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Seoul: Wooden Mailboxes
I love receiving snail mails and packages. So I thought this would be a good post to come back from my long long unexpected hiatus. It’s already August, more than half the year has whizzed past me before I even realized it! Taken with my Olympus OMD E-M5 This was taken during my walks through Bukchon, when the sister and I were visiting during the Lunar New Year of 2014. I also wanna give a…
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October has come and gone, and now we’ve been ushered into November. I did not manage to carry my camera but I’ve seen some Instagrammers do a collection of some of their best October posts, so I decided to draw inspiration from that and put up a few of my best October Instagram post here to share with those who don’t follow me on IG (In someways its also a shameless self promotion of my Instagram account*grin*).
Lunch at Ril’s Mesui Boutique Hotel Ice Teas at Quivo Dinner at Palshik Flat white from A Good Batch French Toast and Coffee at Mr and Ms. Healthy Yogurt at Feeka Coffee Roasters Toasts at The Front Door Kitty Nap Chocolate Brownie at Velocity Cafe and Bicycle
It’s my first time putting up my pictures in a gallery format, it’s not so bad especially when I don’t want to have a TLTR wall of text post. Even with photos breaking them up it might end up being a pretty long read, so here’s to short and sweet.
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Tokyo: Reminiscing Of Spring...
Tokyo: Reminiscing Of Spring…
Lately, I've been feeling incredibly stressed out...its due to a couple of factors, I won't go into it...anyways because of the level of stress I've been experiencing I've also grown a little nostalgic for times where things weren't as difficult. To be honest Spring isn't exactly my favorite season of the 4, if I had to pick, it would usually be Autumn and Winter, yet, today there is a longing for spring. The image of Spring is very beautiful, where new life begin to bloom and what was once wilted or bare is rejuvenated; it is a little like the act of resurrection. It is EXACTLY that image which I need at this very moment of my life...rejuvenation...nothing will always remain bare and dreary, because right after the cold there is always spring just right around the corner, waiting...
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Kuala Lumpur: Creating Coffee Art
So in my last post I mentioned I was at a Coffee Expo, its not that I didn't wanna put up more pictures, its just I tend to like to carefully pick through my work and just choose to share according to how I feel at the moment. It's also partially because I don't take a lot of pictures daily (besides instagram, and even then I'm not very varied for I mostly photograph my breakfast, lunch or tea breaks), plus I have this habit of liking certain pictures at different times and it all really depends on how I feel at the time when I post.
Today I'm feeling a little low on energy so I decided to look through the Coffee Expo photographs once more to grab a little photography caffeine and to see what catches my eye. When this image jumped out at me - of a guy working on coffee art. He's working on something a little more advance than hearts and little leaves, and was drawing a teddy bear which was cute. Lately we tend to expect art on our coffee, especially now in the age of digital photography, where more and more people are starting to document everything they eat with images and posting them up on social media. Therefore, the coffee art we see lately on coffee foams are also growing to be more complicated and creative to where they have become artworks themselves - just look at how much focus he is put into drawing a picture using coffee and foam, its pretty amazing to me. I did not have to do much post-processing, to be honest I just added in the watermark at the bottom, the image is pretty much untouched. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. October 2014.
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Kuala Lumpur: Coffee & Cups
Kuala Lumpur: Coffee & Cups
I was walking about at a Coffee Expo in Publika, which is kinda like an alfresco mall, with lots of little boutique store, with wide open areas for displays, sometime in the first week of October. It just so happens I was carrying my camera around, so I took some shots – here are two which caught my eye for today’s post. I processed both of them through VSCO Cam…maybe I went a little too crazy…
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Tokyo: All Lit Up!
Tokyo: All Lit Up!
I actually bought my ticket and have applied for my leave at work back in September…and I know its only October…but I’m all excited to off for my CHRISTMAS VACATION!!! This will be my last Christmas in Tokyo, for who knows how long. So I’m looking forward to returning and to seeing this familiar sight of a beautifully lit up Tokyo Tower! This was taken last year’s Christmas. While I do very much…
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Tokyo: Sad Puppy…
I took this picture of a sad puppy looking out of his cubby. I passed by this pet store on a very cold wintery night and saw this little guy just sitting there looking all sad watching as people passed him by. Whenever I see dogs in pet stores especially puppies I really wish I could take them all home, but I'm just not a pet owner type person. Plus, this was in Tokyo, since I'm only there to visit there was no way I could keep a pet, but hopefully someday I would be able to adopt a little guy like this one to care for.
