So Colourful....

With all the modern technology nowadays, its nice to just go back to the basic. With all the new craze such as laser tag , karaoke and movies ... Its sometimes nice to go back to the basic.

I still remember those days back in primary and secondary school where almost everywhere i looked, friends were all playing 'Batu seremban' , bottle caps , hop-scotch ('ting-ting'), spinning top ('gasing') and even Marble toss ('Guli').  hahaha .. i remember in primary school, i begged my parents to buy me a kite... hahhaa ... mayb for the first 3-4 months, i was sooo crazy about it.. After that, i kinda got boring, and the kite was kept in the storeroom collecting dust and soon it crumbled with the weight of the dust.... lolz

For me personally, the only time i see this activity is through tourism advertisement that keeps running on the tv promoting to visit Malaysia. It always captured my attention, but i didnt know such place existed to do such a thing. Until oneday, i went surveying for halls for my big day. I basically tried finding out all the buildings in Subang Jaya, Sunway and even Kelana Jaya. Some caught my eyes, were either too grand and expensive or too small and kinda unappealing.=)

When i walked into this building in Sunway, i was shocked to know that its a Community Hall. Which has a daycare centre, tuition for primary kids, music room, dancing room, library, camping ground... and the list goes on..!! It was aweosome. But for me i was more interested in the activities they had, such as jewellery making class for Rm10, cooking classes/demo Rm10, and etc. But what caught my attention the most was the MENCANTING BATIK...

Like i said all these time, i've only seen it on the television, besides wearing them of course. I was fascinated with how it was drawn on to fabric. Well, i finally got my chance to try it last weekend. I went with one of bestie Amly and her boyfriend Stanley. It was the first for all of us, so we were really excited..!!

We started out my drawing our patterns and design onto the plain cotton canvas En.Ishak gave us . I decided to trace a picture of a butterfly that i saw on a display sample. Amly decided to just go free hand drawing and Stanley showed his love and devotion to Great Eastern.. lolz, (since he didnt know to draw , he flipped through his wallet and found anything with a logo..=p)

After we finished drawing with pencils, we were then showed how to outline the pencil drawing with hot wax.. And i really do mean Hot..Hot..Hot..!! That was the interesting part but kinda boring part.. haha ... next time i would try my level best to not take or do any intricate designs as to outline small shapes are hard.

After that colouring time... this was the most awesome part of the whole experience, looking and learning how the same colour can produce shapes and blending 2 opposite colours... Wow, it was magic,, hahaha ... I think out of all three, Amly produce a more Batik design and colouring technic... Good Job Amly!!!

All in all.. it was an awesome weekend activity, if we came in the morning, we could've taken our own sweet time. but since we started late, we kinda had to rush to finish out 'batik' as the guy in charge En.Ishak wanted to close shop before 6pm. But this will be something im definitely doing again..Since its only Rm20 per person... hahah , !!! Till, Next time...!! Adios... Xoxoxo, Me!!