I Paint Oil

HONESTLY, I don't like painting. That's because my colouring sucks. I colour like a small kid. No kidding. I just don't have the talent to do that. Or maybe I guess I don't have the patience at all.

When my studio lecturer annouced that we were required to do a painting for a part of our assignment. I was stunned! 

"Yau mou!! Not another painting?!"

I thought after our first year we don't have to do this kind of stuff anymore.

Mr Ng (our lecturer) said that before we come out with our building design. We had to come out with a concept in relation to our design. And he wanted us show that through our painting. Sad.

However, one good news is that: what he asked for is an abstract painting.

Haha! Abstract = Anything = Cincai = Don't need any skill also can. As long as you've got any point to support your idea behind the painting, that'll be fine. =p

So the eight of us from Mr Ng workbase bought our own canvas which costs RM40 (frame included) at The Zon. That's the cheapest we found. I don't think the Rainbow stationary shop would have that kind of price.

The medium used could be acrylic or oil paint. Since all of them were doing acrylic, I chose the latter one.

Buying the oil paint was not cheap as I thought. A pack of 12-colour paint cost me almost RM20 wtf.

So here it is. How I started doing something I never thought I would be doing in my life!

The blank canvas

Before doing the painting, I roughly had some idea and how I wanted the final result to be like. Like what they always say, the starting part is always the most difficult. Looking at the canvas and did not know where to start putting my brush.

So I put down first

First, I started with something unbeneficial.

Singing the Negaraku

Who knows, maybe suddenly I could got some inspirations from it.

While I was playing a fool, my room mate has already begun painting. In fact, he started a day earlier.

Look, so focus

And me, totally blank.

Who say? I am also very focus wat!

Foocusing~

After wasting enough of time, I started with my first colour on the canvas.

Wow, the canvas was so amazing! It wasn't like normal paper where the paint just stick on it the moment you colour it. I gotta colour a few layer to cover the whole white area. And the oil paint doesn't mix with water cuz it is OIL mahh. There were also some kind of smell while I was doing the painting.

After brushing for a few time, I kinda enjoyed doing it. Adding the paint, rub rub rub. Add more paint, rub rub more. Then I added another colour.

And moving on...

After finishing the backdrop, I realised that the painting could be viewed upside down too.

I wanted it to be like the one on the left but then I thought the right one was better

The effect of oil on canvas produced a nice texture which I quite liked it. =)

Like waves

The painter and the paint

For one moment, I felt like I was at the beach.

Tengah relax. Uh~ uh~ 

Next, I added red to it. Never knew it is also called scarlet.

No wonder Scarlett Johanson always look so red, like apple 

After that I drew another three undentified objects.

Can anyone guess what's that?

The truth is, there is no specific answer. Cuz the painter also didn't know what was he drawing. Haha. This is called abstract mah! If people don't understand what you draw, then you have succeed.

You can even view it in any angle that you like.

(=

Museum Tour

YESTERDAY I visited the National Singapore Museum. The moment I stepped into the museum from main entrance, there is this huge statue of David standing at the atrium.

The original marble statue carved by Michelangelo was white in colour but this one is covered with a red layer of fabric. A work by an Indonesian artist to soften David's masculine feature.

"Small lah"

David from the top

At that time there is also an exhibition on the greek masterpieces but and the entrance fee costs S$8. There will be a free admission only from 6pm-8pm (from 14th-16th March). But I don't think I would come back again in the evening.

Bird catching

The engineer who has a long bird

At the back part of the museum there is connection to a new building. Intergrating the old and new architecture.

Old (left) and New (right)

Something appeared down the escalator

Opps..

Somebody help this stucked seal

Basically I just walked around the museum and visited some of the free galleries.

Some art exhibition

The shoemaker, Jimmy Tan

It's finger licking biting good

Huh? What was I doing?!

Antique cameras

Chinese opera costume. Tok dong chiang~

After visited the National Museum I headed over to the Sinagapore Art Museum which is just across the street.

Going up the stairs

To Hui San and Yee Wei: I can paint too =p

I like the tiles on the floor

Playing bowling in the museum

Spot me!

Spot me again!

Title of this paint: Father and Mother (China)

Staring at boobs

She has a pair of boob and a bird. Amazing

On that evening I got an invatation to a friend's orchestra performance in the National University of Singapore (NUS). It was my second time attending such performance and I found it not bad, except for some moment that I was too tired and almost felt alseep during the performance. But overall it was pretty amazing! . It even has a beautiful golden harp, played by a pretty girl. Wow!

After that, dinner at Clementi before heading back to UTM.

Dinner at Sumo House

So Many People at East Coast

On Friday, my roommate and I went to Singapore and stayed at my aunt’s house for a night. On that day, we visited the newly built La Salle Art School on Albert Street before going to Chinatown. The decorations on Chinatown are already being set up and one can feel the Chinese New Year atmosphere.

