I’ve been quite M.I.A. from some events and things cos i’m just plain too busy with work.
I even had to skip Lapsap‘s 1st Anniversary
Sorry guys, but looking at the pictures, i know i’m more sorry than you!

At the end of the day, i don’t want to be staring at the pc anymore (unless it’s to catch up on ANTM or giving Cashmere Mafia a shot) hence lack of blogging.

In a sense i think i’m going through one of those blog-pms phases, where i don’t feel like writing, i don’t know what to write about, i *have* things to write about, but i feel no enthusiasm for it. And atop that, i have no time to write!

So why push it, huh?

I say do it because i want to

Some random pictures from last week at the Onitsuka Tiger event at Zouk.

NickIsTaller, AshleyTheMonkey
Nick’s wearing this ‘david bowie’ shirt i got him from Kraftgrafik at Urbanscapes

JustinYap and i

SarChan stared at me when i walked into office that particular day, “… I swear my grandmother has a top like that… exactly like that!”
“I’m not surprised… i think it’s really old, i just altered it much shorter.”

I found it at one of the junk sales from either Ah Xu or Ethan, i can’t remember, and its startling print grabbed me right away despite its awkward length ending below the knees. Yeah, it was very grannie. So i sent it to alter. Goddammit, altering it cost the same as the dress -_- Total price: rm40

IceCalvin and i
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Cheong LaiTong @ NN Gallery
Also went to Uncle Laitong’s art exhibition at NN Gallery last weekend (see how backdated my blogging is!?).
I first met Uncle Laitong when my Aunt Gerry came down from London last December and took me to meet her old friends from back in her time in Leo Burnett.
Incidentally, Uncle Laitong is… DikHaHaHau’s dad.
-_0
Small world.

I remember having dinner with his family, Dik couldn’t join us and he smsed, “I can’t believe you’re having dinner with my family while i’m stuck in the office.”

Hee hee.

So anyhoo, Dik called me up last week reminding me that his dad’s exhibition was launching and whether i wanted to go.
Of course i did!
I saw the preliminary splashes on canvas sitting around their house in December and wanted to see the end results!

We went for our favourite pork ball noodles in Lucky Gardens before heading to NN Gallery in Ampang.
Luckily he drove.
I would have got so lost (though i just saw they *do* have a map)

There are 26 new works in what is Laitong’s 12th solo series.

You know the murals on the National Museum? Uncle Laitong designed those

“The murals at the National Museum were designed in the post-Merdeka years and they take on a deeper significance as we celebrate 50 years of independence. The artist talks to WILSON HENRY about the experience, satisfaction and nude controversy.

IT has been a familiar and enduring sight at Jalan Travers for over four decades — the two long murals on Malaysian culture and history done with little bits of Venetian glass mosaic.

Glinting and gleaming in the midday sun, the murals at the National Museum, each measuring 35 by 6 metres, depict scenes of the country’s rich and colourful past, and its rich culture.

Cheong Laitong is standing on the grounds outside the National Museum, which is now being restored and renovated, looking at the murals he designed.” (Excerpt from article on Cheong Laitong in the News Straits Times by Wilson Henry. Read more here.)

I stared at the paintings for approximately ten minutes at a time, sometimes more, letting my vision space out till the splashes of colour moved and flowed, revealing faint patterns under layering upon layering of paint.

It was amazing! I was having so much fun spacing out, watching what the paintings would do.
I told DIkHaHaHau about it and he asked me what i’m on. -_-
“I’m not on anything, i’m sober okay! It’s just… moving!”
He mentioned i should keep statements like those to myself, though he did admit there was some 3D effect going on.

I like how No. 18 would look in my room.
No. 14 showed me a vision of a black coral-like forest with clouds and mist floating gently behind it. (it flowed to the left btw >.< i just had to say that)
I’m not a big fan of green+orange but No. 24 moved the most for me, constantly melting and twisting, and because it moved the most its one of my favourites.
No. 25 had a lot of layering and a multitude of shapes and images that’d emerge and withdraw slowly.

It was so weird… but i loved it.

Too bad one costs around half my car or more.

0_o

Uncle Laitong and i
Kakiseni.com did a blurb on it too.

NN Gallery Sdn. Bhd.
53A & 56 Jalan Sulaiman 1,
Taman Ampang Hilir,
68000 Ampang, Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
www.nngallery.com.my
Open:9am-6m Mon-Sat
Closed Sun & Public Holiday

Telephone: (603) 4270 6588

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