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Blogger’s Camera. Action. Cut! Episode 1

Dayna — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:25:24 +0000

I have finally decided on the blog title for all future blogger’s meet up with the girls – Blogger’s Camera. Action. Cut! Our meet up is more like an unconventional photography session. Impromptu meet up with Brenda and Cherlynn yesterday at Bugis for dinner. Ivy is down with a flu and Terry is still in Malaysia so they couldn’t make it. Somehow, I manage to drag myself from Bukit Batok to town after a long day at work to meet up with the girls. I swear my legs and eyes were deactivating and running low on battery already. We were supposed to meet monthly but due to everyone’s hectic schedule, we haven’t met up since April? Anyway, here are some of the crazy shots we have taken. All photos credit to Brenda!

Left to Right: Cherlynn, Brenda, Me

We look like flies squashed on the walls

The love of bloggers, not each other!

Brenda absolutely (loves) it when we do the peace sign

Honey, we got squashed up again!

Konichiwa

Charlie Angels!

I feel like my life is revolving around sleep, food and work. I need to get out, blog, socialise (not like I’m not socialising before) more and GET A LIFE! Girls, we are going to stick to the plan and meet up every month. This also reminds me, I should really start blogging more. 20 years down the road while looking back at these photographs, I will laugh at myself thinking “Gosh, I can’t believe I did that!”. I won’t be going to Illuma in the next 3 to 6 months in case someone goes “Oh look, that’s one of the crazy girls from the other day”.

K-box session up next! Stay tune for the next episode of “Blogger’s Camera. Action. Cut!”.

Exploring Iluma II

Dayna — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:38:46 +0000

Chewy and I enjoy looking out for new places¹ to visit but due to the “supposedly” raining weather² today, we decided to head to the mall. It is not our first time at Iluma but surprisingly, we still manage to find out something new about this place. The top level has an outdoor garden which I felt was it’s a good place to chill out since it was not chocking with cigarette smoke and the green grass was lovely³.

The construction of the bridge linking Bugis to Iluma has completed and is open to pedestrians. It is a smart move to build a bridge connecting the two malls since they will be killing 2 birds with 1 stone. The constant human congestion at the other traffic junction outside Topshop was absolutely horrible and dangerous. Most of the time, the pedestrian walkway in the middle of the 2 roads would be so packed that I’m afraid someone will fall over. Moreover, it’s bringing a lot more human traffic and business to Iluma. There is a reason why I named it the ghost mall in the past. It’s now buzzing with activities and shoppers. I even saw the God of Fortunate today! Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to shake hands with him⁴.

I shall end this post with a perfect shot of Chewy in his “Twist” pose and I am giving 101% of credit to the photographer for this awesome shot⁵.

We love to treasure hunt!
It didn’t rain in the end due to our inaccurate prediction
It was fake plastic grass actually
I hope to get some luck for buying 4D and TOTO
Are you still guessing? The writer of this post is the the photographer

Exploring Iluma

Exploring Iluma

Dayna — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:04:50 +0000

Thanks to everyone who voted for me at the WordPress Best Design Awards, your votes are very much appreciated. If you haven’t, please drop me a vote if you like Amour Chaleur’s design and help spread the word around (twittering, blogging about it, anything!). Every single vote would help to make my goal of opening my own e-shop closer as mentioned in my previous post.

I’ve been busy mugging¹ for my upcoming final UOL examinations so I wouldn’t be very active until the end of May but I’ll still be on twitter and flickr. Sorry if I haven’t been visiting for some time. I have huge plans for Amour Chaleur in June. I will be making a new layout and will try to “pull away” from the current style. I want a new break through in my layout designs! I also plan to revamp 60% of the content – higher quality and quantity (in regards to my visitors content). Hopefully, I will be able to finish it during the first 2 weeks of June before moving on to my client’s project and other side projects like my e-shop.

Chewy and I

Mr Chewy

So, Chewy and I went to “explore” Iluma, the new shopping mall located at Bugis. If you have been following my twitter, you would have known that there were some small hiccups along the way. Nevertheless, we made it safe and sound home. The shopping mall is open but most of the shops aren’t, thus if you plan on going, wait till June when most of the shops would be open. The cinema and the arcade fills up the entire top floor and there is this “secret” rooftop area. It overlooks Bugis and the entrance is hidden inside the arcade so do remember to check it out when you are there. But some people take it as a smoking area and it totally spoils the view. I meant with a wonderful view but the air is filled with cigarette smoke.

I’m mentally exhausted so I’ll let the photos do the talking again today. They are cross posted from my flickr so you can click on them to view the full size photo from my flick account.

Roof top view from Iluma

Another rooftop view

Love the colour of the sky in this one

Rainbow buildings

Building structure and design of Iluma

It can be used to describe someone stuffing a great deal of information from the textbook into his head, meaning tons of mere studying for long periods of time. This word is very common in countries like Singapore.