clara.

animator.
loves jesus coffee & tea.

www.claraaa.com
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darken and italise.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:56 PM

I'm supposed to darken the sentences which are true for me, and italise the ones I wish were true.

i miss somebody right now.
i don't watch tv these days.
i own lots of books.
i wear glasses or contact lenses.
i love to play video games.
i've tried marijuana.
i have been in a threesome.
i have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.
i believe honesty is usually the best policy.
i curse sometimes.
i have changed mentally a lot over the last year.
i carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.
i'm TOTALLY smart.
i've broken someone's bones.
i'm paranoid sometimes.
i would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost and scar-free.
i need money right now.
i love sushi.
i talk really, really fast.
i have long hair.
i have lost money in Las Vegas.
i have at least one sibling.
i have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.
i couldn't survive without caller id.
i like the way i look.
i am usually pessimistic.
i have a lot of mood swings.
i have a hidden talent.
i'm always hyper no matter how much sugar i have.
i have a lot of friends.
i am currently single!
i have pecked someone of the same sex.
i enjoy talking on the phone.
i practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
i love to shop.
i enjoy window shopping.
i would rather shop than eat.

i don't hate anyone.
i dislike them.
i'm a pretty good dancer.
i'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
i have a cell phone.
i believe in God.

i watch mtv on a daily basis.
i have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.
i've rejected someone before.
i have no idea what i want to do for the rest of my life.
i want to have children in the future.
i have changed a diaper before.
i've called the cops on a friend before.
i'm not allergic to anything.
i have a lot to learn.
i have been with someone at least 10 years older or younger.
i am shy around the opposite sex.
i have tried alcohol before.
i have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
i own the "South Park" movie.
i would die for my best friends.
i think that Pizza Hut has the best pizza.
i have used my sexuality to advance my career.
i love Michael Jackson, scandals and all.
halloween is awesome because you get free candy.
i watch Spongebob Squarepants and i like it.
i have dated a close friend's ex.
i am happy at this moment!
i'm obsessed with guys.
Democrat.
i am punk rockish.
i am preppy.
i study for tests most of the time.

i tie my shoelaces differently from anyone else i've ever met.
i can work on a car.
i love my job.
i am comfortable with who i am right now.
i have more than just my ears pierced.
i walk barefoot whenever i can.
i have jumped off a bridge.
i love sea turtles.
i spend ridiculous money on makeup.
i plan on achieving a major goal/dream.
i'm proficient in a musical instrument.
i worked at McDonald's restaurant.
i hate office jobs.
i love sci-fi movies.
i think water rules.
i went college out of state.
i like sausages.
i love kisses.

i fall for the worst people.
i adore bright colours.
i can't live without black eyeliner.
i don't know why the hell i just did this stupid thing.
i usually like covers better than originals.
i can pick things up with my toes.
i can't whistle.
i can move my tongue in waves, much like a snake's slither.
i have ridden/owned a horse.
i still have every journal i've ever written in.
i can't stick to a diet.
i talk in my sleep.
i try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.

climbing trees is a brilliant past-time.
i have jazz in my blood.
i wear a toe ring.
i have a tattoo.
i can't stand at LEAST one person that i work with.
i am a caffeine junkie.
i cosplay or know what cosplaying is.
i have been to over 15 conventions.
i will collect anything, the more nonsensical, the better.
i'm an artist.
i only clean my room when necessary.

i like a person of the same sex.
i love being happy.
i am an adrenaline junkie.

wow. i'm bored.

the story of Poogie Woogie
1:34 PM



:) full view, pls!
Took these photos for a scrap book last yr, and finally got to putting them together digitally.
It might appear meaningless at first, but it's really something i felt curious abt. i mean, i've really nv seen blue vegetables before...there's purple, orange, green, red, brown....but blue? and blue is not just a color. It's a mood, it's a dream of the sky within our reach, it's the smell when you miss someone.
and i wanted to show how we always want something, but all we do is sit there and think "I want..." and do nothing abt it.

old work, this one; and i love the font. Jenkins v2.0

tuesday.
11:06 AM

.
I sigh.

Tuesday, my
Seventh day
But not in a week
Parrot talk
Not for the meek

Hustle and push
I get on the train
What need is there
Really
For me to refrain?
Get off to purple steps
And arrowed red pipes
The man again he sings
Of life's thwarted maps

Standing, I wish for rain
Sitting, I wish I'd lain
Time crawls
But leaps over puddles
It's finally nine, oh!
The booth is but rubble

In all the hustle
My conciousness drowned
Like all the other mannequins
Standing around
When to stop, I want to get to
Holland V
Asks one from over salty waters
To another entirely
And equally - lost

Alight here, I said
The other mannequin quietened down
With his frizzy head
Turned to the ground
Lost, really
In his own crown

Our sleeves talk
But he won't remember me
Like I do him
In this crowded world
He didn't move me
Just refreshingly quiet
In our shouting world
I sigh.

