Buckets from fishs' life

Hello again

2011-06-05T20:47:00.001+08:00

Well... camera left in the dark for months, luckily still functioning (and battery still around 80%, phew~ ) so take it out and fire some shots. How is my photography skill compare to last time after a "short" hiatus? =)

$$$

Cancer in a tin.

Weird Flower #1

Weird Flower #2

Weird Flower #3

Weird Flower #4?

Pardon the messy formatting, lazy to edit..

So that's it, i guess...

....

2010-05-02T21:49:00.000+08:00

不要說你愛我你想我
如果你的心裡沒有這麼做
只是勉強的敷衍我
我知道了會很難受

P/S: Not me write 1 =P

Garden of Perfection

2010-03-26T17:01:00.001+08:00

The very idea of beauty died so long ago,

But sometime i catch a glimpse,

At the call of your name or by the touch of your hand.

I saw this place as Adam once saw Eve,

But gone is the garden of perfection.

Now all that's left,

the dirt we've become, not the dirt we came from.

Run

2010-03-11T21:01:00.000+08:00

I'm running out of things to say,

Running out of lies,

Out of trust,

of love,

of dreams,

I'm starting to get a little tired of running towards you,

So I guess I'll have to stop for awhile.

Then I realize I'm all alone.

CNY@Kek Lok Si, again.

2010-02-26T22:30:00.002+08:00

After a short hiatus, I'm finally back to taking photos. I revisited the biggest religion supermarket(tm) in Asia to snap some CNY cheers there (they light up the temple like a fking bloody christmas tree every CNY). The first time I'm up there snappin' the CNY mood is the time when I just got my SLR (it's a Sony). Enough of flashback bullshits. I'm now a Nikon user and not very happy about it. Nikon suck donkey cock, period.

Anyways, it's like a SLR slug fest up there. ~~Tens of thousands of~~ I think there must be like 20-30 photog who yield a bloody tripod and a bagful of camera gears ~~(battery chargers, blowers, lens tissue, lenspen, lens cleaning liquid, a spare body, a spare compact camera, USB cables, card readers, their Sony A230 user manual, etc etc)~~ proudly totting their gear, blocking the path as if the whole fking place belongs to them. Time have sure changed. I still remember the "good ol' days" when only pros had something that resembles a camera with a fixed focal lens on, and these ppl, they respect the environment, never makes a scene like they own the baddest SLR in town. OK... I made up the last line... but I really think SLR users are a bunch of motherfuckers now. Especially those that took less-than-ordinary pictures.

Enough ranting, lets move on to those less-than-ordinary pix. =S

So many Gods, so little foods...

Lanterns... *yawn*

'Tis the season of giving and sharing and be merry.

Guanyinmas riding on top of 'ya.

Hmmm......

Look at big momma!

"How long do I have to mann this counter?Sigh.."

Lanterns again, *yawn*

Gives new meaning to "I'll be watching you"

Let's pay RM10 and make some greenhouse gases so Gods bless us.

Disclaimer: Though I might appear to be rather offensive to some particular religion, in actual fact I respect 'em religion lots. I do not litter, I *try* not to block others from enjoying the view of the temples, I pay my fking parking fee to the temple committee, etc etc.

Thoughts

2010-01-16T14:44:00.000+08:00

As I was speeding down the Jelutong expressway (the only road in Penang that you can legally "speed" at 80kph) then suddenly a thought came to me.

It's Saturday morning, I've just closed a deal with my favourite vendor, was on my way to lunch with someone i don't mind spending the rest of my life with, the car no longer produce a creaking sound (i just fixed it yesterday) Everything just seemed so right. Suddenly, I had this realization, I'm actually happy being who I am.

Could this be the beginning of something good?

I eased the accelerator while a song about the story of hip hop fades into the background.

p/s: The deal is a small one, mind you. So don't come asking me to treat anything you bloody leeches.

Random photos >_<

2009-12-15T09:43:00.004+08:00

Finding emo.

Pedobear, where art thou?

One taken before tis' could even be snapped wtf.

Unassuming looks >_<

Teh correct way to hold a dim sum.

ditto.

Flower shot, for once in quite awhile.

Not sure what is this flower..

My new loot.

ISO6400 f/16 macro ^ ^

Life Lessons

2009-12-09T11:34:00.003+08:00

I learn some small details these few months.

1) A lot of people wants to be successful but very few is willing to do the dirty work.

2) People liked getting trapped in life-wasting routines not because they don't know it; rather, they chose to waste their life.

3) Many people dislikes engineering but they do it anyway.

4) No amount of training will get you anywhere near the "talented" person you aspired to become. It takes much more than a stack of books to be the "talented" person.

5) People (esp engineers) SHOULD really evaluate where their strength lie and move toward that direction.

6) No such thing as "income generating hobby".

Pg Bird Park

2009-11-19T22:24:00.008+08:00

Went PG bird park for the 2nd time (first time no count, that time still noob). not really alot of stuff to shoot about (and me having max reach of 85mm only fml, some ppl still complain when they have 250x1.5mm) These photos u saw are really close ups (not macro) of the birds. Some of 'em the lens really shoved up their ~~ass~~ faces and some bird retaliated by pecking at my RM190 Kenko lens filter fml.

Business is not really good even when it's a Sunday, considering we're the only customer up until around 11am when a bunch of obnoxious kids appeared out of nowhere to rip the hell out of these poor, malnourished birds. Such is the life of these poor fellas.

A little intro about the bird park. Entrance fee is RM15 for locals (the ticket lady will demand to see your IC) and RM1 for cameras. Entry starts at 9am and can be quite interesting if you slowly spend some time inside. Because most of the birds on display can be touched you can get new experiences with these things (and in the process risk getting bird flu as souvenir).

Emo bird.

Almost liek Robin. Looking at the sky.

Sniping a bird.

A group of flamingo (or whatever their name is)

Bridge over troubled water.

The.ugly.ducklings.

Q: How does the chick cross the road?
A: ???

Another emo bird.

Yet another emo bird.

Pecking at my filter. Damn moody bird. Other birds just walk away when I approach. Apparently not this one.

Feeding from all the nutritious bird shits.

The pride of Sarawak. Available only in ~~Borneo~~ Penang.

Alice in chains.

Trying to break loose and be free. But she could only dream.

Emo bird again =D

After my experience with something longer than 200mm previously(shake/blur/dark aperture), feels like I'm not going to get myself a telephoto lens again. However, I do rather miss those opportunities that is available with something like 70-200mm can offer... But their size always makes me reluctant to buy one because it'll somehow end up in my dry box after all...

Irony

2009-10-31T23:26:00.003+08:00

Isn't it strange, when the reason we are (still) together is the frank denial of our devotion for each other?

Roadtrip

2009-10-30T10:16:00.004+08:00

Last week's roadtrip.

From PG--> Sg. Petani --> Kedah --> Gunung Jerai --> PG.
Go make your own conclusions from those pix.

9 Emperor Gods

2009-10-28T00:03:00.004+08:00

After surviving on 50% vegetarian food for 9 days finally the torture ends. Go google yourself what is 9 emperor gods. I'm just as clueless as you.

Found out theres a parade near my place so quickly assembled a light strike force to join the mob. Wish there's some nice photos there, and didn't come back disappointed =)

Zombies.

Flag bearers. Someone ask me "beautiful meh? So blur"
I just "......"

Silhouettes.

Erm... Whatcha looking for?

Mom telling son to stop smoking.
Son sulk. Refuse to look at mom.

Enjoying a puff. (risky shot =S)
Just imagine what would happen if i got caught =S

Patung wayang or smth. Gotta excuse the frown there.
She must've worked like 20 hours?

Erm... normal thing people do.

Shin Chan lookalike contestant #5.

Come join teh mob.

Geep.

Gotta love my SLR. Some photos are pushed to ISO51,200, though it's far from perfection in many people's eyes, but the effects are really... nice. At least from my POV..

Autumn in Germany

2009-10-26T22:11:00.003+08:00

In Germany for the week, managed to take these pics =D
Not bad, eh? haha... Gosh, I began to liek Autumn!

Diu

2009-10-20T20:39:00.003+08:00

diu: A cantonese word for fuck. Commonly used inconjunction with explicit, specific and graphic descriptions of the object that is being fucked.

please: used in polite request; "please pay attention"

Some people mixes these two words up. you say "please" if you want something.
You don't say "Can you give me that? Diu." You'll probably not get what you want.
You say "Can you give me that? Please?" You'll then probably get what you want.

But some people uses "diu" nonetheless, and expect others to comply. But as expected, people don't. So then they go around bitching that guy is a jerk and he's a weirdo and he suck donkey cock and all the other unpleasantries.

It's a weird world, after all. Diu....

Autumn

2009-10-13T09:45:00.002+08:00

Wish I had more time to go out 'shotting instead of busy hustlin'.

Yesterday it snowed for the first time. Click to enlarge.

No prize for guessing how I took this photo (no, it is not -ve, you dumass).

Back from holiday

2009-10-12T09:51:00.002+08:00

....only to go on holiday again XD

and springs a little' surprise along the way! XD XD

Canon 5D Mark II

2009-09-29T16:28:00.003+08:00

It's amazing how many people nowadays are complaining about their gears. Dude, you got it all wrong.. Photography is never about the "hey kewl you got a D700 it can shoot at ISO100000000 OMFG!" and "OMFG your photo look so awesome... (and the inevitable)... what lens did you use?"

Photography is really only about 2 things.

1) Canon 5D Mark II
2) Canon 24-70 f2.8L IS USM

1) Light
2) Composition

No, photography is really about these two things. Many ppl bitches about how their 18-70 kitlens can't produce photos and stuff.

That's why your photo suck donkey cock, and that's why your photos never improve.
You deserve it. Wallow in the mud of mediocrity, bitches!

disclaimer: I did not say my photos were outside the "mud of mediocrity" so don't need to remind me that. I am a gearhead myself.

Totally disconnected piece of shit.

2009-09-26T11:25:00.003+08:00

A collection of random, totally disconnected photos.

Retro gauge.

PCB.

Towering into the sky.

Modern day gas chamber.

Claustrophobic.

Happyness in a bottle.

