A home for us - Andy & Serena Wedding Day in Tawau

Had some great fun shooting Andy & Serena's wedding day in Tawau. Just from the looks from those photos you can sort of feel how fun it is LOL, picture tells a thousand words. But one of the unfortunate thing for me was before the wedding day I found myself having dengue fever. I was almost going to call off this wedding assignment and fly some other person over to cover their wedding day, however the moment I heard Serena was quite sad to hear about my news and told me that she do not have any photographers to cover her wedding day, I decided to take my life at risk to fly over to this small little town of Sabah. Had my continual blood test over in some clinics there and surprisingly I found not many people aware about the danger of dengue fever there. Actually I had a long thought why am I putting myself in a big risk instead of admitting to hospital in KL. The price that I going to pay for the extra ticket is minimal compared to my life. However, I did not tell Serena about this but the sad thing I saw in the wedding was she did have someone to cover her wedding for her, in the groom side and he even made the slideshow for the dinner because I am incapable due to the fever. My hands and body were all red in the afternoon, lol a little shy that day. :p

Just some advice for future brides, it is indeed very important to hire 2 photographers for your wedding day, in case one fail, another one can take over in case of emergency. Even this was my first ever incident that require me to turn down the assignment (but I didn't), in certain times, things happened and we have to accept it, never put anyone's life at risk.

A night with Jazz and Laughters - Kok Hui & Cheryl Wedding Dinner 2

Finally its the 3rd day of their wedding day, I can't imagine myself doing such a big and tiring ceremony myself LOL. As for me, I just wish to have a picnic ceremony with really close ceremony. It was quite fun, glad to see many familiar faces I met while I was in the States during studies. And nice to see you again Ramesh. I used to sell bibles and education books to help me through school while I was Studying in the states, so every summer those are the gangs, we called them bookmans. LOL. 

A night with Jazz and Laughters - Kok Hui & Cheryl Wedding Dinner 1

Few days after Kok Hui and Cheryl morning gate crash and now its their wedding dinner, they actually splited the dinner into 2 different parts, one for the groom side and one for the bride side. I can imagine how hard it is to RSVP so many people lol. However, thanks to Kok Hui's charisma he managed to get his buddies to accompany him all the way. Kok Hui love to sing and so as Cheryl's family too lol. Its a day felt like back to the 80s and every one love to hang around, listen to some jazz and able to hear many laughters around.

Day like tomatoes and french fries - Kok Hui & Cheryl Wedding Day

It was quite a funny gate crashing moment, this morning Kok Hui brought over a bunch of his old friends from the states, some of them are in fact my old friends during college. And over here you can also see Cliff Choong, one of our photographer here. Cliff, like usual, love to bring his guitar along in any occasions. And the Hawaii theme had made lots of people laughed lol. It was like going to a beach. Though we all were not young already but everyone are still quite alive and kicking, enjoying every step to receive Cheryl, and because of the funny theme, everyone has the courage to be crazy for a while. 

When we are together - Melissa Friendship Portrait

One day Lai Peng called me and would like to book me for a friendship portrait session, this portrait was a memory of the long friendship together and also to celebrate the birthday of their best buddy Melissa. We spent a few hours having picnic in Titiwangsa, played some kites and shoot some funny pictures lol. It was quite an interesting portrait, finally I can create something outside of my normal wedding assignments. I guess the theme fits them well, love the shot beside the tree, which reminds me of a recent popular taiwanese movie. But surprisingly Melissa called me one day and asked what was my theme behind the colors of these pictures, then I told her that it is a reflection of something light yet heavy, meaningful and joyful. Something unique that I have used.

