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*my mum is the one in the pink and white striped shirt standing in front of my dad who stands just beneath me...please click on photo to enlarge*

I had a small Christmas and New Year gathering on the 28th of December 2007. It was also a surprise birthday party for my mum.It was populated by a few friends,most of the note of love cast and of course mum and dad who were visiting me from sarawak.

It was to a mum who loves me so much...who gave me birthdays when i was young....who went to school during break time and waited by the school gate gate to pass me a lunch box that i have forgotten...who smiled when I achieved any small success...who teared when she had to fight me when my whims as a child I wanted things that may not be good for me...it was also for a mum who bought me the toys i wanted...

My mum and I have our fair share of disagreements...but which child had never quarreled with a parent? In everything I know she just wanted the best for me, her son...even though sometimes generation gap meant

I didn't know how I could thank her...so I thought I gave her a small party...as the cake came out...and a confetti cannon shot....she nearly teared...in joy. so did I.

My mum was esthatic and said give her time to make a wish..."close to retirement meant even my wishing is slow"...she tried to joke...

I m glad you are happy mum...Happy Birthday.

To you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

Thanks to evelyn who helped with the food marination,eleanor with shopping,dennis with the fire and everyone who came and added merriment....


"Benazir Bhutto assasinated...so What??"
That's what I would have said as an arrogant ignorant teen...

I am often not a political person but of late I have been following CNN on the trials and tribulation of Pakistan and the upcoming election and understand a little bit better about how much we all fight and how much peace is a blessing...



I have never had to fight for peace...and hence I never treasured the peace that I have...I have never prayed for peace on my own accord truthfully with the voice of my little heart...but rather made the prayer as it was asked by my priest in church...Most times, I pray selfishly for only myself, family, close friends...most times I prayed for my troubles which is nothing more than a fickle arguement with a girlfriend or money that i need to buy a new cool gimmick...maybe it's time I treasured peace and should pray for it...maybe it's time for me to stop taking peace for granted...and do that little bit to help...

Benazir Bhutto was fiercely fighting for democracy and peace for her homeland Pakistan.



Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was asked to be with the Lord.


Does the Lord care for peace...does he care for us? Maybe he doesn't care because we don't even care...other than for our selfish self...so am I selfish myself?

To you all, yes...I am selfish and I am sorry...


Have I ever treasure our peace in Malaysia, Have I ever found myself having or willing to die for a better world for? Have I ever prayed when we needed nothing from God but when something for a fellow man. Sometimes...well very seldom...no

It's time to pray for peace.Pray for our fellow sister Benazir Bhutto.Please offer a moment of silence and a prayer for her, her country and all mankind... God is listening and he's waiting for us to ask.Peace to you my brothers...my friends

Emmanuel

credits for all photos REUTERS sourced from yahoo news.

do light a candle for yourself...god loves you

I wanted to write this blog mocking how the church swells up everytime christmas comes along.How the roads leading to churches gets jammed up and how once a year christians suddenly show up in amazing number for church.I also want to write about how it's an irony that as I turn on my radio on christmas eve, I don't get a traditional christmas carol but rather a rap song with a few words of christmas and a few words of baby. I wanted to write about how a large number people are aiming to celebrate christmas by getting drunk and showered by champange rather than to be anyway close to the church.but i won't because I feel that writing all that will be very pretentious for someone who is too in many ways a sinner. But I do also feel really happy and I rather share that than negate in this yultite season of goodwill.

Christmas is a christian celebration of God keeping his promise to send us salvation.It's is this day that God is made man. However, to most of us sadly it's now christmas tree and santa, or if you're older...it time to skip from party to party.I am not against celebration, if fact I want to tell you about how we forgot about the celebration...celebrating christmas...celebrating the birth of the son of God.

I was all alone on christmas eve. Originally I wanted to follow my family who's making a trip down Singapore but I ended up deciding to stay back to clear my workload instead. But it's okay, I am strangely very happy. Aside from talking to my long distance girlfriend on skype, I hardly feel alone.I am singing songs more jubilantly than before and at 10pm, I made my way to st.francis xavier church for midnite service.

