HELLO.: August 2008

and dressed to go to nj, supposedly to help tear down the coursework stuff, all the mouldy gummy bears and stuff. to take a break from adm life.

it felt good to finally be able to wear my white dress after such a long time of suppression, in the name of practicality. i figured that it was how pple putting on their sunday dresses for church felt. had mac for breakfast! ild not eaten hotcakes so early in the morning(and not late at night, my definition of night) for a very long time. it was zen.

turned out mrlee wasnt there in school, but what's new haha. so i dint have to take down the furry gooey mouldy bears by myself, thank goodness. he said he'ld do it instead. AND THEY SAID WE STILL CANT HAVE OUR PREP BOARDS. shoot.

finding ourselves ( juice winnie kev xinni rfan me) having nothing to do even after a looooong chat with mslu and mschan on their duty at the geeral office, we made our way down to cityhall to meet shich for lunch at theSOUPSPOON. somehow everyone started taking out cameras and shooting everything. shich had her dslr and her 2d assignment, i was also trying to do shich's assignment(so interesting okay), joyce had her d9, xinniandkev melting into a single organism and watching us, and winnie, EVIL SOLDIER WINNIE, WAS ALL THE WHILE POISONING US ALL TO GET THE INSTAX.

and,so, being the easily amused and super gullible crowd that we were, we did. we even went shop to shop, trying to haggle the prices down as one big group, before finally having kev juice and me negative one hundred bucks and positive one instant cam each.

then, as if we were all shocked at the mass impulse buy, we scattered.

and polaroids, like gachapon, are just so damn addictive!

nice blue! 8D

rfan and me are giving weird expressions haha. in shich words: eh wah lao shich! lol. damn strange my face shape.

dont ask me why she was doing this.

i was after that particular blue in paul smith's shop window, which the cam dint quite manage to get, but i think the photo turned out rather nice in another way somehow. the reflection is not in the actual picture. because the film is too ex for me to afford to snap freely, i have decided to take only one pic each day. a dollar a day sounds lesser than a whole lot of film at once. so i have three days taken up already i guess. next polaroid on tuesday, sounds exciting already! point and shoot! i like. books today:

finished this one about japanese subculture and their fashion while travelling around today, its amusing to look at, and some pple in there really have their own distinctive sense of style, ungoverned by fads.

i was so impressed by this hairdressing student's sense of style, with an obvious mix of influences. so cool. this other book i just started reading, introduces japanese haute couture in relation to their traditional influences. the influence of the two-dimensionality of the kimono on the treatment of the space between the clothes and the human body was mentioned quite a few times. i never knew what we know now as street fashion actually had their roots as art, with quite some depth in concept.

very informative for me, and most importantly extremely inspiring! i feel emotionally recharged already.

i love this image.

i find this series of work, 'The Wizard of Jeanz", by designer hiroaki ohya, really interesting! it is a collection of books that open out and tranform into very wearable clothes, and alludes to the relationship between the "transitory nature of fashion", and the "permanency of books as objects that can transport ideas". more from him here.

yeah. i should visit the school library more.