The Learning Process

Has possessing a DSLR become the latest trend today? Everyone around me is so into it. Well, not really everyone. I meant most of my friends. Photography was never something I'm interested in but the peer pressure around me had caused me into beginning to like PHOTOGRAPHY. I'm not a professional photographer, to begin with. I do not own a DSLR or any high tech camera (just snap using Sony Cybershot). I just started to learn about photo taking and still in the process of learning. Whenever I have the inspiration (aherm), I can spend the whole day just snapping photos of a bear. Ugghhh....I'm not gonna crap in this post. So, just enjoy the photos. These are some of my favourite shots (they might not be super nice, though. As I said, I'm still learning, ok).

Going down....

Down...

Further down...

The last beam of light of the day

What's hot? What's new? The latest trend?



Sony A200 with lens (not mine) {Bokeh effect}

Not mine too {Bokeh effect}

In the process too. LOL!

Transition...

Transition...

Transition...

CNY Deco in Times Square

Bangkok favourite noodles in spicy soup with seafood (Not nice)

Pineapple fried rice (without the pineapple)

CNY Deco in Mid Valley

The following are seriously my all time favourites!!!


Looks familiar? Yeap, I posted this photo in my Perth trip post. A blend of colour and nature - Kings Park, Perth, Australia. Miss this place~~~

Matryoshka...all the way from Russia. Thanks, Angelina (=

Waiting in the long silence...(my second love)

Pathway to heaven (my first love)

These are presumably the best shots since I begin liking photography about a week ago. There's still room for improvement. Will post more nice photos in my coming posts. Alright, sleepy already. Ciao!~

Progression

It's the third week of year 2010 and I just realized that I have yet to greet you guys for I was on a silent retreat. Hahaha.... just kidding! Now, I'm breaking the long silence. So, HAPPY NEW YEAR! I know I'm late by 3 weeks but better late than never, right? Well, I've been rather busy these few weeks with house shifting and working (still quite free though).

I started my new year by moving into a new environment, a new surrounding, a new habitat. I'm not a nomad and thus, I do not live a nomadic life and I must tell you that house shifting is indeed very tiring! This is especially true when you have loads and loads of precious stuff which were considered to be crucial to you but claimed as RUBBISH by others. Well, in fact, you know that they are rubbish. It's just that you are too lazy to throw them or rather, not willing to see them ending in the bin after accompanying you for such a long time, even if it's just a Swatch booklet for 2008 fall collections. 2008!!! No kidding and now we are 2 years ahead! Because of stuff packing, all my favourite plastic bags, which I used to collect such as Esprit, Levi's, Padini, Roxy, etc, had become invaluable due to the tears and torns. Damn!

My dad and brother painted the whole house in 3 days. Hey, I did help them out by painting too, okay? After the rooms had been painted, we shifted in on New Year's eve and managed to welcome year 2010 in our new house. Cheers!~~~

My room

My space

My collections. I purposely bought them a rack. Chip sleeps with me though.

Living room

Dining room

Kitchen

Kitchen

My toilet, my privacy!

This is my third week at work. By the way, I'm working as Research Assistant in UM, if you had not already known. Meanwhile, I'm still rather free. My jobs at the moment are just reading journals, preparing medium and splitting (subculturing) cells. Most of my free time was occupied by reading journals and facebook-ing in the library. And not forgetting, to cam whore. Here are some shots of my new study environment.

Parking lot. I have to walk for 10 minutes up hill to reach my lab. So, I have to walk for 20 minutes daily, which I think is a good exercise.

The tiny path of the parking lot. The cars actually have to park in between those pine trees...

There's a lake next to the parking lot with canoes but I haven't witnessed any canoeing activities yet




I particularly like this photo. Don't ask me why.

Stairway to heaven. Immunochemistry lab (my lab) is on the right above the stairs.


Lost

Still lost

Pond with koi carps

My faculty is linked to the hospital and thus, I always pass by it. Hospital is synonymous to white-collared professionals like doctors, surgeons, therapists and pharmacists. Working in the faculty of Medicine, I ought to see doctors or soon-to-be doctors pacing in and out at high speed stylishly with stethoscopes dangling over their necks at an approximate frequency of 5 doctors per minute. Working here had also provided me with an insight of life. Whenever I walked past the hospital area, the painful sight of patients being stucked with tubes through their nostrils, or those who were on their "4 wheel drives " or patients with severe hairfall due to chemotherapy had never failed to get my heart shattered to pieces. It's so heart breaking to see them suffering and fighting so hard just for a chance to live another day.

