The Internet Drain Bamaged me!

My age would have been 7, when my parents thought it would be good to send me for art class. To those who dont know what an art class in Malaysia is, it is basically a class where they expect u to draw some sophisticated picture. My drawings normally turned out into blobs as human figures and green for landscape and blue smudge for sky and water. So u can see, to any normal person, i m not exactly a talented artist, unless i pass of as some modern day Picasso, actually to think about it, i dont think i m one, LOL.

So moving on, appa and amma thought, rite lets send this son of ours for music lesson. That did not last for long neither, i sucked at music theory and worse at listening skills. When I say sucking at listening skills, i dont mean i am deaf or have any sort of physical damage to my hearing but, i could not identify the note that my teacher played. So once again, i revealed that I lacked any sense of art.

Keeping my interest for poem and literature aside, one could pretty much conclude that I am not going to have a bright carrier in art. This idea grew and did me no good for a loooooooong time, so long it lasted, i was soon 19 and was in UK. It was when I started taking photos......

I realised there might be an artist in me. Really? You might be wondering what am i getting at? Well, i took photos, i started thinking, hmmmm, maybe i can edit this photo in a way, i can tell a story or what happens if i change the colour scheme of a photo? what if i arrange these photos in an order to make it tell a story, or maybe even make some one laugh. Soon, i was cropping photos in a different ways, making collages, basically a whole lot of things in photoshop (BTW, i m no Pro in photoshop, i merely know the basics.)

Having relatives and frens who can paint, quite often i hear people ask them; WOW, did u paint/draw that? Then came this day, people asked me; WOW, u took that photo? WOW, u edited that photo? Such is this picture below, it was one of my experiment of shaving my head off for Halloween and then, figured i should take a mugshot of myself. And that thought process gave birth to the composition belowSo what do u think, is this cool or what? Maybe this picture does not reach out to u, i dont care, not everyone likes Picasso and its not like donkey knows the smell of camphor (that's a tamil phrase) So, if not for my accidental discovery of photography, i would not have found the artist in me. If you were like me and sucked at art class when u were small, think again, it might not be the end for u, there might still be an Michael Angelo somewhere in you, waiting to step out....

p.s maybe i should write about how i ended up with a Mr.T hair cut, LOL...