hectic dae. hectic week. hectic life.
U noe there is a welcome solitude when u wake up in very early hours of the morning, compared to the rush n ductile anonymity of school life.
between 3am to 6pm, bishan is not bishan n jurong is not jurong. occasionally the lone footsteps of someone walking echo past the cozy dwellings, the empty corridors n empty void decks. time n again a car comes out of the silence n cruises easily thru the traffic lights, its headlamps casting fleetingly long shadows over ceiling fans n window shutters.
the street is plunged into silence once again. the mystery n melancholy of a street.
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whew wad a dae woh. sch ended at 730...reach home 830..one of the latest so far in the long illustrious checkered history of graveyard shift art lessons. the aep programme is so rigorous, its like a cca already. todae had the THREE HOUR drawing n painting paper. as the title says, ur supposed to produce an artwork from scratch in 3 hrs. most of the time, 3 hrs like any other exam paper is not enuff, so u really need to work on a very tight schedule. trick is to plan n allocate ur time properly, n go in wif a realistic composition/idea to execute, as in not so elaborate la.
well the test was generally ok, good, n i’m quite satisfied wif myself. managed to exceute the work within the time limit, some painting of a toothbrush in an old deserted spanish square. looks quite surreal. only thing is that these daes i’m so busy i don’t have time to hand up a proper prep work. for this drawing n painting paper, students r given a title/theme in advance n ur supposed to do sketches n compose a composition in the weeks b4 the actual exam day. so most students make sure that their preparatory sketches r sam tock gong n solid so just in case they screw up on the actual dae, the prep work can at least save ur marks.
only thing is that all the teachers putting pressure, i barely managed to hand in a few miserable pieces of paper, wif some drawings on it....the prep work component, sure die. but i console myself la, in the real exam i’ll give more serious attention to this prep nonsense. this one play play one. n given the time constraints, very difficult to come up wif quality preparation work. so it is forgivable to slack tis time round.
tired tired. i’m off to bed. must rest well for road run tmw. ciao pplez.
alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 9:35 PM
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