I have been planning a Malacca trip for a long long time now. Unfortunately, YC doesn’t know his way around Malacca. So the opportunity came when we wanted to take the Kate and JY to get a glance of the past. Seema and Dave came along and I enjoyed myself tremendously!

We went straight after work and dropped by Seremban to have their Famous Beef Noodle.

I love meat. I do. And this beef noodle is wonderful. Yum. It’s in Pasar Besar Seremban and look for lot 748. I don’t think you can miss it.

We head on to Malacca after a short stop at YC’s house to pick up his sister. We went straight to Malacca’s most famous spots - Stadhuys, Christ Church, St Paul’s hill and Porta de Santiago (A Famosa).

The Stadhuys completed in 1660 and it is one of the oldest Dutch building in the east.

The colours of the buildings are in dull red. I spiced this picture a little to bring out the colours. The original colour of the building is the red on the first picture. I love the colours in this town. I can walk for hours and take lots of pictures!

This way up to St Paul’s hill. The hill, once housed the church where long ago, many Portugese Catholics go for prayers. It then became a burial ground for the noble dead by the Dutch. St Francis Xavier frequented this place on his trips to Malacca from China. He was buried here until his incorrupt body was moved to Goa in 1553. The body is now in Basilica of Bom Jesus, Goa. Pictures of St Paul’s hill will be in the next post.

There are many souvenir shops everywhere in Malacca. This is one of them, situated at the bottom of St Paul’s hill.

We headed on to Admiral Zheng He’s (Laksamana Cheng Ho) museum where it told the great wonders of Zheng He’s expeditions.

And from inside the museum is a great view of Stadhuys Square and the mighty clock tower. Outside, Zheng He’s statue was erected in memory of the great explorer.

I am so glad that it didn’t rain. It was very extremely hot though. We had a great time sweating and walking around being all tourist-ish. In fact, we were more of a tourist than Kate and JY are. Which is pretty embarrassing when we had to do many U-turns to find our way around Malacca.

More Malacca photos up next. I still have some more to tweak. Adios!

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We went to Malacca recently and had a fantastic time there. We took the American girls out and brought them to the famous tourist spots. I hoped that they liked it.  We also went for an eating spree and ate all kinds of food. But that’ll be up in the next post. Right now, I am editing my pictures and am pretty swamped at work. Till then, be good!!

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Here’s the chinese version of Bob the Builder. He’s 4 years old. He builds houses and erm, buildings from wooden blocks.

He is known to be mean and vicious!

Up there, that’s his mean mean look. The ‘what do you mean you don’t want to work’ look.

This is his ‘you got to be kidding me’ look, accompanied by his mother in the background.

This is his ‘Ohh……I don’t get it. GET BACK TO WORK!’ look.

This is the ‘oh…I am so sorry but I don’t care’ look.

But at some point, this little Bob the Builder still needs a little help.

This is the ‘Errr…mommy? I need to go to the toilet’ look.

Oh well, I guess tough little macho man still needs help. =)

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**Recommended. Must watch** 

I nearly cried watching this. It’s so touching. I want someone to record my wedding like that….can?

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**Warning: Crazy pictures may cause a bit of a headache. Consider yourself warned.**

So here’s part 2 of my company’s annual dinner. I don’t think I have mentioned this before, but last year’s dinner was the best I have ever attended. The year before wasn’t so bad either (that’s because I was in the committee. heh), only if they didn’t give away prizes for everyone and called it a “lucky draw”. What is a lucky draw when everyone goes back with something (many went back with toasters…don’t ask)?

At the end of dinner last year, the DJ spun some absolutely cool music and some people started dancing. Believe me, it took a LOT of effort to get some people to dance (me!). There are a lot of party goers in my company so dancing isn’t something new to them. Things got a little bit crazy too.

A quick shot before the excitement starts. Charles all happy, doin’ the PEACE sign, Azura- gearing up for the partying, Pris and Carol already getting on to it and Irfan’s face says, “I am going to sleep”. I can’t really see what the Grim is saying. He just looks stunned.

See? Everyone is still playing it safe. They just want to take it slow first. Maybe it was a slow song. I dunno….do I look like I remember details? heheh

Introducing, three-headed Raveena! I love slow sync flash. I had rear flash on so it flashes at the end of the exposure. It’s a combination of slow shutter + flash at the end to freeze the movement. The slow shutter creates the motion. I used my in-built flash and went around taking random shots.

All of a sudden, everyone took turns showing some moves. Naturally, I got dragged into it as well but to cut the story short….it ain’t a pretty sight. They probably wouldn’t invite to dance anymore. Eep!

Check out the moves! Now, why did they make me dance anyway?

Two-headed Raveena! And can you spot two Irfans? I love this shot!

And what is club dancing without the choo-choo train?

What? They don’t do the choo-choo trains in clubs?

What do I know? I dance like a chicken anyway.

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Every morning, when we get home from work, we take Max out for his walk. He loves his daily walks! Whenever we take his leash, he’ll jump excitedly and dash towards the gate. Sometimes, just to be mean, we make him sit and wait while we walk towards the gate and he will just have to sit there and wait for the command. I can assure you, his butt ain’t on the ground. It hovers just above the ground. One very excited doggie.

Can you sense his excitement through this picture??

Stopping to scratch an itch.

