Golf range with buddies!

Location: Punggol Golf Range

It's the holidays! And things are getting better so far. My closest buddies from secondary school met last weekend to hit some ballz at punggol's driving range. And I was coach Chris for the day. And lemme introduce you to 3 of them.

This hansum looking boy, is Gabriel Tan, gentle giant, Mr fit and Basketball legend.

Met him during secondary 2 school camp, we were assigned tent mates for the night and I happen to be sleeping right next to him, sounds wrong but yes. We woke up the next day and realise everybody left except the both of us, sleeping like a boss arrived at the assembly area late..

Naville! One of the nicest guys I know. My Secondary 1 classmate aaand my softball team mate as well. We really had great memories during softball training, we shared roles in the team, shortstop and pitcher which I mainly play. A softball partner could not be more enjoyable.

One time Bryan cracked a Joke, asking us what bees produces milk. When he answered with Boobees, we all laughed pretty badly and suddenly.. there was a fart. There were about 8-10 people around and all of us stared at Naville. That was then I was hit by one of the worst laughing gas that lasted for 20mins.



OH and Gabriel has a new girl~~ Celia. met her for the first time last week! She was shy at first... but started to open up to us after awhile and that's when we realise she's a really nice person! Taught her to play for awhile, reminds me of coaching at Kindergolf! hahaha, i used to coach kids from 3-9 years old and I realised I was using the same technique to her. Not only her though, everybody who just started golf.

Happy for my boy, they really look cute together dont they!



Aisey. His shirt says it all.



Me trying my best to keep the ball short of the fence at the far end. HAHA. Shot taken by Celia! I used to play lots of golf during my secondary school day and I represented by school throughout. Let me hao lian abit. I used to play pretty O.K golf, I was a 6 Handicapper. Used to train almost everyday after school and during the weekends at Seletar Country Club. Great memories there and met a group of nice people, maybe one day I'll blog about it.

Celia's reaction after hitting a 300meter shot.

Last but not least! Bryan, our army boy. Secondary 1 classmate together with Naville. We've had the most memories together, I really don't know where to start.

He arrived late and smell of alcohol. Nothing unusual really. The wildest amongst us but he gets petty at times! Oh and he was our school's sprint champ for 3 years straight. I wasnt much of an athelete, BUT I STILL GET GOLD for napha EVERY YEAR. Anyway the point is I only attended sports day just to watch him run, so i'd just attend the first event which is the 100m sprint, and off I go! That's my boy!

Wish I could share more cause these are the people that I've really had great times with for the past 7 years. But I'm not a great story teller and it might be a bore. Maybe more next time!

Changi Beach with dad

Hi!

So my dad just went back to Su Zhou, China. That's not his home town but that's where he works at. So it's just me and my sis at home! Oh and btw my sis is back from Paris. She got me a really cool crumpler camera bag which I just need. Sister can read my mind.

My dad was here for the past 4 days, so yesterday he felt like visiting Changi beach just for fun, so visited Changi beach we did.

Changi Coast Rd. If I were to buy a road in Singapore (just saying), I will DEFINITELY pick this. Reminds me of   long and quiet countryside drives. Imagine, this is the closest i can get to a countryside in Singapore, so sad :( But the best part of it is.. i'll get to see planes landing and taking off!

Random little girl. So cute (not a pedo)

Dad enjoying the sea view. His black hair dye is fading off. haha.

 He was telling me how he always bring the family to Changi beach when we were little kids. But the only thing I could remember was huge noisy ass planes flying right above us. And since I love planes and it brings back memories, took some shots of the plane with the help of my 18-200mm.

I have a big problem differentiating A320 and B737. A320 has a slightly rounder nose i suppose? Not too sure, they look the same to me...

Ahhhhhhhh i just realised, only airbus has Sharklets. They're those fins at the tip of the wings, originally called winglets but these new designs look like shark fins, hence sharklets. So there you go, both are A320!

Drea Chong's OOTD

Location: Somewhere in Ubi.

Model: My sister, Drea Chong

Hi! Exams are around the corner and i'm blogging!  Can't find the motivation at this hour. Sister is in Paris right now, i admit I kinda miss her so i decided to blog about her OOTD! Blogging seems to be more of a girls thing, but I have to admit, i kinda enjoy it. 

Ok back to topic. This was taken about... 2 or 3 weeks back. Sister had to bang on the door to wake me up EARLY 7am in the morning to do this shoot. I was pretty excited anyway because I found a lens hood for my 50mm lens! My sister was keeping it the original box the whole time and thank god I found it. Lens hood looks cool, makes you look like a pro. haha. But the real purpose of it is to prevent stray lights/glares on to your lens and it also improves the contrast of the image. Shooting without the hood against the sun can create a nice effect though but sometimes it can create glares that look like creepy orbs to me.. But why i'm using it is because... heh.. I look more like a PRO. I'm easily satisfied as you can see, just a lens hood can hype me up.

