Last weekend, I had the opportunity to shoot the wonderful and energetic couple, Katherine and Lloyd. We headed down to Dutton Park at an old abandoned lot where an old biscuit used to sit.  Heres a sneak peak of one of the photos from the day.

I will post a couple of my favourite photos when Im back from New Zealand =D

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

and my list:

1. I spend alot of time dancing, classes on monday and tuesday nights, social dancing from thursday till sunday. My dance styles include LA style Salsa, Bachata and a little Zouk. My latest interest is West Coast Swing inspired by Jordon and Tatiana.
2. Im not embarrased about people knowing that I have watched all 6 seasons of Sex and the City or even all 7 seasons of Gilmore Girls. In fact, Rory(Alexis Bledel) is my favourite actress cause she is cute although I feel she can only play 1 type of character…Rory Gilmore.
3. I played Ice Hockey for a total of 4 years in a tropical country(Malaysia) which only has 2 seasons, summer and rainy seasons.
4. I am the black sheep of the family, I was sent to government Malay primary school(Kampung Tunku) whereas my younger brother and sister was sent to chinese primary school.
5. On that same note, I am also the only person on my mother’s family(cousins and rellies) side who does IT and have little creative ability. Everyone else in the family are either accountants or musicians.
6. 
7. One of my biggest worries when I started photography was that I would look like an Asian tourist or be labelled as a perv.
8. I have never been “ching chong chao”d or “ni hao”d(the most common words a drunk person would say to you if you were chinese) before while carrying my camera.
9. I am 20% deaf on my right side. I have always been labelled as deaf and now I have an excuse.
10. I am embarrased to admit that I play World of Warcraft and have setup parental controls on myself in fears that I will not be able to control myself again.
11. When World of Warcraft first came out, I would spend 8 hours a day playing the game(I was at uni and had the time) and accrued a total 60 days playing time, that means I played a total 1440hours and decided to quit and that lasted for 2 years before I started again, Im playing way less now and more on a casual basis now(with the help of parental control(I control my own parental control))
12. I currently have a full time job in a software company called CareerHub and run a web design/photography freelance business on the side.
13. I aim to be financial free and full time job free to focus on my business/s.
14. I love singing although Im horrible at it and resort to whistling while Im at work much to my colleagues demise.
15. I would live with my parents if I had the choice. Its cheaper and it enables me to be financially free sooner than later.
16. My biggest expenditure is food.
17. Ive been referred to by many names since young, Chan(my surname) during primary school, Min Wye during high school. During pre-university, my programming teacher gave me the name “Nathan” which i continued to use when I came to Australia, I introduced myself as Nathan because Min Wye was hard to remember and since then, I converted back to Min Wye for a short while and up till now, Min.
18. I will respond to all the names above, Min Wye, Nathan, Min, Chan.
19. My name is pronounced “Ming Wai”, there is an invisible ‘g’ and in most cases, people who know me by name pronounce my name as such “Min Wei”.
21. One day, I would like to have a family with 2 kids, a boy and girl.
22. My father passed away when I was 9 years old. My fondest memory of him was of him sitting in my brother and my room accompanying us to sleep. Although it was to make sure we go to sleep rather than stay up and play, the quiet time of him sitting against the wall while waiting for us to fall sleep is precious to me.
23. You could attribute my liking for dance, gilmore girls, sex and the city amongst other things to the fact that I grew up with my cousins who were all girls and raised by my Mom.
24. Even due to no23, I am very much straight and have never needed to question my sexuality. 
25. If you didnt notice or wondering, I skipped 20 on purpose so I only needed to think of 23 facts about me. Im sneaky like that.

Im also sneaky that if you are read through all 25, you are tagged to write 25 things about yourself. My justification is, if you took the time and effort to read all 25 things about me, I will want to read about you too.

Post the link in my comments or trackback to my site if you have done it. I would like to read it and possibly get to know my readers better =)

It is 2 days away from the 2009 Sydney Salsa Congress, one of the biggest salsa congresses in the world. I will be shooting the event and you can find me at the photography booth selling/organizing  the performance photos or waiting to be asked to dance :p

Either way, come say hi or keep me company between your workshops or social dances =)

Here are the links to the rest of the photos for the Bravo Pre-Congress Party:
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 1, here
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 2, here
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 3, here
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 4, here

Next up, Latin Energy with a Mambo routine.

And Latin Steps with another breathtaking salsa routine.

There is one more performance which I have not posted because I felt it deserved its own post. I will post it in the next few days.

While waiting, if you havent seen the previous performance photos:
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 1, here
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 2, here
Bravo Pre-Congress Photos Part 3, here

Rio Rythmics performing a Zouk routine.

Groove Brazil’s Zouk routine.

Part 4 will be up tomorrow.

If you havent seen the previous performance photos, catch up! at
Bravo PreCongress Performance Photos Part 1 here
and
Bravo PreCongress Performance Photos Part 2 here

Next up, a Bachata-Tango routine performed by Latin Energy.

Lastly, Juan and Caitlin, Salsa on1 Australian champions from Latin Steps, performed a salsa routine

Part 3 tomorrow. In the meantime, if you havent seen part 1, heres the link:-
Bravo Pre-Congress Performance Photos part 1

Ive chosen my favourite photos and split them into 4 posts.

The Salsa Divas from Latin Steps performed first with a ladies styling routine. Here, we have Amanda(a frequent here on my blog) and Caitlin.

Smooth Latin Groove performing a Zouk routine.

Angelo brought his smooth and cool team to perform Samba de Gafieira. Incidentally, last year during the Sydney Salsa Congress, I almost got my face smashed in by Angelo.

I was propped up shooting from the tip of the stage when Angelo performed a move where he slides into the corner(towards me). He noticed me only at the last minute and narrowly missed me while I totally didnt see him.  My close face-smashing encounter with Angelo from Groove Brazil.

I will be posting up the rest of the pictures over the next couple of days leading up towards the Sydney Salsa Congress next week.

Side Note: I attended Mafie Zouker’s first workshop of six weeks last night and it was really amazing. The content is amazing and his style is just unbelievable.

and the best thing about the performance, Duncan didnt take off his shirt =)

On Casablanca night(also known as Sunday night), Tony Lara took the stages to play his best tunes for us Brisbane people and hosted a highlight way-too-friendly dance competition. 6 “Jack and Jill”s and 1 “Jack and Jack” took up the challenge and brought out their sexiest moves. Words simply cant explain it, so I will let my photos do the talking:

Getting ready to start the competition, they listened to the song.

Juan and Khosro really getting into it.

It was tough competition with lots of style

lots of dipping and….

The kind of stuff that gives Tony Lara nightmares for nights to come. I will spare you from the rest of their photos