some of you might know where this is taken, some might not. but i just thought it would make an interesting picture and subject. don't know if it works. *scratch head*

looking through filtered "eyes"

looked out of a window with a film of sun-shade kind of thing. it looked really plain and uninteresting when i opened the window, but with the film, it made the sky look so great! with some constructions going on in the foreground, the cranes made for interesting shadows.

all sky and clouds

forgot to attach this panaroma photo in my outing to the kelong. great day, with great skies.

An outing to kelong (part 2)

when we got to the kelong, we were just in time to see the workers washing the oysters in the baskets. the oysters get quite dirty from the mud and sea stuffs, and has to be washed about twice a week.

the smaller oyster at the back is the one harvested from the farm itself, however the HUGE one at the front, is picked up along the shores of Ubin. that certainly looks scary, and is as large as the whole palm!
this small little things are the baby oysters. they are so tiny and minute that you would never imagine them to be oysters, but broken pieces of seashells. (warning: prolonged staring of the picture below may cause dizziness and blurness of sight!!)
well, after looking at the oysters, there wasn't much left to do, so we decided to try our luck (and patience) at fishing. but unluckily we caught nothing other then feeding the fishes with our bait.
anyways, here's another view of the kelong. i hope i can go back there again and just enjoy the sea and the breeze and the....sun? got burnt pretty badly so i've got to remember to bring sun-block lotion the next time i go.

An outing to kelong (part 1)

Yesterday, i took a trip down to visit my dude's dad's oyster farm. firstly we had to take a boat to pulau ubin (apparently i haven't been to ubin before! haha), and then another boat ride to the farm(kelong) itself.
ubin is just a quiet village with laid-back pace of life, with kampong housings and bicycle rental shops, and a few shophouses selling drinks and foodstuffs. But i didn't really get to walk much of the village cause we were heading to the kelong!
while waiting for the boat to the kelong, i noticed these huge fences along the beach. apparently it's for keeping the illegal swimmers from swimming into ubin (and then singapore). looks pretty scary though, like keeping out some sea mongster.
and well, actually the kelong is just a simple affair, and since this is the first time on a kelong, i'm gonna enjoy myself.

vongole (white clams) aglio olio

chicken and mushroom with cream sauce

ebi prawn with spicy cream sauce

beef skewer in thai basil sauce

went for a meal with couple of my friends at taka, and ate some pasta that i've missed for so long. so glad it's still nice as before. well, this was an opportunity for me to try something that i'm interested in (food photography), and hope these photos have done the pasta justice. haha. hoping to start a food blog with my buddy dude, so look out for it!