You people should be all too familiar with the symptoms; the quickening pace of the heartrate, the joyous and euphoric feeling that comes pouring into the head when you are in close proximity of her, the over excessive need to say or do things to impress her so that she will notice you back. Yupe, you my friend have been ‘lovestruck’.
Before you jump up whopping in the air and break into a Jason Maraz’s love tune. Let me bring you from cloud 9 down to earth by saying being lovestruck is NO BIG DEAL at all. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, being lovestruck doesn’t mean you are in love . Not by a long short…you just think you are in love. Basically in short, being lovestruck is just ‘feel good’ chemicals being discharge in your brain. I just like to call it your molecules in love!
In my opinion, I humbling classified being lovestruck into a 3 tier affair, let’s break it down to 3 colored alert of yellow, amber and red.
YELLOW ALERT
You been spying her across the room a few times. She could be a co-worker or maybe a fellow train rider you been noticing for a week or maybe she is that hot gal at the local salsa club. At this point, you are attracted to her physical looks more than anything else. Contact with her is minimum at best, she might not know of your existence at all, let alone your interest in her.
Course of action:
Work up that courage, go up to her and say hi already. DUH..!
AMBER ALERT
You had your first interaction with her and by a stroke of chance, both of you hit it off! She is funny, brainy and everything more than you can ever hope for. By now, you really think ‘hey, she totally cool and I am beginning to fancy her big time’. Well…Time to roll up the sleeves and make your intention clear. Turn up whatever charm you have and get the good vibes rolling. You don’t have to go in guns and horns blazing, which might just spook her off. Just be nice and gentlemanly, with a healthy dose of flirting when you make small talks with her. Don’t worry, gals have better radar than us guys, they can pretty much tell if a guy is into them or not. If she hasn’t blown you off yet, you still have a good chance ahead.
Course of action:
Get that all important first date, pick somewhere with nice and quiet ambience plus good food. Don’t forget the after meal drinks. Nothing like some booze to loosen up the mood.
( If you need more dating tips, go get a ‘Dating for Dummies’ book already. Sheesh!)
RED ALERT
Red alert in my opinion should happen after one or two successful dates. Now, you should be head over heels over her big time. Day and night, you can’t concentrate with everyday stuffs and your mind keep cooking up ways or excuses just for you to get close to her. This, my friend is a thin fine line which need care to to cross. You need to show you are interested but stop short of being crazy stalker obsessive over her. Gals in general will play hard to get, the popular attractive ones will usually have more dating options. You can’t do much there but just keep trying to create chances for you to interact with her and let her know you are very much interested in her. If she really likes you, not to worry, she will give you ample chances to get closer to her.
Course of action:
If you are serious about this gal. DO something about it and keep the interest level up and going. What the worst that can happen? Either you get her or you don’t. If you do get her, it might be a start of something beautiful . If you don’t, well yah… you tried and you lucked out, sure you gonna feel real sucky for a while but you will bounce back and life goes on.
Ok… I have been busy and lazy. I blamed these 2 reason for my last one and a half month of no updated entries in my blog. For those wondering what have I been up to since I quit my full time job in oct last year, well I been juggling night classes and freelancing work.
I have been lucky to score a gig at Sparkfury for the months of Nov and Dec, where I had a chance to work with some cool people and made some new friends. The work is pretty run of the mill but hey, it does help in paying the bills. Well, my contract is up and I will have to start looking for other freelancing gig around. So… if any of ya have any lobangs for me, please…please… let me know! I need the funds for my “get Hendra a bachelor’s pad” program.
Needless to say, the combo of work and rushing for class is seriously screwing up my personal work for the last month of so. But I am back now! I will try updating my blog with personal work and balance my overdue school works. Meanwhile I will still strive to find means to earn a buck or 2 with my designs. Maybe start my own street brand maybe!
So here are the 2 works that I have just did up, nothing fancy, hope u folks like it.
Hi there people, sorry for the disappearing act for the last few weeks. I been distracted away from my artblogging for the last month of so. You could say things are afoot currently in my life. For one thing, for those who didn’t know, I have quit my job and have been officially a bum for the last 3 weeks. I have decided to go back to freelancing so that I can cope with my night classes in 3D modelling better. So…that’s pretty much how my life is gonna be for the next 6 months or so. If any of ya people have any freelance gigs both inhouse or project bases, please do let me know and we can discuss how to work out the details.
Meanwhile, I have to get back into doing up my blog projects and continue to up my kungfu level. Here are a couple of abstract artworks that I did up with the same techniques in photoshop, but I varied the colors and put in different elements to give the 2 artwork a bipolar totally opposite mood and feel. Have a look see!
PS: It’s good to be back! Miss ya all.
