Make Friends - Not Enemies

Bird Cartoon Sketch

Cheeky birdie...

Bird Cartoon - Happy Birthday

I drew birdy holding a cake with candles.

It was used later for a birthday card!

Drawn and colored with Alias Sketchbook Pro

Bird Cartoon - Just be there and look cute

Three little birds came out to sing.

Three little birds forgot what to sing.

Three little birds then looked cute in sync...

Sketched and colored using Alias Sketchbook Pro.

Bird Cartoon - January 2009

Inspired by... erm... some performances that did not go too well.

Sketched with a Pilot G-2 0.7

Bird Cartoons - in Color

Colored with Alias Sketchbook Pro

Drawn and colored with Alias Sketchbook Pro

Drawn with a Pilot G-2 Pen, colored with Photoshop CS3.

Bird Cartoons - May 2008

A modern human equivalent to taking an annual leave from work.

Or to take a break from our daily routine. Get up! Break that routine. Do something differently!

It helps to keep us going to innovate and create.

Drawn with Alias Sketchbook Pro

What can I say for this. Didn't your teacher always say, "Listen!!!....".

I do... but with little success 80% of the time.

Told'ya that thing is called glass!

After a brief pause...

Teacher: 'What is it called?"

Students: 50% *b l a n k*, 30% wondered what the question is directed at, roughly 10% think they know the answer but cannot be bothered to put up their hands, 5% simply shout out the answer "GLASS... cher!! GLASS!". The remainder 5% were still busy trying to complete their mathematics homework to be handed the next period.

Drawn with Pilot G-2 Pen

What can I say for this (again)... Being Persistent is good. But being persistently stubborn in irresponsible behaviour is disastrous.

What can be worst than that??? Lacking self-awareness on everything you do sounds like: "I do not want to or need to know why I do what I do, and I do not care as long as I think I want to do what I do and I just do".

Doo dee doo dee doo...

Drawn with Pilot G-2 Pen

Ah!!! BIRDS!!! They all do that... Man aim to please the birds by planting trees, and the birds aim too... at your car. =p

Shucks! But that is bird's life. Try educating them perhaps.

Drawn with Pilot G-2 Pen

Bird Cartoons - March & April 2008

I got the inspiration in a staff meeting when the principal attempted to quiz her staffs if they knew what the four thrusts of the school was. It was for the purpose of catching those who were not paying attention as well as to ensure that when the external validators come to our school, we can 'show' that we all 'know' the school's truss... I mean thrusts.

The only four thrusts I can remember is recorded in the cartoon. It is hard to convince people to internalize new policies or initiatives if the whole objective of 'doing' things ends up for the purpose of benefiting some individual's performance bonus...

How can you tell if it was done because the person's performance bonus is at stake? EASY. Ask: "If there would be no performace bonus for THAT thing you do, would you still do anyway"?

It is one thing to say 'do it' for the students and nothing else. It is another to say 'do it' when your performance bonus hinges on that thing you do which everyone, including you, knows it is obviously fake. Which category do you belong to?

Drawn in Alias Sketchbook Pro

Name calling not encouraged... You start it off as a joke, you end it off both becomes the joke...

Drawn with Pilot G-2 Pen

Bird Cartoons - March 2008: With Pilot G-2 Pen

This are my very first bird cartoons. To be precise they are a bunch of cartoon Mynahs... I know it doesn't look like one. But hey... cartoonized stuff here.

Portraying birds in humanize forms while retaining the nature of a bird's character: somewhat silly and innocent in their approach to doing things. And somehow related to us in a certain sense. =)

Looking at an ostrich egg and didn't figured out it can't be their 'kind'... this is my VERY FIRST bird cartoon. Just loved them in their silly mode... haha...

A bird can't build a house like that. But birds do build nest humans can't build - without nails, glue and standard joints! So who's actually smarter? It is difficult to establish a stable and promising career quickly with little education in today's context especially in Singpore. Here you have a mother bird who appear pretty clueless to the little bird's question. And another scholarly birdy who does things very differently from the norm. Education without a self-motivated thinking mind is useless.

Another one emphasing on the need for education. This time it is Mama bird who sees the importance of studying. Some stress is good for little birdy. But too much to handle may drive him straight into the turbine!!! One more... refrain from comparing a child with another. Understand that they are unique individuals developing their potentials in their own biological pace. Eventually it is the one who always strives for the best effort for anything who will be on par or beyond his peers. The timing to get there is secondary. Attitude is primary.