Studio Photos

I finally got my studio's photos last week. But there some dissatisfaction on the editing skills on 2 photos that I returned the album and the softcopy to the bridal shop. I have yet to follow up with them as I intend to give them a few days before I called up and asked. The girl told me she need to consult the photographer (who did the editing) on this and he is not around all the time. So, fine. I gave them a few days which means, times up! I'll call again today to find out what is the outcome. Are they going to re-do the album for me or what.

The first picture with poor editing skills is:

My favorite photo. Okay. One look you wouldn't notice anything. My face looked great, the make-up artist did a good job. Now, zoom into the gown. See the stitch on the gown at the back (to tighten up the gown)? And the loose part in front (makes me looked as if I have a bulging tummy)?

Well, she told me she can't edit the stitched part because they have tried and it looked very unnatural if they did, so they left it just like that. I was like WTF??!! You can't simply give qualities like this to your customers, right? And knowing them would complain later. Isn't it stupid you have to re-do the whole album for people again? If they could just be more careful and professional in their work, they can just save the extra cost incurred for having to re-make the album and the image of their bridal shop. And also, in the first place if you know you can't edit that part, why on earth you wanna take shots that clearly shows it? Well, I guess for them, perhaps they think people will not complain in order to save the hassle of giving back the entire album for a re-make. Coz it takes time to re-do the album. Maybe like out of 20 customers, only 2 will complain. Well, I'm one of the 2 and I'm in no hurry. I just want a result that I think will pass the normal standard requirements. And Oh God!, I'm not asking them to edit the pictures to make my breast bigger, my face slimmer or my arms more toned! I'm just asking for the very basic things that are noticeable to our eyes only. And that they did it carelessly. *Sigh*....earlier I really didn't felt like complaining, just close one eye. It's after all a small detail that if you weren't told about it, you would not notice it, according to my colleagues who told me, the attentions were fixed only on my face in that picture.

However, considering customer's rights and I paid for it, they have to give me a good result. So, I passed the album back to them. I had to crop the same picture to post on FB....

The cropped version looked better eh? More closed up!

Then I sought help from my company's art designer. He was kind enough to edit the picture for me. Just to prove that the picture can be edited (not like what the bridal shop claimed). The result shows it all...

Now, notice that the gown is more smooth right? This means that it can be done. Just that the bridal shop don't wanna waste their time to do for me.

The second photo is this one:

Look at the gown. Notice that as if the fabric was not ironed? Can you see the lines? This is the 'before' result provided by the bridal shop.

Take a look at the 'after' result by my art designer:

At least the gown looks more smooth right after editing. That's why I complaint!

Nevertheless, let's see what the bridal shop gonna do about it.

Some of my other favorite photos:


UPDATE: The bridal shop will re-do the album for me.

This and That

It's been almost a month since my last post. Nothing really special, no events to blog about, but I just have to keep my blog updated at times, just to tell my friends, I'm fine...I'm alive coz' I still can blog!

Nothing big happened recently. Just some teeny weeny details here and there to share about. Well, here goes.....


1. Big big congrats to CPK and Agnes for the good news. These 2 mothers-to-be happened to give me the good news at the same time. I'm so so very happy for them. Because being a parent myself, I know how magical, happy and valuable it is to have your own flesh and blood. Heartiest congratulations to the both of them. As both of them has a caring and loving husband, I can be rest assured that they will be well taken care of! ;)


2. I started to be aggressive again in job hunting. Sent out more than 10 applications already but so far only received 2 invitations for interview. I turned down the first one which was an event agency in charge of organizing beauty pageants. Event jobs are fun! But being me, I just want to make sure my next job is worth leaving MTC for. Apart from the salary, I'm also looking at the benefits the company is offering. With children, you need to think of them too. This event company can't gave me what I wanted, so, I dropped it off. The other one was with The Society of Petroleum Engineers, located in Centrepoint South Mid Valley City. This non-profit organization is worldwide, apparently. They are looking for event coordinator and the JD they required matches mine. Off I went for the interview yesterday. The HR Manager took 1 hour to question me. From 1 question, he can actually create another 4 or 5 questions out of that question. I answered until my mouth also dried but I managed to answer everything nicely and I guessed I left quite a good impression for him. But there could be other candidates that are better than me. We'll just have to see. Btw, the benefits that this company offers are not bad. For example, medical benefits, they gave RM3000 limit per year where else in MTC only RM1800 for married employees with children. Of course, there are pros and cons, like the stupid traffic jam and expensive food if you are to work in the Mid Valley City.


3. Grandma (mum's side) is not doing very well. I guess she will leave us soon. I already lost my beloved grandma (father's side) last year and I can't imagine losing another one this year. Humans live and die. It's just the matter when, where or how. God will take care of this cycle. Mum has been going to see her frequently on and off whenever she has a break from babysitting. When I see her, I see a reflection of myself. I know this day will come but before that I wanna make sure I'm doing everything a daughter should do. I value both my parents a lot. Mum and dad, love you guys!

