Catching up

Eats
Since my brother is back in town for a stretch, my parents have been hauling the entire lot of us out for meals. In the past week-plus, we've been to:

- Outram Park Fried Kway Teow Mee at Hong Lim Hawker Centre (hum.. yum)
- Chinatown Glutinous Rice at #02-11 Chinatown Complex Hawker Centre ($1 for a filling breakfast!)
- Kazu Sumiyaki at Cuppage Plaza (I still love this place)
- Lei Garden at Chjimes (overpriced)
- Canton Wok at Serangoon Central (fancy food but so-so)
- Lee Kui Ah Hoi at Mosque Street (great cold crab, orh-nee also fab!)

Burp.

(By the way, all that weight I lost over last year-end's bout of food poisoning, I regained fully over the US trip's meat-and-potatoes diet. Ack.)

Shoots
Work's been taking its typically large bite out of my time since I got back from the states last week. But I did manage to squeeze a little time (and a little less sleep) last night to resize and upload some of Alya's photos.

Fiddled with a little soft-focus and channel-mixer desaturation and ended up with this sepia-toned effect:



More of Sam's little princess in the Baby Alya gallery.

I stopped doing the photo-a-day thing for the moment, partly in an attempt to take stock of what I've been doing and where I'm going in terms of photography, but also to sort through and clean up my huge digital photo junkyard.

I've got a whole backlog of photos that I owe people, but finding time to actually locate, sort and reprocess them is a problem. And it feels kind of wasteful to put just a handful (<50MB?) of photos on each CD-R, but in the end I think I'd rather hand over a disc than put them up separately for download. Great excuse to meet up, too. :)

And Leaves
Heading to Aussie for a bit at the end of the month. Dad spotted a $98 Singapore Airlines flight deal to Perth in the papers this week - limited booking period, online only. We jumped at the chance! SIA's webservers must have been crawling under the strain of happy bargain hunters, but eventually we managed to slip a family booking in. (Airport tax costs twice as much as each ticket, ouch.)

Honestly I'd rather go back to Japan again, but what the heck, anywhere out of the general hazy vicinity is good.