song of the moment: dog days are over by florence + the machine

undergrad CHECK!

i have finished my undergrad classes officially! marg and i celebrated with a nice bowl of pho and spring rolls! one of my fav foods in the world. also, i got to eat pie and cheesecake in my last class provided by my prof. a good end to the past four years! work is not over yet... now i'm off to writing my paper on a feminist art piece i created. oh, the joys of exam month!

nostalgia

my favourite pastimes, painting and drawing for hours is something that i miss a lot these days. the last time i remember working on an art work was this one below for a studio art class i took in second year. it's a reproduction of one of degas' pastel works, but i used oil paint instead. i need to sit down one day and just spend the whole day drawing or painting again. i miss high school art classes.

degas ballerinas

self portrait in pointilism

georgia o'keefe inspired flower

putting things into persepctive

this is a great way to express how i'm feeling right now. my life is like the picture on the left, a big mess of lines. i need to look at this in a different perspective and know that everything will fall into place and become a clear picture. other than that, these pictures are pretty cool yeah? i should paint one of my rooms like this!

make your own viet wrap party!

it all began in second year when my friend chloe introduced us to the idea of making vietnamese wraps. this was a brilliant idea and if you've never had a vietnamese wrap, you need to go to your local vietnamese restaurant and get them! basically they are vegetables with meat or shrimp and sometimes vermicelli wrapped in thin rice paper. how our parties work is that we have all these freshly chopped up veggies, fruit, shrimp, and steak and we can pick whatever we want to put in our rice paper. and then we wrap it all up and take a big bite out of the fresh piece of goodness. the best part of it is that you don't feel bad for stuffing your face because you're stuffing your body with a lot of healthy stuff. and its always fun to eat with your hands!

check out CLEMENTINE IS MY SUNSHINE

clementine is my sunshine is an amazing one man band. talented in guitar, piano, harmonica, banjo and can carry a tune; all this rolled up in one. we gotta wonder who that lucky girl is.

check him out at: www.myspace.com/clementineismysunshine

and he is currently #4 at http://www.ourstage.com/contests/3900-singer-songwriter-male and listen to 'head high'

my last reading week of my life was a nice bang to almost four years of drooling on textbooks and cramming sessions. so what did i do? instead of laying in the sun and getting my pale skin darkened by the sun, i went to tijuana, mexico and built a home for a family. it was an amazing experience to see a group of students turn a pile of wood and buckets of paint and nails into a home for a family in two days. there isn't much i can say that wouldn't sound cheesy and cliche so i'll end with a photograph.