Old and new

This week's theme is contrast, and I've decided to show you the contrast in between the old fifty-sen coin and the new one!

I'm not really happy with the photo...the contrast doesn't really jump out at you. Somehow the difference is bigger when you hold the coins in your hand. I guess it's because of the thickness of the coins, which is not noticeable in this photo.

A blur

In the previous post I wrote about Clefairy... and now Clefairy is the star of my Photo Friday pic!

When a fairy zooms off to help her charges...all you see is a blur!

Introducing Clefairy

It's high time I wrote about my Clefairy! I bought it about a month ago, at the Farlim pasar malam. Similar to my Squirtle, it was a perfect specimen.

Check it out:

And for reference, here's the description of Clefairy taken from Bulbapedia:

Clefairy is a bipedal, pink Pokémon with a chubby, vaguely star-shaped body. A small, pointed tooth protrudes from the upper left corner of its mouth. It has wrinkles beside its black, oval eyes, dark pink, oval markings on its cheeks, two small wings, and large, pointed ears with brown tips. A tuft of fur curls over its forehead, much like its large, upward-curling tail. Each stocky arm has two small claws and a thumb on each hand, and each of its feet has a single toenail.

It matches, from the small pointed tooth to the single toenail on each foot!

Who's that Pokemon?

It's Squirtle!

Anyway, this week's theme is shadows. I tried to take a photo of my own shadow in a doorframe, from a nightlight, but it didn't turn out too well; the shadow was not dark enough. So I switched to a smaller object and light source, namely Squirtle and a flashlight. The result was not bad!

"High" tea

So... I made pancakes. This is the plate after I ate four of them immediately after making them. (still stacked pretty high :P )

The one on top is actually the last one I made; when I was eating I took pancakes from the middle because they were still warm (warmed up by the ones stacked on them). That's why it's actually a bit smaller. Not that you would see that from the photo, because the pancakes are not really stacked up neatly. The one at the bottom looks the largest, and is the largest, because I used more batter for the first one before I decided to make the pancakes a bit smaller. The others are all about the same size.

Now I am having a dilemma. I prefer eating crêpes to pancakes because they are thinner, but pancakes are so much easier (faster) to make because they are thicker, hence there are less slices to make. Hmm...

An urban area

What comes to mind when you hear urban? Tall buildings, lots of cars? Well, that is what you have here. Cars lined up on both sides of the road, and a high-rise building in the distance.

I blanked out the number plates, because... those roadsides are supposed to be "no parking"! Wouldn't like anyone to get a parking ticket just because I was snapping photos around :P

Never seen before

Last night I was playing a game of mixed doubles with some new people. When my partner was serving, he asked me, "do you want to stand in front?" I said no, I need to practise my normal doubles game. But then he insisted, "you want to play mixed doubles, mixed doubles is like this", whereas at the beginning he was just asking (I guess he didn't expect me to say no). I insisted on staying where I was, and the first shot that came back between us (him on the left and me on the right), he didn't take it. Instead he said as the shuttlecock was coming to us, "I don't take, see you can take?" However by that time it was a bit too late for me to take the shot.

This is the first time I've seen such a vindictive "I told you so" even before I had made any mistakes. I was so stunned that I was lost for words, so when I tried to say that the shot was his, it didn't quite come out right, and when I explained myself further, he said, "you have so many rules one ah?", and also "wah, teach me how to play".

After that when I managed to get some shots, he started "wah"-ing, and switched to over-praise mode. Not sure whether he was sincere or still mocking.

Anyway, I had heard from others earlier that he was a good player. Which is why I thought he would just accept it when I said the first shot was his (the one that he refused to take). But even before that... even if he felt offended that I didn't want to play in front, even if he wanted to "teach me a lesson" by not taking the shot... he shouldn't have said those words. At least wait till I cause you to lose before you say something like that!

Mr. Hero wants a racquet

Do you remember Mr. Hero? Although I didn't call him that at the time...

Anyway, on Friday he asked to see my racquet; he said the weight was written on the racquet (for Yonex it's on the part that connects the shaft to the handle; you can get more information about those specs here). Then he said something about a heavier racquet being good for training. I don't know much about that, but since he said he wanted to train, I said, so go and get a heavier racquet! But then he said a heavy one wasn't good for a real game (or something like that), so I said, get a lighter one! And then he suddenly started his spiel, saying that his birthday was around the corner, and that I should start collecting funds now, it would be easy to just collect an extra ringgit every time I collected money for the shuttlecocks...

HAHAHA I don't know how he comes up with this stuff... I told him, I don't want to know... get someone else to be the organizer...

Dining with flowers

This week's theme is flower.

We have a microwave-safe plate with a pretty flower pattern. Actually there were two, but unfortunately one cracked in the microwave. I suspect that it was because the plate was still a little cold from the fridge, but in case that was not the reason, we are now afraid of using the remaining plate in the microwave.

Concrete landscape

I don't think anyone noticed, but I skipped last week's Photo Friday because I was sick pretty much the whole week. This week's theme is landscape, and I was kinda stumped because there aren't a lot of natural landscape around to take photos of. Then I suddenly thought of a "concrete landscape", a spin-off from a concrete jungle?

This is taken from the window near my seat at work. This side looks out towards the airport... and voilà! You even have a plane taking off! Actually I didn't notice the plane when I snapped the photo; I was more focused on getting the antenna tree into it. So you see, this concrete landscape even has a tree! And then when I was reviewing the photos I had taken, looking for the one to post, I noticed the plane in one of the two best photos (I actually snapped four). So this one wins!