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Glutenny | Gluttony

Here are foodie pics of the yummy toxins fed into my body, they are sheer indulgence for my heart and soul.

It feels very iffy to be navigating life with this intangible compass. However, this intangible compass has proven to be extremely reliable, even at times when it sounds extremely ridiculous to be following it.

Kin and Gin

Kinkaku-ji is the precedent for ginkaku-ji.

RDP #24 -REJUVENATE

Hm… A word. Letters grouped together that have meaning. Or so we have been taught. A word that makes one think. A word that makes one feel. Is the meaning the same for you? or you? or you? or me? Let’s find out. Today’s prompt is…… REJUVENATE! I dare you to surprise me! You know…

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Here are my entries for this week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge:
Horizontal Line(s).

Twitterpated

Here is a twitterpated Bambi looking out for Faline, whilst she tries to sniff out his tracks.

Antediluvian

Catching up on this prompt almost one week late would be considered pretty antediluvian, no?

Pond(s)

Ponds have a way of making me ponder about many things in life.

Italian

The most Italian of this trip is the omu-rice without the omu (omelette) – my last meal before leaving Kyoto.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Light the Night

Okay, I cheat again, here is a moving photo. It is more magical this way. 🙂 Twinkle the lanterns At Kasuga-taisha, Nara. In response to Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: Light the Night.

Check

Since today’s prompt is Check, here’s a photo of spidermen checking on our food.

Shaken

I was caught in the Osaka earthquake yesterday, causing me to miss my flight but I was lucky enough to grab a seat on today’s flight.

Targetless maybe

There are times in our lives where we are target-less. Or maybe I have just relinquished control to a higher wisdom up there which has managed every day of my past two weeks of travel.

Julienne

Went through all my foodie pics and there was absolutely no sign of anything julienne.

Cataracts

Wow, I didn’t know that cataract also means downpour, shower, waterfall, etc! I was waddling in a series of different cataracts today.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Saw this wild pig while strolling up the park behind the hotel.

Smorgasbord

Do you really want to see what I have been eating the past two weeks? ❤ ❤

Bastion

Here is a photo of Himeji-jo which I made a special detour and stayed overnight to catch a glimpse of its night view.

Limerence

What difference is that from unrequited love, and how does one differentiate that from real but unspoken deep connection with another?

Ragabashme

I originally thought rag-a-bash (taking the meaning of scoundrel) is someone who bashes about ragged people.

A Photo a Week Challenge: A Study in Light

I was studying food. Does that count?

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge

In-Conversation with Roboto. 😀

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge

I did not have to desaturate the photo at all, the beach is naturally that black and white.

Ragtag Daily Prompt #8: PICKLE

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Greenday

Today’s prompt is Pickle! From this set of photos, can you guess which ones are pickled?

Purple

So many photos of flowers in different shades of purple today. From the light to the bright to the intense shades of midnight.

RDP #7 – PURPLE

Welcome to the Ragtag Community Blog. This is the place where all our Ragtag Daily Prompts will be located, so it should be much easier for everyone to play along. We are indebted to Leaping Toes from Oh Border! for establishing the Ragtag Community Blog for us and for you. Without further ado, here is…

Nightmare

The biggest one for me would be the butterflies everywhere – on the ground, along the walls, hovering the colourful flowers.

Sitcom

Sitcom is a combination of situation and comedy! Who knew? I am in the middle of one (or many) right now.

Flummoxed

I am flummoxed by how affected I am by the summer heat. Or by how I have forgotten how affected I was by summer heat.

Imagination

Meditating with a crystal ball when a WhatsApp message comes in. Checking to see WhatsUp.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge

Here is a photo of a transitory ground of sometimes sand, sometimes water, sometimes foam. All three states of being can be seen within this photo.

Insight

How we choose to frame this world view ultimately determines how we see the world, and it really is as simple as that.

Rural Redux

Welcome the rural life redux and here I am back in the farming scene for a breather.

Missing Grid

It is strange when the clock strikes twelve (or whichever time depending on whichever location) and there is nothing to look forward to, cos time has come to a standstill on 31st May.

Ouch.

