Happy new year 2010!
Okay I know this is rather late but I have a good reason! I was too busy recovering from a huge hangover after a new year drinking binge to update my blog. No wait, I’m lying. The real reason why I haven’t updated was because I was too damn lazy! (more…)
How to explain DSLR to someone
Who only got into photography in hopes of taking naked women photos?
I remember getting asked a lot, WAY a lot! Usually such people have barely the cognitive function beyond eating, sleeping and breathing. Its rather odd that once such people get a DSLR and they ask you how it works and how to use it, they then try to impress you with what they already know, which is next to nothing. Allow me to list the weird conversations I have had with people of this type.
The phone wouldn’t stop ringing last night
Ever have one of those surreal events happen to you? Where too many coincidences happen at once triggering a long chain of events? Well I had one of those word stinking events, it all began innocently enough…………..
Happy Birthday you Dork!
Yes I know it’s rather vain to announce my own Birthday. But heck, it’s been rather slow.
Sometimes I wish I can spend a whole day on my hobby.
For the past few weeks I’ve been rather busy, whether it’s for work or family, I hardly have enough time for myself anymore. Anyway here is a shot I took when I was playing with my studio light set along with one of my figures.
I’ve been trying to improve my studio photography but for some reason I just can’t get myself out of this slump. It always happens around July til October.
I should have joined the guys at Ipoh for that swimsuit shoot >_< but curse my luck that work always had to kick into overdrive around that time every year. Even though I knew it would be the last big event until next year or at least until November, though it does allow me to finally go through the backlog of photos I have yet to process.
But still……I wish there was some major event.
Oh well, back to work………boo hoo
I hate Mondays and Fridays.
I hate Mondays because I have to go back and look at the crap work everyone sent me to do on Saturday when they should have sent it to me the week before and expect me to work on it over the weekend
Again my IELTS exam results……
RESULT
Your score
1. Listening 7
2. Reading 9
3. Writing 6.5
4. Speaking 8
5. Overall Band 7.5
Well a surprising improvement, tragically still not enough as I need a 7 for writing! CRAP! My last score was
1.Listening 6.5
2.Reading 6.5
3.Writing 6
4.Speaking 7.5
The Desert Island scenario for photographers……..
Yup, it was bound to happen. Sooner or later someone (actually a lot of times since a lot of newbies ask me this interesting question) would ask for this, what do I bring to a desert island of despair~~~~~~? (dum dum dum da~~~~~~~)
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How I despise censorship in Malaysia
Imagine one day going to a bookstore, you’re an adult with buying power. You want to buy a book or magazine so that you may enjoy the content(hopefully) that you paid (say RM120). Now imagine what you will feel when after paying for the magazine or book, you then proceed home, open the book/magazine and find that its been censored with black marker pen.
The paragraph that is Asia.
I had just finished reading an article at reuters you can find here. For some reason I couldn’t help noticing the incredible similarity that his country was facing. Well not really its just that when I read this paragraph
When I could get a word in edgeways, I asked Mohamed why there weren’t more protests like last year. “I’ll tell you,” he explained. “The people are not united, they are afraid to go out and protest. And, of course, most people are too busy trying to feed and educate their families.”
It struck a cord with me, let’s face it! Malaysia has a lot of shitty problems and yet no one does anything about it. If the government stinks, get rid of them! But Malaysians are just simply contend with maintaining the status quo, not because they are lazy (well partially) but because they are not united, afraid to take risk due to the education system they were raised in schools and at home that non-conformism is shameful and wrong.
We are all the same, regardless of skin color, religion and culture but because we are taught that inconformism is something like communism of haydays people are afraid to go out and make noise about it and those that DO want to make noise but cannot due to their inherent fear of persecution by the government who would be more then glad to crush any small rebellion with their use of ISA will always remain where they are, NO where!
But you might ask why can’t a lone person change anything ? Let’s face it, only those with immense power can singlehandedly change anything alone because power makes change. I guess this is why the Malaysian loves to keep the Malays, Chinese and Indians as segmented as possible, to prevent from creating or forming something the current BN party is afraid of which is all of us coming to the realization that we are being fucked everyday by them while they enjoy the fruits of our labor and they have whores sucking them off (and blowing up anyone with C4 that even looks at them funny!) . They are terrified of the people coming together and getting rid of them either via election or bloodshed.
I hope this article doesn’t get me arrested under ISA.
Fujifilm s5 pro, you are a good friend indeed!
God damnit! Why doesn’t Fujifilm make an FX version of this WONDERFUL DSLR?! If there is one I would have bought it over the D700!
