welcome to my ambigram gallery!
newest ambigrams are added on top.
Brwen Stxizel. My footy team!
Vladimir Ashkenazy.
I completed Rach Three. Ambigram celebrating my completion of the piano concerto on 18 September 2009.
Rachy chain ambigram.
Arsenal chain ambigram.
Boeing. My first chain ambigram.
another take on fourdiligence. this will be on the first page of our yearbook. the old one will dominate the second and third pages, oh yeah!!!
alexander lubiantsev! a very very cute russian pianist :D
socialstudies / propaganda. my first mirror image ambigram! more can be done about the middle S, though.
socialstudies / propaganda.
third attempt at rachmaninoff. my second is too ugly to be shown.
zinedine zidane. my favourite footy player. ever.
st nicks, my secondary school.
one of my more ambitious ambigrams. i hate biology / with a passion
second attempt at gershwin. this is his full name, george gershwin
four diligence. i'm very proud of this one.
my first attempt at gershwin.
airbus
friday fever
airbus/boeing
rachmaninoff. my first ambigram.
Saturday, December 05, 2009
19:27 ||
Out of the frying pan
I said a few months ago that the Gershwin concert I had attended would be my last for the year. But, weeks later, I search for Rachmaninoff's name on Sistic just for fun and found yet another Rachy concert. By the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. Which was held yesterday. On the programme were a Debussy piece, a Glazunov violin concerto and Rach's Symphony No. 3. Don't know what they were playing at, playing a piece composed by the guy who ruined the premiere of Rachy's first symphony. But I must admit that the concerto was not bad. No match for Rachy though!
There wasn't any encore by Kawasaki, the violinist. Which was a first for me. I clapped with all my might hoping for at least one but none came. Then it dawned on me that Glazunov might not have written songs for solo violin. Or maybe violinists don't even give encores.
Like every concert that I had been to, this one didn't disappoint. The superb orchestra was aided by the fact that the symphony itself was a masterpiece to begin with. Haha.
I attended the concert with my cousin, whose attendance was last minute. Because she failed her PSLE and I was - I used this word before but am forced to use it again because I can't find another word that conveys the same 'feeling' - relegated the task of babysitting her. Yes. Not only tutoring her. Reteach her PSLE stuff from the bottom up. But also playing counsellor, trying to change her mindset about studying. Because she hardly studied, spending all her time watching drama serials, on Facebook, SMS-ing and talking on the phone. It's no easy feat, trying to change her ways. A preliminary test of her English and mathematics yielded shocking results. Her grammar is atrocious, subject verb agreements and the tenses having thrown out of the window. Her grasp of phonetics is non existent too, which results in the wrong spellings of even the most common words (like eaten). Simple calculations are challeges to her, and she doesn't even know the 12 times table.
Die lah... I have to tutor her everyday for a month, if my mum were to be believed. There go my holiday and my freedom. I never thought that I'd be doing PSLE stuff after my O levels.
good old arsenal, we're proud to say the name;
when we sing the song we'll win the game.
Monday, November 30, 2009
14:53 ||
check this out!
I just got it yesterday! It's not the best, but it's a cello! So far, I've managed to play only Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. But, once I've mastered the basics, I'm going to play Rach's Symphony No. 1 part 3, which I'm going to arrange for cello and piano, his Cello Sonata part 3, et cetera! My cello teacher's coming later. I'm so excited!
good old arsenal, we're proud to say the name;
when we sing the song we'll win the game.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
16:07 ||
beat this
http://www.sporcle.com/games/world.php
Name as many countries as you can (195 in total) in 15 minutes. The highest I got without help was 184. (But I missed out Ethiopia and Colombia, argh!) Some people can get 192, or even everything. I think they're crazy!
Taiwan is considered a country in this game, but I always leave it out.
***edit***
I finally got full marks for the game!!!!!!!!! Now my life is complete! I had no choice but to include Taiwan, but that was after I had gotten all the other countries! Haha damn you Kiribati!!
