LOOkiNG 2 the MOON

spECiaL OrDER!

When you looked at the menu of OldTown, is so damn boring. If I were to own a restaurant chain like this in the future, i'll make sure the menu is interesting, and people will order dish names like this. By the way, i still remembered i have ordered a drink called "Sex on the Beach" a year back in a sandy land far far away. That very night, i virtually had one in my dreams with Sora Aoi^^...

fuCK the umbrellas, you don't need it!

this scene, if taken using 5DMarkII, will be great. Any models wanna volunteer out there? 3 couples, 2 cars, 2 umbrellas, a road, and most importantly...RAIN!

TSUNAMi > iF it's TOO LatE...

Tsunami just happened yesterday in Japan. Seems to be scary.
I don't know whether this kinda thing will happen in Malaysia or not. Nobody can guarantee that.

The lucky ones are able to know early and escape.
But I believe many only realize it when it is happening in front of their eyes.

If it is too late, and you know it is REALLY too late to RUN, then the only way is to face it bravely...get hold of all your closest, go to the centre of the road...look up the sky...

p/s: deepest condolences to all the victims...

thE ruSH (back) hOME...

Scenes of departure and arrival are common in the movies. The most nostalgic ones are either in the scene at the harbor or the train station. SAD is when you have to see your closed ones leaving, and HAPPY is when you see you see them coming back home.

In a matter of days, this scene will realize...and it will be the HAPPY part...coz i am going home. No more sand, no more 50 deg Cel, no more stupid sohai ppl, no more stupid flies, no more... no more!

All that is coming will be a beautiful land, with beautiful trees, beautiful leng-luis, and many many good things back home! Oh-yeah!!!

#1: the scene
family and loved ones, some waiving to say goodbye, some waiting in excitement for the arrival, after a long long long time away...finally reunited! hooray! :)

#2: this scene seems just too familiar...

#3
i wanna do this one time...

HoUSE no. 22

This is House no. 22
The tenants of House no. 22, and what they are doing at the time of writing.

Tenant #1: SH chai
Currently doing:
Facebooking, searching each and every youtube video of "Gee". The part he liked most is the ass moving part. Initially, he was searching for the guitar tabs for "Gee", dunno why he deviate. Anyway, he succeeded in playing the song on his new baby guitar. His fingers can't climb tree yet, but soon will be.

Tenant #2: Sam chai
Warren buffett, warren buffett, and warren buffett. The book was bought over from Toh chai. 700+ pages and still havent finish half. When he get bored of reading, he "harvest the moon". Just now. he was searching for the ice cream recipe, and Cheong chai agrees to be joining in the fun. Ho po lui char version 3 is gonna come out soon also...

Tenant #3: Toh chai
I don't really know what he is doing all this while, coz he guards his privacy as good as guarding his virginity. When i go to the toilet once in a while, i passes by his room, i see him on his QC3headphone, him facing his laptop, sometimes smiling, sometimes face blank, sometimes laughing to himself!!?? He no need to eat. No need to drink. Just give him a laptop and internet, he can survive already. FB is his diary. He use FB as a MSN replacemet. And if you want him to eat dinner, just shut off the internet.

Tenant #4: Ding chai
His bed is here, but the person is not here now. He not died, he just disappear for a few weeks. Same character as Toh chai in terms of FB and internet dependency, but this guy talk a bit more. His golden phrase is "CiaW TaK Jorrr!" But talk is 108, do wohhh....I CUT!

Tenant #5: Wenpin chai
No internet sure die also for him. But what differentiate him from the other 2 in his room is his SKILL of sleeping. He can SLEEP and ONLINE simultaneously, WITH THE LAPTOP ON HIS CHEST NEVER SLIP, OR EVEN DROPPED. He should be the only person who can do it. Sometimes he'll come over to Sam chai room and say "HOU SIEN ARRRRR!!!". Half an hour ago, he just did that.

Tenant #6: Cheong chai
First thing he do is to connect to SKYPE, and talk to his son. No wastage of time FB. Sleep the earliest among all, and earliest to wake up. BTW, i think he sleep liao already at the time of writing.

