You know, if everyone could have some amount of this kind of child-like imagination, the world would be a better place I think.

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I had a thought/theory/thinking about beautiful people while on the way home from work. It is a simple idea..but it just kind of link to every single thing in my head so I will try to link them up.

I was thinking, “Why aren’t there more beautiful people than ugly/average looking people?” I am talking about purely physically beauty. I mean, don’t you realise we don’t go around saying “hey, he’s handsome”, “that girl is pretty and so is the other one”?

i came to this conclusion: Being beautiful (still talking about physical beauty) makes you “exclusive”. If majority of people are beautiful, there will be a different perspective of beauty isn’t it? Maybe beautiful is not big round eyes or sharp nose anymore but slanted eyes or wide, flat nose? (Yeah, just like in olden days, fat is beautiful.) Am I sounding like it’s common sense? The point is, beauty is defined by human in such a way that it needs to be soar after/unique/rare if not we don’t want to be beautiful. We want to be beautiful because we want to stand out from the crowd.

It sounded more profound in my head, like there was suddenly enough energy to turn on a light bulb in the midst of that gloomy evening sky just now (wow, look sentence). And this reminds me of my FYP, my book was based on all these thinkings I have.

Yay, it’s a public holiday on Monday! Long weekend!!! I can’t wait.

I changed my paper tray to a nicer one and rearranged my office table before I left. It gives me just a tiny bit more excitement about going to work tomorrow.

Well good place to laugh at drunk people/get drunk since the drinks are cheap. There was a girl wailing and puking at the toilet over a boy..as in she was crying about a boy.

I saw Oliver Jeffers featured on It’s Nice That the other day and went to check his website out. He’s is a really talented illustrator and painter. He is famous for his children picture books. I saw them on his website and immediately fell in love with them. I have to get them.

They were quite expensive to get online so I decided to try Borders or Kino. Surprisingly (ok actually not surprisingly cos Kino does carry a lot of books), Kino has majority of his book. And I decided to get this one:

It’s about a penguin that turns up at a little boy’s door one so he decided to bring the penguin home.

It’s such a heartwarming story and uber cute! I finish reading the book in minutes but it’s all worth it, beautiful paintings and such innocence in the way he writes. I am definitely going to get another of his book.

I like what I like. And what I mean is, if you know me well enough, I like to collect toys miniature things and things with a lot of details. So, I like what I like if it makes sense because it makes me feel like a kid forever. It kind of suits me as well, me being small physically you know…

I decided a couple of months ago I would invest on a design/art book monthly. I started off with a layout book, this is the second one. I almost forgot how it feels when i get a new book..the smell, the texture, colours, woohoo! Gives me the high…

Went with father and sister to Don’s cafe at Boat Quay/Raffles Place area. They are famous for their chicken pies which are really good with many fillings at affordable prices. They also have a very good Claypot Crab Beehoon at $16. That’s really good too, and I would say it is definitely worth the price considering it’s a whole crab not just those frozen crabmeat sticks.

Nothing beats spending time with my family. Yes, it is fun spending a Friday night with your friends but the kind of quality time and fun with your family warms your heart like no other.

I was wondering to myself why did God create space? Why can’t God just create like the earth and blah, it ended right there at the clouds and the blue skies?

Then I think I got it.

If it did end at the clouds, it’s kind of sad, like hitting a cardboard, something like ‘The Truman Show’ ending. Then if you go beyond our skies there’s space so it gets exciting..and so on. So we just kind of keep exploring till we reach the end. However, there’s no end in space..end is thousands and millions and trillions of light years away, somewhere even beyond..somewhere we can never ever reach. I learn about this through the book I am reading by Bill Bryson called ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’. It’s just a great book by the way though I am taking ages with it.

