Tranquil Grotto

steps

2008-07-20T02:22:00.007+08:00

walked in with steps thought to be ready,
clenched myself firm from the mind to the depths of the soul,
covered scars with bandages of my own facade.

seemingly long rides became short with anxiety,
as the gale came everything came clear,
sinking into the wind with anticipation,
never a dull moment it was.

the velocity soon became like an ecstasy,
craving for more, what more could one ask?
time ran on fast and slowed down the throttle,
like a victim of a relentless tornado,
flung out and sent crashing down.

nostalgic as it was, the same lights went out quickly,
enveloping me with forgotten fears fought off long ago.
can you call this "a calm after a storm"?

time went on running as I walked on slowly,
a heart burdened with remorse and regret,
I took baby steps back to whence I came from.,
only to drink down the fact that the last bit of breeze was fading off.

with only static movie images imprinted within the mind,
only one thought lingers;
"one can never be prepared enough."

its 3 in the morning over here, for those who have been reading and looking for updates. heres one. =) (and a big thank you too.) Quite a bit has happened, so I'm gonna summarize it. Starting from last Saturday, a friend named Rei went back to Australia for studies after her 2 weeks vacation in Singapore, I had a "orientation" for NAFA on Wednesday, its was horridly filled with talks. (I mean a 3 hr talk in the early morning, with more to come in the afternoon. c'mon man. =/) Thursday went back to school again to register for elective courses, chose History in fashion design, the school wants us to be exposed to other forms of arts so yea, its pretty cool.

then of course there is today(or yesterday), an outing I planned for 2 of my friends since their birthdays were pretty close by, one was Kai'(20th July) and the other was YiWen(23rd July). Met up with the usual gang, we watched "Hancock" in the theatres. Pretty awesome visuals, but yea its not quite there yet for a superhero film. but its ok I guess?

after the movies, we had this long walk to the Esplanade to just chill out, got to catch up with the guys a bit. Though my jumpy mood was short-lived, cause I'm brain dead from the rotting in Orchard to book the tickets for the movie (plus lack of sleep) @_@. not like I'm one to complain, but that was just the plan. I'm beat now, so much happened today and oh, school starts on Monday...

...great, I feel like crap now. =/

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- unity -

2008-05-30T01:13:00.007+08:00

growth is an inevitable course of life,
be it experience or bonding,
we face through the wrath of storms,
and the bitterness of winter.

but as time goes by..
our bark grow thicker,
our trunk grow sturdy,
our roots spread out to hold on..

..to hold on the very foundation of this tree,
this tree called our "Family tree".

alright, I know its a little to early to be mentioning 'bout Father's Day, but I figured I should start one anyway since I was writing my blessings to him on his birthday card. I actually wanted this to be on my dad's birthday card, but mum felt that it should be on a Father's Day card which I will send later on next month, she wanted the birthday card to have something more joyful. To be honest, my dad hasn't been the best of mood lately, stressed out I guess. Hopefully the present and my card will boost his spirit, ..a little at least. =/

anyway just wanted to share the poem with you guys, maybe hopefully some opinions too before Father's Day comes. Have been into poetry again lately, gotta shift back to drawing mode again before my skills get blunt again. for that, gonna try to rush 3 drawings tomorrow, need to turn my uber mode on, so tune in! RAWR!!! >.<

...ugh, laziness. *click*

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- tears of you -

2008-05-29T00:26:00.003+08:00

new life glows as spring approaches,
frozen seas of tears melt as warmth touches nature,
awakening from long slumbers brings anticipation of the future,
joy was seen throughout the lands.

though nobody knew how spring felt..

water drops on withered plants cries for remembrance.
winter's cruelty decimates all life that stand in her way,
once a lonely maiden who killed her emotions to be the "tempest of life"
her frozen tears bathed the lands in her wake,
so spring thought to himself..

