sixteen. 16.

HAHAHAHAHAH much amusing stuff has been happening on facebook really.
never been so amused by facebook stuff before. hoohoo. TAY man. T.A.Y.


AND WHY MUST SO MANY THINGS CLASH ON THIS SATURDAY.

- Faith Conference
- Flying Fox @ Sentosa
- Drama FOA
- NDP Preview

GAHHHHHHHH.
was asked to go to all but i think i can only attend one, and possibly not all of that one - the Faith Conference.
gonna receive much there. (:


oh and my 16th birthday was probably the best ever.
here's how it went.

i went school.
school ended.
marcus told me he needed to go my house and collect something from my brother, that evan (marcus' friend from ac barker) gave him.
i told him they couldn't stay long, cos i had tuition.
mok asked if he could too, as he was going east coast (his other house) to collect something, and toj decided to tag along since it'd shorten his trip (back then i had not registered that his house was IN BETWEEN my house and school, so this made no sense).

i reached home.
marcus bolted upstairs to my brother's room.
i walked up the stairs with toj and mok trailing behind.
my room door was closed, and i expected to open it, seeing russ passing marcus some kinda thing.
but when i did there were a dozen people staring at me.

i can't even remember what they exclaimed.
i only recall dropping my file, wallet, and even handphone, that was in my hands. then i could literally feel my heart slow down, and my face drain of blood, and i had to sit down to catch my breath.

haha, i've never really had my own birthday party before, let alone a surprise one.
my mum had cancelled tuition.
people from church and school were there.
it was crazy, haha.

we then went down for pizza and food.
afterwhich we chatted, stoned at the sofas, and then watched heather's and gracelynn's birthday music video.:P
then, the guys caught me and sauced me in the garden, and there was a kind of food fight after that, which resulted in many of us getting wet/dirty.
photos can be seen on facebook. :P
i'll upload a video soon, on the saucing, dunno who has the video on the surprise.

they couldn't stay long, cos then i celebrated dinner with my family.

but thanks guys.
thanks clement, thaddeus, brandon, tricia, joann, heather, gracelynn, hanya, toj, marcus, mok. (:
especially to heather, gracelynn and tricia who organised it.

thanks...a lot. a lot. really. (:
i enjoyed it very much. (:


whoever has the video of the surprise UPLOAD ON FACEBOOK CAN. thanks. (:






muse is an awesome band.

pulp stories II.

my art teacher had asked us to go for an art exhibition by 11 June.

"Pulp Stories II."
At the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), a bit off clarke quay mrt station.
It was showcasing artwork by James Rosenquist and Frank Stella.

went on thursday, two days before it closed today, because i only remembered we had to go see it after the hols. :P

i don't usually go for art exhibitions...i think this may have been my first one.
haha luckily i found it, it was so hard to find, the entrance was at the corner of a steak restaurant, and the gallery was upstairs so you couldn't tell it was there unless you saw the corner entrance.

i never knew Singapore had this kind of... how say, ulu, little cosy places where you can do little low-profile stuff. the art gallery wasn't very huge, but it was good enough. it was really cool lah, there was barely anyone there, maybe me and 1 or 2 others. haha yeah, pretty ulu art gallery.

but i liked the art pieces.
i think Rosenquist had interesting ways of expressing his themes,
while Stella, mm, I just find his pieces more visually pleasing.
they both like to make use of their space, with rosenquist normally creating quite a open, huge space in his art, while stella crowding his space with many elements.

i think, in the gallery, i liked Stella's swoonarie series the best.
how it just developed from the 1st to the final 5th piece, wow the 5th piece was amazing. at first if you look at it directly it's a bit putting-off, but if you go from piece to piece it's really...awesome. well that's what i think.

anyway, the exhibition exposed me to "prints", something i hadn't even heard of, where they use high technology equipment to make layered, complex artwork. pretty interesting.

also, it helped me revise my definition of art, which was that art is a media used to express the artist's message. now, i see that art can be something as just an experimentation of visual form as well. because as humans, we live on visual information, and art is using that factor of ours, and experimenting, playing around, with it.

maybe i'll visit STPI again sometime.

it's next gallery is about "Eating Excess", so if you're interested you can just go check it out, details at www.stpi.com.sg. (:



till next time, goodbye.




crazy planets.