Now it is my turn

hello, long time no see.

Right after 5 straight weddings in a Row, now it is my own turn.
Next sat. will be my own wedding. Starting to get wedding gitters now :|

See me in action during a recent wedding shoot.

http://www.shaban.ws/journal/

This is the blog of my couple, the video was shot by their mother.
He's American but from Saudi Arabia, She's from Belarus, they met in Dubai
but got married in Singapore. Such an international couple. :)

Here's to Waleed and Anastasiya, Cheers !!!!!!!

Crazy times are here again.

Almost a month to the day I last posted. That was a pretty normal month, but looks like the crazy times are upon us again. I'll be teaching a basic photography couse at Objectifs (http://www.objectifs.com.sg/) starting the end of this month and NHB has called with a new project that might take 1 and a 1/2 month.

In the meantime I'll need to streamline my workflow further for 36frames (http://www.36frames.com) and RueyLoon (http://www.rueyloon.com) so that both sides of the business can handle the rate of jobs coming in.

In the meantime (again) as well, I need to get my exhibition up. "Thousands and Thousands" is now complete and looking for an exhibition space. I've been through 2-3 spaces but they just didn't work out. I really like to do it as Books Actually, but the space constraint makes it a tough cookie to work within it. Maybe it'll be up in the duration of the "Month of Photography"

In the meantime (again, again), I need to look for a place to stay.

In the Meantime (again, again, again), I need to attend a Marrige Counseling Course.

And at least 5 other project to be completed at the same time.....



Well, here's looking forward to more interesting times :)

My New Dog

Here is Rufus, after deciding to give himself a mudbath.

Seems to be the season to be...

Blunder-ful

Kim and me seems to be in a season of blunders, collectively we lost money, handphone, she ended up being blamed for matters not of her fault and I ended up buying a new apple 23inch cinema display..... errr, by mistake. Here was how it happened. I was working happily one friday afternoon and I decided to shift my powermac and imac one table to the right. Everything went fine until I tried to switch on my powermac, nothing came on, not even the familier blue screen with the apple logo, no chime, NO NOTHING !!! I must have rebooted at least 1/2 a dozen times. After swapping monitors we realised that the monitor was dead, it won't work even on Sam's computer. Now I'm in a fix, what can I do ? wait a few days and get it repaired, wait a few days to get a 2nd hand monitor online, or get a new one within the next 30 mins. I opted for the later. 30 mins later and $1600 poorer I was back with my new spanking 23inch Apple LCD.



Now... at that moment, just for fun we plugged in the old monitor.

CHING !!!!!

It just came back to life, it just did, maybe it was the wiggle of the wire or the knocking around when carrying it to SimLim for diagnosis, whatever it was, it just came back to life.

Now I'm with 2x23inch apple display. :| The most impressive setup I've personally seen I must say. :)
Anyway, the old 23inch has to go, $800 and it is yours.

And here's the first work done on the new monitor, here's my next AD for the magazine.

Cheers and have a good night.

Yummy..... I need to exercise more

When things are down, it takes just a tilt of the head to straighten everything out.

Love you Baby
Love you Rufus

This is one of my fav. pictures from the KL shoot, what was I doing in KL ? shooting cars loh :)

KL is the 2nd leg of the shoot, the first was in Singapore and the 3rd will be in Jakarta. Almost every one will involve shooting cars except the Jakarta leg. I'll be missing out the shoot in Kalimantan as well as they deemed it too dangerous to fly over there now with the bad weather, and they also mentioned something about taking 1 full day of travelling to reach the location... oh well.

Met up with my cousin in KL and I'm seriously considering starting another branch in KL. There are already a few of my wedding industry partners setting up branches in KL, let's see if we can do something great in KL.

KL still holds much of the charm of Malaysia, it is a messier version of Singapore with more chaos prescribed in the recipe. What KL lacks in orderliness is made up for in it's sincerity, it feels like a real place, with real people, with the Malaysian "tidak apa attitude" thrown in at times.

Jakarta is next... going to get my Teh Botol and maybe a pack of U Mild :)