8, 9, 10: A big fat hen!

Ok, I was actually supposed to blog days 8 and 9 together because 10 is the one I wanted to use to rant but the days have caught up with me so we improvise, my friend..
The bad thing about taking one's time to blog is that I tend to forget what the mood at the time was. So, I'll be relying on the pictures to refresh my memory, so to speak. Heh.

Day 8

Yet another lazy day. A point emphasised by my very messy drawer top here. Ooh and white, crocheted bag makes another appearance! Yay. Mom gave me that red wallet for Christmas because she knows I love Domo-kun and the wallet itself is so cute, even if I don't fancy using such chunky wallets. Heh. And the calender I got at some university open day is what I've been using to tick off my days here.

Day 9
'4 hour walk day' about sums this one up. What can I say..my family loves food but I guess it's only fair that we love the outdoors as much. We started the walk by parking our car at Spit Bridge (yes, that's really what it's called) and then walking to Manly. There were many scenic spots like this one dotted along the walk, unfortunately the heat marred it. Almost everytime we stopped to enjoy the view, I'd have to move on after about 5 seconds cause the heat was searing!
Solar power was never more efficient for my speedwalking.

And this was also the day I took my first full dip into Australian waters. I'd been yearning to eversince I saw the gorgeous clear water but always forgot my swimsuit or was wearing sports shoes. This time round I got smart and brought along my trusty flip flops! Although the smarter thing to do would've been to just wear them there but nooooo 'it's a long walk' they said.

Still, it was a very enjoyable if tiring day - we stopped so often that four hours became all day plus lunch. :)

Day 10

On to less beautiful things.
A scab I got a week before Christmas on the family holiday.
It's healing nicely now though I know it still looks gross. But it also makes me think of what's going on in my home country right now because the wounds go much deeper than what's currently happening and unlike my scabs which will heal in say another week or so, these wounds were festering under the scabs that have now been peeled back to reveal the sore. I seem to have lost the picture though, so I can't post it. All for the best, I suppose.. one less disgusting scab picture for the Internetdom!

Touring the Food Island

Haha! Feels like you've got conned? I am just covering for the other day with this first pic. It was a friend's birthday and this is to show you how we feast on cakes in uni. There's no plates needed we eat it from the box! I will miss this part of uni life a lot. I remembered my last birthday where I had three cakes from three different groups of people. We eat them all in our very own fashion.

Ok I have to admit that the quality of these shots are pretty bad. Can't blame me 'cause most of the time I got too excited and start nomming then I remembered that I need to take a pic. Then I proceed to take a pic and yeah... I lost my concentration as the food were too seductive. So here it is the second day at Penang. The first day was late at night and the food pic is not with me.

The second day also, we went to the Kek Lok Si Temple and Bukit Bendera, if you wonder why I took the pic of the kois rather than the architecture stuff, the kois were swimming in circles as if they were performing. So I got fascinated and took a pic of them. Secondly, there were people in the more architectural ones.

Here come the third day. The day we left Penang and head back to uni. Sigh... Oh well for the memory here is my friend's little puppy. This one is supposedly the "less cute" one but I like this one better 'cause it has the blur look and it looks like a little piglet to me.

I'll see what I can get today. Classes 'til 5.

Day 7: Chocolato~

And I thought simply taking a picture a day was going to be less work. Damn you, whatever OCD personality that lives in my brain!

Yes, I am aware that this is the third time I'm putting up food pictures but what the hey, some live to eat and some eat to live. The point is, we all eat. So, while normally all I'd do is slap on the watermark and date onto the pictures, these handmade chocolates cannot be done that simple injustice like that.

My mother was just lamenting that we forgot to break out the box and eat them in celebration of the new year, which I think was my intention when I bought them on a trip to Leura with my aunt and her friends a few days before the new year. But we had that cherry chocolate cake on that night too and I believe we were stuffed. No points for guessing if we live to eat or eat to live.

Leura is apparently known for these chocolates and no wonder. The flavours they come up with and the smooth texture of each piece makes it worth the treat if you happen to drop by there. We, unfortunately, couldn't sit at their cafe to sip hot chocolate on that cold misty day as their cafe was closed. :(

Still, no harm eating them today...we can always commemorate having another day together as a family, enjoying something we all love. The simple things need not be overlooked all the time after all. :)

Day 6: Rant a cake

What makes a good writer? One who has a vocabulary that spans a dictionary, or perhaps one who is a mastermind at playing with words? What about one who can put their entire feelings into what they write and enable the reader to feel the same?

These were just some of the questions I was pondering before I fell asleep last night. I'm sure others have many more definitions of their own than I've listed here but those are some of the aspects I thought of simply because I was reminded of that movie 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'. That movie spawned the idea of us having a joint 'Traveling Diary' and I was just wondering why we chose a diary when it occurred to me that all four of us love to write and each do it in our own distinctive style. We've each left our mark on that diary that goes beyond handwriting or even some of the things we say. It is the way we say it.

I suppose the same goes for blogs. These days I spend hours reading blogs, going through archives of a particular blog that I found interesting and wanted to read more of. And many a time I found myself itching to just put up a 'printscreen' as my picture for Project 365 because that really is what I've done all day! But, no, proud to say I haven't succumbed to that temptation. Heh. In fact, what sparked the whim to hop on the bandwagon is exactly this - two bloggers I enjoyed reading who were doing their own Project 365, but what got me thinking today is also 'what makes an interesting read?'.

In the blogosphere it doesn't mean articulate words as in novels. Actually, I don't know what it means... I can't even tell you why I find some of the blogs I read interesting except to say it feels a little like getting to know someone better. So rather than comparing blogs to books in terms of enjoyment, I would say it is better to consider what it is about other individuals and characters that you find interesting because that is the essence of blogs. Or so I think.

