the random adventures of jojo

It’s back to school tomorrow!

Hello, days of skipping around school and drinking tau huay!
Goodbye, hours and hours of restful sleep! -_-

I can’t wait to see my classmates again! Hehe. I’ve missed them! Like Yiyang tweeted, we seem to be heading to school for a gift exchange session tomorrow. HAHA. Now, I must remember to bring the Krispy Kremes for them then..

In other news, I am going to see a dentist soon… *shudders*
Not so much a phobia; I just don’t really like it cos I always get chided by dentists for not taking proper care of my teeth. They’re yellowish (I don’t know why! No smoking, no coffee, no tea! I’ve actually considered getting my teeth whitened at the dentist though…) and my gums bleed easily. Yech…

Anyone else hate going to the dentist too? Or are there people who actually like it???

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Huzzah! Greetings, fellow pink clouds!

I just got back from a short getaway to Batam with a bunch of my lovely classmates – Daniel, Yi Yang, Eileen, Hannan, Siti, Siti’s sister and Ryan, her super cute son!

It was a nice escape, just an hour away and behind Sillypore.. We stayed at Batam View, at the recommendation of Hammy, who I still wished could go along with us.

Batam View is located in a quieter part of Batam, away from the buzz of the town area where most Singaporeans head to when they go there. I like places like that; they let you live in a slower paced environment despite being slightly inconvenient.

The minor inconvenience of being a 45 minute bus ride away from the town area where the malls are was worth it, to be honest. The mall we went to in search of food wasn’t much to shout about anyway, aside from a huge supermarket selling loads of yummy snacks at awesome cheap prices.

As an estimation, a big bottle of mineral water was about 50 cents SGD. Hur hur.

We spent most of our time splashing and shrieking in the hotel/resort’s swimming pool, doing silly things like trying to stand on the rope that runs across the breadth of the pool indicating the deeper end and trying to touch the ground at the deepest end of the pool. Much fun! Haha.

Somehow, we ended up having fried chicken for lunch on the first two days, inducing horrible cravings for fried chicken on the third day. Hahaha!

The staff at Batam View were outstanding, really. They were warm and sincere, spoke English and made an effort to ensure that they understood whatever you were asking about or requesting for.

Anyways, if you’ve been following my Twitter account @rumpledoodles, you’d know that I’ve started work at Kichn!

It’s a really cute cafe just next to my school, serving up awesome food at really affordable prices. They have an awesome visual identity thanks to Pupil People, a small design house started by one of my seniors hehe. I’m either waitressing or preparing drinks (non-alcoholic lah) there so come by for dinner and say hi!

If you haven’t been there before, come by and check out the awesome concept of Kichn’s menu. Hehehe.

It’s been fun working there, and I can’t believe I’ve only been working there for 4 days! Hahaha. I am going to get so fat working there…..

After my first day of work at Kichn, this conversation with Pinkie took place:

ME: the people there are super nice to me la!!
PINKIE: LEMME GUESS LEMME GUESS! THEY FED YOU!

AHAHAHAHAHA bloody hell!!!! Ok la, but that was what I wanted to tell him anyway. HAHA. Bleh.

O yes – I am selling my 5 month old Nikon D5000. It comes with a complete kit: 18-55mm VR lens, Nikon bag that came with it (unused), extra original battery, screen protector that’s been on the camera screen since I bought it. No SD card with this purchase though.
Drop me a comment or email if you’re interested!

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our rigid homeland…

Shot for a school project (one of my favourite projects thus far, actually) in my school studio.

We were supposed to create four images that visually communicated a quality about ourselves or our country, in different circumstances.

This particular one was for the Global component of the project, and is a reflection of how people in other countries view Singapore. I chose the word Rigid to explore and express, mostly because I agree.. HAHAHA.

I made the wooden box out of planks of wood and wood glue, and divided them into segments that roughly represent the percentage of the different races living in Singapore – Chinese, Malay, Indian, Others (Caucasians).

Each segment representing each race was filled with a spice or food that is commonly used in their cooking. The segments were kept very neat and well, rigid.

The photograph was taken for my portfolio, which was the last project for Year 1, and it had to contain photographs of all other projects for submission. Taking this photo nearly drove me and my classmates nuts cos a bunch of them were standing around holding up reflectors while I tried to frame the shot from right above, making it as parallel as possible. Haha!

Quite happy with how it turned out though, despite not liking a lot of the studio shots I’ve taken this year.

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http://project52.rumpledoodles.com/

Do check out the other photos by the people joining me on Project 52!
Alex
Pris
Daniel
Winnie
Zhan

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OHMYGOD I can’t believe the day is finally here!

Tomorrow at 9am when I submit all my stuff on the 5th floor, my first year will be over!

And thus begins the start of my first 3 month summer holiday! :D

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And then it’s the Final Assessments! And then school’s out for 3 months plus! WOOT!

But that also means that I only have 5 more days to finish up all my work.. boohoo.

