Polaroid on Emirates
I like Emirates airline, mainly for its entertainment onboard. They provide a whole long list of new movies to watch. Best of all, you can watch it anytime you want, and even pause, rewind or forward it.
Other than that, the cool thing about Emirates is on this one flight I took to Dubai or Athens, there was this Penangite air stewart who talked to us and decided to use his Polaroid camera on us. Ahh how kind of him, considering that Polaroid is now no longer being manufactured!
Swimming pool photoshoot
My photography work on my male model, GY, on 16th Dec 2008.
Montreal Bananas
Ahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :’D
Bought them for mom. They were ripe and pretty. Looking delicious. I got home and gave the grocery bags to mom. Two minutes later I found them on the counter like this.
BROKEN!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Truthfully when I first got into the kitchen, there were still 2 bananas attached to the trunk. But then I lifted the trunk and even those two fell off!!!!!!!! Wahahahahaa… Look at how the perfect set of bananas I bought ended up! In a plastic bag all in broken off! What happened?!!!!! hahaha… I haven’t laughed so hard in a long long time. Laughed till I cried, till I couldn’t breathe, till my stomach ached. Haih… even after I stopped, one look at those pathetic bananas lying in the plastic bag sends me into fits of killer laughs again.
Mother must be so proud!!! First time she asked me to buy bananas for her and of all things, I bought her Montreal the flimsy! Now she can’t have them to eat for the week but instead have to serve them to the saints. I’m sorry!
Hahahha! Just look at them, flesh still freshly attached to the roots! Hahahaha…!!!
But my laughter ends here because I just remembered that,
as funny as the whole situation is, the worst part was they were actually kinda expensive. Blek!!!
The Sartorialist
Perhaps Karen Cheng readers already know about this blog, since she had recently mentioned it. Still I’d like to point out this blog because I really like how it posts photos taken of random fashionable people walking about in cities like Paris. Some of the photos I really liked and downloaded…
From the post entitled “A Walk in the Park, Paris”, featuring an interesting and good looking Asian woman just minding her own business in Paris 
She looks stunning! Oh I need to go to Paris!! You see la so fun people can dress up like that there. Here, that would just be wayyy overdressed and downright inappropriate!
Quite cute. The style reminds me slightly of Blair Waldorf.
Oh yea, one of the reasons why I like this blog is not only is it so spontaneous (with all those photos of random regular people walking down the streets looking like models) but even more so the photos are very well taken, at least to my amateur photographer eyes. Well taken to me means the photo is focused on the subject with the background blurred, by the way =D So check it out!
Little trips around Greece
During the 2 week stay in Greece we traveled to a few locations in order to visit the places the apostle Paul stayed during his ministry.
Locations: Thessaloniki, Philippi, Beroea, Meteora, and Corinth.
The records of apostle Paul’s ministry are in Acts, especially around chapters 16 – 17.
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki apartments
Ancient City of Philippi
The ancient city of Philippi was captured and fortified by Philip II, king of Macedonia in 356BC, when the Krenides were threatened by the Thracians and sought his aid. He named the city after himself.
Markings to aid the reconstruction of the ruins
This is a cool theater that amplified the speaker’s voice just by standing on the square box. It was loud enough for everyone to hear, and I mean just by speaking normally.
Apostle Paul's prison
Apostle Paul's prison
River where Lydia was baptised in Philippi
Europe first convert Lydia was baptised here as mentioned in Acts 16
Beroea
This is the hallway of the an institution for Greek Orthodox fathers in Beroea. Apostle Paul lived here for about three months.
Meteora
Meteora is a group of hills on which many monasteries are built. Fleeing saints long long ago hid on top of these hills from persecution.
Within the monastery
Corinth
At Corinth Canel, which was caved for ships to pass through, avoiding the hassel of going the extremely long route to the other shore. Julius Caesar courted this idea again in 44BC while the first consideration ever made for this was in 602BC.
Ancient city of Corinth where apostle Paul spent his time preaching. Sorry for squinting sour face, it was too sunny and I didn’t have sunglasses!
Behind me was the market place where apostle Paul preached. Before me (not in the photo) was where he was tried but no guilt was found on him. Sometimes I still feel the experience of being there is very surreal. Just imagine how even more surreal the experience of visiting Jerusalem would be!
Where they kept water in ancient times
Pillars again!!!
Greek sights and stuffs
My first Greek meal… and I fell in love! The Greeks have the most spoilt tastebuds!
