Kai Choon & Janet Lo’s actual day (full)

 

 

 

 

Picture above is actually a repost from my previous sneak peek of their wedding.

In short, I enjoyed their wedding and their reception. It ends rather early, but we have a lot of after-reception fun. I like when one of the uncle sang beyond’s amani’s, over and over again because the brothers requested for encore. (well, we drank). The brothers and closer friends all sang at their respective table too. This is of the most happening reception that I’ve been, and I would like to thank them for choosing me as the photographer.

 

Sneak peek of Kai Choon & Janet Lo’s Wedding

 

Congratulation to Kai Choon & Janet Lo! It was a pleassure to shoot their wedding.

This is one of the shot that I love, it relates to them,
- 20 October, Saturday
- ’20′ is also Choon’s fav number, his birthday falls on April 20
- Choon love initial D and used to own that AE86 too! (the real one)

I like this pic simply because of 20 (my birthday falls on April 20 too!), Initial D & Jay Chou. More picture coming soon

Citibank Invitational Golf Tournament 2012

Last week, I was assigned to cover Citibank’s invitational golf tournament for 2012.

Here are some of the group shots

 

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Write up from Brunei Times

CITIBANK organised its third annual invitational golf tournament yesterday at The Empire Hotel & Country Club in Jerudong.

Around 70 participants took part in the tournament, from both private and public sectors, including Director of His Majesty The Sultan’s Flight Pg Ratna Wijaya Brigadier General (Rtd) Pg Dato Hj Hasnan Pg Ahmad, Minister of Communications Yang Berhormat Pehin Orang Kaya Hamzah Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Hj Abdullah Begawan Mudim Dato Paduka Hj Bakar and Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Dato Paduka Hj Mohd Hamid Hj Mohd Jaafar.

The tournament commenced at 7am with a Shotgun Start, which involves groups of players teeing off simultaneously from different holes.

Among the challenges lined up for the event was the Par 3 Challenge, where participants get a chance to play against two students from the Sports School, Abd Aziz Abd Kadir and Md Izuddin Hasim. The aim of the challenge was to shoot as close as possible to the pin to win a prize.

The prize presentation ceremony took place at the Members Grill/Lounge and began with a prize presentation for winners of the Par 3 Challenge from Citibank Head of Human Resources Rosliah Hj Ibrahim.

Novelty prize winners were then announced which were: nearest to pin (hole 4), won by Pg Anak Basheer; nearest to pin (hole 7), by Major General (R) Pg Dato Paduka Seri Abidin Pg Ahmad; nearest to pin (hole 14), by Cyril Lai; nearest to pin (hole 16), by Priscilla Wong; nearest to Line (hole 8), by YAM Ratna Wijaya Brigadier General (Rtd) Pg Dato Hj Hasnan bin Pg Ahmad; and longest drive, won by Hj Shaiful Rizal Pehin Dato Dr Hj Ahmad.

The winner of the golf tournament’s Division B nett stroke points (strokes minus their handicap) was Freddie Wong, followed by His Excellency Nestor Z Ochoa, Ismail Chuchu and Sylvester Yong.

The Division A winner was Pg Rakawi Pg Hj Sabli, followed by YDM POK Seri Dewa Major General (Rtd) Dato Seri Pahlawan Hj Mohammad, Pg Anak Basheer and Yuuki Sakuyama.

Meanwhile, the winner of gross stroke points (total number of strokes throughout the game) was Chua Pheng, followed by Lim Chai and Hj Shaiful Rizal Pehin Dato Dr Hj Ahmad. The Ladies category was won by Priscilla Wong.

Awarding the prizes was Acting Citi Country Officer of Citibank Brunei Pg Hj Md Yussoff Pg Hj Bahar.

Golfers were also treated to a lucky draw and stood a chance to walk away with attractive prizes.

Prizes for the first draw session were presented by Citibank Corporate Bank Head Aariz Patrick Ng, while prizes for the second draw session were presented by Pg Hj Md Yussoff.

The grand draw prize, which was a 42-inch Philips LED TV, went to Cyril Lai.

The Brunei Times

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Another write up from Borneo Bulletin can be found here. 

