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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Spending the May Day holiday in my wife floral studio MOSS AND DRAGONFLY http://www.mossndragonfly.com/ waiting for her to finish her works. The pretty orchids just came in for a special events so I quickly made some sketches and later add in lots of roots for fun.

Draw some of the displays as well. On the shelves, there are many types of pots, rubber shoes and baskets for sale. On one wall, several large glass vases sat on an antique table.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Farm in Beijing

We have a farm in Beijing, actually more like a organic vegetable farm. Its owner used to grow trees to sell but later turn it into a organic farm as the expats community increasing in the areas. Beside BBQ , high tea and house warming, visiting the farm becomes one of the popular past time for weekends with the kids. Its owner offer 2 type of vegetable plot, 60 sq meters plot for casual farmer and 600 sq meters for serious farmer.

Whatever that was left unharvested are collected and fed to the animals that was breed on the other side of the farm or turn into compost. There are wild duck, goose, chicken, sheep, pig and turkeys on the farm.Beside, fruit trees such as peaches and apple are also grow on the farm.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Mother's Day

Late spring in Beijing and today is the 9th of May, Mother Day. Give a call to my mother this morning back in Singapore and thereafter I took Rachel's kids, Sophie and Sidney out for a ride. Brought them to some outskirt area called TianBei Lu which is not too far from where we lived in Beijing. Along the way, the girls came down to pick some wild flowers for their mother day gift.

Sophie, the eldest daugther place a stick-on rubber stained glass she made earlier on the glass vase and place the flower in and it really look good !

After that we had some tea and biscuit in the garden and watch the kids trying to help their mother with the planting in the garden.

Just hope that summer will come a little slower as it will be getting really hot this year judging from the amount of snow falls last winter.

And for a moment, I remember my mother telling me earlier that morning that it was really hot in Singapore, I felt so much cooler as the late spring breeze start to blow at all of us while we were enjoying our tea.

798 Dashanzi Arts District

798 Dashanzi Arts District , located in Chaoyang District of Beijing, China that houses a thriving artist community, among 50 year old decommissioned military factory buildings of unique architectural style.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Moss and Dragonfly

Spend my weekend at Leng's floral studio, www.mossndragonfly.com situated at ShunHuang Lu, ShunYi District, Beijing, China.
Lots of fresh flower just came in for some gift hampers job for the Dragon Boat Festival.It is also known as DuanWu Festival, commemorates the life and death of a famous Chinese scholar Qu Yuan.

Friday, December 3, 2010

taipei

Fish wood sculpture at the Fleur de Chine hotel , Sun Moon Lake. TaiChung

Took a train from Hualien, Taipei to TaiChung to the famous honeymoon resort of Sun Moon Lake. The 4 hours ride took us through endless mountain and tunnels passing by rice field and of course Taoist temples along the river. Sun Moon Lake is famous for the 'President's fish".

Friday, November 5, 2010

Taipei taroko gorge

Taroko Gorge is an impressive 19km long canyon called Taroko Gorge National Park. We visit shrine , caves, tunnels and stay in this resort called Leader Village Taroko. The village now a hotel was built among the hilly mountains and totally operate by the original villagers. Food served are wild boar meat and wild vegetables and in he night, we were entertained by most of the operating staffs from the owner to the chef in their traditional dance and songs. www.leaderhotel.com