after the long nat hols
took me a hell lot of trouble trying to set up the labtop n stuff to start work on my 2nd canvas. the password part was especially troublesome, but i eventually got round that. n no the comic strip bears no resemblance to any person, living or dead.
haha to b honest here, i still can’t get over gilbert lee’s comment that i was smart. today he shoot us wif some econs graph n tell us to explain why it didn’t make sense. i tried to hantam, n it turned out to b correct! the first time i got an academic brain teaser correct. n i guess he really rubbed it in by saying that it took adrian a longer time to figure the ans out, but hey, i think glee’s just jumping to conclusions. intelligence is relative. doesn’t mean dat i can make a wild guess at some abstract concept that turns out correct means i noe stuff. doesn’t work that way. but anyway just typed this in for posterity’s sake. for the moment, it wd b wiser to put this aside. pride is poison.
today was a long art day. its back to doing coursework in sch, which also has its benefits as compared to staying at home i guess. but that means its back to going for long art lessons, staying in the art room til apollo in his chariot descends beneath the horizon.
the job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
i’ve watched 2 really epic movies recently. kundun (a scorsese film abt the life of dalai lama) n gandhi (yes that one wif ben kingsley as the mahatma himself) really takes ur breath away. still working on the gandhi though, its a whopping 3 half hrs long! though the movies r a little dated, that doesn’t make them ‘less better’ than the recent blockbusters. the truly gd movies r those that stand the test of time. they still blow u away wif elaborate sets decribing an exotic land n culture, engage u wif a thoroughly solid plot that has many dimensions to it, n they make their mark on u wif their memorable lines n enduring messages of compassion n courage. gandhi’s memorable line has stuck to my head. “An eye for an eye makes the world go blind.”
other than that, there’s always the prelims n As to look forward to. exams ARE SO FUN! but glee’s tips sound realli helpful. i guess i’ll haf to force myself to try them out. soon.
alvin ong dozed and watched the sawdust trampled night @ 9:06 PM
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