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How Would You Like Cockatoo in Texture?

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:02:00 +0000

After a long long absence from painting, today I manage to get myself together and putting my ideas down on canvases, Cockatoo.. what do you think?

We have been getting Cockatoos, Rosellas and other beautiful birds in our garden during this Autumn, and I can't get it away from my mind. hahaa..

Cockatoo .. greeting "Hello" :)

And, I am so much in love with the little garden I have here at where we stay now. I do the sketches on the deck overlooking the yard and lane leading to IGA supermarket on the other side of the road.

Today we have nice cooling breeze with beautiful sunshine .. that makes everyone cheerful and creative!

My afternoon at Evatt, ACT

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:16:00 +0000

My landlord, Steeve, made us a bird house. Thanks Steeve!

This is awesome, I couldn't get tired of watching all these Crimson Rosella flying around and enjoy the bird seeds that I set out for them in the bird house. Sometime, I have the King Parrots too. Feel that I am so near to nature.

I am so grateful that we took the plunge and made the move. And, here we are, in a different land started a new life.

.. but I really miss my family back home.

ChingTeoh Etsy Shop

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 05:42:00 +0000

Hello friends,

After months of moving between Canberra - Penang - Canberra, plenty of ups and downs, saying good-bye to friends and family, getting new partners into ArtBug Frame & Arts all in all happened in the last 6 months. And, now, we have finally settling down in Evatt, ACT, Australia. Also, have done our driving test, and yay! we hold full ACT Driving Licence now!

Without more ado, I have also get ChingTeoh Etsy Shop up online, re-list some of my painting and will slowly add new painting soon.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/chingteoh

Hope everyone is doing well ..

Have a great Sunday! cheers!

~ching

The Canberra Times Art Show - New Location

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:40:00 +0000

Good that we have a new location !! I was getting worried for the never ending rain.
It will be held in the Federation Ballroom, Hyatt Canberra from Saturday March 10 , until Wednesday March 14.
Friends, hope to see you there. Cheers!!

I will be in The Canberra Times Outdoor Art Show 2012

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:14:00 +0000

from The Canberra Times

I will be at the Outdoor Art Show organised by the Canberra Times, this 10 March till 17 March.
It will be located amongst the avenue of trees in the East Lawns near the Old Parliament House Rose Gardens on King Edward Terrace and Parkes Place in Parkes, ACT during the Canberra Balloon Festival.
To get here please refer the Google map below:

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This is my first participation in the show, I'm excited!

Floral, 30x30 cm, acrylic paint on canvas

Romance, 30x30 cm, acrylic paint on canvas

See you there!

Start Working Tomorrow ?!

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:50:00 +0000

captured from www.ByFriday.com.au

Guess what?! I'm going to start working tomorrow in ByFriday .. though it is just on part-time basis .. but is unbelievable ... so fast!!! to get in a job! I'm still not really settled down with the move .. and tomorrow is the day to get a feel on new employment in Aussie.

New Start in Canberra !!

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:35:00 +0000

It's the 6th day since our arrival to Canberra.
We have managed to buy a used Toyota Prius, a hybrid :) and we have found a place to stay, granny flat with 2 rooms , fully furnished , $350 pw included electric and water bill. Yeah we are really fast aren't we?
Eng would probably start working parttime 3days a week, starting next week.
Wish that everything goes as smooth.
How's everyone been doing ?

Goodbye 26 Nagore Road

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:43:00 +0000

26 Nagore Road, where I started my new path of life in arts. And.. now pointing me to a new destination. Another 8 days, we will be in Canberra.

Started to miss my family already. I'm not sure how I could cope with it.

sob sob..

Merry Christmas!! ... Greetings from Penang

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:38:00 +0000

Make your own slide show at Animoto.

Penang for 3 Months

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:46:00 +0000

We are back to Penang for 3 months till after Chinese New Year.

While setting the business ready for our new partners, we have more time to spend with our family. Bought two folding bikes, (ready to send to Canberra soon... ) . haa.. had a fun ride at U-Garden corridor. .. See my mama in the photo? happy that I could have a chance to ride with her, she is good ... she could ride an '8' in a small space like this, see my sister, Eng, in the next photo? haa.. she is really weak, can't even make a 'U' turn and my cute little niece, ErnErn, she is the most sporty! ask for a race. I am going to miss her a lot!!

Our one month Canberra recce trip ended with just a blink of eye. It ended too fast, and it cost us a bomb! But we had really enjoyed our time, and we appreciate the experience. At least now, we know how far Gunghalin is, well it is just a 20 minutes drive away, everywhere is so near and conveniently accessible. Beside the high rental, I would love living there. People are friendly, you would walk into a shop seeing a big smile on the sales girl face who will greet you, "How are you today?" as you walk up to a bus, the driver also greets you with a happy tone "How is your day?" how cool is that. Or maybe, we haven't really started to work and get ourselves busy, that's why we feel so relax and enjoy and everything seems so good and beautiful. See how it goes next after February.

