Back to Penang

Hello... i will be away from office till 3rd January 2006. Friend kahwin la, as photographer me... hehehehe

no update of blog till then.......

冬至快乐

冬至到了,又大一岁了.刚刚吃了汤圆,应该说21st Dec 2005 晚上十一点多吃了汤圆.左边的图是我和佩玲昨晚煮的.冷冻,RM 2.99/.pack, 巨人超级市场有得卖.当然糖水是我自己煮的.

B2K Year End Gathering 2005

Hello all, after some last minute invitation and planning, 10 persons were appeared that night. Me, Pui Ling, Chee How & Wife to be, Yang Ping & Wife to be, Boon Keat, Wai Kong, Ka Jin & Kwang Hui. Mun Wai gave aeroplane last minute. Weng Chung sick and dunwan to come.

Dinner started about 8 pm till 10.30 pm. Talk a lot la, from North to South, then travel to East Malaysia. Even called Kenny to disturd him.

Actually that night, ah Mok was in Subang Jaya having mamak tea with friends la. Dare to call me about 11 pm. mah deh.

Kenny even proposed to have our B2K Year 2006 gathering in Kuching. Any comment? high cost ler, better still he sponsor the air tickets la. Stay in his house.

For next year gathering, i propose some one else do it la, i am not that free anymore, you know la.

Pokok Semalu

This malu-malu tree picture i took while waiting for Pui Ling to finish her "INKUIRI DANDANG STEAM" at her factory. Time about 2.30 pm.

F number: F2.9

Speed: 1 / 118s

Metering Mode: Centre Weighted Average

Mode: Super Macro

Focal Length: 5.8 mm

ISO: 64

Another Big Day - Chee How

oh... B2K frens recently got a lot of good news ler... this 31st December 2005 is Yang Ping Big Day. Now is the Big Day for Chee How, will register at Thean Hou Temple this 7th Jan 2006, one week after YP.

See how happy both of them......

Let celebrate !!!!!!

Sunset - Bukit Belimbing, Balakong

Sunset always is the most beautiful moment, but also the shortest. So i like to snap those kind of photos, i think most of my collections are related to sunset. From my house here, my house in Batu Ferringhi, go to hiking at Gunung Ledang, the waste treatment pond in Ipoh near Yang Ping house, sunrise and sunset at the middle of Gunung Tahan .....

The photo took by using compact digital camera only. Ok la, this camera, Olympus Camedia C370, boleh tahan. Close-up up to 3 cm only, very close.....

Grandma, Mother & Daughter

Check the photo, what you can see? funny huh? This is the plant at my company's factory in Batu Caves. The young leaf is growing on the older leaf, and these two generations still attach to grandma. Even plant know how to "stay" together for 3 generations, how about Man ?


This is brothers and sisters, sitting close to each other. Good relationship....

My House in Pg - Part 1

My House - part of Front View

For your information, my house in Penang, Batu Ferringhi will be demolished soon. I will take a lot of photos, everywhere, in the house till outside, surrounding area, trees, animals, sands, drain, grass, insects.............. since i was born there in 1976, till now, a lot of changes, my house from short become long, my playground from big to small (cause neaby area being used for housing area, i mean illegal type), the trees from short to tall, then become short again (being chopped), my bicycle (3 wheels cycle) become BMX, then Metal Frame Road Bike, then Mountain Bike, and of course me la, from little boy become a man with wife and my little dragon next year. Things change a lot, a lot. Grandfather and grandmother from young become old old man and woman, everyone grow older.

My house, actually is one of the 4 houses that built on this ground dated back to early 1900. Imagine, my grandfather was born in Penang and age nearly 90, so does my grandmother. Almost 100 years my Sim's Family settle in Penang, and this house too. But now, the house is gonna to be demolished soon, maybe next year, maybe another 2 or 3 years or more. What ever thing that gonna to happen in the future, whether this piece of land will become high end condo, or part of the coastal road that lead to Teluk Bahang, i hope that we, all the cucu cicik of Sim's Family, will always unite, forever.

My Grandfather's Garage

My grandfather's garage, used to keep his Bus Sekolah. Then his car, after that my uncle's VW van, now empty, just for hanging of cloths. haha. My grandfather use to sleep on the "1st floor" of this garage, but moved to "ground floor" at "East Wing" after this structure was declared as "unsafe", will runtuh anytime.

Jap's BOMB !!!

This is the Bomb that Japanese Zero War Plane dropped on top of Penang. My uncle found it on the beach Batu Ferringhi some time ago. It is "dead" and i will keep it. This is one of my "toy" during my childhood, kekeke. Give it to my little dragon to play next time.

Drilling Machine
One of the item in my grandfather's garage: Drilling Machine. Not from Bosch. Old fashion type, fully manual, use hand to drill. One of the experiment instrument for me when i was young. Still workable, no problem at all, just need to change the drill bit.

ok..To be continued next time .....

Male Pregnancy

Man can get pregnant? Wow, cant imagine that. But this guy Lee Ming Wei from Taiwan got pregnant. So if Boon Keat if you want to have the feeling of becoming pregnant, try this out. Maybe one day, in this earth all man need to share the responsibility to produce the next generation, not only women only.

