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1. You'd never feel like your pay is justifiable to your job scope.

In fact, in any other job, you'd always find that your pay is never justifiable to whatever you're doing. It always seems like you are doing more than you're supposed to.

A super backdated post about these Midori Traveler's notebook passport sized refills, did them about 2-3 months when my holidays just began and left this title and blog post sitting on my "posts" page for the longest time. Time to stop procrastinating and get down to telling you guys how I customised my own refills!

As you can see, I have about 4 variations of papers there, all which are pretty okay with pen inks, as long as you're not using those super runny inked pens. The papers used were mostly made of 70GSM papers, others, papers I bought from the store.

I customised my notebooks by the different stickers pasted at the corner, telling me which are the lined, grid and plain notebooks, also, each set has a cover of different colours and textures! If anyone is interested in buying, please comment, and I might set up a DIY page selling these items at lower prices than the original Midori refills.

Meanwhile, if you're not willing to pay, and have time to do your own refills, check out my links to the DIY blog and make your own refills!

For information on how and where I bought my Midori Traveler's Notebook, check out my previous post HERE!

Pardon me for my lack of updates. Holidays has taken over me, watching all the korean drama I could, working some other days, and churning out my holiday itinerary. Leaving the house so little nowadays, I hardly have anything to update about (what a boring life).

I have something exciting for you today though!

I've always wanted to get myself a leather notebook, ALWAYS. Ever since I started my collection of stationaries. And recently, I saw a friend of mine post a picture of her Midori Traveler's notebook and I told myself I had to get my hands on one.

A little more about the Midori Traveler's notebook, the leather covers are made in thailand, finished with a natural dyeing method, to make the most of its leather's natural texture. The longer you use it, the nicer it would get because of the "age" given to your leather covered notebook. What's the best thing about this notebook is, going crazy with the customisation. You could literally knock yourself out with putting all the fancy knick knacks on your midori.

Read more about the Midori Traveler's notebook HERE.

The Midori Traveler's notebook come in two sizes, the regular one and the passport size.



And after going crazy with making my own refills, I added a charm to my bookmark, a sand clock. What it meant to me was, "Time doesn't rewind, memories are meant to be left behind". What I'm looking for is some nice glass beads to add to the rubber band, hoping to get some on my upcoming trip to Taiwan!

I would do an update on how to make these notebook refills (the easy way).

So... Keep reading to find out more!

PS: I waiting to get my hands on a regular sized and maybe one more Army Edition. Super excited to get the army edition one! 

Playing with nostalgic elements such as playgrounds in Singapore, and the contrast of a child and an adult, an adult attempting to put themselves into a child’s perspective. With the memories we have for playgrounds, we explore the details of the mosaics that in present time children have overlooked these intricate designs.

The departure point for this project would be to expand on the perspective of looking at the playground, more to the idea of collectiveness and mosaic, a response of the whole idea, the audience personal view and reaction towards nostalgia. It however, has moved on towards the fusion of memories and reality.

As we grow up, our environment and the buildings that we live in becomes our playground. The things we do as adults become our play objects. We see math as playing with numbers, we see art as playing with colours.

Through “echo”, our childhood memories unify with our present lives to make us who we are, creating new memories for us, and letting us view the world in a different perspective. That consists of joy, happiness and fun that seem to be lost in the many lives of growing up, due to high standards of living.

It is about how we hold on to the parts of our past as we face our future; how we want them to be part of our future, but only remember them when time permits us to do during our busy schedules.












Lastly, to my boyfriend, for the support that he has given me for the past 2 and a half years. Helping me set-up my works for assessments, making sure that I'm as happy as I can be during the most stressful weeks before assessments. Encouraging me through the toughest last year of college, times when I had doubts about myself and my works, times when I was on the verge of giving up drawing altogether. Although he probably never had a clue what I was EVER doing, his support never once wavered, and all I needed was that one vote of confidence in me. Thank you. Even though he wasn't able to attend my graduation show, every single time I sent him a picture that I took, he complimented me. Noticing that new dress and shoes, the way I did my hair and make-up, it all made up for not being able to be here. Thank you for never failing to make me feel special.

This work is titled "Face" by Korean artist, Han Young-Wook (oil on aluminium, scratch). I think it's such an amazing work of art because of the artists' attention to detail. He gives this work a whole new life, and, a story behind every freckle, every wrinkle and every portrait.

"We the people are suffering from mortality and lonesome fate, but we are expressing the beauty of life.” - Han Young-Wook

Last but not least, my most loved work from the art stage. Titled "Memories of China No. 28", oil painting done by artist Zhu Yiyong. This piece of work totally touched my heart and left my eyes lingering around, wanting to wrap myself in it and absorb everything I could. Talking about children and childhood memories, and how they are altered by the phenomenal change in societal value, he tries to remind us of the past, linking them to today to build the future.

Because I am so kind and awesome (thick-skinned self praise), I linked information about the artists' works and the artist themselves to this blog post! I hope those of you who went to the Art Stage Singapore 2013 enjoyed it as much as I did!

You can comment and share with me which artwork captivated you!