Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Back To My Hometown, The place I used to be grow up when I was a small kid.
Parit Unas, Muar is a very small, quiet place and of course it is a village (it is also called "Kampung" in Malay). My Grandma house was located there and there was the place I started to understand about this world.
Let me explain about its history. When the time the Japanese soldiers were still fighting at China, a lot of Chinese from there were trying their best to run away from war. So, some of them were landed at this place through Malacca Strait.
My Grandpa is from Tang Shan, somewhere of China and My Grandma is a Singaporean. They was married at there without knowing each other before. Last time, they didn't have the chance to do something like this couple:
So how this place become a village from nothing? The main reason is because there has a small port for fishermans to look for their income to support their family.
Beside this, another reason is here has a temple at the beginning and 2 more temples were builded up after quite many years later. Last time, this very small and old temple was built because of fishermans can pray for a safe trip for their everytime of going out to the middle of the sea. Chinese always has a little of superstition.
Because of this, 2 more temples built up and it started to attract more people to come here to pray for themselves, especially during Chinese New Year period.They like to pray to the god for hoping a better luck, better fortune and better health for whole new year. So how they get the advise from god? I don't know what is this call in English but in chinese, it called "Qian", The Advises from God. Trust it or not, it is all depend on you.
It helps to bring the opportunity for the villages to start up some small business to sell some local product. My Grandparents were one of them but nowadays their health are not as good as last time so we decided to stop them for continuing the business. This picture is remind me when I was small, I was always helping them up and it was quite fun actually. This part of my memory is can't be forgotten.
Day after day, people there is getting old and their children is growing up and move away from this very quiet village including my parents as well for looking a better job to support the family. But before this, my father used to be a fisherman and he said this is a very tough job and risky.
You need to maintain your boat when you are free no matter how hot is the weather...
Plan for taking a break? Here is the place for them to take a break...
They don't even have the time to take a proper bath during the working period no matter how bad the weather is....
So, that is roughly about fisherman's life at there. How about the children there? When I was small, when the time the computer was still very expensive, internet connection was still very expensive and slow, what do we played at the moment? Here is the answer..
We can spend a whole afternoon to just sit there for fishing. Sounds very boring huh? When you can manage to catch a fish, that will be very satisfying.
Seriously, I don't know what is this called but we used to catch this kind of small fish last time. Because I am the only one who don't know how to swim so most of the time I was just sit on a place to watch them catching those fishes. What a waste...
This collection means a lot to me because it is a major part of my memory when I was small. The moment with my grandparents and playing around with my sibling and cousins.This collection is full with my feeling about my hometown, the place I used to grow up when I was small.....
(Sorry for posting too many pictures for my final project here but I think these are still not enough to describe about my hometown... hope you will enjoy these. the pictures is really priceless because the goverment is going to develope this area so maybe few years later I can't see those old, wooden houses at there anymore. In fact, a lot of houses was dismantled for preparing for the development, including my grandparent house as well, the house they used to live more than 60 years...) This is one of the houses are still existing at there.
I submit this series as my final project of photography. Hope you will enjoy these...
Monday, January 26, 2009
This coming new year is Ox Year according to lunar calendar. Here I wish everybody has a happy chinese new year and good luck, good health through out the whole year. Be happy always....
I will be back to my hometown to celebrate this very important festival means to all the chinese people. For kids will feel very happy because they can collect their Red Packet. For adult, maybe this will be a very good moment to reunion with family members and take the opportunity to gather with all the relatives. So no matter how to spend your chinese new year, can stay together with your family members always is the best thing of your life, at least it means to me.
Be happy always because we can never expect what will happen for our next moment of lives. So just live it happily as you can...
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Yesterday I went to Clarke Quey with my classmates and lecturers for our night-shooting session of photography module. It was tiring and really nothing much special. I had no feel to shoot at the moment but I still need to try my best to capture some pictures for submission. Here is what I captured:
Not my leg...
Not my phone as well...
What a red Singapore River...
Central, Clarke Quay.
Riverside Point with the last moment of sky before it goes dark.
As you can see, I was been there and this is the evidence...
Spotted!!! Our Lecturer, Mr Isaac...
Beside Clarke Quay, we also went to Chinatown to shoot but seriously this was a mistake because the chinese new year is getting closer and there is flooded by a lot of people. I didn't manage to get too much shots but at least got a few pictures.
Here you go:
Which one should I buy for decorating my house?
Sweet... Where is my Ms right who will accompany me for my entire life?
