Painting: July 2009

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Panda Love

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This is an orginal art painting on canvas. It is a Giant Panda bear that is native to central-western and southwestern China and lives in mountainous regions, such as Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi. It is China's national emblem and its image appears on a large number of modern Chinese commemorative silver, gold, and platinum coins. It was once believed to be a member of the raccoon family. With its large, black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body it has many adoring fans.
　
The Giant Panda's diet consists of 99% bamboo but also may eat honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, and bananas when available. Though it is on a conservation reliant endangered species list, it is estimated that there might be as many as 2,000 to 3,000 Giant Pandas in the wild. Adult Pandas measure around 1.5 m long and around 75 cm tall at the shoulder. Males can weigh up to 330 pounds and are larger than females which can weigh up to 275 pounds.
　
They are terrestrial animals that spend their life roaming and feeding in the bamboo forests of the Qinling Mountains and in the hilly Sichuan Province. Females do not like other females in their territory. They communicate through vocalizations and scent markings like clawing trees. Because they do not have permanent dens, they do not hibernate like some other bears but instead move to a warmer climate when it gets too cold for them. Their memory is mostly spatial instead of visual. The male leaves the female alone to raise the cub after mating.
　
The Giant Panda is one of the world's most loved and protected rare animals. There are many movies and books written about them. They are beautiful to look at and are the favorite animal of many.
This is an oil painting that I worked on all night to finish it because I promised I would get one up on this blog within 1-3 days for my new friends. This is also one of my paintings to buy.

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Original Art Painting On Canvas Of Panda

Anime wallpaper

Game wallpapers

The following is a picture of Yasmin I took on a casual sunday afternoon in 2005. I was at her apartment in subang for a casual chit chat in and to browse her DVD. she was calm and we talked about everything from how her apartment was renovated really nicely to look very open and I love how she stacked her books on a step ladder leaning on a wall. She asked me about my girlfriend, my parents.We also talked about ghosts.I still can't believe she's gone now... I wish I had more sundays like that with her but as it is...it was one day.One precious day....

Sometimes in life, we don't realise how precious moments are really....

This is something written by yasmin on life and death four years ago on july 29 2005.I think Yasmin has alot of wisdom to share with us in it.

"Like clockwork it happens,
tick by tock by quick tick by hurried tock,
but quietly,
its decibel perceptible
only to the cat and the dog.
The watch on the wrist tries to warn us,
tapping its tiny untiring beat
against the hesitant pulse of our blood;
the clock on the wall tocks on,
in defiance to the time-honoured tradition of
silence in the school hall.
We were not listening.

The body was doomed to stop
even before it started.
Death has a life of its own.
Time marches doggedly
to the cliff of its own end.

We were not listening;
deaf to the decay of the planets and the suns.
Stars were exploding and dying in the night.
We were making love;
making life.
We saw it happen in the garden;
to the trees and the pets,
and still we watched our own dying
with blinkered optimism
- “Today is the first day of the rest of your life” -
oh yes, and by the way,
also one day closer to the end of it.
And curiously, when it happens,
everyone is surprised.
Everyone is visibly moved.
Eyebrows are raised, eyes are lowered,
mouths open like unsuspecting clams,
tongues click.
Surprised, as if we had no knowledge of it,
as if it were a newcomer,
as if it were a sniper.
And when it’s over, everyone walks away,
lamenting the weather and the price of fish.
The grave is forgotten
sooner than it was remembered.

What wisdom descends when I pause to listen to death?
Nothing really.
Except, my beloved’s eyes dance
when he tells me about his day,
and I must remember to kiss them
before they finally close."

posted by yasmin at 5:07 AM

more of her wisdom can be found at
http://yasminthestoryteller.blogspot.com/2005/07/like-clockwork-yasmin-ahmad.html

Like Clockwork - Yasmin Ahmad

Tuberoses. they are yasmin's favourite flower. Everyone was holding on to one standing in the rain as her body was taken out of the house after her wake and loaded into the hearse.Many have come to mourn her.It was a sad moment but beautiful.almost like a movie...perhaps it was God's gift to celebrate her one more time.

I've slept largely the whole morning after being up the whole nite at Yasmin's wake and then following her funeral proccedings.It was truly a sad day. I've lost my teacher. I felt even more sad at how much and how good she's been to me. Deeds that can never be repayed. But Yasmin would have wanted it that way as she was always kind and always giving.

I am currently preparing a short video, edited from some behind the scene footage I've collected during the filming of sepet and my latest short film house. I've never shown this video to anyone but I hope now to celebrate her spirit. Below are my other blogposts on yasmin.

