ZuZumangoo

2011-07-05T15:39:00.004Z

Such a long time away!

2009-05-20T09:04:00.007Z

KuchulMuchul and Friends

KuchulMuchul loves travelling!

Goli, Molec the dog, KuchulMuchul and Sticky!

The British Musuem

2008-08-03T21:33:00.001Z

The British Musuem, originally uploaded by Zuzumangoo.

I took this while on a trip to London in July. This museum is fantastic! It has galleries about everywhere; from Indigenous peoples of Americas to Ancient Greeks and stone reliefs of the Persian Empire from Persepolis (in south-west Iran)! You must see it for yourself!

2007-11-18T12:24:00.001Z

Istanbul 2007

Turkish Tea

Tanker on Bosphorus Strait

2007-08-02T13:55:00.000Z

Dolmeh!

This picture you're seeing here is a yummy Persian food, called Dolmeh. Made from delicate vine leaves, stuffed with a magical filling. It is then cooked and garnished with lovely,red cherry tomatoes and unripe grapes.

My lovely mum made this! So much effort goes down in just a bite!

You can see more of my photos and my mums yummy foods on http://www.flickr.com/photos/zuzumangoo/ !!

2007-06-10T11:26:00.000Z

BOTANICAL GARDENS II

2007-05-25T16:06:00.000Z

BOTANICAL GARDENS-BIRMINGHAM

2007-04-23T12:17:00.001Z

Lonely

Taken while on my Biology school trip to South Wales. This place is called Worm's Head.

2007-04-09T13:47:00.000Z

A Good Day

2007-02-10T13:28:00.000Z

A Bitter End

Here's a story. The story of my little plant: Echevaria.

Let me start from the beginning. I was in year 10, which is about 2 years and 9 months ago. I was in a biology lesson, my teacher Ms. Grandner(or maybe Gardener) was teaching us about plants. We were going to do a practical to examine how Root Powder can help little plants grow.

We had to cut little offsprings of a few plants. I only did one. So I dipped the end of the little plant in water and then Root Powder. We then, had to put them in little pots anf fill them with compost. So,we did. My pot wasn't even a proper pot. It was made of card board! So I couldn't water the plant properly, or the pot would be soaked. In the end of thee lesson, alot of my classmates left their pots in the lab. But I took mine home.

So,that was the beginning. That's how I found Echevaria!I looked after it. Wtared it and got rid of its dead leaves every now and then. I even breathed out on its leaves. This may sound silly, but I thought this would give the plant,the carbon dioxide it needs for photosynthesis! Ha! Oh...did I mention that I changed the pot?!

It grew more and more. Its stem kept getting longer because it kept losing its lower leaves. So I had to change its pot. I got a bigger pot and after a while put it in there.

My mum kept telling me to chuck the poor plant out. I didn't want to. That would have been the meanest thing I could do to my plant.

Anyways...after about two years, Echevaria started growing flowers. I didn't even know it would grow flowers!! But it did, and they were ever so pretty and interesting, I must say!

So, this idea (this stupid idea) popped into my head! I thought to my self: "Why don't I chop a little bit of the stem, dip it in water, then in Root Powder. This way I could put it in a smaller pot!" What a great idea indeed(!).

So, I chopped the stem, dipped it water, dipped it in Root Powder and voila! It was ready to go into the new,smalle pot!

That was it. I killed my little baby! I should have known that Echevaria isn't small anymore. You can't just cut the stem and the roots, and hope that they'll grow back, just because you've put some Root Powder on them!

I didn't realise this until a few months after that. There was still a bit of hope though. Because the flowers kept growing! That was a good thing!

This hope didn't lat long . I realised that the stem was going purple. That only meant one thing...my Echy was dying !

Mum started telling me to chuck it out again. My sis made fun of my Echy :" Your child is dead!" And she was right.

2007-01-06T17:48:00.000Z

Sunrise

Sunrise in Birmingham

2006-12-05T22:45:00.000Z

Colours

Me, experimenting with colours! It's quite fun to be honest! Give it a try! Ha!

2006-12-04T22:00:00.000Z

Turkey, Istanbul

The Blue Mosque 0r Sultanahmet Mosque in Istanbul. Above you can
see the interior and below is the Mosque itself.

This one is The German Fountain, in the hippodrome square, Istanbul, Turkey.

