Pre-album artwork for Dhaniah's band, My Writes. They play indie pop although I think their new album It's Okay, I'm With The Band, explores different styles quite nicely. The five people who read this blog! Check them out here!

Final thing:

#EDIT: On another note, how annoying is it that all the cool boys are taken?

#EDIT: Also, they need to invent a function that allows you to retract an sms from being sent out because you were only half-thinking (although the sentiments were genuine) and it was too late when you realize, oh fuck maybe that wasn't very appropriate. Resulting in an sms exchange that was awkward to the max which personally, made it ridiculous and hilarious but in all probability, I don't think the other person found it that way.

Lately, I've also been thinking about how I'm so limited/narrow in my interest. Which is design, obviously. Its just that I've been meeting new people and they're into this, and also this and this and what would I say? I'm really into graphic design.

What, that's it? Although I do love EVERYTHING about design. I love the sensitive treatment of typography, especially in recent issues of Vanity Fair.
And also in letterpress typography.

This one I found at Oh So Beautiful, a design blog I found today with a great focus on all things paper and beautiful.

And packaging design, motion graphics and the crafting of intent that comes with advertising and branding. I wish I was really good at what I do though. There are amazing people out there and I think more than just to have a brilliant and clever idea, the other thing to scour for is recognition. Which is more than talent and skill, sometimes its just plain luck and connections.

Wow funny mousse birthday cake I had earlier is doing things to my digestive system now at 4:41 A.M. Selective and sporadic lactose intolerance, YOU SUCK.

more from the holga

Kulai, Malaysia. (not that its recognizable anyway ha)




near Tash's




Tanjong Pagar Railway Station, early morning Singapore

I have massive gap time between posting up completed work. This was part of a book project for my 2D class at the end of my foundation year. It was crazy stressful, but you know, I do miss working with the print press, and being more crafty. Lament, lament!

Speaking of crazy stressful, that is one thing i REALLY should be right now but I'm not lol. I'm completely in a state of denial and negligence, and I've never cut my deadlines/progress this close before. Its a puzzling lack of urgency.

I hope you will be pleased with the cleaned-up blog layout, I spent the night pushing around html code without even fully understanding it ha, but I think it looks much more orderly now AND MOST IMPORTANTLY: huge space for pictures.

Like this one -



One of the nicer shots I got from the train ride back from malaysia. I took the railway with anisha and tash, and it was a series of almost-misadventures which made for interesting times ha. More on that later, am supposed to be studying astronomy. Among many other things that need to get done.

Early morning at Red Hill

Its been a long while, photo-wise! Some of the photos come from damaged negatives when i messed up processing the film (still have no idea how it happened lol) but luckily it was for my experimental photography class..what a convenient excuse lol


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punched holes in the negative for this one

I need to sleep. My skin looks like shit. Soon I will look like him!

Made this collage for typography class, which eh, I'm quite okay with la. Not really to my taste, but people seem to like it.





































Much prefer the original picture.

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Jump in for pictures from an awesome fake actionsampler and a holga mistake! :D
Also this is the second time I sent the film for normal processing and this time round, I really like the softer colours. Think I'll be giving cross-processing a break for awhile ha


Holga film: Kodak Porta 160

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Not sure whether its the scanning that's off or my camera that's doing this abrupt framing. Shall investigate! These happens to be my mum's favourite flowers and currently, the prettiest bit of our balcony.

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Scanned, greyscaled and inversed! See the overlapping? Yup that's cos I forgot I was using the 12-shot mask and not the 16 -.-
I think it looks kinda better as a whole series than as individual shots though

Would you have guessed that this was Boon Lay, Singapore! Gorgeous, and part of the reason why I really don't feel bad about staying in NTU. I really do think the campus is quite beautiful.

Eh I guess you might not be able to see the awesome colour due to the pictures being on the small side. Boo. So click the pictures to enlarge. At least one, promise! The light is amazing.

Here's some of the cool stuff I've been doing in my Experimental Photography class. We've been working with pinhole cameras and alternative printing processes which means all that fun in the darkroom with chemicals hurrah

To be fair, a few of the pictures here were digital files which were then converted into film negatives and then fiddled with using Chemical X, Y and Z, so it still counts right :D

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Above three - digital file, printed with Van Dyke process



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My only regret about taking this class is that it means I won't be able to take it again in the future, damn. I would love to work and try out this medium for a much longer time than what the four months in a semester allows..

A roll that turned out a bit more successfully than my previous one - thank you recent singapore sun :D

This first one was shot through a bus window that had an anti-glare filter on the glass, which I think is what caused the awesome aqua tint. So hurrah, save money no need to buy/make filters, use our public transportation!
















Despite the lack of pretty colours, I actually like this one a lot because its the kind of atmospheric moodiness that I've always been trying to capture with my holga.


Also I think at this point, my photos have mainly experimented on the aesthetic side of what the holga is capable of. Time to introduce some content and meaning, no?