The Day

Yes, finally I waited for so long. After 3 months of suffering systematic life, at the my last day of internship finally reach.

YES !! TODAY is The Day.... my last day of intern. Don't get it wrong, I like my job, I like the company, I like the people there, But what I don't like is the very systematic life. You know typical working life la, everyday are just same.

Well basically this time internship, I learned lots of thing and one of it is since working, my weekend had became so PRECIOUS !!! I will make sure I fully utilize my weekend before start back the boring systematic life.

In the end, I wish my coursemate who end their internship today have a nice 2 weeks holiday before our new semester start. And for those who start their intern late, or extend the internship, be patient, your turn will come in the end..kekeke

Cheers !!!

Full Moon

YES !! Yesterday was 28th April 2010. Why yesterday was important to me? Well as I mentioned in last post "Moon", I said 28th April is the day where full moon hanging on the sky and is a great opportunity for me to shoot it.

Well of course I will not forget my lovely "dating" with the moon. Luckily yesterday the sky was very clear with no cloud at all. And there even some bright stars hanging along side with the moon. But too bad the stars were too small for me to shoot. Here are the photos I shot yesterday.

See how clear the detail is. I kinda impressed.



Yellow moon, a typical color of moon where almost everyone will color the moon in this color ever time they draw a moon

Well I very happy that I able to get a clear shot of the moon. Of course my 55-250mm lens was no match for those super telephoto lens where can zoom until 800mm (FYI: the Canon EF 800mm f/5.6 IS USM lens cost around RM 55,000) where can get a very very detail shot of moon.

Well for my next night sky shooting, I hope I can shoot a group of stars, such as the Milky Way and I hope my wish will come true.

Cheers !!!

My Feet !!!

As you know I got a very serious case of flat feet. For those who don't know what is flat feet, here the explanation.

Flat feet a.k.a fallen arches is an formal reference to a medical condition in which the arch of the foot collapses, with the entire sole of the foot coming into complete or near-complete contact with the ground. (adopted from Wikipedia)

I will leave such an interesting footprint when I walk on the sandy beach with these feet

I have no arches in both of my feet

My condition was so serious that it already affect not only my feet, but my ankle, knee, pelvis and almost half of my backbone. Actually it shouldn't be that serious, but due to my constant over use my body while I played basketball during secondary school time, it cause me in such condition.

See how my toe bend

I'd seen many doctors and professionals, most of them ask me to get a custom made shoe or buy the artificial arch that can fit on my shoes. I don't want the custom made shoe because the design basically is not that nice. So first I choose to wear the artificial arch.

One of the doctor suggest me to get a custom made in-sole from Foot Solution. They measuring your whole feet and custom made just the in-sole that only fit yourself according to your feet. In first I don't wanna try that because you know the price to make a custom made product. The custom made in-sole was so expensive.

Then after awhile my dad also face some feet problem (not flat feet) and he decided to get a custom made in-sole from Foot Solution. So we both decided to get one of those. After some consultancy and some measuring on a weird looking machine, after 1 week our very own custom made in-sole is here.

This is my, the big size 9 in-sole.

It feel kinda comfy when I wore it and have a walk in the shop. I never feel that I walk so "normal" since I never walk in a correct posture since I was young. I felt a lot stable and balance while I walking and the in-sole added additional 1 inch tall. YES the in-sole is 1 inch thick.

Since I got no arches on my feet, so my in-sole will have a very high arch





It stated there custom milled

I do hope this in-sole will help me get a better walking position and eventually cure all my bone problem. But this in-sole will not cure my flat feet permanently. The only solution might just be operation.

Moon

Don't you think the moon is a very pretty object? It can be consider the biggest shining (but not shining by itself la...) object you can found in the dark sky of almost every night.

Of course I can't resist my self shooting at the moon after I got my 55-250mm lens. It is not full moon yet but still I find the moon that night is fascinating. But too bad the photo taken was not so nice as what I imagine. Besides that there were many clouds blocking me "dating" with the moon.

But still the result is satisfying, I still can some details of the moon surface. After I get a few shot, straight away I go and edit and added some pretty effect such as showed in the photo below.

The Blue Moon

And the photo of the night, and also the most sharp and clear moon photo belong to this one

Although I using a 55-250mm lens but still the moon is not big enough even I'd zoom it as far as I can. So no choice I have to crop it like hell to make it look bigger.

I hope the moon is bigger in this month 28th because it is full moon !!! Can't wait to take the shot...

Dinner at Osaka

On Wednesday my family went celebrate my younger brother's birthday by having dinner at Osaka Japanese Restaurant.

No at bad place for me... the design, the deco all looks like traditional Japanese style restaurant. The food of course is far better than Sushi King, Sakae Sushi or whatever those big franchise chain stores.

Of couse I will order all the favorite food and Sushi, like Inari, Kappa Maki, Tamago, California Roll, Teriyaki Bento and so on... I ate alot that night...

