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Winter

Annie — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:10:31 +0000

I don’t think, from my memory, I have ever been looking forward to a winter season so much like this year. I feel like I have the warmest shelter from the cold, though my perception might not be what the truth is. I am just completely swooned by this little metal box. To me, it is like a magic.

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Autumn

Annie — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:09:53 +0000

If autumn comes, can winter be far behind? I love every single element of this beautiful season. It is so colourful but indicating the fading of the life (or the beginning of a new cycle)…. Sadness, but with the hope for tomorrow, to come. Related Posts Do I really love autumn? Ave interj Randomness

Pleasure? Or Pain?

Annie — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:15:51 +0000

It really broke my heart when I discovered today that one of my favourite art books was all wet after almost a week’s raining. I remember that I was really looking hard for it in the storage box two weeks ago, but I couldn’t find it. Now it has the dirty water marks on half of the pages, which was rather depressing:-(

I looked around and all I wanted to do was to take a week off the work, then toss this place and put at least two third of the stuff into the bin. I really hate this, being not organised, and being snow under by the stuff that I probably do not need at all, just as much as I hate the cold minimalism. But you know what? Sometimes, we just never had the heart to throw them out.

Now I can see that the pleasure from possessing material in our life finally has become an obstacle of us to enjoy our life. Isn’t this a shame?

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A View Of Flood

Annie — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:53:28 +0000

The rain has been going on and on since last weekend. Everything is so wet. This morning Queanbeyan has closed its bridge on Morriset Street, though the road is still open along the riverside, I can see the water rising really high in the river. It would be just a matter of time, if the rain continues.

Queanbeyan had a big flood before the Christmas in 2010. I vaguely remember that on the day only 3 people managed to come in to the office, due to the main roads to Queanbeyan were all closed.

We all took our turns going outside to see what’s going on and reported back with the updates. One of my colleagues saw the platypus swimming in the river. We watched the big crane lifting the caravans off the ground to move them to a higher place. I took quite a number of photos of the flooded road near the river bank and the underground parking in Riverside Plaza. The SES people in orange jackets were everywhere. Woolworth and Coles were all closed, of course so were small shops, even service stations.

For the obvious reason as a human being, we all got very excited about it, though we knew there were people out there who had no place to stay.

So, so far the situation is not too bad. And I have to say, it is nothing better than listening to the rain in a warm place and falling asleep.

This morning, our friend sent us an email, said “I bet you guys are glad that you chose a house with a good view…. Of the flood!”

We did indeed. I can’t be more grateful for what we have got now.

iPhone Photography

Annie — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:13:05 +0000

I love my iPhone. Honestly, I have never felt so connected with an electronic device in my life. It seems to have become a part of me.

I love taking photos. In the past few years, I was so used to keeping a digital camera in my handbag all the time and shooting photos wherever and whenever I wanted to. However, after recently I retired my beloved DC, I felt immediately a big hole in my life and desperately needed a replacement to that.

As you may know that my life, in the last 6 months, has changed so much that I not only lost lots of sleeps, but also was exposed to the risk of losing my sort of lifestyle.

I don’t want to. As I was trying to defend this last freedom of mine, iPhone happened to become the one to help a lot: An absolutely convenient and smart one!

As it is with me all the time and goes to wherever I go, I really couldn’t find anything else that could be possibly better to balance the lack of time due to the obiligations and the desire to ‘create’ more time to do what I love to do.

That’s when I started to love taking photos with my iPhone. It not only helps to keep a visual note of my ongoing life, but also allows my so-called interests to be expressed.

It makes me feel happier and fuller. While the mood is being lightened, the life(style) is being protected. I feel I’m no longer a crazy new mom being a baby slave, but a proactive person who creates positive memories of NOW and THEN.

Please click to visit my newly established iPhone Art Gallery (here) or the iPhone link above in the main menu which functions as an independent blog but also exists as a subsite of my main blog, and I hope you would enjoy the photos just as much as when I shot and posted them directly from my iPhone.

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