My Photo Ramble...

Actually, it was more like a half-assed attempt to cardio a little before I did my weights in front of the telly. Thing is, the day before yesterday was beautiful. Sunny, breezy, perfect for a walk around the area.

Yesterday was a bit smoggy, as you can tell by this piccie. That blue monstrosity in the distance is Jaya Supermarket. Back when I was in Assunta, that was the first place we'd head off to ditch :)

Wasn't a lot of places to ditch to those days...fark, I feel old saying it :p Gah. Anyways, as you can also tell, I left a little late in the evening, and didn't walk very much. I wanted to get home in time for JLU :D (Channel 62 r0xx0rz!)

This plant here grows in front of, like, my current dream house. The dude has a lap pool and I do believe he's water mad :) Heavy balinese influence on his home, and he's got a gadjillion water features. I love it!

He's also got this cute alsatian pup which was, at that moment, prancing through one of the water features. Too bad he's fenced for privacy. I could barely get a glimpse of the pup as it is :) Great plant. Think it needs a flower or something :p Hehehe. No lah I'm not that jakun. I know what ferns and palms are like, duu-uhh!! :p Picture taking can be hazardous when you're doing it in the middle of the road like I was. That being said, it's a good thing I was in a residential. People don't drive too fast during peak hours. Read: Jogging times (5:00pm - 7:30pm) :)

Okay, on a Creepoid Scale of one to ten, this one rates an 8.5. I had a really odd dream about this house, too. It's deserted at the moment, and it's for sale, but nobody's made a move to buy it for years now (and I can tell you my area's pretty prime for people who wanna settle for good), and it just keeps getting creepier every year.


Anyway, my dream involved having bought it, and was endlessly searching for someone. In my dream, it was very long..extending much further than it actually does.

'Twas strange. No apparitions or anything, though. Just a disturbing sensation of loss and seeking and abandonment.

I actually couldn't wait to get away from this house. And I kept remembering this line from an old story I'd read, about how some people believe that the camera can capture a person's spirit. I didn't want to accidentally capture any "spirits" in my new camera.

I've barely broken it in! So yeah, two pictures was my limit :)

Yep, back to my old tricks. I dunno why I keep putting up the plant pictures, but this one caught my attention. It's roughly the size of a bush, but shaped like a rose bud. Obviously, I didn't take a good picture, but it's a really rich shade of green.

And speaking of shades, this one sat in the shade of a huge mango tree. The guy who owns the house this plant sits in front of is a real agri-nut. He's got, like, a profusion of flowers and trees and pot plants and bushes surrounding his home.

The funny thing is, I doubt I would've noticed this plant (above) if I hadn't stopped in a moment of silliness to take a picture of my purple Crocs "artfully" placed next to a leaf on the road.

Anyway, to continue, I'd just like to say I would like a house of this size if I can ever scrape enough money together for it. It's not how it looks, so much as the size of it. I love tidy little houses with room for a garden or pool :) I can dream, right?

Not gonna put up the picture, since I never took one of the house itself :) It's gotta cool sort of solarium thing going, too, on the second floor. Or was that the other house? Hmm. No, I think it was this one :)

If this isn't IW's house, then it's her neighbour's :) From where I was standing, it looks like it's a really big house that starts at the foot of the hill and climbs up several stories. It's not. Really :) My ramble took me up the hill, down a side road and into this little lane. There's a tiny, overgrown path that turns off to the left, with a teeny bridge that goes over the monsoon drain and up to the lane one down from my own :)

I was in a hurry to catch JLU, so I took the short cut lah. I did pause long enough to take a couple more pics though.

The light was crap at that time. The clouds weren't well-defined, and I tried my best to get a nice contrast going. I know I failed, though. The buildings and the trees weren't actually that dark. Forgive me my faint efforts :p

On the lane I was talking about, where I stopped to snap this shot, there was this house with a really cute and odd papaya tree. It's HEAVILY ladden with fruit.

And when I say heavy, I mean heavy! The tree grows almost horizontally, and the fruit's like a couple of inches from the ground, hehe. I did take a photo, but I'm trying not to put up too many house photos. Paranoia or courtesy, call it what you will.

I'm trying my hand at Photoshop with this one. I especially liked it watercolored :) I'm easy to please lah, what can I say? This particular shot was taken at the bottom of the lane leading to my house. Really, though. It's a picture of CLOUDS, up in the SKY :p Duh, I could've taken it from anywhere and it'd probably have looked the same :p


Anyway, yeah. Come to think about it, I don't think I'm using this exact one. There's two of the same (boring ole) view, and the other was more dramatic. For the life of me, I can't recall why that one's not up here instead of this one...

Home, sweet home! This is a single branch on the tree that grows on the left side of my driveway. I liked the symbolism, and of the dying leaves on the branch in the background (same tree!).... It wasn't anything arty okay? I've got no delusions. My strengths are in music, not artistic vision :p

Anyway, it's the bloom of youth, the richness of age, and the incipient approach of death. A full cycle, on one tree. Generation, to generation, to generation. A family tree :)

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I keep saying I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that... Get a bike, start some classes. Well, my pockets are a bit bare again, this month. Damned bills :) Also, no permanent job. There's still the classes, but that's also a seasonal thing... I'm going to try do this more often, but knowing me, once I tell myself I'm going to stick to something, I drop it.

Commitment issues? I just don't know :) Anyway, that's sharing my photo ramble. Nothing significant, nothing particularly pretty, and definitely nothing artistic or genius about it.....but who cares, right? I'm just sharing :)

*p/s: DVs are welcome to join me on future rambles...you with the spare time...you know who you are. I'm thinking of taking a drive up the East Coast...which used to be my favourite jaunt, until things went sour last year. Yeah, I'm not refreshing any memories, least of all mine...but there you have it. I love the East Coast. Anyone interested?