zannnie's thoughts

le Bellagio

2010-08-17T03:24:00.001-07:00

le Bellagio, originally uploaded by OliBac.

Why did I get this photo when I search under this keyword 'Smörgåsbord'? ;)

Obama Shirtless

2010-08-17T02:52:00.001-07:00

I am curious what people search about online. For example, today, the first in place is about 'obama shirtless' according to Google Trends.

People are very critical about other people. I just can see why they put Obama in the spotlight. Spotting your own dad or your friends' dad in the pool or beach without a shirt on, that's like a common sight. However, it seemed Obama has to be different, but why?

It is a hot summer day and it is totally natural to soak yourself in the waters, playing innocently and enjoying the family time together as a summer break. Why can't people just leave others with the same privacy and respect one needs?

P:: My fairy tale, Prague

2010-08-17T02:40:00.001-07:00

My fairy tale, Prague, originally uploaded by zannnielim.

I am not a girl who fantasize about fairy tales during my childhood days. I have personally owned seven 'LadyBird' English books to start with. To many people, fairy tales starts with 'once upon a time....' and ends with '...and they lived happily ever after!''. Well, to me, the fairy tale is very much like this too and somehow, I know it is not true - it is just a story.

Stepping on the Czech grounds, then I truly learned what is the feeling of being in ''a fairy tale land'' :)

I do not depend on just the imagination conjured by those descriptions written by the various authors of the children books. About castles, I didn't even dream about being there until 2007 Winter.

And I blog about it

2010-08-16T16:22:00.000-07:00

I have been blogging since 2006. My first blog is a photo blog and I was blogging together with a community of photobloggers voluntarily. It is called the City Daily Blogging, so I represented Singapore and I own the singaporedailyphoto.com.

My husband is blogging for Budapest, Hungary. He is Hungarian. And since then, we didn't stop blogging every other day!

Yes, we have been blogging for 4 full years!!!

It is amazing. But seeing is believing!

Ta da.......the answer is:)

2006-11-19T09:53:00.000-08:00

Hope you had fun!:)

Quiz 5 will be coming soon in the NEW WWW.SINGAPOREDAILYPHOTO.COM, yes my own domain:)
Credit to Denton, here's his DP do have a minute to check his out too:)

Falling in love with Budapest

2006-11-14T12:03:00.000-08:00

this is a very beautiful place, in chinese we have this word called 百闻不如一见 which means, listened so much about it but might as well just take one LOOK...

first I hear things like it is like the paris of eastern europe:) Now being here, I see for myself how beautiful this place really is:)
beautiful is not enough to describe it, it is so rich in its historical background and the many influences in terms of the language, the culture, their tradition and their belief systems.

Fountain: Water Cycle 2000

2006-11-13T02:26:00.000-08:00

This huge water cycle is found at City Link at City Hall Station when you exit to Marina Square. It is one of the fountains in Singapore, the biggest being in World Guiness Records the Suntec Fountain of Wealth.

Looking at this fountain, it caught me awe-stricken for it being such a huge 'sculpture' and even after 5 minutes, I really still can't figure how does it work as a WATER cycle.

Once again many of your guesses are very imaginative;) I really get to know how interesting one's imagination can lead us to

When you click to see this photo and you'll see it's printed there
''20 WATER CYCLE 00''

Announcing (Circles...Circles...) winner!

2006-11-08T04:14:00.000-08:00

Drums roll please....

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The function:
When this black rubber knob is pressed (using your tea cup), HOT water will be dispensed.
It opens the valve, so you get HOT water for your GREEN Tea.

I feel it is a good feature as you can enjoy a cup of HOT green tea at anytime as it is reachable in close proximity to where you are seated.

