paint your palette blue & grey

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end of a busy week! finally sitting at home listening to joanna wang while jaci gets her turn to paint her lamp under the soft music and mellow light in our seaside studio. it'd be perfect if we have a fireplace here, with the soothing sound of log crackling

this is our first time selling lamps in public!!! it was a beautiful day, breezy and winter sunlight. very nice chatting with people who appreciates what we do! 

Thanks everyone who liked and bought our work, and we look forward to the next handmade market! Special thankz also to those who came and visited us!

sunrise sunrise

love how the sun shines into the room, no?
reminds me how the sunrise time changes everyday earlier this year in Peter's Yard in Edinburgh.
ちょっと頭が痛い for awhile, from shouting at yung cho cho's concert, revision, long into the night farewell drinking, working, and working, and waking up early.
last minute preparation for tomorrow's handmade market, really not gonna have much things to bring, but we will paint more stuff there and just hea, gonna go with jaci tim! there's so much more that i wanna make, let's see how much could be done. must be crazy.
walked home after work just now, it's one of those very nice moments, like oasis. to have a yoghurt in hand, and watch the sunshine shine through the trees, whisper hi to ding dong (the fat cat) who wanted to lick my yoghurt cup.... good relaxation in the midst of overwhelming work

infinity pool

a brief note. just enjoyed some time swimming, more accurately, sitting at the warm outside pool next to the sea under the warm summer sun revising japanese, quite a good place, as i get the pool all to myself and could read stuff out loud... 
anyway, when i return to my room, there were 4 new emails. 2 facebook messages, 3 sms and 3 missed call... wow, people just love to find you before exams no? and many concerts invitation for the two days before exams... 
watched yung cho cho last night, appreciate her a lot
now I must work hard too! sorry for those whom I couldn't get back to immediately, will get back to u soon : ) 

clare de lune

Wa, such a tiring day (and week) Just got off work, started 8:30 am today - Saturday! The room this time had no sunshine, which was a little bit disconcerting... but other than that, it was a tiring but interesting day as usual. Apart from the interesting girl who graduated from Harvard architecture, and another coworker that studies Japanese full time also; there's another interesting person I met who wishes to be a children's book illustrator too :) And everyone else was nice. 
Had a very nice UWC dinner last night, wish more people had come, but still it's great to see old friends, aw, can you believe that we have graduated 4 years already, and that Orientation Week/China Week was six years ago?! -_-'
sitting at home feels so serene. It's really a good place to be. away from all the crowd and noise. can seek tranquility from the voice of BBC radio, the calming texture of a novel, or my overdosing of water... yet, as usual, I still haven't tidied up my room.... not a good thing to know about. Japanese exam this coming Thursday! 

Je veux Noël

Last Saturday, 3.5 year old little Kyle arrived in the atelier with a big smile under the warm winter sunshine, we continued learning about big animals, that day we learnt painting lion. It has a bright round face, black triangular nose, and lots of brown hair... Kyle was a little distracted by mixing colour, nevertheless finished painting a lion (with some hair grown across the face) but the lion has to stay behind in the classroom to dry before it could be picked it up next week.
This little lion was unlike other lion, he can't wait for another week before he could meet Kyle again, so he left the atelier late at night to search for Kyle (despite many other animals - on the paper - staring at him), he went along the long escalators down the hill where people were drinking and singing under the moonlight, occasionally people stared at him, but they were too indulged in the atmosphere. he followed the crowd across the sea on a big slow ferry...the sea water rocked back and forth back and forth, he slowly fell asleep......  (to be continued)

hmm, see this page, is when I was thinking about the first white cat and yellow cat lamp, long ago

Oh no, sorry daydreaming, but it's proven that working with kids is healthy, even though I feel extremely tired and displeased for the insane amount of work left to be done. On a positive note, the Christmas lights around my home were lit, very beautiful, but you know what, I think one of the best Xmas tree place is along the road from the entrance of St. Stephen's, cuz those trees are so tall, and therefore naturally beautiful with all the lights lit. And, had a nice dinner with Natalie in a place surrounded by crabs tonight. 
今寝たい、明日（毎日）は急がし日ですね。

7 Rue de Grenelle

sigh, stirred up too much... 
L'elegance du herisson is one of those books that I always read again, again and again... there are always new discoveries, and every time I read it, i wanna go to paris again... ahh, I always cant' decide whether I like paris or london more... then I started watching those Japanese movies that I always watch - with an objective/excuse this time - to practice Japanese listening :) which then, makes me want to go to Japan.
I realize there are two types of destinations, the first one is e.g. Laos, Kenya, New Zealand, Kashmir, Hokkaido etc. makes very interesting journeys, but won't make me think of returning all the time. the second type is like Kyoto, London and Paris, there is so much life, hidden secrets... there that it makes you wanna return all the time. 


This is not well written, because it doesn't illustrate how every frame/sentences of those animation/literature mesmerizes my mind. L'elegance du herisson is set in Paris but writes about Japanese culture very well... 日本の食べ物も、cuisine francaise も、どちらも同じぐらい美味しいです。日本の絵本も、litterature d'enfanceも、どちらも同じぐらい面白いです。
macaron, wine, cheese, lion, art, white buildings, small shops, rainbow after rain, tall trees, boulevards, literature, the bread, quince cheese....... music, anime, sushi, sashimi, the tininess of izakaya, the cafe of naoshima, the children's literature museum designed by tadao ando, the matcha, the bamboo forest, the Kyoto tofu dinners... 
I know I have talked about this many time
何時行きますか？
這是現代人的病－思鄉的相反麼？

hokey pokey

Saturday, started early with little kids under the warm sunshine and beautiful view, so nice : ) ahhh, working with children is so not easy and not just cute as so many people would think, and it's very unlike how it was in Summerbridge (older/intensive/close daily relationship) or in National Trust for Scotland (big class/outdoor) here's a much smaller class and much younger kids, every little kids are so different, lalalalala.... some don't like to talk with others, just turn their faces away, takes a lot longer to warm up, some are very eager to show their work. Then met with Natalie and Lylon at Le Moment, Jacky joined, and we all went back to my home, for some chats and drinks in the balcony, visited James home also, very nice ice cream yeah!