Last day

Her last day in school uniform today, captured on polariod.
She is definitely not looking forward to new school, new friends and new teachers! LOL...

Analogue Toy Camera.. Holga!

Camera: Holga
Film: Kodak Ektachrome 100 Plus/EPP 120 slide film (Cross-processed)
Location: Gallop Stable, Pasir Ris



These photos were under-exposed due to insufficient sunlight. But well... it's my 1st roll, already quite happy with the result.

Oh..just to let you know, there was no photo editing done at all. It comes in square format, vignetting and saturated colour! The way I like it!

Bolivia - Salar de Uyuni

Paradise! This is it ....

Bored?

Feel like seeing the world ?

Back to Basics.

Introducing my "White Slim Angel".
No batteries required, just load film and wind along after each shot.
Then comes the love and hate of anticipation from waiting for the results.

Favorite from my 1st roll ...

and some weird ones ...

Pony ride

She wanted horse riding lessons but make-do with pony rides instead.



The problem with proper riding lessons is, we have to buy the full riding gear which is not cheap considering she might just turn around and say she wants quit! So we put her on a cheaper alternative.... weekly pony ride, which she is quite happy with, for now. SO we shall see where she goes from there.

Writing

Started this new (hopefully) daily activity for Dawn.

I printed out some Story Starters from meddybemps but she was not interested at all. With her recent craze in fact books, I decided to go with writing about facts instead. Stories will have to wait.

These were done in the last 2 days ...

Paper Mache Reindeer

We took a whole month from start to finish. Adding one layer of newspaper every week with starch glue made from flour and salt.

Making this with Dawn kind of reminds me of my mum. I remembered those gluey starch she made and I sticking newspaper strips onto the bottom of a bowl. Well, just one of those little memories left of my childhood.

Digital Buchineko

Another new toy.. the Digital Buchineko toy camera takes still pictures as well as video!

It's not exactly the conventional digital camera. This 2 MP camera is not design for precise capturing, produces pictures with vignetting and wild colours. The video looks vintage and dream-like. Even though there is an LCD screen at the back, there is no preview when taking picture, instead you have to frame the shot using the plastic viewfinder on top of the camera.

BUT IT'S COOL!!! I love the look, the size (only 9cm lengthwise and super light). I guess I have had too many super clear SLR shots and would like to add some dreamy shots.

Dawn likes it too!



Here are some shots from today's walkabout during my lunch break ....

School party

Photos from the school party.



I was too lazy to prepare party bags, so only balloons for the children.

Photos from Dawn's 6th Birthday Party

Finally!!

I said FINALLY because I have waited and waited for these photos to be delivered to me by our dear photographer (you know who you are!). I have personally raided his computer just to get hold of them.



It was a great party. Dawn enjoyed it so so much! Even though it was madness for me... the planning, the decorating, the entertaining, etc.

Thanks to everyone who have made this possible!

It's here!

Our HP Touchsmart

It was fun to use for a start. But it's way too glaring even after adjusting the brightness to the lowest level. Think I better do something about it before I go blind!

And... I have to keep telling myself - ignore the finger prints!

Just for fun ...

I made these out of quail eggs, carrot, ham and seaweed.

Cute anot?

You can check out some of my bento tools here. Mostly are cutters and picks .... (scroll right to see more)

Our new TOY, coming soon.....

can't wait!!!

To Auntie....

Message from Dawn :

"Hi there Auntie... how are you? I hope you are good. Have you seen my bicycle picture?

Hold on, I need to go "m..m.. (sound of letter)". Thank you for letting me go toilet. I hope you are laughing."

(^∇^)

Happy Birthday Singapore Celebration

☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟThe Pong Pong Girls ☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ

Baking Cookies

Dawn enjoys baking like all children do... it's their opportunity to mess up, I think. Whenever I bake, I will have to set up a separate table for her. She would run to gather her mixer and other barang barang, too eager to "help". Her battery operated mixer works almost like a real mixer, so an egg and some flour was all it took to keep her occupied while I do the real baking.

She asked for some butter once and I gave that to her as well. Big mistake!!! She insisted on using her own microwave to melt it, which of course didn't turn out the way she wanted it to. She kept trying and trying... as if she didn't know it's not real !!! Ended up, there was butter all over the microwave.

It was all fun BUT the cleaning up part was a REAL pain (^.^;



She did some real baking over the weekend.

I was never patient at teaching. So it was a bit frustrating for me... flour flying all over the place while sifting, moulding not done properly etc. I went "No, Dawn" this.... "No, Dawn" that .... and the poor little girl kept say "Sorry!" "Sorry!". Even to the extent that when I sigh (loud and slow kind), she got the hint and automatically say "SORRY". (^∇^)

Now you know why your mother wants you to stay out of the kitchen ☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ


Tada!! Animal Maple Almond Cookies.

Cha Soba

Lunch for Dawn over the weekend.



She likes anything cold. Cold weather, cold shower and of course cold noodles. This is super quick and easy, just cook the soba in water and fry an egg with some cheese and chopped mushroom.

Primary 1 registration

(*^ー^) Went to the temple to pray... sounds exactly like 临时抱佛脚, right? Just feel like going... pretty worry I will make the wrong decision.... Hongwen or St. Margarets?

Today is the last day of registration. Looking at the 1st 2 days' registration data so far... balloting is unavoidable! Now regret one year ago never take Parent Volunteering seriously (T_T;)

Good news!!

She called me up after school today to tell me her "good news", said her tooth felt painful and she's so excited ... because that means her 1st permanent tooth will be coming out soon! Then the tooth fairy will come to give her $$$$... haha

I just hope it's not tooth decay!!! (￣▽￣lll)

My cutie niece!

Isn't she sweet? ♪♪

But of course i have to say....not as cute as Dawn.. LOL (o^∀^o)

My little woman get so jealous of her cousin, she kept saying I love "Kaylen" the most. (((p（＞o＜）q)))

Sneak Peek!

Photo shoot by my brother at Botanic Gardens.

Rubbish Work!

Well, there's a reason behind this title. She was really mad and out of nowhere, she just start thinking all that she had ever done (i.e artwork) were rubbish ... ugly and useless! And no matter what you say (￣▽￣lll) ,

it's STILL ......



I actually like it. It's her way of expressing herself through her drawing.

KOREA - February 2009

Back track a bit. Sharing some favourites from our Korea Trip ....

Because it was not school holiday, our tour group was all adults accept for another adorable little girl. So glad she was around. As you can see, both of them became inseparable, sitting next to each other at meals, on the bus...

Check out our BOOTS! Cool .. ei ..?

The best hotel room ever... Lotte World. Everything inside was super cute! Absolutely love the colours!