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Hows life treating you guys? I'm back now and currently typing from Indonesia, my home country which honestly doesn't feel like home.

Anyway, that's not the point of me writing this blog. I'm writing this blog to say hello and what else, I miss you all! I miss browsing and chatting on the net talking about photography-related stuffs. I miss hunting and taking pics as well, including the editing stage.

Btw, I already graduated from University of Queensland, last December, as Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (whohooo hooray to me) and my mom bought me new camera Sony Cybershot T-200. The cam is so stylish and the colour is pink, so girly. I'm not gonna continue further on the 'cam review' cos I haven't used it properly as in taking great objects and upload them in dArts

What else, umm, I've been feeling so lonely in the middle of the crowd and sadly, I almost lost my passion for taking pics (I miss 'clean' objects without too many people on the frame. Cos the more doesn't always mean the merrier).

Please say Hi to me if you have a spare time, I would be really glad to hear your news personally I guess its time to reconnect with old friends.

Ciao for now,

Lady Adia

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1. Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get (Spanish proverb).

2. This too shall pass (My Best Friend's Wedding)

3. Why your problems seem bigger than anyone else's? Because they are yours (Magazine).

... so now you consider yourself as the unluckiest person in the world?

Actually, life is great as long as you think so,

... since there is no good thing or a bad thing, but thinking makes it so (Shakespeare).


What's the valuable possession by the way?

Your life and every piece that constitutes it, every single second, every single scene ...

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... is special.

Mind me sharing my shallow point of view previously.

I used to think some people's life is a pack of boring episodes. Living in the same place for the whole of their life, hanging out with the same peers everyday, visiting the same places again and again. While there are some people which i really envy for their life which to me appeared to be slightly similar to Silver Queen advertisement or even Legally Blonde movie.

However, two descriptions of typical kind of life is clearly not enough.

Here's what my simple mind thinks:

Since there are billion human being in this world, obviously billion kind of life exist. What kind of life? Well, every kind of life.
In every few metres (my assumption), live a mind who's in a process of growing up (surely, people grow till the end of their life), the lovely mind who's striving to accomplish their own idea (which again, various idea for various mind) and diminish the discrepancies between their actual self and ideal self (mind me being a bit influenced by my major -psychology).

A beautiful skeleton wrapped with lovely skins of different colours. Black, white, yellow, red, whatever. They are growing up everywhere. Being nurtured in different circumstances, different cultures, different time and spaces. All of them are special. Every of those lines in their face, wrinkles below their eyes, scars on their skins. All of them are special.
The difficult time.
The happiness time.
Time of their life.

A girl was married yesterday in Rome.
A girl was raped yesterday in Manchester.
A girl was surrounded by their lovely friends yesterday in Sydney. A girl lost his brother yesterday in Iraq.

I don't know now what to say, but there are various life people living in.
Its all special. Its all special. Its all special.
Its all special how you pursue your own happiness, stay alive in the middle of the bomb explosion, continue your life after being sexually harassed or verbally abused, or even continue your happiness till the end of your life.

I cherish the life I have. I'm thankful of every scene that was presented in front of my two eyes or inside my small brain (in size but big in its capacity *'tis an attempt to boost my self esteem).

When I said every scene, I mean it as every scene. Including my failure in IELTS test (well, finally I made it though), some low scores in some subjects (count them as negative events as well), or even posing a wrong answer in front of the class.

Every scene also includes the episode of being invisible, not being an 'IT' girl back then (obviously its no longer a current worry consider this is the time of being a true individual, its an old issue of every adolescent girl I reckon), the episode of being a secret admirer (sounds pathetic, but hey now I can laugh out loud toward those embarassing moments)

And importantly, every scene meaning it also includes those grief and mourning sessions when I lost some people that I love cos they passed away. In a long term, I might lose my mates as well since one shall continue their life without always carry every piece of them from time to time.

Not that I'm implying that yours is better than mine nor mine is better than yours. The bottom line is yours is special for yourself while mine is special in my own way. You have the things that you appreciate (and me too), thus, do NOT attempt to insist your values on me for I have my own mine. I appreciate you and your values but its NOT important for me. I care not with your idealism for your idea is ideal for you and again its NOT ideal for me, and vice versa you don't have to bother seeing me holding to particular value.

