WE hope you're having wonderful time with your loved ones!
Mine, was great. I hosted lunch for my family - 2 brothers, 2 sisters in-law, 1 sister, 1 brother in-law, 12 nephews/nieces and 5 grand nephews/nieces! 
-- From Armin Danish and Grand Aunty Larra --
Oh, before I forget .... Happy New Year!
May it be a brighter year for all! :)
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and
something to hope for.
(Joseph Addison)
It's a new day of the week!
Happy Monday people!
Christmas is just around the corner, some of you might be busy with your preparations for Christmas. I wish you a great time and a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones!
Oh, while you're busy with your Christmas decorations or baking some cookies, I'll prepare you some Chinese tea. Do you prefer Oolong tea or green tea?
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I am celebrating nothing specific.
Just enjoying myself to the fullest ... errrr, in between my piles of works! :)
Care to join?
How about a strawberry cheese cake (if you can ignore your diet for a while ;)
And a cup of chinese tea, for mind and body healing ..... I'll pour 
(Leo S. Buscaglia)
1. St. Cirq Lapopie
2. St. Antonin Nobel Val
3. Albi
4. Najac
Note: Picture of alleys/streets of beautiful villages/town in France.
Hi everyone!
Sorry for being quiet for quite sometimes now. Life been busy at work. Work! Work! Work! :) I have been occupied with works after coming back from holiday last October. Whenever I got home or over the weekend, my mind just will not work with me to write anything. LOL. The most I did was taking pictures and uploaded on my flickr (http://www.flickr.com/larra505 )
But today, my body give me a warning, so I am resting at home. Back to work tomorrow.
Anyway, here are few pictures of holiday:
1. Aerial view of Entraygues - a small town / village where the 2 rivers met, River Lot and River Truyere. We stay 4 days there. And I will not forget while staying there we had dinner picnic by the River Lot under the moonlight
2. Among other thing, I love the fresh fruit and vegies at the countryside. Most of the time we will have picnic lunch - anywhere suitable! :) Normally we will go to the morning market to buy fresh barguette and some fresh tomatoes, melon and sometimes other vegies And not to forget this six-letter word, CHEESE. Herbie had managed to convert me to cheese eater!
Lunch picnic by the River Aveyron in Belcastel.
3. Of course, walking / trekking was one of our main activities:
On top of the world ;) during "Black Causse Corniche Walk".
H during "Chemin La Halage Walk" . It's about 1 and half hr walk that took us to Saint Cirque Lapopie.
4. We did meet nice people throughout our holidays! This picture was taken by a friendly American lady at St. Cirque Lapopie.
BTW, this is the picture where we had dinner under the moonlight beside the River Lot. Can you see Herbie?
“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” (Rosalia de Castro)Weekend is here again! Have a wonderful weekend guys!
I'll travel where my path take me 
Today, the third day of Ramadhan.
The title of my blog 'Langit Ramadhan' is in my language which means 'Ramadhan Sky'. That's how the sky looked like yesterday at 7.20 pm, 4 minutes before breaking fast. The bluish bit of the sky, the cloud and last trace of sunlight .... all composed into one .... become a language of the heart. I felt calm, yet nostalgic. I felt close, yet very far. I felt content, yet lonely.
At this time during Ramadhan, family will get together, food will be served on the table, everybody especially children will be eagerly waiting for the 'Azan (call for prayer) to mark the break of fasting. The head of the family will recite the breaking fast 'Doa and it will followed by a glass of hot/cold drink and 'Tamar (dates). Some will continue with normal meals while some will stop and pray the 'Maghrib (evening prayer) prayer and continue with meal after the prayer.
I guess, I must be lonely and missing breaking fast with my family and loved ones. I hope the day will come where I will have small family of my own to break fast. When that day arrived, it will be the most meaningful Ramadhan in my life. Until then, I'll wait.
Yes, >>>>> I gave him one of mine
Tomorrow is the beginning of a fasting month - to all my Muslim friends I wish you Ramadhan al-mubarak!
For Muslims throughout the world, Ramadhan is a special month of the year. During the month of Ramadhan, Muslims fast from dawn to sunset everyday. Ramadhan is time for inner reflection, devotion to God and self-control. The sighting of the new moon at the end of Ramadhan heralds the celebration of Eid-ul Fitr.
Larra
.... sometimes, the last thing you want in life comes first, and the first thing you want in life come last.
.... all I can do is wait .... and pray.
Larra
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Enjoy yourself and have a productive week ahead! It's a challenging Monday for me!
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To grow is to change, to change is to require different needs and different habitat.
Without change, there would be no novelty; no surprise, and without those fraternal twins, life could feel flat as a postage stamp.
Pictures by Larra. Words by Diane Ackerman in her book “Cultivating Delight – a Natural History of My Garden” that I am currently reading. It’s a good book!
“The kind of book only a poet could write, and only a gardener could appreciate.”
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
You are my sky, and I am the earth, bewildered:
What makes You constantly flow from my heart?
I am soil with parched lips! Bring kindly water
That will transform this soil into rosebud!
How does the earth know what You sowed in its heart?
You have impregnated it, and You know its burden!
Blood must flow, He said, for the rose garden to flower, and the heart that loves me is a wound without shield.
What was whispered to the rose to break it open last night was wishpered to my heart.
You thought that when your house
was burnt down
there would be nothing left but ash.
But look,
moonlight is dancing on white rose.
After despair, may hopes flourish
just as after rain
thousands of roses open.
Surrender to the Almighty -
and be led into life.
Stop learning. Start knowing. The rose opens, and opens, and when it falls, falls outward.
NOTE: Words by Rumi; Pictures by Larra
St. John’s Wort @ Tutsan (Hypericum androsaemum)
Aquilegia @ Columbine
| I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. (Alice Walker) | |
| Therefore I must share with you purple too
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Oh, please take note that those flowers are from the HERB MASTER’s garden.
Happy viewing!
Love - Larra
An internally displaced girl fleeing a military offensive in the Swat valley region, carries her ration of bread through the UNHCR ( United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Yar Hussain camp in Swabi district, about 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, June 7, 2009.Another weekend at my doorstep.
I waited for weekend.
But when weekend arrived .... I sometimes feel lost.
* I headed to KLCC (Petronas Twin Towers) this morning, just feel like having caramel capuccino at San Francisco Coffee (SFC) and looking for books that I found on Amazon.
* But alas, there's no seat at SFC when I arrived. (around 10 am).
So I have to change to another cafe and ended up having a terrible capuccino. 
* After not so enjoyable breakfast experience, I headed to Kinokuniya Book Store. I went straight to the computer and checked the books that I was loking for. But again, it's a frustrating experience! The titles are available in their system, but the books are not! 
* That's one of my biggest regrets when it comes to bookstore in Malaysia!
We don't have good bookstore in Kuala Lumpur. Remember, I shared my frustration with you when I was looking for certain books at Borders in Berjaya Times Square?
* Maybe I should open my own bookstore. 
* It seems that I have to opt for Amazon. One of the disadvantage being in this part of the world is that the postage charges can be 'amazingly high'. Herb sent me 8 books as a present during my recent birthday. Guess what? The postage charges cost more than the total price of the books! 
* Oh BTW I was looking for 2 titles by Roger Deakin: "Note from Walnut Tree Farm" and "Wildwood - a Journey Through Trees". But end up buying books that I wasn't looking for 
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* Anyway, I hope you all have great weekend. While I continue flipping through The Green Guide, I'll leave you to strain your eyes with my latest sketching of columbine flower - the rare view. Happy viewing 
…. below is borage flower