Photo October Day 31: Stop

In the spirit of Halloween, I decided to take a ghostly photo. Inadvertently, I ended up spooking myself in the process...

Warning: creepy photo ahead! (if you choose to stare too long at it; or else it might actually look like nothing :P )






Ready?






Did you see the ghostly apparition telling you to STOP?

I didn't quite understand why the photo turned out this way...at first I was wondering why I wasn't in there! (yep, I'm the ghostly apparition) After I noticed the ghostly figure I switched on the light to take a good look at the photo, the light refused to switch on for a few seconds. -_- Good thing I'm a believer in logical explanations.

After thinking it out a bit, I figured out that I had probably moved before the photo was completely shot. So I tried taking it again, staying in position for a longer time, and this time it worked like I wanted.







It's not quite dark enough for my liking... Still, it's a STOP! photo all right... ;P

This is one of the things I like about the photo challenge...it makes me think of strange things to do, that I wouldn't ever have done otherwise. (or maybe I'm just a little kid :P ) So, we'll start the new challenge tomorrow!

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!)

Unveiling Photo November!

October is ending, so the next photo challenge is out!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to snap a photo every day according to these themes.

*Please hum Mission Impossible theme here*


This message will self-destruct in 5...4...3...2...1... Um, actually, never. :P

Themes selected by Jamie, Ezy and myself...and jumbled up randomly with an Excel clone (SoftMaker, since my computer only has the Starter version of Microsoft Office 2010 which takes ages to start up...you'd think that starter versions would be good at starting up, but nope -_- )

A trip to Penang Hill

Finally. Haha...

Last Sunday my father was in Penang, so we went up Penang Hill (neither my brother nor I had ever gone up the hill before). Even though we have been coming to Penang every year since forever, it was always during school holidays and we didn't want to join the crowd of tourists...

the train we took up (this is at the top)

a furry plant...who knows its name?

the old train (I think)

There are first and second class seats...I don't know what's the difference though...

There are some tourists who are gonna think that "ABC ice kacang" means "fresh fruit juice"... :P

But you know, I think this is good advertising. Know what your different customers want! lol

a blue and yellow macau

This was in the bird park...but we didn't want to pay to go in :P So I snapped this photo from the entrance, using full use of the zoom feature on my camera. It would have been really simple to take this photo, except that people kept walking past...and blocking my view. -_- And several even stood there to wait for people... Argh...can't they stand somewhere else?! -_-

Segway rides

I'm not quite sure, but I think it was RM10 for 10 minutes... The guy with the helmet is a customer and the girl in the red shirt is a pro (well, I mean she was working there...that's probably why she doesn't need a helmet, she won't fall off! :P )

twin flowers...does anyone know what they are?

I don't really know what this is (I think the name was somewhere but I can't remember it :P )

the mosque

and the garden beside it

the Indian temple

I tried to take photos of the view from the top of the hill, but the photos all came out blurred. Probably because of the mist/haze...

On the way down, we went to the front of the train. Photo time! (I snapped 20 photos here :P )

I'm not sure what this was doing beside the track. Maintenance train?

where the track splits into two

Here comes the other train...

Keep left...

and this is where the track dips...there were gasps all around me at about this time. Aaahhh...we're going to fall into emptiness!!! Like a roller-coaster track, huh... :P

After coming down from the hill we drove around a bit...and found a couple of interesting things.

Even a phone booth needs a number plate for identification purposes :P

I have a shop!

Do you think I could get a discount if I go there? :P

Photo October Day 30: Wires

Lots of wires!


And in different colours too...

Photo October Day 29: Life

This is life...a dog's life. Haha...


The dog was dozing and I wanted to take a photo...then it suddenly lifted its head and looked straight at me. Unfortunately by the time I got out my handphone and was ready to take a picture, it had flopped back to sleep...

Photo October Day 28: Art

Yesterday Jamie shared a link to an eel-creating website. I tried it but wasn't that pleased with my creations...I guess I'm just not artsy enough. :|

Behold, though, the works of art by the others:

The fisherman

I have gotten to know a fisherman. Not the type that fishes for fish, though. He fishes instead for information. An intellectual fisherman, if you like. (that sounds so weird... lol )

He collects scraps and fashions them into bait. With this bait he casts his line...and waits to see whether he gets a bite.

If he gets a bite he can deduce that his bait was effective. But if he doesn't get a bite...does he know whether his bait was not effective, or whether the fish just aren't hungry?

The unfortunate thing is that he sometimes draws the wrong conclusion. (like this)

You see, sometimes when his assumptions aren't refuted (though they're not verified either), he takes them to be true...though I think he has realised by now that he can't conclude that way! :P

But he has made at least one spot-on assumption that I remember... (and which was probably his first assumption too!) and sometimes he doesn't fall too far off the mark. So I guess he can still "cari makan" (catch his food, so to speak)...hahaha

(If you haven't got it by now, the "scraps" are pieces of information, the "bait" is the assumption (or more like guesses) he makes, his "line" is the conversation that he uses to "fish" for more information, and the "bites" (or none) that he gets are the replies to what he says. How's that for analogy? :P )

First a philosopher, now a fisherman...what next?

Photo October Day 27: Imagination

While racking my brains for a photo idea, I thought of the finger shadows we played with when we were small. This isn't exactly a shadow (because I'm rather bad at that :P ), but if you use your imagination you will be able to see a snake rearing up at you!

Ready? Scroll down...












Haha...like it?

(This photo is rather blurred, so I took a second one with macro setting. Though that one came out clear, I found the first one nicer...because somehow, when things are clear you don't have to use your imagination any more ;) )

Photo October Day 26: Exaggerate

This theme isn't easy... but I was lucky enough to notice this a few days ago near the admin office of my apartment.


What does it say? "A lakeside home in the country..."

And "Lake Side Resort" at the bottom. Resort? What resort? -_-

In reality, the lake is this:

One end of the lake...the other end might be slightly bigger, but not that much, really.

And you haven't even seen the entrance of my apartment block...resort your head! lol

That sign board is really exaggerating!