The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 6,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 12 years to get that many views.
Summary: 10.11.2012 Meet Shairah & Amar Aziz, the most daring couple up to date I’ve ever met. They are experts in skydiving, paragliding, scuba diving…etc. They would jump off the plane at over 10,00 feet high with pleasure and parachute of course. I knew Amar Aziz from one of my photography class and it was an honour when he asked me to shoot his wedding. It was my first experience shooting a Malay wedding and I am grateful to their patience guiding me through the details of a Malay wedding, I’ve learned a lot and fell in love with it : )
Let me share with you what I’ve learned:
Akad Nikah (marriage contract), which is the legal and religious part of the wedding. The groom signs the marriage contract and agrees to provide the bride with a mas kahwin (mahar,literally ‘marriage gold’ in form of money or goods or anything as requested by the bride). The mas khawin is a symbol to show that the men is willing and are prepared to build a family with the lady he chose to get married to.
The couple’s hands are dyed with henna during the berinai besar (great henna-ing) ceremony where the bride’s hair is also trimmed, eyebrows shaped and make-up applied by Mak Andam. Then the bride puts on her tudung (hijab or headscarf) to cover their hair and a selendang, or embroidered and beaded shawl over that. A crown is also placed on top of the shawl and the bride is ready for the Bersanding ceremony.
Bersanding (enthronement) begins with the groom’s march towards the bride’s home with friends, relatives, musicians and people waving bungamanggar (palm blossom). The main part of the bersanding involves the seating of the bridal couple on a dais and sprinkling them with yellow rice and scented water by family members, relatives and guests as a sign of blessing. Each guest will receive a Bunga Telur (egg flower), as a sign of fertility.
The couple are considered royalty for the day, where various royal customs are performed for them, including musicians playing court music a display of pencak silat.
Once again, congratulations to them !
It was one of the most beautiful sunset I’ve seen over many years I live in this city. It’s like someone forgotten to turn the lights off and all of us must have wish never had to inside our heart, yes?
Last week I was asked by one of my dear friend to photo shoot his parent-in-law celebrating of their 36th wedding anniversary together , I say yes simply the picture of two person being together for 36 years worth its weight in gold if not diamond (probably 50 years of wedding anniversary qualify for diamond) They have a big family compare to us with only my mom and my sister (R.I.P our beloved dad and loving husband) , so you can imagine the atmosphere are hustle and bustle in the restaurant we’re in (Double Tree by Hilton Hotel) including four of their grandchildren running around while one is just six month old still learning to crawl. I like big family, that’s about the size I want when I have my own family : )
Hari Raya also means ‘Celebration Day’ and one of the biggest holiday in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia. Wishing all muslim SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI !
Summary: It’s the engagement dinner and especially a special night for me seeing my best buddy for over 20 years now is finally tying the knot and marrying his spouse for eternity, Wendy. Although I only met Wendy not more than three times as of today but there is no doubt that I believe she’s the one for my buddy and I’m just happy for both of them together starting a family. Congratulations once again, Melvin & Wendy ! Hope you like our photos and videos on your special night : )
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Note: This slideshow package as shown above is produced by Red Onion Studio which is the collaboration work of two creative mind in the industry- Vincent Lee & Jay Wong. If you love what you see, please feel free to visit also our website @ http://www.redonionstudio.com and contact us. Thank you.
Has anyone seen the moon tonight? As broadcast, it is a Super Moon night. It’s larger than normal night but not extremely large, probably it’s the Malaysia’s version. I’ve seen better version in Canada. However, it does look round and very clear without any cloud interfering. I will make a wish tonight due to the occasion (Size does matter), I wish for a mighty heart for a mighty year especially in good health, good work, family and friends in the rest of year 2012. I wish everyone has a mighty year too !
4.28 , It’s a very special day to our client for their actual wedding day held at Taiping. It’s such a beautiful city town with amazing nature setting. Did I mention the trees in this city are just so beautiful to look at. At this very same day, it also marked as one of the important day into the history book of Malaysia. It’s the actual day of Bersih 3.0 also. More than 50,000 Malaysian citizen gathered at Dataran Merdeka with fair agenda demanding the government a clean election for future election to come . Unfortunately a peaceful rally demonstrated by public turned ugly when the law enforcement officers (policemen) under the influence of government authority suddenly charged at innocent citizen with fist and kicks, shooting tear gas and strong water cannon towards the innocent and unarmed crowds. Despite being 300km away from KL, we still want to contribute our support to these brothers and sister at the Bersih 3.0 so we brought the official Bersih Yellow T-shirt with us. Our bride and groom say yes giving their support of letting us wearing the yellow shirt throughout their wedding day . We received many thumb up from their wedding guest too. Congratulations to Jessica and Ares, two of you rock !
Jessica & Ares AWD slides
Ever felt the urge to push another wedding photographer into water for fighting over a platform? Just kidding. Yes, it’s the popular floating wooden platform near Pullman Resort Putrajaya (Bottom picture) which can turn into a war zone among wedding photographers especially on the weekends. There’s always this mysterious tensions between the wedding photographers especially when they are strangers to each other. It’s like the walking dead passing by their peers with the undying moan of the damned in deep voice. Well, despite we were being late as schedule due to a International bicycle race in progress, all the roads are closed down around the Putrajaya, we still managed to reach at our destination and we were somewhat blessed as we were the only group at the platform. Don’t ask us how we got there while others failed to show up. I can’t deny the sweetness of a little victory feeling inside me. Anyway, the photo shoot of Yvonne with her love one were further blessed with great weather. In Chinese, it’s called 塞翁失马焉知非福 Misfortune sometimes might be a blessing in disguise : )
VINCENT LEE PHOTOGRAPHY 