Summaries
This post seems late, but nevertheless, I have to highlight this. Well, attended Siew Peng’s and Ronnie’s wedding. Surprisingly the food served was all vegetarian. Imagine eating vegetarian shark fin’s soup, vegetarian prawn, vegetarian jellyfish. My eyes rolled when I found out everything was vegetarian.
So who were the bride and groom?
Yup, this is the best I can do with a 50mm and with many people blocking. No flash was fired. So as in all weddings, it’s always good to take group pictures. Of course, the setting of that place was beautiful.
As there’s nothing much to say, here are the group photos.
Hmmm.. where am I? I was the one taking this photograph. So I need to get myself in too.
Hmm, don’t really know who are the 2 girls in the middle though, so I don’t think I want to compile a list of names here. Last but not least, the ‘jimui’ gang.
Hmmm.. finally. So who’s the next one? Ho ho ho!!!
ps : Still drafting Tibet posts. It takes quite a while
A few many weeks days back, Nikonian Academy had a 2000th forum member celebration and they held a feast and gathering for forum members. I am glad I joined the forum as I get to learn from lots of sifu and guru out there about shooting, cameras, photoshop and also how to market yourself in the camera and digital world.
Enough said, if you’re part of Nikonian, the answer to everything is shoot more pictures. So this was the day that I had my first taste of Studio Photography.
Presenting Model Angelyn and Nicole.
Feel the wind
Alluring
Try making a 60s shot with an overexposed photo and this is what you will get for the result.
More like an advertisement for Baywatch.
If that wasn’t enough, the rest of the participants also got to take photos of another model. Anyone knows her name?
Now how about that. Half bikini half shirt. The lightings we had in order to take these photos were excellent. Until one of the participants, David Chong decided to play along and be the male model. Boy, did we have lot of shots of him.
Lucky Dude?
I must say, joining Nikonian Academy’s classes was worth it after my first FREE class of Adobe Photoshop with Sean Liew. Anyway, towards the end of the year, I have yet to make time for other classes and with insufficient budget, I have to postphone it to another day.
Thus with all the studio lighting setup and a cool background, it’s decided that there is no need to feel shame. There is no need to bother what people thinks. There is no need to not use the opportunity. Then I made a WISE DECISION.
I posed.
There is an upcoming event which need those who are in favor of staying healthy and also helping the least fortunate people. This event is called the Walkabrella, a walking event for as far as 6km for a cause to help raise awareness for a medical condition called CEREBRAL PALSY.
Some short insights of CEREBRAL PALSY
Its a condition that can affect any child between birth and 3 years old when their
brain is still developing. This condition damages the part of the brain
where it controls the movement of the child.
That being said, this event is organized by KDU with a good reason to it.
Want to know more of the event, refer below.
Event: A 6 km walk for a cause.
Venue: Central Park Avenue, BU (The park opposite 1Utama)
Date: 6th December 2009
Time: 8am – 2.30pm
Ticket: RM 10 per person (Inclusive of an umbrella and a goodie bag)
Beneficiary: Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-Kanak Cacat Taman Megah.
Modes of Payment:
You need to register by sending an email to walkabrellatickets@gmail.com
Please include your
Name (as in IC)
Age
IC number
Contact Number
Email
1.Bank-in (this will require a lil more work because you will need to bank
in and fax us the bank slip.)
2. Call us and we’ll send it to you in person (If its in the PJ area, you’ll
pay to our crew).
3. Call us and we’ll post it to you ( this will require you to bank in the
fees)
Hotlines:
Jasmine Lee (016-9748-991)
Brandon Liu (017-2973-801)
Matthew Ong (012-345-9932)
The bank number/ account information/ fax number
to call even if you need only 1 ticket. We will send it to you with no extra
charge! =) will be revealed when the information is sent to us to
walkabrellatickets@gmail.com
Here’s the track for the race.
So if you would love to help for a good cause, do check out their website at http://www.walkabrella.com for more info.
If you won’t be able to join, why not spread the news to create awareness of this event. Of course, I don’t get paid to do this, it’s for charity.
