Singapore/Malaysia here we come!!

Okay so I'm not leaving just yet but come the 4th of September Ben and I will be on a plane bound for Singapore *squeals*. My friend Lowie told me that the Dalai Lama said you should go one place a year, that you've never gone to before, so we're following said advice!  It's going to be a super mini holiday just over a week, half of it spent in Singapore and then we'll cross over and spend the rest in Malaysia. 

 I'm totally ready to fill my belly with tasty treats! 

I'm currently in, intense planning mode (I can't help it, I'm a planner) but I still want to try and fill my blog with fun-ness!

I've almost finishing editing photos from the Brisbane show that I went to the other week, so I'll post them up next week and then I want to start sharing my film photos.   One of my goals for the rest of this year is to start shooting more film. Since Ben and I are light packers *cough* cheapskates, we're just bringing carry on luggage and 90% of that is going to be cameras (and film) no joke! I'm super excited :) On a funny side note, Ben always reminds me that the anticipation/planning is often more exciting than the holiday itself and judging by how excited and giddy I am, I can totally believe that :p

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Bully - Alex Libby

Has anyone seen the documentary Bully? It follows the lives of five US students all victims of bullying. I've got to be honest and say I made it through the first ten minutes of the film and couldn't stop crying. It got to me hard core, I had to go lie down and listen to happy music for a few hours afterwards, just to recover.

The next day I hoped onto google to make sure one of the kids being Bullied, Alex Libby had a happy ending. His story was the one that got to me (to be honest I didn't really get to see the others) but anyway Alex's sweet nature, made me want to reach out and hug him and be his friend. I decided to draw this cutie :)

Awww! Since the movie Alex has moved school and has since stopped being bullied :)

I'd definitely recommend the movie and perhaps one day I'll be able to get through to the ending

The Movie's Trailer 

 and an update on Alex

 

Have you guys seen it and what was your reaction??

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Presents

I have to share some amazing presents I've been given recently, well actually not so recently, but I can finally hold my camera and take proper pictures of them. You may see in the pink bag shot, two feet, I'm finally crutches free! I went to the physio on Tuesday and straight away she told me just to walk. Apparently my crutches and not putting 100% weight on my foot has been a bit of a mental thing.

I have to say, "walking" is still crazy slow, my foot is crazy stiff and every step I take I have to repeat to myself "walk normal" (my walking mantra) heck, it just doesn't feel like a pleasurable thing to walk. The physio actually told me my expectations of driving a week after my cast came off weren't completely unrealistic and apparently I'm just a slow healer. She said its also a little unusual to still have all the swelling I do have. Oh well, I'm on my way to recovery, these poor muscles and nerves have been working over drive! Enough rambling...present time!

Okay for those folks playing along at home, the bottom two artworks are from the lovely Phil, go check him out on Facebook. By the way did you notice the ladybug has her own cast!!! Next is that amazing pink bag from Emaya. She must be a mind reader because she bought the bag for me before I broke my ankle and it's been my broken ankle saviour. The one thing you really miss with a leg in a cast is the ability to carry things and since 99% of my other bags are across the shoulder style, a style that doesn't go to well with crutches, this backpack was perfect...perfectly cute :p. Finally, the very top photo is an amazing shell Lowie bought me back from cairns and next to it an amazing bamboo water bail he made. I love that he wrote "two gay dads" a hilarious sit-com we came up with one day in the car...'had to be there' style.

I'm lucky!

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Update!

1) Mum, just rang me to tell me that skittles the Guinea Pig had babies! Unfortunately one didn't make it, but fingers crossed for the other little survivor. I've never seen a baby Guinea Pig before but Mum said they are totally cute and are born with their eyes open and fur and are much bigger than you would imagine. Looking forward to havinga hold next weekend I'm down there!

2) I miss Ben terribly! I've been emailing him everyday and usually with a photo. Took lots of photos the other day and one made it as my new profile pic, hurrah!

3) Which reminds me, Ben is just over halfway through his first stint, so in under 3 weeks I get to see him, weeee!

4) I have been going back through my old journal that I wrote whilst living in Japan, gee it's funny! Reliving memories, ahhh and most importantly getting some ideas for our trip back there in June, can't wait! On a side note, when googling for my old livejournal blog "feeinjapan" there is another identically named journal on blogger *gasp* I'm sure there can't be room for two fee's in Japan!

So that's my update. Tomorrow is Easter and I'll be working on more of my surprise costume!

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

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