There is a pre-mass session where everyone was singing together. From Gloria to It came upon a midnite clear. The crowd's joined voices that resounded in a united choral already moved me to tears. Of happiness. Honestly, not to be corny...I was trying to tell myself...to stop myself...why am I crying...am I over dramatising the situation for myself? Feeling holiness by evoking it within with grand ideas of how we're in church? Well, I am not...I don't have to.Merely being in the presence of a big group of people who have come togethr to celebrate the coming of christ alone is a feeling that is undescribable. I felt so happy...and I think I am not the only one.
Turning around, I see other people also happy to the brink of tears.

It's christmas...I have a mum and a dad who's healthy, a beautiful girlfriend zhiling whom I love alot, friends who care, a job that I enjoy so much, enough to eat and be happy...God, thank you for your gifts to me...how good you have been to me...a sinner like me...thank you Lord...

That's all I want to say...

God love you too...Emmanuel. It means 'God with Us'. Merry Christmas Everyone. May God's Blessing be Upon You All.
There is always a bridge...Light to Dark, Past to Future and Love to Hate.

a friend of mine...had this on his blog and i had a great big laugh from it...so i decided to put it here for you readers...click play....you'll enjoy it! :P

Linus


Steel, originally uploaded by mt.hermangirl.

Photo student Maddy created a portfolio of self portraits as part of her Art 72 Photo class. There's even a Flickr group of LMC photo students at http://www.flickr.com/groups/510641@N24/


Jessica Prudell-Hazen, originally uploaded by losmedanosart.

Jessica Prudell-Hazen works on her long-term acrylic paint project in Rosalie Cassell's Art 40 Intro to Painting class. Rosaile invites everyone to to come have fun moving gobby goops of color about in the real world.



The above is an x-ray of my teeth. Notice...one healthy teeth and another one that's not quite there? Well, it exploded...

I am so sorry for not having kept my promise yet again to update my blog regularly....I am sorry for my friends who come here for an update on myself as well as random blog readers...it is my new year resolution to write at least ten blogs a month from January onwards....just been so flushed with life....life...not work.

Life has been throwing alot of things my way...some awesome...some bad but nonetheless every bit a simple taste of what is living...what is being...I'll share a good one next but this particular post I'd like to share something more pressing and urgent first....

TAKE CARE OF YOUR TEETH!!!

so so so do take care of your teeth!!!!!!

I recently had one of my tooth explode on me...what happen was...my teeth has never been my strong point...people have problems with pimples, with back problems...my problem has always been my teeth.why? well...when I was young the school dental nurse was a trainee...an didn't really know what to do...so she just drilled and filled up my teeth for fun...okay maybe not for fun but because she was not experienced...she drilled into every little cavity and damaged my teeth. The reason why i know this is I had a regular dentist...he checked my teeth and indicated it was all okay but then suddenly he was surprised to find many fillings....so yeah, from then on...I always had a problem with my teeth...when a filling dropped out...I will begin to feel pain...and had to visit the dentist...it didn't help that i rather be hit by a car than visit a dentist.I so fear the dental drill...sitting in a dental chair...helpless with this drill like a jackhammer whacking away like there's a construction site in your mouth...

Recently, one of my tooth gave way...the fillings became too deep as every time a filling dropped out and I went to get a new one the dentist will have to drill slightly deeper to clean it out. This teeth, my back molar had a particularly deep filling.So the walls of the tooth gave way and the teeth in short exploded.Imagine a teeth as being a four wall box, well what's left of mine is two of the four walls...yes, in place of a molar, I had two sharp protrusion...if you are cringing don't...funnily i didn't feel any pain despite my tooth internal nerves was being exposed (according to dentist).

So with much trepidation and fear...I went to the dentist.

Dental chair lowers...bright dentist light....dentist looks at my teeth...he takes an x-ray. I have two choices...

one...extract whatever is left of the teeth.
two...do a root canal, save the root and put a crown on top

as a dentist, he will undoubtedly say save the teeth as it is my large molar and extracting it will mean i have a huge gap where food can get stuck.Also a gap there will mean my top pairing molar will have no support.So okay...I decided to save my teeth.Now what's a root canal?

