Of Fishing villages and KL Flickr Deeparaya Meetup
During my Kelantan trip, I was at a fishing village called Tok Bali, it was totally awesome to see people flocking there to get the catch fresh from the sea. It was a cool experience for me as I got to see this first hand. Here are some shots :
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For more pictures from this set, please click HERE
Well, last week I met up with my KL Flick friends at Bora Asmara for the Deeparaya celebration, most of us came with our traditional attire. Here are some shots from the night:
Ena & Moi
Sayang & moi
Rames & Moi
Moed & Moi
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For more pictures from the set, click HERE
~Later Days~
Of Holidays in Kelantan to A Rocker Chick !
Holla people, yes it’s been a few weeks since I last blogged and I am so used to start my postings in this same exact manner. But at times it’s kinda OK to just relax and take your time to write about things that happened in your life. Well, I was in the east coast side of Malaysia last week.
The state of Kelantan is where girlfriend grew up in, so I decided to make a trip to see the place and also to see her family as well. Kelantan is just full of colors and lots of interesting sights and sounds that one can experience when you are there. I had a lot of things to photography and one of the cool things I saw was the art of Keris making.
The Keris is a traditional weapon used by the Malays for hundreds of years. So when I visited the Kelatan craft centre, there was a Keris maker and I was privileged to take some shots of him and do a short photo story on him. Here are some pictures from the set :
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For more pictures from the set, click HERE
I will posting more pictures from my Kelantan trip on my blog as well. Besides the trip to Kelantan early this month, my best buds Lam and Terry performed with EVE of the band EVE at this place in Sri Hartamas. So, managed to get some nice shots for this peeps. Check the pictures out :
The BAND !
Eve & Moi !
Terry doing his THANG !
Darren who also fronts An Honest Mistake and part of Army of Three
David the Drummer who also is part of "Scene at the Movies"
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From more pictures from this set, click HERE and also do add them on their Facebook page and check our for more updates from their band, click HERE.
Well, thats is all for the updates for now, check out for more things and pictures soon…till then…
~Later Days~
Of Bikinis and Water
Holla, I got the chance to shoot my friend for an upcoming for Digital Malaya Project. The theme that was given is water and movement…so I decided to do a portrait session and it was a new experience as this is my first time shooting with the subject in the water. Here are the shots:
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The Magic Shot
That was indeed a good time for me… Later Days !
Of Melaka and Potraits taken on FILM
Last weekend was an awesome time with my friends from KL Flickr. The monthly meetup this time was brought to the town of Melaka and also it was a good place as food is just abundant there. We waited till break fast time as it is the month of Ramadhan. It was indeed a wondeful time of cathing up with friends and meeting new people too. Anyway here are so shots that I took during the trip :
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Uncle lazing
One of the many guest houses
There was a wedding shoot going on there and the bride was taking a breather and SNAP !
Night shots at Jalan Gereja
Also took some portraits:
Yaya
Nalinder
Belanda
Rashdan & Izzah
It was a wonderful time spent with this guys, for a funnier written version of this trip, please do read MAGNUS CALEB’s blog.
Well that was the Melaka, if some of you all can remember the pictures in one of earlier posts which I took during URBANSCAPES 2009, you would have noticed some potraits shot with people with aviator glasses. I had another roll of film and took shots with my film camera too and here are the pictures :
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For more pictures from the set, click HERE
Well, its been a while since I blogged and it feels nice to write and let my readers to see my work on photography, please feel to leave comments and please be constructive about it. Have a nice day…
~Later Days~
After a Long Break and finally back : Escapades from Bandung
Oh MY GOD ! Its been ages since I last updated my post and it has been indeed a great time for me since I joined the Star. I have been meeting lots of people and also I had the chance of going to Bandung with the office colleagues for the National Sales Training cum seminar. And you know me, I like taking pictures and hence I was taking some street shots as I was there, and also pictures of skies when I was on the plane.
Also during the trip we went up to the ever famous Tangkuban Perahu volcano which is still active and took some pictures there too. All in all it was a good trip, and my colleagues they are like shopping kings & queens as they shop till couldnt walk in Bandung. Well, here are some shots that I took when I was in Bandung, at least the ones that I liked :
From the plane
Tankuban Perahu mountain...
At the age 62, she climbs up the Tangkuban Perahu volcano crater for the past 35 years. She sells grilled bread and bananas, she has been working here all her life and it was indeed a heartwarming story as she went on to say that she has almost 11 great grandchildren and all her kids are in the town but she just kept on staying in the small town of Bandung and working near the touristy Tangkuban Perahu mountain.
