*sore arm* (fling ah fling ah fling)

Whoops, din feel the pain yesterday. This always happens after I take up a wedding shoot after not touching the camera for so long. My right arm hurts superbly. But at least it doesn't feel as though it's dropping off like the previous times. Prob cos I din have to work that hard yesterday cos of the limited battery life and I was only the supporting camera. Talk about big projects. (and gracious, I dun think I'll be earning any money out of it) But anyway, it was fun with the camera after such a long time and holding my 'darling' is pay enough for me, at least for yesterday. Well, still we hope to get more shoots next time and perhaps can earn our own cams. So if you guys have any weddings to cover, and needs photographers (my friend) and videographers (us us us!), feel free to consult our services. Haha (what's more, it's all student priced..... hell....)

Yesterday was really a day of mixed feelings. I din feel for the wedding that much at first, but as the day went on and I saw more and more things of the couple which touched my heart, I was like, totally shot by cupid's arrow (though the other arrow seems to be missing still) for a moment. Firstly, was the super nice decor of their home. It's quite a humble home, considering it has only like, one room (haha, they knocked down the other rooms), which meant that the living room is like, open with the bedroom, and a bathroom or kitchen, i think. First thing i noticed was how the bride and groom do not care for putting up some apartment for show, but how they decorated it and lived in it as a couple who gives each other space, yet gently supports the other. The back of the main door was covered with beautiful marker drawings by the bride, drawn at times when she couldn't sleep, when she was unhappy and so on. They were her beautiful life story, i assume, with depression, and her big day drawn there right on the main door for anyone who enters her home. So unlike the traditional families who has to keep the home up for appearances to entertain guests and such. Their home was solely for the two of them.

(*phew* continued writing from 435 in the afternoon. after a grueling session of covering my mentor who is on urgent leave today.... and suddenly, several probs cropped up and I was like, loaded with work and din noe where to investigate matters from! luckily, settled after my mentor gave me a call back and advised what to do.... super relieved now)

Okie, continue on my story on yesterday. Yeah, the couple's love story was super inspiring for all. They met in NTU hostel (this is good news for all living there) and then, got together when they were in their final year. After eight years' they decided to get married on 6th July, which is coincidentally, their eighth year anniversary! The bride also played a violin piece which she played 8 years ago, the night before they started being with each other, with an accompanying pianist. The piece just melted everybody's heart. (Also led to me and my friend's wonder of what we could do during our own weddings, since we dun have any skills. Perhaps, film our own weddings? script our own? Hmm.... or simply, stone and be blur. ) Seeing the husband enjoy the piece as he did eight years ago before he asked her to be his girlfriend was also very enjoyable, I must say. He clearly adores his wife plenty.

This led to several conclusions. Firstly, I really felt like getting married yesterday. The first benefit is that I get to stay luxuriously in a hotel for two nights. The second is that I get a sweet fifty years with my husband (oh no, I'm really parroting the bride's words now) and a darling home to hold. Can you imagine that? This is the first time I've heard a bride say that 'he went through 8 years with me and we still have fifty more to go' so matter-of-factly that I believe it.

Perhaps it was all due to the fact that the bride is too similar to me. I mean, the girls generally in my specialisation. When we asked the husband why he liked her, he answered that it was because she was natural, a no makeup girl, a girl who goes for what she wants and so on. And she was from the same school, same fac as me too. Somehow, we all share a few characteristics which are so similar that it becomes eerie.

But as the evening went on and I saw more and more things which I felt was so perfect, I began to doubt the possibility of marriage again. Because, how can I ever find another person who is like her husband?

I've never seen a more compatible and comfortable-with-each-other couple like them before. It's not like, they were extra sweet to each other throughout or what. It's just a feeling of how wonderfully suited they are for each other, and how romantic even though it's like, so ironic when they are so down-to-earth and real.

Maybe one day I will find a person too. Maybe during the last six months of my final year? Haha, I'd better take up violin lessons soon.

*cola fruit*