5 years and onward. 旅

Wao, this blog is almost 5 years old *clap clap clap*. Blogs are definitely becoming less and less popular in the age of social medias. But I like reading blogs. I started a blog just so that I could babble rant jabber. 5 years later I am still babbling ranting jabbering. (Grow up, woman.) I should continue doing that. (Just for my own satisfaction lah.)

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Today I learn about: Capitalising and Punctuating Inside Parentheses
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000123.htm
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Two weeks ago went on a trip with sista, cousin sista and mate Sony a6000. Bringing my mate on a trip is the best way to test it. Travelling is like taking drugs. Expensive, delusory. (You are freeeeee, chase your dreams! Don't bother the whole world.) Final semester at uni is about to start, I just need to use a little bit of imagination and am already terrified by the imagined workload and stress. I wish time will pass faster, but not too fast please (*smack*). I feel that I am too old for uni, but heck I am still in uni. Am I the last one among my batch?!


12th July: Chokolait!
They have the  b.e.s.t  chocolate drinks eveeer. Tried it the first time in 2009, couldn't forget it since. Tried it again in 2012, the taste still surprised me (too good). At that time I told myself I'd bring my sis there one day. So, in 2014 we went there together. Damn how can it still be so good? Not a big chocolate lover, but I will pay for that iced chocolate any day. Here is their chocolate mud cake, very rich but not sweet which is very good. Err no pictures of my iced chocolate.

13th July: Wine - Koala - Penguins   
The trip was rather spontaneous. A day before, we contacted the travel agency (澳东旅社) from a pamphlet my cousin took from the tourist centre. Our tour guide, Darren, has been living in Australia for more than 30 years. (He was a former Malaysian, so we felt quite 亲切). We got 'V.I.P' treatment 'cause only 3 of us booked on the trip and we travelled in a nice big car.

Err no pictures of penguins 'cause no photography allowed on Phillip Island.

14th July: An intoxicating journey 
Wine, wine, wine, wine. On the second wine tasting I was already feeling dizzy fuzzy. Too much for me who normally don't drink. The tour offers really great value as the itinerary includes 4 wineries, Yarra Valley Dairy for cheese tasting, 1 brewery and 1 chocolaterie. Link: Wine Tasting Tours

15th July:  Alice Springs  
To the Northern Territory! More than 5 years in Australia and I have only been to Melbourne 
(a total of 4 times wth), sad.

Resident kitty at the hostel. It is fat.

I booked for an 8-person female dorm but the hostel upgraded our room to a 3-person bedroom. Thank you. Booked the room together with The Rock Tour, it only costed us $16.5 per person for one night. Great value. The room reminded me of father's kampung with its colourful paints and pitched ceiling. Link: Alice Lodge


16th July:  Kings Canyon
Three-day camping trip in the outback with The Rock Tour. Memory: Hot afternoons, frigging cold nights, many stars, very blue sky, loads of rocks, big rocks, small rocks, frigging huuuge rocks, very steep climbs, interesting aboriginal stories.

Three-hour walking trip.

After shooting mainly with the Sony 35mm f/1.8 prime lens, the drop in photo quality was obvious as I changed the lens to the 16-50mm kit lens, the only other lens that I had which was more suitable for landscape. (No $ = no pic quality. Want to get the 10-18mm if I win lottery.) Somehow, camera was unable to capture the wow that I felt during the trip. The scenary was splendid, but pictures came out flat.

Sleeping with campfire crackling near your ears and under millions of stars. How romantic could it get? Only one price to pay: body temperature. In the middle of the freezing cold winter night you could hear all sorts of noise from the bush including dingos' howling. Damn scary wei, I actually woke up with eyes wide opened and then buried my head deep in the sleeping bag+swag.

17th July:  Kata Tjuta - Uluru
 

Guide-said-1-hour-but-turned-out-to-be-more-than-3 hours walking trip.

 
Valley of the Winds "Kata Tjuta is sacred to Anangu men.
Our people have always shown respect when visiting this special place.
They would camp a short distance away and walk in quietly.
They would not swim in the waterholes. Women entered this area as well to collect food and water but always behaved appropriately.

It is the same now. It is the same for you.
Hold in your heart the knowledge that this is a special place.
Walk quietly, tread lightly. Stay on the track.
Enjoy this place as it is."

Sweep panorama of a6000 is really handy but under bad light conditions it often fails. I wish a manual option is available. This photo has to be brightened up a lot.

From 6:38PM to 6:42PM. Uluru changed colours in 4 minutes.

Our camping site this night had toilets and showers close by. (A bliss I tell you.) Slept in a tent as we would like to escape the cold, but still as cold as ever. Some people slept outside with the campfire and they said it was warmer than the previous night. Ops.


18th July:  Uluru - Sydney

Sunrise at 7:50AM.

Magical sunrise. After that we did a two-hour walk around the base of Uluru. Wind was strong. After two days of walking, legs and toes started to feel the pain. All I could think of was "A-r-e  w-e  t-h-e-r-e  y-e e e-t?" (Donkey's tone) Good shoes are really important for camping tour. At 10:30AM we got dropped off at Ayers Rock Airport and boarded the flight to Sydney at 2:00PM.


*Heard the bad news from our travel companions on this day. Couldn't believe this could happen to us again. We could only wonder why and what's wrong? Sincerely hope that the country and the rest of the world could be more peaceful for the second half of this year.