$400 xD....just me.
Sunday, March 26, 2006 11:42 AM

hooray! end of the first work week. whew. standing 10 hrs a day sure gets to you. but! i made $400 just working for five days xD ~
quite good money, i'd say. if you work for the whole month you actually get up to $2000 $_$ woots!

well, i came home ytd, got reminded to buy yoghurt mask for qy (haha :D you look like a lobster, my dear. i felt so hungry then i was wondering if you were edible); came home and made a 'to-buy' list :p, woke up this morning, read my papers, thought of my comics, and realised that i am just me

working~!!!
Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:39 AM

whoa. haven been posting for a week now. not much to say, really, except that i've been making some money doing credit card roadshows and you don't get to see many handsome guys when you're doing it at a place like IMM.haha :P

on my first day, i met 2 guys, both a yr younger, and everyday(monday was my first day!), they've really taken care of me *_* so touched. to think they're younger, yet sometimes i still feel like they treat like i'm the younger one or something T_T rarr.
when i get difficult customers i spend a lot of time talking to, yet they're still reluctant, those two guys, guo wei and alvin, wld come over and help persuade my customer. there's once my customer went away, gw went after him, managed to persuade him to sit and sign, and still put the sales on my sales sheet *_* so grateful for ppl like them!

alvin is a real pro too. if his customer stops to listen, they're definitely signing the form. he's not v good at stopping ppl in their tracks, but when they stop to listen to him, especially aunties, he's a real killer! haha. he has a v slow, relaxed way of talking to ppl, highly unlike the fast mechanical way a lot of sales ppl do...and whoa o_o aunties really laugh and sit up to 15 minutes just talkin to him. he really makes ppl feel at home~
i wanna learn from him too!
((:D they're one of those instant-clickables whom u can tok rubbish to on the first day u meet them :) may i meet more ppl like them when i do my future roadshows!))

and, ah, yes. i decided i like other ppl's artwork on my blog better rather than my own.

chen jiu gan.
Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:38 PM

i did this i did this!
haha. i mean, i did the pic for this blog :D woohoo!
feeling very proud of myself all of a sudden. hurhur~! i had sudden inspiration last night after looking at some fabulous character sketches, so i decided to do a vector pic for my blog. alright, it's not totally illustrator work, i tweaked it with photoshop. the magic wand in illustrator...acts in a i-dun-want-you-to-use-me way.

well, pls comment :D

had a rather slacker day today. jumped up at 10am to do this pic (i told you i felt inspired)...did a few awful ones before i finally came up with this. then i went over to aud's hse to pass her a small gift, and she made me fat!
haha. she brought kentucky home T_T aawww. irresistable fats.

well, i have a deep deep feeling i'm gonna get fat this hols (i bet you'll never beat me at this, mada xP)...i always get fat when i'm slacking. haha. I LOVE HOLIDAYS. WOOHOOOO~~!!!! *smacks mada's butt*

going for roadshow training tml with aud :D the pay's good and thank God for older sisters. haha. she got me the job!!! :p
my old frens shld rmb how i always had problems with my sis during my sec sch days till last yr... then one day i prayed with my cell member during one of our dinners together, and before i knew it, it worked. i prayed that my sister and i will stop having our cold war (the war was over something we both forgot abt already. we had it going on for years. how silly.), and that we'd be how we used to be last time...
and now, we're really like sisters! lol. i really don't rmb how the relationship started healing; God works in unknown ways

:( hopefully me and my brother will get along really well soon, too. i've recently become very envious of good bro-sis relationships partly cos my bro is so nonchalant (and mean?) to me T_T i'm attention-seeking, ok. i admit it.

well :D happy thoughts~~~~~
i had lunch with qy ytd!!! yeeee~!!!! i lovey u my dear xD i miss you *blush* haha! (i think qy's rolling her eyes reading this)

...i'm gonna get lots of money soon, i'll be workin with my darling, i'll be playin tennis, i'll get better at illustrator xD woots~!

