I love iMovie ‘09 and its stabilisation feature. This was footage taken from last week’s Pulau Ubin trip with Kader and Calvin.

the smell of burning incense is filling the air here in NTU. This of course begs the question: why am I in school on a Sunday? #
hat trick! 3 Cup noodles in 24 hours. #
Why is there a singtel iPhone advert in the straits times iPhone application? #
wow they actually found a way to make [...]

The 7-11 ad starring taufik looks like a secondary school video project. #
Is Boujou 4’s automatic tracking that magical? Trying it out for myself now. #
gave up on Boujou. Ended up spending the whole night manually tracking in Maya Live. #
woooooooo i dont have to move out of hall! #
Wow I have no idea what [...]

have not been very productive. i think i should sleep soon. #
RT @miyagi: RT @nighthound: Q: What do you call a depressed Transformer? A: Emoticon LOL #
im going to drown my sorrows with Hello Panda #
#Ntu’s Internet connection is wonky. No point staying awake anymore. #
RT @SGnews: [ST] Undergrads will work for free http://snipurl.com/efn43 i [...]

City link looks less crowded than on Friday. Hope the same goes for the it show. #
Spoke too soon. I’m stuck. #
At the Singapore poly school of design showcase in marina square. Lots of bad manga drawings. #
Just got stepped by a woman in heels. Who wears heels to an it show? Argh pain like [...]

Taxi driver is cutting his nails while driving. How efficient. #
The ground was so bright I thought I was floating. #
The construction works at upper paya lebar almost complete. Tunnel now open. Finally. http://twitpic.com/1xecl #
RT @frauassenava: ganshing her teeth due to the conspiracies behind NTU’s prestigious wall. http://manusialempung.blogspot.com ..so sad.. :( in reply to [...]

We were supposed to come up with ideas of of the movie teaser we were supposed to create for motion graphics class last Monday. I was going to do the teaser for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I had this concept of this image of a woman made up of words describing her and [...]

I was on my way back to hall on the MRT on the east west line last Sunday night, minding my own business and watching some podcasts on my iPhone. Out of the blue the smell of beer filled the carriage. I looked up and saw this:

Intrigued as I was at their peculiar sleeping style [...]

Merlion, post-lightning strike. http://twitpic.com/1rnij (via @kulturbrille) 1st photo I’ve seen of it after incident. The power of twitter in reply to kulturbrille #
Convoy of lambos spotted at marina square http://twitpic.com/1rpal #
At the creative industries fair in marina square. Gotta get me an internship! http://twitpic.com/1rpvh #
David Kwok just reminded us about the horrible state [...]

I was invited to go on a recording of Don’t Forget the Lyrics Singapore about 4 months ago. It was the celebrity special, where Adrian Pang,  Sulaiman, Michelle Chong (who’s a damn good comedian) and Gurmit Singh were playing. Today was the broadcast. I didn’t watch it, but Louis took some screen captures. They sort [...]

Almost done with my migration to Wordpress. A new life awaits at http://www.reivad.net! Can’t believe I was stuck with Joomla for so long. #
I hear the sound of marbles dropping above, and I’m in my hostel room alone. #
Feeling nostalgic editing old blog posts at http://www.reivad.net #
And so I begin my 1 hour MRT ride [...]

It has been a long and tiring journey since the last time I updated this site. I have been busy to say the least, much busier than I thought I would be during the holidays. First there was special sem, then there was shooting for our mega blockbuster short film “The Last Date” and “For [...]

As promised, I am posting up an artwork I did for 3D lesson. I was supposed to draw a place that is in one of my earliest memories as a source of inspiration for a model we are going to build. I remembered a lot of my childhood spent in the Tampines Central Park, simply [...]

Amid my hectic schedules and deadlines to fulfill, I managed to squeeze in some time to take some pictures at a Hall Olympiad badminton tournament. Sure I was politely asked by my Hall Assistant Pub. Sec. to take them, but boy was it fun to squeeze the trigger after a long first week at school. [...]

Endured a $21 taxi ride from Tampines to Boonlay to move stuff back to hall, with mum and dad in the back seat. Showed them how I lived my life in University and let them look at my art pieces and assignments, and boy were they not impressed. Oh well.

Sitting in the front seat of the top level of a double decker bus driving through heavy rain does make one reflect about things that need reflecting upon. That was probably the longest sentence ever used in this blog but I don’t care. It was really therapeutic watching the rain drops on the windows and [...]

2006 will forever be engraved into my mind as the year I ORDed. It was something I had been looking forward to for 2 years, the date seemingly getting further and further away. And when it actually came, there were no trumpets heralding the moment or any fanfare. It was just another day.
When school started, [...]

