Aceh Day 2 Part 2

hmmm...
so SPAIN WON !!
as predicted d...
anyway, just into the trip aight !








Day 2 at Lhokseumawe was pretty much filled with work,
we wanted to rush through as fast as we could so there'll be more time for me to shoot later on


9.00 : Start work around Lhokseumawe*
12.00 : Lunch
12.50 : More work
13.30 : Reached Kreng Geukueh* - Work
15.30 : Reached back at Lhokseumawe* - Rest a bit coz finish work already


one thing i felt strongly about Aceh was that i totally felt as if i was in another country all together. the muslims influence were so strong that practically all the women i saw wore todong, except for the chinese of course which again were only of a minority again there, so the whole time i was there, all the girls i see were practically in tudongs. however, it was not only the girls/women who were affected. much to my disbelieve, the guys too ! okay the guys don't wear tudongs lah but they were all expected to wear long pants !! seriously ! chinese, muslims all long pants all the way and with the hot stricking weather, i was practically perspiring all day everyday the entire time i was in aceh coz i too, was then forced with little to no choice to wear the only 2 long pants i brought interchangably :(

seriously, there were even signs saying something that you are expected to wear appropriately in respect with the culture there.......

okay, back to the day........


at around 16.00, work pretty much completed for the day so Asiong, Kempes and I headed to the local nearby market and bought ourselves 3 pancings, fishing thing...very traditional type..forgot to take pic -.-"
only got the strings, the weight thing and the bait...and that was all we had to fish some 4 fish away later !! :D i caught like 1 onli while Kempes caught the rest of the 3 : /








we were fishing like under some bridge...really really
never take pic only
and while fishing...
i was snapping this thing away !!














and cam-hoed of course !
lol


19.12 : Went back to the Losmen we stayed at and rest more
on the way back i caught this




18.20 : Dinner at Papa Ron's Pizza :D
bought some bread for breakfast and stuff
headed back to the losmen and chatted more and sleep like at around 11 plus




okay la
more tomorrow !
bert is hungry now !!!!!

Aceh Day 2 Part 1

am seriously damn damn damn tired now...
two trips with very little breaks in between and now has to practically get out everyday is wearing me down more and more
body aching all over and with the addition that my days here in medan are now within a hand's count away are really screwing my mood all over again
the lack of meet ups with love is another heartache and knowing that there's a chance that we could not see each other any more till my next holiday is totally breaking the heart into zillions of zillions of pieces...
as much as i've wished i'd be back there in singapore as soon as possible so i can once again restart the new semester with a new mindset and managing my photo galleries better or at least finally being able to freely edit my works be it from Aceh or the latest Toba trip, not being able to hold her once more before i leave is really....ah.....life


anyway,
here's Day 2 of Aceh





Time Check : 5.30 a.m.

Kempes, Asiong and myself walked to the nearby beach, just within some less than 10 mins walk away from the Losmen we stayed at

we were all unsure on whether that beach will provide us with a good viewpoint at the east but everything becomes clearer once the skies turned yellowish





it was quite a pretty dull morning,
no sun,
no terrific golden clouds formation or whatever
i just had to shoot whatever there was there then to satisfy my landscape deprived self : /





there was only this very small part of the sky that turned golden for a like a few mins only before disappering totally





so again, i shot what's at the beach instead




4 ducks : /




ok d
more tomorrow
really am damn tired

I'm back and Aceh Day 1

okay..another few days of absence d
but.......



yes yes yes
i'm back once again !!
this time from my Toba trip
TOBA = Tanah Orang Batak Asli = The Native Lands of the Bataks

i was pretty sick on day 1, i didn't even shoot at all actually and recovered along the way thus the shooting got more intensive then and so i came back with even more pictures but unlike my Aceh Trip where i actually noted down in my phone the time and where i was, i didn't as much as i've wished i had so let's hope i can remember most of them well d when i blog bout it later on

oh...and i've shots some more random stuff of course before my Aceh Trip, unimportant stuffs like flies and lizards -.-" and actually just now a praying mantis actually fell on my car on my way home so i caught it to be shot later on when i'm more fit d, am down with dry cough :(
from my experience, this is due to tireness d
aceh trip then right after that toba trip
omg

which only means

YES
coz i like lots of my pictures :D
and let's hope you don't get bored of them coz this time really, u won't one...unless u get bored of looking at nice landscapes la

ok...2 sneak previews from my toba trip





and......





more info bout it after my aceh trip =P




OKAY !!
Aceh Day 1




Time Check : 09.30 a.m.

