Monster Graphic Card

I was doing house keeping for my PC yesterday, and I found some photos of my new graphic card that I bought few months ago. I shot these photos for blog but end up I totally forget bout it =.='

Few months ago me and my little brother decided to upgrade our PC to next level by upgrading our graphic card. Only this time I asked him to do the research instead of me because I no longer that addicted to PC games anymore, so any graphic card better than my Asus 512MB 8500 GT will do.

So after few days, my brother told me he make the order already. And when to gear arrived, I was kinda shocked. It was Gigabyte GTX 260 Super Overclock !! This "monster" running on the nVidia GTX 260 chipset with 896MB DDR3 RAM, full HD, HDMI and it can combine with 2 or more same graphic cards and run it together for better performance if you have enough space in your casing.

Of course from the words overclock mean it can be overclock for better performance. Those who don't know what the heck is "overclock", do Google it because I don't want end up a very long post and also being scold for not talking "human language"...

The term "monster" I used to describe this graphic card not only due to its performance and cost, it also describe the graphic card's size.... A normal graphic card is a size of an adult palm or slightly bigger than that. But this "monster" is twice the size of a normal graphic card and twice the thickness as well.

Look at the size of this "monster", twice the length and thickness of my old Asus 512MB 8500 GT

It barely fit my casing, I need to move my second hard disk and rearrange all the wire to make it just fit, JUST FIT only ~~!!

YES of course I was too excited to install but end up too excited and I forgot to read the manual. So after I installed this "monster" to my PC, I can on my PC as usual, but when I run a game with all the highest video setting, poof ~~! my PC off by itself. From the first sign of judgment, I know the power is not enough to run it.

I flip the manual, and guess what, this "monster" is a electric SUCKER ~! It need at least 550watt to run this "monster" and my current power supply only pump 220watt of power only. So what to do, have to upgrade the power supply as well lo.

I ordered 2 Cooler Master Extreme Power Duo 600watt power supply for me and my brother and in the end we manage to enjoy great graphic games like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Bioshock 2 with the highest video setting. woohoo~~!!

Cooler Master Extreme Power Duo 600watt

But every joy will comes with pain, on this time upgrade, me and my brother spent almost 1k EACH on these gadget. Thats the price we paid for good gaming experience, but does it worth ? definitely YES !!

By the way, I'm selling off my old Asus 512MB 8500 GT and iCute 220watt power supply, anyone interested do leave me a message and I will give you a good price, heee...

World Vision Operation Botak (Bald)

Well consider lucky to me because I do not know there will be this event at The Curve and luckily I brought my DSLR that day where the intention of me bringing the camera was not for this event but to shoot photos of Nottingham University at Semenyih but end up shoot nothing.

So I spot this event from 2nd floor when I first saw a cardboard tunnel that full of photos at the exhibition floor and many peoples was queuing to shave their head bald.

The view from 2nd floor

This was a great opportunity for me to practice my event shooting skill. So I told my family to go on to Ikea first and I'll will catch up later.

Basically there were 2 main exhibition area in this event. One is the photo exhibition tunnel which was the cardboard thing and another one is the "shaving" area where all the volunteer were shaving their head bald. Here some photos shot during the event.

The main title for the photo exhibition

Some exhibited photos in the exhibition. There are quite a number of photos but these are some that I liked the most







Some candid shots of the "shaver"



Lovely father and duaghter



Bald couple





Shaving in progress, bravo girls~~!! you needs hell lots of guts to shave your long hair to no hair, and you did it ! wish your hair grown back soon and fast

I know some of you might asking me why I didn't shave my head? Well I rather donate double the money than shaving my head bald, so I donated to World Vision during that day.

Gotcha !!

Right, we knows Hitz.FM was giving out an Apple iPhone every weekdays in the whole March for the best Gotcha Call in the day. It was a very tempting but in first I do not have any person and story to Gotcha with, until the last week of March....

Andy, my photography friend, also the boyfriend of my classmate, was have some contact with me since the company I'm interning now asked me to find a photographer for our client. So I called Andy and it was a deal but many thing happened during the shooting, it was kinda messy from begining until the end. So I took this opportunity and set him up for a Gotcha, and hope I can win an iPhone.

On Monday, I filled up the details at the Hitz.FM web site, and just after 10 minutes after I sent, J.J from Hitz.FM Morning Crew called me and ask for more and plan to call Andy for the Gotcha after talking with me and this is the Gotcha between Andy and J.J

Click the play button to start, you may stop the music player on my side first before you start the Gotcha call (Gotcha Call clip adopted from Hitz.FM website)

This Gotcha was on air-ed in the next day (Tuesday) morning 7.20am. I was non stop laughing and excited because it was on air-ed. Poor Andy, I felt kinda bad la but it was a thing to cheer him up and make his day..keke

Andy...PWNED !!

Some of you might think I'm won an iPhone because the Gotcha was on air-ed, but in the matter of fact, I didn't because the other Gotcha was more "exciting" and "angry" than mine. I have to admit Andy is a very patien, steady and calm person. It was very lucky for his girlfirend..Moreover, he still defending me in the end before he knew it was a Gotcha.. what a good guy...

