Eek. Yellow!!

World.

This is my new hair.

shit.



*****

I wanted orange. Really bright and orangy. It'll go so well with my green Ts.

It turned out bright, all right. Like, reaallllllyyyy bright. It looked blonde. Yellow. With only a hint of the orange I wanted. I was devastated. Really sad.

But then it struck me, yellow-blonde-with-hint-of-orange is a colour I will NEVER go for. NEVER even entered my mind since I NEVER wanted it in the first place.

So... in a way, it's a rather charming mistake, no? This is going to be something that will only happen once in my life, since I have no intention of repeating it. Other than earning me rather curious looks in mall, I think I can work well with this colour.

O well. I can't change it. So I'll just have to like it. I don't love it. But then again, I am at peace.

You know??

An Unwanted Breather

Internet. Cut.

Frequent online. No More.

Commit365. Too valid an excuse. Not to do.

New room. Soon.

For now. So long.

Of Badges, Originals and Empty Wall

I used to have so many posts to my name. "Well Mannered Georgian". Hah! I have no other designation now, other than "Designer Wannabe". Will be going up the ranks soon! =D

These are all the original CDs and DVDs I have to my name. When I earn my own money and have a stable income, I THINK I will buy more originals. Truly, originals are so much cooler.

And lastly, the Empty Wall is staring at me. Urhh... I shudder in fear. *bleh*

Tale As Old As Time...

I was putting away things in my new room. Just like before, I came across some of my old stuff that I will only get the chance to look at once a year - when it's spring cleaning. A long post full of toys and love letters today. Good memories. Enjoy~

My first Eason Chan concert!

Love letters over the years from friends. Best friends!

And the day ended with a brilliant sun shining through. =)

Commit365: Week2

As promised, I committed myself to a week of illustrations. As you can see, I started out strong, giving my illustrator pen tool skill a run of its money. These design challenges are supposed to be something quick that can be done in half an hour, one tops. But I have been spending hours and hours on some of these. Not really sure if I'm doing the right thing...


I wanted to do this for Foldees where the theme was zodiac elements. I thought of Pisces and so, without any plan nor inspiration, two fish-wannabes turned out. No way did I submit this for Foldees.




Adrienne's back from Australia! Weee~ we did this while hanging out at Sticks. It has been a long time since we both did a piece of art together. Small as this is, it reminded me of the good ol' days when we will both draw our own comics and showed it off to each other.




Another Foldees attempt. This one was on a more apparent Tiger, for the new year! Submitted it. Not sure if it'll be chosen though. O well, at least I tried.



This was done when I was most pressed for time and fooling around aimlessly with Illustrator. Not bad, I think. Rather pretty. *note to self: self-praise is no praise*



Finally, Illustration Friday theme on 'Confined'. ....... Please. Don't ask. Ugh.


Using so much time on this project has gotten me thinking. It's fun and all when I have nothing to do during this break. But will I be able to keep up when final year starts? I guess that's when the real challenge begin.

O-righty! Week 3. What to do? One common theme: New Room. =D

Have a great weekend, peeps!

The Room That Was

Eight years worth of earthly possessions all packed into boxes, stacked on top of each other or stuffed into plastic bags. All my comics and novels, hundreds and hundreds of books, gone. Poof. Manually shipped to the new place.


All these years, I didn't want to throw away any thing from either my schooling days or childhood. This time around, it was different. I no longer reminisce when I see those notepads, text books and old toys. I only thought, rubbish. I thought I could let them go easily. My heartstrings tugged as I stacked up all my jigsaw puzzles. Gifts from my dad and mom. But I've really outgrown them and have no use nor space for them at all. So I kept two completed ones, Sailormoon and Slam Dunk, thus, tata to the rest.


The mess! The horrific mess! I hated packing. So many things. So few boxes. I never thought I hated the feeling of an empty room more after all packing's done.

I have lived in this room for eight years. It tore my heart to see it so devoid of all the material things that made it my room. I know I will have a new room with all my stuff in there. But it's different. Though my things will still all be there, it'll no longer be this room.

I will be living in this condition for two weeks, before the real moving in date, which is gonna be 1 Feb. Looking at this, it reminds me of another similar looking memory.

