October in Burkill Hill

Call it coincidence, all our coverage this month centres at Burkill Hill! Looks to me more of our clients are looking for a out of the hotel venue to celebrate their union. We so excited too, a chance for me to leave my jacket at home and to soak in the fun with our historical buildings our forefathers built.

$1 chicken rice

Remember in the late 90s, there was this craze for $1 chicken rice? It started by an ingenious hawker who wanted to rise his business profile and started offering people offering discounted chicken rice at $1 while and the rest was selling at $2.50?

How did the $1 chicken rice survive? Apparently not for too long. In order not to compromise on profit, he has to sell twice as many rice to meet his sales target. When word got around, it did not take long for Singaporeans to pick up a bargain. Long queues are form and the hawker needed to hire more staff to cope with demand. this in fact lowered his profit and he has to shrink the portions to maintain the profit.

One of my first lessons in life as a "Cheep-po" was to actually join a queue and await for my bargain lunch. I was rather disappointed with the portions, it did not fill me up, the chicken tastes rather hard and the rice was not fragrant as the rest. I kind off regretted to waste time for awful food and this manta prove good later in life.

I would never go on asking for a bargain as I know, somewhere there will be a compromise. I would rather save another dollar to get a better quality chicken rice. 2 plates of a bad thing does not mean equal one plate of a good chicken rice.

How about the business? When you reverted selling to $2.50, many of us will only remember that the chicken rice is only worth $1 and the taste is not up to standard, of course the chicken rice business did not survive.

Felicity & Shawn's wedding

Morning at the bride's place with Jasmine.

Here comes the bride!

Poor Chap, he got to drink almost everything out of the Sweet, Sour, Bitter and Spicy.

The men can boggy, really!

And they need an audience!

One of the many bridal cars that day, what a beauty!

This is a rather hard angle to shoot from. I would have like to it to be more sheath, and the expression will be more real, time to invest in one of the little pocket cameras.

Father having a final inspection before the all go. Beyond the chaos I find interesting elements to capture.

Details, I'm trying to shoot more bridal cars of late and in different angles. Almost mastered the speeding cars, now I would like to look at cars from a difference perspective. Check out the strain glass and the beautiful doorways. I love interiors, charming old world interiors.

This is a very beautiful church, look at all the strain glass, flooring and tiles! What a truly blessed couple! Look at how happy they are married to each other!

My first wedding with so many sisters.

Heehee, the stare! 

The Tan sisters, the families are so closely knitted together, they are cousins of Felicity and I guess they all had a wonderful childhood together!

Its harder each time to approach the same subject while trying a different take. Its been a very long time since a use a wide angle lens to shoot details. I'm trying to force myself to try different lenses on the same subject nowadays, eschewing my comfort zone, to keep things fresh and me on my toes.

We are getting married...

I started from the Groom's side today, a refreshing change of format from what we commonly do. Dad and son getting ready!
Little details! I envy the Maid's fan, so cool and the the nice retro clock. Check out the card details!




We have a zillion images of this little cuttie!


Grandpa sharing a moment with his grandson! That is what weddings are all about too, the family.

Great Grandma has a moment too!


I always try to do this when we have personal time, couple shots. I try to blend in with the documentary approach to our weddings.



Aftermath of the "Unexpected Band"