Oh Boy..Oh Boy..Oh Boy!
Don’t be shy, Fanny. You’re not bothering anyone here — on the contrary.
I may even share some of my silly paintings or drawings, or post pictures of my delicious dishes in a “cooking thread,” if meat is acceptable in this community.
But really, not only are you not bothering anyone, you’re not taking up anyone’s space — and you’re giving us beautiful images.
I asked KJ for a forum for years, and people have always complained about the comment section.
KJ told me at the time: “Well, we tried it, but people still used the comment section.” I was skeptical, but it seems he was right.
Since I pestered KJ a few times about it, I feel some responsibility to pull my weight on that forum. Oh, and of course, it has only just been brought back, so maybe my conclusion is too hasty… but yeah.
About your paintings, I don’t think I’m the only one interested — but I may be the only one on the forum, haha.
My mother and my sister are both artists, so I know quite a lot of people in that field, including artists, gallerists, etc. But in Paris, there is a dirty component to it. There is something that is not really about art anymore, but about fame, status, or whatever that thing is. I know plenty of artists who have become disgusted by it.
That being said, I would still very much like to see your other works, and I think nude paintings are perfectly fine.
I may want to piss you off, now
Haha...kinda bit too late. I now have switched being myself and that automatically pisses off others instead 😂😂😂 plus... with the energy rising, I'd rather conserve my energy for something else rather than anger. For example on the recent full moon eclipse, the male street cat that asked me for food daily, I named him Tango. He loves terrorizing my 3 girls. On that day, my youngest cat Maxine, wandered off, didnt follow me back inside as usual. Tango came and chased her, the new tenant next door had their garage door opened wide, Maxine ran in there, to their open deck top floor.
She cried and cried for me all night, I couldnt rescue her as it was already after midnight. The next early morning, I rang the neighbor's doorbell, saw and amazed....wow...full flag sophisticated security system! Out came the missus in her silk lingerie to her balcony. She immediately blablablabla, that it is very DISTURBING to have street cats roaming around on our block, that people shouldnt feed them blablabla. I educated her with the reality of cats situation in our hood, that the cats she sees is just 1/10 of what it used to be. I'll tell you hows that so, I said with my most charming smile of the early morning to her... it is because there are people who neutralized the female cats on street, took them to the vet, and paid the vet with their own money out of their own pocket instead of screaming and whining about their garden being ruined by cats. ANDDDD...whenever cats come to me asking for food and help, I will provide them as best I could.
She had nothing to say on that but like an idiot she kept repeating how my cat had entered her house, it must have jumped up from my roof to hers. Seriously, the distance between my roof to the top of her wall is about 10 metres high, and she kept chanting that. I was tempted to smartassing her right there, but I saw her husband twitching nervously from behind their curtain. I decided not to, out of sympathy for the hubby and also because I decided to be myself. I let her chanting 3 more times while I looked her in the eyes, then I TOLD her: I want to go in to get my cat out of your house, she is too scared to come out on her own, open your door. I did not say please or any empathetic niceties. She answered obediently: Okay! I'll be right down and open the door for you. The hubby accompanied me to their open deck top floor. Up there he softly said to me that their security camera had recorded when and how my cat had entered their house...thru their open garage door. I only replied him with a hmmm.
Are your mom and sister on era too, Raksha? Maybe they can share their paintings too here sometimes? That would be great! I am looking forward to your sharing of your cooking and everything else as well. Did you try soffritto with your raw tuna dinner that night? 😁
I will continue to share my paintings in forum here, even though some I had already forgotten the story why I painted them.
Quote from EraOfLight on 09/06/2026, 4:25 PMYour painting is full of life; appears like the woman is coming out of the image and ready to move!
Thank you, KJ. She did appear to me liked so in my mind's eye.
"Don’t be shy, Fanny. You’re not bothering anyone here — on the contrary."
Hahaha 😂heaven and hell forbid me from bothering others, Raksha, but insisted instead that being myself, doing my own things, is already bothering many all my life.
Keywords: all my life 😖🤧
Looking forward to see your 'silly' paintings. Got a few of my own🤭.... liked a sweet cat wearing spiderman costume borrowed from Tom Holland and Zendaya, with her stylist Law Roach andddd the sweet cat chasing each other round and round and round.
Speaking for myself here, I eat just about everything, except..sweet glutten rice, but I'll eat it anyway if and when there's no other options. So please do share your cooking.
This early morning I baked an orange cake, with one whole orange blended into the mixture. It tasted good, not bitter at all. My house smelled good too. Didnt take a pic of it tho, camera and I... we have love-hate relationship. The pic never comes out as I intended.
