Little Dowager

I spent the last three hours tidying my room. Ok lah, more like, I tidied for two hours and stoned the rest of the time looking at things I had long forgotten. After awhile, I got bored so I came online.

Wah lao, I have so many things in my room that I have no idea how to deal with them! I have one whole drawer of paperworks, mostly projects and handouts from lessons. I’m torn between keeping them and selling them to Garang Guni! I think I will sell after I complete my third year…

I have one shelf full of fashion magazines; the latest one was from April, I think. I have one drawer of art materials, and there are many empty tubes of paints inside, and I have two bagful of storybooks with weird titles like, “Samurais of Seletar” (or is it MacRitchie?). So basically, my career backup plan is to be a Garang Guni lady.

Some things can be sold, while others can be thrown away. But I have these two items in my room I can’t bear to sell or discard.
I did this acrylic painting when I was in Sec 4. It is a replica of Marc Chagall’s I and the Village.
This is the original. The reason why mine was in half is because… The lower portion was not done by me and my replica was not to scale as the canvas was kinda longish.

I can’t bear to throw this away because I had a lot of fun painting it with my eight other classmates from Arts class. I remember we had to wear black trash bag as “aprons” to protect our uniform from Acrylic paints (it’s impossible to wash them away once stained!) .

If there is one thing I die die must missed bout my secondary school life, it would be those 3 hours art lessons I had in Sec 3/4 and my teacher of four years - Miss Khairani. In those three hours, we can forget bout mugging, ten year series, tests, and exams. We played with ideas and colours. We shared our inspirations and we discuss to improve.

We had a very creative atmosphere in class. It was… fun.

I have this A1 board lying around in my room. It’s collecting dust but I can’t bear to throw it away!

It used to have a bag on it, but I took it out cause it badly need a wash - The board was displayed for over a year!

I did this last year for my visual merchandising project; We had to construct our boards in 2 and a half hour flat. Just imagine the mess we made in the class! I will never forget how Moley Rapper helped me out as I was behind time then.

Nevertheless, it was one of the more memorable project I did. Although I’m no longer pursuing this area of specialism, the lecturer in charge is one of my favorite lecturer around.

Wah lao, I’ll never get rid of anything in my room if I remain so sentimental!