Be & Jon's Matrimony ~ 20th December 2008

To cousin Be & hubby Jon, congrats on your wedding & wish you all the best in starting out a new chapter of yourlives as one new family! =)

* P/s i always take forever to update; especially when it involves lots of photos & photo editing work to do ~ so this 5-day delay is my baseline.
As part of the many-many SLR-trotting guests on the actual day, i sincerely i hope i did not get in the way of the pro-photographer, Andy Kho too much... =p

Mr 50D helped to snap some of the family photos too. Thanks yea!

Especially liked this shot ~ oh yea! What a priceless expression on her cutie pie face! =D
* Also thanks to brada roy for lending me your prized 580 EX II Speedlite!
*All snapshots taken with EOS450D + standard 18-55mm kit lens + 580 EX II speedlite

Ho, ho, ho Merry Christmas Everyone!

a X'mas joke for all the bachelors bradas (including me... )

Potrait Shots: Simon's pre-B'day Bash @ Kado ~ 19th Dec

Brada Simon & HC

OKK & Sharon

Ah Bong

the ever-elusive Shirley

Brada Loi

Brada Ang Wie

Jess

the birthday boy could barely contain his excitement unwrapping his kinky pressie from ahem* ahem* =p

the bubble has burst...

"You better watch out

You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Recession is coming to town"






~not exactly the kind of news one would want to usher the new year 2009 with; that's the cold hard truth of the current global economic climate

Outlook for the whole of next year is not looking too good either; meaning the worst is most probably yet to come. It's ironic how i'm actually looking forward potentially drastic changes that it'll bring about; be it good or bad. Perhaps i've gotten too jaded & fed up with all the shitloads of crap i have to put up with in my job. Is my job security at stake? i just couldn't care less. Period. An insensitive, spur of the moment remark? Maybe. Its easy coming from someone has very marginal financial commitment & who's got nobody else's mouth to feed except his own; i know nuts about the pinch of having your back against the wall & having to shoulder the burden of keeping food on the table for the whole family in harsh times like these... Perhaps, i needed to a real commitment to make me 'grow up' & hammer some rational sense into me. Perhaps i really need a push like this to get me on the go.
Now, enough with my mindless rantings... I wish all the best for all of us in weathering through the economic turmoil, hope we all surive it in one piece.

JJ Charity Concert ~ 16th Dec

slow update in progress... ~ stay tuned ~

I bet I’m one of the slowest to update this; 2 nights ago I had the privilege of catching Lin Jun Jie’s mini-concert at Kenyalang Community Hall upfront & close ~ props to International Times & Jimmy Chin for the exclusive media pass!

I’m easy going when it comes to music ~ any genre & language, as long as it’s good music, goes with me. While I’m not an ardent follower of the mandarin music scene, I could always hum up a couple of JJ’s song, although I may not recall the title of the songs accurately (me being a so-called banana Chinese). I find his songs catchy & somewhat contagious (always a popular choice at karaoke’s) & he’s got great soothing vocals to carry the tunes well. Hailing from Singapore, JJ’s has established himself as one of the premier artistes in the Chinese music scene in these recent years. The selection of songs, though not many are mostly from his recent album, Sixology.

This event, being one of my first to cover, I couldn’t help but feel giddy & a little over-excited. Had even brought along the highly coveted 580EXII speedlite arsenal, on loan from my good brada Sexylips; so I could shoot better; which, made an embarrassment out of myself for a good part of the earlier pre-concert moments ~ I had no idea how to get the speedlite to work!! After a bout of panic call & fumbling through the details, only did I got it to light up & sync with my camera just in time for the start of the concert, but not before nearly blinding my poor white-mice subjects with my maiden shots, hehe. =p

The concert kicked off with a few words of speeches from the sponsors & organizers, followed by opening acts comprising of a hip-hop dance routine. The emcees, Deejays with a national Chinese channel did a great job of hyping up the atmosphere gave a good flow to the proceedings of the concert; yup I’m referring to the cute trendy one =)

I have great respect & admiration for live performers with great vocals & showmanship, & I must say JJ did not disappoint. He actually sounded better, live; during the performance, occasionally I found myself grooving to the rhythm & getting absorbed in the performance that I forget to shoot.

Overall, the near-packed concert was awesome, albeit a bit short; the autograph session nearly took quite as long as the concert itself, & I find the venue of the event leaves much to be desired.

Now here are some more shots from the event:

*Yeaps, my photography skills leaves much to be desired too... i need to rely on photo-editing to save my life -_-