One minute they fight on who gets to sit on the sofa .....
The next moment they can pose for the camera ....
10/07/2008
10/04/2008
09/28/2008
09/26/2008
Menjelang Aidil Fitri
I and a few friends meet up late last night to "make" a photo for this Hari Raya season. The main purpose of the exercise was to practice what we had learned about lighting over the years taking photos, and actually put our skills to the test. Location was in front of my apartment building and the objective was to create a kampung environment on the eve of Hari Raya.
The result of the photo session .....
Some behind the scene shots.
The lighting set up ...
This is how we set up the lemang ... and the fake fire.
And last, but not least .... the people behind the photo shoot. I did not do this alone.
Thanks guys for the fun time and the knowledge we shared.
09/25/2008
It rained yesterday ...
... and saw this and thought I'd make a new wallpaper for my desktop computer.
09/24/2008
You Ain't Heavy .... you're My Granpa ...
Gramps fooling around with his grandson ....
Being a kid again ...
... I had fun with my children tonight, playing with fireworks, sparklers to be exact. I had not updated the kids' album for quite a while already so I took this opportunity to snap some pix.
09/22/2008
Lemang oh Lemang
Sempena menyambut Hari Raya tahun ni, saya ambil kesempatan untuk berkongsi resepi buat lemang ... pictorial style.
memula kita carik buluh. buluh mesti mempunyai ruas yang panjang dan kilit tak terlalu tebal dan tidak terlalu nipis.
Kalau buluh terlalu tebal, lemang lambat nakmasak dan kalau buluh terlalu nipis, nanti lemang tergaring pulak. Tak enak gitu.
Sementara kita potong buluh tu, mak ker, isteri ker, uwan ker boleh tolong cuci beras pulut ...
Sambil tu jugak kena siapkan daun pisang muda untuk buat "lining" lemang. Daun perlu dipotong menepati saiz buluh lemang ... selalunya panjang sikit dari buluh lemang tu.
Perlu diingatkan sekali lagi, lakukan kerja lining buluh lemang ni dengan berhati hati, jangan sampai terkoyak daun pisang tu.
Dah siap dengan buluh, si ta siapkan bahan bahan untuk isinya pulak. Bahan utama adalah pulut dan santan. Tadi pulut dah si bersihkan, sekarang kita perah pulak santan.
tambah garam secukup rasa dan campurkan pulut yang telah dibersihkan tadi. Kemudann bolehlah kita isikan buluh tadi dengan campuran pulut dan santan tadi.
Dah siap isi semua buluh buluh tu boleh la bakar pulak.
Sekarang tunggu la dan kawal api supaya tidak terlalu besar. Proses masak ni dalam masa lbih kurang 3 hingga 4 jam gak tengok ketebalan buluh, dan kawalan api. Sekali sekala kena hentak sikit buluh tu untuk memampatkan pulut.
Sah siap masak boleh makan.
dah siap potong lemang tu, sedap dihidang bersama rendang. Bestttt!!!!
09/17/2008
Holiday Cookies
It's a public holiday here today .... and I baked cookies. Yeah! Holiday cookies.
This time of the year, I bake cookies for Hari Raya ... only one type, chocolate chips cookies, and lots of them. My mother will make one type of biscuits and so will my brother and sister. We then exchange cookies and we will have a variety of biscuits for hari raya.
One drawback to this, is that we'll all have the same cookies for Hari Raya
09/14/2008
Photo Walk @ Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman ... The Photo Story.
Before going down to Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman (Jalan TAR) yesterday, I basically have the photo I'd like to get in my mind. The question was, if I could get to a high vantage point to create the image I wanted. The shot I wanted is a night shot, shot from an elevated angle and shoot at a slow speed to get some motion blur of the people at the night market.
I did not go alone. A couple of my friends was with me yesterday evening. We got to Jalan TAR quite early, around 5:00pm and immediately walked around the busy night market or pasar malam to look for the perfect spot. We went up the buildings along the street, one after another until we got to this spot and all of us were satisfied.
This was what we saw ... and we loved it.
By then. a couple more friends had joined me and we were all tired of climbing up the stairs to the roof top in search for the perfect spot. The time was just not right for the shoot, so we talked, and took photos of each other ...
Here are my friends.
Aishifu
And some are downright eyesores. The the colours are fantastic, though ...
As the day got dark enough, I got the shot I wanted... Just loved the colours. and the movements of the people on the street visiting the stalls. A river of people flowing banked by lighted umbrella of the stalls.
Only after getting what we came for, we got down from the roof top walk along the crowd, snapping some interesting photos. This person here is selling toys to the kids. check out the glasses. Cool eh?
Hari Raya cookies were here, there ... and everywhere.
This guy here, I think, is tired of walking and decided to just sit and wait for his wife doing the cookies shopping.
Balloons were abundant, and these guys were doing good business as parents buy the balloons to to pacify the kids while they do their shopping ...
Tired and hunrgy, all of us agreed to calling it a day by 8:30pm and made our way to dinner before going home.
...and went home tired but satisfied. It was a good outing, got what we wanted, and the company was marvellous. Thanks guys.
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