Finally the girl turns 21. :)

All of us highschool dudettes together again.

More photos on Facebook courtesy of all our other photographers of the night. ;)

Now, a few outdated photos for the past week.

A lot of them are still not uploaded yet since we have had about 4 photographers in total.

People, look alive!

Met up with Nan & her siblings before they head back to Thailand. :D

It's been about 2 weeks since the kitty was sick with diarrhea & vomiting madness.

But right now, he's recuperating well & is getting his fats back again.

You know a kitty is back to his old self when he's annoying you all the time again. :)

Yep, he does love the royal treatment.

And he's the new guardian to my brother's 'safe' key. Lol.

Whoever said First Aid is for the boring can eat their words.

Louis Vuitton came up with their very own line of miniature First Aid kits.

Get one and 20% of sales goes to the local hospitals & health foundations.

First aid has never been this glamorous up until now. XD

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Translation:

I love Vince Frost's work. Had the pleasure of meeting the man in person during last year's Kyoorius Designyatra event. :D

His latest campaign is Pop Art inspired and so abstract that it ceases to be obscene. XD

Check out the site.

There's a fun flash game to be played too. XD

P/S: Added a new category label, campaigns/causes. Starts from this post onwards. :D

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Must be the holidays & all those parties.

You can't party without gorgeous shoes right? XD

Just wait till i own my personal line of shoes in future. :)

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Beautiful art, really captivating use of colors and medium. :D

For more works from her, visit her website:

www.miaovergaard.com

And this is one of my recent masterpieces, drawn with Sketchbook X on my iPod Touch. XD

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No, really I do.

I miss doing art, like literally creating art from just paper and paint or charcoal.

But obviously I can't, not in the office anyways.

Thank goodness iTunes App Store has more than enough 'art' related apps to at least make me feel like Im doing something with my hands.

One of the best apps yet for drawing on a blank canvas.

Totally recommended for art lovers who likes to sketch sketch sketch all day.

After all, they provide tools like paint, pencil, airbrush, and so on.

They even have layers, like in Photoshop so you can draw and color on different layers for easy convenience.

The only difficult part is that, well you're drawing with your finger and it's not really easy to control where you want the lines to start exactly.

But drawing & coloring is a smooth transition, it's the positioning that's difficult.

Im slowly getting the hang of it though, here are my first two masterpieces. Lol.

It's not my best, but I know I can do so much better.

Finger painting is hard, but so much fun. XD

They even have a site where they post up some of the best artworks created with this app.

If they can do it, so can I! XD

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And Im still addicted to the Jazz Sculptor app which I mentioned one or two posts ago.

I made more new sculptures. XD

Im totally head over heels with these apps.

They're the best utility apps yet, for artsy-fartsy design anyways. :D

Im so colorfully inspired, I just had to change my wallpaper to this:

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Mohawk shoes with variant sized studs all over.

Perfect color combination, perfect vertigo effect.

These are the perfect shoes.

Prada rocks. :)

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Even I can make 3D art.

So can you.

With the JAZZ SCULPTOR application (only for iPhone or iPod Touch only), you can shame even the most artistic artists of the ages.

Okay, not really but you can still practice your hand at sculpting.

Without even buying actual chisels and hurting or nicking your fingers while you're at it.

Best of all, it's free. :D

My first masterpiece, the Jack-O-Lantern whom I named Jack.

I made him out of a pumpkin, isnt he cute? XD

But he was lonely, so I made him a friend out of watermelon.

I named her Jill.

Okay my masterpieces are kinda crap.

There are more creative & silly creations by other users.

You can check them out at the following:

But have you ever wondered of their origins, how they actually looked like before it became what it was today?

I have gathered about 22 logo evolutions, some with additional facts to boot, so go ahead and educate yourself.

- The first logo was a complicated picture of Isaac Newton sitting under a tree. This had been designed with the inscription: “Newton … A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought … Alone.”

