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jackie : Buy Shoes Free Cooking Oil

2009-05-04T00:25:00.003+08:00

wow! such long time never come here already. We're very busy this few months especially this month, our phase1.1A is going to handover soon. Busy for 1and1/2 years, the result is going to be up. So excited!

We went for lunch yesterday, guess what i saw!! so fun! I and kelvin stood there and watch for few second. but we walked back and we decided to walk back and took it down.

It's nothing so special if you get any free gift when go for shopping. What if you see :

Wahahaha! What a fabulous marketing scheme! I guess I wouldn't appreciate if asked me to carry a big bottle of cooking oil when go shopping! what the..... I don't think I can see this from anywhere else other then in china!

2nd day Ice Skating

2009-01-02T22:07:00.000+08:00

It's 2-1-2009, we couldn't stand ourselves to stay home anymore, it's going to explode soon! Gotta find something to do! We did some ski-wear shopping yesterday, although it's too rush to arrange skiing trip, but we have our lake just opposite to where we're staying. So, we forced ourselves to walk over to the other of the road no matter cold it was. Gosh, we should honour ourselves a gold plated bravery award to go ice-skatting on a -20+'C day.

This is our first time ice-skating on a lake, on a outdoor REAL lake. It's harder than what i imagined and the ice is too000000000 rough .... But it's only RMB10/hour.

it's FUN! We'll come again!

First day of the year

2009-01-02T21:39:00.000+08:00

We have been separated with peppy for a week, she looked very upset about something. Guess is her hair, coz it does look quite messy.

Being a good parent, we decided to bring peppy to have a brnad new hair-cut to on the first day 2009. Let her to have a New LOOK to from the starting of the year. Look at her, in her transport baggie! Only her head is showing out.. no wonder, coz its freezing outside! -28'C

Wow! She looks happy now! Hurray!!!!

'08 year-end BBQ in 大尾篤

2008-12-28T23:29:00.000+08:00

Lunch, 細佬帯左hunny ju, 我同媽咪去食我地最鍾意食既上海野.

跟住仲去食龟苓膏 ...

老豆答應左我成廿幾年話带我去BBQ, 我等到而家最終都係細佬係佢day-off個日organise左個family BBQ. 如果唔係都唔知仲要等到幾時潻!

我地仲带左 Sunny 仔出嚟潻, 呢次都係Sunny仔同珊珊既第一次BBQ咋喎.

哝, 老豆睇來好開心喎, 仲係咁燒 pork chop 潻.... 而媽咪就係咁坐係度等食, 真係爽呀!

我班死檔of course 唔會 miss out 呢D咁好玩既機會啦 ...

Mike仲特登唔陪家姐带左阿甘嚟tim....佢話阿甘一定會好開心喎. 真係踢老婆啊!

最後, 梗係影返幾張group photo啦!

媽咪仲話梗係要同佢兩個"女"影返張潻... sigh! 我媽咪從來都唔會主動話要同的影相架! 你睇幾大細超! 仲笑到咁開心潻!

仲未完呀, 跟住細佬仲带我地去大埔好出名既甜品屋食甜品潻.

Eat roadside food on Boxing day

2008-12-27T14:54:00.000+08:00

We din arrange any appointmnet this time round, coz we wanna relax and took our sweet time to wall-walk and did some 无聊 things!

Everybody was unpacking their christmas present on boxing day, well, me and hunny went to exploring roadside food in Hong Kong most busy street - Mongkok.

At first my lovely brother suggested us to have dinner @ the most famous 明苑煲仔飯.

However, we decided not to hv normal dinner. Our 2008 diet are very regulated, this was the 1st time me & my hunny ju ju NEVER had a proper in 2008! First, we my hunny ju had juicy grilled cutterfish, I, myself had a spicy fishball, then we went to 许留山 to have dessert.

It's too cool & full!

Jackie : 2008 Christmas Day

2008-12-26T23:41:00.002+08:00

Woke up @ 12:30pm, we went to one very authentic Hong Kong Cafe for lunch in Yuen Long.

Nowadays, you can only find this kind of cafe in countryside area, people who come to this cafe can only drive here, there is no public transport to reach here.

