polaroid!

My last blog post included a Polaroid picture from Flickr, and today's post is also about Polaroid!

Late last year, I had a guess that lomocams would soon be out of sight, pushed from the scene by Polaroids. Guess what? That proved to be correct! After Gaga was made creative director of Polaroid (it's a brand and product name), everything P burst into the scene.

Less random and more reliable than lomos in terms of the images produced, Polaroids are well known due to its instantaneousity (not a real word). Snap, get a picture!

I only have one Polaroid image so far. It's of my sister and I when we were younger, sitting on a huge elephant at the Royal London Circus. :P cheesy but very funny.



image from mycakies.blogspot.com


For you photography fans out there, there's a Polaroid Giveaway by one of my favorite bloggers at mycakies! Check it out!

to build & to protect

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This Saturday evening was pretty much spent worrying about the future. It's always like this! When I feel like there's too much to handle in so small a time frame, I worry anxiously like a chicken. Fleeting thoughts of the future entered and exited my mind as I sat to watch Batteries Not Included (a very old Spielberg flick), eat dinner and washed the dishes afterwards.

Don't you just hate it when anxiety takes over and you can't concentrate fully on what you're doing?

Thankfully there is always the Word of God for me to go to! I don't know how I would survive without it. That, and prayer.

So I thought of opening to Psalm 121 (the where-does-my-help-come-from psalm), but my eyes caught on Psalm 127 verses 1 and 2, which aptly describes what God is trying to tell me:

"Unless the Lord builds a house,
the work of the builders is wasted.
Unless the Lord protects a city,
guarding it with sentries will do no good.

It is useless for you to work so hard
from early morning until late at night,
anxiously working for food to eat;
for God gives rest to his loved ones."

Amen!

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The quickest way to end a miracle is to ask it why it is... or what it wants.

-Frank (Batteries Not Included)

"rainbows are not an accident!"

School holidays are here yo! For the students, at least. I've one more week of lectures to go. (Feature writing class is cancelled btw. So I've replaced it with PR-decidedly less interesting and more uninteresting. See what i did there? I just used the same terms)

Good night!

PS actually i wanna blog about a lot of stuff wan!

malaysia's 53rd

(I found this picture in a very old blog post, along with other class pictures! :D)
One of my lecturers said "Don't you think the copywriters for Merdeka ads are very racist? They put one Chinese, one Indian and one Malay guy in every ad!"

Yes. It is racist to put three different races together. But it's a better alternative than filling an ad with pan-Asians and Eurasians (who may be of the same descent) ala Astro's HD advert-thus giving job opportunities to those of mixed race descent only. I have nothing against Pan-Asians; I think they look absolutely pretty, but when the local media is chockfull of Pan-Asians, you know something fishy is going on.

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Malaysia is now 53 years old. Personally I feel 16th September should also be given high regards, as it was when Sabah and Sarawak was integrated, and when Singapore was cut off; thus forming the real, official Malaysia as we know today.

Anyway, happy birthday, beloved country. May God's kingdom come soon in this land, and may He bless Malaysia!

When you think about it, politics schmolitics, political parties own mainstream news channels and the not so mainstream ones are owned by radical extremists. Read the news at your own risk, and with a pinch of salt.


As Paul says, "Never cease praying,"!


I'm thankful for the freedom in this country :)

note 1

To find: a typewriter that works in times new romans.

more thoughts

Everybody needs an outlet of release.


An interest or passion helps us to put our talents to good use.


It keeps us from being self-centered, self-serving and self-pitying.


People who are passionate in their interest inspire me the most. They put their heart into doing what they do, making the best of the talents God bequethed to them. I see such beauty in that.


When the bible says that God made us in His image, it is not implying that God has facial features or physical limbs like man does-no; it is referring to the fact that God imparted within us the likeness of His heart, passion and ability to love. I think that is just amazing. That's why God's likeness is translated so well in people who are gifted in what they do!


People who have this passion not only benefit themselves, but they benefit others too. I see this especially through nurses, doctors and even school counsellors.


Most of all, they serve God through the administration of their talents.

God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ.
-i peter 4:10-11

What are you gifted in? How have you used it to glorify God?

nightmares?

John Mayer (source: tumblr/unknown)

one nightmare i had this year was finding out my family will be migrating to Australia. MAAN!

another nightmare more recent was finding out that John Mayer was having a concert in KLPac, with tickets costing RM 28 each, but I couldn't get my hands on any! And Joyce (who was there too) seemed nonchalant!

s-s-s-summer '10

Just got back from GHM and choir practice. August is never too early for Christmas songs!

