It's been 4dayz after the IMF/ World Bank S2006 held in Suntec Conventional Centre. Meeting great people and working with the best (especially NYAA YPN official Photographers!!!!) ;) I'll never forget the times and experience I had and shared with many wonderful people, the press photographers, our great mentors/ friends that held beside us through thick and thin.
During the first day of IMF/ World Bank S2006, we head out to Suntec convention centre ready and on top form and indeed security were very tight. Let alone, we can’t even bring water bottles inside unless it was our own container type of bottles. Thus, my Watson water bottle was confiscated, sadly, but they said that water will be provided so we don’t have to bring for the following days to come…
NTUC Fairprice was the official Sponsor for the water bottles that were allocated at various places of the convention centre. Every morning I would get myself a bottle to start the day :)
Before heading to our NYAA office...
This is where the 1,000 double-storey offices were built within the convention halls, really stunting I must say. This is the place where I reported to work everyday on the second floor.(Going up that stairs on the right)
Unknown to the public, there were about 1,000 limousines parked below suntec city's car park. Well polished, maintained, and highly guarded by police officers doing their routine checks and to my amazement and love for BMWs, that’s the most I have seen in my entire life!! Wow…
Future more, of all the times spent at our NYAA office...
Cover events/ seminars and conferences, taking photos of ministers and governors, having a great time at the esplanade..
and not forgetting going to press center to get coffee and tea...hahas...i've said it and I’ll say it again: "Because the Press center's coffee is good!!!" wahahaa!
The one moment that I will never forget is the opportunity to be at the Istana!! Being a Singaporean, it was a tremendous honour for me to be standing there amongst foreign and local ministers and of course, the President.
As I can remember the last delegate that I took a photo of was in fact; Miss Venezuela. Yes, you heard me right, Miss Venezuela. I was quite surprise myself, I was actually at the press center taking a few photos while having my breakfast at the buffet table; then a delegate ask me to take a photo of Miss Venezuela while she was having her breakfast there too, so I took a couple of photos later to be given at the photo centre :)
Other than that, We also gave Marian a surprise celebration on her birthday which was the last day of the IMF/ World Bank S2006. hahaa..she sure had fun and it was a fantastic moment to end it off with!!
Before I come to an end, I would like to give a special thanks to our great mentors/ Friends: Willy Foo, Chee yong, andass, Nicholas chee, James Soh , Aileen. Thanks you for giving me this honor of being part of this great project.
And to the rest of the NYAA YPN Photographers, especially Meisy for keeping things organized even to the last minute and everybody working around the clock. I am sure everyone had their share of moments and experiences through this project :)
How I wish it didn't end so fast; but the future is ahead for us to plan and I hope that we can work on something for a long time to come :)
