An Arty Farty Day!

We had an arty farty weekend the other day...

Pottery Exhibition

One of our friends, Grace, had a pottery exhibition and so we decided to go and view her exhibition and support her even though.. seriously speaking, I am no art lover nor do I boast of any art appreciation abilities:)

 I learnt alot of things during the exhibition... Eg, I learnt that pottery is very difficult when you use porcelain... it has a very good memory and so if you screw up while moulding it.. when you undo it, the mistake will still appear after you fire it... so you really need to be precise and meticulous when you work with porcelain...

I also learnt while eavedropping on some master potter from Japan who was giving a talk when we arrived... and learnt this very important thing... you see, most of the time, pottery is about understanding your craft very well so tat you can create this final product tat you see in your mind. Eg, this master potter understands that putting different composition in the glaze and putting it in different parts of the kiln can reap different results.. so she actually made 100 cups, made 10 different types of glaze using different components and then put all 10 different types in different parts of the kiln and kept all these cups as reference so she knows how to get that exact shade or colour that she wants... But she says.. sometimes, the act of losing control itself is a good thing as it is another form of creativity... In order words, while control to make your art piece look like wat you want is good.. surrendering to not knowing what comes is beautiful creativity too:)

While I enjoy the exhibition and it reminded of my Jap art and aesthetics module I took in university, Ace is a little too young to appreciate it all. He does however like the same art pieces as I do and I guess, you could say part of art appreciation is just appreciation of beauty ;)

These are the works of my friend.. we asked if she could make two wine cups for us the next time for us to drink sake:) haha...

I did not take photos of the other works which were quite amazing too.. I was told need permission from the potter.. too much trouble :) So I just show you wat my friend did.. if you like what she did and wants to purchase, they are available for sale too :) Just PM me and I will be glad to link you up ;)

Balloon Sculptures Galore!
After that, we were wondering where to go and remembered that there is some Dinosaur Balloon Extravaganza at Marina Square and so we decided to go there and take a look.

When we reached there, it was really scary! Cos it was people mountain people sea lor... So difficult to take good pictures cos it was so crowded!

Can you tell what sort of animal is eating Ace?:)

Oh no, why is one eye missing?

Ace pretending to get eaten up by the plant. not bad.. acting quite well... 果然有他老母的真传.. hahaha:)

I thought maybe we could take BETTER photos if we took from outside in.. so I walked around the parameters, trying to find a better angle..

Now you can see the animal tat was eating Ace:)

While walking around.. we passed by a cafe with a Mr Bean standee and Ace said he wanted to go there later...

I told him we go upstairs and take some photos first...

Time to visit the cafe which is called Teddy And Me...

They even sell Mr Bean's Teddy Bear and the interesting thing is tat the pple buying the bears are actually tourists from UK! :) wahahahahaa...

Ace ordered an ice cream...

Me ordered a coffee...

And the two boys spent the next hour totally glued onto TV.. watching old Mr Bean reruns...

And the beauty of Mr Bean is that... it is still funny... so many years later!:) Hahaha...

LIVE Bands and Darts
While we were thinking where else to go after that... a friend posted on FB tat he will be playing with a band at this cafe that we have been to before and said will like to bring Ace.

And so we decided to just go and support lor;)  I have known this friend to be a international musician for some time but have never seen him play LIVE:)

 Ace tried to play darts with Daddy.. and since there is darts to play.. Daddy called Shu Shu to join us with Shen Shen later...

 The band playing... the lead singer, Roman, looks like a IT expert of sorts but he is actually very talented and writes his own songs and sings well:)

 Ace was just happy to be playing with my friend's son, A... they were trying to throw darts too..

 Drinking game, anyone?

 My friend Mohan on the guitar..

Afterward, there was a band that had a member doing a CHINESE FLUTE solo! How cool is that ;)

Anyway, it was a very arty farty day.. wahahaha ;)

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