Let's countdown to 7th February 2012.

We have booked our ticket on AirAsia to depart on 7th February 2012 from Penang to KL then to Melbourne. And, Virgin Australia from Melbourne to Canberra the next day, arriving Canberra on 8th February.

My Days in Canberra

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:25:00 +0000

We walk everyday across this junction. This morning is beautiful to start with blue bright sky and cooling breeze.

and, along the way, you might find a hidden gem, this morning I found this hidden rose.

One of the old bus stops in Reid.

Though, we have subscribed Telstra pre-paid broadband, but we still prefer McCafe for the FREE internet access, due to the expensive braodband cost.. no choice we have to walked 1.5km to McCafe, Braddon .. to save for browsing, blogging and Facebook.

Beautiful Canberra

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:30:00 +0000

Beautiful lake with nice jogging and cycling path. The greens and the blue sky and the cold breeze ... so calm and soothing.

And the good news is, it's getting warmer!

the sun is out, and we can hang our laundry out under the sun!

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:57:00 +0000

Have not been updating for quite a time yeah, due to the expensive prepaid broadband cost, hmm.. dare not upload too many photo in my blog.

We have been to Floriade, and the tulips is stunning.

The, we hired a car, and drove to Newcastle stayed for two nights in Oriental Hotel, a pub accommodation, nice clean and tidy budget place to stay. During our stay,we had visited the Art Gallery at Maitland, we spent quite a long hour there in their exhibition, awesome artworks! On the way back to Canberra we had stopped by NSW Southern Highlands town, Mittagong, Bowral and Moss Vale, meeting up with Sonja of ArtHead.

Enjoying every corner of these towns .. scenery along the way is spectacular.

I quite like Southern Highlands towns. They are so beautiful and cozy.

Back to Canberra yesterday, and this morning we went to Fsyhwick Fresh Food Market today, nice .. we bought too many things back and our fridge seems couldn't fit. Then, we join Kilm Forming class in the afternoon at Canberra Glassworks. Haa.. here is my work, it is now fused in a kiln overnight, and we should able to pick it up anytime after Wednesday!

Tomorrow, Khoo will have his badminton game here with new friends .. hope everything is good.

And, you too.. :)

It's Spring finally .. the Sun is Out

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:32:00 +0000

After two days of rain. The sun is out today and finally we see bright blue sky. :) Lovely.

Here are the flowers along our way home from the civic Canbera Centre.

We went for Medicare registration today and done it, cards will arrive in 3 weeks. Then we went to Canberra Connect which is conveniently located in the Civic Library, you may read while you wait nice yeah ... we went there to ask for Driver's Licence. From Malaysia, we will need to sit for the knowledge test and the practical test. And the worst part is we will need to show proof of our permanent address, e.g. lease agreement. So for this, we will put on hold for obtaining the licence this round.

So far we have been 3 days in Canberra, and we have signed up for a prepaid braodband, prepaid mobile, TFN registration and Medicare enrolment. Next Tuesday, we will hire a car for a week will then go driving around the suburb to get familiar of the areas and searching for rental for our next trip. And, most probably will visit Goulburn, Sydney and Newcastle. See how things work out.

cheers!

2nd Day in Canberra

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:42:00 +0000

Though is spring but it still seems like winter. But I like it. Quiet neighbourhood around Reid. Nice environment. And, just 5 minutes walk to Canberra Centre.

We cook our dinner today, fried noodle. Went to NAB activate our account. And to Canberra Centre to do some groceries shopping.

Canberra Sky

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:53:00 +0000

First sight of Canberra bright blue sky.! Touching down Canberra 27 Sep 2011, 2.30pm. New passage of life starts!

Really?! Is Tomorrow 26 Sep?

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:52:00 +0000

Time has gone out of control. With handling of ArtBug's new partnership, and the piling up orders, we have put our packing to the last minute. So tomorrow is really 26 Sep and we are departing 5pm... and here is the situation ... luggage and things here and there... packed, weighed and repacked and weighed.. hmm.. seems like we can only manage to take a quarter of our stuff. The rest will have to be arranged next round.

Will upload more when I reach Canberra.. stay tune :)

Last Painting in 26 Nagore Road ?

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:35:00 +0000

Painting Chinese Words Small Art for Bombay Shop, E&O Penang in my studio this week. Will this be the last painting in my studio here at 26 Nagore Road? I'm going to miss this place terribly. This is where I started my new path of life ... ;)

Next week will start packing, all my brushes, colors, tools ... . As you might have known this would be only a month visit. But we are moving part of our personal items and will get a self-storage in Canberra when we come back to Malaysia after 28 Oct.

During this trip we will be staying at... 5, Gooreen Street. ..a one bedroom unit, we rented for AUD$480 per week from Greentrees Apartments. Hope that everything would be good... no.. GREAT!!

