Cameron Trip

Me and my family when for a trip right in the middle of exam week, but I am glad that i did so because the trip was so eye opening to me and i get to spend quality time with my family. 

So here are some nice pictures that i took during the trip.

mom and child moment together 

lovely brothers 

smoke house view

strawberry farm 

Teh BOH farm

Bottled Up Creations~

I love to customize my stuff around because I felt that the plain look of it always makes me bored. So it had been a habit of me not to choose anything that is ready made design from the market. Instead, I like to buy white A4 papers so I can doodle and manipulate it later on~ Out of the blue I will buy designed file casing to store my papers, because I can't really stand my clumsy attitude that always destroy my belonging accidentally with water or torn it apart @@.

None the less, even the present I prepared for my friends and beloved ones are all customized. ( So look at the things that I give u~ the more I treasure something, the more effort I will give. So if u see I give u a plain chocolate with a warped paper, you should know how last minute I think of u~) I first tried this customize bottle with decorations last year because I wanted my present to be meaningful and unique. *photo are not available because the owner now do not let me to upload it*. This year same thing again, I searched everywhere for a suitable gift for my friend but none spark my interest, so I went to Tokutokuya a Japanese shop that sells daily usage items ( almost same concept as Daiso but the price are more expensive), to hunt for my creation.

I like bottle art concept because it can store a lot of arts inside it just like a snow globe. This year was these little chicks that caught my attention due to their overloaded cuteness~ So i bought it, stuck it in, throw in some clover (my signature), and some notes that i wanted tell my friend to finish up present~ I hope she likes it :) 

I forgot to use apps to filter my picture when I upload these pictures for blogging, so this is one of the few pictures that I did some edit with Photoshop. I like Chinese characters so i throw in some of it here, please ignore my poor Chinese meaning inside ^^"  and also did some color correction and manual focus to my picture to enhance it~  I find that I have more control over the things I could do through this edit~ See how it goes, maybe I will continue to edit my picture using Photoshop in the future and minimize the usage of phone apps~

  

 Through my experiences , I find that whenever I forgot somethings and was forced to use another way to solve my problem, the outcome are usually turnout to be a surprise satisfaction to me. Maybe I was too rigid and lazy that limit my creativity, well I have to work out on that hmm... So end of the blog, do enjoy my pictures :D 

Playing with DSLR

I got myself a DSLR D550 for a mere "assignment purpose" 2 years ago without really planning ahead what to do with it other than shooting references and pictures for my collage assignments. But then i gradually starts to love photography and I developed a new hobby after I understand how different shooting can create different emotion to the picture taken. I guess people are right when they say, you will learn something when you have no way of turning back.   

So I took my camera around during gatherings and celebrations to try to capture beautiful images and improve my skills. It was fun when the picture taken turns out to be good and I get compliments from people who had seen it. These picture was taken from a shop in Malacca famous Jonker street called  三叔公. The shop sell a lot of famous Malacca's traditional food but i yet to try any of them, I just know they were famous in that street. Their decoration however are very nice and very old style, so customers can enjoy their food and scenery at the same time.

San Shu Gong 三叔公

33, Jalan Hang Jebat,

75000 Melaka

Contact Number: 06-2828381

Open Hours: 10.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. (Daily)

There are even cute miniature around the shop corner 

 I slowly spread my target from scenery > foods > animal > to human. I learned something every time I shoot. So now even if i post something on my Instargram, I will rearrange it surroundings and the model to get the best result out of it ^^. Photography became an art that I love and I would gladly continue to have fun with it. 

These beautiful lantern was taken during Mid-Autumn Festival and I took the chance to play with perspective. I took me quite a few number of attempts before i could actually get a handful of nice pictures. Now I had realize how I had not appreciate pictures from skillful photographer had produced. 

Carrying a DSLR all the time with me is tedious and I had regretted many time that i could not capture some moments just because I do not have a camera in hand. So I actually go to the extend of investing a Samsung S4 for the purpose of taking pictures and for the reason of convenience. Thanks to it, I can capture more and more picture wherever i go without the need to worry about being caught by the security or being obvious that I am shooting at something. 

