Aceh Day 4 Part 1 + purchases

i know this was supposed to be my last post from Aceh but then i kinda got quite busy these few days..

my mum came over and left this morning
today i went out the whole entire day and went off to buy some more stuff that got me really excited and then i am moving my pictures from my hard disks, re-organizing them coz i want to dedicate one for my time machine which i had yet to use so my files are like currently on the move from one hard disk to the other and i don't wanna access them so it'd be done faster
over some 85gb worth of files are on the move right now... =O

went to school to pay the school fee today, after that continue off to buy 3 new things today

first thing i bought :



then 2nd thing i bought :





and the last purchase of the day was :







4 quick pictures from the morning of my 4th and last morning in Aceh

Aceh Day 3 Part 2

okay...i'm finally back to singapore again
another 5 months here
another 5 months of stress with the school which i know i'll face...
regardless, am unable to wait for the new challenges i know too i'll face in my journey tru photography this time round :D

so now finally can update regularly as per normal again d
well at least i think for the coming month !

thinking for a few shoots for the upcoming month already though some are still awaiting confirmations, nevertheless the confirmed will be this coming sunday...

Deborah and Bryan Actual Day wedding shoot with only 2 photographers, me as the main and homesick to assist me


okay...
Aceh Day 3 part 2 !!

not a lot of pics today coz by the time i was shooting this,
the sun was like so damn high like right above my head making almost everything look flat machiam landasan airplane all....

11.25 a.m. we traveled to this place called danau laut tawar with less than half a tank of gas...
we had visited the gasoline station before that but apparently it has been closed coz everything all sold out and that is practically the case with small towns.....always sold out
like 11 a.m. sold out on gas already ?
omg ?!?!?!?!?

the same thing happened during my visit to toba also !!

anyway, half a tank of gas with that kidna lori don't get you very faarrrrrrrr
when i got down to ask the locals on how far we were then, i was quoted with 17 km !!!
17 KILOM.....omg !
i asked Kempes then....

"bisa ga ?"
"ya kalo mo pulang dorong mobil ya bisa lah"

and then i just knew....
in my heart i console myself

"nevermind man...the light is damn flat anyway....there's always a next time"

regardless, we travelled far enough that i got a chance to actually got down to the danau and snap a few shots off










why black and white all ?
coz light very flat laaa
making the pictures not really outstanding in color =x







the rest of the day i was pretty much cameraless with work and on the car again....

13.35 a.m. we got back to the town of Takengon again, the lake was like very far away, like i said 17km far far away from the town..the views of the lake were like so damn amazing la..so wish wish wish i was there like during a perfect light...u know...like the sunsets i captured during my sibolga trip back during my previous holiday back hometown...
we had a really quick like really so damn quick quick, we had like 10 mins time for lunch then it was work already !!

by 14.25 we were already on the move again heading away from Takengon towards Lhokseumawe again...

then we pass Bireun at around 16.25, another town in Aceh and finally got to captured some sunset again with my G9 at around 18.28 from somewhere between Bireun and Lhokseumawe...not really nice pics but will find some worthy to share to post tomorrow d..now i tired already to edit more pics... =x
19.00 = reached Lhokseumawe and then quickly quickly check in the losmen and went for dinner and it was like rest and chat chat chat till 11 plus then i was like a dead log on the bed already d




ok...it's like almost 4 a.m. and i've just finished transfering the pictures that i shot in medan to my mac :D
i go sleep now d

tomorrow final part of my Aceh trip !!!

Aceh Day 3 Part 1

i was supposed to be in singapore like...right now !
but i overslept so ain't there yet !!
OMG OMG OMG




ok i lied...
i checked my timetable for the new semester and my class will only starts like on the 7th so i told dad, then he asked me if i have anything urgent to be done by the 3rd, if nothing then postpone my flight to the 6th lor
so i said ok lor
postpone

so i will only be back to singapore again by the 6th of july :D
postpone a few days only
and yes
i also happy !
it simply means a few more days with f......
love love


okay...Aceh Day 3 !


the three of us woke up DAMN early...like at 3.30 am...
and began preparing ourselves,
made some breakfast as well
by 04.28...we were already on the road again...

destination : takengon !

i was hoping to have some really good sunrise but again, there was no sun :(





we reached cot panglima at 6.15 and i got down to shoot for a bit, kempes had the bread breakfast we made earlier while Asiong remained sleeping in the car -.-"





the lights were pretty damn flat despite the amazing views and the lens i used were pretty much under performed, couldn't do justice to the scene :(
which just remind me that i need a new lens pretty damn soon...
time to save again d





07.47 a.m. : got back on the road again





i stopped by this place by the road again to shoot more !














after that we were then on the move again d.......
by 10.05 then we finally reached Takengon and it was working time !
then at around 11.25, we took a break from work coz most of them also ask us to come back later, so we were then on the move agian finding shooting spots

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