......

She sounds terrific in myspace, but live, she sounded like a bitch.
Wasted my overcharged RM23 beer money.
Shit.

Half empty cup of happyness.

The road ahead.....

... is full of shitholes blocking my way.
How can i go 0-100 in 3.2 like this???

Another fallen soul. (pardon my insensitivity, but I just don't give a fuck).

There goes another day.

Back in Action

2009-09-22T23:58:00.002+08:00

Hmm.... no words. Cos dunno what to say.

Random photos

2009-09-01T22:05:00.002+08:00

Hi mum,
Guess what, I'm still alive!

OK, I know, nobody notice I disappeared ='(
Been shelving my SLR and sold my lens at below-market-price to some ****** so right now I have UWA, and 90mm macro, and nothing in between. (if you say kitlens is a lens then I rest my case). I might go for a Zeiss 16-80 or something like 24-70 f2.8 in the future though.... Depends on how things goes. Or I might go full frame, who knows.

Horse's vomit. (actually some kind of japanese food (>_<) )

Shakers.

SEE members: Remember the "teapot and cup" story??? =D
Oh I forgot, SEE ppl don't read this shit.

"I will not win any award" written all over it. But it's nice though.. :o

>.<

Flowers again

2009-07-13T09:26:00.002+08:00

Well, hope they make up for the months of inactivity. Luckily my lens are still intact. I thought they might grow mold or something =S Nothing really interesting this time, just that I tried to produce abstracts with flowers (and fail miserably).

Shadows! Shadows! Argh!!! =S

Taking a side shot.

Q: Hey dude what you're looking at?
A: Erm... you, i guess?

Some sort of very small flower. Do not know the name though...

Well, I think that's all? =S

Emo

2009-07-09T22:46:00.003+08:00

This is how I'm feeling right now. A mixture of regret, disappointment, disillusioned, disbelief, and a thousand other feelings. Should I quit? I do not know. Things are definitely not good.

Yes, I drawed this. On some free notepad no less :S

Sometime I do feel, quitting is probably the better option.

Foot Step

2009-07-08T20:50:00.001+08:00

One small step for a man,
One giant leap for a fish.

Overwhelming

2009-07-05T21:07:00.002+08:00

Had too many things to do lately, hence, a lack of ~~seriously awesome~~ pictures.
Just update this to let you guys know I'm still alive. But had too many things to do.

Argh.

Willkommen In Der Joo Und Casey's Hochzeit

2009-06-09T20:12:00.005+08:00

Ok, the title is lame, using some weird foreign language to get attention. Basically I'm trying to say welcome to the Joo and Casey's wedding.

Been visiting Taiping zoo (again) and this time armed with my SP90 macro, I manage to get (very) few shots. Fixed zoom is not the thing to bring into the Joo. Unfortunately, someone is using my 18-250mm superjoom and I'm left with my ultrawide(!) or my SP90.

Munkeye.

Teddies don't hug back, but sometime it's all you got. *sob*

Some weird animal (zombie, in actuality) feet caught on film.

Lonely ~~comel~~ camel.

Chicks.

~~Dear~~ Deer. Or doughnuts.

Not so nice elephants.

Guys, say hi to Casey and Emily.

Chili bokeh.

Some weird food.

Some weird ~~toy~~ camera.

Some weird soup.

Sorry but nowadays are not always in the mood to write a lot of happy stuff. Its good enough that I'm not stabbing someone right now.

Just a thought.

2009-06-02T21:43:00.003+08:00

Found this somewhere (don't ask).

1) Let go of what is not working.
2) Lean back on the things you don't really need.
3) Think about the things you do (and still do) that no longer serve a clear purpose.
4) Examine old mindset.
5) Simplify your taste.
6) Be more mindful of what takes your breathe away.

It's all simple, dandy and stuff. But all it takes is a single step to redefine your life?
I always like to ask myself these questions,
"~~Why am I here?~~ Where do I go from here?"

Maybe all it really takes is a single event that makes us take a second look at ourselves.

P/S: I know many would not understand this post. Fuck that.

Floral Feast

2009-05-31T16:15:00.004+08:00

Different people have different fetishes. Just look at this guy. He likes spiders, the hornier, the better =S I rest my case. I like flowers. No, I'm not gay. But I do like flowers. I don't know why. And I don't care.

Much had been happening lately, disappointment mingled with hope, there will be a hueg change in my life within a few weeks. No I'm not getting a gf, though I wished to =(

I hide myself within my flower,

That, fading from your vase,

You, unsuspecting, feel for me

Almost a loneliness.

-Emily Dickinson.

Obsessions

2009-05-10T16:06:00.004+08:00

What did I bought for my bonus? Well...

Why did I bought these?
Things had sucked so bad lately, I feel like stabbing someone and inject with liquid detergent so I could watch them die and see the evil light fade from their eye. Yeah, you read it right. Liquid detergent.

"It is known that synthetic enzymes (in detergents) such as alkylbenzyldimethyl ammonium chloride are powerful phase transfer catalysts which can greatly accelerate the hydrolytic attack of glycerides, proteins, lipids, and genetic molecules. These additives are extremely toxic to virtually all living organisms."

Stay away from me you exploitative bastards. Don't be the unlucky one.

Kuching in mono

2009-05-06T20:15:00.005+08:00

Had a short holiday last week, and for those who never seen Kuching, here you go. These are the pictures you never will see in glossy brochures and from other ~~non emo~~ photographers.

Comments on each photos are not there because I honestly do not know what to say. Been through a rough week, and the cheers of a significant bonus did not do any help. Feeling kinda neglected lately. Wheres the knife I ordered? I need it to slit my wrist =(

Eggs

2009-04-22T20:59:00.003+08:00

This post is dedicated to the thousands of millions of mother chickens who endure the pain of eggbirth every day for their life, so that we could enjoy them chicken eggs for our breakfast.

A two handed approach to handling eggs.

A one handed approach will only end up in lots of broken eggs.

This is how you choose your eggs.

Take your time. Analyze the egg slowly.

Realllllllll slowly.

Yeah. THAT slowly.

If you did not choose properly, you'll end up with duds like this...

Then you get angry. You hurt people. Unterstand?

Eggs can be made into delicious foods like this, if you choose your eggs carefully.

Blog award: Lamest post of the year.

While Robin go and shoot hot chicks, i end up going to shoot some old dudes practicing qi gong. (ask me if you want to know moar) See how different we are? :D

My lonely birthday present

2009-04-19T08:17:00.003+08:00

Get this thingie for my b'day (and a bunch of other unmentionables) but was kinda surprised cos someone actually remembered i contemplated buying one of these very long time ago ~6 months ago(?). Duh, I was hoping for an iPhone or smth >.<

Can it do any tricks? Well, it can sing.... =/

But anyways. Thank you, whoever you are. From the bottom of my broken heart. I guess the iPhone might just have to wait another year..hmmm.....

For the rest of you, if you can't figure out what is this thing, well, I heard some ppl used this to stick it up into their anus for some weird pagan ritual, maybe you can borrow this from me and test it? =X

Happy Birthday to myself

2009-04-14T09:16:00.004+08:00

Well Fish,

Congratulations, you made it thru another year. So what's next?

Live thru another year?
Feeling like I was meant for more?
Believe in hopeless dreams?
Become cold?
Soulless?
Headstrong?
Fight and flee?

Maybe, I just don't care.

Maybe knives ain't for cutting cakes anymore :(

P.S. ~~Had an argument with my boss yesterday so I'm not in the best of moods, but anyway. You damn dicks still owe me presents. :(~~ I'm not emo, don't worry :D

Day out in town

2009-04-08T21:52:00.005+08:00

Took a day leave from corporate slavery and go to town with my boss (suprise!) We went to Khoo Kongsi, some Kuan Ying temple in the middle of the town, Rumah Per-anakan and a few other unmentionables. Verdict? Well, spending my precious leave and getting sun burn in the afternoon sun?

Something.

I swear, that is real rust, not some coloring!

A tribute to *something* I don't know Chinese so what the heck...

Khoo's clanhouse. Mr. Khoo himself must be damn rich.

The other side of Khoo Kongsi.

Quan Ying temple at the middle of e' town.

Rumah Peranakan. (literally translated: making baby house).

Some ceramic flower which is supposedly made in England in 1900's.
Very expensive stuff (i think).

Damn nice house. This room overlooks some middle compound. Super nice.

Tube radio. Though radio condition is unknown. Probably not functioning.

Nice Courtyard eh?

Kitchen, or ancient meth lab I think.

Damn nice oven. Temperature control, powder coated exterior, timer, what more could you ask for?
Cooking guide? Yeah, they include THAT too.

Some kitchen (wow, they have a fridge back then!)

Hope I have something to do this weekend >.<

What makes good photograph?

2009-04-08T14:30:00.002+08:00

I am tired of saying this to everyone who knows very little about photography.

No, SLR doesn't automatically capture your bitchy gf into a sexual vixen.
No, better lens never make better pictures.

What makes a better picture, is effort. Maybe you're born lucky with an ability to take better picture compare to others. But if you do nothing and sit at your home every day thinking maybe you'll get better pictures if you have that better lens, then by all means, go buy the lens. Maybe it can make your candid photo 1% sharper at the edges and maybe it reduces vignetting, slightly.

The difference between a cheap and an (very) expensive SLR (A200 vs A700/900) is minimal. Maybe you get a better EV range, maybe it scored better DxOmark, maybe it had few more buttons, but the pictures you took will not change drastically. Learn how to capture a good picture before you even start considering better lens. Heck, I can proudly say, I would get a similar picture to what I get now if you give me a compact, any compact. If you want to get better pictures, go get a film camera. While you're at it, why don't you consider a medium format? Or a large format?

I spent 1 year, almost few hours every day to get to where I am now. I studied what I captured, why it suck, I studied why other people get better pictures, I ask for feedback (not thru forums) I take in honest comments and criticisms.

If you expect to become Ansel Adams after you bought your cheap-ass SLR (preferably Canon), go eat your own shit and fucking kill yourself. I'm tired of being the nice guy (aka the wussy) trying to explain this to you all shitholes.

