Wednesday, May 14, 2008

chinese opera

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about 2 - 3 days ago i saw them setting up those foundation stuff on the field across where i live
and last night it began...
the opera singing and all
last year was at the other side of the field which was bad but not as bad as this time,
the opera is held right in front of my window !

disturbed by the noise just now as i still have so much to do before i can leave,
i decided to take a peek at it from the windows that's gonna be shut till i leave i guess

i heard myself say
"hey, didn't you had always wanted to shoot those chinese opera stuff ?"

and so i went down, hoping to brush off the rustiness before meeting the KL peeps like pOp and Rames and totally get me self-esteem in photography down to like negative a zillion...












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i must say that watching them nearer and despite all those noise, it's actually rather interesting and again despite me understanding very little of what they speak / sang in those damn cheem hokkien











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as of today, i've finally been able to complete the following :
- settle my tripod thing issue
- completed some 80% of my post-processing work

and am yet to do this :
- PACK !
- print my air tickets ( though i know that if you buy online you don't really need one but i still want to be like sure u know, like a printed proof =x )
- complete the whole post-processing bulk




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the last time i was in KL was somewhere in June of 2006
it was pretty damn hot that day at Sunway Lagoon thus the face
visited KL on a family vacation on what i called the 6 cities trip in 12 days :D

medan - penang - kuala lumpur - genting - singapore - batam


ok...i shall go and rest now
damn sleepy
long day tomorrow ~

Sunday, May 11, 2008

the EXAMS are over !

ok...so it's finally OVER...like 2 days ago ?
well then on the day after the exams, the 9th...
i took my very much deserved rest and then begin editing my pictures, yeah, that's what i've been busy with
i'm re-editing my pictures and re-organizing them so i can like find the pictures i want easier and that's also pretty much what i spent on the entire day today and i think i'm kinda only halfway through so yeah...
wanna finish all the stay-home-and-edit-pictures before monday cause yeah regardless of rain or shine...monday onwards i'm gonna be holding the camera back man












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continuation from the previous post :D











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very sunrise intensive i know but i haven't been shooting any other thing other than this : /
and oh...i'm starting to re-watch friends all over again so...i guess i'm gonna be "busy" again d
=x

Thursday, May 08, 2008

escaping reality 5

this shall be the last entry on escaping reality !
YES !!
later on....hmmm...around 12 more hours will i'll be down at the exam hall sitting for my last paper !
WOHOOO-ness man

anyway, how was the exams so far ? no comments
seriously man, i really need to trust myself so much more
as in on my "feelings"
as in for almost all the papers, each morning like when i'll be like rushing through reading the notes and all for the last min revision and memorizing, just out of no where these kinda "feelings" like which topics will appear on the paper will just come out.

it kinda first started with the 2nd paper since the first paper my friend called me up telling me some questions which i believed will pop out and they did appear exactly on the exams paper but i didn't trust the intuition so much i was merely just reading through it. so the morning of the 2nd paper while i was bathing, this topic "sales promotion" just kept on ringing in my head but i was merely just.....aiyah...that topic i never read much

it's still damn vivid man in my head that i reached school that morning reading about sales promotion on my way there and then met up with the guys and somehow just kept saying things about sales promotion
"sales promotion !! sure come out !! confirm !! sales promotion !!"
and yeah it did....an entire essay question based entirely on sales promotion : /
when i flipped the question paper i was really....shit la !!!

then it happened again on the 3rd paper
again in the morning while i was reading through everything this blueprint thing just kept ringing in my head again and again, at school when i met up with the guys i said
"blueprint man blueprint ! tell me everything you know about blueprint !" and kinda amazingly it's the chapter that most of the guys skipped through and so i was left with like a mere 15mins of memorizing the 8 steps in blueprinting with the already information overloaded brain
again, it came out
an entire question based on blueprinting itself...

and then it happened again on my 4th paper
business ethics. prior to this, i've asked everyone on what to study and what to concentrate on since i kinda missed the last lecture of this subject coz i was simply too damn tired from projecting then, and everyone told me to concentrate on this CAT scan and the 3 case studies and that'll be it.
memorize some 3 case studies in and out and do a CAT scan on them, memorize it and that's it man.
the paper was on the 5th and early on that morning while i was still reading through the cases the very first time this damn strong feeling that CAT scan will not come out came again. now..how can i trust myself on this man...everyone i asked all say they just study CAT scan and the 3 cases and that's it but this feeling inside me was like...sure no CAT scan at all. definitely something else but i don't know what. so luckily i put aside some time through the cases and began to flip through the textbook and this 2 pages right a the front strike me. i've never read it, never seen it but they just strike me like don't know what. so i read them and then head back to do what everyone else is doing. study the cases.
and the feeling was so chun i seriously don't know what to say. no CAT scan at all. the case studies were minimal, as in, don't even need to memorize them and stuff. the 3 questions we were to do out of the 4 were all based on the 2 pages of the textbook that strike me.

now can someone explain this to me ?