Boon Keat, think about it!!!!!

Below is the Story

In the years since the first "test tube baby" was born in 1978, physicians and scientists from RYT Hospital have been working to develop a viable technique for the successful impregnation of male individuals. Illustrated to the right is a recent radiographic image of Mr. Lee, the first human subject to attempt this procedure, which shows the healthy fetus developing in his abdominal cavity.

HORMONESOral doses of female hormones were administered to Mr. Lee to make him receptive to the pregnancy.

IMPLANTATIONIVF techniques were used to induce an ectopic pregnancy by implanting an embryo and placenta into the abdominal cavity, just under or into the peritoneum (the surrounding lining). There is a severe risk of massive hemorrhage when the ectopic ruptures; this is also the most common cause of women dying in pregnancy.

EMBRYO GROWTHOnce implantation was complete, Mr. Lee stopped taking hormones, because the pregnancy itself, as expected, took over. The embryo secretes sufficient hormones to maintain its own growth and development.

GROWTH OF THE FETUSThe duration of the pregnancy has been surprisingly normal, i.e. fetal heart monitoring, chorionic villus sampling, ultrasound scanning (as seen on this web site), and a constant watch over Mr. Lee's health and his enlarging stomach.

DELIVERYThe delivery will requires open surgery (Cesarean section) to remove the baby and the placenta. Removal of the placenta is the real danger because it forms such intimate connections with surrounding vessels that massive hemorrhage is likely. Implantation may have also involved other structures in the abdomen, including the bowel and it is possible that parts of other organs may need to be removed. Several physicians who are well-accustomed to advanced and dangerous forms of ectopic pregnancies will be on-hand to handle any complications.

check the site: http://www.malepregnancy.com

B2K Year End Gathering 2005

hoho....for your info. below are the B2K that will attend the gathering.

1. Sim
2. PL
3. Ai Wah
4. Boon Keat
5. Yang Ping
6. Weng Chung
7. Ka jin (Maybe)
8. Hui
9. Wai Kong (Maybe)
10. Mun Wai (maybe)
11. Chee How


ok la...ngam ngam for one table.
again, the venue of the dinner is near South City, Seafood. Time 7.30 - 8.00 pm, 17 Dec 2005, Saturday.

Saturday 10 Dec 2005 - Dinner & Gym

Saturday 10 Dec 2005 - Dinner & Gym at Bukit Belimbing, 6 pm. Dinner will be served at 8 pm. BK n KJ, u r invited.

Kam Meng in Bali now with my Nikon F401x.

Yang Ping - THE BIG DAY

Another coursemate marry offically. Guess who, is Yang Ping and Ley Poh, our junior!!!!

YP, welcome to our "group".

Come and join the party on this 31 December 2005 (Saturday) about 1.00 pm at Thain Hou Gong Temple. However, i am not able to join la, i will be away to Penang and become photographer for my friend's wedding, and will be back on 2 Jan 2006.

Surprise huh everyone, yeah.... Life is full of colour . KJ & BK, when is your turn?

Little Daniel - product of Ally & Paul

Daniel - 6 months old

mmm... very big size hoh... Ally, start to train him to become world class squash player, swimmer, cyclist. Bring him to swim so that will become another Lim Keng Liat, at age 5, teach him to play squash and become Ong Beng Hee and start cycling too age 6 to become Lance Amstrong. If you takut, bring him to Boon Keat, BK will train him to become a triathlete. hehe

ehhh.... he look like who ler....

BLR INCREASED !!

finally BLR increase fom 6.0% to 6.25%. Yesterday BCB announce, today maybank & Citibank, i heard also AM Bank will increase to 6.25% too. Tension only, mean that need to pay more la next month onward.

CANON Launched New Pro dSLR

Last week me and Kam Meng attended the seminar organised by Canon Malaysia at Royale Bintang Hotel, Jalan Bukit Bintang. Early morning the road was close for rehearsal for 11th Asean Summit. The morning session was quite boring la, afternnon session was more interesting, conducted by Ian Llyod, Canadian. He is a pro photograher and contribute photos to National Geographic, and others. According to Canon, they will organize more seminar in the future, and Ian Llyod will be the guest. FOC canon photography book, Professional Digital Photography Guide Book, freen lunch, tea break, nice Canon girls, can try on various type of Digital Cameras.

EOS 1Ds Mark II, 5D, 1D Mark II N

Below is the Spec of Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II, it has 45 points AF. Price? Wow !! RM 29,999.00, body only. But we do try EOS 5D (12.8 Mega Pixels), very good, very very fast focusing, 9 point AF. Price only RM 14,499.00 only, i like this model compared to EOS 350D, which after i tried EOS 5D. Canon EOS 1D Mark II N (8.2 MPixel, 45 points AF), RM 24,999.00 only.

