Happy New Year 2008

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Merdeka, Malaysia 50th Birthday, video of jet flying

A video of jet flying across the skies practicing for 31st August 2007, Malaysia 50th Birthday

Just to let you guys know...

I would like to say sorry for not updating frequently I have been busy going around and taking photos. I am a bit hooked into photography right now. I have since taken more than 6,500 photos since November last year. Below is some photos I took recently. Now actively in flickr and my photoblog

My wish.....

Last week, my wife was back here in KL for the weekend. As usual we went out and do some shopping. One of the places that we normally go is Low Yat. As I walked down the stairs of the bridge that connects Berjaya leading to Low Yat, I catch a glimpse of an old man. I walked towards him; I notice that he is holding a fried chicken drumstick...

As he takes in a bite, I could see his hand is shaking, probably due to hunger. He was begging by the road side. The drumstick could be given by some Good Samaritan. I walks towards him, I squat down, I will normally do that if the beggar is an elderly. I took out some money, when I put the money to his bowl; I notice that the other hand was actually partially crippled. It was cut off from elbow downwards. I open up my wallet again and I took out all my lose changes and empty it all into his bowl. As I was doing that our eyes meet, I could see his eyes fill with thank you and mine is almost close to tears....

After 10 minutes walking, my heart is still wrenching with a tingle of pain. I regretted, thinking that I should gives more. When we were walking back, we no longer see him around. I hope the authority did not take him away. I wish for all human beings to have the capability to have enough to eat and live life as normally as possible.........

Where is the battery? I can’t makeup without it….

Technology has been improving by leaps and bounds. I guess now even the cosmetic industry has weird invention. Have you come across foundation that needs battery to operate? My wife has just bought one. It will automatically spray droplets of it onto your face when you press a button. How strange? All you need to do is point the opening at your face and as though as you are painting a wall, just spray it across the face and viola it’s done. Its suppose to produce a natural look compare to current "technology"...Strange but true…..so when someone says I could not makeup as I do not have any backup battery, its probably true...

My Singapore pictures in Mosaic...

The "Making" of Roti Ayutthaya Thailand

A video of how one roll up and eat Roti Ayutthaya.....a very famous "dessert" in Ayutthaya of Thailand

And a Picture of the starting

And the Final product

Skytower Ride @ Sentosa Singapore in Video & photo

Picture

Video

SkyRide @ Sentosa Singapore

A video of a fun ride...Fun? hahaha


And a Picture..


In the end all of us, were "burn" by the sun. Now I am still having a round dark brown patch around my neck not to mention my Kopi O face. We were initially quite reluctant to take the ride as my wife is afraid of height and I am afraid of any possible untoward incident which could rob my remaining kidney. However as we have paid for the package which cost around Sgd 55 for the major attraction including the sky ride, we brave ourselves and took the ride. There is no regret, it was fun. Legs hanging, chair swinging a bit and after a strapping ourselves, we are on top of Sentosa island of Singapore absorbing the view. Click here for more info.

My Wife Company Trip @ BangSaen, Thailand, 3rd to 4th Feb 2007 (Video)

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Game (Guys).....

Game (Girls)

Games (Kids)

My Wife Company Trip @ BangSaen, Thailand, 3rd to 4th Feb 2007

I went to my wife company trip or actually its my company thailand "branch" on 3rd and 4th of Feb 2007. It was a trip to a beach famous to the Bangkokians, called BangSaen. It was a fun trip, those who loves seafood will enjoy it. However it has only 20 feets of sand and the rest is filled with beach chairs...

Below is a mosaic of some of the pictures I took, created using Flickr toys. I have yet to upload all the photos.

As a start, a video of the "chaotic" situation at the Tide Resort, with the staff preparing for "games". Will be posting more video later...

Happy Chinese New Year

My Valentine

She do not like this picture but to me in whatever form she is still my beautiful wife, my daily valentine.......

Flowers for my valentine...

Ancient City, Ayutthaya

I am not sure why but there is an urge to travel. This urge magnify during my last trip to Bangkok. I guess its the shutter bug bitting me. I told my wife; let’s go to the ancient city, Ayutthaya. I have been there 11 years ago with another group of colleague but not with my wife.

Ayutthaya is actually under the World Heritage list. It’s was a tiring trip; we started the journey from 8:30 am, reached there at around 10 plus. This follows by trips to the tourist center, lunch, new temples, old temples, old palace and hundred over photo later we arrived back in Bangkok close to 6pm.

There are a lot of interesting place, in some a minimum fee of 30 baht is charged as entrance fee for foreigner and 10 baht for local. We missed some places; one of those is Bang Pa In summer palace, umm maybe another 10 years? I will be gradually posting some of the photos in my Photo Blog.

Dustbin is a rarity in Bangkok Departmental Stores.

If you are in Bangkok now, you will notice one strange thing. Dustbin seems to be missing in major shopping center. I was at Paragon and Central World today. I could hardly find one dustbin. Most has its hole sealed and has become just pure stand for smoker to put off their cigarettes. Why? The bomb lor during New Year, they are plans in the future to install transparent dustbins. Actually one of the bombs was just outside my housing estate, near the junction of the main road, scary? Not enough to scare off shoppers, throng of shopper is still seen crowding the shopping area. I believe Central World is now one of the biggest shopping mall in Thailand. If you have been to the old World Trade Center, then all you need to do is just multiply two that is the size of Central World. It is actually the same old World Trade Center but it’s just with a different name and its fully renovated and extended (at the back), too bad my wallet is still the same size……

@ Bangkok, stricter immigration rules.

Just arrived Bangkok, 2 hours ago, found that the immigration is bit stricter. They asked for boarding pass even though I am going into the country. They are some foreigner who was caught by surprise, I guess most of us will leave it in the plane or throw it away. And they even look through my passport and checked for the number of times and days that I am in Bangkok. I believe this is due to the recent changes in some rules like foreigner cannot spend certain number of days in certain number of months….so be warn, if you are one of those who works in thailand without any permit, you might end returning back immediately.

What I did during New Year 2007...

On the eve, I drove down to Melaka. We booked a night stay at A Famosa Resort. In my life time, this is the 3rd time I have been to Melaka. The first time I was there with my parents. The second time it was with my colleague at my previous company. Melaka is one of the nearest states from KL and it took me 14 years to go there again. It just took us approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes to reach the resort via North South Highway.

We have booked an apartment. It is located at Beverly Hills Condominium. When we reach the reception we were told that we could only checked in after 3pm. Looking at our watch, the small finger is at 2, what do we do with an hour more to go. We decided to make our first tour of the resort, to a place called Animal World. It cost Rm38 per adult.

All types of chicken are found there, big, small, cute and etc. I spend more than 15 minutes, clicking and below is some photos.

On the left is my favorite photo in chicken world. The cute little chick is eying at my camera, as I click it brings up its head and its eye met my lens. As for the photo on the right, I am not sure what crime it has committed but its very sad to see it behind bars. No where to go, cannot even turn around, continue in another post.......