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Mar 22

Event shooting – blood donation campaign 21st March 2010

By CJ Involvement, Photography

Blood donation campaign at Mahkota Parade, 21st March 2010

Recently my friend, Wee-Peng was asking me about blood donation. Since the last time he donated years ago, he wanted to make another donation.

I read newspaper about the blood donation campaign which would be held at Mahkota Parade yesterday and I told Wee-Peng about it days ago. He immediately agreed to participate.

: “It isn’t pain at all”

Both of us went to the blood donation campaign yesterday. The response of the campaign was good. When we reached the venue, there were public from different backgrounds were queueing up for blood donation registration. We were delighted to be part of such a meaningful event.

The atmosphere was so peaceful. It was much more laughter than pain for us. Since local anaesthetic was used, the only pain we experienced was very minor. In fact, it was only 2 seconds when the needle injected to the artery. After that, we just sat and relaxed, waiting for the pint of blood to be filled up.

The minor pain we experienced was nothing compared to the trauma victims due to accidents and burns, heart surgery, organ transplants, women with complications during childbirth, newborns and premature babies, and patients receiving treatment for leukemia, cancer or other diseases, such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia who need our blood for a cure.

Blood donation is an act of kindness and makes us realise that this simple act could save lives. Every pint of blood donated can save up to 3 lives. It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Special thanks to the organisers, volunteers and donors who made this wonderful event going. I would like to thank Wee-Peng for giving me an opportunity to participate in this event together. May everyone be happy.

While Wee-Peng was donating, I snapped some photos to share the event with you:

Mar 21

A day at Kampung Jawa and Kampung Hulu with Dylan

By CJ Beautiful Melaka, Juesatta art, Photography

Days ago, Dylan Low (the last photo in this post) and I went for a shooting at Kampung Jawa and Kampung Hulu in Melaka. It was drizzling when we arrived, however we didn’t give up on our plan. Fortunately the weather turned out alright after some time of shooting.

Decades ago, Kampung Jawa and Kampung Hulu were considered few of the hottest spots in Melaka. Long before Mahkota Parade and Jusco were built, most Malaccan would do their shopping for things like shoes, clothing, dried seafood, groceries, or even a cheap haircut there. Besides, delicious multiracial food like rojak, wantan noodle, fishball noodle, cendol, etc. could be found there.

One of the reasons Dylan and I chose to go there was, we would see craftsmen like goldsmith, blacksmith, carpenter, sculptor, cobbler, tailor, etc. These craftsmen at Kampung Jawa and Kampung Hulu were really good and skilful in their profession, and sad to say that they were mostly senior citizens. Younger generation would not treasure these traditional handicrafts nowadays.

These are some of the shots I took:

Mar 17

Over staffed: fable of an ant

By CJ Juesatta art, Photography, Wisdom

Every day, a small ant arrives at work very early and starts work immediately.

She produces a lot and she is happy.

The Chief, a lion, was surprised to see that the ant was working without supervision.

He thought if the ant can produce so much without supervision, wouldn’t she produce even more if she had a supervisor!

So he recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports.

The cockroach’s first decision was to set up a clocking in attendance system.

He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports and …
… he recruited a spider, who managed the archives and monitored all phone calls.

The lion was delighted with the cockroach’s reports and asked him to produce graphs to describe production rates and to analyse trends, so that he could use them for presentations at Board‘s meetings.

So the cockroach had to buy a new computer and a laser printer and …
… recruited a fly to manage the IT department.

The ant, who had once been so productive and relaxed, hated this new plethora of paperwork and meetings which used up most of her time…!

The lion came to the conclusion that it was high time to nominate a person in charge of the department where the ant worked.

The position was given to the cicada, whose first decision was to buy a carpet and an ergonomic chair for his office.

The new person in charge, the cicada, also needed a computer and a personal assistant ,who he brought from his previous department, to help him prepare a Work and Budget Control Strategic Optimisation Plan …

The Department where the ant works is now a sad place, where nobody laughs anymore and everybody has become upset…

It was at that time that the cicada convinced the boss , the lion, of the absolute necessity to start a climatic study of the environment .

Having reviewed the charges for running the ant’s department , the lion found out that the production was much less than before.

So he recruited the owl , a prestigious and renowned consultant to carry out an audit and suggest solutions.

The owl spent three months in the department and came up with an enormous report , in several volumes, that concluded : “ The department is overstaffed …”
Guess who the lion fires first?

The ant , of course, because she “showed lack of motivation and had a negative attitude”.

