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Unexpected present
26/07/08 00:20
IT’s been days since my birthday passed, and it’s a pleasant surprise that I’m still getting a birthday present!
Adding to the latest collection, the newly unwrapped beauty - master’s guide. Hope it’d spark some creative juices
Thinking back, I guess I’m easily contented. A simple gesture like this makes my day better, and though today I couldn’t perform to a standard I would have wanted, I really felt guilty about it. Of course, sometimes being an assistant means you forego chances to shoot, which is totally fine - especially under tricky conditions. Murphy’s law set in today, and everything a photography hates came true - bad lights, glass ceilings (how can you even bounce?!), flash deciding to act up on you - and the list goes on. If I’m the one who’s doing the shooting, I think I would have panicked - my equipment really let me down badly.
Thank god that today I’m still the assistant, ha.
It was a really good experience of course, for you learn more under stress, quoting my other boss. The ability to think on the feet to churn out more variety to deliver helps if you gain more experience, especially when the normal table shots are negligible. It helps that the bride today was sporting, and goaded the groom into dancing, and eventually guests chipped in to enjoy the night away.
I must say I enjoyed this wedding even though it could have been worse. At least I saw what I liked - the couple really enjoying themselves. Most of the time, banquets were but a waste of time, an act to satisfy friends and relatives. It doesn’t help where anyone start to lose their temper or patience. What went through today was really the joy of 2 person getting together, and not a rehearsed act where people are going through the motion.
It makes taking photos an enjoyable experience
Thinking back on being contented, I guess I can’t help but reflect on what cheers me up - I guess it’s the feeling of acknowledgement from another person. I only helped my photography boss for 4-5 times and he offered to pay me a higher pay for helping out with assisting with photoshoots, which was really different comparing among the different jobs I had. And the fact that he bought me a present totally surprised me. Of course, different people have different perspectives on the motion of “gifting”, ha.
Oh well, shall not think back for now. Volunteering later, sleeping soon, tas!
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albert . melissa
10/07/08 20:08
THEY always say fate
comes at the strangest of moments. I guess sometimes it really does
Albert and Melissa didn’t really hit off 10 years ago. I can still remember that there was once Melissa had a problem during one of the orientation game (pardon me, I might be wrong!), and Albert pops up to solve her problem, like Prince Charming saving a damsel in distress. After the ups and downs throughout the long path of courtship, they finally decided to settle down, happily ever after.
Pardon the fairytale mood, but yah, do enjoy the slideshow!
*click to view. do wait a while to load
Albert and Melissa didn’t really hit off 10 years ago. I can still remember that there was once Melissa had a problem during one of the orientation game (pardon me, I might be wrong!), and Albert pops up to solve her problem, like Prince Charming saving a damsel in distress. After the ups and downs throughout the long path of courtship, they finally decided to settle down, happily ever after.
Pardon the fairytale mood, but yah, do enjoy the slideshow!
*click to view. do wait a while to load
Flowers and a little tissue
23/06/08 13:57
WHEN the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
It can be really tough on a couple - tears and stress, lack of rest - for the wedding. Well, just grit your teeth and finish what you’ve planned meticulously for the last couple of months or even years. After all, it’s just the beginning - there’s happily ever after waiting ahead
Mingwei and Huixin
20/06/08 13:25
GUESS weddings can be
tiring for all parties - be it the couple or the family. What’s
important is that you have your loved ones beside you supporting
you when it matters
Some pictures to share:
The sisters preparing the trials
The bride and the groom
Crushing the balloon
Counting the red packets
Eating the wasabi cane
Tying the hair pin
Walking to new home
Walking down the aisle
Consoling the tearing bride
Singing to the bride
Some pictures to share:
The sisters preparing the trials
The bride and the groom
Crushing the balloon
Counting the red packets
Eating the wasabi cane
Tying the hair pin
Walking to new home
Walking down the aisle
Consoling the tearing bride
Singing to the bride
Customs - or are they?
16/06/08 16:48
IT has been taken for
granted that the culture of humuliating a groom during a wedding is
a must. Having witnessing a few, and reading through some comments,
I can’t help but wonder: is it really a custom for the groom to be
put through those?
From what I can remember, the custom should be the mei-po going to the bride’s home and take her to the groom’s home, before which she had to carry the bride with her hands, kick the gates 3 times, and then into the home to kowtow to heaven-earth, parents and to one another.
When/where does the humiliation start off from?
While going through tabulations and trials to test your undying love for the woman of your life, must it be at the expense of an exhausted groom, all sweaty and tired from the weather? Must it eventually lead to horrible concoctions of wasabi+chilli+ any other thing you can think of which might result in a serious case of diarrhoea?
