Batman Begins

It was day out with the family at Bugis ;) My bro, CC & I went to Art Friend to pick up some stuffs and then later we met up with deborah & my dad and went to Sakae to eat the sushi buffet.

Then we got tickets for "Batman Begins", but it was a bit early so we split up and did a bit of shopping and I can only conclude that if you're searching for gowns, go to orchard! For anyone who's interested, Giordano's having a sale right now (deborah and i picked up a few items).

And then we met up and watched "Batman Begins"!

*SPOILER ALERT*





"Batman Begins" was not bad! The movie showed how batman actually came about. I kinda missed the colourful villains but i guess if the villains were there they would over-shadow batman.

A few complains and (imo) interesting points

- 1 of the villains had a really difficult to remember name which was... hell, i can't remember what it is now!

- Michael Caine was pretty good as Alfred, but he didn't look the least bit like Alfred! Alfred's supposed to be kinda skinny and have this thin black moustache.

- The i-cant-rem-his name guy said "You burnt my house and left me to die", but Bruce saved his life loh!

- At the last scene when Katie Holmes was talking to Bruce, her smile was kinda lop-sided and she tried to talk thru her smile, totally wierd if you ask me!

- From Batman's toys, you can obviously tell that he's really rich so how come no one can guess that he's Bruce Wayne?

- When Batman rescues Katie, he drives thru this grassy area and into the waterfall. The vehicle must have left tyre prints. Are the policemen are so blur that they can't spot it and track it?

- Dad said that the weapon used by i-cant-rem-his name guy was not really very scary and it's true nothing compared to Mr Freeze and The Riddler's weapons!

But ok despite all my complains it was still a pretty interesting movie and Christian Bale does make a good Batman.

na Na na Na na Na na Na Batman.... ;)

Testing out some patchwork

I was intending to create a batik patchwork bag with some denim on top and maybe some at the bottom. I asked russell to take a look at the layout and he said it looked "granny"... !@#$%^&*()
Met up with mic in the evening to take a look at sewing machines. I realise that i can't make decisions for nuts. The more choices i have, the more problems i have. I guess that explains my impulsive nature, or maybe it's just me making excuses for my impulsiveness ;)

I am more productive on weekends

Can't really understand why, but i'm more productive on weekends.

What diana did this weekend...

1) Put the finishing touches on the gypsy skirt. It was supposed to have loose random scattering of sequins... but it kinda ended up looking different...

2) Washed all her batik, ironed them and stored them away.

3) Sewed up deborah's pencil case

This was how deborah's pencil case looked like. (The yucky brown thing is a stuffed toy dog... which i'm pretty sure used to be white or something...)



She wanted some thing a bit smaller, hehe but due to some mis-calculation on my part... it ended up a tad bit smaller ;p



The interior of the pencil case.



4) Made 2 sashes...

5) Did a quick father's day gift and finished up minch's bday gift...

Dad's coaster


Minch's coaster
To be cont... hehe

A coaster i made for Dawn awhile back


Feel a bit bad that i didn't realise it was Father's Day til CC sms-ed me... It was kinda like "oh shit, I didn't buy him anything or plan anything... i'm such a bad daughter!!!" ; (

And the funny thing was Dad didn't know it was Father's Day either! On hindside i remember reading someone's blog on how she was posting a present to her dad and it didn't even hit me that Father's Day is some universal thing, sheesh sometimes i wonder what's going on inside my brain.

Oh well i guess i should not show my family that i love them only on special days but somehow i end only do more special things on those designated days. So how does one go about showing love daily, i guess it's in the everyday things that we do except that it's taken for granted.

Arab Str Recce

Me and CC went walking around the Bugis area today. Had KFC for brunch today, yum yum! Seems like i'm eating a lot of fast food recently so i conclude that i'm becoming a fast food junkie! Don't really mind except for the fact that i seem to be getting a tiny little tire!!! eeks!

Went to Arab St, and OH MY GOD! There were so many fabric shops, it was amazing! I fell in love with the batik fabric there.





Textile centre was a bit disappointing in terms of fabric, but there were at least 2 shops that were full of notions.

After that we went back to Bugis and ta pao some chwee kueh, and man it was really really good! They had minced up cai poh with some sesame seeds over it and it was shiok! Feel that i didn't eat enough of that, must go back and gorge myself ;p

Speaking of chwee kueh, why is it that the chinese characters for that is (fruit) shui guo? Ok, here's the point where people should start posting comments on the correct pronunciation and chinese characters ;)

Gypsy Skirt Preview

Still have to adjust the cutting a bit but i'm almost there ;)

Coming Soon: A new sewing machine

There's a Singer sewing machine at home that we all thought belonged to us, but apparently that's not the case. According to my Dad, my mom actually gave it to one of her younger sisters and the reason that it's in our house is because Deborah borrowed it to do some project.

Therefore i was told that i should go buy a new machine. i had serious doubts as the really good brands are expensive. I was at the Courts at Compass Point and I walked pass a sewing machine display and the SA demo-ed these 2 Brother sewing machines, XL-2120 and XL-5070. The really high-end models had functions that left me drooling away.Must say that I was quite impressed and went home to do some research.

Wasn't able to find any reviews on the model that i'm eyeing (XL-5070) but so far the reviews for the other Brother models are kinda mixed. I'll probably go down sometime next week to test it out again before making the actual purchase.

Migration

The whole family had dinner with Dad's friend's family tonight. They're migrating to Perth, Australia. The uncle asked me whether i would consider migrating to Malaysia and that kinda got me thinking. If i really do proceed on my current career path, it doesn't really matter where i live, i guess it would depend more on CC's career choices.

Why do people consider migration? Sometime last year (I think), there was this whole buzz about "Quitters" and "Stayers". Frankly, I think it's kinda unfair to call people "Quitters". Me, i would not leave Singapore unless i was forced to for economic reasons and i think that's the case with a lot of people too. Sure i wouldn't mind living overseas for a bit but i honestly think that there's no place like home where your friends and your family are (and then of cos there's also the food hehe).

Breakfast

Good breakfast = 1 serving of HotCakes from Macs
Super Duper breakfast = 1 serving of HotCakes, 1/2 a serving of BigBreakfast Meal, 1.5 of hash browns from Macs washed down by some fresh milk! Slurpz!

Hehe but i think should not do this anymore, am getting fatter and i've not been exercising at all (erm... not that i usually exercise haha).

A new look

Da-dum! My bloggie has a new look! Wallpaper courtesy of one Mr Ng Chee Cha!

Spend most of today asleep and working on a new look and layout. Still can't really figure out this XML (or is it CSS?) thingy, ah well i'm almost satisfied with how it looks, but will still do some minor editing later.

Mr & Mrs Smith

Mic came over today and worked on her clutch bag, she's fast! It's more or less completed and mine's still in it's very early stage (ok, i've only cut the cloth hehe). Mic, must post a pic when you're done!! Been a bit slack recently, must pick up the pace a little.

After she went off, I had dinner and went out to watch Mr & Mrs Smith at Lido. I went over to Chee Cha's place and we took a bus from there to Far East Plaza. It was quite a pleasant ride until i suddenly got hit by a total horrid smell!! At first I thought it someone air-ing his feet (I'm assuming here that girls do not have stinky feet hehe or at least i think so) then Chee Cha pointed out that it was this guy who probably hadn't bathed for ages! We were sitting quite some distance behind him and i could still smell the stinkiness, can't imagine if we were seated close to him... Bleeach! Lucky Chee Cha, he had a blocked nose! I had to put my fingers over my nose to keep from fainting.

When we reached Isetan, the escalator heading up had been stopped!! Argh!! Am a totally lazy bum can't survive without escalators! We concluded that it must have been some kids playing with the emergency stop button or something. Wonder what would happen if an escalator heading downwards with people on it and someone pressed the stop button. Would people be jerked and roll downwards, would the person close to the bottom get squished? *evil thots* ;)

Mr & Mrs Smith was good!! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were hot! (Although personally i think Brad Pitt looked hotter in Ocean 12). Was totally fixated by Angelina's steel knitted bag hehe.

We had supper at BK again with JC. For some unknown reason, BK justs becomes freezing cold after 12am...

Adding another tier

I've pin up my 3rd tier and it's ready to be sewn on. Sewing this skirt is a bit more tedious then i expected, with the edges of every layer needing to be hidden and then gathered and then pin-ed up before i can sew it together...

Day out with Dawn

Today was a really great day, I went to Kinokuniya to browse and found lotsa nice books! I also met up with Dawn!! We had a really really great time catching up, I talked so much that my jaws ached! It's been a really long time since we met up, I think the last time we met up was in Poly Year 2, that means a good 4-5 years have passed.

We met people from PLMGS along the way during these few years and 1 of the girls suggested a gathering, but it'll be so hard considering that we've lost a lot of contacts. Some people both of us have not seen, and we're wondering where they've disappeared to... Even up to now, I haven't been able to contact Kexin... maybe I'll try her email again one day.

Then later Chee Cha gave me a lift home, and we watched "LOST" together (and had yummy peanut butter and nutella sandwiches), it seems like a pretty interesting show.

Anyways these are the books that i got, they've got beautiful pictures but unfortunately i have a sucky cam.

Patchwork World in Tricolor...



One of the bags in the book...



Something something from Quilters Studio...



A bag from the book...



Hand made book...



A really oh-so-cute dinosaur...

Beginning of Tier Skirt

There was a few days of fear after hearing phrases like "I saw a lot of things I like" and "I want to buy a lot of things", i went shopping with Deborah yesterday. Had visions of me clutching my wallet and running away halfway thru the shopping but it wasn't too bad in the end. Total Damage = 1 Skirt, 4 Tops.

I had thoughts of doing a monthly or 2 monthly 'Craft Girls Saturday', meaning we get together every last saturday of every month or every 2 months and do some really small craft project (make cutesy stuff or broaches or wearables or anything else ya like). Think it could be really fun! Those interested, please leave me your comments and let me know your preferences ok?




Managed to find time to work on my skirt a bit. I'm happy that it's beginning to take shape, though i wonder what will happen when i actually start sewing the gathers together. The beauty of of a tier skirt is that i can stop almost any time ; )

Lotsa Halfways

Went on a fabric spree on Saturday. ; )



Managed to get a really good bargain on a champange coloured fabric, and bragged about it just a few hundred times to Chee Cha 'cos I was so proud of it. Poor Chee Cha! But I really couldn't help myself

I seem to be working on too many things at a time I now have 4 uncompleted projects and 1 that I'm been planning. Need to be more focused, but it's never easy! Worked a bit on the pressies and my skirt but I'm having one of my sniffy nose days so I'm gonna stop and take a nap.

Uncompleted Projects
- Clutch Bag
- Cushion Cover
- Skirt
- Birthday Pressies

Planned Project
- Deboarah's Pencil Case

One item more item that I completed earlier... Deborah's wallet

Half way there cushion cover

Something new i'm working on, cushion covers. It's only have done at the moment cos i've only finished the 'deco' on it.

Just some photos

Mysterious Boxes...









A Reversible Bag...







Birthday Dinner @ Suntec, Olio