Some 'Ahhhh' moments

2009-03-29T20:22:00.003+08:00

I spring clean my room today, and found my old digicam(click) among some pile of unrecognizable junk. A little bit adventurous, I inserted 2xAA and voila, it's working!
*note: I will review the camera soon so stay tuned.

I took a few pictures, and marveled at how bad the picture turn out. I used to pay RM550 for that piece of shit back then (in 2002 i think) and it had kinda served me well over the year (1 year only)

Feeling a little bit nostalgic, I quickly went to unearth my old collection of ~~porn~~ pictures. Most of them is took during my pre-emo times (when everyone dissed me and I don't give a fuck back then, before I finally submits to pressure and became ~~goth~~ emo). I go around taking pictures without prior authorization, I still do it nowadays though I do it much less because my stupid SLR is heavy.

Did i take better pix back then? I don't know. Pls let me know what you think of my photo taking skills back then in 2002.

Taman Universiti, view from an eatery called 268 or something.

Can you see the camel toe? xD

Fat hom. We drifted apart so no comment on this one.

Drifted apart with this guy, too, though never really got close with him anyway.
I'm too cool for this kinda shit.

Juan, look how handsome he used to be and look how he looks like now(click).
Or you can read the whole post here(click).

My attempt at art photos back then. No, they didn't post for me,
this shot is the natural shot of brotherly love (which we called gay nowadays).

Portrait shot of Che Hom (surprise, still didn't fight with him til now).

One day someone decided to smuggle some alcohol into the dormitory after I emo
(apparently some girl ditched me then) I didn't drink these shits.
I drank whisky cola back then :P

My ex-housemates, towards the end of our study we drifted apart and became enemies instead.
For the first time, I admit I'm quite sure I caused it :)

Ahh. Many things have changed, though I wouldn't say things were better back then (for the record, they ain't) sometime I do look back into the past and found some people who actually cared. Silently, I thanked the stars for these ppls in my life. Definitely, its much better having them than a bunch of douchebags around.

Boca's dildo

2009-03-22T19:51:00.005+08:00

My boss fetched me to a place called ~~Boca's dildo~~ Bocadillo's for breakfast. Good luck finding that place if u wanna go. :) It's hidden on an off-beaten path of the usual tourist traps in Batu Ferringhi. Yeah, we travelled almost 1 hours just to eat some bread, if you're wondering.

Hot cocoa on a rainy Saturday morning :)

Some kind of pita bread with vegetable and fruit fillings inside.

Some french toast with lots of vegetable filling inside
(it was really big, the pix don't really do justice tho)

Yum. Bacon, german sausages, scrambled eggs, and all that shit.

Pedo shot ;)

No prize for guessing which plate is mine. (No, not the little girl u dirty old hags!) So is the place any good? Hell, it was damn good.

1) The place is not too busy,
2) It is situated next to the ~~bitch~~ beach.
3) Things were kinda cheap too, as an added bonus.
4) ??

But I wouldn't want to spend another 1 hour driving there just to get a breakfast. Unless I'm fetching someone *cough* close. So if you're a guy don't ask me to fetch you there.

Later we went to hike up the Muka Head lighthouse. The weather is bad and it's drizzling when we hike up and the humidity is like 102% so we're sweating like shit on the way up. But more on that some other time (usually that means i'll never post it again).

p/s: I think this post gonna get ranked up high in google search, with dildo, pedo and all that kind of catchphrases :) , but with all the wrong reasons. :P

Mini sakura in penang

2009-03-15T22:42:00.004+08:00

Global warming confused some poor plants here in penang. They thought they're in Japan or something and they must flower their guts out for the ugly Japanese to see (else, the ugly japanese ppl will chop them down).

This pix is not nice but I put it as the first pix cos all other pix are landscape oriented >.<

This pix is not related but.... I just include it.

Can't see the flower. So just see the colour :)

On the road leading to doom.

I like the cloud texture of this photo.

UWA doing its magic here.

Not my leg :P

I took those pix probably in my half unconscious state, my colleague phoned me completely uninformed on the ungodly hour of 930am on a Saturday morning. I'm lucky I brought along my battery and manage to not end up in an accident driving my way there>.< My colleague said I looked terrible (half unconscious) when I arrived, that probably explains the non-emo style of my shots (emo engine has yet to fully operate). Some photos are so unfamiliar I don't know how to describe 'em.

Those pix were taken in direct sunlight, a nightmare for noobies like me. ~~Thanks to my uber-cool Canon 5DMkII with 12-24mm f2.8L lens I can capture the magnificent color of spring.~~
Scratch that, Canon sucks. I plan to go for 2nd shooting during late evenings but the weather is not good so I stayed at home eating nuts instead and bathe in my own emotional delusions. (I suffered a major emotional breakdown again this weekend)

Travel to a strange land.

2009-03-10T22:03:00.004+08:00

Walked into this strange town, it was unwelcoming,
sky's a bitch and it's dark as hell but heck, who cares.

But it was nothing significant, really.
Just some false belief and distorted perception, perhaps.

Looked into the ceiling, for inspiration, anything, just to get by.
Perhaps something will come up if you stare hard enough.
Or the ceiling will crumble and bring you to another happy world.

Everybody walks past me, without noticing, without a care.

Always rushing, never knowing what to do.
Perhaps, them ignoring me is not such a bad thing.
So I began to look at life from where they never, perhaps never will.

Some of them pulls out stunts, hoping to get some love.
Or to earn a life, some money, maybe, just to get by.

Like painting themselves silly, posing motionless for hours on end, just to try to get something. All they probably need is one shot. And god ain't giving so they kept tryin'.

People come, people go.
Cruel as they were, they gave a stare, they walk away, and life goes on.

And sometimes they do get tired, settled down, sit down, for a drink or something.

Opps wrong photo.

Riding an (almost) empty train to somewhere, anywhere, perhaps nowhere at all.
In the ungodly hours a giant awakens.

And he's going to make a grand entry.
Maybe one day people will realize, he's not a loser, after all.

Note: My travel ain't that bad at all. Head to Robbin's for some happy shit. Would elaborate more on the next post, if it do come out at all.

Christmas Present

2009-02-22T22:27:00.005+08:00

Christmas came early this year (in spite of the ~~looming~~ recession).

One day I woke up and felt sorry for myself, so I decide to spend another two grand of my blood and sweat money before I die. On to my favorite camera shop I went.

Can you see the christmas present? It's a freaking UWA!!!!!!

What does it do? It can take wide angle pix. And that's all it can do.

Some lamer is bound to ask:
Boy: Mummy mummy, why you need a UWA? An ordinary lens can do the job just as well!
Mum: Yes its true, even your lame kitlens can do the job.
Boy: So why do we need UWA?
Mum: I don't know, probably because some ppl ran out of things to write into their "1000 things to own before I die" list.
Boy: Oh, I see.
Well, if this acknowledgement doesn't make you happy, nothing will. Go get a razor blade or something and run it thru your vein. Remember, along, not across!

What can UWA do? Well, among other things,
it can capture some chi kho pek watching an old auntie walk past.
With the camera pointed somewhere else.

With such a shallow depth, the lens have almost infinite depth of field.

Photos come out crisp and clear without you having to shoot into focus charts. Time to go shoot actual pictures instead of sitting in your sorry lab testing your second-hand lens. Probably the focus is out because that other guy dropped it on the floor. Opps, I didn't tell you that!

I'm sorry if you don't see any interesting pix. I assure you regular quality content will resume soon, and if you're one of the 5 regular readers who decide to ditch my blog after you read this post, please, I need you :'(

V-day Symphony

2009-02-13T21:51:00.006+08:00

Photos I took during during the weekends. (last weekend, to be precise). Tomorrow is V-day, and wtf am I doing here....

I hurt myself again, today.

So I took a little walk, maybe it could clear up my head.
A little, perhaps.

Perhaps I should remind myself to never take the forbidden fruit.

Perhaps I should believe theres' a better world out there,
waiting.

Or a world where a thousand demons are waiting,
ready to make your day go really bad.

Perhaps I should invest in some faith.

Maybe I could be wrong, maybe the world is waiting indeed... :)

Where are you now? Please don't leave me :'(

CNY and all that shit.

2009-02-06T15:15:00.002+08:00

While the world braces for a looming recession, we chinese bastards still have the mood to celebrate CNY. This year, it's all about massive fireworks. Bigger and grander than last year. Talk about moderation. Though I don't capture fireworks on CNY, (it's a lame thing to do in CNY) the other guys in the 'hood spares no dime in showcasing their wealth. Massive artillery fires up during the pre-CNY night. The scene in Gaza is pathetic compared to what we get here in Kuching.

What have I done during CNY? Well, this year I done things a little bit differently. I no longer go on massive visiting. I visited a few friends that really mattered to me, and spent more time there.

After disappearing from 'the scene' for so long, here are a few pix.

Suprisingly many ppl do not know this fish here in peninsular. Talk about us Sarawakians being 'sakai'.

My ~10 year old turtle.

I thought she came here to stay. They're all just visiting.

These were the kids that I'm forced to grow up with.
Look what happen to them now.
(if you're sharp enough you'd notice some of them spies aint' supposed to be there)

And how could you not love this guy?
(NO, NOT the d-bag in the background)
Some things just never change.

Worrying signs were appearing all over us now, what should we do? I don't know. I asked a few of my friends, neither were them. We were all too engrossed in our own little sandcastles to see the bigger picture. A small part of me realize I might lost my job some day, but the bigger part of me refused to acknowledge. And then I go back to my old ways, as always.

Simplicity

2009-01-18T12:13:00.003+08:00

It was so simple.
i needed love,
She gave it to me,
So in return i gave her,
my everything.

Dim Sum mornings.

2008-12-11T22:13:00.006+08:00

Kept these two pics for sometime now. I especially craved these simple mornings where someone will accompany me to a quiet morning walk in the park (botanical garden, duh!) then proceed to fill up in these dim sum place nearby. Been looking forward to these walks lately, because work has been rather bad. Kinda lost the motivation these few months. Working with a bunch of lazy germans is no joke.

Typical chinese eateries ambient:
noisy, packed, humid, laid-back, somewhat excellent service
(compared to lansi expensive franchise outlets or german restaurants).

