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Wow...

I didn't realised that my last post was more than a month ago..... October and November have been just crazy with lotsa assignments coming in from all directions and in addition to that, we were also going away for our much-anticipated (and this time round, a very much needed) vacation to Japan for a good part of November for the 3rd year consecutive.

The appeal of Japan in Autumn will always be our mainstay as we can't think of any other places that we wanna spend autumn in - we had our 1st foray into Japan to celebrate our engagement in 07', took our PreWedding photos there in '08 and in our 3rd visit, we just chill (literally) and celebrate the joy of togetherness with each other. Clearly the joy were all over our faces and showed in the photos we took :)

Anyway.. lotsa post will be coming up I promised. TO start it off, here's some of the places we went to for makan after coming back to Singapore:

Labels: Food, Friends, Greetings, Images, Inspirations, Local, Photography, Ranting, RICOH GrD, Thoughts

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I always think the 6 degrees of separation notion is quite incredible :)

When I met up with Lilian who contacted me some time back for her PreWedding & Actual Day shoot, I had the surprise of my life when her husband-to-be, Evans, turned out to be my OCS mate during the Tri-Service term! And talking about coincidence, Lilian's bestie was someone I met 4 years ago while working in Comex together!

Again, like the old saying goes:"of all the gin joints in the world..." Anyway we had a blast shooting today for their ESession despite the ridiculously humid weather but we were blessed with great lighting, great company and lotsa fun! :p

Labels: BnW, Brides, Friends, Grooms, Images, Inspirations, Local, Photography, PreWeddings, Thoughts

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Some of you may have found out from Facebook or Twitter that Ms. Clover and I took a short weekend trip to K.L, just to relax and get away from things for a while. It has been a stressful period for the both of us and so with a long weekend coming up, it makes perfect excuse to go up North :)

Cheap air fares from budget airlines made traveling in the region so much easier: just click and go basically. Armed with our passports and 1 set of clothes, we headed off to explore KLCC. Not very adventurous this time coz' we just want to go away from our sunny island... only to land in rainy KL for the evening.

Trader's Hotel was our top choice due to its concept liken to G-Hotel Penang but Trader's, being more of a business hotel, lack the cosyness and funkiness of G-Hotel and the spa can't really compared to Danai Spa also.

Okie. I'm being biased here. Its a great hotel to stay in: 4 minutes to KLCC's Suria Mall, 7 mins to Pavilion KL, lovely view of the Petronas tower day and night, lovely view of the garden park in the golden triangle, the staff are professional and warm, love the interior decor of the business centre, executive lounge and the cafes... etc.

Here's some pics from the Ricoh GrD v.1 to share:

Labels: BnW, Clover, Food, Hotel Interiors, Images, Inspirations, Photography, RICOH GrD, Thoughts, Travel, Us, vacation

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The WPN workshop was successfully concluded that Friday night @ the scenic Hort Park's function room where we shared on the business viewpoint of wedding photography.

A very good exchange of ideas & queries although it was time-tight to try to impart the details of some of the very important aspects within 45 mins. But nevertheless, we raised an awareness for the participants that in business, you have to look more into the details than to skim along the surfaces in order to build and sustain the model till the desired end result.

Anyway enough rumbling from me. Many thanks to the WPN team, namely George, Yu Hsin, KC and the rest of the gang for the concerted effort in making our 1st workshop a general success!

Following are photos courtesy of Gilbert of 9 Frames, love the M8 :D -















I took a chance also to snap some quick photos here - Click to jump to FB album

Labels: Business, Images, Inspirations, Local, Photography, Projects, Thoughts, Wedding notes, WPN Photogs

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Here's a quick plug for my wonderfully creative friend, Su Ling, owner of the online baby store Pupsik Studio (& author of the blogs: Laissezfaire Design & Pupsik Studio) on some of the enticing promotions they are having in the Pupsik Studio online store now!


a) Pettiskirts by Princess Ratbag - click here for link


Pupsik Studio is currently doing a MEGASALE on some of the designs that will be discontinued (or while stocks last) so hop over to http://www.pupsikstudio.com/catalog.php?sale=yes and click YES!

and the deal gets sweeter!

b) Special Promotion when you quote EYEDEAS!

Yupz! For all other regular priced item by Princess Ratbag (including tops, dresses etc), Pupsik Studio will be happy to offer a 10% discount to the readers/wedding clients of this blog for the month of Sept 2009!

All you have to do is to include a comment at the check-out that you got to know about Pupsik Studio through this blog or quote "EYEDEAS" and you will be entitled to a 10% discount on the order you have placed on the Pupsik Studio online store!

If you are not sure how to go about placing an order, all you have to do is email Su Ling at hello@pupsikstudio.com on your queries! It's that simple! :)

Labels: Friends, Images, Inspirations, Thoughts, Weddings

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Finally, the blogger interface is fixed... thanks to a link given by TonesOfPink! Apparently Singnet's proxy is the culprit *grrrrr...* but it's okie... as long as I can start blogging again...

Nope, I've not gone to Timbuktu and lost contact with the world (still Twittering and FBing) but this little proxy thingy set me back for quite sometime till Jojo came to the rescue!

So here's a backdated one from the recent trip to Penang's G-Hotel:

It was a short trip over the weekend to get away from Singapore for a while... tix were bought like very early this year from TigerAir for S$0.00 so we made the best use of the cheap airfare to revisit some of our fav. haunts in Penang + some more recommendations from friends!

We decided to stay in G-Hotel this time round due to the fact that we couldn't get a single booking at our old favourite Northam All Suites over that particular weekend as it coincided with the Penang Run as well as Heritage Weekend so most hotels were full. Why G-Hotel was spared the bursting room demand.. no idea but I think cost is one. We couldn't get a normal deluxe room so we had to up the budget to the Executive rooms which we had no regrets upon reaching the establishment.

Totally worth the money spent! More pics here !

Labels: Clover, Images, Photography, Ranting, RICOH GrD, Thoughts, Travel, Us, vacation

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