Aquarama 2009, Singapore

Aqurama 2009 is an International Fish Show held in Singapore from 28 to 31 May 2009, at Suntax City, Hall 601-603.

The show exhibits all kinds of tropical fish, from fresh water to sea water types. It is a colorful show. We could see all sorts of new species of man-breed exotic fish around. The following photographs were the records of some of these fish. They are unbelievable lovely. I like the white fighting fish, it looks like a princess in the water. How on earth they mutated the color to this? The arowana fish looks majestic and elegance.

Electronic Drawing

Recently, I explored with Photoshop and tried several ways to convert my photos into pencil drawing. The followings are the results of it. Some of the works I like it very much. Of course, when you use computer program to create pencil drawing, would be entirely different from you draw it with a tablet; even worst, you do not have the thrill as it is done on the sketch book. The only pleasing fact is : it is instant.

A scene at Sentosa 

Wave Bridge at Henderson

Beautiful Black and White House

City scape

Old Beach Beach when Bedok Camp 1 and Camp 2 are now.

Creativity

Creativity has no limit, as long as you put some thoughts in it. Look at the works below, you will admire these artists' fantastic imagination and craftmanship.

Korean artist Jean Shin created Sound Wave out of melted vinyl records. The sculpture was part of The Museum of Art and Design’s exhibit "Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary." The artist explained the sculpture shows "the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of recordable media obsolete." 
Displayed at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, On Gold Mountain is cityscape of San Francisco created by artist Zhan Wang using stainless steel pots and pans and silverware. 
This Elvis bust was made by David Mach, a scottish sculptor and installation artist, using no less than 50,000 matchsticks! 

The Black Whole Conference chair sculpture was made out of 72 chairs by Michel de Broin on 2006. It was part of the Québec Triennial "Nothing is Lost, Nothing is Created, Everything is Transformed" exhibition at the Musée d’Art in Montreal.

(Extracted from http://www.oddee.com/item_96494.aspx

Rosella Eximius

Rosella Eximius (Platycerus Eximius), also named as Eastern Rosella, Golden Mantled Rosella. A colorful bird with gentle and pleasant chirping or whistling sound. Many years ago, when there was no Bird Flu around, I used to keep one of this bird. It is one of my favorite pet birds. It is very gentle in nature, hardly bite you, and could be tamed easily.

Scientifically, it belongs to the Psittacidae family, and member of the sub-family Psittacinae. The genus Platycercus means “broad” or “flat-tailed.” This species is one of eight rosella parrots with characteristic cheek-patches and mottling on their backs. There are three subspecies of Platycercus eximius.

It eats on various types of seeds, and is very active if it is healthy.

Since Bird Flu is around, I dropped my bird keeping hobby, but could not stop admiring the beauty of this bird. I bought a 18 inch sculpture of this bird and put it in my sitting room display cabinet for good memories.