Can time move slower? It seems like the days are moving way too quick! It’s almost towards the end of the year already! ☹️
—
Went for a friend’s wedding recently and brought back some fresh flowers home. It’s such a good prop for this November photo! What do you think?
It’s been quite a while since I last took flatlays with fresh flowers. Used to do it every few weeks back then. Back when I was living in Redfern and I had more white space area and more natural light to snap a picture for my White Project instagram account… These days I need to set up an area for my white shots cause I don’t really have a white corner to use anymore. I do have more natural colours around me now. Different shades of brown. Lol. Maybe I should change my White Project name to something else 🤔
Was listening to this song yesterday while I was on the train that caught my attention. Love the tune of the song where it’s familiar but yet it’s new. After listening to it on repeat for quite some time, I realised that it sounded like Canon in D! No wonder it sounded somewhat familiar! Went to google up to double check and I was right!
The song brings up nostalgic feelings that everyone can relate for sure. Here’s what the Rolling Stones wrote about the song if you’re interested. If you’d like to play and see/sing along with the lyrics:
Here’s to the ones that we got Cheers to the wish you were here, but you’re not ‘Cause the drinks bring back all the memories Of everything we’ve been through Toast to the ones here today Toast to the ones that we lost on the way ‘Cause the drinks bring back all the memories And the memories bring back, memories bring back you
There’s a time that I remember, when I did not know no pain When I believed in forever, and everything would stay the same Now my heart feel like December when somebody say your name ‘Cause I can’t reach out to call you, but I know I will one day, yeah
Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody hurts someday, aye aye But everything gon’ be alright Go and raise a glass and say, aye
Here’s to the ones that we got Cheers to the wish you were here, but you’re not ‘Cause the drinks bring back all the memories Of everything we’ve been through Toast to the ones here today Toast to the ones that we lost on the way ‘Cause the drinks bring back all the memories And the memories bring back, memories bring back you
There’s a time that I remember when I never felt so lost When I felt all of the hatred was too powerful to stop (ooh, yeah) Now my heart feel like an ember and it’s lighting up the dark I’ll carry these torches for ya that you know I’ll never drop, yeah
Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody hurts someday, aye aye But everything gon’ be alright Go and raise a glass and say, aye
Here’s to the ones that we got (oh oh) Cheers to the wish you were here, but you’re not ‘Cause the drinks bring back all the memories Of everything we’ve been through (no, no) Toast to the ones here today (aye) Toast to the ones that we lost on the way ‘Cause the drinks bring back all the memories (aye) And the memories bring back, memories bring back you
Hope to come back from Malaysia next week with better weather! Loving the weather here in Bangkok and Malaysia so far since it’s been quite cool and a little warm on some days but not too hot like few months back!
So glad that the haze is somewhat gone as well when we landed! Just days before we flew the haze was so bad! Was a little worried that we might fall sick from the haze since there were so many people falling sick because of it. Thankful that the weather cleared up when we arrived 🙏🏼
Late last month, Nick and I went to Melbourne for a few days to get his passport renewed. Since the fastest and easiest way to get our Malaysian passport renewed from Sydney is to take a 1.5 hour flight to Melbourne rather than to take a 3-hour drive down to Canberra. Plus from what I’ve heard, the Malaysian Consulate in Canberra is really slack and you won’t even get your passport back within a day while in Melbourne you can get it in a few hours.
So the obvious choice is…. MELBOURNE!
We arrived at the Melbourne Malaysian Consulate at about 9.45am and it wasn’t too packed with people. Took our number and waited. We were done with the application process to renew the passport in less than an hour! And the staff told Nick that he could pick up his new passport by noon! That’s really quick and effective!
The last time I was there to renew my passport which was 3 years ago… I arrived in the morning about the same time, took my number, waited and got the application process part done within an hour as well if I’m not mistaken but I wasn’t able to collect my passport so soon! For mine, I had to come back after 3pm to collect.
With about an hour to spare, we went out for brunch not too far away and came back to collect the passport.
The new passport looks different from the old ones now. The pages inside are blue and the back flower print is so nice! There are also some nice images on the pages in between with few iconic buildings in Malaysia and flowers. Can’t remember the rest at the top of my head at the moment since I don’t have the passport with me now to check. But yea, it looks better than the old one!
It’s really easy to get your passport renewed these days. You don’t even need to take actual photos for the passport anymore. All is done at the office where they digitally snap a picture there and use it for your passport. Make sure you bring your IC along with your old passport. That’s all you’ll need 🙂
If you’re planning to renew your Malaysian passport in Melbourne, click here for the google map/business listing 🙂
From one of the pictures on their Google Maps, it states that they are open from 9.30am – 12 noon for “processing time” and 3pm – 5pm for “collection time”. So make sure you’re there before noon when you’re applying!
It was my birthday yesterday. Didn’t really do much during the day except some tweakings for this website and to restart this whole blog thing again.
Went for dinner at Sokyo. It’s a fancy Japanese restaurant at The Star. It’s actually my first time being there. The last time I was there, we couldn’t get a table cause it was fully booked. But that was ages ago when my dad was visiting. Here’s some pictures to celebrate the special day and of course… THE FOOD.
Quite a number of people were also celebrating their birthdays yesterday. We were seated at the corner and the two tables next to us were celebrating their birthday dinners too! What are the odds! And all of them were girls, all seated in a row including me. There were others too since I heard the waitresses singing birthday songs to some other tables as well.
I’m not very good of describing food since I do not love food as much as some people do. But all I can say is… the food is good. All of the dishes that came out tasted great. The sauce they used to put the food together, the fluffiness of the omelette egg, the crispy rice below the tuna, and the fresh sashimis 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼.
If you’re planning to have a meal at Sokyo, I would advise for you to book online so that you’d get a seat rather than walk-in. Cause even on a weekday it’s quite full. Here’s the link to their site where you can make a booking.
These photo collages are done with the Nichii App and a minor touch for one of the collage with Over.
I am terrible at this. I know. I can’t seem to stay put and update regularly. Please excuse my hiatus, but here’s my “new” blog again. I will try my best to create some content for this blog. It will be mostly throwbacks since I actually have quite a lot of photos to play around with from my previous travels and whatnots. Maybe some food photos/reviews too but it’d be an old review though…
Not sure whether you are interested in it but I just thought maybe I could just write something and also explore my creativity with some of the mobile apps I’ve been using to edit my pictures. I’ve been using quite a few to post stuff on instagram and I quite like testing new apps and trying new layouts/designs.
I’ve also restarted my White Project instagram account earlier this month. Fingers cross to keep these two going, even though it might be a post or two a month.
