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Sg Lembing Trip @ 19/09/2009 - 21/09/2009 - Day 3

2009-10-14T09:51:00.004+08:00

Last day of the trip, time really flied when you are on trip. Objective of the day - enjoy sunrise on the Bukit Panorama. If my memory served me right, we woke up around 3:30 am. Seriously, I never woke up so early just to visit some places, that was my 1st time. Since the hill is not far away from house, we began our journey at 4am++. When we reached the bottom of the hill, we saw bunch of people already walking up the hill. Compared with Rainbow Waterfall, this hill is much easier to walk.

There were no lighting along the path, you have to bring your own torchlight because you can't even see you own fingers when you reach the top of the hill. Reminder: There is no lighting, no toilet, no restaurant or whatsoever on the hill, so make sure you prepare well before you go. After the 45 mins walk, I felt like giving up cuz I was carrying the backpack with tripod, it's kinda heavy and tired. But then I heard 1 of the dude screamed "Dude, we almost there!". That time I felt like "omfg, are you fucking serious?

Yes, we finally did it! We reached there 5am++ the place already damn crowded, some dudes even camped here lol

I was lucky enough to fight a nice spot to setup the tripod. Damn right, that time was still dark but many camwhores already setup their tripod.

Finally, the day was getting bright, but where was the sun? Damn it! That day was too cloudy, the stupid cloud blocked the sun, sien!

After a few shots, we saw many people were disappointed of the stupid clouds and started going down the hill. While I discussing the photos with the gang, I heard people were clapping. So I turned my head up and looked at the sun, weeeee...sunshine!

YES! The egg yolk is coming out! When you saw that beautiful scene, you will feel like everything is worth it =)

The dark version.

Bright version of group photo ^^

Em..black hole? Or blue hole? lol

The cloud lied beneath me lol..

Who's there??

Is this what you call Jesus Light in photography?

Our Art Director was coaching the team how to pose..

And the result = ="

A lonely tree and a blue hole lol

Photo by Gah Hao

Weird posing haha.

Photo by Gah Hao

MingKAI @ Action #1

Photo by Gah Hao

MingKAI @ Action #2

Photo by Gah Hao

Em...what was I shooting?

After a few shots, I turned my head back and wondering what they were doing. I saw a bunch of zombies excausted like hiking a 2000m mountain haha.

I ignored them and continued my shots, and I found a young potential photographer :D

Another pro photographer. I love this photo very much, should get a faster lens to blur the background ^^

Last shot before going down the hill.

A shot during the "walk-down"...

No joke, I felt like exhausted like a zombie too. We then had our breakfast, shower, and rest.

Then, we decided to go to Teluk Cempedak Beach again. While waiting the ladies packing their thing, I walked out the house and snapped some photos randomly.

Yeah, finally they have done packing wee...

Stanley was busy talking to someone..

Looks like a painting haha. Here we are again ,Teluk Cempedak Beach.

Em..last group photo of the trip?

A fly in front of the McD lol

A kid running barefoot under the hot sun, I wondered how come she didn't feel hot of the sand = ="

A lonely bear T.T

Panorama shot of the day =)

After had lunch @ McD, it's time to go back to KL T.T.

P/S: I was lucky to knew these crazy fellas through the trip, seriously, it was a wonderful and memorable trip. Thanks Wei Ling for the tour guide and accommodation. Thanks everyone to let me shoot 9 9, hope we have another trip soon =)

Sg Lembing Trip @ 19/09/2009 - 21/09/2009 - Day 2

2009-10-08T09:29:00.005+08:00

Day 2, got a bad feeling for today's adventure. Though the rain was stopped, but we didn't put too high expectation on seeing rainbow at the waterfall. We woke up early of the morning and grabbed some breakfast.

Again, our "tour guide" recommended to try this Sg Lembing Mee a.k.a 林明面 since we were here in Sg Lembing haha.

Actually, it just the normal dry-mee with fish ball and other ingredients, nothing special lol.

Look at the crowd at the restaurants, I bet there's only 2 activities can do in Sg Lembing in the early morning, either jungle trekking to rainbow waterfall or climbing up to panorama hill.

Forgot to mention, there was another gang (Wei Ling's friend) joined us from JB/Singapore hehe. Group photo before being sold to market haha..

Yeah..looks like the piggies were sending to market..Before starting the jungle trekking, you need to ride on this 4WD in order to reach the bottom of the hill. Each ride is RM30 including 1 cup of instant noodle and 1 3in1 Milo/Coffee. Not sure whether you can drive your own 4WD, but most people will just pay the local and enjoy the "ride".

The driver will stop by here for awhile, to let people enjoy the scenery and snap some photos. As for me, I wanted to handhold 1 sec to capture the water flow but failed, what to do, no time to setup the tripod since we can't stay here for long T.T

At least captured a group photo haha..

After the 40 mins roller coaster journey, it's time to use your legs. But before that, your 1st level would be this stupid river, difficulty is 1/5. Well, the water is cold, I mean it's damn cold, not easy to cross, but not very hard too :P

No joke, you can see the fog here..

"Rock climbing", difficulty = 3/5. I wouldn't say this is hard to walk, it's just very annoying when you need to focus and mind your every step.

Hem...just wondering what these really were.....

1 hour later(I think so, didn't really count it), we reached the top of the hill, there is no surprise seeing this during public holidays lol..it was damn crowded zzzz

Sob sob..why no rainbow, where are you rainbow? T.T

The stupid waterfall. How can I climb up to the top?

Some machos will risk themselves and climb up to the rocks..

Some prefered to take photo with the love one lol..

Group photo taken by a dude..too bad it's blur zz

After the tiring adventure, we back to where we belonged..

After we taken shower and nap, we decided to visit the Crystal House not far away from where we stayed.

A doggie at the Crystal House, damn hard to capture him..

The so-called crystals haha..

I was lucky enough to capture this fly, I was thinking why the hell it didn't fly away lol.

After the visit, we drove to the famous hanging bridge not far away from the Crystal House.

Can't remember which hanging bridge that I stepped on the last time, was it the Sunway Lagoon?

Another group photo =)

No joke, it's not a normal hanging bridge. In fact, many motorcyclists used to use this bridge as the shortest path to another side.

