31 March 2009

diy: solar system


random/cool/weird/geeky/awesome time killer that I found.
It's developer Jared Tarbell explains them like this:
The Orbitals is a collection of particles operating on one simple rule: choose another particle in the system and orbit it with a fixed radius at a constant velocity . . . In this variation, a single root particle is instantiated in the center of the stage. All other particles introduced to the system fall into orbit at some level.
You can build your own mini solar system HERE.
Article found on io9

29 March 2009

!7E

POWERED BY PUBLICONS.DE

I *finally* found out what those were haha.

28 March 2009

n.m

They're not exactly cookies...
not exactly cakes...
but they are delicious :]

Yesterday, I baked a batch of Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookies (recipe found in soompi). At first I though I totally messed up as the butter and brown sugar didn't cream together...
looks disgusting...

but as I mixed some more and added the dry ingredients


much better.


ready for the oven! They still look like ugly formless blobs. I think the batter was too thin as I used liquid brown sugar instead of solid ones.

and out of the oven!


They are the MOST velvety cookies ever. The texture is so dense and soft...like a cake's. The tablespoon of instant coffee powder does wonders to the taste. Yummm.

27 March 2009

Beaucoupzero~Apostolescu

from Abdunzeedo:
Illustrations by Matei Apostolescu (full intro and illustrations in article), a freelance illustrator from Romania.



26 March 2009

cnd eh?


You know what's absolutely delicious?
Maple vanilla yogurt with cheerios.

I've vowed to NOT eat ice cream (excluding frozen yogurt, sorbet, and gelato) to make up for my incredible lack of exercise. So yogurt all the way~
pear yogurt is also incredibly tasty.

25 March 2009

it the truth!



给我一首歌的时间- 周杰伦

作詞:周杰倫 作曲:周杰倫

雨淋濕了天空 毀得很講究
妳說妳不懂 為何在這時牽手
我曬乾了沉默 悔得很衝動
就算這是做錯 也只是怕錯過

在一起叫 夢~
分開了叫 痛~
是不是說 沒有做完的夢最痛~
迷路的後 果~
我能承受 這最後的出口在愛過了才有

能不能給我一首歌的時間
緊緊的把那擁抱變成永遠
在我的懷裡妳不用害怕失眠
哦如果妳想忘記我也能失憶

能不能給我一首歌的時間
把故事聽到最後才說再見
妳送我的眼淚 讓它留在雨天
哦越過妳劃的線我定了勇氣 的終點

雨淋濕了天空 毀得很講究
妳說妳不懂 我為何在這時牽手
我曬乾了沉默 悔得很衝動
就算這是做錯 也只是怕錯過

在一起叫 夢~
分開了叫 痛~
是不是說 沒有做完的夢最痛~
迷路的後 果~
我能承受 這最後的出口在愛過了才有

能不能給我一首歌的時間
緊緊的把那擁抱變成永遠
在我的懷裡妳不用害怕失眠
哦如果妳想忘記我也能失憶

能不能給我一首歌的時間
把故事聽到最後才說再見
妳送我的眼淚 讓它留在雨天
哦越過妳劃的線我定了勇氣 的終點

哦妳說我不該不該 不該在這時候說了我愛妳
要怎麼證明我沒有說謊的力氣 哦請告訴我
暫停算不算放棄 我只有一天的回憶

能不能給我一首歌的時間
緊緊的把那擁抱變成永遠
在我的懷裡妳不用害怕失眠
哦如果妳想忘記我也能失憶

能不能給我一首歌的時間
把故事聽到最後才說再見
妳送我的眼淚 讓它留在雨天
哦越過妳劃的線我定了勇氣 的終點

妳說我不該不該 不該在這時說了愛妳
要怎麼證明我沒有力氣 告訴我暫停算不算放棄
妳說我不該不該 不該在這時才說愛妳
要怎麼證明我沒有力氣 我只有一天的回憶

23 March 2009

starbucks love

from abduzeedo:




22 March 2009

brown?

It was again my turn to cook brunch, this time I made a variation of this recipe: Potato hash with baked eggs.

yeah...as you can see, it didn't exactly worked out.
The taste was alright, pretty good for only salt and pepper haha. The appearance..hahah, ew. I added the eggs to the wok, which solidified it. So I cracked another egg and poured it into the loaf pan hoping it would bing everything together (which obviously failed). Then the potatoes didn't really brown... I stir fried it at the beginning, nothing really happened. Baking it didn't help either, boo. So in the end..it's sorta a pile of vegitable chunks plus egg.

...
...
...
but this cheered me up:


gorgeous usb hub <3

20 March 2009

BSM con't

goal of the week: get 30 hours of community service. CHECK!
whoohoo!


Monday: tired+excited
This was my first time volunteering outside of school, boy was I nervous @_@. I spent a good day in advance thinking of what to wear and what to bring, turns out to be a waste of brain cells. Everyone dressed casually and the fridge was stocked with food, and perrier *love*

Deer toe bone game.
I spent a good 4 hours playing this thing, and surprisingly, it was hella fun. It's extremely addictive, there's something so frustrating about not being able to string 4 bones onto a stick. My record: 3.

