A couple of months ago, well almost a year ago a good friend of mine(shout out to SKA!) mentioned that a friend of hers in penang was writting a book on durians and asked if she could find someone to take some pictures of the Esplanade building in Singapore. So after much thought and persuasion ( i didnt want to take shots and have them rejected cause they suck..shy right) off i went with frodo (you remember this night many months ago?tripod broke all!) and took lots and lots of shots of which i selected four or five and sent them off(with some editing like lamppost being removed thanks again SKA). A couple of months after that i got an email mentioning that the book had been printed and was available for sale but with the baby coming and all i put it out of my mind though i was very very excited. Anyhow got home today and checked the mail, got a package and lo and behold! The book and on page 13 the photograph taken by yes thats right ME! sent by the lovely author!(never met but i am sure she is lovey!) I am thrilled beyond belief! The book is great and this is from a non durian eater. The book to steal a line from the intro this book basically about durians of penang! If you like durians or penang(and i LOVE penang) then go out and buy this book!
Photograph by Edward M.Simon- cheh damn ya ya only :) lol
I reckon that Moo knows how it feels ya, getting your name in print like that!
pardon the poor pictures i have taken of the book, i am too excited to do anything fancy with
lighting. I am as they say well chuffed.
Twice in a week! thats right i hit the zoo twice in 1 WEEK! today Philip Jr and i went roaming around the zoo and we covered alot of ground, neither rain nor sun managed to stop us . We covered almost all the animals there were and some we didnt even know they had, Philip impressed me with his knowledge on where different enclosures were located and being able to identify lots of animals, i guess now that he is 10 he knows all the good stuff!
We spent a nice evening at the Machado's place last night, Michaels school had organized a halloween night for the kids and of course the 3 machado kids were involved! We even got caitlin a littlt bit o costume.
Today is Philip's birthday we are off to the ZOO!
Aunty Alison and Caitlin.
The Duck 
Nasallis Larvatus(Proboscis Monkey)also known(by me) as the big nose moneky or the who monkey from Dr.Suess
Panthera Leo(Lioness)
Pan Troglodytes(Chimpanzee)
Photograph by Edward M.Simon- cheh damn ya ya only :) lol
We went to my mums(full table again! crabs,fish, chicken wings and lots more) house today for lunch with her and the machados, while there Alison came out with a couple of boxes of my old stuff, pics, letters and all sorts of things from my youth, i just spent the better part of 3hours sorting out the pictures alone, and while i am sure i will scan and post more of them as time goes on i hope you enjoy the first installment. Above is one of my fav pics, its Uncle Mar(6860319)k,Larry and I in our holiday shirts in front of the Berjaya George Town Hotel in penang. Mark passed away about a year after this pic was taken and its i think the only one with us together. Forgive the poor quality of the pics, some of these go back to 1997! 
Kenneth,Law,Me and Brad..some of the usual suspects.
Rodin's "Thinker" this isnt, just a dude on a bench.
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