Burnt

“family is not an important thing; family is everything.”

“Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.”
― Mindy Kaling

it’s going to be a tough period for the family from now on. past two days have been so tearful and heavy it makes me fully realise the importance of family – the only place you’ll feel unconditional love and support. i pray for strength to overcome whatever lies ahead and wisdom to make the right choice.
may the odds be always be in our favour. always.

xoxo.

Life's not a paragraph, & death is no parenthesis.

"The best camera you can ever have is the one you have with you. It is better to capture a moment on a crappy camera than to miss the moment completely."

Sunshine.

time spent with people who know me better than i do is the best time spent.

xoxo.

Mt Kerinci (Part II)

(here’s part I)

finally found the motivation to blog about the second part of Kerinci. just looking at the photos reminds me of the exhaustion. *gasp for air*

here’s us looking happy to finally reach the campsite. this is only the start of the torture…

woke up at 3am the next morning to summit. i was freezingggggg :/

pictures clearly don’t do justice to the beautiful scenery.

everyone looking happy to summit :D butttttt….

i… errrr…...

the euphoria on the summit is… indescribable.

the descend is made less boring with… lots of nonsense haha.

IT’S FINALLY TIME TO LEAVE THE HORRIBLE MOUNTAIN

and here’s ending the trip with happy (and very tired) us.

xoxo.

Mt Kerinci (Part I)

close to 2am and here i am because i can’t sleep. my body’s so screwed –.- but i’m being kept very occupied with all the Morocco photos and Kerinci photos coming in. that’s a whooping 5,000 photos and counting! can’t wait to share all the photos here goshhhh. they’re all so amaze-balls!

post-morocco (17072013 – 21072013) saw me up Gunung Kerinci. here’s a litle background: Gunung (Mount) Kerinci is the highest volcano in indonesia, located about 130km south of Padang, with an elevation of 3,805m. it is more active than most indonesian volcanoes, with nearly annual phreatic eruptions. on 2nd june 2013, mount kerinci erupted, spewing smoke as high as 600m. (source)

it was such a bitter-sweet feeling going to kerinci, freezing my ass off during the climb and struggling to breathe during the summit climb (instead of spending the time in some snowy mountains doing cool-shit ski stuns and swimming in heated pools). i almost didn’t know what to feel. but this was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime (again) experience :D

*most photos lost. not sure what happened.*

weiliang’s idea of climbing a mountain.

are… we… there… yetttttt :(

we appear to be level with the clouds, making all that torture and hardship pay off!

the guys’ MV shots.

our cozy tents for the night.
anyway it was really freezing no joke. i was clad in long john + 2 fleece + wind breaker in thick cushy sleeping bag and i still had frozen grapes for toes –.-

roomies for the night!

more ootd.

we do what we do best: we make do.

shall end off this post with a photo of myself standing on top of the world! (well… sort of)
tweaked the colours a bit and it turned out so pretty (at least to me) i must be a genius!

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. So when you’re sad, go out of those doors. It’s always better underneath the open sky, for going to the woods is going home.”

so that’s all for now. will be back with more awesome travel pictures soon!
xoxo.