Song...

THAT song was the march in song for the solemnisation for the couple that i shot today... was stunned momentarily when i heard it, from the first bar of the piano...

if this is a sign, it's TOO obvious! but it's a good one. sometimes, just take it at face value, there's nothing else telling me to do otherwise.

ok, back to earth, here's the pudding:





clickable.

She cried...

and i smiled.. =)

on another note:

(yes the above will not be elaborated on more, dun any of you ask!)

major plans SUDDENLY on the way to lift up my career. of course there's no sure formula for upping ur career, esp if it's ur own business, sure got risks and i think this would be one of the biggest i've taken since i started out. and not yet quite thought through, so nothing's confirmed, but it's getting me excited.

sometimes, nike works, sometimes it doesn't.

NIKE: JUST DO IT. (tick)

i've been light-hearted recently...

and.. DON'T YOU JUST BLOODY LOVE THE SONG ON THE MONTAGE????? damn nice, simple lyrics, vocals vs piano, no other crap involved. song and life, can be that simple and in harmony. no, it's not that my head is in the clouds, some of us just forget that POSSIBILITY.

TWELVE - video

Something I cooked up.. hope she likes it.

edited - some browsers have this playing automatically and so the music just keeps repeating, so here's the link instead:

http://www.ej-images.com/fj/FJ_twelve400.wmv

TWELVE

I present... "TWELVE":





















larger images here.

Can't sleep

Woke up to some knocking noises on my window.. but not sure what it was, and haven't been able to go to sleep since... wierd. in case anyone wonders, no i don't see/hear/feel that kind of stuff... and i don't think anyone walking past would have knocked on my window loud enuff to wake me up. some friends have actually done that (intentionally!), they'll know how hard it is...

maybe too excited about tomorrow's (today's) shoot? *shrug* i'm never nervous when i shoot, not even if you're the queen of england... btw, she DID come to toa payoh a couple of months back! =P

i guess it's more the pressure to perform.

No updates recently...

Been busy planning for some shoots, and also a new website to be up. splash page can be found at www.ej-images.com.

Hope the (relatively un-)planned shoot tomorrow will turn out well. went recce just now, and now my car looks like a 4WD. a real one, at least the "covered with mud" part....

Breathe

Mark shared with my this video from his archives and i found it on youtube. it's BRILLIANT!!!!!



there are other versions of the same song, different mtv, one a church wedding, and another developed for swatch (the watch brand). if i find it i'll post it up, they are damn good too...

Final Fantasy

Someone described this shot as something from Final Fantasy. maybe... so what do you think?



clickable.

Shervon

This is possibly the first post i have used one of my friends' names as title!

Had a wonderful fish head curry with her tonight, we ate at around 10pm after delivering some photos to dennis (if you consider 1000++ photos "some"). it's now 5+ am and i'm feeling just a tad hungry, not bad, it lasted a while, i did eat ALOT tho!

I remember when I was hung up over cheryl when i first got back at the end of 2001. shervon found me my first job in singapore even BEFORE i returned from australia. heart broken, in a "foreign-familiar" place, new job, new life, i was totally beaten. my break up with her was chronically acute. shervon was one of the few that helped me recover. those overnight phone calls, then reach work the next morning (we were colleagues then) stone like shit... ahhaha, then lunch time she would ask me, what do you want for lunch? i said "happiness", and she said, downstairs sold out liow, anything else u want? and this is like our daily ritual, this conversation. such wonderful memories amongst tough times.

i remember she was going thru shit too, i think it was Nat. so two lonely pple having a shit time and making each other worse by chatting on the phone but not sleeping. ahhaha....

then after that we both quit our jobs and partnered to do graphic design and print services. had our office, had an opening ceremony invite pple come and eat catered food somemore. we were BOSSES. man, if i start talking about that period in our lives, u would be bored, so, suffice to say, it was ALSO a memorable time in my life.

btw, if u haven't already figured it out, the business failed, badly, i might add, but the friendship grew stronger!

after the business, we didn't really see each other all that much, i went to work in banks, and she went to job hop (still doing that now mauahahhaa) then i turned full time photog and even busier, didn't see her much at all, sometimes months at a time.

tonight i realised that our friendship is still strong. she is ever supporting and encouraging in whatever i do, and has a level head that enables her to trudge thru this world with amazing resilience. she has this "quiet strength" that perhaps even she herself doesn't realise. it's been this strength that's not all that visible, but certainly the basis of our friendship over the years. anyone that knows me well knows that i'm not the best "glue" when it comes to friends, i can get a little apathetic at times.

shervon, this is for you. altho i dun say it much, or at all, u are a great pal and i wish the best for you. i'm still looking for that "happiness for lunch" and when i do get it, rest assured that you will certainly be a big part of it. i'm also wishing sincerely for your happiness, maybe u can have it for dinner instead!

take care always, and feel free to use all the "credits" that has accumulated over all these years being an excellent friend!

*hugZZZZ*

Third entry today?

better make this fast, i have a shoot tomorrow.. promises to be really fun, i hope!

i am waiting for a few things to happen. and it's taking TOO LONG to materialise. of course it requres effort too, but still i'm not a very patient person when it comes to... well.. watever, i'm just impatient!

i would like to list all the stuff that's pending, in the pipeline or just plain in my head, but then i did say i have to make this a fast one.. so.. laterz~!

All I Wanna do is Make Love to You

Jas brought to my attn an old favourite of mine (thanx!!)



In case anyone wonders, i'm in no way advocating one night stands, but the lyrics are very clever. excellent rock ballad from ages ago, u can tell from what they are wearing!!

A love letter

Something that I remembered recently when looking for quotes on the net, i loved it so much when i watched the movie that i wrote it down and stored it in a txt file, now dunno where it is liow, but it's available online.

My Dearest Jocelyn,

It is strange to think, I haven't seen you since a month. I have seen the new moon, but not you. I have seen sunsets and sunrises, but nothing of your beautiful face.

The pieces of my broken heart are so small that they could be passed through the eye of a needle. I miss you like the sun misses the flower; like the sun misses the flower in the depths of winter. Instead of beauty to direct its light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world your absence has banished me to.

I next compete in the city of Paris, I will find it empty and in the winter if you are not there. Hope guides me, that is what gets me through the day and the night. The hope that after you're gone from my sight, it will not be the last time that I look upon you.

William Thatcher / A Knight's Tale

One man show...

yeah man.. feeling the weight....!