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Music is one of those thing in life that will wake me up in the middle of the night and be totally consumed by it. I met Krsytal on a friend’s birthday party. After I beatbox, she came up and suggested a collaboration. Without thinking twice, I agreed. Here the cover of Jailer by Asa. Krsytal has amazing jazz voice.
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This past year has been amazing, launched my blog and kick start many projects that I wanted to do. This blog has helped me meet all the awesome people along this journey, especially the wedding planners. It’s Hellagood!!
1) The Piñata Lamp This project literally brought me through the army days. I could still remember sticking paper in the guard room during guard duty.
2) Mama Chicken Rice This recipe was passed down by my mother to prepare me for this trip. Ever since going on the road, I have cooked this dish on 3 separate occasions and everyone loves it.
3) Rock and Roll Alligator Piñata This is one of those project that surprises me how great it turn out to be. The sunglass was totally thought out of the blue because we don’t know to make the eyes. Haha.
4) DIY Cardboard Christmas Fire Its just inspiring to see the creativity of this house. How Lam just came out with the whole 3D log design so wonderfully.
5) Room Makeover My favorite gift to myself. Thanks Linda again for helping me out with the room. I learn so much things from fixing the room up.
6) DIY Dip Dye Shirt I still bring one of the shirt in my bag but I have not used it yet because of the cold weather. I hope mum and dad wears them out together!
7) Garden Birthday Party One of the best birthday party I threw for myself. Thank you all for the wonderful letters. I will send you guys postcards soon.
8) Flowers with Joy Thigpen I have been so fortune to work with Joy. I learn so much from her and will continue to do so.
9) Sneak Peek at Tiffany Gracia I am till today impress by tiffany interior skill at the age of 22. She is now going over to Sweden to study Interior. All the best, Tiff!
10) Marinated Feta Cheese I of my favorite present to give to people if anyone loves cheese.
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After traveling to San Francisco, It has come to my attention that there are cool indie neighborhoods that are tuck under the blankets. So, I drove my car over the bridge and arrived into a city with old well-maintained theaters, lakes and breathtaking sceneries. The city greeted me with spaces, ice-creams and awesome thrift finds. This is the East bay, made of Oakland, Berkeley University and a few small cities. The first thing I noticed in the city is that “the city smelled high”, however you want to interpret that. Contrary to that, every street light is equipped with speed camera which kinda reminded me of the crazy Singapore. The locals here said that “this is the way of how the city make money, it’s just much easier to send a bill than to arrest someone on the streets”. I laughed.
Thank Rebakah Mcnall, A & B Creative for showing me around your great city. I can’t wait to see the creation for the Lab event!
1) Fenton’s Creamy
This ice-cream place has been opened for more than a century! The Sundae there are enormous, topped with the traditional whipped cream and cherry. When you dig deeper, you are in for a delicious surprise. We made a great choice by sharing a Sundae. Personally, I don’t like it that they have new decor. I want to go back to the era of B&W photos that hangs on their wall now, of kids having a huge smile across his face eating that delicious ice-cream.
http://www.fentonscreamery.com
2) Blue Bottle Coffee
I’m not a crazy fan of coffee but this is definitely a neat little store. The cafe is a small square room compared to the huge warehouse that roast their coffee beans next to it. There is also a tasting room for speciality coffee, go check it out when you are there.
http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com
3) Kaiser Centre Mall
In the middle of downtown Oakland with all the craziness happening around, a hidden garden was create to let employees relax and enjoy the sun during the lunch break. Kaiser Centre Mall looks like just another bank but inside, you can find old B&W photos of old Oakland and this hidden retreat.
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I am really proud of myself because I was able stick my plans and achieved most of the goals I set for myself. I spent 2 year in the army and worked side jobs to save up some money to afford my one year trip. I also have happily finished 2 years of National Service and learned so much from it. I really wanted to thank my bosses, LTC James Teo and 2WO Lim Ser Wei. Although I injured my back during service, I managed to swim and run to build up my strength for this trip. I pass my driving test after the second try in the nick of time before coming for this trip. I am truly thankful for that otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to own a car and drive around here in the USA. I finally got the blog together without spending too much. Thanks again for those to helped me so much with the blog. Lastly, I managed to successfully convinced my family for this trip. Haha. For more tips, read my post here.
On 16th Jan. I am flying to Mexico and will travel around Latin America. I have also made some resolution and plans for this year!
1) Be better at doodling
I have always admired people who could just sketch on the go and it just magically turned out pretty. After I get down to Mexico, I will be sketching. At least 4 sketches a week. If some are decent enough, I will post them up here!
2) Better Handwriting
It is not that I write like crap but I really do. This is one of the skills I regretted not learning when I’m young. My mum has always reminded me to write better and taught me but I just refused to learn. Technology completely allows me to ignore writing. Now that I am writing postcards to people, I’ve started to realize how bad my handwriting is. I will be buying one of those exercise books and will start practicing. My postcards recipients: “Please bear with me and give me your feedback”.
3) Salsa
I have started learning Salsa before the trip but I am at the ‘3 moves levels’ – I only have 3 moves on the dance floor. This is way too disgracing for me. I will be spending at least a month to fully immerse myself in salsa, going to dance school, practicing and be decent at it. I am already excited as I write about this. I will come back as a salsa dancer. Ir a bailar, niña bonita!
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Hello from San Francisco,
I am being feature on a blog by a fellow Singaporean, Huiwen. She had just quit her day job as a property analyst. Huiwen now spend her time on inspiring people changes in people through her blog while finding joy and meaning to her life 🙂
“The wheels were turning and a bicycle was what led Bryan and I to cross our paths in life.
We were both riding almost the same vintage-style bicycles from the same bicycle maker. Even though it isn’t in the cultural DNA in Singapore to just chat up a random stranger on the streets, but Bryan is different and that was how we became friends.
Being an avid couch surfer and host, he had with him a guest from Taiwan. Ever the effusive host, right there and then, he invited us to cycle with him to Wimbly Lu, which was a quaint cafe near his home where he did some holiday jobs before.”
Click on the link to see the full post!
http://idologi.co/bryan/
