Good for the Japanese economy.
Diaphanous
di⋅aph⋅a⋅nous –adjective
1. very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent. 2. delicately hazy.
My First Loaf
I kneaded this :D
It was a surprisingly enjoyable experience. Like those stress balls you squash in your fists. Only this one can be eaten afterwards. Note to self:
- more salt
- dont beat it to a pulp during the second proofing
- let it rise somewhere not so dry
I *heart* Lattes
Scrambled eggs on toast, sautéed mushrooms and a freshly brewed coffee. Perfection!
Whine and Dessert
They always seem to come together.
I swear this dog has his nose perpetually tuned in to vanilla and cream. He appears as magic soon as you crack open a box. And he knows who to go to. He's only looking at me because I waggled the confectionery at him. Otherwise he goes to his mummy.
New Room, New Roomate
In the background, blurredly, is the true occupant of this room. Who doesn't want to sleep there. Everyone else has slept on her bed but her. Strange child. Well we don't mind cos is a nice chill out place. One cannot chill out in a place with the sleeping teen around. One has to whisper. Who ever heard of whispery chillout sessions?
T and Friends
My first and most fond anime.
I most love the scene where the girls see the Totoros dance at night, to encourage the seedlings to grow and they sprout out of the ground into the biggest shitass tree you ever seen. Then they fly up and have a mini jam session on the summit.
Street Kids
The Limpet and Pimplet.
Taken with my first Holga 135 which has now gone to the Pimplet. Who can never get it focussed, sad case. I have too many toy cameras around. Am sticking with the Lomos.
Gun Fight at Coral Corral
Reach for the sky you side winder.
Side winder is a snake in case you haven't guessed. No snakes in the pic. She's clambering up a coral mountain. Apparently the area we were in used to be part of the ocean so there's a lot of coral bits left and there was a coral quarry making something or other. Its now been converted into a massive BBQ and recreational park with water slides and such.
Frish Magnets
This is the end... of a beautiful magnet.
This picture was taken with my Minimo, pressed against the door of a fridge with the magnets nearby so the surface is actually vertical.
Random Shoe
Can't get more random than this. Every time I walk by it I go hmmm...
Yeah the shoe actually belongs to a Harry Potter doll. If you look closely inside you'll see STANDARD WIZARD ISSUE. I still don't know why its on the NDS. Kids since antiquity have left their toys randomly everywhere. I bet its let to a few wrongful archaeological conclusions as well.
More Buttons
I need a haircut badly!
Uhmmm...
Sometimes the dog just sits there and looks blankly at a spot that has absolutely nothing to look at and we wonder what's up with him. While we're on his oddities he also digs at ceramic tiles, howls when the ball is squeaked in his face and chews wood like a termite.
Lotussessesses
Lotus pond in Langkawi.
Its a beautiful composition but that's the thing with lotus plants. Upstairs its all exotic Asian zen but underneath its muddy, smelly water nobody in their right mind will wade in to get to the flower. Maybe that's the point.
Pictures from Recent Brisbane Trip
A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do...
There's this park on the way to Garden City Westfield in Mount Gravatt and everytime on the drive home, she wants to visit. And swing on the swings, twirl around the stationary twirly thing. Brings to mind the lyrics that say no matter what the age, we're all little girls inside.
View from Celia's garage.
Far left is the house of the little white dog who's not allowed out. The story goes like this. On our first two visits, there was a little white dog, maybe a terrier of some sort that was in and out of the house doing his own doggy thing. And in the afternoons he'd sit and wait for his young humans to come home from school. But this time round the dog was nowhere to be seen. We thought he'd been stolen or run over. So one evening I plucked up the courage to ask the owner what had happened to him and she bellowed, "He's not allowed out!" Must have done something naughty that wee doggy. Its the prerogative of wee doggies to do naughty things :)
Pink trees are sublimely pretty!
I wanted to sit under that tree but there was already a family there and the little kids were playing with the pink flowers. The odd thing was when I tried to find the pink tree on Google Earth later I couldn't spot it anywhere. Satellite pic must have been taken in the wrong season.
Only indication its winter. The temperature was 31C!
I felt totally robbed of a winter. Flew off to Brisbane in August expecting at least a few chilly nights and mild days but no... what did we get? Several days in the high 20's and a couple in the low 30's. Bah humbug!
Septuagenarians Scrutinising Slicing of Steamed Seafood Supper
Old folk can be so focused sometimes.
Hitchhiker
Cicak: You goin my way bud?
Me: Yeah you can come with me, but reptiles gotta ride on the outside.
Cicak: Sukz man! Hope it doesn't rain. Watch those wipers man!
Me: Yeah you can come with me, but reptiles gotta ride on the outside.
Cicak: Sukz man! Hope it doesn't rain. Watch those wipers man!
