little eagle
Female, age unknown, loves BLUE
Plays piano, played bass clarinet
in school band
Loves Snoopy, Chip & Dale,
Bugs Bunny, Seven Dwarfs,
Forever Friends Bear,
Doggies and Piggies
Eats when stressed.
Loves chocolates and icecream
Gets paranoid easily.
Prone to clumsiness and getting
frantic
1. Go Tasmania
2. Go New Zealand
3. Have a dog
4. Learn driving (eventually)
5. Save more money (on-going)
6. Be Healthy (trying very hard)
7. Find someone and have a family
(trying :D)
♥HOLIDAY PLANS
1. Malacca with J21
2. Taipei!
3. Holiday lessons for Sec 5
4. Long overdue Clarinets outing!
Let's continue my Cambodian Story. Let's see. I've already said so much... Some things better not put up here or else will put my head on the chopper.
Let's talk about our mural paintings. This year was much easier. Cos the pictures were all simple fruits, vegetables and trees... Not like previous years had to draw complicated precious moments pictures with all the patterns and so on... need to mix a lot of colours. And also this year we didn't have to use the left over paint of the previous groups. So the art teacher and me went out to buy all the paint we needed at one go.
We painted a lot of walls actually, just that the pictures were simpler. We painted food in the canteen, imagine a carrot bigger than yourself. The little kids were so facinated when they saw the paintings on the walls, even when it was still unfinished. I was trying to get the art teacher to draw a gigantic drumstick. Won't it be great? To have such a huge drumstick in front of you when you have your lunch? Eat plain rice also taste good haha... Anyway... in the end they didn't draw. Healthy lifestyle lah... All fruits and vegetables. But the paint keeps on dripping when they're drawing... Then all the fruits look like they're melting... and pictures look like they're crying... My fav was the grape and the orange. The egg looks cute too... Then they even drew cherries, bananas etc on the pillars. Nice!
Then we had this wall outside near the sand pit. That was quite a disaster lah. The trees look weird, the oranges on the tree landed on the floor in the end and we just had to explain that the oranges had fallen off. As usual the paint keeps dripping, so the oranges became bigger and bigger as we try to 'save' the oranges. When we thought all's well, the oranges 'melted' again overnight, so we had lots of 'orange juice' on the tree. So someone had to go rescue the oranges again.
Last one was my favourite wall. Mainly drawn by my english group and some others. We painted the wall inside the playground for the kindergarden. It was the nicest wall of all. Everything simply drawn from freehand, the students just came up with the ideas one by one... from the grass, to the trees, to the little white flowers on the bushes, the large flowers among the grasses, the butterflies, the bee, the clouds and the sun. It was really enjoyable painting that wall, and so much memories came from there. So how felt that my main contribution this time was painting that wall. We painted the pictures together, and I did the finishing touches (including the toning, effects etc), and the whole thing was like 'WOW'... You can't deny that it was my magical touch right? right? haha...
Cos I was the one who did the toning, so I had to climb the ladder to draw the tree and clouds. Then I'm a bit afraid of heights lah... While I was on the ladder painting the tree, our dear friend came climbing up the ladder to draw the clouds. I almost screamed my head off and burst into tears. Then he promised he won't shake the ladder, but then he draw one cloud and then keep turning around to ask his friend, "like that can or not?"... THEN the whole ladder shake like mad...
But really this group of students that we brought are much more artistic than last year's batch. Last year we had boys who would put paint 'everywhere' except on the correct part of the wall. At least this year we had boys who can come up with constructive ideas and paint properly. [Althought sometimes they'll just sit down there and say 'this one nice', 'that one not nice' etc]
All was well until someone painted some HUGE words on it... and totally destroyed my beautiful painting. Almost fainted when I saw them write the words on the wall. Then I vented all my anger on poking the chopstick into the coconut. Like I said, it's no use crying over split milk. But then again, number 1: can you ask the artist(s) before you write?, number 2: can you get a more artistic person to draw those words?
Still waiting for another teacher to send me the picture of that wall. My only memory left of the beautiful painting.