"who will remember winter..?"

lol, I got bored. this piece of poem (I think it is..) was inspired by a picture I came across on DeviantArt. It was a simple piece of a photography, but I felt there was more to it, so I decided to write this poem since I felt up to it.

alright, lazy to type what happened today (..or yesterday), so I will do it later on in the day. Ciao!~

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wednesdays grey

2008-05-28T12:20:00.005+08:00

alright,nothing much ta talk 'bout since my last post. Nothing much happened, other than drawing, playing DOTA and abit of warcraft 3 campign. bleahh.. (I'm tt bored. =_=)

might be meeting either Gordon or Karthis for lunch for slack and drawing. Gonna start looking for work officially tomorrow. Need the cash for school survival. Anyway gotta go prepare soon to go out or something. Heres a pic I drew yesterday.. took me longer to finish this one since it has lots of details. It lacks shading, don't blame me... when I finished it, it was nearing 4.30 am, I started at 2.30 am, I was seriously tired out.. =_= I'm still not good at drawing though.. =/

here it goes..~

alrighto!~ signing out.. =D

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Power Throttle

2008-05-25T22:11:00.012+08:00

alright nothing much happened today.. only got a train of nagging for not helping out in cleaning my house. >.> (sry mum... lol) Met Karthis at Holland Village, had lunch with him, then we went to the study room nearby my house but found no power plug for his laptop to use for his project and assignment, so he did revision for a bit, I practiced drawing. After that we went to Jurong East library (since its the only place I can think of having a power plug. =_=) and we both continue to do our work, he did revision and finishing his assignment, while I just drew and drew. Did 3 bleach fanart today btw XD. Later on we had dinner at IMM then yea its off to home. That pretty much wraps up the day. ahaha.

Life is getting boring..

here it is:

Kurosaki Ichigo

Inoue Orihime

Kuchiki Rukia

Alright logging off, cya.

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passing everyday with a smile.

2008-05-24T22:57:00.005+08:00

alright started the day today with a message beep from my phone which woke me up abruptly from my sleep =_=. it was from Siti telling me that Ben was waiting for me on msn to check out the timing for the lunch celebration we were gonna throw at him since we couldn't really celebrate his birthday on the actual day, since we were all busy.. (aww... >.>)

so anyway to cut the long story short, told the rest 'bout the meet up time, met the guys, we went to the Cafe Cartel at Douby Ghaut, most of us had Hawaiian pork chops except Dennis who had a Sirloin Steak (wow). The food was ok, but yea the standard has dropped a lot, honestly I felt it wasn't really worth the cost.. why so? cause 5 of us who ate the bill came in.. TADAA!!~ $106.70. BOOYA MAN! =_= thank goodness there was a 10% student discount so we kinda got 10 bucks off. if not... hohoho. gg man. ._.

after that went "Art Friends" cause Siti had to get some stuff. Me, Ben and Suan hium was like fooling around with every stupid thing you can think off in an art store. Like treating a freaking big paper holder to a freaking bazooka? >.> wow.. childish we are? yes I know. can take it? live with it! lol. anyway saw lotsa art stuff. Then we came across this section with lots of fashion related items, man I pity fashion design students, every small thing cost like a dollar plus? and those colour dye or whatever thing cost 7-8? ouch man. Thankfully I'm not into fashion design. I will cry for my wallet man, lol.

Alright in the evening we had the usual Saturday night coffee booze, "pretty face" wasn't there.. aww. so sad. bah anyway.. it was heck noisy there, and plus some of the guys feel dam sian cause its bloody noisy. You know people having the typical saturday chill outs too. So we left pretty early today, didn't manage to catch up much with the guys cause most of them wanna finish up their work or study for upcoming tests.

Drew this pic in Starbucks, look familiar? Yep, she is Flonne from Disgaea. haha.

anyway, this pretty much ends it. Logging out. Ciao~

P.S. wahlauu Karthis never join us today! youuuuuuu!!!

