Once Forgotten Food Porn from phone (I)

has always use kies air to transfer photos from phone to comp but for god's know what reason, i was unable to do it these few days as the comp refused to let me install the java program that's needed for the transfer to be successful so i had no choice but to do the transfer via the cable.... it was an agony to do it via the cable as i couldn't view which photo i was transferring so in the end i transferred everything .... but on the bright side, i found many many photos on food.... wahahahahaha..... 

Yes... i'm one of those irritating people who will stop people from eating just because i wanna snap pic of the food.... but it dosen happen all the time... and it all depends on who i am with and what kind of food am i eating.... heeee... i realise that i am more prone to doing it with pretty pretty desserts and when i am with family & pals.... heeee

Cakes time @ MBS

very yummy cakes but lousy ground crew (march 2013) ..... they (both male and female supervisors & a female waitress) basically either ignored us or gestured for us to wait but never got back to us even after a few attempts ....

waited for so long to be brought to a table, to order our cakes and to get the bill.... in the end, we went ahead to get our own seat, went to the cake counter to order the cakes ourselves and finally made payment at the cashier ourselves.... gave a very stern feedback during payment and service charge was waived..... 

horrible service that dosen deserve any service charge... =(

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@ Kim Tian Road, Tiong Bahru 

top & bottom breakfast set are all my fav

super thick white chocolate cake.... mega yumz

total of 3 visits within half a year due to its super yummilious food ... 'good' service (gave me a free cake of my choice when they forgot lene's and my orders and made us wait close to an hour, we only ask abt our orders after 45 mins)

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@ Kim Tian Road, Tiong Bahru 

The famous Tau Sha Bao @ $2.50 each

this bistro and poteato are just situated a few shops away from each other... they are more patrons at forty hands but I prefer poteato hands down... the food at forty hands just doesn't suit my taste bud... =( 

imagine the cheap thrill i had when i saw Mr ang's car sprinkled with teeny weeny yellow flowers after the meal.... wahahahahaha.... what a fun sight to behold!!!! 

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one of our favourite restaurant @ Nex

we thought this was chawamushi in white radish but it turned out to be onion.... interesting and yummy... =) 

Our favourite dessert: 

crispy banana with vanilla ice-cream + cinnamon power

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A chocolate cake place tucked in some ulu part of serangoon/kovan which joyce brought me too... 

the chocolate are thick and tasted really chocolaty  .... 

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green pumpkin @ nex

broccoli bacon bake rice for me.... surprisingly good... =) 

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these were from a private bakery aka clarence's mummy's kitchen.... heeee

his mummy is such a great dessert chef la....i have never like lava cake until i tried hers..... most other lava cake are more brownie type which are dry and hard.... her lava cake was moist, wet and soft....

IVP4406: Methods & Materials (10) - Frottage (art) aka rubbing

this lesson is on texture

homework for the previous week was to make 10 'visual texture' by rubbing white paper; acrylic paper/glass paper/mahjong paper/ computer paper/drawing block paper against rough surfaces.

out of the ten, only these 7 were slightly more unique 

1. metal drain cover in nie

2. Miss Seck's bamboo weave basket

3. the fan at home 

4. keyboard in printmaking room 

5. the back of the cardboard 

6. the rough wall of nie  

7. The tiles in my kitchen  

anyway, there are surface texture vs relief texture. 

surface texture are those above... still 2D and flat but 'show' roughness... 

Intaglio is another form of surface texture and in certain cases, it can be recovered with a gentle rub. ie; scratching the surface of the skin with long fingernails... eeewww... 

there are high vs low relief texture.
low one could be that of a coin surface whereas high one refer to those with a form popping out but still attached to a flat surface

as for the day's lesson was to create 5 physical texture using gypsum on plywood.... 

we were given 5 pieces of single ply plywood each which were cut, with a penknife, out from a 4m by 8m piece that cost approx $4... even cheaper than some of the art paper i buy la... =S 

However, it warped after absorbing the moisture from the gypsum that was layered on it..... alternative was to use the multi ply plywood... do be careful of splinters while cutting it though... 

Click here to order plywood. Minimum order do apply though.

The amazing bucket of gypsum used as art material for the day.... so is this the gypsum that's found in tao huay too???? 

a big big pail of 28kg only cost about $30 and they do come in smaller qty too ... click here to order

do the mixing on wax magazine pages to avoid the headache of having to wash.... the knife can either be replaced by disposable knife or ice-cream stick too.... 

one mega like about david's class is that he gave superb idea on how to minimise the cleaning up after an art lesson which is so very de important for the conduct of primary school art lesson that's less than an hour per week ... =S... 

3 of my creations which are look-able and display-able according to my standard... =P 

my lollipop flower 

white ferry in the Atlantic ice  

for outdoor display:

• seal plywood with emulsion paint
• apply wood vanish/ thinner/turpentine over completed work 

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wonderful classmates' work that i like

Ocean wave

what big nose u have??? 

pretty pretty flowers 

 rooftop of peanut butter tiles

leather??? croc skin??

luv the sweet colours 

ending the post with a fun shot of our table during the class.... 

this was the blue thingy that angeles was "feeding" me.... doesn't it look like the cream flowers on cake????  too bad, it's gypsum .... =S

more contacts from david for future art shopping spree... =) ... really hope they have e-billing though... 

Acrylic sheets, very good for customization

http://www.dama.com.sg/contact.htm

Industrial stuffs, the alternative is your nearby neighborhood shops

http://www.masterpro.com.sg/index.html

Uber power website for all arty things

http://www.artvark.com.sg/materials.html

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this is part 6 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)

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), (10) 

Part 7 - IVP4407: Curriculum Development and Assessment