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::: ★ ::: Faint Whisperings ::: ☆ ::: はくめい の ないしょうばなし ::: ★ :::. . . inner whispers . . . ないしん の ことば . . . 4/29/2009 Fibracolor Markers
Refer To ... http://www.dickblick.com/products/fibracolor-markers/ Fibracolor markers offer a complete range of 100 different colors packaged in a convenient plastic caddy. The versatile bullet nib can be used for fine details, as well as for bold thick strokes. Markers contain water-based, acid-free, brilliant non-toxic ink. They are washable from skin and most fabrics. 10/13/2007 How To Test If An Egg Is FreshHow to test if an egg is fresh:Firstly, fill a fairly deep bowl with water and carefully lower the egg into the water. 4/22/2007 Heart Attacks & Drinking Warm WaterHeart Attacks and drinking warm water.... This is a very good article. Not only about the warm water after your meal, but about heart attacks. This makes sense.. the Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals...not cold water...maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain... For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal. A serious note about heart attacks: You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive... A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life. Read this...It could save your life!! 11/26/2006 SLOW = KNOWBelow is a lovely piece of inspiration from the art blog of Danny Gregory at http://www.dannygregory.com/
Think less. Draw more.
When you draw a thing, see it just as that. Not a head, not perspective, not crosshatching, just pure observation as if you've never seen it before. The more preconceptions you bring to the drawing, the shittier it will be.
Clear your mind, and start drawing what you see. Start anywhere. I tend to start in the upper left hand corner because I am right handed. I move across observing, recording, until I get to the lower left hand corner. Then I am done.
If my subject is sufficiently complex, this will take me a half hour or more. I go as slowly as I can stand to go. But I don't know how long it is usually; my left-brain has no sense of time.
As I draw, I avoid evaluation. I avoid thinking of the purpose of the drawing. I avoid commenting on what I am drawing, even in the quality of the line. I am empty and the drawing fills me up. Drawing is meditation, not production. Drawing is entirely in the present with no attempt to create context. Do not think about style. Add shadows as you see them. But better to avoid shadows all together and stay engaged with the contours of things. When you have done that for months, even years, then add shadows and crosshatching (My pal, d.price has been drawing for a dozen years. Only on his trip to New York last week did he decide to start concentrating on the effects of light. He still almost never uses color). For now, none of that is important. What matters is to see deeply and let your hand respond. And if you start at huge length before you draw, you risk becoming bored, or forming mental notes, theories, ideas about what you are seeing. The reason to let your hand and pen take over is to shut the hell up, silence the internal voice, the endless chattering of the mind, the distractions, the pointless pontificating that insists on meaning for the meaningless. The moment does not need meaning or context. It just is. Drawing is about reaching for pure being. Not making pretty pictures to put in frames and on websites. The world doesn't need more pictures. It needs peace and connection. It needs people who can accept reality and don't feel compelled to control their environments. If you can look at a boot, at a rotting apple, at car's worn tire, at an old man's foot, and see it for what it is, without value or judgement, can see the beauty and particularity of the thing, you will find peace. You will avoid being covetous. You will be happy with what you have. You will accept others more readily, will see the sunshine on a cloudy day. Life is a wonderful business, though fools blow up London tube stations and sell each other crap and waste time with gossip about movie stars. If you can draw, you will always have a place to go that is beautiful and honest and true. As you sit in an airport you will find pleasure in the folds of a crumpled lunch bag. As you bide your time in a doctor's waiting room, you will find peace in the arrangement of the shadows on the wall. Even without putting ink on paper, you will be able to slip in to Drawing Mind. The point is not what your lines look like or how accurate your crosshatching might be. The point is not the drawings on the page or the pages in the book. The point is not the opinions of others who love/hate/ignore those lines you made on the page. The point is not the money you make selling your work to galleries or publishers. The point of practicing your craft is not to rise in the rankings of those who draw. It's not to have your style dominate (sorry, Dan!). The point is to more easily gain access to the moment, to the deeper more peaceful recesses of your Self. The point is to live as well and as fully as you can today, right now, whether your pen is in your hand or not. The point is to See and to Be. Your pal, Danny 10/22/2006 Coffee Bean ::: Tutti Frutti CakeRipe for the plucking: a melange of sweet tropical fruits heaped over your choice of chocolate of a thousand leaves, blueberry delight, white choc raspberry or custard sponge heart-shaped cake.
