Superman Pose!

After watching the Superman Returns last night, I had been dreaming about him all night long. This is what happen when you're overdosed with Superman.

Fire Drill in SBS

Oh, its our fire drill in SBS this morning at 9am. Suddenly, all lights were blackout and the alarmed was sounded. Wohh.. like real sia!
Everyone was called to gather at our loading/unloading bay for assembly and headcount.
We also invited the fire fighter from Yishun Fire Branch for a fire drill exercise in our plant. I always love watching such drills. Its just like watching movies, except its real life. ;-)

Kampong Drive Trip

This will be my 4th year organizing such a durian trips to my frens and vagsg members. This year, looks like nobody give a damn to the trip. Most properly it is due to the world cup, I guess. Thus, smaller group of people = more durian for us.

10am, we all gathered ourselves at the lobby, Rosewood. Skip & wife, James, Aaron, Ben, KimThye, aiai and myself set off to JB at 10.30pm. It was a smooth traffic to JB with very few cars. I wonder why. When we reached JB, we head first to the makan place outside our house. After some noodles and teh, 3 cars convoyed to Sempang Renggam exit and meet another CAM folk, Tay.

We continued with another 30min of B-road drive before we arrived at Rengit. Waited ahwile for our durians to arrive. Good things are worth the wait. The durian feast started ard 4pm. You can see how hungry we were. These durians were so good that you just couldnt stop eating.

and the happy bunch of people possing with durians in their hands.

We also got invited to Batu Pahat for a big seafood dinner by Uncle Alan at Seaview restuarant. 3 Tables in total and each table, we had 4 different dish of fish and 2 different dish of prawns. Overdosed by all the good yummy seafood. We ate till our little tummy couldnt contain anymore.

Uncle Alan, if you are reading this, I would really want to thank you so much for all the preparing of the durians and the seafood dinner. Me, Karen, Owmei and all the friends that we brought along, thank you from our bottom of the hearts, for the hospitality and the kind gesture.

Till then, we see you all next year.

Night Shooting Lesson

Its one of the most interesting lessons in my photography course - Night Shooting. Below are just some of my favourite ones which I took this evening, Hope you like them too. :-)



Singapore River



Boat Quay




Marina Bay


Some Street Painting outside Esplande

Happy Fathers' Day

If I happen to write an essay about my dad, I think his story will be able to sell better than 'Da Vinci Code'. Nahh.. better not.
I got backto JB together with mei and aiai this weekend just to have a family dinner. You know, its so hard to gather everyone to have a dinner these days. George is always so super busy with his business and Jamie doesnt have a car and it will be troublesome for her to take the bus right to JB. So, only few occussion like this one make no excuse for everyone to come home for a meal.


New Lucky Restuarant has been hosting most of our family events for many years. Days like Monther's days, mum's / dad's birthdays and even their anniversary also held there.

The best part of the evening? Dad bought us 6 big packs of durians. Hey, mind you, those aint ordinary ones, they are called 毛丹 durians and they are heavenly good. Tender on the outside and soft in the inside. If you havent tasted one of those, you havent had a taste of a durian yet! Of coz, they aint cheap either. 1KG for RM25

Daddy says "Finally, the long wait is over"

Oh yeah.. I guess the happiest man today would be my father-in-law. We received a phone call from our sales guy saying that the Lancer was ready for collection. Daddy was so excited that he can't wait to get his hands on this baby. Right after work, 4 of us drove down to Pandan Garden to collect the car.

This is the best Father's Day present from aiai. Happy Fathers' Day to all the cool daddies out there too.

Next, we went to my Brother-in-law stainless steel shop at Icon. We also had our steamboat dinner just downstair, Bugis Point. The food was food. Simply love the soup and the thin-sliced beef.

This is what I learnt

Next week, it will be our very first field trip to take pictures at night. The fun part is that its finally going to be some hands on rather than sitting in the class room try to memorise so much theories.

Here is a picture I took just now outside my window. Setting at TV (Shutter Priority) with 30" and with my mid lens. Here is what it looks like.



Composition: Colorful lights of the condo at the Rules of Thirds, soft color of the pool and the magic hour color from the sky.

A peak in my class

Here is a notti snapshot which I took in my photography class. The gal sitting beside me is my best class-mate, Lay Hoon.

Our first victory !!!

You know how happy when you first won your virgin lottery.
Yes, we all won the soccer game last night. Especially when you woke up in the morning and someone told you that you had just won the bet. Ha! We bet on Agertina and we won. But too shy to say how much we won lah! ;-)

We used the money that we won on this: * see below *

Our Breakfast !!!!!!!

A Full Packed Event !

