Things that make you smile

1) A beautifully sunny day that makes you wish you were at the beach with as little clothing on as possible.

2) Students who remember and miss you for everything that you are and some things that you aren't. (refer to entry entitled "Teacheriologist in action!")

3) Fridays.

4) Free Lunches funded by Staff Welfare funds for dear colleagues who bid farewell to start new lives in Oz. North Indian with chicken tikka mesala and lotsa naan for me, yes, please!

5) Friends who pop back in town out of the blue.

6) Friends who pop back in town with forewarning, but because of the impossible schedules you have been keeping you completely forget about it. And then the surprise dinner that was arranged between friends to meet up after work, albeit with slight guilt, and the evening of catching up between old, old friends.

Wedding Shoot. 31 May 2004.

He walked with her ahead of the photographer, hand in hand, as his childhood friend chased after their shadows with the camera in his hand. They strode over the fairway under the bemused observation of staff working on the golf course, with strong gait, confidently, freely. The intensity of the evening sun could not be more perfect than it was now, and they basked in it. On normal days the tropical heat would have drenched their skins in sticky persperation. But today, as though the weather was in collusion with a benign and compassionate God, supplied the breeze, the beautiful blue azure sky, the fluffy white clouds that dissipated and eased the harshness of the sun's rays.

And they basked in it.

Ahead of them, the water hazard shimmered from the fishes surfacing to feed on the mosquitoes that skidded over it for a drink, and so the circle of life was sustained. The grass cannot be any greener than this, she thought to herself, remembering how she once didn't think it was possible to ever be happy again.

Today, she was happy again.





Many thanks to Jeremy Ong for taking such beautiful photographs... he truly has a keen eye for beauty and composition

More shots of flower on dress. love the way the sunlight bounces off the petals and the side of my dress. 

Textured shot: I like this one particularly - silver embroidery on duchess satin. Simply sumptious! Notice the sparkle of the beads!  

Yellow orchids 

Walking the fairway to the horror of many a golfer 

Artistic shot... this one. 

Here... catch the hand bouquet!