My Piece of Art Work
Today was the launch of Ministry for Community Development, Youth and Sports heritage exhibition commemorating its 60 anniversary. I had to design 8 posters for the exhibition which was actually a mad and rushed job. The time constraint was very tight within 1 and half days. It was IMPOSSIBLE for me to meet the deadline. Neverthless, the MCYS staff helped to roll up their sleeves and lent me their assistance in my assignment. If not for them, these pieces of art work wouldn't have made it to the exhibition on time.
These posters were actually cut-and-paste montages on the boards. They looked like printed posters, right? Well, there was no time to send the posters for professional printing. Actually I prefer to have the posters printed professionally rather than to have cut-and-paste pictures on the posters. Which can look unslightly and not presentable. My nitemare was that the top might frown when they see the "sloppily-done" posters.
But anyway, I went ahead with it. I was surprised and pleased with the results that the cut-and-paste montages looked incredibly great! The credits goes to the MCYS staff who helped to cut and stick the pictures hurriedly in a flurry.
In that case if you are thinking that the whole piece of designed art work is done by me, no, part of design credits goes to the MCYS staff too. One of them knows Photoshop so she designed this background. The rest ( pixs and fonts) were done by me.
Definition of Singaporean Guy's Look?
Recently, my friend, Miss T told me that she went for an SDU (Social Development Unit) event, and that the guys there look so desperate to find girls.
I asked her my usual question "Are these guys handsome?" despite knowing that the probability of them being dash-looking is super-low for sure.
As anticipated, she said that these guys are okay-looking lah and have the typical Singaporean look. In which it painted a picture of them looking so plain and square on my mind. They are clueless on how to spruce up their looks.
Nevertheless, I asked another friend, Mrs Eileen for her opinion abt the definition of Singaporean guy's look. She described the looks of Korean, Japanese and even Chinese from China. The Chinese men from China are easily spotted as they wear very high-waist trousers and their facial features are very different from the Singaporean Chinese guys' look. We think that Korean men are very handsome and fair. Particularly, it is cos of the Korean dramas.
As for Singaporean man's look, Mrs Eileen was speechless and had no answer to my question. So she concluded that this look has no description at all.
In any case, Singaporean men ought to be marched to grooming school for lessons.
Excuse me, are you a Singaporean?
Today I hopped on a cab and the taxi-driver asked me where I am from. These questions "Are you a Singaporean" and "What is your race" are not new to me and always asked by taxi-drivers, polytechnic mates and australia church friends. This list can go on. Including a cleaner who interrupted me while I was eating mee pok.
They said that I dun look like a pure Chinese person. I look quite a bit different from others. Puzzled and amused, it never occur to me that way.
Curious about the expected profile of Chinese face, I did research on internet but in vain. I dun know what subject to google in query box. I looked at the faces of Chinese girls outside while travelling in bus. Had a talk with my colleague over this topic abt the differences about Chinese and Malay faces.
Cited from her perspective of faces of both races, Chinese features are more delicate and very soft, and the latter features, more sharp and prominent. In which I agree with her perspective.
Based on my observation, I can only guess that the typical Chinese face has quite a slim and flat structure. Like the cheeks are not full-blown as this pictured girl's. Features-wise, they are more soft-looking than Caucasian's.
I discovered that Naga in Nagaland ( one of the states in India) have high cheeks. Could it be that my genes could be mixed of Naga and Chinese? It would be wonderful if my blood carries 1% of Naga. It is so boring to be pure Chinese and you can trumpet to people "hey, I am not pure Chinese. I am half-Chinese and half-Indian." I know one guy who will state "Indian" on "What is your race" question when filling up the form. Despite he is Chinese technically??? Do not get mistaken that I am jeering at these people who proudly annouce abt their mixed race. I understand that it is natural to be proud of mixed race so they are happy that they got some "exotic" blood.
Sadly, I am not. I am a pure Chinese and clean Singaporean, free from foreign blood cells.
