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Proposal Ideas

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For the past couple of weeks, there have been so many activities that went on. First, I had gotten married, then tried moving into our new place at the same time (which we are still moving in and getting things sorted out) as well as flying off on our honeymoon and straight back to work. Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend getting married and trying to move into your new place at the same time!

One of the things which I really would like to thank both Alex and Grace was this amazing video which they helped me and Munz to put together as well as film, edit and set up and was shown during the wedding dinner icon smile Proposal Ideas

Now I can definitely help those of you out there if you want more and more “fun” proposal ideas and how this post ties back to the title of “Proposal Ideas”  :P

But in case you do find this amusing, here are some of the reasons why I decided surprise Mun Tzin this way.

  1. Marriage has already been a discussion point so doing anything overly romantic will definitely make her suspect
  2. If I bring her for a nice dinner she would suspect icon razz Proposal Ideas (goes to show how often I bring her for nice dinners)
  3. I knew if I did something photography related, she really wouldn’t suspect a thing (and I was right!)

Here are some funny things that happened during the real proposal,

  • Munz bought the flowers that I eventually gave to her, it was so funny when she was commenting about the flowers and she kept asking me why was I the one getting flowers.
  • She accidentally spilled some water on the wrapping which she spent 20 minutes trying to make the bouquet look presentable for my friend BK.
  • The restaurant I booked screwed up my booking hence we ended up at a totally different place. Lesson: Make sure you triple confirm your booking with the restaurant.

Anyway for the full story of my wedding, head on over here for Grace’s view of things icon smile Proposal Ideas

Speaking at the DCIM Show, 15th May 2010

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DCIM20101 Speaking at the DCIM Show, 15th May 2010

Yes thats right. I will be speaking at the Canon EOS Interactive booth this coming Saturday at the DCIM Show from 3.15pm to 4.15pm at Midvalley Exhibition Center at the Midvalley Megamall. What will I be speaking on? Well, I will be speaking on the subject, “Experience with EOS” which is quite a big twist for me, mainly because I used to be a Nikon user (you probably could have judged that from my previous postings).

It will be an interesting time for me and the rest of the RedNinja.tv squad as well. Jon Low (speaking on Saturday from 2.15pm to 3.15pm) and Grace Tan (speaking on Sunday, 2.45pm – 3.45pm) will be there as well speaking at the EOS Interactive booth and both of them will have separate topics as well.

Admission is absolutely free and there are limited seats only. Do join us for our talks and stay back after that and have a chat, catch up and have a nice cup of coffee (I hope there are free coffees there icon razz Speaking at the DCIM Show, 15th May 2010 ).

I had been to last year’s DCIM show and it was quite interesting and the size of the event completely blew my mind away. Mainly because I didn’t expect so many booths about and the prices of some of the camera accessories there were quite cheap. I hope to be able to get some bargains there this weekend.

This time based on the floor plan, it looks to be bigger than last years event!

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Catch you all there this weekend!

 

Welcome to the new site

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First and foremost before I begin this post, I would like to welcome everyone to my newly designed site sitting in a new home. After much deliberation (and many theme changes), my blog underwent multiple theme change and multiple add-ons in the form of widgets as well as other funky adds. I decided that it wasn’t the right move to do hence I have switched over to a single column theme. I cleaned up quite a fair bit of unused applications on my blog in hope that the design looks a lot cleaner and easier to navigate.

Secondly, as I mentioned, this site is completely new. How does it translate to new? My domain name (http://markleo.net) has been moved to a new registrar, my files has been moved to a new server and I gotten a new theme to suit it as well as made multiple changes to the design (a big thanks to @theBackPackr for your help!).

Welcome to the new site

After reading Dane Sander’s “The Fast Track Photographer“, I was truly inspired by what he wrote about the various types of photographers. It was then that I knew where I wanted to be and to brand myself in that direction. This blog update is one of the first changes I am making and hopefully, you will see more of those changes in my shooting style as well.

