Look at that cute bottom sticking out from the petals. The bees in Singapore are much smaller than the typical western honey bees. Not so furry as well. But still very cute.

I notice they frequent certain flowers more than others, and the flowers featured above are particularly attractive to the bees.

I'm on a quest to capture the elusive black carpenter bee. Far rarer than the apis cerana. But much easier to spot due to its massive size.

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

Yeah, this camera does not do well close up.

And by close up, I mean aprox. arms length from subject.

Got a boatload of blurry shots.

See the perching giant dragonfly right in the centre of the frame?

Yeah, me neither.

Stunning flowers all out-of-focus.

This camera does best on a blazing bright day, for long-range landscapes.

I realised just how soft and pastel my film turned out with a $10 Taobao plastic camera. Too bad it started to light-leak badly after the 2nd roll.

Hmm... 

On second thoughts, I actually quite like the light leaks.

I'm always underestimating the amount of stuff I need for other stuff. Especially space, physical or digital. We buy more books than we have bookshelves for, we download more songs than we have gigabytes. I started buying those thick (and expensive) Playstation magazines when I was 14 and kept them in a drawer under my bed. Back then when all I owned were Playstation magazines and a pencil box, a drawer under the bed worked just fine. Now? Heh heh heh, it's like playing tetris with all those junk. Anyway, as I was browsing through pinterest for inspiring shelving ideas, all these photos popped up:

Who, tell me who, arranges their shelves like these? WHO??!

Look at how much space is wasted. There is a reason why books are never placed horizontally. It's a pain to take out. Also, the decorated tissue box gets a whole aeroplane-tray-sized seating area? That shelf can easily hold the whole encyclopedia britannica plus room for the Harry Potter series. Except now it can only hold 10 sad tomes and a few pretentious "art-forms".

Unrealistic shelving is unrealistic.

Argh. Goosebumps.
My favourite score from the movie Interstellar. Compare it with my favourite score from the other amazing sci-fi film, Gravity.



No comparison. They are both sublime. And speak about hope in the face of impossible odds with very different styles.