Jan 26 (Tues) A Glamorous, fun, and FULL HOUSE Party celebration for Beijing's 2nd Anniversary.



Jan 28 (Thurs) Yan Oi Tong Charity Annual Ball 2010 - Moulin Rouge.

仁愛堂慈善餐舞會2010 {醉人 - 紅磨坊}

Michael and his band did a wonderful performance at the ball. He sang so well!!!!  Michael's coming show is in Macau at the Sands on Feb 16th.

"An Array of Love"

The Award Ceremony for the 1st Fiesta Charity Ambassador Contest organized by Fiesta Global Limited with the Christina Noble Children's Foundation (CNCF) selected as the inaugural charity beneficiary, was successfully held on December 18, 2009.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7cSpLOgTZw

Newspaper articles from the event:

Sun News Entertainment section Dec 19

Oriental Sub News section Dec 19

The Charity event started out with speeches and sharing from the guests of honors.

I represented the United Nation International Pageants, to share my experience on my previous participation in the RTHK Poverty reality show which revealed the disparity predicament. 

Other Guests of Honors have shared their insights on corporate social responsibility during the event. Ms. Marina Wong, JP, the Founding President of Hong Kong Women Professionals and Entrepreneurs Association, has sent her blessings from afar through a video, reminding us that charity is everyone's responsibility. Even though most SMEs have limited resources, with certain creativity, charity activities could still be fun and staffs could be more engaged in charity works with a given mission.  Ms. Bianca Ma, the Managing Director of Metro Broadcast shared: "We, as the mass media, concern about everything. We offer a platform with different voices which can take care of the needs from different sectors, especially those in the vulnerable groups." She added:" We hope that the influential power of the media can arouse the public concern on the corporate social responsibility so as to achieve a win-win."

Ms. Bianca Ma - Metro Broadcast

Ms. Michel Fong, the founder of Mind Concepts, former NOW TV news anchor, also told us that our inner spiritual needs was all about love.  We should open our own hearts before asking in return.

From Left: Ms. Michel Fong, Ms. Jane Wong

1ST FIESTA CHARITY AMBASSADOR

Crowning of Miss Gisela Lee by Ms. Winnie Young

The climax of the ceremony, of course, was the award presentation to the 1st Fiesta Charity Ambassador, Miss Gisela Lee, who came all the long way from

United Kingdom.  After winning from the exciting voting with professional panel judging, she received her award from Ms. Winnie Young, the artistes and program host, former Miss Hong Kong.  Gisela will take up her charitable mission to support Fiesta in all future charity work in 2010. "When you purchase Fiesta jewelry for your own wearing, or as a gift, you actually saved the children, and helped them to access the basic human rights, education, health care etc, and create a lasting change in their lives."  The top Charity Sales Award went to Miss Precious Dabilo who is from Malaysia who won the highest number of charity votes from purchasers. The net sales proceeds raised during this campaign period will be donated to CNCF, to help the needy
children.

Miss JuJu Chan, Miss Gisela Lee, Ms. Winnie Young

The climax continued with the singing performance by Ms. Alice Amu.  The flaring performance, drink competition, charity auction and lucky draw, a wave of fun and joy filled the festive season. The award ceremony came to an end with Ms. Alice Amu to lead the entire Fiesta Team to sing "Fragrant Memory - Fiesta". Fiesta is possibly the first multi-brands designer jewelry company in Hong Kong that has its own theme song!

From Left: Mr. Marko Mao, Ms. Eileen Wong, Ms. Jane Wong, Mr. Peter Galik, Miss Gisela Lee, Ms. Alice Amu

Singing performance by Ms. Alice Amy

The Premium Sponsor of this event, FRANCESCA, was very supportive to charitable activities, and encouraged everyone that "

Show your beauty. Show your heart. Reach for the stars.  Be a shining star."

 
FRANCESCA

Ms. Susannze Sadler, the International Manager of CNCF

This 1st Fiesta Charity Ambassador event is a new interactive charity campaign provided a platform for cross-cultural exchange by bringing different partners from around the world to get together and support community charitable work.  Fiesta believes that it's everyone's social responsibility to create a better world for our future. It is our tremendous honor leading the entire team across different countries, who are generously contributing their efforts and connections to carrying this charity mission and making a better future. 

Mr. Aaron Yu winning  a watch worths $9000 (sponsored by King's Watch)

Paul Li from King's Watch. Thanks for sponsoring us the $9000 ladies with recent advertisement by Shu Qi (Chinese: 舒淇)

More Photos from the event:

Me and MC- Heidi Lee

Miss Juju Chan and Gisela Lee were being interviewed by the press.

Drinking competition

About Christina Noble Children's Foundation ("CNCF")

The Christina Noble Children's Foundation is an international partnership dedicated to serving children in need in Vietnam and Mongolia. Protecting children at risk of economic and sexual exploitation and providing emergency and long-term medical care, nutritional rehabilitation, education, vocational training and job placement, CNCF seeks to maximize the potential of these children with love and respect for the dignity of each child as an individual. Please visit www.cncf.org for more information

Invited by HKCAC to model at the 44th Hong Kong Brands and Products Expo's Fashion Show on Jan 2nd at Victoria Park.

