Inna lillaah...

It's hard to keep blogging when time becomes a certain constraint. This blog has started waaayyyyyy back on 13th of August 2004. It was when I'm alone sitting in my room doing nothing but blend with the cyber world. It was so glum and I hate autumn. It's neither cold nor warm. This blog almost dead on end of that year. Several times did I try to reincarnate it. But it never as fun as during the times when I started to blog. I've encountered many bloggers during this 4 years.

I have to admit that I find no interest in blogging anymore let alone to write things up, upload pictures etc etc. I dont know what to write anymore. Most importantly, I dont have time to blog blog. Whenever I switch on the laptop, sit in front of it and trying to let my fingers dance on the keypad...my lil' Sofea will come over and asking me to teach her one or two tricks of Internet. Yeah yeah, she literally disturbing me. I wont end up locking myself in the room in the middle of the night while everybody is sleeping just to post my blog's entry. Neither I want to do it while I'm at my office.

So, with such heavy heart, I have to say this blog is dead but will not be buried. It will remain in the coffin so that from time to time, people can come and visit the dead. I have too many social networking site. Blogspot, Friendster (almost dead as well), Facebook, Flickr... forums. *sigh* Ok lah.. bye bye.

Alahai Mami Jarum

A day after Ying Zee's wedding, we went to Penang Island. Ini le acara yg ditunggu2. Mmg dari awal lagi dah pasang niat nak gi Penang Island. Tapi satu hari je mana cukup. Another problem is, I totally buta about Penang. Mmg tak tau langsung jalan kat bandar Penang tu. Buatnye sesat kang, mampos. Nasib baik pulau je. Kalau sesat pun, takde la sampai ke Myanmar.

So, after breakfast kat Bukit Mertajam (alaa... breakfast pun kedai mamak biasa je), off we go. First, we went to meet Azil - Father of Rock. Dia janji nak bagi map sbb dia tak dpt nak tolong jadi tourist guide. Jumpa dia kat jeti ferry.



Father of Rock sedang menunjukkan cara2 baca map Penang

Wahh.. excited giler nak naik ferry. I have to admit that I was jakun to the max! Sofea pun ala2 terkebil2 naik ferry. Seronot tul...





Turun je dari ferry, masing2 dah menggelabah. Nak gi arah mana?? Kiri ke kanan ke? Yang penting, perut ada lapar. Nak lunch. Ibu Sofea pun tunjuk skill jadi co-pilot world rally championship. Bukak map, gi terus, masuk kiri, pusing kanan, etc etc and finally we sampai kat tempat lunch.







(Tak bleh tunjuk gmbr food. Nanti ada org terliuq!)

While having our lunch, we called tourist guide lagi sorang, Anin. Ok la, set appointment, Anin sih tunggu dia kat Gurney Drive. Nasib baik ada Ibu Sofea baca map. Sampai la jgk kat Gurney Drive tengah2 panas tu. Orang kata tmpt ni best. Tapi aku rasa biasa je...



Sofea bosan tunggu Anin lama sgt~!

Anin ckp dia nak bwk kitorg pusing pulau. Mula2 teman dia mkn kat Tanjung Bungah. Aisey, perut dah kenyang tp bau food kat situ tempting plak. Then, kita gi Batu Feringgi (betul ke eja camni?)









Sofea & Anin dan jugak phat to dia...

Our next stop is Butterfly Park. Best tmpt ni tp taktau naper panas sgt. Padahal time tu mendung je. Dalam park ni pun redup. Tapi hangat berpeluh2~!! Kalau ada macro lens, fuh... mmg masyuk amik gmbr kat sini. I tried few shots using my 55-200 tapi tak syok. Tak best. Mmg racun nak beli macro ni...











Sekali ada kaki yg shoot macro, siap tripod bagai... tengok la lens dia. Terasa kecik diri ini.

Lepas tu gi Balik Pulau makan laksa janggus. Time ni Sofea dah tido kepenatan. Anin ckp laksa sini best. Ramai org mkn kat sini. Ada rojak buah, ABC, laksa, gorpis... Lepas mkn, kitorg pun gerak balik la...







p/s - gorpis tu ialah goreng pisang.

Ah Moi & Ah Pek

Berkurun lamanya kalo nak nunggu kita update blog ni. Heh, bukan apa... mmg tak berapa ada masa la. Kalo kat rumah nak ngadap laptop, jgn harap la. Nanti ada makhluk kenit dtg mengendeng sebok nak main laptop jgk. Takkan la nak nyuruk2 dlm bilik siap kunci semata2 nak update blog?? Lain la update blog politik ka... altantuya ka...

Anyway, on the 22nd November we went to Bukit Mertajam to attend ibu Sofea's best friend's wedding, Ying Zee (the ah moi) and Chean Hong (the ah pek). Excited toksah ckp la sbb ni first time pegi Penang after i dunno how many years. Kalo tak silap, last sekali gi Penang ialah masa tahun 1996 or 1997. Dah lupa dah camne rupa Penang. Lagi, nak g ni wedding chinese. Ho Ho... mesti makan best2. I'm longing to eat the sup sirip ikan yu tu. Being first time to Penang, I google la here n there about the place. Manage to get the map to Ocean Restaurant, Tmn Perwira Bukit Mertajam. So off we go~!! Pukul 3 ptg jalan, pukul 6 ptg sampai. Hmmm... boleh tahan jgk dekat nya ye?.. or aku yg bawak laju?



Ini lah dia tempat kejadian.



Ini pula tempat penginapan. Banglo 3 tingkat beb! Haha~

Hmm... berbalik kpd cerita wedding ni. This is my chance to try do indoor shooting. I was surprised with the condition of the hall. Sangat2 low light. I know i'm gonna screw up my shooting sbb i'm a f**king newbie and i'm not well-equipped!! ...and it's true. All my photo sangat hampehs. But i learned a lot from here. I need to improve my composition and I need an external flash to have sufficient light. Apart from that, I might also need a fast lens to do indoor shooting. Don't talk about wide-angled lens yet or else I might break my bank! But it's a good experience.













...and as for Sofea, she's excited sungguh. Berjalan ke sana sini. Main belon2... tgk performance kanak2, and the best part is yam-seng time. All those chinese tu jerit kuat2 "yaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmm-sengggggg!!!". Dia pun ikut "yoooonnnn-teng~!".





Sorry lew gambo kecit. Bleh klik la kalo nak enlarge. Takde masa sgt nak post-production gambar2 taken semua. Ini pun ibu Sofea yang tlg p-p kan.