Swenson Ice cream

乐乐说："太棒了! 好吃！"

 

How long have you not been treating yourself to Swenson Ice cream?

 

The fries are hot and tasty too! (Lucky no sore throat..)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lumix - Coolpix

Today marks the retirement of my Lumix after owing it for 5 years. That was way before Le Le was borned. Will put my Lumix in my mum's place so that she can "practise" shooting my girl while we are at work, hehehe...

 

I got a new digital camera today, welcome Nikon Coolpix. I have choosen it among the rest of the well known brand.

 

Lumix was totally out of my consideration already, not because it was no good, but because I have already own one, I would like to give other brand a try.

 

Olympus was totally out though it was a very good camera even since my first 傻瓜相机 (film camera).

 

My husband and I do not have preference for Fuji, Ricoh etc...

 

Sony cybershot was a good one, IT show bundle it was a good deal, a photo printer, but I don't like the idea of using "just my memory stick",

 

Canon and Nikon were left with our choice. The first booth I went was Nikon, second to Canon.

 

Canon Powershot has a long list of ranges which do not appeal, I don't like the plastic look using AA, quite "low-end" to me. They have high end one too, like the EOS but too heavy on my pocket. Ixus was a good one for me. The latest version being 95IS. I am totally attracted to its Digic processor, it seems to run faster then the rest I'd tested. Finally I did not pick it up because I think I am already satisfied with my Canon video recorder.

 

Nikon Coolpix was really cool. The latest technology being touchscreen, cool right? It's even cheaper than those with a rotary selector. Well, but what's the pitfall? 吃电 lah! You gotta select whatever you want from the screen, abit user unfriendly cause you will be the only one who is familiar and not others. I want my husband to be able to use it too, so it's easier with rotary selector, so the touchscreen is out again. Finally we had decided on a coolpix with all-in-1 features, will leave the features for you to find out!

 

TADA... finally our newly selected "baby" - Nikon Coolpix S610!!!

 

Hope that you will enjoy future pictures produced by our new S610!

The Heart Sutra - 摩訶般若波羅蜜多心經

It's known as 摩訶般若波羅蜜多心經 in full, or in short 般若波羅密多心經, more simply 般若心經, or so easy for one who has difficulty remembering, 心經.

All Essence of Buddha's Teaching is consolidated into this Little Sutra call The Heart Sutra.

 

I am leaving the definition to Wikipedia and the rest is up to friends who have fate with Buddha to check them out

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra

 

We seldomly see The Heart Sutra being post up, I would like to post one here.

 

Hope everyone who see it be free from obstacles and for those who admit you have super memory, could learn The Heart Sutra by heart and obtain lots of merits.

 

Train crossing

For friends who are not staying near Woodlands would seldomly see train crossing over the road.

 

Last evening on our way home, we decide to en route the other way to avoid the heavy traffic but was even much slower to reach home because we chance upon the train crossing schedule. It took around 5 minutes.

 

Nothing to do in the car while waiting for the gate to close, waiting for the train to come and cross and waiting for the gate to open, I decide to take some pictures.

 

Sometimes an obstacle along our life path may not be as bad as we may think. If we could see this obstacle as something nice, just like transforming our inpatience into nice pictures, that may not be a bad idea too. It's how we make use of time and how we see thing,

 

Have a nice day my friends.

Mt Emei

Nice mountain, feel like paradise.

Cannot imagine there is such nice place above cloud.

Is Mt Emei in China.

追远

追远

 

Saw this plaque when I was heading Mohamad Sultan Road this afternoon.

 

I remember this was also the plaque which 月娘 (in 小娘惹) sewn when her hand was hurt.

 

Is this a popular plaque? What does it mean? Chase very far?

 

 

HAPPY VALENTINE DAY

It's Valentine's Day.

May I wish everyone who visited this blog a very lovely day, not just for 14
Feb, but from this day onward!

It's also my little honey, Metta's Birthday.

Happy Birthday to Metta!

Mr Moon

忽然想起熊天平有一首歌，歌名叫 Mr Moon.

虽然今晚 Mr Moon 被乌云遮住了，但我还是很想念它。。。

 

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作词：吕文飞/许常德 作曲：熊天平

(口白）Mr.Moon 请你告诉她 我把最真的给她

在地球两端 日夜分隔我俩 沾上琴弦的思念 唱出对你的缱绻
你的心遗落在他乡 我託付月亮把孤单带上 万语千言都随月移圆缺

和你相聚的时光 总是那么的短暂 期待和你重逢 在异乡的情路上
回到最初的地方 看你熟悉的脸庞 共月共听共盼 宁静的月光
(同年同月同日 敞开的心窗 Mr. Moon）

长长的黑夜 寂寞陪我入睡

想念不停叠着想念 叠成一座山

 

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Static hair

We realised that Metta's hair stood up when she was watching TV one day.

 

It was so funny so we took this pix.

 

Anyway it was static.

Waterloo Street 观音庙

这里是家喻户晓， 无人不知的好地方 -  Waterloo Street 观音庙。

 

I love this place even though it's crowded everyday. Guan Yin is very divine，everything you ask is very very 准！

If you ask too many times of the same question at the same time, She will give you an angry "chiam" saying you that you should not doubt the Buddha, hahaha...

 

Wow Guan Yin is really wraftful, so make sure you ask your question properly before you "tok the chiam" ok!

 

Very difficult and almost cannot get the picture of the Guan Yin inside the temple, I took some pictures of the temple from the outside before leaving.

 

* Paying my Homeage and Highest Respect to Guan Yin *

 

 

正月十五的月亮

这是2009年2月9日，农历正月十五的月亮。元宵节也！

 

不是概的哦，真的是用我的老数码相机拍出来的。我只是利用了望远镜！

 

天气好凉，不停的刮着风！我很喜欢这样的天气，微风徐徐， 月亮又大又圆又亮，好难得的美景。

 

好想唱一唱 "月亮代表我的心"。