Kitties!

Last weekend I had visited somewhere pretty special. I was bored and I decided to search online about something interesting places to visit. I had something in mind that time, it was the cafe where they have cats roaming around.

I knew something like that existed here in Korea, but to my surprise, they have one of those kitty cafes in my area of Bucheon! Without hesitation I went to visit that place with my trusty old camera, and took a bunch of photos of the playful kitties over there. Here are some of the best which I like!  Enjoy!

Pearly white kitty!

What did I do?

Bossy kitty who hates interaction with people

Interested on something

Can I go out?

Angel above!

Emo kitty... awww...

Don't disturb my nap time!

Photogenic kitty!

If kitties could fish

Puma kitty!

Still cute as ever!

I want some more treats!

Having fun under the summer sun

Innocent and pure fun under the summer sun

Looking back, I was surprised since I didn’t write anything during the month of July. I’m not sure why, but for sure many things happen in the 7th month of this meaningful 2011.

First of all, was the 9th of July street rally dubbed as “Bersih”, which is the word CLEAN in the Malay language – a rally done by peaceful Malaysians asking for fair and equal election. That rally happened in the streets of Kuala Lumpur, and I believe those who follow global news would know about it. That time, I heard a small rally would be held in Seoul too. So I brought along my camera with some excitement thinking I would be able to expect some crowd in Guang Hwa Mun, the place where some Malaysians in Seoul would gather. I think I was a tad too late, well 30 minutes late and I didn’t see anyone there at all. Instead, I had a great time shooting some interesting photos in one of the must-visit tourist attraction spot in S. Korea.

Above is one of the best that I got, at least for me. I love how I was able to capture the atmosphere, the innocent laughter of this little girl playing in the water fountain in front of the King Sejong statue right in the middle of Guang Hwa Mun. It reminds me of the time when we were young, when everything was so simple, and all we want was pure and naive fun.

In the midst of busy work schedule and less interesting day-to-day life, to my surprise I was invited to a dinner session with the King and Queen of Malaysia, who came to S. Korea for a short 3-day visiting trip! Actually, I had to put up my name to the embassy, and only 100 or so Malaysians, whom were mostly students were selected for that dinner. It was one heck of an experience for me; having the chance to enjoy French cuisine in a 5-star hotel in Gwang Hwa Mun (again), and meeting, and greeting His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen of Malaysia weren’t something simple words can describe.

Sunny summer days doesn’t last too long in the month of July. Heavy downpour for a whole week had made Seoul into a sea of nightmare. Landslides, people killed and missing, houses destroyed and sunken cars littered the city streets. It was horrible, and there’s yet reports of more rainfall beginning next week.

Well, one thing good for me is, my holiday officially starts today, and I will be going back to my dear hometown on this Sunday for a short one week vacation! How should I spend the next 7 days? I hope I can make them as meaningful as ever!

Life is full with so much ups and downs that to be honest, I do not know what to expect next.

I wish I can find back the way to enjoy “fun”, just like that kid…

Last one before spring cleaning

Walking through

It’s the time of the year again! And I mean the annual cleaning of my pc….

Well, I skipped doing this tedious process for the last 2 years, and my precious laptop is really really slow right now.

So right before I clean this up with a full clean format, I will like to do one more post.

I actually took this photo quite some time ago. Just want to share it out right now.

And here’s another interesting one. Enjoy your day!

Peculiar...

I can’t see clearly even though it’s clear…

It's clear

Many things had happened since the last few hours…

My crush had left the company…

Another long time crush suddenly messaged me on Facebook chat.

An old friend will be visiting Seoul.

And yet, I’m still here, standing still doing nothing.

Am I doing everything accordingly? Am I going to get lucky?

Someone told me, I cannot consider myself lucky, but instead being fortunate….

and now I know the difference. Do you know the difference?

I wish to be fortunate once again. Wish me luck!

When you don’t know where to go

Aimless and chained

Have you ever felt like you are wondering around, without knowing the real purpose of existing and what you really wanted the most?

This reminds me the life of being a pet. The sole existance of the pet dog for instance, is to follow its master everywhere they go, and listen to their commands. What if when the master suddenly stops giving orders, chained it, and leave the dog somewhere by itself? How would the dog feel? Who would you feel when you are in that situation?

Suddenly you lose aim of what you are trying so hard to achieve for, the feeling of anxiety, fear; looking for something or someone that we can count on, but couldn’t find them anywhere.

All the dog can do is, whine and howl, wishing its master will return.

What will you do?

Spring is here, and I see the lesser me out there

The feeling of being alive!

Spring is here~ Another year has passed…

Spring is the season of life, where everything comes back to life from the cold harsh winter. Life never seems to lose against the winter, but I myself is slipping away day by day, even when spring is here…

I decided to took some time last Saturday to visit a park near by my area to take some photos of the blooming cherry blossoms. But to my dismay, most of the flowers were still budding, so it wasn’t the full glorious moment that I longed for.

Looking back at all the photos taken, I see the lesser self in me. After some post processing, it seems that I had portrayed myself as one who longed for hope, showing the pessimist inside of me.

The photo of blooming cherry blossoms was the only consolation that I got. Suddenly I feel, maybe patience could bring me somewhere I wanted to go.

Never give up

Time is priceless, unless you have given up everything. But it could feel forever when you are waiting for something or someone. Can time make up for what we missed?

Beating the odds and shine as bright as gold

Someday, we will find what we want. Someday.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival~

Fun and excitement that was long forgotten

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to all!

I guess most of you know that September is the month of harvest, right? For the Chinese, Koreans, and the Japanese, they celebrate some sort of a harvest festival on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, which is on 22nd of September this year.

