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its the 9am in the morning... i was gonna wake up at 10am to do a drawing necessary as poster...

however once again im rudely awakened but some idoitic situation.



im very fustrated but things such as this...



today my brother was gonna be a few minutes late for sch and he refused to go. and u noe why? cos the school threatened that reciving four late records would grant a studet caning. im really bothered that my brother is afraid of sch...



wasnt the concept of secondary/primary school to have a child learn and develop necessary skills and find his/her passion in carreer? i dun think developing fear and a detest for studying is something a sch shld be offering...



maybe in defence the sch might say, being puntual is an attribute that every student shld aquire and have... and they might go on to say how necesary it is in the working world. but i say its crap... sure its important to be punctual... but more importantly, is for the sch to instill a desire to learn which im sure that superceeds wat ever mambo jumbo "mottos" the sch might want to hold on to... we go to sch to learn to learn and not learn to be the topdog...



i hate the society's systems... its rubbish.



and on the point of being punctual, im sure the members of the disciplinary committee who have so wilfully decided on such a "law" to be passed are most of the times late themselves... common, a singaporean never late? unheard of. i think its absolutely foolhardy... if any of u teachers of my brother dare pat urself on ur backs, let it be a pat to ur deaths.



jus dun think its right this way... ARGGGG! hell... jus not the right wat to live...

enuf said.



2 art lectures and ive gone thro impressionsm and modernism(expressionism, fauvism, cubism). indeed as the times turn cosmopolitan and metropolitan, the amount of pressure one recieves throughout a life time grows steadily. pent up fustration's and carefully conceled anger instilled with in many who dwell in the city...



i prefer the darker paintings... the ones that speak of a love of life yet wif morbid expectations...



wif impressionsm i think van gogh is fantastic... whilst his use of colour is often complementary and bright, he manages to evoke a sense of emptyness and loss of hope... turning brightness into a glare and the ability to put so much of his present feelings/thoughts in to his paintings is absolutely remarkable. i mean how does one concieve to do such?!



edvard munch during the times of expressionism fits the term "expression" accurately. his works are mostly characteristically dark and morbid, said to be a reflection of his less than fortunate childhood. "the scream", prolly his most popular piece, is one that effectively evokes a response in its audience. i think the ability to paint such takes much more than the ability to paint photolike pictures...



i used to think that photo quality paintings were the most dfficult to achive and absolutely fantstic (prolly cos my father expeced me to learn such when my mother enrolled me into drawing class). now i think they are difficult to do and not worth the effort... after all if one paints, its shld speak more than wat a mechanised box wif a pinhole can do.



last, but certainly not least is cubism... in the lecture we were only introduced to pablo picasso and his works that fit into cubism. i think cubism is awesome and very fun to do... i feel its alot like deconstrution or atleast the process is rather similliar. drawing more than one facard of a subject in one's painting is intersting and since the paintings ride on a concept rather than a style, i like it so much more.



yup i love art class... wish my brother loves his class too.

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havent touched blogger in a while... actually i have put quite a bit of things to do on hold... theres jus so many thing i wanna do b4 i get stuck doing national service.

ive got to do pics of jerusalem but not b4 i finish up wif the 2 sets of assignments i hav to do for church. then theres my rpgs that i wanna complete... on top of that are countless festivals along wif shopping needs. which is not all since i still wanna attend a class in sch and redo my html template.

well... its not wat a working person wld deem busy... and indeed im not at all tied up, jus that i wanna enjoy doing every one of these things ive put up for myself to do... and yea i almost forgot ive got to catch up on quite a bit of sleep...



havent felt like blogging very much either. in refrence to my penultimate entry, turns out that most pple either dint read it or were fine wif wat i said... all but one of my "frnds" who got really offended when he read between the lines and found something offensive in my writeing that i did not intend to leave... well even after confrontation he's still givin me the cold shlder... and yea, its a he im refering to. is my english that bad? really this isnt the first time ive encountered such a misunderstanding frm wat i typed... but never on my blog... jus make me feel reluctant to refresh the page sometimes... well i guess since toes have already been crushed, theres not much turnig back now... weird how pple can be angry wif u but not dare to explain their reasons for it, while all the time saying how important ur frndship is to them... weird... or isit jus me. aii...



its rather fustrating, prolly the reason y i like rock music so much... kinda beat the fustration in to tunes...



i havent talked abt this matter in a while... somtimes jus feel like bustring out curses and swears... but i suppose time will tell wat the hell is going on... i think i need to talk to God... aii...



