Southwest!
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Took a little trip to south-west England over the last 3 days. We went many places, most notably Oxford, Bath, Exeter and Land’s End. Like Eu Hua and Aaron, I only have time for a little preview.
And how can any trip be complete without a visit to the Loo of the Year..
.. and learning a new photography stance: the Shaolin Crouch!
Untitled Thoughts
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Why do I like to compare myself to others? Is this human nature, or is it just my stupidity? I mean, why should I give a shit about what other people wanna do with their lifes, or if they’re doing something stupid? Yeah, so some people have plenty of money to go on Europe tours. Some people won’t think twice before flinging away their parent’s money. Why does the thought of envying them even come to mind?! That’s just stupid! How foolish of me..
Sigh, when do you know when it’s the right time to tell someone they’re not exactly doing the right thing, and when do you just leave them to it? How do you decide that someone is not doing something stupid enough for you to tell them off? Sigh, sometimes one should be considerate to others, sometimes you gotta be selfish and take care of yourself. Just where you draw the fucking line?!
I wonder if it’s how I treat other people, that I rarely feel people around me are really considerate, or perhaps society today is as such: people just take care of themselves..
There’s many painful lessons that I’ve learnt since coming to KL. Many really really painful lessons that have really changed me. Some people think I haven’t changed or learned, while I think they’re the ones who haven’t changed a bit. See? Comparing again. The next thing I really must learn is not to compare myself with other people, just observe the qualities that other people have and emulate such qualities.
I guess life is sometimes like running. Your not competing with others, you’re competing with yourself. You’re your own enemy. A few months? A few years? One day, I’m sure I’ll be totally immune with comparisons to other people and just be contended with who I am.
Scotland!
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Finally found some time (and mood) to blog about my Scotland trip. It was really beautiful! Scotland is the northern part of UK, and is actually a pretty long drive. We set off at around 9pm from Liverpool, heading to Inverness.
Inverness is at the northern tip of the famous Loch Ness lake. The lake itself is very long-ish and after sitting in the car for such a long, long time, we stopped to take some pictures by Loch Ness at around 6am.
Lai Kuan’s Convocation
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal, Photography
Lai Kuan had here Bachelor’s convocation at Liverpool Cathedral on Monday – the day the tall ships were supposed to set sail! Since no photography was allowed in the cathedral, I decided to go see the tall ships, then come back in time to take a few pictures for her outside the cathedral. Sigh, but the tall ships didn’t set sail together, they went out the river Mersey one by one! So all I got were crap like these:
So after about an hour of boredom at New Brighton, I took the train back to Liverpool Central and headed to the cathedral.
Lambananas
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
It all started with this fella here:
Every time the University staff comes to Malaysia for a briefing, we’re sure to see this fella.
Now, part of the European Capital of Culture thingy going on, there are another 125 of them around Liverpool!
I have yet to catch them all, but seems like these cute lambananas are attracting lots of attention. Me and Eu Hua were heading to the Liverpool Cathedral for some evening shots, and we passed by this green lambanana outside St. John’s, facing Lime Street.
While we were taking a few shots of it, we can’t help but overhear 2 ladies talking:
“Hey, here’s one of ‘em..”
“Yeah.. it’s the superlambanana.. and it’s a complete waste of money..”
“No it’s not.. see this one’s plants in it..”
Well, at least the British don’t spend millions just to send one of their citizens for a ride in space, doing things like eating fish ‘n chips in space.. then bragging everywhere as if they built the rocket/space capsule themselves..
