[Reybronx] - A photo whenever possible [2008]

[reybronx]

hi guys,

just starting...

The good thing about children is that they are ambiguous about their state of life. Like these two for example. They live a very simple life and almost got nothing of affluence. Yet they know how to have a good time and device their own games to have fun. They even give genuine smiles when you take a picture of them.

 

[andrewtansj]

nice picture, welcome to apad, though it's Dec but it is never too late to start...looking forward to more of your postings. also remember to put in the date for every post.

 

[reybronx]

December 08, 2008

I really think that childhood friendship is the most pure. it's free from the reasons and logic of adulthood and the poison that comes with it. The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

 

[reybronx]

Dec. 10, 2008

Chinese garden Lake

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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View from the top of the twin pagoda that overlooked a lake in Singapore Chinese Garden

 

[night86mare]

welcome to apad

i hope you know that the poem about flanders fields is actually about war.. it's also the reason why people in european countries wear a poppy pin to commemorate ww2.

 

[reybronx]

Night86mare,

It is a commemoration about the war and the casualties it brought, I know.and a very popular treatise by Lt. Col. John McCrae. It's actually one of my favourite poems (not because it speaks about a small European place few people knew)but because it speakes of life and death and the tragic truth of human horrors that war brought. That's the reason I put Mc crae's poem in a sunset picture because I always associate sunset as a quintessence of any ending-- including life. And birds like sparrows(not really the bird shown in the picture, but a loose manifestation) are said to be the carrier of souls to the afterlife.

thank you.

 

[reybronx]

Dec. 11, 2008

"Serenity"

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving...
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Shot on the Bonsai Garden within the Chinese Gardens of Singapore

 

[reybronx]

Dec. 12, 2007

"The Journey"

Let your mind start a journey
through a strange new world
Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before
Let your soul take you
where you long to be...
Close your eyes
let your spirit start to soar,
and you'll live as you've never lived before.

 

[reybronx]

Dec. 13, 2008

"Connections"

There is a land of the living
and a land of the dead
and the bridge is love
the only survival
...the only meaning.
...My Gaia...
... My Valhalla.

 

[reybronx]

Dec. 14, 2008

"Sanctuary"

Do you remember
the time of innocence
when we have our sanctuary
our own hidden world
we wrote poems and dreamth of things
where did those time gone?

 

[reybronx]

Dec. 15, 2008

"Singapore CBD Waterfront"

The ever- photographed Singapore CBD waterfront. I think no photographer in Singapore or any photographer who visited here will be caught without a single shot of this landmark.

 

[reybronx]

Dec. 16, 2008

"Time piece"

Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.

 

[reybronx]

Dec. 17, 2008

"Colours of Clark Quay"

I have many pictures of Clark Quay at night but I like this the most. Hope you dig.

 

[reybronx]

Dec, 21, 2008

"Fishing Boats"

Fishing boats at the old wharf in Dauis, Bohol, Philippines.

 

[reybronx]

Dec. 23, 2008

"stranded"

The rocky beach near my parents' home in the Philippines. There's this big rock just off the coast where swimmers like to use foe a rest while swimming.

 

[reybronx]

Probably Bohol's (Philippines) most famous tourist attraction, the Chocolate Hills look like giant mole hills, or as some say, women's breasts, and remind us of the hills in a small child's drawing. Most people who first see pictures of this landscape can hardly believe that these hills are not a man-made artifact. However, this idea is quickly abandoned, as the effort would surely surpass the construction of the pyramids in Egypt. The chocolate hills consist of are no less than 1268 hills (some claim this to be the exact number). They are very uniform in shape and mostly between 30 and 50 meters high. They are covered with grass, which, at the end of the dry season, turns chocolate brown. From this color, the hills derive their name. At other times, the hills are green, and the association may be a bit difficult to make.

Legend has it that the hills came into existence when two giants threw stones and sand at each other in a fight that lasted for days. When they were finally exhausted, they made friends and left the island, but left behind the mess they made. For the more romantically inclined is the tale of Arogo, a young and very strong giant who fell in love with an ordinary mortal girl called Aloya. After she died, the giant Arogo cried bitterly. His tears then turned into hills, as a lasting proof of his grief.

However, up to this day, even geologists have not reached consensus on how they where formed. The most commonly accept theory is that they are the weathered formations of a kind of marine limestone on top of a impermeable layer of clay. If you climb the 214 steps to the top of the observation hill near the complex, you can read this explanation on a bronze plaque.