Anyway~ after that long rant, I'mma put up a picture that has nothing to do with it but everything to do with my day...

I baked. ^.^
Feeling accomplished for the day: fulfilled.
Item in question: Lemon Ricotta Cake.
Taste: Indeterminate as of now.
Project 365 quota of the day: fulfilled. xP

Inanimate Controllers

Save the Xbox or PS. Neither!

So being clueless and controlled by these things, finally I took up a step and went for it. Hope all goes well. Isn't the best time of my life but prolonging would mean escaping from reality. There's been too many times that I've done this. Being afraid of the reality, the truth, and for myself.

How many times does one need to see fear before her in the mirror everyday? I've seen enough and for once, just get over it. What ifs... There are too many of them in this world. If things happen for the worse, there is another end that will be receiving it's best.

It gets tiring when you live in uncertainty where life lies in guessing. Don't be offended, I mean it in the way where you need to guess what will keep you alive. As Murakami said in his work,"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it" every breath is to keep you alive but at the same time, in every breath there you are, a breath nearer to death. So as I guess what will keep me living, it also occurs to me that it is that that will keep me from living. Life, has it's own dynamic.

Day 5: Ain't no sneezing matter.

Rest and chicklit for me today.
Nothing exciting because I was dribbling brain juice almost as soon as I woke up.
The book is 'Size doesn't matter' by Meg Cabot, author of the Princess Diaries series. Doesn't really do much for brain matter but it'll do for my sorry 'matter' today. *grumpy*

Firefly

 Dear Firefly,

Thank you for living. Thank you for being you. Thank you for lighting the dark.

Though you are small and to some insignificant, you are the star of my universe. You bring endless joy into this darkness.  Dancing the dance of light in this still, gloomy night. Bringing fascination to children and distracting them from thoughts of ghouls and souls. You've brought warm smiles to the people in the dark. If it weren't for your presence, what will I look for in the nights? I will hope for the sun to never set and be crushed when the night sits in.

Now that you're here, I am not afraid of the dark, knowing that you'll be there as my hope. Firefly, oh how I adore and cherish you. Slowly... I am learning to trust you and confide in you. There will be nights when the wolf's howl trembles me and shake all that we've built but I know deep inside, you will never leave me in hopelessness.

These words describes only the surface of what's in the heart. For there are emotions and feelings that words cannot describe.

Love,

Me

p/s : this one counts 'cause it's a photo of my doodle

Day 4: Craving Bak Kut Teh

In my haste and eagerness to begin Project 365 yesterday I forgot to explain that the both of us will be 'covering for each other' with regards to this project. Which means that if I forgot/am too busy/didn't bring my camera out to take a picture on a particular day but Mel didn't then it still counts (to us, anyway) even though we know some may disagree to this 'cheating method'.

Of course, all the better if we both have our own photo for the day since we're meant to share snippets of our lives with each other through this blog after all but what-the-hey, why let rigidness ruin the fun. :P


Uninspired picture for a rather uninspired day. Adults left us kids at home to handle our own lunch. We were supposed to have temari, those orange colored balls that look like ang ku kuey that are actually Japanese rice balls wrapped in smoked salmon, leftover from yesterday's lunch but since it's too cold a day for a cold lunch I had the spicy Korean noodles in the background instead. Simple, filling, and warm... :)

Mau Project 365?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

And I know I've been gone a long while, and after stating how motivated I've been too (pfft), this proves it - don't jinx it just let it come. Lol. To be fair, I really was working on something but really didn't have the inspiration to go on and I refused to post up something I hadn't already tweaked to my satisfaction.

Oh, I just realised this is the first time I'm posting here without using a postcard. Well, I'm not going to try and make this a habit but this new year we're not gonna put up our resolutions (because we seem to have none) except to bring to you our piece of Project 365 which means that even if neither of us has anything remotely creative to share at the moment, we'll still be sharing pieces of our lives and everyday now instead of every week (or so). And I know this is 3 days late but better late than never~!

Okay I'm starting off with this one - supposed artistic shot my dad requested while we were out hiking on the first day of the new year. My dad proposed he toughen us kids up while mom's out shopping by taking us hiking and act-macho me nonchalantly agreed. Oh woe is us, how was I to know it was so hard to follow a river to find your way from one train station to another? I think we ended up following the wrong stream so instead of getting to the other train station we just hiked half way there and back. It proves how out of shape I am, however, so I suppose I should make it one of my new year resolutions to get more exercise. T_T

Day 2 - that's the amount of documents I had to provide just to sit for my Driver's Knowledge Test that include proof of address in form of bank letter, passport, etc.. all on top of that white shoulder bag I got for Christmas that looks like a spaghetti strap top. Oh and I haven't even included the cards in that photo yet! Incidentally, I've attempted to sit for this test at least 3 times but couldn't due to not having one document or the other. Frustration elevated as I finally sat for it and passed!

Now comes the hard part.. actually driving. >_<

Day 3 (today!) - Hm..actually that doesn't have anything to do with what I did today other than take that picture and the background which shows a website explaining Project 365 that we're starting today. I was working on that paper kissy-bunny while watching the 3rd LOTR movie and waiting for countdown fireworks on TV. Oh but I was thinking of him while making it so somehow or the other, it must appear in this project. :p

Okay! This is one resolution you'd think would be easy for two camwhores to keep but we'll see... I really hope we do though cause it'd be fun to look back and see little flecks of frozen memories of a year gone by. ^_^