Thursday, January 31, 2008

picture crash course update (:

i decided to collage instead. thereby not needing to use photoshop to resize. so be forewarned! picture OVERload. (:

26/01/08 - saturday {mediacorp}
took a tour of RSI (Radio Singapore International) again with Belinda Sunshine. took turns pretending we were radio presenters interviewing people for talkshows.


27/01/08 - sunday {mediacorp}

radio recording studio. very cool. jean danker, jamie teo and other radio presenters used this studio. the polaroids show some of the people who've been in here. ali and thomas were helping us to record. liz and i did a gossip girl interview! very fun. (:

28/01/08 - breakfast {pancakes with bananas, maple syrup and butter}
29/01/08 - muffins {butter & sugar-free!}

by some amazing default, i concocted a muffin recipie! actually, its more like a muffcone. a hybrid muffin and scone. there's absolutely no butter and no sugar in it! i did use organic maple syrup tho. but i think its relatively healthy. aaaaand! its great with organic marmelade! it started with me needing to use a tub of sour cream, and not having enough ingredients for a suggested muffin recipie on the cover, thereby me doing a ad-hoc dumping of ingredients (i decided to add milk to ensure the consistency was right and left out lots of other stuff like apricot nectar and apricots) and amazingly (thank GOD), it turned out pretty decent. i had a couple of food tasters try it yesterday. apart from it being not sweet and a little bland, i'd say it was a success! a variation would be to add apricots and almonds. (:

30/01/08 - birthday party {mae's 21st}
we surprised mae in class! we did a cork board with loads of handwritten notes and pinned it up. then some of us bought a bag and inside the bag we put the smaller presents from the rest inside. so at first when angelo came in to give mae her present from him, she thought he was the only one who had a present for her. and she was hinting that at least *someone* bought her a present. haha. then after break eileen, suzy and nurul lured her out of class while shuyan and i quickly put up the rest of the notes and set up the noticeboard with the presents. i managed to wrap it by making a custom-sized paper bag. inside, i tried co-ordinating the wrappers, so most of the wrappers had an element of pink or at least were whole shades of pink. she was really surprised by the extent of the presents. and got a shock when she realised there were MORE presents inside the bag! haha. classic.

then we proceeded to east coast, costa island resort. my goodness. the bus ride was like *super* long. almost an hour?!! then while walking by mandarin gardens, crystal and i spotted some tennis balls, so we picked them up. haha. might use them tmr when playing tennis! (: but the party was really fun. the barbeque was fantastic! the chicken and sausages were especially succulent. and we played freeze&melt catching and the category game. my goodness. it was like primary school all over again! haha. but fun. then there was a long session of phototaking! we took photos with us using our fingers to form various numbers from 1 to 5.

30/01/08 - *andrew's* birthday! {his birthday card}

*andrew if you're reading this post, STOP!*

(okay. i bet you didn't)

yupp, mae and andrew got the same birthday! but i'm celebrating with him on friday. dinner date! whee! cant wait. (: so anyhow i scrapped a "card" for him. its actually a small booklet. but the title was "how much do i love thee? let me count the ways..." i didn't get to pass it to him yesterday as intended. haha. thus the bold orange comment above. but ahwells. the pileup doesnt show the pages clearly. haha. so yes.


*close-ups avaliable in flickr*

okay. *breathes* so there you go. picture crash course complete!
sheryl

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

zimba is back!

okay. the dell guy just came to fix zimba. and i'm happy to say she's got a clean bill of health!!! (: the basics are there - ie. internet, cd burner, mircosoft system...but word/ppt and my files are programmes are still not in here. but thats the "easier" bit i suppose. (: so hopefully zimba will be back up and running full speed again. i guess the "face-lift" has cleaned out lots of those other viruses and odd programmes that i don't use. so yay! (: more soon hopefully. gotta go school now. but its pouring donkeys. *sigh*
sheryl

