on the way home, Shira-Majo was juz trying to be vain


it was a little disappointing for the start of the day. Shira-chan was supposed to meet Chiji at the bus stop near the bus interchange. but when she alighted, Chiji was out of sight. He was still at home waiting for her call to leave the house to meet her. she didn’t do so because she thought that she had already informed him when she woke him up while waiting for the bus. what bad luck.

Shira was left all alone to have breakfast. didn’t know wad to get because her favourite Japanese pancake was no where to be seen at the bakery. she walked fast to the interchange in case she missed the bus, but the bus too, was no where to be seen. so she headed back to the bakeries and finally made up her mind on what to get. she got a ham and egg bun with lettuce and was quite happy. it looked appetizing and wasn’t that expensive.

upon reaching the bus interchange again, Shira saw the bus driver boarding the bus, with a flock of ppl behind him and heaved a sigh of relief because she made it in time.

it was quite messy eating her bun. the mayo dressing kept getting onto her nose, her chin, her cheeks and she had to used her fingers to wipe them away, the result of being untidy and not having any tissue on her.

even though she reached school rather early, a crowd had already gathered round the wall, now filled with 650 postcards done by VS foundation year students in a myriad of colours. whao!



Shira went up the flight of steps for alleviation and tried to spot her very own postcard! she was quite disappointed because it was near the top and surrounded by many many that oushined hers. maybe she should have used colours to draw attention to hers, instead of leaving it plain.





she then scanned for the postcard to vote for and spotted this !



then she wrote “17P” on the voting slip she got. P stood for the row and 17 stood for the column the postcard was on. the girl’s was on “22L”

it was a long 2 hour wait before the announcement of the winners. Shira met up with J.L, waited for him to cast his vote, waited for N.T to come, witnessed the lecturer Sn count down to the closing of votes, then went to the library while waiting for N.T to come. by the time N.T arrived, voting was closed. too bad then.

J.L looked up for books needed by CLMF while Shira-Chan, with no particular aim stood around the shelves looking at books at random. J.L felt that it was weird for Shira-Chan to do so and reminded her that that was a library, therefore books could be borrowed even though there's no seating available. this way she could take the book anywhere she liked and read it. oh man. it seemed like all these were new to her. why didnt she think of borrowing the book ??? haha silly little girl.

she took out her student pass, gave it to the librarian guy who scanned it, stamped on the book, handed it back to her saying "for two weeks"


N.T was nowhere to be seen. She's got her friend Jn so it was okay. J.L showed Shira-Chan the lockers and opened his for her to take a peek into it. it was not at all spacious even though it was elongated. it was good enought for two persons to share it though. Shira had to consider sharing it with N.T. well, she might not even get a locker.

nxt she went to art friend to get art cards and then went back to the locker to store it. it was flat so it was no problem for J.L to lend her the 0.5% of locker space.

it was almost time for the reveal so they went to the canteen where they spotted N.T and J. Shira-Chan sat down and made friends. made a new friend Dn. it was until they left for the reveal when she realised Dn was her classmate! haha. (dumb)he was rather quiet. but well she knew shouldnt judge a person superficially.

it turned out that the postcard with the jeans pocket and zip won the competition. OH MAAAN. told u there were more impressive stuff out there...

well here are postcards of the ppl she know, and random postcards


N.T's Postcard


J.L's Postcard


G.P's Postcard


Jn's Postcard


Dn's Postcard

its postcard competition day!

Shira-Chan was pretty much excited about it and planned in the morning before going to school . it was her first time using coloured pencils to colour a self portraits. usually it would be in pencil, and she thought it looked not bad!

however her final piece was quite disappointing. her face didn’t look that good in pen, but there was no time to waste. she was gonna meet Eiki-San(a.k.a Chiji) and had to be on time.




Shira-Chan went to school early, and it was juz in time for Chiji’s main study lesson. it was fortunate to meet J.L so she had company.

J.L took her to the library after chatting under the mango tree at a stone table outside the FA(find arts) staffroom. it was her first time there and maan… IT WAS SO DAMN SMALL!!! no seating at all for the ppl who had came in with us. she though she wouldn’t dare go library alone to draw stuff. she was intimidated. she wished the library was emptier. it was simply overcrowded man…

it was time to go and she bid farewell to J.L, met N.T outside the library and assembled at the PA block. it was they first time they met their classmates, and so, they couldn’t remember names. upon getting their postcards after being briefed, Shira tried to make friends with two other gals and tried to get them to the shady spot instead of the canteen. but they went ahead to the canteen when N.T and her enjoyed the breeze under the mango tree.

Shira-Chan hasn’t taken a look at the wall, that was filled with postcards from the morning session and wanted to take a look. she ran all the way to the design block and passed her secondary school classmate, Miyabita along with her jc friend, J.N. Shira chatted for a while and finished up the leftover beef from their hor fun. deeeelicious! (the girl hasn’t taken lunch yet)

“whao it was damn cool!” she thought when she saw the wall. but she was quite surprised some were not very well done… maybe they didn’t really give a damn. and she headed back to continue doing her art.