I mean sure, it would probably be twice the price of the D700 but shit yeah it would be the last DSLR I would ever NEED! HECK! I would even want to be buried with that DSLR when I’m dead of old age!!
But then, that’s not to say the S5 pro is a slouch, far from it! It can really hold it’s own against even full frame cameras and that is why sometimes I have a hard time in choosing what camera to bring to a shoot. “Should I bring the S5 or the D700?” This thought always comes to mind when I go out or attend an event.
Anyway, since I was doing a review for studio flash set for my last entry I also decided to bring out my S5 after I had completed the review to have some fun with it!
I’ve been told time and time again that the S5 pro really shines when used in studios and wedding shoots. I’ve never used it in a wedding shoot nor have I used it in a studio shoot until now and boy! I had some really fun trying a lot of ideas all the while not worry about time constraints!
But here is the best shot from all that!
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!
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
I think I fared very badly today in my IELTS exam.
Today I sat for my IELLTS exam at the British council in KL. I think very badly, why? Well for the listening part, there were tons of references to telephones and credit card numbers…..Oh dear….
Then the reading portions, I fared okay but I wouldn’t say top notch.
Next it was the writing portions, the main topic? young people today spend too much time in front of the television (as well as watching too much reality shows).
I think I wasn’t detail enough in my arguments (4 pages) for this topic. I mean seriously, who wouldn’t consider that today’s youth spent too much shitty time watching TV!? What makes it worse is that they spend it watching crap! Like Survivor! Or desperate housewives! I so hate these modern tv shows now! Heck I hated even the ones back then! They were boring and lousy, also 99% of the shows assumes we have no brain!
I especially hated the shows where everyone would follow it gingerly like it was the only important thing in the Universe!
Anyway, I’m going off track here. The next part was the speaking part which as me to explain what I knew about one particular topic on a blue card that is randomly drawn from a lot. My topic was “Photography”…………….what? wait, what am I missing here? In any event, I think I was incredibly too detail with my answer, everyone of them she asked I would have a lengthy opinion about it.
Oh well, if I need to sit for this exam again, I don’t mind and I’ll be sure to reel my details back a few notches…..
Did you know……
Yes Yes I know this is old but because I live in Malaysia I couldn’t help myself but laugh my head off about it!!
Just a thought……..
I was recently asked by a friend whether or not do I have any photos of “hot” race queens from …..Proton?
@_@? WTF? Does Proton even participate in any F1 or Super GT like events with their line of junks? oops! I mean “Cars”. My friend is an idiotic diehard supporter of Proton as well as junk bonds and snake oils.
Coincidently another friend of mine sent me a picture of a Honda racequeen modified to show what it would look like if Proton was the uniform designer. The design was horrible, it made an orthodox catholic nun look indecent…………..
Sadly my diehard friend accused me of not supporting Malaysian local crap. Which I then promptly told him, “Of course I don’t support Malaysian Local Crap (MLC). Have you even seen our local football team? Their couches are politicians!”
“Also have you seen the board of directors and CEO? They have zero iota of business skills, they appear to be nothing more then just fatcat politicians!”
As expectedly, this turn the conversation into a full blown, poor patriotic moron versus rich realist.
In the news……
India couple’s kiss ‘not obscene’
A court in India has dismissed criminal proceedings against a married couple charged with obscenity for allegedly kissing in public in the capital.
This is bloody hilarious! Thank god the Judge has enough common sense to see how stupid the whole case was! I couldn’t help laughing my head off as I read this article posted on BBC.
The reason why they were arrested by the Police?
The police in Delhi had begun criminal proceedings against the couple for “sitting in an objectionable position near a metro (railway station) pillar and kissing due to which passersby were feeling bad”.
Have you noticed……….
That you lose your ability to spell words correctly when typing on a keyboard with your nose?
okay you can stop laughing now, I actually tried this one at one time when I was so bored during one of those long weekends in Malaysia. I realized that while I can easily spell a word like “emancipation” when typing on a keyboard with my fingers but I completely screw up the spelling whenever I tried to type it out on keyboard with my nose.
I noticed this and then tried to type out words like photojournalism and screwed it up royally.
On another note, I REALLY NEED TO FIND SOME PHOTOGRAPHIC GIGS TO DO ON THOSE BLOODY LONG WEEKENDS!!!!!!!
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~~~~~~
I’m insulted!!
Just because it’s film doesn’t mean it sucks. It’s good if you want to learn true photography, it removes one of the worse thing that has come about with the advent rise of digital cameras, “Chimping”
Who do you think will be better at life?
You be the judge. I always find such question incredibly stupid and annoying.
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