Max is a little bit of a sissy. He gets very scared when too many dogs approach him even though they are harmless. Here, 3 dogs are trying to get friendly with him. He gets tensed and won’t move until the smelling session is over.

Here is YC asking me not to take pictures at this corner because there was this huge dog that kept barking and waking people up. It’s 7.30 am after all. Still I managed a quick shot of this. Max getting all fidgety.

YC and Max, against the sunrise.

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Went over to my sister’s place for dinner before work one day. It has been sometime since the sis and I spent time together.

The first sound when I entered the apartment? The sound of someone wailing away like there is no tomorrow. Ahhh, I miss that sound for a month or so. =) After a few minutes, I wished I didn’t miss it at all.

Snapped a couple of shots of the kids with their Uncle YC.

This is too cute. He kept wanting to push his head against Uncle YC.

Ethan peeking out from the book he was pretending to read.

He looks so grown up sometimes that I wonder if he really is 2 years old. Here, he looks like he was sounding me for taking too many pictures.

Ethan watching Ultraman.

And my favourite picture below.

Dylan and Uncle YC watching the trains go by. Look at that cute little buttock! LOL

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Saturday was awesome! We had such a wonderful time at the wedding. I jokingly went up to Lake and told him that it wasn’t even the wedding that we were excited about, it’s the reunion.

But you know I am jokinglah! Of course I am joking!!

FGA had some pretty strict ground rules where photographers are concern. We are not allowed to come out of our seats to take pictures and if we want to take pictures, we can only do so from our seats. Seeing that I sat rather far away and that I don’t have the massive 70-200mm lens yet, I might as well just sit down and enjoy the ceremony. So the only time to take pictures is when the ceremony has ended.

A quick shot of the gang before the ceremony started. The aisle was decorated with beautiful ribbons, I took a snap of it but didn’t have the flash on so it came out really blur.

The happy bride walking in with her dad. That’s Kuan Yaw on the right. And that was it! The only few shots I took from the wedding itself. The rest were just a mess of blur shots because I was too lazy to take out the flash!

The Techflow gang in the eating area. Look at Steven and Ming Lee. tsk. And PG missed this shot cause she was outside talking to Raj.

I love this random shot of Stanley. I like random shots.

Here’s a random one of Gauri. See, random is cool right? If I tell you she’s praying, you’d believe me right? And by the way, she’s not praying. I have no idea what she was doing.

Lake and Melody. Lake had that smile on for the whole day. This is the face of a VERY happy guy.

Gauri and PG trying to act all cute and cuddly. - taken by YC

A shot with John “Jai” Isaac and Raj, originators of the Kench Berak team together with Paul (not pictured here). - taken by YC

A shot with Mun Yee whom we haven’t seen for a long time!

If you know me and my camera well enough, you know individual portraits are a must!! Oh, the picture of YC is taken by PG. Fuh! She can be my 2nd camerawoman already. The picture of the three beautiful women on the left is taken by YC.

The above 2 sets were taken with the 50mm f1.8 lens except for the black and white of the girls. That’s taken with the 18-70mm. No editing except to adjust level.

The flower girl is so cute! When she walked in, she smiled at every single camera pointed her way.

All in all, we had a fantastic time!

Congratulations Lake Keen and Melody! Thanks for inviting us to share this special occassion with you.

p/s: Will post up the whole set in Facebook and will give you guys the link to download the pictures later. At the mean time, enjoy these first.

pp/ss: I just realise that all the pictures here are half body pictures. That’s cause I was wearing a dress and I don’t want to kneel down to take pictures. - oh excuses! -

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My company annual dinner post - Pt 2 will have to wait. Those pictures are in the office. I have them on DVD here but I am very lazy to extract it from there lah.

Sooo, here are pictures from our graveyard shift Dress Up Day! The theme was “Any two colours”. I had fun experimenting with the off camera flash. It created quite a bit of drama.

Kate’s evil eyes. =) She’s the joker of the two americans that are down.

This is Haffiz. He looks pissed off, but he was not. Really. No, really, I am serious. hehe

Kate again. She was annoyed because I kept going around taking pictures. Sheesh woman, chill.

Lol. I love it when he does cute expressions like this.

And the drama unfolds. Catch Drama WK only on NTV20, your feel good company.

We brought Max over to a boarding place for some rehabilitation. Max is extremely afraid of lightning and thunder and has escaped to the neighbour’s house countless times. We’ve decided to make him a man again and let him mix around dogs that are not afraid. Hopefully that will overcome his fear. When Patches was around, Max wasn’t afraid because he was more afraid of Patches bullying him. Oh well, we’ll see how it goes.

p/s: I am interested to go Bagan Lalang (also known as Gold Coast of Malaysia) for a bit of photoshoot. Anybody wanna go? We can go about 4 something (so I can catch the sunset) and then have seafood dinner there. Apparently, the ikan bakar there is Yummy! Let me know!

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YC’s cousin came down for a few days during the wesak weekend so we brought them down to KL for a bit of sight seeing and eating. I thought that it will be a good time to take a few shots of YuChang and his girlfriend. Here are some of my favourite shots.

This is a very common shot. Couple holding hands looking at each other. But I like it.

It was getting a little hot (the weather, I mean..) so he helped her push her hair back. So sweet.

A shot of the handsome dude.

And a shot of the beautiful girl.

I had loads of fun! Thanks you two for letting me experiment with these shots. YC owes you one. The bill’s on him. hehe

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