Bali, part two

This bunch is a mix of day one and day two. We went surfing on day two which I was the most nervous about. I love the sea and I’m a pretty good swimmer but I don’t like idea of me rolling with the waves very much. While I survived it and managed to stand steadily once!, my instructor actually said I suck at it which means a lot to me, him being so comfortable to speak his mind within the span of an hour. Memorable stuff.

These two photos were taken at the very beautiful Hotel Ayana. We travelled deep into Jimbaran with grand plans of watching the sun set at Rock Bar (check out both links for better photos). But we got there too late and the bar was too packed.

As I previously mentioned, we ended each day with a dip in the pool.

Setting out for a dinner at a five year old’s birthday party (friend’s friend’s daughter if you’re wondering)

This little girl gave me beef for sneaking a shot of her topless, she had every right tho!

We proceeded to get slightly buzzed at the kid’s party which is terrible of us but once again, memorable stuff!

4 girls, 2 kids

As promised! I only took one roll of film and used up an underwater camera though, so there will probably be enough for two more posts. Six of us went up to Bali to celebrate my good friend, Farah’s, 25th birthday. It was pretty epic, we did the magic mushrooms, we surfed, we thought we were gonna die when we heard the tsunami alert and we slept under the stars. Well while I failed to capture the fun moments, I did manage some shots I’ll remember for life I think.

My heart goes out to anyone who has been affected by the damage in Chile.

First morning at the beach, dead fish lined the shore, welcome to Bali!

Shal and Mel on the right

We played A LOT of bridge, almost everywhere we went

My pretty Melanie

A bowl of Bakso for lunch - noodles, meatballs, crunchy something

Sambal chilli for those who can

Legian - shops with air conditioning, yessss!

The lady we bought our drinking water from

And we always end the day with a dip in the pool.

It’s good to be home

Bali was epic. I’m very tanned and still not entirely recognizing my limbs. The rolls of film are being developed so I’ll share some with you guys tomorrow. It’s so nice to be home tho, I’m a softie, I miss everything - my cats, my pillow, my bed, my bathroom, my boyfriend. And then I remembered these last few photos I have yet to share. They were taken at home, in the kitchen to be exact.

See you tomorrow!

Last time, pinky promise

See how huge the snake-like kites are? From where I was sitting, they took my breath away, in a terrifying way. They looked evil like aliens wanting to take over our world. The photos definitely don’t capture it but you take my word for it yeah!

This is the last bits of photos of kites, I think I overdid it on the blog a little!

Anyway I’ll be off to Bali with some friends on Thursday and over the weekend but we are so cool, we haven’t gotten a place to stay. If you know me well, I am the biggest freaker-outer ever. So yeah… hooray, adventure!!

{Photos taken with Canon EOS 66 using Fujifilm Superia 400}

Three heads

Hello.
And g’weekend from all of us.

{Photos taken with the Canon EOS 66 using Fujifilm Superia 400}

1AM in the park

There was this one night we were sick of being in front of our computers, so we headed to the park in the middle of the night to try flying our kite. The kite didn’t fly so well, my plan to read wasn’t so bright an idea and having passersby stare down at us only gave us more reason to cycle for supper instead! We tried to write a song and got stuck after two lines… haha, we’re probably never doing this again. Did you know “there’s a first (and last) time for everything” is one of my favourite lines?

{Photos were taken with a Canon EOS 66 using Fujifilm Superia 400}

Changing sights, changing scenes

Ahh, this was taken right after the locksmith left. The awesome day where we paid $60 to get into our house after a morning run. It was my fault! I took the wrong key.

Lizards don’t do so well in our home

My last photo of Ada, we were about to jump into a cab and I quickly snapped this one

It’s been a little quiet here and I think about it everyday. I’m kinda dealing with a shift in me, I know it’s there and taking place, I just haven’t been able to adapt so well. But it’s all good, great actually. I only need to get used to the new voices I hear in my head.

Are there question marks above your heads right now? Haha, well for example, I really don’t feel like picking up my digital SLR and shooting with it. And I kinda want to be stubborn and shoot purely on film. Even if it’ll take me a month to finish a roll and leave me with no material for my blog, I still want to. And if that’s not enough, I want to shoot only when there’s awesome sunlight to work with. Which is really hard considering how nocturnal I am. Yeah… shite like that is stirring in my head.

