Ma Cherie's Birthday!

It's my darling's birthday TODAY! So happy 26th Birthday sweetheart!

Wishing her many blessings of joy, love with loads of hugs and kisses from her hubby! :)

Buah hati... :)

Fancy a heart shaped pomelo? You'll definitely get lots of lovin'......
And you can say you "opened" a heart! ha ha...

Thunderbirds in Malaysia!

This aerial display team needs no introduction...

1st up, the famous diamond formation.
Flying close
This caught me unware and it was really difficult to shoot because of the masses of people as well your wondering where are they crossing in front!
The famous Thunderbirds design
I point here, you point there... wonder what they were up to?
Coming through...
And crossing right in front!
See...
The diamond formation again.
One of my favourite shots of the day. Getting the way the air flowed over the F-16 was cool. Frankly, I was just trigger happy and didn't know that this had been taken. But it's beautiful anyway...
Upside down...
And turning slowly...
Flying slowly in front of us...

And hitting the afterburners... this another favourites of mine!
Beep beep! Coming through! :P

I purposely darken this shot... it's cool as the trails show the turn...

Corkscrew in front of the sun amd going vertical! Wooooot!
In a straight line...

No... no F-16 exploded but this was interesting how this shot turned out! :)
Passing by...
ANOTHER of one of my favourite shots... Pity about the grey sky. Blue would have been really cool!
Arrowhead formation
Upside down again. But with all 6 of them.
And coming down...
And going up again...
Let's stretch it baby!
And curve it!
And split it all UP!
Tbirds 1-4 doing a flyby. You need to see it in full pix and you'll spot the numbers on the F-16's...
Mirror formation
And that's it! Pity about the sky but it one thinks about it, maybe it's better coz out in the blazing Malaysian hot sun might not be such a great time to be at! But then again, that means no blue sky. Ah well... win some, loose some. But i'm happy over this as this is my 1st time! :)

Ode to by old friend!

I feel so naked without you... so exposed. And it's so ...sad that I had to see you go... all because of my BIG mouth! *sigh*

But you had done sooooo well. Thought me sooooo much. Gave me wonderful memories that is now living as bits and bytes in my hard disk. You have gone with me to beautiful and wonderful places; from Siem Reap in Cambodia to Geneva, Zurich, Nyon, Einsedeln in Switzerland to Konstanz in Germany to Paris in Franch to the stinkiest place on earth in Goamantong Caves in Sabah.

You flew at 30,000ft and sped on dry land as fast as 300km/h!

And left me with tons of fond memories... but none as best as the above image; showing a relationship of trust, love and companionship.

So long and fare thee well my good friend. May you serve your new master well. Just as you have served me well and left me with years of enjoyment... and seen through my ups and downs.
Au Revoir et Merci Beaucoup K100D!!!

Desert Rose...

I'm told that is what they are called. But to me, they are just fun to photograph! And of course, after a downpour, it's even better. UNFORTUNATELY, no blue sky... ah well...

Au Contraire, these 2 shots were basically:
a) no framing
b) no "person" focus
The below one is basically, my failed attempt to ...er... liven things up. Now you know why I don't do Post Processing! I suck at it... BIG time!!!
Now lest you think this particular "tree" is big... it's not. REALLY. Honestly! They are just your average size. It's just the illusion of shooting upwards. Hence, why I mention the 2 criteria above. I basically just took my SLR, squatted beside the pot, aimed at what I thought should be my frame and fire away! And of course, it helps with a 50mm/f1.4 stop'ed to 2.2 helping... he he

Not bad results eh?

Rings

Something to share with the whole world...

Now what can be this simple box be? :)

Ta da!
Nope. They are NOT couple rings. Although they may look like it. In atual fact, they are 2 very distinctive ones. And the reason? I ain't no having no diamond on me finger. Yes, you heard me right, no diamond on MY finger! Luckily, my beloved was agreeable to be the only person to carry a diamond! Not like she would complain! he he
And a close up of hers...
And finally, a clearer picture of both of ours. Mine is simple right? But in many ways, have almost the same design as hers, even though they are actually sold separately.

Apologies for the somewhat under expose images.

Thank you for reading this post... :)

Of Mosquitoes and How I got fed up! :)

Now, living in Malaysia, has a really big and sometimes painful and itchy problem: Mosquitoes. These buggers can drive one mad... literally, especially when you KNOW that there is just no way you can get a good night's sleep with them buzzing around...

Not too mention the horror of waking up the next morning finding your exposed skin "carpet bombed" with red marks.

So needless to say, I got fed up and decided that enough was enough. I was getting one of these interesting gadgets. Scouring through the web revealed that this particular device actually works and works well.

It's basically a UV lamp ... with a twist. It ALSO spews out CO2. Oh yes, I'm soooooo contributing to the destruction of the ozone layer! But you see, UV just doesn't do the trick enough. Co2, is what them mozzies zoom in for besides your body heat that is done via the UV. By putting both together, you get a replica of a homo sapien and viola(!), them mozzies go after this thing.

So they get attracted, fly in into the whole, get sucked down through a fan and end up below the unit; where the fine wire net is.
And the result. (This is just one side). 3 nights. Go figure... and it's only switched on at night. Yikes comes to mind!!!

Oh yeah, if you're wondering WHY there is the cling wrap, well, I placed it there as it's daylight and no use having it switched on. Them blasted insects know how to hide... but it's there as I'm paranoid that these smart buggers will know how to fly out; via the fly in route even though this device has a so called trap map that disallows them from doing so... So I placed the cling wrap to ensure that NOTHING leaves this until I switch it on again, the next night!

Cost? RM2xx++

Not cheap, but I think it's justifed. Yes? :D

More infor here: http://www.duro.com.sg/product_detail.asp?BID=2&PID=55