After a nice authentic lunch @ 元朗茶餐廳, Marco brought us to the Wetland in 米埔, there was certain area not allowed to go in due to bird flu. So, we change our route to Gold Coast, the best place for photo taking. My last time visit Gold Coast was 10 years ago already. It is still as nice as before, nothing much has been changed.

Marco still wanted to fill up our schedule to go somewhere else for sightseeing then go for Thai Christmas dinner, it was too good for us, but too tiring. My Hunny Ju and I wanted to have a easy and relax trip this time, we didn't want to have any expensive food, we finally went for a absolute delicious roadside local food 大排檔, this was the best arrangement for my hunny ju. This even better for us !!!

We love 大排檔 food!

Jackie : 2008 Christmas Eve

2008-12-26T00:01:00.009+08:00

MERRY 2008 CHRISTMAS!!!

Christmas Eve, get together with friends after yearsssssss to cook Christmas dinner @ best friend Mandy's place and exchange Christmas present at mid-night (12/25).

In a short and busy afternoon, before meeting Marco to buy our food & gifts for our Christmas dinner, my hunny ju ju still can take advantage to buy a ultimate offered DKNY leather jacket while shopping things for our christmas party. So smart! Never wasted our trip to hk. wohoo......

Shopping for food and gifts for our Christmas gift exchange party in TST CitySuper, haha, after that walk all the way to HungHom Station to pick up the car. Gosh, it took us 45 mins to walk there...

Huh, I was the 'Chef of the Christmas Eve Dinner', the whole dinner was done by ME.
Even Marco also commented "delicious" the day after! Wahahahahaha!!!

Eh but it was fantastic okie!!!

While I was being the good chef, my "friends" already started the Super King Oyster ...
You can tell how good is the Super Oyster from Mandy's face ... wahahahhahaha ....

That was the most expensive dish of the dinner!

This Fabulous Christmas Dinner was fully sponsored by Marco & Mandy!

Let's cheerssssssssssssss for our dinner ............ Merry Christmas!

Our gifts exchange started right @ 12:01 Christmas Day! Everybody have present!

There is something that cannot be missed! Our best friend "Majong" time...

Let me introduce our super Majong Fans. 桌號 "Majong Brothers" - We have Mike on the left & Ben the right !We finally ended the War of Majong @ 5am 12/25 Chrsitmas morning ... !

Jackie : Best Friend's Wedding

2008-12-24T00:42:00.000+08:00

Gosh, i can't imagine they finally reached terminal of 13-year-Marathron. They finally feel tired to keep running in the maze. Seriously i didn't suprised to be their MC tho, although he told me that the reason of choosing me to be their MC was because nobody wanna take this shit job, however, i know, nobody can do better then me. It was hard, no script, no preparation, no planning,

didn't get any chanc

e to see my partner MC until on the actual day. But no choise, I din nevrous, and it was great!

I didn't really prepare much until the night before their wedding, i knew i didn't need to. In fact, i didn't even need script, The script was all in my mind, I could throw anything out for both of them, any topic any time. Too hard for me to write ever

ything down, we're too close!!!!!

I prepared the script write-up until 5am coz of i didn't know Tim (my partner Amcee, Mike's friend). That day, i only slept one hour, slept at 5:30am and woke up at 6:30am, Mike and the brothers had already reached downstairs the apartment when i reached there. I was late but I didn't feel guilty coz I knew I need not to when somebody didn't do best for his own big day. The only thing I had in mind was 'do my best today on everything that i can! Must suprise my best

friend, let her a memorable wedding' and i think i did. I satisfied on my performance and the wedding was fabulous!!!!

I didn't even do so much for my own wedding...........

I hosted the morning game, continue script writting with my partne

r in th

e coach while going to Mike's house, helping on tea ceremony, bought flowers .... etc.

Three of us (mandy, kelvin & I) went up to the groom's house to make the bed to suprise Jane. It was quite suces

sful, Jane finally knew that was my idea when she saw the video during our Christmas part

y in Mandy's house.

