(daun kelor)

It was a pleasant suprise to find out this girl is merely one degree of separation away (alert thanks to qunang).

Well then, I've been enjoying anonimity to a point of indifference. To many people I meet everyday, I am oddly average... or am I ordinarily odd?

Maybe the extent of 'the world' I circulate myself in is comparatively small, and hence it's easier to find links between random people and those I know. If one works in applied quantum physics, then his or her 'world' is highly specialised to an extent one may personally know each other. However, looking at how people on my Facebook friends' list relate, It's also possible to conclude my 'world' consists of a few separate spheres which occasionally intersect.

Then, maybe after all... dunia selebar daun kelor.
Who knows?

Now off on a tangent: here are pictures from today's hair modeling session. Sixty-five years ago, it would've been unimaginable to have a Japanese guy (with the help of a translator and a Caribbean-descent supervisor) cut an Indonesian girl's hair. What a dramatic change the past few decades has experienced, and to the existence of us all... vive la diversité!

(Next thing I know I might be crying out le roi est mort, vive le roi etcetera... xD )



Seize the day.

Vivaldi's "Spring"

Spring.
It's a time of new beginnings, renewals, etc etc.
And a good time to learn new skills (when is not a good time to learn, anyway?)

Anyway, armed with a Wacom tablet and oC, I'm launching myself into a digital/illustration skills acquisition project. Here's an example of what I did! Needless to say, I just threw myself into a weird world of pricey computer accessories. I haven't even worked out how much the software's proper activation would cost...

Anyway, today's temperature is less summery and more like spring.
Take care!

Please Don't Stop the Music

Out of this week's sketchbook: a drawing/illustration.

The title is aptly named - it randomly came from this morning's pre-class brainwash music. The sun came up at five, which is not a bad thing as the days are longer for now... but could be potentially catastrophic when people forget to keep an eye on time. The sun sets after 9PM these days!

Summer... the stifling and sticky gloriously sunlit days are ahead. Well, to be honest I like spring better.

(compliance v mutiny)

On Thursday morning, there was a [rather unpleasant] news circulating that one of the tutors declared that all students in my degree's intake are to submit their illustration projects on Monday - a good seven weeks ahead of the original schedule. Needless to say, it was an unpopular (if not unreasonable) change.

...and how am I dealing with it?

Some of my classmates helplessly thrown themselves into the chaos that ensued.
A few vowed not to sleep over the weekend so that they could finish the illustrations.
As for me, I first tried to recruit other students to boycott the hand-in... and yet vacillate between compliance and mutiny.
(Oh, well...)

(spring...?)

It's April in the northern hemisphere... and in the past four days I've been in two hail rains.

We better pick up our acts before buying boots just before summer officially hits becomes a necessity. (A more predictable climate system helps me do my job better, too...)

Nevertheless, the trees managed to produce their spectacular spring blooms. Which reminds me again, a combination of plenty of sunlight with near-freezing temperatures produces the best amount of blooms relative to the amount of new leaves.

(bowl-painting)

As previously mentioned, here are the painted ceramic bowl's pictures!



(The drip is intentional.)
Right now, I'm just killing time in KLIA and will be catching the connecting flight in about an hour. Have a nice day! ^__^

(joy versus happiness)

I knew joy is different from happiness, but was at loss of words when asked to explain earlier, hence...

joy • noun 1 a feeling of great pleasure and happiness. 2 a cause of joy. 3 Brit. informal success or satisfaction.

happy • adjective (happier, happiest) 1 feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. 2 willing to do something. 3 fortunate and convenient. 4 in combination informal inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random. — DERIVATIVES happily adverb happiness noun.

(References happily taken out of here.)

Well, I hope this clarifies the notion that one can be joyful yet unhappy, as feeling great pleasure is not the same with showing pleasure or contentment. Also, it might not be the most convenient of tasks to get oneself into a feeling of great pleasure and happiness... especially when referring to the 'no pain no gain' school of thought.

It's up to you, though.

...beauty sleep time for me. Take care :))

(back-to-back)

As I'm unpicking the $15 jacket I bought in Camberwell market (purposedly for destructive ends), my dad is reading over my blog. By the way, we sit back-to-back.

How nice and unimaginable ^__^