cruel

meow
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

this could just be the answer for all my pains.

bebe

hola!

he is cool

the dude is cool,
michael buble, no he did not give me a fever
but i am sure a lot of the ladies in attendance at the concert last night caught one.
i did not come home riding the bicycle all night as our performer suggested cheekily.
but i can say i am a really happy man at this moment.

something magical has happened.

i am in love.

GOD, thank you.

maybe i spoke too soon

emperor's lunch
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

cheap and nice tim sum lunch on my last day in perth. last night young and the pilots brought me to have AUD$4.50 egg prata and AUD$3 teh tarik. i guess, its what you will have to pay when you are desperate for comfort food. i will be home in less than 12 hours- back to all the hustle and bustle- life goes on...

nandos dinner coming up at 8. i want some chicken tonight, chicken tonight.

perth holiday

subiaco sunset
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

4 trips in 4 months after, i am finally enjoying my days resting, doing almost nothing in laid back perth. 2 days of work and 5 days holiday, not bad for a change. i am enjoying evey bit of it before i head back to the crazy schedules back home. clients are already calling, chasing deliveries, deadlines, etc, etc, etc...

the stay here is good. its not as laid back or slow as i expected it to be. i love the swan river, i just love water- there is so much life where the river flows. the city isn't really all that developed. thats probably good since there is so much potential with what the WA government can do.

a $3 million house with a river view, that is just not possible in singapore. on a more down-to-earth side, a house for $300k just unheard of back home. how about this- a ferrari for $300k? you can buy 3 here for the price you pay back home. ha. a hyundai getz for $18k, you can't even get a van with that kind of money.

its one thing to be holiday and another to be living in this city. its one lovely town to be in. perhaps i might live here someday.

retirement maybe? hahaha

sunset

cottesloe
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

one good reason to shift to perth, western australia

bliss

baby lauren
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

day 2. i should sleep much better tonight. just envious of baby lauren. it was good catching up with lena. got some shopping done and headed back to 23a mapstone. nothing much accomplished but i guess that is the way to go here in perth!

instant mee poh downunder

instant mee poh
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

2300 touch down at perth international airport, being the singaporean that i am, i asked david where we could grab a bite after he picked me up.

nope, no supper place, at least not in the area where we were. he went on by saying that its not easy to move around here without a car.

after settling in, earn showed me around the house and pull out some instant-life saving-noodles.

i am officially happy.
all ready for perth this coming week!

meowmeow and wuuwuu

doggy
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

i finally got the taste of sending video girl home. its like so near yet so far. a year ago, i was able to say i live next door, easy peasy. i go home to the west now and i'm not quite home. home is in the east now. ha. but i am happy...

beautiful perhentian

perhentian
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

rested. happy. rejuvenated.

what would i be?

1545
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

when i was a boy, i wanted very much to be a pilot. i was a very chubby little boy and that got many uncles teasing me "you sure you can fit into the cockpit or not?!" well, that did not deter me from giving it a shot. at least i flew 10 sorties and quit, 10 more sorties and i will get my private pilot's license.

years on, i still haven't regreted my decision to be passionate about my first love - creative arts.

somewhere along the way, i also got inspired by the cook shows, food fairs and BBQ by the sea on east coast park. i thought to myself, i could be a chef! i can't say i can cook.

so i thought, if i wasn't a taking pictures, i could be cooking. at least i can't say i am bad at eatiing.

today in picture

soft
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

working weekend. felt unwell. still stayed up to finish up work though. feel very inspired. bebe came for supper. very happy. nice picture.

happy

little
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

what a lovely evening out.
i am just so happy.
some say i am in love.
others say i am crazy.
i say i am just happy.

when i am happy i sing.
just like this picture. i was happy when i saw this shot.

You & I Both
words & music by jason mraz

Was it you who spoke the words that things would happen but not to me
Oh things are gonna happen naturally
And taking your advice I'm looking on the bright side
And balancing the whole thing
But often times those words get tangled up in lines
And the bright lights turn to night
Until the dawn it brings
A little bird who'll sing about the magic that was you and me

Cause you and I both loved
What you and I spoke of
What you and I spoke of
Others only dream of the love that I love

See I'm all about them words
Over numbers, unencumbered numbered words
Hundreds of pages, pages, pages forwards
More words then I had ever heard and I feel so alive
Now you and I, you and I
Not so little you and I anymore
And with this silence brings a moral story
more importantly evolving is the glory of a boy

you and I both loved what you and I spoke of
and others just read of and if you could see now
well I'm already finally out of

and it's okay if you have go away
just remember the telephone works both ways
and if I never ever hear it ring
if nothing else I'll think the bells inside
have finally found you someone else and that's okay
cause I'll remember everything you sang

you and I both loved what you and I spoke of
and others just read of and if you could see now
well I'm already finally out of words.

off day

isabelle
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

finally-a day off after a long a chain of crazy happenings-
and i hit the water once again... looking forward to more zzz.

just hacked it!

butcher
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

i have done many projects, gone through many ups and downs in my own career, even struggled and contemplated leaving the profession when business was bad. i now know why i stayed on. i have always known that- taking pictures makes me happy. the weekend ended with me picking people off the streets to shoot. its really an amazing project.projects i love doing always don't pay well. i must say God has been good to me- that i don't need to betray myself in order to survive in the creative industry,putting money before art.

i am happy.

copy cat

P2
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

rand and i walked under the bridge next to roxy square, saw the penguin and laughed out loud after saying that there might be a human head in it. turned out that this has been a really bad case of vandalism. someone must have unrooted the penguin outside standard chartered bank from acrossed the bridge and lugged it all the way across. we stopped for photos. this thing has got a concrete base!!! guess, the vandals must have had a good laugh doing it.

copied amelie poulin

Oompaloompa!

shark
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

i froze for a moment. it was my first encounter with a shark. to many more encounters! maldives was great! one more week to dive trip...

i will be back

8 days tokyo, a few hours in singapore and a 7 hours flight after, i finally got to the maldives. tired and in need of sleep, i embarked on a new assignment fresh out of my holiday in tokyo. its like a roller coaster ride from then on. the trips made over the past 4 days probably earns me enough mileage to fly free back here again if the miles program covers travelling by sea in the maldives. so here i am 4 days after reaching here. tired but happy to know its the final day before i fly home to be reunited with my sick kitty. miss her. the saga of the photo boy and video girl continues too! its been a good time spend away from each other. that way, i can tell who and what is really tresured. a day off is all i get and all i need to recharge before i head back to the crazy world of photography again. its been crazy, nonetheless, a hell of a ride!

ps: maldives, i will be back.

high tech low tact

homeless
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

day 6. akihabara was super high tech. great!

keio ticketing officer was very low tact when dealing with 2 non japanese speaking tourist trying to get bus tickets to go to mount fuji. not great at all!

day out with best pals. superb!

day 5

raw horse meat
Originally uploaded by elisabeth montgomery.

its been a shop-walk-eat routine these past few days. ernie's been wanting to go to mount fuji and so he and i might try to catch a bus up that mountain to station 5 and hike the remainding way tonight. the prize of the trip- the sunrise view of the city from the summit. of course there is no gurantee that we can even make it near that place. its worth a try at least. at least after all this exotic food we have been eating.