It is too much to skip this person until here who helped the most behind t

he scene, and she was neither brothers nor sisters, she had been

followed up a small little details until the end of the day, 'Mandy', OUR BEST friend, I would have already wasted all of my time and effort on the planning for the whole show

without her support. Thanks Man! Thanks for supporting me! Thanks for always on my side no matter what. Of course, thanks for kicking the shit ass out of my face on that night! Thanks for bringing up the atmosphere! Thanks for being my best of the best friend all along! Although you were not sisters or mc, but you're beside me when i wrote my script, you're next to me when i was rehearsing at the back of the stage, you're there when i felt nervous. Thanks for everything that you did for all of us.

12/5 Hainan Sanya Trip

2008-12-15T00:02:00.000+08:00

GoD@!@ an extreme climate change in 6 hours! From -15'C change to +23'C ... My hunny ju ju take off all his inner wear straight away when we touch down ...

We went to this "真正海南特色" restaurant to try the real Hananese food! Real Hananese Chicken "文昌雞"! haha... but not as nice as the chicken rice that we eat in Singapore, i still prefer hawker's boneless hainanese chicken.

Lots of ppl joining for our trip this time round, got Grandma, aunty siew hoon, eunice, janice, 丁叔叔&丁阿姨, and 涛叔叔&小惠阿姨.

Second day, we went to see the "Floating Guanyin" 出海观音that aunty they all see from the plane.

kelvin : Winter Works Preparation

2008-11-26T00:19:00.008+08:00

Flash, Tuesday came and gone. The weather's still hovering around +4 to +8°C, with the lowest about -8°C at night, so its still considered "warm" for this part of time. Heard from the forecast that on Thursday, the cold front will arrive and temperature will again drop by an additional 10°C.

About 2+pm this afternoon, did a quick site inspection with Dad and our construction team, in preparation for tomorrow morning's progress meeting. Quite a lot of work ahead for '09 April and without some intense planning, it quite an arduous task ahead.

(top) project high-rise 24 storeys, external works mostly complete, except for paint and interior works

(top) project exclusive 6 storeys garden villas, mostly complete, with piping works on-going on the foreground

Oh, and previously we tried some dressing up for Peppy (honey bee, rock star, fake Burberry) as Jackie was afraid the weather here will be too cold for her. It was quite funny after putting up the dresses, as she basically just "froze" on spot, openly irritated by whatever is on her! I guess she prefer her own natural fur skin than clothes.

(top) peppy in the honey bee dress! cute!

(top) peppy and jackie. irresistable not to hug!

(top) peppy in her rock star outfit!

kelvin : Monday I'm-Not-Feeling-The-Blues!

2008-11-25T00:43:00.004+08:00

Seems like the "I'm running on adrenaline!" campaign is working. Didn't felt lethargic this morning, snoozed twice before jumping out of bed and into the bathroom. Feels real good! Today wasn't much of an exciting day, off to work as usual, had a couple of meetings and did a little planning work for winter construction. Other than that, had my first session of gym after 1 month of stoppage (everything was pretty much saggy) so it was kinda tough today.

Read this James Reynold's blog (he's a BBC correspondent in Beijing) when I'd got home and his articles on China, its developments and policies are actually quite interesting. Check it out if you would want to understand more about the land I'm currently in.

Oh, and Jackie had a bad stomache this morning!

Jackie : My hunny Ju first time to ask me to take sticker photo

2008-11-23T01:48:00.004+08:00

After a longggggggggggg battle, I finally had 100% satisfaction today because I woke up @ 1:00pm.... thanks god! Dear, I never had so much sleeping for how many months already?? I also lost count !

After our lunch, suprisingly hunny ju ju asked me to take sticker photo, he usually dun like to this kind of thing, dunno wut happen to him today, but i was so happy. So, of course i took this very good chance to take 4 funny sticker photo with him.

The sticker photo qualtiy are not bad, you still can choose to laminate it with different pattern of lamination. The after laminated effect are perfect and with little shinny pattern.

And there was one more thing had made me feeling suprise, Peppy was so daring when she ran out of our house and jumped into the lift. She didn't dare to walk into shadow, but today she did it. She was so excited when Liu Jie called her to go down, she waited @ the front door ... aiyo, cannot stand this little doggie. Nowadays, she go down for walking everyday... we're so happy that we have Liu Jie to take care of her and to bring her down for walk walk when we go for work or not in shenyang.

kelvin : A good week of good weather ahead. I'm enjoying it while I can..