Street Vendor
This dude was using an old Canon FT and shooting on film. He captured the people who getting down from our bus and later he went back and developed them and was selling it to us when we in the shoppin area. Talk about effiency
I will be uploading more stuff, just keep a look out yeah…
~Later Days ~
Yasmin Ahmad : A True Visionary and Inspiration to everyone…
R.I.P YASMIN AHMAD : 1958-2009
Looks like Malaysia has lost a talented person and its so hard to grasp the fact that she has left this earth. The time she spent here has trully inspired many people in one way or another. She is none other than the loved YASMIN AHMAD. Her creative energy was so crazy that everytime you watch her commercials it would bring tears to your eyes.
The creative director for Leo Burnett Malaysia, Yasmin proved to the public that love and joy is all needed to make the best visuals in making an advertisement worthwhile watching and has greater depth to it. When her movie career kicked off, I was in awe with all her works, from the story of two elderly couples in RABUN to her heartwarmin story of love in SEPET and her latest movie TALENTIME it was simply amazing. All her movies are simply down to earth and its purely MALAYSIAN.
I was privilleged enough to talk to her twice, once was during the judging of my short film competition with Vision Media called ” Generasi Digital” and also during the Global Indian Film Festival held in KL a few years back. The one thing she said to me was ” no matter what happens around, DO NOT give in what you believe in and make you sure you put that into practice and see it blossom”. During one of her screening that happened in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, when I watched the director’s cut for SEPET, I was like in awe, how she can shoot such a AWESOME show in just 12 days. When asked why she used poems from Rabindranath Tagore, she told me that poems often speaks of the human nature and his (Rabindranath) was simply divine and mind blowing but comes back to the human nature and heart which relates to her. I can go on and on about her as my background in film & TV has been one of the reasons why I loved all her works so much. Anyway here are some of her works, enjoy :
All I have to say is that I will trully miss her and the film industry has trully lost a bold, courageous person that is simply mind blowing !
Wani Ardy : Senikatawati
At times I only blog about my pictures and my street photography stuff. Amdist all of this, I am very in touch with the local music scene, not as much as some people I know. I have been in touch with it for a while and I am very much blessed to be in Malaysia and to see all these wonderful talent. New talents who just blow ur mind away and the seasoned ones who still proves that we in Malaysia have really good musicians around.
I want to talk about a good friend, who is a singer songwriter and she is unique in her own way. The first time I met her was during the OMG sessions at Food Foundry, Petaling Jaya. Her rendition of “Falling Slowly” from the Academy Award winning movie for BEST SONG “ONCE” just blew me away. Her laid back and suave voice just spoke to me that people who sing doesnt need to be right on your face to send a message through songs but just singing from the heart matters. So, I give to you WANI ARDY .
WANI ARDY
Her small stature and sweet looks may give people the thought that this young girl is your girl next door but when she sings, that is the thing that makes you wonder “WHERE on earth she writes like that ? “During the OMG session, she sang her song titled ” Teori Lucu”... which means ‘Funny Theory’ direct translation from Malay. I was really overjoyed with the down to earth lyrics that speaks about life around her… Here is the song :
TEORI LUCU
Nananana nananana nana, nana
Nananana nananana nana, nana
Dunia hari ini, semua mengaku seni
Lebih baik jadi diri sendiri
Negara hari ini, kurang lelaki kualiti
Jangan salahkan skeptikal mentaliti
Kau apa kurangnya? Hip tapi sempit
Siapa kata lelaki dan perempuan tak bisa menjadi kawan karib?
Lucu!
Nananana nananana cukup, cukup
Nananana nananana cukup, cukup
Ada apa dengan Valentine?
Bila ku ada teman-teman, cita-cita, masa depan
Kau mungkin fikir ku “in denial” atau ku suka yang sejenis
Oh tak mungkin, hak ku memilih
Jadi aku solo, tak bermakna bolos
Memang ku sendiri, tak bermaksud aku mahu kau punya kekasih
Lucu!