Although a smart phone saved my problem, at the end of the story, it still can not match with the overall functions a DSLR could produce. Well, if i could be a professional photography one day, I would surely invest more on my DSLR. For the time being, I will just use what i could to learn, because a tool will always be a tool, it is the skills and foundations that matters. 

My Camera Shy dog

Hello there, lets meet my cute little angel called Devil.Ya~ that's her name and we pronounce it as "The-Vil". *Please beware and be careful when u name your dog, she is quite devilish to some point just like her name.* She is eight years old this year already but she is still as adorable as we first bought her from the pet shop. My brother choose her because of her watery eyes that keep on sending "please keep poor little me" signal. Well I would say, buying a dog u need to have a six sense on it and do not blindly choose one just because of u want a puppy. It takes years of caring and teaching in order to have a good dog to live with.

I preferred a female dog I would say because they are easier to teach and there are not as rebellious as a male dog. ( that is strictly my opinion because i tried to teach 2 of her sons together at the same time and it was a nightmare to me). The first year training her was a bit difficult as we have to adapt to how she understand our instructions. When we teach her something new, we teach her strictly so that she know we are not playing with her. When she succeed in doing what was told, a compliment by patting her head was enough to make her happy. All the hard work paid off  thanks to my brother and then the rest of the story was living everyday with her lovingly. 

She was a playful little puppy who used to love going for a ride in my brother's car as she travel back and fort from my brother collage to our house, but now she just wondering around our house and anticipating for a walk each day. It is hard to say no to her because of her cuteness :) Thank goodness she is so obedient that i do not need to chain her up during the walk, and she will just follow u around enjoying the freedom on her cute short legs~ (she is a mix of Corgi and Chiwawa). She hates all other female dog i would say, because she will always have a fight with one of them whenever she sees one. @@ 

!!CAUTION!! And here is the beware part if u want to play with my dog. !!CAUTION!!

1. before your get near my dog, do remember to be clean. Don't expect my dog to tolerant your body odor when not even I can stand with it. A dog relays a lot on smell.

2. When you meet a dog for the first time, do remember to let it smell your hand and get its approval before you pat a dog. This applied to every dog from medium size to big size (i haven't met a fierce small size dog before). Do not directly play with it as if you owned it. Unless you wanted your hand to be bitten off, and if that is the case, do not try to blame the owner for not stopping the dog. Even a normal human will go for self defends when they were suddenly harassed. If the dog show a sign of dislike, like growling at you, back and stay away. They don't like you. 

3. And lastly, do not feed a dog owned by others. This is to show respect to the owners, this also serve as a sign to the dog, so that the dog know it can only get treatment from its owner, none others. 

I do agree with "dog are man's best friend". You can not find any other living creature that is so loyal and careless about itself by loving you whole heartily. Some say looking straight on to a dog eye means seeking a rival challenge, but i find it helps getting both of us closer~ So treat them well as a dog will surely will and ban dog cuisine ~ 

PS: If you own a dog, do remember to clean it once a week (applied due to Malaysia's weather). They will starts to smell because they love the mud and anywhere else that you yell at them for later. At least, make them toilet trained, so that they do not poop and pee all around the house which will result in creating irresistible smells travel through the neighbor's house. Keep the house hygiene in a good condition, this is because it will kill the neighbor. I had once met people who do not take good care of their dog's hygiene and i have to limit my breathing throughout the process of hanging cloths. I got the effect of dizziness for 2 hours due lack of oxygen.

I love Sake

I love sake

 Trying new things will always be my first choice when i enter a new place or restaurant, it had been my habit to take the odds and let it be an experience or a lesson at the end of the story. Since last year, i had my first time trying absolute Mandarin vodka, the taste lingers in my mind until today~ I started to have a keen interest in trying new alcohol drinks other than Carlsberg or Heineken thing-ish.

