How Do They Do It

Sometimes you come across certain articles online that just seem to understand what life is about. All the ups, downs, in betweens that have made your life what it is has somehow been miraculously written out in an article by someone you have never met. Then you think perhaps your life is just not that unique after all. Perhaps is it that the article is so generalised that it can mean anything to anyone?

However, reading through the articles, I wonder how much the writer has gone through in life to have written such a number of posts and how old the writer must be. Maybe their lives were compacted; made interesting in a short span of time so that they could write about it for the rest of the world to read even though we wouldn't consider them to have really "lived through the ages".

Earrings

Sometimes I wonder if I had pierced my ears, what amount of earrings and the kinds of earrings I would have amassed.

I know the answer would have been "a lot" along with, "lost a lot as well". Although I wonder what kinds I would have got? I see cartoon characters, food-related ones, maybe a few shiny ones for wedfing dinners, but no long dangling things for some reason.

However, just the thought of earrings gives me a horrible feeling.

Week Twenty Five: Hands

These are supposed to be my hands. They look fat enough in most parts. The pencil was the hardest thing to draw I think. Hahaha

Week Twenty Four: Personified Animal

This was definitely "inspired" by someone we nicknamed panda and with the horrible ill-fitting shoes that she wears. Not forgetting the weird headgear she had in the "halloween" photo. I would be looking very sad as well. 

Week Twenty Three: Imaginary

Definitely imaginary. Hopefully a dream come true someday. 

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....