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Orang Utan!!

2009-06-15T21:58:00.002+08:00

Pen drawing 3

Haha...I always feel a connection with orang utan :) To me, they are playful, carefree, happy, naughty, cute, understanding, gentle, kind, weak yet resilent and sad at the same time. Very cute right? Haha...suddenly got an urge that time to draw orang utan after watching orang utan's island, so yup..spent i think only 1 day plus on this drawing.. you'll realised that i only draw half of the right arm cuz i got bored after awhile...haha..

School starting soon..Phuket's trip from 4th to 8th July, Sheng Zheng, Macau and Shang Hai trip from 13th to 18th July..July is gonna be real packed with all the camps coming up soon:D

I really regretted not going to Europe with my sister and her boyfriend! The photos they took of the place are really fantastic...or i would say magical..makes me think of fairytales...haha...and the song 'so close'..hmm..I'm planning to go to Europe in December =D Anyone interested? I think 2 weeks should be around 4k++ bah..

Current obsession: Prison Break..won't my mommy be so proud of me

The Freshmaker

2009-05-23T00:48:00.003+08:00

Mentos Grape!! It used to be one of my favourites, ranking just behind fruittips and Cadbury chocolate mint. =) However, suddenly one day after a long time of not eating Mentos grape, this stick of mentos suddenly seems to be too sweet for my liking...Haha...I never thought I could have changed this much..in other ways as well..

Haha..This is a really lousy drawing of mentos. You can see that its abit improportionate..its not the sweet fault..its my fault..Colouring this mentos is fun! Purple purple purple purple purple...

Car key

2009-05-05T17:36:00.002+08:00

First pen drawing!! I think its quite nice..haha...lucky the car key is not that colourful! Just silver and black.

Haha..my dad gave me this car key after i passed my driving test in 1st of Feb! Actually its an extra car key to his own car, not a key to my own car...but still, its the first key to responsibility. No, its the second, the house key is the first. Hmm..haha..anyway, i scratched my dad's car at the multistorey carpark 2 weeks later=( but he says its okay..so i guess lets leave it at that..

Something embarrassing happened at work last week. I was in office and sometimes i will listen to music through my earphones plugged to my laptop. Normally, the volume needs only to be 25 if i'm listening to my earphones for it to be loud enough. However, there's this one time that when i put on my earphones, and I played the music and volume 25 was not loud enough. ( I was listening to 唯一 by the way) I put it to volume 100 on my laptop till which i felt was then just now then started doing my work. (I have a nagging feeling that this is all too strange) When the music came to its chorus, suddenly my friend opposite me said: "aiyo, why so loud?". Its only then when i looked up that I realised everyone was looking at me! Haha...and it took only a second to hit home for me to look down to realised that my earphones are not plugged in to my laptop! I was wearing an unplugged earphones.zzz...I have to apologize to them...so humiliating...zzz..

Ski

2009-04-24T20:46:00.003+08:00

A very fast sketch...one of the easiest so far i think..just need to highlight the contrast between Ski and the surroundings to bring out the white in her. Initially, I drew her muzzle to be too long so she looks more like a wolf.

Ski is a japanese spitz(is this the correct spelling?) She's cute when she's not annoying me and quite pretty.

Special Request II

2009-04-09T22:27:00.000+08:00

My mum's friend's daughter. Dont know her personally but I know her mum and she requested me to draw..oh well..The photo looks prettier than the picture.maybe its because its black and white and i can't bring out the blusher..hmm..

Anyone knows how to gloss the hair? and make it nicer? I mean in drawing...

Lee Kuan Yew

2009-04-09T21:58:00.000+08:00

The backgound of this blog now is my idol, MM Lee!! Haha...I'm not a PAP-fanatic or anything but I think compared to the other politicians out there, he is the best yet so far. To me, he is like the Father of Singapore. Without him, we wouldn't have come to where we are today. Haha..I'm starting to sound like a communist here, but thats how it is. Well, a great businessman makes a great politician and its the economy that builds us up.

