I am a Kid

My cousin painted this for me with help from my little brother as well.

That's me big and happy in the middle. My brother and my cousin.

I am just another big kid!

Art and Kids

Are you having trouble finding something FUN to do with kids?

Are you baby-sitting and have no idea what to do with them?

Try ART! It will take you off the fear of having kids over. I can guarantee you PAINTING is a miracle ....

Okay! Done with the whole advertising stuff up there. Hello, I'm back!

The last three days, I was the "favourite sissy" to these lovely, adorably fun kids :D Of course I'm always the favourite sis of my little cousin up there. Very proud of myself! The two girls at the top are my cousin and a family friend's. They stayed overnight at my house. My room was the "kingdom of fun" *very fun kingdom's name* I brought markers and colour pencils out and oh my god they LOVE drawing *seriously* It makes me so happy they tell me they want to become a fashion designer. I know I know they will change their mind somehow later on, but it's great to kinda be the one who support them in this kind of thing. I tell them to just alway draw and paint and be creative.

The two inspiring and fun day ended fast with lots of artwork for the two to bring home.

(they didn't want to go :D haha)

This very cute girl is a close family's friend as well, she came here today. She is a great painter! She painted houses and flowers and me as well. Very cute little me :D My little bro is well a great little dude.

Some artsy stuff we did!

Wondering how to get started?

Get some paint out and draw something. The little one will take your version of "whatever" and makes it their very creative own one, and of course always tell them they are doing great and their work is absolutely awesome! (For me, the effort that they put in is a great step to becoming a creative later on and that's why everything they do is absolutely awesome! :D)

Back from Cambodia!

I'm back from the beautiful kingdom of Cambodia, more like 4 days ago.

Post for the tattoo I drew and for the photos I took. It was such a wonderful trip and so much love and enjoyment. Of course like all time, I love spending time with these beautiful kids. It filled my heart with so much love, so much happiness. I have no word to describe how I feel but amazing and awesome.

I haven't catch much sleep back from those 4 days waking up early (4 something...) to charge camera 's battery. I'm not complaining about looking after cameras, I like having things occupied me... haha Well, I have more books, great movies and awesome clothes plus super duper awesome memories. Check the site to find out more about our days!

I better catch some sleep because I have been stressed out the whole week. Artistic photography from the trip will be on the next post.

Overloaded?

A lot of homework!

Yup.

With the film shoot last week, catching up is a bit of a hectic...

Well no, of course not that much compare to "PROPERLY BUSY" people. Besides, I think I should work harder anyway xD.

5 times electricity BOOM OFF AND ON AND OFF AND ON... I was sleepless and have been annoying people 2 days now, by my non-stop-hyper-talking! Seriously, my head is going to explode anytime soon... (Obviously not now because I'm still bla-bla-ing here =.=)

Anyhow, I finally find out how to connect my ipod to TV. I don't get why I can't connect my mac. It wouldn't open...

So anyway, I'm preparing to come back to Cambodia again this weekend to spend lots and lots of time with all the beautiful kids. *big smile*

Wait wait, before I go off... errrm... I want to try this new say:

Ta ta for now! xD Pathetic?

I dreamed a dream...

I just thought I share some thoughts of my own here.

It's December and Christmas is coming. But, I have no Christmas' spirit this year. I put on my little calendar book with "Christmas Card List" last wednesday. I haven't started yet and have no plan on starting this year.

My plan failed... I went Christmas shopping for Christmas presents to some kids in Cambodia. I had three boxes and I am going to put presents in for them. I've met the kids, played and had a wonderful wonderful time with them. It was the winter dance last night. Everyone seems to have fun, and my friends were asking me why didn't I go. I said - It's a waste of money! I saved that $20 to buy these presents for the little ones. I just think there has been to much for me and not much for them. I had $20. I can do something with it that would make the cuties happy and warm my heart up a little.So I went out this afternoon with Joshy and Eunice and we got baby stuff, soaps and toothbrushes. The box above is to a 4 years old girl - Ly Heang who is a little cambodian friend of mine.

I'm nervous sending these boxes to the kids. All I have for them is a little love that they need, a little thing that I can give and a box that I've painted. Gosh I miss them!

It took my quite some time to pain this box cover. It actually has two layers or more. I painted the box planning to spread the colour and mixed them with next one so it looks streamy. And I failed completely. Came home today, I tried to fix it by re painting the yellow part to red and then cover the blue and purple with white this time. The dress original was white but somehow it got mixed up with the purple and started looking very crappy so I repainted it with blue. The leaves idea flew out of no where when I stuck the butterfly on it. The hair was yellow stream to red but now it is black again because I like it!

Morenos are back

Exam week... errrm... Horrible for me but I am so glad to see the Morenos back!