The reason why I took this shot was because it reminded me of WoW, and I can just see a bunch of Kobolds running around mining for stuff.
Not a highly recommended thing to do while driving :p
So that’s it for the little trips in Greece. More posts on Santorini Island and Vienna soon!
My first job
I think I said I wouldn’t be working this holiday but my sister got me a job. Apparently sitting at home had caused me to rot and stink. My room started to have the er ambiance of a morgue. So my sister had to get me to do something, and what better than a job that requires running around, squatting, bending in all kinds of positions, just to take the ultimate photo. Yes my first job ever, was to be the photographer-of-the-day for INTI’s sandcastle competition. RM5 per hour. Arrived at the beach at 730 and stayed till 130. I guess that’s about RM30. Oh well… according to my sister, that’s a lot, seeing that they don’t pay her on her jobs, and they pay a more pro photographer from college at RM3 per hour.
Hand-me-down camera
I got a 2nd hand camera from my sister. I know she is younger and is “supposed” to be the one receiving 2nd or even 3rd hand things from her older siblings but I guess not in my family. But I’m not complaining! My sister has a passion for photography and owns a nice Canon G7. She’s moved on recently to something better made by Nikon and so she handed me this ex-love of hers. Mainly so I can learn how to take better photos. So because of my upcoming trip to a place I supposed photographers would love, I had to do some test shots, feel my way around this camera so hopefully I wouldn’t screw up the photos I take there. And here are some of the photos which I think are interesting.
Feathers often stick out of my feather pillow, pricking me and making my pillow thinner and thinner. This is a large one.
Morning at Botanical Gardens
Welcome to another instalment in the photography club series!
I think 3 Sundays ago, the photo club went to the botanical gardens to visit the flower fair. Too bad the flower fair was postponed till August. Since we were already there, might as well take some photos right?
Sorry I don’t have time to edit the photos so these are straight from the camera.
That’s the photo club, btw, under the tree. =)
My sis and the club will most likely think the 3 pictures of the banana tree is very meaningless but I like it, especially the last one but mainly cos of the blue-and-blackness. And the sunlight shining through the leaves.That was a very sunny day and I love how the camera can make it look like its sunset!
Photo club member trying to catch a butterfly. I too was trying to capture it but was too far. Should have just lowered the camera and take him taking the butterfly. I think that would have been a nicer shot than this cut off one.
That’s my sis there.
That’s all for this instalment =)
USA part 3
I’m so sorry I’ve ignored this part for so long. It’s been a month since I’ve returned from the US.
Frankly, I’m sure you all have already seen my photos of USA part 3 in Chicago on my Facebook. To just roughly outline the trip to Chicago, I’ll bullet point the things I did there cos honestly I’m tired now and am going to nap soon.
- The Bean at the Millennium Park. This is just amazing! A big ass mirror to reflect the whole area. You can even walk under it and see all kinds of crazy self reflections. Many pics on Facebook for this.
- Freedom museum. Everything about the American rights to freedom and so on. I like this picture I took there. This section is on presidential elections. Actually there is a speech for guests to read on the stand, haha…
- Delicious french breakfast at Au Bon Pain cafe.
- Navy Pier. This is really beautiful, especially during blue sky days like the ones we had, and I’m sure it’d be so romantic for couples to stroll down at night.
- Architectural buildings around the city. There are so many by the way that they offer architecture cruise tours just to point them out. So I recommend this to Kay Tryn and Ying Xiang. Especially Kay Tryn, lol.
- Saw some random ah pek doing radio show. Mana tau this ah pek is former president of US Jimmy Carter! blek! So sorry he was reduced to just some ‘ah pek’ by foreign alien!
- Saw flowers. Pretty ones we don’t get here in Malaysia.
- Pretty neighbourhood around Northwestern University in Chicago. 1hr away from city by subway.
- Eating spaghetti with fingers. Cos I’m disgusting like that. :p No actually we went back to hotel early evening cos we fear for our lives at night. Too bad the tapau-ed spaghetti came with no cutlery. Just like the hotel room.
- Field museum (where they filmed Night at the Zoo) and this art institution’s museum.
I have one pic of me standing there but it’s with my sis. Another with some scary tikis in a dark room. It felt damn freaky and frightening to stand next to those gigantic and real but dead animals. There were sooo many of them. All kinds of animals that you probably won’t see unless you go to South Africa. The tiki tiki were very geli also. My sis and I felt unsafe when going into the animal room ’cause we were the only people in that room at the time surrounded by wild animals, haha
- Fake ice cream from hotel
