The year 2010 has started off amazingly and unexpectedly great for us as jared and i spent almost 3 weeks of Jan 2010 in melbourne, the place where we are most fond of. I’m sure many of you have been wondering where have we disappeared to for we have not been blogging for a long time. Alas, we’re back and this time with some great stuff to share with. This long work-cation (work plus vacation) has turned out to be the most memorable amongst all, with the hospitality from prashi, anu, sanjev, rashmi, their family members and friends, and the opportunity to film prashi and anu’s love story and wedding. It was our great great honor to work with anu and prashi, they are simply nice, natural and coorperative; shooting them simply made us laugh.

When prashi and anu discussed their storyline with us, we were thrilled and could not wait to film theirs.  Since it was our first attempt, we were under a lot of pressure ‘coz they would be premiering it on the reception night. It was not easy but we got to pull it off. Shooting in melbourne has been great; the shooting process was fun despite the long hours, wonderful melbourne streets as any little corner could create superb shots, and the cool weather that makes the shooting pleasant. Of course it was not easy to act in public, but with their out-going and easy-going characteristics, all these was not a problem to them, and they only had one-take for most of the shots.

They had this pre-wedding love story video premiered it at their dinner reception and the thunderous response got us (and the couple) blown away!! Everyone of the guests enjoyed watching it coz every single act of theirs got the guests laughed heartily, and even the waiters and waitresses stopped their work for the moment and stood at the side or back of the hall to watch the video.

Of course, our video won’t be a success if it wasn’t for prashi, anu and their amazing friends’ coorperation through out the filming process. Again, to prashi and anu: thank you so much for having us there

ANU + PRASHI | LOVE STORY from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

SPLIT SCREEN REACTION | (ANU + PRASHI) from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

Umaparan + puva had expressed their love on the love story video that we did for earlier couples; and they just love the way we filmed and story-telled it, and wanted us to cover their love story in the unusual way that is, based on their proposal story. It had not struck us that puva is one of our no.1 fans as she told that she kept checking on our videos from our website. We felt blessed to have another new-found friendship. They treated us as though we are long time friends and not as vendor; and the bond between us was immediately developed on the first meet up. During the discussion, puva kept sharing their love story with us, but paran kept quiet most of the times and we thought he was uncool with the idea. But in fact he has already started brainstorming for the shooting! They mentioned they wanted to film the process of their proposal and how paran actually planned and prepared for the day to pop the question. And they came up with the idea to film it from ring purchasing at DeGem to proposing on the ship. This is awesome and thanks to their planning and arrangement with all involved parties, we managed to film it openly with permission at DeGem outlet, Lasposa and Palace of the Golden Horses.

On the shooting day, they had even arranged and booked a fine-dine boat from the Palace of the Golden Horses (which was where the proposal took place last year) in order to relive the proposal moment. And for all we know, booking the boat is not cheap, it cost them five hundred bucks for the fine-cuisine on the boat for an hour. Well, we could tell it meant alot to them to re-shoot the big day there and we had suggested paran to get her a surprise present; to really surprise her. We did not see this coming, but turned out that paran bought the similar first present that he’d gifted her which she accidentally lost it during their dating years, and it definitely shocked her! Well, puva is definitely de GEM and princess in paran’s heart for he gave her the dream ROM at KL Tower, dream reception at Palace of the Golden Horses and dream lazare D! He really nailed it and he even set the bar high for the guys out there now… *wink*  LOL.

DR UMAPARAN + PUVANES | LOVE JOURNEY from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

They had their wedding ceremony back in the hometown of paran, which is seremban. They had invited the best priest in malaysia and had the event held at a golf club, with lots of blessings from family and friends.

PARAN + PUVA | SDE from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

today has been a tremendous heart-touching day for us. pauline who is a kind-hearted woman, and one who puts her special students needs before herself, has awaken our awareness that these children need our society’s help, care and support.

during our one hour shoot in pauline’s class, we felt the love and care that she has for them; without feeling tire nor bore of the absence of sound in the class. in fact, she is constantly with smiley and happy face when she is with them, wanting to educate, love, care, support and protect them the best that she can. because of her talent in sign language and working with children, this is why she has opt to become a teacher in special school in order to teach the deaf children. and believe it or not, these children are just like any other ordinary children; they are as cute and naughty as others…they are super super super cute! And they are shy as well… just like megat who is shy to be on camera, is sharing his love to pauline + sasi with us here…

sasi – the groom-to-be is also a teacher in another special school teaching the disabled children. with his tender  loving care towards these children, he too plays a role as the sport teacher to megat and his classmates and they do love him as much as they love pauline.

here goes a snippet of sasi+pauline’s love story, sharing with you “the sign of love” from megat.

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The Sign of Love from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.

seeing them so naive and cute just made me feel like wanting to do something to protect them from the harsh world out there; and has lifted our awareness towards the needs of the special children.

stay tuned: sasi + pauline’s love story coming to you soon…

Kumar + Amara SDE from Doodle Studio on Vimeo.