Earlier this year Melee attended a greens party meeting. So sometimes now, when theres an appropriate context, I say "VOTE 1 Melee!"
Like today.
Why today? because 2 weekends ago I was doing a little role play with her. I pretended to be an interview panel and we ran a little mock interview in preparation for a real one. She had applied for a job at QUT and it looks like her preparation payed off because today she got confirmation that she got the job!
YAY vote 1 melee!
So for non selfish reasons, I am happy for her that she got the job. Also for selfish reasons I am happy she got the job. Selfish because I get to see her more and we can do lunch sometimes or even catch the same train home.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Pink Supre bags!
Hey so its been about 6 months since I last wrote. Well I'm not sure how to fill you in on everything thats happened since then so I'll start off with a little thing thats been on my mind for a while and then I'll move on to what I did today.
These days, you can't take a walk through the city without spotting at least one girl carrying a Pink Supre bag. Nearly every girl has one! They look like those green bags you get at the supermarket except they are hot pink and say Supre on them in white.
I swear every one has one! Even my friend Fook, who is a guy, has one! Martha, Fook's girlfriend has tonnes of them. Kirstin has one! My girlfriend has one!
Wait, what did I just say? Did I say girlfriend? Yeah I did didn't I? Well I wasn't wrong. That cutie there in the picture is Melee and we've been going out for a month now and things couldn't be better.
In the last month, we've gone to the Eskimo Joe concert, Doomben Races, continuing Latin, started Hip Hop classes, iceskating, went to the colour wheel art cafe, cooked for melee while house sitting at uncles, celebrated our one month anniversary, went to the moreton bay seafood festival, rosalie wine and cheese festival, reopening of the powerhouse with comedy, and then went to a latin dance party that same night, properly met melee's mum and dad and had lunch with them and her brothers, saw shrek3, saw Essentially Dance which was a contemporary dance performance by QUT students at the Gardens point theatre, did a mock interview with melee in prep for her real interview, went to the Evermore concert, went to Springbrook National park, had a picnic, saw gloworms and tomorrow we're going to comedy again and after I go to a friend's bday party.... and thats just all the activities related to my GF and i!
Of course not all the activities were just us two. My core friends were there in some of them as well or sometimes with Melee's friends. But Melee's the big news in this post. Not Supre bags :)
Ok so that was the last month not last 6, but hey, how much do you really wanna read!?
These days, you can't take a walk through the city without spotting at least one girl carrying a Pink Supre bag. Nearly every girl has one! They look like those green bags you get at the supermarket except they are hot pink and say Supre on them in white.
I swear every one has one! Even my friend Fook, who is a guy, has one! Martha, Fook's girlfriend has tonnes of them. Kirstin has one! My girlfriend has one!
Wait, what did I just say? Did I say girlfriend? Yeah I did didn't I? Well I wasn't wrong. That cutie there in the picture is Melee and we've been going out for a month now and things couldn't be better.
In the last month, we've gone to the Eskimo Joe concert, Doomben Races, continuing Latin, started Hip Hop classes, iceskating, went to the colour wheel art cafe, cooked for melee while house sitting at uncles, celebrated our one month anniversary, went to the moreton bay seafood festival, rosalie wine and cheese festival, reopening of the powerhouse with comedy, and then went to a latin dance party that same night, properly met melee's mum and dad and had lunch with them and her brothers, saw shrek3, saw Essentially Dance which was a contemporary dance performance by QUT students at the Gardens point theatre, did a mock interview with melee in prep for her real interview, went to the Evermore concert, went to Springbrook National park, had a picnic, saw gloworms and tomorrow we're going to comedy again and after I go to a friend's bday party.... and thats just all the activities related to my GF and i!
Of course not all the activities were just us two. My core friends were there in some of them as well or sometimes with Melee's friends. But Melee's the big news in this post. Not Supre bags :)
Ok so that was the last month not last 6, but hey, how much do you really wanna read!?
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Dec 06 and Jan 07
Although its late. Happy new year and all that jazz.
Hope you had a great Christmas and rocked off your NYE celebrations to bring in zero seven.
What did I do?
The painting in my previous blog entry is one of the things I did. I called It Reflectrospect because the boy is looking back and reflecting on life and ideas he had.
What else did I do?
Well sometime before Christmas I thought I might buy one of those new gaming consoles - the Nintendo Wii. Little did I know that stocks were running out all over Australia at about the same time I was thinking of getting one. I hunted all around Brisbane in search of one only to hear the same response from every shop assistant whether it be EB Games, Myer, Games R Us, Target, Big W, Game Traders etc etc. "Sorry we are out of stock, you'll have to wait till February next year before we get more stock"
What impact did this have?
Well... of course I wanted one even more now. Up for the challenge I searched high and low just incase some store had the last Wii for me.
Eventually through a friend who knows someone, I got one! I unboxed it on 03 Jan. WOO!
What else was happening around this time?
Around this time a friend I didn't know well asked me to go to Melbourne with her for the weekend. I wasn't sure and said I have project work todo when the new year kicks in and probably can't go. But she said please come, I'll pay for your flight, 2 dinners and maybe one lunch. It sounded like she really wanted me to come so I said I'll talk to my boss and see if I can get friday off. So when work started, I checked and it was cool so that Thursday night I was set to go to Melb. So I just got my Wii and couldnt really play it 'cause I was leaving on a jet plane.
How was the trip?
I might edit this entry to tell the story better but lunch is waiting and getting cold so I'll give you the key points.
Turns out my 'friend' is having a lesbian relationship with a girl she went down there to meet. I had met this girl before she is quite good looking. The weekend got more and more random and strange.
