Monday, August 15, 2005

hong kong and london.

Are you guys tired of photos yet? If you are, too bad, for here are more photos - Hong Kong!

My dad dragged me to see the 23m tall Buddha statue at some monastery, where I was eaten alive by the vengeful mosquitoes. Coincidentally, I only got bitten after I kept complaining very loudly about the cloying incense smoke all around me. Well now, I never knew mosquitoes were loyal creatures: you learn new things everyday. Oh, and I'm sure you can see the pic of the disgusting toilet taken at the temple. That was taken for posterity and to remind myself not to take Singapore's clean toilets for granted.

Down the Avenue of Stars, and that's Tony Leung's handprints! -squeals- I loooveee him, that brilliant brilliant actor. Hated Ocean Park, it had too many screaming yelling noisy rude brats, which only served to reinforce my belief that: children should neither be seen nor heard.

And now for the London shots:

Apart from the last two at Traflagar Square, all these shots were taken at Hyde Park and Buckingham Palace. We had true-blue London/British weather, where you get occasional teasing glimpses of the sunlight and rolling grey clouds.

Caught in the act of climbing over! Okay okay, end of slideshow. I'm glad I took all these photos, as pointless as some of it may have had been. (Jo/Jing/Vincent, do you rem I kept taking photos of those stupid geese in a church at Mallorca?? Sheeshhh) While people and memories are susceptible to change, pictures don't - they can't lie and tell you what you want to hear, or don't want to hear. All I know is one day, these concrete memories of mine will remind me of what I had forgotten, what I had been, and what I have become.

Yes yes, I probably sound quite cryptic, but just bear with me for now. I promise - just a while. In any case, there's nothing like a good night out at Zouk with best pals like Jo and Jing to brighten up my day! (Jess, you'll be missed!)

At the risk of sounding like a ditz: Mambo, here we come!

blueprint

I will like to spend my days, as though they are my own, which I mostly end up doing in halves, for duty beckons, and I am answering its clarion call. Soon enough! I am also a veteran procrastinator.

fresh monodies

prague and berlin photos!
home sweet home.
feeling peaky.
I'm a graduate!
london, here i come!
I'VE GOT THE POTTER BOOK
rain, rain, go away.
this is it.
mackie's here to stay.
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treatises on life

arty jen
betty boop
carmentica
charming-linn
chasing snowy cars
cheeky lynn
cheryliciously glam
clean and cute
cyclist-mad bass
darling dominic
feisty jing
fellow ditz-sista/porkSTAR
hail mary!
hell's kitchen
hero on the beach
h-Euge heart
hunky lenny
lipgloss queen
little cheryl
live n learn, baby
lolita lou
loony loon
mr popular
musically dan
m y s t j
phringe
princess tania
roger smurf
runaway pigeon
sabotage king jeremiah
sibling angst1
sibling angst2
spector dan
spunky tian
steffy bunny
sun-sunzzz
teeny wee-nee
weeeee, leonard!
yangtze yang'en

frivolous pursuits

for shallow ppl
for very geeky ppl
for the truly bored
spun prose
binary thoughts
past imprints
some stamps
montage of images
other memories

mulling over

And there were phlegmatic souls.