Here a little something to all ya decaying zombies, evil serial killers, bloodsucking vamps and all the other creatures of the night roaming Halloween this year. Enjoy my visuals! GROWL…
Last weekend, me and a bunch of friends were just dancing and partying the night away at St James Powerhouse. I am un-ashame to admit that I totally miss clubbing sometimes. It is quite liberating once in a while whereby you can cut loose and party the night away with good company and some booze to buzz up your senses. I wanna thanks my friends, old and new, who went down and boogie with me for my post birthday celebration. I hoped that you all havd fun too. Remember we still have half a bottle of booze left, so let’s not forget to have a round 2 sometimes soon ok.
Anyway, back to the post. I decided to use some of my past ‘night out’ random shots to do up something quirky and cheeky. Using self created dialogue from my damage brain, I helped bring more life and wits into just a static boring photo. Have fun reading the dialogue. 
Logo designing to many graphic designers is like a 2nd nature pursuit of sort, like breathing or making out. Open any one of us creative folk’s sketch book and I will wager that you will find plenty of doodles of logos and identity concepts. Whether they are drawn letterform, powerful abstract shapes or elaborate illustrations, these ‘creative created representation’ can be the all the difference in making or breaking for any brand. No matter if you are a multi-zillion dollar corporation or just a name of 2 piece garage band, a logo is the face of what your brand is all about and usually consumers first point of contact to what your brand is all about. Needless to say , logo designing is a very big deal .
I personally feel that identity design/branding is such an abused and neglected lost cause sometimes in Singapore. Most clients themselves don’t not see the long term prospect in building up and investing in a brand. Worst, plenty of clients think that it is a piece of cake to come up with a logo and be over and done with. Sure, on one level, it is rather easy come up with any piece of logo, but to get the right logo which encapsulate what the brand wants to communicate… Now that is hard. Simply put, logo designing requires all the creative mojos the designer can muster up to get them right, as well as a solid understanding of the client’s business objectives, the world out there and last but not least, us the human target audiences.
For the next couple of posts, I will showcase some of my identity/logo design creations for everyones’ viewing. They might not represent anything now but who knows in the future, one of them logo might be a Nike or a Starbucks in the making.
Gals and more gals!
Here are 3 images I spent the last couple of weeks doing up. Using a woman image as a main focus, I slowly build layers upon layers of details to each of the images. Hope everyone like the visuals.
On the flip side, I think I been doing a truckload of women visuals for the last couple of months. Wonder if it is my subconscious mind yelling at me to get laid more often. -_-’ Think I am gonna take a little wee break on that and do up some cutesy illustrations for the upcoming post or 2.
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Just feeling abit cheeky when I cooked up this graphic piece of work …Hope everyone like it!
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(500) Days of Summer is not your typical hollywood romantic-comedy (Rom-com for short). It was billed as an anti romantic comedy, one which didn’t end with a happy ending. Shot as a small indie flick (just $8millions to make), it is fast becoming a stealth hit throughout the world.
Armed with impressive reviews, I went to watch the movie the last weekend and I totally enjoyed myself. The movie itself is quirky, offbeat and sometimes so out of the norm that it rejects most of the cliches rom-com giving the gene a fresh intake of O2 that I find oh so refreshing and down-to-earth real. So what is this movie about? Basically it is about the 500 days of a boy who fell in love with the wrong girl
In short the break down of movie can be summed up as: boy(Tom) meets girl(Summer), boy fell in love but girl wants to stay ‘friends’, girl breaks boy heart sending him to the pit of hell, boy trying to get back on his feet again. If ever there a a chick flick for blokes, ladies and gentleman, this will be ‘The One!’ Kind of an irony that considering that most failed relationship in the movies is always the guy fault. It is good to finally have a movie that scores one for the guys. Yes, we are human! Yes, we have feeling! Yes, we hurt too when love don’t go our way! Yes, we are GUYS
I especially loved the non linear narrative story telling of the movie, where the days will jump backward and forward with the help of a simple illustrated title card of the city skyline. This made the movie move effortlessly along a back-fro jumble up timeline with hilariously gritty detail, allowing us to feel Tom in before breakup and after breakup roller coster moments that alternate between sweet to bitter and everything else in between.
The gems of the movie include – a street-dancing production number for Tom after his first shag with Summer and the painful French speaking arty monolog which took place while he was dozing in the movies. - These moments are utterly brilliant, out of the blue and not to mention funny as hell too.
So go watch this movie, it is a bracingly honest story about attraction, relationships and failed expectations. Regardless the off-beatness and moment of funnies, it still tells a bittersweet odyssey of a guy’s naive falling head over heels for a gal and the heartbreak and disappointments that came with it – a process which many of us can relate to all too often. The movie tag line sums it up well: This isn’t a love story. This is a story about love.
Yes, very often many love affairs fall apart, but who says they can’t also be glorious and absolutely worth it at the same time too?
