Poor Artist...

The word "poor" is somehow always used to describe artist...
If not..."struggling" is equally popular.

WHY?

I was once again being reminded why today.

I went into an art shop to grab some materials today...

And the bill is $130.

While i try so DAMN hard to scrimp here and there to save a few cents and dollars in my everyday life...here I am...in 2 hours...spend over a hundred.

And the breakdown...

$32 for a canvas---> equals to approx. 6 days meals
$5 per acrylic tube x 10 tube ---> 10 days meals
$5 per 1kg clay x 6 pack ----> 6 days meals
$20 acrylic gel medium ----> 4 days meals

Equals to 26 days meals.

Meanwhile...I still have a whole chunk of material list....I guess I will have to spend another hundred over dollars before i am done...

I hope my investment is worthwhile...at least win a prize or two for my competition.
To convince me that all my effort is not a waste of time.

The Plan.

The Plan...is my plan.

The deadline is 35 years old.

I will finish my MFA by then.

HAve my own home...and had set up or start to set up my studio and is an active artist.

Able to support myself and my family financially with an art related job hopefully.

MArry myself off...to someone I love and love me.

hmm...I am dreaming again...

And the winning number is....

5...24....29...40...41...43......

special number....26

Most importantly....

I DID NOT win...

Time to wake up...and move on with reality.

Life is back to normal...

My family dogs...

Yaiyai and Leklek

CANON updates...

Mr Technician was here this morning ...

After a printer's "body" check up....he left...

WITH MY PRINTER.

According to Mr Technician...it was diagnosed to have a"motor failure"...
and needs to change to a new one.
Hospitalisation and surgery is required.

No apparent reason why the motor is NOT working...
NOT even a paper jam in the first place to trigger the failure..
It just doesn't work suddenly one fine day...

And so...I shall miss the printing sound of my CAnon ip5200....
Until it comes back next week...

Take care baby...
Get well soon...

TOTO's dream

Yeah!

My lottery's dream is working again...
I will be excited and high for the whole day everytime...
EVen if i din win...

This time...the amount is 6 million...
I remember the biggest excitement I had was £77 million...
which is $230million...
Although I did not win...
it keep me excited for weeks because it roll over for weeks...
I was happy enough then.

This time...I tell myself...
If I win...

1. Buy a landed property for my parents in singapore and prepare an amount for their retirement.

2. Buy a house for myself...renovated with my style...with a fully equipped art studio and kitchen...
A home library with super collection of books and stuff I like...

3. Sign up for YOGA and ceramics lessons...

4. Sign up for Ikebana and Chinese caligraphy lessons...

5. Start planning my travels...

6. Spend a good amount of money to stock up my art materials...

7. Publish my books and do exhibitions! Write scripts!

8. Start some small investments...maybe do a small art business...or open a small cafe or restaurant...

9. MAybe enjoy a while before I study my MFA.

10. Donate some amount to children's home and old folks home...

That's all...

Ah..happy :)

CANON after sales service.

I set my alarm to 8.45am.
To make sure I get my printer problem resolve.
CANON customer service helpline is 6799 8888 if you have a canon product which need servicing.

Was put on hold through various stage of my call...
but I am more then glad that I spoke to a human in the end to solve my problem.

An appointment is made promptly when a conclusion is made.

The technician say i have a "HARDWARE PROBLEM"

Which means technically IS NOT MY PROBLEM.


If 10 is perfect score to rate afterasales services, CANON score 8.5...(some score deducted because of waiting time...but service staff are friendly and prompt...very good)

(Compare to NEC-I gave 8.7, the last time laptop was damage, a courier came to my door step to pick up my lappy in glasgow and sent it off to France for servicing!??...came back in a week during the christmas season at my door step, prompt answering of my calls...and no question asked service...impressed!)

And so, the friendly technician of canon will come to my house to fix my printer on thursday...

Let's hope he can solve my problem....and it will be a bonus if he is cute.

