I landed back in Singapore yesterday after spending close to two weeks in Tokyo celebrating both Christmas and New Year over there with friends. It was definitely a lovely break from work wondering around Akihabara with my bunk mates ~p7m13 and *vgwong, checking all the toy shops and test driving the D3s at Yodobashi-Akiba.

Also attended church at Roppongi during Christmas and the Sundays that I was in Japan. Went wondering round the Tokyo Big Sight at Odaiba during Comiket and Tonacos and also headed to Harumi to take pix for ~Amplified-Insanity and ~Kyubei.

Met up with *Cvy, *Kanasaiii, ~shuui, *koshinaka, ~gk-reiko, *LennethXVII and ~endorphines- on Boxing Day at a studio in Higashi-Fushimi for shoots and had dinner with them during New Year's eve.

Would like to thank the lovely ladies for the wonderful Christmas gift that both *Kanasaiii and *LennethXVII presented to me during the studio shoot (Yup, it's still intact). I'll post pix of it when I'm done unpacking and clearing my office emails.

And here's some random pix of the Japan trip. I'll be updating this album too during the weekend. Thanks too to everyone who has commented, faved or added me to your watchlist; I promise I will reply to you in time

Okie, time to unpack!
Ciaos!

Hey there!

An advanced Christmas and New Year's greetings to everyone who has faved, watched and commented on my pix. I really appreciate the support, comments and feedback that you have given me. To those whom I have yet to reply, I'll get back to you soon.

I'll be going offline once this journal entry has been posted as I head to the airport to catch a flight to Tokyo to get lost in translation for the festive holidays. Taking a short breather from photography to recharge my batteries and hang out with both *vgwong and ~p7m13 over in Japan.

Hope everyone has had a decent year and here's hoping that 2010 will be great, if not, much better. Take care everyone and hope to catch up with you all in January!

Season's Greetings and Beatings!

Yup, staring at a lot of backlogs plus the ones from AFA. It was nice meeting up with ~tamarpg again as well as Ching during the event (not to mention the binge on Friday). The very next day after AFA I flew off to Manila for work and I'm back just in time for the weekend.

It's definitely been a blast though now I'm totally lazy and can't be knackered to do anything at the moment. Will probably hibernate over the weekend....

Thanks to everyone who has commented, faved or added me to your watch list; I'll eventually thank you personally. And thanks to *Lionsong for featuring one of my pix here.

K, time to hibernate.
Ciaos!

Bah! Another weekend has almost passed and I'm still recovering from an awesome shoot that was held on Saturday.

Much thanks to ~LennethXVII for the venue plus *Cvy and ~Reiyu-verse for the backdrop and for giving the place a true carnival atmosphere.

Here's a sneak peek from the shoot. I'm sure the others will be much faster in upping their pix this time round





Series :
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Kuroshitsuji (The Black Butler) - Noah's Ark Circus

Cast :
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~Reiyu-verse, ~koshinaka, *Cvy, ~LennethXVII, ~ashteyz, ~Jesuke, ~tsuyin, reila and dama

Support Crew :
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~BanditYinG, Shin and Kanda

W00t! Once again thanks everyone for making the shoot a really enjoyable one. Thanks too to ~zerartul for help with the lighting and a big Hi! to ~XkaOnslaught; it's finally nice to put a face to your name!

Until next time,
Cheers!

Lately I've been visiting Sembawang Music, a music shop that I've been frequenting since I was in school. They started out with a small shop in Sembawang shopping centre way back before the internet became a part of our lives.

I remember back then that music was spread through word of mouth and I also relied on a local magazine called BigO (Before I get Old) for news and releases on the indie and alternative music scene. And Sembawang shopping centre was one of the places where we could source out bands like Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Ministry, KMFDM, Danzig amongst others before Tower and HMV opened in Singapore. That shopping centre was located in what some would call the boondocks as it was in the outskirts of the city nearer to a residential area but it had a lot of small CD shops selling imported stuff. However, the most prominent one was Sembawang music which later went on to open outlets in the city.

There were also several shops like Da Da Records, Chua Joo Huat and Roxy where you could get your fix of underground and alternative music which were also often parallel imported from the US or Europe. Chua Joo Huat had an awesome range of bootleg CDs if you digged live recordings.

Today, most of these local CD shops have gone because people buy less CDs nowadays as compared to before. Both Da Da and CJH have long since closed while Roxy is still around but relocated to some place hidden. Recently, Sembawang music has been the latest casualty as they are slowly closing down all their outlets.

And why am I rambling about this? Probably because I've been talking to my supervisor at work about it all week as he too used to frequent Sembawang music for his metal fix plus my colleagues and I have been visitng some of their outlets before the shutters go down for good. Sadly, it looks like I will have to resort to ordering from Amazon more frequently as our local HMV charges an arm and a leg for imported metal/punk/industrial stuff.

Damn! There goes my reliable music source!