But I’m sure we all do. We all somehow move past our regrets everyday and never stare them in the face again. I think that’s great to do, but at the same time, I like to reflect upon my regrets in life as a reminder. To learn from and move on.
I regret never saying I love you to family that I have lost. Growing up, I was never taught to express myself with words. Not even a hug. I guess you can call it growing up in our culture. I don’t ever blame my parents on how I was raised, because that was what they knew. Saying I love you is something so simple to do and that’s why whenever I have a chance, I never forget to remind my loved ones of just that.
I regret not applying to art school out of high school. So I went to business school instead and regretted every single day of it. I was so big into art, but which kid wasn’t. They had us drawing stuff and doing arts and crafts the second we stepped into school. But some gave it up and I kept going with it. My dream was to draw comics for Marvel. And still is actually.
I regret not picking up a camera early in life. Not just for business, but to take photos of my grandparents, who I miss very much now. We never had a close connection like some others do. Partly due to language and partly due to me not making the time. That’s why now when I see grandparents at weddings, I make sure to take photos of them.
I regret not being more social growing up. Remember that quiet kid that walked the hallways, with glasses and braces and always looked at the floors when he walks? Sadly true, that was me believe it or not. Shyness for me came easy, but making new friends was the hard part. We can include my non-existent dating life as well. It’s funny how just a little bit of self confidence was all I needed. Ha.. I’m saying that to my former self.. ha!
I regret my need to voice my opinion in every conversation. I’m a really nice guy and I’m sure I have many friends and family to attest to that. And I know I can’t make everyone happy. I’m sure I can annoy people with my continuous “I know everything attitude”, but for the most part when I speak of something, it’s through my own experiences. I don’t mean to say that I’m all knowing, because I’m not. So if you ever chat with me, remember I have your bests interests at heart.
I regret buying large family sized stuff at Costco. Ok, this one isn’t as serious, but I do regret it. We hate being wasteful and sometimes, food goes bad and it is wasted. I can hear my elementary school teacher saying in my ear, “Think about all those hungry children out there!”.
So I intended this post to be semi therapy for myself. I figured it’s great to just let it out sometimes. So if you’re reading this and want to share your regrets, please do so. You can be anonymous too and not have to regret it. “I’m human, hear me roar!”
Or if you just came here to see a pretty picture, here you go. Taken just a few days ago when the moon was out at sunset.
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Monthly Archives: August 2009
I LIVE WITH REGRETS EVERYDAY
LOS VERDES GOLF COURSE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY : RANCHO PALOS VERDES
A few weeks back, I joined Marisa Holmes for a beautiful wedding at The Los Verdes Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes. The bride got ready at The Terranea Resort and you might recognize this couple from the sneak peek I posted not to long ago. Here are some photos from their lovely wedding, including a traditional Korean Paebaek Ceremony.
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SAM & TINA : WEDDING AT THE PELICAN HILL RESORT : WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY
Last weekend, I joined Jeremy for a beautiful wedding at The Resort at Pelican Hill. I was with the guys photographing them getting ready, while Jeremy was with the ladies. It was such an emotional, fun filled day. Here are some photos.
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The groom surprised the guys with special cigars.
How’s this for a first look reaction!
I really loved her bouquet, but I’m not sure if it’s Tulips?
The bridesmaids flowers were used throughout the wedding.
Some ceremony details.
The tea ceremony was very emotional, even for me.
Yup, they ended up with a little cake fight after this photo.
Rings and Cake!
The little girl stole the show and not to mention stole the flowers from the girl in the black dress. She ran in and caught them at the right time. I love the reactions in the next 2 photos.
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TOFURIOUS SEO WORKSHOP : COFFEE TOUR : ORANGE COUNTY
Let me begin this post by saying that Lawrence from Tofurious, didn’t pay me to post about his SEO workshop. In fact, SEO has played a big role in my business from the beginning. Many photographers always ask me, “When you first started out in business, how did your clients find you?”. And I would say simple, SEO. But funny how SEO isn’t simple if you’re trying to figure it all out yourself. I actually stumbled upon SEO by just blogging a few weddings and noticing that my future clients were finding me through Google. Yes and that light bulb clicked in my head. I needed to figure out how to make me more searchable to my clients. And although my efforts have been pretty great so far, I know for a fact that if Lawrence from Tofurious had given me pointers from early on, then who knows how far up the Google ranking I would be right now.
