Ride on the magic schoolbus!

Hank Butitta bought a bus. And his idea of turning a school bus into a livable, comfortable and flexible space is ingenious. This is perfect for a road trip with a few friends, a party bus or maybe somewhere to rest your tired souls during the Burning Man Festival maybe.

I love how the space is so flexible. It could be a functional workspace by day, and party house by night. Pull out a few hidden compartments, toss some pillows on them and you can have a cosy girls' night in! 

I wish we had the money and the expertise to design and build something as awesome as this. It would have made all road trips and party buses waaaaay more awesome than it already is. 

My obsession with colourful, paper craft tapes.

I am super in massive love with these craft tapes. They come in all sorts of colourful patterns and they're so versatile! These could be used to decorate stationery, stick on letters to your penpal, pimp your notebooks and phone covers etc. An ex-colleague at our old workplace had her work keyboard pimped like the picture above! I used to have them on my MacBook too, but I peeled them off because they wore off and now waiting for new tapes for new designs. Unfortunately, these tapes are so expensive! Priced at a minimum $4, these tapes are a luxury I can only afford when it calls for a special occasion (e.g. retail therapy when depressed, maybe).

The factory where all these pretty tapes are produced is based in the western part of Japan. From what I read, the tour experience is simply MAGICAL. Visiting this factory definitely goes into my Japan bucket list (along with Tokyo Disneyland, Studio Ghibli, Pokemon Center.. and the soon to be opened The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park, among others). 

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY COOL THINGS IN JAPAN?!

But, BUT. A washi tape expo will be in Singapore a week from now! I was told that it's the closest to being as good as a factory tour itself, thus I CAN'T WAIT!

26 July 2013 - 11 August 2013

ION Art Gallery

2 Orchard Turn, Level 4, ION Orchard

Nearest MRT: (really Singaporeans? this is a no-brainer)

P.S: Government cheese of $500 crediting into the accounts of most Singaporeans on 1st August.... which means.... HEHEHEHEHE. Gosh, I am so obsessed. 

Round and round we eat.

Browsing through Cereal Mag's blog last night and encountering these beautiful photographs got me inspired. I particularly liked the egg picture mainly because of the perfect colour and texture of the yolks, and also the coarse black pepper sprinkles brought out the flavour to the otherwise plain slices of eggs. Puns intended.

As if in a trance, my mouse hovered over the bright orange icon labelled Ai and before I could ever stop myself, I clicked it. When the welcome window popped up, I knew there was no turning back. It has been an epic long time since I drew something, be it on paper or digitally. Truth was, after the insane time I had in Lasalle last year, I became slightly traumatised and hovered between a perpetually inspiration-less state and the frustration of not being able to draw clean lines without shuddering. 

Too much drama? I thought so. Moving on.

I was running out of food items that are round and aren't fruits. So I thought, and thought..... then looked to my other hand and saw a cookie. It's round..... and it's not a fruit... DING DING DING!

 Oops. Hehe.

Workspace inspirations

 

I need a new workspace. There are just too many useless clutter on my desk that needs clearing! Sometimes I wish I weren't a hoarder. So come tomorrow morning, I am going to do a clean sweep of my entire desk space. I'll TRY to get rid of things I've collected over the years. Sigh, it's gonna be tough. Could I engage someone to come in and throw away EVERYTHING, dispassionately?

June Weekend!

Everyone's heading to Europe this month! I already have five individual friends over in London, Amsterdam, Paris and Sweden! It's making me MAD with envy. But I told myself that I'll conquer Asia first before stepping into Europe. My logic: Asia is the place to travel when you're young, semi-broke and have the energy to do all the crazy things Asia has to offer. Europe is to be discovered when you are a little older, and financially stable to enjoy the magic all my European friends boast about.

For me, Japan first.. then Europe. Or maybe, I should head to Birmingham where the best friend is before any other part of Europe.

Back to Singapore! My post-Guides camp weekend had been amazing. Saturday was spent at Cyril and Jeanne's, yummy BBQ and good company. I bailed out when they were heading out to party as I can barely keep my eyes open. 

 The girls were getting ready for the clubs!

Crazies// Arafath and Kathy

Sunday was a little special. Headed to Scape for SGTwitterFrenzy awards (didn't win anything but, hey, it was a start) and I happened to walk by a particular escalator advertisement. My first thought was 'Hey, this looks familiar.' Then I realised, OH, so THERE it is! This was the ad I spent weeks working on while I was working at Youth.SG last year. I was so excited to see my all my hard work blown up so huge on the wall. Hehe.

Then Rasyidah and I walked around Scape's flea market and came across a place selling friendship bands. We decided to get a matching one (to add to our pixel heart necklaces and name keychains) and it turned out

B-E-A-YOOOU-tiful.

//1. Bicycle - My favourite mode of transport for discovering new places.

//2. Fork - (nope, not what you dirty minds are probably thinking) My love for food.
//3. Heart-shaped cookie - COOOOKIEEEEES!
//4. Plane - Need I say more?
//5. Oil lamp - The reminder of my guiding days, especially memories of the fun we had at nature camps.

More arm candy! Hehe. Have a fantabulous week, y'all! :D