meet-ups during the dec hols

din get to meet alot of people this dec holiday as i spent a week of holiday in hong kong and also was busy churning out artworks for the ATPP exhibition

anyway, bought mummy to wild honey

ordered my favourite hangover sandwich for her and she luvs it

xmas tree on her cuppuccino

ordered a chicken pie for myself.... nothing fantastic.... =S

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Food for thoughts with lene

mushroom risotto for her

bacon and broccoli risotto for me...yummy.... but still prefer the one i had in Santorini.... =D

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xmas @ james' place

james was our super steamboat chef.... used 干贝 to boil the stock and prepared super yummy ingredients to go with it.... one of the best home prepared steamboat i had..... =)

xmas present from PTL.... new toy for himself so super enthu in using it to take photo that day.... =P

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P1 teachers of 2012 gathering @ home sweet home after year-end staff high tea

fun game of monopoly deal where i won at the expense of ai mei's bankruptcy... =P

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Countdown to New Year 2013 @ home sweet home

2 of the 3 we finished...

lousy mr ang kongz out even before 1130pm.... the result of being too noisy and too fun-loving... =P

second one to kongz out at 1215am

3rd was ailing

4th was laurice who was super chatting after all the drinks

and the 5 who survived the night.... =)

of which 4 had a game of mahjong to end off the countdown... =)

ATPP exhibition - Siblings' Love

Drew my fingers in a peace sign (letter v) during the 4th lesson of "Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain" lesson and decided to add on to it for the exhibition....roped in the 3As... =) 

Title: Siblings' Love 
 “The hand which held the rest is the smallest of them all… I have aged” 

This is the most emo piece of artwork.... i din expect it to be so emo for me... i was so emo that i had tears in my eyes even when i shared about how emo i was when i was doing this piece of art work with my science department teachers during checked in last week.... 

my 弟弟s 妹妹 have all grown up liao... their hands are no longer the tiny, cute, smooth, squashy ones which i held years ago..... 

anyway, close up of the individual pieces

Angela's
lanky and very smooth hands she has...

Alfred's
the hand which i held the most as i was tasked to fetch him home from kindergarten everyday during my sec sch days.... can't believe that tiny hand of yesteryears has developed into a man's hand liao... so huge and so rough

mine
the smallest of them all with short and plump fingers... =S

Alvin's
even the youngest of the lot has difficulty squeezing his fingers into the view finder.... =S

How i wish this piece of artwork can be counted as 4 pieces of drawing..... wahahaha.... like that then i would have hit the quota for the number of 2D artwork for the exhibition liao oh... =P  

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Other Artwork :

Rainbow Tree

A weekend to Batam with Joyce

accepted joyce's invitation to batam for a massage holiday at only $99 per pax... thought it was a super nua holiday with massage, nuaing by the pool side or coffee place but kenna cheated la.... 

first, we have to meet at vivo at 630am which means i need to wake up at 530am .... =S.... 

then upon arriving in batam at 930am local time, we only managed to check in at 5pm lo.... cos included in the package was a full day city tour.... the tour guide brought us batam 走透透.... we went to kueh lapis shop, polo ralph shop, chocolate shop, dried food shop and some others which i cant really recall.... just remembered we kept boarding and alighting the bus.... i hate city tour... =S

thankfully, the massage was good.... =) .... so good that i gave my massage therapist S$5 tip ... =) 

anyway, we stayed in Pacific Palace Hotel

i wasn't feeling too well so din really explore the place but it's really not bad... at least the $8.50 tim sum buffet we had for dinner was worth it .... =) 

our room

very spacious.... i like.... just dun like double bed.... but also thanks to the double bed.... watching "推理要在晚餐后" was not that scary with joyce sleeping just beside me.... heee

we were bought to the shopping centre next to batam centre terminal to shop for the rest of the whole afternoon before taking the ferry home.... but we ended up slacking at jco donut 

donuts were so yummy that i lugged a dozen home.... heee 

妈咪毕业了!

while most of my friends are attending their princes' and princesses' graduation ceremony or graduation performances, i attended my mummy's graduation.... 

she had spent the last months attending a life-long learning certificate program organised by YAH! Community College for senior citizens....her youngest classmate was 50 years old and her oldest classmate was 83 years old

 and yesterday was the graduation ceremony held at the auditorium @ ITE college east...

妈咪毕业了... =) 

妈咪是班页第一名哦..... 

Mr Yam Ah Mee was one of the guests oh... 

七早八早爬下床的大宝, 三宝和小宝跟从 overnight duty 赶过来的二宝 .....

