Last Saturday, 10-Oct-2009. I went to join the Canon Photo Marathon 2009 at Sunway Lagoon…
Woke up as usual – the time I wake for work… Drink a cup of Milo and swallow a redbean bun then I am off to the Marathon!
This is the first time I join the photography event as big as this…
The theme were 1. Splash, 2. Red, 3. Shooting in Progress.
The starting was not good because the rain hit us right before the opening and the sun was lazy-ing behind the cloud…
The event was full with redshirt! Well, for an free event, you get free t-shirt + CAP. I have no complaint on the color :hahaha:
Within the lagoon, you can see all the passionate photographers are trying to make their best shoot, whilst I am observing them.
Herewith another 2 photo which I taken during the event, also not related to the theme.
To be honest, I did not do my best in the event because I was not prepared and I should have bring my laptop to ROTATE the photo… the organizer, CANON, do not allow participants to ROTATE their submission… It just sucks where I didn’t know ROTATE is considering an act of editing the photo 😥
I finish all my photo around 11AM with very tired body and hungry stomach… There are food and drink selling inside the lagoon, but carbonate can drinks cost RM5… fried rice cost RM8… so I decided to visit uncle KFC where I had 2 pieces of fried chicken + 7up review + coleslaw + mash potato + sweet bun and unlimited chili sauce for RM9.75! :xd: Wise choice, isn’t it?
Ok… back to the event, the computer system was sucks… it had to reload / refresh a few times, then the photo uploaded can be haywire to other theme… but then… I had a chance to touch 1Ds and 5D MKII which immediate makes me feel my 450D is a toy. :shy:
One more freebies is the FREE camera checkup which I had my camera sensor and lenses clean up by the doctor. Worth the visit!
After all, I don’t think I deserve to compete with others because I did not create my best shot in my mind due to laziness and 103438432094032 of unwilling reasons 😛
With this valuable experience, I believe next year, I will know how to do the preparation and shoot for the best.
Also… if I know this can finish so early, I should’ve bring my wife and daughter to Sunway Lagoon for some fun since it was free entry for Canon camera! LoL
Anyway, was fun even without prize!
At times, we will be asked “What do you want?”.
Many people ask and answer in many different styles. For example, what do you want for blogging? How would you want me to answer?
I want to blog for living or blog for money… In reality, my blog barely survive with the advertiser funds only…
In life, what do we want, will not be what we can get. A lot of people tends to think things happen logically or the-way-they-want-it-to-be …
When things are not happening in the way that it should be, they will be disappointed… for example, you bought a DSLR, but still could not get a professional style photo from it. Then you start to be disappointed… Perhaps, buying a DSLR will give others an impression that you -maybe- a professional… However, it is still depends on your skills to compose the photo. Again… if you have no skill then you have to spend extra effort in order to acquire the skills.
If you still don’t get what I am trying to convey from the above… Never mind, read next.
What do you want, it is always need to spend the equivalent effort to get it. Let’s say, you want more salary, then you have to work harder either in your current job or search harder to get a better pay job! Simple as that! You are the one who knows what you want and how to get it!
There are nothing happen logically… no one can control anything that beyond their wills.
Honestly, I am not a mature human, neither you are… At least, we will have to figure out the answer for this question.
What do you want in life?
Unlike Pattaya, Krabi is smaller and much more quiet town. Having said that, this is the attraction for tourist to stay. I liked the way on how this place is located. It is nearer to Malaysia. The flight took us around 45 minutes to reach there from Kuala Lumpur! Awesome speed!
We were there during off peak season. The streets are not too crowded. It is a good time to visit Krabi during off peak season, it is because you can fully enjoy the environment. During my trip, I do not find many Asians travel to this place, on the other hand, I do see a lot of western countries tourists, this can be seen from the street… strange…
This trip is so relax and I enjoy it very much. There is nothing to do in Krabi, the town has not much to visit either… We were brought to the town for a half day tour and lunch too. The duck noodle is very delicious! Better than any duck noodles that I tasted in Malaysia!! :goodjob:
After a visit to the town, we check-in our hotel. The room is not bad. This is a 4 stars hotel which is comfortable to stay in. The first day ended with a windy beach view dinner.
