Translation:
Shirl: Thoughts & Shots
Rowan: Paroxysms
Year-End Card & Shows Watched
Tuesday
Feb282012

Our place to eat both breakfast and lunch in Langkawi, Malaysia

The Red Tomato!  Owned by Tanya, from Germany, a woman with a 40-year old Volkswagen bug painted pink and outfitted with eyelids for a mascot.  Here, far, far away from Germany.  Much wonderful Western food. 

Monday
Feb272012

We are really on the beach - Pantai Cenang, Langkawi, Malaysia

View from Room 20, the corner room with two windows, of *our* beach with ample shade from *our* trees and bathtub temperature water, where you can actually safely swim, and we have!!!

Sunday
Feb262012

A photographic study of the eye versus the camera

At Suka, a restaurant just around the corner from our bed and breakfast, there is what appears to be a plain black shiny sign with the words "the suka.com" on it.  Here is the first (surprising) picture of that sign.  You can see me taking the picture:

How, when you look at it with your eye, initially, before you use  a camera, which never lies, this is what you see:

But then when you look carefully, you can see images appearing in what seemed to be a plain black sign:

And it *can* look like this if there is a bus outside the window!

Saturday
Feb252012

Me?

A serious little boy at the Menara Tower in Kuala Lumpur becmoes a subject of Shirl's daily snapshot.

Friday
Feb242012

The Hello Kitty characters for 2007

look an awful lot like Macha and Chakra.  Especially when you see that the black one has horns!

Seen as part of the "Japan Kingdom of Characters" Exhibit at the National Visual Arts Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.