Chopsticks and condiments.

Nowadays it seems like my life is kinda moving downward. Not much excitement, not meeting new interesting people, no new things to play with. Sigh. What a life.

Botanical Garden / Floral "Fest" II

2008-12-01T07:58:00.005+08:00

Plan to went for an early morning hike up penang hill on saturday, but its drizzling so decided to went for dim sum and then go back again, in the rain, for the floral fest. Might go again next week because photo taking is extremely limited (imagine asking my company to hold the umbrella for me, and imagine photographing in the rain). If it wasn't bored enough for her to wait for me taking my sweet time composing my photos.

I like to go to the garden, it's always so refreshing and there is always something new to capture. And not to mention leaving the office far behind. Some of the plants are really nice. The blue coloured tarp is a real bummer though. Why don't they just put those plants on neutral / natural coloured elements instead. Stupid event planner.

But overall, the floral fest is a disappointment. Not much nice stuff to photograph. The event is badly organized. It is planned to start on saturday, but there were national guards guarding the entire place preventing people from going in on saturday. Reason? To give some room to the judges to judge the plants on display. I do saw many disappointed photogs hanging around the area. Though I'm not one of them. I'm cool. I manage to sneak in and take photos for around an hour before being detected and chased out.

Early morning shots. Somewhere in botanical garden.

Desert Rose(?), my mum can grow a better hybrid than this pot back home....

~~Fake~~ Flowers on display, anyone care to give me a clue what is the name of this plant?

Bouquet of flowers.

Malnourished plants on display.

Some bonsai are without leaves, wonder how they grow.

Nothing special on this plant :)

Random shot.

Flowers Instead

2008-11-23T22:06:00.004+08:00

Managed to get myself sick in the weekend, so did not turn up in the office and have some time to take photos instead :)

As usual, went to Botanical Garden but this time only managed to stay for around 1/2 hours because of impending rain. This time around I bought along my close up filter and flash (nicknamed cobra), and because I have such a powderful light source now I'm able to use small aperture and high magnification ratio for an almost macro-like photography.

There is still a lot to be learnt about flash photography. It is so difficult to get 'just the right amount' of light and using automatic metering is not an option for close ups because the lighting will either be very dull or wash out all the details in your subject.

I should probably spend more time if I have another chance because if you realized, I only photographed 2-3 types of flowers this time. If only work is less hectic and I have few more daylight hours after work, I'd probably grab my gears and go photograph some stuff instead of getting stuck in the rat race.

Quite a lot of my friends had been concerned when they saw my camera gears and the amount of sweat-and-blood cash I must've spent there. I must admit though, with F58 flash, various Cokin filter attachments, and a 'small' zoom lens attached the whole setup can be quite intimidating to someone who is not really into photography. For once, they really thought the setup is quite 'pro' level. If only the same could be said with the quality of my shots :)

Just an abstract photo with no apparent subject.

My boss even went to the extent of 'reminding' me that the money I spent here could've already been used as a downpayment for an apartment. I do pledge myself to not spend more on photography this year. But I still have an assortment of lens which I could make good use of, for my photography style :)
1) 50mm macro prime lens: This one is cheap; RM900 for Sigma or RM1.5k for a Minolta 2nd hand lens.
2) 10-24mm UWA: New from Tamron, UWA can be quite an exciting lens to own, but expect to pay up to RM2k for this lens :(
3) A900: Now, who DOESN'T need one of those? :D

At least I'm not as crazy as some other guy who go out and actually buy an A900 the day it was released. Anyway, I think it's time to pull the plug on photography, at least for now, and to plan for the future of my career. Things have changed drastically these few days and some events had really made me realize I might be unable to continue to work in my company soon.

Hope

2008-11-16T22:25:00.005+08:00

Could this be the last thing I say to her?
I do not know.
The words are so simple,
so mellow,
and profound.

All the same

2008-11-09T11:05:00.004+08:00

I looked into all the terrible things I've done in the past,
I looked into the future, and asked myself,
"Has anything changed? Has anything really?"
"Or am I just telling myself that?"

Not my pic :)

Penang hill hike

2008-11-02T20:37:00.002+08:00

I usually went to Bukit Jambul to hike almost every week, but recently there is malaria outbreak and it don't seem safe anymore to hike there, so I had to find another hiking spot before I die of inactivity.

Went to conquer Penang hill on the weekend. The 5km uphill hike is interesting and the scenery is really nice, but downhill is a torture cos i'm wearing my slippers. To compensate for my ~~ego~~ physical fitness I lug my heavy SLR with flashgun with me so I don't go too fast.

The hike is not for those physically unfit *cough* Juan *cough* or those suffering from any major malfunctions on their body part. Started climbing at around 7am (the sun already rise) and reached the peak at around 840am and we're really suprised cause normally you need 3 hours to reach the peak. I guess we're just too fast :)

Saw this ~~bitch~~ escort dog who kept tailing us from around 3/4 uphill until we reach the peak, and managed to snap her portrait pic :) Strangely, another ~~bitch~~ escort dog escorted us downhill until around 3/4 from the peak too. Hmmmm.......... Something sinister happening there?

I photographed this flower a thousand times already, and this must be the 1,001 time its being photographed. Not much variety is available here =)

I must've fogged up my SLR during the hike uphill from moving too fast, and the lens must've been slightly blurry when I took this pic, which turned up rather nicely, dreamy effect :)

I think I'll definitely go for a second round, third round and a couple of hundred more rounds, the view is fantastic and the climb is not as hard as you might've imagined. And to enjoy a hot cup of coffee in the middle of nowhere, it's a really rewarding experience.

Bokeh

2008-10-27T23:17:00.002+08:00

Once in awhile I took some photos that I grew to like very much :) Click to zoom in and admire the intricate details :D Before you ask, it's my hands :) One hand holding camera, one hand on the book.

50mm f1.7 and f58am in wireless mode can really do wonders :)

P/S: If you don't like it.... well, suck it.

Emotionless

2008-10-20T23:15:00.004+08:00

Actually I wanted to take some neutral pix, emotionless, but i guess what i took is rather... Make your own interpretations. They are not the best but they kinda fit into a certain theme.

Work had seriously been overwhelming I think it began to affect my ~~sex~~ life. Anyone looking for an expert to lay a hand on systems integration/tests development/anything electronics? Work must be easy with a slight hint of challenge, pay must be >RM4.5k (sorry for lower wages go get a bangla engineer instead) and a steady supply of photographic material near workplace will be a seriously added advantage.

Can we live with faith alone?

2008-10-13T22:46:00.002+08:00

Just a few lingering questions in my clouded mind recently.

- Can we survive on faith alone? I used to have faith in something, it let me down. I could be a realist in many things that people around me knows me for, but not many know I used to struggle with my own illusion. I still do. I still harbour some unrealistic hope. Like for example, getting a RM1000 payrise end of this year, when I just got a fat package last month. And comparing my salary to someone 3-4 years my senior and complaining to boss about my meager salary.

- Why we only like what we could not have? Not talking about relationships because I'm shitty in that, I know. Years ago when I'm still surviving with RM400 allowance, I'll have an orgasm when I touch an iPod. Right now I'm earning bucketloads of money, but somehow iPod losses its sex appeal on me. I'm still trying to figure out how to spend my money nowadays. Trying to find something to buy, something to get by.

- Why find someone you hate as your life partner? I seen that in some people. And I still don't understand why. Imagine living with a whining bitch/ dickhead for the rest of your life. Oh, and I forgot about the 50% divorce rate. Point is, why keeping the relationship when it's clearly not working? As a spare tyre? As a lifeboat while trying to find another bigger ship? To achieve the economic of scale? Afraid of being lonely? Ain't a relationship is supposed to make you you?

- Not a question, but I hate whining bitches. And yeah, why do they exist? They have IQ the same level as a plank. Yet, they try to be smart, act cute, do a bunch of very insensitive things, making you feel really bad, and a hundred other stupid things. You can just ignore a dick, chances are he wouldn't cause you much trouble, but when you tried to ignore a whining bitch, she talks behind you, like, really TALK so that you'll notice her and hate her a little bit more.

Ok that's just my personal opinion to the questions I asked myself. Truth is, there are still many nice persons on this earth. I just make it sound so bad because I wanted some attention myself. Hell, yeah, whatever.

A bunch of a hundred other insignificant things.

2008-10-10T15:09:00.003+08:00

Sorry for the super long update interval. Sorry for the lack of social meetups lately (not that I'm known for that anyway) Sorry for not being there. Sorry for not dropping by for a comment or smth. Sorry for being ignorant. Sorry for a thousand other things I must apologize for. Sorry for me, being me.

OK as usual I've being swamped with work lately. But I really am :) I must've left my camera there for two weeks without molesting her and she must've felt kinda lonely right now :) Maybe tomorrow I'll go out and take some photos, away from the madness in office, escaping, finding a way out.

The sign that says it all.
There might be hope, after all :)

Fking new pc

2008-09-29T08:12:00.003+08:00

Thanks to impulse purchase and the creator of credit cards, finally I get a new pc for myself, after pondering for many many months.

There is no problem with my old rig, I assembled it to last for 10 years during my overclocking heydays. There is only one "small" problem though. The processor core is slightly outdated to handle number crunching that my new hobby (read: photography) requires. Not to mention the amount of RAM is insufficient to handle ram-(in)sensitive applications like photoshop and lightroom. So that left me with two choices, either upgrade the ram to 2gb or more, or to get an entirely new pc. A new 2gb stick of DDR ram will cost me... I had no idea. RM260? Add 5x that amount and I will be able to get an almost complete new pc. (don't blame me, I'm penny wise, pound foolish)

And so I get a new pc, the specs can make a grown man wept, yeah, really.
Processor: e8400 dual core, 3GHz, 6MB cache, 45nm process.
RAM: 2GB DDR2 800MHz.
HDD: 320GB SATA2 with NCQ(?)
M/B: XFX nForce 630i uATX
Casing: InWin (chapalang) uATX casing.

Okay, for those still following pc trend it's nothing to shout about. But suprisingly I am delighted to know that I could build a pc 100000x more powderful than my old pc for 1/4 the price. Take a look at the mainboard.

