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a sketch a day, as if an apple

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What do you hum when relieving yourself in the toilet?

1) Let it go, let it go, let it go (in the cheery Merry Christmas way) 

2) Let it go, let it go, can’t hold it back anymore (in the ‘Frozen’ snowstorm way) 

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the juxtaposition of life, a fruit laden with history and sin, a skull. #ink #blackandwhite #art #drawing #practice #inspiredbykerbyrosanes

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How flowers tend to bloom at unlikely places #ink #art

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. - Annie Dillard #art #ink #colour #bangkok #thailand (at Fortune Tower)

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Was at Bangkok's Sea Life Aquarium yesterday. *** Someone asked me for directions to the exit, somehow assuming that I was a local staff. He seemed offended when I said that I have no idea. *** A family exclaimed over a tank with crickets. They were jabbing fingers at the glass, gesturing to fidgety insects. I pointed out the pacman frog to a little boy. He took a photo with his iPad and quickly turned away. *** A reef shark, much longer than the average Singaporean adult, was nibbling at another's tail fin. I could see the white of cartilage. It turned out to be part of a mating ritual. *** Certain animals die more quickly in captivity. Whale sharks, great white sharks. Others have their lifespans tripled. The sheltered life favours some.

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Just watched 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' and thoroughly enjoyed the movie. When I was young(er), I used to compete with two friends on who could recite the most number of Harry Potter spells from memory. It had felt like a betrayal, this new series of movies. As in, let the Harry Potter series remain in the pleasant mist of the past. But Fantastic Beasts is a terrific movie - with a subtle critique on manmade destruction of ecosystems - and now I feel the need to re-read all the Harry Potter books. #thunderbird #fantasticbeasts #harrypotter #ink #marker #art #colour

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"Love can have ugly beginnings and ugly endings. It is the middle that we live for." - Ann Patchett on getting a new dog #watercolour #art #drawing #illustration #abstract #watercolor #colour #color #abstracted

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Am glad that two poems written during Singpowrimo 2016 have been published in this anthology. Shall be more disciplined and write daily next April! #mathpaperpress #booksactually #poetry

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Bye, my chewren. Fly free and fly high.

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Mdm Lung has been a wonderful support in the past year. Without her guidance and mentorship, I would have drowned in a seastorm of work. Did this watercolour (with a splash of authentic Burmese gold) as a farewell gift. Thanks so much, Mdm Lung! #watercolour

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words by: Xiang Yeow

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on coping with depression

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Banks of a Canal

by Seamus Heaney Gustave Caillebotte, c.1872

Say ‘canal’ and there’s that final vowel

Towing silence with it, slowing time

To a walking pace, a path, a whitewashed gleam

Of dwellings at the skyline. World stands still.

The stunted concrete mocks the classical.

Water says, ‘My place here is in dream,

In quiet good standing. Like a sleeping stream,

Come rain or sullen shine I’m peaceable.’

Stretched to the horizon, placid ploughland,

The sky not truly bright or overcast:

I know that clay, the damp and dirt of it,

The coolth along the bank, the grassy zest

Of verges, the path not narrow but still straight

Where soul could mind itself or stray beyond.

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September 8th by Pablo Neruda Today, this day was a brimming cup, today, this day was the immense wave, today, it was all the earth. Today the stormy sea lifted us in a kiss so high that we trembled in a lightning flash and, tied, we went down to sink without untwining. Today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world and rolled melting into a single drop of wax or meteor.