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07 / 02 / 2023
i still remember some good people from that school of mine that i went to, most notably my chinese teacher and the new principal who came in when i was primary 3, i believe. my chinese teacher, from what i could recall, was actually approachable and very friendly. she was very understanding of our young minds, and sometimes she would fall into a joke that the rowdy bunch of kids in my class would make, of which i was one of them. i still remember her voice and face, and her name too. i don't think i would describe her as bubbly, rather she was just an average adult, but she was one of the numerous teachers i actually liked.
there was also another teacher that had to substitute in for my english teacher once, and the way she explained ways to write stuff in english was "god-tier", as described by my classmate once. she makes it look so easy, and the whole class, though silent, i would assume instantaneously understood what she had said. that's how good she was at teaching, and my class was envious of the other class who had her as her form teacher. my english teacher at that time, to me would be like "here. homework. do it." she was pretty cool.
my principal is the reason i believe in people with kindred spirits. in many ways she shared similarities with my chinese teacher, and i generally would not mind her just standing in my general vicinity. shoutout ms tabitha
20 / 10 / 2023
hey guys! here to update my journal again. i've just recently finished the nichijou anime, and i recommend it if you like cute stuff, funny scenarios and genuinely impressive animation. anyways, im planning to watch this movie with some friends that i made from primary school. never saw it yet, but i think it should be a great film to watch given its reviews. i'll report back on how the movie was
21 / 10 / 2023
eh it was ok
04 / 02 / 2024
your boy got a free 1 year of nitro for saying "i'd draw for nitro tbh"
23 / 06 / 2024
hello, im back for a quick life update. i applied for an early position in a polytechnic for a course i reaaaaaaly wanna get into and i prepared a portfolio for it. now im just going to wait for any email from them as i rot away in school i guess
04 / 08 / 2024
great news:
i may have just secured myself a position in that same polytechnic! i went for some test and an interview, and im very confident that i can get in! will update in september when i get my results
18 / 10 / 2024
not so great news:
forgot to update + i failed LOL
21 / 10 / 2024
ive gotten back into drawing after not doing so because of exams here. first thing i realised was that i have a lot of thing to relearn, like drawing the head and the legs and stuff. i mean, to someone who sees my sketches for the first time, theyd think that it'd look decent or something, but i was the one drawing them and so i just know instinctively that something went wrong with my sketches somewhere. i want to relearn, but im gonna have to find a part time job soon + exams now... oh well for other news, i have a debit card now... that means that i have means of setting up commissions for art now! though, i think the card is restricted to the singapore region only... anyways, i feel like i should be updating the gallery section of my website
31 / 08 / 2025
hey guys! it has almost been a year since i updated this journal. lots of things happened:
- i was briefly employed at a supermarket and i made like 4.4k
- i got into a design course at that polytechnic i mentioned
- im about to fly to malaysia during my holiday right now
honestly this period of time has been a big blur to me. first i got accepted into a polytechnic, and now im on break for 2 months. weird....... anyways, ive started and continued on like 3 more roblox projects:
plus, i exported a tower that i made in a roblox game with the help of an admin, and then with some people i made connections with in a fangame server (Democratically Elected Towers of Hell) i got the whole thing revamped. i came by DEToH by complete chance when i was on Roblox once, and i am forever grateful for that chance encounter roblox just so happened to recommend to me in place of some random brainrot game everyone's gonna forget about in a couple months. since the gimmick of that fangame revolved around democracy, i made a lot of "propoganda" (which was really just promotional artwork, and my tower won the vote count alongside another tower by a much more experienced builder who formed a pact with me, and i think that's what helped it win the votes it needed to get into an area in that game.
excited to see what the rest of this year holds
27 / 06 / 2026
i set up a paypal and bandcamp today. excited to release some music seriously alongside making shitposts on my soundcloud. also realised that i kinda got some good painting skills going on, and i just love how therapeutic it is even if it takes a long time to see the process of painting something from start to finish. its a big deal of trusting the process especially for conventional painting
anyways, quick update on what i've been up to for a year:
- i watched Project Hail Mary
- binged evangelion
- got back into penspinning
- got good at drawing
- produced an EP that at the moment isnt released yet
- became vice-president for a school art club
- made some friends :)
- sorta got back into Touhou even though i havent played a real touhou game in a while. theres an EoSD rerelease coming later this year
maybe i should start learning HTML and CSS. if other people can do it and make nice things to look at then i can too. im just lazy lol