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Just back from my mum’s place after reunion dinner, after putting all my clothes into washing machine, here I am, sitting in front of my desk, with my coffee with me.. start writing my own review on myself from last Chinese New Year to This coming Chinese New Year. oh, clock showing as 0000hrs, happy chinese new year, I said to myself. I use to be able to hear all the fire crackers start from 0000hrs which at least last for 10-15mins but seems until I type to 3rd lines on this post, it all stop.. economy really that bad huh…

Well, back to my own review.. The Year of Ox, is one of my turning point..why I say so? hmm, some of the major things happen in my life happen on the year, let me share with you, where shall I start? alright, lets start from all the bad or sad issues, shall we?

• Quit from MyWeddingMomentz, yeah, a company which I use to put so much hope and effort on it..I quit…
• Divorce, call an end to my 10 years marriage life for better of both
• Lost half of my teams authority and control under my full time job management
• Never win any top 3 awards in Wedding Photos

good things happen:

• Won 1st place in Photo Competition on Treasure of the Rainforest Photography Conference and Challenge
• Won 16th place in Trash The Dress (TTD) Portrait of 3QTR 2009, AGWPJA
• Visited 7 countries within a year for both business trip and wedding photography
• Overseas Prewedding assignment in multiple countries including Bali, Sydney, Melbourne, Nante, Santorini, Paris and London
• Sold my house in Cheras (yes, it is a good thing to me, it was a burden for the past 5 years)
• My new full time teams perform 135% above target given
• Met up with some of my old schoolmates which lost in touch for more than 2o years

The list may go on and on and on…then I start realize, all the bad things isn’t really that bad to me..

• Quit from MyWeddingMomentz, let me have the freedom and able to expand further in my wedding photography path
• End of my marriage life means end of both of our mystery life.. yes, it might be bad for my kiddo at the beginning, but we are doing our best not to affect them..rather than let them see how both of us argue in front of them every now and then…
• Lost my authority and number of headcount under my control means I can focus more on my new tasks given.
• Never win any top 3 awards in wedding photography doesn’t means I didn’t capture the moments of my client’s wedding which last for their life time.

So, it is now depends on how we look at things, take it positively and you will see life in different way. Life is short, no point to look back and feel sad or regret about the things that we have done as long as we learn from it, move forward with a new tomorrow.

At the beginning of year 2010, I have set up my own new year resolution, and it is all based on what I did and how I go thru my year of Ox. I accept less wedding assignment job, go for workshop to improve my skill and my artwork and the same time, spending more time with my kiddo…planning traveling plan to fulfill my dream and clearing all my debts and stop purchasing new gears to ease off my finance situation…

Recently, when I was driving back from work, I turn on the radio and there was one of the greeting message from a HongKong TVB actress. She said, whenever she is unhappy, she turn on the map, then she will  feel relief, the world is so big, and earth is only 1/6000 of Sun in term of size.. don’t look at your life thru a keyhole. Sometimes, things that we hate, argue and fight for as it was just a tinny things in the universe.

and so, few days back, I send a message to one of my friend who have a long list of misunderstanding history with me, I took the courage and apologize to him on all the misunderstanding while hoping we can start fresh again for the friendship. I never did anything similar to this before… and as I said, life is short, I don’t wanna have any regret in my life later-on on the things that I should do but never…

Some of the photographers may prefer to post all their best of the year photos as to represent their work in the previous years like top 10 best images for showcase and also a good memory of the year. I tried.. believe me, I did.. I search over my data bank and trying to look for the best images that I have capture for the year of Ox.. out of hundred thousands of clicks on my shutter,(just change my shutter, so it is confirm over hundred thousand clicks)  of course, I can show you at least top ten of my favourate images here.. and when I trying to put on it….there are two things that keep bothering me…

One, I believe the best wedding photos is still out there.. waiting for me to capture it thru my eye…

Two, No matter how good the wedding photos that I capture, when back to my initial point when I started to pick up this hobby, is to capture the moments of my family.

so, I present to you, my best images of the year of Ox captured at Chinese New Year Eve Reunion Dinner and My Mum’s birthday :

Nothing is more important than my 2 little kiddo. You complete my life...

Today is my mum's birthday too, we celebrate her birthday every chinese new year eve and this is her 62's birthday, happy birthday mum, I love you..

Nothing is more important than spending the time together in the family and enjoying each moments of our life together

Happy Birthday Mum…..

Life is short, appreciate everything beside you today and live the day like it is the last day on earth…

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Sign my Divorce Petition on my very 36th birthday… today…it is the end or a new path for my life….?

times fly, 36 years ago, when I was born in Ipoh, I have been shifting around for more than 15times and I was trained to adapt to the environment fast…10 years of marriage, we go thru a lot of things and moments of life…

sad to say that it doesn’t last us for a life time as what I dream of… and I hope for a better future for both of us, even our path will be apart from each other after this…

This year, a lot of things happen to me, I have my awards recognation from international wedding photographer association, I quit myweddingmomentz partnership, I receive new projects on my full time shipping jobs and I file for divorce….. things coming too quick, too fast…. and I still need to go thru it, no matter how….

