Impending D-Day
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Got an excuse to bring my camera on Wednesday afternoon, with phototaking for our class finally gettting underway. Before that however, our GP teacher was leaving. The third one to be exact, so the next will be the whooping fourth. He always wore a long sleeved shirt and taught with an impeccable vocabulary. We had a farewell cake for him, and Cheryl, Shermaine and I made a card for him.
He
(Mr. Soh) was genuinely surprised at the cake from our class, it being his first time teaching, and a short one at that. He would've gone back to his University by now, York. Sounds pretty prestigious.
Here's our Gp class, with only a handful of my classmates and the majority from S29, our neighbouring class, after being segregated when my first
(read; horrendously shitty) teacher left.
Look closely at the card, lotsa stuff are pop out, like the book, pen, chalk, fonts, among others. P:
After the cake cutting and gorging, we hurried down to the audi for the shoot, with my nearly all of my class guys hogging the mirror making sure every strand had a perfect lusture of wax. Since when did guys get so vain? I ruffled another friend's hair once, only for him to scold the F word and ignore me for the rest of the day. Despite the thick wax layer holding everything in place. Jeez what a bunch of self centered ______.
Sorry, digressed too much. So before the shoot, we donned ties and took some pictures. Some specially for the retainees, some with their own cliques.
I found the photog member in charge really shoddy in her capturing. Shaved off legs, non-centralized, half a curtain half a wall.
A tripod coulda done better.
We shot these after that, but with a rushed shooing of our class for the next group, we had to leave soon.
I didn't think the chair was gonna get in the way and mar part of this pic. :/
We headed home shortly after, while I left after dinner for Cheryl's place to mug. I need consultation all the time, so it's become more productive to study with others. Later in the night, she showed me something she made earlier on.
I thought it was really intricate, but her cup was brown, so this is the
after, after advising to add a tracing paper for a more realistic look. Just look at the miniature size. The whipped cream with caramel was done with tissure paper and marker.
Then she asked me to make a takeaway bag, so this is the combined frappe takeaway :D She also made a card for her uncle recently, Her improvisation of materials were unique. Flip out cards aren't feasible anymore.
I don't have many works to display, but here's one I did recently for Sabrina, who likes Froot Loops. Not a very sharp picture, but it's 3D.
E learning was on Thursday, nothing much about it, but the waking up late in the morning was good for a change. More to come of it next week.. Teachers day celebrations on friday, and four of our classmates performed. I couldn't get any good pictures, but it was much much better than any of my secondary school's concert. Some of us left for lunch at Changi Village for a change, while others had secondary school outings.
One hearty meal later, with a Hokkien Mee a tad too sweet for my liking, we milled about the shops. How some can make a living in these derelict shophouses with merchandise so vintage piques my curiousity. And not the unique vintage type, but the sort more of hoarded then treasured. I switched to sepia for this shot, the last of this post. This dead town can give me the heebie jeebies. Especially chalet K.
The one week of stress is inevitably closer, a five day work week of papers that won't make, but can break, anyone. One last week for preparations, this hurdle is but one of many, except the prelude to the largest. Here we go..
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