a little bit of everything // 2nd to 7th may 2011, seminyak, bali

walking around bali, we saw these banana leaf trays of flowers and little samplings of food pretty much everywhere. they are offerings made by the balinese twice a day.

i was fascinated with the variety of colours, food and flowers and the tiny portions reminded me of finger food served at cocktail receptions. it seemed to me like each square tray was a summary or a sample selection of whatever was cooking in the kitchen or fresh in the garden that day and perhaps quite telling of the family or person who had prepared that offering.

moss // 7th may 2011, ngurah rai international airport

once upon a youngerthattime, i went on a trip to bogor, indonesia, as a pseudo-scientist to learn more about mosses, lichens and liverworts. seeing these growing on a statue at the airport in bali during a recent holiday reminded me of that trip to bogor.

from one little red dot to the big red dot (part two)

jiayou japan!!

from one little red dot to the big red dot

these are some drawings i did in my sketch book while preparing photographs and write-ups i am contributing to a fund raising event that my friend (and moms) chris yap is organising to bring together various artists and art forms in our community for a good cause.

i hope the sun will rise again after the waves subside. jiayou japan!

(please pardon my pirated hokusai + that japanese wave pattern i was trying to recall quite unsuccessfully...that would be my wandering mind wondering about how waves have been quite a recurring feature of their art history. i hope we will all still be able to find the ocean and its waves beautiful again someday.)

undue importance (work-in-progress//a series begins)

what happens when we accord something ordinary with undue importance?

light sparkling on the water surface,

a stray plastic bag aglow with the setting sun,

and perfectly embedded leds signalling the arrival of the train.

these are things we never quite pay attention to in our daily walks but yet are the very bits and pieces that form our everyday memories.

i begin to see in this series the unobvious things i am increasingly drawn to when i walk about with my camera.

droplets 10:11pm, 3:11pm + the day after

10:11pm, 3:11pm 26th jan 2011.


retraced the day after - 9:13am, 2:13am 27th jan 2011.

(think i overestimated myself when i said that i was getting used to you being away.)

may time fly faster! for now...

meanwhile, drawing is definitely therapeutic. :]

drawings//colouring by 姑姐 and yw

fish and duck by 姑姐.


duck and fish by yw.


duck and chicken by 姑姐.


goose draft by 姑姐.


goose by 姑姐.


happy crab by yw.


tree when troubled. 5+ am 3rd june 2009.


virus friends when suspected to have been exposed to H1N1. 25th june 2009.




fishes for 姑姐 to colour. drawn in the dark while staying over in SGH. 16th oct 2010. colouring completed by 姑姐 at home on 6th nov 2010.



my auntie drew for me and taught me to draw when i was a kiddo. i remember it was mostly fishes in various forms and often in great detail, based on pictures she saw in magazines or the fish we happened to be eating for dinner that day. i can't find any of those earlier drawings but a few years back i thought to start my aunt drawing again and it became a bit of a back and forth dialogue between us.

she was hospitalised recently. i didn't really know how to make her feel better and was feeling quite down myself but just instinctively brought this sketchbook we've been using along to the hospital when i stayed over with her and drew in the dark when it was impossible to sleep.