Now, off to other quizzes!
good old arsenal, we're proud to say the name;
when we sing the song we'll win the game.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
21:35 ||
i love the AN-225 mriya
But, more importantly, its uber hot Russian pilot, Sasha!
... Okay, I know he's just a (minor) character in 2012, but he's the most good looking one! One thing though, real pilots don't wear their jackets in the cockpit... I was devastated when the Mriya fell down the cliff, taking Sasha with it D:
The destruction was overdone and extremely unbelievable, but hey, as the Mythbusters always say, "If something's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!"
Apart from the Mriya crash and some fighter planes sliding off an aircraft carrier like in Transformers, 2012 is a definite MUST WATCH!!!!!!!!!!! Heck, it's worth the money just to see Sasha :D
But the same can't be said for New Moon, which has to be one of the worst movies I've ever watched. I don't know how some people can watch it 6 or 7 times. I don't like Edward's voice, I don't like his cheesy lines ("You're the only reason I'm alive", "The reason why I did this was because I thought I was protecting you", etc), I don't like Bella and her reckless stupidity. I mean, jumping off a cliff just to see an ex-boyfriend??!! (They're only hallucinations, by the way) There is so much more to life than losing a boyfriend. And she's only seventeen! There are plenty more fish in the sea. And she's not satisfied, even after being friends with Jacob Black, who in my opinion is a damn sight nicer than Edward. He looks more normal and doesn't speak in an irritating husky voice. But I don't get how he could transform into a wolf at will. Whatever happened to werewolves and the full moon?
Haha. But I'll catch Eclipse all the same, just to see how much worse it can get. In the meantime, I want to watch 2012 again - you guessed it, to see Sasha!!!!! <3
good old arsenal, we're proud to say the name;
when we sing the song we'll win the game.
Friday, November 13, 2009
23:07 ||
this is not your typical 'it's over!' post
It all started with Zizou.
Because if not for him, I wouldn't have learnt French. And if I hadn't learnt French, I wouldn't have had the chance to go to France last November. And if I hadn't gone to France last November, I wouldn't have taken awesome pictures. And if I hadn't taken awesome pictures, my dad wouldn't have said that I deserved a better camera. And if my dad hadn't said that I deserved a better camera, I wouldn't have gotten my CANON EOS 450D 18-55 KIT + 55-250 + UV FILTER + CIRCULAR POLARIZING FILTER + REMOTE CONTROL + LENS HOOD + DRY CABINET............
From left to right: 55-250 (with lens hood), Canon EOS 450D with 18-55 lens. EW-60C lens hood for 18-55, Targus UV Filter, Tokina UV Filter, Tokina Circular PL, Remote control.
And by registering my camera online, I'll get a FREE 50mm PRIME LENS!!!!!!!!
THIS. IS. SO. EFFING. AWESOME......!!!!!!!
I'll round off this awesome post with the Photo of the Year:
Note: I did not fuck. The actual sentence was 'I fucking hate this book'.
good old arsenal, we're proud to say the name;
when we sing the song we'll win the game.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
19:00 ||
The beginning of the end
I'm blogging from my Dad's iPhone so I'll keep this short. Next Friday is the beginning of the end and I am extremely excited. I played the whole of rach 3 just now and it was brilliant, for my standards at least. I may be a little lame here, but I even prepared 3 encores for my little 'concert'. Haha. That is, if anyone wants to listen. Okay, here's a little challenge. (for me) I'm not going to blog anymore until the end of the o levels! Alright! But I'll continue to tag! so the next time I post here, the o levels will have ended!!
Oh yeahhh!!!
good old arsenal, we're proud to say the name;
when we sing the song we'll win the game.
Friday, October 02, 2009
22:56 ||
slacking is bad!
But that's exactly what I've been doing for the whole of this week! I don't think doing a TYS paper everyday counts as studying, though! I can't believe I used to study 8 hours a day.
The end is so close I can smell it. The last time I checked, there're only 41 days left. 41 days to my Rach Three concert! And I'm going to be the pianist this time. I'm nervous! But excited at the same time. This concert is for you, Yee Ching!