Incase, you didn't know, Manuel and Julie= were my teachers when AIS SAIGON first commence. And that was 4 years ago. The thing about teachers for me is that I always appreciate and love them a lot after they stop teaching me ... haha Okay! Let's move on. I haven't told you about Rachel and Carlos yet. OOHHH they are bloody CUTE! When Morenos left, Rachel was a little one years old girl, and Carlos is still in his mother's womb. Rachel is, well I supposed she is 4 now. She has grown bigger and taller of course and soooo adorable.

I don't think Rachel remembered me but we had a lot of fun chasing around. (although she banged her head twice =='') She is such a cheeky one. I would absolutely steal her if she says yes haha It's the first time I met Carlos apart from looking at his photos. No word! Sooo cute haha but he only laughed at my funny face today and not running to his mum like yesterday... It's so nice to see my old teachers again, to talk to them, and to know how they're doing.

I MISS YOU RACHEL! :( YUP NEVER STOP CHASING ME HAHA XD)

=> Rachel made my week so much better. BIG HUGS!

Back from Cambodia

Me being silly on the bus.

One of the three mugs Daniel designed with a permanent pen. Ada = Amazing Dysfunctional Awesome! xDD my new nick name

My room buddy-old good friend- Fishy. We both got a fish mug together and a bell "ring ring" bracelet :D

The kids (more coming)

“Look into it, and expect the unexpected.”

These were my words before I sat on the bus and set off to Cambodia. What can I say? Was it one experience to remember? I was amazed with just how much have changed from what was in my memory. Ask me how was Cambodia? And I would say “Awesome!”. It was one unexpected and a surprisingly amazing experience for me.

The kids with broadly bright smile were the best and bestest part of the trip. I’ve got all these girls giving me lots and lots of hugs and kisses, and all the boys teaching me this cool hand shake and heaps of “Hi-5”. They are just the happiest kids on earth!

I was happy to hear from the teachers, who were cambodians and were so inspiring as for how long and how much they love teaching the kids.

At Steung Mencheay, I made friends with these group of beautiful smiles and confident kids who would come up and grabbed my arms immediately as I step my feet into the small primary school. HELLO! They waved, they asked questions in Enlish, they smile and they were absolutely gorgeous, lovable and delightful to see. “What’s your name?”, “How are you?”, “How old are you?” - Srey Leak is my best friend here. She taught me games, and as for more she taught me words in Khmer (even though I can barely remember anything) We had fun playing games, and sharing a little of our culture through different games we played and a little knowledge of language.

The Kais village Orphanage, where I had way too much fun with cute babies and these four adorable girls. The babies were perhaps for most of us the greatest experience. But for me, after putting two cuties to sleep, running wild with four little adorably cheeky girls was the best thing to do. They inspired my heart so much, we played “Duck, Duck, Goose” and even a game that I made up. The little ones enjoyed swinging in my hand as much as dancing with me in the wind and speaking ridiculously in some language we don’t even know. The grass was green, the ground was comfy and the wind blew our mind off just so we had too much fun.

I couldn’t say goodbye to all these adorable, wonderful kids. I ended up with saying “Bye bye” and “See you again” so many times I can't count. Many hugs, many kisses, many “high-five”, and many byes. Srey Leak asked me “When do you come back?” and I shed tears trying desparately to find a way of answering that very question. I left with my heart missing them.

The food here were … well AWESOME! And not just that, the restaurants and café are always relaxing, inspiring and beautiful. There is somehow always something the customer can do. I bought many books in a café next to our hotel. I went in and look at many inspiring art gallery café. It was always a new experience to go in a restaurant, to look at their setting, their presentations, their food and their art. I love that we get to choose our restaurant for lunch to taste different food along with an amazing vegan restaurant. I also love the performance of monkeys dance with it uniqueness and entertainment. Tiny Toones performance was great to watch and was another great time for the kids at PIO. Art is expected as well as respected and preserved.

I would say Cambodians are religious, and it is one good thing that they are. The country is based on NGOs and very much tourists. Religions is something that should be kept for it gives faith into the people. Morning of the third day was as much horrible and sad as it is a great place to learn why and how Cambodians live and become who they are today. I’ve seen things like this, in Vietnam like Con Dao island prisons and more, but still the cruelty and babaric of Pol Pot went deep into my thought. I made a stop, and in slience I prayed. Look at the faces, look at the skulls, and what’s left of it. You ought to be feeling something. Is it sad or horrible?

We left with a different experience in everyone of us. The killing field was massive. I’m shocked of what’s in front of my eyes, one sleepless night.

