After photographing the 1993 painting of the Akra tribeswomen on the eight-foot fan hanging in our living room for the blog on Travel souvenirs, I took my point-and-shoot camera and went to shoot the other travel souvenir paintings around the apartment.
In 1973, whilst on a trip to Manila, I took a liking to an abstract painting from an unknown artist in Metro Manila and bought it (and brought it) home to Singapore. Since then, we have hung it in our homes as we moved from an HUDC apartment to a semi-detached and now to a condominium. The colours are still bright and brilliant after almost 40 years and now hangs in my study.In 1984, when China was opening up to the world, we visited the main cities and tourist sights in China, from North to South. In Guilin, we had a most enjoyable time and we met a 74 year-old mandarin who was ambidextrous. We gave him our children's names, and with them, he composed two couplets, and wrote, simultaneously with both his hands, a calligraphic scroll, which we had them framed in Singapore.
The two scrolls now hang in our spare bedroom. The past 30 odd years, and the humid weather in Singapore, have spotted the rice paper on which the couplets were written, but we have a photo of Kit watching the master mandarin as he was writing on the scroll in 1984.In 2005, we had a very enjoyable time in central Vietnam, visiting Danang, HoiAn, and Hue. Whilst there, we bought two silk thread embroidery which were framed, and carried them back to Singapore, one of which we gave to our in-law. The other now hangs in our bedroom.
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