Magic City 2011 – It’s Showtime – Photos
So after snapping over 1800 photos, I've been able to cull that down to a lovely 250 or so for your viewing pleasure. It was a much better night than I had expected (probably because the hardstyle started later than usual.
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Thanks for looking.
Twins!
Ok, I'm not talking about the type of the jayesslee girls (I did get a photo with them at boombox though), see below =P.
twins and me 
Jealous? But the twins I'm talking about are these...
:D
Yes, that's two D700's with battery grips and they're both mine =D
So that brings my gear whoring to the following:
- 2x D700 FX bodies
- 2x MB-D10 battery grips
- SB-900
- Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 VR
- Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8
- Nikon 24-120 f/4 VR
- Nikon 50mm f/1.8
- Zenitar 15mm f/2.8 fisheye
- Loads of other crap..
Gear whorin'
So, who wants to give me a test run to shoot a wedding ceremony? =P
Few more birthdays
So as you can see I've finally gone through some more photos and these should be the last of the birthdays I've been to where I've had my camera with me. The first is a small album from Ben, Carmen and David Huynh's birthday, not quite as entertaining as the year before, but it was just a nice cake cutting at Carmen's place followed by dinner at Wagaya.
Next up was a dinner and karaoke night at Mizuya in the city, fun night out and in terms of photography, I've experimented a fair bit with these photos trying out various different looks (either low saturation, high contrast B&W or playing with split toning). Any thoughts and opinions would be great.
Particularly fond of this shot though, just like the way the light from Kim's phone shines on her and makes her stand out.
2011 begins, and I’m almost there
So after this post I'll be a couple of photos from being up-to-date, but since I stopped blogging for a while until now, quite a few things have changed, I'm finally in my final semester at Uni with another two subjects to go (seriously can't wait til it's over) and in addition to that, I had started full time work. Such a drastic change from being able to laze around and bludge to getting up before 7am getting ready to catch the train every day to work. Days at work vary, some insanely hectic to others where you're not too busy. Team's been great, everyone around is heaps friendly and always willing to help out and answer questions. I won't mention the awesome start to the year, walking out of the Etihad Stadium with a huge smile on my face, if you weren't there, you wouldn't understand.
Deb's birthday wasn't too far away from the start and I was there to take a few snaps.
Next up was my man Mike's 22nd birthday. For some reason this kid decided not to have a 21st birthday but instead, opts for a large 22nd! I just don't get him sometimes, but it was a great party despite me not being able to get back in at 12 as Aurorar bar sucks and no re-entry after 12 is permitted. Cover photo is in black and white because I'm moody and all that 
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Tang turns 22
Final set of photos to complete this post is little Yvonne's 22nd birthday, celebrated with plenty of food.
Yvn's 22nd
So just another post and I'll be good to go, apologies to those waiting for photos (if you want them quick pay me 
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Last moments of 2010
So the last days of 2010 went by rather quick, first and foremost a lunch outing with the majority of the crew that did BIT or ISM starting from 2007 (God that was a long time ago) to celebrate their final days of Uni (not me though, because i'm special). It was a nice lunch courtesy of Christine, our course coordinator who's helped us through hundreds and thousands of emails and queries. It was a a nice gathering and good to see everyone before we all parted ways.
- bitism lunch
Once back from my trip and having a few days of long away rest and sleep, it was time to be out and about again, firstly, a BBQ at Lily Tran's house to celebrate Christmas. Nothing better than spending a nice summer afternoon with friends around the BBQ with a drink or ten. No one ended up too drunk and with my fairly okay drink count, I was still quite good.
Christmas at Lily's - 2010
No summer is complete without a fishing trip of sorts, so early one morning we make the trip up to Clifton for some fishing action. There were quite a few people there already so we couldn't get prime position, but we pushed on anyway and hoped for some luck. But as you can see from my album title, it was somewhat fail, ended up catching 2.5 fish (one of them was a tiny bream). Nice thing about getting up early is catching the sunrise and I've finally done some sunrise photography.
Lovely sunrise
One of the final set of photos for the year was from my younger cousin's birthday who despite his size, is only 12.
Wilson and family
So these photos represent the final days and weeks of my 2010, but it was such a thrill being able to spend the transition into 2011 with an all night party with the number 1 DJ, Armin van Buuren. Such a great event and you really can't top seeing Armin for 9 hours straight, still remember the climatic countdown with the drummer just hammering away, almost as though he couldn't keep it up. Small glitch in the countdown but it was one hell of a night. Spent the next few days exploring a bit of Melbourne which was quite fun, but definitely gotta plan another trip down soon.
Well that wraps up 2010, I'm a step closer to getting this blog updated and getting the rest of the photos up.
A Night of Light
So on Saturday night, VSA UNSW unveiled their Night of Light charity gala and what a night it was. Plenty of photos to show off wonderful night. Photos coming on facebook very soon.
Enjoy.
GODSKITCHEN in 3D
So the long weekend is quickly approaching and that means one thing for me, the night long party which is Godskitchen. It's been so long since a decent trance event has been on the Sydney calendar and there are some high expectations after the epic that was the Boombox, the same time last year. This year the Boombox has been packed away and the 3D trend is continuing on, with no idea what to expect, I'm quite excited. This year's line up is pretty good again with Andy Moor, Marcel Woods, John O Callaghan and Wippenberg representing Sydney's lineup (supported by locals VLN and Thomas Knight). It's a shame that us Sydney-siders miss out on Binary Finary but it's still a strong line up none-the-less.
