Horsing Around

Happy Chinese New Year!
It's already day 11 I know...so happy belated!

(ok ok if you want to be PC,

Happy Lunar New Year)

Controversial Photo

Geez.. just because we take this kind of photo

doesn't hint that there's love in the air

e.g. a sample from my facebook
(names are blurred to protect anonymity)

Sun on Sat

another glorious Sunny Saturday

See and Why PhotOuting

I know I haven't finish the Bangkok posts...

in fact I've barely begun...

I need a rest from the weekends

phew... what a full weekend...
I think I'm still tired from the activities.. (you'd think the weekends would be relaxing)
due to the upcoming CNY holidays, we had to replace the schooling days...
and man, we got drilled... twice and grilled too...

The Dawn of a new Decade!

Happy 2011 people...
Yes it is a new decade in the 21st Century....
How did you welcome the new year?...
This was probably my saddest NYE in a long while...
was alone and spent it in the midst of madness and chaos...

This year I spent it at Bukit Bintang...

What does Christmas mean to you?

Everywhere you look there are Christmas decorations up...

and so the season is upon us and soon the day will arrive...

So what does this day mean to you?...

Is it about shopping malls with it's bright lights

High Hill

Bukit Tinggi...
Where is the first place you think of?... I think of the hill in Pahang...
Unfortunately in the case of the Ice Mag Battle Royale Carnival, I thought of the wrong place.
The event was held in Bukit Tinggi, klang.. 0.0
Sorry to King and Eric for the 3 hour detour and thanks to Irvin for the right location..
Anyways the cars were kind of disappointing

but had a few pretty ladies but I didn't take many shots

 and check out the big foot!... 

 later realised it was cause of this character

Oh well the morale of the story is to check and double check... 

and realise there is a reason they changed the name to Berjaya Hills

A Macro look at the light

  

Hello World! How's your weekend?

Mine's pretty quiet... except for this morning when I made a trip to Taman Pertanian, Bukit Cahaya, Shah Alam. Honestly this is one of the worse street signs I've experienced in a while... The signboards to the place pop up sporadically but never at important junctions... worse one was the main junction to the place itself.. it shows a sign to the housing area next to it but none for the place... silly Malaysians...

but getting lost has its advantages... I discovered a housing area in Malaysia that I'm quite happy with.. 

This is mainly due to the lamp posts... yes you heard(or more likely, read) me right... lamp posts..

Guess because I grew up in a mostly urbanised areas, I enjoy seeing green especially amongst the concrete jungles.. Anyway, take a look at the lamp posts...

 

 

neat huh... creepers planted and grown right next to the lamp posts...

Too bad it is only along one road in Shah Alam.. (think it's precinct 6?)..
but don't you think it's more soothing especially with the big tree's along the road side?

 

This reminded me about something my mother was telling me just the other day...
about this french guy who is coming to Malaysia to design this wall with creepers..
I'm wondering ... why? I'm sure if you asked an Orang Asli, you'd get good suggestions and definitely save loads of money... then I also thought that Malaysia is the perfect spot to grow plants... we should even start charging countries so that we can grow plants in bulk.. we are preserving Oxygen for the world! but that's just a thought...
*shrug*

So the trip to Shah Alam was not wasted after all... I was actually there to join EOS DSLR group for a macro outing.. Sadly I didn't get any good shots but at least I met some nice folks... looking for more future outings... been long time since I've done any macro... I had to make a last minute flash diffuser out of a freshly emptied milk carton... It worked but the flash was still too harsh.. and the angle was bad as the light came from above.
But here are some samples non the less..