Hello dearest friends! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thursday!! Yeap, it’s time for Picture Perfect… and the theme this week is HOBBY!!

 

Now, here comes the routine…..

~ The theme! Yeap, I know the meaning of HOBBY pretty well, so skip trying to understand the meaning of the word! But being a Gemini, I have lots of hobbies!!

~ Dig for a picture! As the norm for me, I prefer to dig through my old pictures for each theme instead of making new ones.

So dig, dig, dig! Look, look, look! Uh? I don’t have any HOBBY picture!! So can’t participate this week!! (Well, this is what I always say to myself each week! )

~ So, second round of dig, dig, dig and look, look, look!

~ Heyyy!! I was already looking at my HOBBY!! Building fond memories with my girls; Doing as many things together and going to as many places together!! My wish and my reasons being when I’m no longer around, I want my children to be able to say; Heyyy, I’ve done this, and I’ve done that, with my Mum when she was around….. I’ve been here, and I’ve been there with my Mum, when she was around….

Most of my pictures are about capturing every fun moment that I had with my two girls, Buttercup and Bubbles. My Blossom, the oldest, is already away at boarding school by the time I got my digital camera. Thus my memories with her are mostly in pictures from the film camera.

And just in case anybody’s wondering where the father is….. He’s busy working somewhere trying to make sure that his wife and children are able to build those fond memories!! They don’t come free, ya’ know!!

© Photo: Ruzie. All rights reserved.
(Taken handheld with my Olympus Camedia FE-5500)

Sharing here is one of my girls’ moment of joy! Watching, touching and grabbing The Baby Looney Tunes!!!

 

So, there goes another glimpse of the joy of my life....
Hope you like my HOBBY!!

Thank you very much to Mr. JohnOh for hosting this week & for the great theme!
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Take care & Hope you have a great & joyous Friday!!

Ta Ta For Now!

And sorry, but I just have to post this picture too because you see, the top picture doesn't show the back portion of the supposedly volcanoes. Can you see there’s a hanging bridge crossing in the centre? I’ve got one end in, and even with two pictures I still didn’t manage to cover till the other end… The place is so huge (well, to me and my girls anyway)! You can just imagine when my girls get here….     
There will be no end…..


So there goes another glimpse of my little world...
Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks a lot to Picture Perfect for hosting & for the great theme!

Hello dear friends! Hope you have a wonderful Friday! Yeap, it’s Friday here and as usual, here comes my Picture Perfect!

The theme this week, hosted by Tint is:

'SHADOW'

Explore the many forms and meanings of this word!

  Dictionary.com:
  1. a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
  2. shade or comparative darkness, as in an area.
  3. shadows, darkness, esp. that coming after sunset.
  4. shelter; protection: sanctuary in the shadow of the church.
  5. (in painting, drawing, graphics, etc.)
      a. the representation of the absence of light on a form.
      b. the dark part of a picture, esp. as representing the absence of illumination:
          Rembrandt's figures often emerge gradually from the shadows.
  6. an inseparable companion: The dog was his shadow.

  Wikipedia:
  Coloured Shadow: If white light is produced by separate coloured light sources, the shadows are coloured.

© Photo: Ruzie. All rights reserved.
(Taken with my Olympus Camedia FE-5500, handheld & unretouched. )

It's a hot Friday afternoon now and I’m running late for my Picture Perfect! The theme RED for this week is very difficult for me. I’ve just realized I don’t have many RED in my pictures!! Hmm… wonder why is that so?Apart from pictures of red flowers (which are very few too), this is the only RED I can find.

 
© Photo: Ruzie. All rights reserved.
(Taken with my Olympus Camedia FE-5500, unretouched & handheld)

This picture I’m sharing is not so great because it was a bit difficult to get a good shot. The place was a bit crowded with visitors and this is the only one I managed to take without anybody else seen, except the mannequins of course! Heehee!

I took the picture of this red dress in July, 2006 at Laman Batik Datin Seri Endon, Kuala Lumpur Lake Garden which is a tribute for Datin Seri Endon Mahmood, the late wife of our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi who died of breast cancer on October 20, 2005. Despite her illness, Datin Seri Endon had begun a vigorous campaign, “Malaysia Batik - Crafted For The World” which inspired the industry to go beyond the ordinary into the high end of fashion. This red dress is one of her great batik creations.