4. As I grow older, I realize time pass by faster. And I realize moments will never return no matter good or bad. Take a look at my boy. He is growing and he ain't the baby he used to be. I missed those moments cradling him in my arms, when...Oh God...I can't even carry him now. All this makes me value things even more. My current marriage to daddy, this new family, my parents and friends. I can't be more thankful to God for all these. Every morning, when I was about to leave for work, I'll give the boys a peek on their cheek or forehead if they are awake at that time. Sometimes when I am in a rush, I really have no time for the kiss but I don't want myself to miss the moment or to regret not showing them how much I love them if anything happens. Thinking of that, I'll quickly drop them a kiss. Not to say bad things will happen most of the time but life is just so unpredictable. In short, I just value things much much more now.


5. Lunz is getting much more mischievous now. Sometimes when you hear him speak, you will wonder where did he learn those words from? For example, a picture of a sunglasses, daddy told him, this is "ngan gieng" (in cantonese). The boy corrected him and said, "No...this is sunglasses." Also when it was time for the "teapot" song during bedtime, he once said something that made me laughed out real hard. The last sentence of the song sounds like this:

"Tip me over and pour me out" (Me pretending as a teapot and him as a cup)

So, when I tilted my hand on to his hand (because he is the cup), he asked me, "Coffee or tea?"
I was like....how on earth does he knows what a coffee and tea is? And when he contracted chickenpox, I just told him he has polka dots and can't go to school. When I told him it's time for him to get back to school since he has recovered, he showed me the chickenpox healing marks on his body and said, "Look! Still got chickenpox!" Ermm....I thought I never mentioned the word chickenpox to him earlier? Also, he is now very much into computer games. Daddy downloaded Toy Story 3 game for him recently and everyday he will ask his daddy to play for him to see. It's like watching a movie. Daddy said he can even memorize the game already. When his daddy was too busy to entertain him, I took over the job instead. Of course, it ended up Buzz Lightyear or Woody always DIED! The boy will tap my shoulder and said, "It's ok Mummy", comforting me on my poor skills in playing computer games. But if I managed to pass a level, he will said, "Good job Mummy!"

Ish Ish......and by the way, he calls me Mummy now. He used to call me Mimi instead. But recently, he finds that Mimi is the same pronunciation as the mee mee (noodle). Therefore, he switched to call me Mummy instead.

I will be getting my studio photos soon, by next month. Can't wait!

Visit to the Cinema for Toy Story 3 and Ooopppssss!....CHICKENPOX!

We brought the lil' one for Toy Story 3 recently at the cinema. First time trying to bring him for a movie and the result turned out pretty well. Main point was, he did not said, go back...go back....so, we managed to watch the entire movie. GAWWWDDDD!!! I love Toy Story 3 a lot! It was so so much better than the first two episodes. Now, I'm just waiting for daddy to download it from the net. Wakakaka!!

It took a lot of brainwash by telling him that we will bring him to see big big TV Toy Story. Guessed he understood what we were trying to tell him as he told us he wanted to see big big TV too. So, we bought his favorite popcorn and off we went. When we found our seats, I pointed to the big screen and asked him, big big TV rite? He replied, yes. Then, during some of the movie trailers shown before the actual show began, he covered both his eyes with his hands when he saw something he didn't like. So cute, his reactions. But once the movie started, he settled in well and began munching the popcorn non-stop.

There were some action scenes where he got so excited, he screamed out loud (Woody!!! Watch out!!). The whole cinema can hear him. I thought it was funny rather than embarrassed because he was so cute. There were some moments he kept on kicking the front seat. I had to tell him NO, don't do that, most of the time. Nearing the end of the movie, he got a lil' impatience, he stood up and moved over to daddy's lap. And then he got up and walked passed me to the stairs. He stood there and waited but luckily the movie ended in no time. He got bored and wanted to leave the cinema quickly. Overall, still I think it was a big improvement for a least we get to finish the movie. :)

Today is another Monday and this morning I got a call from daddy. He told me the lil' one has red polka dots all over his body, which I did not see any when I bathed him yesterday night. Maybe it started to develop this morning. His school was closed last Friday because there were 2 cases of the hand-foot-mouth disease. I don't think that he has got that because hand-foot-mouth disease usually has red polka dots only on the hand, throat and feet. Anyway, daddy brought him to the doctor and the doctor confirmed it was chickenpox! Ta-da! The lil' one was still so energetic and he was extremely happy he doesn't have to go to school. Anyway, mum takes care of him and told me not to worry as the process of having chickenpox at a young age will be easy and non-stressful. The older you are, the harder it gets to deal with chickenpox. It just that we have to control his type of food intake. He can still bath and play as usual. It's good to have these information from mum as I can't remember them. I had chickenpox when I was very young as well.

Hmmmm......hope my baby will recover soon.

