wesak 2010 at Santavana

some pics to share during Wesak at Santavana. :)

an attempt to keep my blog alive

sorry jamie, have to "use" your pic to revive my blog. hahaha.. actually, i was thinking to post this the night we met up, but kept forgetting and procrastinating when i remembered. so... here it is.. months later...



This is Jamie. knew her when i was 17? ya, i think so. so... quite a long time liao la. went yum cha with jamie few months back. catch up with stuff and talked about our futures...

some leaves in the sky

took this on last year's birthday, at the UMS beach.

on the wall at one of the buddhist centres i visited at KL.

HCB

Reading up on HCB. His vast range of work inspired me to post something up here. it is not the one report, the one shoot, but it is an on-going cummulation of works, for HCB, thousands and thousands of the pictures he used his sharp eyes to see, his ultra-sensitive mind to feel, his compassionate heart for the human kind and his quick finger to react- all at once in a fraction of a second.

finally, some sunlight

i love the rain.

i love rainy days.

in fact, my favourite color could be grey.

but i was happy to see yellow.

the sunshine today was a surprise.

it was like i had forgotten about light.

a walk at likas and gaya street

umbrellas and uniform background

these two boys stood there and stared at me.

after sending my sister to school, i decided to bring my cam out for a walk. both of us needed some exercice and fresh air. as a warm up, i went to less crowded place, Likas world trade center. Office people were having their breakfast and preparing for monday morning. the parking lot was still empty when i reach but was full when i was ready to go. shooting alone, i still feel overly-exposed with my dslr. hence the lack of humans in my pics. well, except the two boys who curiously stared at me long enough for several shots.

still thoughts

"How does the dhamma teach the proper way of life?

It shows us how to live.

It has many ways of showing it -

on roots or trees or just in front of you.

It is a teaching but not in words.

So still the mind, the heart, and learn to watch.

You'll find the whole dhamma revealing itself here and now.

At what other time and place are you going to look?"

-Ajahn Chah

Last Sunday, Long Shen (a fellow dhamma classmate who also enjoys shooting) and I were shooting around Santavana for more calendar pics on shi fu's request. Although the three friends in the woods (refer previous post) shot some awesome pics, some spots were missed. so Shi fu handed us a small list of places to shoot and we "continued" and roamed around for a bit. The pic with Chan Xiao shi fu facing a bamboo was shot by Long Shen. The plant pics are actually from the same potted plant in the library.

three friends in the woods

here are some pics from the three of us (yipi, wansim and i) taken while we were at Santavana. actually, shi fu requested yipi to take some photos for their calendar next year and wansim and i tagged along... hope you guys had fun! :)

we arrived there to capture the morning chanting.. it was still dark when we got there and the dogs went mad when they heard our car approaching

was shooting the below pic

we should have taken a group pic and titled it "three friends in the woods". that would be cute.