Giant Mutant Flowers Phail :'(

It looks like due to my excitement of shooting the flowers I forgot to focus properly or chimp properly even. Yes, I'm a chimper. If you don't want to chimp then better not get a DSLR lah fools!!! Yes I am also against these stupid movements that people start trying to be different and starting a trend. WTF? Tak Nak Chimping?? Gile loser. U pay for the convenience, why not use it? pffftt.. Ok enuff of that. Hahaha!! I got carried away again. It's just that I don't like pop culture stuff that has no benefits. Like rempit and shuffling. WTF la malaysia. Malu wey when my relatives come from Singapore. Inikah Malaysia?? :O

So back to the main topic. The Giant Mutant Flowers or GMF for short have turned up to be of rather unsatisfactory to my standards. And for some reason the shots of weeds made it thru tho. haha!! So I'm sorry guys and gals, there will be no GMFs :( So sad. But! I do have other shots for you of Cameron Highland for you. :D I edited them all just now. Didn't have to do much which made for a rather speedy processing.

So all of the flower shots came out something like this but much2 more blurred. I'm mostly in Aperture priority, so I kinda forgot about the shutter speed. Meh!

Ah! this one is specially for Zio. Here's your cactus. A very ugly ass one at that. haha!!

Yep, weeds. Gotta love 'em. They're everywhere. XD

One more!! I wonder why these guys made it and not the pretty flowers. :(

Another shot of the Boh plantation. So nice. So pretty :D

When you go to any of these farms you'll most probably pass by some chinese dudettes or dudes selling strawberries. They'll be going like "Stobeli! Stobeli!" :D haha!! kinda cute.

Yes! another one for Zio. lol I didn't really arrange these pictures in any order. :P

More of Stobeli!!

A tea guy! My dad was driving too fast and I only got a few shots in. :D

And that's all I have for now. Next post. Family shots! :D I didn't take much tho. Let's see how this goes.

Prelude to Monster Flowers

So here it is. This place is called Cactus Valley. Apart from the usual cacti u can find here, they also grow these really2 cool plants and flowers. It's fascinating seeing all the different species of these things. The atmosphere is so calming. A really nice place to bring your girl to. :P

The only thing I'm not cool with is the rate of development here. Parts of Cameron Highlands have become filled with really bad architecture and junk to say the least. The town they built at Brinchang is ridiculous. Talk about bad city planning and the architecture, omg, the architecure is a worse version of Kajang. And yes, this was where we were staying at. The view from my room is pretty nasty. There was this huge construction site right smack in front my room. If you look down, you can see a petrol station, a police station an ugly ass flat and a pasar malam along the stretch of the road where they play 80s and 90s music all night long.... Hmmm backstreet boys anyone? LOL!!

I didn't take any pictures of the ugliness. But I did take pictures from cactus valley tho. It's just behind the hotel where we were staying at. The road leading there is as usual, a very narrow one lane stretch of bumpy road leading up a very steep slope. Most of the roads here are like that. If you have a kancil, then I'd suggest you empty your car if there are fat people innit. Or else you might just end up with a dead engine. :P

To get into the place, you have to pay Rm4 for 1 adult ticket. Rm2 for kiddies. At first I thought that it was kind of expensive. I mean, its 4 bucks man. 4 bucks just to see some lame plants? But my curiosity got the best of me and my mum so we got ourselves a ticket each and went in. We walked through a stall selling tiny2 cacti. I was already thinking that this was a complete waste of money, but as I looked up I saw that this place goes higher and that it covered both sides of the hill side.

As I went up I got a glimpse of these lanterns. They had these translucent roofs covering the whole place. The diffused light gave a really nice atmosphere to the surroundings.

These were some of the flowers that you'll never see bloom this much or in this big a bunch down here.

This is a really cool tree. I just had to take a picture of this thing. It's just simply weird looking.

Ah! and here we have my paparazzi shot of a pretty asian girl taking some cactus photos on her phone. I call her, Cactus Girl. lol!! I wonder if she's cold wearing just that dress. Only had a split second for this stalker shot. Wanted to frame her down to her feet actually, I managed to take 2 shots and this was the best of the two.

More flower photos to come soon. This time, my specialty. Flower close-ups!!! :D:D:D:D It's already 5:15 am. Lepak-ed with Abidu and Muril til 4am just now at the local mamak outlet. A good way to waste time. haha!! lotsa fun. So till tomorrow. Have a good night. :)

To be continued.....

A flower for you

Holy sheeet! I'm wasting my life away. I'm now a certified couch potato I think. I've been couch potatoe-ing for the past week!! This is great!! hahaha!! I've left most of my activities out in the cold cuz I'm now addicted to this couch potatoe-ing extreme sports. I must say it's a very-very dangerous and extreme sport. Probably the most dangerous of them all!!

Seriously, I face mortal danger everyday. I sit at the same spot staring at the same spot for at least 6 hours a day, 7 days a week. So how is this dangerous for me you say? Well I can tell you one thing. It really takes out your concentration. Especially when I do my tricking or parkour. I need like at least 30 minutes of warming up, 30 minutes of getting mentally ready, and about 30 minutes more to get my concentration at it's optimum level. If not, there could just be another bone shattering incident. yeesh!!!