Well...a root canal is the process of drilling deep into the tooth...remove all the nerves and living tissue then filling it up.In this case whatever left of the teeth is there but dead and dental cement is used to rebuilt the walls that broke off.
Now...what's the problem of just concealing the nerves like a regular filling and not killing the teeth you may ask.Well because of the severity of my cavity at the moment...if the internal tissue is not removed, dirt could slip in through my filling causing the internal tissue to get an infection which could lead to greater oral problem, lots of pain and possibly even a swollen jaw.Problems with a root canal? It's pricey and it's a long process...three session over three weeks almost 4 hours in total....




So I made up my mind and today I went for a root canal. Remember...the dentist is essentially using a drill and various sharp object to drill into my teeth and remove my nerve.I asked the dentist....must i be awake? Can I be put asleep? The dentist says...well anesthesia is expensive so what they give is an injection of local anesthesia to numb my gums....and so he pulls out an injection...I tremble in fear...

The following is a second x-ray of my tooth...do see that there is two long drill bits like needles poked deep down into it where my veins are suppose to be...next to it...do observe what a healthy teeth look like...



friends...fellow blog readers...DO TAKE CARE OF YOUR TEETH if you dun want these grievances....

to the dentist's credit..he did it well and frankly I'd reccomend him as a dentist.ask me personally if you need his number. He was reccomended to me by two friends.
Abstract Violin
Oil on canvas panel
20"X24"
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2007
SOLD

Abstract Piano
Oil on canvas panel
20"X24"
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2007
SOLD

Abstract Guitar SOLD


drawing1, originally uploaded by losmedanosart.

Life drawing with real life. It happens at LMC right in the Art Department in Basic and Advanced Drawing Classes. Your birthday suit not required.


sale1, originally uploaded by losmedanosart.

The annual LMC Ceramics Holiday sale is happening in The President's office until December 14. You could buy a bowl or zombie and not only make your life better, but support the Art Department as well. What's Christmas without something breakable? Shop now.

"Bird Cage, Cage children," J. Prévert







Flood in the Art Department, originally uploaded by losmedanosart.

Over the Thanksgiving break there was a water leak in the Art area. It covered the floors with 1" of water. It also got into the offices. They smell swell now. We have fans and heaters running. Art goes on. We will not be stopped!

This is a totally fake photoshop sign labeling the new gallery. We've requested, begged and been promised an actual sign like the cool metal one on the Library. Let the countdown begin! Guess how long until the actual sign is installed and win some swell, yet to be determined, award from the Art department.
To enter, just comment this post (See that little word down there? Where it says "Comments?" Click it!)
And don't forget to take our poll on the right side of the page.
This isn't art, but it's about an art student. A climbing wall was erected in the middle of LMC as Nov 13 as part of a health fair the college hosted. Erica pretty much smacked down anyone who thought they could scale it faster than her. That's because art students are, well, the best.
Metallic Calm
Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
20"x 20"x 1.5"
(C) Copyright T. Lamoreaux 2007
SOLD

"Dress Rehearsal" won the People's Choice Award today in the Mesa Fine Art Show!
Waxed, a new show featuring art at least partly created with wax, opened Wednesday, Nov. 7 in the new LMC Art Gallery inside the new Library. (New is the new new this year at LMC)
The large work in this photo, "Wall of Grids," created by Daniella Woolf, has over 300 small pieces made waxed strips of paper was designed specifically for the space in the gallery.
You'd better get there before Dec 6, because it all comes down then.
Got any good wax lines for us? Wax on, wax off? Waxing enthusiastic? Something about Brazil?
Studebaker
Acrylic on Canvas panel -Framed
16"X20"
(C) Copyright T. Lamoreaux 2007

Streets of Paris
Acrylic on canvas board- Framed
12"X16"
(C) Copyright T. Lamoreaux 2007
LMC Student Kelly McNamar created this map to LMC, the site of a fictitious UFO landing, as part of an assignment in her Illustrator class. Kelly wants you to know she's "Super awesome." Curtis wants you to know that you should check our schedule sign up for a graphics class next semester so you can be "super awesome" too.

