Kelly does the "I will smack you with my right hand" thing with Ping Ping... Kiddin'~ It's just a consultation in the studio... Eh, MARI, why were you playing with my digi-cam huh?!! Grr...

Uncle Kelvin trying to be funny with Mari and Letta... Yawn... 

Don't know if Mari was excited about climbling thru the grille to the roof to catch a picture of the sunset... Or maybe she was afraid of the height [ Imagine if we fell from the 4th level! Sure kena splattered all over the drive one! Eew! ]... or of being caught... Thank goodness we didn't get stuck or caught... Phew! Anyway, this was definately one hell of a shaky shot, Mari. But thanks all the same... 

Mariana and I snuck to the roof to take pictures of the beautiful sunset today... 

Mariana on Lasalle's Roof... 

Lone l'il plant grown on the edge of the roof... 

Another shot of the one l'il plant grown on the edge of the roof... It's amazing how nature finds its way to exist... 

Me on the roof... Hee hee... 

Getting mesmerised by the sunset... 

Sunset of 04 April 2006 [ Wed ] 

I was reading David Abram's - Spell of the Sensuous for my Dissertation when I decided to stop and walk to the studio window to take a breather... You know get some fresh air after reading for really long... And I saw this beautiful sunset towards the direction of National Stadium. At that point in time... I understood what Thomas Merton felt when he wrote about the rain surrounding the cabin that he was in... "... with a whole world of meaning, of secrecy, of rumor. Think of it: all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody, drenching the thick mulch of dead leaves, soaking the trees, filling the gullies and crannies of the wood with water, washing out the places where men have stripped the hill-side... Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will take as long as it wants, the rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen." It was a moment that was, if I were to describe in a word, soft. And yet it was so powerful. 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | The Technicolor Lantern and The Moon Lantern 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | Soccer Lantern 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | Rocket-man and Mickey Mouse Lanterns... 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | Team of 3 and their "Soccer" inspired lantern... 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | My lantern... 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | The children and their lantern... 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | Mdm Tia with the 2 kids. 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | Some got really excited with their handiwork... 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | Mdm Tia doing her what she does best with the 3 'students for the day'... Inspiring them lah~ Should see her go... Reminds us of the time we had her for the colour lesson back in IAD year one. Hee hee... 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | Zaihan bitching me about applying too much glue to my frame... Grr... 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | Me having a go at making my very own lantern! It's really fun! 

[ Lantern making workshop with Mdm Tia ] | Zaihan teaching the father and daughter team how to apply paper onto their lantern.