The landscape of Orakei Korako, New Zealand is one of bubbling mud pools, streams of metallic coloured liquid bleeding over rocks, clouds of steam and eggy sulphurous odors. Hot water spurts intermittently from the ground, the earth angrily communicating with you, demanding your attention. It feels as if it’s a place from the beginning of time, and not much imagination is needed to picture a dinosaur striding down the tree-fern covered hillside.
After spending the night at the first of one of New Zealand’s many terrific camp sites, we awoke early and headed to Hobbiton! As a huge Lord of the Rings fan, I was very excited as those little rolling hills of the shire landscape came into view from the van. We were guided around by the type of tour guide that you typically find at these things, full of knowledge but with an aura of living off reflected glory which is a bit weird. It was an amazing film set and completely immersed you into the atmosphere of this fictional world. The level of detail and craftmanship was exquisite and all quite fresh from the recent filming of ‘The Hobbit’.
The last drawing from my 12 months of Singadraw book has finally been uploaded! Here’s to a new book and many more days of drawing to come… Thank you to all the followers!
The last page in my book! After a night flight of no sleep we were welcomed to Auckland with the best present ever, a campervan for our week’s retreat in New Zealand!
Twelve months to the day I arrived in Singapore and I was back at Changi Airport. This time waiting for a flight that would see me continue even further East to New Zealand!
The last evening with my dad in Singapore and we celebrated his visit with delicious Chinese food, including my new favourite dish, Pineapple rice!
A tattooed boat man staring out to the Strait of Johor having polished off two bottles of Heineken.
Ang Siang Hill
The Merlion!
A group of uncles watching the Man United v Everton game. One of them honked a hooter everytime a goal was scored!
