Thursday, December 27, 2007

Some more Hanoi photos!

Going to church camp from today till Sunday. So I thought maybe I put some of the hanoi photos on the blog before I go! Most of the photos below are taken from our stay in ha long bay. Ha Long Bay is the place where they have 'floaty' rocks in 'space' at night. Try to imagine! Oh, and there is also the oriental-looking table lamp from our chuggy train :)









Monday, December 24, 2007

Good time, great company

Been a good weekend. Did my last minute christmas shopping at SKS bookshop on Saturday before visiting my grandpa in serangoon. He is having difficulty walking up the slope to St Francis Xavier, and I'm thinking of buying him a walking stick. Had youth service in the evening, before watching arsenal-tottenham with the boys at jumbo.

Sunday was spent sleeping late into the morning. Paid my carpark fine and then played settlers at johnson's campus crusade den. Had nice belgium mussels and gelare with sar at night before playing more settlers at shawn's place. Won the battle by snatching huan yang's longest road in typical swashbuckling fashion. Okie, not really that swashbuckling cos I merely took over shawn when he was already leading with 8 points.

Kind of tired now. But maybe I'll wake up early to go somewhere quiet and do some quiet time. It is Christmas eve, and I need to put the festive mood in its proper perspectives.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Two Trees of Puzzling Contradictions

But by making it important and serious, the lightness became forced, laboured and overdone.

"The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Milan Kundera

Friday, December 21, 2007

Colors

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Water.Falls


Monday, December 17, 2007

Hanoi

Back from a week long trip to Hanoi. It has been a good trip, I kind of re-acquainted myself with the therapeutic joy of photography. Last time, I like to take portrait shots of strangers. Hanoi presents a good opportunity to take photos of that genre. But I think I'm a bit bored with that; the formula is pretty straight forward. These days, I prefer to take photos of places without people. Sapa, which is a 9-hour train ride out from Hanoi, presents a good opportunity for that genre. Perhaps it is easier too, cos you don't deal with human subjects, and it removes the ethical problematique of objectifying human beings through photography (Yah right... actually I'm just lazy to whip out the camera in crowdy places). Still, I feel connected to landscapes without humans. Will post more photos over the next few days.

Shall leave you folks with this passage from Graham Greene's Quiet American. I bought it at 3 bucks, it is probably a third or fourth hand book. The front pages are coming off. But it is quite an interesting read; about this fumbling American in war-torn Saigon. My first Greene book actually.

'Why don't you just go away, Pyle, without causing trouble?'
'It wouldn't be fair to her, Thomas,' he said quite seriously.
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. He added, 'I don't think you quite understand Phuong.'

'The Quiet American', Graham Greene.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Me

My friend asked me to do the following personality test. I thought it was pretty accurate! :)

Click 'MBTI' to do the test. Caveat: Takes about 20 minutes to complete!

Enneagram Test Results
Type 1 Perfectionism |||||||||||| 43%
Type 2 Helpfulness |||||||||||||||| 63%
Type 3 Image Awareness |||||||||||||| 53%
Type 4 Sensitivity |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Type 5 Detachment |||||||||||||| 56%
Type 6 Anxiety |||||||||||||||| 66%
Type 7 Adventurousness |||||||||||||||| 70%
Type 8 Aggressiveness |||||||||| 40%
Type 9 Calmness |||||||||| 40%
Your main type is 4
Your variant is self pres
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INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.
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