Here we are, the long time abandoned tin mine. Too bad the mesuem was closed, if not we can explore more =)

This is how it looks like. We didn't really explore the place, we just lepak there and kept thinking how to pose in front of the camera.

Photo by Hui Ting

This was the outcome lol. Who's the highest? Thanks Annie for the photo.

Does Canton mean Cantonese?

Finally, after the long queue, dinner is served. The famous ketchup mee from Sg Lembing, but I didn't really feel it nice.

We then back to our place to take some rest. But I discovered some unknown insects in front of the house. Bees? What do you think?

Annie suggested to play "firecracker" outside the house. So we walked to the empty parking lot and started our show. But before that, my boss wanna pose like Stephen Chow.

See, Alex showing one of this favorite move - 风火轮 lol

Who's better? Alex or Annie? After finish the "show", this time we really went back to rest. Cuz we left not much time to rest, only 3-4 hours. Tomorrow - Bukit Panorama ^^

Sg Lembing Trip @ 19/09/2009 - 21/09/2009 - Day 1

2009-10-01T19:18:00.004+08:00

One day, Joleen asked me whether I want to join her and her colleagues to go to Sg Lembing during Hari Raya holiday. After I took awhile for consideration, I asked myself why not? Since the accommodation is free (tx to Wei Ling), can go shoot some wonderful scenery, can know a crazy gang, I said "yes" to Joleen lol. After stuck in the jam for few hours in Karak Highway (tx to Hari Raya), we finally made ourselves to Kuantan for lunch. The tour guide for this whole trip is Wei Ling because Kuantan is her hometown, nobody knows this place well better than her.

After the lunch, our very 1st destination was Cherating Beach. In fact, this is my 1st time to Cherating Beach too haha. You are right, that time was 3-4pm afternoon, I guess only our stupid gang enjoyed the hot wind under the sun haha.

The 1st HDR of the day =)

As we walked toward the beach, I witnessed something funny/unusual in front of my eyes. There are many dead/half-dead jellyfishes lying on the beach. Some were cool, some were disgusting.

No doubt, that day was hot. Only some fools(us) will go to the beach on that time lol. Surprisingly, the beach was quiet as graveyard haha..

Ladies lined up pls...

Stanley - our art designer aka director was showing his talent..

And the outcome...weee....

Tripod was left in the car, haha..never mind :D

Crazy fellas on the rocks :D

Wait a min, Ang Mos detected :D

After that, we decided to visit Ninja Turtles. Tx to Hari Raya, it's closed T.T

We then drove to another famous beach in Kuantan - Teluk Cempedak Beach. Compared with Cherating Beach, this was much crowded. 1st batch, guys's jump :D

Next turn, ladies's jump lol

The sun was about to set, time to find our way to dinner =)

Before leaving, snapped another HDR ^^

Since Wei Ling is a vegetarian, we all went for vegetarian food, not too bad though!

Yummy.....

Vege Bak Kut Teh lai!

After the dinner, Wei Ling suggested to try our luck to visit fireflies. Too bad it was closed due to Hari Raya, we had no choice, the only choice is just to take a photograph before going back to Wei Ling's house for shower. When everyone finished shower, it's time to move to another house. But this house is different, it's been abandoned for months. Before we moved in, we need to "shower" the house. Too bad the weather of that night was very bad, cuz it rained non-stop and non-stop. Sigh, time to sleep, cuz we only left few hours to rest. Hopefully the rainbow tomorrow won't play hide and seek with us, mana tau....

Noob Shotz @ Sunway Pyramid @ 12/09/2009

2009-09-24T10:53:00.006+08:00

Few weeks ago, 1 of my DoTA kaki "mcguyver99" aka McD aka Takeshi99 - The Boss of Canon Buggers group from Facebook invited me to join Mika Hakkinen (Johnnie Walker - Join The Supercar Demo) event @ Sunway Pyramid. Without 2nd thought, I joined him the shooting event.

The event supposed to start at 2:30pm. But I reached there early, saw some performers were performing on the stage. Not really sure what you call that, belly dance or whatsoever, but I took a few shots.

I'm not sure the left performer is a female or shemale, what I'm sure is her dancing sux!

That was a real snake, no joke!

Reaching 2:30pm, time to hunt for nice spot. Once I found my spot, I saw this dude was carrying at least 3 DSLRs. Salute!

Moment later, Mcguyver99 is arrived, after we greeted each other, Mika arrived too :D

Aiya..signature on the board, what so special about it?

Reshmonu was there too..

After the interview session, Mika suited up for the demo drive. Here he comes, with few lucky passengers.

My 1st time noob panning shot. Need to practice more.

Watching F1 racing on the track is normal, but in front of shopping mall is really 1st time = ="

After the spinning U-turn, here he comes again.

Trying panning shot on F1 is really challenging, expecially with kit lens lol. Failed!

Chermaine Poo - One of the popular actress/emcee/host in Malaysia.

Another crazy photographer, look at the stickers on his lens lol.

After a few rides from Mika, he then left his car and continued autograph session.

Wait a min, is that Mika? Not really, in fact, the demonstration was over. That was just a part-time driver lol.

The mountable F1 car steering.

We're not really interested in autograph session. We preferred watching the car being towed by the tow truck haha..

Look at the front light, damn yeng~!

And the giant rims and tyres..

Mika Hakkinen, I don't know him until that day lol. Not really a big fans of F1.

What do you call this? Shark fin?

After the event, Joleen and I had a window shopping @ Sunway Pyramid. For dinner, we settled @ Zen. The taste of this cake really sucks, I mean, sucks!

Perhaps she likes it?

Hem...waiting for the main course..hungry to death..

Joleen's spagetthi. I believe my sister cooks better lol.

Bacon Carbonara. Not bad, juicy and tasty =)

It was my 1st meet up with Mcguyver99 lol. He is a real funny guy, I met his gang - Neo and other friends too. Wish to have another shooting with you guys soon =)

Noob Shotz @ KLCC park @ 06/09/2009

2009-09-10T21:02:00.004+08:00

KLCC, I've been there many times,but not KLCC park haha. Last Sunday's evening, Joleen and I decided to go there to camwhore lol. Anyway, this is really my 1st time to explore the park, children park, playground, and so..

