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.
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}
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!
I hope you guys enjoy these lot of photos more!
Standing on the boardwalk looking down into the sea
My friend, Caili, got stuck in the mud and we were both trying not to laugh our heads off
The very fat caterpillar!
Looking down at my friends from somewhere in the middle of the viewing tower
Spotted this fella in the mangrove
{These were taken with my Canon using Fujifilm Superia 400}
Got out bright and early on Saturday and tagged along with a bunch of photo–crazy friends to explore Chek Jawa in Pulau Ubin. It’s an island away from Singapore, a very short ferry ride away. Where there are no high-rise buildings, no chain restaurants and no traffic lights, that sorta peaceful place.
I have a few more photos to share that I took using my SLR but these first, are taken with the Diana Mini using Kodak Gold 200. I won’t lie, my heart sank when I saw the photos, every single shot was shaky. It could either be the slow film speed plus the cloudy weather or my hands are really too big for the camera!
Anyway let me walk you through the photos.
On the ferry ride there
We rented bicycles and cycled to Chek Jawa
Stopped at an abandoned house
There’s no cycling allowed in Chek Jawa. You park your bicycles outside the checkpoint and go the rest of the way on foot. This photo above was taken along the coastal boardwalk, looking down at what I think is the coral rubble area.
This one was at the mangrove forest
Passed by the Balai quarry on our way back to where we started out
Just before leaving the island, we met a furry friend
There were so many creatures to peer at, it was pretty spectacular. Like the orange fiddler crabs with one giant claw, a wild boar walking in front of us and the biggest caterpillar all of us has ever seen. I’ll show you that in the next post!
Hi! I’m Melly. I share photos of my life & my handcrafted goods here. I live in Singapore & currently shooting with an Olympus Pen-F.
