This is Irie.

Meet Irie.

This was how she looked like almost a year ago in some Statistics class. That's where she was born. Yes, Irie was born in a. Statistic. Class.


Back then, her brain was bursting out from learning the formulas of Standard Deviation. And Regression. And Correlations. And answers to some hypotheses. Her eyes squinted to the fact that she had to survive a 3-hour Statistics class every week. Numbers are not Irie's favourite things. Yes, she's a robot, but robots have hearts too. Too much of not-so-favourite things occupying Irie's head, the brain ought to explode too. As you can see, hers did. But as you can also see, Irie loves smiling, and she can smile her way out of everything. :)

But since that almost-a-year had passed now, Irie could look back with one satisfied grin on her face.


Her brain is back in place, her hair grew again, and her body glows in shocking pink! And her heart is now so big it could fit in her pocket.


Irie has gone through some transformation on her own, and now she sports a spunky hairdo, splashes some bright colours as her new fashion, and has gained few kgs. She likes eating greens, and spicy food and she reads Japanese manga during her free time. She loves watching Chuno, as her heart boils and her eyes wide with excitement whenever she sees blood splatter and swords flying in the air.


Can you see Irie's smile? Wide, isn't it? Enough to make your heart flutter.

Doodles o' Doodles!

I remember those days when I was still a student, one of my favourite past times (besides making cards & book hunting) was to doodle. My notebooks were full of doodlings - and don't let me start on the kinds of doodlings that I did back then hahaha..

So on one sweet day last week, I had this crazy idea while browsing the net, and started to cut 12 pieces of cards, and doodled them. Haha. The initial plan was to make a calendar, and I did turn them into a 2010 calendar... but I went a wee bit crazy with the doodlings and ithey ended up looking like some 5 year old's drawings hahaha. Oh well, I did the doodlings and the colouring while watching Iron Chef at 1.00 in the morning. And I did fall asleep sometime in between and then woke up and continued doodling and then fell asleep again haha..

Who cares anyway. I'm still sharing the horrifying results though hahaha.

So here come my very own 2010 desk calendar!


I made a box to keep the 12 calendars in tact, and the box also serves as the stand (will show you later). The colourful wrapper is leftover from other crafts that I did, and even though it went against the whole doodling concept of the calendar, I used it anyhow, coz the wrapper's been there like ages soI had to do something bout it.

And here's the 12-month calendar:


Now for individual month, let's start with January (umbrella ella ella)


February (not sure whether the yellow thing is a bird, chicken or monkey hahaha)


March (HAHAHAHAHA on the birds)


April (I thought this bit is ok-looking)


May (the markers went haywire)



June (don't really like the colour combination)


July (a bit simple)


August (the trees were probably from Mars hahaha)


September (it's a long way home huh)


October (those were not the colours of the rainbows, but who cares! :P)


November (abstract)


December (those are mutant butterflies - ahahaha, am really bad at doodling butterflies :P)


And this is how the desk calendar looks like:


And that's the end of the doodling calendar. I know I doodled pretty badly haha, but am still proud of the calendar, and will proudly use it the whole of next year, InsyaAllah.

You probably love doodling too (who doesn't!), so give it a try and just. let. go. It's a good stress reliever for me, and I had fun drawing and colouring and sleeping in between. It feels like a kid again. :)

p/s would probably start on professional-looking calendars later.

The Road Not Taken

Plan to use this idea for class presentation this semester. Enjoy!


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost (1916)

Sunny Monday Morning

On a sunny Monday morning
the sun is shining
the wind is blowing
the birds are chirping
the mountains are smiling

and it is hoped that the girl no longer has the sad smile.

The Girl with a sad smile.

This is not an art
This is doodlings
of a girl with a sad smile
who wished for some happy thoughts
on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

(and she didn't get any)

Mini book challenge

Here's my take for Lovescrap 2nd Challenge - Mini book:

Materials used: White Cardstock A4 paper (yellowish orange - buta warna sket) Needle & thread (for book sewing) Wrapper from Tang's Art (leftover from previous project) Buttons as embellishment Adhesive (Dry & wet) Pen (coloured) Stapler Techniques used: Doodling Stamping (hand-made) Handwriting Paper cutting

I love bright colours. I feel that bright colours bring very strong energy to my arts. That's why I really love contrasting colours. It's just because the colours themselves are able to attract from far. Again, the materials are from my own collection and I managed to complete the book in one night... haha. Basically I get the idea from one of my digital layouts that I made and display in Lovescrap (only in Lovescrap- that's how special the forum is):


Both are totally different in design especially given the digital layout is in blue and the mini book is in 1001 colours. The basic design is still there, and both pictures (the feet in the sand for digi lo and the doodlings for mini book) are still originally from me. Simply said, I scraplift my own digital layout and transform it to paper layout. And they turned out to be 2 totally different designs.