I guess this is what they mean by never judge a book (or a house) by its cover. It may be all shabby wood outside, but hidden inside is a bright spark of blue — caught only because the window was left open. I guess when time’s tough, it’s better to paint the inside rather [...]
Archive for August, 2011
21 Aug
Weekly Photo Challenge: Hot
A few months back I went on a walking tour around Jakarta’s Old Chinatown. It was my first excursion to see that side of the city, and did enjoy it very much. The walk was quite exhausting — broken pavements, heat, humidity, crazy drivers — but it is refreshing to see the vibrant and strong [...]
21 Aug
More Time, Please!
If there ever was a list of eternal questions, pondered across the generations (well, generations since the invention of money that is), this would definitely be in the top three: “Do you wish you had more time or money?” As they say, when we were students we had all the time but no money… and [...]
17 Aug
Weekly Photo Challenge: Old Fashioned
A picture of my paternal grandmother and her sister. Taken on my grandma’s 97th birthday, making her as old-fashioned (in the best sense of the word) as possible. She’s mostly bed-ridden now, not able to sit up/stand/walk on her own anymore; but she’s very much “still there” mentally. In her good days, I can still [...]
17 Aug
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sky
Taken during my road trip journey in December 2010. This was during an early morning pit-stop somewhere between West and North Sumatra. The sun was just rising, and I tried to capture the gradual lightening of colour from the still dark blue of the night at the top, down to the morning orange/purple hue at [...]
17 Aug
Why I Don’t Blog
It’s been over a month since my last blog post. And even the previous ones were quick and easy Weekly Photo Challenge ones. As much as I enjoyed thinking about the week’s topic and searching for that perfect picture, it felt like I was cheating and taking the easy way out on my postaweek goal [...]
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