Kempes, the driver for the entire trip
Asiong, the salesman who is also my cousin who also is my childhood friend who i've also hung out with since like the times when i was walking and playing marbles by the streets to learning how to bike together to learning how to motorbike together to driving and now still hanging together whenever i'm back
finally got Me :D





the road to Aceh was quite a boring one...
despite the laughter from the chats the three of us had in the car under the damn hot sun with only natural air-conditioning coz the car tak de air-con punye...it can still be pretty damn boring when u have to sit in a snuffy hot uncomfortable, tak de much room to move and nothing really you can do actually except to talk and talk and talk........the photographer side of me grew stronger definitely shooting not very artsy pictures like this




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11.00 : Reached Stabat* - Work
12.10 : Pass Tanjung Pura*
13.00 : Pass Brandan*
14.00 : Reached Kuala Simpang* - Work
17.53 : Reached IDI* - Work

this part of the journeys are filled with random talks about random stuffs from spare parts to work to girls to sharing each other's experiences and obviously sex did came into one of our topics when we're lost about what to talk about but let's not discuss them here or this blog is also gonna be so damn damn words INTENSIVE with totally unrelated stuffs

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Time Check : 18.00



work finished already and there was no nice location to stop to shoot sunset so i told Kempes that we'll just stop randomly whenever i see an opening from the trees after trees that's blocking my view to the sun



passed by lots of place but as much as we're chasing the sun...we were actually also pretty much chasing after time to reach Lhokseumawe, our first destination city and where we were gonna sleep in some losmen that Asiong had forgotten to booked first -.-" so had to reach earlier or else at night later full already headache don't know where to go......

till now and later on, i was only able to shoot from within the car's widely opened window both for my camera to head out and snap outside the car and for the natural air-conditioning =x



very random i know
but again we were still moving finding a place to get a nice shot at the sun d

Time Check : 19:00

the sun had turned



pretty red...it's going down pretty fast too
too low and the trees and the buildings will all block it away d




okay !
finally the first proper sun
use G9 at high ISO coz we were moving by the road so had to use fast fast shutter speed also that's why the noise so high d
but then i was still not happy with the shot




Time Check : 19.31

after this shot the sun set so low cannot see any of it already d
we moved on hoping to find somemore open paddy fields nearby so can shoot more properly but no more already also :(

and i kept the camera for the rest of the day

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20.15 : Reached Lhokseumawe* ( First destination )
Checked in to the Losmen and Rested a bit
21.00 : Dinner
after dinner chatted a bit and slept d

Maggie

hmm...okay
the other time i called maggie over to see if she is interested in being shot
by me
with the lau ya camera and lightings and everything cheap cheap one la
like aluminion foil as the reflection which kinda spill light all over also -.-"
no money like that lor
and she agreed la
coz she say i take nais phictures and all XD which i still found otherwise though (need lots of improvement still d)
ok then like that lor
i went to fetch her coz no one can send her then from the offis then went up to the "room"
and we began the work d
she changed
make up-ed
style-ed her hair
and everything la
coz i newbie in these stuff...i was left only upstairs setting up the lights, camera, tripod and the rest of my stuffs d

ok
introducing
maggie !




she's such a natural, really
her poses and everything very smooth

tpc seminar part 2 and aceh

OKAYYYYY
wah very long never update blog d
almost 1 week
fwah...something quite usual when i'm in medan when internet connection can screw up like hell -.-"
somehow now got connection back on again in my room when i tried just now
weird...mabbe the rat / bird/ lizard or even cockroach chew them back on !

to start off !!




yes yes yes
i went to Aceh for 4 days !!!
okay la
share what happen first
then pictures + description later on okay


my mode of transportation around was on THIS !



imagine cramming 3 people in that
1 driver - Kempes
1 my cousin who work with dad as a salesman - Asiong
1 me !

we didn't had much room to move
and was practically in that for HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUURSSSSSSSSS
and by day 4
i was dead tired + my body has began to ache all over !

pictures i got was a bit below my expectations but as i ran through them again just now, i kinda found quite a few nice ones too

okay
this is what happen d
wrote them down from my fone

my aceh trip

* means name of a city ok

DAY ONE

09.30 : Start Journey from Medan*
11.00 : Reached Stabat* - Work
12.10 : Pass Tanjung Pura*
13.00 : Pass Brandan*
14.00 : Reached Kuala Simpang* - Work
17.53 : Reached IDI* - Work
19.31 : Shot sunset by the road
20.15 : Reached Lhokseumawe* ( First destination )
Checked in to the Losmen and Rested a bit
21.00 : Dinner
after dinner chatted a bit and slept d

DAY TWO

5.30 : Headed to the beach nearby
6.30 : Sunrise !
7.30 : Had breakfast at the Warung
9.00 : Start work around Lhokseumawe*
12.00 : Lunch
12.50 : More work
13.30 : Reached Kreng Geukueh* - Work
15.30 : Reached back at Lhokseumawe* - Rest a bit coz finish work already
16.30 : Went Fishing
19.12 : Went back to the Losmen we stayed at and rest more
18.20 : Dinner at Papa Ron's Pizza :D
bought some bread for breakfast and stuff
headed back to the losmen and chatted more and sleep like at around 11 plus

