I recently trekked to Square One Shopping Centre with my parents and survived over 2 hours of Christmas (c)rush, ridiculous crowds, recirculated stale air, fluorescent lighting, advertising bombardment, mall muzak and the deafening drone of zombies. But don’t get me wrong, Square One is a nice mall by average standards and I totally dig shopping [...]
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If you’re a regular reader of fruityoaty AND you’ve been following the 3-part “I Made These Handpainted Christmas Tree Wooden Ornaments”, then you’ve guessed that the special 10th ornament I promised to post is none other than… my fat and lazy cat Max [...]
I mailed out Christmas cards (see above) very late this year, so if you didn’t get your Christmas card… umm, you should get it in your mailbox soon, hopefully before the New Year, hehe. I suppose the tardiness is because I’ve been preoccupied with thoughts lately. I’d like to thank all the people who [...]
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Here are the LAST 3 of the 9 tree ornaments I made when I was still a bitter-free kid. I used to be very good at arts & crafts shit, but that was so many years ago. Anyway, if you haven’t read PART 1 [...]
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If you’ve read this previous post just recently, then you would’ve seen the FIRST 3 in the set of 9 ornaments I made when I was very young and read about the part they have played in my family’s traditions. If you haven’t [...]
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I come from a small family with many traditions. Lately, my family seems to observe them with less frequency as my parents’ desire and energy wane every passing year. Mostly, it’s because neither my sister nor I have yet to give them grandchildren to cherish. [...]
“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small.
We haven’t time, and to see takes time
- like to have a friend takes time.”
- Georgia O’Keeffe
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The famous expressionist painter and printmaker “Edvard Munch” was born today in 1863 in Norway, 143 years ago. “The Scream” (1893; originally called Despair) is Munch’s best-known painting. He created many versions of it - 4 paintings and a lithograph. After years of admiring it only through art books, I finally saw it and [...]
I was cleaning my office the other day when I stumbled over a caped, shirtless, purple-bodied, muscled, big-eared plastic action figure holding a curved staff. After recovering from the pain of my right foot nearly being impaled by plastic antlers (and imagining an embarassing scenario in the ER with a plastic toy attached to my [...]
Now, I’m not a big consumer of chocolate which I briefly mentioned first here and next here, but even I can’t deny the simple sensual pleasure of eating it now and then. Today was a Chocolate Sunday of sorts. My Mom made my childhood favourite for breakfast - creamy, comforting, sweet chocolate rice pudding. At [...]
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