Here comes goodbye...

Here Comes Goodbye - Rascal Flatts

~ April 7, 2009 ~

The day when the time changed...

It's officially spring/summer when time is moved one hour forward at 02:00 a.m. this morning jumped into 03:00 a.m. and the first day of spring/summer will be only 23 hours, and the rest of summer, the day is longer for one hour and people get one one hour extra to enjoy the day time.

Did my bit to follow the rest of the world to switch off the light, and i went further to kick an hour earlier than the rest of UK and i still switching off my apartment light until now 04:55 a.m. and the sun will rise around 06:45 a.m.

Watched a documentary that mentioned Minimata disease and what a sad thing that happened out of human greed, contaminating and destroying the mother earth with mercury and other heavy metals around Minimata Bay, Japan.

A lighter week ahead in terms of boxes around my apartment when the shipping company collected my 14 boxes yesterday evening to be sent home...however, a tough weeks ahead awaiting before mid of April, and will become much hectic and challenging towards the end of the year...gambate kudasai!

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Let me fall like Sakura

pure and grace

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Every hour around the globe...

8:30PM local time, whenever you live on planet earth. 

Saturday 28 March 2009

Spring blooming at Jarrow...

Taken around Jarrow on the way to Bede's world...

Flower of good cause...

Spring brings and renews hopes...and it's time to bring spring blooms to a good cause...as daffodils blooming around, it's bring hope to cancer patient too with the Great Daffodil Appeal for Marie Currie Cancer Care...

let's donate generously...http://www.mariecurie.org.uk/daffodil/

Randomizer, randomizer, randomizer...

Hehehehehehe, it just sounds like 'womanizer' hahahaha...well, this is a first tag of the new spring season,  from Azizi...so let's see how my computer randomizes my so called random things about myself...How it works: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about yourself...additional condition: you can write 25 or more if you like, but if you could not find 25, just write at least 10...HAPPY SPRING! Here the list...NO.145 Every bathroom (3 baths only...pheewww) in my house must have the same toiletries...so i can take my bath at any bathroom i like...hehehehe...NO.99 Colour coded cloth hangers for hanging my laundry...NO.27 Love to buy books but lazy to read...NO.13 hahahaha i love no.13! no reason...NO.67 Milk and me is not a good combination...NO.1511 I'm a shy type, and i don't talk much...heheheehee...NO.20.6 Wish to live in a small village with my own small organic farm...so i can eat healthy...NO.777 I'm a wabi-sabi... NO.4 Minimalist  NO.35 This is my house no...oooopppppsss...i just set 10 for the randomizer...sorry azizi blame to my computer dude! ...and so i randomized a list of other bloggers to do it too...hahahaha...revenge session (not in random order/no.)... 13. Tim...21. Siew Ping ...09. Feng Liu...35. Leka...75. Sam...04. Tariq...88. Reuben...137. Azizi (oooppppss...hahahaha...don't blame me, blame the randomizer!)...03. Ozcan...1127. Ferrya...05. Marcio...451 Faris...17. Xenia...Happy Tagging everybody!

Spring essentials...

A bit from Miss Bassey will do for an early spring and i guess a perfect gift for Mother's Day too...for all mom bloggers: Kak Teh, Naz, Ms B, Kak Ja, Putubambu, D, Cik Kiah...that i frequent visit their blogs...HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY and you just like a perfect cut diamond that never fade away your sparkle...

...a special track for those mother bloggers: Diamond are forever...

...and a little bite of Ugli oranges...ugly from outside but sweet inside...

will splash the scent of spring across the field...

time to eat a lot of citruses...

It must be spring...

it's spring!

...time to have more sun!

When the day is longer...

It's spring already which started at 11:40 am today but not so many people realized that...it a start of spring season when the day time is longer than the night time and my sleeping time will slightly change too...but the official time change is on last Sunday of March...well, the daffodils already blooming around...need to snap some daffodils...

A brand new iPhone...

...it's just like a new phone without buying the new one...will be available free this summer to some fifty million owners of iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod touch (a little penny will do)... 

"...a reporter asked about a new iPhone model. With utmost respect for my colleague, she may have missed the point. That iPhone 3.0 distributes new handsets to all iPhone and iPod touch owners without requiring the purchase of new hardware is the story"

 

- Tom Yager on March 17, 2009 06:14 PM, InfoWorld

iPhone 3G has landed at last...

Now iPhone 3G officially in Malaysia, brought to you by Maxis!

pheeewwww...it will cost a bomb to own one in Malaysia...

i don't think i can afford to have one!

It's a new day, it's a new life...

It's spring feeling around but is not officially spring yet until the last Sunday of March, and the young shoots are coming out beaming with new life...

..new season...

...english rose leaves...

...pinkish pale sakura...

...flaming orange tulip...

...cherry blooms...

...and even on my laptop, the spring is so obvious...

...and on my iPhone too...

arrrgghhh...what a beautiful life!

the sun, the blooms

the bees, the birds 

humming, singing happily

beaming with life and hope

New baby...