Just to get you in the mood, I've linked some youtube videos to some tunes produced by the artists playing and will be what I'll be looking forward to.
DEFQON.1 – Photos
So the Regatta centre was once again turned into the ultimate party island and I had the privilege of being one of the official photographers =D. Bit different to my usual gigs and definitely more stressful having to keep track of your nice shots and having them ready on the night. Bit harder not being able to sit in the comfort of your home on a fast computer sorting through the photos are your own pace, rather being rushed to sort out some nice ones for the website.
Was also quite stressing to meet the 1pm deadline to get pics for the poster, definitely tricky seeing as the venue was barely full.
But anyways, it was a nice day out with awesome weather, pics are on www.q-dance.com.au website and whatever didn't make the cut is below:
Photos from the past few weeks
So, I've been a lazy ass lately and photos have been piling up without being posted, so I've just thrown everything into one post.
First is VSA cruise of 2010, a lot of fisheye photos in this one, suprised I managed to get this in focus.
Next up are the photos from the VSA UNSW BBQ from August.
Also, 10 years later after we had all left primary school, the time capsule we had put in the ground in the year 2000 was finally dug up. Some things had changed at school, while others largely remained the same. As our memory of what was in the capsule was quite fuzzy, we all remembered the things in there being better than they actually were. The contents were a bit disappointing.
Within the last few weeks, our friend David Huynh had the privilege of graduating, finally after years of work and thousands of dollars, he's got the piece of paper which makes it all worth it.
Nugo also tried to redeem himself with his 22nd birthday (not many photos from this one), most of you will remember he conked out really early for his 21st and this time round, he wasn't gonna disappoint.
Thien and Kalee also celebrated their 22nd birthdays with a Korean BBQ dinner at the Bakehouse garden in North Strathfield complimented by two games of ten-pin bowling.
And most recently, during the mid sem break, I went on a trip up north to MacMasters beach on the Central Coast. Wonderful time with decent weather, and when it did get chilly, the jacuzzi was a nice touch.
VSA Team Day 2010
Photos from the VSA team day, it was a great day out with beautiful weather and plenty of fun and friendly faces. Plenty of fun games and activities as well as some serious discussion about what VSA is and what we can do for you.
Photos:
My 21st B’day party with friends
Photos from my 21st b'day, thanks everyone who came and made it an awesome night, from the photos it looks like I had a great time, but I don't quite remember much from 11pm onwards. Hope you all had a blast
Kevin’s 21st Cruise
Just a gentle cruise across the harbour to celebrate Kevin's turning of age. Great weather and good times, hope you find yourself that perfect Bollywood girl Photos below:
Steven Lee’s wet ‘n’ wild 21st
So Steven Lee had a wet 'n' wild party in the backyard of his Aunty's house on Saturday the 20th of Feb and with a beer keg and vodka slushies, what more could you want? Photos below
Ben Kha, Carmen and Huynhzie’s 21st
On the 16 of January 2010 was the celebration of Ben Kha's, Carmen and David Huynh's 21st birthday, held at Carmen's house. Fun party, despite the rain, with Ben and Huynhzie becoming completely and utterly intoxicated at about 11.30pm, at first it was Ben who promptly started to talk trash and make a complete fool out of himself (I believe there were some videos on Jimmy's camera) and not too long later, the alky hit Huynhzie and the fun and laughters continued as it was time to cut the cake. Barely able to keep their heads up, sober Carmen was left to cut the cake while Ben blew out the candles at every opportunity. The later photos here show what happened clearly and made for a hilarious night out. Hope you guys all had fun, photos are below:
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From o9 to o10 – Sensation NguYEn
So as we made the transistion from 2009 to 2010, I decided to host a party at my place to have an awesome time since I couldn't be down in Melbourne to celebrate at Sensation White. Cleverly enough (or so I thought) I came up with the concept of Sensation NguYEn as the place to be on NYE. Party was to be a simple one, just an easy bbq combined with alcohol and people as well as music.
So drinks, due to my laziness was nice and simple, just bring your own, I provided two cases of beer, Coronas and Blue Tongue (which although tasted different to what I had remembered, was still very nice) as well as a nice bottle of Ciruc Vodka (which most of you would undoubtly know, was stolen at a party last year and I bought another). All this was placed in my bathtub and complimented with 6 bags of ice, something I wanted to have at a party for a while =X
drinks in the tub
Food was a Spit Roast, hired and manned by Stephen Du for most of the night and it was delicious, a bit heavily marinated but the flavour and tenderness was awesome, there were other meats such as nem nuong but also ox tongue, steak and chicken which weren't even touched, it was a bit over catered for. Other stuff there was Lily's salad as well as potato, pasta and coleslaw salads as well as Tina's fruit thingy with like lychee, coconut jelly and grass jelly. Food was excellent overall and I was pretty happy with it all.
yummy spit
duman and the spit
The night was quite a fun one with plenty of drunks to laugh at and plenty of photos for those who were too drunk to remember. The most drunk of the night would have had to been Ben, Huynhzie, MP and Lily with everyone else loose enough to have a good time, I certainly did despite ending up with a hole in the wall and a broken desk chair. A few photos below will highlight the shenanigans which occured during the night, a few videos have been uploaded onto facebook, but there's one more to go, I'll get that done tonight.
huynhzie and some southern comfort
lily and some tequila
louis getting it from three boys
ben with a large chunk of spit
mp dancing on the floor
huynhzie's a bit lonely and hugs the stool for some comfort
All in all the night was pretty awesome and more photos can be found by clicking >> HERE <<