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[Photo Journal / A-Z Photo Story] U is for Underwater

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It’s Tuesday in our part of the world. Time for Frizztext’s A-Z Photo Challenge. I know that I have already posted quite a few photographs from the Oceanarium here in Singapore (reputed to be the world’s largest aquarium), but I simply couldn’t help it. The pictures taken by my husband when we were there December of last year are simply too gorgeous not to be shared. Hope you enjoy them.

U is for Underwater

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“Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I’m talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.” 
― Haruki MurakamiHear the Wind Sing

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“For whatever we lose (a you or a me)
It’s always ourselves we find in the sea.” 
― E.E. Cummings

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“This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children’s eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea–if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.” 
― F. Scott FitzgeraldFlappers and Philosophers

Myra is a Teacher Educator and a registered clinical psychologist based in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Prior to moving to the Middle East, she lived for eleven years in Singapore serving as a teacher educator. She has edited five books on rediscovering children’s literature in Asia (with a focus on the Philippines, Malaysia, India, China, Japan) as part of the proceedings for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content where she served as the Chair of the Programme Committee for the Asian Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference from 2011 until 2019. While she is an academic by day, she is a closet poet and a book hunter at heart. When she is not reading or writing about books or planning her next reads, she is hoping desperately to smash that shuttlecock to smithereens because Badminton Is Life (still looking for badminton courts here at UAE - suggestions are most welcome).

3 comments on “[Photo Journal / A-Z Photo Story] U is for Underwater

  1. hello Myra,
    I always like the aphorisms, which you decided to feature! This time:
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    “Whenever I look at the ocean,
    I always want to talk to people,
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    but when I’m talking to people,
    I always want to look at the ocean.”

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    ― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

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