We were supposed to shoot at Marina Bay but ended up here, somewhere in UBI. This area is full of industrial buildings and we thought we could get this edgy look. Turns out pretty cool! Not really what I pictured it to be though. I was picturing more garage doors and less cars in the background. Nonetheless, sunlight was great! 

Night cycle at Punggol Promenade.

Location: Sengkang/Punggol Promenade Park

Hi guys! This is gonna be the first time i'm posting something other than fashion photography. A few reasons why I did. Well, #1 things haven't been going good for the past few days Just feeling reeeally down for some reason you may realise later during this post. #2 I got a new 18-200 vr nikkor lens. #3 bored.

11.30pm. Grabbed my camera, tripod and bicycle.

Took the lift down and headed towards the park, first thing I see was this overhead bridge and I thought hey, maybe I should start here. Nothing much here, the bus stop on the right is where I take bus 50 to school every morning, and this overhead bridge with a HUGE flight of stairs (much exaggeration but that's how i look at it early in the morning with my eyes still half closed) serves as a crossing and my early morning exercise.....

Also this brings back alot of memories as a kid 10 years back. Before this road was open, everybody around Sengkang, families, friends or whatever, would come to this particular road to roller blade, cycle, fly kite, etc. Anyway, it's a huge space and I wish they did not open this road. Used to come down here alot with my family, lots of funny moments I can remember here.

"Do you remember when, we first met? i sure do" Do you remember - Jack Johnson. Song that i'm addicted to now and it's a really sad song to me thinking that I will not be able to sing that to her in 18 years time. This song reminds me of this part of punggol somehow, don't really wanna/know how to explain why. I'm not a very expressive kind of person, last thing that i'll excel in is the drama club.

This bridge connects from punggol (where im standing) to pasir ris farmway which is at the other end of the bridge. I use to come here alot with my buddies Gabriel and Bryan, we would cycle to a mini water catchment area just cross the bridge, to lepak, talk cock sing song. Mosquitos were a big problem btw, ruining our bloody lepak session. That's one the reasons why we stopped going there.

Did I mention how lowly lit and creepy cycling around this park at this hour? You have no idea. Hardly anybody was around. The photos look bright obviously because it was taken with a long exposure, I think it was maxed out at 30 seconds. It was as dark and scary as Satan's anus, not to mention I watched Conjuring the night before. And at that point, If my mind would stop thinking about the exorcist's face, that'd be great. OH it's 7th month btw too.....

This was much deeper into the park where nobody in the right mind would come here at this time. The dark parts of the photos were actually almost pitch dark. But I really really love this place in the early evening. Why? Quiet and full of coniferous trees . I have a thing for coniferous trees, so beutifoo. But not in the night i swear, creepy ass looking trees. Maybe soon i'll take pictures of this place early in the evening, you'll see that it's really pretty.

So decided to take the other route home. Nope. Not going back there. Also I had a... bad experience in the other part of punggol park about 5 years back. About 1am in the night, my friend PY and I decided that we put our testosterones to the test and cycle into this well known part of the park that is known to be "haunted". So cycle in we did, 5mins into that area, there was a huge black cloth, about floor to ceiling high, that crossed us about 20m ahead. I jammed my brakes and realised that PY braked at the same time as well, I looked at him, he looked at me. We saw that same damn thing. Promised to never go back there again and the end. Shot was taken on an overhead bridge, looking down TPE, towards SLE.

Well that's about it! Cycling and taking photos in the night really cleared my mind from what's been bothering me for the past few days, maybe weeks.. at least for now. 3.06am, gotta SLEEP, school tomorrow. Goodnight.

The Walking Angels lookbook 4.8.2013 (studio)

The Walking Angels http://www.thewalkingangels.com/

Models: Corliss & Olivia

Location: La Novella Studio

Ahhh finally air conditioned.

NTU Graduation Shoot.

Last week's shoot was at Esplanade! And we moved around that area later on. This time was for a group of graduate accountancy students from NTU. Really nice and fun people to shoot for! Weather was scorching as usual, i probably gotta get use to this but conversations with them and their humor made this shoot enjoyable :)

My sister was using my favourite 50mm 1.8f lens for her Australia trip and I was not able to use it. Replaced it with the standard 18-55mm lens and guess what, it was perfect for this event. The range was short but perfect, displayed great wide angle at 18mm. Bokeh wasn't that impressive but overall, I was pleased with the results!