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Another picture from my Singapore trip...


View of Esplanade from Merlion Park.

Realisation and a devine calling....

OK....this is not going to be that easy. It appears that blogging requires a small but dedicated amount of time (which with my current schedule I don't have much of). Uploading photos seems to be quite a drag.

I'm still going to try anyway. I'll keep to just my favourite photos for now.

I visited Batu Caves last week during the holidays. I haven't been there in quite a while though I live just 8 minutes away. The place has changed quite a bit. A couple of pictures....


42.7 meters tall, 1,550 cubic metres of concrete, 250 tonnes of steel bars and 300 litres of gold paint brought in from Thailand. It took 15 sculptors from India over a period of 3 years to complete this magnificent statue of Lord Murugan.

I knew it was big, and I've seen it at least a hundred times from the MRR2 highway but when I actually stood right in front of the statue, it was amazing.

On the left side of the statue are the stairs leading to the cave temple and on the right, beautiful mountains.



The view from the entrance of the cave temple at the top. I like this picture a lot, because of the light coming in from the top of the cave after the set of stairs on the far end. There's another temple in that area. Very pretty place to be on a sunny morning.

My Office

A 180º view of my office. Or at least a part of it. British Telecom plc, based in Kuala Lumpur...my workplace.

I have to give Ivan most of the credit for this photo. He took the pictures and on his camera, which is a Canon Digital IXUS 800IS also. I'm claiming some ownership to it because I thought him how to do it. :)

The photo is made up of 6 different photos that are merged into one. My camera comes with a software called Photostitch that makes this a snap.

Why?

I've never been a supporter of the blogging fad. I've nothing against it, but I never saw the point of publicly displaying my thoughts and expressions....until now. I've found a new passion. It's called a Canon Digital IXUS 800IS. Yeah, I bought a camera. And since then, I've been trigger happy. I even signed up at flickr.com.

So now, I thought to myself, I like taking pictures, I like showing them. Here I am, blogging, for the sole purpose of creating another avenue for myself to share my new passion. Taking pictures.

To be honest, I'm not sure if I'll ever revisit this page. This blog may already be dead, so let's see how it goes.

Here's my first favourite photograph. I'm not sure what to call it yet.

I took this picture at the National Museum of Singapore. I was at Singapore from the 10th to 15th of October, 2006. On my last day there, I took a stroll after breakfast and ended up here. I like this picture because it's full of opposites. The escalator indoors is facing a flight of staircases outdoors. The left side of the picture has straight lines while the right has a curve. The tiles indoor are smooth and shiny while the tiles outside are rough and non-reflective. The left side has some classic architecture and the right side modern. And the best part, if you can zoom to the top left, you will see the signboard indicating the washrooms, and on that signboard you will see the male and the female figures.