Biggest Blue Black

My biggest blue black ever in my life! It is big and swollen for a few days already. Its so big that I am so proud to have the biggest or chey in my life (dont ask me why)!

This has also taught me, to always leave the trashbin at a corner of the room, and walk in the dark with care.

Swee boh?

Cutie in pink!

I cant help it but to take a pic of this very attention seeking cutie in pink who is obviously obvious and oblivious to his surrounding. And I wonder is there is a little kid, if he or she is hidden under the pool of balls and if this obvious big ball, I mean healthy well fed cutie falls ...what will happen......cannot imagine....

"Wha! bubbles many many!"



"Wooo............" (He finally falls!!! Any other kids beneath?)

"I am Gorilla! Waaaaaaaaah!!!!"

I laughed hard and was really really facinated by him. If its not for the glass screen between us, I would have jump into the pool of balls and having him lying among the balls and beneath my back! LOL! MUacks cutie!

Funny scene...

I wanted to shared this funny scene I happen to capture while my family and I were browsing at a jade retail shop.

My mum is a so call jade lover and she has been wearing jade bangles since we were very young and since she was still a very young mother. So! We were actually waiting for this shop to open their door, ready for business and we are the 1st customer of the day. The boss talked to us for a while and took a few and a carton of jade bangles for mum to chose. Then the female boss arrived after sometime and helped mum to removed her current jade bangle and try on the new ones. Then! Suddenly, without much realisation, actually all the while, the crowd outside the shop grew. I laughed while taking the pictures below. I do not understand why and what so interesting about rubbing some detergent on my mum's wrist to slip the bangle out from my mum's wrist and what so interesting about slipping the new bangle onto my mum's wrist.



The Lady boss in pink, getting my mum's wrist ready for the new bangle.

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The lady boss in pink was explaining some jade to my parents, and this lady in black actually came into the shop and walked closer to hear what the lady boss said
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My 1st attempt

I just tried making accessories and realised they are easy and not that easy too. But anyway, I have still managed to do some very simple ones:







Ignore the "NEW FASHION" wordings on the backings. Its printed on when we bought the backings off from the shelves.

Now are they good enough? Not really...:( so much more to explore. Its not really easy to fixethe small circular loops. I almost gave up. But this is only the beginning! How can I say give up?! Loser me....

So what if the world doubt you? When you know the world is in you.

While we chase after what we have in exterior, how many discover our own interior (or has any)?

How many dare to face the world, and face her own talent which may seems just so easy for her, but it actually moved the world?

Susan Boyle. She is the incredible one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnmbJzH93NU

There was a time when men were kind,
And their voices were soft,
And their words inviting.
There was a time when love was blind,
And the world was a song,
And the song was exciting.
There was a time when it all went wrong...
I dreamed a dream in time gone by,
When hope was high and life,
worth living.
I dreamed that love would never die,
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
Then I was young and unafraid,
And dreams were made and used and wasted.
There was no ransom to be paid,
No song unsung, no wine, untasted.
But the tigers come at night,
With their voices soft as thunder,
As they tear your hope apart,
And they turn your dream to shame.
He slept a summer by my side,
He filled my days with endless wonder...
He took my childhood in his stride,
But he was gone when autumn came!
And still I dream he'll come to me,
That we will live the years together,
But there are dreams that cannot be,
And there are storms we cannot weather!
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living,
So different now from what it seemed...
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed...

I cant possibly do things alone...

The terrible flu, which was so persistent, has taken me down. It started right after my exhibition ended. Am I always so poor of health?? L Maybe I just need to get used to it.
It’s been so long I last experience a bad bad flu. It just keeps dripping and I just keep sneezing. I just feel so weak and tired and sleepy even without taking medication. I thought I will be able to enjoy my long weekends but I was wrong. I am frustrated!!

Since last Wednesday till today, am still having my flu and cough though it has recovered quite a bit. But mentally persistent I am, trying to accomplish as much as I can and not relenting to the illness. I managed to have completed and tied up the loose ends and get the accessories blog up and going. It has to be! If not now, when?! Time is never enough and being sick has hindered me from making progression and accomplishing whatever I want to do.

Although, the GP has given me two days of mc to rest well at home, but there are so many things I still wanna do. The mind is constantly racing in the middle of the night. I still need to run around sourcing for nice low price accessories, how to make our site more attractive and idiot proof, I keep telling myself to have patience, dream big and start small. I wanna run as fast as my mind could. Am back at work today, with a coarse voice still and aint going to stay back any longer to work thru these paperworks, I think I still need some good rest at home.

