Some pictures I took today..
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Here's my humble mini veggie garden.
The tomato plant has since grew another 3". The 12 cayenne chilli plants are also making good progress. 
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Haha, FYI yes the little boy was anchored to the ground.The Nikon F5 and the Canon EOS 300 belonged to my fellow photoshoot chaps, the jungle hat is mine.Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:Where was the picture taken? I'm going to guess somewhere along the Singapore Riverfront.
It's not very often that one sees five people manhandling a statue in public. Heck, if I saw that happening, I'd give them a wide berth too!
Wasn't the statue secured to some kind of foundation and/or pedestal?
MG
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Always a good thing to see crops..Haha, is that your Dodge Ram/Dakota sitting out front?Originally posted by littlestream:
Here's my humble mini veggie garden. The tomato plant has since grew another 3". The 12 cayenne chilli plants are also making good progress. 
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Hee hee...... I know I am a female driver (there's a thread about it under Cars)..........but no lah, not mine. See that dent or not? Hee hee.........just trying to be cheeky here.
There's construction across my street. They are building a mini plaza so I think the truck belongs to the workmen. -
Littlestream: That's actually a very nice image. Looks like a very pretty neighbourhood, but won't the erection of the mini plaza across the street from you increase traffic along the road in front of your house?
So how long have you lived in Toronto? What brought you there?
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Can't be Baltimore... I was there for close to a month a few years back and the skyline sure doesn't look like Baltimore's!Originally posted by LazerLordz:Thanks MG regarding my black and white images
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Oh, my word!! This photo made my heart jump in my throat because it looks so much like ST Charles Street in Baltimore, MD where I lived in for an entire month just three years ago!Originally posted by littlestream:
Here's my humble mini veggie garden. The tomato plant has since grew another 3". The 12 cayenne chilli plants are also making good progress.
I had such beautiful memories of the US. Everytime I visit the US, I feel soooooo ecstatic!
Maybe, I shouldn't have dropped my application to work in the US...
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:Littlestream: That's actually a very nice image. Looks like a very pretty neighbourhood, but won't the erection of the mini plaza across the street from you increase traffic along the road in front of your house?
So how long have you lived in Toronto? What brought you there?
MG aiyoh, you so kind MG........really can't hold a candle. In fact, I think the image of the plants were a tad dark eh? 
I'm not really IN Toronto but in one of the suburb. It's a really nice neighbourhood and the sub division is a comfortable size. Traffic is not heavy. Besides, there are many of these mini plaza, actually we call them strip plaza. Not more than 20 shops on street level. At popular major intersections, you can find one.
Oh....lived here? Decades liao loh. Family, studies. Ha ha ha........I remembered first coming here......got that "the best" attitude, thanks to LKY's doctorine that We Are The Best. Wah.....quickly got humbled man!!! Realized the world is indeed bigger than S'pore (hee hee).
And you? Do you like the Twin Cities? My good friend from here left TO for Kentucky early this year. She and her husband were my best karaoke buddies. But today, they are moving again. I think her husband did really well so the company is posting them to Houston. I bet she will love it there. 4th largest city in US, right? And the mean age is like 24-27 years old. They are young.......by my standard lah. I don't know if she is adjusting well. No matter that we are neighbours (US/Cdn), I think there is still some adjustments at hand. -
kopiosatu, Whoa... your photos are sooo professional! When I saw the 2nd photo, the close-up of the cake, I went "Whooooaaaa..." and simultaneously, my stomach exclaimed, "Ggggrrrrrrrr.... " (hungry growl!).
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These two photos were taken using a disposable camera. Can you guess where I was at?
This is a not-so-famous angle on a very famous skyline...
This was an island featured in 'Hitch'. It's rich in history!
Where was I? -
New York!!!
If the answer is wrong........I now am convinced I suck at Geography and landmarks. -
Wah... so fast! You're absolutely... CORRECT!!Originally posted by littlestream:New York!!!
If the answer is wrong........I now am convinced I suck at Geography and landmarks.
Was it the 2nd photo that gave it away? The first photo didn't really have any outstanding features, right?
But the 2nd photo - that of Ellis Island - now, that would have been quite a giveaway! -
Huh? Really ah? I was right ah?Originally posted by Rhonda:Wah... so fast! You're absolutely... CORRECT!!
Was it the 2nd photo that gave it away? The first photo didn't really have any outstanding features, right?
But the 2nd photo - that of Ellis Island - now, that would have been quite a giveaway! No, it was the first pix. I was in New York last summer when MIL visited. We were on the boat cruise and I think I took one pix like that too.
Aiyah, Rhonda, wish you had picked US. I bet we could visit each other then. And maybe even plan a trip together. -
Nice pictures, Rhonda. When were you in New York?
The Manhattan skyline will never look the same without the imposing silhouettes of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, though...
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Errrr........ can squeeze another pix of my backyard or not? The lilies are taller now and buds have sprouted. Didn't know the lilies are perennials. We thought we "killed" it last year so was pleasantly surprise that it is alive! -
Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
I never got to visit the World Trade Center in its splendour but recently, when I went through my old food mags, I saw an article on this restaurant, Windows on the World, that was located at the top floor of one of the towers. I immediately felt sad for the senseless loss of lives that day.