The finality of things. Today is the last of Daily Prompt. Ouch!

Feather

My All-Time Favorites would be the heavenly signs that appear when I am not in a good state of knowingness.

Mending broken ties

Coincidentally, today’s prompt has been a recurring conversation at my place the past couple of weeks.

Juxtapose

At times, we lose sight of ourselves or our senses, and Universe throws in an alternative reality as a juxtaposition to remind us of who we really are, or what we really want.

Ceremony

Of the (not many) years I spent there, I only attended one prayer ceremony once.

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge

Whee~ Urban waterfall outside my office! Nevermind that I’m drenched in my nice work dress.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

These stylish exhibits are our “raffle tickets” for gift exchange.

Doppelgänger

Doubles from different perspectives.

Values

He leaned against the window, pondering the full moon. His fingers inadvertently twirling the silk tassels of the Oriental lantern – another new decor from his travels.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Siblings

Us siblings are pretty close-knit, yet it is virtually impossible to capture three of us in a single photo.

Archaic

I discovered a very archaic notion today: that the best travel adventures are far far far away.

Guilty (or not)

Do you know that we can hold guilt in us unconsciously (or subconsciously), even though sometimes it is by no fault of ours?

To the Daily Post Community: Thank You!

Originally posted on The Daily Post:
Almost seven and a half years ago The Daily Post opened its virtual doors to the WordPress.com blogging community. It’s been an incredible ride, and incredible rides, too, sometimes come to an end. As of the end of this month (and 2,000 Daily Prompts, 380 Photo Challenges, 260 Community…

Twisted

I broke out into laughter the first time I saw these twisted cauliflowers.

Assumption

On the assumption that life keeps up this momentum, this shall be the view from my office before the end of 2018 ❤

Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge

Arrow says Left.
Memory says Home is Right.
Heart says Pause; Straight Ahead is Fine.

Awkward

Awkward is the moment when you open up your Photo Library, and it shows endless photos of South America which you have never stepped in before.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Over 100 Years Old

Where you are looking from, all the way to where the guard stands, is the thickness of that ancient Xi’an city wall.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge

I have been following the entries for many of Cee’s Challenges, and finally mustered my courage to participate instead of merely watching from the sidelines!

Narcissism

Originally posted on Oh, border!:
Today is not a busy intense day. Neither was it a smooth day. It was like a tipper truck dropped little gravels all my path, and I was tripping over them one after another. How annoying was that! Needed to find something more interesting to make up for this lack…

Multi-D

Life is fairly simple to deal with at its two-dimension, or three-dimension. Throw in the fourth and the fifth dimension and it gets into a whole new level of complication.

Project Infect

Here’s to infecting this chaotic world with a frozen moment of zenness. Pause. Reflect. Enjoy the clarity. Peace, you are finally here. ❤

Liquidity of existence

I have very lucid dreams of being in my natural habitat of an infinite waterbody all the time, almost like an escape from the land-locked world.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Livestock

The animal farm I lived in:
Here are some of my fellow compatriots, some lived more equal than others.

Pedigree

We are a pedigree of selfie sapiens. Shhh, baby, don’t tell anybody.

The Return

The phone buzzed and the usual breakfast photo came in.

Bittersweetness

Manhandling the thorny hard husk into breaking open; acknowledging that it really stinks at the core of the matter; finally tasting the sweet (or just) desserts after.

Inner world

Here is a glimpse into the place in my inner world, which you can easily enter by viewing the A Card A Day I did in January.

Blingz

There is the real, and there is the appearance. It appears that my place in the world is in front of plates of food – mostly cakes.

Skewed

I love this gentle sunset but
the picture frame is a mess – all the skewed lines of different manmade elements, so harsh so unwieldy.

In good time

You asked to walk a month in my shoes.

Urban forest

Taking the urban forest concept a little too literally. Here we have the Avatar trees~

Rebel

Channelling my inner rebel. Life is short. Wear mismatched socks.

The Bench

There is a place in the world where I have absolutely no business to be in, yet it feels so solidly comfortable, some place where I feel I belong.

Rapidly happied

The rapid route to happy mood is … caviar … in technicolours!