Just do it, Edwin

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When I first met up with both Danny and Stephanie, I already like them so much, very friendly couple… I think it is my luck that all these while, most of my clients are very friendly and for Stephanie, she has a lovely smile.

On that day itself, we travel from KL early in the morning and able to reach Melaka before the agreed time and had our dim sam breakfast.. one of the things that we do whenever we shoot wedding in Melaka..hhhahahah

The day was sunny same as the couple face.. smiling all day…..

Here are some of the highlights of the day:

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The below photos were taken after our wedding ROM assignment in Melaka. Didn’t manage to get many shoots as it rain after half an hour we arrived.

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I still remember the 1st day I met up with Nick and Emily at Cheras Old Town Coffee. Emily like to smile a lot and they are one of the very friendly couples that we have met so far. It is truly our honour to be your wedding photographers.

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One of our wedding photography assignment in Nov 08.

Dinner venue : Grand Millennium Hotel

Planner: Jovita

Some highlights of the day:

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Jenny, hmm, how should I describe her. She is one of the clients who become my friends even before the wedding dinner. Good and kind to all her friends too. She been chasing her wedding photos for sometimes… we finally complete the whole set and just a quick highlights for her now on her wedding dinner reception shooting…

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From Adeline, our first night shooting at bukit bintang and first assignment to Singapore. Thanks for entrusting us as your official photographers on your ROM & Pre Wedding:

From Adeline :

• Myweddingmomentz – Kuala Lumpur
• Photographer : Edwin Tan & Stephen Low
• Bukit Bintang shots…
• MUA : Jamie Chu, Kuala Lumpur
• Our first photoshooting with them is at Bukit Bintang, for some casual couple shots… (night scene)… It was a great wonderful experience… We have both been shy in public and both of them have turn us into some kind of SHYless monsters after a while…
• Photos were great and wonderful… It’s stylish – Magazine style…. We love them and great reviews have been given by the guests too…
• ROM
  MUA: Dana Chang, Singapore
  Second shooting with them… down in Singapore… It have been a fantastic experience with them…
  Have been more crazeee with the style of photoshooting…. Stephen Im sure you undersatnd what I mean…. xP…. and I love the dancing series you capture for me…
  And to Edwin… Thanks for capturing the most touching moment for me… Till now, whenever I see the photo you took… It bring tears to my eyes… It’s really a very lovely shot… you have one photo to win all my vote for you…
  Overall review : Both Edwin and Stephen have their very own style of capturing the moments…. Both are funny, compliance and friendly….

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Wein & Adeline engage our service before on Bintang Walk shooting for engagement wedding style few months back and we are glad to shoot for their ROM in Singapore and it is our first “overseas” assignment.

When we reach Wein’s home, I was so surprise to find out that one of my cousin is Adeline’s best friends and she flew all the way back from overseas  to attend her wedding registration.. the most embarrassed part is I didnt recognize her, never thought will meet her in that situation hahahahaha

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The first wedding day which I fully rely on my GPS system to navigate both groom and bride’s location.

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After a year of partnership with Stephen and with our recent successful membership application on international wedding photographer association (AGWPJA for both of us) we finally decided to have our own company for photography assignment. This new company will focus on wedding and events photography job assignment and we are committed and delegated to this new company : MWM Photography

Just in case you wonder, what is MWM, it stand for My Wedding Momentz Photography.

Let’s Do it!

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Congrats to my partner, Stephen Low who recently awarded by AGWPJA on the membership application approval. This will not only showing that MyWeddingMomentz is now international recognized wedding photographers with Stephen and myself as AGWPJA’s member, it also give confidence to couples who engage with our services.

A little details on AGWPJA :

The Artistic Guild of the Wedding Photojournalist Association [AG]WPJA is comprised of outstanding wedding photographers, who are at the forefront of the wedding photography industry when it comes to enhancing images. The chief objective of the [AG]WPJA is to provide members with a platform where the finest enhanced, manipulated and/or artistic wedding photojournalism in the world is spotlighted and promoted for the bride and groom.

The [AG]WPJA is a separate division of the Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA). Whereas the WPJA upholds strict guidelines that forbid excessive picture manipulation, the [AG]WPJA encourages and fosters creative image enhancement, with the vision of promoting Fine Art Wedding Photojournalists.

The [AG]WPJA establishes and upholds high standards that are taken into consideration during the judging process for our wedding photography contests. Using all artistic tools at their disposal, members skillfully enliven their work in post production processing.

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One of the wedding we did back in busy Sept 2008: Darren & Amy. Fun couple and full of expression from them which we enjoy so much in capturing all their special moments!

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Busy for the past three days with none stop wedding assignment shooting, wanna know more on what we did yesterday?

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A testimonial from Wilson and Esther, Thanks Wilson and Esther for giving us the chance to participate as the official wedding photographer for your prewedding and actual day garden wedding and we are glad to be the witness on twice miracle happened on the wedding!!

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