This is the result of the last day of the holidays with nothing else better to do:

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (9:24:34 PM)

once upon a time, there lived a mouse, a teacup and a wooden pig

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (9:25:03 PM)

they lived together on the top of a fireplace

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (9:25:32 PM)

the wooden accidentally fell into the fireplace while playing with the mouse

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (9:27:16 PM)

the mouse stupidly dived after the pig trying to catch it,but instead,the mouse fell too

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (9:28:34 PM)

the teacup, who was made from heat resistant material, jumped and scooped them but the mouse's tail got burnt

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (9:29:51 PM)

but the teacup who didn't know much,accused the wooden pig of trying to murder the mouse by chopping off it's tail

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (9:31:34 PM)

then the wooden pig sent an army of termites to attack the teacup, only to be eaten up by the termites themselfs. devastated, the mouse ran into the garden

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (9:33:11 PM)

then,the teacup suddenly concluded that it was actually the mouse who wanted to murder the pig,it was the one who pushed it into the fire and then convince it to call an army of termites to commit suicide

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (9:35:05 PM)

the teacup then asked the help of his kitchenware friends to join in the search for the mouse

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (9:39:45 PM)

the knife and the fork were hired as the snipers.The dish and the spoon were hired as forensic experts on romantic/jealous murders,and there was also a random cow that jumped over the moon for no good reason

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (9:42:55 PM)

thus, the all rode the cow and ran into the creepy garden with thorny vines. the mouse, who was aware of what's going on called the white rabbit to stall them group while he came up with an evil plan

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (9:45:53 PM)

the group eventually met the white rabbit,who was holding a pocket watch."Stop",he said.everyone stopped and looked confused.After 5 minutes of staring at the watch and doing nothing,he said,"OK,you may go,but first you have to test these melt-in-your-mouth sweets that I made

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (9:52:09 PM)

the knife and fork, who was really hungry ate all the sweets. the dish and spoon couldn't care less and ignored the rabbit's offer. the cow, being impatient, ran towards the tiny door blocking the way, only to get himself stuck between the room and the garden and farted

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (9:54:02 PM)

the force of the fart blew the rabbit away and gave it a concussion,but the knife,fork,spoon and dish all just seemed a little bit more shiny from the impact

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (9:56:28 PM)

suddenly, the knife and fork began to mutate and grew extra arms. the teacup and the rest pushed the cow's butt with all their might and eventually succeeded and ran for their dear life. then they met a bunch of clams and a really hungry walrus

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (9:58:39 PM)

the knife and fork were now a pair of swiss army knives.the spoon had pushed the cow's butt so hard that it has gotten stuck in the cow's arsehole

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (10:00:02 PM)

the cow died from the pain and the walrus ate him up. the clams offered their help to the rest of the team to continue looking for the mouse. meanwhile, the mouse formed an alliance with the queen of hearts and an evil alice

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (10:04:16 PM)

the dish was horrified that it's darling spoon was eaten together with the cow, by the walrus,that it decided to assasinate the walrus by forcing itself into the walrus' mouth

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (10:06:10 PM)

the dish eventually forced it's way through thus killing the walrus and the teacup who lost all his teammates continued making friends with the clams, but it seems the clams had hidden motives to help. the queen sent her deck of cards to spy on the teacup

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (10:09:06 PM)

meanwhile,the 2 swiss army knives found the deck of cards and had a war with them.most of the cards were slashed up but eventually a few cards teamed up and kidnapped the swiss army knives by wrapping them with their own card bodies

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (10:12:37 PM)

the swiss army knives enjoyed the fact that they were being wrapped up and they dissapeared from the scene just like magic. the teacup continued venturing further and ended up in the mad hatter's sadistic tea party. the teacup was horrified at the sight of all the empty and broken teacups on the table

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (10:14:37 PM)

but what was even more horrifying was that the broken teacups were used to kill unsuspecting happy tree friends characters.The mad hatter politely invited the teacup and the clams for a tea party.

