Matryoshka

dObraye Utra... Good Morning...


Our 13 years olds on Douglas will be going to Russia for a school Choral Tour this June. This is would be the first time he is away on his own, without his parents and I don't feel very good happy about it.  Yes, I tend to be a little over protective, but after what happened to Nayati Moodliar, a 12 years old expatriate boy who was abducted for ransom in KL, I'm happy that we are paranoid. (read One more nabbed in the kidnapping of Nayati)


Anyway, we knew nothing about Russia, so I start digging all the information about it ( my way of coping with the anxiety). We start eating Borsch and Pirogi, now I know how to make blichinki and pelmeni, and despite my children frowning face, I just kept on cooking. Luckily they love the 

My version of  Borsch, hopefully taste authentic!

Another side of Russia that I'm exploring is The Matryoshka. With my design background I always drawn to pattern, bold color and the matryoshka represent all of those. So I started to make crochet Matryoshka, blanket pouch, tumbler pouch, pencil case etc.

Meet Sitiski, my first handmade matryoshka doll

I wish I can go along with him, but I knew somehow I really have to learn to let him grow up, doing things on his own, teaching him to learn to use his instinct for his survival later on. It's very hard..but I have to. Until then I'm just gonna make more borsch and sisters for Sitiski.

Sitiski in her Batik

da svidan’ya   до свидания ....good bye..

Supermoon

May 6th, 2012

Everybody talked about this phenomenon...Supermoon, where the moon will appear larger and brighter from earth as the moon's elliptical orbit is closest to the earth. During the night of May 5-6 it should have appear 14% bigger and 30 % brighter than the normal Full Moon. 

The photos of the last year big full moon were all over the media. Internet, TV News and off course Facebook and Pinterest (at least). That tickled my urge to get the image myself. As you can see from my photo gallery, I love natural phenomenon,  I love  beautiful sunrise and sunset, I love the magical view of full moons, I love dramatic rays of lights and cloud in the sky and love to capture it with my camera. 

I was never sure about the exact day as the news came from the other side of the world with a time difference. On the evening of May 5th 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, it was very cloudy and started to rain from 8 pm. See no moon... The next day, we were busy doing the weekend routines and I was working on my DIY project in the patio when I looked up at  the sky. It was this glimmering golden ball in the sky. No, it wasn't as huge as the images I saw in the media, but it was bright in the middle of a cloudy sky. Nevertheless I grabbed my camera and my tripod, run upstairs to the master bedroom window as I realized I didn't have the super tele lens to get the image closer. Click..click..click...there you go, this is the best I can do. There is no justice to the real thing I saw in the sky as my photography skills is limited, but it's my Supermoon..my own Supermoon....

A couple of hours later the sky opened and rained the whole night. I went to bed happy..I've got what I'm wishing for.