tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58645362011-08-30T19:38:41.484+08:00Point44http://www.blogger.com/profile/10074531818207951684noreply@blogger.comBlogger291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5864536.post-78706780249151686542009-07-25T17:42:00.006+08:002009-07-25T18:12:22.115+08:00

After months of promising a colleague that I'd come to visit her in KK, I finally made it yesterday. What I told her sometime last year was that I'd visit her and also do the Mt. Kinabalu thing. Unfortunately, before I made plans for the trip, another colleague of mine brought me on a hill-climbing expedition. It wasn't a really difficult climb (even old fogies did it) but the 20-30 foot drops on

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Oooh...I have so much to say but am just too lazy to blog. Facebook has been so much easier to satisfy my arguing addictions. But once in awhile I do have to update this bugger. But in a flash.Shot more weddings, built a home-studio at my sis' house, watched zombie movies, went to Hong Kong, went to Singapore (last week), going to Kota Kinabalu tomorrow, bought a f*ckin' genuine la-z-boy (

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I have to admit, I didn't know anything about this show until by bro-in-law told me about it. And I'm very thankful that he decided to let me watch his copy of the show. At first I thought it was one of those crappy zombie movies he keeps buying for 10 bucks at the nearby DVD store (being a zombie connoisseur, I have high standards when it comes to zombie movies). It really doesn't matter if

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Two weddings in the past 2 weeks or so. That's a record for me this year, since I've been moving away from shooting weddings. However, it was a good refresher course since the last one I shot was sometime in June. Turns out taking a break really does get the creative juices going. I feel like I'm more daring nowadays. More experimentation in terms of exposure and posing and post-processing. I

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Got a wedding to shoot this Saturday 25th October 2008. Haven't shot a wedding in quite awhile, so have to re-check and revise a few things. Not that I haven't been shooting, in fact I've shot more stuff these past couple of months than I have ever done before. It's a lifestyle photography project to be used at a car launching and for websites and such, so it's totally different but so refreshing

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Lost my iPod Touch today. For a few hours. Damn bloody thing slipped out of my pants whilst I was at a Forum/Seminar at Institut Integriti Malaysia. Couldn't find it anywhere. I sat in only 2 places the whole time I was there and I tried searching for it. No luck there. Decided that no one's gonna return it when they find it. And there's no address or any contact details in there either.But lucky

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I can't believe it's been 8 months since I last posted something. This absolutely must be the lamest blog ever. I keep saying I'll post something tonight and that happens once every 2-3 weeks and now it's been 8 months. Procrastination is an evil diseasse.Although the last post was about me moving into this house, I actually only just finished unpacking the last few boxes a couple of months ago.

Point44http://www.blogger.com/profile/10074531818207951684noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5864536.post-53472636535926243382007-11-04T14:40:00.000+08:002007-11-04T15:49:09.409+08:00

After 28 years living with my parents, I've finally moved out. Been at the new house 2 weeks now but it's surprising that it wasn't the life altering event I thought it was going to be. But i'm guessing it's partly because I've only moved 5 minutes walk away. I even still have most of my meals at my their house 'cos I'm too cheap to pay for stuff like basic essentials.It is rather refreshing

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Last Thursday I attended one of the most beautifully decorated wedding settings I've seen yet. The couple were Ken & Nija. Ken is half Japanese so they decided to hang cool origami cranes outside the house.The wedding dining table was just something else with what seemed to me was a flower sort of chandelier. The lighting was also awesome with those teeny lights all around the place. They also

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Shot an engagement last weekend. The couple was Azwar & Azwina. It actually was my first time shooting an engagement. Well, I've been to a couple of engagements but they're usually non-formal affairs and basically just the 2 families meeting up and discussing a few things. This time however, they went all out. It was held at Sheraton Subang and Azwina had on a gorgeous pink-ish dress.They had an

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Been trying to improve my PS Skillz lately. Wanted to try incorporate some texture into some of the wedding pictures. I guess I was just trying to be too arty-farty. As expected, the attempt was rather unsuccessful. It isn't that bad but did turn the picture into some sort of painting.I'm not really into all this extreme photoediting but since I've got some time on my hands I thought it would

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I can't believe it, but I got conned into some hill climbing today. I never actually go out on photoshoots with people but since I had nothing better to do today, I thought I'd take Itzhar up on his offer of going to the hills to shoot some landscapes or whatever. I set my alarm for 5am on a Saturday morning so that we could catch the sunrise. I really thought it was just going to be a drive up

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In February, during the Chinese New Year holidays, the whole family decided it was time for another holiday. We had a family holiday during Christmas hols where we visited Bali. So, this time we decided we were all going to go to Jakarta. Unfortunately, Jakarta was hit with a flood that was cancelled and we had to re-plan our holidays. In the end, we decided to go to Bangkok.Most of the time we

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It's been almost 3 months since my last post. I just haven't found time to blog lately. Not that I don't have much to blog about but just that I have not had the time to sit down and type out all my thoughts. A lot has been happening since the last post.Since the last post, I have photographed a couple more weddings. One was Azizi & Juliana and the other Affandi & Zai. I have also been busy with

