I encountered this scene a short drive from the city of Kurunegala in central Sri Lanka. My family and I were sitting in the van on our journey to Dambulla when we encountered men offloading piles of coconuts, while the ruggedly weathered man nimbly sheds husks off the drupes that surround him.
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I was walking around Penang’s Armenian Street when I chanced upon this graffiti. The mural was created by artists Jim Oo and John Cheng, collectively known as Penang I-Wall, back in 2014. The street art extends all the way to the concrete drain covers at the bottom, which used to feature speech bubbles of common […]
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Pagoda of Rama VI
The architectural style of the Pagoda of Rama VI, also known as the Pagoda of Ten Thousand Buddhas (万佛塔), is an amalgamation of Chinese, Thai and Burmese influences to reflect Kek Lok Si (极乐寺) temple’s embrace of Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism, along with trickles of Taoist traditions. The octagonal base of the 7-storey pagoda is […]
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Mansion on the Hill
I spotted this mansion perched atop a slope as I was walking down a flight of stairs after lunch at Penang Hill. It made me curious as to who owns the place and if it, like many other mansions on top of Penang Hill, has a name of its own. The mansion may have great […]
So I was just casually surfing the net, checking out non-serious news on my day off from work. Dealing with world news, albeit in picture format, makes me reluctant to surf anything but casual quirky reads. I was going about reading Jezebel, a blog known for its feminist content, when I chanced upon an entry on a […]
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Guanyin Shan
Overheard a couple of mainland Chinese tourists talking about the mountain on the opposite shores of Tamsui River and got to know its name. The weather was just so terrible for the entire day spent at Tamsui. There was a mini-typhoon going on… The river was swollen, there was even reports of landslide in the […]
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Chapel by Tancha Bay
Woke up to this balcony view around 5.30am. The sun sure is bright so early! Yup it was also pretty windy too. That chapel, which is part of the beach resort, doesn’t look exactly fitting on Okinawa though. Probably the result of the theme wedding trend the island is experiencing. Quite ironic since couples have […]
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Aerial view of Taoyuan, Taiwan
The airplane flying above Taoyuan, Taiwan, in full view of Taoyuan International Airport and the surrounding towns. The aerial view of this part of Taiwan seems rather disorganized and scattered… It felt incredible to get a full view of the airport before the plane lands, which is probably attributed to the geographical location of the […]
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The view from out above
The view from the window seat of an Airbus A300 above the South China Sea, somewhere between the Philippines and Taiwan. Lucky to snag it. I haven’t got the chance to sit next to the window of a plane for a pretty long while… It was the strangest flight (heck everything on this airline is […]
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The Garden Lion
This looks like something right out of Narnia. Anyway it was pretty dark when I got to the Cloud Forest section of Gardens by the Bay. When I got to the back of the man-made waterfall, it was around close to 7.30pm. I took this at a shutter speed of 1/13 on my new monopod, […]
These flowers are known as blushing brides (serruria floribunda). The stems look rather thorny while the flowers remind me of dandelions. I do wonder if this plant is a desert native.
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Supergrove
Metal trees in a park. I think only Singapore would be audacious enough to erect fake trees in a nature park. Visitors pay S$5 to get up to the walkway (By a lift! Singaporeans don’t walk up the stairs, unlike hardy New Yorkers having to climb approximately 15 flight of stairs to reach the top […]
Daisies seem to be one of the staple flowers on display at the Flower Dome of the Gardens By the Bay. Nonetheless they don’t take up the prime spot, just a common fixture among the shrubbery.