Sunday, January 27, 2008

bad bad news


okay. my hard drive has crashed. so i'm momentarily without my photoshop, documents and iTunes. i still have my pictures (thank GOD for a portable hard drive) but they cant be edited to a smaller size (if the picture above took longer than usual to load, you know why). therefore i cant upload the pictures that we took at mediacorp the past two days up on flickr (please spread the word). but BUT! i assure you, once dell has fixed my lappie i'll upload said pictures and update squiggletown of all the new items. (:
in case you're wondering, i'm using my mom's tablet pc for now (refer to picture above). yes, its so small, its shorter than my nalgene and smaller than A4 sized paper. yes. which means my fingers keep tapping the wrong keys. ahwells. praying really hard my lappie will be fixed asap with the important programmes and documents intact (yes, my assignments and project documents are in there!!)
for some reason i'm feeling withdrawal syndromes of not being able to use my lappie to search, blog, upload, surf as i please. shows the immense and inordinate dependancy i have on technology. bad bad bad. goodness, the com isn't even showing me if i'm making any spelling errors whilst typing this entry - no red squiggly lines. i miss my lappie. think i'm going to name her. hmm, i shall name her zimba, after my russ lion. and cos she's pretty rugged, been with me for 3 years, and some accidents involving the LCD screen and hinges and whatnot. yes. zimba. okay, i miss zimba. hope they fix her soon.
♥sheryl


ps: half wanted to tag this entry rant (and possibly rage). haha.
pps: radio production is soooooo fun! especially the gossip girl interview - xoxo! (: thanks for asking me to be leighton liz!
ppps: i think i'm blabbering excessively cos of the lack of pictures. *bah*

Friday, January 25, 2008

back to school!

group photo!

the girls!

just outside school, during breaktime

with mr omar

tie power!

guess who?

doodles out of dire boredom.

the rest of the photos are on flickr! (:
sheryl

Thursday, January 24, 2008

maria and i

watched 27 dresses (which was good btw - really a feel good chick- flick-romance-comedy movie), had a great time catching up - which carried over to my house. photo taken with my dresser mirror. showed maria all my craft stuff and UFOs (unfinished objects). haha. we have to do that again sometime soon!
sheryl

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

cow cup

my cow cup broke. and it was all the waaaaay from melbourne. so after fixing the handle, its now my paint cup. ahwells.
sheryl

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

paints and pots

final result. for some reason the colour is off tangent.

this is the final block. i really like the vines and the odd birdie silhouette looking on. (:

bought new square bowls! (: very pleased with them decided to reorganise my craft area so that i didnt need to constantly take out the paint, keep it back in the box, and out again. oh the hassle. so now its in pretty bowls!

see thats the paint corner. my buckets, bowls and watering cans of paints, brushes, sponges. all the colours and the ikea print for inspiration!

we finally got to eat our half-priced gelare waffles. it would have been perfect with honey and butter, sadly there was none. but the waffle itself was pretty buttery so thats okay. oh. and a little incident at macs today. here goes the tale. i ordered meself an apple pie and cappuccino, but lo and behold! while drinking it, the coffee tasted oddly more milky than usual. so i thought perhaps they gave me a latte instead. but the more i drank, the more intense the milk aftertaste was. so i opened the lid. under the white foam, was white liquid - they gave me a cup of hot milk. haha, so i walked back to macs with my group mates, under the guise of a toilet break and got my coffee in my milk. so check your coffee! you'll never know, it might just be milk.

okay i'm beat. signing off!
sheryl

Monday, January 21, 2008

chicken mushroom cheese mash

tried to make this variation of a shepherd's pie. think it was pretty good. the serving looks like a lot, but it wasn't. hahah. so yea, that was lunch. the second picture shows what was inside - bacon, mushroom, chicken, potato, corn, cheese...

early birthday celebration for san! took her in monochrome, sepia and colour.

mom said she wasn't picture ready so we didn't snap a shot with her. but here's the cake and all. (:

happy birthday sis. you're seventeen now! (in exactly an hour and forty minutes)
sheryl

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Saturday, January 19, 2008

inspired

i am very inspired by this painting by jessica jones. shall use a bit of the leaf pattern to do up the last canvas in my trio series. (: i really really wish i would be able to paint like that soon.
sheryl

jon khoo's 21st birthday party

the food was delish! everything from the spaghetti to the homemade garlic bread to the satay to the very gorgeous chocolate cake. see i took pictures of the food, then we got carried away with eating and youtube-ing and talking till it was time for the cake. then jon khoo blew his candles and made 2 wishes (cos he had 2 cakes) and shared his prayer requests for the year ahead.

it was a nice party, but i'm thinking i still would like mine (if any at all) to be a really simple thing. like maybe a movie marathon (mel and i got a whole list of movies we wanted to catch but didnt, ha.) so yea, we'll see. (:

i didn't get to try the creative weekend project. but will keep it in mind. maybe some other time.
sheryl

Friday, January 18, 2008

sandra's semi-surprise birthday party

cupcakes and icing and sugar flowers and candles and more cupcakes!
ps: did you see the icing? to test if its ready (like meringues), you tip it upside down (preferably over someone's head, haha) and see if its falls. kinda like the blizzard test. i actually had a photo of me tipping the icing over my head but it was an unglam shot. so yea. haha. (:

san's shocked look. priceless.

trying to blow out all seventeen candles

group picture!

supper. *love* cheesecake and latte!

new technology. take a cup from the paper. (:

us experimenting with the timer

experimenting somemore...

