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Photog Revival






















My dedication to photography....initated by the purchase of the Rebel..suppressed by the hectic life of a 4th Year Engineering course...has now exploded.

It all started after several outings..at which I experimented with photo editing and HDR. I knew I will not go anywhere with a kits lens.

As mentioned previously, the nnes trip was the precursor to the lens shopping spree. The telephoto lens was the first followed by the Sigma. I never regretted buying these lens.

Victor Harbor
















Joined Isma trip to Victor Harbor and along the way went our own way. Borowed Alif's Sigma and had a good time trying out wide angle/landscape photography. Good training before I get mine.

West Beach

















Got the Sigma on Monday.Went to the city with it but did not take any photos..I find the city an uninteresting place to test the Sigma.

Yesterday went to West Beach with Lutfi and Tawakkal. Too lazy to bother that everyone that promised to come did not come...It was damn good day to finally use my Sigma for the first time. Sucks to stay at home when you can see the sun set over a cloudless horizon which is rare even for SA.

The Sigma did not break it promise to deliver amazing pictures and I will be looking forward to using it tomorrow at Kangroo Island and during the ferry trip.

Balik malaysia

Two weeks befire finally going home. Would have gone earlier but my family is going to Singapore in a week for some Paramore concert.Sigh..meanwhile...next week everyone will be at uni..and I'll be...dunno..doing nothing or just hang around playing with my camera.

Nissin D-622


















The reasonfor the title of this entry is because I've added a new gear. This time a flash gun. The west beach yesterday demonstrated the limitation of a SLR at taking a sunset. I had to edit all of the pictures and manipuate the exposure and vibrancy before theu look nice. So decided I might as well add this crucial gear before going back to Malaysia. It will arrive in 10 days.Less I hope.Looking forward to it.

Two lens in two weeks.........

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Innes National Park

It was fun and beautiful.Spent a whole proper day at the National Park. At the same time, tested Ikhwan's EFS 55-250mm lens and decided that such lens is very useful. Banked in $XXX into Ikhwan's account.



















Figure 1:An ordinary telephoto lens for a noob















Figure 2: One of the test photos using the 55-250mm which made me decided that it was worth the $XXX paid for it.

Sigma 10-20mm

Since I already have a telephoto lens, I decided to just click the buy button on ebay for a wide angle Sigma 10-20mm lens. At least when I get back to Malaysia, I can at least show off I am a good photographer with at least three lens instead of the stupid kits lens...hahahha.

















Figure 3: An ordinary wide angle lens for a noob with an extraodinary $XXX pricetag. There goes my graduate visa.Coming soon this Monday thanks to FedEx.

Photo editing

After being such a complete noob in photo editing, I've began using editing photos, not Picasa but Light Room and Photomatix and the results made me think 'Why the heeeee didn't I think of that earlier'.















Figure 4: My forst HDR image using Photomatix.

Kangaroo Island

The idea has officially become bulletproof. Will be booking ferry tickets and a holiday house tomorrow. Money flows like water but as a son from a middle income family that is not a life threatening issue.

Hello Kangaroo island for the third time.

A look into the world

As usual. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan,the $ drained into the occupation of these two countries is like the cost to counter two Soviet Empires. The socialist Greek gahmen went bust and could not even pay their civil servants. US economy is crap. The most famous sodomy case in the world is occurring in Malaysia. Nothing new.

Balik Malaysia

I do not know when MARA will get my ticket for the 13th March. Need to get back to Malaysia to get my life back in order. It's all fun now but that won't last long when everyone starts going to uni.

Norwood

The contract in Norwood lapsed yesterday, so I cannot lepak at Norwood anymore and watch Oprah and Ellen show while folding the pamphlets. It was a cool retreat when it is really hot at Maple..hahaha.Already hauled all my stuff from the house. Will return the keys to Lutfi for Mat this Monday.

Leaping into time

2nd week of February....done

Time passes so fast these days..especially when you are planting grapes officially. I will be back in Malaysia in no time soon.

Moonta-Innes

Today will depart for Moonta, we've booked a holiday house for 2 nights. Will be tripping down the Yorke peninsular tomorrow and enjoying the whole day at Moonta on Sunday.

Kangaroo Island 3

One the best places I've been in SA is Kangaroo island....coz I've been there twice. The amazing ferry trip is a bonus. Apparently the ferry fares is cheaper.Hmm..will this plan be bullet proof?

Like they say..three time is the charm

Beaches

Yesterday

Yesterday was pamphlet folding day!!!! Being a good multitasker I folded between 12pm to 430pm until Ikhwan called me to go to the beach. What the heck. Off we go.....

Grange Beach

Nice beach. Shallow and the waterwas war. Finally got to see Arsyad frolicking....hahaha. The water was warm and the sky as any summer sky was azure blue with wisps of clouds at the horizon.

Swimming in the sea was tiring and slept at around 10pm...woke up at 130am due to the intense nigh heat(31 degrees!)..drove to Norwood and god know how I managed to deliver junk mail to 700 mailboxes in three hours. A record.

