Real summer...

yeah...under palm tree and sea breeze...

A lunch a day before...

A day before lunch @ Rupali, Biggs Street

...for another three months to be hold...

A boy on a bench...

He just a boy...and patiently waiting on the bench...a wooden bench at Eldon Square...on one fine morning...a Saturday morning...under a gloomy sky above...a gloomy Spring morning...

...and he still waiting...patiently...

Sensuous...

Two bags of pure dark chocolate powder are too strong to arouse my nose, a mellow West African and intense Ecuador really seductive...

...need to hold myself...dark chocolate is too sexy!

Sayonara & mata ne...

...A long working holidays

goodbye and see you...

fly away from shattered dreams

follow the cranes to easterly wind

to find hopes and courage

a soul searching journey

to start dreaming again!

Little Potato Plants

Planted these potato plants last winter and the tubers started growing when the spring comes. Hope to harvest new potatoes for the next coming winter from my little garden...

Solanum tuberosum

Afternoon stroll...

A stroll around the neighbourhood...

Fresh scent...

Spring brings colours

and fresh scent

Awaken your senses

Revive your soul...

Ann, New Book & Foggy Day = Gloomy life...

A gloomy day to start with an email alert from my iPhone brought unsettled feelings for coming summer, yeah the day that have waited anxiously and anticipated since mid 2007, Ann, my office colleague and mentor will retire soon. A new book for summer reading just arrived from Amazon.com could not console the feelings. A foggy day just brought down everything and the feelings just lingered around with the fog slowly blanketed the view.

The case of Derek Bentley tarnished British judiciary history when he was sentenced to death in 1953. The injustice death of Derek has become a landmark case to the abolition of death penalty. this book was written by her sister, Iris Bentley who fought her entire life to clear his name. Sadly, she could not celebrate the victory when she passed away of cancer in 1997, a year before Derek was cleared from the conviction.  

A foggy day brought down the feelings, sadness engulfed and the song, Angel by Sarah Mclachlan could not comfort the sadness on gloomy day...and summer this year won't be the same again.

ANGEL

*****

Spend all your time waiting

For that second chance

For a break that would make it okay

So always some reasons

To feel not good enough

And its hard at the end of the day

I need some distraction

Oh beautiful release

Memory seeps from my veins

Let me be empty

And weightless and maybe

I'll find some peace tonight

*****

In the arms of an angel

Fly away from here

From this dark cold hotel room

And the endlessness that you fear

You are pulled from the wreckage

Of your silent reverie

You're in the arms of the angel

May you find some comfort here

*****

So tired of the straight line

And every where you turn

There's vultures and thieves at your back

Storm keeps on twisting

You keep on building the lie

That you make up for all that you lack

It don't make no difference

Escaping one last time

It's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh

This glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

*****

In the arms of an angel

Fly away from here

From this dark cold hotel room

And the endlessness that you fear

You are pulled from the wreckage

Of your silent reverie

You're in the arms of the angel

May you find some comfort here

You're in the arms of the angel

May you find some comfort here

*****

...Ann and her son, Matthew with the mountainous scenery behind them. Matthew was seriously injured and stranded for more than a week with his border collie-cross 'Little Dog', broke an ankle, a wrist and gashed his thigh after plunging 15 feet down a cliff while out hiking in the Southern Alps' remote Douglas Glacier early this month. He managed to walked down the terrain after a week in bad shape and was rescued by two hunters. Ann and hubby will emigrate to New Zealand sometimes this summer. I will miss her as my mentor and her departure is another blow for me and summer this year is really tough and not so kind to me...

Colours of Spring

 Spring around Arthur's Hill

Time for elections...

Time to elect new reps...

...the New Deal Election to elect new director...

...the postal voting...

..another election for European Parliamentary and will miss this one...

Sexy Pink!

Beware of adolescent humor, view on your own discretion...

Sakura, sakura...

Sakura, sakura...oh sakura

watching beautiful cherry blossoms 

across my garden

pure and sweet

Sakura

sakura sakura

yayoi no sora wa

mi-watasu kagiri

kasumi ka kumo ka

nioi zo izuru

izaya izaya

mi ni yukan

sakura sakura

miredomo akenu

miyama no nagane

tomodachi tsurete

tomotoo soroe

izaya izaya

mi ni yukan

Sakura

Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms,

On Meadow-hills and mountains,

As far as you can see.

Is it a mist, or clouds?

Fragrant in the morning sun.

Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms,

Flowers in full bloom.

Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms,

Across the Spring sky,

As far as you can see.

Is it a mist, or clouds?

Fragrant in the air.

Come now, come,

Let’s look, at last!

***

Beautifully white...

It just beautifully white, pure white all over...will miss this soon and hope i still have time to catch the pink cherry blossoms, i wish...

...white cherry tree...

...a bunch of white sakura, innocently white...

Gyrwe@Jarrow

Another section of Bede' World is the Anglo-Saxon farm called Gyrwe consisted of an early farming with less domesticated animal farms.

...the fish pond with the wild ducks hiding around the tall grass...

...an early variety of sheep with long curvy horns...

...the chicken coop...

...that white goose tried to attack me...hehehehe...

...the sheep hut...

...two black pigs having a good time sun bathing under the spring sun...

A Great Day Trip: Bede's World

Bede's World, a museum of early medieval Northumbria at Jarrow. Located in South Shield, by River Don, Tynemouth, Bede's World consists of Bede Museum, Jarrow Hall, St.Paul's Church complex and Gyrwe (pronounced 'Yeerweh', the Old English name for Jarrow), an Anglo-Saxon demonstration farm. The Bede's World is based on extraordinary rich legacy of celebrated life of Venerable Bede (AD 673-735), who lived and worked 1300 years ago in Jarrow. 

...greeted by this terracotta soldier at the museum entrance...

the museum is a candidate of world heritage site and i wonder if Malaysia too nominate Lembah Bujang as a world heritage site because i think that Lembah Bujang complex is much more significant in terms of civilization...

...some displays in the museum section...

...a roman on the wall...

...a skeleton of an early farmer in Jarrow...

...a diorama of early Jarrow...

...the Venerable Bede, the man of centre attraction of Jarrow, who was a teacher, poet, historian and scientist...

...St.Paul's Church was one of the churches in one complex, and another one was a monastery which has been left as a ruin beside the church...

...a wooden statue hanging on the high ceiling of St.Paul's Church,

a hanging preacher...

A great half day weekend trip to Jarrow.