Tenant #7: Kang chai
All he do is SLEEP...then wake up at night and become the ghost. But this ghost likes to karaoke in the bathroom, living room, and his room. Sometimes play the Romance of 3 kingdom to pass time.

Basically, all tenant has got own way of passing his time in house no.22. Everyone is SIEN most of the time, but I don't think we will have to suffer long. It is already TIME TO END. IT HAS TO END ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

[ you see what SH chai and sam chai doing? You see our kitchen how BIG??? And the kitchen floor, who to MOP??? ]

[ this room if no internet, will die one... ]

[ F04... F04... F04... i still left 1 brief only nia...you still wanna F04! ]

i am moving…mY bLog

All people, I have an announcement to make. I am going to move my current blog www.lifelikemovie.com to blogger here at www.lifelikemovie.blogspot.com starting from now. In another 2 months, this site, this domain, this layout will no longer available for viewing. But worry not, coz i have been trying to replicate all the posts into this new place.

To mark the moving of the blog, with a different layout, I need to save the printscreen of the old and new blog. This will serve as a memory for me, or maybe you.

OLD LAYOUT

www.lifelikemovie.com
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NEW LAYOUT

www.lifelikemovie.blogspot.com
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The reason to move > I found that what I wanted to do is 99% available in a free blog out there, and there seems to be more customization available nowadays, compared with limited functions those days. Nevertheless, owning a private hosted website still offer far more value than a free blog, it is only that I have been underutilized it all this while. It should be for people with many readers and full fledge website, not some sMaLL fLY like me. So, Mr weBHost, thanks for all the quick and good support for the last 3 years, it's greatly appreciated. Your service is good, and the price is one of the cheapest i can find in Malaysia. Just want to let you know it is NOT your fault. By the way, i am hosting it on www.ipserverone.com all this while, for those who is interested, just go there and check for yourself. Value for money, nice service. Enough said. If there is another chance of me to require a webhost in the future, it's surely YOU.

And i would like to thank all who drop comments, and i am sorry for making so few posts. I must make more posts!
And as i always say, i will make this blog a better one!

p/s: those who want to make comments can make it at my new blog at www.lifelikemovie.blogspot.com.

Last word, BYE-BYE...but then HELLO again!

aLoNG-tHE-hiGhWaY

On my way home, I drove along the expressway of 200+ kilometers, at an average speed of 110 km/h, which comes to 2 hours of super duper boring journey. To keep myself awake, I kept my mind busy with these:

aLoNG-tHE-hiGhWaY {Click to view larger image}

1. Imagining how nice it would be if one of the roadside is planted with sunflowers along the 200km stretch. Butterfies will be flying around and birds will come in flocks. The other side of the road should be planted with nice grass carpet, with occasional banyan trees every lamp post distance.

sunflowers!

2. Thinking about the ho po lui char recipe I just got from a master, and trying to recall on every step and recipe that he has taught me.

ho-po-lui-cha

3. Listening on the David Tao CD (original one) which seems like "zharr-ing" me on every line of its lyrics...cau cee bai!

katriNa

Everyone... happy Chinese New Year!
Today is already the 15th day, I guess is the last chance I have this year to wish you all. So, again..."gong hei fatt choy!"

tHE lala cook in LALA LaND!

tHE lala cook in LALA LaND!
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Last week, i went together with a bunch of lala chai to the lala beach.

We had a lot of fun searching for lalas beneath the sandy beach.

We pick and pick and pick....and pick and pick and pick...

We also saw some lala girls around picking lalas next to us.

Every lala boys turned LALA-ed at that moment.

We then went home on the lala car

I opened my lala laptop

I searched for ways to cook lala on my lala net

Then i successfully found 4 lala recipe

We soak the lala

We clean the lala one by one (Yea, hear me say again...is ONE by ONE)

I am the lala cook. Yes, i am.

After spending hell of a lala time, i succeeded.

Everybody was having a lala wonderful time eating lala.

The table is full of lala.

