A Love Story

I knew you were going to be there. My eyes searched above the crowd just so I could catch a tiny glimpse of you. Alas, the first sight of you set my heart aflutter, as a smile pulled at the corners of my lips. I have waited so long for this moment. This moment of pure adoration and love.

As I approached you, I find it impossible to pull my eyes from your face. Finally. I have never been so close before.

But as I stood before you, to my disappointment, you do not see me. Please, a look, a glance; I have waited too long to be simply brushed off by your nonchalance.

I wanted to call out your name. I wanted to do anything to capture your attention, even if it's just for the span of a moment. With trembling lips and the clenching of a fist for added courage, I let the sound of your name glide off my tongue. Clear. Precise. You couldn't have known how afraid I was of making a fool of myself.

You looked up. Finally, our eyes met. A surprised smile touched your lips and brighten your eyes. "Hi," you quipped. As if I were an old friend you haven't seen for a long time.

"Hi," I breathed. A jumbled bundle of emotion ranging from plain awe to stunned bewilderment all wrapped up in one of the shortest words in the English language.

We shook hands. Your grip was strong, the palm of your hand slightly rough. What should I say? I could sense the moment of our parting looming ahead. I have rehearsed so many different lines in my mind before. I could not and would not leave you without saying at least something more than just 'hi'.

"你要永远 enjoy 唱歌!" That came out. Just like how I meant it to be.

You smiled in appreciation. As if you truly took in this little wish I had for you.

"Thank you," you said.

No, thank you, for being the best there is and for giving me this memory.



Thus, my first ever real interaction with Eason Chan. =P

Forlorn Be Not

Something I have been wanting to do for a long time. Details later. Cheers people~

Flower Power

It was a good day out. So many colours!!

Blog Recolouring

Whoa~ check out the new look! You dig?

I know fairly little about customizing blog designs so the best I can do now is pick my own colours. Yeah, I know, even an amateur less than an anmateur will know how to do this. But I do like the colours!

This is something which I have thought of doing since the beginning of break. A brand new look to a brand new year!!

This will get better. Better designs, better colours, better themes, better stories. This I promise you. It's nothing much to look at now, I can only hope it gets better. *fingers crossed*

HUGO Create

This is my attempt at an on-going HUGO competition. The aim is to mix and match everything I like about this world and create my own universe. Go figure.. I thought that this is a pretty run off the mill design. Anyhow, am happy that I learn how to create the light beam effect. Wish me luck for this!!

For Mom

This was what I planned to do when I thought I couldn't make it to my mom's dinner. It appears that the time does not clash that much, and I thought this will make a pretty good present for her. I have sort of promised her to do this for a long time. She haven't seen this. Consider yourself lucky to be seeing this first. Haha.. it's just that I was so excited after finishing this portrait that I can't wait to blog about it. It has been ages since I have last touched charcoal. So am feeling pretty good right now.

I did this in four hours. It's my mom and dad. Referenced this from a very old picture. But I loved it coz I thought their smiles were beautiful in this. Did this on canvas. I began this by using pencils but it proved to be a mistake. Pencils and canvasses don't go together. Remember. Finished it with a charcoal stick. Love it.

I thought it looked kinda lopsided. I hope there's a little resemblance there to my parents. Not perfect, could be better, and yet I still love it.

I began by sketching the outlines first.

Then filling the shades in step by step.

The ravages of war! :D

The reference picture!

ps: I missed blogging in the wee hours of morning. Guess what. I still can't sleep early. Not yet.

Indiscreet

My first try in submitting a design for a contest. Baju design entitled "Indiscreet". Got the info from here. The funny thing is, I don't even know if the deadline is over. I thought it was pretty fun doing this, though. :D

Square One

Whoa~ so what have I been doing lately? Cleared on all assignments and presentations! Yay~

Exam seasons are officially over for a lot of people, or almost over for some. Congratulations on the big break, people! As for those who are still striving to make the best of your studies, well, all the best! It's pretty cool seeing all those MSN and Facebook shoutouts screaming things like "Exam's over" or "I'm Freeeeeee". I did the same thing too when the last huge load was off.

Anyway, I have been doing some stuff I have been promising myself in the midst of final projects. All those amazing projects that I am going to undertake on my own. Little steps to be taken to improve my skills in various softwares. Haha.. it seemed so much promising when I was weighed down by school work. Now that I have all the time in the world, I find myself dragging my feet.

I did try out some blog hacks though. There was this tutorial I was dying to get my hands on. I tried it out, but it didn't work. It was kind of disapointing. But come to think of it, it might be because I didn't host my images properly. Yay!! I know what image hosting is now! Do you? You don't? Why don't I tell you?? (even if you do, let's just pretend you don't for my own pleasure)

You know how there are all these different blog designs? Apparently, if you're customizing your own designs, there are some things where you have to touch on HTML codes. And some of the images that you're going to use on the design like maybe buttons or banners have to be hosted on a site somewhere. Hosted means uploaded onto a site and keep it there. And when it comes o your images appearing in your design, the codings will work in such a way that it will retrieve those images from your host. I used Photobucket. Pretty good, I would say, coz for someone like me who knows nothing about image hosting I managed to find my way around pretty fast.

You see the new image header up there? What do you think? I hope you like it but it doesn't really matter coz I'm gonna be reconstructing the design around this place pretty soon. So the header up there is experimental and temporary. I don't really know how to design my blog template. Okay, so I know zilch. But I'll be trying to make the best out of this situation. Instead of coming up with a whole new template from scratch, not possible at this point, I thought maybe I can change the stuff around bit by bit. I start with the header, go for the side bars, figure out how to put in my own background and maybe make some buttons for links. That's the extend of my knowledge now.

I'll be waiting to go home on Monday. Before that, have to clear up the mess in my room. Haih... will get to it when I wake up later.

First thing that ran through your mind when you see this.

What did you think?