Promise me...

With one pinky, a promise is sealed...


Or how else do you seal your promises?

Public space

Here's a public space for the Photo Friday challenge this week:

Penang airport

I took this when I went for my flight on Saturday.

Don't miss the two curved M's in the background...I made sure that got into the photo, because it's time E Z Y stopped hogging McD for his photos! :P (and those three links aren't all...there are even more on his blog! lol )

Ring...ring...

Let's get this done early for a change.

I mean Photo Friday. This week's theme is wide angle, and here you go:


That's certainly a wide angle...and it's also the "phone" we played with as children! Ring...ring... Hello?

Too little, too late

This is for last week's Photo Friday...little.


There's only a little Horlicks left in the jar...

(I had a hard time thinking of what to take a photo of, which is why this post is late!)

Oh, it's Friday?

Oh yeah, it's Friday...so here's my baby:

It's a baby...and it's mine! Well, kinda... :P

Sorry, I've run out of ideas for MiniStories... :s

Photo Friday: Slick

Nope, no stories about this one, unfortunately. Just my slick bathroom floor...caution!


This should be filed under "posts I wish I never had to post". Haha...

Photo October Day 1: Animals

October is here, and with it, a new photo challenge!


Seems that the number of my blog posts per month is going to go through the roof! lol

Anyway...animals. You might or might not know that I have a lot of animal companions at home. So I gathered them all together for a family photo!

my animal family
(six kinds of animals, if I counted correctly)

By the way, this also counts for this week's Photo Friday's theme, which happens to be "animal". ;)

Inside

Inside my clothes cupboard, with the door shut. (thank you timer!)


No, you don't get to see my clothes. :P

No story this time...I'm out of ideas!

Glowing

My computer mouse glowing in the dark office

And now for the "short story".

The mouse lies still, in the dark. It can hear the shuffling sound of feet. Somewhere...but from which direction? Ears pricked, it listens...

It hears the noise again. Might it be a cat?

It is unmistakable now. It can smell the cat...

Padding feet, coming closer...

And closer yet...

The cat will pounce soon, it knows.

~~~~~

The cat yowls and jumps off the table.

The mouse was glowing!

- Imagined scenario, if the computer mouse (above) were a real mouse...

This week's challenge: Near

Seems that I didn't need much time to get a photo after all. Here:


These are always near when I'm using my computer ^_^ (at home, I mean)

And I also got inspired in a different way...so I'm going to try to do this for future themes as well (no promises though, only if I get any ideas). I present you... *drumroll, please*... the MiniStory^TM!

Haha, okay, it's just a short story (really short). I wanted to do something like this on another blog, but it didn't work out too well... Now I'm wondering whether I should keep the MiniStories here or whether I should post them there. Hmm...anyway, I'll start them here.

She gazes out the window, listening to the raindrops as they hit the windowpane. She wishes it were Sunday, but it is only Friday.

She misses him terribly. A week without seeing him, that is just too much.

The rain continues to fall, and she recalls the lyrics of a song: We're under the same sky. Yes, they were under the same sky, weren't they? She wonders whether it is raining where he is now.

All these business trips...he assures her that without them, they wouldn't have enough to live on. She supposes it is true.

With a sigh, she turns out the light and goes to bed, wishing that she could sleep through the next day.

~~~

But she doesn't. The next morning awakes her, and she mopes around the house, not knowing what to do.

In the afternoon she can't bear it any longer. She decides to go out for a walk.

As she passes a hedge she remembers what he had said about the park behind it. Dark and gloomy, you don't want to go there. But she feels dark and gloomy. Maybe it is perfect for this moment, she thinks.

She walks around in the park. It isn't so dark and gloomy after all. Her spirits are actually lifted by the vast greenery around her.

She hears a child cry, "Daddy! Daddy!" She looks around and sees a little boy running towards a man. Oh, how the man resembles him, she thinks. Then with a shock, she realises that it is him.

She freezes in place, looking at the scene that seems so unreal, like from a movie. The man hugs the boy and they both walk off. It isn't until they are out of sight that she finds that she can move again.

As she walks home with tears in her eyes, all she could think of was, he was so near.

Written in 15 minutes (roughly). I hope you were entertained!

Photo challenge recap

I have been meaning to write a post of this kind for the last theme in the 30-day photo challenge, but finally didn't have the time. What can I say? Yay, we made it! lol

Cheers to my photo-challenge mates: Pat, Jamie, EzY and Ellen!

It has been fun, and it's quite a pity to stop here. Pat is already continuing with her own challenge, posting a photo a day. I don't think I can do that long term, because 1) I won't have ideas every day, and 2) it means I need Internet every day, which is a constraint I don't want to impose on myself.

And then I found this: Photo Friday. If you check the challenge archive, this challenge has been going on since 2002!

There is a new theme every Friday, so there's a whole week to think about it and take a photo. I don't want to submit my photos to the site, but instead just post it here. Who's up for it? :)

This week's challenge is "Near". I shall try to think of something...