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dec 2012

Glass Walls and Free Falls

A Couple Leaves their Jobs to Build a House of Windows in the Mountains of West Virginia
found this story online as i was browsing through tumblr and it's probably one of the most perfect places ever. i think it's such a great idea to make something so raw yet so unconventional to capture to full essence of the beauty that surrounds the place... i never knew the west virginia mountains were so breathtaking! and the people who made this... they're so amazing and i'm just gushing on the inside about how original and creative they are - to create something like this and to do what they do in their professions, such interesting individual personalities that gel together so harmoniously.

"so the sunset would never be contained"

do take a look at the above link and the video below. absolutely inspiring!

x

Summer is Over and So Are We // Bali Film Roll 2013

heyooo! it's been ages since my last blog post (which wasn't even half decent, just a random one with my thoughts and confusion) - i'm so sorry, i've been so busy and even now i am, just that i've chosen to write this post instead of doing my holiday homework as a satisfying form of procrastination.

anyway, i thought i would share my promised bali photos as i got them developed a while ago! i'm rather "meh" about the results though, because they were all a little dark. i think it's time i invest in a  more decent film camera or at least a flash, it's quite a pain compromising good photos just because those moments happened to be indoors!

☼ enjoy  ☼

we did lots of really fun stuff (the usual annual things) but what was different this time was my chance to go scuba diving! i was really excited for this - i've never been before, but oh goodness, i got really sea sick and almost vomitted on the way back to shore. one thing that really struck me this trip was the fact that the ocean is just such a large gargantuan mass of water, and it's pretty scary. to be stuck in the waves, or lost in the middle of the sea... that just terrifies me. the waves are so powerful and they really really show just how mighty nature can be. (i really do hope i'm not establishing a kind of ocean phobia for myself right now)

well, hope you enjoyed having a little glimpse of my trip about two months back (boy, time does pass too fast).
also, a great big fat thank you to S. of the blog "as far as the eye can see" for nominating my blog for the liebster award - i am really so honoured! such a lovely surprise to see when i finally logged onto my account after a month of stagnancy. i did a post on this previously, so if you'd like to take a look at that, it's here.

have a great weekend!

(now back to homework)

Film roll: Batam in May

In May, I got to take a boat to Batam in Indonesia for a retreat. It was absolutely beautiful and the ultimate tropical paradise - with good food, company and of course, scenery. 

I finally got round to developing my film (r.i.p. wallet babies) and here they are! 

I was elated when I saw them because this is the first time I've developed my film (after buying my first ever lomographic camera) and it's really surreal to just hold it in your hands.

So, here they are! Hope you enjoy them:

Coconut chopping station

Banana boating on our last day!

I'm currently on my summer holidays right now, and besides stressing out about what I'm doing in my life and how blurry my future looks... I should be blogging a bit more! 

Hope you're all having a wonderful week! It hailed today, which is really rare in my tropical country, so that was pretty exciting! 

Summertime Sadness

Summer's finally here! I don't know why but I don't seem to be as over-the-moon and excited as everyone else but I'm really looking forward to getting away to Bali next Monday! It's been a really busy and tiring term, and I'm just glad that's it's over. This holiday is apparently the last "holiday" we're going to have before the work really sets in (as if it already hasn't), so I'm going to try my best to enjoy it.

Hopefully, this means I can post more, and maybe I'll write a post on Bali, somewhat commemorating one of my first blog posts exactly the same time last year on the same place.

♪ Holiday // Vampire Weekend ♪

Summer is over and so are we

My four-day trip to Hong Kong

Wanderlust

Three weeks ago, I went to Bali for a holiday! We stayed in Ubud, and it was wonderful - the weather, the food, the architecture, the culture, the scenery, everything.

Here are some photos from my trip (quite a lot, so sorry in advance!), enjoy!

Lemon Squash (with crushed ice) on a hot afternoon after trekking to the top of the paddy fields to Sari Organic.

Our lovely villa

Orchids in full bloom

The hotel's main pool

What Bali is notoriously famous for

You practically start living on this in such sunny weather

Ubud is known to be Bali's centre of arts and culture 

A little kitten paid us a visit! 

Relaxing by the poolside

Isn't the hotel so much like a paradise?

The route to our villa

These are actually used to keep cockerels for cock fights. The hotel used them as decoration though!

Sorry for the long overdue blogpost on my trip. Really excited because I'll be flying off the Hong Kong this Friday - hopefully I'll have more photographs to share with you! Hope you enjoyed seeing a glimpse of my trip to Bali :-)
Have a lovely, happy summer!