Fort Collins - Casual evening

Uncle Don & Aunt Patsy brought me to Old Town for an evening stroll and I heard the Bear telling the Fish "We can never be together darling... cos I'm always hungrrrry"






FROZEN FOOD CENTER
This is interesting. U.Don explained that (very long time ago) when fridge wasn't popular yet, this was where people store their frozen food. Like P.O Boxes!! How very charming! Imagine saying this "Yoohoo! I need to retrieve my ham from locker number 133790!"



And while we were talking about food storage, we came across Mr.Squirrel who's busy storing acorn into his mouth. HAA! He's not afraid of us at all!! He posed for a picture! Cool dude!






WOODY'S WOOD-FIRED PIZZA
518 West Laurel, Fort Collins, CO 80521
Open daily from 11am - 2am
www.woodyswoodfiredpizza.com

Dinner was fun at the salad bar! I could pick whatever I fancied!
Sunflower Seeds
Cherry Tomatoes
Goldfish Crackers
Beetroot
Greens



U.Don ordered Anchovies & Olives Pizza... YUMMMM!!!




Isn't it great to stay around nature? Imagine after a hearty meal every evening, we'll drive up to watch the deers and the sun set.



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Fort Collins - 云的影子

以往看云的角度
都是从陆地上抬头仰望
当飞机慢慢和云成平行线时
我开始享受
能和它们面对面的这一刻
感觉和乘坐大型的商业飞机不同
至少对我来说
这是更亲密的接触

城市里的遮荫不是大厦就是树
终于在这片辽阔的大地上
流露了云最真的影子

这样的懈逅
是可遇不可求的









云的倒影让我想起了《东邪西毒》里，独孤求败练剑的一幕。

Fort Collins - the sky is the limit

N33196 was eager for an adventure and so was I! We went soaring and gliding into the sky... never a dull moment from the hangar at Fort Collins to Long's Peak at the Rocky Mountain National Park. I felt really fortunate to be flying on a Monday Morning with boundless landscapes & great company.

last minute changes
deadlines
emails
MSN
phone calls
dusty floor
monday blues

Fort Collins - waking up to the mountains

My adventure started when my connecting flight to LA was delayed and I missed the following one to Denver. When I finally made it to see Uncle Don & Aunt Patsy, I was soooooo delighted. It was almost midnight and I was still hyper despite spending 2 days in & out of planes & airports. The faithful lamp posts guided us back from Denver to Fort Collins, otherwise the place was in darkness, hiding all the magic away.



When the sun came knocking on my window, I saw the first spillage of magic. I jumped out of bed and scampered down to the kitchen... Aunt Patsy let me out to the back of the house. Gooooood Morning... there stood the Horse Tooth Peak at the far end.


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summer holiday

spending friday night ziploc-ing ALL liquid items, packing bag into bag into bag... it's just summer and i've already got so much to pack!! really looking forward to running away.

1442

sometimes when i close my eyes i feel like i can go a long way. unlike life. i ran 14 rounds tonight. new found relieve. next week this time, i'll be somewhere far away in search of lost time. not really looking for a particular something but more like examining a certain surge of emotion. i hope by doing that i'll discover something new about myself.

i dreamt of my first watch last night. i wonder what that means.

great company

My last run was dated 10 years ago - that compulsory 2.4km during graduating year. Two great things about entering art school after sec 4: 1) no more uniforms 2) no more running. I HATE RUNNING.

Last night, my inspiring colleagues got my spirits up and we headed for the stadium. I LOVE MY COLLEAGUES. They are always there for me. (That includes Joey who went to do Brazilian waxing with me last week! OOOoooo!)

Okay i survived! Ran 36mins (4km) and walked 24mins (2.4km).

I'm beginning to see running from a very different perspective as before. Maybe because I had Nodame Cantabile Orchestra playing from ear to ear. The entire journey felt more passionate and less strenuous. I had my eyes closed during some parts of the run, imagining that I'm conducting Rachmaninov's piano concerto no. 2. They said I ran strangely with my hands swinging everywhere hahahaa but I knew I wasn't running, I was Stresemann in the making! wahwawawhhhaa. I like the stadium, especially the floodlights. I understood why Hitler loved them so much.

Okay I'm gonna train up for my next travel destination!

subtracting the blues away

first attempt in removing the blues from my life...
i wonder if that'll make me a happier person?

In Search of Lost Time

My boss passed me this issue of MUSE the other day and I found something that i'm looking for. Well, almost. I really love this first paragraph leading to Ron Arad's interview. >>>>>> "If you want the future to come, you have to be willing to make sacrifices", that is, to give up something, very often something dear, leaving it behind and saying goodbye. London based architect and designer Ron Arad has said goodbye many a time... <<<<<<

That evening I got my nails painted in 5 different colors. My mind needed some happy colors to act like stimulants.




I'm thinking of Proust again.

If a little dreaming is dangerous,
the cure for it is not to dream less
but to dream more,
to dream all the time.
......
Happiness is beneficial for the body,
but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind

问

in chinese,
to "ask" is written as "问" >> a "口" (mouth) within a "门" (door);
the word for "entrance" is "门口"

standing at the entrance, i was tempted to ask if anyone wanted to come out and play. i wanted to know why the door was made up of two uneven parts. i wanted to find out what's on the other side. i wanted to make this my secret hiding place.

lonely sukiyaki

i arrived 2 mins before last order (thankful that they didn't turn me away). as much as i've gotten used to eating alone at swee choon or anywhere else, this was probably the first time i sat for a pretty elaborate meal - in a cold empty restaurant - all by myself. interstingly, i paid more attention to my sukiyaki than any other time i had had it.


i love to coat my enoki mushrooms & beef slices with raw egg.

relief rain

When the clouds can no longer hold the water droplets, relief rain begins to fall... it was a very long afternoon. just like all other sunday afternoons. nothing seems to change.

almond flavoured clouds

dear pennylane, i saw our clouds! they were accompanied by large tear-drop crystals. it felt totally surreal.

SG - geodistance

After measuring my walking distance with a sewing thread on street directory (scale 1:7500), shaunny boy introduced me to geodistance where I could do it online. Okay I'm doing this measurement for the sake of irene dearest - who refused to believe that singapore is tiny. heee.. very fun!