Saturday

Caught Inception, late lunch at Oriole — beef cheek tagliatelle and a flat white for me. Headed to the Singapore Garden Festival and was disappointed that visitors couldn’t walk under canopies and alongside flowers, we could only go around exhibits trying to peek into the heart of it. Left and bought something I don’t need from Muji, like always. On our way out of the mall we figured the fireworks (NDP rehearsal) were gonna start anytime soon so we stuck around to catch it. Nice long bus ride home, we sat on a double decker so I spied on every house with a pool. Couldn’t sleep, watched some Letterman, still couldn’t sleep so I packed the work room, my section of it.

I don’t have photos of everything I mentioned, just some.

Cute girls

Howdy! I was supposed to blog about these new stickers on Monday. Monday became Wednesday and I’m behind on reading all your blogs as well, urgh! How is everyone?

About the stickers, I’m so in love with the illustrations and the clothes on the girls and their demeanour. I don’t think I’ve ever looked at an illustration and think “oh god, I want to be her”.

The illustrations are by Heeda but I came up with no leads on google. Wherever you are, Heeda, I love your girls and I’m gonna stick them onto every piece of mail I send out!

In other things, I finally collected my 35mm f1.8 lens from the post office today! I took these photos with my new lens.

Also I have a guest post up on my friend, Nabbycat’s blog! Do hop on over, I made a sweet little collage of melly-things and am hoping to lure interesting things out of people on the internet!

(I can’t believe it but I actually think I missed blogging, wow yipes.)

wish/want

want: to go explore more parks

wish: I lived in the forest [maybe as a mushroom]

wish: I didn’t have to spend extra money on daily contact lenses, monthlys give me red eyes now, I don’t know why.

want: my big toe, second and third toe to heal. they are bruised blue and black. I dislike painting my toe nails but they’re very ugly naked right now.

wish: I was a cat

want: my home to look like a cafe and have a pantry like a cafe but is a home?

wish: I had more discipline to finish my craft

If there’s anything I learnt about myself in the past year or two, is that I’ve become a lot more realistic, I like it simple, uncomplicated, edited, having patience helps and doing things at my own pace and ultimately getting things done is better than doing things at someone else’s pace and not getting things done. Do you share similar feelings too?

Indie’s day

Babygirl turns 4 today! All in this household are July babies ‘cept for me so there will be more birthday shout-outs to come!

Food on film #1

Howdy! Some photos of food before I gobbled it all down.

coffee shop breakfast - toast with milk and sugar, soft-boiled eggs and coffee

wendy’s is here in singapore! but it doesn’t taste as good as what I had in toronto

supper of cheap takeaway sushi

sundried tomato + basil + chicken pasta (recipe from here)

takeaway caesar salad with chicken

breakfast

gooey porridge with century egg! (I kinda hate century eggs now)

instant noods when I was ill

beef pastrami wrap + homemade iced lemon tea

key lime pie that didn’t set so a friend suggested I freeze it, it saved the pie

Some pretty big games tonight and tomorrow if you’re following the World Cup, I’m so nervous for Spain and Argentina, yikes. G’weekend friends!

In the mail!

from erika from memphis!

from adeline in norway!

from lauren, my colouring book club partner! (much love to megan for pairing us up)

Homies

I was sick all of last week, I was coughing like an 80-year-old man so that kinda explains my disappearance, right? Anyway I’m better now and glad to be back with posting!

Sponsor: Uniiko Vintage

I’m thrilled to have Nicole’s shop, Uniiko Vintage, as one of our sponsors for the month! Uniiko Vintage has a delightful new shopfront and some great blazers in store right now. If that isn’t up your alley, you could swing by Nicole’s Thrift Store instead. She’s got real love for her fashion (and living life) so you might want to check her blog too, it’s a good read.

Mention ‘GREENLAUNDRY’ during checkout and receive free local shipping within Singapore!

Lone sun

This is a Chinese and Japanese character that stands for Sun, pronounced as “ri”. I took this outside a Japanese kindergarten. So go outside and get some sun peeps, have a great weekend!

(Also I really can’t help but want to make you want a slow loris too!)

Pulau Ubin (last bits)

A continuation from this post, these photos were shot on a different roll.

I had a no-computer weekend and it was so good till I opened my rss reader this afternoon haha!

Couch potaytoe

World Cup season has begun! The opening match between South Africa and Mexico ended awhile ago, ended in a draw. If you’re watching the games too, who are you supporting this 2010? I’m rooting for Spain!

Pictures on a screen scream

Monkeys! Monday, we spotted a family of monkeys (two males, one female and a little one) and followed them as they made their way into Telok Blangah Hill Park. It all happened so fast because these monkeys walk so quickly tho they stop every now and then to sorta, regroup and rest. I’ve had encounters with monkeys when I lived at my old house and the bus stop’s right beside the park so sometimes I’d see monkeys rummaging through the bin for food. But this was major-awesome because the monkeys were aware of us and would turn back to look at us and gave us eye contact - which scared me a little, honestly.

Bravo me, for not focusing on monkeyman

We gave in and stopped once the itch from all the mosquito bites became too much to bear. Also, HortPark’s pretty cool. I really wanted to walk through Kent Ridge Park but it was getting too dark and creepy. Maybe this weekend.

Light+shadows & the kitchen

The progression of light streaming in from early dawn to noon in my kitchen. At noon, I made shrimp curry for lunch based on this recipe but changed a few ingredients. It tasted pretty amazing considering how easy and quick it was to make!

I’m gonna type out my version in the comments so check there if you want to give this curry a try.

Rode to the reservoir

Some weeks back, Ben & I rode our bicycles to Pandan Reservoir. Not too far from where we live.

Turns out there wasn’t much to see but it was strangely amusing when the path to walk/cycle on isn’t tarmac but gravel - you can tell from the last picture. (In our little city, every road is paved to perfection!) And the one thing I always catch myself complaining about when I photograph scenery is that there’s always something at the edge of the horizon. Ships, factories, shipyards, some kind of tall lanky tower that isn’t a lighthouse. So any time that I’m in another country, I tend to marvel at the abundant space and the never-ending nothingness!

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

Ben’s eye

This sentence keeps coming out wrong, first I typed - I don’t like people in my photos. Backspace backspace backspace, then I typed - I don’t like shooting people. Haha, I think you know what I’m trying to say! So because I clearly am lacking in the ‘people’ department, it’s just so perfectly nice that my boyfriend, Ben, is quite the opposite.

These are some photos he took out in Chek Jawa/Pulau Ubin!

So I have to leave the house in 5 minutes, some friends and I are gonna run a race, I’m a nervous wreck mainly cos I don’t know what to expect. But wish me luck and no broken anythings!