I would love to share this cake with my sweetheart !!
Weight: 1.4 KG
Price: SGD $45.00
Where To Buy: Coffee Bean
Website: http://www.coffeebean.com.sg/
Hazelnut Ice Blend from Coffee Bean is my latest fave in town!! Wonder why their recipes always beat the other similar cafes such as StarBucks and so on... I fell in love with it, after trying it one day. Pretty expensive, though. But you gotta have a taste, simply yummy! 10/17/2006 ////\\\\//// Art Blog Of Trevor Romain \\\\////\\\\hi to all art lovers and aspiring artists !! i chanced upon the following inspirational web entry in the blog of an artist named Trevor Romain. below was taken from his art blog at http://www.trevorromain.com/blog/:
"I was asked again today about the ‘secrets’ of my illustration techniques. There IS a secret but PLEASE (as a professional courtesy) don’t share this information with others because everyone will then become an artist and myself and Danny Gregory and Michael Nobbs and Roz and D. Price and Maurice Sendak and many others will be out of work. The secret is ‘pick up a pen and draw what you see’. That’s all…I swear. "I does not matter what pen or pencil you use. Just look at something and let your hand draw what you see. It takes a little practice to get comfortable with the pen and paper, but you’ll be amazed at how your hand actually knows what to do if you just let it. (All of us know how to draw, but somehow we learned to convince ourselves that we can’t.) "Draw simple things to start like a pencil or a big old coffee pot. Later you can draw grandpa’s bicycle. Just sketch an object without thinking about it too much and don’t try to be fancy. (If you hate your drawing just throw it away and do another one. Nobody needs to see or judge it.) I reached into the trash and saved the two little color studies pictured above after having initially thrown them out because I wasn’t happy with them at the time. I’m glad I saved them though because I kinda like ‘em now. "The main illustration above was drawn from a picture I saw in a magazine. I used my old school fountain pen. (Honest. It’s just a leaky, old black Parker Student filled with Sepia ink.) "While I was drawing it I spilled some water I was drinking on the picture. It smudged some of the ink. I used more water on a brush to cover up the smudge and found that the smudges actually gave the picture depth. Who woulda thunk that? "I started art a little late. (I have only been drawing since my midlife crisis.) I have never taken an art class in my life. All I did was make a million enjoyable mistakes that taught me what works and what does not work. Give it a try. The most important thing to remember is to have fun and not take the process too seriously. "(This entry was inspired by my friend Danny Gregory’s latest cartoon strip (describing his painting technique) posted on his blog today at http://www.dannygregory.com/)" 10/4/2006 Creating Journal Art
More than words
Step by Step
10/2/2006 What Doesn't Kill Us Only Makes Us StrongerWhat doesn't kill us only makes us STRONGER!
In life, we all have falling moments or times we failed.
It isn't how BADLY we failed or fell.
It's HOW we pick up ourselves after EACH fall or failure. 9/10/2006 KEY: THE METAL IDOL: anime lyrics
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anime: KEY THE METAL IDOL
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Song: Tenohira no Uchuu Singer: Iwao Junko (岩男潤子)
Lyrics...
すきとおる くらい いとおしい すべて が たからもの に なる そんな あさ に は たいせつ な ひと と あるく よ に ほほ にはひかり の ようせいーたち ゆらして みる の そっと
きのう より も すこし たかい そら を みあげながら
*** ここ で だれか を ずっと まちーつづけてた なきながら あなた を さがしてた かたこと の こころ だいて
めぐりあう ふしぎ その ゆび が ふれてる わたし の みらい を なつかしむ よう に
とんで ゆける から どこへでも きらめく よあけ の かぜ あつめて だから もっと ちかく に
むね の おく が なつかしくて なにも いえなく なる
*** repeat
あなた を ずっと まちーつづけてた とき を とめ てのひら の うちゅう を ふたりはだきしめて いる この まま だきしめて いる
たいせつ な ひと と あるく よ に ほほ にはひかり の ようせいーたち いつか ほほえみ に なる
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Song: Lullaby Singer: Iwao Junko (岩男潤子)
Lyrics...