Spending the whole day at home has its merits. I finally got to spruce up the look of my computer interface after so so so long. I used to think that Styles XP was the only way to change the Windows XP theme. But there is another way! There are some hacks on the net [...]

A few days ago, I took some cliche stock photoish kind of pictures just because I was bored. Didn’t post process it until today because I was just so busy trying to find a job. I wish people realise how at least a pleasant looking website would improve their businesses. There are too many gaudy [...]

Last Saturday, after the 5 minute Sepak Takraw match I spent the whole day in one of the ADM labs trying to fix bugs on this website. Because of that I ended up 45 minutes late for the farewell dinner for Grace and Lianya, who would be leaving to America for exchange. Thank goodness Grace [...]

Last Saturday I heeded the call of my hall publication head to make my way down to NTU to cover one of the Sepak Takraw matches that the few good men of my hall participated in. The match ended in 5 minutes because there was some dispute with the umpire about the score. Something about [...]

Seems like I can’t be a reporter seeing as my entries end up on this site days after the actual thing happens, and also, I often cannot find anything to type. Nevertheless, here are some pictures from Licheng’s birthday party!

Look how happy we were.

Headed down to Changi Boardwalk for the first time in a long time to take photos. Been there many times before with many different people but it somehow feels different this time :). There’s nothing like the sea breeze in your hair and someone else’s hand in yours. Anyway it seems like the boardwalk has [...]

The National Museum of Singapore is pretty darn nice. From the outside it looks like a drab colonial building with neutral colours, but inside its actually a cool futuristic building with neutral colours. Managed to get complimentary tickets courtesy of NTU.
They give you a cool companion gadget that you bring around wherever you go but [...]

Been a looooong time since I updated this site. It started with the mad rush for handing up projects, then the exams came, then she and I hung out everyday, then I just got lazy and didn’t bother with this site anymore. Then I fell sick, had high fever and severe diarrhoea then I took [...]

Last Monday, my foundation drawing class went down to the Singapore Zoo with our teacher Bridget to draw animals, and if I carry on typing i run the risk of making this sound like a 10 year old’s report on his zoo excursion. So here are the pictures instead.

The zoo! The zoo!

I got attacked by [...]

Had a great 21st birthday gathering at a little run down chalet smack in the middle of east coast beach last Saturday. Our barbeque contributed significantly to the haze, which hit a high PSI reading of 121 that night. Someone told me about how cliche it was to hold a 21st birthday party at a [...]

Pen rendering of hip bone. Actual size is A3.

Nude woman sitting rendered in charcoal.

Nude woman sitting rendered in chalk.

Logo for my hall block. The avengers are mythical servants of the Egyptian god Horus. Supposed to have the head of a hawk but I accidentally drew the head of an eagle instead. Did the hawk but [...]

Thanks Julia for helping us take this photo!

Contrary to popular belief, there is beauty in the NTU campus.

Go watch Singapore Dreaming. It’s a rock solid show with rock solid acting. No doubt its a show chock full of Singaporean cliches but it’s delivered in a bloody heartwarming way. Better than I would have expected.
Sometimes its the company that makes a movie feel good. I don’t know.
Anyway here are the pictures from last [...]

I'll need to hire someone to update this site for me. It felt like the weight of the group 2 photos are on my shoulders. Thank goodness this burden of responsibility has now been evenly spread out between me, Chia Meng and Mattina.
You've waited 2 weeks, now here they are.
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Mattina and Licheng [...]

At last week's Comex, a few people in my class bought new cameras and started getting trigger happy. I got influenced and took loads of photos myself. Today was supposed to be retro day, and I found myself wearing the same shirt I wore at last week's formal wear day. Again, the pictures portray more [...]

Four weeks of school have come and gone. Tension headaches and chronic cough is all that remains. That, and the assignments of the previous week. I'm not complaining, but the work never seems to end. Here I am typing this out in hall, only because I forgot to bring my contact lens solution when I [...]

The following pictures may not portray the actual amount of stress that we are facing in school. It may look like it's all fun and games but it's not. Behind the happy smiling faces we are worrying about assignments and datelines. Viewer discretion is advised.
Oh yes, click on the images to enlarge them. 
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Was thinking if I should even post these pictures of the French team's fireworks during the Singapore Fireworks Festival since the view I had that day was pretty crappy. Here they are anyway.
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Yup that's all. Only 4. 

And their fireworks.
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The calm before the storm. 
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The one fry.

