If you have been following my blog you would have noticed the lack of blog postings in the last month or two. Reason being I’ve just delivered a beautiful baby daughter in August and have since been recuperating at home. I spent the first month or 44 days to be precise, since my delivery in confinement. This is an asian tradition followed after giving birth by which my diet was restricted to only certain types of food, I kept myself wrapped up so I feel like an inferno and I only take a bath in herbal water.

Despite the inconvenience of confinement, I’m glad my mum insisted that I follow these practices which have been passed down from generation. I’m happy to say that I am fully recovered thanks to my family and am now back on my feet again ready to start photographing weddings and portraiture sessions from November 2010 onwards, hence please contact me to check on my availability.

Here’s a sneak preview of a picture taken by my husband of my daughter and I. More shots of her will be posted soon …so keep your eyes peeled on the blog!

I came across this beautiful poem by Kahlil Gibran, thanks to a friend of mine, Steph Tan which sums up what I feel about the above picture.

“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
…For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit,
not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”

- Kahlil Gibran