Easily Pink & Blue

Yesterday, brought my Pink & Blue babies to class. Because the lesson needed it and of course, to vantez-vous(brag about and show off) lah!

I showed a couple of people only though, haha... Very proud of my screenprint, can?

Then Daniel dismissed my screenprint, saying, "Aiyah, very easy to do what, just cut out from cardboard can already,"

Yeah, screenprinting and stencil making is sure damned easy. Definitely took like, what, 15 minutes to do my Pink & Blue?

Therefore, since it's so bloody chicken feed to make the screen stencils, I decided to do one this morning. But not the Pink & Blue though. I really like the 'We Live In A Textured World", so I blew up the tracing at the photocopier, and decided to do a larger image of it.

I tried my very best to be patient and careful. My eagerness sometimes result in errors and mistakes. But this time round, I made sure I was calm and relaxed. I wanted the perfect screen.

Of course, now I'm proud to say that I have achieved a NEAR perfect screen. My stencil cutting was close to spectacular, despite making some last minute changes to the image. My stencil attaching was pure genius this time! I really have to say that this is the most perfect and effective screen SO FAR.






So, without hesitation, I went down to printing my image!

Which, by the way, went awry!!!

For the first time, my pink ink got clogged up in the screen! I washed my screen quite thoroughly after the first print, but still couldn't get the specks of paint out of the mesh! Then I tried to scrape the clogged up bits off. MISTAKE!

I accidentally nicked the mesh a little. My heart did like a flip or something. I gave up trying to remove the clogged paint, afraid that I might just completely rip my screen apart.

Hence, I end up with the perfect stencil, but a clogged up screen. Sian...

Classic example of extreme eagerness spoiling the craft. Patience is definitely a virtue, but in this era, who really has patience?

Once, in a web design class, the lecturer was talking about website loading speeds, and he said, "Maximum time I'll wait for a website to load is 10 seconds. Longer than that, forget it! I don't even want to see what's the site is about,"

I believe it's just terrible important to be efficient nowadays. But in TRYING to be efficient, I'll be kan chiong. I'm not the type that will work well under pressure. So more kan chiong, more screw ups? How to be efficient if I screw up?

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On a whole new note, I NEED MONEY. Or more precisely, I WANT MONEY.

Seriously ar, I'm growing to be more and more lui bin, meaning money-faced in Hokkien. No money, no talk. No talk, no job. No job, NO MONEY.

So how? It's like some vicious cycle.

Talking about vicious, I might as well just say it since it's been playing on my mind.

I am a vicious bitch, not too fond of boyfriend/husband snatchers. I have an incredibly bad impression of 'third parties'. Didn't have pleasant experiences in life with people of the ilk.

Therefore, when a friend's long-term relationship went awry due to, presumably, a third party, it hit a raw nerve in me lor.

Then when you try to stop the vicious bitch from taking over, it's futile, of course, since it's after all a 'vicious bitch'.

Vicious bitch with a vicious tongue, sometimes MANY vicious tongues. I've tagged some highly creative comments on Fee's blog, since she is, presumably, the third party.

Then the boyfriend and her friends weren't too happy about it. I heard it was because my insults were too frequent. Then it kinda appeared that I had 'nothing better to do at 3.00AM in the morning' and 'was trying to ruin Fee's new found relationship' after all, 'it's been some time since she's been in the love game'.

"Falling in love is easy, but staying in love requires work."

That's why in general, we all much prefer to fall in love. You know, that warm and fuzzy sensation that tickles your inside when you're in love? That palpitating heart when you see The One, the stuttering, weak in the knees etc.

Likewise, "Finding The One requires work, snatching is easy."

So just snatch lor. As normal people, we all look for the easy way out.

After all my creative but vicious remarks, I've come to know that I'm so not welcome. It is after all, the relationship of my friend and her boyfriend, so it's up to them to reach an agreement and I'm not welcome to stick my nose into their affairs.

Hence, yes, I do get the message, it is a problem that doesn't involve me so I'm out. No more bitchy remarks from me, Fee.

I WILL stop my insults.

But meanwhile, my creative mind will just churn out more stuff to say, but no, not going to say because, many things are better left unsaid. One can shut the hell up, but none can stop one from thinking.

Lecturer Hidayah told us yesterday that it is important that we think. They want to cultivate thinking designers, not doing designers. Thinking vs. Doing.

I believe I'm more of a do-er than thinker because I seriously cannot stand deep stuff. Design Theory in school deals with a lot of words! I love type, but I dread text! Plus it's not helping that the topics all very cheem. All the cheeminology of seeing, thinking, colour, space etc.

And the reading list they provided! OMGWTF! I'm half guessing the books are full of words, with hardly any visuals. I need thy books with visuals! I buy a lot of books, but none with just words in them. Must buy books with many images and colour ma! Like that then worth your average-about-35-dollars a book, what.







While cultivating patience, I shall make it a point to cultivate deeper thinking too. I bloody know that it's hard, but I'll just try, yeah?