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Friday, March 27, 2009 @ 11:21 PM


My first drawing..okay..one of my first which i want to post online. I think I did this last November nearing my ORD day. I started with my grandfather first. A rough sketch of his face first if i remembered correctly. I only added in my face after his. It was fun drawing his face with wrinkles. My own drawing however did not really resemble me. Its kind of skewed but I'm too lazy to change it. Remember this is one of my first drawing and there's alot of amatuer mistake.
1. I only realised this like months later. I should not smudge my lines! By doing so, I am trying to make it look like a photo which it can never be! I should hust keep the pencil lines clear so that it will be clear that it is a drawing of a photo.
2. I did not correct my drawing while I drew. I just keep drawing. And by the time i realised it, it was too late. Next time, I should check back every 2 minutes or so and make any changes there and then. Remember, everyone makes mistakes!!
The reason i drew this photo was because I missed him.I know it sounds corny. This is the last photo of he and me together. He died while I was in OCS, and I can only attend his last day of funeral because there is a stupid rule in OCS that we can only attend funerals of immediate family.
A short story about my grandfather before i forget.(I have poor memory.soon i will forget everything) I already forgotten when he was borned and at what age he died..I think around 70plus?
He used to own a sugarcane plantation when my mum was little. Then, he got rheumatism or some kind of sickness on his leg, my mum says his legs become weak. The plantation was not tended to and it died slowly. My mum said it was then that my grandparents started quarreling=( My mum says could be that my grandmother lloks down on my grandfather for not able to earn a keep for the family. Then they opened a grocery shop.
Their quarrelings got worse. I only remembered that my grandparents did not live together when I was 4. My grandmother stayed with my second uncle while my grandfather stayed with us. He have difficulty moving around the house and always use a walking apparatus.(Big 4 legged walking stick) I was very little then, primary school, but I must have made hell for him.I do not know why but I do not really like him in the past. =(
1. Sometimes I will hide his walking stick while he is sleeping so that he can't move around.
2. He loves to watch WWE and Days of Our Lives. But I always thought he likes to watch them because of the girls. I liked cartoons. I always always steal and hide the remote control from him so that I can watch my cartoons. Even if i am not watching, I did not let him watch too. I think I'm very evil.
3. I always hit him. sorry ah gong..
4. Lots more evil stuff which i forgotten
I only realised that I was an idiot when I was in primary 6. However, my grandfather has already moved away to stay with my other relatives. Too late to do much. He got a stroke and then he was wheel-chair bound. well, everytime i visit him, i become very nice though. Cuz I feel that he is really impt to me and i really owe him alot.
Then my grandmother passed away when I was in secondary school. At first, my uncles and aunties did not tell him. However, I think he sensed something wrong and asked my uncle about it. He came on the 3rd day of the funeral in his wheelchair. He was already very thin and frail-looking. He just sat there and cried and it really broke my heart. He had not talked nor talked to my grandmother for almost 10 years. I always thought that they do not have any love left between them and they did not divorce because its not their tradition to do so and they already got so many kids together. I guessed they quarreled because they still love each other. After all those years and its when my granfmother died before realisation hit my grandfather that he still loves her alot. He just sat there crying for about an hour before we pushed him back...After that, he hardly spoke and he just became weaker..and he passed away like 3 years later..my last grandparent then..

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