Herewith some photos taken within the hotel. I liked the flare because I risk my eyes to take it! LoL :xd:
The second day, it is a full day trip for island hopping. Four islands to go! The price for Island Hopping trip varies from the type of boat you pick. If you picked those old Long Tail Boat, it roughly cost you RM20 / person to go on board… I am one with lots of wealth and very scary to die, so I take speedboat! LoL, you must be thinking I have a private ferry over there? heh heh heh, too early to dream…
While waiting for the speedboat to be ready, the tour guide make a sand dog for us to spend our pathetic waiting time… LoL
The last one is another good view I taken during this trip, lakeside feel~~
This is one small island that I taken its photo which I am in the speedboat with 200KMH reading… Amazingly, it did not turn out blur.
After some hours from snorkeling and hopping! We reached to the MAYA BAY!! The sand is so soft and white! The beach is soooooooo beautiful (there is not enough o to describe the charm of it). This is where The Beach was filmed! The beach is now fully crowded by human… hence making the photoshooting almost impossible for me…
But never under estimate the power of the charming surroundings. Again, I manage to find a spot without people but a boat! Set! The boat is my model now! :hahaha:
Our last destination for Island Hopping is Phi Phi Island, a high commercialized island with a lot of shops and tourists. We had a buffet lunch over there… nothing great but was tasty too!
The third day, of course, we booked for KAYAK (canoeing – in English?)! A must try activity in Krabi.
We took the 7KM challenge – half day tour. Of course, Malaysia boleh! Although we are the last one to reach the end point… All mat-salleh can kayak faster than us… I am slow because I took photography, ok? :shy:
Ok… the third day dinner, looking into our wallet, we have plenty of $ left and there are no beggers take all those money. So we decided to spend it on food! Had a very full dinner with 4 main dishes and 1 salad! :full:
Krabi’s food is very tasty, for a Malaysian. I tried food in Pattaya, Phuket and Bangkok. I found Krabi’s food matches my taste perfectly. The price is not expensive either – around KL pricing. Ehhh… this is a travel post, so I don’t want to post more food photo… (shhhhhh not because of I am busy eating and forgot to take photo…)
Anyway, the fourth day, I took this photo in the airports while waiting for the flight. See~ even the airport feels empty relax ! :hahaha:
I enjoyed the entire trip very much. Also, it raise my urge for retirement again…
Notes:
Photos were taken with and direct from my 450D except the seafood. Most people doesn’t believe that Canon can have this kind of coloring, most claims I heavily photoshop these photos… Anyway, for ones who know me, I am not the one who like to waste time in editing photo… Stop saying I own a better gears now too… All photos were shoot with 18-55 kit lens too… Go figure out how I can do this rather than saying impossible to do it with Canon 😛
我又去吃自助餐了。 6月尾，才刚刚在Xenri D’ Garden Terrace 吃了一餐丰富的。。。 又有机会再大饱口福！ :hahaha:
这次是公司请的免费午餐~ 不吃白不吃！:shy:
我还记得大约10年前， 我有光顾过Saisaki。印象还不差。 现在还有35%折扣啊！很值得了！
里面的装潢还可以，食物的种类和 SHOGUN 差不多。毕竟是同一个老板的店。。。 :sigh:
为了照片的效果， 这就是我精心的把刺身和寿司漂亮的摆放。 还可以吧？呵呵~~~
刺身用的鱼生，有点脂肪过多的感觉，可是依然是入口即化的口感，我吃了很多，实在是有够过瘾！:ohoho1:
除了刺身，我还吃了很多天妇罗, 应该有20吃炸虾吧。。。真的是值会票价了！虽然这是公司请的免费午餐！哈哈！！ :xd:
有35% 的折扣，你如果是大胃王，就去吃个够吧！肯定你会很满足的~ :full:
Many years ago, I had this simple mindset. I thought money can solve everything, whatever money can solve, there are no problem at all!
Today, I found myself is not entirely correct. Don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to tell you something like “I found love overcome money”, “My family is greater than all” or “Money just can’t buy anything”… these are bullshit… love can’t keep you alive without money to buy food!
Indeed, I am still find we need money to resolve problems but not as easy as paying it only. Most of the time, we have to be involved in order to get the best outcome too.