This is a small oil on canvas. I wanted to demonstrate a work in progress with one of the palette knife techniques that I use. I chose an autumn forest scene.

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closeup value assignment, originally uploaded by losmedanosart.

This extreme detail is from Shelly Boyd's self portrait. Students in Dawn Black's 2D design class painted nine different values on separate pieces of paper, cut varied shapes and then assembled them into portraits. Shelly's whole piece is below. Click on it to see it at a larger size.

value assignment

by day after everything is set up, it still doesn't look like much but a big stage

Videographer
Aside from making films, doing corporate videowork and commercials...I work as an event videographer too at times. It was here I started...and well...I still do it for certain projects and it relieves me of the stresses of a filmshoot as it is a different stress...sometimes it's fun and I do get to meet alot of people(I met pixie,my girlfriend, click on Port Dickson and check out August 28th blog)...one yearly event which I have regularly served for years now as a videographer is RECHARGE REVELATION...I was there in Genting then Port Dickson then A FAMOSA resort.It still amazes me after all this time how an empty space is transformed into a huge rave party...



Mud...mud...mud...
Working against the organisers, gallons of rain has been falling and the field as a result was a really really muddy mess. I was having trouble negotiating the field as I was inspecting the grounds early in the day to better do my work.However, the organisers were still set on giving a great party and went on trying to fix things by filling the area with truckloads of sand and boards were used to create bridges across puddles.




By mid afternoon at 3pm...all sorts of revelers began to come in...The event slowly began to fill up manically. While the rest of my event videographers wore freshly acquired boots...I personally prefered my shoes still and jumped right in the mud with it,hey it's washable...and people pay for mud therapy don't they? the initially mud shy path following revellers also didn't quite care after the mud anymore and soon jumped right into it...some even told me...they knew it will be muddy as the one in the UK was too...but who cares...the mud is an extra feature to party!!!! and so...they essentially 'plowed' the field...membajak revelation style...the party was on...

was a little shy to jump in and just play....cause nobody yet was there...and I was working...but really wanted to....later in the night...the foam reached head level :P

Bigger than Ever

...the event this year is bigger than ever...
6 stages or arenas playing a mix of music from local acts to international DJs with three of them being huge main stages including an airconditioned indoor stage, a foam stage where a machine sphew up lots of foam into the dance floor,a retro charged skating ring where event songs like 1,2,3 from sesame street played while roller skates were available...and a freedom stage where bikers and skateboarders played around a live band...and there's also a chill out area where cold gas get spurted on you at a button...this year, there's also an anti gravity touch to the event in the form of the swing bungee and the G-MAX.The G-Max is like a bungee jump in reverse...the shoot you up instead of letting you fall while the swing bungee makes you superman pendulum style...


do note this is just a quickly put together series of video for this blog

I am not a weekly party goer...I am not a party goer period but the size and scope of revelation always surprise me...and it's quite something to see planners, technicians, sound engineers,video people, DJs and the crowd just coming together and maxing out senses loudly... I dare say it's something that you must experience to know...it's really physcedellic environment where everything is maxed out...everyone were screaming and partying to the music, head bangers, literally dirty dancing ...it was one of my videographer's first time at such an event and he said...next year, if he's not working he'll also come...and party...well no amount of writing, photos or videos can describe the atmosphere....next year live it for yourself...

after a screaming time membajak...the cows go home...dirty but throughly happy :P
When all fades away, all that is left is the conscience of "self"/Aham and its experiences.



Ferdrupt ...

The village has 900 inhabitants Ferdrupt and is located on the RN 66 in the edge of the Moselle at the intersection of Lorraine, Alsace and Franche-Comte .

Regional Nature Park of Ballons des Vosges, Ferdrupt offers a wide choice of hiking or biking. A cycle track (Green Lane Hautes-Vosges) also crosses the valley of the Upper Moselle. ( http://www.lavoieverte.com/ )

Bakery, coffee shop and farm house in the village.

Supermarkets Rupt sur Moselle (5 km) and Thillot (6 km).




Our house ...



It is located in the village but away from the RN66.



It is located at the bottom of a wooded, Baussottes the Garden, an area of 7500m ².