Adapted from Portuguese by PR. Obrigado Mário.
[source: http://www.infosl.com/doyouknow/?p=152]

Mar 12

巴厘岛之念

By cind@ My journey, Photography

AK366 - 飞去巴厘岛的天空

巴厘岛是印度尼西亚（简称印尼）13600多个岛屿中最耀眼的一个岛也是印度尼西亚著名的旅游区。居民主要是巴厘人，信奉印度教，以庙宇建筑、雕刻、绘画、音乐、纺织、歌舞和风景闻名于世。为世界旅游胜地之一。土地垦殖率65％以上，出产稻米、玉米、木薯、椰子、咖啡、烟叶、花生、甘蓝、洋葱、水果与棕油等。牛、咖啡与椰干为主要出口产品。

巴厘岛不但天然景色优美迷人，其文化和社会风俗习惯的丰富多彩也驰名于世。巴厘人的古典舞蹈典雅多姿，在世界舞蹈艺术中具有独特的地位，亦是印尼民族舞蹈中一枝鲜艳的奇葩。气候属于热带海岛型气候，气候常年炎热，全年平均温度约28℃，每年的10月到次年3月为雨季，其它时间为旱季。巴厘岛的地区天气状况，除了中部山区气温略低，海边地区气温较高外，其它地区大多是晴朗炎热的好天气。
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Mar 11

符永刚博士的收藏的墨宝真迹

By CJ Chinese calligraphy, Juesatta art, Photography

海南会馆里的天后宫．楼下展示海南会馆所收藏的字画

在农历元宵节的前一天，书法老师刘明亮邀请我到马六甲的海南会馆，去参观符永刚博士的墨宝真迹和第三届符永刚杯书法赛。当明亮老师在筹备书法赛的一场讲座时，他致电符永刚先生，希望符永刚先生能当讲座会的讲师，和大家分享书法；符永刚先生给了明亮老师一个惊喜，除了他会在当天配合活动，也会展示他所收藏中国清代以来各大书法家的墨宝真迹。

当晚，除了有很多的人踊跃参赛，会场还展示了海南会馆的书法珍藏和符永刚博士的珍藏品。大家都有缘欣赏了自清朝以来到当代的书法家包括了何绍基、沈鹏、康有为、徐悲鸿、罗振玉、吴昌硕等等的真迹。这些墨宝书法有甲骨文、金文、篆书、隶书、魏碑、楷书、行书、草书等等各体。

在书法赛后，刘明亮老师和符永刚博士给了一个很有意义的书法讲座，符博士说：“我们学书法能只学一体，必须博取众长，或转益多师，这样才能创作出自己灵魂的作品，成为书家；不然，就是停留在写字写字的阶段。”

这是明亮老师和我认识的另一位在孔教会教书法的老师刑福兴先生，所给的建议都是一样的。越是把自己的思维封闭起来的人，越难写出好字。书法和绘画不一样，非表面的创作。书法是有传统的根，却不局限于传统的思维；必须于时并进却又不能忽略传统的文化价值。

当我、蔡天成先生、明亮老师和符永刚博士在挂展览品时，我们一面挂，他们一边评论这些各大书法家的字。从中他们的谈话中，可以知道他们对书法的有多了解与热爱。他们能说出作品的书法家是受何人的影响、大约多少岁写的、为何人而写的等等；让我知道原来从一位书法家的真迹中，能了解到他的人生经历和修养。譬如一位书法家的两幅真迹中，明亮老师他们能分别是80岁前或80岁后写的，因为他所经历了人生不同的阶段，笔触流露出个人的性格涵养。

以下是我在会场拍摄的照片：

Mar 08

Meeting Jamie Chan again with his students and artworks

By CJ Juesatta art, Photography

Ascetic Gautama - clay art by Jamie

Last week I went to visit Jamie Chan. Remember the post of Jamie Chan the animal lover last year on juesatta? Jamie is an art teacher.

When I visited Jamie during the evening, he was at his art class teaching a few children. There were five students. Due to the Chinese New Year period, children were having holiday so not many attended the class on that day.

When I arrived, Jamie was writing Chinese calligraphy, then we started our chat with warm greetings. On my request, Jamie showed his artworks to me. I had a chance to shoot some photos of these amazing art pieces: twin-headed turtle, alien in an egg, lizard fossil, lizard, fantastic drawings, dinosaur teapot, and my favorite the ascetic Gautama.

Later on, out of no where Jamie brought out his collection of his old drawings in his early years in primary school and secondary school. Jamie’s paintings were mostly freestyle, his brushes flowed freely with his feeling and mood. It was really interesting to see how Jamie improved throughout the years, and how his style evolved could be anticipated from his early years’ paintings.

Furthermore, Jamie loved clay art and did many in recent years. Most of them were made and colored then displayed in nicely decorated fish tanks in his class. These wonderful display in class, however would provide an artistic atmosphere and would inspire the students’ interest. These clay artworks were all my favorite especially the ascetic Gautame which seemed like a real unearthed artifact to me.

Jamie and his partner, Joan are both art teacher of the class. Although the mother wasn’t there when I went, the daughter, Si Si was there learning from his daddy. A very artistic family indeed. And I know Jamie from his sister, Janic who is also a great artist and has recently resumed her art class too. I hope I have a chance to shoot Janic’s artworks in future.

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