For further information, visit www.canon.com.my


The EOS-1Ds Mark II is the sixteen (point seven) megapixel successor to the EOS-1Ds which was announced almost exactly two years earlier. Carrying on from the EOS-1Ds the Mark II has a full size 35 mm (36 x 24 mm) sensor which means it introduces no field-of-view crop, an 18 mm lens on this camera will provide exactly the same field-of-view as it would on a 35 mm film camera. At first glance it's clear to see that Canon has stuck (as they did with the EOS-1D Mark II) with the same body and control layout.

Despite the significant jump in resolution from the EOS-1Ds (11 mp) to the EOS-1Ds Mark II (16.7 mp) the camera maintains an impressive four frames per second shooting rate and a buffer large enough for 32 JPEG or 11 RAW images. The EOS-1Ds Mark II's internal bus throughput of approximately 67 megapixel/sec is virtually identical to the eight megapixel EOS-1D Mark II.

MY FATHER STALL - SOON TO SAY GOODBYE

Just got the news from my mum that my father stall at Batu Ferringhi will be torn down soon. Local Government will build the 3 story complexe. All the hawker stall will be moved to 3rd floor and all the fast food restaurant like KFC, pizza hut, McD...... will be on the ground floor.

hai, life still need to go on. no choice la. Go to my mum stall la, char koay teow and fried oyster at night.

time for my father to release some burden, also indirectly increase my pressure.

WATER DROPLET

Camera: Olympus Camedia C370
Shutter: 1/9.1 sec
F number: 2.9
Mode: Super Macro
Metering Mode: Center Weighted Average

The picture was taken after raining day. Now i knew how to read the Histogram after i went to the seminar.

MY WIFE & ME AT KIM GARY, SG WANG

Suppose to have dinner with her during our wedding aniversary, but suddenly she is not feeling weel, so kena postpone loh.....

So finally had the dinner on 23rd October 2005 with sister, group of colleagues, leng lui & leng chai. This is the picture taken during my wife's pregnancy of 21 weeks. Pretty mah. For your information, she is now toward 27 weeks of pregnancy. Getting tension also me, but i am very happy about it, no pain no gain mah..hahaha

BIOTECH 2000 MAMAK TEA BREAK

Please be informed that there will be a Mamak Tea Break propose on 17 Dec 2005 at Serdang, Selangor.
For those who are able to attend, living some where around in klang valley, from the north, from the south, from East Malaysia, what so ever, or you feel like wanna to have a chat after some time never chat, since my wedding, Ally's wedding, and Chia Sean's wedding, come and join the MaMaK TeA BrEaK !!!!

For your info, Yang Ping is coming back on the 1st week of Dec. Chee How is in Malaysia now, NOW !!!

For further details, kindly contact BK 016-5319230 or me 012-4081896....

yeahhhhh

MIST ATTACKED BKT BELIMBING, BALAKONG

Woke up in the early morning Saturday, me and my wife saw this, quickly i took the picture. It is like living on top of Genting Highland. Recently, the weather is good to sleep la, no need air-cond. There was heavy and long hour rain on that night, therefore mist is there la. You can't even see the sun ler, hide behind the mist.

This is the second time i experienced it. The first time was last year September, when i was just move in before my wedding day.

Le Tour de Langkawi

Le Tour de Langkawi Takes Off Again From Feb 3-12 2006

Time to prepare another Blue Ride next year, won't miss it this time, like this year, where we (me, TBK & Patrick) joined Penang International 12 hr walking competition and miss the Blue Ride. But till now, the official web site no even a single news on the event, very lousy.

Need to polish my bike la, dusty and front wheel sudah bocoh angin, need to change inner tube. TBK, find a day, we go and cycling la, around S.K. area, i do cycle, but alone, sian one and no motivation to push beyond limit, not like last time.

FINALLY I MET TAN BOON KEAT !!!

Just when i want to call him through phone, his happy family (sister, sis bf and TBK) talked to PL, sitting next to us, having dinner near his house.

For the past 4 month, maybe more than that, we try to meet each other, by either side, cannot make it. Having mamak tea break at nite prior to 1st day Hari Raya, he can't make it, balik kampung konon-nya. Thinking the next mamak stall tea break will be somewhere Dec 1st week la, when our YP come back from Swiss....... to do some big "thing". Then we can have all night long party at my house, after mamak stall tea break.

Still, NCL is not availabl, got to wait till next year ler.

ehhh.... according to TBK, he saw Chee How in Selangor.... Why ? Why ? aren't he suppose in UK ? ..... KJ, find out more, please..........

Sunset at Bukit Belimbing, Balakong
(Landscape mode, Olympus Camedia C-370)

This photo was taken around 7 pm, but you cannot see the sun because the sun is at opposite side of this tower (i am facing to the East), it is just the reflection of the light to the cloud.

ONE MORE COLLEAGUE RESIGN!!!

Maybe the economic is too good? always have staffs resign looking for better offer or it is because too tension working nowaday, among colleagues, boss what so ever, have to find some way out to release the pressure.

To Mas (5th from left), May the Force be with you, Always.........

SUNSET
(taken using Olympus Camedia C-370, Night Scene Mode, time 7.30 pm, Shah Alam Seksyen 27)

Recently the sky always display nice sunset, according to my wife, it is due to hot weather.... is it link?? I dunno.