Hatshepsut by Christiane Vleugels

Very, very... beautiful.

Toy Stories by Aled Lewis, some of his 2011 Make Something Cool Every Day project.

Micah Lidberg is an eastern United States based Illustrator who’s work is inspired and shaken up by nature. In regards to nature Micah says: “It’s certainly a very deep and very wide thing. With nature, there’s plenty of room to explore and plenty to share. It’s an entertaining venture.”

"Please understand that saying all Muslims are terrorists is like saying that all Americans are like those people on Jersey Shore."

I'm not really sure whether the chart represents the real exact number of both us, Muslim population (yes, I'm a Muslim), and those radical Muslim movement people (Al Qaeda & Taliban & maybe some other else). Apart from the number & having read the saying, you see the point, right? People really need to realize this. I'm bringing this up because I actually hate it that people still generalize all Muslims for terrorists. Some people really should start to open their eyes and mind cause this prejudice is nothing but stupid.

Java Jazz Festival 2011 ♥

Have I told you, dear readers, my happiest week, so far on this 2011?

Well, it was when I volunteered for the annual Java Jazz Festival that held on the 4th, 5th & 6th of March. Yes, it was a week ago.

It was one day on a boring day of December, a friend asked me to accompany her doing an interview for this JJF volunteering thingy. I was on holiday, got nothing else to do the next day, so yeah, I took the rest of the day making my own CV (I find it really hard to remember all the achievements & records I've ever did, mainly because I have too few, lol) for the next day's interview.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND, AFTER A LONG AWAITING FOR TWO & A HALF MONTHS, A PHONE CALL FROM THIS AWESOME GUY MAS RAYMOND OF JJF SAID I GOT ACCEPTED!

Long story short, I was assigned to be the airport front desk, where my job desc was to fetch all the international artists & guests, take care of their passport to get them through the immigration, accompany them waiting for their luggages, and get them to the bus safely.

BEST DAMN JOB EVER!

Like seriously, BEST. DAMN. JOB. EVER!

Although at first it was so hard & awful. Day 1 I got really devastated I almost cried but I told myself to hang on & survive that day & the next two days no matter what (yes of course lah ya I have to since I have no other option whatsoever). The job was seriously hard. It's just.. hard, and unpredictable problems occurred often at first. We, my team & I, practically have to spend all day at the airport (THIS is not a problem). I'm not exaggerating, but dang, it was so damn hard at first. And after 2 full days of experience, I finally feel easy about it. And since we, our team and I, have worked before the festival started, we were able to catch 3 full-day of the Java Jazz Festival itself, work-free! See, best job ever :)

There was one time where I had to fetch this band & a guest; they supposed to be arrived at 13.25 & 13.35 on sub-terminal D. So, what I had to do was basically fetch the band, take them through immigration & hand them over to the luggage team while I run back to the terminal gate to fetch the guest. I did successfully hand the band over to the luggage team but when I got back to the gate & asked whether this guest's plane had arrived, the information lady told me my plane boarded on sub-terminal E! PANIC? HELL I WAS! So I run to E (not exactly running, never look suspicious upon the airport's camera), and thank God the plane was delayed for twenty minutes or so :)

What so cool about this job I volunteered for is, these people you pick up, their first impression was on us. Although I shouldn't be talking too much with them, I can't help it to get all smiley and friendly. And fortunately they all were too :)

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It's a phobia, a fear, of sea.

I guess I'm suffering from Thalassophobia. It's a phobia, a fear, of sea.

Thalassophobia (Greek: thalassa, "sea" and φόβος, phobos, "fear") is an intense, irrational and persistent fear of the sea.

So, I basically like beaches & sands, but deep water & ocean? Ugh. I didn't know how this all started but yes, I really don't enjoy the thoughts of anything that required me being in the middle of the big deep dark blue ocean, even on the surface. I'm able to get on a ship, I could go through on its long hours of voyage, and oddly yeah, I still able to enjoy the sea scenery from above, so I guess it's the content of the sea that scares the shit out of me.

And what exactly are the content of the sea? EVERYTHING. THE SEA HAS EVERYTHING IN IT.

It's the idea that the sea has everything in it. So let me put my condition this way, I don't get scared when I'm on a ship/boat because I'm not making direct contact to the sea itself. But when I play on the beach and I got too far from the coast line, I experienced nausea, anxiety, and some extreme thoughts of dying. I mean, seriously, when you swim a little far from the coast line, and the water height had reached your neckline, have you got any idea what water creatures might be interested clinging to your open flesh? Oh god.

Ugh. Okay bye.

I ♥ EATING

If I am what I eat, oh la la... look how delicious I am! ♥