Visiting Granny :)

Woke up at 10 yesterday morning and went straight to my computer for some web surfing marathon. I was planning on editing some photos, post em up online and continue playing Dead Space. Unfortunately my mum had other plans. The minute she heard me land my ass on my super creaky computer chair she came into my room and told me that we're going out to shop for Ammar's shoes. Wooot!! I just got up and it's only 10am!! Are you insane??

But I didn't really have a choice so I went to take a shower and got ready. Off to midvalley in the early morning for shoe shopping. Man was it boring. I drove all the way there, found a parking spot after about 20 minutes of searching. Finally. What the hell? What are all these people doing here so early in the morning. It's not even noon!

Went into Studio R and started looking around. The choices are pretty sucky there. I wonder when these people are gonna upgrade their inventory. In the end I told her to get Ammar the same shoes as mine just because my mum has some real trouble making up her mind and I was starting to get really annoyed. I'm not much of a morning person and I'm not happy when I'm hungry.

Got them shoes, paid for it and got a gym bag. what? How come I didn't get a gym bag when I got my shoes? So after wasting time at Studio R. We went for makan and this was when my mum decided out of the blue without prior notice to go and visit my grandma. There goes my day of gaming. Before we left for granny's, I got another cetak rompak game, Left 4 Dead. Haven't played it yet, I'm gonna wait til my brothers get back. Looks like a co-op game. :D

And here are some photos from my nenek's place. I call her Mak cuz she used to look after me when I was little cuz both of my parents were working full time. She has lots of these potted plants in her garden and of course her really cute and very fat cats!! :)

This is "Mak" :D She's camera shy

This is one of her potted plants. :D

This is one of her really2 fat cat guardians!! :D:D

I woke up again at 10 today. Hoping to get to finish Dead Space. But noooooo. Mum suddenly decided to vaccum the whole house!!! and that's why I'm back upstairs writing this blog. ARGGHHHHH!!! WHY CAN'T YOU LET ME PLAY MY GAME IN PEACE!!!

Obesity, It's even affecting the cat populace!!

It has come to my attention of how this particularly fast spreading "disease" has reached the feline species of the civilized and pampered kind. Yeps, I'm talking about our household pet cats. With the current advances in science and technology, it's no surprise that people are getting fatter and lazier due to the ease of comfort of things such as cars, motorcycles, trains, and all the other motorized vehicles. Add that up to the number of fast food outlets that's spawning like a virus all over the country, it's a recipe for obesity disaster!!! I guess a future as portrayed in the Wall-E movie is not that far fetched after all. Heck it might even come true. Now that's a scary thought.

I went to visit my granny earlier today. She has 3 stray cats, well not really strays, they have their owners but they seem to prefer chillin' at my nenek's house. So the owners would bring them food and the cats take care of my nenek who live's alone. So baik lah these cats. Oh did and did I mention that all three of them are OBESE?? Like seriously obese. I've never seen cats as fat as these. But they seem to be healthy tho. Haha!! Here's on of 'em. You can't really see the obeseness in this but still I think it's pretty cool. :P

Some random shots.

I've been going out a lot these past few days and most of the time I have my camera with me. So these are a few that made it from this week. :)

KLCC

On the roadside while waiting for my dad's train tickets

Yummy Clouds

Another stray cat in the garden

Stroboscopic Flash!!

I learned something new today. Which is stroboscopic flash. I think I spelled it right. So what this is, is actually setting your flash to fire multiple times before the shutter closes. And if you do this on a moving object with your camera stationary of course, you'll get multiple clones of the subject in your photo without any post processing. Pretty cool!! It looks something like this.


The thing is, not all external flashes have this option. Unfortunately for me, my SB-600 doesn't have this feature and neither does my pop-up flash. What a bummer. Luckily I didn't go straight to my flash manual but instead I asked Mr. Google for help and voila. Saved me a lot of trouble. But I'm kind of disappointed that I can't try this out tho. :(

Oh well. I'll get to try that when I get the chance to upgrade. :D For now. More photos for you!!

Some flowers at Warta!!! While waiting for my mum to finish her bakery ingredients shopping.

I tried to make it look like a painting. But ended up extremely red instead. hmmm

Yes a good thing to waste your time with and excercise your brain at the same time.

Oh man. I look extra good in this one. haha!!

A stray cat who now chills at my place.

PKMY Hari Raya Jam 2008!! Teaser......

Nuff said. Brace yourselves. :D

I KEEELLLL YOOOUUUUU!!

I'm so fucking hungry!! FULL STOP!!

Still practicing

So it's been a day now since I got hold of the fifty. Around 100++ shots later, I think I have finally got hold of the manual focus thing. Damn, it was harder than I thought. Maybe it's because I've been taking a lot of closeups. I wonder how macro dudes like Zio do it. It's very penat woo!! feel like my eyeball was going to pop out!! haha!! okay that was exaggerating it a bit much. But i still have to practice more. Finally for the first time since I got my DSLR, I spent more time doing everything in camera instead of fixing it all in post. XD

Here are a coupla of good shots from yesterday's manual focus training session.

Photoshop Awesomeness V 2.0 beta

I'm on the verge of a breakthrough!! Finally I'm able to escape the clutches of my old workflow and into a world with intense colors! I love it. Mind you I've been in front of this PC trying to get this new look to work in my photoshop processing. It started off rocky but now it's starting to take shape. :D I still have more things I plan to add to this new style of mine. Mainly smoothing it out and make it look cleaner. I'll work on that tonight.

The new prototypes.. here they are. :) I'm still having a bit of trouble with human subjects. But I think I can figure something out. Enjoy dudes and dudettes and stay tuned for more photoshop awesomeness!!

Puasa = Hungry = Lazy = Sleep

Another day gone by, another day wasted without doing anything productive, or reproductive for that matter. haha! The fasting month is here and we're 4 days in, another 26 days to go. I don't know why but somehow I get hungry really quick nowadays. It was never as bad as this. And all I do is lepak at home.

Hari Raya this year should be a good opportunity for me to snap more photos of people. Candids. Gotta love 'em. :P

I've played through both of my cetak rompak games. Both are a bit disappointing. hmmm.. But Too Human is kinda addictive. I wanna get everything in the game cuz the items just get better and better and my Baldur continues to look cooler and cooler! aaaggghh!! Stop the addiction!!

On top of that, I spent about 10 minutes earlier yesterday out in the garden. The sun was low and the clouds were well out of the way and I got those very nice golden rays seeping through the trees from outside my house compound. I started by shooting plants, but then my cats caught my attention... as usual. :p I just can't help from snapping them whenever they're outside. Especially this one cat of mine called Dog. Haha! She likes getting her photo taken I guess. And she knows how to strike a pose too. A very good model.

My arm's almost back. I tried shifting gears and there's virtually no pain, only I just don't know how long my arm could hold out for a drove though. I lost most of my muscle mass when I had that stupid cast on. grrr!!!

It's almost 4am and I'm still awake. I can't sleep. Cuz I've been going through my earlier garden adventure photos. Edited a few, deleted a few and left most of them in my hard drive for later. Here are some of the best ones of the day.