You can also see on the right side of the mannequins, a poster of the late Datin Seri Endon holding the red orchid called Mokara Datin Seri Endon.  Mokara Datin Seri Endon was specially bred by the Malaysian Agriculture Research and Development Institute (MARDI) and presented to her in May, 2005. Being a highly creative and artistic personality that she was, the orchid inspired her to transfer its distinctive colour and features into a stunning batik collection.

For more details see www.worldbatikcouncil.com/pmsmessage/tribute.htm

 

So, there goes another glimpse into my little world…
Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks a lot to FotoFriday for hosting & for the great theme!

Take care & Hope you enjoy a great post-Valentine’s Day!!

Hello dear friends! It’s Friday here and time for my Picture Perfect!! The theme this week is WATER and it is definitely appropriate for this week as we seem to hear a lot about it on the global news nowadays. It’s either too much water or not enough. My heart goes to friends that have been affected by the floods and friends who have been on dry land and deprived of water for far too long now. Either way, it must have been very hard for them and they will always be in my thoughts and prayers…

It’s really difficult for me to choose a picture this week. Being in the equatorial line, our weather is warm throughout the year, except when it’s monsoon time and it’ll be raining most of days. So if we get to choose, we’d love to be in the water all the time! There are pictures at the swimming pools, at the water theme park, at waterfall, at the ponds, at the lakes, at the seaside and so on…

Finally I chose to share this with you and I hope it will bring joy to your heart, as it did mine everytime I look at it. The clear water in this pond is full with colourful koi fish and it is actually inside one of our shopping malls. My Buttercup felt so excited when all the fish came up to her when she started feeding them. She was so surprised that those fish did not hesitate to come so close to her. She was shrieking with joy and was so tempted to touch the fish! See she’s already pointing her fingers …

 

Oh! Alright! I guess it’s just fair to show this picture where she’s already trying to touch the fish! Heehee! It’s almost the same, so we can consider it as one, yes? 

 

So there goes another glimpse of my little world… Hope you enjoy it! 

Thanks a lot to FotoFriday for hosting & for another great theme!

Take care & Hope You Enjoy A Wonderful Friday!!

To those celebrating Chinese New Year,
Gong Xi Fa Cai & Hope You Enjoy a Prosperous Year of the Rat!!!

Yeap, I've never actually took a real look at the top of our house until the day this photo was taken in February 2006. A few hours earlier a slight twister hit our area and blew off a row of houses' roof tiles. Oooh! Just reminiscing that moment gives me the shiver... It was past 2 in the afternoon and I was sitting by the window when it started to rain slightly. Then the wind started to blow a bit harder. And suddenly I heard a whistling sound. Now who in the world could whistle so hard in the rain, I thought. But it became harder by the seconds and I was getting spook. My little Bubbles who was standing nearby, heard the sound too and look at me in puzzle. Not wanting to scare her, I just smiled and said nothing. But it was at that moment suddenly we heard a loud cracking sound on our roof and sounded like it's moving from the front of the house to the end and even passed our house. By this time Bubbles and me, while hugging each other, had ran to the end of the house, not really sure where to go....
(and somehow Buttercup who was in her room listening to the radio was oblivious of what had took place!). Now bear in mind that all this happened in just a few seconds...

 
Only when my husband came home about an hour later did we dare to emerge from the house and together with the neighbours, surveyed what damaged had been done…. The little freak twister travelled through the whole neighbourhood where a lot of big trees fell everywhere on the road and houses roof tiles were blown away. Then, while most of my neighbours had to wait for hired contractors to come and repair their roof, my dear hubby had climbed up there and did the repairs himself… And when I looked up to snap this photo I noticed even the sky looked so fierce…. This really does made me take a fresh look at our home, how blessed we've been... when there were so many out there who had not been so lucky, lost their homes when hit by the wrath of nature, so much worst than what we had just experienced.....

So there goes another glimpse of my little world.... Hope you like my interpretation!

Thanks a lot to Tint for hosting & for another great theme! To join the Picture Perfect fun click here!

Hello dear friends! It's Friday morning & time for my Picture Perfect! The theme this week is a bit unusual (well, for me at least!), 'A Song Title'. Hmm... this is very wide actually. It can be just anything. But to me a song normally reveals feeling.  And of course I've a lot of photos of joy. In moments of despair, I don't think I would remember to capture the moments  I know I won't cherish....

 

Now there's two versions of story behind the photo I'm sharing this week. First, I thought it's so appropriate for this Song Title "HOW DO I LIVE". Crushed my heart when listen to the song & looking at my dear Bubbles crying her heart out....