Nananana nananana cukup, cukup
Nananana nananana cukup, cukup
Aku selesa menjadi aku
Dan engkau bukannya aku
Aku tak perlu teori lucumu
Cuma buat sakit perut
And the other song that she performed was “Orang Kecil” which means “Litte People”. It basically says about be thankful and grateful for the things around you even though you may think you are small in things you do :
ORANG KECIL
Hari ini ku lihat awan biru dan hijaunya dedaun
Ku lupa betapa indahnya kehidupan yang sebenar
Tersesak dalam cita, diuji dan diduga
Namun aku ini hanya orang kecil
Jauhnya cinta, jauhnya bahagia
Lelah gelita, kosongnya jiwa
Ku impikan bulan, ku terjatuh di bintang
Bersyukur apa ada, ku ‘kan sampai ke sana
Hari ini ku lihat teman ku dan separuhnya bersatu
Ku lupa betapa indahnya kehidupan yang sebenar
Tersungkur bangun lagi, komplikasi duniawi
Namun aku ini hanya orang kecil
One of my favorite songs from her is called “Knock Knock Wonderment” and as usual there must be a song on love, and I totallty love the whole melancholic feel of the guitar riffs and lyrics in this song :
KNOCK KNOCK WONDERMENT
Knock, knock, who’s there?
Are you love? Are you lust?
Knock, knock, who’s there?
Are you a poison? Are you a cure?
You see, I have a love-and-hate relationship with love itself
I don’t intend to make it worse or change my orientation
The world is too spontaneous for declaration, whatsoever
Maybe we should just go back to the days of secret admirers
Where love letters and chocolates were slipped into lucky lockers
Life was full excitement
But soon you’ll get tired, soon you’ll get tired
Knock, knock, who’s there?
Are you the one? Or, are you like, number ten?
Knock, knock, who’s there?
Why did you come in?
I… don’t think I invited you in
You see, I have a love-and-hate relationship with love itself
I don’t intend to make it worse or good lord, change my orientation??
The world is too spontaneous for confirmation, whatsoever
Maybe we should just go back to the days of secret admirers
Where love letters and chocolates were slipped into lucky lockers
Life was full excitement
But soon you’ll get tired, soon you’ll get tired
Soon you’ll get tired
Soon you’ll get tired
Soon you’ll get tired
Soon you’ll get tired
Soon you’ll get tired
Of wonderment
These are some of the songs that really spoke to me and I would recommend it to all of you and for more information Wani Ardy, please check out her MySpace account of go to her WEBSITE or even just YOUTUBE her name and you will find a long array of videos of her performing in various places around Kuala Lumpur. I am very privilleged of knowing her and taking pictures during her gigs once in a while.
So, people out ther dont forget always remember to support the local music scene and listen to Wani’s stuff who is one of the many great talents that are around Kuala Lumpur.
~Later Days~
Michael Jackson’s Memorial a hit on the Internet and my latest street photos.
I am writing as the live coverage of Michael Jackson’s memorial service being shown on CNN.com/live. Its so amazing that technology is so cool and people like us can see this in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Here is a screen shot of the page :
CNN LIVE
For any of you all who are interested to watch this live, just click HERE , its actually together with live FACEBOOK updates on the event as well…I am just amazed with this whole event. R.I.P Michael Jackson
The past week I was out in KL and I took some shots. Here they are :
Two Guys in Pink T-Shirts
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Fara Zara
~Later Days~
Latest Photos from my Street Photography…
Some of my new photos, I just love Kuala Lumpur at times, and these images speaks of it…Love em :
In front of Haniffa Supermarket, Masjid India
Old High Court
Old High Court
Lebuh Ampang
~Later Days
Of death of a Superstar to URBANSCAPES 2009 and other stuff
Yes, its been a short while since I posted but yeah lots of things been going around yeah…Anyway first up is the tragic death of the world’s best entertainer of all time. Michael Joseph Jackson died on 25th July 09 at the age of 50. The man who created the “Moonwalk” was said to be rushed to the hospital after he passes in his house and had a cardiac arrest that killed him. He will be someone that we all cannot forget and his songs will live on in our hearts forever.
Michal Jackson The King of Pop
Cool shot of the King of Pop
All of us will miss him, that is for sure. Moving along last week the ultimate arts and music festival known as URBANSCAPES 2009. I was there and I was excited as my photos were part of an installation with the KL FLickr group that featured 24 different people with different jobs in KL. So, I shot a shisha guy and also an artist. Here are some shots from the project:
Dr Choong the artist
Dr Choong concerntrating on his work
Applying color on the silk screen
Wonder of Colors
For more pictures from the set, click HERE
And during URBANSCAPES, I did a series of pictures of people wearing my aviator glasses. And I was pretty happy with the outcome, here are some shots:
Girl 1
Cool T-Shirt
Girl 3
Excellent Jacket
This is some pictures from the series. To check the others, click HERE
And the previous week, some shots from my street photography stuff. Taken at Masjid India:
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Well, that is all for now, and more big updates coming soon…till then
~Later Days
