Singapore photo diary ii

real christmas trees!

(i was in love with the flowers and my new shoes)

a couple having their pre-wedding shoot :)

this was terrifying to walk on!

by the time we reached here i was barely able to move, let alone walk properly hahaha. phobia of heights is terrible! i wasn't able to take one single picture of the view below for the fear of dropping my camera (or toppling myself over)

this man was quite delighted that i was photographing him! i love friendly strangers :)

i want my future home to have rainbow/colour-coded windowpanes!

on the day before Christmas Eve, we went to the Gardens by the Bay! it had such amazing, breathtaking structures that words simply cannot describe. i wish i'd taken along my 18-55mm just so i could get a photo of the whole dome but oh well!

i was just so amazed at this exotic amalgamation of life from all over the world brought together under one single dome. i loved the overall atmosphere at this place! it was a breath of life and i felt so in touch with nature, something that i've not felt in far too long.

Singapore photo diary i

 somewhere over the west coast of peninsula Malaysia! i love going on airplanes for views like this.

 view from my room at my aunt's apartment

 my grandma!

 dusk on the first day we were there

i had the most wonderful time in Singapore where i spent the last week of 2012 with my family :)

i miss it so much and editing these photos make me feel nostalgic :(

celestial nymph

(i am so lucky to have the loveliest girl to grace my first shoot of the year)
Stefanie, a talented beauty who, i wish, lived much much closer to me so that we could go on amazing, inspiration-fuelled photo adventures more often. this is only the third time we've ever met with each other and she is already one of my favourite people ever!

i am and will be forever grateful for blogging and the online community of photographers, for without which i would never be who i am today and never would've met such wonderful, like-minded people :)

go on over to Stefanie's facebook photography page and give it loads of love! she deserves every bit of it :) 

p.s. a very belated Happy New Year! ♡ 2012 was a great year for me and i'm hoping that 2013 will be even better for all of us! here's a quote that inspired a need in me to create and to grow creatively, more than ever before and to imagine, to get out there and do something, and most importantly, it reminded me to embrace my abnormally, inhumanely sensitive self.

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off… They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating.” 

-Pearl Buck

(discovered via Gareth Rhys)