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“Walk forward, stop, smile, turn and click.” 📸
For some reason, I thought that we had visited the gardens during the time my paternal granddad was alive, in the 90s. But apparently the photograph-based memory was of a different botanical garden all together! 🤦🏽‍♀️ My sister and I popped by the gardens for about an hour and a half for some quick photo catching while Mum was away at a wedding nearby and boy oh boy, I was blown away. It’s actually quite something and I mean, I feel kind of ashamed for not having been here earlier!. . . P.S. - The image I’ve uploaded doesn’t do justice because I refuse to upload it in it’s original form and disrupt my feed 🤦🏽‍♀️
Sister doing her thing 💃🏼 Me doing my thing 🤳🏾
Flowers in our (old) garden. More like @sabina16’s carefully tendered bits of green-hand-ness. Since construction, there hasn’t been many flowers or vegetables. The little patches of garden has cement and concrete bits around it and we need to clean it up and make things whole again. However, if it has been done once, I don’t see why we can’t do it again! . . . On another note, December is also a good time to find contentment in the little things. I’m not vying for happiness because we have learnt that it’s a bit difficult, far-fetched and often times, too good to be true. Instead this month, lookout for the smaller details, whether it is a flower that has bloomed in your garden or the extra serving of french fries you got at McDonald’s.
There is a blog post or a book of essays in the making here, so I guess we will all have to wait till that happens. . . . Annapurna Base Camp was testimony (to me) that if I put something out to the world (I started unofficially announcing it exactly a year before the climb), hold myself accountable and do what I can to get in shape (ish) and prepare, that I will actually make the climb. At 4,130m it’s the highest altitude I’ve ever been at (not counting airplanes, obviously!) and the most extreme conditions I’ve put my body through, but I guess that means we only go higher. Onward and upward. 🏔 . . . Also, I need to perhaps get a nice tripod or a photographer to take nice pictures of me. The ones I have of just me as close as I could get, makes me look larger than the mountain. #fail Also, yes that’s me, it was around 0–5°c and that’s the coldest temperature I had ever been in and the zipper on my down jacket froze on me! ⛄️
When I look back at this new hiking/trekking hobby of mine, I think I can date it back to mid-2017 and the little trip to Sarankot, a little peak at 1,592m. Of course, I was in shorts, knock-off Converse, no sunscreen and no water bottles! It was a short trip uphill many many stairs (not half as bad as Adam’s Peak I’d admit) but still, we were totally and very unprepared. However, we made it and since then I think it’s been a slow steady climb uphill, a little higher altitude with each climb. Here’s to 2020 and more mountains, in Sri Lanka, Nepal and hopefully, beyond 🏔
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