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (10:20:30 PM)

the white rabbit, who is aware of the mad hatter's evil plans, came to their rescus, only to forget what he needed to do and joined in the tea party too

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (10:24:48 PM)

the mad hatter was overjoyed sadistically,with this new crowd.he served them absinthe instaed of tea and waited until everyone was too drunk,then he usedthe white rabbit to smash the teacup,ate the clams and hung up their shells as decoration

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (10:32:46 PM)

unfortunately the mad hatter missed, so the teacup ran for his life and the white rabbit escaped by blowing pepper candy towards the mad hatter's eyes. then the white rabbit threw some explosive candies towards the mad hatter. meanwhile, alice seems to have a crush on the mouse

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (10:35:01 PM)

the queen of hearts  who wanted to team up with alice,was dissapointed that she changed sides,so she ordered her army to chop off alice's head,as well as the mouse's head and the teacup's...whichever part... too

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (10:37:16 PM)

alice found out about the queen's plan and took the king as hostage, threatening to rape him if she continued with her plans.the mouse was stealing cheese in the kitchen and the white rabbit and teacup developed feelings towards each other and was dancing happily

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (10:39:02 PM)

while they were dancing,suddenly there was some bollywood music and the queen,the king,alice,the mouse,the army,the rabbit and the teacup were all dancing aroung bushes and trees with choreography

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (10:42:58 PM)

the idea of having bollywood music came from the bushes and trees, who were planning to take over the entire kingdom. the music hypnotized the queen, making her jump over a cliff,killing herself. alice took the queen's wand and became the queen and made the king her first husband and the mouse as her second husband. the army just stood there with the teacup and rabbit as the backdrop

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (10:46:09 PM)

the teacup was then elected as the prime minister and the rabbit as the war general.So alice started thinking up plans to take over the neighbouring countries,such as disneyland and acme,where the looney toons live

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (10:47:46 PM)

she started with disneyland, got rid of the witches/wizards, turning disney princesses into prostitutes, princes into her personal 'slaves' and the disney castle as her second home. she also turned the talking animals as her war buddies

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (10:51:34 PM)

acme was turned into a place to test and develope cutting edge weaponry .A Nazi concentration camp was also built to kill all the looney toons characters.However,the rabbit war general took bugs bunny as his husband

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (10:53:17 PM)

alice had a grand feast to celebrate her victory with tweety bird as the main course..sadly it wasn't enough so everyone began fighting with each other and an internal war broke up..the teacup hid underneath the table

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (10:56:52 PM)

with all the commotion going on,the mouse managed to make alice step on the teacup accidentally and break it.Then,the mouse ran off with mickey and minnie and had a threesome.

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (10:59:44 PM)

some random character accidentally spilled sweets all over the floor and everyone else started eating. the sweets made everyone fell in love with each other. bugs bunny was still busy molesting the white rabbit at a corner. the threesome continued somewhere in a private room in the castle. a random fairy came to warn alice to set things rite before 12pm. but the time was 11.59pm.

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (11:01:41 PM)

the fairy said that in order to break the spell,alice has to go back to the mouse's fireplace,find the owner of the house and kiss the owner,all within 1 minute

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (11:03:22 PM)

and so she teleported back to the house. she found the beast and grabbed him and closed her eyes and her nose (due to smelly breath) and placed the lips towards his when belle suddenly slammed upon the door and bitchslapped alice. alice kicked her away and there's still 15 seconds left

Criccy-http://www.cricetus89.deviantart.com says: (11:06:34 PM)

desperate to break the spell,alice grabbed the beast by the lips and tried to touch those puckered up chinese sausages to her own lips.belle meanwhile,was climbing up the fireplace and then jumped onto alice like in some wwf fight,slamming her to the ground.the beast felt so flattered that 2 ladies were fighting for him

đ ǒ m ĭ ň ĭ ĉ says: (11:12:17 PM)

in all the fighting, alice accidentally kissed belle while the beast kissed the sofa. belle kissed the beast while the sofa kissed alice...everything was so chaotic that the fairy decided that it was too much fun to handle. therefore, she broke the spell just to the happy ending sake

random post

lol... Chee Hoe is so farneeey...HoOOOOOO!!!!!

Just say the G word man!