Of course with this new site design, I will start to concentrate more on posting up more photos from various shoots and experience especially weddings and portraits. I am also quite glad that I can post up large sized images as well. I definitely need to update my Photoshop actions to suit the new changes.

I previously used to have multiple pages but have decided to limit myself to two pages, My Portfolio and About Myself. At this moment, my portfolio will be the next item on my to-do list to update and hopefully be completed by the end of July. Exciting times ahead and I can’t wait to be able to share it with my readers.

Do drop me a line or two with your thoughts and comments on this new site. I would love to gather some feedback in order for me to improve it as much as I can.

Since I have been away

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Woah, I just realised that lots of things have occurred since my last post which contained words. And not just anything but major important things which might make an impact in the very environment that I am most active in.

Anwar Wins in Permatang Pauh

Of course the biggest news is that Anwar is back as a MP in our parliament after his huge win in Permatang Pauh. That is by now old news and everyone is kept in suspense as they await the exciting day of the 16th of September. Pretty interesting articles have floated about mentioning about this particular date and since it is only 2 weeks away, I will too be kept in suspense on the outcome. What does it really matter to me? Well for one thing, if rumours are true then Malaysia might see a new government. Else, I pray that reforms will take place and our country focuses on helping the people and gaining back the trust of foreign investors.

Malaysia Today Blocked by MCMC

Our local blog/news site has been blocked by the folks at MCMC with the claim that the content is against article blah blah and MCMC has requested that all ISPs block this particular website to the Malaysian people. Alternate mirror sites have since surfaced but everyone is just waiting to see if anything will be done. Local politicians has already disagreed on the move to block this site. My thoughts on this? To be frank, both sides have a point and we can argue the same way when MCMC blocked those phishing sites. The reason why I am on the fence in this matter is because no matter how much it is being blocked, the alternative sites are up and still accessible.

Mobile Number Portability

This has been long awaited as previously a lot of people are “lazy” to switch over to another network even though the deals are cheaper and better is because they are just too “malas” to update their contacts that they have switched numbers. With this, price wars between our telcos can be a real benefit to the people. I am still awaiting for that iPhone 3G to arrive in Malaysia, only then can I make an even more informed decision then.

Google Releases Chrome

A new browser is in the market and its made by Google. To find out more about the browser, do check out this article here where a good comparitive is made against IE7, FireFox and Safari. The review includes benchmarks and performance tests so its a good baseline for now. I haven’t installed it on my home PC at home nor can I install it on my work PC so I can’t really give a good review on the new software.

Mark starts golf

Actually I am rather new in this whole sport of golf and since it has been rather quiet lately, I managed to squeeze in my first session of golf on the green at UPM. Frankly, I sucked at the game and hit 171 over 18 holes. Being very honest, we counted every hit hence the extremely high score. The next round showed some slight improvement with me hitting 73 for the first 9 holes but I couldn’t finish the last 9 holes because we got rained out. Tips I learned would be to bring at least 3 sets of clothes to change a big towel.

Other than all of these, its work work work and more work for me. The busy period of shooting is coming soon so I need to be prepared for that. Till the next post!

Introducing Wedding Story by Integricity Visuals

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I am very excited and pleased to announce two awesome looking websites with super cool graphics and so many things which isn’t in my technical vocabulary! Ok, enough of that, let me introduce to you two new and recently launched websites, Integricity Visuals and Wedding Story.

What makes these websites special? Well if you did check out my previous post on a wedding I shot, perhaps upon closer inspection of the watermark I created might give a sort of clue to all icon smile Introducing Wedding Story by Integricity Visuals

Ok, that was a lame attempt to hide the fact that I am really excited to be part of the team shooting weddings and events. It is an honour to be able to work with such skilled and artistic people and at the same time, learn from them on the way. Being a part of this team is a great challenge for me as I try my best to not only improve my work and quality but to build more bridges and relationships with the people I work with.

