24 Mar 10
I’ve been neck deep in work, I almost want to say shite but this shite makes us money so it’s nice shite. Well I’ve just been a wee bit grumpy because, hmm, it feels nice for a few hours a day to be super productive but the adrenalin trickles down slowly as night creeps into early morning. Then it’s 6AM, oh no!
So at times like these, I either really want to spend all my money on a nice bag or I dream of travelling. The big urge to urgh, do something that would make me smile for ten days straight! I’m digging these out from my photo collection, I don’t have new material to share at the mo’. Photos from my visit to Toronto, Canada, back in 2008. Ben and I went to visit my brother who was working there then.
We took the Amtrak train from New York City’s Penn Station to Toronto, packed sandwiches for the 12-hour ride
This is New York’s side of Niagara Falls. The train ran through, Poughkeepsie, Buffalo… I stopped counting after a while.
We got in the city at night and the first thing we did after putting our bags down was to go get a tattoo. This is where I got my gnome done.
And this is Kayla, the first husky I’ve ever befriended and lived with.
It was Spring when we arrived so the plants were happy things, even this was beautiful and I took this outside my brother’s apartment, along the pavement.
Like nothing I’ve ever seen before; Kensington Market
My brother cooked dinner
We had Wendy’s!
I love beavers so I yelped at seeing this
And I yelped again when my brother drove into a drive-thru ATM (?) Never seen anything like that either.
We stopped by this quaint town on our way to Niagara Falls, I forgot what its called. I love this photo in particular because it just shows how touristy Ben & I are. Busy taking photos while the locals sit on a bench on top of a hill and feed on cakes and such.
My brother and I
The magnificent Niagara Falls, it’s so big and loud and unreal
After the Falls, we headed back to Mississauga and went to an all-you-can-eat-wings buffet with some of his friends!
We went to Canada’s Wonderland on our last day
Then we drove to one of his friend’s home in the outskirts of Toronto for dinner and his mom made pupusas, oh my, my taste buds died and went to heaven while eating it.
I’m sorry, this was long!
{Photos by Ben and I}
| Tags: 2008, niagara falls, toronto canada, travels
12 Mar 10
“Let’s just spend all our rupiahs, YEAHHH” – We had lunch at Havana Club before our evening flight back home.
Mandatory souvenir to take home, the beer t-shirt
Can’t pretend it hasn’t been gloomy here. I miss my friends!
Someone commented hoping I had some photos of food from Bali, I’m sorry I didn’t take some, I was perpetually hungry and gobbled gobbled away all the time! But I have started documenting the juices I make everyday now – new blender syndrome – so hopefully that turns out interesting. And soups, juices and soups.
G’weekend folks, hug somebody!
| Tags: canon eos 66, fujifilm superia 400, kuta bali, kuta puri bungalows, poppies lane 1, underwater camera, underwater pool shots
7 Mar 10
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!
| Tags: canon eos 66, fujifilm superia 400, kuta bali, rock bar hotel ayana jimbaran bali, swimming pool, underwater camera
3 Mar 10
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.
| Tags: beach, canon eos 66, fujifilm superia 400, happy birthday farah, kodak underwater camera, kuta bali, pool, sand, sea, sun
29 Dec 09
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.
| Tags: new york city
