Toast to myself

As I hear the fireworks go off in the distance, I poured myself a shot and took a shot of the shot.

May I accomplish what I set out to do in 2010. Happy 2010 everyone.

Xuan & Qi 31 Dec 2009

Xuan and Qi wishes you a happy 2010! They just don't know it yet.

Now, some personal shots.

This is Qi's guilty look when you reprimand her. It was hilarious. I just spoke in a harsher tone as she was running away from the way while posing with Xuan and she gave me this look.

what i do? I'm just a baby!

are you still mad? we cool now?

Friends: meisze

Meet Meisze, my distant colleague.

She asked why can't we take a picture together. I told her that you can't zipai with a 2kg DSLR.

Well, apparently we can.

Guys. Back off. She's taken.

x'mas weekend

The most exciting thing to happen for my X'mas weekend.

Picking up my folks from the airport at 2 in the afternoon. Man I should get me some social life.

300 technoviking

omg this is so good. the dude in the black singlet, major fail.

Know your internet meme: technoviking

The term Internet meme is a phrase used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet, much like an esoteric inside joke.[1] The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although this concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.

Today's internet meme: technoviking

The Techno Viking is a tall, muscular, charismatic, intimidating, German man that danced for the camera in Fuckparade 2000 (a techno street-parade in Berlin Germany). It is said that he has appeared in other years to follow as well. The Fuckparade developed in reaction to the music restriction (exclusion of Gabber music) and commercialization of Love Parade. Additionally, it broached the issue of the techno club "Bunker" being closed. The most played styles of music in the Fuckparade are Gabber, Speedcore, Techno, Punk, and House.

The Techno Viking was made famous because of the "Kneecam" recording of a blue-haired girl dancing, then being crashed into by some unruly guy, causing the Techno Viking to snatch the guy up by his arms and shove him back where he came running from. The Techno Viking then pointed at the man and gazed with an extremely fierce glare in his eyes. An aura of fear eminated from the Techno Viking, causing the man to step down from the confrontation. The Techno Viking then started dancing wildly through the streets after being given a water bottle from one of his fans.

Some opinions say the Techno Viking is becoming more popular on the internet than the "Chuck Norris jokes" because the Techno Viking shows to be a dangerous man if provoked.

There are tonnes of technoviking remixes on youtube. I like this one



man this is gold.

Friends: Ian

My bud from my cycling days. The smartest guy I've met. We went to eat bee hoon hor fun at Sembawang at X'mas day, trying our best not to appear gay.

Friends: Lesley Ann

Lesley likes hairy men. She smokes a lot and talks like a sailor. That's why she is a dear friend. Being funny helps too.

Her her legs so damn long i cannot fit it into frame.

shanghai poster girl

I love this picture I took of an auntie touching up at a wedding banquet before the couple comes over for the table shot.

I edited it to have the Shanghainese 60s theme. The hair, the well defined (tattooed) brow and the scarlet lips... this is professionalism!

here at kopibean...

we are very much into you enjoying our special brew.

But we don't give a shit about your studies. Go away students. Don't wait for your latte to become ice latte.

The strangest Christmas Eve

24 Dec started in the worst way for shuyi when she heard about the demise of her pri school classmate over the phone.

We went over to the wake after lunch and stayed till evening.

We went for dinner, watched some TV and went to bed early as shuyi has a flight to catch in the wee hours.

So here i am, on Christmas day, alone at home contemplating on what to do for the day. Or the entire weekend, for that matter.

Day 14: Delphi

The last day of our honeymoon trip. We went to Ancient Delphi. Ancient Delphi. Not Orchard Delphi. Read about it here.

Day 13: Sounion

After a long hiatus, here we go again. This time, we go to the Temple of the 海鲜王. Here.

for the love of god...

please close your eyes when you kiss people. Do I have to provide photographic evidence that it is creepy?

Don't worry. It's there. No one switched your partner for a cow in that split sec when you close your eyes.

Merry X'mas

Don't you just love the Christmas season?

I don't care about Jesus or why we celebrate his death with such funfare. The thing about this rainy season with lightings all over orchard is that is reminded me of the much happier, simpler times a decade back.

I'm very guilty of looking at the past on many occasions. Time to look forward. If you think that I am going to grab a tripod and head towards town, you are so wrong.

i have only 1 expression. life sucks :O)

the evil elves planned a coup

the jumper

Shuyi always wanted one of these. But her mom thought that it would make her more tom boyish than she already is.

i asked her to do a Super Mario jump

SGD6 bucks only!

accident report

What do you do when you almost crushed a lady's toes?

