idios.yn.crasies

bits and pieces. life. project fiftytwo.

Language was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. People can’t deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can’t be explained and understood. We don’t live in the real world anymore, we live in a world of symbols.

—by Chuck Palahniuk (via theblankpoint)

(via photographic-energy)

Sand 24/52 Went up to Lancelin for a day of sand boarding with friends who were visiting. It’s about 1 or 2ish hours out of Perth city. It was sand everywhere. I ate a lot of it too haha. Was really fun seeing people fall over. It’s harder than you think.. I’ve actually never been there even though I’ve lived in Perth for about 4.5 years. Haha. The thing about staying at a place, you never really do the touristy things once you’ve settled down at a place. Like when I lived in Beijing, I actually never have climbed the Great Wall of China. I regret. :(  

Sand 24/52

Went up to Lancelin for a day of sand boarding with friends who were visiting. It’s about 1 or 2ish hours out of Perth city. It was sand everywhere. I ate a lot of it too haha. Was really fun seeing people fall over. It’s harder than you think..

I’ve actually never been there even though I’ve lived in Perth for about 4.5 years. Haha. The thing about staying at a place, you never really do the touristy things once you’ve settled down at a place. Like when I lived in Beijing, I actually never have climbed the Great Wall of China. I regret. :(  

Ferris Wheel 23/52 For some weird unknown reason, I love taking photos of ferris wheels. But I never ride them.  Taken at Fremantle, Western Australia. 

Ferris Wheel 23/52

For some weird unknown reason, I love taking photos of ferris wheels. But I never ride them. 

Taken at Fremantle, Western Australia. 

Windmills 22/52 I’m so behind with this project that it’s not even funny. Hah. Anyways, this was part of the roadtrip. I’ve been so slack. And then I’ve been so busy. That’s usually the time where I start regretting not doing whatever I gotta do when I had lots of free time. Anyway, that was a wind farm we visited while we were in Albany. It was so cold. (I mean, well duh. But I was silly enough to assume shorts and no jacket was fine.) I was so wind-swept by the time we returned to the car.  Fun times, fun fun times. :)

Windmills 22/52

I’m so behind with this project that it’s not even funny. Hah. Anyways, this was part of the roadtrip. I’ve been so slack. And then I’ve been so busy. That’s usually the time where I start regretting not doing whatever I gotta do when I had lots of free time. Anyway, that was a wind farm we visited while we were in Albany. It was so cold. (I mean, well duh. But I was silly enough to assume shorts and no jacket was fine.) I was so wind-swept by the time we returned to the car. 

Fun times, fun fun times. :)

This Little Light 21/52 We celebrated a good friend’s birthday while we were in Albany. Nothing big, just a small cake and some pretty sparkles to end the night with. :) 

This Little Light 21/52

We celebrated a good friend’s birthday while we were in Albany. Nothing big, just a small cake and some pretty sparkles to end the night with. :) 

The Beach at Albany 20/52  So last last weekend I went on a roadtrip with some friends from uni down to Albany. Which is about 4 hours down from Perth. We rented 4WDs and stayed in chalets right beside the beach while we were there. But the weather was really choppy, but beggars can’t be choosers, right? :D I took this opportunity to try out landscape photography and overall I think I did… ok. I just wished I had even wider lenses. 17mm was not enough haha. 

The Beach at Albany 20/52 

So last last weekend I went on a roadtrip with some friends from uni down to Albany. Which is about 4 hours down from Perth. We rented 4WDs and stayed in chalets right beside the beach while we were there. But the weather was really choppy, but beggars can’t be choosers, right? :D

I took this opportunity to try out landscape photography and overall I think I did… ok. I just wished I had even wider lenses. 17mm was not enough haha. 

You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain - no matter how smart or accomplished - they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.

—Mitch Albom (via heoro)

(via photographic-energy)

Tea leaves, anyone? :)

Tea leaves, anyone? :)

Photography 19/52 I went out today to the city to try to something new. Street Photography. And I failed horribly. (That’s why it’s just entitled photography.) I ended up taking more photos inside stores of random things than outside of people/streets. It was quite hard getting used to actually find interesting things out in the street and hold up my camera and shoot. I kept thinking how the person on the other side of the camera would feel and that really made me very hesitant to point the camera directly at people. Blegh.  That is my friend’s film camera which he was shooting with. We were in a bookshop getting engrossed in books about photography (for him) and design/architecture (for me) and I snapped a few shots.  I’ll go for another street photog run next week. Lol hopefully I actually take photos of streets this time.

Photography 19/52

I went out today to the city to try to something new. Street Photography. And I failed horribly. (That’s why it’s just entitled photography.) I ended up taking more photos inside stores of random things than outside of people/streets. It was quite hard getting used to actually find interesting things out in the street and hold up my camera and shoot. I kept thinking how the person on the other side of the camera would feel and that really made me very hesitant to point the camera directly at people. Blegh. 

That is my friend’s film camera which he was shooting with. We were in a bookshop getting engrossed in books about photography (for him) and design/architecture (for me) and I snapped a few shots. 

I’ll go for another street photog run next week. Lol hopefully I actually take photos of streets this time.

Graggh. I miss the furry lil’ monstah. :(

Graggh. I miss the furry lil’ monstah. :(