Week Twenty Two: Family Portrait

A really basic drawing of the family, including the dogs. 

Week Twenty One: Bird

I love owls because they can look so cute, yet look so sarcastic as well. Haha

Week Twenty: Bug

My colour pencils are dry and so this bug is coloured with crayons, which doesn't cover well on normal paper. Anyway, my favourite bug is actually the car the looks like one of these ladybugs. 

Week Nineteen: Eyes

I tried drawing human eyes, but I think these cat eyes suited the shape much better. I love black cats with green eyes, and a pink nose would be a bonus addition. 

Week Eighteen: Candyland

Candyland of cupcake houses, candy cane street lamps, lollipop postboxes, cotton candy trees, mint chocolate chip ice-cream mountains, gumdrop-lined waffle streets. Too sweet to live in. 

Halfway To Joining The Yakuza

The problems with blunt knives. Well it was deep and I think it kinda hit bone. Could not stop the bleeding for a an hour till I got mom to come with the special miracle oil we have at home. Everyone is grossed out, and probably wonders if I do not feel pain. Guess it is about mind over matter. What mattered more was stopping the bleed rather than the pain. Damn knife!

Week Seventeen: Favourite Animal

My favourite land-dwelling animal, the elephant. This one is a little out of proportion I think. 

Week Sixteen: Music

Because I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass... Haha

Week Fifteen: Two

Another one that gave me a headache, but I am quite happy with my final drawing. "2" and "Two" together and with two colours. Wonder how 3 would have turned out....

Week Fourteen: Brand New

How do you draw "brand new"? The question had bugged me for more than a week and I finally thought about the ribbon-cutting ceremony as something usually associated with brand new things. 

Week Thirteen: Framed

Did not know what to frame, and I could not draw a nice frame to save my life. So after finding this cute quote by my favourite blue puppet, Cookie Monster, an idea finally popped up in mind. Got to work on the lettering for sure. 

R.I.P. Mr Lee

He created a modern city from a filthy island and that is what I appreciate most about what he has done in his lifetime. No matter what people might say about his tactics about getting things done, it has been done. 

“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn’t be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn’t be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters – who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”

Appreciate the fact that we can travel far and wide, have drinkable water on tap no matter how high we live, no chewing gum stuck to out behinds, have cool public restrooms, yet still have our flora and fauna to enjoy. 

“Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.”

May he rest in peace. 

Week Twelve: Wings

"Mama told me not to waste my life,
She said spread your wings my little butterfly
Don't let what they say keep you up at night
And they can't detain you
'Cause wings are made to fly...."

Week Eleven: Favourite Place

Mom said I should just draw a building with glass doors and the word "supermarket" on it. I thought about it and I felt I preferred a farmers' market and decided to try and draw one. My market is rather empty though, the stall holders are still setting up. 

Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover

"Everyone will go through some hard times at some point. Life isn't easy. Just something to think about. Did you know the people that are the strongest are usually the most sensitive? Did you know the people who exhibit the most kindness are the first to get mistreated? Did you know the ones who take care of others all the time are usually the ones who need it the most? Did you know the three hardest things to say are "I love you", "I'm sorry", and "Please help me"? Sometimes just because a person looks happy, you have to look past their smile to see how much pain they may be in."

If only people know better....

Week Ten: Inspire

One word to describe the inspiration that covers my thirst for knowledge, passion for travel, love for food and the joy of discovery. 

I Thought I Had A Little More Time

Received a really sad message on my phone this morning that informed me of the passing of my former colleague from my hotel internship. Eugenie was working there as one of the two main telephone operators and she was one cool lady who partied with us, and was not shy about anything.

After I completed my internship, she seems to have been dealt a really bad hand when it came to her health. There was also a time where she had two heart attacks and was on the brink of death but managed to fight back.

Recently, she fought cervical cancer and was doing quite good. That is, until recently when it seems that her organs were failing her. Just two days ago, I just asked how she was doing and I received a call from her brother informing me that she was not doing so good, and had been in the hospital for the last three weeks. She had had a stroke and with her failing organs, it sounded quite grave.

I was actually planning to visit her this afternoon and instead was told about her death. I just hope that she can finally rest in peace now.

Goodbye Genie.

Week Nine: Favourite Book

The book that sent my imagination to Japan and actually started my small love affair with books. The way the story was written also kept me so interested that I had to force myself to put it down as I needed to sleep. Oddly enough, I have not read any of Aruthur Golden's other books. 

Week Eight: Your Name

There is something about drawing something about yourself that seems to give me a mental block. The challenge this time was to draw my name, and although writing my name seems easy enough, drawing it was much tougher than I thought. I honestly could not decide on how to draw my name and that is probably because I am just as complicated as the number of ideas I had. The final results already show that there is no consistency in the style or fonts, but it probably indicates I am a little loopy. 

Week Seven: Something You Love

I love travelling. I love flying but I dislike the turbulence. I would love to learn to fly a plane and a helicopter. I would love to travel the world. So here is a rather complete picture of something I love and a lot of it's components, which includes a (attempted) Boeing 747.

This reminds me that I need to renew my passport!