goodbye sundayyy :( monday is nearly here

okayyyy, i know this post is a little lame. but i was watching Miss Universe 2010 and yes, Miss Mexico was really beautiful! and zomg, she's 22 as well?!?! wah rao, kinda makes me wish i had bigger aspirations when i was younger. NOT to be in pageants exactly, but like, i could have worked harder and excel at anything which would bring me to places and meet people soooo glamorously.

okay i digressed. i really came online to say that Miss Australia (Jesinta campbell ) bore an uncanny resemblance to miley cyrus.



and also to say that miley cyrus's latest album cover 'Can't be Tamed' looked incredibly similar to Britney's 'Prerogative' album cover.



no further comments though.

Anyhow, just being really random on a sunday night. Spent the last few weeks partying then rag, then falling sick, then party, then falling sick again, and then i begun my internship at this wonderful startup located within NUS. So I have been too busy/tired to blog. but I shall not be lazy. I will persevere because sabbiemomorox! :X okay don't box my face.

anyhow, i had a really good day today. just spending a nice breezy, albeit humid, sunday in town with G, and bought the coolest pair of sunnies. Now, I've got sth to rival's bryan's cool-peas sunnies.


taken when we met up for lunch at sushi tei. okay, i have been contemplating getting an aviators cos it looks so damn good on him. no $$$ since i kinda have plans for my internship blood and sweat money already. :( so many things, so little money.

anyhow, I will share pictures tmrw of my awesome sunnies if can/remember.

G bought me a new umbrella! HES SO SWEEEET! So, now i can finally return Ade hers as well!

okay! awesome possum and peace out.

Backlog :]

Okayyy! The videos are from Marcus Pignic that I somehow completely forgotten about. Here they are :D

Introducing the Pignic



How to fly a kite 1101E



Singing Marcus a bday song :D



Ps. I sound soooo strange on videos. ergh. :\

Ought to have been sleeping. But having one of those bouts where I feel so tired yet I can't seem to fall asleep. So, I decided to try out this new app I just downloaded onto my iPhone 3GS. It's called BlurFx and it is by far one of the best free iPhone editing apps I used. (well duh, Ifound it as one the app store's top free photography tools, but sometimes those top downloads are liessss :P)

At the app store


Here's the before and after photo!

Edited previously on ps mobile (a Photoshop app on the iPhone, available on the android os as well) for exposure, saturation and contrast.


After BlurFx


It is superb because it was just soo easy to use with such great results. Everything was pretty intuitive and easy to locate. And best of all, you can have a few ongoing projects at the same time! So, you don't have to complete a project to start a new one! And best of all, you can choose what quality you wanna save your picture to, and I saved mine in the highest res possible :D awesome!

Masked so you can see the areas blurred off and the ones I cleaned off. The red areas are the blurred areas.


(1) Basically, I used motion blur on the entire picture (since I decided prior that I wanted a larger area of the picture to be blur). And I totally love the fact you can choose the type of blur!
(2) Then clicking on the clean button on the bottom right, I used my finger and cleaned off areas that I did not want looking fuzzy. (I could tweak the brush size tailoring to the size of area i wanted to edit, alternatively, i could set it to auto, and check progress with mask. but, I wasn't very fussy, so I just anyhow whack. Which did turn out looking okay, but you can tell immediately when the mask is on that it was done pretty messily. Mask is a v good feature ESP if you were the perfectionist sort or had a background that had a lot more details than my white toilet doors)
(3) Finally, I tweaked the saturation up, cos I was looking a little pale, and also upped the lightness a little to make use of the areas surrounding, as well as myself look more glowy.

(4) I tried templates and vignetting but the effects weren't what I really wanted from the picture since I liked it all glowy and white. But here are some screenshots anyway.





Then Clicked into the menu, and clicked on settings.

Here I could decide on the resolution I want to save my photos to! I decided on the highest res.





Finally, the plus point of this program, and most good photo apps for that matter, is that it allows you to upload your picture on the more popularly used social networking websites like facebook, twitter and flickr. You just have to login, and then upload straightaway. My only qualm is that it doesn't allow you to upload straight to photobucket!

I decided to just save it to my photo album instead. :D and saving it at highest res didn't take that long. Its probably a little faster than uploading a photo on fb using the iPhone. Possibly also because I didn't do any heavy editing.

I think this app is worth a space in your iPhone. It's simple to navigate and use, and the outcome is damn awesome.

Okay. Left 6% of batt life, shall watch kitten vids until phone dies or I fall asleep. :( 3am. This sucks.

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- edited again the next morning to include more screenshots. :D i woke up with 3% batt left in the battery so i HAD to charge it. :D

Happy flu day.

So I'm down with flu! Gawd, could I be weaker than this. A few nights of late sleep and then rag, and I didn't even stay for the prize-giving event and I chui alr. Hahahha. Shit.

Anw, my house ran out of flu supplies so I bought panadol flu max from watsons. Panadol is good stuff.



So anyway, look at this! Okay, I was like thinking so hard whether to get regular panadol flu or flu max, and then I went with flu max cos it sounded more effective. And more expensive! But no, my symptoms are not completely alleviated. Damn. Should have stuck with the cheaper one. Anyway, check it out, they gave me a box of tissues with the panadol! So thoughtful! But there were barely enough tissues for me :( it's too early for me to wave goodbye to my trusty roll of toiletpaper. :/ entirely unglam, and possibly too rough on my skin, but it's almost sufficient for one flu attack.

Okay anyway, a proper post about rag 2010 tmrw maybe. I'm so damn drowsy.