Unlikely

The bull horns is just a case in point that I can now appreciate the beauty of nature as it is, without judgement that this is creepy, that is scary, those are morbid, etc.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Public Transportation

Our buses are pretty much mobile billboards, but this obtrusive one takes it up a brand new level.

Bubbles

Boo! Just a creepy picture of me posing with light bubblies~ Bwahahahaha.

Mentors and teachers

Coincidentally, I very recently rewatched Tim Minchin’s UWA address from five years ago. I love his speech for the humour of course, the poetic rhythm, the wit, the wisdom, and the existiential realist he is.

Tide over time

Life changes; roles change; environs change; tides turn, over time.

If there are seasons

The freezing cold scare last night brought back the warmth of a song from decades ago. I think being brought up in the equatorial belt is cool , with so much room for romantic concepts like this song / musical.

Abrupt

My life came to an abrupt standstill last night, it was rather creepy. I was feeling really stuffy in office, with a throbbing headache, and a sore back like a million needles went through it.

Vine lines

Wine-tasting exercises averaging 25 types a sitting (or standing) is bound to have any person wear her heart on the sleeve.

Water lines

Took me a while to figure what kind of lines can astonish. I am pleasantly surprised to recall one such line – a Roman aqueduct in Segovia!

Construction lines

Want to watch me throw a tantrum about lines? Fine. Here are the pics of the unhappiest part of my life.

Gaudi-an lines

The most consistently rivuletine lines I have seen are those of Antoni Gaudí. His inspiration from, and mimicry of, mother nature is stupendous.

Wat lines

To get myself out of that pattern of dense thoughts and feels, I have put up this collage of pictures more in the form of “wat-the-heck” lines.

Parisian lines

This is Musée d’Orsay. Its steel arch structure with glass arch ceiling casts amazing shadows on itself as the light filters through.

Elaborate

The elaborate colour palette of mother nature meets (wo)man. Matchymatchy!

Bestowed

Necklace bestowed upon me by my Light Team. Isn’t it pretty?

Vaguely a painting

There was one thing I did during the Shanghai stint that my sis lost all respect for me over. It was an activity vaguely like painting, except it was done through numbers.

Partake

The delight from community development lies in the partaking in joint efforts to manifest from nothingness to many-thing-ness. ❤ The most precious reward at the end of the day – fulfilled hearts, and a fine sunset. ❤

The mallet dropped

Directly from fifth heaven. Lesson learnt: don’t whine too much about “trivial” things, don’t joke too much about higher beings.

Protected: Paradox

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Authentic Karen cuisine

I have no idea whether there really is such a thing as authentic anything/anywhere cuisine at all. As authentic as Mom’s cooking? But every mom is different.

Parallel

In a parallel universe 14,000km away in the other direction, is yet another Alhambra, and another Granada.

Prolific, really?

Hahaha. Sounds like an apt description of the T’oh family, my grandparents, the DNA down the bloodline, and the earlier three generations here in SG.

Arabian nights

So many crevices for Genie to hide. So many nooks and crannies for multiple genii to spring a surprise.

Fret not~

Fret not! There are so many lovely things in this world that we may not have noticed or known about. Such as dancing baby stingrays.

Lively song for a sunday

What better way to end an enjoyable Sunday than to share a lovely lively song that is so loveydovey. Here is a song about eloping to the moon!

Accidentally in love

Originally posted on Oh, border!:
I had a timeout during the Cannes/Nice weekend, and hopped off to visit Musée Matisse up in the hilly suburbs. I had been repeatedly advised (i.e. reminded) by my dearest mentor LTK to pay a visit. I did, and indeed, I loved it. What was more magical was that I…

Stealing sand

Here is a picture of us collecting pebbles from the riverbank. Sometimes we swam over to Myanmar, and then quickly back.

Glimmer

Glimmer of the setting sun from behind very old trees. I accidentally lived right behind an ancient Roman gladiator amphitheater for a week!

The disruptor

My teammates probably found me very disruptive. I could see them frowning, or their eyes squinting, everytime mine lit up with new ideas.

Early awakening

Proud as I could be when I woke up early enough one morning to say hi to someone before he left for work.

