have successfully sort of detached self from things. i hope.

yeah, who am i kidding.

anyway. life proved quite interesting last night. or this morning, whichever you choose. somehow had dream that was sketching strangely named place in hong kong. get this, i did it by using the movable window frame to focus on the skyline i wanted to start with first. but for some reason when i sat at certain spots, the skyline would flip and flip and fly about and change. gosh do you know what i'm talking about? it's inspired me to pick up sketching again though. the last time i sketched was during the UK trip and in portugal. i sketched a whole lot of churches which i then gave away to someone who ... once was special in life, to put it nicely. i shouldn't have given them away, on hindsight, even though i keep telling self i don't regret giving them away. but oh well, person who has it is still friend and i could always ask him to show them to me once in a while. i suppose i really don't mind too much, because that chapter is closed and the strings aren't left loose. and i can't very well take back the gift because it would be like yanking pages out and everything would be very misplaced and unhappy.

maybe this had something to do with the fact that i kept observing this man who was sketching outside coffee club. his drawing wasn't all that good, but he was extremely meticulous in the planning of his artwork. he lay out all the groundwork before slowly filling it in. so it wasn't like your usual smooth transition from flowers to trees [or what have you], it was like, 'rub away circle' and fill in with flower bud.

it amazes me, these people. i love seeing people like that. who just sit with a coffee and sketch out of love and hobby. it very much contradicts with singapore life. it is as though they are in their little world and everyone is just passing them by, unawares of how much they glow.

+ posted by M @ 9:09 AM