well at least a journal is meant for writeing watever's on my mind... rite? if u think its offensive dun read it. it really was meant to be a personal thing. im not hollywood and i dun always write nice and crownd pleasing entries... yea and forgive the typos im in no mood to spell check.



i hope ill hav less entries like this one

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never heard drums like yoshiki's... i mean hav u heard the beats on his drum?! its mind blowing!... never heard anything close to such devotion in music... hav u heard it? hav u?!!!!!!



im sooo hooked on X-japan, jus found out today how fantastic they were... haha im alittle late in finding out, but stilll im very hooked... its 3:40am, its raining outside, cool inside but i cant sleep! rusty nail and blue blood are jus too addictive... up till now ive heard that pair 3times over...



really gets ur adrenaline pumping... the drums are jus out of this world.



and yoshiki, the guy who plays the drums, is not the only one who give their music a cutting edge... toshi, on vocals, is jus utterly unique... his voice, a gift... simply fantstic! very sonorous, makes him sound like a choir rather than jus one man... guitarists pata and hide are a unbeatable pair... and the sound of the eletric-guitar is ever-beautiful. their solos never dissapoint.

its jus that the drumer, being so unique and matchless, steals most of the limelight...



u never heard j-rock till uve had X japan.

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its been a while since ive loged... sux cos i cant see my own page and i wanted to change the layout and template for the new year... well until blogger does something to correct that glitch, ill be blogging blind...



recap...

birthday dinner was great, really... my mom did jus abt every thing... first time in years that i actually got presents, wraped up from so many at one go...



note abt the presents - all of u prolly when thro a mindboggleing time wilst tryin to get me somehting that i wld actually take a liking to... sorry abt being all skeptic and fussy, but i am... and some of u hav been asking me if i like ur presents... well its not easy to please edwin so dont worry abt that part... i appreciate the time put in to get my gifts... but im still fussy...





my mom sent me to israel so it really is the best gift.



my brother go me a tomy toy car. its a forklift wif moveable forks... cool. like it lots and my brother rocks.



fred got me the lighter/match thing and i love it... i jus keep striking it... so fun! actually he gave me this amano watercolour book, im not a big fann of amano but i wanna learn watercolour so its good timing.



alina came down all the way to pass me my present... its a book and suposed to be helpful and all but i really dun like reading... still i will try to read it! and she even gave me a boot! of chocolates that is...



linn gave me this bottle of issey miyake, which is abt the only perfume ild ever use... but i hardly use perfumes... gotta learn to start sprayin. she gave me chocolates too... which is like alot! man... i humbly accept and sorry u dint get cake.



to the 3pple who got me the totoro, meiyun, rina and bern... aii... wat were u thinking?... its a nice gesture and i noe u thought really hard but in truth, its not my kinda thing?... thanks for going thro the trouble, and its definately better than the water colours... but aii...



adel and jeremy gave me royce chocolates and a lasagne which was good cos i really like food... still i pref hard gifts to edibles but im really happy i requested for that lasagne. =)



my older couson gave me leonidas chocolates... that makes 4 boxes already... hohoho chocolate everyday!



zixi gave me a mug, i like the mug... ive been wanting a mug of this shape for a while. the print isnt somthing ild go crazy abt but it suits the mug fine.



haha mandy gave be a piggy bank... first ever! its sitting in my pc now rite beside the gundam wing. ive gotta learn to start saving... and yea its cool thanks.



janice gave me a tin of cookies... famous amos... really good and aromatic... but i dun like dried fruit.... ate em all anyway, jus this once.



edmund and jiamin gave me a tee... erm... if i scruntinised the tee edmund wld be offended. did jiamin pick it? kinda looks like jiamin's choice. well thnks i guess, but i like the starscream more.



cherly geve me a sketch book... its got this velvet cover! i tot i was like some travel cluedo or somthing but a sketch book is better. i jus hope i actually learn to draw soon.





alrite ive stepped on eunf toes.







actually it really is/was more imporatant that u all came down and to celebrate my birthday...

thank u all for takin the trouble and comming down even on such and important day of celebrations...

it was really crutial that u all came since i invited very little and there really wont be a birthday if u guy dint make it.

the presents were jus icing on the birthday cake and icing is always good.... i like all the gifts i got because in them is embedded wat u think of me and that i actually exist in ur lives... really that is most important... the above scrunity is base only upon the product and not the gifts so pls dun mix up the 2. i dint.



thanks, u all hav made this birthday most mermoriable.