Painting

So tired after a month long preparation for an annual confernece, a weekend of bday celebration and coming back to the office this week for annual results... seems like work never ends.

I had so much fun with my friends last weekend... really not too much about celebrating my bday but a whole day of fun events with my intimate friends meant so much more to me than a "let's get together for a dinner" type of generic event.

We returned to pierre for a luxurious meal, and as always they blew me away with a series of taste buds stimulating dishes. Seriously the amount of work to compose a dish is far beyond one's imagination...although just the 5 of us occupying the restaurant pierre seems not to care too much about the margin he can make from us, and he felt pleased to serve the food lovers his creation. I felt bad bc I dragged my friends to spend the $ since in absolute term it is indeed a large sum that turn ppl away but it is considered money well spent for me bc I enjoyed every second of it. More details to follow on the menu and pictures.

My first time doing oil painting! My intention was to draw a traditional chinese painting with western technique but turned out the end product looks so much like a japanese painting...I started off with an extremely depressing background color and creepy branches and the combination looked like an inspiration from one of the tim burton's movies....gladly the flowers added more colors and energy to the painting, if not it would be a bad luck to start off a year... I particularly like the patch of whipped cream aka snow dripping off the bottom of the painting.. i can draw 3D picture, see how much one can do as a first timer!