Archive for October, 2010

Eng & Caroline

Portraits, Weddings

When we first met, Caroline told me that she and Eng had no experience being in front of the camera and would be absolutely stiff throughout. I thought to myself “Bring on the challenge!”. Turns out they were an absolute breeze to shoot. Seriously! While it was true that during the first half of the session, I assisted them out with the poses but by the second half, they let their inner ‘models’ come out and boy oh boy, was it a pleasant surprise or what! :)

Here’s a little preview of their pre-wedding session done recently in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Not posting up much as most are meant to be showcased on their wedding reception. But I couldn’t help but to share a few of my favourite shots from the day. Eng and Caroline, thanks again for being super duper in front of my lens! You two rocked it big time!







  1. norris says:

    nice..simple and superb…..

  2. Wendy says:

    Great shot, very natural and catching. Love the one sitting on rocks, very commercial feel.

  3. chau says:

    Look very natural and romantic

  4. Muiz says:

    Hi , saya nak tanya beberapa soalan
    harap kak anna boleh menjawab

    1)kak anna pakai camera apa ?
    2) adakah gambar kak ana edit ?

  5. Rosalind Stephen Basil says:

    hi liang moi!!!! i’ve sent msg thru ur fb (im not in ur fb frens’ list anymore???? my fren cari wed photograher….how 2 ctt u ah??? asap….TQ!

  6. Hide says:

    To muiz , i can answer your question for that :D
    1) she’s using 5d mark II i believe most of a time
    2) Dia akan edit mana gambar yang perlu di touch up :) Selalu nya akan main saturation, contrast and color.

  7. Very nice work indeed..would look great as photo painting . You can contact me if interested in a collaboration with painting artists for your clients’ photos…

  8. Faarihin says:

    singgah..
    wah.. nice pic.. (^^,)

    p/s: minta izin nak add link blog ni di blog photo saya yer..

    semoga saya dapat timba ilmu di sini.. tq.. (^^,)



Rajes & Hwai-Sern

Weddings

When I first met Rajes and Hwai-Sern a couple of months ago, I was already smitten within the first 10 minutes of talking to this bubbly couple. Truth to be told, I don’t like being hard sell and hardly ever attempt to close deals during preliminary meetings with couples as I believe that it’s important for the choice to be up to the couple. But because of the fact that Rajes and Hwai-Sern were uber nice, I put out all stops and made myself as adorable as could be during our meeting. I think I succeeded, ’cause not long after our meeting, they dropped me an email to confirm my services :D Woohoo!

Rajes and Hwai-Sern had a short and sweet temple ceremony at the Sri Mahamariamman temple in China Town and their intimate wedding reception was held the following day at The Saujana in Subang. Here are some of my favourite shots from the two days!

Adorable nephews from both sides of the family. Shooooo cuteeeeee! *pinch cheeks*

One of the shortest Indian temple ceremony I’ve ever shot! Sweet nevertheless :)



Rajes & Hwai-Sern allocated some time for bridal portraits before their tea ceremony and reception :) I love it when couples do that. It’s not everyday that you get dressed to the nines, so its awesome to make some time for portraits prior as you’ll be too busy catching up with friends during your reception. Thank you for workin’ it during the session Rajes & Hwai-Sern :D

Ok, I don’t usually post up formal family portraits on the blog. But this was waaaaaaay too funny (in my humble opinion ;p) not to share. Can you spot the sad looking puppy here? LOL! When the lil one grows up, he’s gonna laugh at himself ;) I hope.

Hello fellow cookie lover! :D *distracts kid and grabs cookie* Kidding!

Love, love, love how these two lovebirds are always laughing :D

Yes, this seems to be what usually happens during bouquet throws :p Don’t be shy to grab the bouquet ladies! ;D

Rajes & Hwai-Sern, thank you again for the honour of shooting your wedding. Love the fact that you decided to have an intimate do, giving yourselves ample time to catch up with family and friends, celebrating a marriage as it should be :) Wishing you many days of love and laughter in the years ahead. Can’t wait to share the rest of the pictures with you soon :D


  1. rozidah says:

    seeing the happiness captured in the photos makes me wanna get married.. like tomorrow!!! and hire you as the official photographer!!! arghh!!