There was no filter applied to this particular photograph, all the scratches and lights were already present in the photograph, all I did was raised the exposure just slightly and tuned down the temperature of the photograph.
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Tokyo: People on the Train
In my post regarding using VSCO Cam as an editing tool for phone photography, I was gonna try it out on photographs I took on my camera. While it is sort of a hassle having to transfers the images back and forth between computer and phone, but the result was definitely worth.
If you’re wondering why most of my Tokyo photographs seem to be taken in Winter, it’s because I travel mostly during the months of December and February. This has been established since I have begun working with my present company, that even my own boss knows that I will not be around for the majority of December. I have only begun traveling around the month of February as of this past year…and I might add April (which I managed to fit in this year during the Sakura season) or May into the mix (but these would be a shorter period – perhaps a week or so at most). Hopefully by diversifying my traveling dates, I will also be able to see more and diversify my own photography style.
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Kuala Lumpur: Cheers to 1 Year!
So I was informed by WordPress that today is my blog’s 1 year anniversary! So here’s a picture to celebrate my blog’s first birthday! This picture was taken earlier this year in April for my sister’s birthday, since it was a photo taken during a celebration, I thought this would be a good occasion to share it!
Taken with my Olympus OMD E-M5
Thanks to everyone who has ever read, liked, commented my posts, as well as followed my blog! I’ve learned a lot just from starting this blog, posting and sharing my work has helped motivate me towards trying to improve my skills and explore different ideas and options.
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Kuala Lumpur: Instagram and more
Kuala Lumpur: Instagram and more
While trying to learn more regarding my own style of photography I discovered that for phone photography there are a lot of editing apps out there. Therefore, I thought I should try experimenting with VSCO Cam and Snapseed, something which I found was quite popular among Instagramers. Personally, I’m not very active on Instagram, but decided to start an account for this blog; just to post…
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Tokyo: Glancing Behind…
There is something about photographing children…where when you manage to capture them in a photograph, it all seems so precious. This particular lil girl is my very own cousin. It was during her first visit to Japan (her first time experiencing the winter season), and we’re visiting the Japanese Open-Air Folk House Museum in Kanagawa, I can’t remember exactly when it was but it was definitely winter around 2011 or 2012. I didn’t exactly get along with my younger cousin at the time. Besides the age gap, she was genuinely a real brat at the time! Although, whenever I looked at her through the viewfinder she made the prettiest pictures. This photo is one exact sort of moment when she turned around and looked right at me where I thought, she looks absolutely innocent, with the sunlight at that angle shining down on her, it presented such an ethereal scene. Winter, Kanagawa.
I get a long much better with her now that she’s a little older and has stopped being a little princess.
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Tokyo: Steamy Sweet Potatoes
Tokyo: Steamy Sweet Potatoes
Lately I’ve been inspired in one way or another by other blogger’s posts, and once again I was inspired by Miwa Theresa@Black Bird in Blue’s post regarding Black & White photography. B&W photos are not something new, since I’ve already posted a few in previous posts but this time around I will post both colored and b&w pictures since I actually like both versions.
Taken with a Canon EOS KISS X2
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Kuala Lumpur: Searching for Autumn
Kuala Lumpur: Searching for Autumn
I was inspired by both Annie@Seoul in BKK and Miwa Theresa@Blackbird In Blue for this particular post. Fall has finally arrived in countries which has 4 seasons; despite the fact I now live in a country where we have one dominant season (eternal summer)…I have been itching for a little “autumn” of my own. So taking a page from Annie’s post, I’ve decided to go searching for a little part of Autumn
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Tokyo: Sporting Pink!
Taken with my Olympus OMD E-M5
I was at Tokyo Station waiting for my friend, it was a pretty busy time lots of tourist and locals headed for the Imperial Palace for the Sakura viewing, when I spotted this gentleman in the pink jacket dragging his luggage and a box of what looks to me as fruit. It just so happened he caught my eye through the viewfinder. With people all around me he definitely drew my eyes. Tokyo, Japan. April 2014.
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Kuala Lumpur: Double Shot!
