http://www.momsaysimrunningaway.com A World Photography Tour Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:38:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Officially Beginning:  So in about 4 hours,9 members of my family arrive here in Singapore (right now they are in the midst of their 20th travel hour from California!), Felicia and I are rather excited and the wedding events, family dinners, tourism and all the other associated craziness is about ... http://www.momsaysimrunningaway.com/blog/its-here.html Small Steps: The Perfect Assistant Strong Back Witty Banter Valid Passport Above is exactly what I wrote on the back of the business card today when I saw National Geographic Photographer, Steve McCurry for the second time, this time at an event for the Straits Times journalist staff that my dear, soon-to-be-wife, snuck me ... http://www.momsaysimrunningaway.com/blog/go-boldly.html Scariness and Glory: The last two days have been insanely busy, and with only 12 days to go before the wedding we don't really foresee any changes in our hectic schedule. First came Saturday, our "Gift Day" which started off like Christmas if you were in love with fruits, veggies, jewelry and ... http://www.momsaysimrunningaway.com/blog/100-sons.html A Really Cool Bike: So between massive amounts of wedding planning and crafting from my lonely tower which Felicia keeps me locked in, I was able to make a short trip into town to enter two of my photos into "The Unguarded Moment" photo contest that is running this week in ... http://www.momsaysimrunningaway.com/blog/planning-contesting.html Yes, I am "Researching": Felicia and I set out last night on research for our post-wedding night shindig.  I love it when "research" involves a beautiful woman, drinks and some fun music. http://www.momsaysimrunningaway.com/blog/research.html A whole week!: I can't believe a whole week passed without me blogging, we've been so busy with all sorts of wedding tasks and activities that it just flew by. I did manage to meet up with blog fan/fellow travel photo-blogger, T-roy. We ate lunch, talked cameras, and did an exceptional amount ... http://www.momsaysimrunningaway.com/blog/busy-week.html Singapore Likes To Build: Felicia headed off for the evening on some sort of lady-ish wedding-shower-thingy with a few friends and left me to fend for myself.  Essentially I just took a nice long evening wander of some of the Singapore tourist attractions and took lots of long exposures.  Quite fun. Oh, ... http://www.momsaysimrunningaway.com/blog/build-build-build.html 10 Years: Felicia's mother was heading out to see her mothers ashes today in a temple across town and invited Felicia, Arthur and I to come along, today was the 10 year anniversary of her death.   Just like we head out to peoples graves on special days and lay flowers on ... http://www.momsaysimrunningaway.com/blog/felicias-other-grandma.html Busy, Busy: Felicia and I are in semi-frantic, must-accomplish wedding mode right now.  There is amazing amounts of things to think about that I never would have thought about.  Anyways the days are flying by too quickly, only a month and some odd days until the big day! If you are interested ... http://www.momsaysimrunningaway.com/blog/wedding-wedding-wedding.html Accck!!! I'm 30!: So today is my birthday... and I am 30... Anyways, since I missed Felicia's birthday a couple of weeks ago in while I was in California, we decided to have a combined birthday fest at the uber-fancy Shangri-La Hotel buffet here in Singapore.  Unfortunately, since it was midweek we ... http://www.momsaysimrunningaway.com/blog/little-birthday-piggies.html