Must it even be the groom wearing brassieres and parading like he’s a mad guy?
While punishments can be meted, isn’t there other ways to mete out reasonable punishments? After all, the party of sisters are not the one that’s going to marry the groom. Enjoying at the expense of the poor groom?
More often than not, the sisters do not think on behalf of the groom and bride, and really think they’re running the show. It’s almost to the extend of a frag hazing (a form of initiation to university or organization where you’re humiliated or beaten up), which is banned in many countries.
If you’re the bride to be, doesn’t it hurt to see your hubby all sweaty, exhausted and tortured by consuming concoctions which you never dare to try?
It was interesting to see some comments in the forum:
After the brothers and groom whip out their platinum cards, the girls immediately open the gates.
A huge red packet was all that was needed to escape the horrible tests
Does it mean with money, the sisters can be bought, and any humiliation can be avoided?
I beg to differ of course.
Attaching a post by from a photog’s blog whom I felt touched by the woman he love:
Alyce and I are busy editing our client's works today while we stumbled upon a poor groom that was 'tortured' during the gate crashing session with extremely spicy chili chicken wings and other stuff they were forced to eat. She commented dear, If we have a gate crushing session during our wedding, I would make you eat bird nest, abalone rather than all the horrible stuff. I want you to remember how good I treated you so that you will take care of me forever!
Wow! Glad I marry the right woman!
Love you sweetie!
I guess this don’t happen frequent, do they?
From what I can remember, the custom should be the mei-po going to the bride’s home and take her to the groom’s home, before which she had to carry the bride with her hands, kick the gates 3 times, and then into the home to kowtow to heaven-earth, parents and to one another.
When/where does the humiliation start off from?
While going through tabulations and trials to test your undying love for the woman of your life, must it be at the expense of an exhausted groom, all sweaty and tired from the weather? Must it eventually lead to horrible concoctions of wasabi+chilli+ any other thing you can think of which might result in a serious case of diarrhoea?
Must it even be the groom wearing brassieres and parading like he’s a mad guy?
While punishments can be meted, isn’t there other ways to mete out reasonable punishments? After all, the party of sisters are not the one that’s going to marry the groom. Enjoying at the expense of the poor groom?
More often than not, the sisters do not think on behalf of the groom and bride, and really think they’re running the show. It’s almost to the extend of a frag hazing (a form of initiation to university or organization where you’re humiliated or beaten up), which is banned in many countries.
If you’re the bride to be, doesn’t it hurt to see your hubby all sweaty, exhausted and tortured by consuming concoctions which you never dare to try?
It was interesting to see some comments in the forum:
After the brothers and groom whip out their platinum cards, the girls immediately open the gates.
A huge red packet was all that was needed to escape the horrible tests
Does it mean with money, the sisters can be bought, and any humiliation can be avoided?
I beg to differ of course.
Attaching a post by from a photog’s blog whom I felt touched by the woman he love:
Alyce and I are busy editing our client's works today while we stumbled upon a poor groom that was 'tortured' during the gate crashing session with extremely spicy chili chicken wings and other stuff they were forced to eat. She commented dear, If we have a gate crushing session during our wedding, I would make you eat bird nest, abalone rather than all the horrible stuff. I want you to remember how good I treated you so that you will take care of me forever!
Wow! Glad I marry the right woman!
Love you sweetie!
I guess this don’t happen frequent, do they?
Adrian and Shing Hsiu
05/06/08 00:26
My first...
29/05/08 20:15
WEDDING.
Period.
Duh. Ha. Not me lah. I was helping out with 2 professionals who shot at a private function room.
It was everything they show on TV. And more, of course.
The anxiousness of the bride who couldn't sleep the night before, the groom who half panicked that the ring bearers might not be able to find the place, the very cute flower kids who bore the bouquets and walked in front of the brides, the tears from the parents, the laughters and emotions of everyone...
I could go on and on, but I guess a picture speaks a thousand words. Not mine, but from the professionals that day.
Shot by Amos from Reflections, posted at his site
Duh. Ha. Not me lah. I was helping out with 2 professionals who shot at a private function room.
It was everything they show on TV. And more, of course.
The anxiousness of the bride who couldn't sleep the night before, the groom who half panicked that the ring bearers might not be able to find the place, the very cute flower kids who bore the bouquets and walked in front of the brides, the tears from the parents, the laughters and emotions of everyone...
I could go on and on, but I guess a picture speaks a thousand words. Not mine, but from the professionals that day.
Shot by Amos from Reflections, posted at his site