I went back to Malacca just after Christmas to celebrate grandma’s birthday. Kev and I drove down to Malacca for a one (1) day trip. The weather were great and the sky were beautiful that day.

Here are some random pictures taken.

I went to Singapore in December 2008, along with my mum, aunt and cousin. While we were at Singapore, we dropped by Uncle Richard’s place. His wife, Aunty Yan loves cats. And I love cats too. I used to keep cats many years ago. Cats are easy to take care but the only problem you will have is furniture getting damaged when they scratch around with their claws.

This is Susu. She’s a princess! Just so unfortunate that she was born deaf, but she’s really beautiful. And I adore her.

This is Uncle Richard’s daughter’s pet. I forgotten what his name.

And this is stray cat and decided to stay as their pet.

During her free time, Aunty Yan loves to paint. This one of the piece which I like the most. Lovely!

Two (2) weeks ago, I joined some bloggers for a paintball tournament at Astaka Sports Center, Petaling Jaya. Advertlets is the official Online Partner for the most prominent paintball league in Malaysia, the Malaysian National Paintball League (MY-NPL) in year 2009!

Since the event was organised by Advertlets, registration fee was ONLY Rm10 for bloggers which inclusive of paintball marker rental fully equipped and paintball pellet. Cheap, isn’t it? So I thought, why not just give it a try since it will only cost me RM10 instead of RM90 and I’ve always wanting to try out paintball.

Those are called goggles.

This is how the battle field looks like. Each of the those thingy have their own unique names, like “snake”, “temple” and the rest I can’t really recall.

Those are called the paintball marker and the socks covering the barrel are called barrel socks. Like, duh!

The Malaysian Paintball Academy (MAPAAC).

Before the game begin, Mr. Wong, the instructor gave a briefing on the safety, rules and regulation of the game as well as how use the paintball marker.

Most of the bloggers that came for the event were first timer including me. Of course, there are those who are experience players who join the Malaysian National Paintball League (MY-NPL).

The attire recommended were long sleeves  and pants, so I wore my orange Nickelodeon’s t-shirt which was the only long sleeves t-shirt that I have. And apparently that there should not be any orange on the player shirt. Luckily they wasn’t strict with the rules.

This is a picture of us on the battle field. Can you spot me in orange?

This is our team - Yakuza. Left to right - L-R: Uncle Z (En. Zahari), EVo, myself, Marcus and Aizuddin

Left to right: Ashley Teng (camera lady of the day), EVo, Uncle Z (En. Zahari), Marcus, myself, Aizuddin, and Josh Lim.

Most of the player in our team have either no or minimal experience in playing paintball and it quite amazing that we managed to win 1st runner up for the overall game. As being said here, the top 3 winning teams will be sponsored for their registration fees for the 5 rounds of MY-NPL 2009 and stand a chance to win attractive prizes in the MY-NPL! So our team was qualified to play for MY-NPL. But last minutes I decided to pull out due to other commitments.

I did enjoyed paintball, it was fun shooting people. But it obviously wasn’t fun being shot by others. At the end of the game, I can home having several bruises and one severe injury on my knuckle. I got shot on the knuckle just before the last game and it hurt so bad till my right hand were shaking in pain. Luckily Marcus lend me his pair of gloves for the last game else I might not be able to survive.

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Well, they don’t call it paintball for nothing, right?

I lost him twice and I found him back twice. It must be a miracle. And I do believe that miracle do happen.

** Photo taken by Kevin.

My first attempt at still life photography and studio lighting with Kev’s assistant on the lighting.

Shot with Canon EOS 5D with 85mm f1.8. ISO 100 1/125 f2.2.

Sorry, there’s no behind-the-scene for this one because I forgotten to take a picture of the setup.

And here’s a Christmas tree (that made out of plastic bottles) from Singapore’s Night Safari.

A little collage my put together myself…

**Photos by Kev.

Bill Keith came to my college the other day to have a little chat with the students. He is not just a successful fashion designer by also a very inspiring person who have a lot to share. The whole 2 hours of talking was rather inspiring as he said there are so many people who graduate from the same college, same university, all studied the same course but why only very few managed to make it to the top? The problem with us is that, he pointed out, we “MALAYSIA” are by nature, are rather “MALA-S–”. Which I think he does have a point in there. Very often we take things for granted and thinks that opportunities would knock on our door twice. Having to always pushing things around and making unnecessary excuses. But instead, we should do things for ourselves and grab as many opportunities as possible.

