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| Mines View Park, Baguio, Philippines |
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| CELLO: As an attempt to inspire kids to explore music, I created this life-size cello completely out of Lego bricks. Although it is the exact size as a real cello, please don't try to play it, it might look like a cello but it sounds like LEGO! (2009) |
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| COMPUTER: The arm reaching out is representative of the reach of technology into our lives. I built this sculpture over the course of two years. The original computer was completed in 2006, but I decided to add the arm reaching out of the screen in 2008. |
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| PEACE SYMBOL: What does it take to create peace? All the colours in the world working together, of course! This sculpture was created using thousands of recycled bricks. (2010) |
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| MY BOY: Loss, along with love, is one of the recurring themes in my art. This particular sculpture was inspired from a sad story I was told by a parent. After learning of the story, I began working on this sculpture right away, finishing it almost two months later. (2009) |
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| CRACKED: I spent over three weeks fabricating Cracked out of approximately 9,000 LEGO bricks. Also, the sculpture depicts how I feel every morning (2008) |
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| DISINTEGRATION: Beware the winds of life that nibble away a your sense of self. Stay strong. (2008) |
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| STAIRWAY: As humans, we scour our world for opportunities. Opportunities for success. Opportunities for happiness. But more often than not, we find those opportunities not in the world outside, but within ourselves. This sculpture was built from recycled Lego bricks that had been donated to me. (200) |
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| YELLOW: Probably my best known piece. Yellow always draws a lot of attention on the gallery floor, from adults as well as children. Why? I think we grown-ups appreciate how cathartic 'opening oneself up to the world' can be for our souls. And the kids? Probably because yellow guts spilling onto the floor looks cool. For me, this piece is about the metamorphosis I have been through on my journeys. (2006) |
Another climber had blossoms a-plenty and these flowers come in three different stages. They start as small buds and white flowers, turning to red petals before becoming brownish paper like flowers. These climbers had been perennial favourites. I have them in front and at the back of the house. 
I was also greeted by the pleasant aroma of this plant when I go back home in the early evenings. It has this wonderful scent that is easy to the nose and not overpowering that permeates the air only at night time. I am blessed for that these trees, whether they are the shorter or the tallest ones in my garden, unselfishly bear flowers year after year. I was told that if they grow higher than the house, I am truly lucky. And yes, two of them are. 
As I let some plants grow wildly in one of my pebbled corners, the plants had been gathering in bunches and shooting up towards light. These plants bear the most yellow flowers that attract butterflies and flying insects all the time. The flower last only a day but it flowers all throughout the year. They compliment the other annuals and perennials.
My driver gave me a small air plant two years ago as a birthday present and blue and purple flowers had been sprouting since then. I showed them to him just this week and he told me that they seemed to be happy in my little paradise. It does, because my neighbours have some and I have never seen them bloom. The flowers are exquisite. 
And lastly, one plant that was given to me many years ago had produced hundreds of plantlets and the matured plants have been sprouting shoots again. They are elongated stalks twisted like wires and with small buds at the uppermost ends. Soon the buds will burst into white flowers that will then blanket the side of the house with a show to remember. 
The generosity of these plants and trees will forever be imprinted as I write their stories in my blog. Nature really wants us to remember their beauty and importance. Whether they make your place pretty, give you shade from heat and the wind, or plain green for the eyes, their existence is magnified not only by their contribution but also by their generosity to always give. 
It will be almost the end of the school year and all the hardwork will culminate towards the schooling of great minds. The entire year had been a challenge as new students still come even when the school year is almost done. When everyone is settled, the last person arriving has to work harder, to belong.