2006-10-22T13:48:00.000Z

*Sighs*

I just thought I'd upload some photos that remind me of peace, something that would make me relax.

2006-09-03T17:54:00.000Z

Tunnel and Sky

This one above here is a tunnel in city centre in Birmingham on Friday. It was taken from inside a car obviously

I took this one and the one below this morning. It was sunrise, but I couldn't quite get the sunrise itself from my room. I took them while I was in bed by the way I could see the sky better that way! I'm feeling blue today! Haha!

Is it just me or do some of the clouds in the above photograph look like a bird?! A bird that's flying downwards! Don't you think?!

You can see more of my photos in my Flickr account by the way!

Have fun everyone!:D

2006-08-13T13:41:00.000Z

City Centre

Another Weekend! On Saturday I went to the city centre with my sis and her friend. We walked and walked and talked. It was pretty windy, but that was alright.

At one point we sat down, near the Bullring which is like a giant honeycomb, but rather than hexagons, it's made of circles.

This church is in front of the Bullring. You can probably see the Bullring just behind it.

The round thing you see below is what I call the 'Birmingham Eye' not quite as big as the London Eye though. I took it while we were on the bus on our way to a restaurant. We went to this Iranian reataurant. I'd never been to it before. It was really nice. They didn't serve Iranian food though, it was more like a pizza shop but a proper one. I had chicken fillet burger which was so yummy, since I was very hungry and since I don't eat chicken from McDonald's or KFC.

And this is us! The one with pink shoes is my sis, the one with purple trousers is her friend and the other one is me.

http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/slideshow.php?id=9751

2006-08-07T20:32:00.000Z

The Weekend

I took these ones on Sunday. We went to Redditch (somewhere near Birmingham). You can probably see from the reflections that the one above and the one just below were taken from inside a car. Recently, I have fallen in love with clouds. Specially the Cumulus ones. They were really pretty that day as well.

First we went to a car-boot-sale. It was in the outskirts of Redditch. There were loads and loads of cars and quite a lot of people as well, obviously. There was this family, a man and her wife, everything they were selling had come from different places in the world. There was a small box which was from South Africa, and another that belonged to the lady's grandfather I think, and was from the war! There was also a pearl brooch that was from Japan. I was gonna buy that one, it was only a quid, but I don't know why I didn't!

I bought a pearl necklace though, for 50 pence, quite good, eh?! The reason why we went there was because my mum wanted to but pots, for plants that is, not for cooking! But she didn't find any.

The funny thing was that my mum bought a box of Martini glasses! I said to her: " Mum!...we don't drink Martini, why on earth did u buy that?" and she went :" Well, we can have ice cream in them."

2006-07-31T18:00:00.000Z

Cumulus Clouds

These are some more shots of the sky from my room. I took them yesterday. I was sorta busy yesterday and didn't have a chance to get pictures outside , but I could see how beautiful the clouds were in the sky and I just coludn't wait to get home and get a few shots. They were 'unmissable', hehe! They looks ten times more beautiful if you saw them with your eyes. The sky was so blue, a very nice kinda blue, with these bright,cotton-like, puffy clouds. I remember when I was in Primary school, when we actually learnt what different clouds were called. I guess these ones are Cumulus ones (don't worry, I'm not that smart, I just checked the spelling of Cumulus in Google, hehe!)

2006-07-25T23:54:00.000Z

Sunset

I took these yesterday evening. I found out then how to take shots of light in a way that they don't look so bright in the photo. Well...i don't even know if that has a special name or something. I guess I should be looking for some sort of 'photography lessons' or something. Or even ask someone who knows about these things.
Yea, I was saying..I took these yesterday from the kitchen and from my room.
These days, I mean since I found out that a part of me likes photography, I've been looking at the world differently. Every scene can be a shot, a nice one. But you have to know how to make that shot 'nice', and I guess that comes after a bit (or maybe more) of experience, which I haven't quite got!
Haha..I'm getting carried away now! Why don't you let me know what you think of these photos. Well, there aren't many yet here in my blog, but you can look at some more in my Flickr account: http://flickr.com/photos/zuzumangoo/

2006-07-23T16:03:00.000Z

Hey there everyone!
Welcome to my little photo-blog! I'll be posting photos here and do feel free to comment, critisize or hurl them!