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Beautiful View Of Penang And Seberang Perai

Recently, I took the ferry from Penang island to the mainland to accompany my grandma to the bus station at the Penang Sentral. And I bought a new lens lately, the Sigma, I brought on-board to take photos. =D

Penang is super famous for the ferry service, it’s free when going to the mainland, but I strongly suggest they should clean the thing because it’s pretty dirty. But I am pretty proud that we have such ferry service ferrying people to a cross the straits. Ferry is not the important past of this post, cut the crap and let’s getting into some nice landscape view of Penang. =D

The left is Penang island and the right is the mainland Seberang Perai near the Penang Port area. You see, they are so near and if there’s a bridge or tunnel connected both area, then it will be damn cool. =D

The lens is so wideeeeeee. OMG. I love my Penang.

June 2, 2011
Penang Canon EOS User Gathering At Coob Cafe

Last Sunday night, I went to Coob Cafe at KOMTAR Walk to meet up with the Penang Canon EOS DSLR users for a little chit-chat and sharing session (some known as TT / Teh Tarik session). Well, since I am in a holiday and so lucky to be back in my hometown while his event happens, so I went to join the EOS DSLR user for a little gathering to make friends and try some power gear. =D

These lens total up can buy a car. I am serious.

I actually got the invites from Facebook and I knew one of them. It’s a good sharing session because I get to played with some powerful lenses and learn about some photography stuff, as you know I am still very noob in photography even though I have been playing for quite a long time, yet my interest in photography has not faded yet.

As you know, I just bought a new lens lately, the Sigma, so I shared it out too. One thing, my camera was the oldest at there, using the Canon EOS 400D, what a classic. Even though it’s old, I am still loving it, it’s still powering my blog with all the awesome photos.

Somehow, I am thinking of upgrade, just that I don’t have enough money for it yet. So in the mean time of saving it, I am still sticking with my lovely 400D. =D

Played 2 L lenses at there, one was the 70-200 F2.8L and another one was the 100mm F2L. L lens is the top of the lines and the most high quality Canon photographic lens, people like to say L stands for luxurious. For your information, an L lens, the cheapest one is about RM2.8k. Expensive right? Photography is really an expensive hobby. However, the photo quality is superb!

Please support my sponsors (advertisement on blog) more so I can save more money to upgrade my photography gear. =D

Do you like photography?

June 1, 2011
ADV: Play The Cadbury Malaysia Choclairs Choco Boom Pop It or Drop It

Yoyoyo people, friends, and everyone, still remember last time I talked about the Cadbury Choclairs Pop It or Drop It game?

I wonder if you guys played the game or not? My top score kept getting higher and higher, was so close to winning the PSP Go! =D

It’d been some times that I have been playing the Pop It or Drop It game on Facebook and the scores already filled my wall posts.

By the way, what do you think about playing the real “Pop It or Drop It” game, what I mean real is REAL, R-E-A-L with real chocolate explosion and real person on a real ground. You say good or not? =D Not playing with the keyboard already. Yay!

I want to let you know that “Pop It or Drop It” is REALLY coming closer to you. There will be a real competition but details will be announced at their FB page. The finalists will battle out for the grand prize trip to Gold Coast, Australia on-ground!

Play it or not play it, you must come to witness and FEEL the explosion of chocolate. Hmm. Sounds interesting. =D

I wonder what these little grumpees will look like in real life??

Imagine chocolate explosion, flying around, boom boom boom, open your mouth and chocolate falls into it, yum yum. I’m quite excited about it! CHOCLAIRS MAKES PEOPLE HAPPY! Are you ready?!

Stay tuned to Facebook.com/ChoclairsMalaysia to find out more!

May 30, 2011
Sigma 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC Canon Mount

Deng deng deng. I want to welcome a new family member into my camera gear family and that is the super duper ultra wide angle Sigma 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC for the Canon mount. Some might thing that 8-16mm is an fish eye lens and no, it’s really a super duper wide angle lens with little little bit distortion when wide open at 8mm, but still awesome.

