Foxing

 

Anything Beautiful

#sgig #chunlihairstyle #cute

#iseerainbows #multicolours

#gundam #gundambase #gundambaselimited #sazabiverka #specialcoating
Sazabi in the making ..... the special coating looks really nice under the sunlight.

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#displate #displayyourself #metalposters
I would say the printing quality is good and super easy to mount on wall with the magnet.

A Day/Night Out

From 11am till 11pm .....

 Priority Queue.  Only saw it at Sengkang MRT thus far.  Does it work ? I'm wondering.  After settling my insurance thingy, headed straight to Kinokuniya Orchard.

At last, I get to try out this Vietnamese restaurant @ Plaza Singapore. Walked pass many many times but gave up due to the long queues. It was still quite packed even at 4pm.

Me and my incredible went to the Keong Saik Carnival event after dark.  Wow! Packed like sardines. Too bad, Potato Head was full house.

Enjoyed our dinner at P.S. Cafe @ Ann Siang Hill.

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Walls of Books @ The New Stony Island Arts Bank

Wow! If my library is this grand .......

The New Stony Island Arts Bank

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The Stony Island Arts Bank will serve as a platform for site-specific commissions and exhibitions, a venue for artist and scholar residencies, and a home for Rebuild's archives and collections. Designed by William Gibbons Uffendell and built in 1923, the bank at 68th and Stony Island was once a vibrant community savings and loan. But by the eighties, the branch had closed and the building remained vacant and deteriorating for decades. When it reopens in the fall of 2015, the radically restored building will serve as a space for neighborhood residents to preserve, access, reimagine and share their heritage - and a destination for artists, scholars, curators, and collectors to research and engage with South Side history.

Merry Xmas

Cute paper cup for Xmas from Spinelli Coffee.

Famous Writers' Sleep Habits and Literary Productivity

An interesting project by Marla Popova from brain pickings.

Do late risers really produce more works but win fewer awards than early birds ? ^^

The most important point, perhaps, is a meta one: A reminder that no specific routine guarantees success, and the only thing that matters is having a routine and the persistence implicit to one. Showing up day in and day out, without fail, is the surest way to achieve lasting success.

Admittedly, all these are hard works.

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The visualization is available as a gorgeous giclée print, with a third of the proceeds donated to literacy nonprofit Room to Read and the rest split between Accurat (Visualizer) and Wendy (Illustrator).

R I P Marice Sendak

I'm sad to hear that one of my admired book illustrator, Marice Sendak passed away yesterday. ;-(

 I wholeheartedly agree with what Bobby mentioned : Death is a part of life though, so we can only honor those who touched and inspired us in our time in this world.

The New York Times has a nice piece on Maurice, his life, and his work.

“Where the Wild Things Are.”
In simple, incantatory language, the book told the story of Max, a naughty boy who rages at his mother and is sent to his room without supper. A pocket Odysseus, Max promptly sets sail: And he sailed off through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things are. There, Max leads the creatures in a frenzied rumpus before sailing home, anger spent, to find his supper waiting.

During train ride .....

During my train ride this rainy morning, there is a lady reading The Mephisto Club sitting next to me.

I've captured these 2 lines from the book. Yeah! I got nothing better to do with my eyes. :)

'There is a butler here ?'
'Oh yeah. We're talking about this kind of money.'

Make any sense ? Not to me. Haha!

Phone Booth Library

This is creative. Conceived by a local resident of a small town in southern England as a way to save a bit of history while satisfying the curious minds of the township, the classic bright red phone booth was recycled into what has now become one of the country’s smallest libraries. Other residents helped to install shelves and stock them with books that they've read, with the opportunity of swapping them out for ones they've not. It is more like a used book exchange. Soon the library is filled with over 100 choices, including DVDs and CDs. On top of that, It is open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, without no attendee to manage it, and even lit at night for those who want a book to curl up with before dozing off. How sweet!

Believe it or not ? This scrapped phone booth was purchased from British Telecom (BT) for a mere £1. with the advent of mobile communications, phone booths have gradually been eliminated. In order to preserve a modicum of things nostalgic, BT is in fact encouraging the community to adopt the old phone booths. Now 350 have already found new lives as art installations, showers and even public toilets.

Neil Gaiman's Library

In case you are a cave person, don't know who is Neil Gaiman (Oh! My God! How can ?).  Here is his brief bio : He is the author who gained wide acclaim with his complex and literate 75-issue comic series The Sandman (My favorite, especially The Dream Hunters - a collaboration with Japanese illustrator Yoshitaka Amano 天野喜孝) , and has since broadened his scope to write award-winning and bestselling novels (American Gods, Anansi Boys), screenplays (“Beowulf”) . His most recent novel The Graveyard Book has won him the Newbury Medal and, just a month ago, a Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Naturally, I was half-expecting that someone like him would have a fairly extensive library, but still very much surprise of what I saw. Wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling of books. Wow! Make me weep.



I like the sofa ...... so cosy. Can anyone tell me why cat can go along with books ? I have noticed that quite a number of booklovers do have cats. It makes me wonder if their books ever once been visited by cat's claws ?

For more, please go here. All photos by Kyle Cassidy.

Another way to bookmark your books

This was found in a returned book by a Worthing librarian.  Was it raw ? smoked ?

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My Library

My humble library is recently posted in yourshelves.com, a special project of kimbooktu.com, which open for submission for all booklovers around the globe to provide a sneak peep into their personal reading room or library, big or small.  There are only 2 submissions, including mine, from Singapore thus far.  I would love to see more.

Codex Fejérváry-Mayer

This is only one of the many beautiful images of Codex Fejérváry-Mayer posted by peacay @ Bibliodyssey.  Oh Mind! I just love the shapes and colours.


Codex Fejérváry-Mayer is a 15th or early 16th century Aztec (or Mixtec) manuscript on deer skin from Veracruz in central Mexico. Named for a Hungarian collector and British patron, this pre-Columbian accordion-style document outlines the cosmological and calendrical orientations of the Mayan people. As a typical calendar codex tonalamatl dealing with the sacred Aztec calendar -- the tonalpohualli -- it is grouped in the Codex Borgia group.

Small Magazine

Small, a beautifully designed online magazine about everything - fashions, graphics, books, playthings - for children.  I especially love the photographs by Steve Visneau and Grant Cornett.  The moods are so soothingly nice.