Hobby: cartoons or portraits?

Hobby: cartoons or portraits?

A half- portrait on my wrist- Chen Song Ping

I usually prefer to sketch cartoons ( my example) to illustrate some of my posts, as well as lectures.

Yesterday, my sister sent me portrait drawings on wrists and back of hands. They were so realistic and beautiful ( see picture below).

I decided to try a half- portrait on my wrist ( see picture above). It was fun!

the drawing on a hand+ sent to me the day before.

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Quote:-

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.Julia Cameron

The goldfish’s mouth

The goldfish’s mouth ( A SenryΕ«)

sea people water ocean
Gold dropping out of goldfish’s mouth? (Photo by Saeed Khokhar on Pexels.com)

why aren’t you talking?

because there’s a precious gold

inside goldfish’s mouth?

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How happy is happiness?

How happy is happiness?

Happiness (Photo by Andre Furtado on Pexels.com)

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When one has experienced unhappiness,

one will appreciate happiness more!

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Quote:-

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.- Roy T. Bennett

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“My mum likes fish bones!”

“My mum likes fish bones!“

Eating habit (Photo by Katerina Holmes on Pexels.com)

“We look back at the days when our mum used to chew fish bones. We kids took all its flesh…And we thought mum like chewing fish bones!”

Sigh! There wasn’t enough on the table then.

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Nowadays, there are mums who would still clean the left- over meat on the chicken or fish bones. This is because the kids didn’t clean the bones enough!

Sigh! There is just too much on the table!

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Carrie Underwood: “It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of food that my kid didn’t finish…”

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Trusting Tuesday and school bullies

Trusting Tuesday and school bullies (A SenryΕ« )

I did not take it!
I swear! I’m telling the truth!
Nothing but the truth!

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Tom witnessed a boy on the toilet floor pleading innocence.
The bullies were kicking him for stealing a mobile phone.
Did the school believe him?
Would Tom be the next victim if he had reported?

Quotes:-

  1. Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. – Confucius
  2. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.- – Mark Twain.
  3. The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.- John F. Kennedy

A baby snake had a dorm in CHAOS!

A baby snake had a dorm in CHAOS! (a Haiku)

I was at a mediation center in the middle of a jungle. After a heavy thunderous night, a baby snake’s visit caused chaos in the female dorm!

brown snake
A snake (Photo by mark broadhurst on Pexels.com)
Heavy thunderstorm
good morning, everybody!
It’s time to get up!

May opened the door
But quickly opened her legs!
Greeted by a snake! 
The little wiggly quickly
 slided in beneath her legs!!

'Snake! A baby snake!'
In seconds, all atop beds!
Help! Somebody! Please!

'Please go to the meditation hall.
We’ll take care of this baby!'
Seemed a norm to them!

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Blogging: understanding my viewerships thus far

Blogging: understanding my viewerships thus far

United States (7471 views)

India (3679 views)

Italy (2572 views)

Malaysia ( 2079 views)

Spain, UK, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Turkey…

Malaysia is fourth in viewership of my posts. Many of them aren’t bloggers, probably friends and acquaintances.

I love recipes, short stories, and poems. I learn to appreciate photography and new digital arts!

It has been a good experience reading posts from the seventy-eight countries. πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™

Blogging: Viewership supporters

Blogging: Viewership supporters

Stats till August 2021

My viewership

comprises a handful of

staunch likathoners.

They are probably trying to help me

I am sorry

I was not able

to return them as much

though I do enjoy

your posts and your recipes.

But thanks to you

all the same!

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Working and retiring…

aged woman in eyeglasses surfing internet on laptop
Working and retiring (Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com)

WORKING AND RETIRING

Work and the brain works for you, too!

Retire, and it retires, too!

So in the nothingness, boredom, and dreams,

does the brain work?

                                    -Serena Chen S.P.

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