Bought these lens at my favourite camera shop, Click N’ Snap on Penang Road and I used it mostly for interiors shots. As currently I am studying interior design and I need to shoot more interiors for reference and also to add the photo into my Ethnic Interior Design portfolio. =D

With this awesome wide lens, I can shoot almost everything into the frame. Previously my 17-50 is so not wide that I have to stitch a few photo for a wide angle shot. Now I’ve got no worry! The next thing in my wishlist is a camera body (Canon EOS 7D), then I will feel good and satisfy already. =D

Show you one or tw0 or three sample image first and the coming post will show you more to poison you guys. =D

Awesome or not? =D

May 30, 2011
My Experience with SONY Cyber Shot

[CONTEST]

The king and first large 3.5inch touchscreen camera is a wonderful camera that my brother owns which now I am keeping this little baby for him. The Sony Cybershot T200 is the camera that you see in the above photo, with a gorgeous, sexy big touch screen. Sony still make sexy Cybershot camera by the way!

I want to write about my experience with the Sony Cybershot and so I want to rewrite one of the post that I have written before, sharing photos that I have taken with the Sony Cybershot! =D I now want to bring you back to the days during my high school time which I brings the camera every day to school, yes, every single day.=D

Science class is always fun, especially in Chung Ling High School where crazy bunch of Chung Ling student who are serious and at the same time playful. We play and we learn at the same time. Teacher always thought that we were not serious, but in fact we did actually listen to what they thought us. I serious.

Look at the face above, every was was so serious to check out the experiment. So fun and I was taking photo at there. HAHA. Yet I got A for my Science subjects by the way. Wakaka.

Then…

Someone (Shi Hun) smiled to the camera, where the class started to get hardworking, hardworking in being playful. You know being hardworking in playful is really very fun and crazy.

That’s right. Some say Chung Ling boys are naughty, in fact we were not. We were bunch of diligent kids. HAHA. And over-active a bit, talk a lot, being lazy and hardworking at the same time, I guess that’s make people think that we were naughty. No, we weren’t, we aren’t too.

Lalala. High school was the best and happiest moment and luckily I’ve got the camera to capture the memories! Yo 5SA1 of 2009, are you here?

May 30, 2011
Benefits Of Using A Personal Domain For Blogs

[CONTEST]

Hahahahahahahallooooo people. Today I want to tell you the benefits of using a personal domain for blogs. Walao, this sounds so formal! No choice, I am a very formal person I tell you. =D

So the benefits are, VERY GOOD, VERY SHIOK, VERY FUN, VERY NICE, VERY HANDSOME, VERY PRETTY, VERY BEST, VERY AWESOME. Correct, the benefits are all consists of VERY. Serious one, I am serious.

Seriously, getting a domain like dot com (.com), dot net (.net), dot my (.my) or other choices for your blog is good because they are really cheap, about RM30 per year only and then you gain coolness, easy to remember, and the most important, your OWN IDENTITY.

Talk serious, you want to stay in your own house or want to stay in somebody’s house? That’s the way it’s explain. Same thing, yourname dot com is so much better than your name dot blog spot dot com right?

Moreover, it’s not troublesome to sign up for a domain, just one-click, pay, and then you get your domain, then link it to your blog platform that you are using. Look at my domain, NICK CHAN DOT NET, it’s so easy to remember, wonder if you still remember last time when I was at Blogspot. =D

So to conclude, go get a domain now. Cheap cheap only. =D

May 29, 2011
Wesak Day Parade At Bukit Bintang

3 weeks ago, it was Wesak Day, or Vesak Day known to some people. I don’t really know which is the correct spelling but I still prefer calling it the Wesak Day. It’s a Buddhism religious festival, that is the birth of Lord Buddha. On that day, I went to Fo Guang Shan Dong Zeng Temple to pray in the morning and bath the Buddha, and at night, I went to Bukit Bintang to check out the flower floats parade.