Froth-tea

There is this frothy tea that I would have whenever I travelled into the Shanghai city office for work.

Luminescence

Also vaguely known as that thing you do when you have no life living in a village.

Confusionism

The glorious academic plans were thwarted by an offer to develop a huge-ass farm in SzeChuan.

The Weir

A separate pilot new town project was inchoate and we were just waiting to get over the red tape to start on the detailed work.

The long haul

A long haul project of four years brought me to a city that now sits very close to my heart. I worked on Yangzhou, flying in and out every three weeks.

Hero

Hero hauling haversacks.
Heavy ones!

Fuzzy warmth

Fuzzy warmth
In frigid weather.

Smile

Smiles – big and small. Good prompt for a bad day. Kthxbye.

Explore

Well, I really explore all sorts of weird things. Here is one of them: ever wondered what a carrot flower looks like?

No warning

We had a lot of fun fooling around. Without any warning, babyboo started bawling.

Rise / set

I woke up at 3am to make it in time to watch this sunrise at Angkor Wat, Siem Reap.

T’oh Quartet

Messy music was what we played. We are the T’oh Quartet, conducted my Tiger Mom, and run by Floor Manager T’oh.

Micro

Squeezing a micro thought into a micro window of time before I get back to swimming in a macro pool of words in so many different languages.

Like a Swallow

There is this one song I really love, and it’s called Like a Swallow and was the theme song for Little Nonya, a local TV series.

Exotic fruits

Apples growing on trees is a foreign concept to me. Logically, I know they grow on trees (!!!), but I had never imagined what its tree looks like nor how they grow on it.

Talismen

To me, they can jolly well be placebos, but as long as they make me feel good or better or at ease, I am happy to continue using.

Selfish or Selfless?

Originally posted on One day at a time:
To call someone selfish is quite vague. There are several ways in which the word selfish can be defined. Depending on the context of the word, it can be considered derogatory or positive. Degrees of each kind of selfishness also vary widely from person to person, some…

My favourite place

My favorite place is an inconspicuous beach which had no name and unmarked on the map, and shockingly so close to home.

Here spring the cheery blossom

I cannot really call it a cherry blossom when it has yet to blossom to that point. More of a cheery blossom, I even added sparkles!

MyFam

Sis remarked today how these two peeps have such dramatic reunion everyday. 😀

Patience, my dear

I got a little annoyed one day, when a few different decks gave me the same answer. So I thought to myself, “maybe it is imperative for every deck to have a Patience card”.

Incubate

Today’s prompt Incubate brings to mind two things – the fat chickens we reared who gave us fresh eggs everyday; and what Eckhart Tolle wrote in Stillness Speaks.

Off-grid Connection

Having a 3G modem was enough to maintain sanity, and I was happy to go off-grid on everything else.

Provoke

How I (unwittingly) provoked my teacher into having me co-teach her class. 😀

Literal shadows

I’ve always had a fascination with shadows. The latest observance being what I would consider white noise.

Grasping the line

When some event pops up (let’s say an unkind bully surfaces) that makes you feel angry or resentful, do you ever wonder what Universe intends that to be?

Captivating

“I just can’t stop thinking about waffles.” Bawls my soul, as expressed by this poor little girl. I feel you!

Life

Life and its meandering journey is surprising and sometimes with enlightening comes the wistfulness of “why didn’t I realise it earlier”.

Wonder III

Final sequel to the trilogy (or so I hope). The most important reason for discovering if you carry the thalassemia trait is this: If two people who each carry the same form of thalassemia trait have a child, there is a 25% chance that this child will be born with a severe form of thalassemia….

Wonder II

Another curious day/night. I woke up with blurry, puffy eyes, and for no reason at all, I cried all morning, so I assumed I must have cried through the night without knowing (what, why). It was not any better that the daily prompt took me to such a touching turn, which was like yanking a…

Wonder

Daily prompt is being very educational once again. I googled Wonder and saw that there’s a movie, and then ended up buying the book. I will take a while to read, and have a feeling it is going to be a teary-eyed experience, just judging from the author’s interview here. Sounds like a lot on kindness…