July 2010
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Once
Full lyrics here, from the movie Once.
I love this song.
Especially
“I don’t know you But I want you All the more for that Words fall through me And always fool me And I can’t react And games that never amount To more than they’re meant Will play themselves out”
I don’t generally like English films - they’re graded rather depressingly for...
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Peter Hurley shoots the perfect actor's headshot
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The iPhone Fashion Shoot
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How much fun we had!
Broadway Market. Tarts from Coco & Me. Marie, Jayna and me, with Harry trigger happy camera operator.
I don’t remember what made us laugh so hard but I love this photo’s girly girl fun, energy, character and spontaneity. I even love the fact that my eyes are back to their snakelike slits. I’m really lucky to have come so far in London. Come August 9th, it’ll be four...
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Coco, her tarts & me
No trip to Broadway Market is complete without making a pit stop to ooh and ahh and purchase one (or more) of Tamami Haga’s gorgeous treats. I bought a lemon and chocolate as I couldn’t decide between the two. Jayna bought the mixed berry.
I think I might actually be inspired to bake a chocolate tart tonight in preparation for my parents’ arrival tomorrow. Or lemon. Or...
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More East London
This was taken quite a few weeks ago where the sun was still playing hide and seek with London, peeking through and teasing us with his warmth and then pulling back and being allusive. I arranged to meet up with Harry for the first time, Harry being the ex-colleague of my ex-boss from Batey days. Jayna came along to Broadway Market and we met up with Marie.
Marie, bless her daring soul,...
“This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you...”
– Nikos Kazantzakis
Ducks in a row
I really appreciate my friends in faraway places. I now have my ducks in a row, many thanks to Andrew R, Chris M, David S and Daniel W. Thank you for taking me in.
Tomorrow
I’m looking forward to tomorrow. I have more to write and more to say but I can’t write anything and I can’t say much. So for now, I’m looking forward to tomorrow.
I do miss the stars
Even though I’m a city girl, there are things about the country that I love and one of them being the stars in the night sky. Singapore is too bright, shining with light everywhere. London too polluted. I wonder if I’ll even notice when its night in NYC or if I’ll be too caught up doing other things.
Most recently I stuck my head out of a stationary car window and marvelled at...
Another run in the bag
I’ve never been much of a runner but this week, I’ve run a total of 15.17 km over 3 runs. 4.89 km Monday 5.15 km Wednesday 5.14 km Friday (today) And now keeping track of running is so much easier with Endomondo (I am extremely happy even if it means I have to carry my BB around with me).
I am not a runner - you know how some people look as if they’re built...
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The Breakfast Club, Hoxton
East London’s pretty fun. The people are uber trendy and dare to be different. “Hipsters” apparently - I’d only recently learnt of this subculture. We went to The Breakfast Club and it’s like an old school Californian diner that’s just off the beach. This is a place where they put a bottle of maple syrup on every table :) The food was good, not great, but the...
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The best (and 1st & only) BBQ of Summer 2010
It was a lovely day for Sue & Shel’s BBQ on on their roof top terrace. Being out there made me think of the roof top parties you see in movies set in NY. All that was missing was a string of coloured lightbulbs. Shel, ever being the chef, made Korean marinated pork bulgogi for us which was totally yum! Sigh - the benefit of having a garden or an outside space eh? For fun summer days -...
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A day with the Leica S2 and John Wright
(Still) listening to Kings of Leon as I write this.
I had a great weekend, starting early Thursday night as I had Friday off to attend a photoshoot with John Wright. A couple of weeks ago I entered a Leica S2 competition and what do you know - I won a shoot experience day with John Wright and Leica. I never win anything so you can imagine my excitement when I received the email and phone call....
Thoughts
I’m the sort of person who can listen to a favourite track over and over and over again. I’m the sort of person (who belonged to the era where dual tape deck cassette recorders were de rigueur; before the age of digital and “repeat”) who would fill a blank cassette with one song and just play it for hours.
The weekend started on Friday and has been good so far....