i hate my phone!

someone recommend me a PDA phone with WM5. and dun tell me windows sux, i already know that, just that i'm stuck to outlook for my schedules so i need WM5, unless other OS syncs with outlook without problems.

my dopod is giving me screen alignment problems every 2 hours!!! i can't begin to describe the angst it puts me thru daily. it's certainly good training for anger management, and definitely a good hair whitening technique. and u only thot skin whitening was in style huh!

anywayz, i'm thinking the 838pro, yes another dopod. reason: at least it's got a keyboard and it's still relatively small. screen cock up can still poke the keys.

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i'm back in sg, and while i was transiting in bkk for 2hr+ i got on the internet cafe and started typing long story and it all went to naught when the time was used up and it just stopped me from using the computer! i guess it wasn't meant to be, i have no idea what i wrote and i definitely am not gonna write it again. it wasn't important anyway.

to top it off, the flight was delayed another hour! man.. oh ok.. ya i remember now, i mentioned that i HATE NON-DIRECT FLIGHTS WITH A VENGEANCE. yeah....

missed the friday portion of the studio open house entirely, but tomorrow is the big day and i'm still awake processing photos. gotta wake up early and pay my road tax too. man, as soon as i landed i smelled stress in the air. but i'm glad to be back.

thanx adrian and wendy for giving me a lift from the airport!

Major update!!

I've officially moved in to McNair, and it's been hell of a week.

First things first: here are some shots of the studio:

STUDIO 1






STUDIO 2





Yes that's right, we have two studios up and running!

Thanks to Pierce who has worked tirelessly with me to get this running, it's been wonderful thus far bouncing ideas off each other.

Thank you to Kenneth also for his invaluable help by way of equipment and advise!

I will be having an open house this coming weekend, for those interested to pop by and pay me a visit, please contact me!

On another note, i will be in Kunming, Yunnan, China tomorrow for the rest of the week, really have to rely on Pierce and Kenneth to get things ready for the open house.

I'm not sure if i'll have time to shoot the lovely province, but will try.

More unpacking to do (since i just moved house) and packing as well (since i'll be going overseas in a few hours).

oh.. hmmm... WHERE IS MY PASSPORT!!!!!!!!!!

It's been a while

since i've written anything substantial.

lots of things are happening in my life, mostly good and entirely busy. i have to move house, clear tonnes of weddings and go to china for a week and that's all to be done by the end of the month. i love my schedule!

yeap, will be moving out of toa payoh after more than 5 years of staying here. the only thing i won't miss is the bloody car park which is always full. the place i'm moving to on the contrary, the car park is always empty! *phew* and it's cheaper season parking too... beat that!

admist all the busy-ness... matters of the heart came into play. but it's not going well and at times i feel destined that i can only ever share others' joys, but never really experience it. well, so far that's been enough, but how long would that last?

mama wrote me a lovely email updating me on their lives. wat an absolutely stark contrast to mine. i'm always busy and swearing at other drivers on the road while they are enjoying the golden nest with each other, living life after working so hard.

saw adrian yesterday after what seems like so long, managed to get new tenants for the tpy flat, so at least he doesn't have to worry about this place being empty. i siong liow lar, i have to totally fix up the place, i owe it to him, living here for 5 years i really know the place better than him liow. quite a few of the florescent ballasts are gone and the place needs some serious cleaning, but after i pack my stuff then i will do (or probably pay someone) to do a proper thorough clean.

man how boring can this post get?

i'm tired, excited and disappointed all at the same time. that's 2 bads vs 1 good. must tilt the odds somehow. i think the easier to fix would be the "tiredness".

Singapura History

I'm injured from falling off my chair:

Two more...

click.

TIme...

or the lack thereof...

I'm SO busy.. wat's new? Altho, there is new news... but i don't have time to write them down. lots of things happening, and i will try to find time to pen them all down so those that are interested will know wat's going on. it might shock some. nothing bad, mostly.

ongoing, are plenty of weddings to shoot, some shots:











clickable.

Tree of love...

I'm bad with names:



as usual, click for a larger image.

I'm busy. just put 10000000 "very"s in between the two words.

I guess it's about time to announce this:

I AM OPENING MY OWN STUDIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

more details soon. very exciting times ahead, and... i HAD to do it in the chinese eighth month. well done for timing, EXTREMELY well done.

congratulations to my bro Adrian and Wendy on the birth of their LOVELY daughter Alethia. This is more than 1 week ago news, but haven't had time to blog at all. Bro, sorry about not being able to come and see you all more often, missing your graduation and collection of new car (triple happiness!!!!!), but u're always in my thoughts!

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....!