Thursday, December 31, 2009

Subang LaKe

After months of waiting patiently, I finally got to attend to my first photo shoot. Actually, it wasn't my first as I was in a photo shoot but only to provide assistance to the photographer. This time I was able to be the photographer but of course under the guidance of none other than Khai Shaun. The other photographers were Eu Gene and Eunice.

Reached Subang Lake at 8.00 am and the rest aren't there yet except Khai Shaun and his buddy. So, we decided to kill some time shooting natures while waiting for our model and the rest of the member to arrive. Here's the shots I took while waiting. Hopefully, I'll be in time to post up the rest of my shot by....tomorrow ? Never mind that now ! Enjoy the rest of the pictures below and comments are welcomed as usual.




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Nice butt Eu Gene. HAHAHA !! Juz kidding.


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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Shenzhen n VeneTian

As stated in the previous post, I shall be posting pictures only since I had face some hiccups posting them up last night. In this post, I shall post pictures I took in Shenzhen which is all in Window of The World and also in Venetian, Macau. Oh yea, before I forget, I had reduce the picture size starting from this post as I had received overwhelming response stating that the picture is tooooooo huge and takes too long to load and some can't even load them. Hopefully, the reduced size of the pictures provide a satisfactory outcome to everyone.

Below are pictures taken in Window of The World, Shenzhen.


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These are the performances in Venetian. We managed to see three performance in Venetian. First of all is the Dragon which is performed in the entrance of Venetian, the music fountain and last of all is a tree. It's surely inescapable the beauty of the performance. Spectacular. The only thing I felt was that the music fountain wasn't really great as the rest, but it's still good ! Probably they should add a little colour during the performance ? Anyway,that's just my two cents.


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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Day 3 n 4 HK, Shenzhen and MacaU

My humble greeting to my dear readers whom I've abandon for a few days. Anyway, if you guys are soooooo missing me, here's a post dedicated to you all.

The last day in Hong Kong, we visited Victoria Peak, Victoria Harbour, a temple and also the wax museum. Usually tourist would visit these places(Victoria Harbour) in the night to have a better view. Nonetheless, my tour group didn't do so due to schedule changes. Thus, we visited the places in broad day light. Surprisingly, the beauty of the scenery can still be appreciated in broad day light. Of course no point denying visiting Victoria Harbour at night would be great.


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The third day of my Hong Kong trip is to Shenzhen. Shenzhen (Chinese: 深圳市; pinyin: Shēnzhèn shì; IPA: [ʂən˥tʂən˥˩]) is a city of sub-provincial administrative status in southern China's Guangdong province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. Owing to China's economic liberalization under the policies of reformist leader Deng Xiaoping, the area became China's first—and arguably one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones. Here's something about Shenzhen from wikipedia.


I can conclude that the only eye-catching scenery in Shenzhen would be the trip to Window of the World. It has got a very interesting idea to attract tourist globally. Honestly, before arriving there, I'm clueless about Window of the World. As our bus arrived the destination, I was like "Great idea to be a tourist spot". Basically, it has a miniature on famous figures and places. This includes Eiffel tower, pyramids in Egypt, Niagara Falls and much much more.


After that we head to a Chinese town ? It's not exactly a town...is a place. The concept of this famous spot is the same as Window of the World, but the only difference is that over here, it's all about China. Then, we had our meal in the restaurant and when to watch two performance there. I think all of us really enjoyed the performance very much. It's spectacular.

After Shenzhen, we head to Macau the next day. Macau is really small place but extremely clean. What is Macau famous for ? CASINO !! At most everywhere in Macau, casino will be there. I bet most of you had heard of Venetian before, if I'm not mistaken, it's the 4th largest building by area in the world ? Correct me if I'm wrong. So, for people like me, going Macau is sad...hahaha !! We ain't allowed to enter any casino. What was I doing then ? I was basically walking around Venetian and do window shopping. The interior design of Venetian was beautiful.

Besides casino in Macau, the ruins of St Paul is also a place not to miss. According to our guide, the place is always packed with people especially holidays. When I look visited the place, it reminds me of Kota A Farmosa.