Look at the connectors;
HDMI, DVI, VGA, SP/DIF, eSATA, 100channel audio,
and they even have keyboard and mouse connector! Impressive!

The casing: You really need to come to my place to see how small it really is.
Or wait til I'm motivated enough to tidy my room and take a pic.

For me, the most important point of the whole setup is noise, because sometimes, I'd like to shut out all the noise of this mortal world and listen to Diana Krall. This casing is designed for proper heat ventilation, and, it delivers. There's only two fans in the whole casing, one for the power supply and one for processor. During operation, the casing barely emits any noise. The only noise coming out is the rotating HDD platters and disk head accessing data. Impressive!

Who wants my old system, now? :D

Autumn in Stuttgart

2008-09-24T13:49:00.002+08:00

Ok, my boss sent me to Stuttgart for another short trip which was deemed rather necessary judging on how things had unfolded around here lately. It was a really short trip, but I have been lacking in internet access and email so I'm actually glad to be back.

It was already autumn and the weather is gloomy, as usual. At 2c to 10c 'hottest' plus the windchill I could barely go out of buildings to take these pics.

Lavender, though the greens are fading,
you can still smell the faint lavender you always found in made in China,
melamine laced, cheap soaps.

Nothing is eye catching during the day,
so I walked ( and walked) and walked, wandering aimlessly.
Maybe I could find something interesting in this wilderness.

I saw an old couple walking,
perhaps enjoying the little sunlight that is still available,
preparing for the harsh winter ahead.
They probably should come to Penang.

Two giant statues guarding the super long ( few km's)
walkway leading to a royal park
(Rosenstein park, iinm).

The neverending road, covered with super tall and old trees.

Ah, it's already autumn.

Help!

2008-09-07T14:16:00.002+08:00

No dude, the lack of updates on this blog doesn't mean I'm fking lazy. I've been struggling with deadlines. Look at my previous posts, it's all about struggling with deadlines. But I still wanna say it, I've been so swamped with work recently. And I've been taking breaks off my photographic journey so that I could catch up with some office tasks. Hope my increment better compensate me properly for my dedication, else I'd just get my fk outta here.

And yeah, no pictures.

And when the night falls,
I realize there is nothing worth to see,
I am alone with all the things I've done,
On my lips I feel the frown,
Because there is nothing left for me to say.
So I entertained the swirling thoughts of you in my head,
Each and every time it hurts the same,
The pain never really go away,
Every time I try to stand up,
I trip, I fall, I hurt myself again.
I can't seem to stand up again,
The chain, the pain, it's all too much,
They held me to my sins,
Through which I hurt your feelings,
Hearts that were never meant to be broken,
But I hurt you anyway.
To this sin I did condemn,
please forgive me and my mistakes,
Cuz it really hurts when I tried to breathe,
so I hold my breathe,
But here comes death,
I don't want to go,
Before you let me go.
Before you forgive me,
Break me free,
Save me from myself,
Say you'll forgive me.
Hold me tight,
And say that you'll forgive me.
Hold me with all your might,
and save me.

p/s: just some random shot of inspiration.

Of mice and men

2008-08-23T11:16:00.006+08:00

I've been working overtime because suddenly I'm being swamped with too many projects lately. The last time I count, I got 5x projects, 3 is currently being executed and two on the queue. I'm picking up multithreading skills ( those who know me knew I'm a single threaded guy all my life) and I do feel like I'm growing up, in a certain sense.

Look at my project desk! Don't get jealous ok?

I'm beginning to delve into project managements and coordination which I kinda sucked at. I had a "personal assistant" during university days, and when I come in my company my boss became my personal secretary, keeping track of project schedules and nudge me if I forgot to do something. The only project management that I know of, is to keep track of my lunchtime. Everything relies on technical expertise ( a 5 month project can be finished in a week if you're good enough) and pure luck, and I've been damn lucky so far.

70% of my work delves around this little devil called glow control unit.

99.9% of the time when people ask me what did I do for a living, I say I test glow control units and they gave me a blank stare. I had to start humming "You know diesel engine? There's no spark plug inside, but how they burn diesel? They need a glow plug to heat the engine and ..." along the line.

These few weeks there ain't many nice pictures to show off, but one day I've managed to sneak in my uber cool SLR to take a few pix of my office. Of course there are the mandatory chick shots and whats-nots, but I don't think they're gonna be very happy to be featured here.

I like this pot of ~~flower~~ leaves that my boss plants, it's beautiful and when I told her it's beautiful, I get promotion and salary get raised as well, so I really like this plant :P

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There must be some cockroaches, sewer rats or even human bodies hidden somewhere inside the plant. In my office no less. Many people from other department are wounded when they enter the office it's not surprising some might die before they manage to exit the office.

This drawing is ~10 years old,
I wonder if my dad did this to my drawing when I'm smaller, sigh ~.~

Random picture.
Sony, Like.No.Others.

And we had a farewell/ good riddance dinner to celebrate the two brave colleagues who finally managed to muster enough courage to quit. It was in Teluk Kumbar seafood ( again) but this time I bring my SLR along and managed to take some pictures. Most of them could not be displayed, unfortunately :)

Sunset at Teluk Kumbar.

Craps. I prefer the crabsticks though.
You need so much effort to get to its meat it's almost funny
so many people still want to eat craps,
albeit the effort needed to pry open the shell.

Yucks. Veges to negate the sins we made that night.

The food came too fast I am unable to take pictures of the rest of the foods, because ~~I am too hungry~~ the hungry horde start attacking the food before I'm able to snap the pix, but I managed to snap the aftermath though :P

And what better way to flush down all the toxic with ~~more toxic~~ some god's nectar?

The bill come up rather cheap though, RM26 per head.

Signing off, more work needed to be done and it's a sunday afternoon.

Office politics

2008-08-12T22:30:00.004+08:00

side note: If I wanted to summarize what I learnt the last few days, it's really money talks, bullshit walks. No matter whatever ppl say, you just need to flash some greens in front of them and viola, they instantly became whatever you want them to be. No questions asked.

I've been sick these few days, terrible headache, no appetite, and a bunch of other unpleasantnesses. (note to self: No more 10am walks under the hot sun, especially in unshaded area like a dam.) Not helping is the fact that suddenly I'm swamped by work stuff. 2 projects in hand, and one external project to boot. Might have to work til 10pm soon.

Recently alot is happening in the office, two colleagues who is the same batch with me fried the boss. I had been expecting them to do that for a long time, but it somehow made me think of my position in the workplace all the same. One went to sg to toil like a cow, and another purportedly get ~Rm3.8k salary somewhere else. (to put it her way, I wouldn't get her salary even after 2 years working here) Why wouldn't I resign? I don't know. I do not really have a super bunch of colleagues, I stay just because the bosses are a nice bunch. Call me stupid, but I will stay for as long as they needed me ~~or someone offered me a RM4k job~~. I had difficulty refusing to help someone who needs help, that's my weakness. Right now the department is in turmoil and running away seems ...... lame.

And as they say, bad things comes in pairs, this afternoon I attended a discussion session with the MD, where you got to voice out your concerns to the top management to respond, and when I asked the MD what plans he have for us engineers to improve our technical skills and competitiveness, what he told us wasn't comforting at all. He treated engineers like off-the-shelf parts that can be purchased, just add hot water, no grooming necessary.

It's funny how he, as a typical marketing guy, protects the companies' intellectual properties til the point it became absurd, ( we can't legally bring in floppy disks/ pendrives/ cd burners/ bluetooth devices to prevent us getting stuff out ) when he don't realize the brains that created those intellectual properties are going away. What is left here in the company, is stupid fucks who do not even know how to operate a windows based tester ( fyi it's a one button does everything program) I almost vomit blood every time I face them.

Enough of bulls, maybe I'll leave the company after all. But definitely not within this year, there are things to be done around here.

Backup

2008-08-07T21:57:00.004+08:00

After going without protection for months finally I relented and go get some protection instead. I have quite a few gigs of photo collection, and bundled with all the old nostalgic stuff which I don't know I'll keep for how much longer, I really do not want them to disappear at the blink of an eye.

I was contemplating to get a full-blown external RAID 0 array (which costs around Rm580 for a full 160GB setup with two mirrored HDD setup) or as simple as 3.5" internal HDD, which I'll use to fill up my ~~porn~~ junks instead of mirror backup. Another option is to buy a full fledged Atom PC which will only cost Rm750 to use as a file server of some sort, but it seems stupid when all I need is just some mirror drive.

2.5" NoTouch HDD enclosure. Sexy? Perhaps.

Finally I decided to get a 2.5" ~~lapdog~~ laptop HDD instead, and try to be disciplined enough to do monthly backup. HDD price is falling like London Bridge and I got a 160GB 2.5" HDD for RM205, inclusive of external enclosure. Darn cheap, I must say. Now one of my eternal worries are gone. No longer I had to worry about lost data and my pictures are now better protected against my own stupidity.

Oh, and my new PC plan would have to be scrapped. I couldn't find enough reason to justify spending RM1k++ just to make my photo processing 1000% faster. It was unnecessary in view of the 'unfavourable' economic condition I landed myself in. Some colleague of mine is looking at his 2nd house and he only landed in his 30's this year. By the time he lay on his death bed he'd be looking at his 25th house I think. And comparing to other, less conspicuous colleagues, a huge , glaring gap is immediately begging to be seen. I don't hope to get a 2nd apartment by my 30's, but I do hope to get a place of my own in a very short time. Some bastard coursemate already paying for a spanking new car and house, and I'm not far off I'm paying for my fourth SLR lens. Ok that is supposed to be a joke if you don't get it. This year I would probably skip buying some new gadgets, including SLR lens. Robin is going to get disappointed :D

It takes some ingenuity to save some dough. Presenting you:

How to Save Money and Save Face
Guide #1.

An iPod, CX300, and Philips pouch and you'll be complete.

Look at this iPod, ain't it cool? Well, it's Rm600 on open market and believe it or not, you can actually listen to one, and almost get audiophile quality audio for next to nothing.

