Guanyin Sculpture, Wood Antique

This is a fine piece of hand-crafted Guanyin sculpture made of solid wood that was bought from an antique shop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, about nine years ago.

According to the shop-owner, this sculpture was imported from China many years ago.

If you're able to estimate the age of this sculpture, please let me know by writing to me.

For your information, Guanyin is the Chinese Goddess of Mercy.

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Guanyin Sculpture, Vintage Polyresin

This is a fine piece of vintage hand-crafted Guanyin sculpture made of polyresin that was bought from an antique shop about twelve years ago.

According to the sole proprietor of the shop, this sculpture was imported from China many years ago.

If you're able to estimate the age of this sculpture, please let me know by writing to me.

For your information, Guanyin is the Chinese Goddess of Mercy.

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Guanyin

Guanyin Sculpture, Rare Antique

This is a fine piece of hand-crafted Guanyin sculpture made of solid wood that was bought from an antique shop about eight years ago.

According to the shop-owner, this sculpture was imported from China many years ago.

If you're able to estimate the age of this sculpture, please let me know by writing to me.

For your information, Guanyin is the Chinese Goddess of Mercy.

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Guanyin

Guanyin Sculpture, Fine Vintage Soapstone

This is a fine piece of hand-crafted Guanyin sculpture made of soap stone that was passed down from the previous generation.

It has been kept for almost 60 years and it was made much longer than 60 years ago in China.

If you're able to estimate the age of this sculpture, please let me know by writing to me.

For your information, Guanyin is the Chinese Goddess of Mercy.

Goddess of Mercy
Guanyin

Garden-in-the-Sky Concept saves Time and Effort

1. This garden-in-the-sky concept saves precious space in your small high-rise apartment.

2. Use a corner of your open balcony to catch free sunshine and rainwater to save your utilities bill.

3. Easy to care and no parasitic weeds to remove, and thus save a lot of your precious time and effort.

4. A place for you to enjoy some nature without having to walk to a park, and therefore save you a lot more time and effort.

5. Please don't try this garden-in-the-sky concept when you already have your garden on the ground 'coz you're already wasting too much time and effort on your landed property. Heeheehee!

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A Strong Howling Wind is Blowing

It's always windy at my place of residence. At times it's very windy and I can hear the howling wind blowing pass my windows.

But for this very afternoon, it's exceptionally windy and a strong howling wind from the northeast has been blowing for the past two hours now.

The sky is a little cloudy and the weather is a little sunny. I've shot this photograph at 3:40pm (about an hour ago) from my window facing the east. Check out those tall palm trees at the center and you can see that their palm leaves are swaying to one side. None of the residents are using those recreational facilities for the past few hours.

Where's that strong howling wind coming from?

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300-year old Guanyin Sculpture

A friend brought me yesterday afternoon to the home of a former China national, who has become a Singapore permanent resident.

It was a good opportunity for my friend and I to check out from the owner about this distinctive Guanyin sculpture.

At the same time, I'd got a chance to speak some Chinese and listen to somebody who speaks superb Beijing Chinese.

This owner had brought with her this 300-year old sculpture, carved from the root of a huge bamboo tree, when she emigrated to Singapore several years ago.

I've shot eight photographs of the sculpture and posted one good photograph here 'coz the owner has asked me to help her to sell this sculpture at Yahoo! Auctions Singapore.

For your information, Guanyin is the Chinese Goddess of Mercy.

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Small Glass Vase

At the top left-hand corner of my display cabinet, I've placed this elegant glass vase half-filled with water.

The slow vaporization of the water cools the hot and dry atmosphere at the top level of my cabinet when I switch on the two filament lamps of 40-watt each.

This glass vase is among the 20 items that I'd bought recently from those sellers at Yahoo! Auctions Singapore. I think it fits nicely at that corner of my cabinet and I guess a vase shouldn't be used just for flowers.

Hard-Case Namecard Holder

I've been doing much more selling than buying at Yahoo! Auctions Singapore for the past 2½ years.

But since the beginning of this year, I've bought about 20 items from twelve sellers. Among all those items, this hardcase namecard holder is a splendid item that I like very much.

I'm using it to store two unique namecards, one made of thin plywood and another made of translucent plastic. I hope to find a few more namecards like these to keep them inside this holder.

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Coins of the Third Reich

I'd sold many pieces of coins like these to a few customers at Yahoo! Auctions Singapore for the past two years.

Here are seven remaining pieces of the coins of the Third Reich in my collection.

They're made of aluminum, copper, zinc, and silver.

A Strange Misty Afternoon

February 28, 2007 -- It was a strange misty afternoon like never before.

I'd experienced a strange feeling when I'd shot this photograph and the whole atmosphere was almost surreal 'coz I'd never seen this kind of mist around here before.

This photograph was shot on Feb 28 at 2.12pm from my window facing east, towards Mandai forest. I've shot several photographs and only this photograph shows a strange diamond-shaped bright object (an UFO?) in the mist around those trees at the farside. Click on the photograph to enlarge.

Today, the sky is clear and the weather is sunny.

I've just shot this photograph in the early afternoon from the same window and facing the same direction for comparison.

Is there something strange going on at the farside?

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