Ian Thio says...

8yo Jachin drew his fav helicopter & plane for his self expression drawing AGAIN! I asked him, "Are you going to be a pilot when you grow up?" He was busy doodling & answered, "No..." 6yo Ian interrupted, "I want to be Father when I grow up! & have many children!" Other kids added,"You don't have a job, how to have big family!" Then he replied with confident, "Yes, my job is to play games on the handphone! There're so many games on the handphone you know!" Everybody burst into laughter!

MAKE YOUR MARK! 2010 by YOLO

I'm so going to "MAKE OUR MARK!" for this MAKE YOUR MARK by YOLO who are featuring their work at London! I'm going to gather all my art students including myself and Joeel and all the art people around us to work on this project! It could be fun to see all kinds of doodlers and artists expression in their very different way! :D Go to their link and find out more, their dateline is 23rd Oct 2010! Cheers!

Holly's birthday cake

Holly's birthday cake, originally uploaded by xterlim.

"Holly, Teacher Esther is going to bake you a birthday cake! What flavour do you like? "

Holly was jumping up and down, exclaimed "Yeah!!!!"
Then she stopped jumping and think, "Hmm... Vanilla! maybe chocolate!??"

Sonia nodded her head and said, "YES! CHOCOLATE!"

Aimee rejected, "Noooooooo Chocolate please!!!!!"

Joy smiled and ok with both.

I set my mind and said "Ok, I shall bake a vanilla flavour cake with oreo topping for your birthday when you come to art class!"

Holly agreed and carried on with her artwork :)

Kenny Tan says...

The mothers and I were chatting and talking about our mothers in law on how they treated us as their daughters in law differently... I was holding 18yo Kenny's hand to guide him with his painting while he was listening to our conversation. Then he suddenly added, "...and that is challenging!" We stopped, stunned and laughed our hearts out!

Then his mum added, "Kenny, you're the challenging one!"

Hmm, Kenny seemed to be interested in our conversation! ;D

5yo Justine says...

A new trail student 5yo Justine said, "Teacher Esther, I dream all the times!" I was like Oooh in my mind and asked, "What do you dream about? Cartoon?" He said, " I dream about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING!" Then I continued, "Do you dream during the day?" He replied, "Yes!" I reminded him, "Ok, please do not dream during my lesson ok!" Then he followed and agreed, "OK!" I'm thinking this child must have a BIG dream when he grows up ;)

4yo Shayna says...

4yo Shayna refused to colour the gaps that she told me she was going to, then I put my hands on my waists and looked at her, and she went, " Teacher Esther, are you pretending to be angry??!!" Gosh, I didn't expect she would said that! I told her, " Yes, Teacher is very angry if you don't do your work properly," "Oh yes Teacher Esther, you are pretending to be angry! Hehehe!" When I show her how others did their work, there she followed :) Oh Shayna ah Shayna :s

Sonia Hanke says...

10yo Sonia Hanke asked, "Why are we having art class today?" I asked her why? Because your mum requested to have  art class today, that's why... She complaint, "I'm so tired today, I had another art class earlier..." I asked her where was she learning, she said, "At home!" I was giving my brother an art lesson..." I was amazed, Sonia teaches her brother ART! I asked her what did she teach him today, she replied happily, "I taught him how to draw hamsters!" in my mind, Sonia has grown up! :)

A familiar face...

Today, I saw a familiar  person who was sitting at the bench outside the public toliet where I bought my art students for outdoor drawing, we were drawing the laundry shop which located just beside the toliet. Yes, it was Uncle Henry, I observed him a little moment while my students were still drawing. He was caring for himself applying cream on his arms... I was wondering the walking stick belonged to him or the other elderly who was sitting next to him... Next few mintues, my students exclaimed they'd finished their drawings and I was goging to walk them around with their  handmade lanterns, as promise. I decided to walk to the toliet direction and greet a long time no see Uncle Henry!

"Uncle Henry! How are you??" He saw me and started to recognize me and responded me back by another "Hello!"

Then I introduced him my students and adsked them to greet him and told him about I was having holiday workshop with my students here and he was just smiling, I said goodbye to himas I had work to do... Then i carried on my walk with my little students and one of them (Regan) asked, "Teacher Esther, who is him???" I told him, "He is a friend, a very nice person..."

From the distance, I saw him looking at our direction, I was thinking, will I see Uncle Henry again? Did he really recognize me when I greeted him? He looked like he had been retired from his security guard job. I hope everything goes well on his side :)

I never know I would meet him again but I know this man helped me and my students at the Maplewoods condo before with his kind heart :)