The bad wheather and cloudy sky in Engelberg forced me to leave the city earlier and headed to Lucerne for some shopping activities. Buying a swiss-made watch for my wife is a wish-cum-terror that kept me worry of not getting what she wanted. Few hundreds meters from the Lucerne train station, a poor plan and under-estimating attitude […]
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lucerne: a sabbatical day
Posted by leonardus on April 30, 2010
laksa vs tom yum
Posted by leonardus on November 15, 2009
With nothing else better to do, I ended up sitting inside Kallang Stadium watching the two big names of Asean outplaying each others. This is the place where the lower grade Indonesian team has never mark any victory (at least as far as I can remember), though having a population fifty times bigger than Singapore.
It […]
it’s makan time
Posted by leonardus on June 28, 2009
It was just another photo assignment, but this time is to capture one of the most evoking passion of any Singaporeans, nothing else other than: makan. By the time I saw the article, my mind automatically scanned through those toothsome delicacies like chili crabs, durian paste, ayam penyet, and many more. Yes, local food in […]
vesak: celebrating the buddha
Posted by leonardus on May 9, 2009
Coincide with the first full moon of the month, all Buddhists from across the regions marks the celebration of Vesak Festival to commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and passing of its great leader, the prince of Nepal, Siddharta Gautama. His philosophy of self-indulgence to reach true happiness and peaceful life has spread widely and brought a […]
kyoto: suicidal train
Posted by leonardus on April 25, 2009
It had been about 3 hours long of stopping time, I was wandering what the hell was going on with this Shinkansen for not moving even an inch. All the news flash and announcement was hardly edible as I looked around that no one really seem to care. Time flied and nothing changed so much […]
beijing: the olympic’s legacy
Posted by leonardus on January 18, 2009
China could be the spotlight of year 2008 before the winning of Barrack Obama and the economic crisis took over the world’s attention. It’s not merely that the China has, for the first time, bagged 51 gold medals to top the US. But it is in Beijing that the earth’s fastest man on both surface […]
2009: Tokyo, I’m in love
Posted by leonardus on January 5, 2009
Seconds after the countdown ended, all of a sudden, hundreds of balloons were released to the sky to welcome the year of 2009. Thousands of those who stood by the moment with me in the area of Tokyo Tower may be in their most joyful time; but none would be happier to spend the chilling […]
end of year
Posted by leonardus on December 19, 2008
Barely 3 years ago, I spend the last sunset of 2005 alone in the middle of thousands ruins of ancient temples of Bagan. That was a quiet time for self-reflection and divine intervention. Truly, I’ve never felt so lonely before.
But this year will be a different story as I, together with my dear “fiance”, will […]
a decade
Posted by leonardus on November 20, 2008
Ten years has passed and life in Singapore has grow me up, from a long-hair high school boy to what I am now. It’s about the time …
singapore: fly over
Posted by leonardus on September 20, 2008
It was late saturday night and the whole guests were hold on to the “crème de la crème” of the yearly event, the DOOR PRIZE ! And as with the rests, I prayed quietly to Father in Heaven for the top prize, a travel voucher that is worth enough to send me and my grilfriend […]
