Pink & Blue

I've been thinking, it's really not worth my time and energy working minimal hourly wage. Money have never been more important for me.

I've come to realise that being in Lasalle is AN INVESTMENT through and through. That's just a really nice way to put it. (I love euphemisms!)

To put it bluntly, Lasalle just makes you spend money all the time. It sounds very horrible, but it's true. That's why it's always good to see it as an investment, not a rip-off!

I've kinda decided that I wanna get a Nikon D40x, but seriously, I'm severely lacking in funds. I could get a reasonable second-hand camera, no doubt, just that I don't want to. When it comes to personal gadgets like these, I still prefer first-hand.

I've said that feeling for me is very important, so it is vital that I feel my own camera. A DSLR is a powerful gadget. I can feel the power when I hold a DSLR in my hand. Feeling is simply key. I want the camera to be mine and mine only. Could say I'm quite possesive.

Anyways, a couple of days back, I reached home and got the shock of my life!



Immediately, I interrogated my mother. "Where did you get this?!?!"

"The market, lor." Still very nonchalant some more.

Then I explained the whole hoo-ha of the Anya Hindmarch bag to her.

She got it for S$13 at the market. I'm just guessing that it's a fake lah, huh.

Classmate Jessica carries one of them I'm Not A Plastic Bag too! It made for a very good ice-breaker, because the first thing I said to her was, "I've been looking at your bag for a very long time, where did you get it?"

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Last night, I finally sat down and did a proper screenprinting session, complete from cutting the stencil to pulling the final print! I love stencil-making for some reason. I cannot pin-point a reason why I like to cut stencils, I just enjoy doing it.

I realised that I'm still quite amateurish and experimental doing screenprinting. I've spent quite a fair bit on screenprinting materials, but still haven't found my niche in creating the perfect and effective screen. I'm just using film stencil that I attach to the screen with thinner, which is by far my most reliable method to get a good print.

However, the smell of thinner is really unpleasant and quite hazardous too. I also find it terribly difficult to attach the film to the screen evenly. I always end up with parts poorly attached to the screen.

So late last night, I did my 'pink & blue' print! It was for my creative process journal(CPJ), which consists of two sketchbooks with opposing concepts.

These are the frames with the attached film stencils.



The final print on the sketchbook covers! I was really kinda expecting a clean and crisp image, but I ran into some mishap using the thinner to attach the film stencil, which resulted in open patches here and there. Then I thought I might as well just go for the raw, unfinished and rugged look.



I ultra love the contradiction here! Pink and Blue are opposites, but here, pink is blue and blue is pink! I'm fascinated with contradictory ideas like that. It just makes you stop and think and go, "What the hell?!"

A few days ago, I did the "We Live In A Textured World" print. It was quite a slip-shod screenprint, partly because I was quite kan chiong. I did an extremely bad job at attaching the film stencil. I'll need more practice.



Nevertheless, it still turned out okay. Not the best, but still acceptable lah, huh.

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Today, I went down to NYP to settle my withdrawal. Yes, technically, I'm still enrolled in NYP, while at the same time enrolled to Lasalle. It's strange how the authorities haven't said anything about it.

It was kinda dreadful how I had to go back to that darn school and still had to talk to my personal mentor some more. But in the end, it wasn't all that bad. I had a brief chat with Alex, who had to sign the 'release' form. It was all quite professional and friendly, wasn't quite what I had imagined. But now, it's all well.

There is still one LAST visit to NYP when I finally drop off the completed form at the admin office.

After talking to Alex, I was ready to leave the campus when I realised that I've forgotten to collect my EZ-Link card from the Lasalle office. It was 4.00 PM, I had to collect it before 5.00 PM. So I rushed back down to Lasalle to collect my card.

I was served by a really pretty and attractive receptionist at Lasalle. BUT TOO BAD SHE'S GOT A FUCKING ATTITUDE! First of all, when she talked to me, she didn't LOOK at me. She just stared into her 20" Mac display screen. Then she wanted to ask for my ID. But she asked it in the strangest way that I couldn't understand, so I got a bit blur and confused. She then slightly hollered at me lah!

Pretty girls with fucking attitudes like that are most well off being 'vases'; Pretty to look, and good to stick something into!

Anyways, I realised that TransitLink also haven't said anything about me being registered under two tertiary institutions. Hence, I now have TWO tertiary EZ-Link cards.