2008-11-23T00:13:00.009+08:00

Well, as you would have noticed (else, welcome first-timer visitor, where have you been?!), I'd changed the layout and outlook of the site, the previous one was *sweet* but I'm getting kinda cross-eyed since everything is squashed together within 400 (?) pixels of text space. (From my 1200+ resolution, that kinda sucks!) So I basically took everything (except the contents, of course!) and trashed them happily into the bin. At least now everything looks squeaky clean, just like CNY is around the corner. :)

(top) Grappling with Blogger's sophisticated interface.

By the way, it's been more than 1 year since I'd been using the iPhone, and last night, I fell in love with it all over again. Yes. Learnt and "jailbroken" its firmware to version 2.1! It was quite easy to upgrade iPhones "illegally" (as in not through AT&T networks) nowadays, with hackers really understanding 'user experience', and this was achieved through a very well-designed program, QuickPwn, whereby most of the steps are Next, Press This, Next, Release That, Next, Done. Real slick.. So now, I'm running the near-latest (yes, just learnt that 2.2 is out but no big fuss really) software on my 2G iPhone, with App Store. Cool.

(top) time to pimp it up!

Actually what truly made me move my lazy ass to go through all these troubles, is because I'd read about Google's newest mobile application, Google Mobile App, is out on the App Store. What it actually does is that it allows users to voice-search and call contacts, which sounds pretty nifty to me! (Though I'd read about it having trouble deciphering British accents, but then again, most of us don't understand what they're talking about most of the time anyway) So, after all the troubles, I created an iTunes account, login and then realised that I can't access into U.S. App Store (the only Store where the Google Mobile App is currently available) since I don't own a U.S.-issued credit card, which is required during account registration. Damn. So in the end, I can only happily satisfy myself downloading freebies off the China Store. But still, its all cool and now Jackie looks like she's ditching her Nokie E71 to switch back to the "Pod Side". :)

Thought of the Day : "Created a new Digg account, have to updated this blog, need to check back Facebook, have to sync files to Box.net, desperate to source for a web album and of course to check my emails on Gmail... The Internet has unknowingly became our work master."

P.S. : Just caught the movie "Connected (2008) 保持通话", featuring 古天乐 and 张家辉. To sum it up, this would probably be the best HK thriller this year for me. So catch it!!

P.P.S : Day One of "I'm running on adrenaline!"

kelvin : back in shenyang as Mr & Mrs Koh

2008-11-16T21:12:00.002+08:00

The wedding is fantastic and much thanks to all the relatives and friends who helped and came by! It was just a great night at Ritz and we just can't wait to see the photos!

Returning to Shenyang on Wednesday, the first thing that hit us was the cold weather. When we left, it was still at a cool 10+ degrees and nowadays, its hitting the zero line. Weather is quickly descending, however in comparison to last year's weather, this year is considered a lot warmer.

At last, we have cabled TV streaming good old National Geographic, HBO, CineMax, MTV, etc onto our tube! No more China-made programmes!! (Which always successfully put me to sleep within 10 minutes, or at least irritate me enough to switch it off) Just a pity that it doesn't come with the Discovery Channel.

jackie : Customary day is a busy day

2008-10-30T02:37:00.003+08:00

One day before the customary :

Today, we went to report to ROM in the morning, pay fine then file our ROM. Wow, it's serious, we need to write an application @ ROM in person to state the reason of not filing and being residence in Singaopre for more than 21 days, and to declare the reason that we give are true. Of course, after all these trouble we still hv to pay for the fine $200 in order to file our marriage.

When we file our marriage, it was quite thrilling, we forgot that we need to fill the witness of solmnization's passport number to file our ROM, but father never brought his passport, nearly cannot file our marriage today. We panic for a while, luckly, we did file it before in shenyang, so we finally retreive the form in ROM record, otherwise, have to go back and take passport already. It was very fast, it took less than an hour, the whole reporting and filing process end already.