Dad told me that I should draw someone prominent. Haha..and he comes straight to my mind! This picture came from a book cover(I forgot the title..there's supposed to be the title across the head) Its really fun to draw him, as in his wrinkles and everything. And this is the first time I drew the side-view of a person. If you ask me, I think its still abit skewed. But it was worse initially =S...This is the first picture that ?I drew which I did not use smudging...and I think its better this way..much easier for the wrinkles to show. I only use smudging for his blazer to give it a special toner effect..haha..The hair was fun to draw too!!

Been really really busy lately...zz...just came back from closing a case!! Have one more comfirmed appointment this weekend..haha..I really want to spend some quality time drawing..hmm...if this sunday, there's no appointment, then i will..haha..

Thanks alot Didi!! Thank you for helping me do up the layout of this blog. I really appreciated it!!

2009-04-05T23:55:00.000+08:00

One of my best pictures till now if i might say...this time , the contrast is better..actually i added some contrast to the picture itself..This is lao li...old lee.. Pa's friend..haha...

I like drawing the white hair especially=)

2009-04-04T22:06:00.000+08:00

My not-so-look-like elder sister and my future brother-in-law..note that i use the "mian bao zao ren" face as a template for my sister.
I didn't draw my younger sister...haha...

2009-03-30T23:28:00.000+08:00

My dad and mum:)

My dad and my mum are drawn from different photos. This is why you will see a constrast in their skin colour where my mum is darker and my dad's lighter. I realise here that constrast is the key. The more the contrast, the easier to potray the 3-D effect.
Anyway, my dad is balding and he's winking..haha...

2009-03-27T23:21:00.000+08:00

My first drawing..okay..one of my first which i want to post online. I think I did this last November nearing my ORD day. I started with my grandfather first. A rough sketch of his face first if i remembered correctly. I only added in my face after his. It was fun drawing his face with wrinkles. My own drawing however did not really resemble me. Its kind of skewed but I'm too lazy to change it. Remember this is one of my first drawing and there's alot of amatuer mistake.

1. I only realised this like months later. I should not smudge my lines! By doing so, I am trying to make it look like a photo which it can never be! I should hust keep the pencil lines clear so that it will be clear that it is a drawing of a photo.

2. I did not correct my drawing while I drew. I just keep drawing. And by the time i realised it, it was too late. Next time, I should check back every 2 minutes or so and make any changes there and then. Remember, everyone makes mistakes!!

The reason i drew this photo was because I missed him.I know it sounds corny. This is the last photo of he and me together. He died while I was in OCS, and I can only attend his last day of funeral because there is a stupid rule in OCS that we can only attend funerals of immediate family.

A short story about my grandfather before i forget.(I have poor memory.soon i will forget everything) I already forgotten when he was borned and at what age he died..I think around 70plus?

He used to own a sugarcane plantation when my mum was little. Then, he got rheumatism or some kind of sickness on his leg, my mum says his legs become weak. The plantation was not tended to and it died slowly. My mum said it was then that my grandparents started quarreling=( My mum says could be that my grandmother lloks down on my grandfather for not able to earn a keep for the family. Then they opened a grocery shop.

Their quarrelings got worse. I only remembered that my grandparents did not live together when I was 4. My grandmother stayed with my second uncle while my grandfather stayed with us. He have difficulty moving around the house and always use a walking apparatus.(Big 4 legged walking stick) I was very little then, primary school, but I must have made hell for him.I do not know why but I do not really like him in the past. =(

1. Sometimes I will hide his walking stick while he is sleeping so that he can't move around.

2. He loves to watch WWE and Days of Our Lives. But I always thought he likes to watch them because of the girls. I liked cartoons. I always always steal and hide the remote control from him so that I can watch my cartoons. Even if i am not watching, I did not let him watch too. I think I'm very evil.

3. I always hit him. sorry ah gong..

4. Lots more evil stuff which i forgotten

I only realised that I was an idiot when I was in primary 6. However, my grandfather has already moved away to stay with my other relatives. Too late to do much. He got a stroke and then he was wheel-chair bound. well, everytime i visit him, i become very nice though. Cuz I feel that he is really impt to me and i really owe him alot.

