A Youtube Video Review of my dragon made by a Collector

I got a surprise from a bear collector this morning. Her name is Sara, she did a youtube video on my dragon (Garnie Smith) expressing how much she loves him. Her husband bought Garnie Smith last year to surprise her.

I am so touched for the first time in my bear making journey and tears almost roll down from my eyes. I am sharing her video here. I want to thank Sara for making my day extra special. ♥

《我的小小发明》Think Big on 29 January 2012 (Enjoy Watching! :)

Hello friends :) I am sharing here with you the better resolution of video of "Think Big". Kindly note that I have deleted the earlier ones which I have shared a few posts ago.

To my surprise, one of my classmates has recorded me a CD of the show without me knowing, thank you so much my friend Joey. I am very touched! :) The production crew will only send me the CD in April after the full show ends, so these new videos here should be good enough for your viewing :)

We hope you enjoy the show!

*There are English Subtitles, enjoy!*

《我的小小发明》Think Big on air!

Yesterday is the big day which our episode is being aired on national TV! Whoooosh!

As promised that I am sharing the video with you all, below are the youtube videos taken with my mobile phone. My uncle has a recorder but it doesn't seems to work on my computer! Arggghhh... I am still trying to fix that! I am now waiting for the production crew to send me a copy of the cd to this episode ;) Once I have got hold of the high resolution I shall share with you all again.

The program has English subtitles so it would be easy for you to understand as well, we hope you would enjoy the show :)

I am going to bed now, tomorrow I shall share some pictures behind the scene :)

Hugs,
Wayne

Preview of《我的小小发明》Think Big! - Watch us on Channel 8 this Sunday!

This coming Sunday, we will be on Channel 8 Programme《我的小小发明》Think Big.
This is getting exciting... I am nervous at the same time -.-


Every week a student will be featured with a creative idea/product and with a help of a mentor to guide them to bring their ideas to reality. My role is to act as a mentor to advise them on how to improve their creation.

I will be tagging with a student, Shiyu from Yu Ying Secondary School. We hope you will enjoy the show! Here is the preview.

《我的小小发明》Think BIG

29 January 2012, Every Sun, 10.30am

I have more pictures behind the screens to share next week after the programme. Stay tuned!

Hugs,
Wayne

Lunar New Year House Visits!

I think Chinese New Year is the time for family bonding. As it's a 2 days public holiday, most of us would visit relatives' house. The houses are filled with laughter. Very often you can find the adults playing with poker cards and mahjong games. As for the kids, some of them would sing Karaoke songs and play computer or card games.

First Day of the New Year. I worn blue even my psp is blue!

I decided to dress down on the 2nd day with my mum

Dad and mum worn red on the first day. 

Cousin, me and baby Lavigne

This year is special, we were at one of our relative house and there is a lucky draw sponsored by few of the cousins. Everyone is excited!

Gathering to see the results

Each family is entitled to one lucky draw ticket

My uncle and cousin presenting the awards

My aunt won 4th prize!

The grand winner is... "GRANDMA!"

Grandma is so lucky! She won the first prize! What is the prize? It's $181 into the tin container donated by everyone. She is so happy and we have never seen her so happy before :)

Below is the video of my grandma and her grand prize. Congratulations grandma ^.^

I have another video to share soon, maybe tomorrow. Please visit again ok?

Hugs, Wayne

Toss to a Prosperous New Year!

This chinese new year was real fun! Family gathering and house visits were never a miss. The Lunar New Year is one of the most important occasion of the year in Singapore, most shops would stop operations for a week, so visitors please avoid coming for holiday during this period! LOL

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, most families would have a union dinner at home with their family. Steamboat and ingredients were prepared by my dad and mum. Common ingredients are meat, seafood, vegetables etc, the more we add the soup taste sweeter.

Steamboat Image from yahoo images

One other practice we had on the eve is having the children stay up late at night. It is a myth that the later the children sleeps the longevity the parents would have. I usually stayed up till 3 or 4am and what I normally do is play games and watch tv but what I did this year was sewing... Hahaha....

What are these? These are red packets which are also known as "Ang Baos". Cash notes were inserted into these Ang Baos and given to the children and singles by our married elderly. It's a form of blessings given to the young, I am happy that I am still entitled to received them!

Ang Baos have different designs on them. They comes in different colour, shapes and sizes, most importantly is how much money that is inside...LOL
Do you know that the cash amount in them must be an EVEN amount?

One of our Chinese Traditional here is to have "Yu Sheng", it's a mix platter with shredded carrots, ginger, green and white radish, deep-fried flour crisps, crushed peanuts, sesame seeds, cinnamon and salmon. Lastly, a generous portion of plum sauce was poured in. Each family member holding chopsticks would stand around the table with the Yu Sheng in the middle, once shouted 1-2-3, we would begin tossing the Yu Sheng. The higher we toss, the better the new year be. We will mix and toss with new year greetings and pharses, you can imagine it like the way u toss the salad.

Yu Sheng preparation

The aftermath after tossing

Look at the mess!

This year we have close to 20 members tossing so it's a mess! Yu Sheng can be found on the floor as well, you can imagine how sticky it would be... LOL
Watch my youtube video below of our toss!

I hope you enjoy reading what I wrote today, Happy New Year!

Hugs, Wayne

A video clip of my baby niece

Here’s a video clip of my niece, Lavigne which is taken last week. I hope you will enjoy this video =)
Hugs, Wayne

My first Vlog!

My first vlog, I hope you will like it.

Hi everyone, I want to share my first vlog with you. On this video, you can see the size of the garnets that I am using for my bears and the little squirrel I am working on now. This is done with my iphone 4, maybe I should take the video hortizontal instead next time... LOL

I hope you will enjoy this video, I think will do more of this and perhaps a few tutorials if the response is good =)

The crush garnets are now available on my website and etsy shop.
1) Etsy
2) Website

Have a great weekend!
Hugs, Wayne