Buddha bless me ar!
Originally uploaded by Minas Morgul.

Ever since I came back from Kinabalu, I had not been running well, which is strange as I had came back from altitude, and by rights, I should have more oxygen carrying red blood cells in the body and I should run faster? Heck, reality always opposes me and now, I am just glad that I meet my usual Bukit Batok regime timings. Guess I need some divine intervention!

Alright, so it's the holidays and I had been reading my papers more conscientiously and thoroughly. Some news that struck me, and left a rather deep impression in me.

1. Death of the upcoming, promising RJC triathlete.
He looks like a eat potato, but that is not the issue. I guess pain is always good, but the main problem is knowing the threshold which the body can take. It is like climbing. The summit is near but you cannot feel your extremities. Would you spend another hour exposing yourself in the wind just to meet the objective and risk losing all the fingers and toes and be labelled a freak when you come down? Not worth it. All sports pushes the athletes to their limits. But, just remember, everyone has that limit that he or she cannot cross. I recommend watching Claymore, a japanese anime that will show you just what is meant by the disastrous effect of crossing the limit.

2. Mount Avarice
So the Chinese government are going to build a highway all the way to the base camp of Everest on the Tibetan side of the mountain. Nice. How about some cable cars to the summit, using cables woven out of yak hair?

3. Maggie Q is really chio
That explains it pretty much.

4. Christopher Lee gets out of jail and Fann Wong is not to be seen.
姑姑，你还在南海神尼哪儿吗？

5. We are all going to die from global warming soon.

Dual Identity
Originally uploaded by Minas Morgul.

Materials used for this shot:
1 Petzl Tikka Headlamp
Several sheets of paper
1 BK Venom toy
And lots of books for the make-shift tripod as I cannot find it in my house... lol..

Here's my first studio shot! And I like it very much... as as always, my sense of art is always very freaky. But somehow, don't you all find that the shadow presented a very different kind of emotive feel from the toy itself? Somehow, even though the toy is grinning monstrously, the shadow seemed to be grimacing in misery. The sort of thing that most people who only watched Venom as Spiderman's arch enemy would never understand.

Oh yah.. Transformers coming up! So exciting!

A friend commented aptly.. where had Tomha gone to? Hmm.. he also needs some rest from all my incessant grumblings one mah... lol

GuanYing Ma
Originally uploaded by Minas Morgul.

Isn't this photo nice? I just love the tranquil feeling that you get when gazing at GuanYin Ma's face. It gives peace to people.. no wonder she is a deity. Too bad i am a very unpious person. Better be the atheist that returns to the ground as nutrients than the Buddhist who got to hell due to bad karma and un-piousness...

Don't you all just love the color slides give? And this one expired some more...