today i was dying in school, like really dying. contemplated leaving halfway to come home and sleep but held out cos MRMAH was going to come down to rj to see us one last time before he leaves for perth! all the AEP APEs were there :) we chionged his present in like an hour! haha. it's this canvas filled with pictures of us and quotes like "shou1 gong1 le4! GO HOME AND GET A LIFE" (adapted in this context: "shou1 gong1 le4! I'm going home to get a life") and "THAT'S GOOOOODDDD" and "not cute but INTERESTING!" :):)

i really miss those art lessons where we sit in the turpentine vapour- filled art room and ate cup noodles and gossiped, occasionally lifting the brush to our canvases and adding a few inconsequential dashes of colour :'-)

it was really great to see everyone again, chers, jo, ying, emm, rng, manori, olives, sneha, xiaoting, cynthia, sara.. even noelle dropped by with a note for him. i think mrmah was touched, tho he kept "slamming" our collage-thingimajig.. :'-)

mr mah made art that much more interesting, that much more meaningful. he showed us it wasn't just about perfecting the colour scheme, about blending those different shades of colour perfectly. art is more than that. it's about putting across a message.. but not to such a degree of blatantness that people can see a story in ur painting. it's really all about the subliminal message. he also showed us how to see the beauty in what others would consider sturcturally messy or 'ugly'; he taught us that messiness was ok, that u needn't be so fastidious about leaving fingerprints here and there..

sigh. he's probably the best art teacher i've ever had. period. :)

so anyways, after we've had a chat in the rj art room (he told us about how he renounced his singaporean citizenship and the civil servant he 'terrified' haha), we went to j8's secret recipe for dinner.

i had chicken cordon bleu, which was rather good. it was this chicken stuffed with cheese and ham thing. jo made it a bit unappetising by saying it's like a lump, which led me to think of tumor lumps, specifically my mum's tumor that was THANK GOD removed before it exploded..

will upload the pictures in my hp another time. :)
for now,

GODSPEED, MR MAH! I'll miss you! :)

anyways, i dug out some aep stuff..



go to, then; your considerate stone.
10:36 PM
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