I love Sashimi

At Sushi Express, I have more salmon sashimi than sushi and I like to sit at the counter to watch the sushi chefs.

Uncles at IKEA

Are the uncles more addicted to the smart phones or the aunties? He was there watching video. Wait! I forgot to sketch the phone on the table, HA!

Saturday Outing at IKEA

Saturday you can spot very long line at the counter at IKEA restaurant.

Lunch at FoodFare - A Social Enterprise

This lunch place is just opposite my institution at the new HDB block 878A. NTUC Foodfare is set out to be a different kind of business - established by the Labour Movement in 1995, with the primary purpose to serve working people and their families by stabilising cooked food prices and helping them improve their quality of life. To me, the price is not much different from the other food establishment and the quality is just acceptable. There are also new initiatives such as cashless payment. The self service machine you see in my sketch is now a white elephant. Automation in this country still have a long way to go.

June Sketchwalk at Ang Mo Kio Park

Credits: Banner sketch by Favian Ee

Ang Mo Kio Central sits between to neighbourhood parks - Ang Mo Kio Town Gardens East and West. This month's location is the latter, the larger of the two. A 21-hectare garden just off AMK Ave 6, it is beautifully landscaped with lotus pond, terraced hill, activity areas, green spaces, secondary forest, and bird singing club.
(https://www.nparks.gov.sg/gardens-parks-and-nature/parks-and-nature-reserves/ang-mo-kio-town-garden-west)

START
Time: 9:30 AM
Location: Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West
In front of Macdonald's
https://goo.gl/maps/zHKr8yyz8qk

END
Time: 12:15 PM
Location: Garden Plaza, next to the pond
(https://goo.gl/maps/HM9oARYhAut)

Nearest MRT: Ang Mo Kio MRT (EWL)

Locations to sketch:
- Garden Plaza
- Playgrounds
- Stage area
- Bird singing club area
- Lotus pond
- Observatory terrace / hill top
- Macdonald's

Places to eat and shop:
- Macdonalds
- Ang Mo Kio Central

Sketchwalk leaders: Patrick Ng, Favian Ee

Notes: Bring your own stools and watch out for bees at some parts. Be kind to bees!

A Sketch Outside National Gallery

Colour washes were added later to a sketch I did on location on the steps outside National Gallery on 18 May. On that day I did the sketch, there was no more ink and no more pages to sketch and I did not bring any colours and brushes.

I don't always go to the city area but that day, the weather was good and the view captivating. The iconic Marina Bay Sands on the left is designed by Moshe Safdie with the sky park straddling three hotel towers. In the last decade, the skyscrapers were sprouting out like mushrooms behind the classic orange tiled roof Cricket Club Singapore which was built in the 1860s. The contrasting horizontal classic building and the vertical towers together with the green Padang (the big lawn) in the front forming the beautiful skyline of Central Business District of Singapore.

Father's Day

My son eating his long japanese noodles on Father's Day at Megumi. They will be moving out soon to a new location in Joo Chiat. They will be moving out end of the month as the developer is going to build a new building on the same location. It is part of the red hot en-bloc market started in 2017 and now everyone is talking about en-bloc including the place that I stay.

Breakfast on a Public Holiday

One of my favourite breakfast places - mee pok (noodles) at Simpang Bedok. In fact there are four stalls to choose from and the newest one has airconditioning, expensive and I only tried once. You can read about the mee pok here.

Hari Raya

Yesterday 15 Jun was Hari Raya Aidilfitri. Muslims in Singapore end their time of fasting with a joyous celebration of forgiveness, fellowship and food. Marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is the festival of Eid, known in Singapore as Hari Raya Aidilfitri or Hari Raya Puasa. It was also a public holiday for us so we went to Simpang Bedok for breakfast. We saw so many families in their ethnic costumes passing by the coffeeshop after parking their cars. These two guys look really cool with big army bag and jubahs

Jalan Besar

I sketched this after a heritage walk at Jalan Besar area orgainsed by Urban Redevelopment Authority for a small group of enthusiasts, historians, researchers etc. The back lanes were so interesting, full of life and character. There was an altar for the wondering souls, old soil collecting points, overgrown banyan tree covering the back of shophouse, stories about the properties, so colourful and interesting.

Three's a Crowd

Three's a Crowd is a dessert cafe located at the heartland of Tampines which includes ice cream, freshly baked cakes, coffees , tea and other dessert drinks at block 802 Avenue 4 just opposite my institution. I like to come here when I need some quiet moment or after my lunch to relax with two scoops of ice cream and a thick coffee. These two young men came, ordered, left within 15 minutes after having two drinks and sharing a cake. The young man on the right had a very unique hairstyle.

JTC50 featuring my work

I am one of the three featured artists in this video that celebrating JTC50. I did a 3-metre long panoramic skyline sketch of Tuas, Jurong Industrial Estate on location. It was lots of fun doing this video before my trip to Shanghai. I met two graduates that I taught at Temasek Polytechnic as creative director and camera videographer. You can see I roll out the concertina sketchbook at 4:00. Enjoy!

last sketch in Hong Kong

 


8 pages of Moleskine Japanese Album at IFC, Hong Kong on the last day after check-in at the Airport Express at Hong Kong Station. It was windy and shady in the afternoon on the open terrace at IFC. Shake Shack from New York also just opened for business one floor above the open terrace and the queue was ridiculously long.