- When the company started a project in California, it added the red and yellow colors to the symbol. Additionally, these are the colors of Spain, where many Californian settlers were born, which might have helped the company to create an emotional bond with the people.

-BMW or Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Bavarian Motor Works) was originally founded as an aircraft company.

-The aircrafts manufactured were painted with the colors of the Bavarian flag, which is the color of BMW logo. Another explanation is that when the pilot used to sit in the plane he would see alternating segments of white and blue due to rotation the plane propeller (blue being the sky).

- Nike probably got the best deal amongst all companies when Caroline Davidson designed its logo for just $35 in 1971.

- IBM was earlier known as The International Time Recording Company (ITR), whose major products were mechanical time recorders.

- The first camera launched by the company in 1934, was named as Kwanon, after the Buddhist goddess of mercy. The logo included the wordings and a picture of the goddess with 1000 arms and flames.

- The name of the search engine is derived from Googol (meaning one followed by 100 zeros).

- In 1966, seventeen bankers formed a federation for the reciprocal acceptance of their credit cards. They called this federation as Interbank and hence, the first 1966 logo. The ‘i’ was used to identify the participating members of Interbank Card Association.

- In 1969, the name was changed to Master Charge.

- Finally, in 1979, the name MasterCard was adopted and they lost the ‘i’ from the logo.

- It was first of all named as Phoenix, but due to some trademark issues, the name had to be changed to Firebird.

- Unfortunately, this name also had trademark issues because of existing software. Then, they finally got lucky and chose the name Firefox.

- Initially named as "Brad’s drink" the name was quickly changed to Pepsi-Cola.

- The ‘Pepsi Globe’ emerged when USA was in WWII, and to support the country’s war efforts, Pepsi had a blue, red and white logo.

- In 1902, the logo for Mercedes was nothing more than the simple company name. However, it was changed to a 3 pointed star in 1909. The origin of this star came from a postcard by Diamler, where he had drawn a 3 pointed star which represented ‘making vehicles in land water and sky’.

- After 1926, a new symbol for Mercedes-Benz came into picture, where the original logo of both the companies was merged into one. It combined the 3 pointed star of Mercedes and the laurel wreath of Benz.

- ‘Nokia’ in Finnish means means a dark, furry animal we now call the Pine Marten weasel.

- The Nokia Corporation was formed as a merger of Finnish Rubber Works (which also used a Nokia brand), the Nokia Wood Mill, and the Finnish Cable Works in 1967. The company has sold a variety of products in the past including television, shoes, car tires and others. The evolution and the meaning of the logo is unclear due to the changing business over the years.

- Henry Ford used to work for Thomas Edison.

- When a car was launched in 1927, called Model A, the famous blue oval was introduced in the logo. This was the shape and color, on which all future Ford logos have been made.

Who knew all these logos have such exuberant history? :)

I should've taken up Logo studies, it's pretty fun.

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It was chocolate and chocolate and more chocolate again.

She was preparing it for Francine's belated birthday since she just arrived back from Brisbane this week.

Her birthday was like a month ago. Lol.

But it's the thought that counts right? :)

I love love love the frosting.

It's sweet & chocolatey. :D

It is then applied onto the cake, which is shaped like a button. XD

I didnt manage to get the picture of the final outcome though, was too busy shoo-ing my dad away from devouring the cake before anyone had the chance to even see it. Lol.

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Christmas treat anyone? XD

Whoever said gingerbread men are for kids, don't know what they're missing out on.

I love gingerbread men! XD

Especially ones with yummy icing. :) Yums!

Presents & merry-making is at the top of my list this year.

Just 2 more weeks.

And anther week till my maid gets home, finally! :D

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Ont une tres bonne semaine a venir! :)

( That's French for, have a good week ahead!)

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If I had the time & money, I'd do this to my car. XD

Brilliant eh?

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Happy Sunday!


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