What do you do when you have a car accident? Take a photo. That's what I did. Can see that she took great pains to match the heels to the dress too.

hark!

Behold the shining tupperware!

swwinggg!

madame white snake

Shuyi at a recent wedding

love the fan in the hotel room

My brother's wedding. Hair and makeup done by a makeup artist. Sub sgd100 tailor made cheongsum from Shanghai. She chose the fabric herself. I'm so proud of her.

Helping out at reception.

Just being silly.

Full day wedding coverage

My first full day wedding coverage.

I rented a Canon 5D Mark II and a 85mm f1.8 prime lens. You can tell from the super long name that this camera is pretty damn good. And it is. Matter of fact, it is beyond good. It is retarded.

Have to thank Ian for the flash with the tupperware on top which was a conversation piece on many occasions. And Sunny for loaning me the additional 8gig CF card. At 20mb per pict, I really needed it.

To summarize, this is the gear.

EOS 40D
EOS 5D Mark II
24-70mm f2.8 lens
85mm f1.8 lens
E430 flash
4 X 8 gig CF cards (have to transfer them to a harddisk mid-day even)

Really kicking myself for not renting another shorter prime lens. Oh well.

zipai: does the tupperware go with my hair?

Looks like I'm gonna have to neglect the last 2 days of my honeymoon photos for this.

What a bad hairstyle can do for you

This is Beyonce & Lady Gaga. Rethink the hair Gaga. Fail.

will you marry me?

While some guys just do it at carparks, some up the ante by doing something really creative.


Let Joe tell you what happened. The reason why I like it is because it feels like something that I would have done (if i can draw like that).

1. It is not a 'look at us!' kind of proposal
2. Low on cost, high in creativity

Lady Gaga: Bad romance

What do you think?

1/2 day off with the wife

Took half a day off to spend time with shuyi.

This is Jailbird. I walked home one afternoon for lunch and saw dad carrying qiqi, standing beside a car at the void deck.

'come quick' my dad waved to me

When I approached him, I realise that there is a yellow lovebird perched on top of a MPV. Dad spotted the lovebird but couldn't catch it as he was carrying qiqi. So he guarded it till I came back. I grabbed the bird and stuffed it in a box. time for lunch. Secretly putting it into the cage at home, I casually suggested shuyi to check on the birds. Her reaction upon finding the new bird was less than ideal. :O/

We named it Jailbird because it broke out of a cage and it is a bird (surely you've realised it by now). Anyway, today we went to uncle Jimmy and get a sex partner mate for Jailbird.

uncle Jimmy's is right at the door stop of my alma mater.

We had dinner with the folks and ah xuan decided to go hyper and do her take on Tigger.

roaarrr!




boing boing boing

We then went to the city hall area. On our way back home, we walked past the food court behind Hotel Rendezvous. What this? A mexican store in a food court? The dude was playing some toy to pass time.

Shuyi had a go as well.

we bought margarita and chilli con carne. We just had dinner but I simply cannot pass on interesting food. So supper came real early. They had pineapple chili and normal lime margarita. We sampled both and went with pineapple chilli. Nice.

the wife worked while the husband kept himself busy with the toy
now that's teamwork!

Suntec fun

After covering a wedding in the first half of the day, I went to Suntec and saw

Fat kids wannabe fight.

ok. clean fight. no flirting, no grabass. Go!!

Pardon the poor quality pics. I was dead tired from the wedding shoot I didn't bother to use the flash. And I am also dead sick of editing from editing pictures from the said wedding shoot that I never did edit these pics.

who you calling skinny? huh?!

oui! no groin grabbing!

whose the bitch now? say it!

Moving up, there is a

OTAKU COSPLAY FESTIVAL!

All kinds of weirdos were there.

trust me: this is the most normal ones around already

traumatising

The One Piece crew. The character with the blue hair? The girl was prancing around in a speedo. That takes guts.

This is the most pretentious pair around. They simply sat there. Yeah. Just sat there and gave the i'm so kute look.

yes children, use and abuse em.

karaoke-siao girls

Amongst all the girls there. Non is as cute as this one. She really worked the look.

any questions?

This one takes the prize for most emo.

all she did was sit motionless there

Ok I don't know which anime this character came from but all she did was sit there and eat while staring blankly into air.

And this dude. I have nothing to say about him.

But the most disturbing of the lot has got to be this one.

stuff nightmares are made of


nothing can out stare this thing

don't get to close... you don't know what it can do

Finally a normal one.

After that, shuyi cheong all the sales in the convention halls and i sat outside on the carpet trying not to fall asleep.