Tuesday: paper cut day
I'm never going to roll another poster in my life. EVERRR!

A few people and I rolled a total of more than 550 (seriously, 550.) posters. 150 in the morning and 400 in the afternoon. We worked very well in assembly lines haha. Total paper cuts: 5.

Wednesday: niceee! you got it! here's your pin day
Donna somehow managed to oversleep, so Grace and I decided to staff the treasure hunt. It's a very simple job: say hi, hand out postcard, explain rule, wait, be excited while telling them they got it right, hand pin, repeat nine billion times until it's finally lunch time.

I somehow stabbed my finger with on of these.

Thursday: err, what happened?
All I remember is my legs were very very sore at the end of it.

Friday: would you like to paint a clog? day

Carried this basket for most of the day. I looked like I was going to the market to sell eggs @_@ The people that were suppose to replace us for our lunch break was late by a whole hours (interesting that one of them is my future math teacher's son). Handing out clogs on an empty stomach is not fun. Washing the paint containers at the end of the day is also not fun, the gold paint is impossible to scrub off once it dried.

More pictures on flickr!

19 March 2009

*u* usb

Some really cool usb designs, found on Abduzeedo.
(resizing not working again @_@)





17 March 2009

papier!

from noupe.com:

16 March 2009

Bata Shoe Museum

First day of march break...ahhh...relaxing.
NOT.

I signed up to volunteer at the Bata Shoe Museum with Grace and Donna for the whole week, every single day 10-4. Except today was orientation, so I had to get there at 9:15. Being afraid of being late, Grace suggested that we meet at 8. So up I get at 7am...seven in the morning!! I don't get up that early even on school days *shiver* But one good thing came out of it:



I NEVER saw the sun rise. Unless you count that time I was on vacation in Vegas and had to wake up at 4...but that was years ago.
beautiful, no? *tear*

Anyways, here's some pictures of the museum (or one wall of it):

big big sign.



random display along the front


the title of the treasure hunt that's currently going on.

More adventures on friday!

15 March 2009

sticking to it


winning look of episode 7 of season 2 of project runway Canada made by Jessica. The theme was to make gowns out of post it notes for brest cancer survivers.
POST IT NOTES.
I'm amazed.

I like sunny's design more, but can't find a picture of it @_@ The top was a corset covered with gold post-it notes and the bottom was a skirt with shredded blue post-it notes. It FLOWS like fabric. All the other contestants were stiff...well paper is stiff, can't really help it.
so so gorgeous.

13 March 2009

563

Introducing another one of my weird obsessions:
alice in wonderland.

I totally blame eva for this. She introduced me this wickedly cool manga (project arms). It's characters's abilities are based off of Alice in Wonderland, such as Jabberwock, White Rabbit, Knight, and Queen of hearts. Then there's the book Looking Glass Wars (ahh, my english teacher's gonna scold me for not underlining a book's title...). In the book, Alice was actually the princess of hearts and her aunt wanted to take over her kingdom...

So after all these variations, I decided to get the actual book, with it's original illustrator too! Damn the art's amazing *u*



front and back cover



front and back inside cover drawings


humpty dumpty


jabberwock (even though technically it's from Through the Looking Glass)


caterpillar

mock turtle

12 March 2009

steamed milk

I've been wanting to make an online portfolio since..forever.
Except I can't code. at all.
and that I usually don't finish what I start.
If I dig around enough, I can find thousands of photoshop mockups, here's the most recent (yesterday)

ignore the random image, I just grabbed a random wallpaper and cropped it. It's inspired by a incredibly lovely and simple wordpress theme. palette by colourlover, etc etc .
watch me forget about this in 2 days...

11 March 2009



花海-周杰倫

靜止了 所有的花開
遙遠了 清晰了愛
天鬱悶 愛卻很喜歡
那時候 我不懂 這叫愛
妳喜歡 站在那窗台
妳好久 都沒再來
彩色的時間染上空白
是妳流的淚暈開

不要妳離開 距離隔不開
思念變成海 在窗外進不來
原諒說太快 愛成了阻礙
手中的風箏放太快回不來
不要妳離開 回憶劃不開
欠妳的寵愛 我在等待重來
天空仍燦爛 它愛著大海
情歌被打敗 愛已不存在

你喜歡 站在那窗台
妳好久 都沒再來
彩色的時間染上空白
是妳流的淚暈開

不要妳離開 距離隔不開
思念變成海 在窗外進不來
原諒說太快 愛成了阻礙
手中的風箏放太快回不來
不要妳離開 回憶劃不開
欠妳的寵愛 我在等待重來
天空仍燦爛 它愛著大海
情歌被打敗 愛已不存在

09 March 2009

the end of the tunnel

I think I found one heck of an oil painting:
LIGHT THE WAY (on dA)

(resizing not working, grr! click on dA link for better view)

one day...ONE DAY I will be this good.