I shot Gibran and Sherena’s engagement a couple of months ago so it was a reunion of sorts when I headed over to Sherena’s parents home to cover their solemnisation ceremony. Having familiar and welcoming faces around, family members who were absolutely at ease and a loving couple to boot made my job much easier :)

Gibran and Sherena, thank you for having me be part of the celebrations! It was great being part of the festivities and seeing you two celebrate your union with your family and close friends. Hope you two had tons of fun during your honeymoon in the land Down Under. See you next week!

The group pictures weren’t exactly ‘conventional’ ;)

Its a Johor Bahru tradition to throw coins out to the kids after the blessing ceremony (and this case, the adults too ;p)

The past week has been absolutely great! I didn’t have any shoots during the weekend so I took the opportunity to take some time off editing to have a bit of personal life ;) Spent Saturday afternoon on a photo outing with my friends Sherrie and Bang Qin. It has been aaaaaages since I last went on a photo outing just for fun. 

There was no set plan and we just wandered around town and finally ended up at the National Museum which I love, love, love! Didn’t have much time to check out the whole place as we were in a rush but I’ll definitely head back there again :) Here’s some images from our aimless wanderings ;p

It ain’t over til the fat lady sings! – shot on right by Sherrie

The museums guard kitten. Shoooo cuteeee! I want a kitty cat but my housemates all voted against it. Meh -_____-”

Psychedelic tiles at the entrance of the National Museum. Feels like its moving huh? 

There’s currently an exhibition on traditional children’s games. 

There are a lot of school kids at the museum during weekends….

…and when I say a lot, I mean ALOT! So don’t go on weekends if you’re planning to visit ;p

More artifacts – Isn’t it amazing how simple life used to be? Everything seems so complicated thesedays, as we try to make our life more convenient with more and more so-called-helpful contraptions. 

Not only was Saturday great but Sunday was awesome as I reconnected with my first love – bouldering. Headed over to MadMonkeyz Bouldering Gym in Wangsa Maju and realised just how much I miss bouldering :) Bouldering used to be my first love and I sorta forgot about it when photography came into the picture. Hoping to balance things out a bit by taking some time off on a weekly basis to get reacquainted with it.

Anyway, the fantabulous weekend was topped up with 3 icings on the cake come Monday as I found out the following features had been released.

Ashley & Svan’s gorgeous garden wedding was featured on The Wedding Guide.


Chris & Chelle’s beautiful beach ceremony is featured in the latest issue of Bridal Guide magazine!

And yours truly is featured in this week’s Life & Style’s People section.

When the editors for both Bridal Guide and The Wedding Guide contacted me recently about featuring my recent couples in their respective media, I was absolutely ecstatic! I mean who wouldn’t be? It’s not everyday that one gets their work and their couples featured in bridal guides so this was definitely something that I got really excited about.

A huge thanks to Habeebah of Bridal Guide and Stephanie of The Wedding Guide for the features :) And much thanks to Shan of Life & Style as well for featuring me in the current ‘People’ section. Much much appreciated!

Oh, before I forget, am organising ANOTHER sharing session this Saturday. But its for working out :p Hehe…do come join if you’re free! Details here.

Seeing that the recent sharing session that I had with photography enthusiasts was such a success (more than 20 enthusiasts wrote in, thank youuuu!), I thought, why not have a workout sharing session?

I always get asked questions about what workouts I do, why do I like having big muscles, don’t I get tired working out so much, am I man or a woman, aren’t the workouts tough, etc. That’s why I’ve got this ‘fitness section‘ to my blogsite. Well, I should actually call it my workout journal but whatever.

Anywaaaaaayyyss, I would love it if you would join me for a workout, just to experience what Crossfit is all about. Especially fellow photographers. Certain *cough*you know who you are :p*cough* fellow photographers who are always saying, “Anna, aren’t you tired working out so much?!!?”. Well, shooting a full day wedding is actually 5 times MORE tiring than doing a Crossfit workout (which lasts anything between as little as 5 minutes to as much as 1 hour, depending on the workouts). So I reckon if you can shoot a full day wedding, you CAN workout!

For photographers who are not shooting this Saturday (November 21), please come join me for a workout at Pushmore this Saturday morning 930am. Its free for first timers and I am serious when I say that it is NOT as hardcore as it looks.

Most first timers would go through a warm up session (this might take a while as the instructors will explain the warm up moves to you, etc) and then do the mini Cindy workout, where you complete as many rounds of 5 pull ups, 10 push ups and 15 squats in 10 minutes, YES THE WORKOUT IS ONLY 10 MINUTES! Fo’ real!

If you can’t do a pull up, there’ll be bands provided which will make it easier. If you can’t do a full push up, you can do knee push ups which are way easier. If you can’t squat, then the only thing I can say is, “Errr….how do you take a dump at a squatting toilet??”.

Gist of it is, the workouts are scalable and anyone, and I mean anyone, can do it. One great example would be Ben, who’s a new Pushmore member. He joined Pushmore recently weighing an astounding 129kgs and within 1 month, lost 5kgs with regular exercise and (somewhat) decent diet. You can read about his journey on Hans’ blogpost here. Inspirational, no?

Huey Yee and Mun Keat will be joining me this Saturday for a workout and after the workouts’ done, we’re planning on giving ourselves a treat at a local banana leaf joint :D There’s shower facilities at the gym (bring your own towel!) and we can all head out to nom nom straight after!

So, come by Pushmore (map to the gym can be found on the main site) at 930am and we’ll start working out at 1000am and finish within an hour plus. Another half an hour for everyone to shower (there’s only 1 shower >.<) then lunch of banana leaf rice at 12noon where we can talk shop about photography! Cool no?

DISCLAIMER: I have no share in Pushmore Fitness Centre. Just wanna share my love of workouts and I seriously think that we photographers need to take some time away from our cameras and workstations and get some exercise :D There’s nothing to lose, so come come come! 

In the meantime, here’s a reminder to ourselves to eat healthy, rest well (I need MORE of that!) and take some time out to breathe. 

Much love :)