I fall in love to HDR haha..but still learning how to make it looks better =)

HDR #2 lol...colour damn fake..

No smoking pls!

Saw that kid in the pool, damn cute haha..too bad I don't have 55-250mm lens T.T

Another mui mui, sometimes really thought can go back to past, nothing to worry about =(

Don't cry babe T.T

Surprisingly, the park is quite big. What will you do when you feel tire? Swing swing swing =)

Joleen felt paiseh to pose in front of people haha. I told her to look around, there were other DSLRers camwhoring too, who cares?

Thay day was quite cloudy, and windy. Thought of going to rain, but in the end it didn't ^^

Day is getting dark, time to setup tripod lol

Joleen & MingKAI

KLCC

My friend said it would look nicer if we wearing wedding costumes lol. If not mistaken, this is one of the posing of photography shot, ain't it?

Kuala Lumpur @ night

After some shots from the bridge, we moved down and continue our silly shots.

LC pose..

Another LC pose haha..

Last shot of the day ^^

Noob Shotz @ Thien Hou Temple @ 05/09/2009

2009-09-10T16:48:00.004+08:00

There is another place that I haven't been there for ages since I was a kid - Thien Hou Temple. Honestly, I can't really remember how the temple looks like. Therefore, Joleen and I decided to visit this temple in a evening.

Eh...God of Love(月老) ?

Reached there around 6pm++..not so croweded..perhaps, it only crowded during CNY?

Joleen and her rat.

MingKAI & his pig = ="

Joleen and the twin towers. Time to photograph lol..

Added sepia effect. I felt not sepia enough, what do you think?

Joleen & the blue sky.

Joleen & the KL Tower.

Random shot..

Joleen in B&W.

Sunset @ Thien Hou Temple.

After the shooting in upstairs, we came down and visit the temple for awhile.

A woman was praying to the God..

What do you call this? Candle?

Stupid kit lens can't capture the whole temple zz..

Dusk? Twilight?

I personally love this photo the most of the day. Face is in focus, background is separated but still can see the lighting of the buildings, not to mention the beautiful sky =)

I personally quite dulan this coconut tree, spoil the whole scenery haha..

MingKAI & Joleen.

The senget version of Thien Hou Temple panorama view LOL. Shot and stitch wrongly, will try better next time. As you can see, there is nobody in the photo, you can imagine how empty is the temple. Only left a silly couple setting tripod and fooling around lol.

Last shot of the day =)

Noob Shotz @ Lembah Kiara Recreational Park (TTDI) @ 31/08/2009

2009-09-02T10:52:00.003+08:00

I knew this place from some of the bloggers. Not sure whether the place is popular, but I wanted to photograph the so called "waterfall" in this park. Therefore on Negaraku Day, Joleen and I went to this park and tried to hunt this "waterfall" early of the morning. When we reached the park and saw that "waterfall", I stunned and asked myself "is this the "waterfall" that I saw from the blogs? WTF so dry and no water? Don't tell me because it's morning and the water is not ready yet! Though the park was crowded by joggers, families, but we were quite disappointed and just simply walked for 30 mins.

Evening, we decided to hunt another park in Kepong - Tasik Metropolitan Kepong a.k.a Taman Layang-layang. Thanks to Goggle map, it gave me the wrong direction Zzz. I asked some people around that area but different people gave me different directions lol. In the end, I can't find it and already reached to LDP exit. Since we were quite near 1 Utama, Joleen asked me again "Oi KAI, wanna try the TTDI park again? Maybe evening got water liao le?" I replied "Erm...just try lo, no harm though.

Luckily evening is not as many people as morning, but the park is still crowded. This is my HDR attempt, should increase saturation a bit more.

Joleen in black & white...

As we walked toward the "waterfall", Joleen screamed at me "KAI! Can you hear that? Is water!" We then quickly ran toward the "waterfall". Yes! Water is up! Weeeee....

Joleen & the "waterfall" #1

Joleen & the "waterfall" #2

MingKAI & Joleen

Another HDR, 3 different exposures..

Too bad the boy on the left walked in while I camping for 5 secs, he's not the *ahem* thing that you are thinking ok?

Another shot of "longkang" look-alike river...

Last shot of HDR of the day. Lack of saturation and contrast, the leaves were moving, therefore the result is quite bad.

I realized that when you're concentrating changing the setting of the camera, setting up the tripod and so, time really flied. Since the sky was getting darker and mosquitoes bit me leg like no tomorrow, we simply shot the last 2 photos before we ciao.

I hate mosquitoes T.T

Never know the top floor of a condo is a nice place to take night scenery haha..

Which school is that?? lol

Last shot of the day!

P/S: I still have more than 10 mosquitoes mark on my leg! DULAN!

Noob Shotz @ Titiwangsa Park @ 22/08/2009

2009-08-27T10:43:00.005+08:00

Before I went to this Titiwangsa Park, I asked myself, when was the last time I visited this park. I stunned, I had no memories of Titiwangsa Park, perhaps 10 years ago? Anyway, Joleen and I decided to take a walk on last Saturday.

Reached there around 6:30pm, not many people, just a few joggers. The whole place was very quiet, the power of H1N1?

Is that a pink love-shape flare @ the KLCC tower? How can I avoid that? Perhaps a lens hood?

Blue sky & blue lake, leng!

Joleen & the blue lake, anywhere to improve?

I don't have a flash gun, so the lighting may not that pretty.

Imagine Joleen stood there for 3.2 seconds lol, 1 word - Pro!

I've been asking around how to shoot a photo with background and foreground in focus, especially at night. Anyone mind to put money into my pocket? Merge 2 photos with different focus, or get a ultra-wide angle lens?

Night scenery is one of my favorite shot, what to do, no telephoto lens, no macro lens, no wide-angle lens..

I think it's a little underexposed, should put it more than 30 seconds, what do you think?

Bamboo tree?

Not sure I'm too old or long time never been to park, I was kinda surprised when I saw this toilet.

Maybe I'm too noob, it was my 1st time to see such a high-tech automated toilet in the park(Bolehland). Entry is only 20 cents, normally we already knew how a 20 cents toilet looked like in a park. But......