We also went to Ritz to discuss some of the things with our co-oridinator, like table setting, confirmation of guess numbers, music performance, seating arrangement, music selection... things that waiting for us to confirm one, we've confirmed with Ritz already. Schedule to confirm the rest on Friday.

After that, we went to buy Jewelly for tomorrow's customary. We finally decided not to waste money to buy Bvgarly coz it doesn't really worth to pay so much just for the wedding ring. Eventually, we bought a very nice pair of ear-ring and the wedding band @ one of the diamond shop in Marina Sq.

It was a very rush buy, very funny, it was really really last minute preparation. Even the Jewellery Sales also commented it was to last minute ad people actually buy all these few months before the customary...

But i feel quite cool, as in we could manage to settle manay things in just one day..... But of course we have a very good wedding planner, to PRE-arrange and to PRE-settle even more things before we came back. That really shorten the process a lot!

REALLY ... I truely appeciate our SUPER wedding planner, thanks for her help!

ok, need to stop here, tomorrow 8:00am, hunny ju will come and start customary exchange game.

jackie : Birthday is not a normal day

2008-10-09T11:34:00.008+08:00

Nothing special on my birthday, morning go work, lunch, then dinner ... But surprisely received my 1st birthday present from Shan Shan (my shenyang colleage). It was so sweet, i never expected anyone would know my birthday here, but she did. I really appreicated!!!

My 1st present is 10 milk girl small toys (little deco, have to set up). Very cute!

I have my lunch and dinner with hunny ju everyday, but unpredictaby, we didn't go lunch together, we walked down together but he went to work-site with his dad. Ifelt cheerless suddenly. But i told myself, it's ok, he'll manage to come back early and we could have our early night tonight. However, receiving his call @5:30pm to ask me about work, and i realised that he was still at site. sigh! He finally manage to come back to meet me @ 7:30pm... and brought me out for a birtdhay steam boat dinner without bringing any present, haha, thought I won't be receiving any birthday present from him. But surprisingly, there is a Tiffany bag on my chair when i came back with the sauces... He secretly put the gift on my chair and covered with my coat. heehee... i was so happy....b'coz he is so busy but we can steal some time to buy my birthday present and a super small birthday cake for me... (Thanks hunny babe!)

jackie : Thanks all auntySSS

2008-10-05T00:11:00.006+08:00

Counting down : 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28..... 3, 2, 1, 0 !!!!

33 days to go, nothing much has been down so far, even wedding card design still hanging in the sky, design yet to be confirmed, wedding dinner menus haven't been chosen, dinner programme haven't been finalised, things that need to buy still haven't been written in our checklist...etc. Gosh, what a 'Last Minute' couple! Thanks god to have kelvin's mummy and all auntySSSSSSSSS, SUPPPPPPER strong team of wedding planner, purposely to arrange meeting on Oct 1 for us, to discuss the wedding preparations. We have nothing to say but only "THANKS YOU VERY MUCH", so "SWEET"....... and you all deserve a big big big big "kiss" from us ..., we reallly really appreciate that!

jackie : Hunny Ju Ju Birthday

2008-08-19T00:26:00.007+08:00

If I could have a wish,
I would wish to give you a thousand wish,
If i could have a wish,
I would wish to give you all my wish,
If I could have a wish,
I would wish to give you joy and peace,
If I could have a wish,
I would wish to make your wishes come true.

My dearest hunny ju ju,

Wish you to have a
"Happy Birthday" ...!

"If I could have one more wish,
I would wish to share your birthday with you forever!"

i LOVE you , hunny ju ju ...!

Love,
Koala Bear Bear

jackie : Peppy also need beauty treatment

2008-08-17T21:05:00.010+08:00

Peppy go for her 2nd beauty treatment after coming to shenyang 3 months ... wow.. so pretty!!!

Makes somebody hugs her and dun wanna let go ... hahahaha ...

While we're waiting for little peppy, we walked along 中街 (one of the most popular shopping street in Shenyang). Everywhere is TVs that showing olympic games ...

See people taking photo of this '中国加油', it's quite funny, why do they even wanna take photo of this thing when it is not a very nice flower display and somehow it is a bit 老土.

