Yeah! My graduation campaign website is up!

Here

Please feel free to have a look at the public projects that we have done so far.

BTW the project that I participated in (I designed it btw lol...)is called Whitewash and is located in the alley between The One Academy and Face-to-Face noodle restaurant.It's a graffiti/mural project, so have a look at the shop walls.

Question.

Why do they call them "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers"?Shouldn't it be "Morphing"? Even if it was in the Japanesey way of pronunciation it would turn out to be "Morufingu"or something like that.

Someone at the translations department must have been high at the time...

And I heard Malaysia's censorship board wanted to cut out the Morphin part because it might make kids curious to try out the drug. Just in case it gives them super powers, you never know.

Yay! My namecards are here!!

I currently have 4 boxes of these. They are kind of like a boxtoy namecard, cos i wanted to represent 3D in 2D form. Hopefully the 'toy' part can con people into taking my cards. Only thing is that there are no perforated lines, so, yes, you have to cut the pieces out by yourself.(I don't think the printing company does perforated lines...unless you ask them to die-cut a row of tiny holes?)

And also...I learned hoe to knit! Learned from online. Didn't think that the knitting materials would be so expensive though, I think it's cheaper to buy knitted clothes from the stores.

This will hopefully turn out to be a scarf someday, though I think I overestimated the width to knit...so it's like 2 times too broad now. Nvm...I feel like making a Godzilla sized scarf. Hopefully it will look feminine, not frumpy in the end.

Next, song review



Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.
The original cast.
Sarah Brightman as Christine as MICHAEL CRAWFORD as the phantom. Yes, Michael Crawford, not Gerard Butler (who spoiled the movie version for me besides the fact that he has many girl fans. He doesn't believe in his character, I can tell.)

The whole thing's good,but prolly my favourite track is Masquerade. I dunno if it's just me, but I can visualise the whole choreography of this scene just from the music. Most probably it's due to Andrew Lloyd Webber's good composition skills and not my powers of visualisation (ahak)

Parts missing from the clip:
(Andre and Firmin, the Opera Directors)

Andre:M'sieur Firmin?(awed whisper)
Firmin:M'sieur Andre?
F:Dear Andre, what a splendid party!(congratulatory tone)
A:The prologue to a bright new year!
F:Quite a night, I'm impessed!
A:Well, one does one's best...
A/F:Here's to us!
F:I must say all the same that it's a shame that 'Phantom' fellow isn't here!

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OK, now play the Youtube clip and follow me...does this visualisation sound correct?

0:02: The Phantom is ironically already lurking in the crowd as the 'Red Dice'.
0:05 onwards: a crowd of celebrators, opera troupe conversation and Christine and Raoul's secret conversation about their marriage
2:45 :camera wanders thru the labyrinth of the opera house, the path that the Phantom took. Camera break out through a crowd of dancing revelers. Tilts up to bird's eye view of the celebration, and fireworks. Cuts to a crowd of paraders.
4:45 it is revealed that the Phantom is secretly overlooking the scene

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I also like the lyrics. The masquerade is like a metaphor for their human sins.
'Take your turn, take a ride on a merry-go-round in an inhuman race'

OK, book review.

Life if Pi, by Canadian author Yann Martel.

I read this book a couple of months ago actually, somehow I only got to reviewing it now.

Anyways, besides the fact that the book had won a couple of awards, someone I was watching on dA said that she liked the book too, so I was curious to read it.

The story is actually quite simple. An Indian boy called Piscine Molitor Patel (it starts with a long story about his family and his weird name, but anyways)is stranded on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, an orang utan, and a Bengal tiger whom he calls Richard Parker. One by one the occupants of the boat are attacked by the tiger until only the tiger and the boy survive. From there, Pi struggles to keep himself alive at sea.

Sure, if I was stuck at sea and I wrote a book about it, it would go something like this:"Sea everywhere. No food. And more sea everywhere. I hope the tiger dies. The End". But it's pretty interesting to read this book like in a Robinson Crusoe kind of way. But the best part is the open question at the end of the story. Who was Richard Parker actually?

But I won't write anymore in case I give the story away. You have to read it yourself to fully enjoy the story.

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Incidentally, another book recommended by a dA artist is also good. 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini, same guy who wrote The Kite Runner. I think the beauty of his writing partly is because no character is portrayed as totally evil or totally good, all of them have their reasons, and all of them feel human.

I haven't read The Kite Runner btw, so anyone who has the book, you know what should be done*hinthint*