My mama's potted plants

My mama loves her plants. Every morning she will spend some times tendering to the plants and she loves talking about it. Yesterday morning when I woke up around 6.30am, my mum was already outside watering her plants.

I was thinking to myself, I have gone to many places to take pictures, but I have not taken pictures of the plants my mum loves so dearly. Therefore, I thought I might as well go out to wish her good morning and to take some photographs of her plants.

She was very happy to see me coming out to photograph her plants. She began telling how each plant came about and how she nurses some them from a single weak stalk to the current lavishing state. If you are wondering why all the pot-stands are blue in colour it’s because my dad painted them blue : )

Ian Ashwin 1st Birthday

Last Sunday evening I was at Castle Green to attend my best friend's son, Ian Ashwin, 1st Birthday party. Although there was a professional camera man, using a latest Nikon D300s, to photograph the birthday party, still I couldn't help but to take out my little compact camera to capture some snap shots for my mum to see. My mum really adored little handsome Ian, she just couldn't stop talking about him when my friend, Shaun, brought him to my house on Deepavali earlier this year!

Christmas Tree Kaleidoscopes

Last week when I was taking photos of the Christmas tree outside ION, I noticed there are some entrances below the Christmas tree. I thought it was some openings for small children to run in and out so I did not check it out.

While I was talking to a colleague back in office, he mentioned that there are some decorations in the Christmas tree and adults could go in too. Out of curiosity, I went back to the Christmas tree at ION again yesterday and I went in to take a look.

Wow, it was very beautiful indeed! The cone was filled to the rim with tiny crystals and there were some bigger crystal balls hanging down. It reminded me of the starry night sky in Bintan or the Kaleidoscope that I used to peep into in my younger days!

Here are some pictures shot with my Panasonic LX3.

A little kindness goes a long way!

On Monday, when I came to office, I was surprised to find a stalk of Bright Yellow Daisy on my desk and there was a “Thank You” card attached to the flower from our General Manager, Ms. Shirleen Kok. It was very nice of her to buy all of us a stalk of flower for the “World Kindness Day”! Despite her heavy work load, busy schedules and two young boys to care for, she still managed to spare a thought for all the colleagues in office! Thank you Shirleen!

The World Kindness Day falls on 13th November and it started around 1998, but frankly this year is the first time I heard about World Kindness Day! It is very refreshing to see a bright flower on my table after a long weekend (as I was on leave on Friday) and especially when the flower is from my boss!

Well, I hereby wish everyone a belated World Kindness Day and I would like to share my Bright Yellow Daisy with all of you. I hope this Daisy will brighten up your day just like it has brightened up my day on Monday!

If you would like to find out more about World Kindness Day, please go to the following URL: http://www.kindness.com.au/world_kindness_day.htm

My Saturday @ Orchard

The ION shopping centre on Orchard has been opened for a couple months now. I have always wanted to check it out but I always have some other things came up and I did not make it down to ION until yesterday.

It is very easy to access by MRT. Just take the MRT to Orchard station and you can walk into ION after the ticketing machine. The crowds on the basement levels were overwhelming and I find the layout quite confusing, well maybe I'm not a seasoned shopper! Personally, I preferred the upper levels where all the branded shops are located. There were lesser crowds and it is much easier to walk around but of course the goods are too expensive for me! I guess the shop I enjoyed most in ION is the Prologue book store on the 4th floor. I spend around 2 hours plus in book store to check out the variety of books and stationeries on the 5th floor.

After ION, I went to the more familiar Takashimaya to buy some stuff from ART Friend and then took some pictures of the Christmas lights up with my Panasonic LX3 camera. I use a Cross filter on my LX3 to create the cross effect on lightings and being lazy, I took all the following pictures hand-held without a tripod. Surprisingly, the pictures did not turn out shaky!