Hello baby...come to papa!

...and...

talk to papa

sing to papa

bring joy to papa

make papa smiles again

Late night indulgence...

It was a must, after a long walk around Istanbul, to stop at a cafe before heading back to the hotel for a sip of Turkish coffee or Turkish black tea or Apple tea served in a small cute cup or unique shape glass...interestingly that the coffee is more expensive than the tea...

...sweet black Turkish coffee, served with a glass of water...

...Apple tea...sweet apple smell...

...another sweet black tea in a small unique-shaped glass...

...aaarrgghhh...sweet creamy black cherry cake...

...the coffee too was served with famous turkish delights...

Lonely Planet - ALONG THE BOSPHORUS

Just another fantastic views along the Straits of Bopshorus, a heavy traffic waterway connecting the Sea of Marmara to Black Sea...

...the lavish and expensive palace that crumbled the Ottoman Empire...

...there are few palaces along the straits on both sides...

...one of the fishing villages...

...highly shipping lane traffics across the straits...

...the bridge hopefully will be eased a little bit when the underwater tunnel across the straits is completed...

...was part of the city wall from the Topkapi Palace...

tagged by INTAN...wait and i did it at last...

At last i managed to answer Intan's tag...here the rules...

1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle. remember! SHUFFLE !!
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write that song name down NO MATTER HOW silly it sounds.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Put this on your journal/blog.

1. If someone says, “Is this okay?” … you say?
'Mak Inang' by Anneke Gronloh - (hahahaha...i luv this classic and i dunno what to say...)

2. How would you describe yourself?
'Shower wo Aberu Mae ni'  by  Kaori Natori - (hahahaa...sexy and kawaii like Kaori-san)

3. What do you like in a girl?
'Life' by Mika Nakashima - (yeah, a girl is full of life...)

4. How do you feel today?
'No bravery' by James Blunt - (yeah, i'm not so brave enuf lately...)

5.What is your life’s purpose?
'Prayer' by Various Artists - (hhhmmm...need to pray to HIM...to thank HIM for giving me life!)

6. What is your motto?
'Nothing hurts like love' by Daniel Bedingfield - (nothing hurts like love...)

7. What do your friends think of you?
'Seishu' or 'Pure' by Jia Peng Fang - (yeah, me so 'pure' of myself...)

8. What do you think of your parents?
'Say' by John Meyer - (whatever they say, i have to listen to them...)

9. What do you think about very often?
'Take a bow' by Rihanna - (yeah, take a bow to the pressure and walk tall...)

10. What is 2 + 2?
'I miss you'  by Darren Hayes - (a secret code of i miss you - 2+2...hehehehe...)

11. What do you think of your best friend?
'Diamante' by Randy Crawford & Zucchero - (yeah, best friend like a diamond, priceless and shine all the time throughout thick and thin...)

12. What do you think of the person you like?
'Me and Mrs. Jones' by Michael Buble - (yeah, as closed and intimate like me and mrs.jones...hehehe...)

13. What is your life story?
'In her eyes' by Josh Groban - (my life story is what you see through your eyes...)

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
'Come away with me' by Norah Jones - (yeah, come away with me travel around the universe and see the sunset and listen to the sea breeze...)

15. What do you think of when you see the person you like?
'When you believe' by Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey - (i think that person must believe in me...)

16. What will you dance to at your wedding?
'At last' by Kenny G - (at last i can dance...)

17. What will they play at your funeral?
'Perpisahan' by Anuar Zain -  (ouchhh...hahahaha...well, said...)

18.What is your hobby/interest?
'A kiss without commitment' by Daniel Bedingfield - (hahahaha...i luv this one...no string attach...)

19. What is your biggest fear?
'God must have been spent a little time on you' by NSYNC - (hope not...)

20. What is your biggest secret?
'I want to spend my lifetime' by Tina Arena & Marc Anthony - (hehehhee...oh, no! my secret is exsposed!)

21. What do you think of your friends?
'The maker makes' by Rufus Wainwright - (like what rufus said...)

22. What will you post this as?
'Taboo' by Hirai Ken - (it's a taboo job...hehehehehe...)

23.say something bout the person tagged you.
'Feel the need' by Anita Baker - (why you feel the need to tag me...hehehehe...ok, intan...sorry for taking so long to do this...)

tadddaaaaaaa...

Lonely Planet - ICONIC ISTANBUL

Blue Mosque

...no blue paint/colour from the outside, but the interior was decorated with blue tiles, that's the name came from..

Hagia Sofia Basilica (Church)

Galata Tower

...this view from the harbour...

...from the Tokapi Palace...

Suleiman Mosque

...from Tokapi...the mosque was closed for restoration works, only small section opened for people to perform their praying...

...another rival masterpiece from the prodigy of Blue Mosque's architect...

...view from a cafe across the road...the mosque was built on top of a hill, two kilometres away from the Blue Mosque...masjectically can be seen across the straits...

Tokapi Palace

...once the official palace for the ottoman sultanate but now as a museum, so no pics for the displays...