4 days and counting...

I've been thinking. What am I gonna do during my recovery time. And decided maybe I could focus on my photography. I dunno, maybe go pro or something, heck if I could earn money from my parkour which I started from scratch, photography should be a piece of cake. I'm gonna seriously look into this, investment-wise. A new body and a super-wide lens and I'm good to go. I'll learn the ins and outs of it from the bottom up if I have to. I just can't stand doing nothing in the meantime. The internet is now my best friend.

So earlier today, it was a very sunny day. Normally I would be out training my ass off. But today I went out and chased my cats around the garden. It was kinda fun, and I just discovered that I could swat mosquitoes with my feet!! A hidden skill I never knew I had. Haha!

Although I'm trying to divert my mind away from the seriousness of the injury on my arm, it still looms at the corner of my mind. Never thought it was gonna be this serious. This could be a life changing event. Since my life revolves around parkour and tricking this is a big hit.

4 days to go...

I'm gonna be a cyborg!!!

Woke up this morning at 6am after sleeping for about 2 hours. Apart from feeling very, very sleepy, I was pretty much in a good mood. My arm was healing perfectly or so I thought. So I happily got in the car and took a nap in the backseat as my parents drove me to the hospital.

Got there somewhere around 8am. Took a number, waited for my turn until finally I reached the orthopediciatrician. wow! That's quite a long word. I dunno if I spelled or got the term right tho. So anyway, as I got in the exam room I took a seat and waited for my report.

So this doc was clicking thru the hospital's neat netwotk. Everything is done electronically, sweet. So anyway, finally the I got to see the x-ray from last week after my arm was casted in plaster. And even with my untrained eye from the medical point of view I can see clearly that there was something wrong with my fucking bone. Apparently those fucktards that were supposed to re-align my fractured bone didn't do they're fucking job!! So now it's semi-fused in a fucking unnatural position. Its angulated inwards towards my inner forearm and now shaped like a fucked up letter V.

If it wasn't for the lousy service I got from the EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT in which I had to wait for 5 fucking hours to get to see the doc without any splint, anesthesia or any medical or emergency support, with my mangled arm, I wouldn't be this pissed. But after having gone thru that and getting to know that I'm gonna have to have a piece of metal bolted to my bones just because the staff were too fucking lazy and were more concerned of getting home rather than treat the wounded like they were suppposed to and messed up my arm in the process?

Fuck! now I don't know when I'm gonna be able to get back to training. My dad was pretty pissed as well. He's a lawyer, so I hope he can find someone to sue. This is malpractice!! I demand retribution!!! grrr!!

Gonna have the surgery on Saturday. This one's gonna hurt. Dang...

On the drive back, I was very how do I put it? Not happy to put it mildly. Took these shots while in the car. Edited them. And uploaded. and now I need to take a break...




Depressed..

Model Shoot

Good morning!!! It's 3am and I still can't sleep. Well actually I was asleep but then I woke up sometime around 1 and couldn't fall back to sleep since. And my new friend from lyn was already asleep I guess so I decided to take some photos of my super cool arm to fill the time. How many times did I use the word sleep? :O anyway-

It wasn't easy tho. I had to accomplish massive feats of mundane tasks before I got the chance to even snap anything. First off!! Its nighttime, I'm indoors n the lighting sucked so I had no choice but to use my flash unit. Had to scavenge my only 4 rechargeable batteries in the house. A couple from my xbox 360 controller and another two from my battery operated hand vacuum for my camera equipment.

Once I got those out and after painstakingly fitting them to my flash comes the hard part. Fixing my camera to my tripod *gasp*. I just wanna say that this is one of those rare occasions where I'm thankful that I'm miskin cuz my cheap, small and lightweight D40 allowed me to handle it with just one arm albeit with a lot of difficulty still. If it were any other dslr, I don't think I would even bother.

So next off!! after mounting it to my tripod, setting it to remote, I took some shots and they sucked. wee. So I thought to myself, fuck the tripod! I'll just use my good arm and took some shots of my not so good arm from various angles. This technique should be very familiar to those who are masters of the Myspace pls comment my new profile pic style of photography of which they use the very same method but instead of taking pictures of my mug, I took shots of my arm instead..

After the brief photoshoot, in which only 5 made it from the camera and further trimmed down to 3, I did some of my post processing shit to get some decent pictures. And after two hours of toiling in front of my pc here are the results. yay!!

This is my arm and the cast. It's still a virgin, no conteng2 whatsoever, so I decided to give it some of that street style. At least its somewthng to keep the attention away from awesome thighs. XD

My arm from another angle. I can't really move them without feeling any pain. So 99% of the time they are in this position. :(

And finally the most important family member of my room. My beloved pc. It's been with me for more than 3 years. Upgraded a coupla times. Although it doesn't have those high specs configurations. It rocks regardless. and yeah my leg is in this one too.