 

Chinese Opera @ Tua Pek Kong Temple

 

 

Every year during Chinese Mooncake Festival, performers of chinese opera from mainland china are invited to perform at Bandar Seri Begawan’s Tua Pek Gong Temple for a week.

I went there with Devin and Henry for some photo opportunity as we don’t normally get scenes like this here in Brunei. It was also a good break in between wedding photography assignment.

Here are the photos.

 

 

This picture above is actually a crop of the picture above it. I was amazed by the details and sharpness retained after cropping. All shot with 100mm f2.8 on a 5D Mark II.

I was here 2 years ago for the Mooncake Festival and blogged about it too.

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Here’s a write up from Borneo Bulletin

Bandar Seri Begawan – The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival or the Mooncake Festival, was held Sunday evening at the Chinese temple in Bandar Seri Begawan, marking the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese calendar.

A Chinese Opera group flew all the way from the People’s Republic of China to perform yesterday, to an audience who came to sample the Moon Cakes while enjoying the Chinese Opera.

To mark the event, a lantern-making competition was also held in conjunction with the Festival, which was open to students as well as other members of the public in the Open category.

 

–Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin
02 OCTOBER 2012 by SYAFIQ AFFENDY

Lulu & Arthur (Candid Video)

Few weeks ago, it was the big day for Lulu & Arthur, their marriage!

I was the second shooter under Devin Kho for them. This video is a compilation of two photo shoot sessions, one after their ROM and another after tea ceremony the next day.

While Devin was directing them during the photo shoot session, I took the opportunity to shoot some behind the scenes and candid video.

Here’s the outcome! I love the accidental bubble effect at the end of the video.

note : video is made for fun, an additional gift for the couples.

It is also my first project with dSLR video, edited with iMovie, exported with only 640 x 320, 24p due to the speed limitation here. It inspired me to shoot another clip and explore more on video, eg the use of glider, premier pro (if necessary). We’ll see, if I have the time for it.

UBD Graduation Photo Shoot Session

I’ve finally graduated!

I organised a photo shoot session for my friends and UBD mates. I’m pretty satisfied with the result as I had never really done any indoor studio shoot before. Well, here are some of the pictures.

 

Me!  ↑

Javon and family ↑

Friends

 

Shenny & Family ↑

 

Shenny, Jewel and Sze

 

Alister, Me and Khairul ↑

 

Adri! ↑

 

 

Business Information System group! ↑

 

Me and my old friends ↑ Ignatius and Tisha

 

Adri and Azrina ↑

 

Our jump shots, with wide angle on FF ↑

 

Nikki Chia ↑

 

Agnes Ying ↑

 

 

The 3 Js, Joanne, Jayden and Joy! ↑

 

Joanne! ↑

These photos are from multiple photo shoot sessions. I did the first one for close friends for free, as I was new to the studio settings too. I guessed that they like the result and businesses starts coming in. Thanks to a friend of mine, Henry for borrowing and renting out the studio to me for the shoots.

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Personally I don’t feel as much excited as it should have been. Maybe because I have been working throughout my academic years. Graduation is just one of a day in calendar, then you continue with what you have been doing. Maybe it is that I’ve already accepted the reality earlier. The only differences is that you’re not tied to university timetable and that you can apply for a full-time career officially.

A friend said, “congratulation on your graduation, welcome to unemployment”. well said.

I’m on a job / career lookout, lucky I have my freelance photography to feed me for the time being.

 

Pusat Ehsan’s product photoshoot

This is rather an old backlog from August 2012. There was a charity bazaar coming up and the committee members of Pusat Ehsan gathered up to discuss and plan for the event.

One of the committee member called me up for a casual group photo session.

Group photo of the committee members of Pusat Ehsan ↑

Few days later, they called me up to shoot for their handicraft products made by the student / children of Pusat Ehsan. Since it is for charity, why not? And, Pusat Ehsan’s centre in BSB is my neighbour.

Here are some of the product shots, a simple one.

Sadly, I was unable to attend the event as I was away for my Vancouver trip (yet blogged).

Here are some of the coverage from local media and bloggers.
Borneo Bulletin, Brunei Times, Ranoadidas, Tiger Lim and AnakBrunei