Booked out from hall and reunited with my D50 today. Man I can't even remember the last time I charged its batteries. Then went on a shooting rampage and at the same time catch the fireworks at 6th Aunt's place. This is what happened.
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First victim was my ma ma.
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Best I describe it with pictures.
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Cong, me, Yanying and David getting cosy in my room.
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Me, Roger and Gavin 15 minutes before our first lesson starts looking satisfied after eating kaya toast.
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This is NTU, so we have to get lost on our way to our first lesson.
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The past few weeks have been a whirlwind of events. Freshmen Orientation Camps, Welcome Ceremonies, Matriculation and the like. University is finally here.
I have been telling many people about how excited and happy I am that school was finally starting. Most of the males shared my feelings. The females, understandably, thought otherwise. For us males, [...]

After one whole week of staying at home, going out only to learn driving, I realised that I needed to go for the hall camp, lest I suffer the same fate again next week. Actually no, that was a lousy excuse for me just wanting to have fun. 
And so, I will be away from today, [...]

I never thought that playing stupid orientation games and making a fool of one's self could be half as fun and exciting as what I went through for the past 3 days. The NTU ADM FOC 2006 was a complete success, all thanks to the wonderful seniors who toiled and toiled for many days and [...]

Please do not be alarmed if you cannot find me for the next 3 days as I will be away the ADM Freshmen Orientation Camp. Contact me via mobile phone instead.  
Anyone up for watching Pirates of the Caribbean? Getting slightly desperate now that I realised almost everyone I know has watched it. Text me [...]

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Photos taken between April 18th – July 16th.
Finally uploaded the pictures from my camera phone. If you remembered me taking a picture of you but your face is not in the collage, don't worry. It was probably taken using another camera.
Leave a message if you see your face.

Got a new hard disk. Reinstalled everything. Thankful for that.

My computer finally crashed, and I have 2 projects to be handed up on Saturday.
It’s like a very foul icing on top of a large rotten stinking cake.

Looking for someone decent, neat, tidy, clean, straight, preferably in SADM and with a sense of humour. If you feel you fit the criteria, please click here and complete the form. Include your name, course and a 500 word essay on why you would want to be my room mate.
Shortlisted applicants will be required [...]

It just looked gloomy. I wasn't, though.

A pair of spherical objects appear floating on the rain soaked ground.

The lamp posts and their reflections harmonize to appear like bamboo shoots.

One man's shower curtain is another man's crude umbrella.

Imagine falling from a giant rain cloud all the way onto a nondescript plant. That's [...]

Sunrises the best fun anyone can have – sleeping early full with excitement about waking up early the next day to catch the first bus to Changi and watching the day start before your very eyes, not to mention the great company.

It was all worth it.

All this can't just be a coincidence.

Insert inspirational [...]

Went to my 6th Aunt's housewarming at her spankin new East Coast condo last week. Loved the 40 inch plasma TV, loved the home office, and most of all, loved the view. Check it out. 

Dad enjoying the evening sea breeze. What you don't see is the middle cup flying off the table after this picture [...]

2 years and 2 months ago, I sat a water craft to a small beautiful island off the coast of Changi. In this craft I sat there sweating like a person having a high fever. It was not because I was nervous or anything. I did have a high fever. I chose to enlist anyway [...]

Here are some pictures I took today at the Changi boardwalk. I decided to do something challenging this time and shot with only my 50 mm lens. No 18-55s, no 70-300s. Just pure 50. I did cheat a little and added a closeup filter to some shots, particularly the insect ones. Pretty happy with the [...]

I dragged myself out of bed on a Saturday morning to go streetshooting in the Central Business District. I decided to convert my shots into black and white since it has been a long time since I did so. I just love how the city area can still be so lively on a Saturday morning. [...]

You’ve waited 21 years for this day and finally it’s here. Happy
birthday Hoyin. Thanks for inviting us to your party. We had a great
time catching up. Here’s to a man who stays true to himself no matter
[...]

 This dude went to the BBC for a job interview and ended up in a tv interview due to mistaken identity. Look at his face when the interviewer introduces him. Priceless.

The wait is over. The Australia holiday photos (with humans in them) are up. I apologise for the lack of captions for I am not a very good writer. I'll leave it to your imagination instead. Somebody get me a [...]

I got into NTU ADM. I was damn happy until I went blog surfing and realised almost everyone who went for the faculty test got in. That was 2 weeks ago, and I put [...]

I don't really see myself being free over the next few days to install the gallery component on this site, so I'll just give you a little teaser of the Australia trip photos.
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Patience is a virtue.

It has been almost 4 weeks since my site was brought down by the carelessness of a certain webhosting company. The disclosure of the fact that the owner of that webhosting company was once sentenced to jail for fraud made me realise how stupid some people can be. He secretly transferred $40k from his girlfriend's [...]