DAY THREE

03.30 : Woke up
04.28 : Start journey from Lhokseumawe*
06.15 : Reached Cot Panglima* - Sunrise
07.47 : Back on the road again with various stoppings coz the views were nice :D
10.05 : Reach Takengon* ( 2nd Destination ) - Work
11.25 : Heading to Danau Laut Tawar (a lake, amazing views !)
13.35 : a QUICK lunch
13.45 : Work
14.25 : Back on the road leaving Takengon*
16.25 : Pass Biruen*
18.28 : Sunset at somewhere between Biruen* and Lhokseumawe*
19.00 : Reached Lhokseumawe*
then had dinner, chatted till like 11 plus some more and slept d

DAY FOUR

05.10 : Woke up and headed to the beach straight
05.50 : Sunrise at the beach
07.00 : Back to Losmen to pack
08.00 : Breakfast
08.35 : Start of Journey to Langsa*
11.15 : Reached Langsa*
12.20 : Lunch
all shops are closed from 12 - 2 on fridays in the whole of Aceh (very Islamic here)
14.00 : Work
16.35 : Leaving Langsa* for Kuala Simpang*
17.18 : Reached Kuala Simpang* - Work
18.30 : Leaving Kuala Simpang* for Medan*
21.25 : Reached Medan*
had dinner first then went home d
reached home at around 22.00 plus

okay...so now just imagine on how much time i've spent on the road in that car !!
share 1 pic from day 2's sunrise :D



Nais ?
lOL
sada means satu in Aceh's local dialect which also means one !

for those of you who don't know
Aceh was the city that was hit by the tsunami back then in 2004. Aceh's tsunami swallowed up the most number of deaths from the cities that were hit as well totallying to more than hundred thousands, but the cities that i went to, except from Lhokseumawe where the impact was little to none, was not hit by the tsunami so no post-tsunami pictures d - as much as i've wished i could have travelled further up....i actually went on a trip with a salesman where i had helped work also when i'm not shooting so i have to just simply follow his usual route :( thus the purpose of this trip was more to work than my personal photography needs

okay
Arifin and a friend is in Medan so i'll be leaving on another trip this coming tuesday
destination : Lake Toba
the sole purpose for the trip will be photography, totally quite different from the previous visit i went with Homesick, st and the girls so my expectation this time round is quite high d

expect lots of landscape pics when i'm back in singapore this coming 3rd of July !!!





last post from the seminar d :D
lots of models !




















okay finish !!!

coming right up next will be :
Maggie !!



my friend who was willing enough to be my model for me to test my strobe on
quite nais pictures i've shot, really
quite very satisfied with it d

okay
tired
i go sleep ok
bye ~

tpc seminar part 1

fwah...didn't do much but somehow quite tiring d
what i did today ?

woke up at like around 3+.....PM yes, lucky me but it's a sunday so acceptable can
ok then bathed and all went down and watch casper the movie
i know very long ago already one but they had been airing at the local station for like two consecutive days
missed it yesterday then today still the same one...only thing which made it really terrible is they completely made them spoke bahasa instead of english -.-"
and that's what i terribly hate about indonesian channels...
subtitles would had been so much better right ? omg......

after that had my meal while still watching then went up to me room to start packing my stuff cleaning my lenses and all expecting a proper wedding dinner night and etc u know, the normal routine stuffs...bride and groom walks in with those cute little gals dancer the music and etc and everything la,but when i arrived later with my parents were completely different and i couldn't find anything good to shoot so i didn't

after the dinner went to the nearby temples and shoot around d, with sis keep asking me to take pic of her, -.-" she = narcist sangat, now then i know lol ! after that went to did a test drive on captiva, the car which is pretty quite good, drove around the complex then went home and makan durian :D :D :D the king of all fruits ! it's the durian season, so more durians will come coz right outside dad's rented warehouse got a small small durian plantation and we're like quite close to the owners and all and they had been giving us quite a few...to date, i've whallop like 6 of them

and then here i am lor


ok, introducing TPC - toba photographer club
a local, medanese club open to everyone
if u think u're medanese, and loves to take pic
visit : www.tobaphotographerclub.com !

the people there are damn nice and friendly and had been hanging out with them for a couple of times..
the other time, some sunday forgot the date, but it's damn near to my return to medan la coz this is actually my very first outing since i'm back here, i went to their seminar
then got models etc
so shoot shoot only lor
but then i think i wasn't really into the mood then, coz very packed, like we were divided into groups then like 8 - 10 people shoot 1 model, can't really ask them to pose the way i want to so kinda just anihow snap snap la give face =x





shot before the event actually start -.-"
i went to sit with the organizers there coz i know quite a few of them, then the model just start posing so we don't care just shoot only while the rest of the participants still don't know =x




first model
forgot name
wide angle rocks
the place sucked
the background all is sangat shitty



again : /



i think this one is the 2nd one d

ok...after uploading like 11 pics of them i just realized that i haven't actually edit all the pics d
so 2 parts again d =x
lol




shot this after the whole event finish already
i've shot her before, Stella and had mistaken her by Shiela, which she had corrected me through friendster and i kinda think she remembered me :D lol



more stella



i chatted with her a bit after the thing and to my surprised, she's only like in secondary 2 !!
omg so young but look so mature !


ok la
one last pic then i edit more for tomolo d



ok la bye ~