Later, i feel, they should be quite proud of their country, that's why they wanna take it down for memory. haha, probably show their kids years later, china ever hold olympic game .... after think twice, i decided to take this down ... coz i also wanna tell my kids about it.

It's serious!!! Got security on duty somemore ....

(Wonder what can this middle-age man do if there is people 捣乱.....)

jackie : 超級開心呀, 因為咁大個女, 笫一次係現場睇奧運呀!

2008-08-16T11:20:00.001+08:00

Brazil vs Cameroon

今年奧運football係沈陽举行,我地竟然有機會去睇最後一場Brazil vs Cameroon, 真係要多謝Hunny Ju爸爸. 如果無佢, 根本無可能買到ticket呀. 最後, 我地3個今日一齊去左睇奧運足球.

個奧運會場都真係做得幾靓既, 而且呢度個政府控制人流同安全都算控制得幾唔錯. 奧運會場里面完全唔比有bottle之類既物品, 連大個D既袋都唔比入, 入會場要經過2個檢查站同素描带添．

不过，场比赛都算是好睇, 仲打到加時添. 睇完比賽, 我地個肚餓到震呀, 但已經好晏喇, 無咩地方有野食喇, 最後我地去左食Ajisan就返屋企.

Ow, Olympics Fever!

2008-07-29T22:40:00.010+08:00

Was reading my usual dosage of Channelnewsasia (personally voted as the best online source for Singapore news), when I stumbled upon an article announcing the start of Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics logo design! Wow, exciting~ Though Singapore didn't really quite have what it takes to take on World Cup 2010, at least we have our fair share of joy at being the FIRST Youth Olympics host! Who knows, maybe one day, the little red dot might even host the "real deal"!

Anyhow while I was tinkering with small fuzzy ideas running through my head about how a good 2010 logo might be like, I thought a little research about past Olympics logos might gives some fresh inspirations. Hence I googled, and guess what? Found some pretty interesting articles on London 2012 Olympics logo, which I bet most of us didn't know. Links as such : link #1, link #2

Gees, wouldn't trade for a job at the British Olympic board anytime soon..

kelvin : 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) + 1R (Regret?)

2008-07-28T23:35:00.002+08:00

Monday, thankfully without the blues. Spent the whole day at the construction site, running through timelines, reaffirming the construction department's (工程部) objectives to the main contractors about our stance on rushing deadlines to meet the year-end aims as well as our focus on quality control. With only about 3 more months (Aug, Sept, Oct) before winter, we have a behemoth task ahead, since the main pipes (clean water 自来水, dirty water 排水, gas 煤气, electricity 电力, heating 热力) are still not executed yet. Gotta rush designs, rush tenders, rush the construction teams in. On the bright side, at least with these past weeks focusing on the construction side, I'm starting to see more bonds within the department.

Had a thought yesterday (Sunday) when I was browsing through a magazine at Starbucks while waiting for Jac to do her nails. Saw this article about recycling bags and how it is so "chic" to be eco-friendly and nature-embracing. Apparently even famous designers are lending their hands to the "oh so environmentally cool" designs.

Anyhow, the thought that flashed through me was "Okay, yeah its great that people nowadays are becoming so environmentally conscience and stuff and that even everywhere here is charging like RMB0.20 for a plastic bag! I now have a spare eco-bag in one of pocket of my backpack which I carry around everyday, and I can hardly even find a single plastic bag at home! This eco-thingie is really bringing it on here in China, much more so than in Singapore!" Then it dawned on me on how am I going to throw my rubbish in my bin if I hadn't had a plastic bag to tie it up! Paperbag? Nope, leakages. Then what? No much options left on the table, I suppose. Maybe we ought to have a mini-incinerator in the kitchen or something. I think maybe I still need a plastic bag afterall..

kelvin : Bells-A-Ringing...

2008-07-27T23:59:00.007+08:00

Yesterday and today marked another step forward in our lives together. Yes, the much anticipated (or to some, dreadful) wedding photos! Much of Saturday was spent on interior shootings, in all we spent about 7 hours, switching between 5 outfits. (See Jac's post below) In fact, most of my time was spent on the couch, battling on my PSP while the makeup artists doodle all over Jackie's face. Trust me, yes it was that long, I managed to complete the Bomberman game for goodness' sake!

