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Finally updating; yesterday I gave this to a long lost friend and a Instagram friendship I took offline. We spoke of mutual friends and art materials, and we spoke of our biggest dreams. On it’s way!

Anyway I do owe everyone a post about what I use in calligraphy - I will do soon.

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hello!! (: you're really talented and your handwriting is really nice (: may i ask what pens you use to do your artwork? thanks a lot!! have a great day (:

Hello! Thank you dear! I’m currently still very new and using literally any pen that looks good - there’s not too much rocket science about buying a new pen really :p

So for the recent one on happiness, those were ikea markers. The kind with the cone sort of nib. But I often also use a Leonardt No. 41 with the oblique nib for caligraphy, sometimes water color,there really isn’t any hard & fast rule! Hope that helps :) When I'm a bit freer I'll probably do a more comprehensive post :)

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One of those treasured midnight chats with the boyfriend. 

"I think your passion is in crafting and drawing. I think you really like it."

"But no one truly appreciates craft here. Nobody wants to pay you for the time you put into it. And I'm a very typical Singaporean who thinks about what's going to go into my/our mouths first."

"Yes I know. But you're really only happy when you do that."

I think I've spent a lot of my life explaining away why I never wanted to do art. But even I've realized, if I'd had a really bad day the only thing that could really make it better would be drawing. 

The dream. I probably should realize it soon. 

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Twenty grand, one month.

So here I am sitting in school at 7 in the morning with the breeze in my face. This has got to be one of the best I've ever felt in a while - being alone, Coldplay in my ears. So a friend was wondering whether once my thesis was submitted I'd be an unofficial graduate, no way man, there's still lots to do. And then she said my masters felt fast... NO! IT WASN'T! I feel like screaming.

But it's okay. We have another 121 days till school ends, and 146 to Christmas. Persevere.

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Things the boy says.

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Pointless conversations with the boyfriend #2

K: where are you?

J : toilet.

K: which one? (In vivo)

J: the male one.

K: =.=

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Pointless conversations with the boyfriend #1

K: where is he from?

J: Malaysia

K: where?

J: Malaysia.

K: where ..?!

J: Malaysia la!!!!

K: where la!! Malaysia very big you know, not like singapore.

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i've been typographying...

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Yesterday,

Lately I've been having these flashbacks of what life used to be before, and I do miss some things I left behind in the past.

I miss midnight ice cream and bak chor mee dates. I miss Friday evenings at MDS followed by long strolls from Jalan Berseh to Esplanade. I miss getting sweaty from wandering new lands, bashing through mini-forests before dawn, hours and hours of walking. Days of running through the school building close to midnight to catch the last bus 10. Mostly, I realized I just miss being out and about exploring, taking photos, and playing music, and then curling into bed with a novel at the end of the day. Someday they'll be back.

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At wits end.

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Mah blog is FIVE! I can't believe this!

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I need out.

I need a holiday!

But then again, I'm the audacious lazy girl who asks for a holiday when I spend most of my time eating good dinners, and watching youtube, and drawing giraffes... instead of studying. Pffff, focus.

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"Sunsets facing westward & sand beneath my feet." - Sara b. Went running for the first time in eons. Caught this sunset and took a photo. There.

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2 weeks of sheer madness I haven't even opened my stack of angpows. But I am THANKFUL. For the busy profs & supervisor who have taken time to critique my methodology & look through my materials; my friends & family who had to entertain me and my numerous ODD-one-out judgements; @acsy89 who made 600 pictures appear in my Dropbox like magic; @stalj who did the pretty pictures (I wish all the line drawings on google were this good). The night is still young & there's much to be done, but now it's time to concise. One must learn to REST. Recess week has arrived.

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I absolutely love the white walls and the lighting at the boyfriend's. And I like Dr Seuss. So there we go.

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Thesis musings.

"It's getting so complicated! Please do this for your PhD." - Acad sup "Ahhh, why didn't I do this for my PhD?" - Clin sup "Why don't we speak the same languages?" - Me

Sometimes the thesis work can really get quite overwhelming, when the looming deadline is this wednesday and so much has to be (re-)done. But somehow at the same time I'm weirdly excited and can't wait for school work to be done to give way to my thesis...

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Dreaming a little bit:

* The best time to go to Nepal is October to November, and December can get a little cold.

* Anytime between September to early April is good for seeing Northern lights in Greenland. There are greenland northern lights tours.

*Non-summer times (September-May) are good for visiting the Sahara Desert

*April-May is spring in Israel, but apparently October-December are not to bad times too.

*I blame the Secret Life of Walter Mitty for this. It is a fabulous show by the way.