Calvin & Evelyn
Photographers: Sarah Ho Brian Cheng Photo Editing: Evelyn Khoo Layout: Calvin Chua Printing: Topwin Graphics
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London’s weather is a bi*ch if you pardon my French. To be honest about the weather, London is mostly 2 weeks of summer, a permanent feeling of autumn and spring, about 4 months of freezing cold wind with maybe 2 weeks of snow. From what we have examined of people around us, marriage is more like London’s weather and climate. Summer comes about once a year akin to that spectacular burst of love where you feel that everything is alright and there is no need to worry about the future. A relatively rare feeling. Most of the time is spent somewhat in anxiety and suspension worrying about what is to come, what the past could have been and very often, the freezing winds of winter. We claimed that this book is about four seasons but it is about the four seasons in our head and not the four seasons per the actual change in climate. The photographs were taken in the year of our engagement. They were the breaks we needed from our daily lives, to get away from the bustle of central London, and the occasional desire at self gratification to dress up and act out the stories in our head. The love stories that we will love to have every day, the glimpse of what goes on in our head and the moment of just slowing down and spending time in silence with each other sitting side by side. It is about embracing the unexpected, and making the best out of what we have.
Evelyn and Calvin
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SUMMER Lavender Fields, Hitchins
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Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here Here comes the sun Here comes the sun, and I say It’s alright - Here Comes the Sun, The Beatles
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. - Voltaire
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AUTUMN Richmond Park, London
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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I still have photographs of her. - Ellen DeGeneres
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The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. - Henry Miller
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If it were not for the presents, an elopment would be preferable. - George Ade
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AUTUMN Hampstead Heath, London
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than life. - P.D. James
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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days. - John Burroughs
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Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birds and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginning. - Terri Guillemets
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WINTER Hampstead Heath, London
Winter is nature’s way of saying “Up yours” - Robert Byrne
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The colour of springtime is in the flowers; the colour of winter is in the imagination. - Terri Guillemets
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SPRING Regent’s Park, London
No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. - Proverb
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Sentayana
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A man has every season while a woman only has the night to spring. - Jane Fonda
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A life without love is like a year without spring. - Octavian Paller
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SPRING Beachy Head, Eastbourne
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. - John F. Kennedy
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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue; no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. - Rita Rudner
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“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart... I’ll always be with you.” - A. A. Milne