Sometimes your head pulls you in a thousand different directions and our hearts tell you something else, you feel as if you’re just gonna explode. As I dip (more of a plunge) into deeper and unknown waters, i’m learning, adapting, changing, accomodating. Change is always a good thing and I’m putting on my positive fedora and hoping for the best! A good friend of mine advised me to always ” follow your heart” which is what I’m gonna do… At least for now…

Speaking of change… Last Saturday, I’ve added another certification to my name. Fiona Lim. BBA, MBA. Of course, this would be the one and only time it would ever be used, unfortunately! (I’ve always scoffed at photographers who have their qualifications on their business cards! I mean… Seriously??!!) Ask me how I feel having completed my MBA and I will honestly tell you it’s 90% relief and 10% a sense of accomplishment. What was more important was the grin on my parents’ faces when I walked up on stage to receive my cert.

So what’s next? I vowed to never pick up a text book again but now that no schooling plans are in the horizon, I’m itching for an education and toying with the idea of taking a short summer course in the US !

Special thanks to my parents for their financial and moral support, my dissertation supervisors, Dr Mohan and Ms Anita, and everyone at FIFOTO who were there to stand in for me when I had an awful exam or assignment to concentrate on!

I promise to post the cheesy “formal” shots taken by the university photographer once I have em!

I can now safely say I’m done with my MBA and have something to put on my wall to prove it! Having attended the graduation ceremony last Saturday, I feel relieved. Looking back at the 3.5 years spent doing my MBA part time and juggling work at the same time, I feel somewhat proud of this accomplishment. The feeling of going up on stage to receive my certificate was gratifying and I was touched to have my family fly in from Penang, Indonesia and S’pore to celebrate it with me! Having to juggle work, group projects, assignments and exams was no easy task and was in itself, a feat on its own. Photos to come soon!!

The world just can’t get any smaller! Two months back, I crashed a wedding after party and just as I arrived at Marriott ballroom, a couple jumps straight at me and enthusiastically says “Hi!”. Being the blur person that I am, I stared curiously, panicked for a moment and thought to myself, “Oh shit… who are they? Who are they? Quickly go through your contact list… where have I seen them before? They look so familiar but WHO ARE THEY?” Finally, when they mentioned their names, it jogged my memory! Victor & Niz! And within seconds, our photographer-client relationship turned into one of friends by 2 degrees of separation! I ended up partying with Victor that night and two months later, he’s looking fresh and here we are!

I have just three words to describe this couple: YOUNG, HIP & HAPPENING! Of course, I kinda already knew they were the non-traditional, young & cool couple when they refused to take any conventional photos and requested for rustic shots in abandoned lots. Yesterday’s shoot confirmed it! These two are just adorable together! Other than the fact that both of them can equally outdo each other in posing, they surprised Jason & I when they burst into some funky dance moves wayyyyyyy early in the morning! We had soooooooooo much fun photographing the cute couple and here are some of my favorite shots!

Experiencing fall in Malaysia…

I’m not really sure how this got started but it made for great photos!

We asked Victor to tickle Niz and hardly got a reaction out of the two… soon we found out she’s not ticklish!

We got the reaction we wanted when roles were reversed! Check out Victor’s expression!!!

It’s been a short short week and my weekend technically starts right now! To start off, Monday was Federal Territory Day which made it a excuse for not working except popping into the studio for a couple of hours for Baby Noah’s portrait shoot ( but as always, shooting them was so much fun the time flew by so quickly!). Yesterday, Steve and I attended Joe McNally’s Lighting Workshop (will blog about it real soon!), organized by the internationally renowned wedding photography Louis Pang of Wedshooter.tv. Surprisingly enough, even after 5 years of being in the wedding industry, our paths have not crossed till today. I was stoked to finally meet Louis early this morning and was pleasantly surprised to find him to be of an extremely warm and bubbly character!

I’m off to S’pore tomorrow for a night and will be back on Friday with parents. They will be in town to celebrate my graduation on Saturday! Finally! After three and a half years of doing my MBA part time, (I took it easy with 1-2 classes each semester coz trust me, if you’ve ever tried juggling work and school, you’ll know it’s not easy!) I’m finally done! And although I didn’t receive the distinction I was hoping for, I’ll totally settle for a merit and not having to sit for another exam again! WoooooHooooOOoooooo!!!

This is baby Noah, first born for the lovely couple, Karen & Barry. Karen, Barry and FIFOTO go back a long way. Tracing back to our very first pre-wedding shoot in Melaka, almost 3 years back, to their latest pregnancy shoot at the studio 3 months ago, they now have a new addition to the family, Noah! One of the sweetest and easiest baby to photograph, Noah almost never cries and when he doesn’t, he stops within a minute, and just as instantaneously as turning off the water pipeworks! His eyes are mesmerizingly beady and apart from his overflow of pee on my black velvet, he is awfully cute!! (Too bad I missed that money shot!)

Here are just a few of my favorite shots!

Meet baby Noah and his Monkey friend

The happy family!

You see where baby Noah gets his head shape from?

This was taken right before baby Noah pee-peed on daddy!