Eid Mubarak

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Would like to wish all of Muslim friends and family Eid Mubarak and Maaf Zahir Batin. Have an enjoyable festivities and safe journey. From all of us, Sharizal, Rofidah, Aiman Hadi & Adriana Hani.

Low Light Photography

Kl Nightscape

TNB HQ Building

Fireworks

My lil sis trying to spell her name

My attempt of spelling my name -in reverse as we are facing the camera

Trying to spell Aiman's Name

The aftermath ... hehe.. sepahnya

In the end the grownups had more fun than the kid... reliving the childhood & feeling like a kid again... hehe

Farewell WMJ256

The car was handed over to the new owner last night. Most of the paperwork wrt the loan and JPJ has been sorted out, now waiting for the buyer's bank to settle with my finance and me. There were a lot of fond memories but as everything in the world, some changes are bound to happen.

The car has served us well and may it continue to serve the new owner as well.

Au revoir, WMJ256 and if any of you happen to see it say hi for me.

Networking & Fast Transition

The boy had his friends round for iftar yesterday. Actually, he went on to invite them during school and told us that they were coming for iftar on Friday. A quick call to the parents and a new date was set on Saturday. Kids theses days, suka-suka je ajak kawan2 round the house for makan2. At least he has shown some initiative to start networking and the boys did enjoyed themselves.

On another note, eversince I had put up the for sale ad for my car, I have been receiving calls of inquiries. Some of them are from used car traders, which offers a very low sum, some of them from private buyers looking for a good condition car. Yesterday, a gentlemen from Melaka came and viewed/tested the car and he found that the car was to his liking and straightaway put his deposit. Hopefully we can have a smooth and quick transition.

Economics 101 - from a 7 years old perspective

The Boy : " Dad, how much was the Transformers Toys that you bought for me a while back?"

Me : " Hmmm... about RM40 "

The Boy : " Oh, mahal jugak yea.."

Me : " Why asking?"

The Boy : " Nothing, just that I know how you could save some money "

Me : " How?"

The Boy : " You could buy me the Bidaman at Giant at RM 10, then you would saved from spending RM 40..."

hmm... only a 7 y.o cold come out with this statement. I would evenetually fork out RM50, and no savings to me at all...good try boy, better luck next time

Quick updates

1. Boys will be boys :-

The boy asked me for a direct translation to "ambik, ambik, pergi, muda" and after doing so only i realised what he's getting at. Cheeky

2. Taken delivery of the new car, now can seat 7 ... old car still not sold yet... refer to previous post ..

3. Had a kerandutz session with some of the gang.. apparently they are having two session at different location nd a day apart, hence will only join one je ...

4. Signed up for a potraiture class, getting some tips on outdoor potraiture plus some PP skill this Sunday, hope it gonna turn up well..

ps - went raya shopping just now, JTAR was jam-packed with people up to the point of suffocation

Tinkering about in CS2

Spend most of my time last weekend tinkering about in CS2. Quite an experience for me, but managed to pick up some tips on how to effectively use PP for color correction or removing unwanted objects in the background.

Before

After

Before

After

There's still a lot to go in learning how to use CS2/3. Need to pimp my pc as well to run the resource intensive program,

Flatulance is not flaterring

Ok, so you had a good iftar and you would like to voice out your compliments to whomever had prepared your meal, then, although unacceptable in any other circumstances that you may let out a burp to indicate that you're full. That might be flattering to the chef.

But it would annoying up to the point of being rude if you kept belting out one burp after another that could be timed accurately with a metronome. Maybe in your mind you were practicing to keep in tempo with the imaginary band you're playing with. But in close quarters, were there's almost hundreds of people there apart from yourself, at least please refrain from burping. Not even a little one. And not especially up to point of it might interfere with other people's concentration.

So next time you are feeling gassy, then I think might skip the terawih, in the sake of keeping others at ease.

Shutter Warming Part 2

With the long weekend, I have a chance to do some serious shutter warming for the new camera. First stop, Pantai Lagenda, Pekan with the boy.

Stamping on small crabs

Chariots of Fire

I love to fly my kite

Dad, I got one hermit crab - testing out the bokeh

Also tested out the zoom on the 55-250 mm lens

at 55 mm

at 250 mm

The second outing was with the 'Canonians' to Tasik Chini, Malaysia's second largest natural lake. It was that or the National Day Parade in Kuantan, so with a unanimous vote, we opted for Tasik Chini.

Someone referred to Tasik Chini as Malaysia's Loch Ness ( a mystical dragon legend), so having visited the latter it would be somewhat unpatriotic not to visit Chini if given a chance. We opted for a boat tour around the 12 lakes with a stop to Tanjung Puput Orang Asli village.

Test shot 1

Abe ni serious je - masuk Kosmo nih..

Fellow Canonian

Lake no berapa tah..

Loved the reflection on the water

OUr guide for the day

Ekor kucing not in season - air pasang

Secret Entrance

Testing 250mm zoom again, got good bokeh ...

The boat ride was about 1 hour at RM 60. For the full package including visit to Lubang Ular & Lubang Naga, it is about RM120, about 2 hours. Regretfully, we didnt get to see any lotus buds or Ekor Kucing due to the high water level, but the trip was enjoyable. Personally, I think Lake Chini has lost its lustre and could have been better maintained for the future generations.