P for playground

Me in Kodak Portra

Taken by Jing Wen.

One more

Plant seeds had stuck to her shorts as she walked across the grass field, she sat down and kept scratching her thighs. I had to remove her shorts and plug out the seeds one by one, but after that she just refused to let me put them back, leaving her only with the diaper.

How we spent Christmas

We braced the weather and headed to Angel's favorite hang out place - Sengkang Riverside Park and Sengkang Wetland. I started to cycle her to this park about a year ago, initially we would just hang around the pond area. But with her explorer nature, we started to venture further, and we are still slowly discovering how vast this place really is.

Angel has kind of worked out her favorite routes:

• We start at the pond area where she picks leaves and throws it to the fishes and tortoises.
• Then we walk to the grass steps where she tries her balancing walk.
• I have to wait for the "where bicycle?" voice when I would then carry her back to the bicycle.
• We then cycle to the wetland where she does her usual running and exploring around the bridge.
• Her running normally leads us to Sengkang Sports Complex, where we would go to the outdoor gym. This is where she calls the sky walk machine a "swing" and she would try her hands on the monkey bars too.
• After that we walk up to a huge road bridge. We only just ventured to this bridge not long ago, so she's still slowly learning about this area.
• The bridge leads us back to the park, from here on it's piggyback all the way back to the wetland to get the bicycle.
• Sometimes we cycle to McDonald's to have dinner or drive through to get her a corn cup.

Normally this trip takes about 1 to 2 hours.

Sometimes all you need is just one shot

Took over her Olympus E-PL2, set it to RAW capture, and took one shot. That's all I needed. Love this shot a lot.

Train in the sky

Raffles Place

Scenes from the train station

Why I pick her up every friday

Had a blast at my office Christmas party at Raffles Place, I haven't been to this vibrant part of town for a while now. After the party I felt like staying on with friends and continue partying, but I had to pick up my daughter.

On the way I kept thinking why, why do I not stay on and have fun? Why do I bring her home and spend the rest of my night taking care of her? I was still wondering that when I reached grandma's place, and as I turned the corner to face the door I got my answer within one second.

A simple "Daddy"! Followed by Angel running to the kitchen to look for grandma to open the gate. Grandma was in the shower, so Angel came back and tried to open the gate herself. She tried to climb up and reach the lock, she pushed and pulled the gate, she tried to figure out the workings of the gate. Unsuccessful, she ran back to look for grandma.

After the 4th try running to the kitchen, she finally managed to get grandma. As soon as the gate was opened, she ran up my to arms with shoes on her hands, ready to go home.

That's the reason why I bring her home.

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