This garden is crossed by a mountain stream.



A body of water upstream, supplying a micro-hydro turbine attached to the house.


The place is quiet and picturesque.

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Our rental ...


The apartment is located on the ground floor of our house and has the following characteristics:

  • F2 (adapted for a couple and two children)
  • indoor area: 48m ²
  • terrace of 9.5 m² with garden
  • storey apartment so wheelchair accessible
  • completeness of the private land of 7500 m² is available
  • parking

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Description of the Apartments:


  • a main entrance opening onto a corridor personal-hall
  • a small kitchen, refrigerator Conservative Party with * microwave, no dishwasher

*: a place can be offered in our freezer personnel if necessary

  • living room overlooking on the terrace, sofa bed (2 persons), TV 38cm
  • a small room with 2 single beds (90cm)
  • room with sink, shower and toilet
  • washing machine available for two uses per week maximum
  • ping-pong table available

NB: animals, even small ones, are not allowed. Thank you for your understanding.

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Rates


In June and September: 280 € / week

In July and August: € 295 / week

Weekend rates (June and September only): € 80 (including heating)

Provision and preparation of the coating sheet

(on request): 8 € / bed

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  • Your reservation will be effective upon receipt of deposit equal to 25% of the rent in the form of a check (or postal)
  • A deposit of 150 € will be tabled at the entrance (see contract)
  • Holidays Cheques are not accepted

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Baussottes The Garden ...

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It takes its name from the locality, of the Chal Baussottes, where is located the house.

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Initially, a large meadow, crossed by a creek lined with bushes rebels and a large rock, prey brambles and gorse .

A good ten years of work have transformed the scene trying to derive maximum benefit from the natural advantages it has: a water, a small marshy area (pretend) , rock, stream and bumpy terrain.

The main difficulty was to achieve changes in vegetation structure of the place without falling into the artifice.

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Our taste for conifers, especially for dwarf cultivars explains their significant presence (about 180 taxa). By their shapes, colors and varied textures, they provide rich associations.

The acid soil of granitic Vosges Ferdrupt location, combined with proper humidity, specially suited for these plants. This garden was officially opened June 21, 2008.

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labeling was performed for the most interesting cultivars (both deciduous conifer).

Among these include:

  • Abies amabilis 'Spreading Star'
  • Abies concolor 'Compacta'
  • Abies koreana 'Blue Emperor'
  • Abies 'Silberlocke'
  • nordmanniana Abies 'Golden Spreader'
  • Abies pinsapo 'Hortsmann Nana'
  • Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Nana Lute'
  • pice abies 'Frohburg'
  • pizza Omorika 'Pimoko'
  • pizza pungens 'Montgomery'
  • Picea pungens 'William'
  • Picea sitchensis 'Tenas'
  • Pinus parviflora 'Adcock's Dwarf'
  • Pinus sylvestris 'Sandringham'
  • Pseudotsuga menziesii 'Fletcheri'
  • Taxus baccata 'Standishii'
  • Fagus sylvatica 'Mercedes'
  • Gleditsia triacanthos 'Elegantissima'
  • Ulmus × hollandica 'Jacqueline Hillier'

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rentals Contact:

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Bernard and Raymond FRANCOIS

3, road Grébiay

88360 FERDRUPT

Tel: 03 29 25 87 47

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garden Contact:

mailto: renaudf54@aol.com

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by road, is Ferdrupt:

- 45 km from Epinal

- 115 km from Nancy (1:10)

- 65 km from Mulhouse (1h 05)

by train: TGV Paris-Remiremont (2:45) + shuttle bus

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Selfportrait Cameron D, originally uploaded by losmedanosart.

Cameron Dreger made this self portrait as part of an assignment in his Photoshop class (ART 54). He used photos he shot and assembled them using lots of layer masks. He got the cool textures by photographing clouds and dirt.
He'll be getting an "A" but he doesn't know it yet, so don't tell.

Reflections, Embarcadero Center~Randy Hake
Randy Hake made this photo "Reflections, Embarcadero Center" as part of an assignment in the "Survey of Digital Photography" (ART 72) class. It first place in its division at the Northern California Council of Camera Clubs competition. Pretty cool, huh?

