Placing thirty-two people in one composition is not an easy task. I won’t encourage it but since this is for a group of happy people from a close-knit organisation bidding farewell to their beloved boss, well I guess I’ll give it a shot. To my surprise the A2 size black and white caricatures turned out well, reflecting the warmth of their working environment and an endearing gratitude to their boss.
From Kamal, Ruoshi, Mahsuri and Budiman: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Spider man spinning his web. piss!
Mama with milk in her breasts and guts in her pens (no pun intended)!
The wide-eyed charmer
The artist and his usual stuck-up look (oops!)
One of our favourite family hangouts is Vivocity shopping centre. It’s a direct train route for us from Serangoon to Harbour Front MRT station. Here are a few snapshots on one of the outings:
Having lunch at Food Republic foodcourt. Taken with my elder son, Ma Ning (Mahsuri).
Feeding cereal to Ma Jing (Budiman).
my two peas: Ning and Jing.
Kamal bought this nosey spectacle frame just to amuse Mahsuri. However, everyone in the family except him likes the frame. Mahsuri is totally terrified by the weird-looking thing. Here’s the proof:
Baby “Nosey” Budiman
Mommy “Nosey” Ruoshi
Ayah “Nosey” Kamal
Mahsuri: (screams..) don’t want don’t want…i don’t want to be “Nosey” Mahsuri!!
just contended to see you draw.
Is this a fantasy island in your dreams?
Must practise drawing egg like young Da Vinci did.
oops! yOu caught me doodle again yaH?
ok, I am all smiles for your camera.
Continue with my drawing.
Some nice mornings my two sons - Mahsuri (Ma Ning) and Budiman (Ma Jing) spent together in the month of November…One of the fun things beside wrestling with each other is to doodle together… Here are some photos:
(Ma Jing): Let me see what you are drawing…
(Ma Jing): I help you with this stroke lah…
(Ma Ning): Don’t take my pen, I am concentrating on my observation studies.
(Ma Jing): Whoa! That baby girl “ho lang” (means “very pretty” in Cantonese) leh…
(Ma Jing): hiaz… i have been posing for one hour and he is still drawing my hair….
(Ma Ning): ok, ok, finishing soon, have more patience mah…
(Ma Ning): wah, your clothes have a lot of pattern leh…wasting a lot of time drawing them…can ask mommy to change to a plain one for you?
(Ma Ning): Ayah (Daddy) says i must talk to my model while I draw him, so that he will feel at ease.
(Ma Jing): Yawn…I am too at ease until I wanna fall asleep liao….
It was a posh but relaxing experience for me to be doing caricatures at a Christmas party for the highly-valued customers of Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC premier banking clients). The party was held at the showroom of Reflections@Keppel, the upcoming prestigious waterfront condominium designed by famous architect, Daniel Libeskind. There were LIVE jazz band, singer crooning softly, free-flowing of premium red and white French wines, and the service of three caricaturists (Wilson, Kamal and myself) who each wore a colourful beret provided by the event planners. The guests were having a good time and so did we. Overall, it was a great assignment for all of us.
The artist in her nice red beret.
It’s a family practice that every year, we will head down to Orchard Road to view the Christmas Lightings and also to have some snap-shots taken with the night scenery. This year, it is a handful for me as I am a mother of two now, with two boys fighting for attention. Hmm… ask me what’s my christmas wishes and I will tell you this: give me two more kids in years to come! 
Mahsuri and mommy
Budiman and mommy
They aren’t heavy, they are my two precious darlings!
Our dear friend and ex-colleague, Angela Ho is back from United Kingdom for winter vacation. Bel, Jamie, June and Eddino came to our house to have lunch and tea-time with her. Angela bought lots of presents for us. I especially like the chocolate-flavoured lip-gloss and the chintz-patterned flower pouch she bought for me. Angela also bought a nice CARS (Walt Disney’s animation movie) colouring book for Mahsuri and a donkey picture book for Budiman. Mahsuri enjoyed playing games with her. Jamie even teased her of qualifying as a nanny for me and June’s future child. We had a great time eating and chit-chatting. Kamal and I are looking forward to her return next September in 2008.
For this company dinner, I did 60 caricature faces in an hour! The caricatures done here are on smaller and simpler format because they are done for making into keychains. My speed is about 1 min for each person. The bosses of the company are Japanese. They are very friendly and candid to the drawings. It was fun drawing them.
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