Ivan got PWNED also cause not able to win the iPhone

Bioshock 2 Paper Dolls

Recently I just finish a great game called Bioshock 2, the story line was damn good, the graphic was damn good, the character was damn good and even their merchandise, the paper dolls from the characters in the game were damn good, and they are FREE...all you need to do is download from their web, print it, cut it and fold it.

I'd spent 2 nights to fold them, and the following photos are the result:

The main character in the game, Subject Delta in the Alpha Series Big Daddy suit

Little Sister, infested version. Too bad they don't have the normal version, they were cute !





Big Sister, from the name you know this is the grown up version of Little Sister, they are one hard to kill BITCHES !! haha

I felt quite satisfied with the result of this Bioshock 2 paper doll, I pretty enjoyed when folding these but I do frustrated few times when I folding the Little Sister. My finger just can't get them right because they are little. Anyway, if you want to know where to download these paper dolls, click here

Notice there got 2 more paper dolls (Toasty and the Baby Jane) I didn't show here because I didn't fold them, but you can try and show me the result if you want.

Enjoy Folding ~~!!! Cheers ~~!!

All About Love

At last, I able to do this after planned for half year. Yes, the love shape bokeh. I saw this DIY technique for quite a long time and planned to do it. Actually it is a very simply DIY project but why it took me half to implement it ? hmmm....

Actually after I finished the love shaped "lens hood" and started to shoot, I discover there was not much light in my house, the only light is the red lantern I hang as a deco for Chinese New Year.

Love shaped lantern

I also try to get a few shots on my nephew with the table lamp, but I found it very hard to get a clear shot due to not enough distance between my 50mm lens, my nephew and my table lamp. So in the end, I decided to go blur...

Yi Yi with Love

Another photo I shot was between my wooden doll a.k.a MoKuJin (mean wooden people in Japanese)

MoKuJin with Love

YES, I will try to shoot more photos regarding this project, and YES I will make more shape in the future.

Kenny Roger's Roaster Scholarship

Last Thursday I went to Berjaya University College of Hospitality (BUCH) and photographing the launch of Kenny Roger's Scholarship that located at the 14th floor inside Berjaya Times Square building.

This was the first time I visit BUCH and it doesn't look like a college for me. It is looks more like a hotel with high class restaurant that run by student. YES, STUDENT !! The student all are under courses related to hospitality such as hotel management, culinary, restaurant management and more.

They all look smart in the chef like uniform, walking in the lobby of the college, but instead call it as a college, I rather call it as a high class hotel. By the way, sorry for didn't really manage to show you guys the photos on their lobby because I didn't shoot it, I'd only shot the hall way I walked to the restaurant.

Enough for BUCH, back to my topic. Kenny Roger's Scholarship, they sponsoring RM 100,000 for all the student who taking hospitality related course. So who studying hospitality now, you guys can apply, if I not mistaken, it will sponsoring 4 person each time this scholarship open for application.

Well, just like normal launching, we invite media, guest and of cause VIPs, but what new for me was the launch was done in a fine dining restaurant.

The Samplings on the Fourteen fine dining restaurant, that run by the students from

After some prep, peoples from media, guest, Kenny Roger's supplier, staff from Kenny Roger's and BUCH and more were started to fill the restaurant.

When all the guest and VIPs reached, then the launching begins... Its a simple launching like those typical launch events. Introduction, VIPs speeches, formal launch ceremony and photo opportunities.

The Chicken mascot from Kenny Roger's






This photo appear on the media, the Sinar Harian newspaper on 22th March.

After all the ceremony done, we all were seated to have our Kenny Roger's Roaster quarter chicken set and muffin. After the main course, then they (the students) serving us the dessert and some tea and coffee.

The strawberry dessert, I have no idea what this dessert named but I only know it tasted GOOD !

After the launching and lunch, I was quite free to shoot photos and walk around and I discovered this while I found my way to the washroom...

Potted plant and a painting I found in the lift lobby

Although this is not the first time I done a launching event, but this launch "teach" me some new experience that totally different from the previous launch event I done. Shot quite a number of photos and post-production all the photos straight after I reached the office in the same day cause need to send to the media.

(p/s: the photos in this post might low in quality because I was testing somethings here)

Tony Roma's Wagyu Beef Burger Review

On 13 of March, the same week for the OALD launch I mentioned in last post, I have a food review session at Tony Roma's e@curve branch. My job there... shooting photos for their 5 latest Wagyu Beef Burger.

Tony Roma's Wagyu Beef Burgers

We actually invited 5 peoples to come and do the review, but in the end 3 of them were not free, and only 2 turn up. So including our team, total 5 peoples and another guy named Ryan from Tony Roma's have to finish up the 5 big burgers.

Our Burger Reviewer No.1 (Sorry, I forgotten her name -.-)


Burger Reviewer No.2, Mei Ann

Of course me also got give a few bites la...who can resist when there were 5 big burgers with fries placed in front of you wo.... although I'm not suppose to eat beef due to my religion reason, and also I don't really like beef because it got some kind of smell and taste on beef that I don't really like. The only beef I ate and like it very much is from Chili's restaurant. Tony Roma's Wagyu Beef Burgers do not have those taste and smell too.

The burger was so big, we have to cut it into 4 small pieces. The meat is actually an inch thick

You can give it a try for the burger and you can share it with 2 or 3 person including you. This actually was my first food review ever, kinda satisfy with the food there, and in the end we all end up with a full stomach and a big smile on the face.