Around The Neighborhood

I've been neglecting this blog for a while. Time to get back with the program. Anyways, as with all creative endeavours, one has to be in the mood to write. And, I'm sorta back in the mood now.

The past few weeks have been very cold; hovering around 0C in the mornings. The cold weather came early this year. Last year it was good until well into November. But, last weekend, it was actually warm enough to go out in just a shirt in the sunshine. And, that's what I did to shoot a few pix around my neighborhood. Yeah, I know. I'm a week late in my posting. Like I said, I was not in the mood at the time.

I began by going up to the top floor of my building, the fifteenth floor, and shooting the surrounding countryside. I could only do this on the one side as on the other side are another set of equally tall buildings blocking the view. It didn't occur to me to go up those to shoot the other side till just now. Maybe next time. Meh! Anyways, there are lots of apartment buildings in my area as you can see.

Next were a few shots inside my own building. Every three floors has an atrium that connects them together as sort of a way to make the building seem smaller and more personal. I don't know how well that works as all it seems to do is transmit the noise easier for the adjoining floors. Plus, the fire gates that drop from the ceiling along the railings are blocked by many bicycles chained to them on most floors. Next is a shot of the dirty elevator floor. I like the design, though. Meh!

Following the interior shots are a couple of the outside of my four building complex. Two of those are strictly business buildings with even an indoor golf driving range inside one of them. Golf is big here in Korea. These things are everywhere. Outdoor golf courses are rare as land is at a premium and the player fees are expensive. The driving range also happens to face my windows, only one floor lower, which puts it in an absolute perfect position to have the golf balls sail right into my apartment, along with all the other apartments that face in the same direction, should the safety netting fail. Any day now!

And, the rest of the pix are of my neighborhood as I walked around for a while until I got tired and headed into a shopping mall for an ice cream cone. So, that was my day on a warm and sunny sunday afternoon last weekend. It was a nice day!

Samhain is Here

Some world-class pumpkin critters in Oxford town, UK. Happy Hallowe'en... Taken by a ghost

T-shirt Nails

What do you do when that brand new shirt you bought last week has some, no, lots of rhinestones coming out after just one round in the washing machine?

Use the rhinestone on your nails!

Ta dah!!

Like, it was really annoying when I was folding the clothes that I found loads of rhinestones about and the I discovered that my shirt is losing its bling.

So here's the amount of bling bling I've gathered so far.

And if you have hung out with me quite often, you'd know that I'm pretty much obsessed about nail art.

I like painting patterns and pictures on my nails when I can, and if you've been very observant of the pictures used in my blog post, you'd see some of my creations. Like these:

Remember this one from Funtime in Singapore?


And that was from the time I went to Kelly Clarkson's concert. Click here to read all about it.

And there were loads more!

This recent number, however, is the first blinged up nail design I've ever created because I'm too cheap to buy the proper nail rhinestone :P

If you're curious, the nail polish I used are from Silkygirl, just to let you know.

But don't forget your base and top coat as well, because its also important to protect your nails from stains.

Plus, the clear coat can also be used as a glue to stick the rhinestones on your nails. And it works!

But one of the things that bugs me about making fabulous nails is that after all that hard work and extra care you do to make it look pretty, you have to take it out by Sunday because you've got school the next day.

*sigh* I can't wait till the year end holiday...

Dillsburg

"After living here for a year now I have to admit, there isn't much interesting to photograph in Dillsburg.

But I'll keep trying.

This building on N second street suddenly caught my eye while we were on our way to the Farmers Fair.

Any info on it is welcome, there days there is a car glass service in there". Taken by Peet64

Quirraing and Staffin Bay

"Another one from this fantastic walk. You can see the rain over the see just above the Staffin Bay. Later that day the rain finally catched us :)". Taken by Maciej

Roma: The Pantheon

Italy. Taken by Flavio

A Youth More Daunting

"Squandered, none the less... Dubai". UAE. Taken by saharsh

No Place

"Homeless men sleeping, Feilongqiao Hutong (within 100 yards of the square holding the Tiananmen Gate to the Forbidden City), Beijing, China". Taken by Ross

Exams Should be Illegal

If there is one wish I could have to make the school a happy place, I'd wish that exams should be banned!

Geez, like what's point of taking exams that won't be useful to us in the future like sejarah or add maths? Sure, you'd be a little smarter, but how often to people apply these knowledge in their daily lives?

No housewife would go "Gee, I wonder whats the volume of a cylinder minus the volume of water if the radius is 7 cm." when they're looking at a recipe. And no teacher would go asking their students to bring 400ml of H2O pressurized at 27p, at the temperature of 25 degrees when they're only asking for tap water!

And what's up with taking written exams for Physical Education? That doesn't even make sense! Physical Education is supposed to be for physical stuff not written stuff. If that's the case, even an obese person can get an A+ for PE.

Like wtf.

And yes, if you're wondering. I am having my final exam. 3 weeks of hell.

If only we had no exam. If only...

Behind the Light

"Old Town Rhodes at night. Greece". Taken by sticksinthemud

Nudibranch

Jaber Reefs, Kuwait. Taken by Mohammad Al-Saleh

Paddy

"Paro is one of the most historic valleys in Bhutan. Both trade goods and invading Tibetans came over the pass at the head of the valley, giving Paro the closest cultural connection with Tibet. paro is also popular for its paddy fields". Taken by Samir D

Bricks

Tunisia. Taken by Maistora

Street Life

Novosibirsk, Russia. Taken by Valery Titievsky

Yaar Hussein and his Son

"Yaar Hussein lives in the slums near my house, he works nearby in a ceramic workshop. Met him this morning just outside our area playing with his son. His mother used to work in our household ones and at that time he was the same size as his son is now. I remember.... Nor Ahmed Road, Chittagong". Bangladesh. Taken by N A Y E E M

Burst

"No Photoshop on this shot, all in-camera... Martine was sitting cross legged on a downed tree in Rocks State Park and I zoomed in during exposure for the effect... It was a lot of fun experimenting to get this!". Taken by estimatd

Pacific Ocean. Taken by Simon Scott

Gypsy Wedding

Women friends and relatives, dancing at a Turkish gypsy wedding, old Ankara, Turkey. Taken by Aine

Accounts Hate Me!!

I tried, and I tried but I CAN'T GET MY ACCOUNTS BALANCED!! AAHHHH!!!!

Its past the deadline for our Accounts project and yet I'm not done yet. Plus, the final exam has already started and I don't have much time to revise because this project is worth 10% of my marks for my SPM exam and I need to get it done!

So many papers and ink wasted and it already cost so much.

And to top it all off, I have pimples. I have those bloody pimples which won't come out and its red!

So right now I'm supposed to be doing my Accounts but I thought I'd let you know that I won't be blogging quite regularly until the exam is over which is 9 November.



Lord give me strength...

Gottcha

Alberta, Canada. Taken by Stella Blu