Wish me luck!

Miss TecHno-JinX

Ladies and gentlemen...introducing Miss techno-Jinx---->ME.

Who else but me.
Always me.
Bloody hell, ME.

This is like the 3rd time this year.
And it is only May now.
The last HOHA was the CRAsh and the stupid vietnam virus...
Now...

It is my 2 month old Canon PIXMA IP5200.

Working beautifully when I bought it in MArch...
So dear that I couldn't bear to utilise the maximium capacity of it...
And always try to save ink by printing in grey scale most of the time...despite the fact that it can print up to... 2400x4800dpi full colour....and even your 8R photograph...
I feel DAMN proud of it until I keep telling everybody about it...


And so...the last time i print something was only like 2 days ago...
Everything seems fine...

Yet today....there is a strange error blink...around the power button...

That's it.

Error message 6A00

Followed by Error message 5110

And Heaven knows...what else error...

Went to Canon trouble shoot and support website...

Solving technical problem Step by step with the guide on the website....

After trouble shooting through all the possible ways to resolve my problem...

it finally brings me to POP UP WINDOW...

"CONTACT US-AT YOUR NEAREST SERVICE CENTRE"


That is SO helpful!


THAnk YOU so DaMn much!


By the way...it is 4.45am in the middle of the night.

I resign my fate....take down the customer service hotline...and wait for the sun to rise...


Dear Buddha, I notice I have been swearing a lot after I came back from my SEA trip...I promise I will control my vulgarity...please let my printer live...it is still young and not yet live it live to the fullest yet...at least...please let my IP5200 print some brilliant 8R COLOUR photogragh for my competition and some lovely photo from my trip before you declare it's death. Please....my printer is innocent. So is ME.

Namo armituofuo...

Make up beauty...

I am sure you have seen horrible looking woman not because they are ugly...but because they have 2 inch thick of make-up on their face which ironically cover their real beauty or worsen their already serious complexion problem.

Of course, there are valid reasons such as covering up ugly acne or pimple scars.....or enhancing undefine eye brows, or adding eyeliners to make your eyes looks bigger and more awake....or simply innocently just want to add colours to you cheeks....or gloss your lips to look delicious to whoever is looking at you...

People with already rather bad complexion...should first deal with their complexion problem. Such as....treat the root of the problem before putting thick make up to COVER up the problem which aggravate their skin because the make up block their pores and cause more breakout.
I was advicing a friend to stop putting on heavy make up for 2 months and treat her acne problem first...but her answer was...she can't leave home looking ugly...but if she treat the root of her problem...she will be even prettier with or without make up.

I am not a pretty lass myself.
I am tempted to doll up myself once in a blue moon...
I am fully appreciative of people who make up to enhance themself...
But do beware of over-doing and the negative result of amplifying defects while trying to cover it.

Just think about this...if i see a pimple on your face...
I probably wont spend a split second looking at it...
But if it was a pimple cover under thick make up....which is still obvious...
I will stare at it for more than 3 seconds and think "hmm...I can see that you are trying hard to cover it...but I can still see it"

Which do you prefer?

Meanwhile ...please bear in mind that heaven is UNFAIR.
There will always be people with flawless fairy complexion...
They are people who are not included in my discussion today...because they do not know what is a acne scar...beacause they never had any acne in their life in the first place.

Boring week...

Right now...I am forcing myself to churn out a proposal.
Not very enjoyable...as in...to produce a piece of artwork for the sake of producing...

But then again...i need that kind of pressure to work.

Meanwhile this week has been boring...

Except for a little catching up with some old friends at vivo city...we had a nice chat for the evening...

I wish I am travelling now...
LW is going to tokyo...
SY is going to Cambodia...
Guan is going to Taiwan...
CQ is still in NZ...

I m stuck in SG.

I wish I know what to submit for today's deadline...2 more hours...

Wish me luck.

10 things I learn this week...