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Just yesterday, Lawrence hosted a get together at Starbucks in Irvine Spectrum, to help answer questions about the workshop. He also bought everyone coffee too, which is why it’s 2:30 a.m. and I’m still awake. It’s not to late though if you missed out, you can always contact Lawrence with your questions about the workshop. SEO is something you can’t ignore or be lazy about doing. If you’re lucky to get a limited seat to Lawrence’s SEO Workshop, then consider your self on the right track! Here is what you missed! Including Becker’s giant chocolate cake! Some photos below were taken by myself, Jack Ratana and Becker.
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FLOWERS
I never thought I would blog about flowers, but there’s a first for everything! We finally finished decorating our place, well for now and the one thing that we never had and was so lacking of, was flowers. It’s amazing how such a small thing that we see just about everywhere, can add so much to a home. All we’re missing now is a big sign that says “Welcome Home”. Lucky for us, Helen has the green thumb or should I say lucky for the plants.
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CHING & JAMES : WEDDING AT THE PACIFIC PALMS RESORT
You might all recognize Ching & James from their engagement session in Harvard that I photographed back in April. Well, their long anticipated wedding day just happened this past Saturday and I’m still over joyed from their day. They were married at the beautiful Pacific Palms Resort, in the City of Industry, CA. As usual, I didn’t hold back on sharing a ton of photos from their glorious day.
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venue : pacific palms resort
coordinator : sheila christine
hair and makeup : lets get beautified
flowers : kct flowers (email kctflowers@yahoo.com)
dj : pacific events
invitations and stationery : kate t. williamson
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Her beautiful Monique Lhuillier wedding dress.
James wore Fleur De Lis cufflinks to commemorate their time in New Orleans.
A Dahlia for her hair piece was perfect.
Something borrowed and blue all in one.
All the guys also wore different cufflinks.
Chinese door games are always fun.
This was the official first look.
Showing off their rings to each other after being married.
The light that day was perfect for portraits.
Instead of having wedding favors, they made a donation on behalf of the guests to the Light of Life Foundation, which funds Cancer research.
Their first dance and a fun moment during the father daughter dance.
A special thanks to my two other photographers that day, Helen and Kim Le. Be sure to checkout some more photos on Kim Le’s site.
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QUYNH KHANG
Long before I even considered packing my bags, moving to California and pursuing a dream, my cousin Quynh was way ahead of me. Maybe that’s a family trait about being a “Khang”, we dream big and never take no for an answer! Quynh actually moved to California not for photography, but for acting. It’s been a passion of hers for many years now and I’m sure sooner or later, we’ll be seeing her face everywhere, so Hollywood look out! We photographed her headshots at one of my favorite places. And like me, she’s such a mixed bag, in a good way of course. You’ll see from the photos. There’s never a dull moment with Quynh. A special thanks also to Angelina of All Made Up, who once again did an amazing job on the hair and makeup.
TODAY I’LL TALK ABOUT..
nothing much really. I’ve been so busy with wedding stuff, that I haven’t had a chance to blog. Which reminds me that I photographed 2 beautiful weddings this weekend and I’ll be blogging those for sure this week!
Many of you have asked me how our new place is shaping up and well, I’m happy to report it is done! After many hours of painting and repainting, we settled on some normal, contemporary colors.
Wedding plans.. ah our wedding plans. If you didn’t know, I’ve been engaged to my beautiful fiance Helen now since last year. We’ve been trying to figure out where our wedding will be held. We’ve checked out a few locations in Connecticut, but I think we need to take another trip there to figure all this out. We’re looking at possibly having our wedding in the early fall time next year. I’ll keep you all updated.
I don’t know if the paint fumes really got to me, but Mr. Paint Tape Head wanted to let you all know, that his paint tape head was 6 times the size of the one in the photo when all of the painting was done. It’s such a waste of tape! And yes, this is what I like to wear when I paint.