You are wrong. The toilet was damn clean, propably cleaner than your house's toilets. It also had air-con, 1 flush toilet and 1 squat toilet<---choose your best comfort. The maximum time you can occupy is 15 mins if not mistaken, 20 cents for 15 mins, better than the premium toilet in KLCC. The door closed immediately once Joleen stepped out from the toilet, too bad I didn't photograph it on time T.T

Taken on the overhead bridge outside P1 buiding. I heard if take it in dawn time will give you different surprise, I should try it next time!

Crapping Session @ Gasoline Sri Kembangan @ 07/08/2009

2009-08-14T08:47:00.003+08:00

It's been 2 years that we didn't meet up since Fenny's or Yvonne's wedding, can't really remember. My brain is working bad, some of my memories were missing haha. But I remembered Yvonne told me that her son is 2 years old, that meant we didn't meet up for 3 years? Honestly, I can't believe it lol, time really flied. Anyway, Yvonne suggested to go Gasoline Cafe @ Sri Kembangan, opposite The Mines Shopping Mall, so here we are.

We didn't order a lot of food on that day, just some drinks and french fries. Time really flied, I didn't realize it was 2a.m until I looked at my watch, yes, we have been crapping for 5 hours (especially Lebon) LOL!

The place and view is nice, the cafe is just near the lake, quite windy though. I remember 4 of us used to hang out since Form 4, used to celebrate each of our birthday. 4 of us were same class during Form 4 and Form 5. Lebon sat next to me, whereas Fenny and Yvonne the noisy couple sat behind of us.

Still noob in taking night potrait+scenery. Without tripod and external flash, the flash on their face is kinda harsh, is it?

Goose or ducks? Not sure, I just knew they were guarded by a guard, who was helping us to take the following photo zzz.

Yes, my head is chopped off lol. I was damn scared that he will drop my new toy lol. Though this photo is kinda weird, but I bet 3 of them were competing who had the brightest teeth LOL!

The place is nice, windy, and peaceful. We had a wonderful gathering at that night. When is our next crapping session? :D

Malacca Trip @ 01/08/2009 - 02/08/2009

2009-08-04T21:17:00.006+08:00

I just back from Malacca last weekend, a family trip and 1st outing with my new babe 450D ^^. I thought we will be going to A Famosa to take photos, have fun, and sightseeing, but ended up we stayed the whole day in the A Famosa resort/villa.

A private "pool" from our villa haha.

Honestly, the whole taman looks horrible, just like "A Nightmare on Elm Street" lol. It seems like the whole area is abandoned, no money to maintain, you can lie on the street as you like, no car will hit you.

Waited 5 mins to capture this moment, too bad no macro lens T.T

My sister and nephew(her son). I would name this photo as "The Lovely Smile" haha

My aunty and cousins. It's kinda funny that we didn't visit the real A Famosa or Jonker Street, instead, we soaked and try to have fun in the little pool.

Taken in front of the Cowboy Town. Amazingly, the colour and noise control in ISO1600 is still not bad. Compare with my previous FX10, when you look at the photos taken in ISO400-ISO800, you will feel like throwing the camera away lol.

I know it's kinda blur, handheld 5 secs, what to do?

Pool @ night, tripod a bit senget haha..

Mahjong gang!

In-house mahjong game, some enjoyed mahjong..

Some enjoyed watching television...

Some having NDS competition..

Some liked to drink Vitagen and posed in front of the camera lol.

Told you, he likes to pose...

Even is her sister, they definitely won't feel shy in front of the camera =)

P/S: Though the trip was kinda boring, but I did enjoy taking photograph haha..Anyone organizing any outing/trips? Do let me know :D

My New Toy - EOS 450D /w 18-55mm kit lens

2009-07-24T10:37:00.003+08:00

After struggling for few months, I finally bought my 1st DSLR in my life =). Since DSLR is getting cheaper and cheaper (for me is very expensive), you can always see people holding DSLR @ shopping mall, restaurant, park, almost everywhere. I would say, it doesn't matter you are noobs or pros, DSLR has slowly become a trend. Don't ask me when did I start interested in photography, when did I start googling aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and more..I have no idea.

Got myself Canon EOS 450D 18-55 kit lens, Digieye tripod, 8GB memory card, screen protector, and UV filter. Bought it from Boeing Sungei Wang. The 2 salespersons are very nice guys, they answered all my questions and explained to me patiently. After dealing with them for 2-3 hours++, I decided to move on to dark path.

1st time holding DSLR, still trying to get use of the controls and grip.

P, Tv, Av, M a.k.a PASM mode, 1 of the reason to buy DSLR, to learn photography from the mode =)

Camera's mouth lol

Hot shoe, no budget for flash gun at the moment.

3" LCD screen is just nice to me. It shows all the infomation you need, aperture, ISO, shutter, battery bar, picture size, WB, and so. When you move nearer to the viewfinder, the screen will off. When you away from the viewfinder, the screen will on back, funny haha..

This modal comes with live view too. It's very useful when you want to take certain angle that you can't reach with you eyes.

The internal pop-up flash. Though it's not as nice as flash gun, but I'm quite satisfied with the photo with flash. Not too harsh and over-exposed like my previous Lumix FX10, at least I still can use tissue paper to diffuse this haha.

Hm..maybe next upgrade is the flash gun :P

18-55mm kit lens only :(, who can sponsor me 18-200mm? :D

The beauty of the camera, love it so much ^^

Still playing around with the camera, who wanna go outing? Don'z and Dan, since you guys influenced me so much, please teach me some tips haha

Game Review - Fear 2: Project Origin

2009-07-21T21:29:00.002+08:00

Long time no update, it's been awhile. Been busy hunting for DSLR, I lost myself to 450D =). Will update on next post. Today, I wanna talk about the most scary game I've ever played in my life - Fear 2 - Project Origin.

Well, the game is not difficult to play. It just that, the video and audio of the game will surprise you from nowhere. I didn't play Fear 1, so I didn't really know the story. I just knew there is 1 bitch(ghost) always scare you from nowhere. With the 5.1 surround + scary theme song, you really feel the thing is right behind you!

Those who love 1st person shooting, you guys should really try it out. As usual, you have few choices of guns such as pistols, shotguns, rifles, snipers, rocket launchers, lasers and more. Other than that, you can take armor for body protection and reduce the damage fired by enemies.