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Final Distance

2008-05-22T21:45:00.003+08:00

Today marks the last day of my life in ITE, kinda sad =(. I know NAFA starts on the 21st of July, but I gotta now look for a part time job and save enough cash for the expenses during my 3 years there. The weekly material purchases are probably gonna blow my wallet away before even the semester ends, which means no money in bank = gonna starve and beg on the streets. O.o Alright its not gonna be that ridiculous , but its gonna be more stressful, apart from project stress, fianancial stress. Gonna make the best effort and time out of my time there, gonna get a good job then maybe pursue a degree later on in life. >=3

anyway, today nothing much happened in school, besides the fact that Marcus was being "kind" enough to comment a lot on me going NAFA, and I mean a lot! Derek was extremely high and ditsy for no apparent reason, both of us spend the whole day saying and doing retarded stuff.( Maybe its because its my last day. lol. =p) Most of the guys also feel pretty sian when they knew its gonna be the last day there. Very thankful to meet many nice people there, especially god putting me in a class of crazy but also hardworking people. Hope you guys do well and go to poly! GO GO GO!!!

Kinda had dinner with Derek, Steph and Cindy at KFC. They wanted to study a bit for tomorrow's Accounting Fundamental test. As for me I was just there to help Derek with unlocking his DJ Max characters since he had to study and I don't, lol. We left around 7 ish, pretty late but still ok. ..until it started pouring for awhile and then stopped. Seriously insane weather.. =_= Extremely warm and humid during the day, and its starts pouring for 10-15 mins in the evening out of the blue.What the hell? O.o

anyway this pretty wraps up my day, but theres one more thing to say...

CLASS SC ROCKS, NEVER GONNA FORGET YOU GUYS!!! ALL THE BEST DURING THE CA1 PERIOD, HOPE YA ALL DO WELL!!! WOO!!!~

alright thats all I've gotta say, signing out. *click*

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Drawing Frenzy

2008-05-20T18:45:00.007+08:00

recently I have been into drawing, not exactly hardcore drawing but I have to say I'm dying to improve on my drawing skills and foundation, its really weak. =/ I skipped school today due to some issues I have to settle at my new school, like administrative work, yup. So during the wait/free time I drew again. Recently I have been drawing pretty seriously unlike the old me who always draw and leave guideline markings making the drawing look seriously messy and ugly. I guess people do change, lol. =X

Anyway, scanned the drawing in already, I'm pretty sure the gamers know the character Yuna from Final Fantasy X. Yea i tried drawing her today with my own style with guidelines and everything. I need to improve on my lines and guidelines,I tend to darken every line i make so yea makes the whole work piece dirty and messy. Took about and on it including touch up shadings and everything.

Tadaaa!!~~

Credit goes to: CreativeUncut & Tetsuya Nomura of Square Enix

I know the proportions are off as usual but i thing I have some improvements too like hair and arms. But the hand and feet as usual are giving me problems. >.<

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Sleepless Nights

2008-05-19T23:40:00.005+08:00

its been tiring and restless lately, (serious I believe its the weather =_=) thanks goodness Gordon and gang wanted to go out today, if not I'm pretty sure I would be spacing out at home if not taking long naps to forget the weather was that horrible.>.>

so met up with Miki today for the KFC two piece chicken she wanted.. =_= yea I bet you feel great now cause I'm not, cause later in the evening Gordon wanted Burger King.. Talk about fast food overdose. O.O

Anyway, we went Joel's house to hangout, his house is great as always. Incredibly big and nice place to chill out. His house is practically gaming corner la, plus the guys brought their laptops over to play TF2 and DOTA. The place turned into a LAN shop in minutes I tell you. @_@

soo I just got home a while ago gonna turn in soon... oh right new drawing done today.

