In the previous post, I have showed you that the cloud in the evening can become the fire.  Here I want to introduce you a beauty in the sky.  She was a long-hair lady.  Can you identify her?  Let use our imagination to the max.

Cloud can have endless shapes.  As our imaginations grow, we can see unlimited things appear on the sky.  Its shape can be from animal to imaginable character such as ones God, cartoon, and nature things such as stones.  Under certain condition, the cloud in the sky can even reflect a city of thousands miles away.

“A cloud is a visible mass of droplets or frozen crystals floating in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body.”  – Quoted from wikipedia.  This is the scientific explanation of cloud, whereas, from an artist / photographer point of view, it is the most artistic paintbrush given by our greatest Mother Nature.

A cloud can be moving and changing its shapes all the time.  Can we say that its life is short?  That’s not really true, when its previous shapes have gone, it is the time the new shape is formed.  Think about it carefully.

The picture above shows my feeling now. It is hot. The cloud looks like the fire which is burning the sky.

ColinJong.com has been up and down since it was born. The web hosting company has 99% percent uptime guarantee written on its homepage, but I can hardly believe it now. I do not want to mention the name of the web hosting company; you can find it out yourselves. It has a 24/7 support ticketing system but not its staffs. My website was down in the middle of last night due to server hang while they were performing daily backup. They can actually solve the problem by just rebooting the server but it was only done at 10 am this morning.

I cannot find even a word of sorry from any one of their replies although I was not expecting it. I just discovered it now when I want to express my feeling.

I choose to forgive them although my heart is still on fire now. I understand that machines can run 24/7 but not human. But I will reserve my right to move to a new home. There are still a few months to go before I make my decision.

You may ask how it affected me since this is only a low traffic website. If you are a blogger, when you see your visitor number is 0 (zero), you will know what is the feeling. It happened to ColinJong.com a month ago when they replace their server’s hard disk.

The night is coming soon
The fire in the sky is going to cool down
The fire will disappear when the evening ended
But the darkness will be taking over

I wonder … …
Will my website be disappear again from the www
into the darkness of the night
and trying to trigger the limit of my patient
again and again … …

Anger is not good for health. I am not angry now after expressing my feeling. You also do not have to be angry after listening to my story. What we can learn is that we should choose a web hosting company carefully.

This photo was taken using the largest aperture setting at a very close distance. I never expect that the depth of field can be as short as less than 1 cm only. Now the photo proved it.

Few days ago, while I wanted to use up all the batteries’ power so that I can recharged them again, I suddenly have an idea to take these photos. Instead of simply clicking the shutter speed and producing meaningless photos, I can test the limit of my camera, and show SiewPeng the advanced skills of using the camera.

When I look at this photo, it tells me that focus is important. No matter what we are doing, we should focus on the things that we are doing at that moment sharply. We can get the maximum effect by doing something in full swing mode and run it to the max. That is called focused.

Another word for focus is concentration. A lot of time we cannot do even a simple task without concentration, for example filling a cup with water, driving, taking exam, etc. We saw a lot of this scene in movies or dramas, when a person losses his concentration, the water will always overflow from his cup while he is filling the cup with water.

Sometimes I try to make myself focus. For me I think the moment that I can focus the best is while praying. Next, it would be the moment while I practice on Additional Maths 10 years ago. Although I did not get an A1 for Additional Maths in SPM exam, but I will never forget the process. While I was practicing from 8am – 5pm, the time seems had gone in a blink. This is the things that everyone can feel when ones is focused on something and even has loss the focus to the time.

The moment you get focused on something, that’s the moment you loss your focus to the time. When you say either the time flies away very fast, or your day is like years, that is actually your own feeling and not the truth. The time is always gone in a consistent rate, and the missing of your focus on the time make you has such feeling either it become shorter or longer.

Let compare the following 2 pictures, can you see the different?