Tomorrow shall be the start of a new semester, but I have no idea what time to go to college-because the timetable isn't out yet. And the results are being withheld till further notice. Nothing new. If the results and timetable comes out on time, however, that would be AMAZING.

My "summer" break of two weeks has been rather productive and enjoyable. Starting off with the bazaar outing for Seenamon (pronounced like the spice cinnamon btw-got lots of people asking me "what is si-nah-mohn?") and Kafka at KLPAC. Okay, those are basically the two major things I did during my holidays. Lots of other stuff in between.

Like, fine dining @ Truffles, Taylors' Lakeside. Also got to drop in their CF meeting. That campus is too pretty for words. A nice balance of nature and architecture.

Visits to Miss Petite's house for customizations...

And I also got to read this awesome book,

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And am still reading it! It's so good! I've never heard of Azusa Street Revival until it was mentioned in this book.

IN CONCLUSION, this August semester will be my last short semester.

"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near."
Phil 3:4

Kafka's Metamorphosis (spoilers ahead? maybe)

A whole lot of people!
KLPAC, Sentul
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis



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The play was an adaptation of Kafka's work which was originally published in the early 1900s. It was about this guy, the sole breadwinner of the family who one day wakes up and finds himself as a bug. What bug? Dung beetle, I think. Why and how? WHO KNOWS?! That's the one pertinent question Kafka avoids, as he discovers the metamorphosis of the man's (Gregor) family members (mum, dad and Greta), documenting their behavior and actions towards Gregor. They partially shun him, keeping him in his room the whole time. Gregor was still Gregor, albeit stuck in the body of an insect and could not speak.

"Just because you don't understand me doesn't mean I don't understand you!"

The set was a bunch of metal scaffoldings (?) concentrated in the middle, where the cage-like set surrounds a black podium that serves as Gregor's room. The other fixtures were three black stools for the mum, dad and Greta to sit on, which was also lent to the three lodgers.

When he first awakes from his slumber as a bug, Gregor initiates a movement with a hand with fingers sprawling out. I think many in the audience snickered as they thought of Lady Gaga. It was very interesting to see Gregor climb up and down the metal railings, although I would have liked it more it was more utilised!

I did not see the cartwheels coming.

The climax was startling, to say the least. (no, not the cartwheels) I thought the ending was sombre-it did give a very dark tone, but the final scene was a nice touch, I thought.

Hey, you would be forgiven if you thought Gregor would morph into a butterfly in the end.

Check out pictures of the cast here

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Seenamon has been reviewed by Artsy Fartsy! I like this Malaysian craft shopping directory.







I don't care if you're J-Lo or Leno or Bono one thing you gotta know

Someday you're gonna die, bro then where you gonna go?

Hey, I'm not talkin' some punk junk that's irrelevant like your grandma's church from way back when

It's not some preacher feature on tv, you need to be likin' or listening to,

The real superstar is Jesus Christ. He's the way, he's the truth, he's the life.

One day he's gonna split the sky He's the brightest light and the highest high.

So what I came to say and what I'm telling ya, is don't buy that stupid stuff they be sellin' ya.

It's all designed to fill your head and waste your space until you're dead.

Here's the bottom line in my rhyme, Give your life to God, while there's still time.

truffles

at gabby's 17th

"The Lord did not set His heart on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations! Rather, it was simply that the Lord loves you."

Doesn't reading the scripture from Deuteronomy 7 make you go, "Awwwh :3"?


Today was my third attempt at fine dining by hotel management/culinary arts students, and I FINALLY got to sit through all three courses, with meals I wanted! Haha! Much thanks to JQ for inviting me, Yin Xian a.k.a. Miss Petite and Timothy a.k.a. Zhu Whee to Truffles. (My first fine dining experience at Cilantro was marred by the fact that the kitchen ran out of food before my appetiser was finished, and the second was cut abruptly through the salad due to fogging in the kitchen)

We had florentine quiche, rack of lamb + mashed potatoes + boiled vegs and dessert of the day-a sweet and sour tart. Yum!

Before dinner, I joined the CF at Taylor's. PTL for that!

Um, I'll be looking around Etsy for a while and going to bed! Good night! That's a lot of exclamation marks!