More Photos!

These are the photos for the Holiday Inn event, along Orchard Road.

With Givan and June

Taken with a group of students from South Africa

Photos are up!

Balloons for Terence's Girlfriend:

(Puff heart wand, Tiara and two Roses)

Only this photo is up, since Ter's gf is a little shy of posing with them. =P

Updates

Recently busy with studies and exams, hence there were no updates for a while.
But balloons are still part of my life! =)

Last sunday just paraded Orchard Road with June and Givan, as we did some promotion for Holiday Inn. It was great fun giving out the flower bracelets, while wearing something super conspicuous. Haha, not forgetting the great looking costumes on the two girls! Photos should be coming in by next week. Looking forward to repeating this gig on the coming Friday!

Today also is the day where I made and pass the balloons to Terence, for his gf's birthday.

Happy Birthday!

Will post the photos when I get them. Also, thanks to all people who contributed ideas for this 'project'.


Here's something I made while walking home. Thanks Wei Lai for teaching! =)

Balestier Hill Run - Pek Kio MIG

Pek Kio Magic Interest Group (MIG) had the chance to set up a promotional booth on 6th September, during a marathon like event held in Balestier Hill Secondary School. So we went down and had a blast of a time!

[Making a balloon hat]

[Thanks Grace for capturing this nice shot!]

[The whole Pek Kio CC/ MIG crew for the day]

Fairfield Methodist School (Secondary) - Appreciation Dinner

Thanks to Joel's invitation, got to join in the fun of preparing for his former school's Appreciation Dinner. The plan was to decorate the venue and making table centre pieces. Was still a little little rush, but a great improvement from the previous event with Joel. Cheers! =)

This was counted to be my first balloon decoration job, and though it may not be very grand or well done in professional view, it was a great experience. Had fun playing with helium too!

Here're some photos of our work:

[Table centrepieces ready to be displayed]

[Garden-like decoration]

[Fairfield photographers in action]

[Bear Centrepiece] 

 [Swan Centepiece]

[Bunny Centrepiece]

Balloon twisting @ Sembawang's Mac

Not an official gig there, was simply over there with a secondary school friend. Wanted to teach him some balloons sculptures for him to do for his friend's coming birthday. Managed to do up an Elmo and walked him through making one. All the best with it man! =)
The funny thing was that after the Elmo was completed, suddenly someone placed a sticky note from inside of the Mac, saying that one of his friend wanted a balloon, and guess what, he wanted the Elmo. Lol. So the Elmo got given away, forgot to take a picture of it with the receiver. Then after a while, more of the friends from the same group came over and asked for some balloons. Happily did some for them, and left soon after that. Haha, an interesting experience. If not wrong, they're the Frisbee playing people at the Sembawang basketball court. Hi if you're reading this! (Though not really possible. =/)

Workshop with NUS Community Service Club - Grant A Wish VII

It was Friday and Glen volunteered to conduct a balloon twisting workshop for my school's Community Service Club (CSC), for their Grant A Wish VII project. Glen, Baofa, Givan, Winnie and myself went down to conduct and assist in this workshop. It was a fun workshop, and thinking how happy the kids would be when they receive balloon sculptures from the CSC people really made all the teaching efforts worthwhile. Look forward to work with them again!

[All set to start]

[Workshop in progress]

[Glen, Winnie, Givan, Baofa, Me!]

[Group photo with the CSC gang]

Sunflower for my gal =)

Went to meet my gal after her work today, and sat at Hong Lim Park to do up this sunflower. Had fun doing it, with some curious looks from people passing by while heading home.

[Sunflower 1]

[Sunflower 2]

[Kuma kuma and its girlfriend]

Both gal and myself are more satisfied with this version of sunflower. 
Do let me know if you would like to give it to someone as a gift, will be more than happy to make this for you. =)

Wedding Dinner

Went to attend my Cousin's wedding dinner last night, and enjoyed it. Hope that they'll have a blissful marriage for a long time. =)

While I was there, I decided to do something special for my cousin, the bride. Started to work on a puff heart wand, and luckily, completed it in time when they reached our table for the toasting and photo taking. Hopefully she'll be sending me the photo so I can share it over here!

Also did some balloons for another cousin's son. Enjoyed playing with him, really an adorable kid!

