empty...again

date taken : march 2010
location: ipoh, perak

today.....i turned 27.....i want it to be as low key as possible....somehow i feel a big rock upon my shoulder...what it is, i dont know....just a sense of restlessness...nonetheless i thank God for allowing me to me where i am now today.....

this photo is taken from my hometown....a timeless sense of stillness.....waiting to be discovered...

-s.l.o.w-

date taken : january 2010
location : ipoh

-layers-

date taken : march 2010
location : ipoh

my efforts in discovering lost spaces in my little classic city brought me to a place we all call 15th floors (in cantonese) as it was the first highrise low cost apartment block in Ipoh, one of its kind since Ipoh has a vast low-spreading development - horizontal instead of vertical. This is a place notorious since the 60's for its high crime rates, enclosed community...which made it even more intriguing...it's my first time venturing inwards....and was greeted by surprising good planning of spaces, open green spaces and sensitive place making, however it was completely abandoned.....isolated and shielded from the rest of the city......and what a surprise! one last shop opened at the ground level that was intended to have facilities to service the community like drugstore, marketplace etc.....such a classic little barber shop....what i like most about the photo is how many stories it tells....

little angel

date taken : march 2010
location : ipoh

today is one of those days when i felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude...it has been many years that i realised that i had never ever take the initiative to take some photos of my hometown, Ipoh, well known for its lost glory, its nothingness, where it seemed to be the ideal place only for retirement......today i finally pulled myself together and along with a friend went to 'see' for the first time, what i have successful leave behind for a long long time....

people venture a long way to capture decisive moments, to explore different horizons....most of the time, we get to a point where we realised we had never acknowledged our roots, which was really what made us who we are.....

these photos are my favourite picks from my short adventure today.....i was in awe, looking for the first time, in a classic coffeeshop that i often go to, the light was great, the environment and ambience is really hard to be described with words....this little girl peered at me....i took 2 quick shots....and she is now by far my favourite model:)

another world

date taken : dec 2009
location : tonle sap, cambodia



there she was,
timeless,
framed in a different world,
a different time..

counting my blessings

date taken : dec 2009


...a sense of gratitude....for uncountable blessings...

long long lapse

another lapse....so much have happened...however somehow it feels the same, surreal somehow but most of all...just strange...

chinese new year went past....a new environment...a new job, yet in an all familiar way...like a blast from the past....