Image Credit: Benedict Redgrove via Swipelife

Vintage X Futuristic, especially for the second shot. Simply stunning, so avant garde!

Or perhaps too little [time]. Council’s been really busy lately. Busy might even not fully convey the impact of how strenuous and hectic the council term is currently. Few things are keeping me really occupied lately:

1. Teacher’s Day dance rehearsals

2. Grad Night publicity related business

3. Everyday school work

On top of that, the 3rd semester’s MSAs are coming up soon (in a week’s time), and I’m hardly, if even, prepared for it. I’m pretty sure everyone is feeling this same stress though, so if there’s any consolation to my predicament, its that everyone else is also going through it (be it in Poly or in JC).

Oh and dance is pretty fun, especially because the whole council is involved in it. Really nice, and awesome to see the whole council working together for something. (Insert warm fuzzy feeling here) This despite the fact that I am far from being dance material. And also despite the fact that a trauma of the past (pertaining to dance) still haunts me. *sniggers* And also the earlier part of council term when I do not deny, I was quite flippant about it (hey, I’m changing, I’m human too right?).

Image Credit: Deezen and ArchDaily

Not many firms still make use of manual drawings to represent their ideas. Really inspirational. Beyond that, its also a really lovely building.

I’ve got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
the baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.

Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly dewdrops
And cool my brow again.

Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
‘Til I can rest again.

Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.

Sun, rain, curving sky
Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You’re all that I can call my own.

Maya Angelou

Sometimes, life is all about waiting.

Image Credit: thelizardking25

Society comprises two classes:  those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food.

Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes

A few Sundays ago, my cell kids and I took part in an activity that I felt was particularly meaningful, at least to myself. We went to the HDB blocks not far from our church to give small tokens of food, or ‘blessings’ to the residents there.

Sadly to say, these residents were what most would consider to be living in poverty. That was the first time I had ever seen anyone who resided in a mere box – their flat a shell, empty, void of evidences of their existence or items that would serve to define who they are. In other words, they had close to no material possessions.

Even more saddening was the sight of what would appear to a single father, charged with raising two young daughters while in what would appear to be a pitiful economic condition. His face was like the cracks in parched earth, deep craters which served no purpose other than to highlight the immense strains he probably faced. His daughters’ lunch was a miserable bowl of instant noodles. Their forlorn expressions showed their cries for a better life. His tired eyes also showed the cries for a better life.

There was nothing we could do, other than to ‘bless’ them with what we had prepared for them – a mere pack of Milo powder, a tin of tuna, a bottle of pickled vegetables and a box of crackers. All that served to do was to alleviate their immediate plight or need – filling their stomachs, nothing else.

I certainly hope they felt blessed, but larger than that was the deep sense of helplessness and sadness I felt. I was blessed, yet I knew not how to appreciate it. They were lacking, and something was far better than nothing to them.

Oh woe to this accursed world

One of injustice and inequality.

Can not fairness or equality reign free

Not a captive to a brutal world?

Heavenly Father, help them.

Society, help them.

Help thyself.

Not many people know, but I used to create computer icons as a hobby. Through that, spurned the interest in product design, and this led me to the beautiful world of minimalism.

This is my very first icon in almost a year, so my skills are somewhat rusty. Oh well. Anyway, this folder icon is inspired by the likes of Muji and Tokujin Yoshioka, both of which are powerhouses in the field of minimalist art.

I don’t honestly know who will be interested, but most of my old graphic
design work are on my deviantArt account.

Image Credit: Greg Peltz 

I’m not a major star wars fan, but this is pretty cool. Its such a juxtaposition in artistic directions.

Image Credit: Nathan Yong

One of the best product designers to come out of Singapore thus far. Besides creating work for his own label Air, he has worked with many renowned furniture houses such as Ligne Roset and Living Divani.

Daytrip to the Botanical Gardens

Image Credit: GQ.com

Champagne on the street, tres awesome.

Pictures from a design book on my shelf.