This is the boss, also the bitch who always disturb you throughout the game. Should I call her boss? Cuz you don't need to fight her at the last level, weird right? Whatever she is, she still freak me out throughout the game!

Overall, it still a good game though the ending sux! Anyway, I'm playing Silent Hill 5: Homecoming right now, quite a scary game too! Compare with Fear 2, I still don't have winner(most scary) in my mind, maybe I shouldn't compare 1st person shooting with 3rd person view/action game?

Music Video - New Divide

2009-06-13T13:24:00.003+08:00

Finally, the music video of New Divide - theme song of Transformers 2 - Revenge of The Fallen has premiered on MySpace. Again, Linkin Park has done a good job =) 2 more weeks for the movie, I can't wait!

Linkin Park – “New Divide”

Game Review - Call Of Duty 5 & Devil May Cry 4

2009-05-29T14:13:00.004+08:00

Call Of Duty 5: World At War. One of the famous FPS game in 2009. As usual, you played as a sergeant, or any other soldiers, try to take down Japanese in WWII. In the game, you will experience the normal FPS, driving tank, driving aeroplane, and many more.

Can'r really remember how many levels in the game, but I remembered I finished it quite fast. Regardless of video or audio, I give it 9/10, but story and gameplay, it's very normal.

I know WW2 game is fun, but the weapons and guns are really old and boring. Not to mention the difficulty is very easy, and the AI is dumb lol. Maybe that's the reason I like Call Of Duty 4 more than 5.

I personally prefer Call Of Duty 4 rather than this. Try it out yourself then you will know =)

Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I finished this some time in 2008. Honestly, it's a great FPS game. You don't need a high-end PC to play this, in fact, even my noob PC can handle high setting without enabling AA. When you are playing this, make sure your 5.1 speaker turn to max. This game is based in modern years, therefore the weapons and scene are quite powerful and nice, just shoot all the motherfuckers in front of you!

Devil May Cry 4. I played Devil May Cry 3 in PS2 few years back.When I started playing this, the audio and video are really impressed me. Though I played with my noob graphic card, but the medium setting worked like a charm.

Anyway, I found that the gameplay is similar with Devil May Cry 3. Missions, skills, items, gamestyle, everything is same.

When I say its graphic is great, it really is. Can't imagine play it with 24" Full HD LCD hooks with high end graphic card, I'm dreaming again lol.

Devil May Cry 3

Devil May Cry 4. Great game with great video and audio. You can simply call it Good Game. Is Devil May Cry 5 coming out soon? =D

New Divide

2009-05-20T16:04:00.005+08:00

Linkin Park did it again. Remember the song "What I've Done" from the movie Transformers? This year, their new song "New Divide" is the theme song again from the upcoming movie "Transformers:Revenge of The Fallen". The song is already premiered on Monday and available download in Itunes.

Can't wait for the movie, will be in cinema worldwide on June 24.

Photo taken from twitpic.com

They are currently shooting the music video of the song. Look at Chester, he always act cute haha.

Photo taken from twitpic.com

Another cute shot =)

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Chester with his gun.

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Rob with his Bazooka??

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Since they all wearing vasts and carrying guns, I assumed this would be stunning video. Hope to see it soon =)

My Long Lost Memory

2009-05-16T13:15:00.004+08:00

During a CNY night, some friends of mine came to my house and of course, we "open table". Coincidentally, none of them had small change. In order to represent the money, they asked me to look for something that can be replaced. Therefore, I tried to look around in my drawers. Unexpectedly, I found something that nearly laugh my pants off.

Look what I've found? A box of anime/manga/NBA star cards, birthday/CNY wishes cards, and more. Just wondering why the heck I'm still keeping these lol.

So, what do we got here? E Honda hugging Chun-Li (Street Fighter II) with 3600 HP. One of the best video game in that time.

Dragonball Z. One of the best manga at that time. Who doesn't love Dragonball?

One of the best game in arcade, The King Of Fighters, also the reason we(lunchai) used to hang out in arcade (Kota Raya, Sungei Wang, Serdang, OUG) lol

Another famous manga at that time, Slam Dunk. We(lunchai) used to play basketball everyday, therefore Slam Dunk was our motivation?

Michael Jordan, my NBA idol. Too bad he's retired, damn missed his air-time and slam dunk.

This explained why I'm so into video games, cuz I started to play when I was a kid lol

Perhaps a little cute birthday card?

It's been awhile lost contact with her since her wedding. Maybe it's time to call her back, and thanks for your special wish of gaining weight, cuz I'm really "fat" now.

CNY also used to be a trend of trading CNY cards at that time.

From my long time buddy - Lebon a.k.a Bobbydrake, knew him since Standard 5. Thanks buddy!

Last but not least, it's a chick! My origin of MingKAI =D

To: 兽性鸡（明鸡） <----MingKAI =.="

Ming is my last name, but why KAI(chick)? Cuz 3-point shooting in basketball was my best skill. 9/10 3-point is just a easy job for me, but they thought that was 鸡(lucky), therefore, they name me as 明鸡(MingKAI) lol.

The card reminded me of creativity of yours - Bobby, and humorous of yours - DD. I will keep the card forever, I like it very much, thank you guys, lunchai forever =)

P/S: Always keep something memorable for your memory =)

Alvin's Birthday Celebration @ Restoran Steamboat Hoi Tong @ 04/05/2009

2009-05-11T23:45:00.005+08:00

This year, our birthday boy suggested that we should go for cheaper food. We used to celebrate our birthday at this bbq steamboat restaurant called Hot Tong before we started working, or after?? I can't remember, can't even remember when was the last time we ate there. As usual, Wosip late again. And since our hunger didn't allow us to wait, we started without him.

Lambs, chicken wings, beefs..I felt the pepper on lamb is too heavy..and shouldn't take so much chicken wings, really hard to cook haha

lamb, chicken, beef, fish ball, tofu, mee, squid, ham, sausage.....can't stop eating!

The one that played most important role in the whole bbq steamboat session..

Bobby served me this - Dry Tomyam Yee Mee, not bad! Thanks bob!

I said thanks, but never asked you to act cute!

