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Guess what!
If you love animals, you get the chance of winning a painting through this competition.

Just click the link below and follow the instruction with the picture like the above.
https://www.facebook.com/shepaintshorses

Do it before 24th January 2014!

Doodly DooHooo

The 'corner people' is emerging.  I wonder if this is going to develop to cartoon flips.

The 'right' and 'wrong' (as oppose to left) club.

Closet Competition.  Aim: highest number of costume.

This made her little cousin's eyes wide with wonder.

The bonus was added later on when the competition ended.

New members for the fruit club?

This is what happens when you tell her to do Math.

The 'little people' has emerged.

Doodles Now

Ok, her drawing seems to get better (it's in colour now!) but those "lined" eyes, they tick me seriously, when is she going to change them???

The Blood

The implanting of the Brain

"With special FX you can do it, too!"

Since the movies that we watched was quite gruesome, i.e. blood splattering as a body was thrown from a high rise building.  We started a discussion of the special effects used in movies.  

It was quite a revelation for her to find out that nobody actually dies in the Tommy Cavendish scene in Cloud Atlas.  Although, she wanted to experiment on her own. I only just managed to halt a pre-planned prank she was about to pull on her grandparents.

Fancy some blood recipes?
These are what you need:
- a pinch of Carboxy methyl cellulose (a gelling agent)
- a pinch of red food colouring
- a pinch of black food colouring
- a pinch of pink food colouring
- water to get the desired effect

You should end up with something like this:

 To pull a prank like this:

"AAAAHHH, pooped my gut out!!!"

She Paints Horses

Since I was young, I am always fascinated by horses.  It has an enchanting factor that holds power over any other creature.
Interestingly, someone else across the other side of the world, also have the same passion over horses.
While mine can only be expressed through music (think of a Chinese folk song played on the Erhu), Kasia Grajoszek expresses hers over canvas.

I must say, this black stallion against the red background is the one that I love most.
Visit her site by clicking this link: she paints horses

I'm using this image that I took a while back, of a horse and cart which am not so keen about.  I always thought that they should be free.

Unbridled.
This word makes me stop and wonder, what human seldom realise, that if they slow down and value the things they do from the moment they wake up, the ones that worth the most, are actually the ones without a price tag.

Doodles Now

Now that she's connected online, she always checks whether her doodles are up on the blog.
I'm pretty slow on things and I'm starting to suspect that I'm also with her, right up there in the spectrum.

Not sure what's up with the bunny ears???

Can you see the angel and devil on each shoulder?  Pretty tiny though.

Learning Mandarin

The teacher specifically requested that the population of people in the practice book needs to be controlled.

I don't see any control being exercised at all. They are everywhere and many of them, too!

Poking Facebook

With any new tools, one can get overly obsessive to the point of ROFL.
Remember the first tool on Facebook when it was first launched?
"The Pokes".
Guess it didn't take long for her to find that out.

Definitely, stop poking and do your work!!!

Learning Mandarin

Every time she comes back home from her Mandarin class, I check what new vocabularies she learnt.  I know most Chinese speaking children are probably onto their thousandth vocabs by her age, but I'm not in any hurry at all.  Hey, we have a lifetime of learning opportunity, everyone at their own pace thank you.

I'm no tiger moms and I see no point in trying to push your child to do the things they don't want because they came here with their own plus and minuses that is essential for their own mission.

Lets take a look at this week's vocabularies.

Pretty self explanatory, non?

Artsy Fancy

After the excitement of making a witch's hat, she decided to use the remaining cardboard to make some delightful art work.

The fancy fan & the metallic ghoul 

Sweet Spot Coffee

SSC got into big trouble because they have a cute assistant but she has a loud shrill voice and when somebody walks past she'll say "Free lemonade for you!".

Comic meets Anime

Ok, I get it, so she transitions her drawing from stick figures to fleshy leggy girls.
Kind of what's happening in fashion now isn't it? Get rid of the anorexic bulimic girls and replace them with healthier looking ones.
Can you see the one in between the middle cut off line? Stick thin legs and fleshy arms, LOL!

Monster Face

Who is scaring who?

Burnt Pie

Sniff first then smell the burnt pie???

The Head

It is one difficult thing to master the Chinese language. Try to do that when a million of other things are in your head. Hence the word "head" for this little girl to write. I wonder why the teacher was so angry and my little girl came crying to me...

Now I reckon it is a bit hieroglyphic-y and graphic way to write "head". Off she goes to do another batch...

The Glasses

Remember that time when your mom took you to the optometrist because you're unable to see the writings on the blackboard anymore from where you're sitting?

It probably went like this:

"Here's your new glasses"

"Surprised, everything look so clear!  EEK!"

"Am not wearing these extra pair of eyes, period!" 

"Hmm, it looks better if the can wears it"

"Mom gives up and say OK just have more carrots" 

"Throwing it in the bin?  Not OK!"

Teaming Up

Since there are only the two of us ....

"Two of us in 'Love Pavillion' on natural setting"  (not that other interpretation of us being in cage while the birds fly free)

... it's only natural for these girls to be teams of two, too.

Glow in the Dark

She's been obsessed with anything glow in the dark.

 We acquired some stars to light up the way to the bathroom.

Then for our next project, we'll build the solar system using cardboard, some strings and some quirky paints.

What do you know, it really glows when I stored the paints back in the cupboard.  Hehehe.

Women's Fight Club

Delansey

Introducing "Delansey" she is just a girl. Hahaha.