Sunday morning, spring is coming

I think it's about time to post something, to make sure that you know that I'm still alive. It's just me learning how to use DSLR, by myself. I used my sister's Nikon D40x and my Canon  SX160IS. Yeah, I became impatient and came back to my Canon after frustrated using the Nikon.

 

If you wondering about the one in the picture, she's my camera buddy. You know... the one that go to photo hunting together kind of.

Greeting from my home~

Spending a week at home. No special reason, just want to. Something feels different, well, all my friend already found a job so we barely made time to meet up. Kinda sad but I appreciate that they still made time to meet up with me :)

I spent a lot of time with my nephew since his mother a.k.a my sister busy with her sewing course and workshop. Mostly I stayed at home or my sister's house because I don't have anywhere to go. I have actually, I made a plan to visit some place but no one seems available to accompany me. I feel awkward to go alone to a new place so canceled my plan.

I wish I have the courage to visit somewhere that I've never been there alone.

Tuesday Date

Let me introduce you to my date for today, she's none other than my cousin. Before she going back to her campus in another city, I ask her to go on a date with me. It's really been a long time since we hangout together. Kinda miss when she was a high schooler and we can hangout anytime.

Can you guess where are we?

 

CITY TOUR

Today randomly I got up early and get the mood to explore the city. Actually I already made the rough plan with my friend but still not sure whether to do it or not. Since it's my day-off and I don't know what to do and so do her, we agreed that the plan must go on. Thankfully the weather was good although it got really hot after a couple hour.

Our first stop is train station called St. Tawang. If you look carefully the lobby still contains colonial architecture but I'm not sure if you can see it from this picture :p We just park our motorcycle there and then start to explore "Kota Lama". So here we are, looks like a tourist with our pocket camera in our hands.

 

Ignorance is a bliss

Some say I apathetic, some say I ignorant, some say I'm too relaxed...

It's one hundred percent true. I choose to be apathetic, I choose to be ignorant. Because I know myself very well that when I care about something, I can't stop thinking about it. And if there's nothing I can't do to fix or help it, I start to feel guilty. 

And guilty is not something that you can live with.

Beauty is pain but not beauty causes more pain

I'm not saying that you should make yourself covered in blood or something. What I mean about beauty is confidence and believes that you are pretty. If you aren't confidence about yourself it will cause you more pain. Even if I have this huge nose and I don’t have fair skin I still believe that I am pretty. I don’t care about people opinions. Well, I do care actually. But it didn’t discourage me to be who I am. If you don't believe that you're pretty then who will?

 

Have you seen this video?  I got a goosebumps every time I watch it. Sometimes you need to look at yourself from other people perspective to realize how beautiful you are.

“Don’t worry about those who talk behind you, they're behind you for a reason".

again, a Dream.....

As I told you before that I've been active at local community. So yesterday my friend and I visited one of our children in care, Adi. We couldn't met him because he's still at school even though it's almost dark outside. So we talked with his mother instead. We asked how has he doing as we couldn't meet him often. In fact, last year is the last time I met him. Yes, we've been such a bad elder and I can't apologize enough for that. 

Back to the conversation with the mother, we talk long enough to know a little bit about Adi. He's been doing great except he got a little accident with his bike and broke a couple of his front teeth. He won some competition too, in astronomy as I remember. Then we talk about his dream to study mechanical engineering after he graduate which is soon. His mother told that it's been his dream since he was a little boy until the very now. Never change, not a single glitch. I was more than impressed. Wish can do more to help him achieve it. 

Somehow this conversation reminds me about a discussion with one of the senior volunteer. We talked about something and suddenly she asked about my dream. I avoided her question but she insisted, so I answered shyly. Wondering why because it wasn't a direct conversation. Then she said something that I can't and won't forget when I asked the reason of her question. "It's funny if you help the children to achieve their dream when you don't have one." Yeah, I couldn't agree more :)