The A to Z: Aliya Zaid strikes a pose for MyPlace magazine: Pacific Place's signature publication,

For Pacific Place's magazine My Place. 

Sadly, the magazine is no longer in circulation.

Aliya Z brought it!!

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Tong twins: Bruce Tong and Chris Tong

Second gen actors and twins Bruce Tong and Chris Tong on cam and on set!

Outtakes: Cover Shoot: David Oshry in Armani: Outtakes from Runway magazine cover for Prestige

Runway cover shoot; David Oshry in Armani.

Options that we were considering before making the final selection. Standing mid traffic or in motion...

South African model - based in Hong Kong - for Runway magazine cover shoot, for Prestige 

Pictures by Olivier. Of course. 

How the Cookie crumbled... My Trials and Tribulations with the Most Beautiful Tuxedo Cat in the World

My cat Billyjean looks like an adorable little ball of harmless fluff but is in fact a neurotic, volatile, hyper aggressive lioness-beast wrapped into the tiny little body of a tuxedo cat.

Every few weeks, we've had to take the cat to professional groomers, at considerable cost and effort, where it takes three people and a prayer to hold her down to trim her... claws... talons. When we've tried at home, its usually turned into a bloodbath. A record nine groomers have sent regrets that they are no longer able to meet our cat's urgent mani-pedi needs as medical insurance wouldn't cover acts of God or feline.

A longtime believer in throwing money at problems, we've chauffeured the cat to different groomers studded around the island of Hong Kong. The first few times, when she was but a kitten, we took her to the groomers in Kennedy Town and Cookie the dog (right - seen here with Linda Markova, who came to help contain the damn cat), came bouncing and wagging along to come play with Billyjean. My wide-eyed kitten had one look at the joyful pupper and instantly met her arch nemesis; she went ape-shit.

She scratched the dog, tried to bite him and hissed and snarled her way. If you've never witnessed a hissy-fit, it's quite a sight. As witness to a domesticated kitten morphing into a feral wild cat numbed me into a motionless, petrified waxwork figurine of a self I didn't recognise, I've never been more shocked in my life. Mind you, the cat is a fraction of the size of the dog. Linda had to hold the dog up and away from the cat to save him. She comforted the brown fluff all day while, once nudged into motion, I tried to hold the cat back with restraint and cajoling.

Since then, recognising the scent of Billyjean, every time we went back thereafter, the dog hides under the furniture, trembling.

Billy's mostly unapologetic... about everything in life in general... Our last visit resulted in the owner giving us a full refund and asking us to never come back.

Cats. Not just a bad musical.

To quote Edith Piaf , "Non, Je ne regrette rien."

I regret nothing.

Also, Go away. 

Behind the Scenes: Magazine cover shoot

The crew behind Lifestyle's cover shoot. My last cover shoot with my dream team.

Friday plans in the age of Covid...

I don't even remember life BC.

Before Covid. 

Jewellery Shoot

Styled by Tasha Ling, shot by Olaf Mueller.

TBT to shooting Linda Markova for the jewellery supplement in Prestige magazine.

Forgot who did the makeup... probably Karen Yiu... cause she did majority of our shoots. Cause she's the best.