The whole package set us back about RMB6,800+ (about S$1,300), with a couple of standard albums, frames, 48 photos to keep and an additional free casual shoot, known as a 写真. It's cheap considering the average package in Singapore would cost about $2.5k to $4k. The China studio was pretty neat as well, 5 storeys in all, with us settling nicely on the top VIP floor. (Note : Singapore studios are pretty pathetic in this aspect) Staff are patient, friendly and the cameramen (from Taiwan) are pretty pro in the staff they do, or at least their cameras looks pro! Haha..

Anyhow today we did a single interior shot and the rest of it on an outdoor studio. They actually made a mockup 1:1 scale of castle backdrops, Greece-like whitewashed buildings, cute shopping malls, etc etc in a huge warehouse! Quite amazing and we're pretty sure the backdrop would look spectacular in our photos. One complaint though : it's freaking hot in there, which made the whole freeze-and-smile-and-act-like-we're-totally-enjoying-it process a little more painful. Today, I finally understand the emotions of actors/models when they do outdoor shooting. Nah, I don't think we're ready for it anytime soon!

On the bright side, this part is done and dealt with, and hopefully next Thursday we could go back and start picking photos. We'd made a pact not to feel too emotional about the photos and to stick to picking ONLY 48 photos, without any additions! Additions would cost about RMB70 each, which would add up to quite a lot without much self-control in place. Would definately compare Singapore photo-shoot experience with this (not placing a lot of faith personally) and see which will come up tops!

The legendary 周Sir directing Jac's posture to perfection!

I look gorgeous with my big red ball! Hey where's the other one???

Us and da crew in perfect harmony. 1,2,3... SCREAM!

Us on the way for our outdoor shots.

The outdoor shooting crew, with the mockup set as the background.

jackie : First Experience In Our Life

2008-07-26T23:26:00.017+08:00

Great 1st photo experience in shenyang. Although it's a bit too long, took us 8 hrs to just take 4 gowns, but it was worth it.i finally put down my worryssssssssssss because our photo shooting crew is not bad, the photographer, the make-up artist and the assistants.. they are GREAT!

Painful Experience

Make-up artist is very important. It destines everything of the phtoto album. But SHE (海雯老师） is GREAT. I regret that I never consult her before today. If I had asked for her opinion before, i wouldn't have so much pain during the photo shooting.

2 days ago..... I went to plant my eye lashes with my little small eye - sister of my bf (圆脸小眼小妹妹). Don't even know why should I go and plant my eye lashes especially when my make-up artist told me that my eye lashes is actually quite long and plant eye lashes will make my eye looks dull. Huh, wasted my time!!!!!

When they pull out the fake eye lashes, they were so stubborn, dont' want to leave my pretty real eye lashes, it made me so uncomfortable and i REALLY wanted to cry. In fact, i cried because i found my 2 real eye lashes were run away with the fake eye lashes together. It's not fun!

Feeling of 'fake' experience

The feeling is 'very fake'. They put 2 stacks of foam boxes on the floor for me to step on it to make look taller. ooh dear! But who knows that on top the 2 stacks of foam boxes, I was also on a 4 inches wedge.

Communication Breakdown

The photographer gave us a lot of advice on the post though, but I totally don't under what he wanted me to do. I everytime wait for the lighting controller to tell me what to post ... a total communication breakdown.

Finally we finished 4 gowns for the indoor-studio shooting at 8:30pm today and will continue the outdoor photo shooting tomorrow at 10:00am. so i guess it's time for me to recharge my battery now and shall continue to share our experience tomorrow. nitenite...

kelvin : Online Gadgetry

2008-07-24T00:38:00.004+08:00

Updated the website with more stuff, like Chatterbox's tagboard, some links and of course, our little nice picture. Haven't been building websites since kelvinkoh.com (defunct since end 2007) so this is a good experience all over again. Might consider putting more stuff up, such as a flash-based media player.

Oh by the way, would be heading back to shopping-paradise Hong Kong come 1 Aug (for about a couple of days), before back to home-sweet-home Singapore. Wouldn't be staying for too long though, as work here is at its most critical. Still, looking forward to the short break!