SOLD

SOLD TO A MR DESPARIL.

Will be personally delivered in December (I’ll be migrating south by 1st December 2006. Confirm! Des, I left the frame without hooks so you can choose to hv it horizontal or vertical. Sorry for the poor photo quality, used the phone - camera takdak, tuan dia mintak balik)

Can’t believe am actually going back to the city.

Things am not looking forward to:
- Traffic (at least when there’s a grid lock on the bridge, I can ogle at the huge Aussies fixing the bridge cables or just stare out at the sea)
- Exorbitant parking fees
- Public transportation ( have not used it for the last 7 years)
- How everything just bleeding cost more

Things am looking forward to:
………err...can someone help me here..?


Things am not going to miss:
- Ah Beng Central
- People who insist on speaking Hokkien to me and look at me funny when I reply in English or Malay AND expect an explanation ( because my total vocab of the dialect is 25 max, lah people!!)
- Girls who find no issue in flashing their hairy armpits and butt cracks in public
- Managers who do not know the difference between “bottom line” & “bottle neck”

Things am going to miss:
- Free parking
- The food
- The food
- The food
- The food

I’ve been given an early release due to some bull crap “sensitivity” issue between my former employer and my future employer (but I’m not complaining).
So what does one do when one is leaving the island and has 4 weeks to kill?

Go on a makan spree, what else?

The list so far:

1. Mee Goreng Mamak Hameed PATA
2. Ikan Bawal Goreng Kg Tok Kangar
3. Green House’s Sticky Date Puding on Muntri St.
4. Che Ros’ Mee Udang at Teluk Kumbar
5. Sunday Brunch at the E&O’s Sarkies
6. Kelawei’s Kari Kepala Ikan
7. Nasi Kandar Hameediah
8. Briyani at that place next to the spice merchant in Little India (can’t recall the restaurant’s name now)

I’m being a tad too ambituous there maybe, so will see how many I can tick off the list after 2 weeks before I add on more to it. Anyone fancy being my makan partner just give me a buzz, stuffing my face alone is not as satisfying :)

Illustration Friday - Quiet

Quiet lines over chaos..

Untitled

Image on cracked paint.




Looking for the silver lining.

Illustration Friday - Capture(d)

Argh... this may just be my last attempt at portraits. The angle and the proportion was all wonky. Kids are always a tough one to do, mine more often than not turns out looking like a midget.



Didn't do her justice at all..sorry Trisya!

Sea Foam

I am enthralled by colors. An understatement by the looks of what I’ve churned up in the past months. Strangely I prefer muted and neutral tones for my clothes and home.
As a child I had a strange concept that colors has gender (this is before I learned years later as an adult the concept of gender in some languages as in the French).
I have forgotten all about it until recently when I started to paint again and I am deconstructing hues more regularly.
Not only colors had sex they were also paired:

red (f) – blue (m)
yellow (f) – green (m)
orange (f) – brown (m)
white (f) – black (m)
gold (f) – silver (m)
dusky rose (f) – turquoise (m)
etc..etc..


and get this;
*purple can be both male and female depending on which color it is paired with,

ie: purple (f) – brown (m)
purple (m) – fuschia (f)


now, the top list of colors from red to gold were the primary colors to me, their original pairs are as listed above, if any of the colors are paired with other colors, they are fine but they are simply not in it’s original pair. The rest of the other multi tiered colors are of course can be paired with any of the colors in their category.
loony eh?

these gender placements does not mean that a certain color can only be on man/woman depending on the order of that I had placed it. It does not mean that a girl should wear red/yellow/orange/white etc. It is not where the colors should be but the color itself is male/female. To me they were like some sort of a living being.

Only as I got older that I discovered the categorization of warm and cold colors, which I guess made more sense.

What brought about to this mindless rambling? I’ve been doing a bit of online research on Marrakesh. :-) If there is one place on earth that I must visit in my lifetime, it’s Morroco. Most definitely.


* this was when I was 6 or 7 okay – I had no idea what bi/homosexuality is at that time

Illustration Friday - Opposites

I messed up the right side. blergh..

Huh?

I pass this sign everyday to get to my cube, I can always just ask one of the engineers or technical people in blue smocks (they are very friendly when you show interest in their work) what’s it for or means.
Nah...I'd rather let it be and let my imagination run wild with it.