むくどり、 やまばと、 こがねぐも おむらさき も ゆめ の なか おつき みそ は ねむれない ぎん の しずく を のんだ から
あんどろん、 どろん、 ないどろん; よる の こえ もり に わたれば あんどろん、 どろん、 ないどろん; おやすみ、 よいこ あした さめたら あげましょ きいちご、 なつぐみ、 やまぼし
ゆすげ、 きすげ、 この はずく よふかし の うさぎ べに すずめ しっぽ の きれた とかげ の こ かわり に つける りゅ の たま
あんどろん、 どろん、 ないどろん; よる の こえ もり に わたれば あんどろん、 どろん、 ないどろん; おやすみ、 よいこ あした さめたら あげましょ げんげ の じゅたん みみかざり
どくぜり、 あせび、 やまかがし もず の えだ にわ あまがえる きつね が たべた しか の こ は つき の ももーいろ みた しんだ
あんどろん、 どろん、 ないどろん; よる の こえ もり に わたれば あんどろん、 どろん、 ないどろん; おやすみ、 よいこ うら に そぎ の き ないたなら あかい ふく きて、 にげましょ
おやすみ、 よいこ おやすみ... (さ)
mukudori yamabato koganegumo omurasaki mo yume no naka otsuki miso wa nemurenai gin no shizuku o nonda kara
andoron doron naidoron yoru no koe mori ni watareba andoron doron naidoron oyasumi yoiko ashita sametara agemashou kiichigo natsugumi yamaboushi
yuusuge kisuge kono hazuku yofukashi no usagi beni suzume shippo no kireta tokage no ko kawari ni tsukeru ryuu no tama
andoron doron naidoron yoru no koe mori ni watareba andoron doron naidoron oyasumi yoiko ashita sametara agemashou genge no jutan mimi kazari
dokuzeri asebi yamakagashi mozu no eda niwa amagaeru kitsune ga tabeta shika no ko wa tsuki no momo-iro mita shinda
andoron doron naidoron yoru no koe mori ni watareba andoron doron naidoron oyasumi yoiko ura no sugi no ki naitanara akai fuku kite nigemashou
oyasumi yoiko oyasumi...
(sa)
~~~~~~~~~~ 8/17/2006 My Personal Life Fortune Analysis
8/15/2006 彼 は 答 え たその日、彼は私に答えた: 「あなたの創造性を造り上げるあなた自身の信任を有する必要がある。 あなた自身割り当てられる何でもの心配しないで自由に考え、スケッチしなさい。 境界ことをによってあなた自身を限らないで持つことができること仕事および創造性と驚く。
私はまた最後の幾つか年の間に生命に何かを不規則に逃すことの感じを有する。 時々、私は私の生命がとても無意味であることを感じる。
私は生命の目的はであるもの、そして私達住まなければならないなぜ多くの事が私達の制御の内にそしてない私達の予想によってないこの世界に疑問に思う。
とにかく、私はそれについて今考えることを停止した。 私は私がこの生命に見つけられるかもしれないこと事を捜し続けることは無意味であることを信じる。
生命の意味はであるもの私が知らないのに、私は私が幸せにことをさせること私の生命を人々を私のまわりでによって意味を持ったようにしてもいいことを知っている。 私は様々な有志の活動により少なく幸運私であるそれらの人々を助けるためにかかわる。
私が私のまわりで他の人々に微笑および幸せ会う場合幸せである。」
...でもね、私は彼が言ったことをによって非常に印象づけられて感じた。 8/10/2006 とんがり 帽子 の メモル ::: The Little MemoleI bought the Japanese anime illustration book of "とんがり帽子のメモル アートワークス (大型本) Tongari Boshi No Memole Art Works" from Singapore 'Books Kinokuniya' recently. The ISBN number is 4-7973-3233-6, if you are interested to enquire about it through your local bookstores.
I saw it on shelf display one day, while I was shopping at Takashimaya Shopping Centre after work. So great and so happy to find back my long lost memories of childhood's beloved animation that aired in Singapore around 1986, though I can't be exact.
