THERE IS NO MAGIC CAMERA THAT WILL MAKE YOU TAKE GREAT PICTURES.USE WHAT WORKS FOR YOU.DEVELOP SYSTEM THAT IS RELIABLE AND THAT YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH.
I have meet many people who come from a lower income background and their stories all share a common theme that they wanted to live a better life.Many former soldiers,policemen or commonly known as former servicemen are landless and living as squatters and surviving on low pensions.
While our capital city of Malaysia ,KUALA LUMPUR is promoting F1 in Sepang and perhaps it's F1 fever now in Malaysia.So what choice do Kuching people have?
Well, GO-KART race is just fine & it's fun too .I still remember one state minister promise the peoples and to the youth that the government is going to build a international standard motor race circuit in Kuching .So peoples just forget it ...so what his next promise....?
Because I have been preoccupied lately taking care of a family member I have not been able to get out and take as many photos as I would like, so today I have to feature a photo from my last walk about in Kuching City.
Practice my panning shoot ..with slow shutter speed & its work alright to me but I don't know what my photography friends say.
I do not use a lot of Photoshop manipulations, One reason is I have not learned how to do it. I do try things every now and then. I do color adjust, sometimes crop, saturate if needed, use curves and sharpen. I will take out some detracting things that just could not be helped to keep out of my shot. That does not happen that much but sometimes it is just unavoidable. Do you think all the pictures that you see in magazines, on gallery walls have not had things cleaned up in them ???.
This Go-Kart maybe to old for me to drive but not to old for me to try as sport photographer :)
Thank You.
Recently I walked onto Sibu Town and I see this shiny stainless dolphins sculpture opposite to Sibu central market.The existence of dolphins certainly brought my attention because all this year local council keep promoting swan mascot as Sibu Town landmark.Anyway ,the existence of this Swan sculpture had added more color to the swan town,SIBU.
Perhaps the symbol of Dolphins bring good luck.
Rejang River Regatta: Kenyalang boat race is back
SIBU: After a lapse of 20 years, the Kenyalang boat race will be revived at the upcoming Rejang River Regatta on March 13 and 14 at the confluence of the Rejang and Igan rivers.
The race was last held here in 1990.
Each of the racing boats has the capacity for 20 people – 18 paddlers, one navigator and a drummer – and is distinctively decorated with a kenyalang (hornbill in Iban) head at the front.
Ten boats costing RM30,000 each are being built for the event expected to attract 200 participants from Sarawak and possibly Indonesia as well.
The two-day event will also see power boat races in five categories with 35 teams expected from Sarawak, Sabah and Brunei.
The regatta is jointly organised by Rajang Port Authority and MC Events Management to promote Sibu as a centre for water sports in Sarawak. The organisers hope to hold the event annually.
“I hope it will elevate Sibu into a centre for water sports as envisaged by Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud,” said Sarawak Second Finance Minister and Minister of Environment and Public Health Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh.
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I have a chance to witness the regatta on the second day .At first the weather was cloudy in the morning and soon after that it was hot and humid .Not to mention the crowd its was as early as 07:00 am they already try to look for a better view for the event that only started at 10:00 am. Perhaps the venue Sibu waterfront phase two was not suitable for the water sport and my observation was that the crowd was not only from Sibu town and many are from small town like Kapit,Kanowit ,Igan and Dalat.Not to mention some are villagers from small fishing village along Igan and Rajang river and even some are from as far as Brunei and Sabah.
I can't even find the suitable position to photograph the event,further more in the afternoon its was heavy rain at 01:30pm that last until 04:00pm.
So below some of the photograph that I manage to shoot (point & shoot version).
Anyway let's the pictures tell the story.
I position myself quite far from the big crowds . 
The big crowds here only manage to see the starting point of the power boat event.
What choice do they have?.standing at the bush or at the crowded water front.
Look at the big crowds ..they cannot see the event ,they only hear the blasting sound of the power boat and the commentator of the event.
Its seem that they don't mind about the muddy place as long as they have fun............
and perhaps this is not fun....so Safety First.
If Sibu wish to become a centre for water sports I hope the next event must be a crowds friendly venue.
See you next year and hoping very much for the best.
Hey everyone,I'm back !!.You probably noticed that I haven't posted anything since last Wednesday.So what,the picture to-day.You want to know about the picture? Oh...it's just a seafood of clam family.This is some sort of clam or snail that requires a toothpick to dig out the meat or flesh.The flesh taste good dipped in chilli sauces.
Another local delicacy and this one they chop one end of for sucking ,then counter suck from the other end to get the flesh out.
All this perhaps belong to clams family,It's just like eating clams,mussels or stuff like that.Same texture but different size and same taste .
Almost 90% still empty...NO BUYER ??.
The gate is closed due no tenants ........
Anyone agree with the below statement ( from the public).
I am dead against anyone buying any properties in Kuching and this is for a variety of reasons.
Among them:-
1. Cos do not justify what you get
2. Kuching have been over built
3. Buyers are enriching the developers and the ruling family
4. Buyers are paying for inefficient and out dated construction technology and via this Sarawak/Kuching contractors take 30-40 percent extra time to built houses and this is translated to hefty labour and holding cost for the developers/contractors and subsequently pass on to buyers
5. Many buyers are buying for investment and hoping that it will appreciate in value and subsequently resell it. The question is how many have actually make money investing in residential houses!!
On the Tribunal, it will take a long time and I suggest DAP start a column blacklisting Property Developers and their Directors instead as have been done by ad-hoc bodies in Semanjung in the Past.
It is a shame that we cry when we discover we are fleeced by this unscrupulous developers when no one is high lighting the present mirco economics of the housing situation in Kuching.
Is it true that Kuching have been over built...now just look at the empty apartment (pic above) still empty since completed about 10 month ago (if I'm not mistaken).
Both picture taken with my Olympus E-620..Zuiko ED lens 14-54mm f2.8-3.5
One of my family member invited me to his son birthday party and I think Glass Chess Set make a good and wise birthday gift to his son.Playing chess teach kids critical pondering skills.