One of the lala boy ate the most lala that day, his lala shell mountain was the highest.

Every lala boy was shitting lala for the next few days.

The lala stories continues as long as there is low tide...

I am lala-ed liao...

la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la, la la

Here are the 4 lala recipes to share with anyone who likes to get lala-ed.

LaLa rEcIPE no 1
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LaLa rEcIPE no 2
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LaLa rEcIPE no 3
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LaLa rEcIPE no 4
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sHiN ru DaO gE [ 心如刀割 ]

beacHboY walks slowly into the karaoke room no 9. He took the remote control and searched JAcky Cheung. He sighed. Then, he selected these two songs by pressing the remote...

1. Wo zhen de shou shang le [ 我真的受伤了 ]
2. Shin ru dao ge. [ 心如刀割 ]

Everyone in the room was silent. They understood immediately what happened to beachboy.

beacHboY reached for the microphone and started to sing. He closes his eyes. 3, 2, 1 ... s-i-n-g...

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The sadness in his voice could be felt. The emotion in his singing is nothing less than that of Jacky Cheung's.

Conclusion:

beacHboY heart has been hurt deeply, and it has been bleeding profusely for the last few weeks. Thousands of arrows have pierced into his heart. Friends have been sad too, and is trying their best to help beacHboY to get back to the normal life. However, the illusion of the little lamb still manage to cloud his mind and heart sometimes...

sHiN ru DaO gE - [ 心如刀割 ] {Click to view larger image}

beacHboY, if there is this one thing that we could do for you to mend this, we wish that there is this "Handiplast for the broken heart", and we'll paste all of that around your broken heart, to stop all the leaking of tears. Also we would want to help you pull out all the arrows from your thousand arrows pierced heart! Nah! This is it! Take it!

beachBoY drinks to forget...but he just CAN'T

Description: beachBoY drinks to forget...but he just CAN'T

We'll build scaffold if had to!

Description: We'll build scaffold if had to!

Impossible is Nothing! Just Do It!

Description: This plaster is from mr sohai, mr QC3, and mr beachboY himself.

Qik! Qik! Qik! Qik! Qik!

Description: This plaster is from mr Qik, the one who loves to open his E71 and record and post to Qik.

the Baskin Robbins couple

Description: This one from the Baskin Robbins couple.

This is imported from MARS

Description: This is imported from MARS. Don't worry, it'll do the job as well.

beachboY says: fRieNd++, ok?

I hate to repeat this, since it is crucial to the continuous existence and survival of the author, at least until he sees the "HAPPILY EVER AFTER" ending for the beacHboY and the little LaMB.

"All the stories, names, characters and events depicted in this post are entirely fictional, which is coming out through the imagination of the author himself. Any resemblance to any person, alive or dead, or any events are purely unintentional, and the author are not to be held liable for any consequences resulting from reading of this post, in any way, either directly or indirectly."

Friend   |   Friend ++

See the above? A vertical line that separates the left and the right hand side of the two words. Both words have the same denominator, FRIEND. The other just had a pair of ++ to follow. In words, there isn't much difference. But in the real life, it differs so much. SO MUCH SO that there is this HUGE barrier, or BOUNDARY that can exist in so many different forms, yet invisible to the naked eye. And many have died crossing this boundary. Some died drunk, some died straight, some even died unnoticed. Nevertheless, there are still plentiful of successful stories.

beacHboY has failed more times than he could remembered, but the defeat never dampens his spirit. NEVER! And right NOW, beacHboY is gonna risk his everything to cross this, and will prove to those pessimist in the kraBi kingdom, that RULES are meant to be BROKEN, BOUNDARIES are meant to be CROSSED! beacHboY! Thousand miles is nothing compared to the FIRE in your heart. Just ADD OIL and it will continue to burN !!! We here will help you to ADD too!