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ahem,anyways,I found some interesting tutorials on bookbinding.Got addicted to researching on book binding techniques after I saw the coptic bindings on craftster.org.

Coptic binding

Secret Belgian binding

It's more like sewing than FA,so no worries right?

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Hong Kong day 7

First,we went to the Kowloon Park,which is the nearest park to our guest house.The good thing about HK is that eventhough they have such a severe shortage of land,they still manage to put in so many parks,by building them on rooftops even if they have to.Kowloon park was,partially built on top of the ferry dock's rooftop.It was very good coz they had their pond of various ducks,hedge maze, water features, sculpture garden and such.Inside the park,there was a building called the culture centre,which is used as an art museum.We didn't stay long though,because *I think* my parents were bored.But anyways,there were some good exhibitions there,one by the National Geographic photographers,one by some American painters with the topic of Native America,and another one which was a HK collection.I think eventhough it was just a small-timer exhibition,can beat Malaysia's NAG.(see,the name is NAG,get it?)Even has more professional staff and more visitors.

I assume these are mandarin ducks.I'm not sure though.

Some flamingos in the pond.The city was just outside the fence,a few metres away.I wonder whether any flamingo has escaped before...the area is not fenced.

A water feature.

Morning taichi in the sculpture garden.There were a few grounps there,mostly doing taichi,but i think one of the groups was led by a gweilo teaching them self defence,forgot what it's called.

Next,we went to the Wong Tai Sin temple,which is the biggest in HK.It was really very crowded,but i think it's because on that day was Winter Solstice.I didn't know,until I read Sook's blog...There was what looked like a special ceremony going on,but it was too crowded to take any good pictures.There was a whole gang of Buddhist priests in the main prayer hall so visitors weren't allowed in.

In the temple's Chinese garden.

Outside the main prayer hall.

A water feature in the temple.9 dragons on the wall,forgot the significance.The pond had terrapins also,but nowhere nearly as keng as the number in the Penang temple.

The Chinese garden.

Nearby were the humongous clusters of shops that are collectively known as the Flower market,Goldfish market and Lady's market.The Flower and Goldfish markets are actually in proper shops,but the Lady's market is kind of like a pasar malam,but super huge and much more interesting.Err...to women,at least,because most of the stalls sell clothes and accessories.The pic at the top is the Flower market.It looks much better than that though.Smells good too.

The goldfish market.That's only 1 shop though.I felt like having a little pet after that.hmm...

Lady's market.And the trademark HK crowd.And this continues for several blocks radially.

Whee...better options than I Need Shop.I think Yilyn and Anisa should just collect a few thousand ringgit and fly themselves to HK.They'll be so entertained.

OK,until next time.

Hong Kong day 6

Hong Kong day 6: Macau

Sohs on the 6th day we were actually in Macau,not Hong Kong.We didn't need any visa so we just went over by ferry(can't remember,but i think only need passport).Had to wake up at 5 am to catch the earliest ferry so that we could spend the whole day in Macau.It was so early that we were forced to have McDs for breakfast.It wasn't as good as in Malaysia somehow.Doesn't taste as fattening or something...

The ferry ride was 1 hour 10 minutes.

One of the pretty lanes there.Macau has a lot of Portuguese influence because of the settlers,and even now you are more likely to see signboards in Chinese and Portuguese than Chinese and English.

Some of the buildings look like KL buildings.

One of the interesting shoplots there.Look,so many jakun tourists!

A water feature I saw in one of the lanes.There was another one with a cherub but i didn't take a pic.

Random nice building.

While walking through the shophouses,we accidentally found this old house that's called Lou Kou Mansion.It's not that big actually,just 2 floors of a shoplot,and they call it a mansion.But it was unique because it kinda reminds me of BabaNyonya houses,authentic old smelly building.Now it's used as a place to promote Chinese paper cutting artpieces.There were nicer pieces than the one above but then suddenly the artist appeared so i didn't take any more pictures,afterwards say I'm infringing copyrights or something.lol.

Decorative piece above the doors.

Notice how every surface just must have a carving or something on it.

Next,we went up to the Macau Museum,which feels like it;s on top of a really high hill.Wheeee...look at the road towards the museum and hear some Happy Tree Friends theme song playing.