1) Go find a friend who have an iPod Nano(tm). Borrow from them on the pretext of saying you're contemplating to buy one. If you do not have friends who have one, go find a new bunch of friends, what you have now is too cheap and not able to support you. What are friends for if not to help each other?
Tip #1: Go find rich friends, most rich bastards have one iPod. Or more.
Tip #2: You can also go befriend someone who works in Agilent. All new hires for 2007/8 get one iinm.
Now you save Rm600, and it's just a start.

2) So now you have an iPod Nano(tm). You need a better earphone than the plastic thing they supplied to you ( which they called earphone, which is really an insult to earphones. ) You decided to buy IM716 but it's gonna cost you ~RM560. Oh no you don't have to spend so much.
Tip #3: You need to look around the drawer for the CX300 that you left there sometime ago. Don't tell me you didn't have a CX300. If you REALLY don't have CX300, go kill yourself or something. You don't know what you've been missing all these years of growing up, and I'm sorry for you, I really am.
You can use your CX300 and not buy IM716, it's enough to suit your needs.
You save another Rm560.

3) You still miss something. You think for awhile then voila, something hit you right in the head. YOU NEED A TUBE AMP! How could you listen to an audio without a tube amp? > < href="http://www.darkvoice.com.cn/337se.htm">THA337 amp that you loved so much, but at Rm3k it's not exactly cheap either. So what did you do?
Tip #4: You might already know, the iPod comes with Wolfson codec audio output. No, I don't suggest it can beat the crap out of tube amps, but if you're one of the 98% of the population who couldn't differentiate between an earphone and an IEM, you probably don't need the THA337.
Oh holy cow, I just help you save RM3k!!!!!~~

4) Finally, you need a pouch (duh!) for your friends' beloved iPod. I knew you already got that SHE9700 haven't you? It comes with a pouch that fits the iPod Nano(tm) perfectly. Now you don't need to buy whatever protection for your iPod. This is what being prudent is all about. You don't need to buy those lousy Made-in-China protector, and you have a free, cool pouch that every other iPod owners are going to get envy for. You could probably save Rm20 for this cool act alone.

Robin would be happy to see this pic.

In total, I just helped you save ~Rm4k of dough! There you go, the guide to save money and save face at the same time!

30 miles of bad road.
Nothing to do with overall post but,
what the heck.

Side note: If the iPod owner stumbled upon this post, don't get angry and demand your iPod back pls? > <

A collection of seemingly random pictures

2008-08-05T16:19:00.003+08:00

Two weeks ago Robin visited penang, and ~~unluckily~~ I became the tourist guide. We went to a few places, snap a few pics, and while he took mostly landscape ~~and hot chicks~~ pics, I took mostly flowers and random objects, so normally we don't need to fight for objects to photograph. Kinda lazy to upload the pictures nowadays, so count your blessings when you saw these pics.

Strangely, most of these pics are taken with 18-250 zoom lens. Robin must've intimidated me with his Ollie ~~but nevermind, Ollie still sux and Sony rules~~. But I've kinda ignored this lens for few months and it's time for it to redeem itself. And my RM1.9k > <

Flower #1. Love the smooth creamy bokeh in the background.
Pic taken at WOA, iinm.
But the small subjects are not really sharp,
might need a dedicated macro but
currently wanna save a bit dough.

Legend has it that Konica Minolta first developed circular aperture blades which is said to produce better bokeh. Nowadays almost all Sony lens comes with circular aperture blades, which is a nice thing to have. On most lower end (read: cheap) C lens, the bokeh is *not-s0-nice*.

I think this is cat's chin or something. *unsure*

Robin and I, we really had different views on photography. He went through a digicam ( two actually?) taking super pictures with cameras most ppl won't even wanna use. He knows a thing or two on how to use what he have to work the way he want it to be. How many people actually use kitlens and produce works of art? Not alot? Yeah, he's one of them.

http://www.robinwong.blogspot.com/

Me? It's simple. If it sucks, it's the equipment. If it blows you away, it must be the thing behind the camera. Simple enough to comprehend?

You can't blame me, though. This Sony A200 is really my first camera, discounting the crappy 1.3 megapixel CMOS sensor crap I use to call digicam. Though I have access to my brothers' DSC-W1 (it's also a Sony) it doesn't really have much to offer me. No bokeh, no UWA, no true macro, no nothing. But it have a sensor which beats the crap out of T200, T2, T-whatever that Sony is currently offering.

Yellow flower.

The wise one. He seen so much he knew,
the best thing to do is to stay still.

I manage to ~~force~~ convince Robin to have dinner at Tao's, on him. xD Tao is my favourite tho. How favourite? I go to Tao again last week. The only gripe is that we do not have a lot of time there , they kinda rushed everything and we were expected to leave the place at 8pm, while we only arrived at 6.40pm.

Unagi sushi (correct me).
It's so good Robin and I had to order the 2nd time,
and the 3rd.

Interior decor in Tao.
It's so recognizable someone said "u went Tao???!!!" when I show her the picture.

I do admit, sometimes my pictures are kinda emo. Not that I want it to be, but I'd be happy actually, cos it's a work of art, my way of expressing myself. Quote John Rambo: "It's what we do, it's who we are. Live for nothing, or to die for something." Well, might as well make something out of life :P

Don't know why but this thing grab my attention.
Maybe of its round shape,
maybe the way it coiled itself,
maybe it looked lonely.

No particular reason to like this photo.
Just thought it looked above average.

There is more pictures, but I don't wanna overload a post with so many random pictures. Till the next time. Go to robin's blog, I do think some of his photos are damn cool.

Burn Out

2008-08-03T10:48:00.005+08:00

These few days had been incredibly hazy and it don't really do good for you. Firstly, the temperature is super hot because the haze traps heat and usually there would not be any wind during hazy days. Then, the view is terribly ugly, luckily it is raining now ( pity my car had to survive the acrid rain ) It really did not do anything to uplift your mood.

Recently a spat of work related issues had been eating into me too...

1) Work is getting routine, no major challenges for me, not that I want any, but, heck, hope you get the idea > <

2) Lack of job security: Lately I'm becoming a pawn over some inter-department battle, and if my dept lose, I'm gonna get more work to do ( which is bad ), and if we win, the boss gets to hire more guys ( which is bad too, ie I lost the only bargaining chip I have ) In uncertain times like now, it's better not to switch jobs if I can avoid it...

3) I have two projects which faces delays which is not my fault ( the designer did not provide proper specification for project I, and for project II, the management did not approve the project til NOW ) and the deadline for both the projects is ..... september 2008, which is 1 month from now. For scaling purposes, a typical project takes 3 months with full technician support, slightly longer if it's a new project ( think NPI ). Now I have 2 projects, both using new approach never tried before, and because of some intra-departmental separation, I did not have any technician assistant. And because of the timing constraint, I simply had no time to redesign the setup using a new approach if it don't work the first time. Sigh, I'm sure it won't look good for me > <

4) Some colleague are so ignorant it almost become funny > <

Despite everything, I still kept my ideals, my boss is still a great bunch, it's just this lingering unease which I began to built over the last few days. Maybe it's time to start saving for the looming rainy days.

Anyway, gotta start posting some pics soon, there's a ton of pics waiting to see the light of day I'm just too tired to sort 'em out.

G Spot

2008-07-29T21:54:00.003+08:00

Accidentally stumbled upon an advertisement for jazz singer, Elizabeth Weeks, doing live jazz music at G Spot ~~no, not that g-spot you dirty perv~~, a 'premier' jazz bar in G Hotel. I ain't a fan of alcohol, and at RM18 for a small, childrens' bottle of Heineken, it ain't cheap either.

Well, she looks nice (Elizabeth Weeks, not the small children) but her voice ain't up to my expectations. Jazz singers should have sexy, sultry voice (or hoarse, in layman's term) but her voice reminds me of Britney Spears or some low life pop singer.

Before any alarms are raised, no, I don't go there for the alcohol. I'm still an innocent, young kid who goes to church every Sunday, I go there because I likes jazz and I thought she sound like Norah Jones. I don't need the alcohol and I would probably not going there again because there's nothing attractive there. No hot chicks waiting for you to make your move, no sexy chicks to gawk on, no friendly waitresses to chat up and no wild orgy parties. Sigh, now I wonder why some losers like to go to disco/pub/bar/watering holes. Better stay at home and look after your kids.

Friggin expensive gods' nectar.

Elizabeth Weeks.
A little bit fat and doesn't sound so nice but she's sexy so I forgive her.

Saturday crowd.

A little review about the bar. Since the beers are kinda expensive and they have an in-house dress code ( no slippers and shorts) you can't find typical Ah Bengs popping ecstasy in this bar. You don't exactly get the suave, sophisticated crowd either. The crowd is somewhere between a cheap bastard like me and a 40-year-old family guy who bring his wife for some booze for some weird, unknown reason. There's like 30+ people in the place at its peak and it's a saturdays' nite.

Now where did I put my iced milo?

Ethereal

2008-07-26T11:41:00.002+08:00

With borrowed smiles and masks,
selling values and frightening
spirits which had nothing to give you.
I want to know if you live or if you are dead.

Dressed in mourning cursed beings,
cut out since the beginning of time with the original sin.

I want to speak and look so profoundly inside this wretched soul of yours,
But can you hear me?
She that's wrapped with ethereal veils and shrouds.

I know you tried to see behind those wounded eyes
They're beautiful, as ever, but through the tears
I can still see into you.
Those sad eyes, they still sear my heart.

You sit there and wait but they had nothing to give you
Sinful passions marked your numbered days.
But you know coming back isn't an option.
And you know I will go back to the old ways, as always.

Dressed in mourning cursed beings,
cut out since the beginning of time with the original sin.

I pity you for your wretchedness
I don't think that you have ever lived, for me you were always dead.

Note: This had nothing to do with any situation, not with me, nor anyone. Maybe they DO tell something, maybe I DO write this based on my life, but your observations might not be true so it's not your concern. I'm not trying to implicate anything, I just like to write stuff like this, I do this out of passion so please don't feel bad for me. I know you won't, too :)

Not A Care For This World

2008-07-23T21:56:00.004+08:00

Last Saturday is supposed to be Bon Odori festival so I went there to try to shoot some hot Japanese chicks, but all I found was hordes upon hordes of ~~ugly~~ Ah Lian wannabes. Not wanting to waste my time and gasoline, I divert to Plan B. I take a few snaps of the street, seems like taking street level shoots are much more interesting than merely snipe from my apartment.

