As winter approaching, the duration of daytime shortens and the sky turned dark early. I must say that the night sky during winter seems more beautiful than it is during other seasons. Perhaps because the surface of earth is further away from the sun, the stars seems to be shining brigther than usual or simply I just love winter. And everything looks beautiful to me during winter.

By 5pm the sun sets in. When I pull the curtain away, I’m amazed with the beauty of the sky. It looks beautiful with pink, purple, orange, red, blue colors.

5.00 pm

5.05 pm

5.10 pm

5.20 pm
I can see the moon and a bright star next to it clearly. I wonder is that the Northern star - Polaris?
Edited: (Oh to get thing right, I think that star is actually Venus. Harvery pointed that out for me. =D Tenkiu!)

I couldn’t believe that I actually squat down on the window sill for 30 minutes to take these pictures. But the photos turned out great. Sunset in Kursk. It will be a priceless memory after I graduate and leave this place.

I love this last photo the most.

I took this using Manual mode.
Shutter : 1/6
Aperture : F6.3
Exp. +/- : 0.0
Focal length : 28mm

Don’t you think it looks like a painting that we used to draw in school when we were given the theme ‘waktu senja’?

p/s: Actually I took all the photos using the manual mode by adjusting the shutter speed n exposure n so soon.

Tags: Kursk, moon, photography, star, sunset, Venus

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Tags: blue, photography, Photohunt, roses

What’s that? I think it’s a fly…urrrghh no, no.. I think it’s a star…. errrhhhh I think I’m too headache to think. I’m so tired that I can faint anytime. 8am - 5pm in the hospital. 5.30pm till 7.30 learn driving. Aaahh this wednesday gonna sit for driving test liao. Woooootttt!!!

Since I’m too lazy tired to think. I gonna post some photos of the night view from Eiffel Tower, Paris. Everyone has a photo of eiffel tower and arch de’ triomphe and the glass pyramid of the Lourve but not many has the photos of night view from the top of Eiffel Tower. The highest floor need a lot of luck to access bcos it will close at anytime when someone farted overcrowded, bad windy day and closed for maintenance work.

The first night we missed it. The 2nd night we went at 9.30pm but as we walk towards the queue, the board says highest floor is closed. =_=. Feel annoyed. But then after that we decided to give a try, come all the way to Paris of course must go to the top floor la. Taa-daa… after 30 mins of queueing, when we were few steps away from the cashier, suddenly the highest floor is open back for entrance. =D So lucky.

Can I leave the photos like that without description? Too tired to think. Enjoy the photos! Tomolo will complete all my unfinished halfway written posts. ^^.

Tags: Eiffel tower, night view, Paris, photography, travel

Every European country we go, we will take a short excursion out of the main city. Like in Amsterdam, we went to Koog-Zandjik to see the windmill, in Italy, we went to Lake Garda. Around Prague, there are many other small tourist attraction town. My neighbour went to a spa town and took a bath there. I went to Kutna Hora to visit the Bone Ossuary.

*From the train station look… it looks like a dead city…. i know i know -_-

Kutna Hora is the 2nd most important city after Prague in the Bohemian empire during the 13th century and it has the largest silver mine in Europe at that time and serve its purpose as the main city that produce silver coins for the whole Europe.

Watch out! This skull is so cute ^^. It’s on the path leading to the church.

This is the Sedlec Kostnice / Bone ossuary / Church of Bones / Bone museum / etc.

The ossuary contains approximately 40,000-70,000 human skeletons which have been used to decorate the chapel. The Black Death in the mid of 14th century took away more than 30 000 lives in Kutna Hora and then followed by the Hussite War in the early 15th century which claimed more lives. Cemetery had to be enlarged and they need more burial space. But later one a church was build in the middle of the cemetery and many graves unearthed during the construction. The lower part of the church were made into an ossuary to keep the unearthed skeletons.

They said the job of stacking and piling up the bones was given to a half-blind monk. But his kerja must be very teruk that’s why later in 1870, František Rint a woodcarver was given the task to rearrange the bones and put it in order and the result is what we see today.

A lot of people think this place is creepy but my feeling is just like Sunako Nakahara (go watch Perfect girl evolution
aka yamato nadeshiko sichenge
). Hey there’s the femur bone and that’s the tibia. The corner of this chapel is occupied by 4 enormous bell-shaped pile of bones which mainly consist of the skull, the femur and tibia. =D. They used the humerus bone as decorations hanging on the wall, like the previous photo above.

This is the middle part of the chapel.

The word IN’RI above Jesus means Iesvs Nazarenvs, Rex Ivdaeorvm - Jesus from Nazareth, King of the jews.

The Schwarzenberg coat-of-arms. I think this is a beautiful piece of art made from skeletons. I’m impressed by the way the bones were arranged. There you see the jaw bone, rib, vertebrae… ekekeke.

The chandelier of bones. It contains at least one of every bone in the human body. This chandelier is very beautiful lor… how i wish I can keep one at home…. but then probably at night I will have a lot of visitors as well.

Tags: adventure, Bones, creepy, history, Kutna Hora, photography, skeletons, travel