Listening to some tanya chua early in the morning does so much good to your ears.

Her lungs may not be made of iron but she has a very natural down to earth approach to her songs.


Tanya covered this song Yellow by Coldplay and it is such a beautiful vocal. The link might not be the exact link to her version but a little Coldplay would do no harm too.

Yellow

This MP3 was found at Dilandau MP3

Just when stars are not shining the brightest, all you wish is for some alone and quiet privacy.

Will i be granted some tonight?

Someone like you-Adele

In the midst of studying Quantitative Analysis. Null Hypothesis? Right now i am not sure of what to study and what to memorize.

So, Let dear Adele calm me down.


Adele has a voice that speaks while she sings. Meaning she has the ability to convey a story therough her lyrics, melody effectively and efficiently. Her phrasing is unbelievable. "Sometime it lasts in love and sometimes it hurts instead."



Adele - Someone Like You [Live]


Started noticing this talent when she won New Artist for the Grammys when she beat out Duffy. And then, my eyes went straight to her. Since then, i have been chasing pavements to hear more of this voluptuous talent.

The wonder about this fiery red haired Brit is that i see that she relates herself and completely strips herself down when she performs. All walls, barriers are broken.

She sings with heart and this is a quality that so many artistes lack. Her voice is so broken-doll.

i see wonders in her. All i can conclude is that the world don't need any Charices , Celines or Whiteneys anymore. We need someone like you-Adele.

i cant deny that i had been distracted by certain travelling issues throughout this entire study week and my study progress was just not how i initially hoped it would be like. However, i just have to tell myself that life is not all about exams, there is a difference between transferring your knowledge into your exam papers ABC, applying your knowledge depending on the twisting examination quetions and lastly applying them into your daily lives.

Though i hope i score good grades, i can't ignore the important fact that daily application of knowledge is more important. And life is never a bed of roses, you don't always get what you plan. There are these bees and pests and nasty caterpillars that wanna attack you.

The morale is that you just have to stick to your true self and deal with it. grown up.


ive learnt so much this week. street-smart wise. and ive just adopted another soul sister and im the train. Thanks to someone like you -Adele ,to lend your raspy vocals to soothe my mind as i continue this long and winding road.




bought Adele's album 21 at KLCC, totally worth every Ringgit out of it. Shes a talent that you can't compare as shes just too unique to be compared.

love her.

and shes 21. 1 year oder than me. How cool is that?

i wanna clone myself...

clone 1 to go all away to sg 2 to buy materials.
clone 2 to go finish the plans elevations.
clone 3 to complete the perspectives.
clone 4 to go to class at 2pm
clone 5 to enjoy dinner with my friends.
clone 6 to edit my work.
clone 7 to have some sleep.


living on a thread.

and clone 8 to have some McD

At this point, its all about your execution.

Elsa revealed

Elsa revealed. the way i approaced this assignment is that i wanted more human touch to create the emotion connection between life and lifeless. I thus observed pictures i seem as sensual and tried sketching to build up the emotional factor and ended up frustrated one after anoter, potrait after another. My flawed techniques result in flawed pictures which made me desolate.



Now looking back, i feel i was just being too ambitious of my concept , wanting to create things way beyond my capabilities. to create 3-5 quality potraits in 3 weeks with crazy assignments and sections, elevations?that was just such a crazy thought of mine.


My work was just too art, and just beyond me. Perhaps, i should edit myself more. After all, editing is still the work of Art.




Trust me, i did put alot of thought process into the space distribution of my house as the space was limited and i wanted it to speak of an aura of its own- the Elsa aura.







I just wanted my house to be fabric , free and thus ended up with this watercolour splash slash unknown. I was just clueless . I just wanted it to look free and easy.




what i can add is the fact the the recent Putrajaya trip managed me uphold my spirits and cleared my mind.

its the final one now to tackle. so, i choose to look at it more sensually.

Elsa quetioned

Designer's house.

my 1st question: who is this designer? I always love thinking of design concepts as those are what that more excite me or in other words breathe life. Alot ran through my mind and in the end i just came up with 1 word.


Sensuality.


sensuality does not necessary mean sexuality. Its more than that, its the way the soul connects to anoter being. Its the empowerment of confidence. Its alluring, attractive, seducing. later i found out that sensuality of architecture has been explored mainly dealing with the sex of the architecture. Taj mahal could be feminie wheares the Empire State building is surely masculine.


Another word came across my mind then- androgynous. I wanna do a little bit of masculine with a feminine touch. Clean cross lines with soft , flowy texture. Complex. i wanted a little Agyness and Omahra in my design.

The way i wanted my design to be is to be able to connect the soft and hard sides of human beings and talk to them like a voice speaking to you silently as gentle breeze blows towards your cheeks.



Thus, i imagined the designer , someone dark, someone mysterious, trying to search for inspiration and he often hallucinates himself to search for inspiration. He sees his house as an emotional 'being' which lives together with him and projects the images of these girls .He sees glimpses of these girls once in a while at the patio, kitchen lingering around like a cheetah looking for her prey. He feels an emotional connection with his house as if his house is creating these hallucinations.



I then see the way the flow of the arrangement of the house as dark, traditional , very Cheong Fatt Tze. Its sensual, mysterious, predetorial. Theres a flow, ecoule. I even tried to hallucinate myself at time to catch the glimpses through the eyes of this designer and it was just new to me. I used music , dark, intrmental music to intrigue me and inspire me.


and in the end i came out with Elsa. Sensous , intriguing, with facades made as if they are fabric-like, flowy, responsive, emotional. with features that trace back to ancient Penang where the good days are.


it is new to me. this whole development of concept.


Now looking back, i questing myself, as much as i love this concept of mine, are they too over-developed? too much? or should i keep them Calvin Klein simple? i see glimpses of Elsa in my mind, standing there magnificently like the great japanese stork stretching her wings. Yet, i still question myself. too much Black Swan perhaps?


Are my concepts too hard to be understood for others aside from myself?