I pray the ashes from the volcano eruption will DISAPPEAR and all flights will resume back to normal soon. Please ah!!!!!

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School’s been an insane mess of deadlines and prepping of various projects for the Final Assessments, which are in a couple of weeks.

Know how busy I’ve been? I haven’t had a Skype video call with Pinkie in about a month.

Thankfully, though, group projects are over! Heh heh heh. Also, thank God because I have the nicest classmates in the world!!! Save for exceptions, but I suppose there will always be those. The rest are selfless and nice and caring, much the opposite of the exceptions.

Also, thank God because I can finally say to myself that I can see the end in sight, and it doesn’t seem that impossible anymore.

I promise, photos and a backlog of posts will be up once I have time to pause and breathe right again. Tonight, I am exempting myself from any work at all! Mostly because I stayed back in school for 5 hours to get my damned drawings done.. and I’ve done everything needed for tomorrow’s deadline.

And also because I really need a mental break. Hello to lazing around and just… being a normal human being. Haha.

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Hello there, stalkers.

I know I haven’t been posting my Project 52 photos, and trust me – I am feeling very guilty about it!

It’s been an insane past few weeks, what with being sick for close to a month. I was in school waving 4 MCs about, trying to get my various lecturers to sign on them and everyone was shocked at the amount of MCs I was holding. Which reminds me, I really should get them submitted.

I received a love letter from the school the other day. They misssss me, and wanna see me more! Aww. So sweet. Printed on very nice paper too.

After dealing with stupid selfish people last week, I was rather bothered and upset by everything. But it did reveal how nice some of my classmates are.. for comforting me and repeatedly reassuring me, and then dropping me text messages to let me know that they’re around for me. OMG.. *melt*

I also met some nice people yesterday, and after everything I realised that perhaps that’s why I’ve been so grouchy of late. I think I lost a lot of faith in people, because the things that they say and do just reveals for self-centered they are.

How many people are nice just for the sake of being nice anyway? Or is your niceness and concern for others (even people you claim are your friends) attached to a price tag? Why should there be a limit to how much you care and show concern for others?

I was chatting with Fendy online and then it struck me that when people are nice without reason, it makes me happier and well, makes me have more faith in people. Hi Fendy. I know you are reading this.

Tsk, he also revealed that he has been reading my blog since last year! And never commented! Pft!

All you stalkers…..

Anyway, final assessments are in about 3 weeks time. And there are still a few bigger projects to finish up in the next 2 weeks. Ughhhh. And then there’s reworking a bunch of my previous work and attempting to update my empty CPJ. OHMYGOD. *head explodes*

I can’t wait for the holidays!!! If not to sleep and take a break, then to get away from seeing one of the most selfish _______ (insert whatever word you deem fit) I have met in quite awhile.

2 months and 25 more days! *hops about*

But for now, forever21.com will have to keep me happy and afloat.

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I literally have to repeat that to myself over and over through the course of the day, to remind myself that there is something huge for me to look forward to at the end of all this craziness: a nice long trip to London, and finally finally finally getting real hugs from Pinkie.

The past few days have been hell, and I’m not sure they’re getting any better.

I’ve been feeling nauseated and throwing up a few times a day for the past few days, as well as having chest pains which had progressively gotten worse over time.

Finally went to the doctor’s over the weekend after putting it off for a couple of days because I thought it would just go away. Besides, I was really sick of medication after being drugged out for the last two weeks from the very bad bout of flu I got.

Doctor says all this is caused by stress and anxiety, which I don’t disagree to. He gave me medication for my vomiting and a muscle relaxant for the chest pains. I hate taking them because the stupid pill is huge and makes me more stressed thinking about taking it.

I took a pill that Pinkie’s doctor gave me the last time I saw him for chest pains, because they used to work wonderfully. Big mistake, because that just caused my heart to beat very hard for a few hours. Scared the crap out of me but that’s fine now.

I feel better physically today, I guess. I spent the entire Monday in bed, forcing myself not to think about anything at all and it kinda worked I guess.

But I’m not sure what happened today because I woke up feeling scared, for no apparent reason. The stupid feeling is still hovering around and I hate it. I hate hate hate hate it. I get these bouts of fear once in awhile and it scared the crap out of me. It’s like this nagging feeling that just refuses to go away.

I know that I have a long summer break coming up in about 4 weeks – and I keep telling myself that. The problem is that right now, I can’t even see myself getting through the next 4 weeks. Argh. Horrid vicious cycle in my head.

I know that the main source of stress is school, but I’m not sure if that’s all there is. I don’t know. I haven’t had proper sleep in ages – I take forever to fall asleep, and when I do, it’s plagued with multiple dreams, leaving me exhausted mentally and physically when I get up.

Sigh, how am I going to get up for a 9am class tomorrow?

DO NOT bloody come and talk to me and ask me to think positive, take control yada yada yada because you know what? It doesn’t help. It just makes me more stressed, and rather stupid and incompetent.

But you know, thank you so so much to the darlings who have been around trying to cheer me up.

