Greetings Everyone!! i am pausing from Blogging.
i see you when you see me around.
NinaOA
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Saturday, October 17, 2009
slowing down on blogging
Dear Peepers,
I was once a happy Blogger for having a full-time bum at home. Now, I have to down because I have to and I hate so. I love to blog but the majority of my time now is sucked up to attend German language class and photography shooting. I couldn't even realize how fast time past going to class from Monday to Friday 5 hours a day and 7 hours in total outside my computer life. Every afternoon I came home is a must to finish my school work and the next thing I know, here comes the weekend - time for house chores, groceries shopping and quite often so reluctant to meet up with friends or to have guests around our apartment :( Here are my list why I have decided to slow down blogging:
- of course, it is not because I am getting older, oh you...
- blogging is simply hard, spree-spending time is really easy to pour down the drain, but to use Time productively is a lot harder. Is blogging hard work? I think it is. I could spend the whole day blogging and sharing my personal photos for my readers
- blogging needs creativity to drive my readers in, not only from a circle of friends but also from other fingers-google with similar interest
- expecting feedback? you bet! I like to know what my readers think of my post
- useless to blog? sometimes my brain tells me it is useless to blog but my heart tells me to go on and write what I feel. Now I dunno who to follow
- despite all kinds of feeling and thinking and plotting to continue blogging or not, I intentionally wanna leave behind some of my footprint on my personal blog. It would be great to read my blog again in 10 years time - who knows!
- last but not least, we'll catch each other up somewhere, somehow around here
WAIT! I am not completely giving up blogging - anything can happen in the future, I might come back :-) xoxoxo
Thursday, September 17, 2009
summer in Miri to autumn in Germany
August in Miri: i love walking on the beach, smell the fresh sea salt air, hear the sound of the waves and what not, how the warm tropical sea breeze treats you. the best of it is, when you get your feet dipped in the sand and the gentle waves stroked over them... oh thatsso wunderbar!
now i am back in Germany in the month of September, the harmonized of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how standstill, are as crisp as autumn air = i'm loving it!
NinaOA©september.09
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
from Cygnets to Mute Swans
they were hatched in May 2009
you could hear mom's hissing to protect her newly hatched cygnets
yesterday at the park: the fast grown up cygnets are 4 months old
there is no such thing as "ugly" cygnet - they are birds of a feather flock together
shy fellow
Papa is watching = from a distance!
NinaOA©september.09
you could hear mom's hissing to protect her newly hatched cygnets
yesterday at the park: the fast grown up cygnets are 4 months old
there is no such thing as "ugly" cygnet - they are birds of a feather flock together
shy fellow
Papa is watching = from a distance!
NinaOA©september.09
Autumn 2009 shot#1
Musim Luruh in Malay, Autumn in Europe and Fall in America: i went to my former hometown at Lake Trappensee in Heilbronn yesterday. my little paradise has already created a very beautiful changing colors in leaves, hence some snapshots to bring home with me.
this is my little paradise and all my three little cygnets are fully grown up - at the foreground is their mama.
going autumn
cosy path walk, these trees will soon be bald
NinaOA©september.09
Friday, September 11, 2009
dining at Augustenstüble, Stuttgart
hi Peepers!
i'm blogging again... there were a lot of things had happened in the past 4 months, to name some: my brother's shocking brain tumor, my tooth pain that i ended up going through apicoectomy operation, then the moving places from Heilbronn to Asperg - oh it was so stressful. last month i was in malaysia for the whole month of august, almost! it was heavenly fantastic and i wished for another 2 more weeks to be with my dear family. time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana...
today i wanna blog about our dining place we went to last night. a restaurant name Augustenstüble and it is located in Stuttgart. we drove there and parking was a nightmare, it was like a dog chasing its tail and we had to park our car illegally. thanked God, we did not get parking ticket at the end of our dinner. the next time we come back here, we will take a train. it was our first time to dine in this restaurant, introduced by my brother-in-law. thumbs up!
Augustenstüble restaurant serves a French style cuisine. the restaurant atmosphere was relaxed, easy and rustic. as for the food size...? it was quite a huge portion and luckily i did not order my starter. hubby did, he had fish and prawn on risotto and i had some scoops from his plate. unfortunately, i did not take any pictures of it.
i had lamb fillet, it was quite huge for the size of my teeny-meeny stomach :-) the meat was so tender, tasty and it was so easy to chew it down into your hungry belly. i left 1/5 of it on the plate, i just could not finish it all :(
my lamb fillet came with mashed potatoes. oh gosh, the mashed potatoes was creamy and nyum-nyum, but i ate only 1/4 of it :-( like i had said, it was a huge portion and hubby even try to help to eat it for me. he likes it too ;-)
hubby had Boeuf (Beef) Bourguignon served in a big pot and a bowl plate, yes! a POT (not in the picture!) and it came with a basket of sliced french bread. he only had to serve himself and take how much he can eat with a ready ladle. i assumed there were like 8-10 big chunks of meat in there. Boeuf Bourguignon is a typical tradition french cuisine. it is a stew prepared with beef in red wine, beef broth, garlic, onions, carrots, etc... hubby can cook this cuisine at home but it takes a lot of time and eating it here in this restaurant, save you all the troubles: your time and cleaning up!