Today

Woke up at 1pm!!!! Slept at Norwood coz was too tired from the morning delivery. Went to Maple...home sweet home. Paid for the apartment at Moonta with Ikhwan's debit card. Again...I was invited to go to the beach with Amza and some of his friends.Off we go to West Beach at 6pm.Tawakkala rrived 1 hour too early...pity him.


West Beach 2nd visit

Nothing fancy.WE just hit the waves..just the three of us ..the other don't know...to shy to swim I guess.. what's the point coming to a gorgeous beach on a sunny day if you don't swim. the watre was also war. I prefer the West beach as the water is deeper than in Grange Beach which makes sense why the sailing guys launch their boats from West Beach rather than the beaches further North,

After 1 hour or so, packed up, walked along the beach to see some SA scouths beach fishing.From afar they crowding together and we thought there was either a beached whale/dolphin or they found a dead body. Nothing fancy. It was quite a nice scene seeing the small scouts persistently fishing at the teethe of the waves with their parents.

After that, went to the Adelaide Mosque, for Maghrib and off to Queenz pizza to have two family pizzas which I think were the best pizza I've ever tasted, the toppings were thick and cheesy.

And after that, went back to Maple, Tawakkal and Amza went back to their homes, a 5 minute black out occured and here I am........doing this entry..

Good night!!!1

into 2nd Week of February

Arsyad Balik



Enough Said.

And we watched a Tamil movie yesterday night with Tawakal who came lepak with us. From the movie, I concur that Tamil people have very nice moustaches and they are impervious to beatings from many people at the same time.

Before the Tamil Movie

Why Tawakal lepak at Maple. Because we went makan2 at another Afghan shop at Prosperct at Arsyad's recommendation. Very Lawashish, but better and abit expensive, but it was good food and we enjoyed ourselves. Other than the Maplians, there was panda Aswad.

West Beach

After Prospect, we went to West Beach just before sunset. Ikhwan ,Tawakal and I bathe in the cool sea water. It was a fantastic aftrenoon as there were quite a number of people at the beach to give the beach a lively mood and we also watched the sky changes color from azure blue, gradually stained yellow, orange and red as the the the sun gradually slumbers into the horizon.It was a fantastic afternoon.Will go there again later because I want to see Arsyad frollick in the sea for the first time..damn I have strange fetish since he came back....

Just Now

In a world dominated by vampires(godsend world to Twilight freaks), a vampire, in his posh car with tinted windows and cameras so that sun fearing vampires can drive in daylight, a macho looking vampire, emerged into the daylight, wearing a cool looking sunglass..and the car's computer bleeped...

Pidut: eh....computer tu cakap 'Don't be horny?'

In reality the computer bleeped 'You'be been warned' so that the macho vampire does not burn himself silly in the sun..haha.

Pidut mmg mantap!!!

1st week February

Kindle 2

I was gonna buy it.But Whispernet is not available in Malaysia, what's whispernet? In the US, the Kindle constantly hooked to Amazon so that you can buy ebooks. Outside the US, accessing whispernet is problematic because you need a US address to buy ebooks.Amazon is so dumb, Ipad is gonna kill Kindle.

Ipod 3.1

Frustrated with the Kindle. I upgraded my Ipod Touch software and downloaded Kindle. No books I wanted and started experimenting with the Ipod Touch as a replaement for the Kindle. Using a free app, I downloaded a pirated pdf of Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve(would have bought it but no Kindle version in Amazon). Reading the pdf on the Ipod Touch was OK, eye strain is expected, you can only read for 20 minutes continuously and your eyes will ache. The small Ipod Touch screen is also not helping(now I know why they put tseroids into the Ipod to create a Ipad!! It makes sense).So far so good. Will be looking forward to buy a book from Kindle,m but for now, it's pirated novels.

Switzerland

I have been yapping about his but my bro and I plan to go to Switzerland. I have to. My passport will expire next year. The cheapest fare is on Qatar Airlines.Insya-Allah jadi.Bcause this plan is bullet proof.

Adelaide Life

Do not know what to do. Just went to the city on Wednesday to settle some uni stuff and had takoyaki at sushi train.Sigh..it's gonna be a long month. Hopefully MARA will book my ticket ASAP...

Driving

One of the greatest pleasure in Adelaide is driving. I will never enjoy driving in KL as I do in Adelaide.It's so fun that yesterday I drove to Norwood in Dr.Syahril's car just to get my blue bag just for the sake of driving....aku memang dah takde life

Job Hunt

Oh..applied here and there on Jobstreet and rejected by several companies already......life goes on

Master of the city

As you may know. I have a contract delivering junk things in the city, or a part of it. Very productive as I get more money from this area. I deliver in the morning and the city is as dead in the wee of the morning as any other suburbs that you'd swear everyone's dead that I sometimes like to tickle my imaginatiosn that there are zombie around the corner...hahhaha..and it dies creep me out and give goosebumps when i imagine too much. This job is annoying but I am gonna miss it....try working like this in KL and I might end up as a crippled mute beggar somewhere begging.Yes..I am very negative about Kl yet I yearn so much to go back.....more sodomy,rape and murders in the Star as usual..that's my home...raining rocks.