Thank you Timmy, for asking if I’d be free for a couple of minutes so that you can drive down to give me a real hug. *hugs* You’re an insanely sweet boy.

And thank you Daniel, for making me laugh like crazy, what with class tee shirts and the like. Heh! Thanks for being there to listen to me rant and to let me know that things will be okay.

Thanks Yang, for letting me know and reminding me that we’ll all do this together, and that we can do it.

This is really insane, because I feel damn stupid for being so stressed out because I know that these stuff can be done. I’m just really tired, and today it shocked me because I’m feeling the similar feelings I get when I am slipping back into mild depression.

I just really want to see familiar faces.
And hugs.
And Cadbury Mini Eggs.

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It’s 2.30am and I can’t sleep because I am having difficulty breathing as it is. If you haven’t heard from me or seen me in awhile, it’s because I am sick and down with a stupid flu that refuses to go away!

I haven’t been this sick in…… I don’t even know how long.
This week was the first week of school since the one week break, and I was in school for a grand total of one day. Sheesh.

I’ve gone to the doctor’s THREE times in five days. WTH!!!! Argh. No idea why this stupid flu is so bad.. I’m guessing the weather and the stupid haze. Ugh!

Going out to school on Thursday was a horrid idea cos it only made me feel worse x834948 times. Yech.

My dad took me to another doctor today, all the way in Bedok. Old people area, man. All the people waiting to see the doctor were elderly! Haha. But my dad swears by that doctor, even though he’s more ex. I walked in and saw that he doesn’t have a computer on his desk! I thought everyone gave up relying on those cards.. but nooooo. This clinic only used those memo cards to jot down patients’ particulars.

He was bloody expensive, though. The bright side is that after taking the meds he prescribed and taking a nap, I woke up feeling better! First time all week that has happened. Sigh. I’m hoping that when I do eventually manage to sleep, I wake up feeling better tomorrow cos I really need to head out and buy materials for a project due on Monday. Blerugh.. I can only pray that journey out doesn’t make me feel worse.

The whole week has been one big daze for me. Not sure where my days started and ended. And trying to get my lecturer to email me my work nearly killed me. Bah. Hate missing classes.. although I skip them from time to time. Haha.

In other news, I really really miss heading out and taking photos. Thinking of shooting on film for awhile these days… Maybe start with my LC-A, finish up the roll in my SLR and then try out a rangefinder. Awesome. If I get well soon, that is.

I don’t remember what it’s like to breathe normally anymore.

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Yes, I know this is late, AGAIN. Sorry! It’s been a maaaad week of school!

ANYWAYS!

As part of one of the projects we were doing for school, we got Daniel’s lil 3 year old cousin and his older brother to come by and be models for some photos.

Here’s Luca, the super duper cute lil boy!! *squee*

kidnap attempt…

And yes, I harboured intentions of kidnapping him the moment Daniel showed us photos of Luca the day before we met him. I suppose that could be why his dad came along for the shoot… dang!

My first black and white photo for Project 52 so far, partly because i adore black and white photographs and mostly because I couldn’t get the colour right for it. Haha!

I just have to end off by saying…. THIS SHOT WAS TAKEN WITH MY KIT LENS. Hahahahahahahahahaha.

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So.

Can I just say that the weekend that just passed was hellish? Pftt. Spent it shooting for D&AD, and rushing 2 major projects for submission today, and one for tomorrow.

I know my Project 52 photo for last week is late.. I’m getting to it! *sulk*

Friday feels like it was reaaallly long ago despite being just 3 days ago. I can’t remember much from it, except that Daniel, Yiboon and myself went abit mad after making giant ice creams. Haha.

Saturday existed from 7am – 9am. The. Next. Morning.

Seriously. Longest day I have had in AGES. Also horrible because I was going nuts getting work done, slowly because I didn’t want to make mistakes and have to redo stuff. Meh.

Dragged myself out of the house for my favourite annual Chinese New Year dinner on Sunday despite not having completed the work because I think if I had stayed home, I would have gone crazy. Hahaha. Dinner was awesome.. so yummy! Mmmm.

I was sitting around after dinner and my grandmother (whom I don’t really like, hahaha) was on the sofa next to me. She turned to me and asked for my name. I told her (after shrieking it a few times cos she couldn’t hear) and she proceeded to inform me that her granddaughter has the same name as me. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Spray painting my skateboard drove me nuts. Well, not the spray painting part itself because that was the fun part. It was the making of the stencils and pinning it down that drove me up the wall. Meh.

Went to catch Valentine’s Day with Boon and Yiyang today after class.. Not bad. It was quite nice. I still prefer Love Actually though.. but maybe because it left me with mixed feelings.

What do you think about marrying your best friend? Or rather, should your spouse be your best friend too?
Heart still breaks thinking about it. Ha. Sigh. Oh well..

Oh and birthday weekend, with so few people around who I’d wanna spend it with. Why is everyone out of the country… damnit. Sucks!

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