Ahhhhhh My Workspace
Why do you face me all the time
Seeing you everyday makes me pain
Makes me grief for the work you show
Makes me wonder why is it so
Ahhhhhh My Workspace
Everytime I wake up
I dread to go and meet you
Seeing you makes me give up
Cause all the task from you
Why Oh Why
Kanasai Pangsai Jiaksai
At least it’s not Microsoft Cibai
Dont know why Microsoft think what
All also must put hokkien what
So now I work from 9 to 5
But actually work from 10 to 7
Siao liao I am going to go crazy
Must be that influence blogger crazywrazy
Ahh My Workspace
I am so glad I got my Hero
Now no need to see you
When I think until my mind go zero
Then finally I can finally forget you
Yo it’s me again Daniel (known as DanielCtw) and time for a recap of my Tibet adventures. This post will take a super long time for me to write about the whole thing due to the many days I spent there. Of course any Tibet post won’t be completed without the blogger himself appearing inside the photos taken.
Yes, I am so full of myself. I just have to act a killer pose here. Okay, it’s weird that this photo should be the start of this post. Well, that’s me I guess. Now back to our Tibet Monastery post. As mentioned, I visited the Drepung Monastery previously and these are some of the weird things I witnessed there.
What is that? A satellite fallen from space? Or is it about the weird expression on the woman. Surprisingly what I wanted to say is why the heck are there 2 flasks lying down there. Only to notice that there was a kettle in the middle of the whole thing. Surprisingly smart, innovative way to boil a water. Solar powered kettle. Beat that William. What a weird sight, but nevertheless creative.
Well, setting aside that, had the privilege of standing on top the roof of the monastery and this is what I took for the fun of it.
There, that’s how it looks like. Straight from the camera. Beautiful? Not beautiful? It’s up to your eyes. The scenery to me was breathtaking and in additional to the cold weather and insufficient air, I felt hungry. Lucky me and the gang and the guide finally decided to eat. Darn I am hungry. So where to eat on our first day of guided daily tour in Lhasa, Tibet
The place chosen was Lhasa Namaste Restaurant. After looking through the menu, there are western, chinese, nepalese and tibetan food. Seeing as I am now in Tibet, of course I would want to try Tibetan food. Food’s fine, but the most challenging and weird thing I did was to try the drink which most Tibetans drink. The deadly yummy Tibetan Yak Butter Milk Tea.
Yak Butter Milk Tea in a cup. Why try something not Tibetan when you’re there. Here’s my experience of it, after sipping one sip, I had this feeling all over me. My taste buds were okay for awhile until the oily taste seeps in and ewwwww… I can’t stand the smell later on. It’s like I got this taste over me all the time until the following day.
Trying to act cool while drinking the Yak Butter Milk Tea is hard.
Seriously I will try any food thrown at me, as long as it’s edible. This was how it went.
Now better believe it. It taste just like drinking oil + tea. Glad that’s done with and yes, I finished the whole cup. Then after that I’ve been able to taste the same taste through out the day that walking past a Yak Butcher Stall, it got me to think about that frightful weird experience.
That’s a butcher resting with the Yak meat pieces hanging on the wood. Finally it was time to visit the next monastery and to forget about the experience of ever drinking the tea. The problem is that, candles are lit up in the monastery with the same butter that was use in the tea. It made me felt uneasy a little.
The monastery in the second one has a beautiful backdrop. I am glad the sky was blue and not gray to be able to capture this shot. Though I wanted something different. So I look for certain angles to shoot and here’s one of those shots.
An old building that has a weird structure to it. Look at the texture of it. Somehow I prefer this sight over the modern type buildings. It’s like there are history to be told, and waiting to be found out. One special thing about this monastery is actually the monks will be doing their debate here. Debate? Well, the debate is held in order to choose the next possible Master Monk. I did witness the scene but somehow it looks like it’s quite publicize.
Though a monk was glaring at me when I took this photo. Seems like he doesn’t like me. “Please don’t Kung Fu me!”
Monk : It’s hot here, and you why do you take my photo?
Daniel : *poof*
Total Damage done on that day for visitations.
Drepung Monastery : 40RMB
Second Monastery : 40RMB
Such crazy prices to visit monasteries if you would ask me.
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