spring-clean.

i just attempted to spring-clean my room. i tore out old pictures from the wall and plastered new pieces of decoration in the form of glamorous bargain wrapping paper. I didn't have enough $ to buy too many, so the 6 of them are dispersed in a random fashion across my room, not the exact kind of effect i'd intended (i like fully covered/decorated walls i.e. wallpaper); but it should do. i think it makes more sense to buy many bags then 1 branded bag- i.e. LV for $4000? I think its pure madness to pay an anglo-company for their multi-million dollar advertising  all so you can carry around their ugly logo in the form of a bag to look good. Instead of 1 you could have 20 and cheap but equally gorgeous; with the option to mix and match- green shoes = green bag etc/ vogue effect/ nautical effect/glamourpuss effect/ vintage etc. and the list goes on. You can look like a multi-million dollars flea-market items as raw material if you know how to work it. 




i like graffitti too, and the Singapore culture very obviously does not perpetuate it. That's why we have stale, bland, lifeless creatures being produced from our extremely regimented system of a society.

Its amazing how these vandals (those who spray art illegally on walls) /street artists (those who paint legally on the pavements of Southgate@ Melbourne ) begin with the end in mind before they create their artwork. You would obviously have to possess extremely good macro skills; to be able to stop, pause, and think of the big picture, before putting the small pieces of a puzzle together. Begin with the End in Mind- one of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective of People by Stephen Covey. Helicopter view! My dad used to say; and he still continues to repeat that phrase still this day (almost on par with Clean your room! Messy room = Messed up mind! and Be Organised- Do your Filing!).   If you have time, do check out SomalyMam.Com (Angelina Jolie wrote a column for her @ Time 100 (May issue); a former sex slave, she's now an activist for that cause. Its amazing how people in disadvantaged situations can rise above them and not only that, proactively do something to fight back. It makes them all the more stronger and better then us common people who continue to lament each day about how we need to find direction in life and save the world.