Ikebana Lesson No 8 (final)

Ikebana lesson no. 8 - the last lesson.
Variation No. 6 : Pic 1 shows Horizontal Style (Richard's arrangement) Flowers used : Carnations, Emu Grass (Richard it's name is derived from the fact that the Emus poop on the grass)
Shin (emu gr) 85 deg, Soe (emu gr) 65 deg, Hikae (carnation) 75 deg, the 3 main branches devide the circle into 3 equal prtions of 120 deg each.
Pic 2 shows Slanting Style. Shin (emu gr) 45 deg, Soe (emu gr) 15deg, Hikae (carnation) 75 deg, the 3 main branches equally devide the circle into 3 equal portions of 120 deg each.

Mental Exhaustion

Feeling mentally exhausted. Forgotten about my arrangement to go out with boy. Blamed it on him for not reminding me.

Fixated on Rome

I was quite fixated on visitng Rome recently, mainly because of the movie "when in Rome". Maybe can toss a few coins into Trevi fountain and see if there's any magic...... Foget it, I'm disillusioned. Go for the coffee N pizzas, maybe. when will this materialise?

Boy

Boy is spending the night in School and that gives me the chance to do some blogging using the big screen. Boy has gone preparing for 100 Scout leaders'visit tomorrow. When is he going to start serious revision?

Lunch Time

Just didn't feel like having lunch today. But was touched by Richard's gesture - he brought fruit and sandwiches for me so that I wouldn't collapse in office. Felt pai seh, so I ate them.

Omen?

A (God knows what) device that looked somewhat like a pedometer was strapped on my right ankle. The number on the mini screen kept changing, sychronising with my heart beat. It started off steadily, but increased rapidly. My heart was pounding faster and harder till I couldn't take it anymore. As I reached for the device, attempting to switch it off, I blacked out. I thought I felt my heart had stopped pounding. I felt limp for sometime. When I regained consciousness, I was lying in bed - my heart pounding fast. Did I just had a nightmare Or was it real? Could it be an omen?

Ikebana lesson No 7

Variation No 5. Flowers used: TW leaf and Chrysanthemums. 2 kenzans.
Can be used for basic upright, slanting, variation no 1, 2 and 4.

Pic shows Basic Slanting Style:

Top View:

Alyssa's 10

Alyssa celebrated her 10 yr old b'day on 9 feb 2011.

Time for the song..........

Uncle Richard designing the special cake.

CNY Day 3

GET TOGETHER AT JANET'S PLACE. i THINK THIS IS THE FIRST TIME BIG SIS JOINED US DURING CNY CELEB.

CNY Centrepiece Version 2

Rearranged the Centrepiece Using Variation No 3, Slanting Style

CNY Day 2 At Nex

CNY Eve & Day 1

CNY Centrepiece

Ikebana arrangement : Variation No 2 Slanting Style using Pussy Willows, Chrysenthymums and Kuna Leaf. Thanks to Richard for bring the Pussy Willows =)