The patients either have something less or something extra. They might have lost their limbs or organs. For those with something extra, they might have to move around with tubes fixed onto breathing equipment or they have to put on an artificial pacemaker just to keep their hearts pumping. Some of them even have ileostomy bags attached to their bodies to collect urine and fecal materials. Each time I saw them, they kinda remind me of how lucky I am. I'm learning to appreciate life and not to take things for granted. I will never complain if I have to walk farther for I still can walk. I will never complain if some one turn on the volume on full blast for I still can hear. I will never complain if I have to stare at the miniature laptop screen for long hours to read journals for I still can see (although my astigmatism worsen by year). I will never complain if I have to wake up early for I still can wake up to welcome a brand new day. I will never complain for I'm still breathing. I'm alive!

Haiz...being very emotional lately. *Snap snap* Back to my life. Despite the fact that the word "healthy" is never related to me nor my lifestyle, I'm now trying to lead a healthy life. Yeah, you heard me right! I'm going jogging every weekend with my buddies. I actually enjoyed it in spite of having to wake up early on weekends. My body ached terribly because my rusty muscles and lazy body had entered a dormant state for at least 6 or 7 years. However, I felt great after sweating!

The going-to-be-healthy me jogging at Taman Bukit Jalil

Another one. A classic version.

Although I had started my working life, I never miss any chance to watch movies. I've watched Old Dogs and The Spy Next Door. The former was hilarious and worth watching while the latter, hmm.....predictable and something which I wont suggest to anyone. However, if you wanna waste your Ringgit, please just go ahead and watch.

What else have I done? Ohh...my brother and I celebrated KK's belated birthday at Sushi King. Wow....it was raining cats and dogs that night but it was an enjoyable night with lots of laughter because of the "lunginess" of my brother. Had a great time! I think I better stop here and save the rest for the next post. Once again, happy 2010, everyone!!!

Lotta continue,
~YY~

1701 - History

It has been exactly 4 years since it started. Throughout this 4 years, we both had savoured the sweetness, sourness and bitterness of it. Like many other couples, it started off with sweetness in the beginning, in fact, extreme sweetness but ended with a constant and persistent sourness with a tinge of bitterness. There were countless times in which hearts had been broken and shattered to gazilion pieces due to words, actions and jealousy. Jealousy is controversy. Jealousy is fugly (eff-king ugly). How true is that. I couldn't agree more. Well, for actions, need I say more? Words....small as it seems, but sharper than the sharpest knife, might hurt us the most. It's just like a spear dashing right towards the heart. Ouch! That really hurts! The bleeding couldn't cease. Even if we did successfully stopped the bleeding for the moment, these hearts will no longer be the hearts we used to have. No matter how hard we tried to fix them, the cracks and crevasses from the injury caused would still be obviously visible.

These hearts are no longer the perfect and healthy hearts.
They will no longer have the normal heart beats.
They will no longer care for each other.
They will no longer stay together.

Enough with my 'no longer'. Sometimes, I feel like being in a relationship, especially one which had gone haywire, is like having a heart problem or an incurable disease. During this 3 years, we fought, we made up, fought again and made up again. It's like having a constant heart attack. Honestly, I'm getting really tired of this. In short, the hearts will stop beating any minute without any prior notice.

I remember we still had 5 more days to our third anniversary and we couldn't live that long to celebrate it. It terminated 5 days before our anniversary and that's the end of it. To date, it has been exactly 1 year and 5 days since everything came to a complete halt. Everything stood still. Anyway, I'm amazed at how time flies right by me. In fact, I was more relieved when we let go of it. I learn something in this relationship, which is, to let go. Sometimes, we might be holding something strongly and dearly for the fear of losing it. It's good not to give up but I'm telling you, it's not always a good thing. For instance, your hand would hurt if you were grabbing tightly on a metal ruler. It might even bleed! Why would you wanna hurt yourself? Just let go and you will feel the instant relief. Well, that's for my case. It doesn't apply for everyone though. The past is history. We make histories but not living in it. For now, I'm glad that I have a new heart, a new life ahead, and I'm gonna live it to the fullest. I'm gonna be happy like you always asked me too. The memories that belong to us will rest in peace in the corner of my heart.