Nice pictures, Rhonda. When were you in New York?
The Manhattan skyline will [b]never look the same without the imposing silhouettes of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, though...
MG[/b]
I visited New York City in June 2002. They had salvaged a damaged sculpture from the WTC and erected it in its damaged state in Hope Garden with a plaque that dedicated it in memory of all the lives lost. Wish I had a digicam when I went there because I really really regretted not having been trigger-happy then, ought to have taken more photos! 
Wish I could share a photo of that sculpture but it has me standing in front of it so, no-can-do!
I dream of returning to the US for a long visit one day... I'd love to spend weeks and weeks just exploring Washington, D.C. and NYC.
Well, six years ago, I made a brave decision to give it all up to answer my calling in a geographically-mobile profession so you never know where I'll land at ultimately!
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Aiyah... perhaps if I had known you earlier, I would have proceeded with my application! The agency staff kept telling me that it was 'such a pity' that I was giving up my endeavour but I wasn't so sure at that point in time that the time was right for such a move. It was a gut feeling thing.Originally posted by littlestream:Huh? Really ah? I was right ah? No, it was the first pix. I was in New York last summer when MIL visited. We were on the boat cruise and I think I took one pix like that too.
Aiyah, Rhonda, wish you had picked US. I bet we could visit each other then. And maybe even plan a trip together.
Well, I really wanna get back there someday so, just hold on to your horses! Someday, littlestream! -
littlestream, I don't live in a place where folks do a lot of DIY projects nor gardening but I did read up on gardening and what-not because it's part of my interests.
Lilies, I believe, are very hardy and resilient perennials. I think you do have to cut them down to the ground before winter though... something like that. Hard to remember trivial facts that you don't get to apply them.
I've dreamt of living in a tropical zone like Houston, TX and growing Hostas, Lamb's Ears, and of course, Peonies and a Cherry Blossom tree! Not sure if the Cherry Blossom Tree will do good in that zone but look at them bloom in Washington, D.C.!!!
I was amazed by how gloriously huge the roses bloomed in the South! And I mistook many an Azalea bush for a Rosebush! So pai seh and suah ku!!
I tell you something really funny! It was my very first time in the US and it was my first morning in Tulsa, OK. My American friend had returned to the office to clear some work so I was all alone at home. I heard a bell ring, a van came to a stop outside our driveway, and then, I saw a huge can of what looked like beans placed near our door!
Me, being the suah ku, panicked! I started to think, 'Oh help!! Did some terrorists disguised as deliverymen place a bomb disguised as a can of BBQ Baked Beans outside?!!'
You should see how skittish I was. Peeked left, peeked right, opened the front door a wee bit, looked up and down the neighbourhood, tried to see if there were booby-traps near the can, gingerly stepped out into the lovely spring air, tentatively walked over to the can, nudged it with my shoe, finally realised it wasn't some landmine, so I picked it up and the minute my friend returned from his office, I started talking ten sentences a minute, relating my silly li'l 'incident of the day' to him! I'm sure he must be going, 
'This girl must be out of her bonkers, man!' -
Tulips from my front lawn. Spring is gone now, so the spaces have made way for Impatience. -
Ehhhh same nick, I've never had any other nick!Originally posted by LazerLordz:MG: I think you live in St Louis.
Kopiosatu: Wonderful pics What is your nick in CS?
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Yeah.I've always wanted to visit the Twin Towers..and one of my dreams is to watch the sunset from the top of the Empire State building, and watch as the most vibrant city on the planet lights up for the night.
Nice pictures, Rhonda. When were you in New York?
The Manhattan skyline will [b]never look the same without the imposing silhouettes of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, though...
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littlestream! You have such a greenfinger!!!! Lovely, lovely tulips!!!
Impatiens, Impatience! hahahahaha!!! Cuuute! -
I use the canvas functionOriginally posted by JLennon:kopi, great pix there! by the way, how do you crop the pictures using white borders and black frames?
alas, my new Olympus 5500 cannot produce such good pix....
Well most of my pics were taken using a G5.
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Most of them... ok all i guess are taken from my Canon G5.Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:I agree. Kopiosatu, those images are definitely postcard-quality. Very nicely done! What kind of equipment did you use to record those images? Is that an RSAF Chinook on the helipad of the LST?
Eh yap, that's the RSAF Chinook on the LST helipad, not many people get to see that! Hahaha~
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One of my all-time favourite flowers, the Alstromeria!
I used to purchase flowers to place at my work cubicle a few years back. I earned the reputation as being a flower-lover and I managed to find a way of keeping my cut roses blooming for the longest possible time!
I also placed a nice glass bowl of money plant near my boss' door. I placed multi-coloured plastic chips inside the bowl to anchor the roots and when the sun's rays stretched like fingers through the windows and dipped into the bowl, it produced an awesome reflection of multi-coloured shadows in its immediate surroundings. Preeeeety! And I'm sure the water in the bowl enhanced the Feng Shui too!