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.

Beautiful Singapore Skyline

Only when we see the photographs, we could realise our city scene is so majastic and beautiful. No wonderful most of my foreign friends always say we have a clean, green and beautiful country.

HOT! HOT! HOT!

This week the weather in Singapore is extremely hot. Sometimes the outdoor temperature could be as high as 34 degrees.

But the sky is extremely clear with this sort of hot weather. For photography, this is the best time to take shots outdoor. It is because the color temperature would be very pleasing. With this in mind, I took the camera out this morning and went to the eastern part of the island, to take photographs.

Changi Beach is always a place that attracts me. I went there today, and got quite a number of shots there. The photographs below were the results of today's work.

Another suicide case

Last night, when I finished attending my ACE Personal Coaching Course, I roamed along Beach Road to join one of my friends David for a drink. Unfortunately, the drinking joint was shut down and swifted to another location. I decided to cancel the session and decided to go home.

As I walked along Beach Road to catch a cab home, suddenly I heard loud screaming at one of the high rise flats. I followed the noise and located the source of it. Right in front of my eyes I saw a lady was hanging outside the ten (?) storey railing and struggling, she screams her heart out in Mandarin: 'Jiu Ming Ah!' (Help me!). I was shocked by this scene. I ran towards the flat, and saw few men were at the ground floor parking lots, looking up at the lady, they were are calmed and do nothing about her. I was fuming mad at these people, someone life was hanging in the air, and they could just stand there to watch! As I walked nearer to the scene, I realised something was very strange, no one bothered about what was happening then; the only joker got excited was me!

I started to look around. Then I noticed there were floodlights at the base of the flat as well as the at the corridor of the level where the lady was. 

I suddenly understood that I was fooled by the scene, some one was doing filming there. Luckily I did not call the police with instinct. Otherwise, I would have a hard time to explain to the police!

Haha!

Unpredictable life

Life is so unpredictable. I found this clip on YouTube, it shocked me to see that a turtle could be so fierce and snap a bird's life in seconds.

Looking back at the human environment, we also have the same scenario. The time frame could be a little longer; but the results are the same. Worst of all, it could be so painful that you could not even make a sound before your last breath.

I am not talking about road fatal accident, but people with sudden death due to cardiac arrest or social discrimination. Especially for the latter, who dies painfully and slowly under the beautiful backdrop of a modern cosmopolitan city.

Sad.






extracted from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ako31Qwss

如此暮色

夕色如緞一般摊了开來
晚風不在
斜陽里
一樹枯枝獨撑
幾許年華
再也無法挽回的歲月
紧随黄葉飄落
罷了，罷了
歸鸦袱着大笑而去
斯人拖長孤影
默守冷夜
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