[Erwin and me]

[Puff heart in the making]

Balloon Line work @ Tanglin CC + Semi Jamming at VivoCity

Went to Tanglin CC to do some line work, and was overwhelmed by the number of kids queuing for balloons. Got down to business soon and together with Baofa, Veronica and Irene, manage to fulfill most of the requests, as well as stop on time.

After that, the four of us went to vivo for dinner, and headed to the top floor to do some balloons for fun. Someone playing truth or dare came to ask for a balloon and was stunned by me giving her a simple scrape in a shape of a ball, but I shortly made it up by passing her the sunflower I made. Credits to David and Joel's video for the sunflower, and David for the parts that make up the butterfly (The caterpillar has grown up!). Here're some photos.

[Sunflower]

[Butterfly on cube]

Assisting Vivien in overnight decoration at Northpoint,

The theme for the event was marine life, and the whole gang of us were ready to provide as much help as we could offer. Hours were quite challenging (10pm-8am), and most of us were extremely tired nearing morning. Nevertheless, we made it through.

Photos of this event

First Paid Balloon Gig.

When I was twisting a bunny for an indian family during the President Challenge event, the father of the family asked if we do parties as well. Referred him to Glen, and was delighted when the gig was allocated to me! The job was to entertain a crowd of kids during a birthday lunch @ Dempsey Hill, Vintage India, the following day, where the youngest daughter of the family was the birthday gal. Thankfully, Irene was free to assist me in the gig, and here are some photos of the party. Sadly we didn't manage to take many of them, as we were busy twisting for all the excited kids. =)

[A Puff Heart Wand for the Birthday girl]

[A finale big balloon hat for a lucky kid]

I'm very pleased with this balloon-ing experience. Had fun with the kids. =)

President's Challenge at Ngee Ann City

Headed down to Ngee Ann City to help out Glen and gang in their fund raising activities. Reached there a little late due to my tuition in the afternoon, but still managed to do contribute in some ways.

[Flower-weaved-heart]

[Me and Puff Heart using 260s]

Was happy to help out using these 2 items, as well as some other balloon sculptures.

Joel's Ex-sch Founder's Day Event.

Yesterday I went to an event of making table centrepieces, together with joel. It was his former school's Founder day, and they were celebrating it with a dinner in their hall.

So we met up the day before to buy the necessary balloons at the Balloon Baron. Got our stuff, of course after nearly a halfday 'workshop' under David, haha. Joel initial plan was to do a Bear with flowers for and '6 flower' flower bundles. I had the impression that it should be quite easy to complete the models, as i only pictured us making just 35 tables of stuff, moreover we had almost the entire day to do them. It took the actual doing of the balloons to knock some reality into me.

The next day, joel was there at his church before me, and had already done quite some geoblossoms for the bases. After doing some, I realised that making these stuff wasn't easy at all! Got ourselves very wet due to them constantly exploding. Bad quality huh, David. (I think he wouldn't deny that since those geos were qualatex balloons, and he already hates them so much.. =/) Ok, then the making of flowers. I actually thought we'll be making not much of those, but ended up having to do almost 200 of them, or at least we tried to. We ended up doing 2 laundry baskets full of flowers, and had to stop due to time constraints. Making the bears were quite successful though, although we didn't make a lot of them as they required more time to do. The bears were a better looking one as compared to the simple bear.

Assemble part of the process were quite tedious as well. Connecting the flowers to their stems, tying them together, trimming the length, and combining it with the geo bases, all these were little little things that took up so much of our time when done in bulk! Worst thing was that the balloons were constantly bursting, i suspect due to the hot temperature. It was till the final hours of the evening when things got clear that what we'd done wasn't enough. So joel thought of the idea of using the table number stand to do a simple 'flowers on vines' presentation, which i think was the best of the situation. Great thinking man. =)

So luckily, all the table were ready with at least a certain balloon scrupture on them before the dinner began.

I think this event provided me a great experience, and gave me an idea of how important it is to plan carefully. I think we made the mistake of underestimating the amount of time required to do the scruptures, esp the flower bundle. The distribution of the scruptures among the tables were rather messy too, due to the inability to make enough identical scruptures for all the tables.
Because of all this inperfections, I had a great time an learnt a lot. =)
Some of the photos are can found here:

Photos

That's all for now! Time to rest my poor fingers.. or not! =P