My experience of Cambodia was inspiring, touching and aboslutely awesome! I will sure come the next time, to see the faces and smiles of beautiful kids (I miss them so much right now!) to enjoy the amazing taste of food, to spend great time with friends – a small but hilariously wonderful group and to getaway from school.

I didn’t have any issue with the smell or conditions the kids are eperiencing. It is probably not hygienic for us but to be realistic, there are worst places than this that I, myself have been to. I was just happy to see their smiling faces. I always love spending time with orphans for many reasons because they deserve more love from us than anyone else. They need people to appreciate them, so that they feel loved and show them the wonders of life. Being an orphan is hard and lonely enough. I love them because they always are happy, always with a smile and always sweet and touching. The bigger kids don’t get many chance to be adopted. They aren’t just the only one who learnt something new, they opened my eyes to many more things than I could’ve ever imagine. I just really wish we have more time in this stunning country! I want to see more, I want to spend more time with these kids and I want to go further to orphanage that don’t get much visitors, (might be far but it’s worthed to be reward the most amazing time with kids. I also want to learn more, about the people and to experience more of this gorgous country.

P/S: I don't know what to say so I'm putting my 500 words reflections on :) Cheers! (more than 500 words xD)

I don't have all the photos yet but I'll put more up soon !!!

--L O V E F O R L I F E --

They sing, they dance.

They laugh, they smile.

Life to them is an amazing adventure!

Oh just how much I love them so!

L O V E

Finding peace for myself

I was finding some peace for myself and what I get is ever greater than that!

What can I say? I had such a beautiful day! I woke up early in the morning and said to myself: "Forget the bad week and have fun!"

And I did.

After three hours traveling from school to the orphanage that AIS has been supporting, I was rewarded with great time just playing and cuddling and feeding cute little babies. Taking photographs, play and dance and talk to kids. I took over 400 photos of all these kids who was hugging me, holding my hand, sing with me, play with me, talk to me, smile at me, laugh with me, even make me blow my guts off many many balloons, and are just adorable to me. I enjoyed and have just so much fun this time for many time I've been here and I can't help but say thank you to these adorable cuties, for making my day the best! I feel so much better after being terribly sick and whatever I've done (that was horrible to people) while being one sickie.

(Sorry I know I'm just horrible)

I can't wait to see them again!

We hit the road and I did this drawing of this little girl who loves dancing so much!

They inspired me!

AIS Saigon Moon Festival 2009 video and the terrible day I've been through...

A video of Moon Festival that my teacher, Mr Wyatt took photos and made. It is a wonderful video of his photography skills and bended beautifully with the music (though it's kinda sad... made me cry xD)

Enjoy :)

I wouldn't say I have had a good day today because I didn't. No one did anything nor anything else. My soul is just a little lost between the rain (there is no rain here) Might just be one of those day when your mood is no where good, no where bad. Mine is being stupid and making myself pissed off with myself... I guess I'm stress and tired.

How come a question of no answer like "Are you okay?" made me cry half way through lunch?

I'm tired of my headache, my H/W, my assignment, my thoughts, my swinging mood, my brother, my report, my mark, my math skills, my trying-to-be-I'm-totally-okay... I want to ******* yell out "**** THE WORLD" (Martin-my random friend would know this) I need a big long rest to regain my consciousness....

WHY CAN'T I LEFT MY THOUGHT BEHIND LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES?

I feel sorry for anyone who apparently just pissed me off today by being bloody annoying. Though I have managed to try and be as cool as I can, as normal as I can, my headache like hell and all I wanted do was puke. I have so much on my mind lately than my head could have BOOM in no time. I want a good old hug, but something always stop me from doing so... And the result is that I cry to myself. (God you must think I am so weird)

THE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DAY I HAVE BEEN THROUGH

May be what I need is doing something good to help the world?

May be what I need is kick my ass and get to work?

May be what I need is a good break from school?

May be what I need is a Vitamin Punk's pill(where on earth am i gonna get 'em???) or really a dose of inspiration?

A drawing of Sally

Just this afternoon, after cleaning up my room, I found out my little cousin did a drawing of Sally. She has been looking through my little art book since the early morning, and when I got home- TADA!!! A DRAWING OF SALLY <3

I really don't know what to say- I mean I have inspired someone, a little kid to do art! How cool is that? Just like Nicole D. wrote on her blog (some what I can't really remember)

" The wonders being an artist are varied, surprising and always multiplying."

Sometimes you can be so surprise what the little one can do that make you play the cheerful song in you heart! I hope this girl will be a great artist later on, for she loves to draw so much! (Every saturday she comes, and draw in my room)

This is up on my wall now! Where I will look at it every time I'm sad :)

I took this a while ago

p/s: hmm... i've successfully burned Sally's into a DVD :D