Nobody gives a care for this world, not anymore.
Everybody does their own things,
chasing whatever they're chasing,
ignoring, walking about, walking away.

The clock tower, and the thing-on-the-round-a-bout which I don't know the name.
It's a 1.6sec exposure but the cars are moving too slowly :(

Everybody is just trying to etch a living.
Sometime it makes you wanna scream and just run away.
But then you wake up from your nightmare,
And you wipe your tears so you can keep moving.

In case you're wondering, I added the noise in the photos. My camera can't be THAT bad, no? I shoot at ISO100, 1.6sec handheld for two shots above and the third, I don't bother to find :p

Botanical Garden, Again

2008-07-21T21:13:00.003+08:00

Some people never get bored with doing the same things over and over again. Me included. This is the 3rd time I went to botanical garden to shoot flowers, and each time it just gets better. Not sure if it's me or other factors.

I started to love those quiet morning walks every Saturdays and it gets even better when someone is walking with me. ;) Not that I have a hundred thousand things on my mind, but I really enjoyed just being there, doing the things I always liked, for no apparent reason. Feeling old? You're not alone.

As usual, 100% using my 50mm glass. I'm lovin' it!

He looks up into the sky and wonders,
Is there a place for him?
Even monkey have their darker days.

Don't-know-what-flower flower. It's super hard to focus on the stem with the super thin dof.

Paper flower for the broken hearts.

Paper flower for the broken heart again.

And even more paper flower for broken hearts.
So many broken hearts so decide to publish more paper flowers.

A bunch of don't-know-whats sticking out.
Waiting for bees / birds / pesky humans to help them spread their seeds.

Someone saw the blue beads and loudly exclaimed" take the pic! ",
"TAKE THAT PIC!!!!"
I think it's rather CNY-ish :D

Each line tells a story, no?
I wanna b/w the pix but
I think most ppl ain't really receptive to b/w pictures yet.

Finally had the time to compile this wishlist, but gonna need to start saving some money so.. maybe need to wait til end of this year before can commit to buy one of these > <
Current Wish List:
1) Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 ultra wide angle = RM1.8k
2) Sigma 100mm f2.8 macro or 50mm f2.8 macro = RM1.4k or RM800
3) Sony F58AM or F42AM Flashgun = RM1.8k or RM800
4) C2Q or Athlon PC = circa RM1k

Life is beautiful as always

2008-07-18T14:08:00.003+08:00

Teluk Bahang, taken circa June, 2008.

I had to admit, I ain't religious ppl and I don't praise God for whatever he thrown at me, in fact I don't even believe there's a god at all. If there's a god he must be lazy, just look at the shit we're all in. I used to sulk at how life treated me, the silly bouts of depression, how I hate my life and how good life used to be. I tried to forget all the things I want to forget but it haunts me ~~(I haven't discovered alcohol back then)~~ , I tried to scream but nobody's listening, and it seems like I'm living in the past, the burden getting so unbearable i wish i could just....... forget about it.

I wanted to write an emo post again but I couldn't, life seems to have picked up it's pace lately. I ain't as busy as I lead some to believe, I surf the net ~5-6 hours a day in the office because I do development work and there's no definite deadline to catch, so to be brutally honest life hasn't been all that bad for me. My bosses are nice bunch of ppl and though I don't earn alot I do start to plan for my future, even if I couldn't save a lot of money I tried to save some. I tried to make things work and I tried to shake off my old habits and pick up a few good ones along the way.

Though I had to admit, sometime, life is beautiful. Though it surely don't inspire poems and heavy metal music, but sometime, life is indeed beautiful. Maybe one of these days I will be going to some temple place and start to pray, and be one of those who look up into the sky and thank god for every shat he dropped on them.

Have you tasted the goodness of CB?

2008-07-16T21:33:00.003+08:00

I went to Perak for some business last week, super busy rushing here and there, and no tour guide in Ipoh so did not really had the time to go snapping. But managed to meet with Juan (sorry this lamer din have a blog), only 1 year and he become fatter, lost some hair and a teeth. But this smiling bastard earn 4x my salary :(

Um... yeah. That's him. For those that don't know him, we became ~~close~~ friends in UTM because we get equally bad results ~~(he gets worse than me)~~ and get jeered often by some fker high achievers. Yeah, those ppl existed. They get 3.999 and they laugh at us. Though I admit I've been kinda lazy and consistently got ~3.2 in my study it was never right for someone to laugh at others just because they have better results.

Some 'lou shu fun' (literally translated - rats' powder) made in Kampar. He managed to bring me to some CB place ( no pun intended ) to tapau some CB back to my colleagues, if I'm free I'll try to snap some photos and introduce the CB to you guys whom I didn't bother to pass a few pieces to.

Have you tasted the goodness of CB? No I haven't. How does it tasted like?
On the way back, we went thru this signboard, if you did not catch the joke then forget about it, you need a few more years of growing up.

Butterflies Instead

2008-07-08T21:16:00.004+08:00

Butterflies Instead.

Ok, this post doesn't seem like a butterfly post. Indeed. ~~Most of the butterfly shots turn out crap.~~ I don't shoot really lotsa butterflies cos they're all almost the same. So having already paid RM10 entrance fee, I reluctantly point my uber cool camera to plants and shoot plants instead. Butterflies are available, too, but if you're a good observer there's only two species. Only two fking' species of butterflies in a butterfly farm!!!! Even my backyard have more. Though I live in an apartment.

I think 99% of the shots here were taken with the 50mm glass. Sheesh. My other two glasses are left rotting after I got the 50mm glass. I just like bokeh too much I think I have a bokeh fetish. Focusing a glass with razor thin dof ( depth of field ) is a bitch, but if you manage to get everything together, the result is awesome ( for me, at least ) I know some ppl who don't like bokeh for some equally weird reasons as those who like bokeh.

Lilies, though there's only one flower in the whole place,
I manage to get this shot :P

Ong lai: Supposed to be good luck?

Don't-know-what-flower flower.

Don't-know-what-flower flower, again.
But not looking up into heaven anymore.

When the lightin's just right and the animals are behavin' the photos are a' rockin'.

Butterfly species #2 molesting some unknown-weird-shaped-flower flower.

Imma' at ur behind, molesting ur flowerz.

Still the same species.

Lonely butterfly, emo post.

Humans are gods' creation to destroy all other gods' creations.
Even a poor defenseless butterfly ain't spared from the wrath of humanity.

P/S: To the person whose hand is featured above, you still owe me some money. Pay me before I expose more of your body parts here.

Broken Wings

2008-07-05T21:00:00.003+08:00

Butterflies, instead.

she looked at her broken wings,
It ain't perfect,
it was a 'ittle bit torn,
But nothing's so bad it can't flap again.
She flapped' it twice,
Look up into the sky,
The sunlight gave her strength,
And with her broken wings,
She's ready to give flight a chance again.

She's going to fly again.
And this time she's sure,
It's gonna be better than the last.

Little Penang Street Market June 2008

2008-07-03T08:29:00.007+08:00

LPSM, June 2008 Review

I had the opportunity to join the little penang street market last week. The event is supposed to be some sort of 'cultural' event where it is supposed to represent penang in its entirety.

The last time I heard of the word 'culture', it almost rhymes perfectly with 'pussy', 'lame', 'boring', 'old-fark', among other unmentionables. But things get slightly different this time. Who knows you could get mini-rock concert, baroque-est style music, guitar duet, caroling all at the same event.

Anyway, the event is held every last sunday of every month, and I had been missing the event for some time due to some stupid reasons. Let the pictures speak for themselves.

The man who draw portraits gets portraited.
50mm glass, f1.7, shutter speed - not bothered to check.

A broken heart could do wonders for rock music, no?

One of teh band members,
last time I do hope I could get someone who plays guitar as a gf, but, what the heck.
Every boy dreams of becoming a rock star too, or an astronaut. Whatever.

Drummer.

This baby gonna grow up and be the next Kurt Cobain.
Or Eddie Vedder. Or another nobody, just like me. Sigh.

The ladies enjoy rock music, too.
And I enjoy shooting ladies who enjoy rock music xD.

The world has came a long way since Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a deram" world.
(refer below).

We all have derams. Woot.

Don't let your kids listen to rock music.

The carol conductor.
Says he: "No, you farktards, no! For god's sake, I say
SCREAM WITH ME DON'T SING LIKE A PUSSY YOU THINK YOU'RE SINGING IN A CHOIR???!!!!"

No comment.

She closes her beautiful eyes, and her angelic voices fills the air with heaven's serenade.

Seem like theres too many pictures already. More pictures coming up next.

Isn't life strange?

2008-06-25T13:34:00.004+08:00

Isn't life strange?

50mm, f1.7, the bokeh is awesome!

Isn't life strange?
She walk in the dark,
She cries,
I sat beside her,
but nobody's beside her.

Isn't life strange?
How you end up all alone.
I tried to call her,
But there's nobody home.

I got ma'self a tripod! an' a prime!!!!!

2008-06-16T13:26:00.005+08:00

Finally got myself a tripod and a 50mm f1.7 prime, now I'm more equipped for dim restaurant shots. But that leaves me with no dough to go for dim restaurant dinner no more. > <

Meet Bluntz, he's gonna be your product release model for some time,
til I found a gf and ask her to be the model instead.

This lens is made circa 1981,
amazing how an almost 30 years old lens still sharper than lens today.
Now it's worth more than it's price when new.

At f2.8 and above, things are sharper than sharp. The future, redefined in 1981.

My new, sexy tripod. If only stupid chinamen chose a better name for their company.
Try Schnieder / Illumair or some weird german names.
Just try to use less of XiaTian / YongTauFoo / BenDan.

Moar pictures in the next few days, don't switch the channel just yet.

Breakerfall

2008-06-11T10:09:00.002+08:00

A bottle of barley I got from my boss,
by the time i reach home it's fermented so it's actually alcoholic barley.