Typing and typing and typing.
If God is starring at me now though eyes could not see, I thank Thee, Lord.

You too, be thankful.

Even after I say 'period', you shall be continuing your life.

One more sentence.


I wish you all: happiness.


Period.


(... and have fun for the rest of your life)

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Two days a week, instead of having fun, i had four lectures and four tutorials. Well the good thing is that the lecturers and the tutors are still young and energetic. Obviously the subjects are also interesting (consider i have no choice but to take these two subjects). Oh i'm taking PSYC 3082 (counselling and psychotherapy) and PSYC 3152 (applied topic in developmental psychology)

Actually this holiday is not totally filled with (again) academic-related things, which is kinda pathetic if its only still around uni things. Well, I had a great 5 days and 4 nights holiday as well in Sydney (discounting the excessive worry due to PSYC 2010, it should be quite a perfect holiday).

1. Sightseeing in Sydney: Sydney Opera House, passing the Harbour Bridge, going to Manly Beach (there were lots of seagulls, its good feel the touch of the sand and water on my feet. hey we wrote our name as well and the name of the current guy i'm currently close to. lol embarassing), Bondi Beach, Darling Harbour, Hyde Park, Chinatown

2. Shopping in Sydney: well ladies, we cannot separate shopping from our holiday plan. its actually one of the essential part hahaha. ok we went to Queen Victoria Building which connected to other surroundings big shopping centre. but too expensive for us students. Next is Haymarket which was located exactly in front of our hotel, thats quite a bargain price in Haymarket (lots of factory outlets like Supre, Esprit, Cue, Lonsdale, etc.). Well, my favourite one is Birken Head Point. Its a collection of factory outlets as well with extremely incredible price. I bought skirts and t-shirts in FCUK which cost me not more than au$ 50, one tanktop and shirts in Marcs for only au$20, and an australian designer hat plus Sisley purse in David Jones for less than au$ 50 as well.

3. Eating time: Pancakes on the Rocks (great pancakes and crepes with a big range of selections), Hurricane (crazy delicious big and reasonable prices of Lamb ribs, located in Bondi beach), Riviera ice cream (never had I saw that huge size of ice cream. i guess one portion could be for 4-7 persons seriously im not kidding), Japanese food (forgot the name but this one is a famous japanese food in chinatown. i ate their fish teriyaki and takoyaki like in japanese comic. its all delicious), Max Brenner (bestest part. its a chocolate bar. all chocolatey here. famous order: suckao! milk chocolate one. funny how to drink this -well maybe suckao means sucks the cacao hehe. oh and bapka and truffle with a melted chocolate dip. whohoooo. drunken due to the chocolate consumption). well the last bite, of course, Krispy Kreme (we tried everything from original glazed, blueberry, chocolate, etc. but well, we had that in Indonesia. though i never tried it cos they just open the counter when im already here).

4. Best feature of the holiday: Grand Final Australian Idol live from the Sydney Opera House. I'll put some pictures i took while i watch it. Well, i always try to love my so called digital camera with its major 'limitations' and consider those limitations as a challenge in creating great pictures. But sometimes in lots of the occasions such as this, those limitations became extremely irritating. Crazy, what could I do with only 3x optical zooms if i sat far from the stage. plus its shutter that extremely took a long time, obviously i couldnt let my hand not to shake. So yeah, sorry for complaining.

Anyway, happy studying for all the students. happy working for the workers.
Lets do what we should do. Being a good student. Being a good worker.
Life is great.

(*btw, i'm writing this in the law library -im a psych student though -and there is this (omg) irritating couple in front of me who's acting as if they are in Romeo and Juliet movie. not a cool couple. i like seeing cool couple but this one? 'duh. Anyway sorry for the long journal, after this i'm gonna hit PSYC 3082 and PSYC 3152 assignments. Sniff)

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"Tis a lesson you should heed,
Try, try again;
If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try again;
Then your courage should appear,
For if you will persevere,
You will conquer, never fear,
Try, try again.

Once or twice through you should fail,
Try try again;
If you would at last prevail,
Try, try again;
If we strive, 'tis no disgrace
Though we do not win the race;
What should you do in the case?
Try, try again.