SO, back to my point of space and beyond and why there isn’t an end? I think God kind of wants it this way. Knowing that humans can never be satisfied and will just keep at it, He made the skies, universe, space…infinite and endless. So basically it’s like ‘Nice try humans, you will never get to the end’. No, I don’t think God is cruel to entertain us or Himself this way…it’s just, what is beyond this world is so amazing that it is just a gentle reminder than there’s creator out there, whoever you may believe. It just can’t happen by some rocks colliding together.

Friday tomorrow!! Please don’t let me OT.

Now that I am working as a graphic designer, it seem it doesn’t matter anymore. Obviously, doesn’t matter one, because it has passed and two, no matter how many sites you go to, if you suck..yes you suck.

It is only now, that I am done with school, in a job and desperately need to learn more and get inspiration, I start surfing all these sites. They are great nevertheless and just damn inspirational (with many chunks of jealousy).

Right up till I am in my current job (which is in advertising), I never look much into advertising. I never took the module in school, never thought much about a career in advertising. Not because I am not interested but just…I always think I am just not witty enough for it..which I think I still am not. But I realised everything is kind of like advertising, we sell something some sort or the other so there’s no escaping.

So that pushes me to be much more observant to all sorts of advertisements..study them and be truly amused. So this is one of the series of ads I saw today that I think is just brilliant beyond amazing.

So yes, I can say I feel more arty/art-knowledged nowadays with all the arts and design sites everyday.

The post wasn’t meant to be so long, just wanted to say “amazing ad, take a look” and that’s it. I just need to rant/make noise on your screen, to let off all the talking I can’t do at work.

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This is truely the most heartbreaking photo I have ever seen. Quoting the photo caption directly:

“In this Nov. 6, 2008 file photo, young Protegee carries her niece, Response, as she looks for her parents in the village Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo. When photographed on Nov. 6, Protegee was in a crowd of thousands in the town of Kiwanja, having walked for three days by herself after being separated from her mother as they fled on foot from her town about 12 miles (20 kilometers) away. Protegee finally found her mother, Esperance Nirakagori, in Kiwanja at a makeshift refugee camp six days after they were separated.”

It brings me to think about many things that are beyond our imagination or knowledge. Another side of the world that’s so dark and lonely we refuse to think about it.

On the lighter side of life, a cute little photo essay of a cotton tail bunny:

I am quite addicted to Issuu nowadays. It’s a site where users published their magazine/publication online. Alot of really great stuff there.

The week was alright, passed sooner and easier than I thought. I went for the wedding dinner of my new colleague on Friday. Then it was Starbucks work on Saturday morning. Been working two Saturdays mornings straight, which means my weekends got shorter.

I watched ‘The Nanny Diaries’ just now, starring Scarlett Johansson. I really liked it actually. I don’t consider it as a flick..it’s a really heartwarming film, I actually cried after watching it.

It’s back to work tomorrow. It’s raining heavily now. The make-do scoccer/cricket field downstairs is almost a swimming pool already. I have been thinking about this for a while..what happens to all the insects like ants when the field floods? I am pretty sure they don’t die.

I cut my hair, it’s too cutesy looking for my liking. Most of my friends liked it..but I look 10 years younger. I already look 15, don’t need that extra youth.

I was watching ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ and they mentioned the state fish of Hawaii. I thought it was a joke..but no, there’s really a state fish, the Reef Triggerfish called:

Humuhumunuku-nukuapua ‘a (in Hawaiian)
pronounced as: hoomoo-hoomoo-nookoo-nookoo-a-poo-a-a

Anyway, I joined Daytum. It’s super cute. Basically it’s just a site where you post whatever stats you wanna post. Go to the link and see for yourself. And it is beautifully designed too.

I just finished a book called ‘God is Dead’ by Ron Currie Jr. It’s one of the best books I ever read (yes, not that I read a whole lot of books). It’s a book about ideology and humans. The book is kind of made up of little stories that kind of connects. The ending of every story is just awe-inspiring, kind of leaves you hanging there. And what’s more, the cover has nice illustrations and the book has very nice layouts.

It’s only Tuesday.