A crawly insect

Because the photo theme for last week was insect. It so happened that I spotted this at my door! How kind of you to come for the photo-shoot... :P

Brown art

The photo theme for this week is brown. So I was on the lookout for interesting brown items.

I spotted this at a shop where we had dim sum for breakfast. It was a set of four, one for each season of the year. This one is for autumn.

Don't blame me

At the organic produce section of the supermarket, my parents look at a bittergourd and compare it with one that my mother has selected from the “normal” section (and weighed). The price of the organic one was of course higher, but my mother remarked that it looked similar to the ones from the normal section, and that we wouldn’t even know it was organic if not for the label.

Then my father says, “So if we take off the plastic wrap, we can take it to be weighed in the normal section?” (the organic ones are individually wrapped in cling wrap)

Is this why I always look for loopholes in code reviews / rules & regulations? It might be hereditary... :P

Worlds apart

The other day at our badminton team selection, I was talking to a few girls from the Finance team. The conversation went something like this:

Me: You’re all from Finance, right?
Them: Yes, but we’re from different teams in Finance. They are both from the tax team, but the rest of us are from different teams.
Me: I don’t know much about Finance teams, they are all Finance to me…
Them: And you are from which team?
Me: Tetra Software
Them: … And that is…
Me: *tells them about a few similar teams, each having their own SW and HW teams…*
Them: *looking blur*
Me: So to us, you are Finance, and to you, we are all lumped under what?
Them: Engineers.

LOL.

I was expecting them to say R&D. :P

Who's keeping the lady waiting?

For more than one, maybe two weeks now, this little lady has been waiting at the stairs of our office car park.

At first she was lying down on the ledge, then a few days later someone propped her up against the wall (still on the ledge).

I wonder whether the person she's waiting for will come...

If no one picks her up, I might eventually invite her to visit Captain Tetra. :P

The photo theme for this week was sculpture, so I thought this tiny sculpture would do!

A panoramic view

 

Because last week's theme was panorama.

An unknown cafe

The other day we went to Unknown Cafe & Bistro at Queen’s Waterfront. My friend had heard that the food was good. It was rather pricey, but we agreed that the presentation and taste were very good. 

grilled cajun chicken, RM26.90

charcoal black barramundi fish & chips, RM29.90

manuka honey milk (RM7.90) and taro yam latte (RM12.90)

Mine was the chicken and the honey milk. I was rather thirsty that afternoon after eating this... I can’t really tell whether it was because the milk was not very thirst-quenching. :P

The prices up there are before adding service charge and tax...so in the end the total bill came up to RM90 for the two of us!

A vintage machine

The photo theme for last week was vintage.

I happened to spot this coconut grater outside a convenience store, an I'd say it's a pretty good subject for this theme!

Plus, having the half-coconut in the basket on top is a very nice touch to complete the scene. :D

Best of Berlin

Well…sort of.

One of the most interesting things that we saw in Berlin was this bed taxi.

Everyone was already snapping photos (I was trying to do so discreetly), when a customer came along fulfilling all our wishes.

Everyone was already snapping photos (I was trying to do so discreetly), when a customer came along fulfilling all our wishes.

all ready to go (looks like there's a seat-belt! Or should I say bed-belt?)

let's go!

I still don’t know whether she actually asked him to send her to a place she was planning to go to, or whether it was a ride around the square (Alexanderplatz is huge, after all…)

The following photos are the ones that I don’t have much to say about, but they are still photos that I would like to share because either they look pretty, or they are little things that I would like to keep a memory of.

For example, taking a photo with Vin Diesel outside Madame Tussaud's museum.

he's wax, I'm real

a pretty scene walking back one night. It's a pity not to share the photo!

a very popular beer house. Lots of people lining up every time we passed. Oktoberfest season, I guess

Cuore di Vetro, a very nice gelato place that we found when walking back after dinner one day (found it thanks to Google ratings). We would have liked to go back again, but it wasn't convenient...

a nice burger place, again, found thanks to Google ratings

This was near our hotel, and it was really good. I wouldn't have minded eating it again, but towards the end of our stay we found a really good kebab (we can find good burgers in Malaysia, but not good kebab!)

Speaking of kebab, this was the good one, just outside the Hallesches Tor U-Bahn station.

doner box

veggies are underneath (we could select either veggies or fries)

And finally, two good photos of the Brandenburger Tor.

Here I shall consider it a wrap for the Europe trip posts. In case you’re wondering (I knew I would wonder, so I kept track), there were:

7 posts just about airport drama, the lounges and flights (hey, it’s my first time experiencing business class travel!)
6 posts on Berlin (including one just about the hotel room)
2 posts on Potsdam
7 posts on Copenhagen
3 posts on Malmö
1 post on Szczecin (crammed; it could have been two!)

Berlin light festival

As luck would have it, the Berlin light festival started on our last night in Berlin. So we spent the night walking around and snapping photos.

before it actually started, the TV tower was greenish

some weird flying things (UFOs? :P )

they changed colour a few times

at Bebelplatz

a building on Unter den Linden (we were saying that the open window spoils the display!)

Brandenburger Tor

managed to get a photo with the blooming flowers :D

Sony Center at Potsdamerplatz

it changes colour too

even trees were lighted up

and some flowers (people were queueing to go into the building for more light shows)

these flowers change colour too

some hanging hearts

caterpillar

and snail

it was a display with them together

lighted swans...

...that can swim about

back to the TV tower, since we had to get back to the hotel

And that's it!