1. Union square is the hottest spot for salsa dancers to twist their hips and wave their hands.
2. Amara hotel is just beside Tanjong Pagar MRT station
3. The fomula to calculate B.M.I (Body mass index) is weight(kg) divided by height(m)xheight(m).
4. NAC send me a letter to inform me that my application is REJECTED.
5. Gary chaw, the malaysian singer is such a cute guy.
6. PC fair at suntec is going to be from 31st MAy till 3rd June.
7. Mangoesteen is good for first type diabetic patient.
8. It cost only $6 to take midnight cab from Amara Hotel to Bukit Purmei.
9. Edited clips of Aja!GeumSoon can be found in Tudou.com
10. PRIDE is a good drama by Kimura Takuya!

Things I want to learn.

There are things I always want to learn....

1. Yoga
2. Ballroom dance(Tango, chacha, salsa,waltz,rocknroll...ballet?)
3. Chinese calligraphy/ Chinese painting
4. Floral arangement (traditional japanese style)
5. Cooking and baking
6. Ceramic/pottery techique
7. video and audio editing
8. graphic design/photoshop and illustrator
9. web design/java script and flash
10. Tailoring/ sewing skill
11. Print making
12. Driving
13. Foreign language-japanese, korean, french, german...
14. Glass firing technique for glass sculpture...
15. Advance diving and underwater photography
16. photography


Life is so interesting...

SALSA!

I have recently take up a new part time job...selling salsa tickets at Union square...
It was quite a eye opener to see such a vibrant dancing crowds...
And the music is OOHhhhhhh....magic!

Tempted me so much to dance...
But is too tensed up to try...
Regardless of how open-minded I am...
I am too shy...
though my heart is counting steps with the music...

So much things I want to learn...
And it includes dancing...
Tango...salsa, chacha...foxtrot, rumba...rock n roll...


One, two, twist your hips...

LQ my friend was telling me a few days ago...."If I couldn't get married by 35...let's get a flat together..."

RS has been telling me the similiar thing...remember the retirement plan for single ladies i mentioned...

Wendy...too...together with some of her friends...

And I wasn't wondering until wendy bring this up....
how come all my friends are asking me to share a flat or join their group if they can't find a husband by 35.

The only conclusion is...everybody ASSUME I WILL BE SINGLE by 35.


I am that lousy...that pathetic...that bad that it will be so highly possible that I am be left on the shelf by 35.


Ladies...yes, if anyone of you are like me by 35 (single)...

you are welcome to join me...

On repeat mode.

The only track playing on my window media playing now is...


天使忌妒的生活...


http://music.kugo.cn/play/100095.htm


Nice song.

Reading my past...

I was reading through my old blog and is actually pissed by my own secretive...


http://frillyobject.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html


I was writing about someone I was secretly admiring last year...
But WTF...so secretive...I dun even know who that person was...
I read through and try to find clues who in the world I am talking about...
And cannot recall anyone...

Next time...I should just put a name...at least a nickname...
Or give a brief description of how he look, or who he is...

Spare myself the agony.

Right now...just have to live with the fact that I am secretly admiring a guy 9 month ago...but forget who in the world he was...

But I am sure I am not admiring him now...
Or else I would have know who.

I am that fickled minded...and so easliy in love.

Being different...

I am secretly please most of time when people say I am different.
But then, being too different sometimes makes me worry for a few seconds...wondering if there is anything wrong with me being different.

One day, when I was in a rather blend mood to go to work...I choose a boring black top and boring jeans to go to work...and to my greatest surprise...my colleagues were full of praise for my NORMALITY.
They...in unison , wished and requested me to dress up like that more often because they think "I look nicer then usual" ...which means they feel that I look strange usually....

If that is considered normal and nice...
I really rather be ABNORMAL and weird....
or else my life will be too boring...

Though occasionally, I do like the idea of dressing up normally to feel abnormal...

If you know what I mean.