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the following pictures are shot on the 4th. the sunrise was pretty :D and i shot quite a lot so i think it's gonna be a two parts entry











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ok the funny thing is that after the 2nd and 3rd paper, i think the thing kinda spread and some friends were like sms me on what'll come out and stuff -..-"
on the 5th morning, like at 3 am, when i had just begin mugging this friend sms me and asked me what my feeling on the questions will come out will be....
i seriously laughed myself out loud there and then man !
and then on the day i was late a bit, when i reached school, it was so just nice that it's time to go in right away thus, never got to chance to meet the guys and all but when i was about to sit, this friend sitting behind me like
"bert, what ur feeling the question will be ?"
i was already in the exam all and we were not supposed to talk and i was seriously really like doubtful about the feeling that time so i simply just..."don't know leh"
damn funny can !











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testing out some HDR plus some funny new post-processing stuff on the pic,
this ain't entirely hdr.











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ok...till now since i haven't really read though all the chapters for the paper later, kinda no feeling about it. but i sure do hope "direct marketing" comes out :D



ok, going back to reality now !

Monday, May 05, 2008

escaping reality 4

clouds


tomorrow will be my second last paper !
oh no...it's later on today
happiness !!
freedom feel so much closer now
it's the 5th...barely 3 more days and let me say i totally tak boleh wait already !!!











blue skies

the skies out there these few days had been so nice during the day
despite the hotness...
i checked on my weather forecast thing and today's weather was actually recorded at 34 freaking degrees during mid day
how hot could that be man...
i opened the window for the light to shine in and freshen the air conditioned room a bit just to find that against my back, i'm kinda being blown by cold air while from the front the hot humid air slowly blew in
i closed the window very soon after that when i noticed the temperature of the mac rising as well











blue blue skies

as i'm typing now...
freedom is just a mere
3 days 15 hours and 27 mins away !!
WOHOOness man
the other time i installed the countdown thing, it was still showing like 14 days over











okay, if i have time tomorrow which i'd probably have anyway, coming right up will be the sunrise of yesterday's morning !


sunrise

Sunday, May 04, 2008

escaping reality 3

i've been meaning to update the blog for a while now but every single time i think about updating, the thought of processing the pics come into my mind and then the time matters later on. so most often, i'll just hush the thought outta my mind and get back to the notes as much as i could just to find myself watching friends all over again.

i've been hating staying home more and more, most of the time because of the blue blue sky out there that i have to face every single time i lift my head up from the notes. then i'll just move to reading the endless journals on the bed just to find myself sleeping with the notes, highlighters and pens soon after and then yeah with my face highlighted and scribbled with black and blue inks here and there. i kinda wonder did i like tasted them when i'm sleeping coz that'll be....gross ?

regardless, the other day, i took a while off shooting some water stuff from my dehumidifier thing and yeah...here it is












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dad has come and left and we had a good son and father talk about me and the family and some business matters as well.
i think i found myself tearing a bit to sleep the morning he left, no i'm not ashamed to say this coz i kinda haven't been tearing for a while now and that tearing is healthy too
his visit this time left quite a huge impact in my journey to life
i felt much closer once again and i know how much he cares

i had just called the other morning prior to his visit to say that i'm totally unmotivated at all from all these notes and at my life
after years and years of having this "i-can-only-study-when-the-moon-is-up" this time round it got so worst that i literally switched over morning to night and vice versa and for once, i'm worried about my health and obviously when dad was over, he mentioned about it too, about how he kinda blamed himself a bit for giving me this kinda lifestyle and how he hated it. the best thing a son could ever get over his education will be when his parents simply say "don't force yourself too hard. don't be too hard on yourself, if u can't continue, then don't". it aches me every time he says that coz deep down, i know it's just not the matter of him giving me some form of "assurance" for my future but also it's gonna be his pride as well.

it's gonna be just less than a week before everything is over, the exams, and the self-prisoning at home. i haven't have been exercising, heck, i haven't even been walking expect the walk downstairs to buy my meals and to the toilet. the only time i stretch this leg out is either when i'm walking down / to the toilet or when i'm asleep and the rest of the time i'll be sitting here staring at the notes or watching some youtube stuff or browsing deviantart away. my spine kinda hurts a bit now and i'm terribly worried.

it's already the 4th.....just 4 more days
4 more days till the 8th
and everything will be over
and i'll be out shooting the shutters away

i miss home....