  2. P says:

    Great photos!!!!!

  3. TianChad says:

    haha! Why there is one emo kid in the family photo one? so cute!

  4. nina says:

    aww.. very beautiful. where was the reception held?

  5. sue says:

    Hahah… great pics Anna. That little puppy is shooooooo sad.. to cute IMHO!

  6. Sara says:

    i like…:) do you know who did her make-up?

  7. 19MEI DESIGN says:

    I really like the way you express the joy of this couple and all couples that you have capture the moment. you have become my inspiration for playing with the joy that can not be repeated and made the sign for the memories

  8. Rajes & Hwaisern says:

    Anna, thank you so much for the wonderful photos. Lovee them so much..We had a blast throughout the 2days with you!
    To others: dinner reception was at Senja Italian restaurant, The Saujana hotel and make-up was by Sandra Foo, Bobbi Brown Mid Valley.



4th Week of October

Fitness

*sweeps cobwebs off*

*cough*

I haven’t updated this part of the blog since May 0.o Kinda scary to think that my workouts have been irregular for so long. Ok, in an effort to get back on track, I’m gonna start listing down my workouts again as well as rest & meals whenever poss ;p

October 25 (Monday)

Sleep: 8 hours (1230 – 830am. Yes! For once! 8 solid hours of sleep baybeh!)
Breakfast 9am: 2 glasses of water, half a small pack of soy milk, 1 cereal bar
Lunch 12noon: 1.5 portion of roast chicken with half a cup of rice, 1 white coffee
Snack 230pm: A bar of snickers, 1 white coffee
Mid afternoon meal 330pm: Chicken lasagna with a bun
Dinner 830pm: Potato wedges (1 potato!) and half a sandwich (roast chicken, capsicum, lettuce)
Snack 10pm: The remaining half of the sandwich :p A wee bottle of Vitagen

Been mixing up my workouts with a bit of Crossfit at Pushmore, bodyweight exercises & light runs at the park and ‘beauty’ workouts at Celebrity Fitness. Since a park workout was already done yesterday, decided to head to CF this morning to do some ‘beauty’ workout (weights yo!).

The thing is, I didn’t jot down the weights used so what the heck, below’s just a rough outline of what was done this morning. (Gotta start somewhere otherwise I’ll never start tracking again ;p)
Warm-up: 15 mins on the treadmill. As usual, I felt like a hamster, running nowhere.
8 pull ups, 10 dips x 2 sets
Shoulder press 20lbs, Side Lat Raise (I think it was) 8lbs x 3 sets
Tricep pulldown 10 reps x 2 sets
Leg Press Machine 45kg 15 reps x 3 sets
2 other leg machines, I forgot what they were called -____-” Epicfail
Cool down: 10 mins of stretching

October 26 (Tuesday)

Forgot to stretch after completing the two workouts as I was in a rush to run my errands. I hope the DOMS aren’t too bad in the next few days 0.0
Sleep: 1230am – 7am. Fitful sleep, woke up a couple of times throughout the night. I think I was too excited about the two WODs that I wanted to do -___-”

WOD 102610
3 rounds for time of:
Run 350m
21 Kettlebell Swings @ 24kg/16kg
12 Handstand Push Ups
Results: 12:34
Did 16kg’s for the swings and 16 HSPU. Don’t know why but I thought the HSPU’s were 16! Only found out after the WOD that its 12. D-oh!

WOD 102510
“Tabata Something Else”
Complete 32 intervals of 20 seconds of work followed by ten seconds of rest where the first 8 intervals are pull-ups, the second 8 are push-ups, the third 8 intervals are sit-ups, and finally, the last 8 intervals are squats. There is no rest between exercises.
Record reps from all 32 intervals
Results: 37 | 77 | 86 | 142 Total: 342
Awesome awesome workout. Torturous but at the same time, painfully fun. Masochist.