This is crazy. A website totally dedicated to shopping sales:
"shoppingNsales will bring you the current sales, best deals, shopping bargains and warehouse sales in Klang Valley, Malaysia.
We are dedicated to find the best bargain, to hunt down the greatest deal, source all warehouse sales events and place it up here for all of you.
Malaysia is a fantastic Shopping Destination, and we hope that with all our effort put in, you will enjoy the shoppingNsales Blog. And like all good things, please don’t keep it to yourself, do share it with everyone. :) "
So the "about us" on the website tells me.
This is not good for me. My eyes light up every time I see a "Sales" poster and I lose all control of my legs. Ask Myen. He had to literally drag me away from every shop during the Mega Sales Season.
And then I found this website!! Totally unhealthy for my purse and my sanity XD I find myself jotting down every sales I want to go in my little organiser, planning ahead every month and thinking up victims I can drag down with me.
Well, shopping IS fun. Indulge me ;)
shoppingNsales
Monday, September 22, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
3-3 Illustration Exhibition
Oh man, I'm behind schedule for, like, 8 months XD
This is the exhibition of our class, 51st batch of Dasein Academy of Art, 3rd year 3rd batch of the year 2007 (I totally forgot how to address our class properly = =). Our theme was "忆 " (memories), sort of like a stroll down memory lane, the 3 years of our college lives connected with our younger selves. Anyway it was our graduating exhibition, a showcase of our work from the 3 years in college.
The preparation:
A gruelling week of work ><
The exhibition:
This was what greeted everyone on their way into the main exhibition. A play on light and shadow by Ah Lee Sing Ling.
Please forgive stupid me in the picture. Proceed to admire our work.
Ah Lee with his tree depicting the polluted state of our world.
Leong Mei Lee with her fashion design. Made totally out of paper and plastic.
A corner was given to another class for their work. (8 months...I totally forgot which class =.= I'm so sorry)
A closer look:
The rest of our exhibition:
The gang (minus a Kelvin that was sick on that day =.=):
From the back: Me, Mei Lee, Kevin
Front: Evyan, Ah Lee
For those of you who came, thank you very much! For those of you who couldn't come, I'm so sorry you couldn't make it T T
Introducing - The Book Design Review
Found two fantastic websites on book cover designs. You know how it is when you walk by a stack of books and found yourself inexplicably drawn to a particular book just because its cover shouts out at you.
Book cover design is a huge task. More often than not a book sales because its cover attracts buyers. What makes a book cover design a great book cover design? I don't think I can explain. Hopefully by looking at a lot of great designs, I'll sub-consciously absorb whatever mastery there is and abracadra, alakazam - design my own better-than-mediocre book covers. Wahaha.
Wouldn't hurt to browse around in your free time, even if you're not in the designing field :)
The Book Design Review
Book Covers
Book cover design is a huge task. More often than not a book sales because its cover attracts buyers. What makes a book cover design a great book cover design? I don't think I can explain. Hopefully by looking at a lot of great designs, I'll sub-consciously absorb whatever mastery there is and abracadra, alakazam - design my own better-than-mediocre book covers. Wahaha.
Wouldn't hurt to browse around in your free time, even if you're not in the designing field :)
The Book Design Review
Book Covers
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Lilith
Before Eve, there was Lilith.
God created Adam and Lilith from the earth, and therefore were considered equals. Adam, with his man ego, demanded that Lilith be underneath him during intercourse. Lilith, enraged, cursed and flew away.
Adam complained to God, "The woman you gave me has run away!" Immediately God sent three of his angels - Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof - after Lilith. They found her beside the Red Sea, where she became a lover to demons, producing many demon children every day.
When told to return to Adam, Lilith refused. As punishment, a hundred of her children will die every day. In return, Lilith took revenge by harming newborn infants of the children of Adam. "I shall have dominion over baby boys for eight days after his birth, and dominion over baby girls for twenty days after her birth. However, if I see your names (the three angels) or your forms in an amulet, I will have no power over the infant."
And thus was Lilith brought down generations after generations, as a seducer of men, a symbol of lust, and the killer of children; the lover of demons, producer of chaos, and the mother of all demons.
The above was from a Jewish myth. The widely accepted version of the Bible does not include the tale. However, people have argued that Lilith was hinted early on in the Bible. Genesis 1:27 does state "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." This would not be Eve, as Eve was made out of the rib of Adam later on.
Personally, I am intrigued by this female called Lilith. Giving the old societies that look upon men as dominant and superior, a female like Lilith would have been frowned upon. A docile and less threatening female like Eve would have been prefered instead.
Take away the mythology parts of the legend, namely the demons, the angels and such, and you would be left with a story about a woman running away from her dominant husband with a huge ego, refusing to be treated as inferior. The mythology parts may have been added in as to demonize the attributes of woman that the big-headed males of that time thought undesirable.
Fast forward to the 19th century, where the feminist movement started to make waves. The women demanded equality, something that Lilith demanded from Adam in the first place. If there are people who take offense that I'm comparing them with Lilith the demoness, as she is widely known, I apologize. I, however, would rather like to think of her as the First Woman, the woman that we should have been but was cut down and shaped as Eve.