'kay out for now.. ^^ *click*

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reflection

2008-05-19T02:04:00.003+08:00

anyway yesterday went out with Dennis, Siti and Menenict to Starbucks, the usual Saturday night "coffee booze" in hope to get high and enough energy to crap for the whole of next week. =D Saw the usual "pretty face" at Starbucks and the fellas as usual try to get me to talk to her out of boredom.. liew.. =/

recently its nothing but food, food and more food! it's really been food galore for the past week, the week before last week had pizza hut with a bill of $98.69 O.o, Sakae Sushi on thursday, Starbucks on saturday and Sushi Tei yesterday. No money!!!~~ T.T Bah.. Mum and Dad's Birthday are around the corner, and I don't have enough cash for both of them since Mum's birthday is on 2nd June and dad's is on 3rd June. Wow man.. need to save money!! =_= I need new phone also!! Nokia N95!!! T.T My phone is dying on me!!! I want a Macbook pro too!!! Goodness, so many things to get so little money(sounds familiar..?).. =_=

bah ignoring my materialistic side.. everyone is emo today.. O.o I think the weather is getting to everyone else, the weather is horrible nowadays, its a killer I tell you! a killer!?! bah... its getting late... going off for now. *click*

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TF-2 ness

2008-05-18T02:18:00.008+08:00

Recently Gordon and gang made a for fun clan on Team fortress 2, and recently lots of different clans have rise. TF2 is like becoming a clan battleground! @_@ Anyway recently, The guys and I have been farming for achievements on empty servers. LOL not to mention now my medic stats are ruined just because of getting those few achievements and get the new weapon unlocks for medic. AND! I hope valve team isn't reading this, don't wanna get banned! =X

Anyway heres an interesting pic.

↑ this is what happens after you go
~~stats padding~~ farming for 3 over hours! look at JJ lol!

with friends like these~

2008-05-18T01:29:00.027+08:00

I look pretty silly in some of the pics. =/ Bah... for momento's sake. gonna miss those times.

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Vocal of bliss

2008-05-18T00:44:00.018+08:00

'yea its been awhile since I blogged, not gonna keep posting unless I have something to, lol. So far life has been pretty good, most of the time I'm either out with friends or at home playing Team Fortress 2 with the guys. =D Today (or yesterday to be exact=/) there was a flag day event to help us student get sufficient CIP points for the year, its part of the criteria to advance to the next year... I think... =X anyway sorry Cindy and gang for not coming over to see you guys, had to meet up with another group of my friends, not to mention the weather was a killer. =p Hope you guys had fun though. =)

and did I mention how pretty Jyongri is?! O.o I mean like she so talented musically, has a great vocal, and speaks English & Japanese so damn fluently! Although she was born in Osaka, she has Korean ancestry too!~ She is so gonna be on the same ranks as BoA and Ayumi Hamasaki one day. It's sad though, she doesn't seem to be very popular yet, as in internationally. I only got to know her music recently through the game "The World Ends With You" also known as (すばらしきこのせかい Subarashiki Kono Sekai). Its the ending theme song of the game, called "Lullaby for you", it's a great song folks! If you guys wanna hear it, its in my playlist on the blog. =D

some pics of her. =)

ain't she "pretty" talented? lol.
anyway, I'm off for now. =D cya guys in a bit. *click*

P.S. hope your wound gets better soon Cindy!

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another day

2008-05-13T00:59:00.001+08:00

alright, this is the underground blog of "Tranquil-Sanctum" my original blog, this will be a more temporary blog. I might consider both blogs to be used for separate things/topics. So you guys hang on tight, while I try to construct something interesting for the main blog.

meanwhile.. I haven't been blogging for quite a while since there really wasn't anything that interesting to blog about... BUT! I realised I have yet to blog 'bout my outing with my ITE friends. (I guess there WAS something to blog 'bout.. >.>) I will post the pics here if I've got the time. Gonna miss those times, because my application for NAFA was successful, so I will be leaving ITE soon. gonna miss the guys there.=/

anyway, I hope the current skin and layouts are ok for a tempo. blog.

Here's a rough drawing I did out of boredom during lunch, not that great.. but I still think theres improvement.

Bah.. It's getting late. Till next time.. *click*

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