Moment in the Sky - Yon Hon & Shiryee Wedding Reception

In this windy morning Yon Hon and Shiryee had their wedding reception on top of the sky lounge in Sentul. The ceremony was a simple and nice one but filled with love and sweetness. All from the master mind of Yon Hon. Known this couple a while ago while covering their pre-wedding session in Putrajaya, the concept that this couple had for their wedding is quite unique. The march in was simple, table setup were quite basic, the crowd were all standing, nothing much, but the ambient and the meaning that this couple brought forward was quite awesome. Thanks to both of you, wish you all the best after moving in Hong Kong. :)

New Adventure - Sean & Cindy Wedding Day

Right after celebrated new year and its nice to start day one covering Sean and Cindy's wedding day. Shot their love portrait a while ago so they are no strangers at all. But because Cindy's house is too big, we got Kevin Tan over to assist me for the day. It was a great morning, everything happened like a fairy tale theme. During the gate crash they even had a singing session with the piano in their house in order to receive the bride. Before dinner there was a blessing ceremony in the hotel. And during their march in, they got all the kids marching in with them with their baby motorized cars, not sure how to name that transport LOL. And later on there was a group of kids dancing ballet with them. Cindy is a unique one, she doesn't want fancy songs and she had selected a list of elegant classic songs for her wedding dinner. Thats why I felt that it was like a fairy tale. 

I still remember during Sean and Cindy's speech. She gave a toast for being an aunty and it was quite unique indeed hehe. And her dad was right, he mentioned that it is tough to raise Cindy as she has a lot of her own ideas in her mind, wanted everything perfect and according to her own way. It is quite ok, in life some people gone through their life process in a very smooth manner and of course we always striving to maintain the smoothness of it and had everything well planned. Cindy had me recalled of my younger days too, but after a part of my life that got me changed my perception, where I came to a point to believe that not everything supposed to belong to me, and from that point of time, I began to live a different perception. It just need a stage in life to change that.

Happy New Year!

Finally I have survived the busiest year ever in my life, and with this new year coming ahead, I have a new vision! There are indeed many visions in my mind but it all comes back to contribution. In order to provide the best, I have decided to limit my slots to 80 this year. This is still a tentative number but what I want is to have more time for myself in order to brew my life for many years to come. I noticed that through experience, it is not photography that will kill our passion, it's not how busy we work, it all comes back to the people we meet. I wish the years to come I am able to meet more nice couples, crazy couples, couple who wanted to be crazy like me, having fun with me, and so that I can provide them many unique shots and great services lol. Do not panic, I am sure you all are very nice people indeed already, but I do wish that couple will not see wedding photograph like a corporate encounter, or treat me like a business vendor lol, all I want is simple to make new friends hehe that's why I quite my corporate life. Hoho.... For all of you who are ready to engage me, I can be sure that you will be treated like my bestest best friend haha... Happy new year!

Faith and Eternity - Ivan & Wendy Church Wedding in Melaka

Ivan and Wendy are wonderful peranakan, when I spoke with them Wendy said that she admire my works and began to chat with me once in a while. And finally its the wedding day, just love the christmas decorations which is still in the church after the christmas ceremony, made me feel like New York lol. Love capturing this very old church in Melaka, St Peters Church, the oldest church in Melaka. One of the funny incident we had was how the priest pronounces Wendy's name. The priest pronounced Wendy as "windy", so everyone talking about it LOL. Hope to be shooting here again very soon. Thanks for all your support Ivan and Wendy. Had a lovely tea ceremony session in Ivan's house too, the family is so friendly and down to earth.

That marks my last assignment in 2011, finishing a total of 110 assignments. That was quite an amazing achievement for me. 

A Day to Remember - Swee Wah & Wai Jinn Wedding Day

Done Swee Wah & Wai Jinn's pre-wedding a while ago, and its the day to tie the knot. Wai Jinn falls in the same gang with Lai Peng who is my previous couple as well. This wedding day was filled with emotions as well with lots of hugs and blessings. A lot of good essence being sealed here. We went through a few discussions and at first Wai Jinn did not know where to held her garden wedding, she wanted a garden wedding so gave her a few recommendations and they finally decided to go with Bangi Equatorial. Every family is different and the family of Wai Jinn I saw was filled with love and gentleness. Both of her mom and dad was very open minded person, they just able to provide the most emotional support for Wai Jinn, I guess that makes Wai Jinn with the most gentle and emotional character. Together with Swee Wah, who had been dating with together for almost a 10 years, I forgotten the number but its long. I guess the moment that they share their vows, the word in their mind is simply the word "Finally...".