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1 April 2008 [282 hits] By Rahnuma Ahmed, Bangladesh, First published in New Age on 1st April 2008
"Thirtyfive years later"
“Thirtyfive years? You will be meeting her after thirtyfive years?”
No contact in between?
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7 November 2007 [349 hits]Crude Oil is trading at almost $100 a barrel.
Gold is trading at $832...... will it get to $1000 an oz?
Daily, on a suffocating, suffering planet, there is a resurgence in the call to protect o ...
24 May 2007 [413 hits]Here, coffeeshops are very different from Starbucks or Gloria's outfits.... its extremely local .... we call these establishments 'Kopi Tiam' (literally translated as Coffee Shop)
Local residents b ...
8 May 2007 [391 hits]I feel guilty.... I called a friend and former client, Al, yesterday after more than a year out of touch. He reminded me "I dont see alot of updates or new images on your website except for Vietnam.. ...
29 April 2007 [447 hits]My 45th birthday passed a week ago. This being the 6th year now, I can now confirm that birthdays when you're in your 40s are no fun. The mind still wants to run but these old bones are getting crea ...
9 Febuary 2007 [447 hits]This story started out in Matamoros, Mexico, crossed the oceans to Singapore and ended here in Hanoi.....all in 10 days.
Tradusir's a english-spanish translator and was on a job with a client from ...
5 January 2007 [463 hits]Coming home the other day, Genna runs up to me and gives me a big hug whispering into my ears ' You're back Daddy! I missed you.' The love a daughter gives to her father is unconditional and sweet. ...
2 April 2006 [602 hits] I've been in a real depressed state since Thursday, mourning the loss of a close friend of 34 years who met an extremely premature and tragic end outside of Bangkok.
Jimmy and myself with an asso ...
5 Feb 2006 [602 hits]The first annivesary of the Asian Tsunami passed by 26 Dec 2005 with the usual reflections on how the situation has progressed in the year following the disaster. Many affected areas are still in rui ...
8 Nov 2005 [650 hits]I'm like a person who've just gotten out of a coma today.
From Shakesphere's Othello....
"Who steals my purse steals trash;
'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine,
'tis his, and has been slave ...
18 Sep 2005 [623 hits]9 months away.........I am now just awakening to new light........ ...
31 December 2004 [757 hits]My daughter Genna usually sleeps apart from me. This week I've been the one snuggling up to her in the evenings, feeling her soft fragrant hair against my face, warm soft little body curled up agains ...
15 December 2004 [761 hits]Its late 2004 and December normally spells "Vacation Time!" for me and the family.
However, with a huge online platform project due to be launched mid Jan 2005, December is going to be a long trudg ...
30 October 2004 [730 hits]I'd been a closet addict of Fear Factor since the beginning. Basically, its a TV program where participants are put through a series of challenges tthat are supposed to bring them to the limits of th ...
15 October 2004 [886 hits]Friday night and I'm logging in from the Novotel Internet Bar in Medan, North Sumatra. Today's (15 October) the first official day of the month long fasting Puasa season for Muslims in Indonesia and ...
7 Oct 2004 [811 hits]I will be back in Indonesia next week covering Medan, Padang and Jakarta and this time I'll be much wiser .......
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Went to Utterly Art at South Bridge Rd today to attend the opening of Lance ...
22 September 2004 [979 hits]A friend of mine from Offstone directed me to this article on Sebastiao Salgado which speaks of the great Magnum photographer's move from socio-human photography to apparently nature photography. Mor ...
1 September 2004 [757 hits]I injured my shooting finger........ Yesterday I went for a traditional Thai massage hoping that it would take care of a sore lower back and a disjointed shoulder.
The masseau, a strapping woman ...
18 Aug 2004 [810 hits]I've not entered any comments for almost 6 weeks now. Work and travelling has completely exhausted me during that time.
Many times, I had felt the urge to just post something to keep the diary goi ...
29 June 2004 [1529 hits]John Clang from Singapore and currently one of New York City's hottest fashion photographers is holding an exhibition of his personal non-commercial works at home in the Esplanade. Its very different ...