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Back to Penang on 28 October, Flight Booked

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:25:00 +0000

At last we decided to make this trip to Canberra a short one for this round, leaving Penang on 26 Sep and back to Penang on 28 October. And, we will stay to complete our business sales arrangement and helping my parents for their move to Penang from Sg. Petani. So it will be after 2012 Chinese New Year that we would fly again to Canberra. Feel disappointed when needed to change our schedule but feel happy that I could help out my parents in their move and also could have a longer time to make better arrangement for our business sales.

Anyway, I was happy that I bought my new toy Gymboss. It is an interval timer which I plan to use for my tabata workout, following the videos from BodyRock.tv; A Tabata workout (also called a Tabata sequence) is an interval training cycle of maximum intensity exercise; for instance it could be a total of a18 minutes only workout which consists of combination of different exercise like burpees, push ups, squats, rope jumping etc. plus 10 seconds of rest in between each exercise.

my new Gymboss Inteval Timer from Gymboss.com

Follow the workout at BodyRock.Tv if you would like to ... .. haa. but please rest the eyes yeah ;)

enjoy ...

You Can Find My Art in Bombay Shop, E&O Hotel Penang

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:09:00 +0000

Bombay Shop, E&O Hotel Penang have recently been expanded with new interior decor. I love the ambience! About 5 years ago, I have started selling my work in Bombay Shop, but it is now only I got a chance to take photo of the shop that I love so much.

If you are staying in E&O Hotel when you are in Penang, stop by Bombay Shop ( the souvenir shop at Ground Floor ) and look for my art, will you ?

Sunday Morning Ride

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:17:00 +0000

We borrowed two bicycles from a friend to cycle around Gurney and Pulau Tikus this morning. Have to really go very early else you will have to packed with the cars even though you are not driving. The weather is good! Cooling breeze .. haa.. but it seems going to rain soon.

me and theng

Birds on the Wire

Beautiful Morning Sky at Gurney Drive

quiet Gurney in the morning

the roof plants at the Lor Mee shop in Pulau Tikus.

I always find this roofing plants fascinating. This was taken in the corner shop at Pulau Tikus selling Lor Mee. It makes the air fresh and cooling. The only bad point, you may have a fallen dried leaf in your mee once in a while ;)

Changes In Plan

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:19:00 +0000

We might have to stay back postponing the big move to Australia till after Chinese New Year next year, that would be after 23 Jan 2012!! As, there's too much happening in our shop, new order keep coming in, and that would really need our attention. Also a few discussion going on with the parties that came in enquiring for taking over ArtBug and BugDesign. So now the tentative plan is, we will only fly to Canberra on 26 September for four weeks, then we will be back to Penang until after CNY next year.

Today I'm totally stressed out, tired and demotivated ... and .. we went for KissA Koyotei (喫茶　红叶亭) for dinner just now, and it was a really a nice relaxing dinner. Just a simple ramen, temaki and matcha latte. Sometime nice food is the cure all remedy.

Oh yeah, our frengi penny is blossoming again.

Family Outing - Flamingo Hotel, Penang

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:17:00 +0000

We have a family outing last weekend, at Flamingo Hotel by the beach at Tanjung Bunga, Penang. Everyone have had a great time, especially the kids. My sister Ean, with her husband Swai and son Samuel will be moving to Australia too this September, they are relocating to Melbourne.

Until today, I haven't convinced myself that we will be living in Canberra, Australia soon! Someone please tell me this is happening!

This is my loving family!
The one standing behind, 2nd from the right who looks funny, is me!

Strawberry Frozen Yoghurt

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:19:00 +0000

my first attempt of Strawberry Frozen Yogurt, following the video here:

Here's the summary of the recipe:

470 plain Nestle yoghurt

200mg Whipped Cream

100mg Custard Sugar

2 tablespoon Malibu rum

I wonder if others face any problem of it froze to icy rock. What I do now is I take it out from the fridge about 20 minutes earlier and rest it before eating and it tastes really awesome.

enjoy :)

p/s: can anyone advice me how to prevent the yoghurt froze to icy rock ?

Old Time

noreply@blogger.com (ching) — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:55:00 +0000

Today, I spent the whole afternoon tidying up the cabinet in my office, clearing off some junks and also found some old photos. Brought up some memories and feel a bit emotional. Thinking to leaving this home land soon.

1985, parents brought us to Genting Highlands. hmm.. wondering what the photographer was aiming at, why it had been way off to the right. See my twin sisters were squeezed to the edge, and wondering where my mom was. And, if I'm not wrong, we still need to pay for this photo. Anyway, it is a very good memory. Our family seldom got chance to go for holidays, and this is the precious photo.

1993, holidays at Pulau Redang, with Theng's family.

1993, Pulau Redang holidays. How skinny Theng was back then...

1992, one more photo to show how skinny Theng was. haa..
In this photo, Theng was not swimming in a river though, it was flooding that time in his hometown, Kulim, this was taken at his house backyard.

While typing this and thinking about the past, let's enjoy the moment now and also welcoming the future :)

Coffee anyone? .. well here I go.. a cup of coffee with milk and ready to my workout soon.

Cheers!