My friend Kamal, the author of Why Must Visit Malaysia, is looking for bloggers from Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and other South East Asia countries to blog about their countries.

The following blogs are interlinked with each other and up for grab by interested bloggers. 100% of revenue from each blog goes to the bloggers themselves. He won’t take any cut from there. The reason he is doing this because he would like to attract more traffic. He has been blogging for 6 months for Why Must Visit Malaysia and the revenue is increasing day by day. He has reserved the following blogs under his blog network:

http://whymustvisitthailand.blogspot.com
http://whymustvisitsingapore.blogspot.com/
http://whymustvisitindonesia.blogspot.com
http://whymustvisitvietnam.blogspot.com/
http://whymustvisitlaos.blogspot.com
http://whymustvisitcambodia.blogspot.com

If you’re interested, please email him at: kzainul at gmail dot com.

Who Doesn’t Love Her by Pati Cabana

I am so thrilled to see the illustration of me done by Pati Cabana! I look so cute! Thanks Pati! Pati was actually surprised to see the real me despite my using Norah as my icon. She posted this illo for the Monday Artday challenge to draw her favourite artists and I am honoured to be one of them!

Pati or Patricia, is an Art & Design Professor and also an artist and freelance designer. Do check out her great works >here<!

Gustav Klimt is one of my most favorite artists and I think that his works were incredibly beautiful despite the fact that they were highly controversial. I was just browsing the Internet searching for more information about him and was very surprised to learn that the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I that he drew back in 1907 was sold for some $135 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting! How I wish to put my hands on the real painting that’s worth a fortune! Ah well, maybe in my dream I could do that. I definitely do not have the wealth to own such great piece or pieces by Klimt but I would love to buy his prints. So I wandered further to search for sites that sell just that. The results was even better, I found a site, OverstockArt.com, which offers hand painted art reproductions of Klimt Paintings! I am pretty amazed that the paintings look just like the original done by Klimt and have been carefully recreated detail-by-detail, color-by-color to near perfection. They have a collection of oil paintings that include the Kiss, Fulfillment, Expectations, Adelle Bloch-Bauer I, Baby (Cradle), Mother and Child, Farm Garden with Sunflowers and Malcesine on Lake Garda.

Uh-oh, I won’t be dreaming anymore!