14 June 2004 [811 hits]My computer crashed and I fumbled in its recovery thus rendering myself without a Net connection at home for a week now..... I'm still without a connection at home and registering this entry over lunc ...
7 June 2004 [1058 hits]I have been shooting almost exclusively digital for the last 3 months. About 5000+ exposures later, I have come to the following personal conclusions about myself:
1. I cant stop shooting as lon ...
26 May 2004 [1008 hits]Apologies for being absent from the diary for more than a month.
Travelling to Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and back to Indonesia and Thailand has been exhausting.
We executed a world first a f ...
19 April 2004 [1016 hits]I'm turning 42 in less than 24 hours time. I cant believe that my 20s and 30s have passed by me in literaly the blink of an eye. At 42, I cant say that I feel any differently than when I was 18..... ...
29 March 2004 [1234 hits]Today, a client did the unthinkable and handed me THE digital camera.....a Canon D1s. I've got it sitting on my floor at home. It came with a 550EX flash unit, a 28-70 L and a 70-200 IS L white litt ...
13 March 2004 [875 hits]After an email from Dr Richard Cook from Chicago, I got my ass busy and have just put up my Sri Lanka gallery. Mostly images of city life in the capital city Colombo. The page's loading up real slow ...
21 Feb 2004 [1051 hits]I'd been given a last minute assignment to speak at a 2 day seminar in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Understand that the Governer of the Central Bank will be present. Unfortunately I wont be speaking about m ...
12 Feb 2004 [1761 hits]An interesting ongoing thread in clubsnap.org on what constitutes salon photography...... exerpt from
Tan Eng Loy, ARPS
Quote ".....Let me just say that salon photography does not equate to:
1 ...
27 Jan 2004 [854 hits]Its been raining non-stop for almost 7 days and gloom is in the air. Do Scandinavians, Norwegians and polar bears feel depressed and 'slow' like I've been this week? I'd be suicidal if this carries ...
31 Dec 2003 - 1 Jan 2004 [992 hits]Just like that......with a beer in hand and the flick of an eye...its 2004.
So what about 2003? It was a mixed bag of goodies and disappointments (I'll just call them opportunities and lessons to ...
19 Dec 03 [1074 hits]Arriving back in Singapore after 2 weeks away in Hong Kong, China, Vietnam and Thailand, I noticed little things about my country that I'd seldom noticed and often taken for granted.
1. the humid ...
3 Dec 2003 [1025 hits]Logging in from Pingxiang, Guanxi Autonomous Region in China. For a little town on the border of the Chinese-Vietnamese border the connection has been pretty decent. I got through 387 emails accumul ...
14 November 2003 [887 hits]I can literally feelt the photography world shifting directions over course of a year...... that digital wave continues to pick up speed and momentum and we are seeing the growth of a breed of photogr ...
1 Nov 2003 [973 hits]I survived Hong Kong..... barely.
Leaving my film cameras at home, I started getting the shakes when I board the Cathay Pacific flight. Did something incredibly stupid too at the boarding gate.... ...
16 Oct 2003 [1156 hits]I just havent been in the mood to write for the last 3 weeks.
My brother in law, Lit, died of liver cancer late September. He was 42 and a month short of his 43rd birthday. He had fought the illn ...
19 Sep 03 [1168 hits]When I woke up last Sunday morning, I instinctively stepped out of the house and started driving out 20 miles to do an early morning shoot at the Sungei Buloh Wetlands Nature Reserve.
After the fi ...
1 September 2003 [950 hits]On short notice, I spent 5 days in Bangkok from 27-31 Aug.
Part of the trip, I spent with a few Indonesian clients who had just finished a conference in Phuket and were in Bangkok for a few days me ...
24 Aug 2003 [874 hits]I arrived in Jakarta on 18th August with trepadition. Indonesia had just celebrated its Independence Day and it was barely 2 weeks since the bombing of the JW Marriot Hotel.
The streets of Jakar ...
