Ceramic Handwork

My hands is on my laptop 9-13 hours a day! Just can't take it anymore...so, I decided to take a break at a potter's house. I paid RM55 to sit on the wheel and started kneading on wet clay. WOW! the sticky cold and soft feelings on my finger was nice. I also throw some punches on it. This is how I released my tension. My life is just like this wet clay in a potter's hands...just as I am....soft by nature, potential in everything, cold and selfish but can be easily form into any beautiful object as the potter wish.

hmmm...how can I make my RM55 worth RM Million?! When I was a kid, I like to store sweet sugar cane juice into a vase and put it on my garden. I will wait for hours to watch ants crawling into the vase and it also attract butterfly & dragonfly too...ahah I've got an idea!

Since I've got time, I'll make a vase with dragonfly sipping sweeties on top of it. To make the vase with dirt ground color, I'll mix glaze potassium feldspar+silica+kaolin+calcium carbornate+zinc oxide. For max terracotta inlaid texture, I will put into a closed door furnance two times between 800C~1200C for 17~19 hours.

See my masterpieces -->

Dining in a Malay Home

I eat out most of the time. I'm easy with food but it must taste homecook. My colleague, Cik CT, invited me to dine at her house near Zoo Negara. She lives in a typical bangalo rumah melayu (Malay house) type. Those typical home build with half cement wall on the ground floor but with half wooden structure on the first floor and with zinc roof.

It's a big house and very beautifully decorated with strong rumah melayu ambience. They don't have modern IKEA sofa. The cupboard in her living room are those '60s design and some paintings hanging on the wooden wall are of old & black woody frame. There is a long carpet in the living room. That's where I sat and dinner was served!

We all have different taste bud. Cik CT's family would be delighted to welcome your reservations.

A friend in need, is a friend indeed

Just two days before my artist friends arrive with their paintings. My personal assistance met a motorbike accident on a rainy day. He twisted his left foot and was in great pain. I'm so glad that AP came to help me at my art gallery. Though it was his first time working in an art gallery, we managed to hang 61 pieces of art! Some of the paintings were huge and heavy with glass frame

AP being a diver had so much energy to climb up and down the ladder as he hang the paintings and also helped to adjust 61 spotlights. We resumed work immediately after lunch and dinner without even taking a break. We worked tirelessly and there wasn't a word of complaint from him. Even his friends called him on his cellphone, he declined to meet with them as he was committed to get the art gallery ready! He was with me right to the end

AP.....terima kasih banyak2

Exhausted Artists

Look at the faces of these artists. They're like "birds of the same feather, flocks together" There is no chair in the gallery for them to sit. As soon as the guest of honor officially launched their masterpieces, they took the lead to share their spiritual imagery idiom on canvases to art lovers. It's normal when someone share their testimony on their experiences with God. But it's awesome how an artist exhibit the value of knowing God through art..... it's really worth the effort to view their paintings

These artists are from Indonesia and Philippine. You don't need to understand Bahasa Indonesia or Tagalog. Their art paints a thousand words....

Art Exhibition by Bangladesh High Commission

I was invited to an art exhibition organized by Bangladesh High Commission. I had the opportunity to meet all the 4 Bangladeshi artists. If you were not there...you have missed these national level artists especially the work of Maksudul's mono chromatic color of abstract brush strokes - brilliant creativity!

On that particular morning, I didn't had my breakfast...the modern art of these Bengalis painters stolen my hunger away as I was deeply immersed by their extra-ordinary quality art works which is very rare to come by

Guess who was at the exhibition? Yes, Tan Sri Abdul Kadir! Our former Tourism Minister. I call him Malaysia's greatest salesman. He successfully champion the slogan ~ Malaysia Truly Asia. Whenever I see Arabs walking on our street at Jalan Bukit Bintang area and European suntanning on our beaches in Langkawi, Penang and on all our beautiful islands....it remind me of Tan Sri's hard work

fund raising by Christian artists

....do you know there are many kids in KL living without parental love? Kids in KL struggling without money to go to school? Kids in KL without proper food! Kids in KL are neglected!

I roam around KL and just cannot believe what I discovered. Like many cities around the world...kids in KL are not spared. So, I contacted a buddy in UK. I told him that we can do something for the kids in KL. Without hesitation, he gave me his support.

I have a passion to exhibit art. So, we quickly organized a charity art exhibition by inviting Christian artists to contribute their painting to raise fund for KL kids.

Our initiative started with only 5 participating artists but now we have 10 artists and 1 potter! Artists are Filipino, Korean, Indonesian and Malaysian. What is my art gallery going to look like?

I have a exhibiting floor space of 3,200 sq ft, will this fit? Will it look like 'pasar malam'?

Want to know more? Tell you about it after July 19th... Hey, why not you come to see it for yourself