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calvin & hobbes

I’ve just realized how I liked to read comics when I was younger. I remember when I was in Grade 6 and 7, I often buy Archie & Jughead, particularly the used and older version ones from the second-hand book shop. And when I was in Uni, I gave Calvin & Hobbes a try, and loved it!

I find both Calvin & Hobbes to be very cute and the things they say are smart and witty. Now that I have 3 nephews, I can see some bits of my nephews in Calvin and some bits of Calvin in them.

There’s one of my favourite C&H strip in their book (the only copy I have, and now thinking of continuing my collection) that I find very cute and funny, but I suppose if we give it a little more thought it may have more meaning. Calvin was annoyed with something, and he couldn’t stand seeing a flower being the way it is - like the flower didn’t show any emotion at all. And he was really annoyed that he decided to pour some water on the flower, to trick it, and to make it ‘think’ that it was raining! *lol* and he had that evil satisfied look on his face, and next on the story board, the flower was still the way it was before, unaffected.

Then I remembered something I’ve read earlier this year. It was actually a book about how to conduct research while you’re doing one, and if I can remember correctly, the author is a sociologist. Anyways, at that chapter or paragraph, he was talking about how we think about things, as in how we perceive things in our mind. And he gave an example of ‘rain’. Rain comes down as it is - as rain. For one person, he may feel annoyed by the rain because he now has to bring his umbrella, or put on a raincoat and so forth. But for another person, he may feel thankful that the rain has come down to cool down the hot day, and think of the rain as something good. Either way, the rain still comes down as it is - as rain. And what is obvious here, is how we ourselves think about rain. It is what we ourselves make of that rain. If we are conscious of our own feeling and thoughts, then only we can control of what the rain becomes, rather than the rain controlling what we become. A very simple idea, that can change a lot of things.

So next time, when the rain comes down, do think of what you make of the rain :)

mabelmoments:

An inquisitive Emperor penguin appears to look through the viewfinder of a camera in Antarctica as others pose for a group photo. Photographer David Schultz snapped the flightless birds exploring his camera and tripod when he left them on the snow and ice. Picture: David Schultz. via telegraph uk

nocturnal ice cream truck

there’s something about the ice cream trucks here that attracts me…

i think it’s the chaotic combination of bright colours, words of different fonts and sizes, and its stumpy shape… and yes, the cartoony images of ice creams.

little wooden buses!

On Saturday, we had dinner at Blok M Express in the city. Other than the tasty food, we couldn’t help playing around (and photographing) these little wooden transports that look like buses (but they are those little cars in Jakarta that looks like Thailand’s tut-tut). They are actually table numbers, but they are super cute that I had to hold myself from taking one home!

dusk in st. kilda beach

little penguin swimming to the shore

then wobbling to the rocks

and finally nesting in its burrow

penguins of st. kilda beach

if people ignore design that ignores people, then surely penguins would ignore design that ignore penguins.

but in the case of st. kilda beach breakwater, it seems that the penguins approve of the design and call the voids in between the boulders their home.