monday

it was a perfect way to start my week! yoga at 6am, start work by 8am... and then off to pottery class at 2pm! inspired by your earth therapy.... i finally found a class to do this year :)

here's the workshop at the UP college of fine arts. i love the super high ceiling, the big space and all that light that comes in (even on rainy days).


it has a lot of interesting pieces made by the students there. this one caught my eye right away - a fish sculpture from a materials class, made mostly of spoons forks and knives :)


here's my little workspace... where i decided to make a leaf plate patterned after a real leaf i found outside, all by hand-building....



i "pinched" a lotus flower bowl to go on top of it...


and made this little bird by hand, so it could perch on the leaf....


tadah!!! here's my leaf sushi plate, with a lotus flower bowl for the soy sauce, and a little bird where you could rest your chopsticks on :)


i'm leaving it to dry so i can glaze it and fire it in a few weeks :) can't wait for my next class....hmmm.... so many ideas, so little time....

best monday ever. haha!

cat killer

saw this post about a UP student who killed a cat. it was actually a stray cat that was being cared for the guard, students and faculty of the National Institute of Physics Building (NIP) - so everyone was just so shocked to see the lifeless cat one day. what really bothered me i guess was the way this boy killed the cat and what he wrote in his blog about it. quite disturbing....



"4th Epic Fail: An Accidental Crime. First day sa supercon. Lunch time came. On our way out of old NIP I saw the cat I almost killed last Tuesday. Now everyone knows I hate cats. It's an unexplainable feeling towards them. Like some internal hatred. Hindi ko talaga alam kung bakit pero anumang pagpipigil sa sarili ay hindi sapat upang mapangibabawan ang panggigil ko sa mga pusa. I pulled it on its tail and threw it. Then like some pro wrestler I jumped on it and my feet landed on it's torso. Slam! Felt good! But the cat didn't die, well not yet. It ran for it's life and just as I was about to catch up on it somebody yelled: "Pwede bang pabayaan mo yung pusa?!". It was instant and involuntary. I stopped on my tracks. Nobody ever stopped me when assaulting cats. Well I guess there's always a first time for everything. The cat got away. Or at least that's what i thought. So we went to lunch Mel, Jayson, Tracy and me. After lunch, balik na sa kung anumang naiwang gawain. Then Tracy and Mel told me " Hui Jc napatay mo yung pusa". Hours later, habang abala sa XRD, a guy came in. Tanong niya: "Sinong pumatay dun sa pusa?" Bang! Dat was me boi. Guilty as charged. I didn't see it die pero sabi ni Myles it coughed up blood or at least something like that daw. Didn't realize I gave it a fatal hit. This isn't the first time I've killed a cat but this time it's different. It didn't occur to me back then that the cat had a leash. So I think somebody owns it. Well it's very well loved in NIP from what I heard and I just ended it's life.

So there you go I'm sorry. And I wont be striking another one for maybe about a month. It feels good when your beating it(a cat) up but you suddenly feel something strange when it turns off permanently. That's how I feel right now. And maybe for the next days. Dang, am I a cat serial killer?"

i've read that serial killers do start out with small animals...

needless to say, his blog got flooded with comments, to which he posted an apology... some want him to go to jail (based on the Animal Welfare Bill) or to get expelled from UP.... i just think maybe he should see a doctor.... disturbing.... poor cat :(