This Japanese animation series had absolutely breathtaking awesome artwork that left a very deep impression in my mind, even many years after...
There are also its DVD box version and the original soundtrack CD on sale. Attached are the photos of all 3 products!!
Soundtrack: とんがり帽子のメモル SONG&MUSIC コレクション (Tongari Boshi No Memole Song&Music Collection). ASIN#: B000AHJ8OC
DVD: とんがり帽子のメモル (Tongari Boshi No Memole) DVD-BOX. ASIN#: B000B63FQO 8/8/2006 彼 は 言 っ た火曜日 2006年 8月 8日、彼は言った: 「こんにちは、かなり長い時間についてはフォーラムの会わなかった。 お元気ですか? あなたの仕事場はそこにまだあるか? 人々は元気ですか?」
私は私が彼を非常に逃すように彼に言いたいと思った。 しかし私はできなかった。
8/6/2006 Developmental Dysplasia Of The Hip ::: DDHDevelopmental Dysplasia Of The Hip ::: DDH
先天性股関節脱臼 OR 小児股関節疾患
生まれつき大腿骨の骨頭が納まる骨盤側のくぼみ(臼蓋)の形成が未熟(臼蓋形成不全)で、骨頭が臼蓋から脱臼している状態。 症状が軽い場合、もしくは体重が6キロ未満の乳児は、日常生活やオムツのあて方に注意し経過を見ます。
これだけで症状が改善されない場合は、リーメンビューゲルという装具をつけて治療します。 リーメンビューゲルを装着すると、脱臼自体は比較的短期間で治ることが多いです。 しかし臼蓋が正常に形成されるまでは脱臼しやすい状態なので、臼蓋が正常に形成されるまで治療を続けます。 初期に脱臼の症状を起していて、且つリーメンビューゲルを装着する場合は、 少なくとも3~4ヶ月の装着になることが多いようです。 6/25/2006 FRESHENING™ Alcohol WipesFRESHENING™ Alcohol Wipes are very useful for disinfecting your mobile phones, computer keyboards and door knobs. I love to use them.
Can be purchased from NTUC Unity Healthcare Pharmacies and Guardian Pharmacies in Singapore. Priced at $2 per pack of 10 individually wrapped 70%-alcohol wipes.
Visit http://www.freshening.com.sg/ for more details. Recipe :~: Garden Fresh
Gardenia Recipe ::: Garden Fresh
<<< Serving: Makes 2 "pockets" >>>
Ingredients:
1 Gardenia Focaccia Bread (from most supermarkets) 150g celery (diced) 1/2 onion (roughly chopped) 2 green apples (cored and diced) 75g raisins 1 tbsp cream cheese 2 tbsp plain yoghurt Salt and pepper A few leaves of lettuce
Cooking Method:
1. Thoroughly combine celery, onion, apples, raisins, cream cheese and yoghurt. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
2. Using a sharp knife, halve focaccia diagonally. Carefully make a deep slit into each to enable filling.
3. Fill the focaccia halves with combined ingredients from (1), tuck in a few lettuce leaves and serve. 6/18/2006 Swiss Bake ::: Almond BarThe "Almond Bar" pastry selling at 'Swiss Bake' is simply fantastic! Their recipe must be something, `cos it's their rated HOT SELLER!! You must try it, too!!!
[I have attached an image of this particular pastry for your view]
Check out http://www.swissbake.com/ and http://www.swiss-treats.com/ for more information...