Shira-Chan found that beside N.T on the other side of the stone table, sat a girl with long hair. she decided not to leave her out and made friends. she got to know from the other gal’s accent that she wasn’t local. she’s Vietnamese and her name in short, was K, or M.Q in chinese.

it was kinda weird because the Vietnamese gal kept saying “Your art is so beautiful”, and later when she saw the girl’s picture at hand, she asked if she could see and said “You are so beautiful” in the same accent. but it got quite confusing coz both phrases she said sounded alike. soon after N.T confirmed that the Vietnamese gal liked her, and the phrase as always ws “you are so beautiful” and not “your art’s so beautiful”

damn!

N.T was being quite impolite and superficial as all sjcians in general would, oh sigh. coz she said to her friend on the phone some mean things abt the Vietnamese gal. aiyoh.
the Vietnamese gal told her that she studied Chinese in grades 1,2, and 3 and wondered if she understood wad N.T had said… gawd.

N.T was damn slack… sigh… she wished she could help N.T change but she didn’t think she deserves such help. N.T was joking and talking nonsensical stuff all the way and kept saying she didn’t know wad to do with her postcard. She even took out her hp with a video of her dog humping a soft toy, and a guy fucking a woman using his head. Shira-Chan wished N.T had more drive.

another gal who was lost came by. S.J’s her name. she was late and couldn’t find the lecturer in charge of her class to get a postcard. luckily the Vietnamese gal took extra postcards and offered S.J one of hers. J.L also popped by and started chatting and gave N.T some help.


Shira was so engaged in talking that she had to rush to finish up her work. she felt if she didn’t talk to the Vietnamese girl, it would be really bad on her part. thinking back… eww… wad N.T said might very well be true! while talking , N.T said the Vietnamese girl kept questioning the girl only, asking her why she liked drawing flowers, what kind of flowers she liked, and when she returned the glue she borrowed from the girl, she stressed “You, fhank you ferry much!” when on the other hand, she returned N.T’s pen knife and juz said “fhank you”

that day, she felt that she accomplished a great thing and was very proud of her work. she was confident she would win.




but the odds were very low. she knew very well that there were others who outshined hers already, and the position of her postcard would be really high and hard to see. so it was a pity. no one would vote for her.



Shira-Chan met up with Chiji at the coffee shop across the road and met two new ppl. B and J from the music side( for ur info, B and J don’t stand for ben and jerry’s)

after drinking some ice cold sugarcane juice, Chiji and Shira headed for city hall to check out cds and drums resources. it was really nice for her to spend quality time with Chiji, without curly getting moody. YAY. and Chiji even sent her home! YAY YAY

Botanic gardens outing gave Shirayuki Majo a sun burn. but she’d rather call it a tan. she was quite proud that her skin never peels after a burn from the sun. how did she get it?

oh well, Shira-Chan tried to be hardworking and lamented on not being able to go explore in the botanic gardens because N.T was reluctant to bake in the sun and walk far. so when the cohort was dismissed, she went all around the gardens looking for a spot to draw something beautiful. she ended up sitting out in the open at 1pm sketching purple water lilies and their pads. the first one she thought wasn’t good enough. so she drew another side by side. the only difference was size but oh well…



Shira-Chan actually thought the feeling of loneliness was quite peaceful. she had wanted the company of N.T or G.P at first, but they were shagged and wanted lunch. so they left and the girl stayed behind. she felt it was beneficial to her, snapping more pictures, seeing more things like statues and structures N.T lost out on.

























































































it was at 3.40pm when Shira-Chan decided to pack up and get a milk shake at mac donalds. she didn’t wanna leave. it was unbearable to part with a place filled with so many beautiful things she could draw and keep in her sketchbook, but she had to go or she’ll dehydrate.

she never thought sketching could be that tiring. after the long day of work, she felt lazy and wanted to relax, so instead of her intentions of walking back to orchard road, she took a bus(and felt really guilty she threw away 64c from her ezlink card).

she stank. (or is it stinked, or stunk? ) so when she reached her destination, (boy she felt independent boarding a bus she’s never taken before and alighting at the correct venue) she went down to marks n spencers to pretend to test deodorants. she had planned this on her bus journey there. “brilliant idea!”she thought to herself. she tried not to make it obvious that she was spraying it all over her for use by walking down aisles, sniffing powder… she was even worrried by doing so, she’d look like was going to shop lift. haha. but all was well. she proceeded to the toilet after that. to pee of course!!! try holding ur pee for 6 hours straight!


the milk shake was oooooh so nice n refreshing! Shira-Chan actually felt hungry too and walked to taka to get sth. but she couldn’t find something delicious enough to eat her fill and got the $1 offer (kaya crossaint) from deli france. she had wanted another ice cream but oh well, she didn’t wanna waste wad she worked hard at losing weight.

she wished she had company, but it was okay. she went to art friend to get her wood carving knives and a linoleum pad, then went to the basement to check out the toy exhibition. she felt it benefited her because she’s gonna embark on projects with the theme “TOYS” for semester 1, and saw stuff she never thought of as toys before, like mini musical instruments…

it was a tiring day, but Shira-Chan pushed herself to drawing more stuff from the pics she uploaded on her com and refrained from napping.