Monthly Archives: March 2012

I donated MYR4,200 to Yayasan Sunbeams Home!

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I am still in awe after my last art exhibition “Colours of Life. A Celebration of Life, Art and Culture” at Hotel Equatorial. Having finalised the last details with the hotel, delivered sold paintings, picking up the rest etc,

I am happy to announce that including the sale of my paintings I have been able to donate MYR4,200 to our chosen charity Yayasan Sunbeams Home. This is also thanks to a great partnership with Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur and fantastic collaboration with many great people such as Nila Palacios, Lena Lim, Dr. T Selva, Tan Chong Meng, Rajen the Magician and Elke Wollschon.

I went to Yayasan Sunbeams Home’ homeschooling centre on a Sunday in March together with social media expert Lena Lim and we met up with Pastor Victor, his wife, a teacher and some kids and it was a great pleasure to see all the work that they do for orphaned children.Yayasan Sunbeams Home cares and provides for orphaned, abused, neglected and abandoned children, and children from broken families, irrespective of their background or beliefs. I was in particular impressed with their home schooling programme and centre.

A large number of the children have had problems integrating in the public school and to follow the curriculum. Therefore the management of the orphanage decided to teach the children themselves, following a home schooling programme. This has given happier kids who are learning more and the donation from my art show is going toward shelves in the school.

The school employs 4 teachers and they need money each month to pay for them and to develop the school further so if you are looking for a charity to support, I think this is a very worthy cause.

Read more about Yayasan Sunbeams Home here: http://sunbeamshome.org/  and like them on Facebook too please: www.facebook.com/YayasanSunbeamsHome

I like the Yayasan Sunbeams Home concept so much that we have agreed that I will help teach the kids art and creativity and we are starting to prepare for this very soone. If you know who can support us with art materials and supplies, please let me know.

I have actually been asked many times whether I teach art and creativity to children… now I will start on this at Yayasan Sunbeams Home as my community project and maybe later, if the demand is there, do something for children from families for a fee. More on this when I feel ready.

Want to be a Star?

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I will be video’ing my next workshop and I am urgently looking for a few more people to be in my training video. Are you one of my stars?

The video will be filmed in my studio in my house in Ampang this coming weekend Saturday and Sunday 24th and 25th March 2012 from 9 am to 5 pm.

The video and therefore the workshop will include subjects of discovery such as the connection between creativity, play and relaxation, the meaning of colours and how colours affect us. I will also touch on subjects such as materials, paints and colours and not least how to mix colours. The exercises are all relaxed and fun and will include a number of mind freeing assignments using colours and other materials. I will in particular focus on guiding you through exercises that will help you finding your creativity and I will reveal tricks that you can use in the future whether you are painting or not. Some of the things you learn might even become useful at the job! And don’t forget, you will go home with at least one if not not more masterpieces made by YOU!

You do not need to know about painting or art to participate but it’s no hindrance because what I teach is entirely different to any art class you could imagine! Just come with an open mind and be willing to go with the flow and have fun!

As I am video’ing this I will not charge you my usual fees, I will only ask you to cover the cost of lunch boths days and all material, a total of RM75. That is a steal because you will be helping me to make a super training video just by being you!

Give me a call immediately if you want to be part of this and help me out at the same time, please call on tel 016 301 8081 or my personal mobile if you have that number.

I donated MYR4,200 to Yayasan Sumbeams Home

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I am still in awe after my last art exhibition “Colours of Life. A Celebration of Life, Art and Culture” at Hotel Equatorial. Having finalised the last details with the hotel, delivered sold paintings, picking up the rest etc,

I am happy to announce that including the sale of my paintings I have been able to donate MYR4,200 to our chosen charity Yayasan Sunbeams Home. This is also thanks to a great partnership with Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur and fantastic collaboration with many great people such as Nila Palacios, Lena Lim, Dr. T Selva, Tan Chong Meng, Rajen the Magician and Elke Wollschon.

I went to Yayasan Sunbeams Home’ homeschooling centre on a Sunday in March together with social media expert Lena Lim and we met up with Pastor Victor, his wife, a teacher and some kids and it was a great pleasure to see all the work that they do for orphaned children.Yayasan Sunbeams Home cares and provides for orphaned, abused, neglected and abandoned children, and children from broken families, irrespective of their background or beliefs. I was in particular impressed with their home schooling programme and centre.

A large number of the children have had problems integrating in the public school and to follow the curriculum. Therefore the management of the orphanage decided to teach the children themselves, following a home schooling programme. This has given happier kids who are learning more and the donation from my art show is going toward shelves in the school.

The school employs 4 teachers and they need money each month to pay for them and to develop the school further so if you are looking for a charity to support, I think this is a very worthy cause.

Read more about Yayasan Sunbeams Home here: http://sunbeamshome.org/  and like them on Facebook too please: www.facebook.com/YayasanSunbeamsHome

I like the Yayasan Sunbeams Home concept so much that we have agreed that I will help teach the kids art and creativity and we are starting to prepare for this very soone. If you know who can support us with art materials and supplies, please let me know.

I have actually been asked many times whether I teach art and creativity to children… now I will start on this at Yayasan Sunbeams Home as my community project and maybe later, if the demand is there, do something for children from families for a fee. More on this when I feel ready.

Why colours are more important than we think

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Colours is such a fascinating and rich subject, it’s all around us all or most of the time yet many of us never even think about colours let alone use them actively to our advantage in daily life.

As opposed to animals we, or most of us, see life in colour yet it is something we know almost nothing about. We know the names of a number of colours but when it comes to the more unusual ones, we have no clue. What is mauve for instance? Or ochre? What do they look like?

Colours have a cultural significance, they can have political associations, they can be linked with religion, the have age connotation… they have spiritual and health meanings as they signifies the energies of our aura or body’s energy field.

We seem to prefer certain colours for clothing but different colours for our surroundings. We often  allow ourselves to follow the colour dictates of fashion even if it does not “feel right”. If everything else fails, we tend to surround ourselves with white and wear black or other so-called neutral colours. Why?

Because colours communicate even if we’re not aware of it… and often we’re afraid of standing out, showing our true colour in a mass of blackness or nothingness!

Our subconscious mind is however, quite capable of picking up colours and their meaning. .. and so is our body! The simple reason is that color has energy and therefore a vibration and a frequency like everything else in this Universe. Because colour is frequency it can be “translated” into other aspects that we might understand, into matters that is coherent with our bodies and mind.

The frequency of colours can be used to balance off imbalances in our bodies… because that is frequencies too. This way, colours can not only affect our moods but in subtle ways actually have health benefits.

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, each organ in our body is linked with an element, a season, a colour as well as an organ, a taste, a mood, a sound, a time and much more. Looking at this, we get an insight into WHY colours are so important to our lives:

Do you want to learn more about how colours affect our lives?

Then come join me for the talk “Why Colours Are More Important Than We Think. The why’s and the what’s of the colours in our life” on one of these dates:

And I’m hosting a 2 day creative workshop end of October, it’s at Hotel Equatorial and it’s called “How Anyone Can Become Creative on Command” http://creativeoncommand.eventbrite.com