The last night of 2009

Scenery at the waterfront bay @ esplanade











Here's come the fireworks finally







What's left behind after the fireworks is the silent of the new dawn.

Morning Shoot At Haji Lane

Fann Wong at Haji Lane doing a TV production. A little surprise to see her there while I was there early in the morning to do some phototaking.



She's just cyclied into my camera's viewfinder. An accidental shot.



A mosque located at Haji Lane



Street look of Haji Lane in the early morning









Early Morning Worker keeping the street clean



Found the site where the mediacrop crew were doing the filming



Lazy Cat in the lazy morning









Incredible Hulk wall mural

Felicia Farewell @ Helipad

Sian... This is don't know how many farewell from my company which I have attended already.

The Making of Mafia Showdown Artwork

One year has passed very fast, now I'm helping out my company for our DnD again. This will be the 3rd time for me to attend our company DnD if I'm attending it and this time we are having a mafia theme with our dinner held on cruise.
The project this time is interesting and my job is to conceptualize some mafia related visuals that can be used for the official artwork. I drew 2 characters for this event; the chubby cute god father and the his sexy secretary/assasin. The following detailed the process of the making of these 2 characters.

Creation of the chubby godfather
Sketch out the main outline of the character



Add color the suit, collar and tie, afterwhich, add some shadow to give alittle more realism



Add color for the skin and the sunglasses. I have choose red for the sunglasses to give him a more fashionable feel



Finally, give an add an overall shadow that give the character even more realism. Complete the drawing with the hair colors too.



Convert the artwork to black and white (eventually the artwork is going to be in black and white, it'll look more mafia but the real reason is actually to cut cost on the printing.)



Creation of the Sexy Secretary/Assasin

Sketching out the main outline of the character



Add color and give a basic shading to the skin tone



Add a dark black tone to the dress and the hat of the assasin. Give a smooth shading to make the dress looks more silky and hugging to her skin. Add color and shading to her gun too.



Now, I'll work the eyes and the lips. Examine the drawing and see where else can I improve and touch up. Add some glow on the breast area and her left arm to show the light direction and make the drawing more 3D.



Finally, convert the artwork to black and white, just like the old man.

Now, I need to work on piecing the characters together to form a unified theme for the artwork is going to be used officially. First, I set my art area on photoshop. I also marked out the crop mark so that I'll have extra bleed area when I send the artwork for print.



I tried to place the artwork on the artboard and move on when I feel that the placement is balance and feels right.
Next, Give the artwork some background to make the overall visual more interesting. In here, I just used some image I grapped off the web while goggle.



Then, I typed out the main headline "Mafia Showdown" and choose the right typeface that looks "mafia". I choose the font name impact for its fat bold look.



Finally, add some effects to the text and make the headline more interesting. Convert the overall artwork into grayscale.



Wala.. I'm done.
Though the drawing is still not very good yet in my opinion, still trying to get use with using the wacom to draw. Anyway, I will definitely improve more when I use it more often in the future.

Weekend Photosnapping

Trying to take a nice evening nap but very soon awoke up by the loud blast of hindi pop music down my house. Decided to go down and take a look and my eyes were filled with many many many indian neighbours all dancing like there's no tommorrow. All of them even the granny and granpa can really shake man. The music were blasting loudly and I'm begining to find a love in their hindi pop music. The beats were strong and felt very tribal. The sound is really interesting and I can feel a urge to join them with the dancing. Too bad I'm having my bulky camera with me :( May be if they still organize this event next year, I'll try to go little india and buy one indian traditional costume and join them with the dance. I must say the night is magical and I feel like I'm being dragged into some kind of hindi spell into their version of lalaland. There are strong atmosphere of hindi friendship around the air *not those we smelt around little india. lol.. I think they have something we chinese learn, that is life is not just about work and earn big bucks. You also need event like this that helps you to unwind and feel the cultural bonding that gives you the feeling that you are not alone in this world. sometimes I hate to be chinese...





























Even little kid like him wanted to dance



She's the cutest girl I found in the whole event. sure grow up to be a beauty.







Mother preparing to let her child take the stage to have her first dance.

Wedding Photography project: Kenny's wedding

The morning was rainy and I woke up around 8:30 to prepare myself for the photoshoot of sylvie's bro wedding. I was packing up the neccessary equipments, counting.. lens, flash light, AA size battery and spare camera battery !!! Gosh, realize I couldn't find my spare camera battery. It took me around 1 hour to look around my house but still I couldn't find it. No choice, I'm heading to the grand copthorne hotel with a uneased mind, praying hard my batter (fully charged) can last me throughout the shoot. Luckily the phototaking went smoothly and here's the prized photo of the newly wed's special moments. ( to view all the photo, go to my facebook and see)





Congratualation to this newly wed husband and wife.



The bride is really gorgeous... make me wonder will I find a marry a woman like her in the future.





En En... so cute. She's 2 years old now and is super hyper active.



Sylvie jie jie trying to baby talk En En but she's probably thinking "stop treating me like a baby"



This baby, brought by the relative was super camera shine.. I tried to photography him but like make him almost cry like that.. feeling bad.



James and Slyvie are the receptionist of this special occasion.





The arrival of the bride and groom.











Congrats... you are both legally binding husband and wife



Friends and relatives phototaking.. the usual routine.













Sylvie.. always so camera ready. lol

~ the end

A Tour at the New shopping Mall - Ion

A New Interesting FastFood - The R Burger







The burger it self has patties similar to the Mos Burger kind. The one I brought to try is a terriyaki burger. Covered with Chinese made bun (bao zhi) rather than those bread commonly used in most burgers, the R burger gives a unique taste and does't taste oily or unhealthy. It also claims that each of their burger contains 1000mg of collagen. ( haha can helps skin to look younger sia )

My Wish List
Walking around Ion, I soon found alot of stuff that I wish to buy. However, trying not to anyhow spend money, eventually I took all the stuff that interest me ( sort of my wish list ) and see if I realli still want the items may be one week later when I look at the list again.

Muji Bags





Muji Travel Bag (small)



Muji Travel Bag (Inside)



Muji Card Holder



Muji Namecard holder



New Balance running shoe
See the shoe lace, it has variable thickness to help tie a better shoe lace so your running session won't be disturbed by loose lace easily. ( good sia )



Mizuru Brand Black Tee shirt



Zara Plain White casual dress shirt



Very soon, I founded Zara at Ion too.. of course must go in take a look lo...



Zara Grey Suit



Zara Jacket



Happy with the zara clothes after trying... but price too steep.. so have to let it go... ( sob)



Other interesting stuff

The revamp of Burger King
The Burger King outlet is no longer furnished with the old, sian and boring (red themed) interiors layout. It now has a more hippy and RNB feel.. see the entrace painted plainly with black matched with gold plated metalic Brand Logo can tell already.



Not far away from the burger king outlet, there's a little booth where you can make your own t-shirt. At the price of around 40 SGD, you can use their system, drag and drop to the template show on the monitor, resize, rotate your images (can drag as many you want, but careful not to turn your design into rojak lo...)



Here's a some of the main designs









The sale girl told me it take around 20 Mins for them to print the tee (not too long ba.. go walk around awhile can come back collect le)

Later, I saw the new standard charter bank branch use walking advertisment to tell people they are here at ion.. Interesting sia



I like the new poster for Mac new range cosmetic...
It's so vibrance in color.. nice





An interesting model figurine



A new shoe brand called Rubi shoes which attracted plenty of girls to visit the stall and check out their range.
I found the wordings above the shoe rack quite interesting







I want to watch this movie.... !