• Singapore Art Fair 2014

    I visited the Singapore Art Fair with a friend in November. Interestingly, this art fair is the first modern and contemporary art fair in Asia focusing on Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia (ME.NA.SA) art, held at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre. I do not have any artistic flares in me but I like to pretend I do. Not an artsy fartsy person but I can still learn to appreciate art right?

    Recently it’s been raining almost everyday and I’m loving it. Brings down the temperature in Singapore and I can add layers to my outfit without feeling the heat. Makeup also stays longer on my face. Yet it’s a drag to step out of my house. All I want to do is roll around in bed all day. Look at the heavy downpour when I went out. Even my shoes from SPAO are wet.

    A selfie while waiting for bus to arrive.

    The guide that doesn’t help me out. I was lost in this big big space of art pieces on display. On a side note, they collected the entry pass back from us just before we entered the exhibition hall. Lucky for me, I have already taken the photo below. Hee!

    I just picked a few I liked to share and it turned out to be so much pictures. Lots of scrolling to do for this post!

    Just entered the hall and giggled hard because I saw this. This whistling face is too epic.

    Let’s start off with cute art pieces that are easier to appreciate.




    There is ice-cream!

    So happy to see fennec fox and little prince of B612.


    The following two art pieces are “Fly” and “Hang” by Seungsub Lim.


    Look at the head in a heart shape.


    A major art work on the partition wall.

    The following is “Scream” by Il Dong Kim. This is pigment on canvas. This really reminds me of the Simpons drawing in Junhyung’s house.


    She is staring at you.

    My personal favourite.



    I like how the letters “Love” fit into this Chinese character “Love”.



    Watcha looking at? LOL

    I like the next piece so much that it is now my Facebook header photo.

    The Last Supper before Leonardo da Vinci, 2014 by Dadi Setiyadi. The artist imagines the scene in which Da Vinci’s painting, “The Last Supper” taking place before guests arrive. This piece is acrylic on canvas.

    When we exited the exhibition, we were famished and exhausted. The place is so huge with so many art pieces to admire, one afternoon is simply not enough for us. We then realised why there were 3-day passes sold. To think that we were so naive to believe we could absorb everything in one afternoon.

    Oh well, according to the Singapore Art Fair official website, this event is to be held annually. That means I have something to look forward to again, in November 2015.

    The night ends with ice cream at Rabbit Owl Depot.

    I’m not a fan of milky ice-cream so there’s not a lot of choices for me. I got the sesame flavoured ice-cream and I love it. Sesame flavour is hard to go wrong anyway.

    Rabbit Owl Depot
    Address: 420 North Bridge Road #01-06, Singapore 188727
    Tel: +65 6336 4075
    Operating Hours:
    Monday – Thursday: 12pm – 10pm
    Friday – Saturday: 12pm – 11pm
    Sunday: 2pm – 9pm

  • Item Needed: Happiness

    My friend shared with me the other day about Scoot Airline deals to Seoul. That day, I found myself spending a lot of time looking at 2015 calendar and non-stop pressing the calculator to measure my finances. Rational part of me is telling me not to buy, but the insensible part of me wouldn’t let me leave the Scoot website. In the end, I made a decision to let it pass. Now is not the time, and neither does my wallet allows me to be capricious.

    That very night, I dreamt that I suddenly found cheap air tickets to Hong Kong, and once again I was on my way to Hong Kong for a vacation alone. Instead of feeling the excitement of embarking on a vacation trip, I found myself feeling guilty that I wasn’t bringing my parents along on the trip with me. At the same time, I was planning to buy another Longchamp bag on that very trip. Despite limited resources, I was persistent in making the purchase, very well knowing that the guiltiness in me would increase after the transaction.

    Your dream implies feelings of rejection. You may be feeling that no one understand you.

    You are feeling guilty about something is in relations to how you are handling your successes and failures or competence and incompetence. You may feel undeserving of your achievements. Or on the other hand, you feel that you have let others down. Alternatively, the dream is symbolic of repressed and negative feelings that you may have about yourself.

    To dream that you are on vacation indicates that you need a break to recharge your energies and revitalize yourself. You need to break out of your daily routine and do something different.

    As usual, my dream reflects my negativity and my reluctance to stay status quo. I need a dosage of positive injection in my life.

  • Come Back Home

    2014 did not get a good start, and it certainly didn’t end on a good note. The overturned Sewol Ferry in April took so many innocent lives. MH370 shocked the entire nation when it went missing. With the technology advancement in our age today, we didn’t think it was possible to have a plane gone missing. Yet again, this morning, QZ8501 faces the same fate of going missing.