9 Aug 2003 [1144 hits]National Day....I was born 3 years before Independence, when Singapore was still a colony of England. Each National Day brings back different memories.
In the 60s, all I remembered was staying ind ...
21 July 2003 [1031 hits]Quote >>> Who am I? Where do I belong? Who determines my future? Society has no answer to these restless questions. Our sense of identity, kinship and community, are at worst shattered by the experien ...
4 July 2003 [1393 hits]First of all, I extend sincere apologies for not posting anything new or of substance since mid June. I've been running around like a madman getting the July exhibition together.
Its interestin ...
17 June 2003 [1040 hits]Doing this last Thailand trip was easier said than done. Being from Singapore where the longest car ride possible from one end of the island to the other end would last no more than 30 minutes, it wa ...
9 June 2003 [1048 hits]This has been one busy week and a half for photography and myself here in Singapore.
The Singapore Inter-School Photography Seminar was held at Anderson Junior College on a Saturday morning on 31 ...
30 May 2003 [1188 hits]I spent a good part of last week with Dr Shahidul Alam from Drik and shared ideas with this wonderful man.
He was busy going around meeting old friends like Shyam Tekwani and others. I was lucky.. ...
21 May 2003 [1319 hits]The One Room Flats photo exhibition closed its doors on 16th May. During its time to the public eye at the History Museum, I visited the exhibits 3 times, each time with different feelings.
The fi ...
14 May 2003 [1033 hits]After a week in Phnom Penh, I returned to Singapore with a newfound respect and love for water and ice, respectively.
It was HOT in Cambodia with temperatures pushing 38 degrees C around lunch time ...
3 May 2003 [1001 hits]The photographers assigned to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (Bryan Van Der Beek, Lance Lee and Ming) have begun their coverage in earnest on Tuesday, after more than a week?s delay.
New cases of infect ...
21 April 2003 [1229 hits]A creaking donkey walks into the Digital World.....hee haw.....On impulse, I bought me a 2nd hand Canon G3 digital camera last week.
At almost 50% off retail, I couldn?t say no. My first digita ...
11 April 2003 [931 hits]Its mid-April and SARS has not loosened it grip of fear and paranoia
amongst people here in Singapore.
An interesting feature in last Sunday?s issue of Sunday Times took issue
with how poorly hea ...
1 April 2003 [1084 hits]The conflict in Iraq continues to play itself out without an end in sight. I dont know who is right or wrong anymore. All I know is that we can do with lots of peace and no terrorism in this world.
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21 March 2003 [1091 hits]Literally avoiding the city of Guanzhou like a plague, my China trip ends on its 8th day in Shanghai.
A deadly flu-like virus there had infected hundreds and killed many.
This trip was a huge ey ...
10 March 2003 [1676 hits]I'm headed out to China from 13 March through the 24th.
The itenary swings me through Beijing, Dalian, Guanzhou and Shanghai.... literally from North to South.
The last time I was in China w ...
28 Feb 2003 [1232 hits]During lunchtime on Tuesday, I popped over to the Singapore History Museum's new premises at Riverwalk. Occupying the 3rd and 4th floors of the building, its going to be the Museum's temporary abode ...
20 Feb 2003 [1118 hits]Valentine's Day went by romantically for me. I sent my first love to the spa. Little Miss Biogon G 28/2.8 should be back in my arms from Cam-X this weekend all oiled up, cleaned and tightened.
Le ...
10 Feb 2003 [1270 hits]In Singapore, there's a unique food dish served during the 15 days of the Lunar New Year. Served almost everywhere it sells for as little as $8 to $188 Yu Sheng provides one with an interesting insig ...
4 Feb 2003 [1196 hits]I'm struggling at the keyboard. The feasting over the last 3 days has overwhelmed my stomach. Oink oink! I really feel like a pig!
Its been raining since 31st Jan and I like it. The weather's ...
22/23 Jan 2003 [1065 hits]22 Jan 03
I thought I'd start this to keep the website alive with some of my personal thoughts and feelings on certain issues......photography and non photography related.
23 Jan 03
Dear Diary,
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