Seeing a show

I try real hard to be a morning person, to keep at the routine but from the sounds of it, yeah, I don’t do it so well. I even think I’m more prone to be awake at 8AM only because I haven’t slept the night before. Having said that, these two photos are rare because I took them when the first ray of sunlight came in through my kitchen windows. On top of that, I did sleep the night before!

Going to see The xx play tonight, very antsypants about it.

{Photos taken with Canon EOS 66 with Fujifilm Superia 400 film}

A kite has taken over our lives

Yes. We spend way too many afternoons and evenings at the park now. I’m sunburnt and sporting an ugly tanline cos I had my sunnies on. Apart from that, I wish the park is bigger cos it seems a lot of people like flying kites too, and playing Ultimate Frisbee and soccer and playing fetch with their dogs and there’s simply not enough space for everyone. Half the time strings get tangled and oh, I neglected our kite and it got stuck in a tree for awhile, did I mention I suck at it?

The photos are from two different days, kite-flying-days.

We met this older guy who’s pretty knowledgeable about kites and he taught us that this is called the delta shape and also the easiest type to fly.

{Photos were taken with a Canon EOS 66 using Fujifilm Superia 400 film}

Fryday

Was majorly fried this afternoon, got burnt, got heartbroken. The Killers gig is cancelled, it was supposed to be this Sunday man, it was gonna be the best party for so many of us! Gahh, we were all talking about it since 2009, still talking about it two days back and now, THIS!

But a trip to the park always has its way of making things right again. Hopped onto our bicycles and put my new Fjallraven backpack to use.

Found this little guy outside my door

A huge fella

Ben ended up buying a kite, some kind of personal quest for redemption going on there but turns out, he’s so darn good at flying a kite! He got so cocky about it which was really funny!

That’s his eagle, it makes this awesome flapping sound

G’weekend now guys! Big hugs to anyone else who got cancelled on!

D.Mini

More from my most recent roll. Taken with the Diana Mini using expired Elitechrome Tungsten 160T.

Badass strays who terrorize Indie

Ada dining at Marche

I think I had enough of slide film for awhile. Sometimes I really hate the yellow hues on my photos. But I never remember what looks good under what kind of lighting and I kinda feel that would kill the whole point of taking photos if I were to be taking notes. So anyway, I bought a lot of Fujifilm Superia 400 and I’ll be using that for now.

That picnic in December

(L) Caili with a giant tree, (R) Arlia and her lil sis

(L) Nabs & Sherms, (R) Caili & myself

(L) Dybs, Nurul & Nadia, (R) Sandy of cookiecutter

(L) Ada, myself & Farah, (R) Yvonne

I am really bummed that the rest of the photos turned out way too dark! Even photoshop couldn’t save them. I had a couple more shots that I remembered were great, hahaha, would have been great. The girls and the greens around us made photo-taking so much more fun, SE-RIOUS! Anyway I should have known better than to risk it all on expired film. I had to do some severe reducing of noise and despeckling. My eyeballs are about to pop out now so g’night my friends.

{Taken with the Diana Mini}

Counting down to 2010

Here’s making up for the lack of everything on this blog, y’know in these festive times!

Fatboy awaiting the arrival of our friends

Celeste, Yajun, Caili, Popo, Ben & myself

Popo made her famooos tiramisu

We started drinking early

Played Charades while waiting for the stroke of midnight

We played with sparklers and poppers at midnight, then a bottle of beer smashed in the kitchen and then we went on to spend many hours watching weird funny horrible Japanese videos on youtube. Drank some more and was I the only drunk one at the table?

We missed you Whiteboy!

{Some photos were taken by Caili but it’s hard to say which ones exactly!]

My nose doesn’t like me

I had a superduperawesome late christmas party y’day, it lasted for twelve hours. It started with finding a decent place for brunch on a Monday, we shopped for groceries, we cooked ourselves dinner, exchanged AWESOME presents and sorta ran out of steam by 11PM. Hohoho. I took no pictures because my nose didn’t like me and just ruined my entire day.

Every empty surface I have in the room is covered with presents and cards and surprise mail-things but I’m a big sick grumpy monster right now. I so can’t wait to get better so I can enjoy my new things! And read handwritten cards!

In the meantime… I’ve put up some photos taken in nyc, back in 2008. What can I say but I miss the place? I actually did not take any photos on film for that trip. Bizarre.

Hop over to half-girl

Hey guys! I have a guest-post up on Young’s blog which I am very excited about because I shared some photos from my first roll of my Diana Mini! So hop on over there will you?