Just a short post to share some pics from Monday’s portrait session of Mimi and her shizu Noah :) And yes, this is my shortest blogpost ever! I was just afraid of killing y’all with the cuteness that is Noah ;p

Happy Thursday friends! x 

“Waddya mean I look like a dirty dawg?!?? Don’t you know that clean dogs are over-rated?!?!”

“Ooo..yeah. That’s it. My right profile is DA best! Shoot it baybeh!”

“And my front profile will just kill all those female shizu out there. & you can tell them that I’ve been,
well *snip*snip*. Just playin’ it safe, gedwadamsayin? *wink*wink*”

Thanks to referral from Michelle, Melissa dropped me an email a couple of months before my trip to Perth. We discussed the locations and blocked out the date for the session and I thought to myself, “Ok, it’ll be a long while more before this session happens”.

And I guess it’s true what they say about dates on calendars being closer than they appear, for in the blink of an eye, it was the day of the session! I met up with Melissa and her family in the morning at Kings Park and we had a laid back portrait session with her family members around the park area.

I’ll be posting up some shots from that part of the session on my Facebook page soon but for now here are some of my favourite shots from the afternoon session with Melissa and Jason :) We drove around Fremantle which has like a gazillion nice spots to shoot in! 

Y’know what Mel? It took me quite awhile to pick my favourites. I kept on going back and forth and actually ended up selecting nearly 40 shots which I liked! Had a hard time culling it down further to fit some of my absolute faves into this blogpost ;p That’s how awesome you two were! You and Jason were absolutely natural in front of the camera and you two worked it big time that day :-D And Jason, I was impressed with how quick you adapted in front of the camera. Its like you’ve been practising. Somebody’s been watching Australia’s Next Top Model eh? Kidding! ;p

Thank you so much for spending the day with me and it was a pleasure to meet you two as well as your family members! Y’all rocked ma world ;D

This short trip back to Kota Kinabalu wasn’t only to recce out locations for my next pre-wedding session here, but also to celebrate my 30th birthday with those close to my heart – my parents :) It has been a quiet celebration this year but i must say, with 3 birthday cake surprises 3 days in a row from family and friends, I’m a bit ODed on the cake front ;p Much thanks to friends for the warm wishes via sms, FB and twitter. My heartfelt gratitude for that :) 

It’s funny how different people view being 30 differently. Personally, it feels great to be 30! I’m at a point of my life where I’m so much more comfortable in my own skin and don’t feel the need to have a facade to please everyone around me. Like Dr Seuss said “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

And I had a nice surprise 2 days before my birthday when Sharmilla from The Star emailed me an article from The Star‘s Stuff@school pullout. I was one of those featured in an article about awesome jobs. Yay! Thanks for the feature :D

30 does indeed rock!

Scanned from the Stuff@School pullout and image by Asyraf Lee.