Umph...

Children

I am only 23 (this year) and yet I do feel old. Old not in the sense of physical age, but the feeling of how far the gap between now and my childhood has grown. Having kids running around at home serves as a reality check once in a while. They grow up a little more every day, slowly advancing to different phases in their lives.

Sydney's in Standard One this year. The picture above was taken on her first day of school. Of all my nieces, she's the one most apparent in her desire to grow up faster. One of the factor could be her seeing the way I am leading my life. She often mentioned things like wanting to grow up, so that she can have her own room, buy her own things and do many things she isn't allowed to since she's still a kid.

Silly girl. I want so much to just hug them to my chest to stop them from growing up. You can be an adult forever. But as a child, you have only that one period, and once it's over, it's over. Adulthood is so over rated.

Standard One is a whole different ball game. This is when real peer pressure starts. This is when parents begin to compare achievements. This is when she will realize for her self, what kind of a person she wants to be. She will learn to like something for a reason, and not just because it is expected of her. This is when she will truly build herself.

I grew up with a very healthy dose of self-esteem. Primary school was when I realised I am very good in studying and was always the girl parents compare their kids to. Primary school was also when I was the most selfish and ignorant brat. If you knew me then and has received multitudes of mistreatment and cold shoulders from me, I am sorry for your misfortune. I think I am better now.

Dear Sydney, be brave. Go and play. Be a kid. And I will try to be a good aunt, forgiving your mishaps and blunders, knowing I have been there and have probably done worse.



When we were waiting in line at Hong Kong Disneyland to meet Mickey, I asked Iris if she was nervous (Iris is Mickey's biggest fan). She answered me this, "Mickey is fake one la. It is some other people."

Sigh... I was disappointed not in her knowing that Mickey's actually a disguise. I was disappointed and sad over her loss of childish innocence.


Kids. Seriously. Slow down...!

commit365: Week1

For the purpose of this project, I have registered for a tumblr account where all my designs can rest in one place. Tumblr's interface is very clean and straightforward. Before I could get used to how simple everything was compared to blogger, I was stumped. Where do I make eidts, how do I delete posts, how do I allow people to comment? Anyways, triviality aside, it has been one week since I started the project and am still going strong!

I started the year with the digital imaging below. Since I was in Singapore on the first day, I did this before hand. What could be better than to welcome in the new year with a joyful jumping shot of two of my best friends?



I got back from Singapore on the second day and quickly uploaded this typography sketch. Hooi Fong's favourite quote. Live by it this year!



When I was in Hong Kong, I intended to make a panorama of the views since my lens wasn't wide enough for this. I admit I did this just to pass the third day.



My first attempt in submitting for Illustration Friday based on the theme 'renewal'. I realised I have only ever like sketching and inking, but when it comes to colouring, I became too lazy to perfect it.



Typography done in Illustrator. It was great to realise all the possibilities that can be done with this software. Not just tracing.



Guilty as charged. I was lazy. Hah.



I did this design up pronto. Am far from satisfied, but hopefully will be able to rectify this in the near future.


I will be doing only illustrations for week 2 of commit365. Wish me luck. It was a good run so far. Only 51 more weeks to go!

Brand New Look... or not.

There. The new design/layout for the blog.

When I started, I intended the design to be in black and white minimalistic so that focus can be put on the content instead. I came up with something like the one below:


However, the whole thing didn't feel right for these reasons:
1. It no longer reflect the title of the blog, which is 'Pencil do the Thinking'.
2. It looks clean, neat, and boringly empty. It's like I'm trying to be something I'm not.

So, I changed it to the current design. I know s*** about HTML but that shouldn't deter me from making the best out of what I know. That was looking for the simplest template on the web and modify it to my own direction.

The header could look better. I can't even see what all the doodling was about. The only thing I totally love about this new design is the twitter bird. So FAT and ROUND.

Anyway, I wanted to put this up first. I will modify the header, or maybe just change a brand new one. Now, I no longer have the freedom to give empty promises. I have commit365 to ensure I will at least have a little time a day to do something about it.

Wookay~ blog's back up for business! (if you're reading, duh.... click on my nuffnang ad please!!)

ps: *slap self* stop commercializing this space!