(chor choo meng from the current 9pm chinese show) ni zhai zhou she mo?!

i'm going to try ali edward's creative weekend project. will post pictures! its kinda like that samsung (i think) advertisement with the little green man everywhere? ohh. and i just realised that the pyramid game is actually taboo. hmm...
sheryl

Thursday, January 17, 2008

random

(dinnertime conversation)
san {to andrew}: so what do you work as now?
andrew: i'm a teacher
san: really? what school?
sheryl: yeah! he's a teacher in the N-A-V-Y school
san: (pause) oh! uh, how come? i thought you were a land medic? so who do you teach now?
andrew: i teach dolphins now.
sheryl

mess and such {edited}

i packed myself a tupperware of spaghetti sauce and ritz for lunch. and the lousy tupperware leaked! so while cleaning up my bag, i splayed out my stuff on the table. my ipod, phone, clutch, pencilcase (tiggerifically adorable), notebooks, post-its!, notes, (*breathe*), specs, umbrella, mints, foolscap (which reminds me i want sherwin to get me one of his acs exam pads), another tupperware with multi-vits and my pouch (with the very essential tea tree oil, air-tight clip [you'll never know when you have an open bag of snacks that needs clipping up!], and lipsmackers [reminder: need more!]). yes. haha.

decided to make bacon asparagus skewers! (: yummy yummy. especially when its roasted, the smell of roasted crisp bacon is heavenly! and black pepper beef with mushroom sauce. the beef is a little tough, should have seared the beef first, and then chuck it into the mushroom sauce.

I FINALLY GOT TO USE MY LEMON SQUEEZING APPARATUS THING. haha. sorry. the other day i went to ikea and bought an egg whisk (yes i have a whisk specially for eggs) and this lemon thing. i finally got to use it. (: such fun, the little joys in life.

this is the funniest thing. somehow sandra's phone's spacebar wasn't working. so this is how she's been messaging. i love my phone to bits (you can see its literally in bits, the gold is peeling off). but i really love it. i think this is the nicest phone i have had. pity the paint is peeling and the leather got scratched. *sigh* ohh, and i loooove the guitar background (thanks to shuyan!).

this is a birthday present andrew and i made. its a really simple notebook. but since its meant as a book to reflect, i thought the design should be kept plain and not cluttered.

{part one} of andrew's birthday present. its an organiser (a slim notebook, with months and some blank pages, so i tried to keep the embellishment as flat as possible.) - 15months so it'll can still be used next year.

haha. this is how often andrew checks his email. okay. more tmr! tmr is cupcake day. gonna bake cupcakes - vanilla butter cupcakes with royal lemon citrus icing and sugar flowers(:
sheryl

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

"eat healthy" reminder & clutch

see the little tab there? remember 5 servings of fruit a day!

my new clutch. pretty pretty. love the whimsical ethereal fairytale feel of it.
sheryl

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

owls and diets

i loooove this handmade owl shirt. bought it at MAAD dec 07, its made by "jelts". just thought i post a picture of it.

okay, i'm trying to diet (and exercise) but i figure dieting takes lesser effort than exercising. so starting with good healthy breakfast. haha. shall see if i hold through the rest of the day. laters!

p/s: SMa Murdoch got featured yesterday in the 10 o'clock news. my class was featured. did you catch it? (:
sheryl

Monday, January 14, 2008

donut factory cafe

i was frantically typing out my storyboard and ptc at the donut factory cafe. i really like the concept and the feel of the place. might even consider studying there. (: so whilst embroiled in the "intrigue and lure of 18th century piracy", i enjoyed my cappuccino and donuts. poor andrew and to time my storyboard every few minutes.

i really like the next few shots:
front of the cup

{andrew} yes we used knives and forks, didnt want to get our fingers dirty. haha.

back of the cup

sheryl