Had gone to bed really late Friday night (in fact by the time I was in bed and closed my eyes it was 5/6 am Sat morning), and had wake up pretty darn early this morning (8am to be exact but lulled back into bed but finally got up and ready at 10). Was hoping to catch an early lunch, but our errand ran later and we were only able to get out the door at 4! Half the day was already gone before I even managed to get my coffee fix! Let me just say, I was not a happy camper! We decided to try this new cafe, Aku Cafe, which was basically in our own neighbourhood only it was in the more traditional cultural part of town.
The first thing that caught my eye were the ant decor on the steps leading up to the first floor which was where the cafe was located. I got incredibly excited by it...I've not seen cafes using ants as a motif before, a little too excited we stood at the bottom of the stairs for quite sometime as I tried to set my phone camera up to take a picture. Once again I had forgotten my camera...this is KL...I just prefer to get around light and usually I just don't remember to bring it along. When we got in I was once again fascinated by the ants drawn on the walls as decor. The decor was very Chinese, lots of wooden furnitures, some of the heavier wooden chairs my grandparents and even my own parents used to furnished the heavy marbled dinning tables with. I didn't manage to take any good pictures of the interior since it was quite a packed house and just people everywhere. But I did get some of their more antique looking decor, like the standing fan and this adorable old wooden rocking horse. They had decorate the place to match with the upcoming mid-autumn festival with koi fish themed lanterns and the sorts, it was incredible pretty. The next time I'm gonna gush about is how the ant motif continued on to their menu design! I loved how each page had a smattering of ants scattered all over it. I swear I am not a bug loving person! In fact, I have no love for ants! I wasn't completely sure why I was so interested in the ants. Next was our food! I ordered an Ice Mint Coffee Blend and my sister had a regular ice drip coffee, we then ordered the Hainanese Toast and the Aku Pasta Special. The coffee was okay nothing to shout about but it was interesting if you like having fresh mint blended into your coffee for that minty herby flavor, it wasn't bad but it didn't have the caffeine kick I was hoping for. The toast was amazing- crispy on the outside and perfectly soft and fluffy on the inside with a good balance of kaya (coconut & pandan jam) & butter. Their pasta was really interesting in a good way, very strong flavors of dried baby shrimp and cilantro while the potato salad had a very clean peppery flavor, the little crispy chips above it had this really nice cinnamon flavor which just all went together nicely. I would highly recommend trying out the food if you're at this part of town, as for the coffee I can't say...maybe next time I'll go for a regular cup of hot coffee to give a more accurate review on that.
Aku Cafe & Gallery 8, 1st Floor, Jalan Panggong, Kuala Lumpur.
So I did mention that the caffeine boost wasn't really enough for me, nor did it manage to satisfy my sister so we decided to head to Coffee Amo, which was not too far from here for our coffee fix instead! It is located in a really interesting place which they share which this traditional Chinese cultural performing arts centre. I've been here one other time where I couldn't really give an accurate review in regards to the coffee for I had ordered a hot matcha latte. This time I went for a regular caffe latte while sister wanted to get their 3D art ordered a 'Sweet 16' (I think that was what it was called), it was basically just Macadamia Nut flavored coffee.
When my coffee was served my sister went, "Look! You got a turkey latte art!" It does look a lot like a turkey but I'm pretty sure the barista was going for a swan. So my sister dubbed it a 'Turwan', while I'm gonna call it a 'Swakey', we're just goofy this way. My sister's 3D latte art was just absolutely adorable, we couldn't decide if it was a lil' puppy or a teddy, but look at those pointy ears! It's gotta be a lil' puppy! The latte suited my palate, although I thought my sister's drink was a little too sweet for my taste. All in all, it would be an interesting place to bring a date, since literally EVERYONE there was a couple with the exception of my sister and I!
So you could try out Coffee Amo if you were ever in that area: 54, First Floor, Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur.
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Tokyo: Reflected
Taken with my Olympus OMD E-M5
Taken with my Olympus OMD E-M5
So to continue with bring cheer and less gloom to someone’s day…here is something with bright colors and a little bit of intrigue! I was snapping pictures of koi fishes in this beautiful pond, when I saw something reflected in the water just above the beautiful colored fishes casting a really pretty design. I couldn’t pick between the two, because one had more of the pretty fishies swimming below the reflection which distorted the image more, while the other is a much clearer shot of the reflection. Can you guess what is being reflected? No prizes for correct guesses unfortunately. January 2014. Tokyo, Japan.
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