Now that this is up. I'm gonna try and get some sleep. I've got a doctor's appointment tomorrow. Hopefully no complications with my arm. :) okay. till next time. Goodnight ppls.

One-handed awesomeness!!

It was cloudy and dark. Coupled with my superior one-handed photography skills I managed to take a lot of under-exposed shots. For some reason the auto WB from my D40 failed me today and the background scenery added that extra oomph! to make all my shots for today pretty darn crappy. sweet!

So anyway the guys didn't seem to be in the mood to trick. All I got to see were handstands and cartwheels woot?? But those were the only action moves I could take with a 1/40 shutterspeed anyway. haha!

Managed to get some candid gay poses of some of the unlucky ones. Photoshop tomorrow morning and upload to pkmy ROFL!!

Didn't do much today other than that brief outing. Gonna eat some chicken before I go to bed, spent quite a while trying to salvage some of today's photos. Still quite a few to go thru. Will work on them tomorrow. I got all the time in the world now. :( somehow that sounds depressing.

So here are some upside down pics.

Abudi can aerial??? what about the torn meniscus? healed?? not fair!! I'm still OKU!!

This is my little brother Ammar. Such a noob

Ammar doing a handstand sambil menggigil2. Tak larat la tuh. noob haha!!

While those monkeys were "training" (membuang masa is more precise) I chilled on the side with my broken arm and smoked a fag.

Yep thats al for today. Now where's my kfc??

LYNCC is not good for your sex life

Another day on the LYN CC board can kill me rofl! lotsa weird things goig on there. so im gonna try and stay away. anyway i get to mess around with this shot from a guys' d300 on lyn photo section and this is what i managed to pull out of it. yeah. wish i had a d300 too but my d40 will do fornow. :D so below are the before and after photo. :D enjoy.

Train harder bitch you're not good enough!

gotta train harder when i heal. get back in shape. this post is so tht i don't forget.

A broken arm and a new lens

For those who are still in the dark. I broke my arm yesterday (Friday 17.07.08). This is my first broken bone ever. And it's quite nasty. But whatever it is I'll just have to get through it.I've been getting myself used to doing things with just one arm. I don't really have much control over my fingers on the left hand cuz it hurts when I move them. So I'll work on that later.

Good news is I got myself new glass. An AFS-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6 VR ED. Its pretty cheap fior the quality it gives. Got it for RM800 and below are a few samples of the images shot with it. Now I can snipe hot chicks from afar, Rofl! kidding.

And you can also see me with the cast on my arm. This thing is damn uncomfortable. I hope I never break another bone ever again. Wishing that this will be the first and the last incident involving broken bones :P. So this time I really don't have any choice but to rest. Shouldn't have over trained myself. Made me do this stupid mistake. Fuck! I'll make sure this doesn't happen again.

Music-making-business

I've been in the songwriting mood all week. All thanks to my research of the local music scene. Well, at least the acoustic side anyway, and I found out that we have some really great talents around but who just aren't mainstream. I'm really inspired now knowing this. My brain's been going into overdrive and I'm recording everything I can at the moment for future reference. So for those out there who wonder how it pretty much looks like when I'm in music mode. I've generously shot this excellent shot of myself lol! I think I look pretty good considering that I haven't taken a shower yet when I shot this. XD But yea, I've got some new material and I'm gonna see where this is gonna take me. Stay tuned :D


It's 12.55am. I took this shot a few hours back and I tried to force my cats' face to the light there but she didn't want to co-operate. grrr... It's hard to find good help nowadays. So instead, I just used my hand. Which turned out pretty good. It's been a while since I put any considerable work on my photos. It's fun getting to do this once in a while. :D I'm gonna sleep in a bit after I upload these on my flickr. aites. later!

RTM Interview

It seems that I finally can rest now that everything's over with at least so far. I can safely say that I can't train for a while now. Cuz I think I've pushed myself to the limit. Seriously, I've never reached to a point where I can't do anything anymore. haha!! So I'm gonna rest for a bit.

Yesterday morning was the RTM interview and shoot. The hosts were pretty fun and friendly too. We came at about a few minutes after 11 and Abudi "the leg" was already there. So punctual. rofl.