Money, it is still the essence to all kind of solutions but money cannot build solution.
Money can buy books but not knowledge.
Money can buy supplement but not health.
Money can buy sex but not love.
Money can buy a lot of stuffs but you have to be involved in order to get the best outcome!
Let’s say, you are hungry and you want to feed yourself with food. So, you need to buy a fresh salad with your money. Now, look into this way. Money, you use it to buy food. It can’t grow vegetables, it can’t be chew like fresh salad and it is definitely not safe to eat! Do you still think money can kill your hunger without you spend it on food?
I want to express that is all solutions associated with cost / price. It is not money that builds solution.
I am frustrated, very irritated when someone says “We’ll pay for it, do it”.
First of all, before you say that sentence, better think twice. By saying this sentence, you may feel very bossy and very proud but it also shows how childish you are… … Sometimes, people may reject you due to self-esteem. If this happen, what else you do with your beloved money? Think… Respect.
Again, never ever say “I am willing to pay, you better figure out yourself on how to solve my problem”. OK, let’s stay away from this kind of human being. Money is one of the important ingredient of all solutions, but it is not a medium for you to push your problem to the others! Have your teacher teach you never put your hope on people that eyeing on your money? I, myself, appreciate your trust on me. However, I must advise that whenever shit happens, you are your own life saver.
Think – you are seeking assistance, not someone begging you to pay. You have to pay because every solution associates with price. Get it right or leave.
After reading this, do you think your can solve everything with money?
Today, 28-Jun-2009. I had a great lunch with my love one. We went to Xenri D’ Garden Terrace for Japanese food.
By stepping into the restaurant, I feel Japanese! Yes. Japanese! See the terrace and the interior of this restaurant, I bet you will feel the same. :xd:
This restaurant is not very spacious, compare to others, it is a rather small since it don’t have many seats too. I find this is very good…
You do not need to wait for a long long queue to get your food. The number of waiters/waitress are more than the customers. :hahaha:
Very good service, polite and tidy! :goodjob:
This restaurant serves Japanese food. We went there for buffet lunch! 5 sections describe all food which are appetizer, cooked Japanese food, sashimi /sushi and shabu-shabu, beverages and desserts!
Not much variety but I liked this. It do not have much distractions! I can focus to eat whatever I love to without the urge to tryout something new. :shy:
Here, you don’t need to have a VIP card to make your order. It has 20 dishes that you can order for free and unlimited quantity! It serves with the portion which is really for one person only.
This cuttlefish ring and tempura are the menu orders. It serves hot and fresh! Especially the tempura, not oily and it is crispy outside but soft inside, unlike the others which are full with flour. These are just nice!
Fresh sashimi and sushi are very tasty! I ate not much because my stomach filled by other food. :hahaha:
These are the food which filled up my stomach… Cheese baked oyster and unagi!! Since it has not much choices of food, I focus on these two. LoL.
See the oyster size, it is just nice. It serve without strange/weird taste unlike the others palm-size oyster. It is definitely worth to try it out!
This is the Japanese style cuttlefish and the lobster salad. When there are less people, you get all the chances to pick lobster meat~~ :hahaha:
Conclusion, this is a very nice restaurant for Japanese food. Although I never been to Japan, but this is a restaurant impress me with Japanese food! :goodjob:
Pricing wise, it did comes with a good price tag, RM55/person. We got 20% discount, so the bill end up lesser. :shy2:
Here is the map! You must try this out!