Please do add any comments, thoughts or stories of yasmin here if you have any...i would love to have them accumulated and collected.Thank you.

http://thefrogcroaks.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-criedi-knelti-prayed.html
http://thefrogcroaks.blogspot.com/2005/03/sepet-little-wonders-and-how-we-became.html
http://thefrogcroaks.blogspot.com/2005/03/sepet-little-wonders-and-how-we-became.html

Goodbye Yasmin....see you again some day....

Wonderful world wallpaper

This is one of my acrylic art paintings of three new born baby birds and the mother bird feeding them. I call it “Feed Me Momma”. It is the very epitome of the representation of spring because Robins are, as we know, the first sign of spring and bring a warm happy feeling to the viewer. I used a vibrant color of green and the flowers in the background are white cheery tree blossoms.

The American Robin is of the thrush family and is named after the European Robin yet the two species aren’t closely related. It has a sweet song that is said to bring on spring with a beautiful, complex and almost continuous cheery carol which differs in various areas and by the time of day. It is among the first birds to start singing at the crack of dawn that lasts till evening begins. The European variety range across Europe to North Africa and east to West Siberia and Iran. The American Robin is seen throughout North America, and the south of Canada from Florida to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast.

Robins lay eggs early shortly after returning to its summer residence form its winter home. Robins usually have two to three hatchlings each breeding season from April to July. Their young in the nests are fed mostly on worms and other soft prey. Their clutch of three to five light blue eggs, are incubated by the female only. They take 14 days to hatch and the chicks are ready to leave the nest about two weeks after they are hatched.

They love to eat beetle grubs, caterpillars and grasshoppers. They like to find earth that has been disrupted looking for roots, earthworms, nuts and fruit and when feeding in flocks they watch others for reactions to predators.

Both the adult male and female protect and feed the chicks alarming of predators, with calls and dive-bombings and yet it is estimated that only 25% of young Robins survive the first year generally living about 2 years but possibly up to 14 years. Young Robins are threatened by snakes, squirrels, some birds like Crows, Blue Jays, and Ravens. Adults are mostly preyed upon by cats, large snakes, and hawks.

So loved by many, popular American songs have been written including “Rockin’ Robin, by Roger Thomas which was a big hit for Bobby Day and others. And who hasn’t heard “When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along”, written by Harry M. Woods? Yes, this makes them very special among the bird family.

Acrylic Art Painting of Robins and Nest

Tux Typing (in Spanish) to lower TUX

Tux Typing is an educational game with interesting graphics and sound effects, used to learn or improve the location of characters on the computer keyboard , and typing speed.

The Tux Typing thread 05/01/1917 develops from a simple argument: Tux is a penguin who should be collecting fishes that are caught before they hit the ground. Each fish has a letter, and to pick it up you must press that letter quickly enough to prevent the fish from reaching the ground.

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MATH (in Spanish)

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Tux the penguin is the only hope to save four cities a meteor shower. From a control table must perform complex astronomical calculations (such as 10 divided by 2) to destroy each meteorite. Help him!

TuxMath is an entertaining educational game in which mental agility by subtraction, addition, multiplication and division, and the speed to enter and shoot the result will be the key to saving the planet.

Seed Like Thing On Genital

TUX PAINT TO INSTALL (download)

_ Tux Paint game for children to paint with many options very easy to use. Includes sounds and effects. Is very well done and English. It is not necessary that the child can read to use and also is not just for little ones as they can make very interesting designs.

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http://www.tuxpaint.org/download/
When given the option to install English

Thank You For Wedding Welcome Bag

TINYPLANETS

http://www.tinyplanets.com/homeplanet/games.html

Small Planets Bing and Bong

A journey through different planets. In each of them to conduct activities related to the topic of the planet. Planets

where children know the nature, sounds, lights and colors or technology, based on little games made in flash.

The site is in English, but there is very little text and everything is very intuitive.

What Does It Mean To Be Pigeon Toed?

Wumpa

http://www.wumpasworld.com/flash.html?langue=s

Wumpa In the world you will have fun learning, playing with Nuna, sculpting stone or diving in the ocean.

Hens Night Card Message

YOUR OWN

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The Hasbro Transformers site is a games section where you yourself can build your own movie Transformers . It's like playing that you are Michael Bay and you can make your own version of a parallel universe of the autobots and decepticons. The thing works like putting together a flash movie, but simpler, where you choose everything you want to use. For example, you can put Optimus, Bumblebee, Megatron, etc, transforming, fighting, talking, sound effects, melodies, etc, etc, etc. In English but sure as you know how to assemble them!

1992 Yamaha Waverunner Service Manual

TRANSFORMERS MOVIE TRANSFORMERS VIDEO ASSEMBLY