    Having worked as a cabin crew previously, I too have multiple experiences sitting in the plane with the turbulence so bad that I thought I would never make it home. I see the passengers turned their heads looking at me for assurance, and all I could do was to give my best poker face, while I was strapped tightly to the safety harness, as though everything was under control.

    In fact, I didn’t know if everything was under control. I couldn’t give any assurance because I too have my own doubts and fear. At that time, all I did was non-stop running through the safety procedures in my head so that if we ever land safely and I am still alive, I could immediately spring up from my seat and do the necessary. Shout the necessary commands, check the conditions outside the plane and hopefully determine it is safe enough to open a door and evacuate everyone to safety.

    Fortunately for me, no matter how rough the flights were, I always made it home safely, thanks to the Captains and First Officers I flew with. It dawned upon me that whenever we bump into fellow crew along the hallway previously, we always greeted each other in a loud cheery voice “Have a safe flight!”, but I never really meant what I said. To me back then, it was a protocol to follow, a culture I adapted to in the line of work. It never occurred to me that one of us might not make it home.

    QZ8501 is an Airbus A320 aircraft that I was so familiar with. Back in the days when I was flying, the airline I worked for only operates on Airbus A320. The route from Surabaya to Singapore is almost a weekly trip for me, if not multiple trips in a week. I used to say that going to work back then is like taking a bus ride. This route is approximately 2hrs, and it is almost equivalent to the the time I took to travel from my house to my work place. Yet today, those crew and passengers on QZ8501 might not make it back home safely and my heart aches just at the thought of it.

    Have faith in the flight deck crew. Be safe please, I pray.

  • Happy Parcel Arrived in Mail

    A packaged arrived at my house some weeks back. For the first time since I started work at my new office, I rushed home from work on time.

    Look at the delightful package that sat on Cathay Pacific Airways to my house. The lucky bastard sat on a full fledge carrier while I have been sitting on budget airlines to Korea for the past few trips.

    This is the exact state of my items when I opened the box. All items are bubble wrapped, but things are flying out of the packaging. Fortunately other than my posters, the rest of the items are in perfect condition.

    These are all merchandise sent by Cube Entertainment. As Beast’s fan club is called Beauty, their merchandise are made with the signature rose. Beauty and the Beast… Geddit? I bought two of the below umbrellas, one for myself and one for a friend as birthday present.

    Look at how pretty the rose is. I’m so proud to be holding this umbrella on a rainy day. When opened up, you can see the initials of Beast in Korean hangul.

    A close up below.

    This umbrella is so light weighted as compared to the current one I’m using. I’m so going to ditch my current umbrella and carry this Beast umbrella out with me everyday! (Happy Twirl)

    And the highlight of my purchase is this Beast 5th Anniversary Package B.

    The first thing I did was to open these 2 photo books. There were a total of 6 individual members’ photo books given out at random.

    And I got Junhyung and Dongwoon. I’ve only selected a few to take pictures of. Although they are not my bias but one can’t deny that all photos look awesome and the members look so good. I caught myself smiling as I look through the photo books.


    And there’s a blanket that I have no idea when I’d be able to use. Probably bring it up the plane to fight the cold when I’m on my way to Korea? And the entire plane would know I’m a Beauty. Would you give me a kind and knowing smile if you see a fellow Beauty covered in this on the plane?

    And the mug that may look plain here, changes colour when hot water is poured into it. This was indeed a surprise for me as I was just expecting a simple mug. Certainly a lovely twist!

    The very thick “TIME” album comes with a random photo card and a thick photo book.


    At this stage, I was losing heart and thought I’d have to settle for another member’s photo card other than my bias. To my surprise, my bias greeted me with his fixated gaze and look ever so charming in that sweater. SOBS

    The card below reads:
    Dear Beauty ♡
    Beauty whom we are always grateful for!! ♡
    Let’s go on together for a long time. Thank you
    – Beast Yoseob –

    I still do have fate with my bias. All hope is not lost!

    Along with the package, I also did some shopping for BTOB merchandise. Their 5th mini album “MOVE”. The random card I got is Ilhoon. Not my bias but I’m not complaining here. Because I’ve got Yoseob photo card! (See above) (Does another happy twirl)

    I got myself a mask because I like wearing mask when I’m overseas. It protects me against the cold in the winter, or even the cold air on the plane. I really do sleep better on the plane with a mask on. I didn’t know the mask would come with glittered words. This is so conspicuous that I am basically shouting “I’m a Melody!” with this on. Well, it does look pretty and non-fans probably wouldn’t know what the logo or the slogan means right?

    Nevertheless, I am super happy with my buys. I am embarrassed to say this, but I am expecting a second parcel from Cube Entertainment at the moment. Until the package comes, I’ll keep mum about what I bought. Do stay tuned!