Take a competition for example. How many of us look at the price first before entering, or do we let the cost (start up cost) discourage us from giving it a shoot? Well, whatever that is. We should always do it for ourselves and not for others. Because at the end of the day, it is us who are living our own life.

The inspiration I get for the following two (2) pics are, the first pic represent self, as an individual. Having the fire inside one self, be it knowledge or idea or belief. If we hold on to whatever we are believing or know, the fire in us may just die off. Instead, we should share it to others and not keep it to yourself.

By sharing idea or knowledge to others, people would see us someone who is unselfish. May the fire in us shine right through us like in the second pic and may other benefit from it too.

This is the original picture.

I’m not sure what I just said made any sense. But anyway, it’s a “random” thought after all.

BACKSTREET BOYS - What Makes You Different (Makes You Beautiful)

You don’t run with the crowd
You go your own way
You don’t play after dark
You light up my day

Got your own kind of style
That sets you apart
Baby that’s why you capture my heart
I know sometimes you feel
Like you don’t fit in
And this world doesn’t know
What you have within

When I look at you
I see something rare
A rose that can grow anywhere (grow anywhere)
And there’s no one I know that can compare

Chorus:
What makes you different (oh, uh)
Makes you beautiful (oh uh)
What’s there inside you (oh uh)
Shines through to me
In your eyes I see all the love I’ll ever need
(You’re all I need oh girl, girl)
What makes you different makes you beautiful to me (yeah)

You’ve got something so real
You touched me so deep (touched me so deep)
See material things
Don’t matter to me
So come as you are
You’ve got nothing to prove
You won me with all that you do
And I wanna take this chance to say to you

Chorus:
What makes you different (oh, uh)
Makes you beautiful (oh uh)
What’s there inside you (oh uh)
Shines through to me
In your eyes I see all the love I’ll ever need
(You’re all I need oh girl, girl)
What makes you different makes you beautiful to me (yeah)

You don’t know (you don’t know)
How you’ve touched my life (how you touched my life)
Oh there’s so many ways, I just can’t describe (so many)
You taught me what love is supposed to be
It’s all the little things that made you beautiful to me
(So beautiful, oh yeah)

Chorus:
What makes
What makes you different (oh, uh)
Makes you beautiful (beautiful)
What’s there inside you (it shines)
Shines through to me
In your eyes I see all the love I’ll ever need
(You’re all I need oh girl)
What makes you different makes you beautiful to me

Everything in you is beautiful (so beautiful)
Love you give shines right through me (shines to me)
Everything in you is beautiful (oh oh oh oh)
Oh your beautiful to me (to me)

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Have you ever feel like you can never fit in? I do. Just like the lizard in the pic. But it’s alright. No one is the same anyway. We may have the same colour, but no one think alike. And that make you special and unique.

BACKSTREET BOYS - Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon

How come I was the last to know
Took the stage then you stole the show
Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon
I was captured by that stare
Now I’m shattered, but I don’t care
And the people walking by don’t have a clue

That I kissed your face
Till the sun was in our eyes
Till the afternoon arrived
And I can’t explain
Last night I saw the fireworks
The kind of pain that never hurts
The one you hate to love is made for you
Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon

Monday is a funny thing
Still waiting for the phone to ring
Will my imagination take it slow
After Saturday, my life is changed
In a moment it was rearranged
Strange how easy it is letting go
And I miss your face
Like the sun was in my eyes
And now I’m running blind

And I can’t explain
Last night I saw the fireworks
The kind of pain that never hurts
The one you hate to love is made for you
Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon

This sweet relief
Unexpected things
Is this the end or only the beginning

I miss your face
Like the sun was in my eyes
Like the afternoon
Now I’m running blind (running blind)
I can’t explain (can’t explain)

Last night I saw the fireworks
the kind of pain that never hurts
The one you hate to love that’s made for you
Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon
Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon

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It’s been years since I last played around with Photoshop. Back in high school, I was very much into graphic designs. I had plenty free time as well, to the extend of changing my blog’s template several times a year.

The song above have got nothing to do with my personal life whatsoever. It’s just a song that I could relate it to the image above. And no doubt this is one of my favourite song from Backstreet Boys’ Unbreakable album.
Here’s the original image before photoshop. This photo was taken while I was waiting at the traffic light in front of Technology Park Malaysia.

It’s pretty interesting what you can do with photoshop.