3rd week gone

Hmm.

So I'm officially done with the first quarter of my attachment period. The first couple of weeks have been incredibly productive... I have produced around 100-odd pages of sketches on A4 paper. However, I feel myself drying up like a lime that you squeeze onto a plate of hokkien mee.

Well.. a bit of good news. The band has successfully gone through to the semi-finals for the 2006 Asianbeats competition, held at Far East Square near Raffles Place. We waited for our turn from 2:30pm until we got onstage at 4:40pm.

I feel pretty sore in the head. I'll catch up next time.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy

You gotta get yourself a girl

Hmm.

you gotta go and get yourself a girl
be prepared to be sucked into her world
where nothing seems to be understood
and what you see is the way things should

you gotta go and get yourself a gal
someone who stays around like a pal
she could be straight but it don't matter
all that does is you suck it up and flatter

you gotta go and get yourself that girlie
just don't come across as uptight or flirty
when you learn to pull out enough to win
then I guess you're pretty much in for a spin

you gotta go and get yourself that little miss
do it or regret that you never listened to this
she's not going to wait for you it isn't a lie
hooking with another would be as easy as pie


Cheers,

Crawldaddy

Here's to you

Hmm.

I want to thank you for always having that smile
it's too bad we only knew each other for a short while
what might have been would never have been
because all my flaws were all that you have seen

the couple of hours I saw you a week back ago or so
made me reflect somewhat on the times that I would know
how hopeless any attempt would be in your eyes
no matter how sincere it would seem like a pack of lies

So here's to you and I hope you remain well as good
carrying on with what you do best and the way you should
I'll be that bump in the road you thought was a stone
and your smile keeps chilling me to the core of my bones


Cheers,

Crawldaddy

What a week!

Hmm.

This week starts off my 3-months stint as an Industrail Design Intern at Design Exchange. So far things have been pretty... intense. Due to my somewhat lack of proficiency in Adobe Illustrator (aka AI), they kind people over at DX have given me a couple of AI exercises, and upon the completion of those tasks... it had allowed me to become somewhat professional in the area of AI.

I used to have such a phobia regarding that computer programme... so much so that I almost entirely shunned its usage unless absolutely necessary. I would rely entirely on Photoshop or even rhino to do line-work (before exporting the linework to AI).

But work today at the YMCA was pretty rough: only me and Linda were working and as expected... I did the lion's share of the work. Let me put it this way: compared to my usual working speed, today I was literally performing at a mind-numbing 300%. While I was clearing paltes, Linda would be counting cash. While I top up the cutlery she would push a trolley around trying to make herself seem busy. WTF.

Even my boss who arrived on the scene after the breakfast was over, sort of sympathised with me so much so that he allowed me to go home 2 hours earlier than scheduled. Kinda due to the fact that I was extremely worn out by the time 2pm rolled along.


Yesterday, I encountered yet again another instance of customer ignorance.

Since the Y cafe provides orange juice and ice water on a ever-present basis in the form of two huge liquid dispensers (the type where the liquid is constantly pumped up a tube and splashed over the sides of the transparent container), many of our breakfast customers would just push the tab and receive an instant dosage of orange juice or ice water.

Apart from the obvious visual provided due to the orange juice's well.. orange colour and ice water's clear transparency, there are two smalle acrylic stands which indicate the nature of the liquids within the water dispensers.

So imagine my disbelief when one customer pulled out a cup, hesitated at the ice water dispenser and asked me:

"excuse me, what is this?"


I could almost picture myself saying:

"uhh, it's white wine sir, we're pretty liberal with our liquor here in this country"

or

"hmm, this is our brand new local drink. we call it zui " (fyi, 'zui' is water in hokkien)

or

"I have absolutely no idea sir. Maybe you could try it and give us some feedback so that we can tell whether or not it is actually safe for commercial consumption?"

I mean... it's a clear liquid, it says "drinking ice water" on the tag on top of the dispenser, and without it you'd just be a shrivelled piece of bak kwa. Sheesh.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy

what the shack?

Hmm.

Yesterday was one heck of a busy day:

Morning: Work. Busy. Tired. Did not have enough coffee. Was shacked by the time 8am rolled along and I had only started work at 7am. Lunch after that was ok. Lots of Japanese girls but none of them interest me.

Afternoon: Left work. Met up with band at GasHaus for auditions. Band aced auditions. Hung out at GasHaus for a while. Went to Cineleisure with band before heading to Eunos to meet up with John, YMCA Joanne, Teja.

Evening: went with John, YMCA Joanne, Teja to Ayu's place. Hung around for a while. Helped to serve food/clear dishes/serve drinks/joke around during the wedding dinner. First time I participated in a malay void deck wedding. Was fun but tiring. Went home shacked and rather smelly.

Sigh. Work today was soo tiring! Breakfast was crazy as usual for a weekend morning, but I could barely stop to think. I was literally thinking on my feet. From 7am to 11am it was a non-stop workworkworkworkwork hard-core cleaning/clearing/replenishing/wiping/washing/drinking-coffee-ing routine.

Work ended on a slow note and I immediately went to buy myself a new harmonica in the key of C. This little baby set me back like $35 bucks (original price is $46) but it's such a beauty!!! Along with that I got myself a new set of guitar strings and a pair of claviers (sticks which you click together to get a "TICK" sound).

I dunno. I want to forget about her. I really do. She just seems to be playing hard-to-get but I don't know what to think anymore. It's too bad. She's older than me too.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy

Take it as you please

Hmm.

The past couple of days have been pretty cool and eventful. I helped Purple Cow and Drea's group with some critique of their IM project and I also lent them two of my songs for them to use for their interface as background music.

I had also just written a new song and I also recorded it in record time and passed it to them. As usual I tweaked it twice after I had given them the 'finished product' and I'm still not happy with what I'm hearing. Sigh. Thankfully Purple Cow and Drea didn't use it hurhurhur.

As of next monday, I will be working at Design Exchange as an intern. The news that I would no longer be working on school projects but rather aiming for a spot at Design Exchange came on Wednesday and it was abit of a nervy experience when I had to add more things to my portfolio and email it out on Thursday morning, before literally spending most of my afternoon slacking in school. I eventually went out to hang out with my band mates at Gas Haus.

The interview this morning was pretty nervy too.. I sat down with two of the people at DE and showed them some of my development stuff done over various projects. They seemed pretty happy with what I showed them and they seemed like nice people. After I had shown them what I was capable of (not everything.. so as to retain a certain aura of mysticism) they showed me some of the works done by the team and took about 10 minutes just showing me the stuff before telling me that I was accepted.

The thing about this whole attachment thing has just been so troublesome.. from Hong Kong to Germany to now local attachment. However despite all this trouble, it's taught me that we can never expect too much from others, and that alot of things are for us to determine through our very own actions and initiative.

Apart from learning that vital lesson, I'm not unhappy but rather pretty happy too because:

1. I have no need to do P6 this semester
2. I have no need to participate in the Scanteak competition
3. I have no need to participate in the Osaka competition
4. I have this incredible advantage to learn more about design in the real world
5. pretty much only the best students go to Design Exchange and I guess I'm pretty honoured to be viewed as one such student in the eyes of my lecturers.

Anyway... apart from the interview this morning, I also had a jam with my band and had a great time. However the studio was a little cramped but I guess that could be ignored due to the fact that I can easily plug my laptop into a power point and wing out lyrics on the spot (I came up with lyrics to two originals within that 2 hour jamming period).

I just hope that things go as they are right now... I can't help but feel that things are going right for once.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy