Walking along Walsh Bay, i came across this friendly guy doing a spot of fishing at the docks..

Sometimes the best solution to a complicated problem..
Is a simple one.

In a much happier mood today. Got to get out of my bat cave for a bit and spend the night with good company and great sticky-date pudding ;D *hee* It's easy to forget sometimes that there's so much more to life than what occurs in our little worlds on a daily basis. Somewhere out there someone's getting born, getting married, getting older, getting to work, getting hurt, getting saved, getting lost... in the grand scheme of things, our little daily worries and troubles now seem forgettable.

Sometimes simple is beautiful and beauty can be simple.

Things still need to get fixed, work needs to get done, problems need to be solved. Yet, if we constantly remind ourselves that wonderful moments can still be found in any situation, perhaps it would make life's mundane and moody moments that much more bearable :)

Following the leader, the leader, the leader,
following the leader where ever he may go..

Sometimes i wonder...
why i even bother at all.



Ever get the feeling that no matter what you do or how good your intentions/aspirations/ideas it all don't matter in the end? No matter what you intend to communicate to someone else it somehow has a way of turning out completely different leaving you exasperated and thinking "what's the point of trying so hard to be nice and likable and good and perfect" when it's perfectly easy to be quite the opposite - almost too easy *blek*...

Another pointless rant about another pointless subject.

Sometimes it feels like i waste too much time living in my head and not enough time actually living O_o"

i need a life.

Labels: conceptual, emo, photography, self-reflection, street photography, Sydney

The combination of several non-related random things..
gave me a wonderful little revelation today

*Warning: i'm feeling pensive and corny all at once right now so this might be a rather strange blog post*

Between watching the Nanny Diaries, reading up on some architecture research and surfing the web, i came across three little random thoughts today that made me smile..

The first was when i watched the Nanny Diaries while munching on my brekkie cupcake. One of the scenes at the start of the film is of Scarlett Johannes's character being interviewed for a job. The interviewer asks her to describe who she is and she completely blanks out. It made me think a bit about what i would do and say if i were in her place (which may be sometime in the near future if i survive final year :p)... who is grace, really? what is grace? how would i describe her to an alien life-form if i had to describe her to an alien life-form?

Later in the day, while pouring through an architecture journal, i came across this statement made by Japanese architect Toyo Ito: "True creation is when you can't tell what's ahead, you can't see until you get there." Second interesting thought - sometimes we don't have to know where we're headed to know how to get there. Brilliant... an excuse for me to be mildly blur and quite clueless about just about everything :D

Out of curiosity i started surfing the net to find out more about Toyo Ito and i eventually clicked on the link to his main website. What popped up made me smile and suddenly, it all made complete sense in my funny little head.

The opening screen of that website said "Toyo Ito - Work In Progress" it was probably meant in reference to the website not being completed but i chose to take it at face value just because that simple statement is so wonderfully poignant and beautiful - "Toyo Ito: Work in progress" - love it!!

It was then that i realised that regardless of looming insecurities and uncertainties, there was a saving grace (yes, pun intended..). It didn't matter if i hadn't got it all figured out yet because i'm still a work in progress - always have been, always will be. Perfection is not an end result, rather it's a process of progress... something to be worked at and to strife for.

Nobody's perfect and frankly, i'd rather be Somebody
(heheh... sorry, couldn't help myself...awfully pun-ny today.. get it? get it? fun-ny... pun-ny.. *hee* ;p)

Signing off tonight,
-grace, a work in progress

On strict orders from Rachel
i am no longer allowed to blog emo posts..

heheh.. (*hi rachel*)

So today's post will be sunny and happy and quite content. It will have blue skies and sun hats and an evil little delicious fried treat. It will be posted at the end of a lovely lazy day in remembrance of a lovely lazy day. If only everyday could be sunny and spent doing nothing at the beach :)


So here goes:

Grace's checklist for a wonderfully lazy day at the beach :D









Mix all ingredients well, add a dusting of icing sugar on top.. and follow with a big serve of maple pecan ice cream on the side.

perfection...

i love my sunny days :)

Easter morning sunrise @ The Opera House

How can i change the world..
if i can't even change myself?

Why do i long for something that i haven't known before?
Why do i have memories of things not yet come to past?
..and if all my questions were answered, would i be satisfied at last?

"These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited."

- C. S. Lewis, 'The Weight of Glory'

Spiegel Im Spiegel (Mirrors in the Mirror)

It's late now..
and as soft grey clouds blanket the sky
a little girl lays her head down to rest
and dreams

of castles and princes and smiling faces
and so she sleeps
she waits
she dreams

her thoughts on endless tomorrows
and mirrors in mirrors
wondering what they may bring..