Racing with the Clock

"Can't waste time...can't waste time...can't waste time...can't waste time...

When you're racing with the clock...

When you're racing with the clock...

And the second hand doesn't understand...

That your back may break and your fingers ache...

And your constitution isn't made of rock..."

- Racing with the Clock, The Pyjama Game (1957)

And that's exactly what I am doing now. Racing with the clock. To finish everything that I've left off, just to complete assignments and stuff.

And now it's time. To finish everything else that's left of my final semester.

When you're racing with the clock...the second hand doesn't understand...

Tesselaar Tulip Fest Preview and more Aggie pics

I can't believe it's already October. And it's been a week since I went for the Tesselaar Tulip Fest! This time, I went on my own. Yep - took the metropolitan train all the way to Lilydale (which is on the outermost fringe of Melbourne), and then took the shutter bus to Silvan, a country town where the festival was held. Had quite an epic adventure trying to get back though! And I'll elaborate this in subsequent posts.

I might have to split the pictures into 2 or 3 parts too - I think I took around 300 pictures. Or even more.

Anyways here's the view from the metropolitan train. As we were approaching Lilydale, we could see more farms and large areas of undeveloped land. It certainly looks greener than last year though.

And here's a preview of some of the pictures I took from the tulip festival. This year's pictures were entirely different from last year. And of course, my telephoto lens was broken and I could only use manual focus. That was pretty ok though!

For some of the pictures here, I had to wait till the crowd cleared before going back to the festival area. Most of them were taken before I left.











We did a mock interview on Aggie the college cat for the upcoming college magazine a few days ago, and I was asked to supply pictures of course. I had done quite a number of Aggie photoshoots by then (well it's because Aggie herself was dying for attention and wanting to have her picture taken!). So I had an abundant supply of pictures to choose from.

The ones posted here are some of the pictures I took over the past few weeks.

And I took these when the weather was good. The weather's pretty bad this week, and a few days ago, there was even a thunderstorm! It caused a blackout in our entire suburb (or maybe our half of our suburb?!), and we couldn't do anything...and I really hope Aggie's dry and ok. She sometimes has the tendency to sit outside in the rain and get all drenched...

But before that horrid thunderstorm, it was clear and sunny, and Aggie definitely took advantage of that, by soaking up the sun's rays.









Well...these were taken quite a while back, and the 2nd picture is one of my favourite ones. Shows how cuddly Aggie is.




Aggie through the telephoto lens. The gardener loves the way she presents herself - with lots of elegance and grace. Just like a model. She has a good personality though!





And these were taken just a few days back. Aggie's starting to shed her winter coat now, and we see tufts of fur everywhere. She might even end up leaving a trail of black and white fur...

So yeah...I'll start posting pictures of the tulip fest in the near future! Right now...it's "Le-be-wohl" (farewell) to my mid-semester break. Jeez I've been playing too much Beethoven (I'm currently playing Beethoven's sonata "Les Adieux" Op.81a, and the first movement is dubbed "Das Lebewohl", or "The Farewell").