KONICA IMAGE
i'm blogging again... there were a lot of things had happened in the past 4 months, to name some: my brother's shocking brain tumor, my tooth pain that i ended up going through apicoectomy operation, then the moving places from Heilbronn to Asperg - oh it was so stressful. last month i was in malaysia for the whole month of august, almost! it was heavenly fantastic and i wished for another 2 more weeks to be with my dear family. time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana...
today i wanna blog about our dining place we went to last night. a restaurant name Augustenstüble and it is located in Stuttgart. we drove there and parking was a nightmare, it was like a dog chasing its tail and we had to park our car illegally. thanked God, we did not get parking ticket at the end of our dinner. the next time we come back here, we will take a train. it was our first time to dine in this restaurant, introduced by my brother-in-law. thumbs up!
Augustenstüble restaurant serves a French style cuisine. the restaurant atmosphere was relaxed, easy and rustic. as for the food size...? it was quite a huge portion and luckily i did not order my starter. hubby did, he had fish and prawn on risotto and i had some scoops from his plate. unfortunately, i did not take any pictures of it.
i had lamb fillet, it was quite huge for the size of my teeny-meeny stomach :-) the meat was so tender, tasty and it was so easy to chew it down into your hungry belly. i left 1/5 of it on the plate, i just could not finish it all :(
KONICA IMAGE
my lamb fillet came with mashed potatoes. oh gosh, the mashed potatoes was creamy and nyum-nyum, but i ate only 1/4 of it :-( like i had said, it was a huge portion and hubby even try to help to eat it for me. he likes it too ;-)
KONICA IMAGE
hubby had Boeuf (Beef) Bourguignon served in a big pot and a bowl plate, yes! a POT (not in the picture!) and it came with a basket of sliced french bread. he only had to serve himself and take how much he can eat with a ready ladle. i assumed there were like 8-10 big chunks of meat in there. Boeuf Bourguignon is a typical tradition french cuisine. it is a stew prepared with beef in red wine, beef broth, garlic, onions, carrots, etc... hubby can cook this cuisine at home but it takes a lot of time and eating it here in this restaurant, save you all the troubles: your time and cleaning up!
KONICA IMAGE
Friday, June 19, 2009
all messed up
my heart is sinking.
i don't know how to explain my Blog situation right now but i try.
because my Picasa photo album online almost runs out of storage, i have to remove some photos to give way for the new one. the first folder Photo Album i pressed to DELETE was my Blog photos that went there automatically as copies. i never set any copy to go there and i don't know how it went there either.
i am puzzled, some photos was not sent to my Picasa, survived in my Blog! before i delete my Blog photos in Picasa, i have many thoughts about it. so, at the same time while deleting one album at a time, i made sure my photos in my Blog are not affected. it didn't. yay!
when i visited this Blog another day, all my BLOG photos deleted in Picasa, VANISHED! they came out as a little 'square box' in my Blog!! my photos in my Picasa also gone bizarre :(( i don't know what i have done! my Blog header photo also VANISHED and what can i say about my profile photo in here = DISAPPEARED!
i will have to find a lot of time to find the folders because most of the photos are saved in my other external Hard Disk Drive.
speechless.
i don't know how to explain my Blog situation right now but i try.
because my Picasa photo album online almost runs out of storage, i have to remove some photos to give way for the new one. the first folder Photo Album i pressed to DELETE was my Blog photos that went there automatically as copies. i never set any copy to go there and i don't know how it went there either.
i am puzzled, some photos was not sent to my Picasa, survived in my Blog! before i delete my Blog photos in Picasa, i have many thoughts about it. so, at the same time while deleting one album at a time, i made sure my photos in my Blog are not affected. it didn't. yay!
when i visited this Blog another day, all my BLOG photos deleted in Picasa, VANISHED! they came out as a little 'square box' in my Blog!! my photos in my Picasa also gone bizarre :(( i don't know what i have done! my Blog header photo also VANISHED and what can i say about my profile photo in here = DISAPPEARED!
i will have to find a lot of time to find the folders because most of the photos are saved in my other external Hard Disk Drive.
speechless.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Cloudburst in Heilbronn
this was Spring, 9th of June at 8:03 o'clock in the evening when i was closing the windows that i saw this beautiful cloudburst forming in our sky.
the trees in front of our apartment was blowing hard
meanwhile, at the back of our apartment there was more dramatic clouds forming. cool!
i went back in front to see what was happening. i saw sign of cloudburst and rain started to pour down. amazing!
front view: it looked like Armageddon
the trees in front of our apartment was blowing hard
the strong wind lets the trees going Rock and Roll
meanwhile, at the back of our apartment there was more dramatic clouds forming. cool!
ground huggers: NinaOA's Cloudspotter
i went back in front to see what was happening. i saw sign of cloudburst and rain started to pour down. amazing!
NinaOA©
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