The End to a good week.

In reverse of a good day.





I am posting the pics in reverse today..why..because i can!

Today was the finale of the fireworks festival that has been going on for the past week and a half or so, photo wise the smoke from the fireworks obscured most of the shots which looked good or had to potential to look good, i am post pics taken in the last 60secs or so of wat was said to be a 17min display. The display today was done by the french and they put up a really good show and the finale was really beautiful but to me the singapore team did the best job of the lot, i guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder and damit this is my site so i behold it all!.hehehe. The final min of the display was full of gold clr sparks and it like like gold dust was falling from the sky, really good job those frenchies did, not all bread and cheese eh.

We hiked up sheares bridge and it was a good thing we were early cause the crowd was huge, people were triple stacked on that little foot path and late comers were trying to shove into any nook and cranny they could. Some people found the hike harder then others lol. We had a great spot and i made friends with a couple of young photogs who were most chatty(making contacts in the photog commuinity can only lead to cheap second hand products! yahoo). Our little band was reduced to 4(the doo,moo,sherwin and myself) as most of the boys were occupied with other things and TLOML stayed home to keep and eye on the fatty who is still not at 100%. I had a fun time and all the hours we spent in travelling and getting to our spots early was worth it even if the pics did not turn out great. It was fun.

Spent a couple of hours with my sisters clan in the early part of the day . Followed them to the doggie groomers as peppers brother Zorro needed a bit of a trim. Got some pics of Megan and Michael but no solo shots of Philip aka baba. Rascals all of them, have a look at michaels face, this was when he told me it was his turn to have his pic taken! cheeky fella. Fearless too, really have to keep and eye on him he is a wanderer. Looking at the pics i realise how fast they have grown so big, i cant pick up philip as easily as i used to be able too...time really flies! Its a reminder that we work to support our lives and not live to support our jobs. Take a break, spend time doing what you love, meet old friends for coffee, go out with people that make you happy. DO IT. IT makes a difference.

My last pic is of Pepper in her new t shirt it says ADIDOG! how cute is that!

On this sunday i wish you all a good week! may it be better then the last!

Breakfast at Tiffany's..........for some

BREAKFAST!!!!


Woke up bright and early today but not bright and early enough! We went for breakfast with The Moo, Doo and Cliff and Jas who are down or up rather from australia(how often you think that line has been used?). I was very excited cause i havent seen them in more then a year, i would have gone to the airport but the ministry gave me some bad info(yes.). Anyway it was good to see them and great to see that they are looking so well! Altough its not like they were on the moon or what i mean they do have good tucker in oz.
They had to have the famous kway chap in siglap which from what i understand from fans of the item is the best. I had Nasi Lemak. For those that have not had it for awhile, i have placed a pic ofr ya.
The pic of pepper is of her eating a sows ear. she loves it.
After breakfast we sent the fatty for grooming and she looks alot better now, the guy at the shop also told me not to go back to those fools in st 45. She is still flowing but not as much.
TLOMY bought her a little house, she looks really cute in it!.

Lines and Curves

liNEs AND cUrvEs



Damn that was a long walk, skipped out of work at the half way point yesterday, went with TLOML to take the fatty to the vet...her first "red river"..we almost burst into tears when we realized that the river was rollin along. Our baby isnt a little girl anymore....sigh so quick.
Anyhow after the trip to the vet and the trip to the pet store, Sherwin and i took a train to the city and wandered the area between, Westin-the esplanade and marina square. I took 266 shots, suprised myself there cause i thought i wouldnt be doing much in the way of shooting so i didnt bring my tripod. We started off at the Cenotaph and though the lighting wasnt as good as we had hoped the stark clean cut white lines of the cenotaph were mighty impressive. I wonder how long its going to last there all by itself, the land it stands on must be worth a fair bit and i reckon that they will relocate it or build something that encompass it but they sure as hell aint gonna leave it there, this is singapore the land of the blocked facade. Once again i have wondered from the topic at hand. We went roaming the area and finally we ended back at the cenotaph and i took some shots without the use of the tripod so if its abit blur forgive me. My objective for our walk was to get some ideas and plan a good photography walk, in good light and ideal conditions such as not being so tired! but as they say..the best laid plans lead to ruin ..Once i started taking pics, i was looking for something specific in each shot, after the cenotaph i wanted to see if i could take shots with lines and curves in them or at least one of the two and while not every shot i took had these straight lines or curves most of them did. I found that after awhile i wasnt looking at how pretty everything looked but why it looked nice and how it worked in the larger frame of things. This lead me to find the interior of the esplanade where i took most of my 266 shots a beautifully structed and well designed building. While i will be the first to admit the exterior of the building leaves alot too be desired(to me at least) the interior does have many qualities worth noting. Lines and curves seem to be all over the place here even in things which i would not have paid much attention to(such as the railings) any other time i visted the building. For such a modern building it has a very appealing sense of colonial architecture, with the clean lines and uncluttered feel of the place. We met Frodo at the roof terrace of the esplande, its a nice setting very nice for a stroll for those going on a first date, u get the feeling of wealth while not having to pay for it, almost like walking through The Fullerton Hotel. All in all it was a nice evening, we had a little bit to eat at Marina Square, strolled back to the Cenotaph and departed from the Grand Hotel around midnight, good clean cheap healthy fun. what more could a man ask for i say.
The pics i loaded are not really good shots but they maintain the theme throughout and thats why i loaded these instead of some of the others i could have loaded. The shot that looks like something from the billy jean video, only on the ceiling, is from suntec city another place that i think would take a couple of hours walk around over a couple of weeks for us to be satisfied with.










