I got in to the Canon Teen Expression Photo Contest!! Made it just in time for the fifth round…which so happens to be the last round!! Praise God!! But now have to get people to vote for me by sms. So…erm… PLEASE VOTE FOR ME!! Just to let you know, when you vote, you stand a chance to be one of 5 sms winners to win a free Canon Digital IXUS 70 camera!!! more details here: www.canon.com.my/teenexpression
Here’s how to vote:
1. Register

• Type: CANONspaceREGspacespace
• Eg: CANON REG 880111235629 LIM CHENG YEE
• Send to 36660

2. Vote for me!

• Type: CANONspaceR5space4
• Send to 36660
• Vote as many times as you want!(increases your chance of winning a camera also!)

You’ll be voting for this photo:

Remember! I’m in round 5 picture number 4!! (just follow the steps above) thanks!!

After watching the transformer movie a few months ago, I came out of the cinema with my brother overwhelmed by the prospect of an “inorganic” being in a form of something as mundane yet technologically miraculous as a car. And yes, I asked my dad’s proton saga (megavalve) whether it could transform. But it didn’t answer. But that doesn’t mean that it can’t. I’ve noticed a few things about it that may suggest that it is a transformer. It makes strange creaking sounds when I drive. The the lights on left side of the heads up display goes off sometimes. But after a smack, it comes back on. There’s much more, but that’s not what this post is about. So back to the main topic.

I was telling my friend Yong Zheng how cool it would be if my car could transform. It didn’t really hit me until a while later, that I could make a 3D model of my car transforming into… me!! muahahah!!! a cyborg me. Doubted my ability to come up with random conceptual designs. But in my free time today, I tried sketching and creating the first drafts of the face. Here it is:

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The colours used aren’t the colours I plain on using. It’s just a guide to help distinguish between the different layers. Estimated time of completion of this project is: erm… after STPM then say la. =D

Disclaimer: This post may make you sad and concerned. Please stop reading this post if you don’t want to feel negative feelings. Seriously.

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Do you love to be loved or do you love to be loved?

No, it’s not a typo. Read it again. It is a legitimate question that has crossed every person’s mind but has not left any foot prints in most cases.

I shall now explain. *cue: open eyes wider*

The first love that is mentioned pertains to an individual’s preference. A good synonym would be the word ‘like’. So it’ll read as: Do you like to be loved…

Everybody likes to be loved. We’re hard wired to. Even introverts and the depressively “in-sociable” people who view human relations as redundant, they also want to be loved and to have attention. It’s just that they ask in a different way. Sort of like what Peter Parker said in yesterday’s syndicated newspaper rendition of Spiderman.

“It’s like when a little boy pulls a girl’s hair–’cause he likes her and wants to get her attention.”

Surprising how God disseminates wisdom into the world. So everybody loves/likes to be love.

Here’s the difficult part. What do you do with that need? Everybody proceeds to fill that void with something. I try to fill it with Jesus. Some of my friends fill it with activities. But the all time favourite is the ever elusive, and as my wise friend Jackie puts it, a “very funny thing” called boy-girl-relationship a.k.a. LOVE.

The love referred to in the second part is the action of caring and loving a person. Therefore it’ll read as : or do you care/love someone to be loved?

Many people find it unbelievable that I’ve not had a girlfriend before. As in, I’ve never acknowledge anyone as my girlfriend and no one has acknowledge me as her boyfriend. But I have been involved in a love-relationship before. I’m struggling now as I have been before not to acquire a girlfriend.

But here’s the thing, if I love someone just so that I can fill the deep need for love then I am liar. Because every time I say these things(in normal) it actually means this(in bold):

I love you. –> I’m just loving myself through you.
I need you. –> I need the feeling of being loved.
I want you. –> I want to feel the happy feelings I get every time I’m around you.
I’ve got feelings for you. –> I’ve got a desire for the happy feelings that you invoke in me.

Hold your horses, I know what you’re thinking. Cheng Yee’s mad. A relationship is there to satisfy a need. It’s every individual’s right to pursue happiness. That’s what it’s about! I agree with you. God made them, and he made them good. There is nothing wrong with wanting a person’s love. But that should not be the motivation to love a person. That’s right, after 13 paragraphs of superfluous explanation, that’s all I’m trying to say. I shall now further bore you with an analogy to further prove my point.

One man doesn’t hate or love his job. The other man likes his job. Both are in a job for a very basic need: the pay (a.k.a. The Dough, if he’s a baker. *joke*). Yet there is a difference in the level of satisfaction the two man experience. One is happy only when he gets his pay. The other is happy everyday because he gets to go to work. And when he gets his pay, it’s like added bonus to him.

One does it for what he’ll get in return. The other does it for the satisfaction of the job. Some people love for the love that they’ll get in return, some people love purely because they love.

Don’t short-change yourself or your loved ones. Ask yourself:

Do you love to be loved or do you love to be loved?

I finally finished the design for class T-shirt. Here you go:

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Hope this is printable!! Or all my effort will be wasted. I think I spent about almost 20 hours doing this. From figuring out how to do it to the finished product. Praise God!!