IT IS FINISHED.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:46 PM

IT IS FINISHED.

like, oh, thank God T_T my studio project is over. OVER. like, really?...it's over!!!!

it's been such a mess at the end of it even though i rushed so much at the start. problems just have to pop out out of nowhere and get me all into a fluster and squeeze the juices out of my brain. i still feel that whee bit of stress; cos the past few days i've waken up at 8am or before, and the first thing i do is on the comp and do my work. so now its 1pm plus-ish, i just woke up, i'm blogging and i'm worried if there's something i shld be doing but i forgot wad it is. hmmm.

well, aft wasting a hell lot of money printing everything, i finally got a proper printing for my cd package at sunshine plaza on sunday...a day before my presentation. haha. slept at 3 on monday morning,supposed to wake up at 6.30 monday morn to print and cut my labels for my portfolio & print research, but damn. i woke up at 7.15, rushed like crazy...i had a 5 min bath T_T but i cldn't really care anymore, and ran to the station in pointy heels T_T poor toes of mine. i cld feel all the adrenaline rush from panicking and running...almost like i'm abt to take part in a race.
Then i had to chant to myself that God will provide provide provide so many times just to calm myself down i thought for a while if the small voice in me had become a broken recorder. Well, thank God he really provided :) i was miraculously not late, even had time to sort out my animation paper, and the presentation went really well! i mean, at least compared to the first studio project.

i had Calvin and Wendy, and they were so nice!!! so grateful for them. calvin was surprisingly nice and gave me positive critisism on how to improve my animation :O whew~~~
whew~~~~~~~~~
....and wendy liked my package ^_^ heh. i guess that's a good thing.
aft presentation, i went shopping with aud, hanging on to 4 hrs of sleep. but i mean, who can resist? haha. and i bought a new tote bag~!!! i aim for 10! i only have 3 now T_T
i'm supposed to go for my ogl camp today, but i have to go to the doc later cos the lump on my inner eyelid has an additional yellow lump aft the lack of sleep, and my mum is panicking. the original lump is months old but this is the first time i'm gonna go see to have it really removed. i wonder if it's dangerous *_*

alright. i shall stop ranting. i think i'm gonna go buy a big bag of chips and pamper myself today, then update my deviant account and finally be able to give desmond the link. haha xD oh man. THE HOLIDAYS ARE HERE.
HERE HERE HERE TO STAY!!! RARR~!!!!

the phone rings
Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:31 AM

the phone rings relentlessly until it almost blends into the afternoon hum of old bored cicadas. But, none of the calls are for me. I'm such a confusion. If i get calls, it irritates cos it really distracts me. If i don't get them, it still feels irritating i'm picking up tons of calls but none are mine.

rarr.
oh, there it goes again.

i know i'll see you again
whether far or soon
but i need you to know...

early in the morning, once again.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006 6:59 PM

i woke up soooo early today i'm so proud of myself. slept at 3 and jumped awake at 6! haha. aren't i energetic :D ?! hurhur!
well, there's nthin much to blog abt today...

Yesterday was a real good day though :D
Firstly, Miss Wendy liked my black kimono-shirt, had a laughter-filled lunch, learnt how to use manual instead of auto when playin daytona (all hail daniel shi fu), finally got the facial scrub i keep forgetting to buy, and met Charmaine (pri sch fren) just as i was going up my lift! haha :)

to know that you feel the same
as I do
is a 3-fold utopian dream
You do something to me
that I can't explain
so would I be out of line
if I said...
"I miss you?"


aww. i really love that incubus song :) i'm secretly happy. so if you're reading this, i guess you can count yourself my confidant cos i'm tellin you a secret

but do you feel the same as i do?
"Hmmm."

hmmm...?
Saturday, March 04, 2006 6:30 PM

hmmm...?

what have i say to say except 'hmmm'?
i feel a little shut out.

bball with my babes xD !
Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:26 AM

bball with my babes xD !
hehe! went to play a totally disastrously funny game of bball with cheryl, cheehui & aman in sch ytd! ahaha...i shan't embarass myself with the details, but nonetheless, it was so fun :D ! it's the first time we've ever exercised together and it felt so good! haha :) thank you, cheryl, for kickstarting our first sports games together, thank you, chee hui, for teaching us all the rules, thank you, aman, for your life-saving water :D so fun so fun!

and YES. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE HOLIDAYS. xD yeee~!!!! we're gonna go aman's condo to practice our disastrous bball secretly, swim, AND LEARN TENNIS. yayyyyy~!!! always tot of learning...i know it's gonna be hard but i don't care! i so wanna learn xD thank you for accepting my request, aman. i promise you i wont demand for steamed fish everytime i go over.hehe!
(p.s everyone else except my babes -nana included- not invited cos aman's all mine! rarr. i'm possessive. i don't care =.=)

here's my schedule:
morning- tennis with the girls!
afternoon- swimming with the girls!
evening- bball with the girls!
night- play CONQUER with the girls! muahaha!
(haven't started yet, but it sounds like good political & running-away fun with pkers ard :P)

hooray! praise God for good fun friends :) mua mua~

...but what do i really need?
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:31 PM

i had mango in my salad again today...

i want to have some fun. i don't want to do work. i want to listen to plastic tree and play all day (not just slack). i want to go and have a good sweat, i want to have a laughter-filled dinner, i want more money to go shopping, i want i want i want...but what do i really need? :(