I Believe In Angels : )

Angel Prays Angel Dances Angel Eats (Banana)

Angel Rocks

Angel Shops (On Wheels)

Angel Hurts

I-Angel

iPad Sketches of family and friends : )

My iPad drawings : test

On my birthday last year, my family had given me an iPad1. Thanks to them, now I can draw and paint using many iPad apps. I have tried so many drawing apps. and the one I like most is Drawing Pad, which offers many kinds of brushes and drawing tools : ) At first I didn't have any stylus, so I had to use my fingers to draw and paint! Then, as I became more iPad- oriented, I learnt that there 're many kinds of pen and stylus that fit for drawing on iPad. I decided to buy 3 of them to test. And the one I like most and have used since then is a very basic-looking stylus from Mountain Doodle brand. It's quite cheap but works great for me : ) I made theses these drawings to test the apps.

My Life In A Blur : (

For more than two months I have been sick, very sick. Now I am feeling much better. At first I didn't understand what's wrong with me. I just felt dizzy all the time. It was just like i was walking in a blurry vision. I didn't go to see a doctor, hoping that my sickness will correct itself. But when it kept getting worse, I called my cousin who's a doctor, he sent me to a hospital for a checkup. It turned out physically I was ok. My blood pressure was not high and my heart rate was normal. My cousin told me to eat more ,sleep more and excercise more. Still the dizziness persisted. I dared not go out, I often stayed in my room and felt very very depressed. Then one day I called another cousin who's also a doctor, I told her my problems. I asked her if I should check myself in a mental hospital. I really thought I had turned nutty. My cousin said I sounded normal. Maybe we should try to figure out what'a wrong with me physically first before moving to mental problems. She then remembered that her husband, also a doctor, once had this kind of dizziness which was resulted from spending too much time playing online games. Bingo! then I knew what's wrong with me. I spent nearly3/4 of my 24 hours in front of my computer, playing games, chatting, tweetering, facebooking, blogging, youtubing, shopping, reading, etc. Hence, my perpetual dizziness. That, combined with my panic attack had made my life teriible for months! All of my cousin doctors said I shouldn't spend more than 30 mins online. It's quite hard to do but I decided to follow their advice and slowly, I was cured. Maybe not that cured, I am still not my pre-dizziness self, but a lesson's learnt, in a super hard way!

These are the drawings I did when I felt very down, very sad and very depressed. : )

When Linping Visit Paul in Oberhausen

Paul The Psychic Octopus

I must admit that I am not so into World Cup 2010, but what has made me excited about this football thing is Paul, the psychic octopus. I am his fan. I collected his images, read his news and joined every FB fan pages or groups created for him. People around the world are amazed by the accuracy of his predictions (80% accurate!) , me included. Is it a fluke or not, one cannot help wondering. However, I am for Paul. He rocks!

Insomnia

This is imaginary, I drew it on my bed. I really wanted to go up on the roof and watched the BIG yellow moon from there, but I dared not go out of my room and climbed an outdoor stair up to the roof deck. However, drawing this made me feel like I had, more or less, been up there! : )

A Pond With A View

Nothing to do in a middle of a night, when everyone was sleeping, and I lied awake alone, so there was nothing better to do than drawing this silly picture of a pond, two birds and the bright sun.

New Day and Night Life

New Day Night Life

These 2 drawings were drawn for my friends on Facebook. Some of them are very religious and so I drew New Day for them. After that, another friend who is fond of night life asked me to draw for him and the night gang too, so I drew Night Life for them.

Vesak Day 2010

I am not a religious person but I respect Buddha's teachings. They are natural, easy to follow and make you feel calm about life and death. All things dacay, just let go, don't hold on.

The Burning of Bangkok, May18-20

Around May 18, the army started to tighten their force and surrounded the red zone, hoping to cut their supplies route. Protestors were allowed to get out but not go back in the protest area. At this time, the protestor numbers were significantly decreasing. Some of their leaders had even fled the stage. Only the hard-cores remained. In an attempt to open more battle grounds, they told their supporters to stage more protests around town, notably in Ramkamhaeng area, Victory monument, Dindaeng and Bongai districts. Many of the Reds in these new grounds were armed with deadly weapons. They had gathered piles of old tyres and burnt them in the middle of the streets, hoping that the black smokes would hide their operation from the soldiers. Then they started throwing molotovs and opened fires at soldiers and other innocent people. The soldiers fired back and Bangkok suddenly became a battlefield between, sadly, Thais and Thais.


