i feel like

vomiting so bad and hard just by looking at some slutbag uttering some whore comments over facebook.

"so... when are you gonna rock with your cock? i wanna see"?

wow. by a girl? on a public social platform? this is repulsive. really dead repulsive. i wonder where that places her in society? a whore?

2 words: MAGNIFICENTLY unbelievable. someone's got the balls.
can't imagine this sort of shit on someone else's boyfriends wall. let alone my boyfriend's wall.

scum. seriously. scum.

iphone pic dump for the week

my pile of image dump coming straight from my iphone.

from helping shawn with his exhibition setup, to attending the exhibition opening, to having coffee with a bunch of friends, having ice milk tea hong kong style at a tea house round the corner, to saturday brunch at a quiet curry house hideout at dempsey road to just chilling out on my couch with my dog and sketching away.

whats next, weekend? ♥

do andriods dream of electric sheep?

shawn is part of "do andriods dream of electric sheep?" exhibit happening at substation.

was there this evening helping him put up his work, and managed to catch sneaks of whats install tomorrow. it's going to be pretty rad, i would say. so come on down seriously. and if you can, make it down tomorrow! as there's gonna be an opening party.

▲ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ▲

Venue The Substation, 45 Armenian Street

Day & Time 25 Nov, Wed, 8.00 onwards (exhibit ends on 1 Dec, Tue, 8.00pm)

should i pack up and leave this little island of uncertainties and dismay or should i stay in hopes of everything changing, and i might just be okay.

"Balancing Act" by Walter Wick

from illustrativo.com.

Turning the Place Over - Richard Wilson, 2007

Turning the Place Over - Richard Wilson, 2007 from Liverpool Biennial on Vimeo.
" The most daring piece of public art ever commissioned in the UK, Turning the Place Over is artist Richard Wilson's most radical intervention into architecture to date, turning a building in Liverpool's city centre literally inside out. One of Wilson's very rare temporary works, Turning the Place Over colonises Cross Keys House, Moorfields. It runs in daylight hours, triggered by a light sensor.

Turning the Place Over consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the façade of a building in Liverpool city centre and made to oscillate in three dimensions. The revolving façade rests on a specially designed giant rotator, usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, and acts as a huge opening and closing 'window', offering recurrent glimpses of the interior during its constant cycle during daylight hours. "

visit liverpool biennial to read full article.

looking forward to the weekends...

been sick and down with a bad throat or rather tonsillitis to be exact. anyways, nothing too fancy about my week this week. been caught up with work and a bad throat. and exhausation, i guess. looking forward to the weekends...

trying to make it through

holy shit.

i've been having less than 6 hours sleep each night. got work piling up. part from that i have a shitload of dishes, that piles up every evening, courtesy of my generous dish-using mother and sister. got my load of laundry to wash and iron. plus my room to clean. if that isn't enough. i have to do a shity fucking portfolio to apply for art school. holy fuck. i only have 24 hours a day.


shit.
fuck.

i just want everything to burn in hell now.

god send me help.
i need it so much.

x,
d

sunday is iPhone day

indeed, sunday is iPhone day for shawn and i. shawn picked up the tabs for 2 iphones. why of course, one of them sets is mine! a pre-birthday present, he says. lol. so that makes us both, finally, iPhone owners. iPhone 3Gs. awesome indeed. am liking the camera with the auto focus so far. unlike the iphone 3G with the fixed focus that takes a heck load of blur shots. can't wait to take it to work tomorrow! :D

freebord wednesday

well well, it's a wednesday once again. but kinda have something nice to post about today..

i kinda posted this "36 Skaters Make Downhill Neon Video Game" alittle while back. now, good people from freebord, rather jessica from freebord, bumped me up with their making of vid. awesome ain't it? i mean who doesn't wanna know what goes behind the making of a rad video, aye? 'cos i do! :D

anyways, here it is!



know more about freebord here!

a roll of film for monday

 finally got my roll of film developed. a little disappointed to know that some of the other shots i took of friends did not appear due to overexposure or under exposure. but still excited with the whole effect thing going on. :) enjoy! more at my flickr's holga page.

kult magazine: artificial

about a month ago, my boyfriend, shawn (xotl) was cordially invited to do up an art piece and be featured in indie magazine, kult. the theme: artificial. exciting, ain't it? so hurry up! go around town and try hunting yourself a copy!

for more info, visit www.kult.com.sg/artificial.

