Unpacking my baggage

FYI, am selling both the Kuku dress & Mimco head piece in these pictures on eBay: * Kuku White Feather Dress * Mimco Titania Head Piece This photoshoot was pretty fucking hilarious too. We set out to hire a dingy motel room (just because that's always been a dream of mine - luring young girls into seedy broken down rooms). It was absolutely disgusting and our genetically embedded bargaining instincts proved unfruitful. We paid $50 for a few hours of photo-taking in a musky smelling room that could've been occupied by a million prostitutes, for all we knew. Also, next door, was a room filled with at least four cats (cats are the bane of my existence pretty much) and a few doors up from us was some drug-induced looking couple. So you can imagine the hilarity of the situation - two giggly girls tottering around in heels, bags of make-up, hangers of clothes and a stack of camera equipment...surrounded by life-threatening catalysts such as cats and druggies. --- You k...

It's no secret that my mood has been fluctuating a lot lately, and then often, I'd just fall back into this calm passionless area...A lingering restlessness. Things seem to have been lackluster and muted grey. We all have our days and I guess it's been mine. However, this is the start of me finding back my mojo. I want to finish my final semester with a BANG! I need to stop attempting things half-heartedly and refuel the energy and determination that was poured into advertising last semester and photography last year. It starts with me finding photos from old shoots. So, I never got around to editing them since they had been culled from a painfully short list of suitable assessment photos (I hate selecting shots - it goes in hand with making decisions). Anyway basically, they never quite made the cut into submission for uni, but in this particular personal instance, they could not be any more fitting. The colour palette - the feel - of these define me now. " When the ...

Kathy & Maria - photo shoots from the earlier photography assignment. I AM LEAVING SOON. This is meant to be the experience of my lifetime. I will never be almost 20, naive and scared shitless, and about to work in some country I know close to nothing about (besides that Dracula and dragons live there) again. I will be flying to Romania on Wednesday. Seven weeks. So obviously, I made a gigantic list of things to do in preparation. A list of things to chase up for the trip, a list of things to do for the AIESEC committee in Romania, a list of things to do for Uni when I have to come back, a list of things to pack, a list of things to buy, a list of things to print out...I AM DROWNING IN MY LISTS! Then I look at my lists and I just get so overwhelmed, I decide to go watch some TV instead (The Millionaire Matchmaker if you were wondering. Uh yeah, I have a penchant for reality shows). By the time my day's over, I'm sitting here and still left with all my stupid lists. This S...

Ultimate face spammage. The other day, I had another extremely crappy day. For weeks now, I've been doing an exhausting routine of uni, then work, then back to uni for group work OR work, uni, then group work. Tragic, I know. For consecutive days, I'd leave home at 7am and get home at about 12am. On Monday, our group was finishing off our advertising assignment and it was late at night. By that stage, I was pretty much deliriousssss. Exhibit A: Alex and I running down the uni corridors screaming, then proceeding to collapse onto the couches. Exhibit B: Hien and Alex trying to put their legs above their heads. The Mac comp lab became our temporary home. Eventually, we finished the darn thing, cried in joy, and all rushed home. I was at the station and saw that my train was coming in 2 minutes, so raaaan. Thankfully got on in time and just fell asleep. But the next thing you know, I had woken up in the middle of nowhere...There's a train guard standing in front of me, telling...

Early in the morning. Yes, that is beautiful motherfucking dew/frost/fog. That's how early it was. Model: Maria This song makes me so happy. Hello, did anybody watch Ugly Betty's finale? On a different note, I had a pretty fail day. I was the first person to my lecture, but managed to fall asleep throughout the entire thing. I dropped half a sandwich I bought at uni (I've been whining about this all day - it still hurts). I had work after uni and I was tired. After work, I went back to uni to scan some film, where I managed to single-handedly break the entire system/machine ("Wow. You're the first student to ever do this to the program..."). The whole building also got evacuated because of the faulty fire alarm system. Once we were allowed back inside and just when the scanning was working for me, the alarm went off again. So I spent about 3 unproductive hours at uni. Zilch. I had to rush out, but on the way out, I also got yelled at by the securit...

Old photo shot last year with Maria. God, you do not know how many times I tried to get this shot. I tried black and white film on two separate occasions, before giving up and getting it on digital. Same bed, same pose. SAD. I'll never be the same, if we ever meet again. I'm exhausted. I have a bunch of photos to edit and submit for uni, a CD of photos for a client, a bunch of event posters designs for AIESEC and personal photos to go through and fix up for myself. Why is this so tiring but at the same time, so fun? I think I have a thing for hoarding in all the responsibilities and piling the deadlines upon myself. Such a failure.