Surprisingly I've been getting some decent sleep these past few days. Most probably because I was too tired to keep myself awake at night. XD So I managed to wake up quite early as a result. So anyway, the RTM crew arrived a few minutes later and it kinda started off pretty imeediately. These guys are pretty efficient. I like that :D

Some funny things happened by the way. The hosts keep mixing up my name with Ammars'. In the last one we did they actually referred to me as Ammar. I'm not sure whether they're gonna dub it over or what. But it doesn't really matter. Its funny tho. haha!! Watch out for that. :D

We went down to business and did our warm ups. Its been a while since we actually trained parkour at TTC, and I did some catching up on my parkour while before the actual filming. It wasn't too hard actually. I guess the combination of adrenaline and the training really paid off and I'm really looking forward to this once its aired. We did some really sick moves and It was a good day in all. So it's gonna be aired on this saturday 19.07.08 on 11.05am TV1. :p Watch it people!!

Here are some of the pics of that day.

wooot??? Mawi belasah orang!!??

So today will be the last day of the Notti movie shoot. Didn't get to do much since the director wanted to save a lot of time and skipped a lot of things due to probably budget restrictions and also time factors.

I was supposed to meet a couple of australian traceurs who's coming to town today. but unfortunately because of my work schedule, i can't make it. :(

so anyway, a coupla photos as always. :D tomorrow is gonna be the RTM Gen-x teen shoot. It's a new series they've come up with and I think it has a lot to do with what teens are in to nowadays. So hopefully everything goes well and no accidents happen during the process. :D They'll be covering our group about parkour, tricking and also free-running. weee!! I'm tired but I'm loving it. :p

Waterfall!!!

alrity. so today we have some photos of the waterfall from yesterday's movie shoot. To Vivien if you're reading this, thanks for cleaning up my guitar. You didn't have to but thanks. But... ummm where's my pick dey? haha! been really busy these past few weeks. and you too i think. But we'll hang out soon maybe.

okay so below are the shots from yesterdays movie shoot.

Hectic week

What a week. I haven't updated my blog for awhile because of a few things. One being I was too tired and too lazy to update. Two being that I've been working and my brothers were at home so I wasn't bored lol. So I'm gonna try and sum up about all the points of interest that happened throughout the last week.

I met Tasha two nights ago. She's the girl that I met when I was studying at Legenda College. And ever since she moved and studied at UTP perak, I only see her about once a year. haha! It was fun. Chilled at her friends' house till almost 5am. I was barely even able to keep my eyes open for the drive back home but I managed tho. XD Hope to see her again soon. Such a chatterbox. But that's always a good thing in my books. :D

Next off!!! My training, yeah!! I've been really drilling myself and I think my body is starting to get the hang of it. I'm still hurting, but not as much anymore. So I'm thinking that this is a good thing. haha! As a result of my rigorous training, I've gained major height in my tricks and more spacial awareness. I'm gonna try harder and keep pushing myself and see how far I can get. :D

I've tried out a few new things on the music side. I wrote a new song and uploaded it on myspace. It's a malay song titled "Nyawaku". It's a song about a guy having to let go of his girl cuz she found another guy. I've been experimenting with different chord progressions and melodies, and this is kind of an experiment of sorts. You can listen to it here.

Okay, so on saturday, instead of heading to the gym, I went to meet the organisers for the UIA extreme sports event that they are gonna be holding next month. It was a long drive to Gombak. With the traffic being as shitty as it is, we reached there after about an hour and a half of driving under the hot sun. And after the meeting we reached Bangi at about 4pm and decided to go watch a movie. Picked up Siddiq and drove to Alamanda where we met Miki on the way there and had our late lunch. It was my first time catching a movie at Alamanda since its pretty new. We were hoping to get the 5pm screening but unfortunately, it was already sold out and we had to take the 7.45pm show. And the seats were'nt great either. 2nd row from the front. Yep. Very nice. XD

So this means that we had about 3 hours to burn till the screening. So we chilled outside the cinema. There's this little park out there and its pretty shady. So we had a little fun and had a tricking session there to fill the time. Miki brought out his RM5k gear which he just got that includes a 40D, an 18-55mm kit lens and a 50mm f1.8. Awesome gear, and he took a lot of shots of us. Below are the pics courtesy of Miki mouse. :D

And another good news. This saturday, a film crew from RTM's Gen-X teen show is gonna do a cover on us. So I guess we're gonna be on tv? :P Better get my moves right when they shoot. rofl. So more updates later. A lot of things have been happening, and I'm hoping it's gonna stay that way. So enjoy the pics and thanx for viewing my blog. :D

Man I'm good! lol!

Before

After

Can't really see the difference until you view it full size. Bad lighting and grainy pictures can't stop me!! rofl!

I think I overtrained. My body is hurting. :(

Didn't do much work today on set. But off set I did my usual training, but this time on concrete. And in the end I beat myself down pretty bad. XD it hurts as hell, even walking hurts. seriously! it's that bad. No one to mengada2 with to ease the pain. makes me wish I had a girlfriend. I need motivation for tomorrow rofl!

life sucks. yay!