The Cube...

Sculpture Sur Glace... :)

Yesterday(Feb 25^th) was the day I was waiting since the week before because I get to know that we were going to do some ICE CARVING!!!!!! Wohoooo!!! Hehehehe… :P… but I was late that morning… half an hour late to be exact…. Woke up late that morning because I forgot to set the alarm…:S…. Luckily the rest of my group members haven’t started yet and were given explanation about the tools and general stuffs about ice carving… :P… there's a lot of tools used for carving ice… including chain saw, chisel, saw, some rotary tools and so on… plus they are not cheap…

The Ice Block

We're gonna use a few of the tools yesterday... chisel(a few types of it), chainsaw, and some other... we were asked to wear gloves to throughout the whole process... because of the ice was so cold... duhh!!!? hehehehe... :P... and helps reduce the risk of getting cuts from the sharp chisel while carving... in this CAD(Culinary Arts & Design) class, we were divided into 3 groups... each group gets one big block of ice... btw we we're also explained on how to handle the ice block as well to prevent it from shattering and so on... :)

Cutting the ice into two with the saw... didn't get a pic of me cutting with a chainsaw... :(

1st of all we were ask to trim the sides of the huge ice block and cut it into two... :)... we're going to make a square container and a leaf bowl... :)... there's 4 of us in the group... at 1st all of us were at the 1st block doing the container... then Chef asked me to start carving the leaf bowl.. ehehehe... by my self!!! wahahahahahahahahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Carving the Ice Container... :)

Got myself the tools required and started the leaf bowl straight away... hehehe... i love this... :)... but the thing about ice carving is that, it is so damn tiring!!!! sweating throughout the whole process of carving them... :S.... anyway... i don't mind... because i love doing this... wahhaha...

Me carving the "Leaf Bowl"

The Leaf Bowl pics... :P

i did mine slightly different from what was suppose to be like... :P... the inner part of the bowl was curved instead of edgy which was supposed to be like... hehe... i like it curved better since it looks more natural... hehaahaha... :P... plus the sides i did not follow the starting design.... i followed the leaf design i did on my previous pumpkin leaf... hehehe... :P.... haha... mine was abit different... then the other group ciplak(copied) my leaf bowl pattern... wahahhaha... :P... i don't mind anyway... we all there to learn... :)...

Group Photo with our ices... :P

Our ices are thrown into the drain...we have to... :(

Ice carving was really really fun but in the same time its very tiring... although it was cold... but still we will sweat while carving them... it takes some effort to get it done since it is very hard... and we need to be careful not to hit to hard to avoid for getting it ruined and shatter... :P..

Fleur Sculpture!!!!!

Tomorrow(23 feb 2011) is my friends birthday and was thinking of making something for her(Jenny Lim to be exact)... thought of making carvings but no idea our of what... the last post was about me learning fruit carvings and stuffs in CAD(Culinary Arts & Design) class... if fruits or vegies weren't ment to be kept in a long period... out of wood might consume me a few days to finish it i think...

Then i remmembered wat i learned when i was 10 years old, i learned to carve on soaps in arts class... :)... but simple designs of course... made a heart shape and so on which is very very simple... :).. then thought of using soap with the design of carving that i learned from fruit carvings in CAD Class...

:)... got my self a block of soap and cut the sides so it fits in a box that i am gonna place it into...

Cut The sides and made a circle line..


Made a deep groove and made lines for the leafs...


Made the leaves... took me around one and half hour... just the leafs... :P


Started to make the flower in the middle... took me an hour to get the shape... :P




Refining tho whole thing... slightly more than half an hour... :P



All done... :)...

The whole process took me 3 hours to make... :)... just stop to get drinks only and then straight on continue doing... wahahhaha... :P... well... it worth the time and the outcome was awesome!!!... hehehehe... :P... Hope that Jenny Lim a.k.a Bak Bao, would love this.. hahahaha... :P

Fruits & Vegies Carved By Bone.. :P

This past 4 classes of Culinary Arts & Design (CAD) Class, we've been doing vegetables and fruit carving... Which is actually my favourite class for my course in KDU... :)... i was an art student before and love arts as well... but to to the extend of beeing hyperly into arts stream... in Culinary course i could develop my skills and passion for arts and food(cooking)... hehe...

well.... i love carvings... :)... the 1st class of CAD we did vegetables carvings... making leaves shapes out of cucumber, flowers out of chillies... flowers out of radish, potatoes and so on... in the end we arrange all those carvings to make this Vegetable Floral Bouquet...

