Life is like a painting...

[Byebye Penis]

I have disposed all my artworks. The feeling is like, I don't dare to look at my old photos because they remind me of my past unhappiness and shame.

However, I kept two that were produced during the difficult times in my life.

 

[Byebye Penis]

I was in forestry hence know a lot about wood

have have many wooden materials , one of it bought before my marriage about 55 years ago , an octagon box ,inlaid with ivory and different shades of wood ovlaid on rosewood ..still adorn the living room

rosewood to chinese is red wood known as Paduk but mine is botanically known as Dalbergia sisso, a darker shade of red with stripes or grains

most of my furnitures are teak otherwise botanically known as tectona grandis or jati locally , there are many variant , the Burmese is golden in colour whreas the Indonesian is a bit dull . Mine from malabar of s india where the best quality was but now extinct

Times have truly changed. Once upon a time, we were strong believers that tropical hardwood were durable and timeless.

Now, processed woods can be stronger than teak.

 

[Byebye Penis]

I have reached a stage where I feel strongly that one’s life in its entirety is just started off like an empty canvas, your parents doodle a little on it when you’re young but soon you gain control of that paint brush and continue painting till you’re pretty much done. With that same paint brush, you could paint on the canvas of others and others could likewise leave a mark on yours.

While some paintings are vibrant and others maybe a bit dark, I believe only a handful are celebrated while most are forgotten, and it’s good to note that some very old paintings are continued to be painted by others today.

I delved a little deeper into my own painting today to scrutinise how each stroke was delivered and how callous I had been. While it was my purest intention to make the painting beautiful through my eyes, I reflected deeply and thought I delivered and exposed my most nasty side on this canvas. For that, I’m thoroughly ashamed of this blemish on my canvas.

I guess my only consolation is that I still have control over my paint brush, I still have some time to make remedies on my canvas, and thank goodness I have a very small canvas.

I dedicate this song to you

 

[JustOneSingh]

hahaha, I was tempted to skew the word "painting" too! But decided to go the pensive route. My vodka is making me melancholic.

Bhai,

Life is a bitch?

 

[Nice-Gook]

Times have truly changed. Once upon a time, we were strong believers that tropical hardwood were durable and timeless.

Now, processed woods can be stronger than teak.

Not really pal

I am an expert in this and I do know a fair bit

in fact our trade department which had a timber division some decades ago had listed as me as 1 of the 10 of its top chap in this field

nothing can beat natural hard wood believe me because nature had made it so

now , teak is commercially known as one of the most durable and also because of its golden lustre and grains or stripes ...that’s because its a tree that grows rather stressed and it contains an oil that keeps pest like termites away ...and mostly because how it’s harvested too .,,in Burma they strip the bark and leave the tree for a year to die before chopping it down , hence the yield is good

I was once tasked to harvest a teak forest grown in Rabul of Papua New Guinea , a forestation started by German colonists now the Govt wants to make cash out of it ...a very tough task as neither the skill , the manpower nor the machine available ..so I brought Thais and made my own machines as an experiment , when the first shipment arrived in Sinkie , the entire consignment of sawn teak wood were twisted and rendered useless , trees are like human ..same species but grows differently according to the soil and climate

hence respect what nature can do more than mere men , sometimes

there is another wood called Billion , also known as bullet wood , it’s the hardest known tropical wood

 

[knnccb]

like this huh?
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is he licking lau slut cheebye

 

[knnccb]

din know still got painting nowdays, tot just download pics online

 

[glockman]

Bhai,

Life is a bitch?

bingo!

 

[yinyang]

Maybe I digress, but this pic spoke (for me) a thousand words.

 

[Nice-Gook]

Maybe I digress, but this pic spoke (for me) a thousand words.

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I had seen similar scenes physically , not in Africa but Cambodia

went in to Cambodia just after Vietnam invaded Cambodia and Pol Pot fled , the butcher of Cambodia and his Khmer Rouge retreating into the jungles , actually the Khmer Rouge were controlling territories just 60 kilometres from Phnom Penh , and myself had mistakenly once drove into their territory , that’s another story will relate another time

but what I witnessed in Phnom Penh , no words can describe it , you see ,Pol Pot emptied the whole city with people only wearing their clothes to villages , and only 20% survived that ordeal , the city had no electricity , no water supplies , no transportation and poverty poverty poverty everywhere..the only livable hotel was Monorom , a French built one

the only foreigners were UN aid Agencies , yes, there were Russians and Cubans operating some infrastructures...otherwise no foreigners at all

local were living on the streets and on rooftops , I had often seen infants in far worse condition than the picture , the only common thing seen in every home and office next to the broom is Ak47 ,chinese made

