I hate to admit that the fours year gap has alienated me from everything I used to know about my hometown, but home is home. And home is great. I really feel like a short four weeks period is way too short for me to practically accomplish anything meaningful. Probably next time I should come back for 6 months at least. Hahaha!

Currently I am living in a new place with my parents, and this place feels a little remote. My elder cousin said to me this arrangement must have been intentional because this way I got nowhere to go but to spend more time at home with my parents. Funny. I really enjoy catching up with family and chat about the silly things we did in the past, and all those things mentioned became part of the memories which defined my life in the past; formed part of my personality that is influencial to my future. They became me! : )

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out my blog updates are getting a bit erratic. In fact every time when I’ve got so many updates to post it becomes like this. Dislike. Since when did I realise I’ve never had enough time to spare and spend? But one thing I did realise - was that I have a strange flair for overseas clients. Haha! So here I proudly introduce this Melbourne couple Andrew and Winnie. In our initial contact Andrew and Winnie orginally had the craziest idea to engage 50 photographers over a few different countires to shoot their pre-wedding photos and put them together in one album. They even emailed me their profile, photoshoot porposal along with many of their cute photos. However I bet the amount of energy and budget each photoshoot requires must have forced this Melbourne couple to give it a second thought. In the end they’ve decided to simplify the whole process to a few shoots and guess what…I am so proud that I wasn’t sacked! : P

Our entire day was filled with interesting events. To start with we felt so lucky to have some super nice gentlemen who allowed us to use their boats for photoshoot and even offered us to go on a free cruise. How amazing! It felt just as amazing as Kobe Bryant would allow me to borrow his basketball shoes. If we went then the photoshoot would have officially end there as it might take hours. Politely declined on the cruise offer. We’ve then headed to the beautiful Northern Steamship for shooting our second outfit. And that sunday happened to be some kind of sports sunday or whatever that the downtown part of Queen Street was blocked. Pedestrians were allowed to walk, stand, sit, lie down or even play tennis in the middle of the road. This country really opened my our eyes. And we were given balloons. After a quick dress change and supermarket shopping, we headed to the park to have picnics, followed by the amazing sunset on Mt Eden and the evening cityscape. By memory that was the single most tiring weekend ever since I’ve been a photographer. The night prior to their photoshoot on Sunday I just finished Jack and KC’s wedding photoshoot on a Saturday evening. Then I headed to Sky City hotel to had a quick face to face intorudction with Andrew and Winnie. After a few hours sleep then I was back in their hotel again…and it lasted another whole day… I was so glad that EVERYONE OF MY PHOTOSHOOT IS DIFFERENT!!

Oh by the way, I later found out that Andrew and Winnie were from Hope Melbourne church. What a coincidence! ))

A different experience at Westhaven

The magical Northern Steamship Brewbar

I believe there must be magical power behind the super tall book shelves and the reversed hanging lamps…a reality of the Harry Potter world.

After having wine/beer at the bar, coffee at the outdoor cafe, we are now having a picnic at Cornwall Park.

Then we had to catch the sunset on Mt Eden.

The night was a little sexy in Auckland. ; )