Choon Wah in front of La Salle

The inorganic form

Visitor

I particularly like the articificial grass

Some art gallery

We took MRT from Little India to Chinatown

Overlooking Chinatown

Looking so red

We had our dinner at this hawker stalls area

From this point looks like KL's Petaling street

Look how the street name is translated

Some views of the area

The year of Rat

On the next day, we met up with the rest of our coursemates who came from UTM on that day. Choon Wah and I waited at the bus stop in front of my aunt’s place for their bus to arrive so that we could meet in the same bus.

First, we went straight to La Salle where CW and I went the day before. At one time all of us wanted to take a elevator up to the higher floor but unfortunately we were stopped by a guard there, saying that only students over there are only allow to access the lift.

Jenny, Choon Wah, the lampost and Han Chee

The guys

So feeling tulan, we left the place and looked for something to eat. I brought them to the lower ground food court inside Bugis Junction but not knowing that the place has already been renovated so there was no more food court but restaurants.

The National Library

So Wei Chin suggested the food court at Bugis street which is just located at the opposite and we went there for lunch. We met Steven and Michael Teng there. Looked like Michael was enjoying shopping as he was carrying big packs of stuff. We also saw a familiar face from our faculty: a girl from the landscape architecture course. And while eating Lim kept on saying that the girl selling drinks in front of him is very chio!

Halfway eating, Tiong left us to meet with his friends at the Suntec Shopping Mall.

In Bugis street

After lunch at about 1.30pm, we decided to separate into smaller groups and shopped on our own for 45 minutes. Han Chee and Jenny quickly disappeared into the crowd and the rest of us went to the Guan Yin Temple nearby OG.

Guan Yin Si

Colourful staircases behind Bugis street

After meeting up again we then went to the National Library and saw some books on architecture. There were so many people in their library. I think compared to Malaysians, the people there seem to enjoy going to the library.

Inside the library

Chiou Yann and I done some reference on our 2nd studio project. Han Chee wanted to find books on hair styling but there weren’t any books on that in that library. Hmm..I wonder what she wants to do with her hair now.

Anyway, we didn’t stay in the library for long cuz it was sien staying in the library for so long when we were suppose to enjoy somewhere else.

Shoooting up

So we headed to East Coast Park! From the library we walked to City Hall interchange and took a MRT to Bedok which then we took the 401 bus straight to the East Coast. The journey took about one and a half hour.

During this time trip, we’ve done a lot of walking seriously. But I’m sure Jenny did a lot of jaywalking cuz her Jay Chou was in town for his 2-days concert and therefore everywhere she walked she must be seeing jay.

Somebody insisted that I put her pic

When we almost reached the park, raindrops started falling and I am sure everyone started cursing the sky. Luckily, it stopped after awhile so we could do our activity there. Yup, cycling again!!!! This was my 4th time cycling at the East Coast already. But this time it has the most people.

Never have I seen this many before. Perhaps it is because it was a Saturday evening. And therefore there were so many chicks! Either jogging, cycling or rollerblading. Some even with just bikini. Wow! That day must be Chin Keng’s happiest day.

Lim (right)

Chin Keng

Han Chee

JayJenny

Chiou Yann

Wei Chin trying to fly

Chin Keng hurt his brother

Such a big dog

We rent the bicycle at 5.15pm and we cycled for two hours. That is about 8km of journey. CK kept on showing his bike drifting skill to impress us and the girls nearby. And Choon Wah has finally learned how to cycle a bike properly. (Tutored by ACY, supported by Jenny and documented by Han Chee)

On the jetty

Me

Wei Chin

Lim and CK

Two trying to follow the yellow shirt girl

We also met with Tiong and his friends at the beach. Wow, his Thai-Chinese mixed friend is pretty. But too bad all pretty girls are already attached nowadays..or most of them.

Sandcastle

Exhausted

At 7.15pm we returned our bikes and cleaned ourselves in the bathroom. Lim, Wei Chin and I bought a cotton candy each. OMG, for soooo long I’ve never eat that! And WC, CK and I also bought a pair of Billabong pants each for only S$5/pair. But fake one of course. Hehe.

Very sweet..the candy

We left the coast to Bedok station by bus 401 but we wrongly board the bus at the opposite direction so the bus took us one BIG round journey and wasted quite some time. I made full use of the time by taking a nap in the bus.
Our initial plan was to head back to City Square, JB for Secret Recipe but it was kinda late and we afraid it would be closed by the time we reached back so we took our dinner in the food court next to Bedok Interchange station.
Dunno what happened on that day, there were so many people until we hardly find seats so we gotta share our place with the others. After dinner we took the MRT straight back to Kranji station and board the 170 bus back to our beloved country. =]
As it was kinda late and there were so many of us, we took cab back to UTM instead of public bus. It was 12am when I reached back my hostel.

*till now I still can't forget the girl at the locker. =p