The beautiful mind

it's amazing how our minds make memories and link them to places, things, events, and all that.

just like today, i'm checking out my favourite piratebay site, and i saw this link for the movie When In Rome. Ignore the IMDB ratings on this one, it's a cute little movie starring Josh Duhamel (always a fan since Las Vegas the TV series), and it's typical boy-meets-girl-then-fights-then-reconciles-andhappyeverafter kinda movie. Typical girly stuff ok.

Whenever i think of this movie, however, it brings me back to the last Perhentian trip, watching it in the Matahari Chalet restaurant while having dinner. Memories of those few days in the hot blazing sun, the shimmering white sands, the diving, the hours spent frolicking in the sea snorkelling about and checking out the wildlife... About trying to find shade and having iced drinks to cool down. Of just doing nothing.

It's amazing how our mind makes memories.

Mondays

.. are ALSO made of nothingness!

birds a-chirping, water features flowing ... plants a-growing.

i'm doing this post to see how fast it gets updated in Google search engine, to prove a point to the web-hosting company that i use for this site

i'll cerita more later on depending whether things get solved or not.

sundays are made of...

nothing much, really.


Vuze is (almost) back to normal after a little bit of tweaking and settings adjustment. Or did TM finish their maintenance work and the internet is back to normal. Keeping my fingers crossed on this one.


Was testing out this software called VSO Image Resizer, it's quite good for batch-resizing of photos (so much easier now to upload pics) and putting watermarks.


Here's the results for today: I chose our 2008 Mount Kinabalu trip photos because it was a really memorable hike up SEA's tallest mountain. And something I do not wish to do again unless I really really really have something to prove.

Sunrise over the mountain. Unfortunately we didn't take this photo as we were still struggling to reach the top

Lovely clouds of the Southern Hemisphere

More views from somewhere near the top, as the vegetation becomes sparse

Made it!

The wonderful view from Mount Kinabalu

Reminder of the torture I faced here. More than 8km trekking uphill, taking about 13 hours when others usually do it in 7 or 8. In the end it was all worth it... even the week or so of having to limp around and do down stairs backwards!