There's a girl on the ledge,
she ain't got nowhere to run,
Standing outside the window,
hating everyone inside.

Now her life is on fire,
she's getting desperate,
She can blame the world,
but only love,

Can breakerfall.
Only love,
Can break her fall.
But only love, can break her.

Morning view from the apartment.

2008-06-06T14:58:00.004+08:00

Fuel price hike: Yeah, I don't like it,though I can afford to pay RM10 for a mililitre of fuel because my kancil can go a gazillion miles with it, but what happens is food price will increase, ini naik itu naik, sumua balang naik. gaji tarak naik, kepara pun naik dara. I hereby pledges to forgo upgrading my pc and buying a macro lens for this month as a sign of protest against the stupid Babi Neraka govt. Not that it has anything to do but, what the heck. > <

Anyway, this morning I wake up ~~sweating, screaming and crying~~ and look out the window, some very magnificent event is happening right outside the house every day which I failed to realize. It's a morning, and it's a beautiful morning so I quickly take out my camera, pushes things aside, finding the battery and memory card, quickly rushes to the balcony to capture this shot, which i think is happening for only 5 minutes. So voila, this is is the only HDR which developed nicely from the 3 sets i managed to take, within the 1 minute window. When I look through the window 3 minutes later, the view is gone.

She's beautiful, ain't it? Enlarge her, look at her properly, so you'll see,
she's not that bad, after all.

As I walked through the empty barren street,
I saw a lonely widow weep her dead husband,
clutching, protecting herself from the merciless cold.
Far on the horizon, glimmer of the sun began to emerge,
the blaring of the annoying war-like praying chant, it feels like morning.
A new dawn has come.
Though I wasn't at the streets,
though I saw no lonely widow,
though the weather is anything but cold,
but a new dawn is here.

Feeling Helpless

2008-06-04T22:19:00.003+08:00

"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements.
Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change.
It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
To love is to be vulnerable." - C.S. Lewis.

Is this what I've been doing all this while? I don't think so.
Maybe I'm just travelled one too many bad roads.
But I do know what to leave behind.
The memories,
they are no longer.
And these days,
I feel love.
and it's all I need.

Note: Picture taken at Ms. Saigon(makan place), not by me, but by someone else. That explains the picture quality, no?

Bonsai

2008-06-01T15:40:00.004+08:00

Bonzai Bonzai

I went to botanical garden floral 'fest' for the 2nd time. Yeah, it's that awesome. And return with a bonsai plant. The bigger pot is mine, while the other is not mine. Yeah, she's talking about me indeed. ~~Though I write better poem~~. Oh what the heck. xD

Mine!!! RM15, expensive?
100 pots of this and you can *almost* buy my slr body.

Made of win. And great photographing skill.

Not mine. RM7 so less leaves and less leaf = less win.

In the sun, where you belong.

Some colleague had been distributing links about how having plants in your office can make your sucky mood become less sucky. Well from what I see, it ain't entirely true :P

More pictars from botanical garden when the mood strikes!

Botanical Garden Part II

2008-05-28T17:27:00.003+08:00

Botol-nique Garden, Part II

Too many pictures for 1 blog post, so put into two separate posts...

Water droplets on some kind of weird-above-water-plant-i-don't-know-the-name.

Cute leaf, and someone ought to cut their fingers.............
I mean fingernails.

This shot is best if viewed really close,
but since I'm not a macro lens,
the sharpness ain't all that awesome....
50mm macro lens = next purchase.

Some decors' for mini plants.
Quite cute, actually, but forgot to buy on the way back.

Some ppl liked this plant so much they exclaimed "3d flower!!!!!"
which I find it rather ..... typical.

Forgot where I took this pix. But it's nice nonetheless.

Really small flowers on display.

Time to buy a macro lens, no? Either get a 50mm prime macro f2.8 ( which sucks at low light ) or a 50mm f1.7 ( which sucks at everything except low light ). Robin, any suggestions?
There's more pix, but this post is getting too long and I really don't feel like posting multiple small images on one single file like some ppl ( maybe cos their pix sux? ). Photos are so nice if you can see the details. Yeah, I'm a pixel peeper.

Some random quote:

"If the house is rockin' don't bother knockin', come on in" -Stevie Ray Vaughan.

P/S: I'm into guitar again, after so long ignoring it. Some guitar tune kept buzzing in ma' head.

Botanical Garden / Floral "Fest"

2008-05-27T17:05:00.003+08:00

Botol-nical Garden

Beside the monkey ~~bitch~~ beach, I went to Pg Botanical Gdn last weekend with ~~an old flame~~ a coursemate, it was really is nice place. A lot of ppl were on their way out when we arrive at ~940am, pg ppl were a healthy lot. The whole area is very shrouded so sun is not an issue, the place is cold, damp and dark even when the sun is shining like mad. Did not finish exploring the whole area, will definitely go back for a second visit soon. And they had a floral exhibition going on, where many hybrid and exotic plants went on sale.

Anyway, the first batch of random pics.

Ever heard of cannon-ball fruit?
No, this is not cannon-ball fruit, it's cannon-ball fruit's flower.
The cannon ball fruit is almost as big as a full sized coconut.
I do not bother to take the fruit's pic tho, it's fking ugly.

The texture of an old tree. Seems like it went thru WW2 or smth.
But I like the texture, though. Events will really shape up something, anything.

Some wild shrub, quite nice, actually.

Lots and lots of mini-venus-flytraps. I kinda wanted to get one pot for my office desk,
but it's not meant for fluorescent environment, it needs direct sunlight :(

I think this is some kind of tree with family lineage related to the mini-venus-flytrap too,
but I'm too ignorant and too proud to find out :P

Courtesy of ah james, I shoot both the monkey ~~bitch~~ beach and botanical garden pix entirely in raw, swallowing up ~7gb of what left of my precious 40gb ancient hdd space. (I think I left 4gb, some prawn collections really had to go, great sacrifices must be made so advances can be achieved in photography) Time to get a new hdd / probably a new PC soon. It takes almost 10seconds to properly load a raw file with my uber fast barton 2600+ chip. Uber fast, as in 2005, that is.

Coming soon: Part II
Stay tooned....

Monkey Beach

2008-05-26T15:31:00.004+08:00

Monkey ~~Bitch~~ Beach / Pg National Park

Me and a few lazy arses we went there for a stroll, sit around then come back for some iced cold drink in an air conditioned restaurant, lame huh? Overall the place is ok-ok only but several points make it suck.

Touts are everywhere. You don't feel like you're going to a national park but to a territorial war zone where you are afraid to step into some touts' land and get bashed for it. They built up shacks and offered bbq packages for rich bastards to enjoy while poor bastards like me we don't have a clean beach anymore.
The routes are unmarked and unkempt. Easy to get lost and get bitten by a tiger.
The beach is not really that clean.
Touts are everywhere. I really hate them so I had to say it twice.

Anyway, pictures do make up the mood, actually I'm quite suprised the pictures turned up the way it is. ( i don't wanna say nice cos ppl will say my pic taking skill suck ).

Lazy arses walking under the hot sun,
don't ask me why but I like my photos dark / gloomy.
Bright pics are for wussies.

Ever wondered why it's called monkey beach?

Swamp water overflowing nicely into the ocean,
and little fishes swimming against the current,
really nice view which I did not bother to take.

Coconuts, what else?

Beach trip photo set won't be complete without a coconut tree > <

Panorama of the monkey beach, notice the dead dog?
No it's not dead it's posing for me. Good dog.

Of all those shots, I liked this one the most. :P :P
It's like gods' ray is shining the pier.
Though u learnt that god doesn't exist.
Whatever.

2008-05-17T08:51:00.004+08:00

Some things I found off the net, describing perfectly how I felt right now.

A little bit of guilt,
a little bit of sadness,
a little bit of regret,
And a whole load of what-ifs.

I'm sorry,
did not mean to hurt you,
It's beyond me,
I cannot carry the weight of a heavy world,
Goodnight, hope you
sleep well tonight,
And hope that things will turn up alright.

PG BIRD BIRD PARK

2008-05-12T20:31:00.007+08:00

CHICKS, LOTS' OF 'EM!

NBTD, so gone to Pg Bird park for a photoshoot session with ah james and ct (this antique guy din have a blog) for a wonderful session of self-discovery and unwind at the magnificent park. Entrance fee is RM10 for locals and RM20 for foreigners or locals with foreign objects in their body. Cameras are charged RM1 each, which is darn cheap compared with other places. We arrive at 9am++ and finish exploring at 1pm++ Here is part of the 300++ shots I fired.

Fuck the lame intro, I know this post is lame, just ~~fap~~ gawk at these hot chicks as a consolation.

Taking portrait of don't-know-it's-name bird.

Don't-know-it's-name-either bird

Pea-cock, is it pea-cock? ( - ___- )

Fking ugly owl,
I can't stand its ugliness I had to take its pic
and post it in some lame blog.

Pride of sarawak, the great hornbill,
available exclusively on penang island.
(weird, I never seen this bird in sarawak before)

That's all for a lame post tards.

CLASSIC PEDO MOMENTS.

2008-05-11T22:00:00.006+08:00

Some pedo nice kid photos for you all ungrateful tards.

My first attempt at shooting some other ppl's kids, nice? xD
Too tired to update with moar pics, enjoy gawking at these
poor kids while I try to grab some sleep.

Offtopic: Thanks for this thing that u know i probably won't use
but I'll forced to keep it anyway. U know who you are and
see, it's still with me :D

SOMETIMES

2008-05-09T15:24:00.004+08:00

Sometime I search for someone,
I have to scream,
Sometime somebody listened to me,
They stick for awhile,
Sometime I really wished they could stay,
But life's a journey,
And they gotta go.
Oh how I wished one of them could stay.

FISH SUCK

2008-05-09T09:12:00.003+08:00

I KNOW... I SUCK...

FishNote: Not done by me but I keep it anyway.

First Post

2008-05-07T22:36:00.000+08:00

Testing > <
Friendster blog sux, If I could get over with these html mumble jumbles then probably I'd switch to here for good. Been parking on this name for few years now ~ ~ it's about time to use it. Period.