View of Taiping Lake Garden (3)

Green is peace..

View of Taiping Lake Garden (2)

Nice place for dating. =p

2010 FIFA World Cup, Group G Brazil vs North Korea

One of the things that no one should missed during FIFA World Cup is to be at mamak stall or restaurant to watch live match.

It’s ok if you don’t know the teams or the players. It’s ok if you are not a football fan.

Just the atmosphere can make you jump high up to the sky or bang your hands on the table.

When a team score, you will either hear people cheer or boo. And you yourself will automatically be part of the crowd.

That’s what makes the scene alive.

Im not a football fan but I like Brazil because of the ‘zzz’ in the the Brazil’s name and because Brazil is a good team.

For the first time since 2010 FIFA World Cup started, I watched it tonight and I watched it live.

I was there with my friends, sitting at the back. as usual I bring my wife along. I mean my camera. N im lucky because my speedlite is functioning tonight.

The match was between Brazil and North Korea. The game started at 2.30am Malaysian time.

Mamak restaurants are packed here in Kampar. Students especially are the majority crowd and they flooded the restaurants.

These are the photos of the match I took at Maha Maju Restaurant.

Brazil won the game with the score of 2-1.

1.50am Quiet and calm, before the match.

1.51am Empty without spectators.

2.45am Full house, 15minutes after the match started.

2.46am Majority are students from UTAR

Us. Me with banana with my two friends. Hungry, banana is good.

3.49am Frustrated supporter of Brazil garu-ing his head after they failed to score.

3.57am This is the moment when Brazil scored for the second time. Geram nia this waiter block my view!

4.14am This is the most happening moment when North Korea score at the very last minute of the game.

4.14am The crowd cheered for about 30seconds for North Korea.

4.14am Korea performed well especially their defence. They gave Brazil a very hard time in the match.

4.19am What a scene. Everyone cabut immediately after the referee blowed the whistle to end the game.

4.20am After the game, tables and chairs are empty again.

4.20am It's time for the waiters to clean up all the cups and plates.

4.22am Long queue. Traffic jam as everyone going back.

3 Photostat Shops Got Raid

Kampar, 10 June - Three photostat shops in New Town got raid by the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism late evening yesterday.
The three photostat shops which are LS Photostat & Printing, Papercut Enterprise, and Cherry House violated the printing act by illegally printing textbooks.
Testbooks, notes and fotostate machines were seized.

Students were seen going to print their notes but were told that the shops are closed for business.

Mr Faizal, the owner of LS Photostat & Printing said that the machine cost him 18 thousands.

“Not only me suffer the loss, the students will fell the loss as well because after this they have to buy original textbooks that are way too expensive,” added him who remained calm.

Officers could not be reached for comment.

For more news, go to http://j-on-news.blogspot.com/

Editing in Photography

I wonder why some people love to edit their pictures. Why? I don’t know why. I myself don’t like to edit photos. I feel a photo should stay the way it is. Only original photo can portray the true message. A photo should and must always captured from the heart through observative eyes. What's the point of a photo if it’s not original?

I love originality and authenticity. Only through an original unedited photo, audience can feel the heart of the photographer.

This is one of the many reasons why i never like to take model shots. My works always focus on candid shots which contain more natural and honest emotions. Emotions should be expressed freely and without being planned.

A photo is like a life. If a photo is edited, it is a fake photo. A fake photo is like a clon human. A clon human is never as real as a real human. It is a human without soul.

All this while since I got serious into photography back in 2003, I always stand firm on my principle not to edit pictures. I never like to edit pictures. But then in a commercial photography, photographers edit their photos to give different moods and to make the pictures look better. I only touch up pictures that were taken in a bad weather or when it’s for a customer. Example: wedding and event photos.

Edit and touch up are two different things. Touch up is slightly less changes in editing. There are very minor changes only in touching up of photos compared to editing.

I always believe that a good photo always come from a good photographer, not a good gadget.

Don’t get offended. Im not critisizing anyone. Im just expressing my view. This post is not to condemn anyone who edit their photos. If you feel comfortable in editing photos, go ahead. Photography itself is a very subjective field to be explained and interpreted.

Villages on The Ocean

This is part of the 6 Chinese clan jetties in Weld Quay, Penang where the houses are built on the water. The clan jetties used to stay by those who shared the same surname. But now, it's open to anyone and even migrants workers are staying here. The younger generations are moving out to town to get better living. This living heritage legacy serves as a reminder to the past on the hardship by the forefathers who came from China. This clan jetties must be preserved as it have a lot of history, cultural and social values.

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Location: Armenian Street, Penang

Protest Against Israel

Kuala Lumpur, 3June - After afternoon prayers tomorrow, there will be a couple of demonstrations against Israel's actions against ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.

PAS will be leaving from Kg Baru mosque to the Istana while Umno begins from the National Mosque but no clear indication yet where they are headed. Perkasa will be joining both although we don't know whether PAS will be comfortable marching alongside Perkasa.

Bernama reported that these two groups of protestors are expected to march to the United States' embassy.

The police have warned the public not to join any protests as they are not given permit.

More news at http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/6/3/nation/20100603194936&sec=nation

Stolen Idea

I know different people have different ideas. Sometimes different people can come up with almost the same idea. But do you still think it is a coincidence when you told someone something then he said it again?

When i spoke at the Speakers Corner, I talked to a man and i told him my opinions. Today, I saw him in The Star newspaper. He was speaking at the Speakers Square in Penang. But what he said there is exactly what i told him.

I feel my idea got stolen. I don't have proof. But only he knows himself whether he got the idea from me or by himself. Anyhow im glad he has indirectly helped me in letting the public know what is in my mind.

Speakers Square promote freedom of speech but it is definiely not a platform for anyone to copies anyone's speech. Freedom of speech is not a freedom of copying other people's speech.