haha so cute! i found some baby pictures in my flickr… i was uploading them for the sister’s wedding montage (!!) a few years ago. today she had 3 candles stuck in her cake again because she turned the big three-oh (omg). well well, look at us all grown up now.
anyway, happy birthday jiejiewong! hope you had a good one my part-time mummy (heh heh), full-time partner-in-crime. much love! ♥ xoxo
i’m in a good mood. well, i guess i’m always this way at 3pm on fridays but i’m going for dinner tonight and we’re heading back to my place after that because it’s a special someone’s BIG birthday (heh heh). i love celebrations! thought i’d just drop a note here in case i don’t get a chance to blog before the clock strikes 12. i WILL BE BACK with pictures!
yesterday, i popped into the camera store to pick up a roll of film for my new diana camera. i was really excited to try it out but decided against my instinct to just fiddle around with it (till i get it) and opened up the instructions manual. i only bought ONE roll of film to try and i didn’t want to risk ruining it! i followed every step of the instructions but nothing is ever as easy as it looks. after threading the film from left to right, I COULD NOT GET THE FILM TO ROLL AROUND THE EMPTY SPOOL. argh! now, i know i sound really dumb for having trouble with a roll of film but in my defense, it was a 120 film (a medium format film that gives me square pictures) and not the normal kind. i’m not old.. but i’m old enough to have used film camera in my lifetime. in fact, all the “farewell pictures” i took before i left singapore for australia (8 years ago, omg) were all taken with my film camera.
anyway, back to my epic struggle. i had no idea why i was having so much trouble so i decided to google it. i love google because i found a youtube clip showing me how to load my diana camera! perhaps i’m not the only one who has such a problem?
i found out that i was having such a hard time because i didn’t put the flap of paper into the slot before rolling. (nvm if you don’t understand what i’m saying. the bottom line is i discovered what i did wrong haha) in my defense AGAIN, this wasn’t stated in the instructions! they probably weren’t expecting people with THIS little camera knowledge. haha.
120 film gives quite a unique look to the pictures but they are expensive. i’m considering getting a 35mm film adaptor (the normal film!) for my camera because they are cheap to buy, cheap to develop and are readily available.
i know i’ve mentioned the radio a few times but it’s really been helping me get through my lonely conversation-less days. haha. the radio stations in melbourne have this habit of playing the same few songs over and over again so i can hear a particular song 3-4 times within the 9 hours i am here in the office. lucky for me…i don’t get sick of a song if i love it. not for a while at least.
these walls have heard me singing and seen me dancing to a few that i’m loving at the moment.
hush hush pussycat dolls
bad influence pink
been waiting jessica mauboy
love sex magic ciara ft justin timberlake
billie jean michael jackson
what are your current songs?
my lomography diana f+ (mr pink edition) has arrived and i’m so excited to test it out. but being a camera idiot, it actually looks slightly complicated so i’ll have to study the instructions manual later. i want to play with my new toy NOW but i have alot to do so i shall be good and get work done. i promise to be back (sometime) with pictures!
the mother is in shanghai and while my dad is at work, she’s just as bored as me. haha.
this week, i am boss.
while my colleague is in the company of cowboys in canada and my boss is soaking up the sun in hong kong….
i have tons of microscope work to do. actually, i just have tons of work to do.
it is so quiet.. which is kind of nice because i get to do things my way and at my own pace. but i also suspect that apart from the 2 lines i exchanged with the postman this morning, i will have zero verbal communication for a long while. let me turn up the radio and disturb some other working friends via email.
…is potentially my favourite meal. brunch reminds me of NYC (where i found a $1000 lobster omelette) and i like how brunch is associated with nicerelaxing saturday mornings. we usually go looking for lovelypoachedeggs when we know we have nothing much happening in the afternoon so that we can take our time.
this week, we visited st. ali in south melbourne. we had to work for our food because this little cafe was tucked away in some back lane and it took abit of walking around before we found it. it was recommended for its coffee because they roast their own beans… but i’m not a coffee-lover (bounce off walls!) so i can’t tell you whether they live up to it. but i can tell you that the food was good. the yolk in my poached eggs were the right consistency (i.e. runny), my smoked salmon wasn’t too salty and my avocado fetta salsa complemented the salmon really well. perhaps my only gripe was that the glass of fresh orange juice was a little too sour (i have a HUGE ulcer!) but i don’t think they have much control over the oranges.
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St. Ali
12-18 Yarra Pl
South Melbourne
i ♥ electric blue tights
i wonder if people think about dying.
(well, i just got back from August: Osage County which is a dark comedy featuring a very dysfunctional family with a patriarch who committed suicide. and since we’re at that, it was a very entertaining play (i lasted 3 hours!) but it’s closing in melbourne tomorrow so if you do get a chance to watch it in another city, please do so!)
i think about dying all the time. don’t get me wrong – i don’t get excited by it… and neither do i think about taking my own life. but i do wonder …what would happen if i get run down by a car tomorrow? or if i get cancer? what would i tell my loved ones? who should i call first? should i have a will (even though i don’t have much money)? should i have an ‘in case of emergency’ number on my phone? how would the paramedics know who to call if i was in the middle of a terrorist attack? should i write letters to everyone in case i die in my sleep and i don’t get to tell them that i love them?
will i meet God when i die?
as much as it’s a morbid topic, aren’t all these valid questions?
bun showed me this website a few days ago featuring a lady called Rachel Barkey who is dying from cancer. she shares her testimony in the video and i’m just blown away by the courage she has in her ‘last few days’ because of her hope in Jesus Christ.
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it’s easy to praise God when things are going well…it takes steadfast faith to believe that God remains good and faithful even when things are not.
