Another month all but gone

Well The latest I have from Mum is that she is expecting to be released from hospital today or the next few days. Her spirits are up and she is doing well. The Doctor says that pathology results to ensure the cancer did not spread will take a little while more to determine. She has an appointment again with him in 10 days time. Kayleena flew home yesterday and it was good to have her here with us, good to get to know her again without her 5 kids (they are great kids), it was just good to see her unwind without the worry and follow up she makes for her kids.

On her last night here I got in touch with mutual friends that Kayleena and I grew up with, and we went out to Dinner with them and it was great. We went out to dinner with one, Robyn Loau and her sister Carol. Robyn was once in a teen girl band called "Girlfriend" and they were quite big in their day and in my opinion, though it may well be bias, Robyn was the major talent of the group. She co-wrote some of their biggest hits and was an integral part of their success. She is still performing, and is putting an album together currently. She has a beautiful daughter called Indigo. I met Robyn's partner formally as he is a musical maestro having been the musical director for many of Australia's stars, I saw him play previously when I went to see Robyn live in concert and never actually met him.

All over I had fun, I got to learn a few more things about them, myself and indeed about how in the click of a finger it seemed that the years had melted away and we were "back" where we once forged common ground. Time is an interesting phenomena. It really is relative to whatever you are doing. It does fly when you are having fun, and does drag when you are not.

Before going to meet with Carol and Robyn, I created up a photo collage of Robyn from her live performance I photographed previously and I was very proud of it. I made it up for her, for Kayleena and I. I purchased a silver paint pen so she could sign in the blank section on the front. I am posting the non-autographed picture below and will include a You Tube video on Robyn's latest film clip called She Devil. I will provide the link for my favourite Girlfriend song called "Without You" as I could not embed it here, the person who created it closed the embed feature off. Robyn sung the lead vocals and co-wrote the song also.



copy and paste this link into your browser to see the Girlfriend song with Robyn singing "WIthout You".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0vJOsrfffA


Robyn, Carol and Kayleena

It is a short one today but I just wanted to let you all know Mum's progress and let you know that I have had a relatively good weekend. I also got to photograph another Filipino celebrity singer called Ivy Violan. She is an interesting lady. Great voice and in the middle of the performance whilst there was a blackout on the power she continued on unaccompanied and went amongst, and engaged, the audience as though it was all part of the performance. That took experience, determination and a real love for what she does. The best and most gifted female Filipino singer I had the pleasure to photograph and meet was Regine Velasquez. She is a bit snobbish, or at least on the two occasions I have met her she at least seemed to be, but what a wonderful voice, and the fact that she is easy on the eye doesn't hurt either!

This You Tube clip is of Regine with Brian McKnight. After that is a picture collage I did that she autographed and requested a copy of.



Have a good week everyone.

Comments

Ruby Rideout said…
Wow. Your collages are unbelievable! She's going to love these. I watched the video on youtube. Her voice is beautiful!
Craig Peihopa said…
Thank you Ruby. Your comments are sincerely appreciated, and yes Robyn's and Regine's voices are beautiful.

Thanks

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