困兽之斗

Ok... i spent my whole day with dragons today... examining, figuring out, folding... shiok!!! satisfied!!! happy!!!
First was this half dragon, i think his dad is oriental who married a western dragon... the body look like oriental dragon but have wings one leh.. haha reminds me of the dragon in mulan... well i liked it very much... thats why i folded it in the first place.

But then got this little pig who rules piggidom, say something about dragon nv breathe fire or something... Wah... dun play play... gimme inspiration... Then i decided to make fire... with paper... haha. Well if you think its just crumpling a few pieces of paper then ok lo.. u are a genius... cos my table is strewn with paper after tat. I incorporate creases and soft folds for the fire... folded it with two square pieces of paper.
Voila~

Very good... quite satisfied... then this dragon can breathe fire but very lonely... so i folded another dragon... a western dragon this time... haha so they can fight...

Battle of the dragons...

After the Rubic's cube... the Magic Cube

Remember when me, Jasmine, Ginger, Martian and MBA eating teppanyaki... Jasmine say she only interested in modular origami... cos its useful... heh... Jasmine... look at this... Modular origami at the highest order...

Not only can it hold stuff... it holds a secret... and when you let the secret unfold it self... you will get the answer...

*unfold... unfold... unfold...
"Lo Behold~!!!!"

The Magic Rose Cube~

Red Bull...

Second try...

Bull and pig

Well i forgot who asked me to fold a bull... Was it tak tak or was it someone else... i remembered at least two person asked me to fold that... well forgot who... but i folded this bull... inspired and folded out from the base used by stephan weber... though the finishing is different... but aiyah... use wrong paper.. should use red paper, more fierce, red bull... haha
This one i quite confirmed its jasmine who ask me to fold it. Showed me a picture of a pig one fine day, tell me very cute... ask me to fold. Its a traditional design, so dunno who created it, but i added softer folds for the finishing to soften the edge, make it look less rigid.

This rat was folded some time back... long time no fold me favourite model of all times... so folded it, this is smaller than my last try...

Happy Mothers' Day...

Hi all... very very sorry ah... no entries so long... busy la... a lot of things going on... then sometimes nuah... lazy to blog. Kk... I've been going to the library... browsing books on flower arrangement... then i arranged this bouquet specially for mothers' day... but not for my mum leh... for my aunt.. haha. Mum ah, she say she got enough of that lying around the house...

Its kinda an origami purist work... all paper and a bit of glue... no cutting... pure folding... its made up of roses, and a pleat folded holder, added lotus leaves to bring out the roses... pretty neat huh!! Took me like a few days to conceptualize and 2-3 hours to make... Pretty!!

Doggies revisited

Folded dogs again... after my lousy tries, got down to folding some more pro models... all designed by Seiji Nishikawa... all out from the same "4-legged base". Nice models... well actually its possible to create a whole range of dogs from that base.. great proportions... luv it...

Afghan Hound...

Common hounds...

What Sunday soccer did to me...

:'(

The Story of Sadako Sasaki and the 1000 Paper Cranes

The paper crane is a symbol of peace and hope. This idea was popularized by the familiar story of Sadako Sasaki. She was just a child when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, but at the age of 11 she was diagnosed with the "atom bomb disease" or leukemia because of the direct exposure to the radiation.

With the encouragement from her friends and family, Sadako decided to fold 1000 paper cranes in the hope that she would be cured. She believed in the old Japanese legend that said; a person who folds 1000 paper cranes will have his/her wish granted; she was confident that each paper crane represented a wish and certainly a thousand wishes could not be ignored...

She used every piece of paper she could get her hands on; the medicine paper, newspapers, magazines, scraps, and other papers her family and friends brought her. She folded and folded hundreds of cranes as she watched her friends die in the hospital along side her.

Eventually, she realized that here wish had changed. She no longer wished for her own health but rather that this type of violence should never happen again. That there should be no more bombs or wars, her wish was for peace so that children like her and adults alike will never have to suffer and die.

She managed to fold 644 cranes before she could fold no more... She passed away on October 25, 1955.

Everyone was so moved by her story, her friend, classmates, and family folded the remaining 356 cranes to bury with her.

A few years later a monument in her honor was erected in Hiroshima Park as an example of her courage and dedication and her wish for peace. The monument has engraved the following:

This is our cry,
This is our prayer,
peace in the world.

T-rex fossil

Finally finish exam... and awaiting graduation... I folded this a two days ago... took me two separate days to finish it, approximately 10+ hours? somewhere there... its as complex as things go... most tedious model i folded so far... pretty impressive i would say... like it very much...

纸飞机的折法...

Still remember how to fold a paper plane... 2 people tell me they forgot... so i folded a propeller plane and a fighter jet (F5e Tiger II)...