It's springtime!

This past Monday's photo shoot at Singapore's year old horticulture park reminded me that the Lentern season has arrived. Lent means spring and also because of the lengthening of days which is common to springtime.

In countries with the four seasons, winter slowly dies to give way to a new blossoming of life. A wonderful yearly reminder of God's great love for His Creation. The colour code in Church is purple and for many signifies a time for a change of heart. But in order for inner transformation to occur, I must experience first the beauty, majesty and greatness of my Creator.

This period of 40 days trains to sharpen my skills in being faithful in the little things. Only in mastering these, will I be able to move to slightly bigger things. More images from Hortpark in http://imaginativedarkroom.blogspot.com/.

Hello Mac!

I dread the day...

My five year old 12" Powerbook has been showing signs of slowing down, especially when doing presentations and video work. So it's time to say... "Enjoy yourself in the hands of my mom." :O) For basic word documenting, vector drawing and of course internet surfing, it's still a breeze!

Presenting my new Macbook 2.4Ghz's opening sequence. (It looks sooo much better on the Mac screen!) It'll be generally used for the youth formation programme and my work at the Singapore Pastoral Institute. God bless the hands using it!

No can do, LA!

After 2 months of work on Berrylite, not my client, but my client's landlord objected violently to the designs. The above image is not the latest design layout. See the latest here. http://imaginativeworkshop.blogspot.com/ We were just a minute away from hitting the print button for the wall stickers! Parkway Parade's reason? Too kiddish for the premium looking Basement 1 setting. Shameless.

Now I know why all the stores at Parkway look similar... There's no room there to be creative! :O) So much for bringing a little of Disneyland into Singapore!

Yolo!

I started on an art piece a few days back for a competition - I think my last "drawing" contest I took part in was when I was eight! Ohhh, those zoo days were quite something to remember! :O)

This one's run by a few famous illustrator artists in Singapore and a design house. I might be a little too old for this (age group I'm in is "13 and above"). But I really want to get back at illustrating, and just having the freedom to pick a pencil and draw. The contest which YOU can take part too is on http://www.keepthedreamalive.yolo.sg/ The date has been postponed to 31 March, 2009. So get your crayons, paints and whatever and spill some ink!

Ta-ta Sabah

This was the last image I saw of Sabah. This rare view of Mount Kinabalu was from the brand spanking new international airport. Like Fujisan, the mount seldom shows up during this time of day. Either blocked by mist and clouds, or by bad weather.


The airport itself was a marvel! Since I arrived when it was already night, I couldn't appreciate the architecture. If you were thinking aeroplane - you got it right! ;p

Eyes opened, friendships forged. Thank you, Creator.

Nian Nian You Yu

The Asrama at Nabawan has a fairly large pond breeding tilapias. My 2nd day there was harvest time. The whole idea was to get the boys to sweep the pond like a human crawler with a really long net. They would maneuver up and down the pond several times.

The final harvest was small that morning. 1) It was probably too early in the morning (harvesting usually done late noon), and 2) The girls were so excited that they were screaming their lungs and that probably frightened away the tilapias. What an experience! :O)