Rod of Asclepius
baffled by the snake and pole (it's actually a staff) on the WHO logo while researching for my art that day, i finally looked it up on Wikipedia and apparently it's an ancient Greek symbol associated with medicine. Without knowing the story behind this, i guess most ppl, like me, would associate the serpent with something bad...the shedding of its skin as a symbol of rebirth and fertility didn't even come to mind...
i got my first parking citation today!! aargh. cos i forgot all about street sweeping and forgot to move my car to the opposite side of the road... =( my PEIS instructor is really quite brilliant.... but the GSI for this class, in contrast, is really quite disappointing.... can compete with my pretty boy PEIS 101 GSI already.

After! i decided symbols of international organizations, NGOs etc made it too explicit... so i left them all out... 

Before (gesso transfer image in raw form) 

hmm... kinda finished my art assignment in class today and am somewhat pleased with it so am being egoistic and posting it on my blog... mixed comments though. i wonder if ppl get my message? =P

today i learnt a gesso transfer technique in class which allows u to transfer mag images onto canvas or other suitable surfaces.... and i was really excited to see my Economist pages on canvas! cool =P cos i decided to have a political edge to my piece... but it struck me how little i knew about poverty... i shall resolve to read up more after summer sch ends. but in meantime, quite excited about my project, though it's just a small in-class assignment... it's just cool u can 'combine your passions'... i mean i don't think i'm good at doing such stuff... but i realized i just love doing it... even though class is 4 hours everyday, i dun even fall asleep like i do in some haha. and i rediscovered the power of images...

was trying very hard to do my readings today again cos wasn't very successful yest.. and it was such a clear sunny day i decided for the first time to make use of the little table in my backyard.. and it felt really cool using wireless in the garden haha. and my landlord was really nice and brought out a hammock for me.. and so for the first time in my life (i think) i climbed onto a hammock and lay suspended in the middle of two sturdy hooks on walls reading my Rousseau... u know... nice ppl sometimes really make your day, no matter how small the gesture.

i finally sat down to do my overdue readings today and while reading through the first few chapters of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, i was just very pleasantly surprised... things that you learn in JC, that came in a very 'processed' form- in the form of JC notes or textbooks was suddenly presented to me in its raw form... i mean when i first started taking Econ, i knew who Adam Smith was... but i guess it wasn't till this week that i finally sat down to read about his ideas... and it's just so amazing how some thinker centuries ago sets down all these fundamental ideas for modern economics...
in the spirit of cheapo-ness, i scouted around for parking meters with remaining minutes... and while hopping around from meter to meter, i guess this lady driver slotting coins into her meter knew what i was looking for and informed me that the lot that she pulled out from earlier had a failed meter.... highly embarrassed but secretly delighted i immediately pulled out and drove to my new lot... and from today onwards i formally begin my whole semester or even year of perfecting my unhoned 'look-for-failed-meters' skills...