Posts from ‘February, 2008’

I am alright with the innocent, the new and the fresh (the n00bility), the outlandish, and the bold. For matters and people to which the command to hurry up! would elicit no favourable response, I can suspend myself in a calm waiting, observing, state, so long as inaction or acceptance on my part would not [...]

Most adults in the UK believe that children’s well-being is being damaged because childhood has become too commercial, a lifestyle poll has found.
“Unless we question our own behaviour as a society we risk creating a generation who are left unfulfilled through chasing unattainable lifestyles.”
Source: BBC News

They could’ve called it the National Queuing Day; it would have been a lot more fitting.
Are Singaporeans really that interested in aviation, or are they just curious, or do they simply have nothing better to during the weekends? I counted spending at close to 4 hours waiting in queues, possibly more. There was that [...]

For events, I don't usually bother developing the shots afterwards and handing them to whoever I've taken. I'd pass a DVD to the organisers, and they'd be responsible for passing them down. But what can I do when a lanky old man with a permanent lopsided grin passes me his postal address on the back [...]

“… these losses, severe though they may be, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.”
Daniel stuck up his hand.
“Yes, Daniel?”
“Where are our imaginations?”
“Out there, Daniel… … And in here.”
“Close your eyes,” he said to Daniel, “and in a voice only you can hear, say your [...]

The earliest diary entry that mentioned my fascination for caterpillar-rearing was written when I was 11 – 10 April 1996: “checked the plants and found out that the caterpillars turned into pupas [sic]!“. Now it’s my sis who gets all excited, and watches over her charge day and night. A lime caterpillar I found on [...]

** Image-intensive post! **
My first time seeing the parade, possibly my best series of images to date! Chingay was fantastically impressive – nothing in London can beat this! They call it the Parade of Dreams… ‘Asia’s grandest street and floats parade’. It leaves little room for doubt.
I lingered around the assembly area during the [...]

Went to Little India for a little exploration, this time at night, and with ZF and the budak. After an Indian buffet dinner (the spice was bearable, not once did I need to take out the tissue packet!), we plodded along, but not before we were treated to a cup of… hmmm… something gingery and [...]