I[am]sterdam

Mereka ; selepas meraih spek hitam konon mantap di Itali.

Kami; di Amsterdam

My very first yee sang

Had my very first involvement of celebrating Chinese New Year. Fun. Now I know how Yee Sang taste like. I didn't really contribute in any of the dishes, except helping out. The guys were awesome and pure in the spirit of celebrating it. Let me dish out what we had; Emperor Chicken, Chinese Herbal Soup, Butter Prawn, Chili Chicken, Tang Yuen, Sweet Sour Fish, Popia, and Soymilk Agar with Lychee. A lot right? After dinner, they watched movie; A Very Harold and Kumar Christmast, but I? I slept through the movie. Aha~

Here the video of us er, dunno, starting out the night by puling thru/mixing thru the yee sang? See me, very confuse, not sure what to do~

The quality of iphone 4s video is super nice,imo though.

And then this happen!

Just when I felt like locking myself in my house and slumping in my comforter, plus maybe ranting away (to myself), er, due to the final thesis I have to submit; let just say what I felt was like crap.

And then this happen:

Some awesome friends brought this to my house, and when I say brought, really is not 'bought', gosh, handmade dude! Love the pastel colour on top of white cream frosting. Yum.

There was also a chocolate cake , from my sister, on behalf of my family. Thanks Sheela for did it all the 'heavy lifting'

Oh crap, now I have to be thankful and turn away from the crap-ish feeling. Well, atleast I'll try my best for this one day particularly.

(how the hell I get 23 already?)

Talk to the hand

Talk to the hand

Phrase used to tell someone that you do not wish to listen to what they have to say and that they may as well stop.

To feel belong to

In all my life; specifically saying my athletic chapter of life, I had been more of a solo competing thingy. What do you expect?All I did competing was alone; 100m, hurdles, long jump , bla3~

But, what really still fresh in my mind was the sweet victory of us, yes I said us, competing in 4x100 meters. It was my school team, and if I was given a chance to do it again, I wanna live that moment. I know they hate my guts, I had been practically dragging them to follow me practice and train almost everyday. For somebody who actually consider training a norm-routine, wasn't really a big deal. So I know for you guys, its just a school meets, you were doing it for fun, of course you guys hate my guts at that time.

But deny if you want, the victory was sweet ayte? How we come close head to head to the other school, and how every baton passing between us really matters. And we did win. I'm not sure you guys heard this at the end of the line, a man came up to us and said ; " Berbaloikan training? ". Smiled and he left.

So, trust me, winning solo, isn't as sweet as winning as a team. You win for all. Victory shared, cheers flock around, high fives, pat in the back and all. I guess I'm jealous for you guys out there who actually play all around for team game. Really, it's great. And we all know that it's nice to feel like we belong somewhere, and not just alone.

Just a picture from recent conference trip with my lab mates; of course all japs, except me and one chinese guy.

Guess what in the mail today?

In the mail, not inbox, the classic mail-box thingy, I received a mail and it's from England. Beside the normal, we all know of course the stamp is the Queen portrait, but this time mine came with Dumbledore and you-know-who; well heck; VOLDERMORT ( he's dead anyway ).

Thing is where's the three person I like most, ar come on now....

Well that mail, especially the stamp that came with it, is the highlight of my day~

Selamat Hari Raya Anyway~

Sunrise; yet the Moon don't want to leave.

Straight up from camera, been a while. Well, it was out of focus, but the feeling of it the closest to 'raye'. Hah, can anybody give me an idea what I can substitute daun palas with? Nak makan ketupat~

Our flaws

I know, I know, by now you guys already know that I love sun-flare too much. Yes, I do. I don't really know why. I love catching sun flare on my photos. Because for me flare make the photo more interesting. Flare for me is like flaw. Flaw make people who they are. Flaw define us from others. So, embrace your flaw. Because they are yours.

And, I'd also like to walk around in sunny days , chin up to the sky a bit and squinting , then watch the sun ray over my eye lashes. Never fail to make me smiles.

Leaving Paris

The morning we were leaving Paris, at the Gare du Nord. Miss the cobblestone pavement. I wanna walk on that again. If only.

Enough Said

I have to let this thing go, because for real, I'm addicted to it, and I'm proudly like to label myself a musician, yeah, I can play guitar -- guitar hero .

By I mean letting it go, just for a while, exams weeks/month , heh, whatever. ( and that dude above, he's already volunteer to take care of it )

PS: thank you for 'you' who bought the guitar for me, thanks!

Laundry Trip

Last two weeks, I had companies! Well, it was my sister and her friend. And yes before everybody assuming whether she's my younger sister, let me answer once and for all; no, she's my older sister and we have gap of 4 years. I know she's much smaller than me. or, I am just giant. period.

She had been hinting me on having her pictures taken, well, this kind of pictures, as in her photoshoot and all. I was really-really busy planning their itinerary and also juggling school's work. So guess where was this? Just around the apartment of mine, specifically saying, I was waiting for my laundry at the drier. Was looking forward to take pictures at the coin laundry place, could be an interesting spot. There was and old man waiting for his laundry too, alas we headed outside for pictures.

Anyway peeps, we do not really need good spot for good pictures. Just watch out for good lighting, framing and all. Taking pictures by evening or morning is the best time for good lighting. Afternoon? A big no-no. And then of course, if you have a gedik model like my sister, it can help.

Serene serene Serene

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Multi tasking sucks. Really. I can't give my A game when doing lots of works together.

Is been a while I really enjoyed snapping pictures, this, above is not even from my camera, from a friend's, which really what happened every time I went out these day, I made others camera like my own. And neglected mine, right under the study table. Heh.

Been out camping. At Lake Toya, Hokkaido. See how serene that pictures shows? You really have to see it for yourself.

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The Promising Haircut

A senior of mine entered the room, baring his newly fresh cut hair.

Straight away I went

“髪切った”

“Did you cut your hair?”

“うん～”

“Um, yeah”

“失恋？”

“Heartbroken?”

“いや、明日の学会よ”

“No, just for the tomorrow presentation”

*Apparently, here, not only girls do the heartbroken-norm-new-image-thingy, the guys do too. Like seriously.

The others in the room kept on admiring his haircut, more to criticizing though. Then another senior walked in, talked to us a bit, and left.

“ マジ　気づかなかったの”

“ Really, he didn’t realize I cut my hair”

………………………………………………..

“おまえさあなんで女の子みたいこう言う事気づくんの？”

“Why do you sound like a girl who cries out for attention, such little thing?”

“pftttt….hahahhahhah…” , that was me, burst out laughing

“ほらあ、ニナも笑っちゃた ! ”

“ See, even Nina find it funny! ”

Venice|Venezia

Florence|Firenze

Up: Leen infront of some gallery.No we didn't go in.Had enough of paint-watching-appreciating.

Down: This was us, almost all the time.Map.Searching for sign.Arguing whose right.Pointing turns for others to ask the local for direction.Yes, very touristy.

In Transition | Rome-Pisa

Italy | Rome

Spain | Barcelona

Spain | Granada | Al-Hambra

Britain | Stonehenge