Khee Fatt & Choon Foong's ROM

TYING-THE-KNOT on A MASS 20092009 WEDDING
Location: Chin Woo, Ipoh

September 20th, looked like any other date on the calendar. But let's put it this way "20.09.2009" and you could see it's double 2009. It was also the 2nd day of 8th month in the Lunar Calendar. At the same time, the day also fell on the Hari Raya festival weekend. This couldn't be a more auspicious day to get married...

My long time friends, and housemates (one is permanent, the other occasional), Khee Fatt & Choon Foong chose this auspicious day to do their registration of marriage. Together with them, there were 48 other couples doing a mass wedding affair at the hall of Chin Woo, Ipoh. My first time witnessing a mass wedding and I must admit I was quite overwhelmed with the crowd and photographers and journalists from the local press covering the whole event.


Some early shots in the morning just after the make-up session. Looking good and ready to go.
Left: The bride with sister cum maid of honour; Right: The bride with William aka "the driver".


Here's the couple, before the mass registration begins.


Khee Fatt & Choon Foong with Choon Ying (maid of honour) and William (driver dum best man of the day)


Choon Yean and I with the bride and groom.


Choon Foong's family and the very-soon-to-be-wed couple.


Khee Fatt and Choon Foong. Plenty of time for photoshoot while waiting for the mass registration ceremony to start.


Sista Love!


Getting in line and ready for the group shots. A total of 49 couples to be wed on that day.


There were really a lot of brides and grooms! Massive event!


Another angle shot of Khee Fatt and Choon Foong and the rest of the couples.


Look at the huge crowd of photographers shooting the brides and grooms...


Shot a photo of this cute little girl while waiting for the marriage registrar.


Recital sheet...each couple has one.


Reciting the vows to each other.


Here comes the moment to sign on the dotted line...Choon Foong very serious here. Afterall, this is a decision of a lifetime.


Exchanging rings...very very happily.


Rings from Diamond & Platinum. Free advertisement for them. lolz


You may kiss the bride now...


More kiss...on request from everyone.


Kisses for mama...Khee Fatt's mom.


Choon Foong and her mama.


Girls..."Ji Muis"


Girlfriends photo session...


Next, we are heading to St. Michael for the next session.

Till the next entry for more pix...cheers!

Charity Deed for A Day

CHARITY DEED FOR A DAY
Venue: NZX (Niu Che Sui) @ Ara Damansara

Last Sunday, Clive and I participated as volunteer photographers for the "Malaysian 88 Taiwan Typhoon Campaign" at NZX. It was a good cause where everyone was there to do some charity work. Our work was to be the official photographers for the events, and take photos of people from the crowd, have them printed out and sell them off. Besides that, there were also some games and food sold here. All the money collected will be sent to Taiwan to aid the victoms of the typhoon tragedy.

The crowd turnout was not that high, but we did what we could and we manage to collect a small amount of money for the charity campaign. Local artists such as Karen Kong, Namawee, Jeanie Lee and Manhand were there to support the campaign.


There were games available and the crowd were encouraged to participate to raise fund. Guest artist, Jeanie Lee showed everyone how it was done.


Participant will get a chop for every game and obstacle that they win. After a certain amount of chops collected, prices were available for redemption.


Pay RM5 and you get to pose, have your pix taken printed on the spot! Just like this one!


Karen Kong was there, and I must admit she is real petite.


Karen Kong and Namawee with the hostesses from JiaYu TV.


Yoyo performance from the national yoyo champions.


Namewee and I.


My partner in crime for the day, Clive.


With the rest of the team...some photographers, some runners, some sales, some technical dudes. All were there in the name of charity! Great deeds!

Pre-wedding | Raymond & Mona (KL)

PRE-WEDDING at HERITAGE HOTEL, KL
Photographer: Andrew Yep
Make up: Aivy Yong
This was my first time shooting in Heritage Hotel located at the old KL railway station, and I was lucky to have Aivy with me. She has been here before so she knows a little bit about the place, and that made things easier for me. As usual, her make up were excellent and I was very please to acquire her help for this session. Also many thanks to Cheryl for the studio, and Yanny the videogirl.

We started the shoot at Heritage Hotel, did a few hours of shooting here. After that, we went back to Armadale's studio and continued the indoor studio shots. Just plain white backdrop shots, but it was fun and we did some unusual and funny ideas.

Part 2 in Perth! Stayed tune...



































Part II: Armadale Studio

Freeman Woo

FREEMAN WOO - The Boy-Next-Door
Last July, the magazine team went over to MediaCorp office in KL and did a casual interview and shooting with Freeman Woo ( 邬启明 ). Freeman is a successful model in Malaysia, having grace the covers of many magazines. He signed up with MediaCorp in 2008 and embarked on the journey to his acting career.

Frozen

The lighting was set, the model was ready but the photographer still doesn't have much idea on what he wants to achieve. Nevertheless, once I got hold of the camera, ideas started flowing out and from then onwards, it just went with the flow.

At the end, we achieve something good, and credits to the model, Miss Yanny. Thank you so much, you're always there willing to be my guinea pig model. Once in the editing room, I decided to give this series a blue and cold tone. Thus, "Frozen" was born.