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Best Blog Award
Mama Mia awarded me with Best Blog award! Yay! Thank you for such recognition, Mama Mia!
Simple Rules to accept the award:
– Post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his/her blog link.
– Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you have recently discovered and think are great!Here are 15 blogs, in no particular order, that I would like to pass this award to:
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Do you have stories to tell? *
OneRedFlower Press, an imprint of Oyez!Books, is proud to host its very first picture book writing/illustrating contest. Their aim is to encourage authors and illustrators to tell Malaysian stories for Malaysian children.They are looking for:
* Original stories set in Malaysia, with Malaysian characters, and that reference and reflect Malaysian life and culture.
* Authors and illustrators who are familiar with and love picture books, and who wish to tell stories in this format.Prize:
* Three winners will be selected for publication by OneRedFlower Press.
* The entries in all three categories will be judged collectively.
* The judges will wish to make an unbiased decision on all the entries, so please ensure that only the story title is printed on the story/illustrations.
* The closing date for all entries is 30 April 2010.
* The winners will be announced in July 2010.More information about the contest can be found at OneRedFlower‘s website and there’s a form to download.
I wanted to join the contest but unfortunately I’m not eligible. But good news is I will be the first writer/illustrator to be published by them. Haha. So excited. The book will be “My Mother’s Garden” book.
Anyway, as I haven’t updated this blog with drawings, here’s one recently done on my newly bought sketch book. Made it a journal-like.
I’m trying my hands on nature drawings. I remember Linda Tan wants to see me illustrate tree, so here’s a tree bark.
I already have about 10 quick illustrations with relevant notes in this sketch-book and will upload all in a form of flip book come middle of December. Or maybe earlier.
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* Linky love, anyone?
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FUNdamental @ KLPAC *
Went to visit the FUNdamental Art Exhibition at KLPAC today with my son, two nephews and blogger buddy, Yoon See.
I haven’t been to KLPAC before and the usual happened; I got lost. I took the first U-turn and later took a first turn to the left but I ended up at a school near Jalan Kovil Ulu. I didn’t see any building that could be KLPAC so I made a turn back to Balai Polis Sentul, then made a U-turn and started again. This time I ended up at Jalan Cempedak. Knowing that that could not be it, I made another turn back to Balai Polis Sentul and again, made a U-turn to start over. This time I ended up at Sekolah Rendah kebangsaan Sentul Utama! I nearly gave up and called Yoon See. With the help of Yoon See, a staff of KLPAC gave me the direction via handphone.
It was the 2nd U-turn actually.
I viewed the online map first hand before leaving home and I did not print it as I thought I could remember the map perfectly in my mind. Now I can’t really count on my 40 year-old memory, can I? Lol. I finally reached there safely after making three trips passing the Balai Polis Sentul; like the Malay saying, “Pusing pusing tang tu”*. (*Translation: Going round and round and getting nowhere)
I was amazed upon entering the beautiful park; reminds me of the ‘Emma’ movie’s beautiful garden setting. Truly a breath of fresh air getting down from the car.
The KLPAC main building is a simple but sophisticated glass building which has climbing plants to greet us.
Upon entering the building, we saw Yoon See waving at us and later went to inner side of the foyer to see the FUNdamental Exhibition.
The exhibition was what the title describes in the first three capital letters – FUN! It was truly fun to see whimsical children’s art by the artist, Numpueng. Most of her works are made up of fundamental shapes. The fun shapes aim to convey a mood of happiness and pleasure and it is evident when my son truly admires all her paintings.
This is Numpueng’s 3rd exhibition, the first was held back in 2006 while the 2nd was in 2008. The current exhibition features 31 acrylic on canvas works by her as well as two from her previous exhibitions, priced at between RM300 and RM1500 a piece. The exhibition runs until Dec 6 and may be viewed from 10am to 6.30pm daily.
Numpueng or her real name Umpaiwan Chevitanondra first began painting to decorate the walls of her now six-year-old son’s room. Numpueng is married to a local artist, Victor Chin.
My son (middle) admiring the paintings with his cousins.
Yoon See busy snapping away pictures
Now, if you are planning to go, don’t forget to print out the LOCATION MAP or else you’ll end up at Jalan Kovil Ulu or Jalan Chempedak like me. Or maybe not.
After the exhibition, we chatted and enjoyed the pretty view.
My son loves the wire-mesh furniture
Beautiful setting