Boys day out

Any typos should be written down and sent to the Archbishop of roam. All pics have been cropped and shrunk. please let me know if you want a full size pic.

The Machado Males.

So we went to the zoo today, the Machado males wanted to do something and came up with the idea of going to pulau ubin, alas it seemed the rain had other plans. So plan A was washed away we moved to plan B..the zoo always a family favourite. So from work (got picked up by them)we went on our merry way. The weather was perfect for a nice walk, overcast with the scent of rain but not a drop fell on us. Ok lets get organized!

For lunch we had, Naan and taco chips a lovely combination.

Philip and and elephant skull!























I think Michael found his tribe...
The poor fella fell down 3 or 4 times today, running all over the place. I am sure he will have a good night sleep tonight!

CRIKEY! Who's got who??











The purpose of this picture was to show the size of the lily pads behind the boys, i am sure that Michael could have sat on one of them.

At the zoo...

The skull of the elephant was the second thing i saw for the first time at the zoo, along with the feeding snake which was the first.
I wish i could post the full size pictures, alas life isnt fair.
I had to add the little insects(albeit a lousy pic) in the series, musnt forget the little uns i always say. I was also trying to take shots in black and white today, so i was switching from black and white to colour all day.


The snakes were really active today with the green tree pythons slithering around as well as the burmese python eating a big white rat, i was riveted as it crushed the rodent then swallowed it whole.


Some tiny puppy pepper sized primates(names to be posted later) The cotton mouth from the states is bit blur cause i got it behind glass. The landrover defender was parked as part of an exhibit in the zoo..may fav car..sigh
(as i type this pepper is sighing cause i told her to get to bed)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
SERENA!

Buildings...

This pic is of the same buildign as the ones below,
This single window really made me curious as to what was inside. Rapunzel..rapunzel let down your hair.
Location TANK ROAD-Next to Sacred Heart Church. The tiles are from clarke quay, some resturant there..nice i thought




The pic of the shelter is at clarke quay, its a whole lot better that what they did to the facade. I still dont understand which idiot approved that.
The hindhu temple also at tank road

I like this building, pink windows on a grey background, someone was thingking straight here, a sense of fun and whimsy but no to garish and it doesnt distract from what is a fine old building.


This door leads from Sacred Heart chruch to a row of old buildings. From what i understand they are soon to be demolished. Below you can see the front and in rear of these buildings.
Tank Road.
Located at clarke quay next to the pink window building is a PINK building, it used to be people painted these old buildings yellow or blue but i reckon pink is the in thing now.


Chooks on car. U need to double click on it to see whats going on.
Clarke Quay Green Building..next to another green building...
Central Fire Station. when i was young my father used to build lego houses and buildigns for our train set and this building looks like soemthing he would have built.
The old buildign is at Tank road, its the front of the window and door pic


And this is the back.






One of the things i want do is try and get into capitol theatre(any contacts?) and take some pics...saw many great movies here and i will always remember stopping in front for a milkshake.

Flowers n leaves...and buildings lol

I took this picture but the poem is by an obscure dude from Chicago.

I like this picture except for the sunspot. I would have had this printed if not for that.

i edited these two using paintshop pro..

2 years ....Feels like 2 mins

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

On this day 2 years ago, TLOML and I got married, it was a great day, after all the years of being best friends, we finally made it to the altar. Oh boy was i happy. And today i am just as happy, tow years have flown by in the blink of an eye like all couples we have had our good days and our not so good days but on balance the great days have out numbered everything else. Its been two years since we were married in church, but in January it will be 3 years since or civil wedding ceremony, 3 years since we got the keys to our flat, around 15 or 16 years since I first saw her at the bus stop outside st pats and began teasing her. Who knew that all these years later we would be married, the lord works in mysterious ways doesn’t he For those of you who have helped and supported us on our on going journey, many thanks!

I have posted some pics of our wine list style mass book, and a booklet called nuptial news, if they look abit weird its because I didn’t scan the stuff I took pictures of them, including the wedding pic, it’s a pic of a pic..so pardon the flaws. I missed out our invitation card and will post that tonight

Botanical Gardens

Today was fun, a nice morning trip to the botanical gardens, which began with a lovely breakfast at mcdonalds for TLOML and me. She had the pancakes and i had half a hash brown.I wasnt hungry but i did enjoy it After picking up pepper we proceeded to meet the Machado's for our little excursion.
As is normally the case we never seem to go from point a to b, there is always a detour and today was no exception as we stopped off at a nice little prata place next to the gardens to grab some food for those who were hungry. Anway the main purpose of
todays trip was so that Mr.Machado could test out his flashy new Sony Camera, and we had some willing models on had for us :). The kids enjoyed the trip, i think the space to run around and explore on their own was a thrill especially for michael, while we walked around taking pictures(Philip Jr aka baba aka boyo had a camera too) Megan stayed with TLOML by a pond , i am sure firing away with the many questions she has. We didnt realy take a mega walk just a gentle stroll around looking for what we could see or for anything that captured our fancy. Philip Jr spotted some squirrels and of course cameras were blazing left right and center...i didnt get anything good so no post on the tree rats. Pepper too seemed to enjoy herself and made many friends, the place was pretty crowded with many friendly people and their pets. We met a lady who had a pram and in the pram was a birdcage and in in the birdcage was a bird, yes thats right she walks the bird..cage and all and she told us she does this daily...it takes all sorts eh
I would rate today highly on the "nice time" scale. We should do these things more often. After all the excitement including a quick lunch and the Moo and Doo's place, pepper is now fast asleep under the table as i write this. legs kang kang all cheh not shy this dog.
The one shot i did like today was of a palm tree with the sky and clouds behind it, i always find it hard to get a nice blue sky but i think i did it this time.
As always pics are resized and typos are apart of life. give in to life..give in to typos..

New Arrivals

Aura

Here is my newest cousin, from Perth.Cant belive that her mum Rebecca has a daughter already! In my mind i always think of her as being 12years old..but of course she isnt...and i aint 16 anymore either So cuteeeeeeee lah the baby