I wanna prepare for my second painting exhibition, I wanna do sketching, I wanna sign up for a basic art class, I wanna do a online accessories business, I wanna do a fleamarket with my colleagues, I wanna do tee-shirts designing, I wanna complete the pending issues here at work…I wanna……I still need to do a commission painting for my Dean, although he says “take your time”

Anyway! Now my focus is hit on the online site. I can’t possibly do these alone……thanks to sis who got the domain registered for future use, thanks to travis who is willing to do the web designing for me, thanks to many others for your precious advise. We don’t do what we love, for one reason and one reason only……….we don’t believe we can, and we can’t possibly accomplish everything alone.

ThePinkTissuePaper

Dear Readers!

I am setting an online accessories store with my fellow gal friends. At the current stage, we are using blogspot to maintain and start up our store. In time to come, we will hope to set up and host our own website and include more stuff in our site.

Please visit us at http://www.thepinktissuepaper.blogspot.com and show your support!

MAAD MOOD Art Aftermath

Dear Readers!


My mini exhibition was over. It was a two days event, and it would not have been successful without the help from my family and friends to helped setting up my booth and taking care of the little technical and lighting issues I know nuts about. The boxes were useful indeed. My tags and little descriptions were also proved to be of importance. And the poems that were tagged in most of the paintings helps to connect the paintings to the viewers.

Saturday was a good crowd and I was thankful to see my Dean who came down to support, bringing along a korean prof to see my humble mini exhibition. My Assoc Dean came down also, bringing me a packet of pot purri as a gift. She bought one of my paintings for her office room, my Dean commissioned me to paint a new one for his living room, my ex colleague who came down and bought two boards etc. Some colleagues also came down to support and friends. Thankful to Ruifu and Ginnise who accompanied me the whole of the 1st day. And I am esp thankful and touched by my family who was ever so supportive and stayed with me throughout. Karen and her "salty" hubby came down too and helped to "close" my exhibition on sunday. And I am very thankful to my sister who accompanied me for the two days event too and asking her close friends to come down to support as well.

I am glad to have chatted with a few friendly strangers, and exchanged email addresses and ideas. I have a tiring yet great experience! And yes, I will plan a second one but not so soon, probably in the next 4 or 6 mths so that I am ample time to work on new ones and this time, I am going to do on BIG BIG BOARDS.

Preparations

Yes, the days are drawing nearer and I have been staying up late to prepare for the event. Varnishing some of my previous boards, do some touching ups, work on the new boards, designing the tags for each boards, copy and paste my past poems and collate them for the paintings, decorating the signage boards, writing up descriptions, planning the display, sourcing for materials (as cheap as possible), its just so many thousand and one thing to settle and decide and execute.

Yesterday, I stayed up till 1am to completing the varnishing of the boards. Waking up at 7am for work today, then went for a "compulsory work out" with my colleagues (2 ladies) from 4pm to 5pm, back to office worked for a while, then dad came to fetch me and I managed to drag the boxes home. The boxes are meant for the exhibition. I do not know if the boxes will help but at least, the concept is there and I just have to figure it out on sat. In the worst scenario, just leave the boards on the floor! This exhibition has tired me out mentally and physically that I do not have the mood to even watch a movie or shop.

I have sent out some email invites to my close colleague and ex colleagues and ex boss. And the responses were so touching that I nearly cried while reading their supports. One colleague of mine even wanted to bring her flower pot to my exhibition so that I could use it to decorate my space, another one willing to lend out her boxes which she has been keeping for moving house. My spidy and her husband who got me boxes as well..and supporting me (in her own way) to just go ahead with the showcase, Ginnise who smsed me this morning telling me she will make it on the sat to help me with the setting up, Ruifu also.. Sis who helped to buy the boards, do painting with me, helping me to print out some pictures....friends who really forwarded my invite emails to their friends and asking them to go and support...I suddenly realise, actually I am not alone.

My Assoc Dean, by chance, happen to know about my mini show case when my colleague and I was talking about it. She immediately asked me to send her the invite and I did (sheepishly). The next day, she walked to me and asked if I would mind her forwarding my email to other profs and her colleagues from other depts. I shook my head and said "oke, thank you".

Mintues later, I received the email she sent to her colleagues and cc-ed it to me. I am so moved by her supportive words. I guess, she is really going the extra mile for a junior staff like me.

Then, the cold feet started to sweep in. With more and more ppl coming to know about the exhibition, the expectation from them, worries me. I worry about the acceptance of my artwork, I worry about not being able to put up a good exhibition, I worry about being a disappointment, I worry about cockups, I worry again and again. But while I was worrying everyday, I was also working on and preparing for it. I am, also excited about visiting other stores and see what interesting stuff do they have.

What would happen on that day? I wish its saturday now, so that I could tell you more. Till then, will post pictures!

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