The birthday boy wanted to serve me, what an honour!

Look at his skill, thanks again!

Food food food! Eat as much as you can!

I still remember last time the fire burned your hair, or is it DD's? How about this time?

Not Haagendazs nor Baskin-Robbins, but still nice =)

After struggling for 4 hours, here is the result.

Even this friend also R.I.P, Amen.

This business of this restaurant is still running well, full house on weekdays. This photo taken around 8pm++, still empty.

Give a try if you're in Serdang, I would say it's one of the must-try restaurant in Serdang. =)

Random Shots

2009-05-04T11:40:00.005+08:00

Long time didn't arrange my noob shots. Pros are welcomed to give comments. Thanks!

1) Exposure: 1/100, Aperture: F5, ISO: 100

Taken from LRT Sri Petaling, added the fake bokeh lol.

2) Exposure: 1.6, Aperture: F3.7, ISO: 100

Taken this near the lake next to Plaza Kelana Jaya.

3) Exposure: 1/6, Aperture: F2.8, ISO: 200

Obviously at Starbucks, added more bokeh.

4) Exposure: 1/8, Aperture: F2.8, ISO: 320

Snapped from one of the restaurant @ Tesco Bandar Utama. Added more bokeh too.

5) Exposure: 1/3.2, Aperture: F4.5, ISO: 100

Fountain between The Curve & Tesco. Added some bokeh.

6) Exposure: 1/4, Aperture: F2.8, ISO: 400

This photo never PS before. Just played around with the flash.

7) Exposure: 1/30, Aperture: F2.8, ISO: 100

Chicken chop @ William's @ Taman Mayang Jaya, PJ. The food is very pricey for me lol. Is the bokeh made the photo worse? Looks too fake? Maybe because of the flash, the place is very dark.

8) Exposure: 8, Aperture: F2.8, ISO: 100

Wondering what is this? Too bad I won't give you any hints. Kinda cool?

10) Exposure: 8, Aperture: F4.8, ISO: 100

The water tank at the back of my house. Of course it doesn't look as nice as taken from DSLR with ND filter.

11) Exposure: 8, Aperture: F2.8, ISO: 100

Taken outside my house. The beauty of 8 seconds haha. Does it look like a paint?

12) Exposure: 8, Aperture: F3.8, ISO: 100

Sri Petaling park. The white balance of the camera is really terrible, whether is auto or manual, especially pointing to white or green colour.

13) Exposure: 4, Aperture: F3.2, ISO: 100

Bukit Jalil Stadium. Too bad the light of the stadium is off.

14) Exposure: 2, Aperture: F3, ISO: 100

Savanna Bukit Jalil condos & KLPH @ night.

15) Exposure: 1.3, Aperture: F2.8, ISO: 100

Another angle of KLPH.

16) Exposure: 2, Aperture: F2.8, ISO: 100

Car tail light. Taken on the overhead bridge outside Green Packet office @ Jalan Travers.

17) Exposure: 2, Aperture: F3, ISO: 100

Different angle of tail light. Taken inside my car.

18) Exposure: 1.6, Aperture: F2.8, ISO: 100

The speed of light.

Game Review - The Godfather II

2009-04-30T10:42:00.005+08:00

The Godfather II is a latest video game based on the movie The Godfather Part II. Obviously, the game is slightly different from the movie. In the game, you act as the main character "Dominic", a dude who appointed to become a new Don for Corleone family. Your job is to defend your family, take over all the rackets, and defend the rackets from other familes in New York, Cuba, and Florida.

Have you gotten your copy yet? Oh ya, it's rated "18", not suitable for kids haha.

My crew members and our ride. The new features of this episode are, you can choose your own crews. Every dudes has his individual skills, whether they are Arsonist - the one who setup fire and bomb the building, Engineer - the one who cut down the fence, crack the safe, cut down the electricity, Medic - the one who brought you back from death, and more. You also can order them to defend the rackets when other famillies are attacking and trying to take over your rackets. Depends what favors you wanted from them, choose the crews wisely.

This is the map of Florida. Each of the rackets has 1 owner, you need to go there and fight with the other families, and then take over the racket from the owner.

The funny thing is, most of the owners always hiding on the rooftop haha. Sometimes you just need to search every corner of the building to get him/her.

Ask the engineer to cut down the electricity before starting the war. Or else, the enemy will call their bosses and get reinforcement via the phone lol

Ask the bomber to break the wall using dynamites and pay a surprise visit.

In the game, you can do whatever you want to do. Rob the bank whenever you are lack of cash is just an example. You can kill anyone you want, innocent people, cops, anyone. Other than that, you also have many sub missions in order to complete certain missions. Example, you need to do favor for people to get information of the location of enemy's crews and eliminate them. You also can do favor for cops or bribe them so that they can stay away from you when anything happens.

There are many prostitutes and dancers in the club. Feel free to flirt them whenever you feel bored.

If you feel bored again, feel free to shoot on the street lol.

There are many ways of execution, this is 1 of the execution style - Pistol Execution.

Superkick Execution.

Magnum Execution.

Tommy Gun Execution.

After taking down all the rackets that belonged to a family, that family's campaign will be unlocked. It's time to rush in and kill anyone you see, of course, kill the big big boss. At last, don't leave the house empty, order your crew and take it down.

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I knew the gameplay of this Godfather II and GTAIV is quite similar, but since I haven't played GTAIV, I can't state any comments and differences. Another gangster/mafia game is coming real soon - Mafia II.

The dvd case cover hasn't out yet, I assumed this is just the temporary logo?

The picture quality is really impressed me. So far, the trailers and screenshots already out, really looking forward to this game. Hope it is much nicer than Mafia I.

Another 50's gang fight game weeee...

Yeah! Shoot the motherfucker!

Few more months to wait zzzz..can't wait to play it!

P/S: I rate The Godfather II 5 out of 10. Due to the stupid bugs and noob AI, the game also getting low rating from other famous game sites.

Where The Hell Is Linkin Park??