Besides that, my nephew follow too and it was his first Japnese food ever... He kinda excited that day too... keep crawling here and there, I can't resist to shoot photos on him...

He spotted my lens

That day everyone going back home with a full stomach.... The price in Osaka Restaurant also not that expensive... only RM 230++ for 6 paxx, but we order food for more than 6 paxx can eat... so it is very worth the $$ you paid...

(p/s: sorry for the pixelated photo here because the original size of the photo uploaded to blogspot was so small that I can resist to drag and enlarge it..)

YiYi

Is been a long time since the last post I blog about my nephew. Well here the latest update of my nephew. After 12 months (almost 1 year old)

He kinda tall and big for a 1 year old baby, and he is extremely strong for that age. He can grip and lift a full un-open soda can with one hand. His leg can give a quite heavy kick (I "ate" his kick for few times in the stomach). Not only physical, but mentally he is strong too.. in the other word clever but for me he rather tricky, hehehe...

Here the photos I shot recently for this post....

Actually not much people believe me YiYi is 11 months when I show them the photos or look in real person due to his tall body....

Ok, hope you guys enjoy my photo. Hopefully I can post more photo of my nephew in future..

CHEERS !!!

New Lens !!!

I got surprise when I got home this Monday. The lens I wanted to buy had arrived to my house. YES the Canon EF-S 55-250mm telephoto lens !!!

At first I thought of going to buy the lens together with my classmate, also a photography hobbyist since she also wanted to get a EF 50mm f1.8 prime lens in the end of April. But somehow when my little brother went to my dad's friend camera shop to buy his Olympus EPL-1, he ordered the lens from the shop.

(p/s: Mich, I still will go to buy lens with you la, I want to get a lens hood during the day we go buy your lens. )

So I got the new lens and I can't wait to give it a try. Below are the photos shot using the new lens...

A shot on my dad's ride



At 55mm focal length


At 250mm focal length

At 55mm focal length


At 250mm focal length

Now I waiting for the full moon in the sky because I can't wait to give the moon a shot of its own portrait. Photographing is one of the "most wanted" shoot I wanna do. Now I crossing finger to hope there will be a clear sky when the moon is full.

Ivan Lens Collection

A Lady That Fail

Yesterday I was doing news monitoring and I saw this. The news is about a college student earn a monthly income of RM 7000 by joining some sort of direct sales company. And this student drive a sport car to college every day.

Well in first there are nothing wrong with this news because many college students now are doing direct selling. But what I saw later is the main point for this post...

Those who know how to read Chinese I'm sure you know what I mean for the red underlined text. For those who can't read Chinese, here the translation: " A friend who join the direct sales company, was able to earn RM 7000 per month, and was driving a Failady sport car "

By the way, this news was adopted from Guang Ming Daily, 19th April 2010, page A5. For those who want to see the "real" news, can go and have a look there.

Hope this post will make your day, I hope to discover more in the future...hehehe

Ivanlogy In Photography

Someone ask me why I'm spend all the money to buy all those camera stuff, got travel, shoot photo... why not saving money for invest on whatever mutual fund or whatever to earn money for your future family.... Some even said photography is my future so that I can make money from shooting weddings, events, etc....

But I never agree that photography will be my future as a main source of income, but I will make sure I will fully utilize my skill and my camera to capture every single precious moment of my and others....

Well human beings always thought their live is to grown up,study, EARN & SAVE MONEY,getting married, having children, take care of your children and work for you whole life for family where I totally agree with that, but what I done more and different from others was I'm just simply adding some photography to capture every single moment of my life and frame it and make it stay forever... Doesn't that worth for me to invest into photography

Like my friend Seheel said:

摄影，是让瞬间变成永恒的魔法

Photography is magic that turns moment into forever

New Shoe

I wonder do you still remember that I said my sport shoe (basketball shoe) was spoiled after climbing Broga Hill last time? Then do you remember I said that I no longer able to do sport, especially basketball in my "basketball-less" post?

Well almost most of my friends, including thought I will not buying another sport shoe after my Nike Flight basketball shoe spoiled. But guess what, I bought a brand new Adidas basketball shoe !

I in loved with this shoe once I saw it displayed on the rack... The white base with grey stripes attracted me and make me eager to buy it. In my common sense I should not buy a white color shoe especially white colored sport shoe because it get dirty easily. But I started to like white shoe since I bought my Nike Air Force One colored in white base with red and grey stripes that I bought in Hong Kong 2 years ago.

Moreover, since I will be very less involve myself into sport, so a white color shoe should be long lasting and stay it's whiteness.

By the way, anyone know any remedies for cleaning white shoes (either cloth or leather shoe), please share with me because I have some stubborn stain on my favorite Nike Air Force One ! Please do share with me by leaving comment in my chat box or in this post. I would like to say a million thanks first for those who share with me !!

STAY WHITE !