Monday, January 19, 2009
Here is the second opening and second ending for gundam 00 season 2.
The song is Namida no Mukou by Stereopony.
The song is Trust You by Itou Yuna.
All the videos are copyright reserved to Sunrise, Inc.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Just now I was surfing the Concept phones website and I found this, the non-official Nokia N98 with touch screen interface. From this picture, although we do not know whether it is real or just a concept or maybe now still at the concept stage, but the interface looks quite nice and it feels quite different with the existing symbian 60 touch screen operating system. It looks so must nice than the OS that using on 5800. About the phone design, it is a very simple and clean look by filling a big screen and without any buttons. Does it looks cool to you? Well, I believe it is just a concept phone so far but if this can be true, it is so much cooler and I believe that it will be so much useful than iPhone. Do you think same as me?
Sunday, January 11, 2009
It is started at the first day of school reopen. The first air cond canteen in Ngee Ann Campus. It is called "Makan Place", located at block 51, pretty close to School of FMS.
Because it is quite a distance away from my school, I only had the chance to go there at last Friday. There have 16 food and beverage stalls, Waffle Town, Subway, Hungry Jack and a din xin stall. Subway is the first fast food stall in Ngee Ann Campus which mean we have more choice rather than canteen but because it is the only one stall in campus, the queue is always long.
How about the waffle stall just beside Subway? It is called Waffle Town and I tried their waffle with ice-cream. Well, the ice cream is taste just fine, maybe because we choosed the blurberry flavour but the waffle is too plain. Nothing special...
About Hungry Jack, I haven't try the food yet and the price seen a bit too expensive for me. It is a western food stall. The stall that beside it is din xin stall.
The environment there is pretty good. The main reason is because of the air cond environment. You can enjoy your food without sweating too much and not really to care about the weather outside, sunny or rainy. The design is also quite modern as well, just like the food court of shopping centre.
As you can expect, there is always full of students, Ngee Ann staffs and also some of the students from SIM. You can hardly get a table there during lunch break because it is still something new appeared around campus.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Today is first launching day of Red Cliff Part 2. I went to CineLeisure to watch this, one MUST SEE movie of the year 2009 and it really didn't disappoint me. I went there with my classmates and Nigel joined us as well. As you can expect, it was full house and we only managed to get 3rd row seats.
If you think that the part 1 was boring, the part 2 will not let you down although the first hour of the show was a bit unnecessary but it is still worth to wait for the battle of Chi Bi. If you think the part 1 was not bad, then you must definitely cant miss the part 2, which is more and more exciting than part 1, of course...
Another great news, if you are personally like Lin Zhi Ling, famous taiwanese model, she is appear much more times than the previous part and she is one of the important role for this battle.
So, let roughly talk about this movie. Like I said, roughly because I don't want to be the spoiler and I strongly recommend you go to purchase a movie ticket if you like about chinese history. But, same as part 1, you can't expect the storyline is exactly the same from what you saw from the book, even the book you studied is maybe not the correct history.
Before go into the details about the storyline, lets us talk about the battlefield scene. From part 1, the only huge battle is about the formation of Ba Gua and it was pretty nice formation and quite a huge battle as well, of course it is not as huge as the battle of Chi Bi. So, for part 2, the director of the movie, John Koo doesn't let all the viewers down and what I can say is, the battle scene is seriously done nicely and I think he spent quite a lot of efforts to make sure that the viewers won't fall asleep during the first hour of the movie by preparing some funny lines for the actors, especially for the Liu Bei Advisor, Mr Zhu Ge Kong Ming. This is the part I quite don't like about the movie because it make me feel that the Kong Ming is not a very serious person. For Wu General, Gan Ning, you can see how funny he was trying to create the powerful fireboom and seriously that was really very funny.
The Battle of Chi Bi, started by burning all the warships those belong to Cao Cao Force. Thousands of warships just burned down by Wu Force quite easily because of the wind direction. General Gan Ning was sacrified to open the main gate for his force to break through the defense line of the Cao Cao Force. They fought from midnight until morning and at the end, as you can expect, the Allied Force won the battle and captured Master Cao Cao and Xiao Qiao (Lin Zhi Ling), the wife of Zhou Yu was been saved, nicely by his husband. The most funny part is at the end of the battle, Zhou Yu decided to let Cao Cao go. What a waste...
