ilo ilo - 爸爸妈妈不在家

Caught this film today with Jeth. I like it. I would say it is a pretty accurate and real representation of life during that period of time. I can identify with most of the frustration experienced by characters of the film. 

 

( SPOILER ALERT : not sure but maybe if you haven't watched and want to watch then don't read first ) 

I think that the film itself shed some light on the perspective and feelings of the roles of the various characters very well as well. How the child rejected the presence of the maid. How the maid felt afraid and lost. How the mother felt that the maid was taking over her place as a mother to her son. I think perhaps my very own mother might have felt sligtly that way toward my maid as well. 

I myself can identify with the child's rejection of the maid when she first came in the sense that when Marvi first came I didn't like her and I always told her I didn't want her and that I wanted daisy. I was a horrible little child that was difficult and annoying and made life so hard for her - ( believe me I would totally want to kill younger me if we were to come face to face today I think HAHA ). 

Well time passed and Marvi became my best friend , a second mother, a confidant. I really loved her and I still do.

I cried quite abit at the last part of the film .. Firstly because I am a sap- I cry like in almost every movie (-.-) - and secondly because I can totally identify with the feelings of seperation anxiety the child was experiencing when they decided to send the maid home and it reminded me of my experience with the very same seperation anxiety when my maid left me 4 years ago. 

After living together for 8 years. I still remember her fondly and I think the painful feelings from when she left will never really leave me. ( haha the thought of her leaving us once upon a time was one of my biggest fears as a kid and I really had a hard time accepting it for awhile after she left) 

Ah but such is life- things change, people change, people move on. But the happy memories and the love we shared will live on forever. 

I know we still talk but very rarely. So here's hoping you're out there doing well and always happy. <3

Sunraize to sunzet

Havent had the time to blog but I definitely have things to blog about !! 

havent blogged in awhile. i have been wanting to but i havent had the time though.

Amanda's 21st !

She looks so happy and cute here hehe.

Everything was so pretty ! Haha I don't regret going despite not really knowing anyone who was going. Thankfully I made new friends and Sam came down (: 

Some of today's sky yalllll :

Haha I know my editing for everything is not consistent. Im trying I'm trying ): 

Back to school

Sky shots of the day. 

This is me after 2.5 hours of school and accompanying viv in school (HAHA) only one word - CUI. 

So it's year two and I'm no longer a freshie :/ ( feeling weird, because I still feel somewhat like a freshie ) 

Well things are different now because as a year two I'm going into my major and no longer doing foundation work. - I really think I'm going to miss foundation year and doing all the generic open topic kind of projects as my projects now will be very specialized .. But ah well life goes on. 

Had my first class today. Pretty darn happy that from this day onwards class starts at 9am because I'll probably rarely ever be late to class anymore unlike last years class timing - which is 8.30- to which I always reach at 9. 

Typography - aka typo 

Is some pretty interesting stuff considering I never ever paid so much attention to the details in fonts ever in my life. I think this is gonna be a (educational?) hazard to me for life every time I see type anywhere now. - just like how now everytime I see someone in Abercrombie clothing the SKU and what room it belonged to runs through my mind. 

Tons of terms for this and that teeny tiny details of fonts that I never knew even existed. 

Now that's schools started .. Pretty sure this blog is gonna be more toward the direction of my work and art and design as compared to the previous posts so I hope you do enjoy them ! Of course I still will have adventures and talk about then though. 

Also , I'm pretty darn psyched that I have managed to get the modules I want and somehow managed to get myself a three day school week. Weehoo. That's really awesome. - ( downside is I'm dropping Korean tho. Hope I have the opportunity to take it another semester.) 

Ending this post with a really cool collection of metal alphabets that are used for letter press printing a few centuries ago (?) 

Adventure time II

To start things off.. Here's my beautiful face (HAHA SHAMELESS) - ok not my beautiful face but my happy face even though I was hopelessly lost at Marymount ( this is the moment where you would be like : " LOST ALREADY STILL CAN TAKE SELFIE" ). Hahaha yes mama Viv came to save me because i got lost because the bus stop was at some awkward corner ok. I actually kind of like getting lost because idk .. It's like another adventure all together (: 

Yay.. Yes here's another beautiful face ( not the shameless kind like me HAHA). Mama viv took me to eat casuarina curry and awesome roti prata. No unglam photos of me eating prata here. (: 

Headed over for some adventure + chill time. It's not very often you find explorer friends that like chilling and getting down and dirty with you. Glad I found someone amazing like Viv. 

I love Viv because she's someone you can be honest with, someone whom you can be open with. She's beautiful and she always sees only the best in everyone. Never the bad. 

Plus she's so amazingly talented in like everything >:| (that kind of spoil market people) haha and yet she's so humble. 

You're amazing Viv so don't let anyone tell you otherwise. ( unless it's like constructive criticism or somethig la ) 

Here you see me: teaching Viv the "art of bubble blowing" - okay lame we were just having fun with our plastic bubbles and I was pretending to be a badass smoking with the yellow straws. 

Tadaaaam - her cute face 

We were too happily plonked at our spot we didn't even explore like 1/50 of the park or something haha. 

Cute candid shot of v when she was like pointing at I can't remember what. 

Love this photo ^ taken off v's phone

Yeah so we ate our snacks, played with bubbles and even cute grass (HAHA). Crawled them rocks like spiders too. I bet you people were totally judging us - these two crazy youngsters .. Haha even the little kids avoided us )): 

Some amazing photos taken by Viv : 

(Yez more bubblez)

Visit her blog at : www.sparselyvegetated eyelashes.blogspot.com for even more of her amazing stuff. 

  

To end things off : 

This is actually the first time Viv and I have met up and gone out without a specific reason- other times being us meeting either at school or at work or happening to be at the same place. I had a lot of fun and I think it's days like this that makes me content, that makes bad days alright that gives me reason to thank God I'm alive today. I really enjoyed myself.

 I think this is a good last week of holiday (: