Little Stories 24 : Grey's

Why did I even watch Grey's Anatomy in the first place?

Last night I watched the 'current' season 9 and ended up crying through the whole 2 series. I can't blame it on my hormones because I think they are perfectly fine. Those series became too hard for me to handle. After been knowing all casts for year, I've wrapped sentimental values towards them. Even as fiction, the series did a great job in leaving marks in my life. This is the longest series I've ever followed. 

Curse you Shonda Rhymes.

Why are you keep killing people?

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When I kissed my mom's hand before I went to work today -

Ma : Did you just cried ?

Me : No,  I cried last night.

Ma : Why.. *concerned look and came closer to hug me.

Me : Oh, I watched Grey's last night and it was sooo sad. So I cried so much before sleeping.

Ma : Ahh, emotional. It was just a story. Your eyes are all puffy now !

Me : I knoww..

My brother was excited when I came out of the room last night and happily said "So did you cried?". Yes, I cried the whole time ! (=.=)'

Little Things 45 : Photographic Memory

I really wish I have a photographic memory like Lexie Grey. 

What I have is a feeble visual memory with the ability to recognize and imagine certain things in my head. Like roads and maps, also certain coordination of things when I look at it. I usually can remember roads pretty fast, I know which road I've used and I can imagine my location in my head - according to how complicated it is. I can also remember where all book's genre located in a library merely by walking around once or twice, and I used to remember the History and Biology text books on my SPM year according to the pictures inside of it.

My family used me if they want someone to remember the road to someplace new and if we are lost, I become the living tracker on where we should head to next. The most famous use of it is locating where we parked the car in the mall?

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I can also spot similarity on faces like :

How many of you realised that Lord Voldemort acted as Mallory aka the new 'M' in the latest 007 : Skyfall ? I exclaimed "Voldemort !" when he appeared on the screen. Lord Voldemort with a perfectly formed nose. I can see Voldemort by looking at his eyes :

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I remember noticing Keira Knightly as a decoy queen in Star Wars : The Phantom Menace, when she acted as Queen Amidala. See how young she was in the movie? :

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Or recognizing Camilla Belle in the 1995's movie - The Little Princess. She is the littlest girl, 3rd from the right when I only saw her once in a movie called "When Stranger Calls" in 2006 :

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Photographic Memory is a very rare gift. For example, Kim Peek, had read 12,000 books in his life and he remembered every page of it, word-by-word. He could read 2 pages at once merely by looking at it. It took 12 seconds to finish of of page and can recall 98% of it.

Teddy Roosevelt could recite the whole newspaper after reading it once, he was also a speed-reader and been said that he read 2-3 books a day.

Do you know why I think this is the most super-awesome skill ? 

Because it is of course related to books. As a bookaholic, this is the perfect skill ever.

DIY : Epoxy Sticker

Hello !

Tutorial on making Do-It-Yourself Epoxy Sticker :D

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Things Needed :

Sticker Paper

Printer

Epoxy Sticker

Scissor

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1. Get things ready.

In this tutorial, I used Simili Sticker Paper I bought from Popular Bookstore ancient time ago.

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2. Get it printed.

In this tutorial, I used HP Deskjet 2000.

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3. Get the epoxy sticker ready.

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4. Take the epoxy sticker out slowly and stick it on printed paper

Make sure you put it precisely on the printed area.

Use your nail to let the bubble out.

The left one the printed one and the right one is with the epoxy sticker :

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5. Cut the sticker using scissor.

You need to be extra patient, don't over-cut your epoxy sticker.

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6. And there you go !

Your own epoxy sticker !

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If you enjoy this post, share it ya !

Thanks a lot.

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You can also order epoxy sticker from me.

Size : 3.5 cm

Price : 

RM 1 each , for less than 50 pieces

RM 0.80 each , for more than 50 pieces

RM 0.60 , for more than 100 pieces

Every 10 pieces, you will get 2 pieces free.

Email me : azreen_31@hotmail.com

Post Pipit Day

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Hello !

Here is my doodle on my Pipit day in my personal travelogue :

Click to get a bigger view.

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Hope you enjoy it as much as I did :)

Event : Pipit

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It was a busy day. My 4th Pipit day last Saturday held at Annexe Gallery, Central Market. My sister and I rented a space and opened a small booth. I sold stickers and my sister sold phone straps and keychains. 

I've been busy for the past month to be ready for the day. I've been heavily sick and I am still recovering from my sickness. My MBP died on the night I needed to do last minute prints but I stick to plan B- which was bring anything I already have. I kept my cool and tried to forget the meaning of stress & panic. I put aside my worry thoughts, I said to myself "Let's just do the best of tomorrow and we'll think about problems afterwards".   

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It was a productive day and I had fun.

I met so many people, for that, I thank all of YOU, for your supports. It was over-whelming. I can't thank you enough. My final event for this year is wrapped with good memories. 

I met Pupurin , Oh & Ah's , Evangelione's Handmade , Mike the Pipiteer , Namizam , to name a few. I also met several silent readers from here. It was such a nice moments. I remember meeting this nice little girl, called Mahfuzah - she was so sweet, I feel like hugging her ! I met merahitujambu, a blogger - of course I know you ! Also Qiqien , you've been buying my things, so I remember you too - thanks for the support. I'll check the artwork I promised to send later :) And plus Adora and maybe all other people who stopped by and greeted me, I forgot your names but it was so nice of you to come and talked to me ! T^T I feel loved and appreciated. And my colleagues and friends and my brother ! Can I even thank you enough?

I slept that night with a smile plastered on my face.

Zz. 

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Stickers Galore :

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Evangelione's little hand-made dolls :

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Solo exhibition ,  nice detailed drawings :

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Can you see the crowds? 

I was sweating with my shiny face, it was super hot :

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Anyhow, thanks again for your love and support.

See you next year !

Event : Final Pipit

I just found out yesterday that it would be our last Pipit Event : Pipit Creative Market 9 :

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Pipit Wonderful Market a creative festival for handmade craft, independent artist, designer and other related creatives talent that are interested to expose and trade their creations or items. 

Date : 10 Nov 2012 , Saturday 

Venue : Annexe Gallery , Central Market , KL 

Time : 12pm ~ 7pm 

FREE ADMISSION 

They have decided to make this as the final event and promised to come out with something much interesting and unique in the future. For that, I guess I'll just hope for the best ! It's been a great experience, so this would be my 4th and last booth at Pipit T^T

So come tomorrow !
Support hand-made arts & crafts.

Meet my sister and I there. 

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Stickers : Cakes

I've been sleeping so early since last week. I guess my body is reacting to the medicine and *hopefully working their ass-es off to fight sickness. Last night I slept for almost 10 hours ! I think I can now even compete in sleeping contest with my cat, Awan.

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Anyhow, there is a new doodle sticker collection : Cakes.

I took a day to collect ideas and doodle it on paper. I took 2 more days to digitalize it using Photoshop and my old graphic tablet. After several test print, I sent it to Serdang to be printed and I took days to cut them one by one and package it. 

For the next Pipit event, I'll bring all my sticker sets along. 

PS : All money collected for this sticker set sales will be used in my next trip to Beijing next month, *hopefully. If you want to help me reach my dream, you can buy this sticker set, or any other sticker sets available : All Sticker Set & Vintage Camera.

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Yummeh !

11 pieces of colourful cakes & cupcakes.

plus additional of 2 little loves.

Printed on glossy sticker paper, hand-cut & packaged.

Price : RM 7

Postage : Express RM 4 / Normal RM 1

Email me : azreen_31@hotmail.com

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First batch

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Test print and Doodle sketch.

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PS :

I'll be collaborating in OuterEdit Feb 2013 edition
with Joanxchong, Wanton Doodle , Mr the Beef, & YellowMushmellow.
Stay tuned!
Oodles of doodles !

Update : Cold & Sticker

It's my 5th day with light fever, sore throat and heavy cold. I didn't actually thought I'll be sick this long, so after 4 days of trying to fight with sickness at the lab, yesterday I gave up. I went to meet a doctor for a check-up, and he gave me one day off and a lot of medicines. I hate doctors. 

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Anyhow, at home, I watched 'How I Met your Mom' series, cut out and packaged all my printed stickers. There were hundreds of them. Yeap, maybe I overworked a bit. But I divided my time accordingly, with 6 hours sleep time everyday - I don't know what I did wrong. I don't actually feel tired, I just feel unwell. 

Next Pipit event is held next Saturday. 

Please be there and support hand-made arts & crafts!

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Inspiration : May Ann Licudine

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So, the legendary May Ann Licudine produced another 101 original ACEO cards last month. She made a double of her last year's 50 original ACEO cards, which was such an inspiration. The original idea was to make affordable original pieces, and yes I want it so bad - because I can't afford her other remarkable beautiful drawings. So when she put a notice about it several days before they are available on her online shop, I was so excited! 

I counted the day. On that day, my boss asked me to follow him for work-related event. 

I was 1/2 hour late. I got onlined right away using my phone, and looked through what was left of those 101 cards. Only around 9 pieces left ! In 1/2 hour ! Impressive.

I chose one, and paid for it right away.  Even though I didn't get what I really aimed for - which were so many, I feel so happy nonetheless. Less than a week later, I checked my mail box and there there ! :

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A postcard, a name card, ACEO card and a note :

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I loved it !

So much.

Writing : 750words

750words is a website I used to practise my writing skill. Basically the idea is to write 3 pages long post on anything that pops into your head every morning. The unfiltered, spontaneous, daily private post on anything. It is to make writing be a daily habit. 

The idea is if you start your day with 3 long pages , it can help you clear your mind and keep the ideas flow all day long. Like morning exercise to keep you stay fresh the whole day, same concept.

It is not blogging. It is just a free style writing on anything. No particular rules. And it is private, only for you, by you.

3 pages = 750 words. 

I've tried it, and it was not as easy as I thought it would be. It needs a bit effort to keep on ideas flowing. Somehow I need to connect with my subconscious thoughts and it was always interesting to read later afterwards. More like a journal I guess, easy to say. 

For people who love numbers, you can also check out a statistic of your daily writing. For example, this is my statistic on today's post :

I even challenged myself in writing daily for November. Try it.

It was created by this guy.

Other :
Read what other people's thought on 750words.