i designed these giant ceramic-chimes a few months after we moved to our permanent/current beruntung-house, so that i could ‘hear’ the stronger & cooler winds that we get to enjoy now that we live nearer to and in pleasant frontal view of the banjaran titiwangsa.. besides the stronger & cooler winds coming down from the [...]
01.16.09 | ceramic-matters, ideas-inspirations | TheCeramicDesigner
i’m now just remembering my early years in my accidental-business.. whereby i spent my days full-time in my small factory.. supervising my 6 pioneer-staff.. expanding our work-area little by little.. increasing our production-machineries bit by bit.. driving around in my proton aeroback looking for suppliers in unfamiliar territories.. in my tattered jeans and overgrown men-shirts [...]
12.4.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser, ideas-inspirations | TheCeramicDesigner
mmm.. yum, yum.. slurrpp.. very nice.. hope this will get my head cracking, eh..??
december already and what have i achieved this year..?? have i grown richer, happier, savvier, healthier..?? have i become more organised, more work-focused, more religious, more business-minded..?? have i become a better mum/wife/daughter/sister/friend..??
around this time last year, i listed my 2008-goals into [...]
12.2.08 | ideas-inspirations | TheCeramicDesigner
my 16yr old eldest daughter and her study group had chosen my business as their project-topic, so off we went down to my ipoh-factory yesterday all-day, followed by my second 12yr old girl..
i’ve never had the patient and inclination to teach or to impart any kind of knowledge to anybody very well before, hence i [...]
11.26.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser, ideas-inspirations | TheCeramicDesigner
it was the month of january in the year 2003..
my 39th birthday would just be a few weeks away in february.. my accidental business venture would turn 10 years old about that same time.. and i was confused, tired, lost, tormented, feeling like a failure and thinking of giving it all up..
so i started writing [...]
07.10.08 | TheCeramicDesigner-upcloser, ideas-inspirations | TheCeramicDesigner
i’ve been looking at the lotuses in my garden the past 2 and a half years.. thinking that i should design something based on them.. maybe a covered ceramic bowl?? or ceramic ashtray?? a ceramic teapot, maybe??
other plants in my garden are also waving and swaying towards my direction every time i pass by.. hoping [...]
07.10.08 | ideas-inspirations | TheCeramicDesigner
i’ve wanted to blog as regularly as possible but somehow or rather other matters keep criss-crossing my path.. one matter in particular: catching up with my work which had been neglected recently!! eh, but isn’t this blogging ‘work’ as well…??? with me under house-arrest and slaving away in my own castle full-time for three months, [...]
07.3.08 | ideas-inspirations, working-online | TheCeramicDesigner