You can buy from SwissBake at Takashimaya #B2, HarbourFront #01 and Centrepoint #B1. Life Purpose InventoryI found 2 different versions (from the Internet) on Life Purpose Inventory, presenting questions you will ask yourself leading to your purpose in life:
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Life Purpose Inventory - Version 1
1. What do I love to do when I have the time? 2. If I let go of my fears, what do I see others doing that I would also like to do? 3. What do I secretly wish I could do to make my family, the community, or the world a better place? 4. What are my talents and gifts that I know I have or am currently using? 5. If I let go of how it could come about, time restraints, money restrictions, or current responsibilities what would an exciting future look like to me? Go into detail and include hidden needs and wants. 6. Who in your Life have you grown to respect and are trying to emulate? What do you observe is their Spiritual Mission? What would you suspect you would find fulfilling in what they do? 7. The lessons I have learned in Life so far include ... . List them. 8. Out of the lessons learned which ones do you observe in others struggling a step behind you on the path of self-awareness? What do others learn from you? 9. What are some of your earliest childhood memories? Free associate and see how one or two memories could relate to a current need that wants to direct you. Maybe you want to repeat an experience or feeling. 10. What have others told you that you are good at doing? 11. Close your eyes and pretend you are in a place of peace. Deep breath several times and imagine a Teacher, or an Angel, or a person, or a Spirit Guide, or an animal visiting your in you place of peace. Imagine you will receive answers to your questions. Ask for your spiritual purpose. Listen, see, or feel the answer. Open your eyes and write you answers down. Do this exercise many times. 12. If there is anything you want to express that these questions did not address, do so now. **************
Life Purpose Inventory - Version 2
1. List your talents, interests, and gifts (you may or may not be using them). Write about one that you would like to nurture.
2. What are things you love to do when you have the time? What do you enjoy?
3. What are things you see others doing or wish you could do if time, education, and money were not an issue? What might be the "perfect" job or career for you?
4. Write about a significant religious or spiritual experience you have had and how it impacts your life.
5. What do you think or feel would make your family, community, or the world a better place? What small part might you play to bring this about?
6. Discuss the major emotional events, traumas, or challenges that have influenced or shaped your life? Write about how they might motivate you to get involved in making changes in the world, in people's awareness, or to help others with similar issues or problems.
7. Write the most exciting future you can think of for yourself.
8. Who do you respect, admire, and wish to emulate? Explain. Write about possibilities where you might do some of the same things that you admire?
9. List the lessons you feel you have learned so far in life. Write about the ones that are still in process. (Clue: Lessons are brought to awareness where you experience conflict or dissatisfaction.)
10. What might you have to teach others who are a step behind you working through similar issues or challenges as yourself?
11. What do others say when they compliment you? Use your imagination and explore how these traits could be used in a greater way.
12. What childhood memories are themes in the patterns that you repeat in your adult life? Explain how some of these may be motivators to help you heal yourself and then model your process to others.
13. Pray or meditate asking God, a spiritual teacher, guide, angel, or wise person to give you insights about your spiritual purpose. See, hear, or feel answers which can come to you in insights, dreams, daydreams, etc. Write them down and discuss.
14. Write about joy and fulfillment.
15. Do you think your purpose is more about doing or being? Write freely what comes to mind.
16. Sit quietly and allow anything else that your unconscious wants to express to flow onto your paper.
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Cucumber Roll Recipe - Japanese Kappamaki
Cucumber rolls are called kappa-maki in Japanese.
4 cups sushi rice
Cut the cucumber into thin and long sticks. Put a nori sheet on top of a bamboo mat (makisu). Spread sushi rice on top of the nori sheet. Place the cucumber sticks lengthwise on the rice.
Roll up the bamboo mat, pressing forward to shape the sushi into a cylinder. Press the bamboo mat firmly and remove it from the sushi. Cut the rolled sushi into bite-sized pieces.
* Makes 4 Rolls * Sekihan - Red Rice Recipe - Japanese Red Bean RiceSekihan - Red Rice Recipe - Red Bean Rice
Sekihan is Japanese red beans rice. It's a Japanese traditional dish which is cooked for celebrations.
INGREDIENTS: 3 Cups Mochigome (Glutinous Rice)
2-and-1/2 oz Azuki Red Beans 1/2 tsp Salt Water Black sesame seeds and salt for toppings PREPARATION: Wash rice and drain and set aside. Boil azuki beans for a few minutes and drain. Put 2 cups of water in a pan and boil the beans again. Simmer the beans for 20-30 minutes. Drain azuki beans and keep the colored water.
Mix some water and the colored water to make 3 cups of liquid. Put washed rice and boiled azuki beans in a rice cooker. Add 3 cups of colored liquid and salt in the cookder and mix well. Start the rice cooker. After steaming the rice for 10-15 minutes, serve the rice.
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