Well, my mom and sister are definitely not on EoL.
And I have exactly the same situation with cats in my village. A few women — yes, women — are sterilizing them and taking care of them, but people still complain.
Some guys have installed nasty ultrasonic devices to make them flee, which is awful even to human ears.
Some people complain. Some people actually do something.
I don’t have kids, but I’ll share a picture of my “family” though — not including my girlfriend, I don’t mean to hijack your painting thread, though.
P.S : I may create a cooking thread (or not)... and about my art : YOU ARE NOT READY (and me neither) 🙂
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Yes. Women.
Well, the first thing I told to the hubby the day they moved in and when he approached me to introduce himself, that I do not particularly fond of women with Cinderella syndrome. They all "LOVE" me that they eventually wanted to compete. Things usually get ugly when they are ignored, fatally ridiculous when being confronted to their faces... like the missus owner of the house they rented from.
Hopefully his Cinderella does not resort to ultrasonic installment, because if she does, I will resort to bring my case to the universe, God, guardian angels, spirit guides, the entire spiritual inhabitants about HOW DISTURBING they are as human.
No you dont hijack my thread, Raksha, it is a public thread. It is even under the topic: INFINITE EXPRESSION.
In fact, I will share my random pic of my cat when I returned home and she and the other 2 were abandoned and neglected on the street for 1 whole month after a WOMAN had promised she would take them in and cared for them as her own. It's a long drama story, I'll spare you the details.
The pic below was of one of my cats. A regular cat, for 6 weeks after my return, thats the only place she would sleep... on my lap.
Some random images I found on the net or someone sent me that made me laugh.
I always said that I am a faded Chinese... hmm because a proper Chinese would have known how to use chopsticks properly, I dont. I use chopsticks the same way I hold pen and brushes. Yes it caused a teeny weeny embarrassment on my part when being stared at by an old Chinese man when eating noodles at a noodle shop in Chinatown in New York City years ago 😂😂😂
As universe dictated that it is time for me to upgrade my way of holding chopsticks from faded Chinese way to a proper sophisticated Chinese way, a utube shorts popped up on my screen, I quickly screenshot the image for my upgradement purpose. Any improvement? No 😁
You have beautiful cats. Is one of them a Bengal cat? In the pic it looks so to me. And your dog, she sleeps like my Maxine, legs wide open as if she is the one who is paying all the bills 🤭
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Yep, a Bengal — my third one.
Would you like to share a bit of your story? Your parents’ nationalities, how and when you moved, your relationship with China…?
I understand this may be a bit personal, so I’m only asking — no pressure at all.
P.S : your cat looks lovely.
Not really. Just that only my grandparents from both sides and my dad were born in China. Every Chinese values, customs, traditions, history were passed down to us by them.
My only relationship with China were indeed just from what I heard from grandparents and dad, that I had a great grandmother with tiny feet in China, who in her mid 90s of age still carried a dream that all her descendants would someday return and live happily under one roof which she designed and supervised the workers to build her dream house for, all on her own, and which was financed by my dad ofcourse 🤭
Never met my great grandma, she lived to 100 year old while I was still growing up. I had only seen her in photos. Dad knew that his grandmother's big dream would never become reality, yet he continued financing her to build the house to finish. As soon as it did, she passed away 🥹. Again, I only seen pics of her grave.
Now that my grandma and dad have passed away too, I still never been to China. Recently I heard one of my 2 remaining uncles have brought up the issue of great grandma's dream house in China. Grandma's house in Surabaya, my dad when still alive, he financed that too btw, always said that he built that house for grandma, it was her house for as long as she lived. After her death, then my dad too, my uncle settled the issue. He mentioned to me about great grandma's house in China a few months ago, it would be up to him what to do about it.
I joked with my cousin in Germany, come on...lets go, great grandma had built us a mansion of 15 bedrooms, the least we can do is go live there. My cousin asked what for?? I said...I dont know, build a farm, grow pigs, cows, chickens, goats, fishes, vegetables, plum trees, and watch Chinese opera all day everyday? My cousin knows nothing about China at all, its history or cultures, doesnt speakor read Chinese at all, but... she knows to call me sen qing bing (lunatic) in Mandarin. Lousy cousin 😂😂😂.
I fucking hate it when utube link goes to channel instead of directly linked to the song!😡😡😡😤
I’m a bit confused: do both of your parents have Chinese roots?
And why Germany? Was your mother half-German, half-Chinese?
Are you married? Do you have children?
Please tell me if I’m asking too much. I’m just a very curious person.