this is cool.

Trip to Keningau.

Kota Kinabalu - Tambunan - Keningau

I forgot that I can't give Carmen too much candy.

The 'before' test

I Officially Have Students!

I came just on time for the class to start today, all together there were nine artists, some youths and some working adults.

I have to thank EJ and the rest of the youth for helping me set up the place for me to start. Seriously the youths in the centre are very helpful.The centre was converted into a studio in a matter of seconds. Caya lah geng!

These are some of the artists in action, semua pun concentrate tu.

It's good to have people who would make an effort to gather like this, even though with their busy schedule. masih sempat hadir juga, saya salute kamu yang datang... thank you very much.

Some of them are still malu-malu. But thats normal bah, especially the younger ladies, everyone sat in clicks. the girls with the girls, the boys with the boys.

There was this guy who came a bit late and sat alone in a table at the end of the room, I handed him a piece of cartridge and a pencil, and his magic began.

His hands flew across the paper. He finished his sketch in 20 minutes, the rest took about an hour. Well, his accuracy wasn't sharp enough, but I admired his confidence in his strokes, very brave. Oh, he's the one in red (right pic), something tells me this artist here is gonna go far.

This picture on the left shows the 'subject' of the day.
Everyday objects, biasa nampak. But when they start drawing them, they started to really made the effort to 'see' the object's details, the curves on the table's stump, the shine on the ink bottle, one of the artist even drew out the door behind the table, very observant!

I told them earlier when we were about to start, to 'draw what they see, not what they think they see.' and for some, they really followed what I said. Bagus sekali anak-anak saya ni.

The result: I'm just gonna show you guys one lah kay. The rest of the art works will be shown on the exhibition, stay tuned for more updates gang! and keep supporting our local talents guys, these people can generate new hope for us Sabahans.

Not bad for the first day kan? This one is by Nickey Jonius.
I enjoyed myself teaching ( I didn't really said much though)
And I believed the artists enjoyed their time in the studio as well.

That's all for the first Friday, see you all on the second week...

keep me in your prayer and you I will keep in mine.
till then...

Daddy wants to see you happy!

For sure it's not easy to carry up your cross, to be of service to our Father.
But remember this;
Jesus said "My yoke is easy, my burden is light."
Matthew 11:30.

There you go guys, it's time to surrender to the Father,
surrender and everything, I said everything,
will be all right. Some of you might say,"kau pandai cakap saja, cuba kau buat?" or
"cakap senanglah..."

Guys, my life has it's up and downs,
bills to pay, work to rush...macam macam lah.
and I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed,
but the Father always gives me eveything that I need.

In the office, I always pray hard that my bosses will be patient with me,
I'm a very slow learner. And I'm sure He listens to my prayer,
I thank God for Kalvin my engineer and Sally the architect,
who seems to have an impossible level of patience.

I'm sure one of these days they're gonna give me a piece of their mind,
but before the day comes, I'll make sure and pray I'll show progress.
God be with me....pleeeaaase!

My point is, since I have surrendered my well being to God,
it seems that everything is 'not that bad'...
I will always have enough of everything, a bed to sleep, friends(lotsa them),
enough money to get by.... everything!

I always thought it was wrong to pray to God for stuffs.
Since I was a boy, I always relate money with bad things,
"money is the root of all evil"
But a friend told me something that changed me.

"money is a good thing, if you use it for good things"
and it's okay to pray for money,
if you wanna pray for money, pray to God for tonnes of money!

Our earthly father will give of money when we say we'll buy books with the money,
when he knows you'll use his gifts for good, he will give... non-stop!

hebat kan! "Daddy saya mau beli baju christmas"....and he will give!
"Daddy, saya mau beli extra short skirt to go fool around with guys"...Maybe not!
you get my point bah kan?

our heavenly Father is a Gazillion times more generous!

When you're sure of what you want, provided, the things you want are for the glory of God:
it's only a prayer away baby.

"Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened"
Matthew 7:7

need I say more?

Keep me in your prayers and you I will keep in mine
till then..

Fridays with Reagan: week #1... pencil 'before' test.

this is not my drawing okay, I got it from flickr, forgot he's name, cantik kan?

Okay gang, basically what we're going to do in the first week is a simple introduction session, whats your name, how old are you, bla bla bla...

Then we'll start sketching... I'll bring a bit of 'subjects' for you to sketch, and by the end of the session, who ever sketches the worst will be burned at the stake...main main ja okay. In this round, I give you the freedom to be yourself, approach the work in anyway you can imagine, however you like your drawing to be.

There are no rules to what you can or cannot do, but all of your creativity is limited within the four side of the paper...okay bah kan?

So, with you armed with the 2B pencils and the provided art block, I give you permission to 'go crazy'. kau punya tau la tu.

Remember that these artwork will be presented during the seventh week which is the exibition, so do try your best to produce something that has some form of quality. who knows one day you'll be a famous artist, and this first artwork of yours will be worth a trillion ringgit. so think about that kay.

Okay, enough about the first day, I hope to see you guys tomorow... Keep me in your prayers as I will have you in mine..

Till then ...

The Pillars

body parts

"there is one body and one spirit,
just u were called,
one lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and father of all,"
Saint Paul's letter to the Ephesians 4:4-6