Long Read - What if all the pictures are lost?

Sometimes when I browse through past pictures that I have taken or pictures that were taken of me with families and friends, I will have this weird feeling. Why do we take pictures? 

In today's age where most people own a camera phone, things just get easier for us to snap pictures, thousands of them. I am guilty of taking way too many pictures too. 

What if those thousands of pictures just got deleted and never recovered? Then what? Will we forget all the memories that were attached to the pictures? Will people believe what we told them if there is no photographic evidence? 

I guess I am over thinking about this pictures issue. I have many things that I wanted to type for this entry but as usual when my fingers start type, my brain somehow just refuse to cooperate and I struggle to think of what I had wanted to say so badly. 

I will just stop here for now and will continue to work on this entry as we move along. 

Before I end, I'll put up those pictures that I have taken over the years to remind myself again of why we take pictures and why it is sometimes necessary to take pictures.

Quick Update - What do you do if..?

What would you do if what you want to do is not allowed and not given blessing?

Of course the things you want to do are legally allowed. It's just that what you wish to do is not being blessed or someone objected strongly to it to the point of emotionally blackmailing you. That person does not realise what he or she is doing of course. 

They tell you the risks involved in you doing that something but you personally know there is a risk to everything that you do. But does that mean you stay safe all the time? In any case, you would not even know what would happen if you do it or even if you don't do it. There will always be a risk to anything and everything anyway.

Always caught in this situation where I want to go ahead but something someone somehow will always hold me back. 

Urghh!

Quick Update - Bringing you to a different world...

    

Books. 

The few signs that a book you are reading is really good:

- When you can't bear to put it down for a while

- When you want to know what will happen next

- When you wish you were there with all the characters

- When you wish you were one of the character

Trivia: It's because of Mujhse Dosti Karoge that I wanted to get hold of Erich Segal's Love Story. It's a simple yet very relatable story.

Quick Update - I don't wanna see you cry I wanna see you smile

Honestly, I was feeling slightly affected and down for a short while earlier. So naturally my emotions and thoughts processed that and I had something in mind that was blog-worthy material. 

Emotions became translated to words and words became sentences. Had planned to blog them away and pour it out or rather type it out. 

And then as always I would want to do something and ended up doing something else first. Priority lady! That's how a tab was opened for youtube and twitter and facebook. One song on youtube became two songs became three before I finally searched for R5 Smile. Yeah this song is my current favourite song :D

Little trivia: Somehow watching one or two episodes of Austin & Ally made me kind of obsessed with this Disney series and before I knew it I was hooked to it watching as many episodes as I can. I am proud to say I have completed watching Season 1 to 3, well kind of. What do you expect when you are watching on youtube :P And so of course I became fond of Austin and Ally who is Ross and Laura respectively off screen. Again, naturally when you are fond of someone or when you become a fan or when you like someone, you know what I mean, you would google that person and try to know as much information as you could. That's how I know Ross is in a band and the first song I heard was Smile. So much for little trivia huh.

Coming back to the original topic, Smile of course made me SMILE and after repeatedly listening to the song, all that not so happy thoughts have now been spread all over the brain to be kept for another time if I ever had that feeling again (I hope not because it's not a good feeling really)

There is an official video for Smile but I like this more. Maybe because of its raw footage combined together. But I do like the ending of the official video where they all come together and pose for a picture. So sweet & adorable!

R5 - Smile (from Teatro Opera, Buenos Aires)

Long Read - Nature Appreciation

Not sure since when I'm into taking photographs. Not selfies or pictures of myself though. More of the surrounding, the nature, things around us. Ever since I started, I find myself either looking up into the sky or across to the horizon.

It's as if I am searching for someone or rather hoping to see someone's face among the beautiful clouds while looking up into the sky. I do not know exactly who actually! Either that or I'm simply amazed with the nature and its beauty that I need to snap a picture and remember it forever.

TITLED: The Clouds

TITLED: The Sunset (Before & After)

TITLED: Somewhere in Singapore

- Pandan Reservoir

- Taken from a balcony at The Coast, Sentosa

I am honestly so proud of all my pictures that I took. No edits were done. I simply marveled at nature's beauty that had been created by The Almighty and thankful that I am able to see the wonderful creations. 

There are a couple more pictures that I have not added here. Will save it for another time. 

Adios.

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