Routine is Bad

Was in Sekinchan with doc KC few weeks back...
Weather was not good... No blue skies, and no rain though...

Gonna plan again during the harvesting season...

When we talk about Sekinchan, we think about the scenery of paddy field and fisherman village......
When I talk about Sekinchan, I think about the people living in around...






Some people might be bugging about always doing the routine job...
Routine or not, I guess it doesn't make a difference sometimes...

If you have the options... Will you choose the new job, new lifestyle or new living experience...

Huffing and Puffing

Going anywhere?

Everyone wanted to reach the vertex... badly desired...
Getting up... huffing and puffing to reach the peak and forget the view on the way up.

Without knowing how high they wanted to go...
Some lost their route, some overshoot, some never learn the truth...



We ain't going anywhere after all... If you understand what I mean...
It's like a pure poor busyman looking for an escape in a bustling clan...

Something

Hmmmm...
At least it is something...

Hmmmm...
But I feel nothing...
As I am no one...

Hope it sells good~ I need a motivating bonus...


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Project 135: Cousin Sis' ROM (09)

It was the first time I took ROM.
But found it nothing much different compared to normal wedding ceremony.
Though, much simpler and easier, as it is quite short overall...
Nothing much to take...
What worries me is the tight time frame for one to compose and shoot...


Best wishes to EW & Mayzzz...

Standing Threshold

People said it takes courage to change...
Flying away from one spot to another...
In searching for the next pole to pause...

Where is the next pole? Where is the other stand?
Perhaps I had been worrying about it too much...


I seldom shoot birds... And when I do, they ain't flying for sure...

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Worn

Future?
Tomorrow is in future...
I am waiting for it...
Wide awake now...
Worn away then...

Future is in the day after tomorrow...
Which never wait for anyone...
Leave what I could...
Leave what I should...

Else

I think so...

I need to do something else, somewhere else, somehow...

Burn the comfort zone and walk forward unknown future...

Still... I need a little bit of luck and chance...



Let's see how it goes...

Nine Emperor Gods' Opera Backstage 2009

Faith...
Sometimes it is innocent and sometimes it is absurd...

Somehow it is measured individually and independently on how worth-worship it is...

It is again the celebration of the Nine Emperor Gods (九皇爺)...
Yet, I am still having more interested on the classic Chinese opera backstage prep in a temple called Nan Tien Kong (南天宮) located at Kampung Baru Ampang.

I was there last year when I took a photo and had it hang over a small & forgettable exhibition.
Most performers are some familiar old faces as the previous year...
Perhaps it is an extincting culture without anyone to inherit it...

Instead of B&W, I would just slightly desaturated them...

































Life is tough for everyone...
We shall seek our own way to carry on...

Sawatdee: Ayutthaya

Ayutthaya is some place one shouldn't missed when visiting Thailand...

It's about 80km north from the main city...
A place you get the see magnificent view at a budget price...

My total spending was less than 300baht... and in return of priceless experience...

It was, however, a very bright and hot day...
Not so nice for photo taking without a fill flash...

Little monks visiting the Wat Ratchaburana...


Steep stairs inside Wat Ratchaburana to reach the top...


Buddha's statue head "strangled" with a tree in Wat Mahathat...


Beheaded and hand cut-ed statue in Wat Mahathat...


Wat Phra Si Sanphet...


Wonder how was it look like before the war... Something like those in Grand Palace in Bangkok?


A Siam boy waiting for the train arrival beside the rail tracks...

Gonna get back here some day...

Sawatdee: Route to Ayutthaya

There are many methods to go from Bangkok to Ayutthaya...

Bus, van, cab, boat, or railway...

I chose one of the cheapest route via taking a Class 3 train in HuaLumPhong station, which cost me 15baht + 20baht for 2 ways...


A boy on the next rail track carriage, waiting for train departure, curiously looking at me with my brick lens... He was heading to the south and I am heading north... What a coincident...

Travel info in Ayutthaya update later...

Sawatdee: Grand Palace & Wat Arun

This post is about Wat(s) in Bangkok...

Nothing much to talk about...

Just wanna share some photos...


A lot such decoration on the walls. There are simply amazing art work...
Too bad I can't understand the story-lines...


The hot tourist spot is very crowded. I need the spot of the flying bird.


Guardian of Phra Mondop...


Phra Siratana Chedi... A golden stupa held on the guardians of Garuda and Nagas...


A Kinnari statue... Depicted as half-bird, half-woman creatures... Weird but nice...


The Royal Pantheon if I am not wrong...


A angel-like stone statue sits between The Royal Pantheon and Phra Mondop...
The "plain-ness" makes it stand out...


Phra Mondop... with a guardian in golden...


A temple across the Chao Praya River -- Wat Arun...

Add more later...

Sawatdee

Why I love traveling is because...
I love to observe...

From my side of norm world and living, observe the other side of norm world and living... which makes it special...

We're always busy trying to escape from our own life, thinking that...
life is too dull;
work is too slack;
brain is too sluggish;
senses are numbed.
We tried to convince ourselves to do something different...
And yet we manipulate others to suits our way...

So once a while, I need to go somewhere which I would be lost in translation...
Then
Back to the simple and crude...
Even headed without a direction...
It doesn't matters...
Perhaps this is how it works... for me at least...
Simplicity is the key...


Hip shooting... Sometimes we do not really need LCD or Viewfinder...

Ended my 5D4N trip in Bangkok.
Photos other day... Back to work later...

สวัสดีครับ~

Hidden Harden

Hard time...
Hard earned money...
Hard way to spend it...
Hard to tell...

I am a jerk hard-guy to lived with.
In fact it is pretty much easier to ignore my present...
Make me undetected, and invisible under the iron curtain.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise, and glitch...

Hard to be good...
Hard to be firm...
Hard to be nice...


A shot via aperture f/1.9...

What the heck...
What I did?

I Am Free

Photo editing done.

I am a free man, again.

Wedding: Kelly & CK

Another wedding task today...

The shooting is done... but the post-process... still nil...
This will probably glue my arse in front of the laptop for some time in order to process them...

Duh... This is why I not favor to take wedding...



Anyway... best wishes to the new couple...