Hence this is a HOT water dispenser knob. Its function is to DISPENSE HOT water for GREEN Tea in a Japanese restaurant ;)

As for the 'holes', they are there just incase some hot water are still 'dripping' after you've pressed that 'BLACK rubber knob'. It serves the function of ensuring hot water doesn't flow all over the place:)

By the way, this place is called 'SAKAE SUSHI'. It is not the place with the best sushi but one of the most popular in Singapore. Queuing to dine there is a craze. I managed to cut queue becos my friend and I compromised as we dun mind the COUNTER seats:)

So who is MR/MISS SHARP EYES DP?
hmmm....Looks like none comes close. Initially I thought Keropok man or maybe Macky might guess it ;) But in anycase I personally enjoyed this quiz setting, not just setting the question but also receiving your imaginative answers/comments has really been an interesting yet interactive experience:) Hope you all have a great time guessing and enjoyed the game too:)

Come back soon for more;D

Theme Day Search

2006-10-31T06:42:00.000-08:00

...continue

write in to a chinese magazine publishing house in Singapore. I seeked for a PenPal. But wooh...., since my first two liner 'ad' was published, my mailbox was FLOODED with so many mails for months --of letters from potentials who are my 'willing penpal' if i would just write to them with their replying address.

Soon after, and for about five years, I had been writing IN Chinese *winked*;) to this guy who was 2 years older than me. He was from the best high school in Singapore and the best Junior College (Chinese High School and Hwa Chong JC). You can imagine how powerful is his command of Chinese! :)

And guess what? My chinese did really improved -- A LOT all because of him!:) I was so soo grateful...to him for he helped me to overcome my Chinese learning.

He will always signed off his name as ''SKY''. This is his real name: Sim Kwang Yee. Even after he was enlisted into the army, we were still corresponding. He was the only guy in my life who told me about the singaporean 'army life'. Then the last I remembered was he got married, then years later I dunno how we lost touch - Today it is still a mystery how we stopped correspondence...

This is rather like a 'Search for an old friend' post and I am taking this Theme Day opportunity to tell you my little story. My gut feel is he could be overseas now and perhaps one of you MIGHT know a guy with this name;) If so please tell me:)

back to Theme Day
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Dreaming

2006-10-30T08:12:00.001-08:00

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My Brunch

2006-10-29T16:44:00.000-08:00

i had mutton nasi bryani just now. it's so spicy and i love it. i am afraid i will miss this food a lot cos i love all these wonderful mixed of Malay, Indian, Chinese, Asian food

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I found this information from a website call Worldwide Quality of Living, Singapore scores 100.5, i didn't realise we are just 2.0 behind Paris:) wow...

Jazzymood

2006-10-29T07:49:00.000-08:00

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Mais Feliz

2006-10-28T19:43:00.000-07:00

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Lonely

2006-10-27T19:27:00.000-07:00

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Simplesmente

2006-10-26T19:18:00.000-07:00

BEBEL GILBERTO
Simplesmente
(Written by Bebel Gilberto, Didi Gutman, Marius De Vries)

Every moment I'm near you
I try to understand
Every second I try to believe
In how I am

In the silence of moonlight
I find myself and you
Just as always I'm dreaming
I know you're dreaming too

And all the tears that I've cried
Are maybe drops of rain
After all
And every sunset sky
Is here with us forever now

Quando canto me lembro
De tudo o que é bom
Só passando por muito
Eu sei o que é dôr
(When I sing I remember
Of everything that's good
Just being through a lot
I know what is pain)

Não quero nunca esconder
Talvez eu possa até me arrepender
Só porque então pensei
Que gente possa ser
Bem mais que um simplesmente ser
(I never want to hide
Maybe I can even regret
Just because then I thought
That people can be
Much more that a simple being)

Don't have to try too hard
It's not a secret held after all
'Cause every falling star
Is here with us (forever)

Não quero nunca perder
Talvez eu pense até em querer
Só porque então pensei
Que gente possa ser
Bem mais que um simplesmente
(I never want to hide
Maybe I can even regret
Just because then I thought
That people can be
Much more that a simple being)

Interactivity;)

2006-10-25T06:41:00.000-07:00

My DP posts with lots of interactions:) and activity...i love it

Embrasse moi

2006-10-24T07:46:00.000-07:00

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2 x 7 ...+5

2006-10-23T10:54:00.000-07:00

Today is Andy's birthday, ''Wish you a wonderful year ahead and may your dreams come true''...

this is for you, hope you'll like it:)

Being near the equator means we dun have to worry what to wear after next three months of one season. It also means we are so used to summer that the only think we knew about is 'suntan lotion' 'sun block' 'SPF'

It will be a first winter for me. First autumn too. Francine speaks in a 'mommy tone' and said ''you must start to moisturise. put lots of moisturiser. Then body scrub. Do this. Or else sometimes you'll feel the itch on your skin. Remember, all your skin careproducts.. .... ..... ....

