Photo Shooting

Last weekend went out for makan-makan at a Taiwanese restaurant. The food wasn't very special except for the eel. so I ended up practising my photo shooting more than enjoying the food. These are 2 of the shots that I personally quite like...

Some CSI effect with Photoshop

How is it? ok or not?

Sleeper Bus

During my last trip to Yunnan, we had to take a night bus from Kunming to Lijiang. We were told that it was a sleeper bus with about 35 seats and with our legs fully stretched. It was a bit hard to imagine until we saw it...


























At the front of the bus, it has 3 columns of double deck bed with 2 aisles separate in between. The last rows contains 5 double deck beds. The bed was about half the size of a normal single bed and you can hardly turn your body. Even I found it cramp not to mention those who have big body size.

Anyway, it was really a good experience. : )

Photo Manipulation

As I mentioned before, some shots that I took during the trip was quite disappointing. So today I tried to manipulate one of them using Photoshop. Although the result is not really fantastic (not so real), after some cropping, gradient tool for blue sky, level, colour and contrast adjustment, the result is more presentable than the original one.



















Before


























After

Of course, I hope I don't have to manipulate my photos if possible.

Lei Duo Duo (GoodBye) Yunnan

Just came back from a 16-day backpack trip to Yunnan with Yongo Travel. Initially I wanted to go to Beijing this year, but had to cancel it due to some reasons. Actually I have never thought of going to Yunnan before this, as I die die must go for a trip to breakaway from work, I signed up for this trip alone. But with good companies and breathtaking scenaries, there is no regret. Although a bit tiring, the trip was really enjoyable.



















Transit at the latest Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport

I was learning my new Nikon D40x along the way, luckily there were some 'sifu' around. Most photos taken are actually quite disappointing (only notice that after downloading to PC). I have to blame my skill although some was due to cloudy weather most of the time.


















Omega Bend of JinSha River （金沙江）


























Great view on the way to ZhongDian aka Shangri-la



















White Water Terrace　（白水台）, one of the three in the world



















































松赞林寺@Shangri-la



















Snowing at 飞来寺



















MingYong Glacier


























Playing snow at 白马雪山白马丫口,　4292m above sea level



















Trekking at Tiger Leaping Gorge (虎跳峡）


























Want to jump, anyone?


























View from my my room at Tea Horse Guest House



















万古楼@丽江

I think the worst tourist experience in China would be its public toilet. Dirty and stinky. The standard design doesn't come with any door (may be the locals don't need it as some don't even bother to close the door when doing big business), 2 compartments sharing the same drain with a little wall separating in between. You may be able to tell what the guy next to you was eating by looking into the drain.


























Despite the greatest toilet view, I just couldn't do it, can you?

Angka(t)sa(yapunya)wan(g)

These 2 days I have received some emails and read some blogs (kennysia and jeffooi) about our government hero being called a space tourist. I think the best name comes from one of jeffooi's blog comments:
Angka(t)sa(yapunya)wan(g)

Chow Tai Fook Fine Jewellery

Today I went to the Gardens for a walk. Among all the branded stores, one really caught my attention: Chow Tai Fook Fine Jewellery.

A quick check in Wiki tells that it is under Chow Tai Fook Enterprise Ltd. owned by Hong Kong billionaire Cheng Yu Tung (鄭裕彤).








But why on earth they want to use 'Chow Tai Fook'? Must they follow the parent company and can't use a more classy name for their jewellery store? I really don't understand, the name is so 'Ah Beng' that can't relate it to the up-market at all. May be it works in Hong Kong, but I doubt the rich people in Malaysia will like the name.

I don't know lah, may be I am not rich enough gua. But if I am, I would rather buy a Tiffany lah...right?

Back Side Job 2

After last week's incident I didn't actually check my car thoroughly. I didn't lost anything else in my car except the 2 bags in my car boot, so I thought everything else was ok. Didn't that I know that that mother f**cker was also trying to steal my car!!! I think I was just too 'bingong' after the incident and never use key to open my car door, I only realised this just now...damn...




















I called up Honda Service last week and they told me the car boot lock costs about RM200 to fix. But now with the door lock also damaged it should cost me another RM200k...@#%$#%$#^$&%^&^%