Nyorooooo~~~~
Man, am I exhausted! Didn’t get any sleep last night as someone was banging on a hammer all night till 3am in the bloody morning! It would have gone on even longer had someone not finally fucking lost it and went over to the guy’s place to tear him a new one.
The hammer banger was so terrified that he didn’t dare come out of his apartment. Immediately the banging stop but if it starts up again tonight guess who is going to be the next guy to go postal? ¬_¬
I want to sleeeppp~~~~~ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
nyoro nyoro~
OH oh! I found them!
A roll of developed b&w film I thought I had lost months ago! It was actually inside one of the programming books I brought along to work! I’ll be scanning it in tonight!
Also I found my missing credit card! It was accidentally left at one of my favorite places to buy camera gear, in my rush to get home that day to beat the traffic jam I had forgotten to take it! The shop keeper kept the card for me till I came back!
Somedays it doesn’t pay to get out of BED!
You know I like to think that I’m like everyone else even though I detest the idea of being similar to everyone else as I hate conforming to society. Maybe this is why I don’t have a girlfriend.
So in saying that, I wish today had gone better for me just like it has for everyone else!
Here is a new twist to an old idea.
I decided to try and stitch together a panoramic shot from a number of shots taken using film which prove to be no problem and not anymore different than the way I usually do it with digital except now I have to scan in the slides as an extra step.
Optionally I could have taken the whole shot using my 17-35mm but at the time I had only brought my nikon fm2n along with a 50mm f/1.2 ais lens. So I had to make do with a single roll of Fujifilm fortia SP (ATTENTION FUJIFILM! BRING BACK FORTIA SP!!!!).
This is a shot of Pulau Jerejak which is a small island just across the sea from Bayan Lepas, Penang.
Yeah! Labuan is now famous!
I’m so proud!!! As reported by BBC and the star newspaper
NOT!
Seriously the one time this island gets any international fame and it has to be as a tax haven for corrupt people, swell.
As quoted by the star,
LONDON: Four nations were blacklisted as uncooperative tax havens after G-20 leaders declared the age of banking secrecy was over and said they would no longer tolerate shady havens draining away badly needed tax revenue.
At the request of the Group of 20 summit of rich and developing nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development named the Philippines, Uruguay, Costa Rica and the Malaysian territory of Labuan as the worst offenders, saying they had refused to adopt new rules on financial openness.
No doubt our newly “elected” PM will have something to say about this. Quoted here from BBC’s article of him “complaining”
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that his country should not be on the blacklist at all.
“We should not be in that category as, in practice, we have been committed to OECD requirements,” he said in a statement.
Will he do anything about it? Hell no, else it would allow anyone to find out how much dirty money been stashed away.
IELTS result.
Tragedy has struck! I flunked!
My results are as follows:
1.Listening 6.5
2.Reading 6.5
3.Writing 6
4.Speaking 7.5
Over bend average is 6.5 which is not enough for my ACS application. I need an average of 7.0! GRRRR! Now I need to resit the test AGAIN! RM550 bye bye!
This so peeves me off! I had thought my writing was a sure WIN and if I was to fail, it would because of my listening. Surprisingly, I scored better in my listening than my writing!
Pity I can’t find out what went wrong. Oh well chin up old boy! Time for another round!!
Earth Hour, more reason to believe it’s bullshit and doesn’t help
This event is rather like Professional wrestling, part publicity, part fake, all bullshit
This I agree, Earth hour in Malaysia is full of bullshit
“It is amazing that people are so easily taken in by a mere publicity stunt that fails at the very essence“
You can read the full article here
How I spent this weekend.
Any questions?
Happy New year! 2009!
Seeya later 2008! You old twat!
Yeah I’ve been really busy lately with work and didn’t have any time nor any new material to post lately (I still don’t have any new material to post).
But then why start the year on such doom and gloom (oh no reason aside from the fact the economy is currently in the toilet and companies are dying left and right).
I do have good news and bad news, good news is I don’t have to go back to Labuan for Chinese New year but the bad news is I don’t have much money these past few months with the rising cost of living, politicians sucking the people dry through taxes and the cost of bills and more bills.
Aside from that I’m chirpy (takes hammer and runs a stake through the doll of the leader for the current ruling political party).
In any event, I’ll upload some new photos soon of a shoot I did in Penang recently! Till then! pleasant dreams~~~~~~
More pano shots.
Click on the image for an even larger size. These was taken using 50mm, I find that a pano shot using anymore more then 35mm yields the best so far. I tried to use 17mm so I wouldn’t have to take so many shots but it seems there are slight distortion evident on the final pic. But using anything more then 35mm is great!
Click on the image for the full size
My latest attempt. This one was done using a tripod rather then my previous attempt which were done using the camera hand held. The benefit of using the camera on a tripod instead is that you can close down the shutter to f8 or f11 and at shot at a longer shutter without causing blur or without using high ISO.
It’s official…..
Carace Kwan.
