A Brand New Journey 5

I got a baby boy, this was told by the doc, well someone shared with me that not 100% gender was confirmed until the baby was born as sometimes doc do make a mistakes. Baby now was 21 weeks and 6 days. Well i'll just sit tight and waiting for my baby to see the world.

A Brand New Journey 4

Here comes the month 4, and the baby was already 18 weeks and 2 days inside, well still can't see much from the picture, now Joan my wife can really feel something inside. Baby you gotta be good!

A Brand New Journey 3

October coming in and my baby was already 12 weeks and 1 day, now i can see my little one from the pic. Hopefully my baby was having fun inside!

A Brand New Journey 2

Wife and my baby are staying healthy and i was so glad for this, Didn't see any morning sickness from my wife and her appetite was great. Showing below my kid second pic. I can't read the picture so well and been told by the doc that my baby was still tiny.

Scuba Diving @ Redang Island

After the refreshment from the pool session before, here comes the real action. As usual i planned a 4 days 3 nights trip to Redang Island and this time i was so glad to dive with one of my long lost friend and now become the dive buddy of mine.  We took the last bus from Bukit Jalil terminal and heading to Kuala Terengganu. The journey was sucks, bus took off late, not comfy enough and took us 7 and half hours to arrive.  But it didn't bother us too much as the diving spirit was burning inside us.... LOL. 

Well, Arrived at the Merang jetty around 9 something, took a stroll for a little while and later we board the boat heading to the island. I was excited enough because i got my newly bought underwater camera and gonna try it out soon. And this was my main purpose that hopefully to horn my skills taking underwater pictures.  

After lunch, we did our check out dive at the house reef, i can't wait to bring along my camera with me.  i was so disappointed with the pictures on our first dive, i can't get the white balance correct, don't know how to position the strobe, was so frustrated with it.  Later that night, i asked for tips on how to get the white balance correct from the dive centre instructor, and he was so helpful and kind enough to teach me lot of things.  I can still remember he was kind enough asking me to to get a buddy and dive on our own to practice my underwater photography skill. Honestly this was my first time diving without a dive master or instructor with me and my buddy. 

Second and the third  day, i managed to improve a little compared to the first day production. I had to say this trip was so glad as i got few of my buddies busy looking for subject for me to snap. Nudibranch aka sea slug, eel, turtle was mostly my subject, we were so lucky as we kept seeing turtle and lots of nudi at most of the dive sites. Some pictures below taken by me.

Clown Fish  and Anemone

Diver & Anemone

Not forget to mention about the sea life we saw this time was so memorable as school of bump head fish, squids (check out dive), very rare of stripe barracuda, eagle rays were spotted by us as well, kinda large black tip sharks, jacks, diamond fish and lost of things.  

I can only said this was definitely a fantastic trip for me and make me into scuba diving even more.

I wanna thanks to my buddy especially Sean, kevin, and David as they are so helpful and the kindness of instructor Ah Shir!

A Brand New Journey

I can't tell how was the feeling when i first been told by my wife "I'm pregnant". I was completely shock...... anyway i was back in the situation and known that i'm goin to be a DADDY. My brain is blank now and what i have to do from now on was the concentration on my child and of course my wife.

How amazing there for a complete process of a child until giving birth. Well i'm gonna go through this from now on. Here was the very first picture of my kid and of course gender unknown.

Pool Dive

This was my second pool dive since 5 or 6 years ago,  That was my first confined water pool dive prior to the open water certification at the island.  Well my purpose this time was doing some equipment test as well as my friends who bought their gear at the MIDE 2010. Lau got his flight Apex regulators and Kevin got his Dive Rite travel pac wing BCD. As for me, i wanna test on my Ikelite UW housing and the AF35 strobe. Pictures below were all taken using the strobe with Canon S90.  

My first few shots were all over exposed, i couldn't get the exposure correct by using Tv and A mode until i found only using the Manual mode, changing the F, adjust the strobe power to get the correct exposure.  Some of the pics below seems a little under exposed, but it was fun working hard on the setting and so on.

So coming up next will be my underwater pics, hopefully it's gonna be a "WOW"

DIY Carrying Case

I've been searching for a carrying case to store my UW camera and strobes, all i got was the well known HPRC and SKB case.  But these case gonna cost a bomb to me. So i decided to DIY my self a carrying case. I started up with a tool box, tour mat (foam type), and a double side tape.  For me, this is an easy job, i cut the tour mat according to the size of the tool box to wrap around inside the tool box, this served to a protection the item.

Cutting the tour mat.
















Finished of the first stage.

Finished of the second stage

Whoola, my complete DIY carrying case for UW housing and strobes.

Journey of My Wedding Shoot

Finally, it was time to do this.... So me and my soon to be wife had planned to do the shooting in Shenzhen , China. How come we'll decide to shoot in Shenzhen, China,  it was all because of one of my friend recommendation. Trust me he was not bluffing, after looking at their album and all those little stuffs, i decided.  Price was reasonable and i was sure i can't get the same as back in Malaysia.  

The whole photo shooting was tiring, especially the road trip go and return from Guangzhou to Shenzhen. But it was definitely worth it.  First day we had to wake up early cause got to be at the boutique at 7.30 am sharp. Bride was busy choosing her wedding gowns, as for guy just wait and wait.  Now i experienced it guy never get the chance to choose as the boutique staff will match the suit for the guy according to the bride wedding gowns. After that, wait again for their make up, hair setting. There were few couples at the time as well. 

OCT East (东部华侨城) located at Shenzhen was our first day shooting venue, journey took about 2 and half hour,  this was suffering as the wedding gowns was put on all the way to the destination.  But everything turns out pleasing as the good weather and nice scenery.

Picture from Google Image

In front of OCT Interlaken Hotel

It took the whole day for this OCT East venue, it was 10 something at night by the time we reached Guangzhou.  So this is the first day of our outdoor wedding shoot. To be continued was our second day indoor shooting. This was less tiring and all done inside the studio in Guangzhou. As usual waiting for the makeup and blah blah blah then start shooting. Indoor one ended up quiet fast.  No pictures taken as it was not allowed.  Coming on was the third day at the beach in Shenzhen as well.  This was miserable, hot like hell, we're both sun burn after that. Cut the craps, pictures.......

Shenzhen beach

Standby






Memories

End...... Love!

Segway PT (Personal Transporter)

I can barely remember saw this machine in a american movie where all those CIA agent riding on and travel here and there. As well as the Kaspersky commercial by Jackie Chan.  Finally i got my hands on it. Generally this device was operated by the computers and motors at the base of it and to keep it upright. Make sure you balance yourself while stepped onto it, then lean forward to move forward and lean backward to stop or brake. While turning, lean left or right the handlebar to make a turn. And it was totally an amazing device. The staff told me each of this device gonna cost 29k and varies model to model. Well this gonna be in my wish list, hopefully one day i can go groceries with this personal transporter.