Call time 9am for rehearsal and makeup.
Show started at 2pm until 3pm. There were 20 models modeling designs from HKCAC's students.

Model List



The Stage at 9am



At 2pm, right before show starts


Photos from behind the stage

Getting makeup done



Wincy, Me, Crystal Yam


ECup Baby, Renne Lee, Me


Jacqueline Chong, Me



On Stage




After the show, models on stage for photo taking and interview


Jacqueline doing her press interview

Scott Robert, an international award winning photographer, held his photography workshop for professional photographers in China a month ago. I have been invited to be the guest model for the workshop and spent two days with the group.

Below are some photos from the workshop and some articles about the workshop:

Behind the scenes
Getting makeup done.


Look at the number of flash lights LoL



Love the photos from the workshop


Such a great group!


Online article written by Zabrina
http://www.jezaphoto.com/2009/12/j-e-z-a-loves-hong-kong-ii-featuring-miss-juju-chan/comment-page-1/#comment-13


DiGi Bi-Weekly Magazine Hong Kong
Issue 190 published on Nov 13th 2009
To Tell the Story One by One - Scott Robert Lim
Article by DiGi Reporter Chloe Wan
Translated by Zabrina Deng



A good photograph goes beyond merely displaying beauty, but also telling a good story. However, who can fully understand the philosophy behind a photograph and the photographer’s commitment behind the scene? For a photographer who charges ten thousand U.S. dollars per wedding, what exactly is his aspiration behind the lens? It was my great pleasure to exchange views on this subject with top notch wedding photographer Scott Robert Lim. I noticed that he is very keen on sharing his photography techniques and tips. Students coming from different parts of the world to attend his classes are solid proofs of his exceptional talent in photography.

Key: From Outside to Inside, a Translucent Photo
This interview with Scott Robert was conducted after his presentation of his workshop, thus I took the chance to secretly learn from the master as well. The entire lecture did not emphasize on the technical aspect of photography, instead it focused on what constitute to an eye-catching photograph - subject, emotion, light and shadow, environment and composition. Although these elements might not always be under our control, a beautiful picture is in the making should we be able to pay attention to these details and utilize them. If a photo can capture one’s attention, with the precise lights and shadow, top it of with a great sense of beauty, it would be a powerful image. If anyone wants to understand what it means by stellar and influential imageries, you can check out Scott Robert’s portfolio. From his work, some of them reminded me of narrative photo plots from classic movies. He has the ability to show and tell a story through his images.

Emotions in Portraiture
Many professional photographers would say that in order to make a stellar portraiture, it is essential to have adequate communication with the model. Besides giving instruction verbally, body language could also help, such as demonstrating the pose you have in mind. Yet, it is still far from ideal if we have a good pose but not catching the soul of which. Hence, Scott Robert told us that in order to have the model to pose with emotions naturally, you can tell her to think of a scenario and apply her own interpretation of the emotion to pose accordingly. For example, if you tell a model to portray the desire to be embraced, different models would come up with different poses, which in turn would enhance the room of creativity; while with less limitation, it would be easier for the model to get involved.

Creativity Inspiration
To have the models to pose the way they desire should be fairly simple, but to create different concept each time is probably not. Little that I know Scott Robert’s inspiration for poses came from movie and everyday life, therefore, a lot of his incredible images looked like classic scenes from the movie. His images are powerful and persuasive at the same time. Then I started to wonder, why would he allow models to create their poses themselves? Isn’t it easier to just instruct them what to do? Scott Robert believes not only the model would easily get involved into the emotional scene, by them grasping the emotion will allow their natural beauty to reveal. Scott Robert thinks women are gorgeous and stunning in many different ways. Perhaps understanding the uniqueness of each woman will transform your work into a higher level of beautiful portraiture.

Never Stop Learning, Never Stop Improving
Since Scott can receive such generous amount of fees from each wedding assignment, why does he still teach? It is because he thinks everyone has the potential to create beyond standard images with persisting effort to learn. Therefore, he truly enjoys sharing his photography and life skills to others. On the day of this interview, all his students flown-in from other parts of the world to photograph many special places of Hong Kong & Beijing with Scott. His students so far enjoyed their time in Hong Kong as well as their cultural exchange experience with local photographers from the evening of this lecture/social mixer event.

Afterword
After the interview, I realized that a model’s emotions could be derived from the energy of the photographer who can in return capture a moving picture. One can easily feel Scott Robert’s positive energy - not only from the way he speaks, but also through his body movement. Therefore, I want to take this time to express my gratitude to Scott Robert and to Kelvin Lau who told me about Scott’s time in Hong Kong. Through this interview I have gained new ideas on how to create great portraiture, as well as other aspects in photography with many new appreciations.

Thanks to AnD for the great Christmas eve party at RACKS tonight! It was a great fun!!!


Another awesome party coming up!!! AnD's New Year Eve Party at ZUMA!!! See you all on Dec 31st!!!

Wishing everyone a wonderful and fun-filled Christmas!!