Ocean and Fishes - 100th Posts!

Hola ladies and gentlemen,

I'm so sorry I don't have much to give out to my wonderful blog stalkers except the warmly hello and thank you from these two strange sea creatures.

Saigon Pearl celebrates its International Children's Day. I had to go with mum because it's her work, but I did enjoy a delightful painting session by myself under the hot sun with cookie ice-cream!

Paris Deli again today with Eunice and a person (let's call her M)

A special handmade book order from Eunice arrived in her hand and I received many happy feedback. Serve the customer as God! hahha

Yup yup yup! Good laugh.

And then Eunice and I painted and drew stuff.

I was so inspired to draw and paint again, to make lots and lots of artsy things.

Although, the three of us got stuck in some sort of psycho loops of bad music, and had to declare today as "Bad Covers' day".

Artsy update:

-Currently organising all my past works into little heavy duty envelopes with photos taken for a digital one as well.

-Nearly done with "The 2 Person Book" - a collaboration paintings/drawings with Eunice on a handmade book made by me.

-Going well with "Little Bit" Project.

-Also working on another Art Diary.

-Getting the hang of photoshop. (as you can see!)

-Check out my photos on AISSAIGONPHOTOGRAPHY - I'm updating one every week.

-My apologise to "Post-it" Exhibition at Out2Studio - Eunice and I were going under a very busy and stressful time in the past few weeks with Exams and other school works.

With love to you all on our 100th Ocean and Fishes posts!

Catch the Little Bird!

I wondered what I should do today and this little birdy came to mind.

An inspiration from Geninne's Art Blog.

She drew the cutest little whimsical birds ever!

I'm hoping here that I'm not violating any copyright works of Geninne.

You can see though, that her's is much more sophisticated and beautiful.

She also uses acrylic ink for fine line.

p/s: The next post will be the celebration "100 posts" of Ocean and Fishes!

I'm planning on a give-away for a few Ocean and Fishes's stalkers.

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Handmade Notebooks

Yes, I've been making handmade blank notebooks.

Also, a plan on selling some to find money for a photography class I want to take.

It's a good idea and I've been making my own little doodling books because Vietnam don't have any of those thing.

It's hand-stiching, covers vary from the materials that is available and paper quality and book sizes can vary.

If you're interested on getting a Personalise - blank pages note book, please let me know.

I'd love to make you one!

Above is an example of a book cover.

Please note that your order may be rejected for various reason.

Sneak a Peak at "Little Bit"

Inspired: The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan. (only the coolest picture book illustrator!)

A Sneak Peak on what I've been up to with my artsy life.

Everything is done on acid free watercolor paper with black pen.

Small pieces of little drawings.

No name for the project yet. I'll just go with "Little Bit" for now.

Eunice and I thought of the same idea when she saw these doodles I've been doing:

I'm planning on making a continuous-story-collage.

Tu Linh

ps: Wonder of photoshop! Makes it look much cooler :)

"I made you from scratch!"

I'm oddly motivated to day. So I decided to read AS PSYCHOLOGY A - yup sometimes I do the strangest thing. I actually played piano for 4 hours! Also had a nice japanese dinner with mum and few of her co-workers. And I feel like I should write something of appreciation:

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My mother is a brave and strong woman.

I mean it! because anyone who have met her, could never forget her.

She is a brave and wonderful mum.

She is my mum.

I appreciate so much that she was very strict with me.

She let me and my sister to go alone to Hanoi for a dance performance when I was 6.

We took care of ourselves, we behave, we learnt to be independent.

Never would she let us see that she was so sad to be far away from us.

"You are my daughter. Do you see me crying?"

I always get myself hurt.

She tells me that it is my fault and I cannot cry.

I coughed at her face.

She locked me outside of the house.

I misbehaved.

I got smack

I got lost in Thailand.

When she found me, she was angry at me.

I wanted a toy.

She tells me I have to earn it.

She is brave for all the thing she did and still doing for me.

She is caring always and loving always.

She is my world.

She wanted us to become independent individuals.

We learnt to take care of ourselves.

We learnt to behave with good manners.

We learnt to really learn the price of money.

I learnt to be who I am today.

She made me from scratch!

Mum!

Thank you for not spoiling me. Thank you for scolding me.

Thank you for being brave with me. Thank you for taking care of me.

Thank you for making me an independent and strong woman.

Love you mum!

p/s: teacher card to megan, my wonderful emu :)

The Ocean

The ocean is deep

The ocean is blue

The ocean is wide

The ocean is clear

The ocean is where

I want to be to swim

With the fishes in the

Deep wide blue sea.

Changing of The Season.

So changing of the season. Everyone is getting sick, including me!

But I'm all better now.

Next week, my classmates are going on camp and I'm gonna be here, happily have a week off.

I feel exhausted even though I haven't been working that hard.

I need something motivating, something new and something exciting.

I did my entrance exam for next year yesterday.

Hoping for good news next week.

I'm going to be very supporting for Eunice - because it's exam week for her - BIG HUGE EXAM!

And she is moving toward a whole new step in her life - her future - she needs a support system :)

That and a lot of Exam-prep/Homework-I-haven't-finish/Essay.

I'm going to stop talking now and go do something else more... or less lifeless.

A beautiful monday in Saigon

It's a beautiful monday in Saigon.

Sprinkle of rain, soft breezes, quiet Saigon.

Eunice and I once again, planned to meet at Paris Deli.

At the last minute, Eunice called, asking whether it is okay to have Megan drinking tea/coffee with us. Of course I wouldn't mind!

I was running late, and when I did arrive, Megan, as the sweet and wonderful person she is, gave me a hug. And Eunice, as the funny and odd person she is, rubbed my head (yeah RUB MY HEAD...!)

We had a long-practically-non-stop-conversation and lots-lots-of-laughter, accompanied by some stopping for bathroom time...

I longed for this kind of conversation to happen (well, of course Eunice always do this to me... but in any case, this is different) It went on for 5 hours. The thing is, it's not the kind of boring listening exam. It was a perfect one where you sit back on the comfy chair and sip a hot tea, being just yourself and completely relax!

I've been terribly sick these past couples of day, but today, today has been wonderful.