Pit-Stop
While life has been great generally, there have been days when I wish that the ground would open up and swallow me whole. And because I generally don’t like a whiner, I retreat till I spiral into this ridiculous freefall into depression and won’t realise that I’m going through a hard time till it’s too late, i.e., wishing that the ground would swallow me whole.
In times like this, I’m very thankful for friends who check-in to ask how my sanity is holding up. I feel awful that whenever they do, I unload a whole load onto them at a speed of 0-1000 words in 5 seconds. But they are really life’s little blessings because they not only listen patiently, they deconstruct, offer sound advice and affirm again that I can always reach out to them.
Sometimes I forget, but I’m grateful that they don’t.
Paper Alert
The Sunday Times, Lifestyle Section. Clare and I are in it today. :)
Mother’s Day 2010
It was a perfect day because I spent time with Clare. And yet another reminder of how lucky I am to have such a wonderful daughter.
Playing in the study with her. That’s her reaction to me being a little rough. Oops.
One of her favourite toys.
I like sitting like that sometimes. So does my mum. And my grandmother. See a pattern?
I’m glad she likes reading. And even though she doesn’t know how to actually read words, she makes them up! How imaginative!
I was trying to get her attention from watching TV.
This was taken on a different day, before I went off on holiday. That’s her being cheeky about not wanting to take photos.
Sunday Night
My four kids. I have no idea where Clare learnt that funny pose from.
Breathe
Am suffering from a major case of whiplash (not a car accident, thankfully) and body aches all over because I had three immunisation injections yesterday (two arms and on the bum), am coming down with a fever and completely overate during lunch with my dad today.
I’m thankful and yet, not thankful, for the public holiday today. There is much work to be done, and sometimes I feel like I’m standing on this glass floor that feels like it’s going to break under me any time. While I can work from home, I desperately need some agencies to be opened to process stuff.
Just another month of hard work and this project will be over. Would be nice to breathe after that.
GAME ON!
GAME ON! is a new sports reality show that features 12 teens competing in various sports challenges every week. This is my latest television project, one that I worked very hard on. The super fun bits of it was working on the photographs, of course.
Episode 1 premiered tonight, which had the teens doing a high ropes course at the MegaZip Adventure Park, knee-hang catch at the trapeze and a swimming relay.
Preparing for the show, I did try out almost all the games, which was good fun, but not so good with my fear of heights. I took a good half an hour to finish the ropes course and was massively stuck at one point, and really just wanted to drop down and die. I was swinging all over the place and clutching onto the ropes so tightly, my knees had big bruises from the ordeal. When I finally completed it, tourists who were waiting to go down the zip and were watching me struggle, applauded!
On the trapeze, my legs were shivering so badly I had no energy to hook them up onto the bar to perform the knee hang. Obviously I declined going up again. But it provided such good drama and tension on the show, it was my favourite challenge of all.
And the swimming segment was made all the more exciting with national swimmer, Parker Lam, as a guest. He had every single female who was on set, reduced to giggles as we tried very hard not to drool at his supremely well sculpted body. He also has a super nice personality, is very polite, smart (scholarship at Stanford) and is this year’s Cleo’s Eligible Bachelor.
There are many more fun and exciting challenges ahead, so do catch GAME ON! every Sunday, 8pm on Super Sports Arena (Ch 201).
GAME ON! team, with hosts Allan Wu & Melody Chen
Fadzlynn
Kimberly
Giresh
Callie
Harvey
Joshua
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From the green team (Ultimate Hulks):
Marcus
Nicole
Wesley
Terushka
Samuel
Joleen
Yves (cameraman) and myself, spent a day with other teens with cool hobbies, to shoot some footage for transitions and the show open. We met with skateboarders, a parkour kid and a breakdancer. We actually wanted to feature a BMX rider too, but the weather was miserable when we wanted to shoot, even the day after.
Yes, we shot the transitions on the 5DMKII. That camera rules!
Love the hair!
Sweden
Walking through the mousetrap of driftwood and nails sticking out all over the place, that is known as Ladonia — a micronation created by a really warped artist, Lars Vilks. I was tricked into making a treacherous hike to this godforsaken (almost secret) place by the photographer.
Photo credit: Daniel Olsen
I have been in Helsingborg, Sweden, the past week. It has been a GREAT holiday and I had an awesome time. I even had an extra night here because of the ash cloud. While I’m very sad to leave, I’m also looking forward to going back to some heat and to work (lots and lots and lots of stuff to do).
Graduation – Venetia
Me, circa 2003. I just realised my motar board’s crooked! And the photo is now terribly faded.
I never was a fan of posed graduation photos, especially with props/fake backdrops, etc. But since the parentals requested for one after graduation years ago, I posed for one. Without a globe, thankfully.
But when Venetia contacted me to do a lifestyle shoot for her graduation portraits, I was thrilled! After that, we went on to do a family shoot for the rest of her family. It was good fun!
Proof That She’s My Mini-Me
Catalog Magazine, April 2010
Larger version can be read here.
My frightful Kinabalu food poisoning experience (read about it here, here and here) is now documented in Catalog Magazine (April 2010). Much to learn from ‘Swedish ex-military hunks’ about mountain preparedness + knives/tools. I’m glad my dad gave me a leatherman sometime ago, or the cute little Swiss army knife Dylan gave me for Christmas. Neither of which I brought up to the mountain, of course.
(Thanks @jbarks for the mention! And congratulations once again on Cannes!)
