{"id":142,"date":"2006-10-10T14:17:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T06:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/10\/ramdom-sights\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T16:03:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T08:03:30","slug":"ramdom-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/10\/ramdom-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"Random sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see from <a href=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/08\/on-the-bus\/\" title=\"On the Bus\">On the Bus<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/09\/signs\/\" title=\"Signs\">Signs<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been doing some spring cleaning of images taken with my mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>The quality of the pictures aren&#8217;t great. I&#8217;ve also had to do colour correction and sharpening, removal of noise and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my life, I pretty much go on my own way. But in these brief moments, something struck me about the day, or the light that I made the effort to whip our my mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>So I think they&#8217;re worth something.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some random images I hope you enjoy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/2006-10-06_20-47-27_misc1.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Colourful mosaid\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/2006-10-06_20-47-27_misc1.jpg\" id=\"image137\" alt=\"Colourful mosaid\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the mosaic of a wall in a shopping centre in KL.<\/p>\n<p>The next is a picture taken from my van while whizzing through South Africa. It&#8217;s a beautiful country and I hope I&#8217;ll go back there again some day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/2006-05-02_10-11-08_misc2.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Whizzing by South African scenery\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/2006-05-02_10-11-08_misc2.jpg\" id=\"image138\" alt=\"Whizzing by South African scenery\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did not realise there were so many lotus plants in the pond behind KK hospital. For years I&#8217;ve been driving past this pond from the CTE out through Bukit Timah exit. Sometimes we just don&#8217;t appreciate what&#8217;s in our backyard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/2006-10-06_20-47-15_misc3.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Lotus pond behind KK hospital\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/2006-10-06_20-47-15_misc3.jpg\" id=\"image139\" alt=\"Lotus pond behind KK hospital\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m rather unimpressed with the new National Library. It didn&#8217;t make me feel like reading. You know what I mean? Some libraries are different. You&#8217;re filled with awe at the knowledge in all those books. And you want to be a part of it. It inspires you to pick up a book and flip those pages. Not our National Library. Not to me, anyway. This is one part of the library I thought was quite nice. Too bad there wasn&#8217;t a better view outside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/2006-05-02_10-11-15_misc4.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" title=\"National Library\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/2006-05-02_10-11-15_misc4.jpg\" id=\"image140\" alt=\"National Library\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is a lady, Inez, I met on my cruise around the South American coast. I took this photo because she wanted to see what my mobile phone was capable of. I never deleted her picture. She&#8217;s so friendly and easy going. She&#8217;s got a great smile. It&#8217;s a pity I never got her e-mail address or her number.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/2006-02-07_16-51-17_misc5.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Inez smiles\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/2006-02-07_16-51-17_misc5.jpg\" id=\"image141\" alt=\"Inez smiles\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So this ends my series of images from my mobile phone. Till the next spring cleaning session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see from On the Bus and Signs, I&#8217;ve been doing some spring cleaning of images taken with my mobile phone. The quality of the pictures aren&#8217;t great. I&#8217;ve also had to do colour correction and sharpening, removal of noise and so on. 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