he best thing about being a (design) student is probably the fact that you can make a million mistakes and it doesn’t matter. In fact, what matters most is that, through the mistakes, you’ll become much better and a lot more experienced. That’s why we do a lot of crazy shit experimentation and let the ideas run wild.

Sometimes it’s a tad like a scientist working in a lab; Chemical A + chemical B = WHAMMMM! A huge explosion! You’ll never know until you’ve tried. And with that said, I’m gonna graduate soon and once I start working, I doubt there’ll be a lot of time for experimentation and whatnot. Everything will be predictably very fast-paced.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled to be able to finally become a “working adult”, I just have an inkling that passion and shitty workload won’t gel very well together.

Anyhoo, here’s one of the (photography?) experimentation that my group mates and I did a few months ago! Kinda stylized the photos a little in Photoshop, feel free to drop your comments!

…couldn’t resist myself from adding the quotable quote from X-Men: First Class!

You know how sometimes when you look at something, and you’ll go, “oh my, I think anybody can do a better job than that”? This is probably what John Struan was thinking when he held a contest on his blog to redesign the official posters (to which he described as “boring and ugly”) of X Men: First Class.

The official posters:

And…… Here are the awesome contest entries:

by Rory Phillips



by Clyde Bailey – The winning entry!



by Gruffydd Ywain



by Josh Siegel



by Michael Dee – My personal fave!



by Dane Forst



by Jeffrey Zhang


You can see all the entries on the blog, Super Punch.

Oh, this is one of the entries too, but the guy went all out and made an animated title sequence!

http://vimeo.com/21905044

The whole retro feel of the 1960s style animation and the melancholic rendition of the 90s cartoon theme song really gets me! Apart from the incredible creative style, it actually resembles (if not better than) the look of the closing credit animation of the actual movie! It baffles me how Joe D! predicted the styling (the contest was held before the movie is out!), but I’m sure he must have jumped out of his seat in joy in the cinema when he caught the movie!

P/s: You can download the awesome sauce music here!

o I finally ended my “blonde ambition” which lasted about almost three months. The plus point for having such striking hair for an asian is probably the attention people give to you. I attended an event back then when I had my black hair and there was this girl whom I thought was cute, but she did not even notice me through the entire event. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, that same person was talking to me and complimenting about my “cool” hair.

But likewise, the hair is also the disadvantage in scenarios where you don’t want to get noticed. I can’t go downstairs to buy food without some people giving me weird stares (and probably wondering which gang I am from). Hell, I can’t even check eye-candies out on the MRT without getting spotted.

Anyway, this is an account of how my hair changed throughout the blonde duration!

So I boldly decided to DIY bleach my hair because I bought a silver hair dye back in London and wanted to try it badly!

This was at the second round of bleaching:

The silver dye looked promising when I put it on my hair at first, but it just came off entirely without even leaving any colour on the bleach hair!

No thanks to me who had decided to try everything right before a christmas party – I had to attend the party in this dreadfully ugly yellow hair! D:

Thankfully I was gonna go to Bangkok really soon, so I knew I could touch up the colour in the salons over there which are much cheaper than those in Singapore!

flying to BKK with the ugly hair!

The first thing I did in Bangkok is of course to get the hair I wanted!

I opted for a platinum blonde, but I had no idea how to say that in Thai, so I told them I wanted “sii khao” (white colour) and the result was amazing:

And for the next few days in Bangkok, I really got funky with the loud hair!

After I came back, the hair started to fade into platinum blonde, but also was getting a tad too long to handle.

So I went for a haircut!

Then Chinese New Year came and the black hair roots were coming out, hence I went to this salon in Jalan Besar to touch up my hair.

I was recommended to do this ash/grey colour by the stylist and it turned out really awesome. Apparently I heard that they are known for their colouring.

The most awesome thing about the new colour was that it looked metallic when it’s wet! METALLIC!

As ash colours go, they don’t last very long. After awhile the color started to fade…

…and eventually I was back to blonde again!

So after awhile I kinda grew out of the blonde hair and decided to use the Liese DIY hair dye that has been lying around in my room for the longest time ever.

And I finally “deblonded”!

This is the first time ever that I’ve managed to get a DIY hair colouring that accurately match the colour printed on the box! Also because my hair was so “bleached” that it should actually get any colour perfectly!

How it looks now with flash!

I’m anticipating the colour to fade into some boring brownish tone, but oh well, this colour rocks my socks for now!

Finally done the collage that took me soooooo long to complete! Ladies and gentlemen, here’s all of you who have sent me your lovely birthday wishes over Twitter, DM, BBM, Facebook and SMS! Thank you sooooo much!!! I totally felt so loved!

And in no particular order:

Did you managed to find yourself?? Hope I haven’t missed anyone! This year’s birthday “celebrations” (in quotation marks because I hadn’t plan for any parties at all!) lasted for one whole week! I shall blog about them in the next entry!

P/s: I backdated this entry just so it is technically correct!