好久没在Blog上写中文篇了。
我觉得有时候，某些事用华语表达还是比较贴切。比如说-‘无奈’ 和 ‘写意’。
也可能是因为我的语言能力太差劲了吧。
妈妈送了一套可爱沐浴盒给我。打开来里头包装着一包包小香皂和沐浴盐，还有两瓶闻起来像葡萄柚 (grapefruit)的沐浴乳。Ka-wai neh~
一直以来我都把盒子放在房间内。。
妈妈: 为什么不用?
Cudas: 不舍得。
妈妈: 肥皂不用就不是肥皂。(好哲学噢)
Cudas: 我看着它，肥皂还是肥皂。(狡辩)
其实，拿来用就是肥皂，拿来看就是我的幻想工具。幻想无限的美好。。
The best thing to wake up to in the morning is when you realised its raining outside and you don’t have to get up for work.
Last night’s exhibition opening was more like a touch & go event. The kind where I saw alot of familier faces, but just didn’t feel the connection.. You’re happy but you’re not that happy. You’re depressed (strangely) but nothing tragic happened. Went home deep in thoughts.
Spent today’s afternoon snuggled up in my ice cave. Daylight falls in through the misty condensed windows. I lazed about, catched up on CSI episodes while eating a bowl of steaming hot udon and then played ‘Havest Moon’ with my PSP under the blankets.
Sometimes, it’s just nice to be alone.
I was bored. So I made my first-ever animated picture.
It’s a story about this city girl who got lost and have to find her way in the world. Quite moving.
Bring out the popcorns! Make sure you switched off your handphones and went to the washroom before viewing this. It’s going to take awhile…
*clap clap*
Well, on other taiwan flashbacks, here’s one about me.
I wore nerd glasses for this trip.
And to complete that geek look.. the perfect pose
I just did house chores wearing a pair of disposable latex gloves that I bought from Guardian. They’re my size (small) therefore they’re cute.
And it’s fun too. I feel like a cross between a housekeeper and a detective.
Oh, the forensic science of washing the ‘evidences’ off the dishes~
My hard disk ran low on memory space while I was catching up on “Sex in the City” online. So, in-between waiting for the many episodes to load, I did some ‘memory’ cleaning.
Not those in the lomography folder, mind you, I’d rather not delete lomo films that celebrate the blurriness and the weird colours. Instead, I headed for my Diving folder. With each jpeg file occupying a hefty average of 2MB (unprocessed), the job was to determine which was good to keep and which was below sea level (pardon the puns).
With a housed digital camera underwater, it is all too easy for One to get carried away. You get to see so many amazing creatures and sceneries down there that a thousand pictures could jolly well not be enough. However, this also translates into the painful amount of post-processing after a good dive trip. Choosing and editing a perfect picture of a Pygmy Seahorse out of thirty similar poses and repeating that process for about seventy times is hardly the thing One would choose to do when catching up on work. But it was still worth it when you hear the ‘woos’ and the ‘ahhs’ from your non-diving friends and family.
After six seasons of S.I.T.C and trying to clear my diving pictures, I realized two things.
#1: Apart from deleting the repeated, blur and odd pics, I still can’t stop myself from keeping quite abit of them. That’s because even though some of them are out of focus, badly lighted (sponsor for strobes anyone?) or just didn’t make its way into the limelight, they serve as a small reminder of the great dives I’ve had. I’ve been there, and I’ve saw that.
#2: After ten months of dry spell, which was waay too long, I’m missing diving so much that I’m willing to brave the unearthly early mornings, the seasickness and the tighty wetsuit ‘dance’ and can’t wait to have heaps of pictures to process all over again… Think it’s time for a new trip and a new hard disk.
A tribute to the ones that didn’t quite make it:
I am no ‘animal lover’, but I think there must be some cardinal rules written somewhere about being the one responsible after making that commitment to have a pet(s).
It’s perfectly understandable why people keep pets in the first place. One gets a perfect companion while the other gets taken care of and live an enriching life. Great trade-off right?
Well, if all is perfect then I wouldn’t be ranting in this blog entry. =)
Here are some points I’ve slowly conceived after mopping one floor too many times, having one patch too many shedding, seeds & feathers everywhere and picking one too many ticks off the dogs (all singularly capable of driving any clean freak to insanity, and I haven’t even mention p.o.o.p)…
How to have a pet:
Clean up after all its mess.
How not to have a pet:
Let others do the job. They will do it. It’s called survival instinct.
How to have a pet:
Spend available (i.e. non-working) time tending to its needs, whether it’s hygene, training or ailments.
How not to have a pet:
N.A.H - Not at home. Not available haha.
How to have a pet:
Prevention.
How not to have a pet:
Cure.
1.) If you can’t, then don’t. I didn’t sign up for the package either.
2.) Teddy bears are also cute and cuddly.
While walking home one evening, I lifted my head & stared at the blue sky.
The clouds looked like the sweeping of waves,
churning and frothing across the ocean.
I suddenly imagined I’m immersed in a big fishtank world.
Only problem was I couldn’t glide away..
“Take out a big bowl.
Open a packet of peanuts and pour it in.
Open a packet of pistachios and empty it as well.
Don’t forget the cashews, the hazelnuts and the almonds!
Add in a long spoon.
There. Mixed nuts anyone?”
Jiu Fen (九份), a former mining town that have now became a tourist attraction with its tightly packed houses and its vibrant streets carved out in the mountains overlooking the scenic Ocean.
Lining its front, on the steep streets and staircases, are the wide assortment of teahouses, souvenir shops and snack-stalls selling from cute handicrafts to riceballs, mochi, ice dessert, fried fisheggs balls, grilled topshells.
*Mouth watering..*
With shopping done and tummies filled, we walked further down to the fringe part of the town which hides the quieter shops, the private inns and homes.
Saw houses with black roofs made of tar and walls with plants growing on it.
Saw staircases with stories to tell.
Qing Tong (青铜) and Shi Fen (十份).
These are the two train station, along the Ping Xi Railway Route (平溪火车线), that we managed to stopover before dark. What interested me most was the train tracks that were so close to the shophouses.
At some parts where the railroad cut through the middle of the small town, the tracks are practically extended walkways beside the shops. People crosses it and children play on it, the walkways bustled with activities. And then when a train approaches the entrance, alarm bells will go ringing and everyone will have to get off the tracks and make way. Choo Choo..
All in all, it was a fun trip~! Short and sweet.
I didn’t shoot as much good pictures as I would like but it serves as a reminder for me to improve.. Anyway, do see the rest of the digital pictures in my flickr under ‘Sets’. or just click Here.
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