Tribute to Professor Wan Burhanuddin

Condolences to Prof Wan Burhanuddin, who will forever remembered. This blog is a project initiated by him and i  am glad that i made this blog alive.

urban sketch chapter : Modern architecture & Chinese architecture

It is fun when today we try to treat urban sketch as classes with chapters. The theme for today is urban context. We planned to cover 2 chapter which are (i) modern architecture (ii) chinese architecture. Georgetown is stucked and jammed with vehicles today. Fortunately, we managed to find a good parking lot.The weather today is scorching hot. My skin was tanned today due to the hot weather, but it was really a good experience. Was hoping to sketch more, but i guess quality is better than quality.

this is chunkeat. Sketching on the little gate of the St.George church, opposite of the courthouse, facing the bank negara and the AIA building. 

i challenged myself on drawing the bank negara too, and the AIA building. Was trying to speed sketch, but i got the perspective wrong here :( but practice makes perfect. Will practice more to polish up. Sketched and coloured on the spot. 

This is the roof of one of the most famous chinese temple in Penang, Malaysia - the temple of God of Prosperity. It is located at King Street. Didnt have the courage to draw the whole temple yet. Only manage to captured the roof. The intricate details are beautiful workmanship. For me, it is very hard to illustrate, what more to construct the real thing. 

happy new year

everytime of this year, its time to check how many goals had been met and what are the new resolutions.

Happy New Year.

Random walk to georgetown : 31 Dec,2010

Twas a good day walking to georgetown with chun keat. Strolling a town, looking at things at tourists perspective will help us discover things that we might overlook as locals. Love how locality shaped the town itself, making it different from other town. It is always blissful to be purely happy in the consumptions of food and sights. In my case, boundless of paper, pens and watercolour. Mistakes makes things beautiful, that is the drive that keep me sketching.

lonely christmas indulgence

To be honest, for 24 years so far. This is my first lonely christmas. My family has gone back to kuching and travelled all the way to sibu for a wedding reception after being in Penang for 1 week. Chun keat has gone back to Kangar for another wedding reception also. It was a happening weekend with church retreat and all the people i have met during december. December is definitely the best month of the year because i get to rest. I really meant rest this time, lots of sleep, spending quality time with family and being at home. This time round, i have not spend much time on friends in kuching because i am simply too tired to meet up and socialise after a tiresome semester of studio. Sorry about that. Plus, did i mention i torn my knee muscle?

After a compact period of december, when everyone goes back to their own home. I am here, home alone for christmas. It wasnt that bad, just a lil homesick and lazy. Spend time doing nothing, lying around and then in the afternoon, did something i consider luxurious to entertain myself-making Note Pocket. It can be carried along and used to make gift cards whenever i feel like giving thanks or even doodle some sketch at a non-specific location. Credits goes to the craft channel which i browse through youtube earlier.

To create a luxurious ambience, i even use my batik clothes as table clothes while working.

i dont know but sometimes narcissism is a need to make us feel good.

the close up. I name it because personally i like to

express through notes and cards.

There is a pocket for paper refill in case i run out of paper, there is an emergency

outlet ;o)

the inside of the Note Pocket. Have not made any mini cards yet.

Just inserted blank paper.

These are the things that made me happy (not studio).

Am looking forward to the ending and starting of another year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

bliss

To me, the most blissful thing is to finish all architecture studio work and have a good rest. In this case, thesis industrial viva. After it ended, Chunkeat and i treated ourselves with KFC voucher in one of the colonial style KFC, having a simple meal and do some people watching *hehehe*.

Felt so blissful when i get to escape like this. Not very blissful when i have to get back to reality with tonnes of work. Not blissful when deadline is catching up.

Sketched this after my meal. There is pretty plant outside the window. The outlet is clean and comfortable. i like kids shrieking and chatting. They make the place so much livelier and happier. They talked with a light mood, obviously very excited to have their kfc meal. I remember i was like that when i was young. Those good old days.

种子发芽了！

9月17日，非常纳闷，就随意种下了几颗种子：绿豆，红豆，木瓜中子。用了一个塑料罐子，放了几片facial棉花。每天都浇水，等待。有时，我好调皮，把喝不完的茶倒了进去。等了大约6天，种子慢慢发芽，到了第七天才生出第一双叶子。我好开心。原来这小小的成长也是个奇迹。而小小的奇迹是我每天的加油站。有了小小的奇迹，我会更加为生活加油。

种子的生命力很顽强。

我呢？是时候加油了！！！