P/S: Photos taken with my IXUS 75…
P/S2: No chinese version for this… it is kinda late now… forgive me 😛
她终于还是要离开了。。。 我在昨天也见了她最后一面。。。
我有很多的话要说，可是当我见到她躺在病床。。。
我沉默了，无语了，一片空白了。
看到她已经发黄的肤色，她看不见我了，也不能说话了， 可能也听不到了。。。 医生说随时会离开了。
我对她说我来了，她有气无力痛苦的呻吟，好像要对我说话。。。
太吃力了，太痛苦了，我对她说，“你好好休息啊。”然后她好像在回应我。。。停止呻吟了。
我呆呆的站了10分钟。。。想到了她还有一名3岁多的儿子，之前对我说如何的不舍得。想到这里鼻子酸了，眼红了，满眶眼泪了。
不想让她知道我的伤心，我没有再逗留。。。
回到家，我一个人想了好久。。。她才二十多岁，人生的阶段，她还很完整的经历了。可惜的是不能见到她的儿子上小学。。。
我努力的让自己不要太难过，毕竟人总有离开的一天。。。我写了以下的话来安慰自己。。。
“人到什么时候才会死？ 是得了不治之症时？还是心脏停止跳动时？。。。真正的死亡是当世人把你遗忘时。。。”
朋友，我不会忘记你。安心上路吧。
也不知道何时开始，我开始对摄影有了兴趣。
我还记得，八年前的我觉得照相机是奢侈品，往往都是在外旅行时才大派用场的工具。。。所以每当旅行前夕，我都向好友借数码相机。即方便又不用买film（胶卷）。。。
刚刚拍时，没有技术，也不会抓角度，认为有拍到就是好的。。。往往都会遭到太太批评 :shy:。。。
现在，我应该是遭到批评，而引起了不服输的心理，开始对摄影认真了。 :glass:
我更大手笔的买了DSLR （数码单镜反光相机）。也开始认真的学习摄影的技巧了。
最近也找到了模特儿到布城（PutraJaya）做人像摄影!
我觉得还不错的。哈哈。。。 可是太太却说一般而已。。。还不如谁谁谁拍的好。。。:xd:
说真的，虽然说习惯了，但是打击还是有的。。。也是一种鞭策。如果没有她的话，可能我还是一成不变的我.
可能这就是成功男人背后的女人的必要条件吧！
我也要更加的努力了！:hahaha:
Hey folks! I am back from a dinner with almost-empty stomach. I had a appetizer, main course, desserts and coffee but still hungry!
Yeah! Fine dining rocks! :xd:
Thanks to the company willing to sponsor us for an annual department dinner. This year, we went to 7atenine located at Ascott Kuala Lumpur.
First of all, the interior impressed me a lot. The lighting and environment is much more better than other restaurants. Perhaps that is why we are paying more for the food. :faint:
Let’s zoom into the food! My blog is definitely focus on food! Unlike other bloggers who like to post self-eating-portrait. :hahaha:
This is the appetizer, 789 salad. It comes with some mixed vege… oh well, that’s why it is a salad. It has some cheese and four pieces of smoked salmon!
The taste is great. Fresh and light. Excellent for appetizer. :goodjob:
After the appetizer, I had my main course which is seabass! Hm… not the whole fish… just a tiny little piece. :wuuu: Honestly, when it appear in front of me, I am screaming in my mind “Oh my god!”. What a big piece of fish… Regardless the portion, the taste is still great. The fish was nicely cooked. Crispy outside and juicy inside! However, I could not say it is perfect because it failed to fulfill the basic requirement of food which is to satisfy my empty stomach. Too bad! :sigh:
This is another main course which my colleague ordered. I tasted it. The fish is better. :hahaha:
Desserts was single scope ice-cream on top of some puddings. Not really like it because the ice-cream tasted sour. :autism:
But the coffee taste good. Strong scent but smooth.
This is a lychee cocktail which does not taste that good too…
Overall, tasty food for hungry people. Not encourage you to go even if you are filthy rich. Your money deserves better values. :ohoho1:
My first fine dining experience end here. Thanks for reading. Come back soon~
我平时都不是爱书之人，更没有阅报的习惯。
这篇文章让我想发表一下。。。
文中指出一个保险套可以认识一个男人的个性。。。 我想说作者也未免太肤浅了。把读者都当傻瓜一般的看待。。。
我不用保险套，可以说我不安全吗？
如果戴套是一种礼仪，我见到你，一定会亲手把这个礼仪套在你的头上！
套=胶袋=环境污染=地球死亡！我不说有多少小生命会因此不得已存活，毕竟那是个人的观点。。。
可是你的礼仪对地球灭亡的贡献还不少哦！
再说，戴了套，有了隔膜，感觉就失真了。这种虚假的礼仪，千万不好让下一代学习。。。免得误人子弟！
是啊，我就是不爽作者把戴套说成礼仪！就像说他的父母没有顾存礼仪的把他（这块叉烧）生了出来！
觉得我说错，你就自杀吧！那时我会认错的~
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