Mojo Atelier

31/12/2021

Happy New Year in advance! 🎉

Here's wishing everyone good health and lots of sightseeing in the coming year (commodities that have been scarce these past 2 years)! 😍

#2022

24/12/2021

Merry X'mas world! 🎄

We made it through the worst of COVID but don't forget to still maintain good health practices till the whole saga finally blows over! 😁 😘 ♥ 🎄

#2021

21/12/2021

Winter is here in the Northern Hemisphere once more; not that it affects Singapore much but good traditions like celebrating the Winter Solstice as a family are best retained and upheld 👍 💪 ♥

#2021

21/09/2021

Finally feel like I'm ready to get into the swing of things again...💪 👍

Shall use this particularly magical full moon to bring all my plans and dreams to fruition 🪄🌝♥️😘

17/07/2020

Guess this video metaphorically covers the entire period that I've stopped business all the way till phase 2 of Covid-19...

"Hope" is that seedling which might rekindle the zest of life in each of us who have fallen so badly, that we have given up on ever standing up again...

I've been nurturing my seedling for a while, hopefully it won't be long more before it blooms ♥ 🌸 ☀ ☺

[https://vimeo.com/29865151]

Nadine, depressed and alone, has been living her life in the dark. A gift from a friendly neighbor gives Nadine something to live for. With a new life, Nadine has…

27/12/2019

A belated Merry Christmas to all!

After a one year plus hiatus after my stroke, I'm all ready (and healthy) to relaunch my business again!❤️

I'll be introducing new Workshops along with the past staple ones, as well as doing some retail products (advanced versions of what you all learn in the workshops) 👍🏻👌🏼💪🏻😉

Hope to see old familiar faces as well as new ones too! Happy New Year in advance too! 😎

09/12/2019

This is the reason why I've always insisted on using infusions in my workshops rather than using essential oils.

Essential oils are not 'bad' or 'evil' but potentially dangerous in the hands of an amateur.

So I'd always rather err on the side of caution 👍🏻

Essential oils are a popular choice for people keen to remedy a wide variety of ailments, from minor infections to stress. But new data indicate that people are increasingly putting their health at risk when they turn to these fragrant, volatile plan

15/10/2019

Had a trip to the lesser-known Lazarus Island (our local Island next to and also connected by bridge to St John's Island) last Monday ❤️

This is the Rainbow that greeted me on the way back on the ferry 🌈

Perceiving its awe-inspiring magnitude is enough to remind me that the sun will always still shine after every storm 💪🏻🙏😘

17/05/2019

All wrong decisions in life, if left unresolved, result in vicious cycles in an incessant downward spiral...

But what goes down, can also go back up 👍 💪

Science has finally reached a mature stage that can start proving and reconciling the huge gap between religious mysticism and the modern world as we know it.

The last paragraph in the article contains the proven formula for creating a countering upward spiral, and which has been preached by all cultures and religions since time immemorial ♥

It's time for everyone to do their part and help create the ubiquitously prophesied Heaven on Earth 👌😍💪👍

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15/01/2019

Happy New Year to everyone ♥

It's been a while since I posted...

2nd half of 2017, was still coping with the loneliness of the migration of close family, then I lost the relationship of a significant other...

An organiser offered a collaboration opportunity in Aug 2017, and it seemed like a silver lining at that time... But looking back, in both our haste, we probably didn't communicate well enough... But it still didn't warrant them throwing away all my tools and materials without informing me, rendering my business to Zero overnight. Having no resources to pursue the matter legally, I was a penniless man overnight.

Having moved whatever personal possessions I had left to the shop, even those were gone too.

It's moments like that when you have no family around, no significant other to show concern, too ashamed to confide in friends that you finally understand why people choose to end their lives.