HOW DO I LIVE – LeAnn Rimes How do I, Get through the night without you? If I had to live without you, What kind of life would that be? Oh, I need you in my arms, need you to hold, You're my world, my heart, my soul, If you ever leave, Baby you would take away everything good in my life, And tell me now How do I live without you? I want to know, How do I breathe without you? If you ever go, How do I ever, ever survive? How do I, how do I, oh how do I live? Without you, There'd be no sun in my sky, There would be no love in my life, There'd be no world left for me. And I, Baby I don't know what I would do, I'd be lost if I lost you, If you ever leave, Baby you would take away everything real in my life, And tell me now, How do I live without you? I want to know, How do I breathe without you? If you ever go, How do I ever, ever survive? How do I, how do I, oh how do I live? Please tell me baby, How do I go on? If you ever leave, Baby you would take away everything, I need you with me, Baby don't you know that you're everything, Good in my life? And tell me now, How do I live without you, I want to know, How do I breathe without you? If you ever go, How do I ever, ever survive? How do I, how do I, oh how do I live? How do I live without you? How do I live without you baby?

 

Second, the true story - The three of us, Buttercup, Bubbles & me had just taken a photo posing at the bench behind with the great background. I asked someone to help take the photo, so the moment it's done I got up to take the camera from him and my Buttercup get up too to take the shopping bags we left next to him. Now Bubbles, while we're sitting at the bench, noticed this thing just beside the man taking our photo too. I didn't realized she was scared of it. You know that flowing thing they do for ad with air blowing under it to make the figure stand tall & flowing.... I thought I saw a pic somewhere but somehow I can't locate it now and I'm short of time! I hope you know what thing I'm talking about.

So there she was, standing there, crying her heart out, wanted to hug me but was too scared to come near because I was standing just next to it. So these wicked mother & sister were laughing at her and since I was holding the camera I took the shot!! But of course, I hug her soon enough & she was all ok. Heehee! But she's still afraid of that flowing thing even until now....


So there goes another glimpse of my life.... Hope you like my interpretation!  

Thanks a lot to FotoFriday for hosting & for another great theme! Click on her name  to join the fun!

Take Care & Hope You Enjoy A Wonderful Friday!!
Ta Ta For Now!

Hello dearest friends! Hope everyone is now safe and well after the recent celebrations! It's Friday afternoon and I'm in good time for my Picture Perfect! The theme for this week is REFLECTIONS. Hmm... this is another hard one for me. I have to decide among the few that I have. So here goes…

I took this photo in August last year during the Flower & Garden Festival at Putrajaya. The people you see were actually on my left side as we're crossing a little bridge and the reflection falls on the two mirrors in the pond. I would say the reflection of the flowers on the pond would be more stunning had the water not be too murky!! Geez!

So, there goes another glimpse from my little world!

Thanks a lot to FotoFriday for hosting & for another great theme! Click on her name  to join the fun!

Hello dear friends! Hope you had a wonderful Thursday! Mine was a resting day! After the trip the day before, I needed a good rest…. The girls, however, are still restless as ever….. So I just kept feeding them today till they’re so full & let them watched old Disney videotapes. Heehee! Well, at least that did keep them quiet for awhile……. Any bright ideas anyone?

 

 

 Sharing here a photo which I took in September last year showing my two girls, Buttercup & Bubbles, as we’re leaving our favourite Bukit Jalil Park. As normal, when these girls were having fun, it’s difficult to tell them it’s time to go home even when it’s getting ‘Into The Night’!!! LOL!!

So, there goes another piece of my life….

Thank you FotoFriday for hosting!

Take care & Hope you have a wonderful Friday!

This is the first time I'm trying to do Picture Perfect. This week's theme is "Outrageous' and I thought this is outrageous enough! I took this picture during a Consumer Carnival last year. Shown here a comparison of genuine products and the fakes. There are Herbal Tea packages on the left, ‘Majakani’ in the centre are traditional herbal supplements, ‘Three Beauties’ are face powders and ‘Fab’ on the top right are detergent powder. The label ‘Tulen’ means genuine & ‘Tiruan’ means fake. I was really shocked when I saw these. Have I ever bought fakes without realizing it?! Though I'm not using any of these products, how do I know how many more fake products out there really?! It’s totally outrageous!!

By the way, please bear in mind, I took this picture through the glass showcase so there's a slight reflection.

Thanks for hosting FotoFriday!