this is one of the photos i took more than a year ago in new york - with mae and carol's granny. when i did the shoot i was planning on putting them up as RM stocks, but now i think there's plenty of them in the series that it's quite a waste trimming them down to 3 or 4, so maybe they'll end up RF after all.
i'm just starting to pick up interest in taking photos again, but meanwhile i have all this photos just gathering dust in my hard drive so now i just plan to unload all of them.
last weekend maggie and saturday invited me for a late lunch at their new flat in fortress hill. you know there's no place i won't go for free food. and there was so much of it - maggie spent the whole morning cooking. the best was the chicken wing marinated in coke zero, and the enokitake salad.
the flat was cute, full of toys and knick knacks (not for a future baby, for them!) ah. to be young and starting out.
something else that's new - this was the first time ever that i saw a religious procession in hong kong. i was climbing up the escalator, at night almost always full of suits on their way back to their posh mid-levels apartment from work, or party goers coming down to hollywood road and soho, when they started ascending with their candles (is that even safe, i mean lit candles on escalators?). as more and more of them appeared, their song, a church hymn, also got louder (the track on the video was added in, the audio originally recorded was of very poor quality).
i used to see a lot of this kind of candle procession growing up in the philippines, so it was a nice surprise to see it here. i hope they don't do this often tho. i remember how fascinating it was first time i saw a bunch of hare krishnas chanting and dancing and doing their drum thing in soho in london, but after seeing them again and again over a couple of months they just looked weird.