I'm NOT ashamed to say that I got to that point (because on hindsight, my life journey might not be the result of my best efforts, but it was close to that and the outcome of my life at that point was more or less out of my hands), and I'm proud to say that I managed to think my way out of it 😁 ☀

I'm glad I think simplistically and love new adventures 😍

The thought process was simple: If current life seems to have no more meaning, then find new meaning 👍

If I tried so hard to find love (and did so in the most rightful manner), and still found none, maybe there's just not enough Love ♥ in the world to go around...

Then I'll dedicate my life to teach people how to ♥, create more ♥️ in the world, and I'll finally feel it somehow somewhere some way... I'm probably Cupid incarnate, I refuse to give up on ♥ 😜 😂

But the powers above probably thought that I needed a few more life lessons before I am suitable to teach the world such big lessons, hence I suffered a stroke mid 2018...

Thankfully I survived with no ill side-effects, and with definitely way more insight to Life, and after the Lunar New Year, I hope to bring fresh workshops, more lifestyle crafts to begin my new self-imposed Cupid status 😂 ♥ 👍

The motto for Mojo Atelier has never been more apt: Inspired by Love ❤ Driven by Learning 📚 Shaped by Imagination 💭

So cheers to 2019 with more ♥ in the world, and I hope that everyone will support me morally and spiritually even if not financially! 😂 👍 ♥

Take a critical look at yourself, it may help you find your soulmate.

31/10/2018

This is so true.

People who are trying to 'find' themselves, how the hell did they get lost in the first place? 🙄

If the agenda for life is about the pursuit of happiness (as opposed to bliss ie. temporary), then it should be about figuring out what you enjoy doing, and thus enjoy the process of learning this said-activity 👍

Some people find out what they're good at and only does that. Problem is: what's the challenge of doing something you're good at naturally? There's barely any feeling of accomplishment in the end. Moreover, not everyone enjoys what they are naturally good at 😜

So based on that analysis, life is about giving everything a try 👌

You'll learn what you're good at, what you enjoy, what you suck at, and what you hate.
So do what you're good at first, learn what you enjoy, get better at what you suck at, then figure out how to live with and finally enjoy those things that you didn't 💪

By then, you'll be good at everything and enjoy doing anything. That HAS to be the path to Happiness 😍 ♥

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

16/10/2018

I caught the most beautiful sunrise I've ever seen in my life by chance today ♥

This picture is as-is. No filter, no touch up, no special app setting. And because I use a budget phone, this picture doesn't come half-close to the actual scene this morning 🤯

And I caught it right here on this tiny island where most of us have dismissed it as boring, ugly, lacking in identity etc... 😢

It was quite sudden... the sky was a dark azure one moment, and within 10 min, it had started brightening before it burst into the 7 colours of the spectrum 🌈

The water was clear and the soft breeze didn't rake up any large ripples... I stopped taking pictures after this because I wanted my brain to soak up the scene 📸

The sky remained rainbow-hued for close to 45 min... Everyone in the vicinity stopped to stare and take pictures... 🤓

There was a point where distinctive orange rays were shooting out into the sky from behind MBS, because there just happened to be clouds behind the building, filtering the sunlight into the clichéd sunburst logo 🌅

These are moments when you realise there are some things beyond your control in life... There are some things that you just can't plan for and they can be beautiful beyond belief 😍

By this age, I've learnt to snap that few pictures for boasting rights, then set it aside and just let my mind and my eyes soak up the view, and let my heart be saturated with the elation 👍😁

Because these are the snapshot moments you depend on to get through the f**ked-up pitfalls down the road... and those aren't exactly the moments you'll rummage through your photo gallery to reminisce that beautiful sunset you once saw to remind yourself that life's just like that 💪

When I hear 'live in the moment', I also hear: step forward from behind the lens; stop treating life as a spectator-sport and come participate 🎉

Or put it this way: if it were a Hollywood movie or Korean drama scene, it'd be a real killjoy when the lead sees such a sunrise and whips out his mobile to capture dozens of pictures and selfies (comedic when the camera pans out and everyone else is doing the same)😂