Friend   |   Friend ++ {Click to view larger image}

p/s: This post is purposely created as a sign of unwavering support from all his friends towards beacHboY. Yea, support from colleagues are included also.

tHE sToRY of a LittLE LamB and tHE KrABi bEAcHBOY

"All the stories, names, characters and events depicted in this post are entirely fictional, which is coming out through the imagination of the author himself. Any resemblance to any person, alive or dead, or any events are purely unintentional, and the author are not to be held liable for any consequences resulting from reading of this post, in any way, either directly or indirectly."

OK. I am safe.

Once upon a time, in the long long lost kingdom of the KRaBi, there lives a beachboY. Though he came from a poor family, he has high aspiration. He aims to be the best electrician in town one day. (Yes, this olden kingdom of kRabI is very advanced one!). Being a Virgo, he seeks for perfection in everything he does. He eats only the best foods he can afford, wears a G2000 shirt even though it costs more than 200 Krabi dollars each, and only accepts nothing but perfection.

So one day, after a full day of hard labor at his workplace, he sense a moment of loneliness. He realize that all this while, he is missing something important in his life, companionship. Then later, he found that most of his friends and colleagues around him are all beginning to rear LAMB as a way to past time and to make them happier. So, one day a close friend of his suggests that he go shop for a LAMB somewhere at the marketplace. So he goes the next day, early in the morning before the sunrise.

He can't believe his eyes when he stepped into the market. It seems every stall in the market is putting up a LAMB for sale. There are many many types of LaMB available, from the black to white, fat to thin, short to tall, and anything that he could have thought of. So, the first thought that comes to his mind was "If I am gonna shop anyway, I might as well shop for the best LaMB!" So, he starts with stall no 1: "No! Too short". Then stall no. 2: "Nah! Too fat!". Then stall no 3: "Too old! Don't you wanna try to trick me with an old LaMB! I want a pure little snow white LaMB!" he shouted at the LAmB seller.

His search continues down. He noticed that the quality of the little LamBs tends to get better down the stalls. Wow de! That's nice de! But I think the next stall should have a better LamB de! So he went to the stall beside. He paused for a while. His heart skipped a beat when his eyes saw the LamB in front of him. The LaMB's face was so cheerful and loving, with the kind of smile that no man can tahan one de! Happy, optimistic and smart little lamb, she has all the traits of a superior LamB. And underneath the neck of the lamb was a tag engraved with the word "iX". Then he checked the price tag. "Hmm...this is too good to be true, there must be a catch!", he says to himself. He stood there for a few minutes, undecided, while looking at the LamB. Want or don't want leh? The LamB tries her every way to convince the beacHboY that she was a good buy. BeacHboY hesitates. "Never mind boss! I'll see around first!", the beacHboY says.

He continue for a few more stalls down the aisle. He felt awkward. This LamB in front of him has a very long tag.

Err, may I ask, what does this name means? The boss shook his head while looking at the beachBoY. He flipped the tag over. It reads "S-U-Z-H-O-U".

Then all of a sudden, the alarm rang. BeeeeeeBoooooohhhh...beeeebooohh... "Run!!! Run!!! M.P.S.J.!!!" In a blink of an eye, all the stall owners were busy pushing away their stalls haphazardly out of the market. beAcHboy panicked. "Wait! I still haven bought any LaMB!" Wait for me!!! His voice unheard. Then, two words crossed his mind. "iX!" He looked back at the stall. It's empty!!! How could this be???!!!", he exclaimed. He searched and searched in the commotion, hoping to find a glimpse of iX, but to no avail. He could see all kinds of name, MDY, ML, JSC, MW, etc etc...but there is just no iX there.

Feeling hopeless and dejected, he walked like a dead fish towards his home that day. He felt so depressed that he finished the 2 bottles of Chivas Regal and a Bombay Tequila in one hour. Then he fell onto his bed, and the view of his HP laptop become dimmer an dimmer, dimmer and dimmer....

Deeettt Diiitttt! Deeettt Diiitttt! Deeettt Diiitttt! The alarm rangs. BeachBoy reached for the clock and slam it shut. His eyes widened. Slowly he walked to his HP laptop. Shit! I forgot to turn off the computer, he says to himself. When he was about press the SHUT DOWN button, he sees some orange color tab blinkering at the bottom right corner of the taskbar. He clicked on it.