The bouquet of vegie flower. :P

flower carved from radish... :P

The second class of CAD, we did pumpkin carving... :P... made leaves and flower out of it... :P... kinda simple for this one... :) but still i love it!!! :P... hehhehe...

Then The third was the fruit cuts... and plating... hmm... this was kinda basic only... should have been the 1st... hehehe.... :)... but still need some attention to detail when doing this... heheheh.. .:)

The fourth class was this morning... :P... we made watermelon carving... :P... hehehe... some flower at the top and leaves at the sides... damn tidious... takes time and need to pay attention when beeing thought of the method of doing.. :S... its beeing shown in stages when doing this... the chef shown us the first layer and stuff, then we follow... after done with one then goes the rest of the layers and stages... :P... turned out damn pretty... :P... i love it...

The Stages... :P... hehe...

The final product... :P.. hehehehe... :)

well... i love this class alot... coz it shows my capabilities of doing the carvings and shows my creativity... :P.... hehehe... starting from next week its gonna be ICE CARVING!!!!!! 4 classes of those!!!!! cant wait for it!!! since it is very very very interesting and i cant wait for it!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder what are we going to carve out of the ice... hahahah... :P.... i love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P... heheheheh.. .:)

Twisted "Fox in Socks" Twister

Found this tongue-twister posted somewhere... kinda interesting... Fox in Socks is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1965. It features two main characters, Fox and his partner Knox, who converse almost entirely in densely rhyming tongue-twisters... try to read it out loud and constant... :P...

Fox
Socks
Box
Knox

Knox in box.
Fox in socks.

Knox on fox in socks in box.

Socks on Knox and Knox in box.

Fox in socks on box on Knox.

Chicks with bricks come.
Chicks with blocks come.
Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come.

Look, sir.  Look, sir.  Mr. Knox, sir.
Let's do tricks with bricks and blocks, sir.
Let's do tricks with chicks and clocks, sir.

First, I'll make a quick trick brick stack.
Then I'll make a quick trick block stack.

You can make a quick trick chick stack.
You can make a quick trick clock stack.

And here's a new trick, Mr. Knox....
Socks on chicks and chicks on fox.
Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks.
Bricks and blocks on Knox on box.

Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir.
Try to say this Mr. Knox, sir....

Clocks on fox tick.
Clocks on Knox tock.
Six sick bricks tick.
Six sick chicks tock.

Please, sir.  I don't like this trick, sir.
My tongue isn't quick or slick, sir.
I get all those ticks and clocks, sir,
mixed up with the chicks and tocks, sir.
I can't do it, Mr. Fox, sir.

I'm so sorry, Mr. Knox, sir.

Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say....

New socks.
Two socks.
Whose socks?
Sue's socks.

Who sews whose socks?
Sue sews Sue's socks.

Who sees who sew whose new socks, sir?
You see Sue sew Sue's new socks, sir.

That's not easy, Mr. Fox, sir.

Who comes? ...
Crow comes.
Slow Joe Crow comes.

Who sews crow's clothes?
Sue sews crow's clothes.
Slow Joe Crow sews whose clothes?
Sue's clothes.

Sue sews socks of fox in socks now.

Slow Joe Crow sews Knox in box now.

Sue sews rose on Slow Joe Crow's clothes.
Fox sews hose on Slow Joe Crow's nose.

Hose goes.
Rose grows.
Nose hose goes some.
Crow's rose grows some.

Mr. Fox!
I hate this game, sir.
This game makes my tongue quite lame, sir.

Mr. Knox, sir, what a shame, sir.

We'll find something new to do now.
Here is lots of new blue goo now.
New goo.  Blue goo.
Gooey.  Gooey.
Blue goo.  New goo.
Gluey. Gluey.

Gooey goo for chewy chewing!
That's what that Goo-Goose is doing.
Do you choose to chew goo, too, sir?
If, sir, you, sir, choose to chew, sir,
with the Goo-Goose, chew, sir.
Do, sir.

Mr. Fox, sir,
I won't do it.
I can't say.
I won't chew it.

Very well, sir.
Step this way.
We'll find another game to play.

Bim comes.
Ben comes.
Bim brings Ben broom.
Ben brings Bim broom.

Ben bends Bim's broom.
Bim bends Ben's broom.
Bim's bends.
Ben's bends.
Ben's bent broom breaks.
Bim's bent broom breaks.

Ben's band.  Bim's band.
Big bands.  Pig bands.

Bim and Ben lead bands with brooms.
Ben's band bangs and Bim's band booms.

Pig band!  Boom band!
Big band!  Broom band!
My poor mouth can't say that.  No, sir.
My poor mouth is much too slow, sir.

Well then... bring your mouth this way.
I'll find it something it can say.

Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.

Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

I can't blab such blibber blubber!
My tongue isn't make of rubber.

Mr. Knox.  Now come now.  Come now.
You don't have to be so dumb now....

Try to say this, Mr. Knox, please....

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Stop it!  Stop it!
That's enough, sir.
I can't say such silly stuff, sir.

Very well, then, Mr. Knox, sir.

Let's have a little talk about tweetle beetles....

What do you know about tweetle beetles?  Well...

When tweetle beetles fight,
it's called a tweetle beetle battle.

And when they battle in a puddle,
it's a tweetle beetle puddle battle.

AND when tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle,
they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle.

AND...

When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle
and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle...
...they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle.

AND...

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.

AND...

Now wait a minute, Mr. Socks Fox!

When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle
with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle,
THIS is what they call...

...a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled
muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir!

Fox in socks, our game is done, sir.
Thank you for a lot of fun, sir.

Crash!!!

I am going back to my hometown, Sarawak for holiday.. cant wait for it!!! Well… I’m already at my hometown as I was writing this …:P… Hmmm… woke up early as I was going to the KLIA airport today… around 5am to be exact..said bye to my dad and then took off… he was half asleep justnw as I was saying so…

me and my mom left home around 5.40am this morning… driving the iswara according to the speed limit and properly along the KKB-Rawang road… everything went just fine as usual.. and then out of a sudden a Myvi driving out of the Antara Gapi residence area… I was already close but then he still goes out.. i was trying to avoid but then I cant make it and then BANG!!!!!!!!.... hit the front of the myvi…

my cars windshield shatters… I tried to brake as all this is happening but it doesn’t seems to work… skidding across to the other side of the road and to to side of the road… almost hit the electric line pillar as well but I manage to avoid it… my mom was panic’ing… I kept calm at all the times… as the car stops, smokes starts coming out of the engine… my mom was panic thinking that the car might blow off or sumthing… she tried to go out from her side of the door but it was jammed caused by the accident… but my side still fine and I manage to open it freely…

I went out of the car and so does my mom after that… the Myvi owner came out of his car as well and seems frighted… I yelled at him of what he did wrong… I was freaking mad as I am gonna be late for my flight at 9am… I swear I was gonna whack that fella up.. but my mom kept me chilled… so I just comply…

the condition of the car... :(...

called my dad… he came straight away after the call… but while waiting,, its kinda odd since out of nowhere the towing people pop out of nowhere… I thought they were just passer by and curious bout the accident and trying to help out or something… but then they offered the towing service to us… but the tow truck was not there yet…. I bet its already on their way… I cant wait longer since I have a plane to catch… as my dad came, as well as my uncle,, we discuss bout my condition which I have to reach the airport by 8pm latest… so my uncle send me then.,..

the idiot myvi driver!!!!

I left the “scene” and drove to the airport… yeah… me driving again even after the accident… my mom wanted to send me instead, but she needs to be there as she was the witness of the incident… took of and its kinda a race against time… since its already 7am and still at antara gapi… and the traffic is starting to build uo… luckly it wasn’t that bad,… have to drive abit faster on the highway… my uncle doesn’t seems to mind… went 130km/h on a van… but I thnk the meter is sumthing wrong or sumthing since it doesn’t feel like 130km/h… well… anyway I manage to reach the KLIA on time… around 8am…

straight away went in and chek in at the counter and stuff… I called my mom and she was at the police station dealing with the situation… well the myvi owner’s insurance is gonna cover the expences of repairing the car… since it was his fault and not mine… well… I need to made a report once I come back to KKB again since i was the driver and the police said that I need to do so as well.. hmm… the car is already 16years old… and nothing as bad as this had ever happened before… and this is the worse,.. hopefully the car can still be repaired… since my parents are actually at low budjet at the moment… tmro we will knw weather it is worth fixing or just let go of the car… my parents will discuss with the mechanics tomorrow…

I feel so bad somehow… since I just left and cant do anything.. well. I I don't go back to my hometown.. the ticket will “burn”… u get the point… actually, I suffer from minor bruises… my right knee hurts and my left calf hurts… so does my waist… limping as I walk and hurts as hell when I sneeze or cough.. might be better tomorrow I think… if its not then I’m going to go to the hospital… luckily nothing bad happened to me and my mom.. in terms of injury…

one more thing that made me survive the accede was the seat belt… luckly I wore them coz sometimes I don’t… I migh get injured badly or even wont be writing this shit right nw… u knw wat I mean… well… wear your seatbelts please!!!! I experienced this and it is very very very important as it saves lives… drive safely y’all!!! And be carfull!!!...