2009-04-21T10:23:00.004+08:00

Few months ago, I bought a new CD/DVD "Linkin Park - Road To Revolution". A not so hardcore LP fans of me, how could I missed it? It's acutally a Pro-shot concert live @ Milton Keynes, England back in 2008. Compared to their previous similar released "Linkin Park - Live In Texas" in 2003, this is better in term of the video quality, audio quality, and also the angle movement. Unlike Live In Texas, the audio of this Road To Revolution is more to live wheareas Live In Texas is highly edited and sound like studio-live.

The cover of the CD/DVD.

Open it, you will get the CD, DVD...

Of course, and also the small photo booklet covering the individual and band photos.

Chester Bennington

Brad Delson

Joe Hahn

Some screen capture from the DVD, look at the crowd man..I wished I was there lol..

Another angle from the stage, can't imagine you are one of the "ant"...lol

The crazy screamer - Chester Bennington

Like always, scream his lung out..

Rob Bourdon - The 10000 rpm hand..

The crazy rapper - Mike Shinoda

Brad Delson :"Wanna fight? LAI!"

Dave "Phoenix" Farrell - Back pain and falling down lol

DJ Joe Hahn

His gears..

After they released the last single "Leave Out All The Rest" from the album "Minutes To Midnight" and ended their tour in August 2008, they seemed like disappeared from the news, so where the hell are they? According to Mike Shinoda's blog - www.mikeshinoda.com, Mike revealed that they had back to studio at Hahn's home and started recording new album. The fourth album was expected in early next year (2010).

Taken from mikeshinoda.com

Look at Mike, see how concentrate he is haha..

Taken from mikeshinoda.com

I guess is fun to sit down together and writing/thinking songs in the studio, though I don't know to play any of the musical instruments.

Taken from mikeshinoda.com

I can't believe myself started listening to their music since the debut album "Hybrid Theory" in 2000. Until now, I still love their music although they changed their style from nu-metal, rap-rock, alternative rock (Hybrid Theory, Meteora) to something else (Minutes to Midnight). According to Chester, the new album will be a concept album, but they didn't really release many specific details about the album. So, what does it mean? Another surprise? Anyway, no matter what style they gonna change, I believe it sure acceptable by LP fans. Don't disappoint me, LP rocks forever =)

My Bad Experience In DoTA Tournaments

2009-04-03T14:39:00.005+08:00

Few months ago, UCpro has hosted their 1st tournament - UCgames. A noob like me has never joined a tournament before, and since it was free, I joined it without thinking twice. The members of the team for this tournament is selected randomly by the admins, meaning you can't find your own team members. Unfortunately, the captain of my team was just a lcly kid who claimed himself was a WCG player before, blah blah blah and stuff like that. Not sure it was fate or what, I was chosen as a substitute player, lmao? My 1st tournament in my life but chosen as substitution HAHAHAHA. But on the fighting day, one of my team member was sicked and asked me to play for him :D weeeeeeeee. Finally got chance to play! MANA TAU when the game began, I kena the most annoying error message from Warcraft 3 "Fatal error". So the game forced to remake and guess what? It came out again! So remake another time. In the 3rd time, I kena again before the game even started :D. So I gave up and called the sick guy to play for me haha. That's my 1st game, result? What do you think? A kid captain with lcly attitude, I assume you have the answer. lol

Photo taken from ucpro.my

Last month, UCpro hosted 2nd tournament - UCdota. This time, they allowed to find your own team ^^. Without further thinking, I texted all "pui" members and asked their opinion. Due to unforeseen circumstances, 2 of the pui members have unstable working hour, they can't join us. In the end, our pui ex-member dunkillm3 (previously known as k2-vocal) and Bobby's friend - justnoob (Sean) have joined us for the tournament. If not mistaken, our opponent is a bunch of kids cuz most of their IGN (In-game name) are the characters from Doraemon. Their team name is "Ang ang ang", theme song from Doraemon? So the teams line up would be :

[pui]MingKAI, [pui]Bobbyd, DunKillm3, justNoob, -pui-nAoKI, [pui]yinyuan (sub)

Sinyu, Giant, Nobita, Doraem0n, Shizuka

Result? Expected lose, and kena tapau in 35 mins :D. 2 of the members changed their heroes in last min, and our team just like the sand, no teamwork at all. Yes, that's the style and signature of our team, famous of AFK and no teamwork, each of us just like street fighter lol. Well, I was quite upset of our result although it was expected. We just lack or teamwork and experience. Perhaps we could do it better in the coming tournament? The answer is NO!

Photo taken from ucpro.my

Finally, all the pui members were able to join the UCpro's 3rd tournament - IMBAlanC 09. This tournament is a bit different from other tournaments. 4 seasons, 6 countries, 64 teams, 448 players, USD $10000 and 1 glory. It's bigger and more attractive than previous tournaments. If you lucky this time, you are able to fight with other counties like Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei, and Vietnam.

Photo taken from ucpro.my

Though the champion is only USD $550, but compare to UCdota which is RM250 + merchandises, this is much much higher. After completed the registration, we were damn excited about it. We trained our heroes, teamwork, items almost every night. We discussed our plan like heroes, items, opponent's common heroes, playstyle, etc, but we missed out 1 thing, analyze their replay. We did expect this would be another lose game, but we did try our best, didn't we?

The opponent was Synx, they lost their game in the semi-final game in UCdota. 5 of them played under the same roof cuz admins detected that they were sharing a same IP. Of course, teamwork was better since they seated together (excuse lol). The game was really terrible and we kena sapu 9 9 in 25 mins haha. No doubt, their teamwork was really decent. The teams line up were:

[pui]MingKAI, [pui]BobbyD, [pui]Aced, [pui]yinyuan, [pui]lasenza, -pui-naoki(sub)

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Siryx, Fantastic, VitaminC, PremiumHeart, aLoser

How did I feel about the result? Besides disappointed it's still disappointed, disappointed, and disappointed. It's really strange, though I expected it was a lose game, but I have no idea why disappointed still came for me. Perhaps I did put effort on planing everything with the team, no idea. After the tournament, [pui] has officially disbanded? [pui]Aced, [pui]lasenza, and -pui-naoki have quited DoTA due to frustration and persuited their other hobbies/interests. Will they ever come back to DoTA? No one knew about it, what I knew is left me and [pui]BobbyD haha, like old times.

