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Spotted Garden Eel
Nov 10th
Scientific name: Heteroconger Hassi
Back in October this year was the first time I ever laid eyes on this creatures. Impressive and beautiful little ones! I was so impressed that if ever they’re available here, I would love to have an aquarium full of them 
Spotted Garden Eel - Their appearance is like a slim straw. They can grow up to 16 inches long although you may never see more than a quarter of their body as they remain partially hidden in the sand. They get their name from all the tiny odd-shaped spots covering the body including three large solid black spots. They have large yellow eyes. Several may be kept in the same aquarium. This eel is fairly passive and it is unlikely it would attack any inhabitants. They require several inches of sand in the aquarium for hiding and burring themselves.
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Child (at) PLay
Oct 27th
This little girl has captured my attention while I was relaxing by the pool. That was during my recent vacation in Thailand.
I was there, lazily iPading when suddenly I hear her mother’s voice, counting. So I begin to talk to mom. She says they agreed she’ll come out the pool when she reaches their agreed number. But the little cute girl is really enjoying the water so I said to mom : ‘I’ll talk to you so you’ll forget to count’ LoL!
I asked mom if it’s all right to take photos of her little girl, she says go right ahead. I also promised mom I’ll be emailing her copies.
Khun Sasiwadee Nacaskul, my apology for my late email, I hope you and your family enjoy the photos. You forgot to write down your baby’s name for me though. Sending you regards from Holland. Kisses for the cute girl! – Thess
Up Khao Takiab
Oct 26th
Although it was partially cloudy, it was still extremely hot for me back in October 1, 2011 when we visited Khao Takiab in Hua-Hin Thailand.
Khao Takiab also means chopstick hill. I took this photo up the hill where both Chinese and Thai religious objects are located. This obviously is part of the Chinese display. Unfortunately I am not an expert to talk about what’s on the hill, I only like taking photos of what I see.
More photos coming up on my next posts.
Meaning literally “chopstick hill” Khao Takiab is dominated by a 272 m high headland that juts out into the sea. It is clearly visible at the southern end of Hua Hin beach. If you approach the hill this way, you are rewarded with the sight of a 20m tall Lord Buddha statue and there are other religious figures, both Thai and Chinese, at the summit, together with a statue of King Rama V. The hill is also known as “Monkey Mountain” due to large numbers of monkeys (macaques) that are resident there. Whilst not really fierce, care should be taken when they are around as they have a habit of grabbing and making off with anything that takes their fancy, especially handbags and cameras. It is probably better not to feed them as the larger males can sometimes become aggressive if the bananas have run out.
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Thesserie is back!
Oct 13th
{ Photo was taken at Siam Paragon Ocean World, Bangkok, Thailand. }
VACATION is OVER!
I’m finally back from my well deserved and really really needed vacation. I actually had two but the last one was with my husband. We were in our favorite vacation destination, Thailand, and we both agreed that this year’s vacation was the best we ever had! 90% of the time we just rested…safe to say that we had our pug’s life while on vacation. We slept, ate, slept and ate. We sure did enjoyed the warmth of the sun eventhough we experienced lots of gray skies and rains. As of this writing parts of Thailand is still under water due to overflowing of rivers. I can understand why people’s spirits are down.
We’re just glad that inspite of rains and floods, our vacation was not (negatively) influenced that much. We got rained on but we took it in stride because come on, warm rain is way better than cold cold rain back here in the Netherlands!
Anyway, I guess I’m back to (regular) blogging, I hope. I took my cameras with me on this trip and I made few photos that I really am excited to share. I had to get used to taking photos I must confess, since my heart wasn’t in photography for many months. I hope I somehow was able to get my ‘mojo’ back.
Well, c yah (all 2 readers of mine) around!
Let dogs be dogs.
Jun 28th
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I found this photo from my 2008 files. This was shot at Bangkok’s Pratunam Market. I took this shot not because I thought the dog was cute but on the contrary, I was pissed off at its owner. Not only that the dog was dyed with colors but to add insult and DISCOMFORT to the poor thing, it had a shirt on. On a humid and high-temperature day! I don’t know if this was the dog owner’s way to attract people to buy from her or just plain naiveness.
I can understand people clothing their dogs during low temperature but in BKK where people would take their shirts off if they could, this was just wrong. I am no stranger in clothing dogs because my own pug has his jackets, which I seldom put on him and if ever I do, only for a few minutes of photo shooting, that’s it. But even when I do it only for few minutes, my husband would scold me bacause it’s not right to that to a dog, any dog. And he is absolutely right! Dog experts say that an exception is the chihuahua breed. I don’t know about that because I don’t have a chihuahua (yet.)
Anyway, imagine yourself covered with hair and living in a land where the average temperature is 29C? And with a shirt on?! Perhaps you’ll pant, hang your tongue out until it drops to the ground and BITE others around you because you’re irritated and feeling discomfort, wont you?
Let dogs , be dogs. Without shirts and not dyed, that’s the way they are created and should stay.
Note: background was changed into B&W and dog was selected to show only its colors.
KaHUSAYan (LP 94)
Feb 24th
Paano nga ba maging mahusay na mag-aaral? Na maging mahusay na manggagawa? Na maging mahusay na potograpo? Paano ka ba huhusay sa larangan na iyong napili?
Pag-aaral na mabuti. Libro ay buksan, unawain, isapuso’t isip ang binabasa. Maagang pumasok sa trabaho upang maraming gawang makumpleto at maisa-ayos.
Mag ensayo ng paulit-ulit, mag-isa man o kasama ang ilan na nag-nanais din na paghusayin ang kanilang kaalaman sa potograpo.
Ito ang tagpong nadaanan ko sa MBK shopping mall sa Bangkok noong nakaraan naming bakasyon. Napansin ko ang mga lalaking ito na busy sa pag eensayo sa potograpiya. Mayroong tiga-ayos ng mga ilaw, upuan at tiga-palit ng lente na gagamitin. Habang pinapanood ko sila ay kitang kita ko ang pagiging seryoso nilang lahat. Kaya naman mabilisan lang ng kumuha ako ng ilang shots para hindi ko sila maistorbo. More >
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