He Goes to Bed by Himself Now

As daddy always says to me, "You have to train him to sleep by himself so that he wouldn't come looking for you in the middle of the night. You have to let him grow up and learn to be independant and sleeping by himself is one of the ways". Well, well....his words never entered seriously into my brain because I always prefer to accompany him to bed so that he will fall asleep faster and I can have more of my own free time after he has gone to bed. Plus, at the end of the day, I always have separation anxiety with my boy. That's why I prefer to stay with him until I'm sure and comfortable knowing that he has fallen asleep. But in this way, I always ended up with him coming over to our room looking for me in the middle of the night (sometimes a few times a night) because he wakes up occasionally only to find me missing from his room. Unless I sleep with him throughout the night, or else I will have sleepless nights because I keep on getting up whenever he comes over to our room. I'm used to this routine of accompanying him to bed and going over to his room to sleep in the middle of the night if he comes over to find me, until recently......

I really really got so tired 2 weeks ago. Every single day during that week, I was really very weak and tired. So I decided once and for all to train him to sleep independantly. It's a little hard at the beginning as he kept on checking to make sure I was there. Of course, I told him during bedtime that mummy will be in mummy's room and you have to sleep by yourself. As usual, he asked me to sleep with him but I firmly said NO. But at the same time I convinced him by telling him that I will be next door, nearby to him. Communication is important. You have to let him know that he has to learn to sleep by himself and at the same time you are just nearby and that he is not alone.

2 weeks has gone and he has been sleeping by his own since. Of course, I'll make it more easier by reading him a book and daddy always play with him before bedtime. I even sing songs to him, give him a kiss and wish him goodnight without fail every night before I departed from his room. And I always left both doors of the rooms ajar. This way, he feels secure knowing that I'm just nearby. Now, the frequency of him coming to look for me in the middle of the night has reduced. Most of the time, he sleeps through the night. This I believe has improved both his and my sleeping conditions. Both of us have less disturbed sleeps. I know daddy must be saying that we should have started this earlier, right? :P

Birthday (again!) & Toy Story Craze

Lunz's actual date of birth was last Thursday (17 June) and although we have celebrated it with him earlier as per my recent post, I decided to get him a small cake anyhow. So, I dropped by Tong Kee Bakery after work on my way home and got him a mini mango mousse cake. We brought him to Mines for a short walk and later had a cake blowing session.

The mango mousse cake.

Posing after blowing the cake.

Then he ignored us....too busy addicted to Toy Story.

Talking about his latest craze, Toy Story. He likes Toy Story so much that daddy and mummy decided to sacrifice some $$$ to get him his favorite toy.

Buzz Lightyear!

Both daddy and I bought it in Jusco and later gave him as a surprise.....

He was so happy with the toy that he took it along with him where ever he goes, i.e., shopping, sleeping, etc.....and kept on killing us with the red laser light from Buzz's arm! Ouch!! ;P

Happily holding his Buzz!

We intend to bring him for Toy Story 3 in cinema soon. This will be our first attempt to try it out. We don't know what will be his reaction but we have to try nevertheless. Never try, never know. The worst will just cost us the movie tickets but hopefully all the brainwash efforts will have a fruitful result. Ohhh....come on boy...be good and let mummy and daddy enjoy some good movie time ya!

After much persuasion, finally brave enough to take photo with the Toy Story characters @ TGV Jusco Cheras Selatan.

Lunz 5th Birthday Celebration

Wow.....I was going like whirl wind! Updating 5 posts in one day. This shall be the last one for today. Gotta get back to work. In this post, I shall blog about my baby's 5th birthday. Time is really fast. He is now 5 years old and having him around is full of fun and laughter everyday. Baby....mummy and daddy loves you!

As his birthday falls on next Thursday, we decided to have the party yesterday (Sunday) instead. Nothing special as it is almost the same every year, I meant the celebration. We bought KFC, pizza, soft drinks and cake for the crowd. But I think to the little one, it meant a lot. Party time--->play time---> fun time!

Present, present. He kept on telling me he wanna open them. I have to repeat many times to him that he can only open them at night after blowing the cake.

The three of them played like mad. Sweat until their clothing and hair were total soaked!

He looks so cute in this photo.

Busy putting on the candles. Bought the brownies walnut from Secret Recipe.

And here are his presents......

He likes this Toy Story pencil case a lot. But when I asked him whether he want to watch the movie, he said don't want pulak. Dunno why he is so scare.

Both daddy and I got him a white board and a set of whiteboard multi-colours marker.

Set of colour markers and duster.

I asked him to look in front and pose for me while I took a snap of him.

Aren't you one of the happiest boy on earth? :)

Studio Photoshooting

Both daddy and I went for studio photoshooting the following day after our ROM. Warning---> Do not ever perform 2 tedious tasks continuously for 2 straight consecutive days or you will tired yourself out!

I was drop dead tired after the photoshooting. Really loosing my stamina now a days. Below are some shots taken with ipong in the studio.


We went to select our photos last Saturday. It was also another difficult part. Photo selecting. We spent 3 hours at the bridal studio filtering the photos. From 200 over copies down to 21 copies. As usual the people there will asked you to add albums, do designs, take bigger frame for the "cheong tau siong" la, bla bla bla.....

In the end, I guessed the fella a bit fed-up talking to us already as we showed no interest and expressionless on what he was trying to hard sell. Haha.....

But overall, we still managed to sort out 21 copies of gorgeous photos. I can only get the album in August. Until then!