A day in the life of...

One of the classes I am taking this semester is Comic Art. Ha! I'm not really a comicky person. The Hong Kong series Lao Fu Zhi is what I read most as a youngster. No words only pictures. Well, according to my instructor, Comic Art is the high point of Art. As a comic art illustrator, one must have in depth knowledge to Anatomy, Costumes, Hair, Background, Drama, etc...

I have much to learn in this class! First assignment, a coverpage and colour splash layout!

And finally... The Lion King Musical will finally roar its way to our shores this coming March! It took Singapore quite a bit of time to bring them in since their first broadway opening in 1997! It's the musical event for the year. I usually don't make such statements, if you know me. ;o) Anyone working at OCBC that can get good rates?

Hakuna Matata!

Semester three

Back at school for the next 20 weeks. This time, I will be focusing on Concept Art as a major. Thank you for all your guidance in assisting with the choosing of the major. There will be plenty of drawing lined up for me! ;O) A group from my cohort has invited me to join them in their story from concept to finished product. The aim is to finish this by next May (2011) as part of our major project - right before we graduate. The short clip project is on Utama.

In the past recent days, I hear a lot of engines revving up on the streets. Quite a couple of cars not being able to participate in the F1 finals last night, have taken this personally and out of the race track. Yes, I've been hearing vrrroooooooms every now and then coming from the regular roads here in Singapore. Torque about ego!

And finally, selling at McDonalds in Singapore is coffee shake. At S$2.85, it comes with either Oreo or choc chip topping, but I have it plain. The last time I enjoyed this yummy was some seven years ago at the McDonalds at the foot of Genting Highlands in Malaysia.

Tight one

It's the second week of school break, and that only means one thing... more work coming in for Imaginative. :O) Lots of thing are happening, the biggest rumour is that the school might be moving west - towards Buona Vista, very close to where Double Negative is. Oh well, we'll see if it's really going to take place. I'm pretty comfortable where school is right now.

I'm glad that school term begins only next week. The traffic on the roads around my school has been pretty bad in the last few days because of the F1 racing this coming weekend. Ah, the third year running here in Singapore, the novelty has worn off and that is no long the torque of the town.

I did some grocery shopping at a local supermarket a couple of days back and to my surprise, almost everyone was mouthing the lyrics to Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears, a song that was played there. How interesting what goes on back there in the unconscious level - what subtlety!

I will be loading my work for the bull story in the Workshop, so do check that out. And lastly, I have taken out my tagboard, because there have been some free-loaders placing ads there. So if you need to tag, please do so by clicking "comments".

3 more days...

With Ramadan around the corner, I got my first treat today while serving my in-camp training. The owner of the the muslim stall at the canteen, Alffi, made some kachang pool last evening and brought some for me to sample. It's an Arabic meal with ghee as the main ingredient. Oh yes! All that cholesterol! :oO Too bad ICT will end this week, otherwise, it'd be more tidbit goodies on Monday! :O)

Tomorrow is another crazy day with school's final week assessment at 1pm, meeting to finalise video clip at MINDEF and a photography session at NTU! But for now, it's the final dash... maybe even burning of the midnight oil to complete my presentation for the assessment. Looks those celebrating the Hungry Ghost Festival aren't the only ones burning this night!

Thank you for the Music

I'm back at the Twin Towers for two weeks of in-camp training. This time round, I'm producing a trailer for Kit Chan. It's strange but I've been given a couple of videos from the USA to string... think this: I've been watching and cutting videos of The Star-Spangled Banner, God bless America and We Are the World for my ICT. How ironically misplaced!?

Last weekend, I had the privilege of covering Corrinne May's concert at DMC. It was definitely an experience! Very very talented musician!

In other melodious news, I just downloaded iTunes 10.

There we go again... enough of motivation for me to pick up an instrument.