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MY last shot is of course a HMMM shot and it doesnt fit into the theme but, i am a fool for flowers so tough luck.

FRUIT

Rambutans


no reason or ryhme why fruit should be here other than the joy it brings to my heart.


looks alot like a poster from primary school doesnt it

The Mobile Column

SIDEBAR(you know it, click on pics to enlarge em. and dont mention the typos...tis a touchy subject.




As you know from reading my blog( thats right i know you are) its been a busy couple of days with us running around taking pics of fireworks and trying to take pics of what really is a beautiful cityscape, and enjoying ourselves all through. so yesterday was declared a lazy day, even though it was national day itself. Spent most of the day watching the west wing and playing with pepper. The highlight of the day was meant to be the arrival of the mobile column in tampines and while the coloum was much much smaller this year it was still impressive to see tanks come thundering down the simei tunnel.Sherwin, Aaron, Mark, Gerard, Noel, JJ, my Mum and me stationed ourselves at the halfway point of the tunnel so that we could get the full effect, of sight and sound and we were not disappointed as you can see from the faces of our cheering group. Photographically it wasnt the best of my days lah, however my objective was to have fun and i wasnt really focusing(pardon the pun) on what i was doing!

The troops in the vehilces were very sporting and were shouting and cheering their lungs out, it was nice to see them waving little Singapore flags...we the little country that could.

Anyway the National Day events will close with the final fireworks display on saturday...if we make it there....i have heard rumours of firewrok fatigue, in some members of our clan.

Fireworkz Part II

HAPPY NATIONAL DAY

A gang of us went to the esplanade to welcome in the birthday of our little nation and to w atch the fireworks display that was put on by a team of singaporeans and man oh man it was awesome good job team singapore!

This time we were located on the seaward side of land near Sheares bridge and man oh man didnt every photog in singapore have the same idea, the folks on on the bridge itself were pleniful and those on the river banks with us we even more so. In our band of merry folk ( 9 of us) we had 7 cameras all canon and 1 nikon, almost like a rat pack of photographers. I was of course shooting away while trying to enjoy the great display which by the way popped in a spot which none of us expected! thus causing several hundred photogs to swivel dramtically around to get some pics.

I will readily admit i enjoyed the whole thing, the fact that so many people were enjoying ourselves, doing what we love together with friends and family was fantasic, whoever came up with the idea for this Festival of Fireworkz deserves an award.

As the display was going on people(including me) were cheering and whooping in joy, shouts of well done singapore could be heard and that my friend is as common as an opposition member of parliament around these parts.

Anyhow today is national day so to all Singaporeans who read this (i bet there are only two people reading this and neither of you are TLOML)

HAPPY NATIONAL DAY

SIDEBAR-PICS are resized and cropped.
bugger all the typos. Click on them to get a larger display(not full size)
oh yeah u notice i din comment on my pics? thats because they suck but i dont feel so bad cause there was a guy were a professional rig behind us who didnt get anything either.

MY LAST PIC- Another Hmm shot, looks like some kind of spaceship doesnt it?

Sunday 070805

What a day, woke up late! Was supposed to meet the folks for a little jaunt around seletar at 8 but alas i awoke at 8 and so everything was pushed back.
We went to a lovely little place called "The Animal (something or other" i have been there before but there did some tidying up and the whol place looks better now. We were too early to see dogs so we spent our time taking pics and feeding the animals. There have some nice looking crested cranes and a lovely brown horsey who unfortunately is blind in one eye. The moo and the doo tried to train a fat turkey to hop and get a bit o bread and they succeded but unfortunately it was not captured by me!

After seletar we drove to lim chu kang and discovered a Frog Farm, yes thats right...doesnt it just conjour up images of frogs roaming the fields or being hearded by a collie...anyway they have thousands of american bull frogs all meant for human consumption, mainly for double boiled frog soup. There was needless to say alot of frog lovin..
From there we went to a couple of plant stores, east point and home! TLOML made a beautiful pie for lunch. lurvely.


SIDEBAR- Dont forget if you click on the pic you will get a larger version but it is still smaller than the actual size.

THE last pic today is a "hmmm" shot.enjoy.