ninethirty by awfully chocolate

Yes, there was a parking lot! So I ended up at Ninethirty by Awfully Chocolate at the corner of East Coast Road and Joo Chiat Road. I ordered a breakfast meal and a coffee at around 5:30pm plus a quick sketch of the young customers sitting right in front of me.

132 meepok

A free Saturday morning finally! So we went to block 59, Marine Parade Terrace for 132 meepok. It was moved here from the coffee shop outside my house along Upper East Coast Road. It was better than I could remember. The son now seemed to finally acquire his father's secret in a cooking up a delicious bowl of meepok (noodles). It had a constant long line of people so while my husband was queuing, I sketched the uncles.

September Sketchwalk

We're going to explore this quaint old place, and see what's become of it and its surroundings after the decommissioning of the Malayan Railway in Singapore.

Make sure to bring water and a hat to keep cool, and put on a bug repellant band so you don't get bitten.

Meet at the station building at 4.30pm. Then we are free to roam the vicinity. Please meet back the same place for show and tell. If it gets too dark, we can all walk back to King Albert Park Mall for show and tell. We can all have dinner at McDonalds.

Favian has suggested a few areas we can sketch:
1) Bkt timah rail station (of course!)
2) King Albert Park MacDonald's etc (before it's demolished!)
3) Bkt Timah Rail Bridge (if it is still there)
4) Bkt Timah Shopping Centre, Beauty World (old school malls!)

Or you can just stay around to sketch the former station building.

I would suggest sketchers to do something different this time. Say, sketch with a different medium, or sketch large format. If you are used to sketching A4 size, maybe try A3 this time or something bigger like A2. If you are up for the challenge.

PS: For those who are driving, please park at King Albert Park, and then walk to the station. See map for direction. I have also included the buses you can take to come here for those who are using public transport

You may download the map and print to refer later. We will keep you posted if there is any change to the plan.

Result of Katong Sketchwalk

Too busy to scan and post this piece of work I did for the ad-hoc sketchwalk. Thanks Tony Tan of Betel Box Backpackers Hostel for hosting us, providing their comfortable premises for us to do the briefing and show and tell before and after the sketchwalk on 17 Aug.

Urban Sketchers Singapore at TEDx

I was speaking at the TEDxSingapore City2.0 event last Saturday on "Sketching the City Together". Thank you to our wonderful sketchers for being there to support and did what we do best, sketching the speakers!

Mid-Autumn Festival Celebrations

A very quick sketch as it was our turn to perform on stage for the mid-autumn festival celebrations on behalf of Braddell Heights Community Club. We moved there when Hwa Chong Alumni Building at Bukit Timah Road was demolished in July this year. I am a pipa player in the Chinese Orchestra formed by old schoolmates of more than 40 years when we studied at National Junior College, the only JC in the early 70s. When we formed the orchestra in 2008 or 2009, we were invited by Hwa Chong Alumni to use their music room every Sunday for practice. It is a way for old friends to meet and jam for fun!

lunch time

Canteen was closed during vacation at School of Design where I work, so I decided to take my lunch at McDonald located in the campus. This group of ladies were quite loud and from their conversation, they should be graduates or external participants for a meeting or an event.

Creamery at Star Theatre

Did a sketch at Creamery while having ice cream and coffee at Star Theatre. We were waiting to pick up our children who were attending the talk by Nick Vujicic. Earlier we were unable to park at the place when we saw a long long line of cars waiting at the car park entrance. We were lucky to park at the road side near the building. Next we found ourselves queing for food and looking for seats in the crowded food court. It must be the theatre crowd. It's a big complex with open air shops on the lower floors and a 5000-seat state of the art theatre on the upper floors. Good eco friendly concept mall but too crowded a place for me. Can you spot the open-step outdoor amphiteatre in my sketch? I will like to see how will the building work when there is a huge storm.

Book launch at Bookactually

Zhu Hong had his book launch at Booksactually, 9 Yong Siak Street at Tiong Bahru Estate. Had not seen Miel Dengcoy for a while. He is here in my sketch on the left with Ignatius Yeo in the middle and Zhu Hong on the right. He was holding his phone, again. If you not already known, his latest book entitled 'Have phone, will paint' collected more than 125 pages of sketches done with his Samsung Galaxy Note. Finally, can you spot Cake, the cat in my sketch too?

James and Andrew

Had meeting with James and Andrew to discuss about our next book before Zhu Hong's book launch at Booksactually. Sketcher sketching sketchers at Poteato, another new cafe at Tiong Bahru. How many cafes are there now in Tiong Bahru?

Our sketches are featured

Dim Sum at Geylang

Too busy to sketch lately. Finally started a new muji sketchbook on Sunday 1 Sep at Geylang while having dinner. I was introduced to this Dim Sum place at the coffee shop by sketcher friends and it was really cheap and good. Interesting sight and sound at Lorong 17 Geylang too. A young man stood up and put a chair on the parking lot in front of the coffee shop when a driver drove the car away. He put another chair again on another adjacent parking lot when the other driver drove out of the lot. Uniquely Geylang!

EZ Link Card

Block 38 - my sketch of the old market at Queenstown was made into Ez Link Card.

Remembering 911

Remembering 911 at 8:46am local time, I was there in New York on 11 Sep 2001. I lost all my photos taken on site but this poster I did based on individual tile painting by the kids in New York was saved on the web.

Sevilla - Day 12

Our favourite breakfast place next to the hotel at Seville.

Seville - Day 11

Warming up horse carriage sketch on arrival in Sevilla. Another one on the way towards the Garden. In the evening, we met up with Inma, Orling and the local sketchers and went to the old part of Sevilla to sketch the local church.

I did post a bigger piece of the Cathedral in Sevilla at this link on 18 Aug 2013 on this blog.

Granada - Day 10

Free and easy morning I did a sketch next to the river. We had lunch again at our favourite Carmela Restaurant next to our hotel before leaving in the evening for Sevilla by train. Did a sketch during the train ride.

Granada - Day 9

The next day in Granada, we went to visit the legendary palace Alhambra. Top sketch is the entrance to Alhambra on the extreme right of the map, bottom sketch is the Alcazaba fortress inside the complex on the extreme left of the map.

Granada - Day 8

We arrived in Granada in the morning after a good sleep in the cabin of a very comfortable night train. It was a super quick sketch about 15 minutes on a very hot morning. The lunch sketch was done in the neighbourhoods of the Albaicin at almost 40 deg C. Even the waiters were wearing sunglasses! In the evening, we watched a very exciting flamingo performance inside a cave at Sacromente. We sat next to the performers that we could literally touch the dancers!

Barcelona - Day 7

On the last day of the Symposium, we were at Ginesta again for dinner. This time with Parka and Tony, their first time to this place. There were so many regular customers as I saw so many familiar faces.

Barcelona - Day 6

This is day one of symposium draw and drink session at 3CBar in CCCB, symposium venue very near to our hotel.

Barcelona - Day 4

Day 4, all of us except Paul went to visit Mies Van der Rohe pavilion. It was first built in 1929 and rebuilt 1986 at this location.

Barcelona - Day 3

Ginesta, our favourite dinner place in Barcelona.