November rain

November rain

In pouring rain
come November
we were playful kids
drenched in muddy fields
little friendly faces
kept us in cheerful company
in season of togetherness

We've grown to smile at life's pose
the graciousness of true love
in pouring late November rains
we abide passionately 
its season of endless memories.

MOOD
23 Nov'15
Kambatik Park, Bintulu.

Writing Penang early history

View of Georgetown and Fort Cornwallis, Penang. 1846.
Watercolour painting by Charles Andrew Dyce, 354 x 514mm.
Credits: Irene Lim,  Sketches in the Straits, NUS 2003.

In 2015 I decided to put on permanent record i.e. on the world wide web a historical piece I did while studying history at the Universiti Sains Malaysia at Penang in the early 1970's.   I self-published the writing in the form of a blog called " The First 100 years of Penang Free School" in August 2015.

Historical writing made the fun way

Bintulu Fish Market in the 1970's

One of the challenges I put myself is in writing history  that is fun.  How?  In today's inter-connected world of the Internet and self-publishing and advanced pictorial digital technology that is free, I have endeavoured to optimise its advantages in the form of writing history by combining narrative with images.  A blog created to meet this end is called " Images of Bintulu Before and Now".  It is a pictorial history of Bintulu. I started wring in this blog in November 2010.

Camellia III - a rendition by MOOD in reggae style

In 2012, I did one video on my own rendition of Ebiet G. Ade song entitled " Camellia III" in reggae style.  Follow this link and enjoy the production.

Video on purple orchids entitled "Purple Rain"

Here' a video I did in 2013 to compile some of the orchids that I photographed with background guitar and singing by myself. Please follow this link.

Video making in 2013 - Orchids in variations of yellow colour

In 2013 I took some time in my life doing videos that I uploaded on You Tube.  Here's an example on Orchids with the accompanying background guitar works  and singing I did myself....>>>Orchids in variations of yellow colour.

Best of Album - Landscape

Best of Album - Flowers

The Best of Album - Photography

Abstracts in November 2011

58 x50 cm, Paint on plywood, 9 Nov'11.
Artist collection

152 x 61 cm, Paint on plywood, 9 Nov'11
Artist collection

245 x 60 cm, Paint on plywood, 9 Nov'11
Artist collecction

93 x 93 cm , Paint on plywood, 10 Nov'11
Artist collection

39 x 40 cm, Paint on plywood, 12 Nov'11
Artist collection

Note: All the paintings above were created from left over paints left after doing renovation works to our house in Kuching.

Photographing Butterflies in 2015

 I am continually on the hunt for butterflies that visit my nature park in Bintulu.  To start the collection of butterfly pictures I shall focus in this posting those butterflies that  I managed to photograph in 2015.  My interest in photography and love of wildlife keeps me passionate about photographing butterflies.  In order to get more species coming to the park, I have developed an area in the park at Zone C into a Butterfly garden.  This butterfly garden could afford me to be more close-up and personal with the butterflies and hopefully the garden can attract more rare species to the park in future.  For a compilation of butterflies taken at the Butterfly garden  in 2015 which have been properly named, please follow this link here

All the images above were taken in 2015 at Kambatik Park, Bintulu.

The Bintulu sunset in MOOD's photography

The Bintulu beaches are awesome locations for sunset photgraphy.  The Bintulu sunset is a natural resource of great tourism potential for Bintulu.  In the above captures I have tried to capture the beauty of the Bintulu sunset.

MOOD's Orchids Photography

Note:  Above are glimpses of my works  at capturing nature's beauty in orchids.
For names of orchids that I have captured in camera for the last five years or so, please follow my blogs on orchids here... 4 da love of orchids