超开心的。。。。　因为可以去吃饭了。。。。哈哈哈哈

Brunch with zhuan & lene

 met up with zhuan a couple of weeks ago at relish

love this place for its full length glass panels which let in generous amount of light energy but not the heat energy from the sun.... not many customers probably due to its secretive location at level two  of my village @ serangoon gardens 

it's for all to know that their chef is a temperamental chap..... hahaha.... so cute to display it in this manner..... (look under 'cakes')

my breakfast set at 1pm on a Saturday afternoon.... heeee.... love the mushroom, love my life and love meeting up with friends.... =) 

zhuan with her burger

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Then a few weeks later, charlene brought me to wild honey at scotts square

this is like one of the best breakfast set that i have ever had.... not that i been to alot of whole day breakfast place to begin with..... my heart was aching super badly just because i had wasted one portion of it ..... i couldnt stomach all 3 portions on my own due to its gigantic portion..... 

looks pretty and i bet tasted heavenly too.... cos lene, being a small eater, literally forced herself to finish everything up.... including both the toast and both the poached eggs oh... just because it was such a waste to waste such yummy food lo....
 

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Life's really good to be surrounded by wonderful friends (and food) who keep in touch despite being busy with our daily matters.....  

Alvin's Prom

2 years ago, i was the image consultant for Angela for her prom and i think i did a pretty good job at it despite the fact that i cant really be bothered to dress up myself.... =P

and now, it's Alvin's turn.... time flies.... even 蔡小宝 is attending prom liao..... 

You  know the good thing about having super young siblings and they are put under your charge is that i get to enjoy the 有儿初成长 feeling at my age now instead of with my own kids 15 or 20 yrs later... it's really quite a good feeling especially so when they turn out well... =) 

as usual, the norm blazer, pants, shirt and tie combi was not the choice. think it's too much n too exp for a 17 yr old to pull it off well. and it's too wasteful to spend so much on a blazer that can will only be worn once to prom.... can't think of any other occasion where he will need to be in a blazer again.... at least not anytime soon.... 

so a trip to bugis was planned and we managed to put together a cheerful sunshine outfit that's not too over and one that does not burn a big hole in my pocket... =P 

tatatata... presenting my handsome little brother (the one in yellow shirt and brown vest) with his friends... =) 

comparing angela's and alvin's attire... i think i have a fetish for vest and bright coloured shirt lo.... wahahaha... 

PS: Silly boy, you are not alone. i'm forever ur jie jie, ur support for life.... 

Gillman Barracks

Ending off the first half of the Art Teacher Practitioner Program with a visit to Gillman Barracks which is just a stone throw away from our art studio. 

super misty due to the condensation of water vapour on the camera lens

The best part is it's free for all. =) 

One very important point to note is - DON't go on a rainy day. There's no shelter between the numerous exhibition hall. 

In the FOST Gallery

Don't you find the black attachments very familiar???

They are seats found under (olden) HDB blocks

this artwork was inspired by the Singapore National Theatre which was demolished in 1986

Saw Edward Burtynsky's chromogenic colour print of an oil field in California. He's a Canadian photographer and artist who has achieved international recognition for his large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. To me, his work made me thing about the environment which we often take for granted or do not pay much notice too. His work was so awesome that i felt that uploading of my photos of his photos do super injustice to his work lo. You really have to be there, to be standing in front of his work, with a guide next to you to be fully immersed in his work. 

was also introduced to the work of Lucio Fontana 

and Agostino Bonalumi. 

Both wanted more from a flat canvas. So the former made cuts on brightly painted canvas with the reverse black gauzed to create a mysterious sense of illusion and depth while the latter added things behind the canvas to create a form of reliefs. 

Luciano Ventrone's oil paintings is so amazing, you will think that they are photographs until you read the write-up 

yes, this is an oil painting. not a photograph

next up, we have an installation by Donna Ong from Singapore. 

She has beds suspended at different heights and all secured enough to be seated on or slept on. She titled this "And we dream we were birds"

I was thinking.... is she an orphan or a delinquent??? Did some reading and she was neither.... But this installation gave me a very cold feeling... not at all cosy...not at all conducive for daydreaming.... more like a bedroom where people are forced to be in bed at a stated time... 

look carefully oh

 not only is it a leaning tree.... it's a couple leaning tree.... so amazing.... dun know what's the factor that causes the trees to grow in this manner .... dun think the wind speed in singapore can be that powerful right???

Last but not least, there was also a gallery of the Princess Of Polka Dots, Yayoi Kusama

in the day, she works in her art studio, creating pieces after pieces of polka dotted art ...at night, she checks herself into a mental hospital... 

She claims that the vast field of polka dots, or what she called infinity nets, were taken directly out from her hallucinations... and she's well-known for her productivity.... despite the micromanaged intricacy of her work, she still turned them out fast and in bulk


it's amazing and admirable how she harness her hallucinations into something useful, into something managable .... 

her determination and discipline is really something that all of us can learn from...