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Phew...just finished the last of Ajeep & Maz's wedding functions. I'm thinking if I actually do this often enough i'm sure to lose some weight. Yesterday was Maz's reception at Dewan Perdana Felda but I wasn't the 'official' photographer. I was still paid to be there but I just wasn't the main photographer. The main shooter was Ikram Ismail. He's a well known wedding photographer and an

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I CAN'T BELIEVE IT... AJEEP...HAS GOTTEN MARRIED!!!After 8 years of courting, Ajeep finally got married to his lovely long time girlfriend, Maz. Actually, they chose yesterday, 30th of November 2006 as the date to get married 'cos it was on this day 8 years ago they got together.It is still kind of freaky thinking of Ajeep as a married man. Anyway, he went through it rather cool. Still got

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I haven't had a good night's sleep for over a week. Have been editing and also going for shoots and it is starting to take its toll on me. I just need 1 full day of rest and I should be alright. I don't think I'm going to get it though. Got a couple of wedding shoots this weekend and then off to Brunei Darussalam on Monday for a forensic job. Hopefully it won't be a stressful trip. Probably

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It's a bit late I know, but I'm still gonna blog about it. We all had a great time at the SMTTDI Class of 1996 10th Year Reunion. It was held on the 18th of November 2006, so it's been almost 2 weeks since the reunion but I really haven't had much time for blogging with work and sorting the photos and all. It's hard having to edit hundreds of photos when the only free time you have are weekends

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Wow. I never thought I wouldn't have time to blog. I always thought that it was just a matter of typing up a few things and then just pressing 'Publish Post'. Turns out I have to give a lot of thought into each post. Damn it. I need more free time. Hopefully when I'm more used to blogging it'll take less time and I can post more frequently.Anyway, I have been quite busy lately. There's my

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Hope everyone had a great Eid this year. I personally enjoyed it since I have not celebrated Eid ul-Fitr in Malaysia for 4 years. The last time I celebrated it here, I was still a single guy. Now I've got a wife and a 1 year old kid.It was Dian's first Eid here too, so naturally, all the Tok's spoilt her. I don't think we got to buy her any clothes. The Tok's beat us to it. So the only thing we

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As I mentioned in the previous post, Effy's wedding gave me another opportunity to test out the high ISO performance of my Canon 20D. At both Felda halls, they always switch off the lights just when they are serving dinner. Sometimes they switch it off during the slideshows as well. So, most of the lighting near the bride & groom come from the candles and some really small lights, which is great

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Shot a good friend's wedding just over a week ago. Effy and Sharipah had their reception in Dewan Merak Kayangan and they gave me the OKAY to bring my camera along. In fact, I brought the whole kit. I wasn't the official photographer so there wasn't much pressure. This allowed me to go for more creative shots but I still wanted to shoot it as realistically as possible. I'd like to thank BOB who

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I'm finally starting to create sample albums to show prospective clients. It has been difficult deciding on the packages but I've decided to go with 2 packages. Archival Package and Non-Archival Package. Simple. Archival is more expensive as I use more expensive materials. So that's about the only difference. This means I have to use special glue and albums with acid-free pages.I wanted to

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It's been awhile since my last post. Been meaning to post but have been busy with the day job as well as editing a recent wedding I did. Well, first thing's first. I did attempt some window light portraits using the techniques I mentioned in the earlier post. In my opinion the result was actually quite pleasing. But what's most important is whether the bride likes it or not. I haven't really

Point44http://www.blogger.com/profile/10074531818207951684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5864536.post-1154924602718812962006-08-07T11:33:00.000+08:002006-08-07T14:16:55.946+08:00

Lately, I've been missing being in university. Those 3 years at Staffordshire University studying Forensic Science were some of the best years of my life. I think it was the first time in my life I actually enjoyed studying and excelled in almost every subject.Currently, my work consists of mostly fire investigation. Sometimes we do get some vehicle investigation jobs, but most of the time this

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This has been a very productive week. Got a lot of things done but there're still a lot of things left to do on my 'to do' list. I've finally had to put my PDA back into action organising contacts and 'to do' lists. The last time I used my PDA was more than a year ago when I was still in Staffordshire University. Had to use it then to organise my laboratory notes and time tables.Anyway, I found a

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I've had this idea for quite awhile now. Making t-shirts for clients and giving it to them as gifts after the job's been completed. I doubt it'll do much in terms of marketing but I've always liked t-shirts and hopefully the clients will appreciate it. Was thinking of other stuff but I think t-shirts will be the most useful. Not everyone wears a cap and a keychain doesn't really do much in terms

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This photo on the left is from a recent wedding I did. It was my cousin's wedding actually. It was quite a challenge since I couldn't bounce my Lightsphere2 anywhere due to the wooden ceiling and the coloured walls. In the end I shot several test shots and decided to up the compensation of the flash for most of the shots. However, I got lucky with this shot. The positioning of the bride was

Point44http://www.blogger.com/profile/10074531818207951684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5864536.post-1153756929866777842006-07-24T23:18:00.000+08:002006-07-25T00:13:47.023+08:00

I'm in the papers. Woo Hoo! It came out last Friday (21/07/2006) in Utusan Malaysia. Basically it's just about me and my wife's wedding photography gig. It's still fascinating to see yourself in the papers and I'm quite happy with what the reporter wrote although I didn't really understand most of it due to my very bad Bahasa Melayu. But it still sounded nice.Anyway, this is my first post in my

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