Feeling Nostalgic

Hmm... kadang2 kalau duk sesaja, mesti kenangan lampau datang mengimbau. Nostalgia lama2 terimbas di ingatan. Kalau nak digambarkan secara grafik, mula2 kita jadi fade-out dgn transition liquid gitu sambil diiringi angelic background sound. Alerr.. mcm time flashback dlm tv tu lah! Pastu semua imej2 yg terlintas di otak ni monochrome.

Ni gua teringat pulak jaman2 tinggal di LS7 dulu. Mcm2 le kenangan indah dan tak indah. Tapi gua igt lg, time tu gua mmg hantu alam maya. Addicted nak mampos. Friendster, MySpace, VirtualFriends, Blogdrive, Blogspot, Hi5, all the social networking sites you name it! Even this blog actually started at that time. Setakat YM dan MSN Messenger tu, mmg 24 hours on. Jarang la off.

Pastu lak kan, housemate semua ada girlfriend. Yg gua ni pulak, hampeh tul takde girlfriend. Manjang je tgk org bergayut2, chat dgn awek, dating ler. Gua ni tak habih2 nak ngayat awek, tp tak dapat2. Hehehe~

Di kalangan circle of friends gua time tu, yg mat jiwang diberi gelaran Father of Flower, Father of Flower II. Yang solo tak layan awek2 ni dipanggil Father of Rock. Gua dpt nama Father of Fry. Haaa.. lu pikir la sendiri kenapa jadi mcm tu. Gua punya landlord nama nya Haji. dia org Bangla. hoh!

Anyway, time tu mmg akan gua kenang sampai bila2. Kalau ada rejeki, gua nak gi tgk la rumah tu in future. Bankside Street, Harehills LS7... kau tunggu sana! Gua akan tiba satu hari nanti!!

*hail to all my sakai friends - Tepet, Chot, Zollu & Paiz.

Taylor'swood 2008

Hmm.. this entry is way overdue tapi takpe lah. Nak enter jugak entry nih. Last month, lepas raya, my company was having annual dinner. It was on 17th October. Bertempat di Sunway Pyramid Convention Center and the theme is hollywood. Well, all the staffs are supposed to wear costume that depicted hollywood movies la. For example pakai baju Jedi Knight ke, Superman ke,.. tak kisah la janji character dlm hollywood movies.



I've decided to bring along my wife and of course Sofea. At first, we all takut jgk kot2 halfway through the majlis, Sofea nangis2 ke.. merengek2 ajak balik ke. Tapi, end up dia pulak yang lebih2 excited. Memang laaa dia tak duduk dia kat meja makan tu. Kejap nak pegang garfu, kejap nak pegang sudu, kejap nak ketuk itu ini. Tapi kat belakang hall tu ada mcm big space kan. We just let her main2 kat situ. Dia pun seronok la tgk ada performances, lagu2, joget2, tgk org lalu-lalang berpakaian ntah apa2. Siap kena ngorat dgn anak Mat Saleh lg.



The dinner's banquet hall.



The MC that night was Jules from Pulp Fiction.

Anyway, back to the dinner, it was alright la. Ada performances, ada award presentation, all those normal stuff during company's annual dinner. So, all in all we did enjoy the night. Ingatkan bleh la dapat lucky draw. Hadiah2 yg ditawarkan agak menarik, tapi I'm not lucky :( Main prize is 5 days 3 nights to Gold Coast. Australia mind you, not the Bagan Lalang one... and there's Samsung HTC touch phone, RM10,000 HP laptop. Tapi gua tak dapat apa2~!! Hoh!



There are Julius Caesar, Princess Fiona of Shrek, erm... I don't know this one, and Snow White.



We also have The Phantom, and Princess Leia Organa from the Star Wars trilogy.



Ok, I like this one. You all nak tau tak who are all those Spartan warriors? ...They are actually the top management of the company consists of CEO, COO, Provost, MD, Dato' Loy, ..and also the newly-appointed VC, Prof Dato Dr Hassan. hehe~ sporting habis diorang ni.



This is the winner of Best Costume. Somebody from S.W.A.T. geee.. I dunno where did she (yes, it's a she) manage to get that costume.



*click on pic for bigger view!

..and the best part, I was crowned as The Most Charming Staff of 2008 that night. Ahahahah~~!! Noo laa... that was me and Sofea on the stage when I was trying to answer some stupid trivia question. Dapat laaa keychain bodow seketul. Sofea's not looking at the audience sbb makcik2 penari kat belakang tu duk mengacan dia. Hampeh tul. Oh yea, can you guess which character of Hollywood movies I am?

p/s - sorry for the quality of the pics is not that good. I'll repair it soon. Now got limited time lorr..

Froo Shon Tay

~ welcome to Sofea Frequency Modulation morning breakfast show. On air right now is an epic beatiful number from Coldplay, The Scientist. Enjoy, my fellow listeners ~

Rumah Terbuka

Bertarikh 1 November 2008 hari Isnin, telah diadakan open house kecil2an laa utk sedara-mara dtg ke rumah kitorang. Lagipun, AJK Pekmar nak buat meeting sekali. Kitorang ni malas sket kalau bab2 org dtg rumah nak makan2 ni. Ye la, malas nak buat kerja. Nasib baik mama opah nye ada. Kalau tak, mau lingkup la kitorang. Ibu dah la bendahari persatuan. Tentu nye busy kira duit. Anyway, we managed to do it.

