Photo Day

Yesterday was Photo Day, at least for most of the afternoon. :)

Beebee had made an appointment with Serangoon Broadway, a professional photo studio that's pretty well-established over the decades, for all of us to take family shots with the two of us in graduation gowns. So yesterday, we (minus Hubby who was still down with flu and couldn't be there) went off to the studio to have our pictures taken.

The service there was really good -- people attended to us efficiently once we got there and got us all ready for the shots. Beebee and I were fitted into our respective gowns and Papa was loaned a tie and jacket to wear for the shoot. No hassle at all. Then we were ushered to this cosy studio with lots of backdrops and props like tables, books and even teddy bears (it's just a pity Beebee didn't have the FF Bear Hubby and I gave her for her graduation and I didn't have my graduation Cthulhu that Hubby specially customised for me back when I graduated...sigh). Took several shots cos they wanted enough samples for us to choose from. Pretty professional service and attitude. :)

We ended up deciding on a 35" family grad portrait, a 24" picture with only Beebee and me in it and two 8" individual shots of us respectively. Altogether it cost about $1400. Sounds pretty steep to me but apparently, for professional portraits, this is already quite reasonable, plus it's at their promotional rates.

Sigh. Only regret that Hubby wasn't there with us... he wanted to be there too, but stupid flu bug wouldn't let him recover in time. Even Mummy repeatedly sighed that he should have been in the picture. :) But never mind, like I told him and Beebee, when Beebee gets married in future (I got a "wait long long" look from her though :p), we can all take a proper full family portrait together. This one counts as graduation portrait anyway. Hee.

PS. Now I'm down with a bit of flu too. Throat's not good and am coughing a little. Starting to get runny nose too. Argh! This flu bug going around has really upset many of my plans! >;(