How about the storyline? We can't blame the director because he was tried his best to squeeze about 2-3 chapters into a 2.5 hours movie. Fortunately, the plot of borrow the arrows from Cao Cao is part of the movie. Beside this, the visit of Jiang Gan was quite nonsense and the 'Fake Punishment of Huang Gai' was missing and they added the story about the Shun Shang Xiang who the one went to Cao Cao camp to investigate and to check about the strength of Cao Cao Force. It was quite wasting time seriously but I think it is because of commercial purpose. It must put in some love story to make sure it still can attrach people to come and watch the movie.
So, overall I think it is still a very good movie to watch and worth every cents you spend for battle scene, which was cost me SGD 9.00. The director didn't let me down.
Rating: 4/5 stars
Thursday, January 8, 2009
This coming Sunday is the day of Gundam 00 season 2 episode 14. The official website was released the information about the new opening song for Gundam 00 about one week ago.
The new opening song is from Stereopony. Its name is 泪のムコウ. I only found the music from internet so I decided to create a short opening for this new opening since I am studying in this field, video editing. The video is taken from Gundam 00 season 2 episode 1 until episode 13. The sound quality is not really that good and it slightly panned to right channel.
Hope you will enjoy the song and my edited video. Thanks. If you have any comment, feel free just leave it and I appreciate your opinion. It can help me to be better.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
So, how do you feel about the Nokia first touch screen handphone? Well, if you think that is not good enough and not powerful enough. This should be the better choice for you.
About 2 years ago, the cyberworld keep spreading about the concept or non-official pictures about the N79, the first touch screen interface N-series handphone. Just a moment ago, the Nokia World Exhibition, Barcelona had shows the second Nokia touch screen interface handphone, N79 come with a really excellent interface operating system and it looks smoother than 5800. It comes with a qwerty keypad and it is a side-slided handphone. When you slide it up, the qwerty keypad will be showed and the screen will be lifted up around 45 degree. This is definitely a something new from Nokia.
About its design, honestly it looks very similar with 5800. Only the menu button is located in different place if compare with 5800. The internal memory space is 32GB and it can support up to 16GB micro SD card. The total memory space can go up to 48GB which is the biggest space so far among all the Nokia products and probably the whole handphone market.
The N79 is designed by a japanses designer, Mr Eguchi Shujiro. The handphone is also using the Symbian 60 5th edition, which is the same as 5800 operating system. It also come with Ovi services, 5MP Carl Zeiss camera, 3.5mm headphone jack, N-gage games supported.
So, for a such a powerful handphone, how big do you think it can go? Well, the size is pretty general, which is 117.2mm x 55.3 mm x 15.9mm and the weight is 150g.
So, a great handphone product come from Nokia once again. Never dissapointing his supporters. Keep it up, Keep connecting people.
Here is the Demo video from Youtube:
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Finally, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is launched at Malaysia and Singapore. The price is around RM 1500. What are you waiting for? Just drop by any Nokia Store to know more details or you can log on to Nokia Website to see how well this handphone can perform.
Will try to post my review once I have the chance to try it out.
Here is the Demo video:
Thursday, January 1, 2009
First, Happy New Year to everyone and wish you all the best for 2009...
Second, just now I went to Marina Bay to join the countdown party and watch the fireworks with my classmates. But our main purpose is to shoot the fireworks. Shooting fireworks is not as easy as what were we expecting but honestly, it was a very good experience to me. Thanks to the auntie who is used to be photographer. She gave us some tips and concept to get a better shot for fireworks.
But unfortunately, I didn't manage shoot the fireworks nicely.
Third, last year was happened a lot of matter like SiChuan Earthquake, Economy Tsunami, Beijing Olympic, Election of Malaysia, USA and Taiwan and the Poisoned Baby Milk Powder. It covered the whole world and it affects everyone especially the Economy Tsunami. Hope it can get better in 2009 although it is not quite possible but miracle always can be happened once you trust it, isn't it?
Fourth, about myself, nothing much changed during 2008. I started blogging on April, studies still going smoothly, my family bought a new car, went to KL twice with my friends, watched at most movies in this year, interned to MediaCorp, started to use Macintosh OS and upgraded my Tiger into Leopard, did a recording session for my school project, got a DSLR from school for using for my photography module..... so and so.... oh ya, one more, I got my first pair of glass because my astigmatism was getting worse....
Lastly, for the 2009, I hope that everyone can be the best for their life and I can be the best for mine, the world can get better and better, my friend can get into University in Singapore, my another friend can get rid of his hopeless roommate as soon as possible and most important is, I can found someone to accompany me and be the part of my life....
Thanks to all my friends who keep supporting me last year and I will be better and work harder in 2009. Gambateh....
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