★Mr. Fotocology™★ - My world is black and white. On good days, you get sepia.

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Bird Bees Basics and Beard.^™







"Actually don't ask me why the journal is titled this way. Just kinda feel like it. Scattered pictures."


Guess who is not a fan of shaving this week? Trying to recover from a persistent shave rash that was borderline irritable.
I don't usually like to leave maself unshaven, having preferred to have a clean shave to start off a brand new day.
But I am determined to get the rash out of the way once and for all.
So I guess, the shaving gel and Gillette will have to wait up for a couple of days more.

I don't really know why I titled this entry Just feel like. Well, in some ways, they are kinda interconnected with my thoughts.
But right now, they still seem like a scattered picture of what is really going on in that head of mine.
I guess bird and bees, because I have been feeling good spirited the last week.
Having done more, having rested well and also putting things into more acute and focused perspective.

Basics and beard, oh well, I dunno. I just had a great thought that day.
That, many many things should be seen in a much simpler light.
Problems should be solved using the simplest solutions at times. And conversations should be basic and direct.
Alot of complications arise when Man makes things murky.
Beard, oh beard, no, I don't intend to grow one. I did have one in one of my dreams last night though.
Strange, but I must have brought my daily visual memory into my subconsciousness.
Even my dreams update the way I currently look!

I have been running and exercising. It has been 6 days in a row where I jogged 5 km or more.
Been taking it seriously because reservist is round the corner and I want to clear the IPPT with ease.
Running requires discipline and I realise after a few days, I feel uneasy when i don't run.
Some people get high from drugs, alcohol, glue, trance music, sugar, getting exams results...
I get high from hearing the right music at the right time during my run.

Lately, it has been beautiful, my runs.
I speed towards the jetty, with the song of the moment shuffled on my iPod Nano.
As I dash, I look up at the leftover stars from the yesterday of night, before dawn cracks.
I could feel like the ebony sky was almost tearing up, bleeding vanilla pink as I ran towards the sea.
A certain kind of euphoria engulfs me. Which I relish a great deal.
So, to hell with those aching leg muscles.

Grew up in a town that is famous as a place of movie scenes. Noise is always loud there are sirenes all around and the streets are mean.
If I could make it here, I could make it anywhere that’s what they say. Seeing my face in lights, or my name in marquees found down on broadway

Even if it ain’t all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams baby, I’m from New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
There’s nothing you can’t do, now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you.
Hear it for New York, New York, New York

On the avenue, there ain’t never a curfew, ladies work so hard. Such a melting pot on the corner selling rock, preachers pray to God.
Hail a gypsy cab, takes me down from Harlem to the Brooklyn Bridge. Someone sleeps tonight with a hunger for more than from an empty fridge

I’m going to make it by any means, I got a pocketful of dreams baby, I’m from New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
There’s nothing you can’t do, now you’re in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you.
Hear it for New York, New York, New York

One hand in the air for the big city, street lights, big dreams, all looking pretty, no place in the world that can compared,
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah, yeah yeah.

New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there’s nothing you can’t do, now you’re in New York.
These streets will make you feel brand new, big lights will inspire you, hear it for New York.

 
 
 
 
 
  
 
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When two is enough.^™







"Love, and finding the one you love...is like finding the antidote to greed of this world."


Is it not, a great thing to be able to find someone that your heart belongs to?
To be able to just stand there, almost like at the centre of the universe and just look into each other's eyes.
For that moment, there was just the two of them. No one else mattered.
They ruled the world, and the universe belonged to them.
Everything was within reach and everything was just tiny in their palms.
All powered by this very thing called Love.

I do, miss this strange and yet powerful feeling.
But alas, I know, such a thing, or especially this thing, called Love, cannot be rushed.

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Good morning 2010.^™







The new year came a day earlier for me, beause I decided so.
Simply because I find myself preparing for it just a day before it arrives.
You know, how actually, when you are having an exam, it kind of really starts when you start preparing for it, not on the day of it.
The process to which we prepare ourselves for something, is already the test itself, or the beginning of the test of the challenge.
Besides, I think I will be too busy getting sloshed on the 31st night to want to get into the mood of reflecting and retrospection.

A couple of things ended in pretty good timing for me just before the year closes.
For example, I had a fruitful experience photographing for one of the leading cafes in Singapore, which the project ended this week.
After a long 2 to 3 months of work. A total of 4627 photographs!
For which I thought a picture of this soup which I took, really symbolizes what I want for the new year.
Nothing like a fresh morning soup, that's how a new year should taste like. Fresh and tangy and cheerful.

I don't really have much thoughts about how this year had been for me.
Generally, started well, but kind of weary towards the end, with some problems along the way.
Dating was, well, plentiful, all but to no avail. I think I was put through a series of tests this year with that.
Oh well, the heart is still pumping. Not quite dead yet.

Made some great friendships this year and met quite a few interesting people along the course of work and social engagements.
As always, am also grateful for my old friends whom I think our friendship really is like a pillar of support.
Workwise, I think I have come far given what I started over the last few years. Maybe I need to work harder.
Health wise, yeah I should seriously give myself a spank on the butt. Better start sleeping, eating and exercising healthily.

I think it's best I end here.
I just want to say Happy New Year to all out there and to myself.
May the coming year be a turn for me, because I need it and I want it.
In the meantime, I thank those guardian angels around me, above me that has been watching over me and taking care of me in their own way.