂😂 

我就喜欢瘦瘦的... 😂😂😂





24th Oct (Thurs)

prata for breakfast from ex-partner


23rd Oct (Wed)

 was 'invited' to Por Por's Big Fat Surprise Wedding @ One Farrer Hotel with Vv, Xy & Xh.. 

we 'are' Por Por's crypto & blockchain investment society fellow members... finally my business applied econs degree felt relevant today seh... 😂😂😂


one silent clap.... whatever happens at this wedding recep stays at this wedding recep... 🙊🙊🙊... so eventhough i took so many so many videos of the performances, am not gonna post any of them to 剧透... 


enjoyed this unique theatre experience much much; fusion Indian cuisine was surprisingly yummy, got awkwardly seated in between Por Por's son and daughter-in-law as they quarreled over our heads and even did a Bollywood dance as part of Por Por's Wedding Party... 😂😂😂



21st Oct (Mon)

bumped into ex-partner on the way home and decided to have lunch together... 一开聊就是聊到晚上 9 点...😂😂😂



20th Oct (Sun)

Thanks Jeo for the 4 Premium tickets to One Love Asia Festival... We thoroughly enjoyed the interesting experience of being so upfront and close to the vocalists from Simply Live and 歌手s; 瘦子, 郁可唯, 庾澄庆, 陈洁仪 and 薛之谦... except that we were 'dying' from thirst (no water bottle allowed & drinks were freaking expensive) and hurting feet from the 5 hours+ of standing... 😅😅😅

taking a rest on the floor in between sets... 😅😅😅



19th Oct (Sat)

hatchday dinner with the nies ladies @ Cha Cha Cha, Holland V


18th Oct (Fri)

it was Sylvia's hatchday and she bought this yummilicious strawberry mousse cake for me and created this duper cute toon art of us... 😳😳😳


15th Oct (Tues)

hatchday brekkie @ Coffee Bean, PS with Sylvia then collected my hatchday prezzie from Famous Amos




14th Oct (Mon)

Lunch @ Genki as a team of very hardworking PAM who went back to work in school even though it was supposed to be wfh... 💪💪💪


13th Oct (Sun)


生日温馨晚餐... all my favourite!!! 😍😍😍


with hatchday twinnie

and my all time favourite chuas... 😍😍😍



12th Oct (Sat)

volunteers of Be Kind SG, together with our residents and families of Play.able @ Purple Parade 2024 where we Support Inclusion and Celebrate Abilities together as contingent 33 this year... 💞💞💞


the balloons that mx gotten for this year's group easy identification were so super duper cute and lucky me got to bring these 3 back after the event to share share 乐 with the little 司马s... 



11th Oct (Fri)

我人生第一个 omakase is @ Ishi... 好佩服 Claire 有勇气带一个不吃 sashimi 的人去吃 japanese omakase... stress 死我了... 好怕会浪费好贵好贵的食材... 好怕得逼自己吞下咽不下去的食材... 


结果是我想太多了... 真的好好吃... i dont know what we were enjoying as our chef had quite a strong japanese accent and i i guess even if i heard him accurately, i also wont know what he was telling me as i highly suspect this food palate, chef's special omakase, is leaps & bounds beyond my knowledge... 

all cooked, aburi, cos i no eat raw 



thanks Claire for gifting me an interesting and once in my life-time experience as this hatchday celebration... 😍😍😍


10th Oct (Thurs)

lunch @ Old Hen Kitchen on a work day... just because we can... 😍😍😍


luv from little Cherie & Shini who caught wind of my hatchday... 😍


9th Oct (Wed)

thanks Julia & Sylvia for these hatchday luv... 



ordered 2 boxes of mini donuts for kiddos & colleagues from Lytmuz Test, after reading about its bakers, Ms Lydiawati and her son who is with autism, in the book ‘A Hope Worth Having'... 



8th Oct (Tue)

had a yucky morning cos have yucky mails to follow up and other's yucky 烂摊子 that i need to re-do on her behalf... 😡😡😡... u heng u old!!!


then Ai Rin, my angel @ work, chased away the yucky blue with not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 slices of 'hatchday' cakes, 3 packs of snacks and a sweet note of luv for me... 😍😍😍




7th Oct (Mon)

SmartLab-ians gathered @ Shu Ling's new EC... 



5th Oct (Sat)

first hatchday dinner & drinks & songs with my favourite group of 酒肉朋友 @ Simply Live

跟这群朋友玩就是好好玩 但 伤肝 with their never-ending 酒没有了... 😅😅😅


a happy hatchday to 战战 too... 

this hatchday video by his studio this year is so weird... super lonely vibe where he 'celebrates' his hatchday all by himself?!?!?!? 



3rd Oct (Thurs)

beaded name bracelets for farrereans as part of Children's Day celebration...

Thank you Monisha, Hena & Winnie, Mrs Selvam, Julia and Evelyn for feeding me 饱饱 this celebrative day... 😍😍😍


1st Oct (Tue)

spent the first day of my favourite month @ kkh, completing step 1 of 3 to my 6 weeks HL next year... not totally a meh since i got to sleep 3 hours more on a supposedly work day and spent less than an hour clearing whatever i needed to clear there... 


went for a haircut @ Okinawa followed by a hair-loss treatment @ Two Herbs... so glad i found the solution to my hair-loss which was giving 爱美 爱看起来年轻点儿 的我 so much stress from March to May this year... 

    

spent about an hour in the library finishing up this book that impresses me with the author's commitment & skill to teach her child bit by bit since young and the many hats she wears > she's the main care-giver to her son with Autism + she's the author of 2 books + she organises talks where she shares her experiences locally & overseas + she's a tutor to special needs children + she, together with her son occasionally, sells donuts @ LYTMUZ TEST... 😮😮😮

found another 2 books to borrow home in an attempt to develop a reading habit... 💪💪💪



collected my first hatchday prezzie of the year > free medium honey green tea with pearl from koi... 


went hamster walk walk with Joyce and even got mood to complete #1 of Inktober 2024 on BACKPACK...


i love today... 好充实的一天!!! 😍😍😍