Here is an interesting tidbit, the white balance for this pic was horrendous! It was so yellow, it looked like Carace had been dunked in yellow paint! But lo behold! What a switch to black and white can do! Consider that a tip!
You know…..
When I announced long ago that I would not help or assist anyone with their Windows PC computer related problem anymore, it seems people did not take heed of my advice.
That if you find the urge to throw your computer outside the real physical windows that let’s in sunlight, then its very well time that you get either a Linux base system or a damn apple computer. But time and time again people still call me up and its very obvious that their frustration with the “Windows OS” is growing with each problem they face.
Fun with Nikon ais 50mm f/1.2
While playing Star war:Forced Unleashed.
I found something that so totally makes it worth getting this game for……
Watch this you tube clip
Jar Jar Binks in carbonite! I found this clip that resemble what I found, I also decided to try and cut the whole block in half the minute I saw it!!!!
Today and yesterday I read the greatest doujinshi in my life
This entry is for the fans of the old series of New Genesis Evangelion. I only recently found this doujinshi online and I’ll be honest, I didn’t sleep last night. I spent the whole time reading it all.
This doujinshi consist of 6 volume. I managed to find the fan translation version online , sadly I do not ever see this doujinshi getting translation officially as it contains scenes of sex and gore. Unless of course they modify it but I rather that they don’t. It’s integral to the story, this is not a hentai manga. The story is sooo brilliantly written, and romantic. IT NEEDS IT!
This manga is one of the many unofficially non-canonical continuation from the movie “The end of evangelion”. Sort of like a “what if” ending but it takes a mature and excellent approach (Hideaki Anno, EAT SHIT AND DIE!!),I so wish this had been the ending, its drawn so beautiful as well. Not like some crappy doujinshi but REALLY well! The story again I cannot re-iterate enough is so WONDERFUL! You’re not a true-blue eva fan if you have not read this doujinshi! READ it! It will make you so happy and give closure for to this anime series for you!!!
Published by STUDIO KIMIGABUCHI. This doujinshi for fans who wished for a better ending.
The volumes consist of :
1. Re-take 1
2. Re-take 2
3. Re-take 3
4. Re-take zero
5. Re-take 4
6. Re-take after.
It should be read in that order. I swear if there is a official translation version for this manga, I will BUY all of it!!
So until then pleasant dream! I didn’t sleep last night but I feel so awake…….I never felt this great in a long time already…..
The KL photography Festival and Digicolor
Though first we went to meet up with Boon another of Albert’s friend as he wanted to borrow a lens from him. The Minolta 85mm f/1.5
We spend quite a while doing a lot of comparisons between the Minolta lenses and the Nikon lenses to see their performance. Here is my 85mm f/1.8, the bokeh in Minolta 85mm had their own distinstive character where the bokeh were stronger.
Do not make me jump through hoops
I don’t mean the actual sense, metamorphically speaking of course. Whether it’s for a Job interview (Photography related assignment or day job). I think I speak for everyone when they have encountered situations like this, “Do not make me jump through hoops”
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A few photos from Eugene and Carine wedding in KL
For a photographer though this type of shooting are the true test of your skills, it’s either a hit or miss. Do or don’t do, there is no try. I’ll be bleeding honest, I stink at wedding photography! Especially the fact when I have to sit at the head table! Though that doesn’t stop me and my D700
So here are a few shots I managed to take while “seated” at the table.
My Sister Janice
My parents
The chocolate before me.
And the groom and bride.
Anyway, these are not photos straight out of the cam. The color originally was terrible! I wish I had brought my S5 pro instead which would have nailed the color perfectly! But a last, poor judgement; nevertheless I made do.
So until then, pleasant dreams
D700 + 14-24mm
Yeah! Its fixed!
Yesterday after leaving work, I headed out for YL cameras at Pudu to pick up my camera.
Here is a shot of it after I got home. It’s all fixed! I was worried that I would have had to pay a huge sum just to have the glass repaired! But the only quoted me Rm100 for the repair and it only took a day to fix it up!
Anyway, I’m going to test it out along with my Velbon VC6 as well which I had picked up frm Hike Enterprise in Penang! So until then pleasant dreams~~!!
Worse things happen at the last minute.
Crap. I had dropped my power adaptor for my macbook onto my Fujifilm s5 pro. At first I didn’t realized I had done anything wrong until my brain replayed the faint sound of something cracking again.
Penang, potholes a many
I think the main reason for this was the recent heavy flooding throughout the whole island. I wanted to do some photoshooting around the island but the weather has been none too cooperative with heavy overcast the whole day and sometimes even dark gloomy clouds like yesterday. This really makes my life a little hard to live here.
Overall I would say my Penang apartment is still in good shape especially after doing some serious cleaning. Right now I so wish I could find a buyer for it. I could use the infusion of cash right about now. Though that’s not to say I’m in any cash flow problem but I don’t work in Penang anymore and maintaining a second place in Penang while staying in KL does present a problem where I have to come and check up on the place every 3 months.
In any event, I’ll be heading back down to KL this Sunday. So until then, pleasant dreams~~
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