yellow

Yesterday I was sitting in the bus and thinking about
furniture and home decor (yes, I've been browsing
through ebay again.. and I've found out, that at least
this seller do care about her photos - a pleasure to
look at, aren't they? I felt like I was at 'home' ^_^).
About why I'm so into vintage lately (up till now they
made me feeling sad looking at them - not a feeling I'd
prefer), why I'm attracted to the 60s-80s style lately
(aside of all the influence from the vintage items on
Etsy and those trends in the home & decor blogs). I
then noticed the yellow canister underneath the seat
next to the door. The color made me happy. It awakes
the vintage feeling to me. I wondered why (I know,
I'm questioning too much lately ;)).



I remember, that yellow was my favorite color as I was
in elementary school. It was a certain yellow. Sunny
yellow (it's what I associate the color with. Which one**
do you think is it on the picture above?). Not too red,
not too green. Not too cold, not too warm. Simply a
happy-making yellow :)

I also remember the yellow runner on my parent's bed
in the new house. I think, it had a slight touch into
mustard, but could be, it was only my slant memories ;)
My sister, my brother and I often played nine men's
morris and other board games on it. Or we just sat down
there and watch tv. What a cozy feeling (even if it was
actually made of synthetic material, so I didn't like to
touch it - it made me sweat -, but it was so cool to have
a piece of carpet in hot Jakarta *lol*).

Back to now, I'm still in love with yellow, even if it's not
the color I'd wear. Duh, I just remember, a bright yellow
tee was the first cloth piece I've bought in Germany and
everybody was feeling shone by me *lol* I also had a
bright yellow umbrella keeping me accompany till it was
broken (even then, I couldn't throw it away immediately
after those 7 years together.. how sentimental!). I guess,
yellow is always a part of me, like the sun shining in my
heart (I only need to recall it especially in 'cloudy' days,
right? :)).

Some more yellow things, that makes me feel happy:
sun (of course :)), mango, lemon, banana, dandelion,
brass, gold, canary, chick, raincoat (or any other coat,
like a choir friend wore on Monday :)), mailbox, that
logo with the two golden arches ;) (it's often a place,
where we went to eat, if we were somewhere we didn't
know well and I have to say honestly, that I sometimes
need junkfood *trying to look innocent*),...


You can see some of the yellow things I've noticed today
here (oops!! it's already so late - so, I mean yesterday)
and some more on the other side.


**) I feel like I wanna play (must be the side effect of
this afternoon, where I went to the Math exhibit with
my son's class ;)). I'll send the first two of you, who left
a note on the Flickr side at the right color patch, a
surprise each :) So, please click on the first picture and
leave a note there, if you wanna play.

last green of the week

Hi, all! How was your Sunday?

I've spent half of my Sunday with my 70 y.o. friend. I first
met her as we were working together for the local group
of UNICEF 10 years ago. Since then we meet each other
every now and then. I help her with her computer problems
and she helps me to move myself a bit more. She is a very
sportive woman! Not to strain my lazy bones too much
though, we mostly do only a long, speedy walk in the forest
together ;)

Today we first worked out on her computer problem,
than walked in the forest, had a lunch and tea and talked,
talked, talked... About her life, about my life, about life in
general. I really enjoyed the day with her. It gave me some
lights in my journey.


We've found a broken branch of pussy willow tree on our
walk, so we took some twigs home. The green rubber band
was on the cupboard of my kitchen. It was on the scallions
I bought some weeks ago.

The green week is over. Green is my old and new favorite color.
After this week I will surely go through my day life with more
open eyes for every details I'm working on. Thank you, Emily,
for this fun week!

green, green, green

Did I tell you the sun was shining today? So, get ready for
many greens today :)

The greens I carried in my backpack (Have you seen Estella
was taking a peek in bags of Anna, Minna, Ana, Bianca and
Karla yesterday? So fun! :)).

The folder for my project notes, the folder of my choir notes,
my passport, a pen, a reminder of my doc appointment.

I wore my green chemise at work. My fave one, although it's
getting old and the color's starting to wash off..


I saw this bicycle yesterday while waiting for the bus, but
didn't have my camera with me. I'm glad, it was still there
this afternoon. What a cool bike!!


I couldn't choose between the two following photos. Both
have their own charms, I think.



Ooooh, as I saw this, I saw a face and I had to laugh as it
reminded me of Swee's monsters somehow :D


I saw this sad gummy bear on the way to the bus station,
but didn't have the time to take a picture. So, on the way
back home I scanned the sidewalk thoroughly and saw a
red and a transparent ones first before I finally found him.


What a green Saturday! Now I'll drink some green tea.
How was your day?

day 2 of my green week

I've visited the internist today for my first general check-up.
The cardiogram result is ok, so is the blood test result. Yayy!!


Why are my old dictionaries all green except the German ones?

Now only waiting for the result of the skin test to know, why
my toes (and now also one of my fingers) are itching, if I'm
warm (no more wool jacket for me - too warm - boohooo!!).
It should come out in about two weeks.


The green, coarse wall in my kitchen.

I've read some magazines in the waiting room. Just managed
to read two interesting articles though (yayy for short waiting
time! :)). The first about amazing origami work e.g. of Robert
Lang and Joseph Wu. My hands felt itchy to start folding
papers right away :)
The second one about the pseudo democracy in the web and
the endangerment of this fact. Hmm... *no comment*


Growing cress sprout for sandwiches and soup.

I remember, I read also an interesting article last time I was
there. It was about neuroplasticity and Buddhism. Fascinating
brain we all have!! I've noted the link of Mind & Life Institute.

"The Mind & Life Institute is an independent, not-for-profit
organization devoted to establishing a mutually respectful
working collaboration and research partnerships between
modern science and Buddhism – two of the world's most
fruitful traditions for understanding the nature of reality
and promoting human well-being."

Well, that's a new link to dig for me!


I love any sort of teas, except black and peppermint tea.

green week

Last week I've read in Heather's blog about the yellow week,
which was hosted by Erin of the house on hill road. I was
curious, what's color is it all about in the following week -
thinking to play along.

This week is the green week and hosted by Emily of the
shining egg. Well, I was late again, but glad, I could still join
^_^ Thanks, Emily!




More green photos in the Flickr group. Join us! :)