Oh ya, the most important point. Arts Rag 2010 won best float design!!!! Awesome. I'm really proud to have had been a part of it, albeit really tiny. I think the makers involved were very very awesome, and the dancers energy were over the top. More on it soon. :D

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been bumming around

On monday, I went to this really awesome Thai food place like really near Chom Pang camp that had cheap and good thai food. IT WAS SO DAMN AWESOME. I didn't take any pictures of it though, but SOON. SOON I WILL HAVE PHOTOS. COS I CRAVE FOR TOMYUMMM.

I said in an earlier post that Bright and Marcus moved recently right? Yup, so i went shopping with Bright for stuff to furnish his new place with on Tuesday. This is how Bright looks like now since we filmed Durian Complex. I think he caught a slight muppe-tities.




Then, last night I finally met up with Yulin! we had sushi!!!! ahhhhhh. i have been eating so much jap and thai food recently. but okay, I LOVE sushi tei. so it's good. but i really suspect that the sushi tei at Paragon is so much better. Yulin bought me presents, including this really cute bear and PURPLE NAIL POLISH. and she hasn't read my blog yet (in case it's forgotten, i assigned purple as my new favourite colour). DAMN TELEPATHIC of YULIN!

The chef was super cute. He offered to take a photo for us. :D








Then off to meet Jo at mambo! Was supposed to meet Debbie there as well, BUT WHY DEBBIE. WHY U DONT WANT TO COMEEEEEEE :(:(:( Anw, it was still SUPER fun with Jo! and i met like loads of SMU peeps, who were like awesome and fun yet nice people.

Okay anyway, i should take note of this: WHY DID I WEAR HEELS. My feet were like killing me by the end of the night. Sure, heels completed the look. But i don't know whether the pain was worth it. And sadly, i was like taller than most of the guys because of my heels.. Heels pros and cons: possible effective guy deterrent vs disability to last till 3am. hmmmmmmm..... shall mull over it.

Jo, Kianhean and Lionel with our AK47s. It's tequila right? ergh, reminded me of tequila night with G and Kenny. tequila. ergh. :\okay, but whiskey is WORSE.


Kianhean wasted some rum because he didn't know his strength. or was he drunk? HAHAHAH.
Anyway, Kianhean is this interesting guy from SMU who has like a pro-mac website/blog?. Go check it out. he posts up pretty interesting and enlightening articles on Mac-related stuff. :D


Aaron couldn't join us for dinner, but its OKAY since i met him at zouk with alyssa. THEY LOOK SOOOO GOOD IN THIS PHOTO. I feel almost bad for like ruining such a great couple shot. :\


Then at the end of the night, G came to pick me up. SO SWEEEETTT!!! OMG HES DAMN AWESOME considering how he doesn't like clubbing and he abhors sleeping late and he still offered to come!!!! We went for supper and he dropped me home.



All in all, it was a good three days :D PEACE! Next up.. RAG 2010. I'm helping out with mechanisms. MORE pictures coming up!

the nescafe in my bloodstream

This was supposed to be posted together with the video like on the 26th of July.

shit, i really should avoid caffeine after 2 in the afternoon. it absolutely ruins my sleep.

anyway, here is a draft trailer that G made for the Art-ifacts screening that, i guess, nobody ever saw. I kinda thought that it was pretty good, so here i am, sharing it without his permission. BUT i do not claim credit for the production of this trailer, so maybe im not infringing copyright that badly. i think. shit i really should start studying.

so now, G is gonna be angry at me for 2 accounts. sleeping so damn late as well as publishing his work without his permission :X wahahahahaha.

Anyway, UPDATED!

Alright, i meant to have put up the video then, but there were problems with the video quality (It was LAGGING), so i asked G if he could send me a better copy and all that, and then the problem cleared up (cos youtube takes sometime to process it?), so anyway, here it is. all good for consumption. and i guess, by asking him all sorts of questions about the video sorta meant i got his permission. :P



*i still don't like the noisy music part. waha.

if you see dark clouds, don't just bring your umbrella, remember to bring your floatation device

OMG THE NOOSE FINAL EPISODE TODAY. BOOOOOOOOOOOOO. :( That entire cast is so super awesome. they should get primetime slot for actual news.

Anw BACKLOG due to the huge amount of photos to sift through.

SUNDAY was super awesome awesome. Went to Marina Barrage for a picnic to celebrate Marcus's bday and Ade's and Shir's return from summer school at berkeley!

So anyway, Ade and I met up earlier to get him a bday cake from Cedeles and a huge crocodile balloon from Party R Us :D (anw sidenote, Party R Us crew at Raffles City were just sooo surly, they seemed so unhappy with us even though we were really nice, and polite and we bought stuff from them it's just so weird. it's so strange to have so much negativity in such a happy fun shop. o well, maybe's the lousy weather. zzz)



It was kinda drizzling drizzling grey weather, but wah lao, in addition to a picnic mat that Bright brough, Marcus brought a foldable table and he made sushi from scratch, and brought like plastic wine glasses. :D How atas was our picnic. hahaha.









and it was also the first time i ever flew a kite! :D:D despite the supposedly lousy weather, there were so MANY people flying kites and picnicking there. SINGAPOREANS ROCK. WAHA.





The dark sat in and then there were all sorts of crazy stuff, like piggybacking and spinning round and round until we were all seh. We acted like we were high on something la, but we didnt even have a drop of alcohol. We were all high on sushi, fruit salad and sparkling juice..

More pictures :D I was testing out the various modes on my camera. I love this picture particularly because of how it caught how serene and comfortable her whole body was despite her jumping like a crazy bunny.















we tried to a do a sleeping shot with EVERYONE sleeping. super fail!


Then we headed to Marcus's and Bright's new abode. They just moved in to this new place recently, so it was pretty bare except for a white painted bicycle, a wide-screen tv and this really huge and creepy mirror. hahaha. MIRRORS=camwhore :D



ching caught me camwhoring :P look at her face.