One of the gazillion casino buildings that can be seen from the top of that hill.Looks so unstable right?Like some kind of bunga kantan or something.I think it's supposed to be flames.

Inside the Macao Museum,which used to be a fort.The museum housed an exhibition on macao culture and history,comparing it with western countries,especially in terms of export.There was also an exhibition on an olden times art school founder's artworks,which was western looking watercolours(think of old western illustrated flora and fauna speciment books)

Then we went to St Paul's Cathedral,which is just outside the museum.It's probably the most popular tourist spot in Macau.But actually it's just a wall *ahak* the rest is destroyed.BTW the said wall was damn huge so the nice detailed photos can't fit the whole wall.

taxi cab Macao style.

Macao is famous for it's almond biscuits and grilled meat.Just walk around the shops at lunchtime and you won't have to spend anything to feel full from all the food samples.These 2 guys are making the biscuits,which looks like it's made of some mixture of flour and packed into cubes,not baked.

We also went to A Ma temple.Got lost halfway and got a lot of exercise walking up and down the hills looking for it.Turned out that it was just near the sea.It was built to honour a Goddess that calmed the rough sea for the local fishermen.

Eh...surprise,I didn't take any pictures of the whole temple.Oh well,here are some little puppies for you to look at, they were sleeping at the temple and being sort of celebrities among the tourists.

The last stop was to see one of the kazillion casinos in Macao.It's practically sin city of China,and most of the casinos are owned by Stanley Ho.So you can imagine how rich he is.I wanted to go and see Venetian Macao and see what the fuss was all about but we ended up in Sands, which was the nearest to the harbour.No pictures though...cheh...i dunno why I didn't take so many key pictures that day.Free shuttle busses from the harbour to many of the casinos.That's good business sense.And later i found out there's free accomodation for loyal customers too.lol.I can just imagine dead bodies under the beds now.

In conclusion I think Macao has 2 sides to it.the casinos which are all about money and will only interest you if you're ready to loose a lot;and the olden part of Macao which is rather westernised and very charming but will make you walk your legs out.Overall very different from HK.

TTFN.

Hong Kong day 5

Went to Ocean park in HK island.It's a theme park but plus a lot of animals.(PS:can you believe my parents dare to sit on rides that I don't dare?)

Not much to write about.Photo essay.

Saw this at the breakfast table at random coffeeshop.Rice in salt?

Prettyfied toilets at Ocean Park

Cable car that links the lowland part of Ocean Park and the hilltop part.The hills are right next to the sea.Check out that dramatic plunge.

Some birds at the aviary.They really are not scared of humans.I was prolly only a metre away and they just flop down and sunbathe right there.

Otters inna bucket! Get yer otters inna bucket!

One of the only presentable shots of the aquarium.It was jam packed with people because of the 2 school excursions.The fishes were really nice but i couldn't take any nice shots because they were moving about too much and the photos came out blur.

That was outside the panda cages.OK,not cage,plexiglass.No presentable shots of the pandas to show.i don't get the panda and corn theme.

There was also a dolphin and sealion show,which was very popular.We were so lucky to get seats in the amphitheatre.There was an ice skating show as a Christmas special as well.I'll post some videos in the next entry.

I'm having mixed emotions

there's a debate going on in dA about whether or not Linda Bergkvist's CGs are photomanipulations(paint over photos) or not.I sincerely hope not because she's such an inspiration to me.But many people seem to think that it's more likely to be photomanips since they are so realistic.So I dunno what to believe,anyone could be correct,either LB is shy to admit that she is just manipulating photos or other people are jealous and refuse to believe that anyone can be that talented.

But I still think it's possible to be that talented.I'll just hold onto that.Or is painting over a photo all that different from real painting after all? except maybe to pick colours you still don't get much benefit right?(but then again her tutorials teach people how to choose and layer colours...)Her tutorials make it more believable but some people also think that those are made up to cover the truth.Also it seems to be,from what I've heard so far,i can conclude that LB was banned from dA? Or did she just leave by herself? 

edit: oh well.at least even if she photomanipulates,she has better ideas than other people...