I actually thought of going to the temple only and didn’t know what there’s a float parade too in the Kuala Lumpur city until I read about a newspaper article about the event at Bukit Bintang. The floats parade procession started off at Brickfield with a route or approximately 12km and will passed by Bukit Bintang area at night. Since I did join the parade before in Penang, so I went to check out the one at Bukit Bintang.

I thought that I would be in Penang that time but due to finals exam and assignment submission, I had to stay in KL.

It was about 8.30pm and I still saw no sign of the float of people on the street. I thought I got it wrong, I thought they have passed already while I was shopping in one of the shopping mall around the area. Then I look around, I saw policemen in the middle of the road with cones. I waited for a while and I saw they start closing the road and then I knew that the float parade hadn’t passed that area. =D

I waited quite long as the after the road closure, I and my friend Arvin waited until like 9.30pm only there’s sign of it. Though we got first class view of everything. =D

Finally at around 9.30pm, the parade is here. With Buddhist devotee leading the way, follows by floats and devotees of different Buddhist association followed behind. I got excited and started to take photograph and pray.

It’s pretty surprised to see so many people as the amount of people was for sure many many more than the one in Penang, with even more floats.

I believed the people have walked a long way to here and it was a pretty warm night as you can see perspiration on people’s face and some have towel hang over their neck. It’s also kinda cute to see that they brought their pet dog along too.

Floats promoting a green Earth.

It was funny before the float came as there’s not many people waiting for it, I think we are the few who waited for since 8.30pm and when around 9pm that the road were closed, busybody started came by to check out what’s happening and the funny part was some busybody asked us that was it some film shooting scene. Haha. Come on, it’s Wesak Day.

There’s many cute cute floats with little kids dress in Chinese goddess on it. Monks sprinkling the so-call Holy Water to the masses and voice of prayers can be heard. It’s really a holy and happenings night where everyone of different race and religion and join in.

Nice sleeping buddha.

Distributing free mineral water to the public.

Cute little monks.

Thousands and thousands of people gathered around Bukit Bintang just to see the floats. It’s really a sea of people with police and medic team standby.

There’s even lion dance too!

Arvin Tang.

The whole parade took about 1 hour plus and there’s really many many floats which all were so awesome. A good night out with my classmate Arvin to check out the Wesak Day. Arvin who is from Medan, Indonesia never came across with event like this before and it’s his first time. He said it was quite fun and special and he liked it. Cheers!

May 29, 2011
KLPAC, Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre At Sentul Park

I am having a holiday right now. Say yeah! It’s very good to take some times off but I have some Internet stuff to run throughout the holiday just like updating this blog for some nice photo content to share with you guys.

Well, before the semester ended, my whole class of Diploma In Interior Design of Taylor’s University went to a site visit to KLPAC (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre) at Sentul Park to check out the site and architecture stuff.

Actually I have been hearing about how nice how nice about this place and finally I get a chance to visit it, thanks to my lecturer of Design Theory, Miss Veronica Ng who arranged the trip to us go and see, feel and learn.

The KLPAC is located near Jalan Ipoh, in a park call the Sentul Park and it’s pretty far from where I am residing at, the Bandar Sunway. It takes about half an hour drive from our campus to there. We went there by our school bus which we have to pay RM10 for the bus fare.

The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, simply and commonly known as the KLPAC is situated in an old railway warehouse building. Looking very artistic with the cool red bricks and a little bit of heritage and ‘back-to-the-days-retro- feel, it senses sensory cell of the artistic side of me.

It was a morning and I was told that it even look better when the lighting are on during the art. Can’t wait to check out some show at there during the night. =)

We have a guide who brought us around the place and tell us about the architecture and some story behind the building. Miss Veronica brought along her cute little son too, Ethan!