I found an article in which the writer tweaked the story of Adam, Lilith and Eve a bit. Couldn't find the website back but here's how it goes: Eve managed to climb over the gates of Eden to explore a bit, where she found Lilith waiting for her. The two woman chatted and influenced each other in their own ways, which left Adam puzzled over the changes he found in his usually docile Eve. A bit like Eve getting educated on feminism by Lilith.
As I was reading up as much as I could on Lilith, I also found this wonderful quote by an Armenian writer, Avetik Isahakyan: "But though Adam's lips said Eve, his soul always echoed Lilith." I guess that's why men always tend to stray.
God created Adam and Lilith from the earth, and therefore were considered equals. Adam, with his man ego, demanded that Lilith be underneath him during intercourse. Lilith, enraged, cursed and flew away.
Adam complained to God, "The woman you gave me has run away!" Immediately God sent three of his angels - Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof - after Lilith. They found her beside the Red Sea, where she became a lover to demons, producing many demon children every day.
When told to return to Adam, Lilith refused. As punishment, a hundred of her children will die every day. In return, Lilith took revenge by harming newborn infants of the children of Adam. "I shall have dominion over baby boys for eight days after his birth, and dominion over baby girls for twenty days after her birth. However, if I see your names (the three angels) or your forms in an amulet, I will have no power over the infant."
And thus was Lilith brought down generations after generations, as a seducer of men, a symbol of lust, and the killer of children; the lover of demons, producer of chaos, and the mother of all demons.
The above was from a Jewish myth. The widely accepted version of the Bible does not include the tale. However, people have argued that Lilith was hinted early on in the Bible. Genesis 1:27 does state "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." This would not be Eve, as Eve was made out of the rib of Adam later on.
Personally, I am intrigued by this female called Lilith. Giving the old societies that look upon men as dominant and superior, a female like Lilith would have been frowned upon. A docile and less threatening female like Eve would have been prefered instead.
Take away the mythology parts of the legend, namely the demons, the angels and such, and you would be left with a story about a woman running away from her dominant husband with a huge ego, refusing to be treated as inferior. The mythology parts may have been added in as to demonize the attributes of woman that the big-headed males of that time thought undesirable.
Fast forward to the 19th century, where the feminist movement started to make waves. The women demanded equality, something that Lilith demanded from Adam in the first place. If there are people who take offense that I'm comparing them with Lilith the demoness, as she is widely known, I apologize. I, however, would rather like to think of her as the First Woman, the woman that we should have been but was cut down and shaped as Eve.
I found an article in which the writer tweaked the story of Adam, Lilith and Eve a bit. Couldn't find the website back but here's how it goes: Eve managed to climb over the gates of Eden to explore a bit, where she found Lilith waiting for her. The two woman chatted and influenced each other in their own ways, which left Adam puzzled over the changes he found in his usually docile Eve. A bit like Eve getting educated on feminism by Lilith.
As I was reading up as much as I could on Lilith, I also found this wonderful quote by an Armenian writer, Avetik Isahakyan: "But though Adam's lips said Eve, his soul always echoed Lilith." I guess that's why men always tend to stray.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Hello Baby!
On 29 August 2008, the world welcomes the coming of my little nephew, the first grandson in the family.
His arrival came as a surprise to all of us as he is 2 weeks early. Scared the wits out of my family and especially his mama (my sister-in-law) XD. His papa (my brother) wasted no time in booking the next flight home as soon as he got the news.
This little guy will grow up to be a very lucky guy and a great time manager. Why? Because if he were to come 2 days late, his mama would be in Segamat, Johor, far far away from his designated hospital; come 1 day late, his mama's obstetrician would have gone on holiday; come 15 minutes late, there would be only me left in the house to drive her to the hospital (my parents would have left for their morning walks), which, as some of you may already know, is not really the best choice as a driver (plus I don't even know the way xd)
Anyway, this darling has arrived safely, and his mama is also recuperating well. His name is 温轩毅 and I thought I heard his papa saying his English name will be Joshua. Joshua is Hebrew in origin, and its meaning is "Jehovah is salvation". Baby is NOT Christian, but what the heck, the name sounds nice, I'll take it XD
Baby is an awful lot like his papa for now. He has beautiful black hair, long sideburns, and sleeps through the day just like his papa = =. He emits a high pitch sound in protest everytime we try to wake him up for his feeding, just like his papa growls whenever I try to wake him up from his sleep = = But baby has his mama's cute small mouth. I just hope he will have his mama's eyes too, big and beautiful. His papa's eyes are so small, so sepet (slanted) = = (I do wonder at times if he can see as much as we bigger eyes can XD)
Baby shares the same birthdate as Michael Jackson and Nicholas Tse from HongKong. That's pretty amazing. I'll bet he'll grow up to be a heartbreaker.
Here's wishing you a happy lifetime dearest nephew!
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