Labels: Woolgatherings

Have been house sitting for a fellow dragonboater for the past week and I am loving it so much. I'm cooking up a plan to make Angela go on holidays forever so I can house sit more. Haha. She's got a kitty cat named Taylor, so prepare yourself for the onslaught of kitty photos.  Getting ready for the new year in a beautiful place. It may not be permanent but its been doing wonders for me so far! All that bright natural light is constantly charging up my productivity meter. I've got something planned for tomorrow which I am so excited about! Bought flowers for the house from South Melbourne Market because it's ridiculously close, and there are pinecones everywhere around the neighbourhood. Not the crappy broken ones, the nicely shaped and still intact ones!   This is definitely my favourite tee shirt as of late. I'll put up a proper photo so you an actually see the design instead of the reflection.  If you follow me on instagram (@autopsyjude) you'd know what the back looks like! Its the Bomb Diggaty!

Labels: Animals, Woolgatherings

Dragonboating has taken up a lot of my time lately and even I am surprised. Since Sam introduced it to me in July, I've been going ever since. I'm not sure what came over me and made me come back to the subsequent sessions. I've always loved being on a boat just for the sheer novelty of it, and now I get to go on one every week. Plus being on the water, away from the shore and far away from the buildings is very understandably calming. I guess the extremely minimal club fee was a great incentive. Hah! Also, apparently dragonboating is in my blood; two of my sisiters are paddlers as well. Lolwut.

Anyways the summer is upon us and the dragonboating season has well begun. The club had a regatta today at Docklands (which is always beautiful) and the results were pleasantly surprising! We won our very first two medals (which will hopefully multiply like rabbits.) Club camaraderie is great and that team togetherness is a hard one to beat. AND AND AND, we'll be on Portuguese TV!! How exciting!

Labels: Photo slice, Woolgatherings

         

Labels: Friends, Photo slice, Singapore

I can't believe this girl is 7 years my junior and she already has a better idea on how keeping in good shape. Maybe I shouldn't have sooked and dropped out on those ballet classes that my mom make me take when I was little.

I've wanted to do a fitness shoot for a while and who better to model for me than a girl who has been training every day of her life? I've recently come to know a couple of other very fit girls so hopefully I can convince them that I need more inspiration to get a little bit healthier!

Anyways, this shoot was done a while back but I hadn't been able to get round to posting them because I was losing my hair over my thesis (not really) Now that I've submitted it, I get to relax for an evening before I go crazy again preparing for my presentation.

Labels: Friends, Photo slice

I love fresh flowers in the house. And I especially love fresh flowers in odd glassware like old glass bottles or a 5000ml conical flask. Being a scientist has made me absolutely attached to anything and everything related to science. I would drink out of 200 mL beakers if i could!

These flowers that I bought from the grocer are weirdly juxtaposed and are probably not the best two to be paired together, but they looked so good by themselves. Its winter meets spring, which, come to think of it, is kind of apt because today is the first day of spring. They smelled so uplifting and citrus-y (I think I can blame that on the red berry things) it was hard not to stare at it for ages.

Anyways, I recently had a severe bout of baking desires so I made cupcakes and a banaramel pie all in a night. Matt hates bananas AND cream, the two things the pie was made out of other than biscuits and caramel, so I got to eat all of it! It was very delicious and extremely simple to make. It was like cheating.

Labels: Baking, DIY, Flowers, Food, Photo slice

I ran out of photos so this post will be a short one. On our first day in Singapore, we went to the Harry Potter and Andy Warhol exhibitions (Separately! Though a collaboration would prove very interesting!) I only managed to sneakily steal shots in the Warhol exhibit; There was a drawing that he did with"Sam the Cat" written on it(It's one of the photos up the top but the words are hardly legible. The artwork isn't much clearer!)

Because the photo image was so poor and "Sam the Cat" will not go down with a fight, I decided to make my own piece of artwork titled "Sam the Cat, who also works at Dulux", with a pinch of wonder! Also, I don't want to get into trouble with the art lawyers.

The last day was very nicely finished of with a market of Malay street food. We literally bought 1 of everything to try! Sam took back a piece of Ondeh-Ondeh (Malay glutinous rice dessert) all the way back to the Australian customs but had to throw it away lest we get hassled by Border Security.

I end with a very stock photo-esque image of me that Nick took. It looks like it should be on a Vodafone ad or something.

Labels: Photo slice, Singapore, Travel, Woolgatherings