Baidi

BAIDIR
by slimTUGG

an animation teaser video by Charles Lefebvre / Thierry River / Slimane Aniss. its beautiful, makes me anticipating for it. more info, http://www.baidir.fr.

come to think of it, i was a computer graphics student, wasn't i? i wonder where did all my animation and drawing skills gone to? down the drain, perhaps? lol.

 

 

headed out for smokes and shisha/hookah with a great friend of mine, gladys, who just returned from melbourne, australia (gladys is this awesome friend i have from school, we used to take plenty and plenty of smoke breaks together and hah, complain about everything under the goddamn sun). we had plenty of smokes making us feel  like awesome-ly fat pompous caterpillars sitting on nice fluffy mushrooms. *thinking of that fat caterpillar from alice in wonderland* all that smoke and shisha last night just makes me wanna dig into nicer healthier food today. can't wait to visit gladys' crib next year. she's gonna be moving to a bigger apartment, and i bet there's going to be a big shisha sitting in her apartment living room. lol. awesome, aye? :D

people change
till you don't recognize them anymore regardless of how long you have known them for.

pretty much all i have in my mind for a wednesday.

tong shui cafe

my little sister and i headed out for a nice evening snack over at Tong Shui Cafe, Bukit Timah which was just round the corner of our house. it was cosy. the deco was rather loud and all over the place. but you kind of got the geez of it that its a Hong Kong style cafe.

we had nissin noodles with sunshine eggs and ham with special fishcake, lotus leaf rice dim sum, crazily cheese-y fries which was really very veryy cheesey. seriously generous serving of cheese, which we LOVE so very much. oh, not forgetting delicious hong kong milk tea to boot. the food was pretty good, authetic hong kong. the place was just nice to hang around at to chit chat and have tea/ yum cha anytime of the day. just wished they could skip those mandarin songs for canto-pop. that would have completed the whole HK vibe.

the price is pretty average, i would say an average of 10-25$/ head? there's a +7% for GST/ tax, and another +10% service charge to take note of. our bill totaled up to 23.65$ (pickles, wet towels, a bowl of their recommended soup noodles, one lotus leaf rice tim sum dish, a cheese fries side snack and 2 cuppa hot milk tea) inclusive of tax and service charge. a lot of top favorites recommended on the menu. kind of tempted us to come back for more, which we will!

wet rainy weather, awesome and warm food, a lot of nonsense yakking. great remedy to rid off that wet monday blues.

sunday of flea and shopping

sunday was interesting. after a long while, i managed to catch up with my mom and my little sister for lunch at a nearby authentic japanese restaurant for lunch. then headed down to the singapore flyer where there's a flea market going on, picked up a couple of stuff. before heading down to orchard road for more shopping! heck of a workout.

managed to pick up some stuff for work, like a lovely purple tube dress from the flea. a nice sunny yellow dress for a sunday out, a nice flowery halter tube top from a little boutique. and a nice cashmere cardigan from japanese store, Muji. picked up a couple of other little knic-knacs from the flea, some cosmetics over the shu uemura counter, and free endless admiration of nice glizzy jewelery as we strolled down the shopping stretch.

simply can't wait for the next sunday to come. :)

Born and bred in Singapore, XOTL (Shawn Lim) is a freelance graphic designer currently pursuing a BFA in Visual Communications at NTU's School of Art, Design and Media.

Though in the midst of his studies, XOTL has managed to work on a range of projects such as print, set design, art installations, and graphic design for clubs, magazines and promotional materials.

XOTL enjoys engaging in various styles and work medium for a challenge. And is always available for freelance work and collaborations.

a short write up for my boyfriend, shawn who is going to be appearing at Design Fest Singapore this year. more info., found here.