When I got back, the friend didnt wanna speak to me anymore 'cause she reckoned I hit on her girlfriend.
Oh and for more randomness I went to Ramsay Street (where they film Australian soapie Neighbours).
Hope you had a great Christmas and rocked off your NYE celebrations to bring in zero seven.
What did I do?
The painting in my previous blog entry is one of the things I did. I called It Reflectrospect because the boy is looking back and reflecting on life and ideas he had.
What else did I do?
Well sometime before Christmas I thought I might buy one of those new gaming consoles - the Nintendo Wii. Little did I know that stocks were running out all over Australia at about the same time I was thinking of getting one. I hunted all around Brisbane in search of one only to hear the same response from every shop assistant whether it be EB Games, Myer, Games R Us, Target, Big W, Game Traders etc etc. "Sorry we are out of stock, you'll have to wait till February next year before we get more stock"
What impact did this have?
Well... of course I wanted one even more now. Up for the challenge I searched high and low just incase some store had the last Wii for me.
Eventually through a friend who knows someone, I got one! I unboxed it on 03 Jan. WOO!
What else was happening around this time?
Around this time a friend I didn't know well asked me to go to Melbourne with her for the weekend. I wasn't sure and said I have project work todo when the new year kicks in and probably can't go. But she said please come, I'll pay for your flight, 2 dinners and maybe one lunch. It sounded like she really wanted me to come so I said I'll talk to my boss and see if I can get friday off. So when work started, I checked and it was cool so that Thursday night I was set to go to Melb. So I just got my Wii and couldnt really play it 'cause I was leaving on a jet plane.
How was the trip?
I might edit this entry to tell the story better but lunch is waiting and getting cold so I'll give you the key points.
Turns out my 'friend' is having a lesbian relationship with a girl she went down there to meet. I had met this girl before she is quite good looking. The weekend got more and more random and strange.
When I got back, the friend didnt wanna speak to me anymore 'cause she reckoned I hit on her girlfriend.
Oh and for more randomness I went to Ramsay Street (where they film Australian soapie Neighbours).
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Reflectrospect
Reflectrospect
Titled 'Reflectrospect' - Acrylic on canvas.
I painted this piece on 3 canvasses such that the end (far right) canvas can moved to the front (far left). This ability can be done over and over, changing the situation of the subjects in the painting and thus changing the mood of the entire work in 3 different arrangements.
Arrangement 1: The boy looks up at the moon thinking about his life ideals. His reflection on life is symbolised by the pond, which also shows his ideals. His life or reality is the tree. Note the boy, the pond, the moon and the tree are all blue, because they are all a part of him. His reality casts a shadow. The girl cannot help but notice this shadow and is about to turn away from his life.
Arrangement 2: In this arrangement, the girl is not turning away from his life. Maybe she turns away from her own. Or maybe the boy has changed. In either case, the girl is coming towards the boy. The boy still looks for ideals but this time he is not alone. They can look at life together.
Arrangement 3: The tree is in its most complete form in this arrangement. But idealogy has split. The fact that the boy has his back turned away from the girl in this version seems more apparent. Is he shunning her now? Or are they both abandoning a past life?
This is my first painting on canvas and I haven't really done many other paintings ever in my lifetime. Maybe a couple in grade 8 art class but thats about it. I enjoyed working on something tangible as opposed to I.T. or digital media.
Now I just have to buy more canvas and tubes of paint. I think my next piece will also incorporate the dynamic canvas concept. This first work was experimental and I just wanted to test my idea of the tile-able painting. While taking these photos to upload the different arrangements I realised that the dynamics of the painting was further enhanced by lighting. The natural light the photos were took under, was generally brighter on the left and slightly darker on the right. As a result, in each photo, the natural light had illuminated the 3 paintings in basically 3 different ways, enhancing the shift in moods for each arrangement.
Titled 'Reflectrospect' - Acrylic on canvas.
I painted this piece on 3 canvasses such that the end (far right) canvas can moved to the front (far left). This ability can be done over and over, changing the situation of the subjects in the painting and thus changing the mood of the entire work in 3 different arrangements.
Arrangement 1: The boy looks up at the moon thinking about his life ideals. His reflection on life is symbolised by the pond, which also shows his ideals. His life or reality is the tree. Note the boy, the pond, the moon and the tree are all blue, because they are all a part of him. His reality casts a shadow. The girl cannot help but notice this shadow and is about to turn away from his life.
Arrangement 2: In this arrangement, the girl is not turning away from his life. Maybe she turns away from her own. Or maybe the boy has changed. In either case, the girl is coming towards the boy. The boy still looks for ideals but this time he is not alone. They can look at life together.
Arrangement 3: The tree is in its most complete form in this arrangement. But idealogy has split. The fact that the boy has his back turned away from the girl in this version seems more apparent. Is he shunning her now? Or are they both abandoning a past life?
This is my first painting on canvas and I haven't really done many other paintings ever in my lifetime. Maybe a couple in grade 8 art class but thats about it. I enjoyed working on something tangible as opposed to I.T. or digital media.
Now I just have to buy more canvas and tubes of paint. I think my next piece will also incorporate the dynamic canvas concept. This first work was experimental and I just wanted to test my idea of the tile-able painting. While taking these photos to upload the different arrangements I realised that the dynamics of the painting was further enhanced by lighting. The natural light the photos were took under, was generally brighter on the left and slightly darker on the right. As a result, in each photo, the natural light had illuminated the 3 paintings in basically 3 different ways, enhancing the shift in moods for each arrangement.
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