Early morning of May 19, the army moved their tanks to demolish the barricades around the Reds zone. Around noon, the Reds' leaders announced the end of their rally, but somehow, during their final speeches, one of them trickily urged the protestors to continue fighting "at your own free will". The protestors screamed and shouted their anger and disappointment, then after the leaders fled the stage, all hell broke loose. For a long time, their leaders had brainwashed them with the statement "If We Lose, Burn Bangkok", now the mantra started working, and the mad crowd ran around town, burning everything within their reach. Gunshots and sirens were heard incessantly. It was more than a nightmare, it was like watching a never-ending horror film, in which people'd lost their soul to the demon. Bangkok's sky was dark with large clouds of smokes from the burnings. No words could describe my feeling. It was sad, very, very sad.

The fight and the burning of Bangkok continued until late afternoon of May 20. Then, the government started to take control of the situation. Things are slowly becoming, or at least looking, normal again. But who knows how long will the calmness last? The future still looks dark and forlorn, but I will go on hoping and praying, that one day our now deeply divided nation will be united again and that all the wounds be healed. Until that day finally comes, I will never give up, never, never give up.

Bangkok Riot, March - May, 2010

In early March, the Red-shirts (a.k.a UDD) began their rally in Bangkok. Last April, the Reds had created violent chaos and burnt many buses in the streets of Bangkok. They wanted to bring the corrupted, ex-priminister ( I will not mention the name here to disgrace my blog) back. In the end they surrendered to the military force and scattered back home. We thought that things would be back to calmness and normalcy, the way Thailand has always been, but the Reds had a bigger and more dreadful plan.

This year they came back with more people, more weapons and more ugly threats. They demanded for the parliament dissolution within 15 days, or they'd elevate their rally to the highest level. Incessantly and increasingly, we had witnessed their leaders threaten to block the roads, kill the opponents, and burn down Bangkok. At first we thought they were just mere words, then the scenarios became more and more real. It was a nightmere to everyone of us, except of course, the Reds and their supporters, who openly enjoyed the fear they brought to us. At the beginning of the rally, some Bangkokians had launched the Non-Violence campaign, warning the Reds not to use violence as they did last year. The Non-Violence symbol of a flower with a Thai flag at the center had been widely used, and I also used this cute symbol with my drawings.

The Reds paid no attention to the campaigne. They bacame more and more abusive to the public. Everyday and night, they bombarded us with never-ending lies, twisted tales and vulgarities. They did everything to provoke the government. However, the public's patience had run out before that of the government. The public forced the government to push the rally out of the streets. On April 10, during the military attempt to disperse the Reds from Panfah Bridge, a group of unidentified fully armed gunmen, all clad in black, appeared in the scene among the Reds and started firing at soldiers, foreign reporters and even some of the protestors, randomly. No one knew who they were, but some of the Reds called them their army, or their helpers. The government force retreated, for fearing that it'd lose more lives. The Reds declared their victory among dead bodies, blood and tears. This was a shock to the nation. Luckily for the government, the video clips from many international news agencies showed the world that the Reds were not peaceful protestors. The government and the army got stronger support from the public, especially the residents of Bangkok, who were the most affected people in this crisis.

After the bloodshed on April 10, the Reds had moved their main rally site to Rajaprasong, right in the heart of the town. They built the barricades and blocked the main business district. There were negotiations between the government and the Reds leaders, but the Reds always turned any offer of conciliation down. It seemed they were ready for war. During that stressful time, unidentified snipers often attacked civilains with war weapons, especially those who dared to stand against the Reds, notably the attack on the people of Silom district in the middle of April. After the attack, most people of Bangkok were angry at the Reds and ready to fight back. There was a campaigne among cyber people urging the rest of the nation to stand united against the Reds. Facebookers, Tweetpeople and other bloggers used our tri-colored flag to represent the love of the nation. These are my drawings, drawn with heavy heart and grief.

Drawings Before Bangkok Riot

In February, things seemed normal and I'd drawn some pictures to celebrate Chinese New Year and Valentine's day. But I didn't have time or a heart to publish anything to Blogger, because of all the ugly things that befell my beautiful country and my beloved city of Bangkok in the following months of March, April and May.

Chinese New Year 2010

Valentine's Day

New Year 2010

According to Thai and Chinese horoscope This year is a Tiger year. At first I drew only Linping, the little panda, in tiger suit to send it to all my FB friends. Then I remembered all the baby animals that died last year; the baby hippo that lost its life just because of the carelessness of the zoo staff and then, two weeks after that, the little elephant whose mother abandoned her since birth had also died. So I decided to draw them too, just for remembrance. I found it's not at all fair, Lin Ping receives so much attention and care, unlike other animals. Poor them. R.I.P.Baby Hippo and Baby Elephant. There's no discrimination up in heaven, I am sure.

Lin Ping

Baby Hippo


Baby Elephant Baby Piggy
This I drew for all piggies that were killed during swine flu outbreak.

The Real Tiger for Tiger Year
Even the real tiger has to wear a panda suit to attract more attention!


Fire Crackers!
I posted this picture for my Facebook friends exactly at 00.00 to celebrate the new year with them.
For Dreambox friends on FB