搬家 move move

搬家最麻烦了，庆幸这次有朋友帮忙。有车真的好方便。
感谢屋主帮我把东西搬上楼（用旋转楼梯吔）。我对旋转楼梯刮目相看了。说实在的，我的东西还蛮少的。重要的东西的话，两个行李箱应该够了，其他都是些带不回去的东西。若有任意门多好啊~（又来？）

Furnished. Blankets and pillow are provided, yeay~
Though I have my own.

Table lamp is provided, hooyeay~

窗外。

赠上一幅画。（啧又不是送你的）

竟然感冒了，不舒服到需要依靠这喉糖（效果蛮好）
睡了好久才醒。觉得抵抗力越来越不好了，老了吗我？
今天八月八日吔。

~(`O`)~

I always thought I really enjoy doing nothing (nothing productive or important), if you think about it, it seems very reasonable that everybody will like it. But now I don't think I can do nothing for a very long period.
That should be a good indication.
When you don't start something, it won't start at all. Oh yes. Too commonsensical.

I really like this quote:
"Nothing is more uncommon than common sense."
Attributed to anonymous.

Or a saying which I forgot where does it come from, which roughly says, when we judge others, we like to judge by the results of their doings; but when we judge ourselves, we judge by our intentions.
Damn true, especially when things are messed up.
But then this is quite debatable.

Blalala.

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Some artworks which are in my favourites from deviantArt.
Click on the image and blogspot shows you magic! (Boo)

Artist: Culpeo-Fox (Link)

I remember seeing this made my day, and I couldn't stop laughing. 

The artist has a good sense of humour.

Artist: freeny

Think twice the next time you eat a gingerbread man.

Artist: NaBHaN

Now I know your secret, Mr. Owl.
(Artist's blog here)

Artist: Skia

Kick-ass bunny.

Artist: almiller

It makes one wonders.

Artist: gyaban

It makes one double wonders.

Artist: MarkJayBee

Such composition.

Artist: juanosborne

Such creativity!

Artist: zeevphoto

Cat-er-pillar!!
(...am seriously amused by myself)

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This and that

I found that I did not back up some important folders from previous hard disk.
Wuuuaaaaaaaa. My previous research is gone just like that. Though they are not the most important things, but I tend to think that I will need them at some points. Gone. I am an idiot.

Having said that, I still don't feel better. = <
At least, after rummaging through e-mails, I found that one of the finished assignments had been sent to my tutor. Oh thank you Mr.Tutor for requiring that. At the very least, feeling better.
I keep losing things at the end of the year. Ehemhemmm.
Hopefully I will start gaining things in the new year. Hekhek.

Presenting two photographers from deviantArt whom I like.

zardo.deviantart.com/

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kirliancamera.deviantart.com/

 

The subjects that I like in photography are objects and scenes.
I am not particularly interested in photography, but I appreciate people who take great photos.
Some people would go as far as an adventure just to take photos.
I just love those ghost ships.

Ceramics

I made a ceramic vessel in ceramics class. I had a good idea of colouring it with shades of blue, underneath which was ebony black, and colouring my tree-like ornament with green.

So that was many weeks ago. Today I went to the Ceramics Studio to take back my stuff. Oh mannnn, my vessel.....D=
It's known that you can't trust the colour of glaze (coatings), 'cause most of the time they don't turn out the way they mean to. It's too heavy I was not able to carry it back.

So I shall show my other works! They turned out pretty cool hey.

They are sculptures, so they need no explanation. Nyahahah.

嘿嘿嘿

嘿什么？没事，这叫心血来潮。

好难得认真做功课（绝不是心血来潮），结果败给了到处溜达的乐趣。死性不改。

我其实是在做功课的。嘿嘿。在找关于 Dubrovnik 的资料，除了上网还有哪里可以找到一堆图画嘛？（我，理直气壮！）

那真是一个美丽的地方。

还有还有，发现那边好像 很多猫。结果我对它的好感增加百倍。我将来要去的地方，又多了一个。
 
猫，真的可以招财。
猫儿~~~来~~~啦！

唉，刚才看了 The Pirate Bay's founders 被判的消息，我还是乖点写个什么 disclaimer 吧。ALL　pictures are taken from the net, thus, not mine. （废）

名副其实的 kuro neko 啦～

我正在～喵～望远方。

Cats Series 1: Brown Cat and the Ancientness of Dubrovnik (烂)

I maaaau some of the you-know-what.

来来，一人一边。

全都是Croatian kitties =D

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好像是去年，跟朋友看了一部 匪夷所思／莫名其妙 的电影。 记得看到它的简介时，兴趣是１％．那为啥还去看？

除了免费，还有什么理由？当时剩下的免费电影就只有它。

看完后，朋友无语。其实，全场好像也没有声音。那部电影叫 "Tony Takitani"。トニー滝谷。

当时觉得不错，虽然根本不懂那部电影到底真正讲啥。我是乐观看电影的。从来只有一部电影，让我觉得是报纸写的那种所谓的废片。它叫无极．不好意思写出来，但我不懂无极什么意思，不能暗示。本要用 Google language tool 翻成英文敷衍下，但，Google 的翻译更让我无言。

哦，刚刚其实想说，无意发现了这部 Tony Takitani 原来改编自 村上春樹 Murakami Haruki 的原著。哗！久闻大名，但他的作品一本也没看过。眼镜有点跌了一下，原来我看不懂大师级的作品。

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