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We took a ferry back to Hong Kong and finally went to the airport to head to our home sweet home, Malaysia.


PS : This post is about my 5th and 6th day of my Hong Kong trip. After this post, it'll all be pictures...or maybe some text. I'm currently rushing !! sorry for the inconvenience.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Hong Kong : DisneylanD

This post is a continuation of my day 2 trip to Hong Kong. I can conclude that day 2 = Disneyland. We spend at least half a day in Disneyland. It's inescapable for anyone to not go Disneyland when they go Hong Kong, especially when they have young kids. It was quite pack when I was there. Oh well...it's Disneyland right ? Despite having a small size, based on my observation, it really has an exquisite scenery. Perhaps I haven't been to any other Disneyland before, that explains why I'm so amaze with the Disneyland there.


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Anyone who doesn't know what to expect in Disneyland ? Go bang your head on the wall now ! Nah, just kidding. Well, I think everyone will know that there will be all the Disney character waiting to greet your arrival. Besides that, as usual there are various sort of games and performance all set up to entertain out visit.


Seeing the queue for most of the games are quite long, I decided to stay put and wait for the performance. I'll let the pictures describe the event.


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Here are some other shots in Disneyland.


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oh yea ! Here's a shot of my tour guide.

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Some might say that 17 years old is to old for Disneyland. Well, according to Chili Davis "Growing old is mandatory ; growing up is optional". I guess on that day I decided to be a little child. Thus, off went to enjoy the Lion King performance. I dares say is quite worth watching. If you guys don't trust my judgement, wait till you hear the thunderous of applause. I managed to took some shots under the low light condition. Lucky me !


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Finally, after walking here and there, it's almost 7.30pm. I rushed back to the meeting point. I quickly choose the best spot. You guys must be wandering "What the heck is he talking about ?" To me, it's the best performance in Disneyland. It's none other than the fireworks performance. It was my first time being able to shoot fireworks display, so don't blame me for picking my spot early. Finally, after waiting for few minutes, the crowd were entertained with the great fireworks display.



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As, we walked out of disneyland, we experience snow ! Of course it's now real but there were snow everywhere. After hours in Disneyland, we left the fantasy land.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Hong Kong Day 1 and 2

I'm being so kind to update two days of my Hong Kong trip in one post. You'll know why I'm soooo kind.

So, around 3.3opm I left house to head to KLIA. Woooot !! It's been to KLIA as I went to LCCT more often. Arrived there and my family was the second in the tour group to arrive at the counter. My family and I was travelling with Reliance. All the pulsating enjoyment and happiness vanished as soon as I received the news that our flight has been delayed..for 2 hours ? Can't remember but the plane was delayed. That's the bottom line. To cure the dire situation, I head to the nearest bookstore to kill of the boredom. After 45 minutes, we boarded the plane. YES !!! Taking off !! I can bet that nobody had this prognosis that there was something bad going to happen. Our flight.......delayed !!!! Nyek Nyek... Delayed for an hour. The passengers in the plane was like...what ?!!!

We finally reached Hong Kong...at 1-2 am. That's right. The whole city was a sleep. We got to see the morning market on the way to the hotel in Kowloon. That's the bright side. Lights off at 3.30 am. That's it my day 1 of Hong Kong trip.


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Day 2


Morning call was around 7-8 am ? Went to have breakfast. If you don't eat dim sum in Hong Kong, it means you have not been to Hong Kong before. The size of the dim sum is twice our dim sum size. Gotta know the rest of the tour group members. Then, we head of to Victoria Bay. The scenery was great but browsing the Internet seeing the pictures of it at night scenes were sooo much better.


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Something very different. Their porridge are smooth.



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Dim sum ain't complete without siu mai.


Anyway, after look see here and there. We headed for our lunch. After filling our grumbling stomach with scrumptious food, we head of to the famous street in Hong Kong, Lan Kwai Fong. Along the street there were plenty of shop lots and the famous duck shop. So, we decided to grab a few boxes of it. Indeed it was mouth-watering.



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Shots below were taken without tripod.

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Next post : Disneyland