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Long overdue pictures from London when I was there in May and Marcus and I decided to make the best out of the whole dire swine flu situation by enjoying ourselves for a week there! More here.

We went to this fertility festival on the penultimate night of our stay in Edinburgh. Carlton Hill was crowded with thousands of people boozing away, and the sexually charged atmosphere was spurred on by the almost-naked performers painted in red, gyrating around with lots of fire. Great excuse to parade around naked I say, but at temperatures of 2-3degC, hats off to them. I was fully clothed and swathed in layers and layers of warm clothing, and still shivering standing next to them. More pictures here

These were up eons ago, but I’m not sure how many of you click on the “my photos” link on the sidebar. Pictures from a whirlwind trip to Melbourne and the Great Ocean Road in the height of the swine flu hype.

Some pictures I took on a recent trip to Penang in June. For the rest of them, click here.

Taken by Liyana whilst the 4 of us were scrambling on the scree-covered incline to get up to the base of the Old Man of Storr.

Okay I’m being bugged to blog. Here’s some pictures I took on one of my -currently- rare excursions out to eat nice food. Halia at the Botanic Gardens currently has a really good promotion – set lunch for 4 pax at $88+, so Nat, Rous, Em and I went down last Friday for what Em calls our “last long lunch”. I sure hope not, touch wood. I really liked the environment, set admist all the greenery, even though I had to trek through the entire park at noon to get there because I parked at the wrong carpark (was too lazy to check out the place on the map beforehand). Btw, at noon on a scorching hot day at the Botanic gardens, you can only find random ang moh and taiwanese tourists wandering around in packs (and a local girl walking rapidly through because she is late and lost). The other, more oriented locals sensibly keep away.

We were given a choice of an appetizer, main and dessert from their full menu, and had an awesome (and very long) lunch. These were some of the more photogenic dishes we had amongst the 4 of us. The best though, isn’t here because it didn’t look good – the kurobuta charsiew and wonton capellini was really really tasty, even though it looked like normal wantan mee. I savoured every morsel. Tasty pork is the stuff of life. We also enjoyed rou’s coffee ice (I no longer remember the name, not least at 3am when I’m writing this) dessert very much.