Actually, there’s not much in there, it’s all the studio and 2 theater halls, then a little reception area and that’s all. We were only brought to the main theater hall that they call it the Pentas, known as stage in the local Malay language.

Upon entering the Pentas, it gives me a very raw and open feel because of the building material used around the place, yet the colourful seats cheer me up and makes the raw feel turns to something freshy, energetic and happy.

Some interesting facts about the KLPAC is all the shows have no specific dress code to enter the theater, which means you can wear singlet, shorts and slippers.

On the other hand, there’s no VIP zone as they want the theater to be a theater for everyone, same class level, no racism. And the cool stuff is that the first row is on the same row as the stage.

Colorful seats!

Raw material on the side wall for acoustic function.

Aida, Fanah and Hanan.

Kent Tan and Kevin To playing with the piano. Please ignore Kevin’s expression. LOL.

Just a random shot about the male’s.

Spent quite some times in the Pentas, enjoying the show of nothing on the stage and act like enjoying the show. After that, we went outside to the park. Yeah, there’s a nice park and little lakeside for people to chill and relax. It’s so nature and feels like it’s somewhere so-not in the city, but in fact this is almost in the middle of Kuala Lumpur city.

The Picnic

In fact, we had picnic outside, an idea by our lecturer of Design Theory, Miss Veronica Ng. She suggested of bringing food and share with friends and I want to apologize for not bringing any food there but I and my friends did contribute a few big bottle of mineral water. =D

There’s a nice lake of the view and some greens to see but unfortunately sun shines and there’s not much breeze around the place, it’s pretty warm and hot at that time.

Vincent Lee brought a guitar along and there’s music. For your information, the whole park was filled with voices and cheering of us as there’s no other people use. =D

They played balls, for a while.

Cute little Ethan.

The best part of the day was the food eating session in the outdoor, the PICNIC! There’s some tid bits, bread, nugget, macaroni and cheese and cake. They all so awesome, made by my classmate.

See below and you will see everyone was so happy with the food.

Spent about an hour plus eating and playing guitar and singing and shooting around and we took a group shot, after that we went back to campus. It was a nice site visit trip, in fact the best and funnest. Yay! See you guys Diploma In Interior Design in Semester 3, coming August! Happy holiday people.

May 29, 2011
7aste Queenstown

Hello people the premium 7aste party event is back with the new place theme, the 7aste Queenstown and this time the first stop of the event is in Penang, yes, my hometown at the Mansion 32, happenings on 3rd June 2011. That’s right, Penangite gets it first to enjoy the ultimate event of genuineness.

Think about travel, think about the harmonious Queenstown of New Zealand, the nice people, nice wine, and nice music, aren’t them tempting and relaxing? They are now closer than you’ve ever thought, only at 7aste Queenstown, Penang.

Sharing is caring, 7aste Queenstown will be coming closer to you too for KL and Johor friends. After Penang’s 7aste will be at Johor Bahru’s Booze on 10th June 2011 and finally to Kuala Lumpur’s Ecoba on 17th June 2011.

Basically, 7aste is all about the smooth indulgences of all the great places that is brought closer near to you! It’s enjoyment, it’s fun, it’s life.

One more thing, they have revamped their website, do check it out and Like the Facebook page to stay tune for how to get the invites. Cheers! See you there. =D

May 28, 2011
Finally Finish Taylor’s Final Exam For DID Semester 2

Assignment, done!

Final exam, done!

Finally can take a break from the hectic assignments work although they were fun but I prefer taking a break right now. Hohoho. People thinking that study design doesn’t have exam but in fact we do because there’s still some theory subject like Building Construction.

Just one that I am not satisfy was having English exam which is just ridiculous because I’d already study for 11 years of English and I have to study again. Wow, what a waste of time and money.

Aceel, Vincent, Arvin Tang and Low Jia Hui before last exam today.

I am going to Singapore tomorrow to check out Saturday InDesign event, anyone going there too? Hehe.

May 20, 2011

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