From what I know, Chinese’s celebration is more towards of a “moon worshiping” rather than focusing on harvesting. The name Mid-Autumn Festival is actually the direct translation of “中秋节” (pronouce as zhong qiu jie), which means, well… Mid-Autumn Festival! When I was young, we used to eat mooncakes and drink Chinese tea at night during this time of the month, and lit up small little lanterns and hanging them around the front yard of the house while enjoying the beautiful sights of a full moon. So this explains why some people might refer this festival as “Mooncake Festival” or “Lantern Festival” back in Malaysia. Sometimes the older generations might even tell a story of Chang-er and the jade rabbit, a moon deity of the Chinese. It was more fun than tradition that time.

But now I’m in the land of Kimchi, where everything is “slightly” different. They call this festival as Chuseok, or some would tell you as the Korean version of “Thanks giving day”.  Over here they do things differently, mostly by paying their respect to the elders at home or to those who had passed away. So most Koreans will travel back to their hometown and prepare lots of traditional foods, such as songpyeon and hangua(the confectionery with the chestnut behind in the photo on top) as offerings. And also, they would bring gifts to their family and relatives too. So you can see, it’s more of a thanks giving day in a different sense. It’s a 3 day public holiday in S. Korea, so it’s a good thing for me, since it’s not a public holiday in Malaysia, even though we Chinese in Malaysia celebrate it.

Anyways, I had plenty of free time for this week, and it has been raining since yesterday night, I figure that I should spend some time to whip up something like this just for the fun.

Hope you guys enjoy this short writing, and Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to you all!

What’s your purpose?

Money, the path of life

Here’s something interesting that got me thinking suddenly while having Eminem’s “Space bound” playing at the background…

Today during work, my supervisor suddenly out of no where, asked me a question in English, which went something like this : What is the purpose of your life? Wow, that was a pretty deep question to answer while you are busy dealing with work at hand…

Well, at that moment, I couldn’t really give a satisfying answer at all. But from time to time, I have been reminding myself that my current purpose right now is to make people around me, especially my family happy no matter what. I don’t think I had achieved much, since my choice of working over here is one of the things opposed by my parents in the first place…

But come to think of it, when you embark into the working stage of life, everything is about money. This world couldn’t go around without money. Yes it’s true that money cannot buy you love or happiness, but without money, you won’t gain love and happiness either. I found out that it is just as mind boggling as the saying of “The way to have joy is to share it with others”; how can anyone share any joy when he or she doesn’t even have any joy in the first place?

So it seems that money has become the main motivation of my life, and soon it will become the purpose of my life. You can’t start a family without money; you can’t sustain a living in society without money; hell you can do nothing if you don’t have the money. Everyone judges people by how much they earn, by how big their houses are,  by how big the cars they drive. That’s the least worrying stuff for me. Sometimes I do envy the rich, but I would be satisfied with a moderate salary that can keep me going on comfortably.

*Sigh* What am I planning to do for the coming future? To tell you the truth, I have no idea what the future holds. Until now, my life turns out to be a series of unplanned events; seems to be a chain of events happening one at a time without me making any big plans ahead. Things come and go, and I just grab onto them by chance I suppose.

Well, now all I know is, I don’t want to return to the so called “normal life” everyone’s having. I want to at least lead a life which is slightly special then others. I guess that’s why I chose to stay instead of going back. Who knows where this will lead me to in the future…

Anyways, looking back at the photo on top, it’s something pretty amusing to me actually. I don’t know the actual name of the plant, but it’s known as life plant in some places. The tiny cute thingies on the leaf are actually the young of the plant, and in some coincidence, look like the sycees or better known as “元宝” in Chinese, the shape of gold ingot in the early days in China. Those tiny plants form a path at the edge of the leaf, and it seems to me that it is trying to say, “money is the path to life”. Is it me over-thinking, or is this plant trying to teach me about life?

All in all, the purpose of life is clear. I am not the kind of person who is going to do something to change the world, I am just some insignificant nobody who’s trying to work his ass off to achieve something abysmal in life.

I hope my life soon brings me another good turning.

Drowning, deeply…

"I wanna forget everything about her..."

Let’s get drunk and forget about everything.

Love is a funny thing.

Suddenly, you are deeply in love with someone that’s not significant at all, someone in plain sight that you meet and greet everyday.

She could be nobody until someday, when you started to realize that  you are deeply attracted to her. There are no particular reasons, but your love for her grows by the minute with every look on her.

Sometimes when you glance at her, chances are, she’s looking at you at the same time. When both of you crossed sights, hearts started to race for that particular few seconds, as if time have just frozen up for that very moment… That amazing few seconds of time, is all you need to make your whole day feel energetic again. Sometimes you wonder whether she thinks the same as what you think when you both are looking at each other…

If you could, you would want to tell her how amazing she looks like everyday; how bright her eyes are, how lovely she is when she pull her hair back, how much you want to kiss her gorgeous lips…

You try to be honest with her, telling her the truth that you liked her, and told her that you want to spend more time together. But without any good reasons, she rejects your offer. That’s the part where everything starts crumbling down. That’s how cruel she could be; not even giving you the chance to take the very first step…

What would you do next? Would you keep your hopes high and continue to tell her how much you love her, tell her how amazing she is to you? Or would you just give up all hope, sitting at the corner quietly glancing at her from time to  time, feeling the world is coming down on you?

For me, I would want to get drunk for a moment, and not think about her anymore. But the torturing truth is, you are going to see her again the next day. You cannot run away from the fact you still love her so ever deeply, and the fact that she will never look at you the same after knowing that you like her.

That’s how funny love is to me.

Sick cycle carousel

Should be fun...

A night shot, that reminds me of a song…

A song from Lifehouse, called “Sick cycle carousel”.

No particular reasons, but I just kinda have the same feeling in this song at this moment…