Tears of joy starts to accumulate in his red eyes. His smile widened. He rubbed of his tears and took one more close look at the msn live messenger program before him, in a state of disbelief. His name fanShue was there. What he couldn't figure yet is the other name...This is what he saw...

tHE sToRY of a LittLE LamB and tHE KrABi bEAcHBOY
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tHE sToRY of a LittLE LamB and tHE KrABi bEAcHBOY
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mY toP 5 woRsT ciNeMA ExPeriEnCe

mY toP 5 woRsT ciNeMA ExPeriEnCe
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Less of talking. Just let the sketch do the talking.

No.1
SOMEONE NEXT TO YOU FALL ASLEEP AND START SNORING ALL THE WAY TILL THE END. YOU WANNA KNOCK HIS HEAD WITH YOUR SHOE, BUT THE PENDIDIKAN MORAL SUBJECT YOU LEARNT IN SCHOOL SEEMS TO HAVE SOME EFFECT ON YOU...CAUSING YOU TO HOLD BACK AND CONTINUE ENDURE THIS PAINFUL MOVIE NIGHT TILL THE END...T.N.S....

You SLEEP at your home, please!

No.2
YOU FOUND SOME F*ckER WHO KEEPS REPEATING THE STORYLINE TO HIS FRIEND...

Tell ya...the HERO gonna DIE after this...

No.3
SEATED IN FRONT OF YOU IS A DISTANT RELATIVE OF YAO MING, HIS HEAD BLOCKING HALF OF YOUR VIEW ON THE SCREEN, AND YOU WISH YOU COULD TRIM IT USING A PAIR OF GRASS TRIMMER.

No.4
THOSE WHO TALKS ON HIS HANDPHONE LIKE HISGRANFATHER OWNS THE CINEMA...

YoU REaLLY NeeD TO be sO tALL mEh?

No.5
THE TICKET IS SELLING LIKE HOT CAKES, AND YOU ARE THE UNLUCKY ONE HAVING THE FIRST ROW OF SEAT. NICE VIEW, MAN! I MEAN...THE SUBTITLES PART ONLY...

AIYO! NeCk pAIN LaR!

bus sToP cHicKEN RiCE, the bEST in towN!

BUS STOP CHICKEN RICE
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"It's very hot here! And yet no air cond! And look at the queue...don't you think is a little foolish?" As I remember saying to the friend who brought me there for the first time. But as soon as the food was inside the mouth, I'm convinced, I'm surprised, I understand WHY, and I'm feeling great. I feel like I'm on heaven!

Somewhere on this planet there is this one small town called S.K., and the village is dotted with many2 nice foods. Above them all, there is one that I can say is the signature food of the town. It's the chicken rice. Not the regular roasted one, but this is special. It's "white chicken rice" as the local calls it. BUt I think it is one of the variant of Hainanese Chicken Rice.

It's a bus stop next to it.

The Chicken Rice Stall.

If you were to ask me the name of the shop, i'll have to ask the seller. The shop or stall, as I would call it, does not really have a sign board. So, everybody starts to give names while trying to refer that place for lunch. Among all, the best suited one would be this "bus stop chicken rice", Coz the stall is just next to one. The bus stop is the landmark that you surely have to look for if you were to search for this place. Hence, this is how the name comes. But I don't think the chicken rice boss knows that. Maybe I'll tel him next time. Unless he put up a signboard, i'll continue to call it that way. I'll call it MY way.

The chicken Rice basically consists of chicken, rice and sauce. Chicken is very very very smooth! I've gotta repeat these a few times to actually illustrate how smooth it is. The chicken skin, especially can be used as a substitute for banana skin if you were to play a trick on someone you hate. Very slippery! And the chicken is coated with a nice aroma of oily sauce, some sweetness together with the tenderly meat! Arrgghhh!!! I shouldn't be writing this before my lunch...

baNaNa skin substitute.

