I met Mr.Prakash Chandwadkar the Indian Artist who resides in Kathmandu while he was about to leave Penang on the same day in the evening flight to Singapore. My friend a reknowned portrait painter in Penang Artist Rashid had introduced the gentleman to me while we visited him at his hotel in the morning. Wwe had a good long converstaion about his works which he showed us in his hotel room all fifty pieces of them the colored bust of the Gautama Buddha spread across his bed. These colorful pieces were done in acrylic and the bust is painted meticulously accurate depicting all the various moods of the meditative Budda. The execution of the medium was excellent as it captures the feeling of the Buddha's bust was surreaslistically alive yet is of stone of one kind or another, its fluidity is in its essence.
Mr. Prakash was just another victim of bureaucracy in the form of the unforgiving laws of the Immigration department which refused him entry visas, he has to leave and make the application from some third country if not his own.
My son had just recovered from some kind of flu and is now waliking to school every morning as he lost his bicycle at the Prangin Mall. He did not do well at all at school I found out after i was handed his report card, he failed the semester! I was not too happy with him and let him know that. He is not stupid but Lazy and unfocused I hope he wakes up soon enough from his sleep to handle the end of the year exam. As for my daughter, she seems doing okey as far handling her school and daily live. She has her act a little better together and perhaps is able to see her advantages better than her brother for being born an American and growing up in Maklaysia.