how the entire universe conspired to help me find my first love
“A rat’s god is cheese.” Robert James / “If you were a mouse, I would bring you some cheese!” Janus Caesar / “Wishing you to have 鼠不完的money and all the cheese 鼠于你!” (“Wishing you to have countless money and all the cheese belongs to you!” – a word play on the word “rat” in chinese) […]
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“Nature doesn’t fit into a geometric notion of what the world should be. It is that naturalness I find the hardest to capture.” Maya Lin / “Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It’s simply because when a human looks at […]
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#191029# Since my 57th monthsary artwork was about kopi (refer to #57 MONTHSARY: KOPI SIEW DAI 半烧 GIRL), on the morning of our 57th monthsary, I had our typical Singapore breakfast set – kopi, kaya toast and soft-boiled eggs – to begin our day with a good start! At 12.15pm, I attended a hot stretch […]
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#190929# After halting my monthsary special series for over a year (my last one was about our 40th monthsary), the time feels right for me now to reboot this series off to a fresh new start, beginning from our 56th monthsary on 29th September 2019. Coincidentally on this day, it was also my great grandma’s […]
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“I love you so mad so mad. And I miss you so bad so bad.” Celeste Koh #190520# Today is 520 Day! It is the second unofficial Valentine’s Day widely celebrated by couples in China after the western holiday. The date “520” was chosen as a couple day because “520” sounds somewhat similar to 我爱你 […]
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“Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together.” Jules Verne (as quoted in the Aquaman movie) #190406# I call this a replacement painting for my previous one 4TH ANNIVERSARY: PDA OF TWO LOVE BIRDS. That painting was badly damaged with a large hole in the […]
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#190302# & #190308# It was already planned since the start of January that I would be spending Taenggu’s birthday, which falls on 9th March, in Perth with my family. Somehow I had an intuition that I would not be able to celebrate her birthday on the actual day itself as liberally as I would want […]
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#190214# Anybody who is in a relationship would love to celebrate Valentine’s Day with the love of his/her life, isn’t it? I also don’t want to feel left out on this special occasion which is widely celebrated by couples all over the world, despite knowing that my lover wouldn’t be there physically by my side […]
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#190129# While I had done our anniversary painting on the earlier weekend (see my painting at 4TH ANNIVERSARY: PDA OF TWO LOVE BIRDS), our actual 4th anniversary fell on a Tuesday in the following week. Since it was a working day, I planned for a dinner date with Taenggu at Dazzling Cafe which is conveniently […]
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“Believe that anything is possible, even pigs can fly.” Celeste Koh #190205# The period between December and February is definitely a busy time for me with regards to making artworks. Almost immediately after I sent out 2 separate batches of 69 christmas cards altogether to Taenggu, I had to start working on a new series […]
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