insomniac

a good friend of mine asked me to draw him an owl.. i drew a couple of sketches and showed it to him.. this is the one he liked best..
it happens that on this very night i can NOT sleep at all.. i did have a rather long nap earlier.. and i'm also excited as hell since i'll be off to KL to start my internship first thing in the morning so that might be the reason i can't sleep too..

but anyway, lucky i have this goofy looking owl to keep me company tonight..

hope you all are having better luck sleeping tonight! nite nite ★

happy birthday naghe :)

Dearest Naghe,

sesuatu yg sering banget kita omongin adalah betapa jalan hidup kita suka sama banget..
siapa lagi coba temen aku yg bareng dari SD sampe SMA terus AFS bareng pula..
we are often facing the same kinds of situations in which we tend to have pretty much the same points of view on things that happen in life.. random stuff, kyk waktu itu naghe bikin notes tentang kampus yg berinisial 3 huruf itu, itu kena banget because i have exactly the same opinions, also regarding the place where i ended up going to..
we tend to always invest 100% of our hearts in anything or, ehm, anyone we're involved in, which leads to perhaps unnecessarily terrible dissappointment at times but also unexpectedly joyful *but well deserved* moments at other times..
we tend to have a hard time letting things go.. we forgive but never forget.. and we end up telling bitter little b*thcy stories to each other which after it's shared, it's not so bad anymore and can even be turned into laughter :)
our big fat wall of pride on certain things, perhaps that's the reason why we both insist on doing part-time jobs *are you still teaching, dear?* even though managing time for our academic studies is already somewhat of a task.. it gives us satisfaction, it makes us feel independent, it fulfills our strong social needs, it makes us feel better about ourselves since we're actually doing something for other people.. and most of all, the fact that we can earn our own money makes our parents proud, even though it's only enough for our own needs.. and at the end of the day, that's the reason we do everything we do and try to achieve everything we want to achieve, is to make our parents proud.. the best way to make people like us happy is to know that we've done something that makes our parents/family and loved ones happy..


i have no trouble making friends *sombong :p* but finding friends who actually care, that's something different.. and i also have really bad trust issues, i find it tremendously difficult to find someone i can trust.. therefore, i'm a lucky person to have met you and be given the ability to call you a friend, nadia greviana :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
i wish you a wonderful, wonderful year ahead!
21 sure does seem like a big number, but if God is giving us the chance to live this far, means we're still useful enough to have around in this earth.. may you continue to help and bring joy to the others around you like you always have, whether you realize you're doing it or not :)

loads of ♥ from SG,
Namira :)

p.s. i'm sorry i'm not around to say all this to you directly *i wish i were*, i'm sorry i ended up posting this 1 day late, and i miss you too much :')

Travel Buddy #1

this is a book i've been wanting to get a chance to read for AGES!
now that i'm going to malaysia i wanted to have some good books to keep me company so i thought it was the perfect time to buy it..
the cover is too fascinating for me to not be interested.. the book is called Map of the Invisible World yet the cover is a map of my dear old Jawa Barat.. it triggered my curiosity to the max! :D


the general description of what it's all about is even more amusing, check this out folks :

it's a tale about a Dutch man who lives in Jakarta during Soekarno's 1960s period written by a Chinese-Malaysian guy who lives in London!

i haven't even read a page of it yet i already find this book very interesting indeed :)

the art trip

I may not come across as the most adventurous person you know but I've definitely always had a thing for traveling. I like getting to stay in new places and learn new cultures and people.
Maybe because I was exposed from a very young age that it's possible to go live abroad for, let's say, studying or work purposes.
I get nervous of course but I'm always excited and I know I can handle myself in a new place no matter what. My AFS exchange year taught me that. No foreign language or hard-to-deal-with people can stop me from adapting to the new experience. I'm not afraid to try :)

This particular passion of mine has drawn me to AFS, which brought me to Switzerland on my exchange year. And its perhaps the reason why I was so sure to choose to study in Singapore. All my Bandung pride wanted me to go to ITB, multiplied by the fact that I was in SMAN 3, where it's almost as if it's a sin if you don't continue to study at ITB. But the fact that I had a chance to live and study in another country all on my own was too tempting to turn down.

Now, I'll be doing an internship in Malaysia this holiday. I could just find some place in Bandung to do it and I'll have an excuse to go home for the holidays, or ask for my lecturer's help to find me somewhere in Singapore where i can do it. But, no, yet again this living in a new country thing is just too fascinating to let go for me :) Some don't get why I would prefer to go to Malaysia when I probably have possible links in Singapore. But I know the company I'll be working in. I know the people. I love their work. And what they're looking for is exactly what I can and love to do. My portfolio *a.k.a. this blog ~ hahaaa* consists of illustrations, graphic designs, 2d animation, and 3d animation & modelling. I'm offering all i can do and I can't blame potential employers to hire me, for let's say graphic design, which I'm not particularly fond of, because I did put it in my portfolio. But Lady Luck was definitely on my side. They're looking for someone who could do 2d hand drawn animation : the thing I love doing the most :)

So I'm more than excited and more than nervous as well. These guys have mad awesome artworks and i have to do better than my best to fit in.

Wish me luck, folks! :) ♥

A is for Aye-Aye : the making

these sketches are part of my own personal little research..
for one of my old assignments i tried to pitch a concept about endangered animals but it wasn't approved but i still have the urge to do it..
i have always been fascinated by endangered species because they are all so wonderfully weird, including this little creature, the Aye-Aye as the first subject of my alphabetical endangered animal series :)



p.s. this is a real animal, i did not make it or any of its features up, serious..