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Sleeping at the balcony
One of the paintings I did for the Cat Art Festival at Art Malaysia. I plan to draw more acrylic-on-canvas cats. But till I clear my pending works, that will only be a plan.
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Talking is not my forte
Do you ever feel that you have so many things to talk but later it won’t come out when you’re in front of people? Do you feel that you can pour your thoughts better on paper than you speak? Do you feel that your stomach aches when you have to talk to people?
I feel all of the above.
Informally, I can just talk and talk and talk. My friends labeled me as a ‘busybody’, to the extend. But when it comes to formal occasion such as interview or talk session, I suddenly have nothing to say. My mind goes blank and I struggled to retrieve the all the information I have in my head.
Yes, it is that bad.
I was not doing that well on the live talk show last Friday. Before the show begun, I have so much to say. Even during the commercial break. Even when I left the studio to head back home.
I just do not know why in the world I went blank or stutter during the actual show. This is a serious problem. I need to break my ice.
Puan Zakiah Hj ISa (a.k.a Mama Gajah), Pak Yusof Gajah, Dzulfitri Yusop (anchor of Agenda Awani) and yours truly. Discussion was about ‘Literasi Buku Kanak-Kanak di Abad 21, Agenda Awani, Friday 18th June 2010.
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Cat Art Festival
I’ll be exhibiting 5 cat paintings for the Cat Art Festival organised by ArtMalaysia. They are also up for grab if you are interested. All are invited.
This is one of my paintings, acrylic on canvas 12″ x 12″.
My name has been misspelled to Emilia 🙁
click to see larger version for the map
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Moleskine: Somewhere in Trevi
Italy sketch. My moleskine now has 4 more empty pages. Sorry I haven’t post anything lately, been busy clearing works.
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Plagiarised work is not good
Found this from a blog.
Source: Perjalanan 30 Mei | Photography: qberphotography
I went hopping from a page to another trying to find out about this image from a trusted source.
This is the original artwork I made for Aqilah.
Noticed the similarity?
Yes, my work has been plagiarised. It was traced. The blame is on the so-called designer not to newly-wed commissioners. They knew nothing about it.
I have e-mailed the designer and she has replied with an apology of not knowing it was my artwork.
Not knowing whose artwork it was doesn’t gives anybody any rights to just copy. It would be great if my image is used as inspiration. You can do similar artwork but with different character that you created and have a bit of the same composition. I don’t mind. You can have the same dolly business like me. I don’t mind. You can create your own dolly but with same clothing. I don’t mind. But if you traced my artwork, this I mind.
The thing is, some people like what they see and simply ripped it off without having second thoughts.
My terms-of-use and copyright both have been violated. If only she read my terms in the first place. If only she has the respect for another designer’s work. Please, read my terms of use before you want to use any images of mine (except for those images featured in here, that I have credited to their respective owners).
I am very considerate. I have given permission for quite a lot of people to use my artworks as accompanying images to their posts. All I ask was a credit mention to my name and a link back to this blog. And they happily agreed with my terms. As for commercial use, I have included in the terms that you have to seek my consent first. If I say that you have to pay for commercial use, you have to abide. If not, then look elsewhere.
And as for all the dollies, they were sold with a license to use it in their blog or other mediums as agreed in respective corresponding e-mails between them and myself. But as for the copyright, it is still mine.
Anyway, I forgave the designer. But hey, I hope she doesn’t mind me linking her here!
And oh, congrats to the newly-wed couple. You have a very cute dolly there!
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Help me buy a PC
My husband took more than 24 hours to repair my PC! It’s now back from dead but somehow it became slower, you know, like zombie.
It has died twice and I have a strong feeling that it won’t be coming back to life for the 3rd time.
Before that happens, I need to save up to buy a new PC. The thing is, I need your help to be able to do just that. I’m not asking for plain money but asking for commission jobs. Jobs that I take includes:
– Blog header
– Blog makeover
– RSS dolly
– 125px square banner
– LogoPlease e-mail me for quotes. I need full description of what you have in mind for the design before I can give a quote.
I accept local bank transfer as well as PayPal. I also entertain international orders.
Here are my recent jobs done before my PC died:
Pinkle Sweet Treat | Blog makeover (including header)
Baby & Me | Blog Makeover (including header)
Ullfah | Blog header
Two Plus One and More | New Blog
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you can also help by buying my books below:
My Mother’s Garden
My Mother’s Garden or/and Seni & Kraf Bersama Kak Emila.
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You can take up an adspot. Find out more here.
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If you simply want to donate, I very much accept and appreciate it. I have made Paypal button available from my sidebar.
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You can donate me a 2nd hand hard cold PC!! I will be forever indebted to you!
Thank you so much!
Yours truly,
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Crash boom bang
Last week my hard disk where I store all my major works crashed. I haven’t been able to retrieve them as I don’t have a data recovery software. Downloaded some from the internet and from the look of it almost 80% can be retrieved but the problem is I have to buy the software first which is almost USD70! Yeap, USD70 I don’t have, so I just leave it at that.
So to make matter worst, my PC went dead on me yesterday.
I am so PC-less right now and I am writing this on my husband laptop. I only get to use it when he went to the lavatory or make coffee. Or when he sleeps.
And oh, most of my NIKON PICTURES were in the hard disk that crashed including the latest Penang pictures which I plan to make a slide and post it here. The only picture set that is safe is the Italy pictures because I have made a copy of them in this laptop during my trip there.