This was one most 'chion' Saturdays I ever had.
This crazy man woke up as early as 6.30am after just dropping dead on the bed like 2hrs ago and went to the carpark to wash the car. Everybody knows I love my kab but not to that extend!
Anyway, car was good and I felt good.
I drove to Killenry Kopitiam and met up with AC69 and WeiMeng as WeiMeng wanna show us some CarbonFabric which he was thinking of doing for his interior trims. We had our kaya roit and kopi and then 3 cabs just convoy all the way to Robon at Bakit Batok. After seeing the products and samples which they had in the showroom, these CF things just dont look appealing to me. I love my classic panio black trims and noway I am going to change to those CF look. Both AC and WM are on those 'ah pek' wood trimmings and if I were them, I changed that long time ago liao.
Next, we headed down to Eurohan (Huan's) and met Viper. Those 2 guys were admiring his car till their siliva dont know dip till how long. Anyhow, I passed the HID lights back to Gary, the shop assistant and went back home to pick up Aiai.

Din spend too much time in Silra Home as we need to go for our weekly Pilatate lesson at Great World, so, after the short and sharp discussion with the team members regarding the President Challenge 06, we went off for our classes.

Tell me how can someone had just 2hr of sleep to last the event for the whole day? Of coz I took a nap at the pilatate class lah. I think my trainner Kim Thye had given up hope on me liao. Only Alison and my aiai are still so keen in getting their core muscles builtup.

After the class, we set off for our night blading at East Coast! Are we iron men or wat? Not really lah. Wanted to do so much more but the weather was playing tricks on us. Rain, stop, rain, stop and we also decided to stop blading after putting all our gears on. *Chey*

Its Dinner Time again! Yipee!

I told you we will be back? Yep, and we did come back to Hong Kong Cafe for our dinner. Yummmy! the food seems to be better! But dinner still did not satisfy our taste buds, we decided get Kim Thye to make Avocado juice for us.

Its Ben's Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BENNON!

Our dear Ben is 33 !
And we decided to rock ButterFactory at RobertsonQuey to have his birthday celebration. Its one of the new disco/pubs in town and they have very exclusive music in the house - R&R and RipHop. Like the style. We arrived there around 10 and watched some bikers doing the BMX stunts on the dancing floor. The actually dance party kicked off around 11plus. As usual, we just partied till we dropped.

Next, we drove to Hong Kong cafe along East Coast Road and we were so spoilt with choices. Good food and yummy deserts made us even more hungry by looking at their menu. And guess what!? The treat was on Ben !!!

And you cant believe it that we all decided to come again the next day for more.

TGIF! And I am bored !!!

Carssssssssssssssssss !

Its one of those rare occasions where we catch a movie during weekdays. But hey, its aint no ordinary movies, yeah.. Its CARS! The Pixel animated movie really worth my $15 for it. You not only see lots of characters in different type of cars in it and also shows lots of moral tales like team and competition spirit, which really educates the young, and even the old, like myself. ;-)

And how come no Audi ah!? hee...

Blackbox Lesson#3

Attended my lesson#3. Its getting more and more interesting now. Tonight lesson is mainly on "Appeture". So, whats appeture in layman term? Basically, its definetely the clearity of D.O.F. (Depth of field). In logic, the small the appeture, the clearer the background is and the bigger the appeture, the blurer the background is.

The number of DSLRs in our class.

Toying with different shutter speed

Here are some 'motion' pictures you can play with your camera with different shutter speed.
All taxi were travelling at 60-70km/h on a 2lane street. Camera was placed around 10m away from the object.

A) Freeze motion - Clear taxi with clear background (shutter speed @ 1/2000)


B) Show motion - Blur taxi with blur background (shutter speed @ 1/60)


C) Panning - Cleat taxi with blur background (shutter speed @ 1/60 and track the moment of object)

Musical Fountain @ Sentosa

Thanks to Ah Ben's invitation to a free night stay at Sentosa Hotel. We managed to pack all our swimming gears, beach wear and even banana to Sentosa but when we checked in the hotel, I was so wearout after the pilatate lesson, I just fall right on the bed and dozz off. Alison soaked herself in the tub for her spa whereas aiai just enjoying her tv programs on that 42" plasma TV in the room.

Next, we decided to give the musical fountain a go as the last time we seen it was like a year ago. It was so packed with parents with kids as its also in the midst of school holidays. Fortunately, we got right a good central seats for the last show of the evening. Just like any other kids, we enjoyed the laser show and the beautiful fountain swaying high in the air.

Pilatates - for the begineers

Its our very first pilatate lesson. Very thankful to our Yoga
Kim Thye who willingly to give us a 80hr free lesson course of pilatate at Planet Fitness, Great World City. Looking at it seems so simple but wait till you do it, it will break your backbone into halves. First lesson already killing me, i wonder how am I going to survive for the rest of the lessons. Ok.. I wanna built up my core muscles. Lets start from pilatate.

Next lesson continues this Saturday at 4pm.

Its D&M once again!

D&M! Since when we started this damn D&M thing in the first place? James? hmm.. anyway, I think we had our #1001 D&M since a year ago. This weekend, its all happening at our humble house, Rosewood. Aiai had been started preparing the food since 2pm. Thanks goodness to Alison and Aaron who came early to help out with the cooking.

We had tempura, miso soup, toufu, salad, baked cord fish and teriyaki don.

and our happy guests.