But wait! There's more! This semester's photo class has a Flickr Photo Pool. Here's a slide show of the work students have uploaded to Flickr and sent to the LMC pool.


Art gallery show, originally uploaded by losmedanosart.

Ebodied, the curent show in the LMC gallery, runs through Nov. 2. It features some startling images by Jocelyn Shu, Alica Debrincat, and Karen Hass.

The Annual Faculty Art Show was the first show in the new LMC Art Gallery. Located in the new library, it's a wonderful space full of light, and now full of art. Lucy Snow, the latest addition to the department made cool stuff and hung it from the ceiling. The other faculty members didn't make anything as large, or that moved in the breeze. Still, her fellow instructors are still speaking to her.



Just the other day when my dad was visiting K.L., I decided to bring him to Gasing Hills for a run. A gazetted nature reserve and an important green lung of Kuala Lumpur, I frequent it quite often for a dose of intense oxygen therapy (otherwise huffing and puffing), good old sweat and just to relax my mind abit seeing greens instead of concrete all the time...much to my horror...the session was not one of immense relaxation or tranquility but of absolute horror! There was concrete in the middle of a nature reserve that plucking a leaf reputedly can land you in trouble with the law??? What's this?

The local park council has never failed to induce a slew of expletives from me ...if they go on a clearing campaign...say on the side of a stream, they clear everything in their path...whether good or bad...sometimes when a stream has a healthy just slightly overgrown of wild plants...trust them to come along and clear everything to a point of sterility...killing what could be a nestbed of little insects that keep the ecology in good balance and also being a good waste treatment plant...cleaning the water that pass by the roots. Yes, it's a wild fantasy of mine that every city council worker be an educated ecologist and love the environment to boot but come on...must they really be that stupid???

Anyway...as I was running in gasing....I found it weird...the normally mere soil path was boarded as if to construct something.Then I saw it...the horrors of horrors...they were building retention walls across the stream that flowed along the walking trail in gasing....how STUPID is that? Once...the banks where we walk would drop gently into the stream and between the path and the stream there'll be a rich mix of foliage and left litter that houses all sort of animals....now what you get is an ugly grey limestone cement retention wall...with no plants and the stream that once was a wonder with little pebbles and tadpoles become like any other longkang...sterile...robbed of life....I am so angry!!!! Why did they do it? Was it because there was uncontrolable soil erosion that could cost a jogger his life? I heard of building retention walls to avoid landslides but this is ridiculous....
See for yourself....in the pictures....

sadly....Gasing has become a rather unappealing place now...

Damn you stupid panda company...WWF....World Wildlife Fund for Nature...damn you...being 'supposed' custodians of the environment and having your badge at the entrance of the trail, shouldn't you be there to ensure that this doesn't happen?
Or are you too busy and understaff cause all your damn staff are opening little booths at shopping malls to collect money for administration expenses....

To cap it off...there was a pathetic sign...save nature...blah blah blah...empty rhetorics....

To any of you who feel as strongly....add to my comments and if I am not alone in this I will foward this blog and the comments to the bloody authorities...and of course...the stupid panda...if any of you support the stupid panda...feel free to counter me...

Streets of Water
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
20"x24"x .75"
(C) Copyright T. Lamoreaux 2007
SOLD
This is dedicated to this special day in our life.




This is the video to the song Never Mine. The song Never Mine by local malaysian artist Zubira matched my ideas for a script of mine a note of love so much that I asked him if he would want to work together. I passed Zubir the script and he immediately felt drawn to the character of Yao in the film, someone who has the special feeling but doesn't understands it.Zubir says that he used to have that exact feeling too when he was five.

We immediately went to work on two more songs together, Beautiful Day and Cherry Tree. Both of which are now completed and can be heard in the film 'a note of love'
I personally believe that as a musician zubira has a almost nostalgic classic approach to his songs with a voice both reassuring and uplifting but don't take my word for it...check it out for yourself.... and then check out what he has to say about the video here...

Polka Dot High Heel Shoe
Oil on Canvas
10"x8"
(C) Copyright T. Lamoreaux 2007
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