Showing posts with label 35mm film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 35mm film. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Ikebukuro

It was a cold morning.
I sat at the hotel's smoking corner for the free wifi.
Wearing red socks. They kept slipping down.
Decided to buy new socks from IOIO departmental store but it was only 10am.
Ootoya for breakfast? Haven't had the chance to try it in SG.
Yes! It's open.
Had salmon. Was alright.
Sat by window and wondered why such a large group of people was needed to close off the main road. The Japanese do it most methodically. It's like they have a rule book complicating things.
Waiting to cross the road. Drizzling. Two girls discussed in Mandarin how long my hair was.
Holding damp umbrella and wondering if it's okay to spend so much on a pair of socks. But Vivienne Westwood socks come in the craziest designs.
Paid for socks with credit card.
High school marching band! Girls with cute blue capes!
Pictures. 3GS goes black screen. Panic.
Finish taking pictures. Returned to hotel to attempt to revive phone.
100 yen to use the internet.
No phone. Unable to convert yen to SGD, how was I supposed to shop?
Google Apple service centres. Ginza. Which station exit is the nearest?
No way to tell time? What if I miss my flight?
Panic.
Breathe. Mind clears a little. Google black screen iPhone 3GS.
There it is, the solution.
What would I do without Google?
Head towards station.
What's going on?
Lots of people sitting in neat rows on the road, waiting for something to happen.
In chronological order:









Actually there are more of that morning. But the ones on the Golden Half are magical, somehow. They remind me of every single thing that happened - if not for loose socks and a phone blackout, I would have left Ikebukuro before the festivities started. They're like my portkey.

Sunday, November 01, 2009


Collected the 13 rolls today but I'm really too sleepy to upload them. So here's one for fun first. I'm fascinated by how it looks like one of those colour sketches. I think I might even have once seen a drawing or poster of Omotesando that looks exactly like that.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Tuesday, August 18, 2009



I've been wanting to do a home series. But trying to tackle something so familiar is a little hard for me. Random shots from a random day are all I have for now.






rockstar (by soon lee)

Lawyer's birthday falls on National Day. We celebrated with a Macs party this year and she invited kids of people from work so we'd have some reps of the right age present.

She bought cupcakes from Da Paolo Gastronomia for everyone. The National Day ones were really cute, but tasted nothing special. I was right about the deli's cupcakes all along, even though I never bothered to try. They just never looked tasty. I like being right about things.

I'd say give me Marmalade Pantry's any day, if not for the fact that they now cost something like $4.20 apiece. I think I'll just stop eating cupcakes.

I finished the National Day cupcake anyway, cos they were pretty and cos I don't like to waste food. Lots of guests took a couple of bites before leaving theirs on the (tiny) tables to be thrown away. After everyone left, I glanced back at them. They looked really forlorn and moody.

I think it was rude that they did not finish eating them.

This water-melon is fighting me

Can't seem to take nice and decent pictures of this place, and I've been back again and again and again.


The brother and his girlfriend.


The brother decided to put on a forlorn, ghost-child persona for all his individual shots that day.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

And I leave you with this ridiculously pretty sky


Goodnight. Hope tomorrow's a happy day.

another small dragon











Small dragon. Also stuck in foam next to a pathetic , laughable neighbour.