Time will bring you your reward,
Try, try again.
All that other folks can do,
Why, with patience, should not you?
Only keep this rule in view;
Try, try again.

~ William Edward Hickson (1803-1870)

* i'm no great writer. but i love reading good poems, good books, or any other good writings. find meanings in every piece of people's masterpiece. sort of like enlightenment as well.

thus, the more i see, the more i read, the more i know, the more i learn, the more i think.

keep on tryin ladies and gentlemen. besides, life itself is a lifelong never ending strivings from one goal to another new goal. have fun !

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Things I’ve learned

I’ve learned -
that you cannot make someone love you.
all you can do is be someone who can be loved.
the rest is up to them.

I’ve learned -
that no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back

I’ve learned -
that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

I’ve learned-
that it’s not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts.

I’ve learned -
that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes.
after that, you’d better know something.

I’ve learned -
that you shouldn’t compare yourself to the best others can do
but to the best you can do.

I’ve learned -
that its not what happens to people that’s important. It’s what they do about it.

I’ve learned -
that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

I’ve learned -
that no matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.

I’ve learned -
that it’s taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

I’ve learned -
that it’s a lot easier to react than it is to think.

I’ve learned -
that you can keep going long after you think you can’t.

I’ve learned -
that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

I’ve learned -
that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first,
the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.

I’ve learned -
that learning to forgive takes practice.

I’ve learned -
that there are people who love you dearly, but just don’t know how to show it.

I’ve learned -
that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you’re down
will be the ones to help you get back up.

I’ve learned -
that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.
same goes for true love.

I’ve learned -
that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had
and what you’ve learned from them
and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.

I’ve learned -
that no matter how good a friend is,
they’re going to hurt you every once in a while
and you must forgive them for that.

I’ve learned -
that it isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others.
sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

I’ve learned -
that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

I’ve learned -
that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are,
but we are responsible for who we become.

I’ve learned -
that just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other
and just because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean they do..

I’ve learned -
that we don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change

I’ve learned -
that you shouldn’t be so eager to find out a secret.
it could change your life forever.

I’ve learned -
that two people can look at the exact same thing
and see something totally different.

I’ve learned -
that there are many ways of falling and staying in love.

I’ve learned -
that no matter the consequences,
those who are honest with themselves get farther in life.

I’ve learned -
that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.

I’ve learned -
that its hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice
and not hurting peoples feelings and standing up for what you believe.

I’ve learned -
that writing, as well as talking, can ease emotional pains.

and I continue learning...

]]> ~InstantClick http://InstantClick.deviantart.com/journal/9870352/ http://InstantClick.deviantart.com/journal/9870352/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:45:57 PDT 2. Sunset
3. Sunlight behind the trees
4. Old buildings
5. City light during night time
6. Blue sky
7. Sunny day
8. My expressive friends
9. Street lamp
10. Brisbane river
11. Forgan smith building
12. The great court
13. Night sky with full moon
14. Flowers
15. Anything in black and white ]]> ~InstantClick http://InstantClick.deviantart.com/journal/9660542/ http://InstantClick.deviantart.com/journal/9660542/ Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:47:54 PDT I took pictures and captured moments for several reasons:
1) I like the moment and do not want to lose it. Simply, just because I think that you cannot experience the same moment twice in your life.
2) I want to entertain myself by doing this. Living life is getting harder so I have to know how to please myself.
3) I think beauty should be exposed. Even though I may not be able to do that properly. At least I have tried.

I am no professional who can edit images properly. Thus, these pictures only involved a very minimum editing using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (e.g., mainly for frame and resizing the pictures). All I always use to snap a picture is only my digital camera (I even have no tripod, that's why I should be very patient when taking picture during night time).

My digital camera is Samsung Digimax A40 4mp, 3x optical zoom, zoom 5.8-17.4mm, SIID lens.

Anyway, I'm still learning so if you drop by to my gallery, please give any critical comment or thought about that. I always appreciate any comment given to me.

Just like an old saying:
'tis a lesson you should heed
try, try again
if at first you don't succeed
try, try again

Cheers,
Adia ]]> ~InstantClick