Antara yang datang ialah, AJK2 Pekmar, penasihat2 iaitu Pak Agus & Mak Ebah, Pak Jene, Mak Mah & Cik Lan. Kak Umi sama Nuar pun datang jugak. Bayangkan la... my house ni kecit je. Yang datang ramai... haa dah cramped gila. Lantak le korang. Sofea pun pening tgk org ramai2 menakluk rumah dia. As for me, my A300 tak perform sgt that day. Ruang yg terlalu sempit membuatkan diri rasa ingin menyambar satu very wide-angled punya lense. Hehehe~ tapi tak perlu la... duit nya ngga' ada.

So, sila la... jemput makan2 jgn malu~!







Dah kenyang, bermesyuarat pulak. Apa isi kandungan diorg mesyuarat? Entah la... saya kurang ambil tahu pulak. Tapi bleh la gi usha blog Pekmar nu.





Semua orang dah balik, baru lah Sofea boleh bermaharajalela kembali.



*credit: Sofea's pic taken by Paiz using his Kenorn 450D.

Night Out

After so much persuasion from Si Paiz, ok la.. I agreed. Itu pun, sebab Mama and Kak Baby dtg dari kampung this evening with Kak Chik. Diorang tido rumah kita. So, I have no problem of having a night out since Sofea and Ibu ada geng kat rumah. Kalau tak, jgn harap le. Mana bleh tinggal Ibu and Sofea berdua je kat rumah tu. So, sharp pukul 12 tgh mlm, I'm off to Damansara Damai to pick Paiz. I want to try night shoot pulak. (Shoot siang2 hari pun tak pandai lagi, dah gatal nak mlm2 pulak)

Venue pertama, gi Dataran Merdeka. Lepak depan mahkamah tu sambil beraksi poyo mengambil gambar. Syok jgk kat sini sbb ada mat rempit lalu-lalang. Try2 jgk teknik panning, tapi tak jadi. Susah sket sbb A300 ni, kalau burst mode 2.5 fps je kalo tak silap. Lambat plak tu. Dari segi skill tgn nak panning jgn ckp la. Berterabur... amatur la katakan.



The best panning that I had. Itu pun tak best sgt la...

Then we off to Bukit Ampang. Naaa... ni la tempat muda-mudi ber'khembit' sambil melayan pemandangan bandaraya KL. Set up tripod, then aci tekan je la mana2 yg patut. Tapi hasil tak berapa memuaskan. Nampaknya, byk lg yg perlu dipelajari especially pasal night shoot, panoramic shoot, etc etc ni. Lepak kat sini sampai around 4 a.m jgk la. Tak sedar masa berlalu begitu pantas.



Unsatisfactory shot.



Main bokeh2 lagi.

Lepas tu on the way balik, singgah la minum kat kedai mamak kat tepi KLCC tu. Around 7 a.m. I reached home and zzzZZZZ....

p/s - sorry lew, gambar kecit2. Ni sbb blog post punya area dlm blogspot ni max width dia 400pixel je. Tatau camnenak lebor kan lg supaya boleh taruk gmbr besar sket. Ada sesapa tau camna nak lebarkan area posting ni bleh ajarkan tak?

Metropolitan Park, Kepong

Since Sofea pun dah mula dpt kaki, I decided to bring her n ibu to a park. The only park came into my mind is Taman Metropolitan Kepong. Alaa... kalau lalu kat MRR2 from Gombak to Sg Buloh, mesti nampak ramai org tgh main layang2... haaa kat situ ler. Mesti Sofea suka jalan2 sambil tgk layang2. So off we went... On the way, singgah Pizza Hut Kota Damansara for lunch. A very late lunch that is.



Masa sampai tu, Sofea seems very excited and she was really in awe seeing those layang2 yg byk berterbangan di udara. Sambil2 main bola, dia tgk layang2 dgn jakun nya tuh. As for me, I called Si Faiz suruh dia dtg supaya boleh berkongsi2 knowledge in photo shooting.

Mula2, I equipped my A300 with my tele lense. Alaa, tele sikit je... 55-200. Since dulu dah pernah main kit lense 18-70 masa zaman2 pinjam kamera Put dulu, so nak la try lense tele pulak. I have to say that if I want to shoot bokeh2, it's good to have my tele on. Set the focus point manually, and aperture besar sket in order nak dpt kan DOF yg dikehendaki. Pic bawah ni I use f5.6. This the tip I got from my readings yg tak seberapa la. I am no sifu maaa... still a n00b.



After quite some time, tukar kpd nromal kit lense sbb nak amik gmbr pemandangan2 ni, kena la wide-angle sikit. So, snap2 la sana-sini sambil2 testing and godek2 the cam. Maklum le, baru nak belajau guna. Anyway, thanks tu Si Paiz sbb rajin nak outing sama2 sambil share ilmu.



silhouette pic of sofea & ibu

Alpha 300

My Canon A460 digicam sudah rosak. Itu Cik Sofea suka sgt hempas2, tekan sana sini. Alas, rosak jua akhirnya. So, we moved on to a new level of taking pictures. We decided to buy a Digital Single Lens Reflex camera. After days of surveys, made up my mind to buy Canon EOS 450D. Tapi masa kat kedai, sudah tangkap cintan sama Sony Alpha 300. Ergonomically, sangat best. Fits into my hands like a condom! Nah... angkat la satu. Well, now I'm relishing my used-to-be hobby; photography. Anyway, I'm still having trouble with all the settings and theories of photography. Also need to find some time to go out and snap, snap, snap.

The first few shots taken while Sofea was asleep. Err... I could not afford to belek the camera while she is awake because she'll be crying to grab it and look look see see. Mahal woo... tak bleh!