Year of the Goat 2015

新年快乐！嘻嘻哈哈喜洋洋🐑！

Have a very Goat Year!! 

Relaxing at Subway

Using the outer wrapper on the Subway, folded a long head locust and the left-over, into a peacock. Took half an hour for the locust and 10 minutes for the peacock. 

P.S. The wrapper is quite durable and can be used to fold more complex models. 

Update : The peacock tutorial here.

Little White Shark

Folded from a 30x70mm white paper. Design from Extreme Origami book.

RM10 Fighter jet

From Extreme Origami book, using RM10 instead of USD1, the model was different from the actual. Anyhow, the result still look like a jet plane even though didn't follow exactly the steps. Folding time ~40mins. 

Close up view of the model.

The Fiery Dragon

Model designed by Kade Chan. Folded from 22x22cm brown paper. Folding time ~1 hour. Diagram and video can be viewed here. 

From Robots To Retinas: 9 Amazing Origami Applications

An article from Popular Science on origami applications. [7 Aug 2014]

1. A self-assembling robot

Year of the Horse 2014

This year, would like to fold something slightly different from the typical horse. It's part horse and part bird, called Pegasus. Folded from Won Park's Extreme Origami with fake USD1 provided. This model was folded before CNY but "procastination" sets in and ...

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Year of the Snake 2013

With a few more days left for this year 2013 and before a brand new year of 2014, I need clear my to-do list. 

Here is this Chinese New Year origami, Year of the Snake. The steps can be found here, made from an open-up ang pau.

Jusco member card

Nice origami birds as background in the Jusco membership card.

Merry Christmas !!

Extreme Origami

Christmas present from my wife. I like money origami because the material, which is money$$ is easily available.

Inside the book, there are 20 pieces of dollar size paper to use for folding. However, some designs need to use 2 pieces of paper. 

There are total of 20 designs, from butterfly to racing car. Previously I have folded the Koi fish with RM10, and some other models.

Stay tune for some money origami very soon.....

Year of the Dragon 2012

To fill in the "missing" yearly post...

This Eastern dragon is folded from 2 pieces of square paper, joined in the middle of the body. The design is from Jun Maekawa, from the book "Genuine Origami". Time taken to fold is about 3 hours.

For more Chinese Zodiac origami, visit this link.

A Bouquet of Flowers

Most girls just love flowers besides handbags, shoes, clothes, fragrance, cosmetics, etc =) A half dozen of real roses will be about RM50-60 and one dozen would be around RM100. Prices will varies depending of what type of flowers and wrapping style. It will be much much cheaper if purchase from Cameron Highlands. Maybe RM10 will get 10 fresh roses, minus the wrapping. 

With RM10, an origami flower with a single leaf can be made (by Stephen Hecht). Here is a bouquet of three flowers with wrapping. Happy International Women's Day on the 8th of March 2011.

 Video instruction on YouTube. A photo instruction can be found here.

Gong Xi Fa Cai : Year of the Rabbit 2011

Made from RM1 note. Gong Xi Gong Xi !!

Year of the Rabbit 2011

Another new year is coming round the corner. X'mas is just a few days away and then the New Year. This come a little bit early =) Design by Noboru Miyajima (link) and folded from a 150x150mm pink color paper. Gong Xi Fa Cai !!

Happy Chinese New Year 2010 !

This year is the year of the Golden Tiger and falls on the same day as Valentine's Day. Hope everyone has a good double celebrations and holidays.

This tiger model was folded 2 years back from Origami Tanteidan Convention Book 1, by Issei Yoshino. The paper was 150x150mm and a bit too small to fold the details of the face. 

Origami Display at D'Monte Childcare Center Open Day

This year, 31 Oct 2009, once again, I displayed my origami art at my sister's childcare center. I brought most of my origami models this time as have 3 tables to use. However, there were much  less visitors as the Open  Day was on Saturday. Only 4-5 children visited my booth. I didn't even manage to teach any of the children to fold >< One was interested, but she wanted to fold all the difficult models.

While waiting for visitors, I folded some napkin models from a book that was given by a friend who bought it from China. 

Three types of shirt folds

Double candle

Star

Cabbage rose

Another type of rose fold, which is called cabbage rose ( 捲心玫瑰). The diagrams in this site are in Mandarin, but folding language is universal so I was able to understand it =) Folded from a 250x250 mm florescent pink color paper. It has a lot of small pointy pedals. 

Rose..rose..

Pentagon rose designed by Leong Cheng Chit

The pentagon is cut from a 120x120mm square orange color paper. The result is a 25x25mm nice looking little rose although the color came off a bit.

Grasshopper from palm leaf

Few days ago, my sister asked me if I know how to make a grasshopper from leaf. Well, we have seen people selling these leaf grasshopper at some markets or at tourist attraction places and wandering how it was made. So, I tried my hand on this model after finding some palm leaves around my apartment area but got lots of mosquito bites as it was dawn dusk >< Below is the model that I made

This is the video link of making the grasshopper from coconut/palm leaves that I followed. 

[10 Sep 2009] Updated with another 2 more leaf grasshoppers. The bigger one was using a harder leaf where it antennas were not that flexible. The back left grasshopper was the first model.

Napkin Folding #3

Last Monday, got another grey napkin from E&O after having International buffet there with family =) Suddenly felt the urge to make some napkin folds..

Cockscomb

Lover's Knot

Coronet

Crown [Not in the book]

This model was seen a lot in the restaurants last time and uses paper napkin.