Couple that with my nasty fast food eating habits. Yummy. I'm eating all this junk food on a daily basis and I almost always skip breakfast. So it's fast food for brunch, and for dinner I would have preservative ridden food from the local restaurant. yay!! Talk about digging your own grave.

I should be out training more often now that my arm is getting better. But I made the mistake of buying 5 new games for the 360. aaahh!! And I haven't even finished one!!! The weather has been rather sucky as well. Heavy rains almost everyday. I was never a morning person, so morning training sessions are a no-no for me. My body just won't respond cuz it's still asleep. haha!!

As for the massive amounts of KBS photos I still have in my hard drive. I still am too lazy to go thru them to pick out the ones that stand out. Cuz I think that there's at least 500 pics in there!! And my brain has been slowed down due to lack of any mental excercises for the past week is in no shape to do any of this time consuming work. :P So it's gonna have to wait. For now, I'll just pick out pics that I don't really have to work much on to fill in the void. I want to have at least a pic per post, even tho it doesn't have anything to do with the topic at hand. haha!!

So this is another flower shot. I like flowers. They're pretty to shoot. And easy to process. A very good stress reliever. Okay, so I'm gonna try and finish my fallout. 50-hours in. Yay!! I have no life. I know. Thank you very much.

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.

I trick again!

Yesh I went tricking for a bit at 15 today. backflips, punch and single leg sides and webbys. That's about all that I dare to do for now. Can't afford to bail at the moment. I'm still fragile. haha!! Here's to myself for a speedy recovery. :P

Picture was shot from inside Alamanda Putrajaya. :)

Wishing you all Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri!!!

I've been away for a coupla days from the computer. I finally caught up with my sleep. :D It's about time cuz I was starting to get moodswings like a girl having her PMS. haha!!

Tomorrow might be the last day of Puasa. It feels as though time passes so fast nowadays. It's kind of sad to see life going by so quickly and that I never really make the most out of it. But I've lived a full life despite of that. I did everything that I could possibly do. I've fulfilled a dream. I've proved so many people wrong when they didn't believe in me. I've achieved something that no one thought would lead to anything when I was doing it. I tried so many things to prove that I can do better if I put my mind to it. And I still do believe that I can. It's been a great year. And for the first time in my life. I'm proud of myself. And I'm genuinely happy without any worries whatsoever.

But then again, life is a roller-coaster ride. From experience I know something bad will happen later if not soon. It's a cycle that keeps repeating itself. So I might as well enjoy the moment and make the best out of it.

I'm going to be off for a few days. I'll be spending my Raya with my family and relatives and non-stop Xbox 360 + PS3 gaming sessions. Yes, my cousin who just got back from Dublin brought his PS3 home with him. Yeehaaww!! Like I said, life's been great. Once I get back I'm gonna get me a 50mm. I've messed with manual focus with my kit lens some time ago. It's so damn easy!! So I'm hoping I can find one. This thing's pretty hard to get.

And of course here's another pic for today. It's from the After the Rain set. The last one. It's been great photographing plants. I'm so much better at taking non-human photos. But I'm still not giving up on the homo-sapiens tho. Hari Raya will be the best time for me to have more practice. :D

Happy Holidays and Selamat Hari Raya!!

Photoshopped Plant Awesomeness Part. 1

It rained heavily earlier today. And when it stopped, I went outside and became mosquito food as I strolled around with my camera in the garden. :) I was hoping to get some shots of squirrels. But they were too fast for me. haha!! In the end, it's the plants who became my victims... again. :P I think I'm starting to like these plant subjects.

Here's a couple of em for now. I've got quite a few more. Gonna process them in a bit. In the meantime. Enjoy the view. :)

A coupla more just finished editing with.

The rest will come tomorrow. Stay tuned!

My first aerial and 540 :D

Today Abudi called and we had a little very un-energetic training session at the Garden. The attendees included Ammar, Abudi, Azam, Mad and..... ME bebeh! :P

Abudi brought a mattress along with him to try out wall fulls. But unfortunately they (Azam and Abudi) kept bailing off the mat not on it. lol! It was hilarious. Too bad we didn't have any video cameras. It would've made a funny susuralley production if we did.

Okay now the important part. I did an aerial! hahaha!! the easiest move to do and the safest. Seems like I still have it and I have a very strong feeling that my other flips are still around as well. But I'm not gonna take any chances. Don't wanna spend raya in the hospital. :P

Photos of today will be processed later tonight and posted tomorrow. In the meantime. You can look at this. FLOWER POWER BABY!!

Plant Me Tender

As promised. More pictures of the garden. hmmm... I love the plants. They're so photogenic. And they don't move around when I snap their pictures. haha!! I'm still struggling to get the perfect feel for human photos. I dunno why, but my PR skills are a bit off. Anything to do with human interactions kinda turns me off. In photography that is. Cuz they move a lot and I can never get the lighting right. GRRRR!! I will practice moarrrr!!

and ummm.. I kinda stole your line Naj. haha!

Bonding with nature

I woke up early this morning and decided to become a nature person. You know, get in touch with the earth in all of its glory and splendour. :P But to put it simply. It was because I've run out of things to edit. I need my practice. And I need to practice more on my telephoto.

It was a great morning, nice sunny weather. Cool air and dews on some of the plants. Gotta love nature. :D Except for the mosquitoes. Hate mosquitoes!! DIIEEEE!!

And below are the photos. More to come tomorrow. Gotta sleep :D