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New Challenges: Oil Painting 2018
Teacher had been very patient and helpful. It was my first class in oil painting. With his guidance, I managed to complete a still life portrait of a brass vase flanked by a porcelain cup and saucer...
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Urban Surprises: Cordia dichotoma and Antidesma bunius
It is such a joy to find standing in some quiet forgotten corner in our urban sprawl a tree of rarity that somehow escaped the city's relentless development. Serendipity at its best! Here's two trees...
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First painting on my own: Rift Valley in Taiwan
I must say I learnt quite a lot completing my first oil painting on my own. This is actually my second. It brought back the joy I felt standing amongst the Day Lilies high up on the mountain flanking...
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More Than Words
More Than WordsSaying I love youIs not the words I want to hear from youIt's not that I want youNot to say, but if you only knewHow easy it would be to show me how you feelMore than words is all you...
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Celebrating World Rainforest Day 2019 Singapore
In anticipation of World Rainforest Day 2019 (22nd June) , I am posting a long-overdue video of our awesome rainforest to share with fellow Singaporeans in the hope that in the weeks preceding the big...
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Going Bananas!
I am speechless! Never have I seen a banana behaving this way all my life! My goodness, what is happening here?! No longer behaving like a thyrse, the lateral branches of the inflorescence have...
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The Singing Bird Returns: Ailanthes integrifolia
Here I amBorn to flyA little birdReturningSingingBeneathA treeOf my HeartAglee.Footnote: The seed was amongst the many I searched for and found in March 2016 in MacRitchie forest. These were...
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A new painting: Thunderstorm at Chek Jawa
Poems by William Henry DaviesLeisureWhat is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long as sheep or cows.No time to see, when...
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Advocacy for Sungei Mandai 2003 - Jewel in Jeopardy
True to weather, October has been wild and contrasting. Inter monsoon wind and rain are confused and if I may add, as erratic as human affairs playing it out under the moody sky in true Thomas Hardy...
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When Rain Meet Wind
There is a kind of abandonmenthow you come meet the earthand sparkle for just that little whilstbefore glistening a teardrop farewelldown a quivering grass blade.Still you remain till like a...
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Relevance of the Coastal Hill Forest to the Marine Environment of Chek Jawa
IntroductionRising steeply from the sandy beach to a height of 21m, the coastal hill at Chek Jawa may seemed remotely connected to the shallow sea beneath, where lush meadows of seaweed and sea grasses...
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Eternity of a Dream
One cool December morn I woke feeling the wind blowing the frosty sea in my heart and painterly chased the fleeting clouds over the lee of my dreams.The real journey does happen in your mind and I have...
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Cross Island Line on Pale Blue Dot
Recall the number of minutes of travelling time we were told can be cut on the upcoming Cross Island (MRT) Line through our precious forest that we are willing to risk and then read Carl Sagan's...
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That Trees Do Cry
That Trees Do CryIt could not have been less obvious. Even the foreign workers working nearby would have realisedsomething was amiss. A building that was closed and of little significance to them...
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Chek Jawa Days
Chek Jawa days are just full.Remember that windy and sultry day? I led you by the hand through the woods. You appeared hesitant at first. I had your hand in mine, and gave you a squeeze to tell you I...
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Painting of Sentier Littoral de Gigaro
A new painting for my sister.Sentier Littoral de Gigaro
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New Painting: Autumn Has Come to Oxford
Title: Tammy's in LoveIntuitively it came as I paint. I found myself whistling a-whistling a tune of my youth. Tammy... and she is still so much in love. Her heart reflects the soft beauty of early...
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Invertebrates of Singapore Rain Forest
The invertebrates came before us and made the world as it is today. They surround us everywhere and outnumber us exponentially beyond comprehension. On land and in the sea, they will still be around...
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Remembering Eugene Tang
Dear Eugene, Remembering the wonderful time we had as classmates and our adventure in Tasmania. You will always be in my heart. Rest in peace, my dearest friend.
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Like Fireflies
Like FirefliesWhile the nation sleptthe celestial heaven shoneTiny sparkling jewels are the starsyet brighter are youLittle torchlights flickering aboutbelied the spirited flameIn your heartsthere is...
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Falling Leaves of Autumn
Falling Leaves of AutumnImagine, a leaf floating gently down a tree in the autumn of life, twirling a-spinning in the air like a ballerina in the last Movement to land with such sweet delicateness,...
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Today
TODAYOn today'sRose-tinted petalsOf yesterday'sYouthUpon thy futonI offer youSasanquaMy dear SakuraFor I can create dreamsOf tomorrow andStardust foreverBut only hereTodayMy love is realFluffy-pink...
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Rubbish Dump Dump
Rubbish Dump Dump (silly song)Throwing rubbishCan be funProclaimed Mother To her sonUse this plasticNot any oneIn Hatta's nameWe'll get it done!O, mother!Cried the sonWhy O whySo troublesomeWhy this...
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I Care (Dear Twig)
You pointNo one looksIn different directionsNobody caresEvery finger is connected No one gives a thoughtWhen I dieFew would knowA finger in the darkWho would seeOne so many Too many to careUnless...
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