My OperaA little Introduction, perhaps?
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 5:12:03 PM
So I'm pretty new to this My Opera blog. Funny. I have been using this browser for over a year and only now that I actually bothered to try out the blog function.
I'm a 23 year old hailing from scorching depths of Southeast Asia, that is Singapore but I have always felt like I was born in the wrong country and continent. "Strömblad" isn't my real last name but who the hell cares?! It is the interwebz, nobody cares what your real name is.
I was born with a brittle bone disorder called Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Yes, that very same illness Samuel L. Jackson's character had in Unbreakable. But trust me, I'm not that crazy enough to plant a bomb on a train
And no, it isn't contagious, so don't you be scared about drinking from the same cup as me! I do use a wheelchair though to get around. Gotta love the weird stares and harsh remarks I get because of that! Oh narrow-minded people, how you make my otherwise mundane life so interesting!
I'm currently finishing up my 2nd year in an art college majoring in Design Communication. I enjoy my time there. I enjoy creating. In fact, creating is the only substantial reason as to why I'm still alive and breathing. Corny. To say that art saved my life, is corniness on a whole new level. But it did. It did save my life. I was never into art while growing up. I was never all that great at it either. But some time in my teenage years where depression, suicidal tendencies and Prozacs seem to be the only thing encapsulating my life, the thought of giving up wallowed me bit by bit each day, art was the only thing that was there. Those dark years of my life which I spent confined to the hospital bed, I could only draw (and write). I could only purge out the pain that was inside. It felt good. Art was better than Prozacs. It saved me. It gave me a new meaning to life. It gave me something to look forward to in life.
Back to the topic of creating - I like to try out different medium in creating. I am not really keen on just sticking to pencil and paper. Why limit yourself to just that when there are a plethora of things you can use? I hope to share some of my work on here from time to time - in the midst of all the ranting about ridiculous, quite possibly unimportant things, that I might do in the near future.
Till then,
Auf wiedersehen!
I'm a 23 year old hailing from scorching depths of Southeast Asia, that is Singapore but I have always felt like I was born in the wrong country and continent. "Strömblad" isn't my real last name but who the hell cares?! It is the interwebz, nobody cares what your real name is.
I was born with a brittle bone disorder called Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Yes, that very same illness Samuel L. Jackson's character had in Unbreakable. But trust me, I'm not that crazy enough to plant a bomb on a train
And no, it isn't contagious, so don't you be scared about drinking from the same cup as me! I do use a wheelchair though to get around. Gotta love the weird stares and harsh remarks I get because of that! Oh narrow-minded people, how you make my otherwise mundane life so interesting! I'm currently finishing up my 2nd year in an art college majoring in Design Communication. I enjoy my time there. I enjoy creating. In fact, creating is the only substantial reason as to why I'm still alive and breathing. Corny. To say that art saved my life, is corniness on a whole new level. But it did. It did save my life. I was never into art while growing up. I was never all that great at it either. But some time in my teenage years where depression, suicidal tendencies and Prozacs seem to be the only thing encapsulating my life, the thought of giving up wallowed me bit by bit each day, art was the only thing that was there. Those dark years of my life which I spent confined to the hospital bed, I could only draw (and write). I could only purge out the pain that was inside. It felt good. Art was better than Prozacs. It saved me. It gave me a new meaning to life. It gave me something to look forward to in life.
Back to the topic of creating - I like to try out different medium in creating. I am not really keen on just sticking to pencil and paper. Why limit yourself to just that when there are a plethora of things you can use? I hope to share some of my work on here from time to time - in the midst of all the ranting about ridiculous, quite possibly unimportant things, that I might do in the near future.
Till then,
Auf wiedersehen!
