Roar for Tiger

I made this little post-it to support the WWF - Roar for the tiger campaign.

Submit one yourself too!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful dad!

He is the world most wonderful dad to me. He has taught me so many things and he always love me no matter what I do. I wish so much to be there to celebrate his bday with him.

p.s: This was supposed to go up on the 4th of November but due to internet problems I couldn't.

Back on Earth?

My best friend is the most amazing person I've ever met. I love her so much and I'm so proud of everything she does. Robo Octi is one of her genius creation. Unfortunately, at the moment, publishing of this comic series is not available but I can tell you, you'll just roll on the ground and laugh your shoes off.

I've just received photos from "The Reminders" project and I'm up in sky of happiness to see how wonderful and how big it has grown on this part of Out2Studio. I left Eunice, as this is a collaborated project, before I left with a bunch of post-its I've done over the summer. We're hoping to fill up this space soon enough!

Come over and have a look guys!

Hollow

I haven't had time to blog for so long and I feel guilty about it. I made a promise to Eunice I would so now I'm writing about the past two months moving to London.

London is a good place when I start to settle down a little more.

On the first two months living here, there were up and down. I've made new friends and I've managed to catch up with school work. Fortunately, I have my own room here and it's quite a big room as well.

There are so much work to do, so much classes to attend. I've had my timetable changed three times. I'm continuing drums and participated in the inter-house music competition. Collinson won the classical ensemble where I played the tambourine and the audience's choice award where I played the piano to the mass singing - We're the kids in America. That's the highlight of my first term.

Life isn't perfect! I had a fight with someone for the first time in my entire life, cried for weeks because I miss Saigon and tried so hard to find free time in my timetable. I found more about what an actual high school would be like and how immature people can be. Given the fact that they're all younger than me, I wouldn't be surprise they are.

Yes! I'm enjoying art classes here. It's the only thing that I've actually look forward to all week. Although, there are lots of work to do and I've had to skip lunch to finish my h/w so that I have more time to do art. Drama classes are getting better too.

At the moment, I'm staying at a host family because it's term break. Sure to be going out and around London soon enough.

Miss you all in Saigon! London is good but it's not as great as Saigon!

The people here are okay and will never be as awesome as you guys!

(the photo above is part of my artbook so you know eventhough I haven't had time to do creative things I'm still doing something artsy!)

Farewell

Thurday was my farewell dinner. Tandoor served us superb dishes that still leave me drooling. It was a marvelous night and I get to spend it with all my dearest friends. There were laughters, hugs, kisses, teddy bears and cute drawings. I felt so grateful to know all these wonderful people. Later, we went over to Mojo where there was firework - Independence day!

There is more! Eunice had a sleepover at my house and we ate so much I thought we would never be able to breath again. Tea, shrimp rice crackers, cheetos, gummy and G-FORCE! The rest of that night and the next day we will kept to ourselves. Although, Paris Deli with Bobby and MLinh was something I must mention because awesome art was produced, left us feeling sick to our stomach for some reason.

It didn't struck me until the farewell dinner where I was a bit overwhelmed. Megan is really leaving. I left a few tears hanging that night and told myself - save it for saturday - because that's when she will be on the plane to Spain.

I've sewn together a book with all Megan's beautiful underwater photos a while ago. Last night, I can't stop staring at it and I thought to myself - if I'm just going to sit here and be upset, what good will it do? So I finally got my hand started on making a cover for it with whatever I have around. It's not the world perfect book but I'm happy that all my feelings are packed with it. I didn't cry and I'm so glad to see Megan's off to somewhere exciting with someone wonderful.

At Megan's bday dinner 21 August 2010.

See you soon Emu!

Happy

I had quite a fun day with Eunice, MLinh and Bobby. I came to school on early on saturday morning. They have started to work on a performance for the Moon Festival. I felt at ease watching. Later, the principal arrived with Apsara and Binky - the dog. I had to hold Binky for a while since he was so excited. Binky is an attention-seeker and he successfully distracted everyone from practicing. I picked up Sally's camera. It was good to start taking photos again so I took heaps of everyone until the point that they couldn't be bothered to hide their faces anymore.

Parkson was our next destination for a nice, cheap Japanese lunch. A friend of Bobby invited us to Casbah - a middle-eastern looking cafe hidden in an alley. I've heard of the place but never been there. For a while we sat, talk and laugh. Eventually Bobby and his friend had to go and we headed to Vincom. The decision was to reach Kito Cafe and sleep but we ended up talking up strange ideas. Uraitei seems to be a good place for us to enjoy a deliciously cracking dinner despite the hard rain.

And there were some life-time embarrassment that I can't tell. Dinner was great though and the photo above is a proof of how happy we were!

A N X I O U S.

I've been waiting on my feet all this summer just for something to happen.

Anxious.

So far there a few things are moving along with my visa application. I have submitted it and have my photo and finger prints taken after 10 times, back and forth at two different embassies. Sitting around make me anxious. I have also applied to UCA hoping to get a place. It's incredibly difficult to stay calm on my bare feet. I don't know where I'm moving toward. Is my life really taking a new leaf or am I just here stuck with no direction and purpose?

My life is on the hang meanwhile people are moving along with their lives. My friends are going to school, my sister is applying for university and even my baby cousin has started talking all day, walking and smiling a lot. I'm still right here where I've seated for the past 2 and a half months.

I watched series and movies of a year worth because I thought I won't have time anyway to during the year. I drew and design little things. I hangout with friends, go shopping, sent out my UCA application and constantly running to get visa documents done as required. Once all of that ran out, I read books and I mean a high pile of books. Now I have nothing to do and no desire to. I need to be inspire by life and I need something exciting to happen.

Finally broke down for a moment and that was such a relieve. I can feel most of the weight is gone. I'm still one step away from finally getting rid of this anxious feeling.

May be good things happen to good people. At the moment that's all I can dare look into.