Horses

I love horses and watching their every movement. Horses are definitely created by God. How do i know? Well, for some creatures like the iguana and monitor lizards and some other creepy crawlies which i still have a little doubt once in a blue moon, the magnificence of the horse, the movement, the sheen, the grace, the mane flying in the wind as it gallops and the gentle, understanding stare of its eyes will prove every critic beyond the shadow of any doubt.





I like to draw the head of horse and yes, i have always wanted to do a horse head in clay. Finally i summoned enough courage and inspiration to embark on my second horse project. It is almost completed. Wait for the pics. Enjoy these pics first ok?

If you, like me, like horses, try this site for a screensaver download of this magnificent creature.

http://www.3d-screensaver-downloads.com/free-horse-screensaver.php

My Guardian of PEACE 2010

Preparing your air-dry clay for sculpting

The new year is a good time for taking up a new hobby. Why not try clay? You just need a piece of ordinary plastic board, a pack of air-dry clay (featured here is a good brand called Jovi), and some water. It's a wholesome activity which the entire household can indulge in. You can spend a few good hours over a weekend sculpting something that you like, let it dry over Saturday and paint it on Sunday!

Throwing the clay is a good way to prepare your clay, which is just taken fresh out of the wrapper, for use. However, managing Jumping Clay is slightly different. As Jumping Clay has synthetic qualities, you need to remove the creases by rolling it. See the two videos on how to manage the two different types of clay.

Throwing the moist clay

Rolling Jumping Clay

A new year, a new board (game)

A new year is a physical reminder that the old is past and the new is here. It is a chance to metaphorically speaking, write afresh on a new piece of paper. It is also not unlike a game board that has no designs - we write it ourselves. So how we write it depends on our wisdom, experience and how situations are presented to us. I hope 2010 is a year of greater listening to God.

To all my friends - Have a great year ahead and i hope to your board is filled with wisdom, joy and peace!

Farewell 2009; Welcome 2010

Good morning, yesterday
You wake up and time has slipped away
And suddenly it's hard to find
The memories you left behind
Remember, do you remember

The laughter and the tears
The shadows of misty yesteryears
The good times and the bad you've seen
And all the others in between
Remember, do you remember
The times of your life (do you remember)....


I play Paul Anka's song in the recesses of my ever-present consciousness as i look back at 2009. I thank God that 2009 was a year of possibilities and lessons learnt. I also learnt that i can construe an opportunity as a possibility but only with the Inner Peace will the opportunity be touched and sanctioned by God - Otherwise it is just a human possiblity. In other words, with a positive paradigm one can see any event as an opportunity but with the Inner Peace from God, one can sense and sieve out an opportunity from a God-provided one - one that brings all glory back to God.

A walkthrough in 2009

Air-Dry Clay Workshops









My 1st flour schnauzer



Nice people whom i got to know




Projects done

Christmas is drawing near!

Some gifts which you might want to consider for your loved ones! What's more, you can customise whatever you want to create. Quality, hand-made clay figurines in equally presentable display cases. Even better, sign up a loved one or a friend to learn the skill! Enquiries most welcome.

It's a dangerous thing - Passion

If you meet someone with passion (now i'm not talking about people oozing hormones), will you be able to identify it? Passion is an urge or desire that consistently calls us to action, often radical action. The person's infectious enthusiasm, doing things which do not cut corners and going that extra mile that ordinary folks would dismiss as - 'foolish' and 'doing extra work' and 'wasting time' or even more damaging like 'spoiling the market' - as in 'don't spoil the market' and other phrases that speak of nothing but mediocrity. In other words, Passion fosters commitment and determination.

Let's dwell on the passion which Tom Hanks displays in his acting. Tom Hanks was voted the 26th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. He received the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award, presented by fellow Oscar winner Steven Spielberg, the youngest ever to receive that award (12 June 2002).


-Hanks gained 30 pounds for his role in A League of Their Own (1992)by eating ice-cream

-In the same passionate pursuit, he lost 30 lbs. for his role in Philadelphia (1993), in which he played a gay lawyer with AIDS who sues his firm for discrimination.

In a review for People, Leah Rozen stated "Above all, credit for Philadelphia's success belongs to Hanks, who makes sure that he plays a character, not a saint. He is flat-out terrific, giving a deeply felt, carefully nuanced performance that deserves an Oscar."


It is not just the weight loss or gain that makes him great but the attention which he puts into the acting that makes him a true actor.

Tom Hanks quips: "I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important."

Passion will be rewarded, despite the green-eyed monsters preying on the flesh, criticising the every move and lambasting every effort of any passionate individual to buck the trend and do something new and radical.

Tom Hanks once shared a record (with Tom Cruise and Will Smith) as the actor to star in the most consecutive $100 million-grossing movies.

I respect this passion and i emulate the passion for my own life.