   Few weeks before, i got a chance to try Japanese sake on my boyfriend father's birthday. The taste was very nice, but i was too shy to ask for more because the price was quite expensive for a student to handle. :) So i looked at the shelf and silently aim to try all those flavor one by one after I am officially a working adult who have some extra expenses to spend~

 * Maybe sitting alone in a quite meal and enjoy the sake like an old man~*

It is a nice experience trying new things cause i believe, if you never try you never know. Of cause, the things that i tried are all proven to be eatable or under well protection to a certain extend~ So, people that I am very close to and trustworthy, do bring me to explore more and i will be waiting XD

PS: I jsut like to try, I am not a alcoholic drinker~  *don't judge me with one of those kind*

look at those water molecule that my phone able to capture~

New liking

I was fortunate to be given opportunity to help design and take pictures of a bakery shop 

https://www.facebook.com/Lievito.Pastry.House?ref=hl

From these experience, i did learn how to take pictures of bread as creative as i can manage~ which i love so much to take pictures of lovely and delicious food, meaningful or beautiful people and scenery ~

Here are some new pictures that i took in the shop just right after the bread was out of the oven!~

Visual effect assignment

Photoshoped~

Today is just submitted my visual effect assignment, i don't really enjoy matte painting, but when it get till the end where I started to add in the effect, it is kind of nice to explore how fantasy the photo could be. :)

Original footage

 After playing with this matte painting assignment, i think i still prefer doing character animation @@ this tweaking around thing is just not my thing.

spot in coincident

It is funny when i was shooting this picture wondering how the passersby would think of me squatting in front of the drain to take this picture~ 

I was taking assignment pictures for more than an hour and i was on the way home when i spotted this plant along the road. What is the name of this plant, i do not know, but i totally love 4 leafed plant~ :D 

Cheers for the days ahead ~

First time in a Korean restaurant ~~

Today is the first time i when to Ko Hyang in Cyberjaya, excited and hungry for late lunch on the way there.

Bul Go Gi Bokem

the first thing i tried is this chicken dish~ for sweet and sour lover, this is a dish of recommendation!

Sik Hae

This is a Korean rice tea recommended by my friend, my sister love it for its special taste, while i still need to taste a few time before i can really accept it.

*i prefer red bean ice while i forgot to take a snap shot*

Kim Chi Ji Gae

My favorite dish so far! The kimchi is just nice for me~ it is not to spicy and not too sour. Although i do not really like the hot dog inside. 

*thumb up for this dish* 

dduk bok kie

This one i prefer to eat after the main course or as a snack, it is kinda sweet and chewing.  

Full of first attempt this time, the next time i would try douboki~~ and for small appetite people, one set is just nice, the side dish just makes your stomach burst! 

I hope i can snap better picture next time ^^

Lievito's cookies and sweets~

chocolate walnuts cookies

Meringue 
with less sugar contain

Box type 2
- with dark chocolate and gold color white chocolates topping 

Box type 3
- with dark chocolate and gold/ pink color white chocolates topping 

*photo by me*

visit and like this page for more updates
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lievito-hatten-Square-melaka/226876974048148

Lievito bakery

I just thought of putting on some picture and image that i had edited for my brother's bakery shop

*really didn't think of that as my own development as well till today *

so first off, here is the page i am currently handling, 

"Lievito"

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lievito-hatten-Square-melaka/226876974048148

do go like it or even give me some feed back on the product it self as well as my editing

More photos will be uploaded here about that shop

seeing new things

 hmm~ Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and i felt sad because everyone else is going back to prepare for the new year while we stuck here doing our assignments.

But no matter how me and my friends still find time to go find food to eat! *god...how i hope cyberjaya will have more food selections*

today i found a few scene around cyberjaya to be very beautiful, too bad i did not bring along my camera to snap it~~*maybe i should carry it around all the time @@*

anyhow i wish all of you a happy new year. and i will be updating as soon as i can. cheer~