Idle

Don't ask! I've no idea what those wines recommended are and where to get them!

Bali? To be considered...

Crap, the thing is I can never tell right after taking a picture if it's blurry. So disappointing when it comes out on the computer and it is. Anyways, I still like it.

F1

The specs I read meant little to me. Titanium, aluminium, speed...a single word comes to mind. Light.

As fast as light, as light as air.

But one fact stuck in my mind. Cars like these can go from 0kph to 140kph and back to 0kph in 1 second?

One SECOND?!

Haha, I took one second to write "one second". Fast.

News

The man behind the Mandarin version of Superwoman.

Lately I've been photographing news from magazines. Interesting way to get news. Any copyrights policy do you think?

Sad Bear

My colleague has this really sad looking bear sitting on her dashboard. She loves that bear, it's been with her since she started driving.
What is the little bear thinking?
"I wish I could get out and experience the world instead of sitting in here watching the world go by, they seem to be having so much fun out there."
Little bear might have a point.

Favourite Breakfast

The view from where I am sitting. Quiet residential area.

That morning was a little cloudy so it was good to sit out and enjoy the cool breeze and fresh air.

Favourite food, breakfast food.

I know, don't tell me I make you hungry. Go and open up that frying pan and cook your own!

Luxury Chocolates

Coffee and cheesecake

A mouthful of creamy cheesecake with the taste lingering on your tastebuds, take a sip of coffee. The fragrant and contrasting flavors tingles on your tastebuds.

I tell you, there's no dessert like coffee and cheesecake.

Paycheck

Past midnight and I couldn't sleep. I was watching Paycheck on television. I thought I haven't watched it before but I think I have, I vaguely remember some of the scenes.

Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman stars. The good engineer creates a super machine that enables men to look into the future. That was going to make him filthy rich, agrees to sell it to the highest bidder and have his memory wiped so he can't create another. He's used the machine to see into HIS future, knows his buyer's going to seal off all exits and have him murdered, leaves a trail and clues to save his own life and the woman he loves. He gave up 3 years of his memory. In the end realizing that the machine he created means the world will end because men saw into the future.

Working backwards, men saw the future and men makes the future happen like he saw it. Isn't it ironic?

Anyway, it had a happy ending. Good guy destroys machine and lives happily ever after with the woman he loves. Uma Thurman's eyes are so arrestingly blue.

On an unrelated note, pictures above taken in KLCC on a cloudy afternoon a few weeks ago.

From an ant's point of view

SPM Results

Call me ignorant. I didn't even know that the results for last year came out. LOL
That was until my sister told me my youngest sister had got her results.
It was pretty good and I'm proud of her. She was telling me about applying for universities and scholarships.
That transported me back to the time when I was doing the same thing a few years ago. Okay, maybe more than a few years ago. Okay maybe nearer a decade ago. Crap! That IS a long time ago.
It was a confusing time when I didn't know what I wanted to study. Come on, how could I know what I wanted to be for the rest of my life at 18? Honestly, I just wanted to play. ;)
I was not one of those committed few who knew that they like medicine or engineering and was so focused on doing a course and then being a doctor and have a career in engineering forever. I knew what I like. But what I liked was apparaently too generic to have a course for. Or so generic that a number of courses covered it.
Ah, well...I never regretted how the course of my life turned out. I wouldn't trade a second of my life because I realized that I've learnt lessons at each turning point, at each crossroads, for eac of the decisions I voluntarily made or was forced to make.
Hmm, maybe I should trade my entire life...bad joke. ;)
For my sister, I know she's got her own decisions to make. I know she's got her own choices and life to lead. But I hope she knows that her family will stand by her for life and she's never to fear.
So cheers to my baby sister who's venturing into adulthood and life decisions.

Enthusiastic Photographer

The wobbly results of pplaying enthusiastic photographer while maneuvering a moving car! LOL...

Allure of Hope

Hope produces a deepened desire, an aching waiting.
Now isn’t that a new way of looking at hope? I’ve always thought that to hope means to clasp one’s hands in anticipation, with limpid eyes looking heavenward. That would be a picture of serene, peaceful and stillness.
But locking my thoughts onto my experiences, I’ve always been impatient, restless, aching for things I’m waiting for, desire deepening as time passed. I put it down to my character, to my impatience of waiting for things to happen.
Disappointment, betrayal, confusion. Over and over again.
It is not the dream itself that is the point. The point is how the dream opens up the weary heart.

Charms

Charms in One Utama. The decorations are interesting, bright red and an odd mixture. I had the fried cheong fun, which was fried and garnished with sesame seeds. A tad saltish but quite a satisfying meal. Portion's quite big. I couldn't finish mine. The fried lou shue fun wrapped in egg had a similar taste to my dish, though without the spiciness.

Dome's

Fish therapy

Spa like environment.

This is getting quite popular now. They use these little fishes to err eat your dead skin cells on your feet. Sounds totally gross I know. And it's ticklish!!

San Francisco and the tower of KL

Shaky picture, cos I was driving when I took this.

First visit to San Francisco Steakhouse was an interesting one. They managed to pass the service standards. Lol, I sound like some kind of expert on this but anyhow, I believe that as a client, one would have certain expectations towards the service that one gets whichever place one visits.
In truth their service was only slightly above average. But I’ve frequented so many places that have crap services that an average service seems very good in comparison. Did we bring our standards down?
Lowering standards, is a good thing or a bad thing? In our expectations of life? In our expectations of a partner? In our expectations of ourselves even?

Quotes

"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"

"I suppose the secret to happiness is learning to appreciate the moment."

Courtesy of Calvin & Hobbes quotes from Facebook. :)

Light

“Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my Light”.
Those are part of the lyrics from the hymn, Be Thou My Vision. We happened to sing it in church yesterday. Interestingly, while it has never occurred to me before when this hymn has been sung countless times in church, I did wonder about this particular verse.
Light could mean literal giving light, guiding, to light up the path before us.
Could it also mean light as in referring to our burdens, that He carries us in whatever situation we’re in.

Trigger happy

I went trigger happy with the camera. Reason being, my curly hair's going to be lobbed off soon. So I'd like beautiful memories of it. *winks ;) which of course just happens to be the perfect reason to perfect the shots.

On an unrelated note, an interesting Calvin and Hobbes quote:-

"Everyday I have something that grows bigger and bigger, it's a list of the people who successfully pisses me off, " Calvin.

You gotta give the little guy credit where credit is due. His observations are spot on!

Mom's Snow White Cake

I can't believe my dad bought a Walt Disney cartoon character cake for my mom's birthday. Lol, but it was sweet of him. Err, it looks pretty, probably more suited to kiddy girls. It sure looks nice. But the material that the scene's painted on is slightly rubbery, a little icky to eat.

LOL, but mom looks happy enough.