Do check out Integricity Visuals website here to see some of the video and photo portfolios and the range of services offered. Integricity Visuals is actually owned by Integricity Corporation which is the parent company.

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Not to forget, Wedding Story as well and the blog over here as well.

Wedding Story is a brand by Integricity Visuals that caters for the tender and passionate moments shared between couples as they waltz down the aisle.

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The cool part about this website is that you can view both videos and photos online. Do check out the website for anything related to weddings and engagements.

Alright its back to the rat race for me, so much to do and so little time to complete it. Can’t wait for the wedding this weekend where it will be my first time in a long while where I am not shooting the wedding and where I am also one of the groomsmen for the first time.

Until then, I am already late for the wedding rehearsal!

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A little something about Mark Leo

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Was over Jenny’s and Zach’s blog and I decided that I wanted to take this questionnaire as well and perhaps reveal a little bit something more about myself.

1. Four jobs/career aspirations I have had:

  • Process engineer (at Motorola during my engineering internship days)
  • R&D Engineer (at JVC designing video camcorders)
  • SAP Consultant (on the technical side of things which is rather boring for some people icon razz A little something about Mark Leo )
  • Freelance photographer (yay! I love to shoot weddings!)

* Sounds like I have very boring jobs beforehand and yes, they were boring

2. Four things I wish I had done earlier:

  • Learned photography earlier so I could have taken more photos during my days in the UK/Europe area
  • Took exams for my guitar classes
  • Taken a motorbike license
  • Studied economics and finance

3. Four places I have been (listing my favourite places):

  • Czech Republic
  • England
  • Australia
  • Phuket, Thailand

4. Four countries I would like to visit :

  • New York, USA
  • South Africa
  • Brazil
  • New Zealand

* If ever I get to go to these countries, I would have been to all of the continents in the world!

5. Four of my favorite dishes/snacks:

  • Chicken rice
  • Pizza (not the rubbish we get from Domino’s or Pizza Hut)
  • Carbonara Pasta
  • Roasted pork knuckles

6. Four of fav. desserts :

  • McDonald’s Banana pie
  • Banana chocolate smoothies
  • Peanut butter smoothies
  • Chocolate strawberry ice-cream

7. Four sites I visit daily:

  • Gmail
  • Facebook
  • Blogs (photographers and friends mostly)
  • TheStar.com.my

p.s. I actually visit a lot of sites, so much that I rely on Foxmarks for all my URL bookmarking needs. I have two accounts, one for work and for personal. Both have different sets of URLs icon biggrin A little something about Mark Leo

8. Four software applications I cannot live without:

  • Firefox 3 (daily surfing and email)
  • Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (mainly for my photo editing)
  • µTorrent (for all my *ahem* *ahem* needs)
  • Microsoft Excel (mainly for work and church stuff)

9. Four favourite drinks

  • Diet coke/Coke Light
  • Ice Lemon Tea
  • White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks
  • Czech beer

10. Four things you may not know about me:

  • I am a very shy person! (At work I am a totally different person though, confident enough to speak to a crowd of 100 and above at meetings with no problems but when meeting new people, a little shy sometimes)
  • I like to read Archie comics and Asterix comics (I got all of the Asterix comic collection and about 120+ Archie comic books. GIve me a buzz if you want to borrow some of them)
  • I still play the guitar, bass and a teeeny bit of drums (Although I sold my electric guitar to fund for my Nikon D200, I still have my acoustic guitar at home to play once in a while)
  • I am in need of a confidence boost most of the time (I am usually very worried and nervous before any of my photography assignment)

So for all of those who are reading this post, I am tagging you to blog about yourself as well. Don’t forget to link back to my site as well icon smile A little something about Mark Leo

My Online Portfolio has been updated

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Check out my online portfolio here at http://www.markleo.net. I recently updated the my portfolio with a a couple more sets of photos. I have also updated my “Contact me” section as well with the various offerings I provide as a photographer. Do check out my online portfolio!

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Any updates on my portfolio will be communicated through this blog as well.

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