Here's a Edith Piaf song for you...i knew you've always wanna learn French:D maybe this will be a good start:p

Thanks Francine!

Je revois la ville en fête et en délire
Suffoquant sous le
soleil et sous la joie
Et j'entends dans la musique
les cris, les rires
Qui éclatent et rebondissent autour de
moi
Et perdue parmi ces gens qui me bousculent
Étourdie, désemparée, je reste là
Quand soudain, je me
retourne, il se recule,
Et la foule vient me jeter entre
ses bras...
Emportés par la foule qui nous traîne
Nous
entraîne
Écrasés l'un contre l'autre
Nous ne
formons qu'un seul corps
Et le flot sans effort
Nous pousse, enchaînés l'un et l'autre
Et nous
laisse tous deux
Épanouis, enivrés et heureux.
Entraînés par la foule qui s'élance
Et qui danse
Une folle farandole
Nos deux mains restent soudées
Et parfois soulevés
Nos deux corps enlacés
s'envolent
Et retombent tous deux
Épanouis,
enivrés et heureux...
Et la joie éclaboussée par son
sourire
Me transperce et rejaillit au fond de moi
Mais
soudain je pousse un cri parmi les rires
Quand la foule
vient l'arracher d'entre mes bras...
Emportés par
la foule qui nous traîne
Nous entraîne
Nous éloigne
l'un de l'autre
Je lutte et je me débats
Mais le son de sa voix
S'étouffe dans les rires des
autres
Et je crie de douleur, de fureur et de rage
Et
je pleure...
Entraînée par la foule qui s'élance
Et qui danse
Une folle farandole
Je suis emportée au
loin
Et je crispe mes poings, maudissant la foule qui me
vole
L'homme qu'elle m'avait donné
Et
que je n'ai jamais retrouvé...

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Surprises

2006-10-22T07:34:00.000-07:00

I love creative thoughtfulness. I mean something like this from Wilfe a fellow dp blogger from Réal, France.

To me, this is effective interactions when we are moved to extend some kind of gestures as thoughtful as this. Sending a dedication was inspired by his grandson, so cute and lovable boy, named Luca. After seeing the baby, not jus I imagine holding him and making funny faces playing with him, I recalled a song I used to listen quite a lot when I was in my teens by Suzanne Vega called ''my name is Luca''. And if you could catch the lyrics, it is really flowy like a story...i prefer this kind of songs than those that repeatedly sings the chorus of the song.

I also like Tom's diner:)

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People Management, EQ

2006-10-21T12:34:00.000-07:00

today, my friend told me about how stupid her boss can get. When a parent raised a certain issue about their 4 year old kid progress in school, this principal will not stand up for what is right by thinking carefully first how to manage it (the parents' demands) better. Instead she would be harsh to her subordinates (that is,the teachers) and reprimand the teachers instead of better handling the parents :(

You see how bad effects this can impact on the future of our children. First this poor management will create a low morale for the teachers. These teachers will be affected to teach well for the children. And mind you, it is a vicious cycle:(

So if you are in the senior management position, please THINK....your brain is for you to think, so that those under your wings will not suffer....

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Baby

2006-10-20T10:21:00.000-07:00

i like this japanese series ad for the magazines, i think it is a series TVC for a parenting magazine. it shows in a way how bright the baby is even though he can't really speak:)

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Counting

2006-10-19T03:36:00.000-07:00

i'm ready with my dp post for tomr, which will be Friday. hmm...so fast, one week has passed. And this week i've had quite a number of headaches, dizziness becos of the haze. i just hope it will be 'blown' away soon. but bad news on the headlines of our newspapers that it will not til early Nov.

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i am counting down...twenty three days.

Say

2006-10-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

After dailyblogging for some time, like about a month, i realised sometimes i have some thoughts on my mind but since dailyphotoblogging has many rules about only a photos a day, write a short few lines, not posting too early etc, i think writing them down here would be better.

i still haven't found that good blogging site so far:( anyway let me give this a try...

my concern is the kind of audience who responds to my blog posts. i encourage free speech, but sometimes i dun like people who start a fight or quarrel even ONLINE. So basically this is the only ''criteria''.