The tears burned like vinegar as they ran down her cheeks. Ten fierce ravens were raking her face with sharp talons and tearing off strips of flesh, leaving deep furrows that ran red with blood. She could taste it on her lips.
The white tears and the red ones ran together until her face was torn and tattered, the face that Ned had loved. Catelyn Stark raised her hands and watched the blood run down her long fingers, over her wrists, beneath the sleeves of her gown. Slow red worms crawled along her arms and under her clothes. It tickles. That made her laugh until she screamed. “Mad,” someone said, “she’s lost her wits,” and someone else said, “Make an end,” and a hand grabbed her scalp just as she’d done with Jinglebell, and she thought, No, don’t, don’t cut my hair, Ned loves my hair. Then the steel was at her throat, and its bite was red and cold. - A Storm of Swords, George R R Martin
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Visited a cute little shih tzu over the weekend who licked and licked me and left my arm full of scratches. The adorable dog was giving puppy eyes to try to get some takoyaki balls. Good times with the Renesas IoT Fast Prototyping Kit. This kit was meant to be a quick inexpensive way for hobbyists/students/developers to get a feel of the Renesas Synergy environment. On Deepavali, I met up with Jing Chao for an evening photowalk around Gardens By The Bay. I decided to bring my Nikon Fe for a spin that day, and to try out a roll of film that I've never tried before - Fujicolor Natura 1600. It was an expensive experiment at 20S$/roll. I ended up really loving the results, and this has become one of my favourite films to shoot, so no regrets there! We lucked out - the sunset was amazingly beautiful that day. Oh, if only the skies were this everyday.
Had brunch with Jing Chao at Artistry on a Saturday afternoon before going on a small photo walk around Haji Lane and National Museum. He was learning to use a Nikon DSLR which I realize that day are very different from FujiFilm's. Bought Four Fingers over to TF's for her pseudo-housewarming. So happy for these major milestones happening in my friends lives! I was also uber excited to have Four Fingers for the first time. Unfortunately, the wings were really underwhelming.
He knew what had befallen the Sloe-Eyed Maid. The gods were cruel to let a man sail across half the world, then send him chasing a false light when he was almost home. That captain was a bolder man than me, he thought, as he made his way to the door. One voyage to the east, and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he’d been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself, but the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.
- A Dance With Dragons, George R R Martin On Day 3, David brought me out to Los Gatos for dinner. Fell in love with Los Gatos on first sight. Los Gatos is the definition of a pretty little town center. Perfect blue gradient sky, breezy weather, rustic shop houses lining the road, complete with trees decorated with fairy lights. La La Land in real life. We dined outdoors at Steamer's Grillhouse which served up fantastic food. We had two entrees, two sides and one chocolate dessert. This happened so long ago I can't quite remember what we ordered, but I'm pretty sure that there was braised short ribs, crispy calamari, and a fish entree. The service was great and I finished the meal stuffed to the brim. Dave let me drive his manual drive convertible around the town too, though I wouldn't have done so if I were him. I am so out of practice driving a manual shift car, and the convertible's clutch was not easy to master. Plus I was 100% confused driving on the right hand side of the road. Stalled the car and turned into opposing traffic plenty of times. Still, it was fun, and I'm thankful that work has brought many people into my life that have turned out to be great friends. When the gradient blue skies are so clear, the moon is visible by 5pm. Mountains of Silicon Valley makes for beautiful daily commute scenes. Natural lighting at the Corporate Inn Sunnyvale lobby. The rooms in this hotel were huge, more like a serviced apartment than a hotel room. Sight-seeing around Santana Row before heading to the airport. I love walking down this district, and I try to come here every time I'm in Santa Clara. It has an old-world, European aesthetic, you get to bask in the sunny blue skies, and there's a Tesla Showroom, Sephora and Amazon shop here. Petrol kiosk basking in the blue hour sunlight. I remember feeling amazed when I stepped out of the car, amazed that the place looked exactly like a blue tinted melancholic scene in one of those arthouse movies. I used to wonder where did these creatives get their inspiration from. At that moment I realized it all came from life.
Spent half of day 2 in the office, and the other half sightseeing around San Francisco City, sending Maddy off to New York, and hopping on Caltrain back to the hotel. Does this even sound like a business trip anymore?
I then Uber-ed with Maddy to the Sunnyvale Caltrain station, where I got a cup of hot chocolate to soothe my cramps. That was one cup of extremely thick hot chocolate, it was almost as if they took blocks of solid chocolate and melted them down before serving it straight up. Divine in the chilly weather. Although we went to the Sunnyvale station, the Santa Clara station is actually nearer to where we were (The Domain Hotel, El Camino Real).
Excited to be out and about in Santa Clara with my dear friend = Spate of camwhoring In Uber, on the way to WestField, featuring my new Clubmasters. I wanted to suggest going to Santana Row because I remembered it being beautiful, but somehow I got the names mixed up, and we ended up going to WestField. We spent 30 minutes walking around before I figured out that the place in my mind was not the place we were at. Luckily Santana Row was only a street across. & we witnessed an amazing sunset, the prettiest I've seen in all my three times here. Pink purplish hues transitioned into grey skies with just some orange left on the horizon. We chased this sunset for as far we can, until the skies turned dark. Went for In-N-Out (YUMS), and tried to be alcoholics with two bottles of wine. Unfortunately, the wine was a big fat dud, and we being old, tired humans, fell asleep with a glass each while watching KUWTK.
On my last trip to Sydney, my face became an oil field on the plane, and I broke out really badly. So, this time I thought I might try some of those beauty hacks. Bought and brought a few face sheet masks up the plane, and shamelessly put one on 1/4 of the way through and another 3/4 of the way. The sheet masks really saved my face from becoming an oily mess, and helped me look less like a wreck on landing.
Went out, grabbed Nam Nam for dinner, and saw this toy figurine of Wun Wun. Poor Wun Wun, immortalized with all those arrows stuck in him.
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