Then my grandmother passed away when I was in secondary school. At first, my uncles and aunties did not tell him. However, I think he sensed something wrong and asked my uncle about it. He came on the 3rd day of the funeral in his wheelchair. He was already very thin and frail-looking. He just sat there and cried and it really broke my heart. He had not talked nor talked to my grandmother for almost 10 years. I always thought that they do not have any love left between them and they did not divorce because its not their tradition to do so and they already got so many kids together. I guessed they quarreled because they still love each other. After all those years and its when my granfmother died before realisation hit my grandfather that he still loves her alot. He just sat there crying for about an hour before we pushed him back...After that, he hardly spoke and he just became weaker..and he passed away like 3 years later..my last grandparent then..

2009-03-27T00:01:00.000+08:00

Once, there were an old monk and a young monk walking miles to another temple. They passed by a river and there was a maiden there. She asked the monks whether they can carry her across the river. The old monk agrees straightaway and carried the maiden across.
The young monk was very bothered by the actions of the old monk. He feels that 'nan nui shou shou bu qing'(my han yu ping ying correct?). Men should keep a distance from women. And he kept this in his heart for the next 5 hours till he could not hold it anymore.He asked the old monk:"I always thought that nan nui shou shou bu qing. Why did you carry the maiden across the river just now."

The old monk replied: " I only carried the maiden for 2 minutes, why are you carrying the maiden on your shoulders for 5 hours?"

The question is: Are you the young monk?

2009-03-26T23:10:00.000+08:00

Hey ya!Haha..here i am writing my first post makes me feel kinda retarded. There's a number of factors which results me to creating a blog of my own:
1. The great Cheraik who recently created a blog too. Haha..i can never fanthom Cheraik reading blogs. Now, he have a blog of his own. (Very deep stuff indeed, and a tad too serious..haha..I'm kidding cheraik) People really do change. I'm afraid that if I dont blog about my life now. There won't be anything for me to look back to. (Or for the historian to write about me=P)
2. I've been through this ...training about what you think can lead to what you feel which will lead to what you do and then lead to what you get. I know this is kind of simple yet complicated. The trainer mentioned that if you write down what are your passions/goals and commit yourself to it. You will succeed. I really do have my doubts there, but what the heck..trying won't kill.

My 5 goals:
1. To be loved by everyone I loved (I know it sounds really gay. So please don't comment about it.)
2.To be a millionaire by the time when I'm 27. ( Assets-wise.Its possible...lets see now..I will be FC for the next 3 years, then be promoted to associate manager by 24. When i graduate, I will have half a million. By 26, open my own agency. Plus stocks....)
3.To be a world renowned artist? ( Haha..oh well..trying doesn't kills. I defined world-renowned when this blog have reached 5 millions views. I've just decided when i'm writing this point to make it into a sketching blog! And hence goes the name too)
4.Have my first kid at at 28!( 3 in total)

Well, my ultimate aim is to retire when I am 50 into a life of peace at a summer house in Australia.=P

Haha...anyway, the course consists quite a bit of swearing. About letting all that is bothering you all out so that it will not affect what you do in the future. For example, Mr A has been bullied by Mr B when he was primary 5. However, Mr A doesn't retaliate and keep it all inside. Since then, subconciously, he have this baggage with him, like a metal ball chain to his feet.Whatever Mr A does, he will not feel happy as he always have to prove to Mr B that he is not weak.( Refering to subconciously here) You get what i mean here?

Haha..anyway, the trainer got some of us up the stage to tell the rest of us about their baggage(someone who did them wrong) , if they have any. Well, a few of us went up the stage. And some stories were quite sad. Now this is the funny part, at the end of each story, the trainer wants us to help that person to 'take away' their baggage. So, the trainer got everyone of us to shout this "Name of baggage, we have a message to send you...F*** Y**!!!" It was seiously hilarious at that time. I don't know whether this method works but i hope it does for those who went onstage...