And after that, it's an hour or two of footy, then it's off to the camera shop we go! Here's my finalised shopping list:
Canon EOS 450D Kit (18-55mm)
55-250mm
UV Filter
Circular Polarising Filter
Wired remote
Rubber lens hood
And after that, we'll go get my cello! After I've mastered the basics, I'm going to arrange songs for the cello and piano:
Rach's Symphony No. 1 Part 3
Prelude in F Major (1891)
Elgar's Salut d'Amour - I know there're already cello/piano arrangements for the above 2 songs but I'm going to write my own versions
Maybe a few sections of Rach 3
And compose songs for both instruments.
Then I'm going to learn Cello Sonata (cello and piano parts) Op. 19 by Rachmaninoff. Or at least the third part.
And I've received another job offer by my employers, the violin teachers, which means the money will come rolling in! I think I'm going to buy some sheet music, books, and stock up my wardrobe in preparation for Poly. And I'll spend my remaining time at Terminal 1 or going on a photography tour around Singapore.
Reality Check: There are still 41 days to 13 November. And I still suck at Rach 3.
Dammit...
good old arsenal, we're proud to say the name;
when we sing the song we'll win the game.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
22:27 ||
brwen stxizel
Brwen Stxizel, my football team! Made up of Brenda/er Wong/Na, Jing/Xi Wen, Stacey, Me (xi -something), and Hazel. New player: Sarah Long. We couldn't add her name in because we've already printed the shirts. I think it's too cramped at the centre. But what the hell.
good old arsenal, we're proud to say the name;
when we sing the song we'll win the game.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
16:42 ||
to my favourite vladimir: ashkenazy!
Mirror-image ambigram! I designed the 'Vladimir' during a very boring Chinese tuition, and the 'Ashkenazy' on a sleepless night.
Edit: this ambigram is one of my absolute favourites! :D
good old arsenal, we're proud to say the name;
when we sing the song we'll win the game.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
22:33 ||
i played rach three with ashkenazy!
... or rather, his recording! And I'm happy to say that I could catch up with him most of the time! And I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I had been practising Page 65 a tad too fast. Of course, Ash can play it twice as fast if he wants to. But if he think that the speed is okay, I'm fine with it! As for the other parts, he played them so fast that when I played at his speed, I couldn't see my fingers. Especially the last few pages of Movement 3. Left Hand had to play octaves at an unbelievable speed and needless to say I misplayed over half of the notes. But as Ash is a hundred times the pianist I am, I'm not disheartened!
Recently I developed a liking for chain ambigrams.
Boeing. My first chain ambigram. I have to say it is a natural chain ambigram.
Arsenal.
Rachy.
And...
'I Completed Rach Three', my celebratory Rach Three ambigram!
Okay, I'm going to watch the F1 qualifying race! I'm hoping for more scandals! Because I think they're more interesting than the race itself! Actually, the only thing I like about F1 is the sound of the cars...
good old arsenal, we're proud to say the name;
when we sing the song we'll win the game.
about me
I look like a girl but sound like a boy. I mean, how many girls you know love football and planes? Naturally
my greatest wish is to become a pilot but before that, I'm aiming for SYFC. I think that St.Maarten
has the most awesome airport in the world and that the Concorde is the most wondrous aircraft ever built.
I love football and I play the game but I suck at it. Arsenal is the best football club in the world and it really helps that they have Emirates as their shirt sponsor.
In my opinion the best thing France offered the world isn't its cheese but Concorde and Airbus, although they aren't entirely a French invention/company.
I count photography as one of my hobbies but I'm no professional. No prizes for guessing what I
like to shoot. I, as a former music student, know good music when I hear it. That's why I love Rachmaninoff,
especially his Piano Concertos and Variations. George Gershwin ain't bad, either. I particularly like his Rhapsody in Blue.
I watch porn but it's not the type of porn you watch. It's called 'Pilot's Porn' and the link can be found
here.
facebook account: Aviateur
No twitter. I think it's lame.