Approaching the Year End

Its been really hectic the past few weeks, not just with work. Now speaking of work, sometimes I feel that we are biting more than we can chew.

Nuff said.

I've also been making myself busy shooting (pictures) almost every weekend now. Two weeks ago was a portrait shooting event organised by my fellow shutter-bug and sifu fox which is detailed in my other blog here (or the link to the left), while last weekend was mainly location scouting at KLCC for good views (also posted in the other blog).

This weekend there is a colleague's wedding event at Labis, Johor. Hopefully I can wake up early for a tentative 6am-ish start from KL to reach there by 9am when the ceremony starts. Hope there are no speed traps too ...heh.

And the weekend after that, there is ANOTHER wedding event...in Malacca. Phew.... thats quite a bit for me. This is followed by my leave to Singapore to welcome a friend from Holland and to visit other friends there.

With all these shooting, I'm running out of space on my 20Gb laptop reeaal fast. Sigh, I need to get myself a big external hard drive......

Climate Change

Has anyone noticed the quite dramatic change in our weather patterns and climate recently? It all started mainly after the recent short spell of haze we had. Two thursdays ago I noticed what initially I thought was haze (and news over the radio blindfully announced that the haze has returned again), but it wasn't. It was more like mist ... maybe even low clouds..but the latter is almost impossible on low lands.

It happened again this morning on the way to work along the NKVE. The mist was really thick that one would almost be forgiven thinking it was low clouds. This most probably have been caused by the dramatic rainfall we have been having everyday for the past few weeks, maybe even month. But one thing I can say about the daily heavy evening rain is that it produces beautiful sunrise in the mornings. Great for someone like me to take landscapes. :)

Unwinding the Curve

Felt really great to just unwind after a really tight week with a bunch of us from work. Everyone was feeling really drained and so needed re-fueling with the usual...and me with...err....coke..haha..

It was really quite packed for my first friday night here as mostly we hang around at work.....sounds sad but our office is in Mid Valley so...

Felt guilty leaving my colleagues at midnight but have an early morning shoot with another bunch the next day...sigh...

Bukit Tabur (test run)

Meant to post this awhile back but just could not get my ass to it. Anyway, went to Bukit Tabur with a fellow friend two weekends ago. This place located in Taman Melawati near Zoo Negara provides breathtaking view of KL city on one side and a lake/damn..sorry..dam on the other.



Apparently this hill is quite frequented by early rises as their regular workout routine. Though I would not recommend this track to those who don't like to place their delicate hands on sharp rocks as this is a journey with which there will be plenty of.....touching rocks that is.




Well one thing I can say from this little trip is that you have to respect nature. Learnt that when we realized the route down a year or so ago no longer is the route down..phew..almost panicked when the sky turned dark to welcome the potential rain. Anyway, tragedy avoided we were safely down by 1am plus thanks to good decision making skills and some good samaritans we found along the way. And after all that (and looking at the pics), I welcome a trip back to ..... take more pics!!

Rainy Nights

Its been raining heavily in the evenings for the past few days maybe even weeks. Driving home in the rain (and the jam..) last night got me thinking: I've been so busy lately and so is everyone around me that it seems that all those close to me are just drifting away.

And I think I'm getting used to that....

And thats the scary bit...