 

[yinyang]

I had seen similar scenes physically , not in Africa but Cambodia

went in to Cambodia just after Vietnam invaded Cambodia and Pol Pot fled , the butcher of Cambodia and his Khmer Rouge retreating into the jungles , actually the Khmer Rouge were controlling territories just 60 kilometres from Phnom Penh , and myself had mistakenly once drove into their territory , that’s another story will relate another time

but what I witnessed in Phnom Penh , no words can describe it , you see ,Pol Pot emptied the whole city with people only wearing their clothes to villages , and only 20% survived that ordeal , the city had no electricity , no water supplies , no transportation and poverty poverty poverty everywhere..the only livable hotel was Monorom , a French built one

the only foreigners were UN aid Agencies , yes, there were Russians and Cubans operating some infrastructures...otherwise no foreigners at all

local were living on the streets and on rooftops , I had often seen infants in far worse condition than the picture , the only common thing seen in every home and office next to the broom is Ak47 ,chinese made

UNTAC. Read the horror stories, atrocities post killing fields and Khmer transition to new regime.

Been to PP 2X. The sexy boulavard only good for 1 main stretch, with H Sen's mansion (ridiculously) straddling across somewhere in middle.
Across the river, altogether a contrasting and poor demographics place. Never did like the ostentatious (Naga?) casino frequented by PRCs then.

 

[yinyang]

Zhihau, let's do this bar soon.
Works wonders for your back.
And missing life tapestry?

YOLO (you only live once)

 

[Nice-Gook]

UNTAC. Read the horror stories, atrocities post killing fields and Khmer transition to new regime.

Been to PP 2X. The sexy boulavard only good for 1 main stretch, with H Sen's mansion (ridiculously) straddling across somewhere in middle.
Across the river, altogether a contrasting and poor demographics place. Never did like the ostentatious (Naga?) casino frequented by PRCs then.

The river you probably had seen was a hallmark in my time ,a bridge blown apart by US bombers and hanging halfway , a stark reminder of its war time

 

[Nice-Gook]

In those days we had fax ,

and there were only 2 fax machines in the entire Phnom Penh , one in Monorom hotel and another in Hun Sen office

we had no choice but to use them

and all our faxes were read by the whole town before it reached us , so we wrote on codes

 

[mojito]

I have disposed all my artworks. The feeling is like, I don't dare to look at my old photos because they remind me of my past unhappiness and shame.

However, I kept two that were produced during the difficult times in my life.

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What a waste of talent. I screen shot all my posts here burn into seedys.

 

[zhihau]

Zhihau, let's do this bar soon.
Works wonders for your back.
And missing life tapestry?

YOLO (you only live once)

Appreciate the well wishes! Good to regain all physiological functions- from drinking to eating normally, from pissing and pooping normally, from erection to ejaculation normally. Other than the superficial wound on the back, and the time needed for the healing of the spine itself, all else is well!

Altogether now!!! HUAT AH!!!

 

[yinyang]

Appreciate the well wishes! Good to regain all physiological functions- from drinking to eating normally, from pissing and pooping normally, from erection to ejaculation normally. Other than the superficial wound on the back, and the time needed for the healing of the spine itself, all else is well!

Altogether now!!! HUAT AH!!!

Had a slipped disc some years back (pun unintended). Some lumbar #5 after obligatory x-ray and MRI.

Didn't decide (or dare) to go under the knife. Learnt to live with it, after some physio and prescribed exercises.

Of utmost importance is our posture, with our normal tendency to slouch.
And more importantly, take it easy on the (back breaking) bed gymnastics or heroics.
Perhaps let the partner do all the hard work.

 

[Byebye Penis]

What a waste of talent. I screen shot all my posts here burn into seedys.

Want to move on, must learn to let go.
Seedys? Sorry you mean?

 

[zhihau]

Had a slipped disc some years back (pun unintended).

I did a lot of those core exercises over the decades and keeping good posture, I guess it’s just me getting the short end of the stick

 

[sweetiepie]

I did a lot of those core exercises over the decades and keeping good posture, I guess it’s just me getting the short end of the stick

KNN my uncle think you are still much luckier than @ginfreely with scoliosis + fat finger + bow leg + severe sleep apnea + sleep all day + wakeup only eat&eat = babi KNN