And the second part is the RICE. They call it oil rice. Yellowish white in color, these rice is superb! The superb aroma of ginger and garlic is so strong that the whole place is engulfed in this smell of chicken rice. The way they make it, the rice are not sticky, no too wet nor too dry. And everytime I go there, I sure to order another extra bowl of rice to top up. It's just so tasty.

The fragrance of the RICE...see the chart.

And the 3rd element of a nice chicken rice is the SAUCE. This is the "catalyst" that brings the chicken rice to the top of the sky. Dip the chicken meat and mix it with the oily rice, the combination can send you on cloud 9 straight away. Ooo...I love it! Until now, I still do not know what is inside the sauce. But I can make a clever guess. There are some finely minced red chilli, green chilli, ginger, some garlic maybe? and some sesame or chicken oil I think, and sugar must have been added inside, coz it's sweet also.

It's the saUCE that rocks!

The best part of this chicken rice is that it's sold at a reasonable price. Though the price has increased over the years (especially after last year's oil hike), it is still considered a cheap street food.

reAsonaBLe pricing!

my custom dESigN for the sigNBoarD!

BTw, I'm considering to ask the boss whether he can teach me his chicken rice recipe or not, with a fee maybe. But I doubt it. First, I'm not a Hainanese. Secondly, do you think the boss will risk his business to some chap who might one day open a chicken rice stall next to his? So, is anybody out there who can teach me how to make delicious Hainanese Chicken Rice? A friend of mine, Mr "CUTEbanana" as he calls himself, says that he will open a chicken rice shop if he got fired as an engineer. I think the recipe might be useful to him too! So, someone with expert cooking talent, please help me! Or help this *cute* BANANA friend of mine!

p/s: Maybe I will propose my design of the stall's signboard to the boss in exchange for his recipe...do you guys think it will work?

I bought myself a camera…

I bought myself a camera!
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This is old news, but still worth mentioning. I would want to remind myself that I bought a pretty expensive camera last Christmas, compared with what I have been earning so far. And by writing it down here, I think it will serve as a reminder to me...USE IT WELL...USE IT WELL...

First of all, why an SLR? Answer is simple. I don't want to see any blurry, out of focus pictures anymore! Using the normal point and shoot camera is just too frustrating, especially if you have a nice scenery, only to find it blurred on the computer screen back home. Well, don't you agree? Nice scenes and leng luis are hard to come by...once you miss the chance, there probably won't be any second chance to take it...

Many many BUTTONS ar!

As a beginner in photography, everything seems so new to me. There are just so many new words, Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, AE Lock, metering, EV, etc etc etc...with all the different buttons plastered all around the camera body. Many many buttons. So many that it took you a while before I could actually remember all the functions. However, lucky (or rather unlucky) for me, I have a bunch of photog-fever colleagues who helps learning much faster.

Well, my colleagues are partly responsible for me buying the camera. You know, one tries to poison another to buy, the other gets poisoned, and everyone starts poisoning each other and finally ALL is poisoned. The one who gets poisoned worst...are the one who starts the poisoning first. That's the story...

All the camera BIG GUNS

I have learned that camera manufacturers out there are also aware of this phenomenon, the growing popularity of photography as a hobby. That's why we see all of them jostling each other for the market share. Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Pentax, Fuji...all has many ranges of camera to offer. All waiting to POISON us all. And Flickr too, is part of it. In fact, is LARGE part of it. Nothing to say here. One willing to sell, the other willing to buy.

PORTRAIT...see the CAT over there?

I think I like portraits photos more than anything else. At least I like to see them. Taking them is a bit of problem here, as it requires the greatest skills, and models are not that much. Simply taking other people's photos is another way to solve it, but it may bring unwanted troubles. Privacy is the word they gonna shout at you. So, to avoid these, the only thing you could do is to take your close friends and families or even YOUR CAT as the temporary model.

Yeah...i think i gonna try dolls later...anyone got extra cutie, kawaii dolls to borrow?

I don't have much to say this time. Just no mood. Next time...next time...

MACRO...see the BOKEH effect back there? :)

SPORT MODE...

Landscape...must use WIDE ANGLE LENS