At last, I wanna thank everyone to make it happen, special credit to [pui]yinyuan cuz he rushed back from meeting just for a lose game lol, appreciated it. Though it was a lose game, at least we officially formed a team and played in tournament before haha. Thanks everyone =)

Different Way To Celebrate Valentine's Day?

2009-03-25T15:52:00.004+08:00

What will couples usually do on Valentine's Day? Went to cinema for movies? Spend a whole day at some unforgettable places? Candle light dinner in some 5 star high class hotels? But being a kiamsiap noob like me, I can't afford to buy an expensive candle light dinner for her. So again, we decided to cook it again. Though it was not as tasty as Chili's, TGIF, etc, but I guessed we had a wonderful day? Fighting in the kitchen? lol

The "boss" of the day, lamb shoulder bought from Carrefour. Anyone can advice me where and what to buy is fresher and nicer? Carrefour or Tesco? Lamb shoulder or lamb leg?

Marinated with this HP sauce and thousand island for salad.

Marinated it before the day..

Side dish of the day - French Frieds

Soup of the day - Mushroom Soup

Dessert of the day - Toblerone Chocolate

Golden brown frieds..frying really needed patience..zz

Hem...looks not so bad..hehe..

Chef of the day - MingKAI

Joleen in-charged of the soup.

Thumb's up..means the soup is drinkable :P ?

Love shape salad + thousand island = perfect :D

Who said MingKAI can't cook? You dare me?

Joleen double thumb's up ^^ . Can't wait to finish it hehe...

A very simple but creative and nice couple T-shirt ^^

P/S: Not sure is whether the lamb's quality or my noob skill, it didn't taste like what we used to eat at the restaurant haha. The meat is harder than usual and really hard to cut. Overall I quite satisfied everything except the lamb chop..sigh..gambateh!

Lunchai Genting Trip @ 08/02/2009 - 10/02/2009 - Day 3

2009-03-23T23:56:00.005+08:00

Last day of the trip, all of us GG til unable to wake up. But still, we forced ourself to wake up due to the breakfast was going to end at 10:30am haha.

We reached there around 9:30am, you can see many aunties, uncles, kids, families. But only 1 thing is never changed, the food lol. I assume everyday is the same?

Beans, mee, eggs, hams, breads, nasi lemak, milk, tea, orange juice...etc...every thing is the same..

Yummy!

Lebon has queued like 15 mins for this Loh Bak Gou (罗白糕). Looks delicious and tempting right? But after the 1st bite, you won't feel like eating it anymore lol

Lebon and the fengsui statue of the restaurant.

Before we checked-out, time for last round haha..

Erm..1 carton of Heineken..24/4 = 6..Alvin said he's quite surprise that we had finished it haha..

Time to go back..but these 3 ah bek still wanna act cute..

Lebon said he wanna take this gold back..

But Alvin said he wanna take the "Genting" instead lol..

Erm...anyone??

Good bye Genting, will come back next year =)

Lunchai Genting Trip @ 08/02/2009 - 10/02/2009 - Day 2

2009-03-22T13:04:00.004+08:00

Good morning Genting, after taken our junk food as breakfast, we started our in-house gaming again.

Thanks to lunchai, I lost 9 9 to them. Afterall, they decided to treat me Kenny Rogers for lunch haha.

Since lost 9 9 last night, we decided to revenge again!

No surprise, look at his face, you know the result.

Lame pose.

Er.....loser also not bad, at least got free Mocha lol, thanks Wosip!

Suddenly, something noisy appeared in the sky. Fireworks, yes, that day was 初十五.

Fireworks #2

Fireworks #3

Fireworks #4

Fireworks #5

After Coffee Bean session, we took a walk and photographed some photos.

Gay pose #1

Gay pose #2 =). I love the night weather @ Genting, it's really cold and nice. We then back to our room and started the drinking session. As usual, I was the one who KO by them lol. Good night for Day 2!

Lunchai Genting Trip @ 08/02/2009 - 10/02/2009 - Day 1

2009-03-20T09:13:00.005+08:00

Every CNY, lunchai will go up to Genting to find Uncle Lim. Though we went up every year, but myself never felt boring at all. Bring some food, bring some beer, go up there, collect debts, enjoy the weather, Hehehaha in the room, relax, forget the stress that we used to have it in office, and etc are the things we did every year in Genting. But this year had some changes, I was one of the driver lol. Believe it or not, this was my first time driving up the hill. Thank God Lebon bought his insurance and very patient, cuz I drove very slow haha.

We dropped by Petronas near Tesco MRR2 to get icecube.

Then bought some rubbish from Tesco. Ready for party...

MingKAI on the road lol...

On the way of going up, this BMW keep following my back and very impatient. After awhile, he lost his patience and accelerated max til way up. Must be some moron who can't wait to lose..

Yeah..Saturday, this is what you get when you reach the top...

Unfortunately, there is another moron who keep blowing the muffle and cut my queue. Thought his number plate like this (JI5IS) = Jesus? should be very manner? Mana tau cut my queue and gave us a lcly face zzz...

Finally reaching the hotel wee...look at the fog..like the movie "The Mist"

We finally check-in the room and started our own game. Playing black jack, this bastard damn lucky and got triple "7" Zzz..

Moment later, the same bastard won it with this lucky star (jelly). A, 4, 4, 6, 6, is that poker game?

Not sure this loser lost 9 9 kah? Or tired?

After a break, it's time for dinner...

No surprise, First World Plaza was very crowded.

The fastest and cheapest food in Genting? Fast food? What else could it be? Oi, I know I have a big mouth ok?

Smoker(Alvin) used to smoke after dinner, so we decided to go out and had a walk.

Dinner - done, smoke - done, it's time to fight Uncle Lim. Eventually, we came out from the casino with empty pocket. Perhaps we just left few bucks to play with "ball"? We used to play basketball everyday in our school day, but had stopped it when we stepped into working life, we're getting older and older T.T

I believe sport and arcade (now is more to CC) are the favorite for yongster. There is no exception for us, we used to hang out for basketball & King of Fighters (arcade) hehe. Look at Lebon, he wanted to find back his memory, acting pro shooter in Time Crisis 3 lol

One acting pro shooter, another acting pro pilot??

After gaming in arcade, we back to our room and started mini game again ^^

That's for Day 1, good night Genting =)