Eid Mubarak Everyone!

It is still not to late for me to wish everyone Eid Mubarak. This year is my 2nd Eid celebrated with my lovely wife but my countless Eid in the UK. Hopefully, I finish my study before next year Eid so I can celebrate with my family and relatives back home. 

This year Eid is a bit different from our last Eid because we managed to prepare small party for our guest. Credit to my wife cook all the traditional dish all night, alone. I suddenly pass out after break our fast for no particular reason as an excused for being lazy ass :). Sadly there is no "Raya" cookies  and I don't think it is a big deal as long as we have ketupat and rendang. 

After, a month of hard work, fasting and do other good deeds, I believe it is pay off. I lost almost 3 Kg of my weight but sadly it not last that long and now I gain back the weight... :( Anyway the fast is to teach Muslim to thanks God for providing  the mercy month of Ramadhan with a little of scarifies and rewarded us with the Syawal or Eid.  

As usual we, Malaysian in Cardiff doing our best in celebrating Eid by pray together. This will remind us to home and opportunity to ask forgiveness among ourself.  Here few pictures I have taken during the Eid celebration. Hopefully next Eid I will be with our love one :) in Malaysia.

Me and my wife

Eid small party @ our house

Rendang in the making

UPEC 2010

I've been busy lately since end of August. A lot of stuff I tried to juggle around at one time. From 31st of August to 3rd of Sept 2010, I have attended a Conference organised by Cardiff University for High Voltage Engineering. The sad part is this conference is in Ramadhan so I missed  a lot of free food however, that is not a big deal. This is my first Conference after 3 years of my PhD and hopefully I get more opportunity for next coming year.

There is nothing much during these 4 days conference, only seminar,  Museum visit , free food and paper presentation. As a part of delegate and volunteer, my tasks are present my paper, tour guide, conference assistant and etc. This sound really sad...hahaha I wish the conference somewhere else so I can get a chance to visit other places for free. :)

They are around 300 delegates from academic and industry sector. So I take advantage from this conference to expend my network and sharing knowledge. I meet few people from other University and I reckon it was good experience especially PhD student from Netherlander which have a lot of sense of humour.

Overall, I enjoyed the conference, make a few friends and most importantly I got 4 days leisure time with out stuck at my office desk.. :) Here, few pictures through out the conference.

The three musketeer 

Big lady Boss

Conference delegates

Empty cups like my empty stomach during Ramadhan

ME

My favourite Raya Song

Hi all,

Just want to share my favourite Raya Song by Sudirman. It is hard to live aboard and far away from the love one. The reality is really really hard especially when Ramadhan and Eid approaching it always remind me to Malaysia. The food is amazing especially at Ramadhan Bazar and when Eid, the atmosphere and celebration is different compared to UK. I looking forward to this year Eid and hoping this is going to be last Eid I celebrate in UK. Hopefully, next year I will be in Malaysia with my family and friend. Enjoy the song guys!

Chase Jarvis

Hi all,

Just want to share this link posted by Chase Jarvis through his blog. I think is a great knowledge to share with everyone. Give it a go folks and enjoy!

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2010/08/scotts-guest-post-play-by-play-post-production-on-this-popular-photo/

Why?

I'm a Muslim and really proud of my religion but sick with some people that used Muslim as their political agenda. Unfortunately, it is really sad to say that Muslim or Islam have been labelled as terrorist but not all of us is bad. Same like all rapist is man but not all man is a rapist. So folks we live in this temporary world why we can't tolerate and share the world equally?. This is because some people a greedy and love to see the destruction of the world. By the way I just want to share this link and hope you all watch it, learn and think about it for a moment. Try to find an answer why we can't live in this world in peace and harmony. Have a nice day!

How to get free Manfrotto Monopod

Hi Ya!

Hope everyone doing well with daily life, a great news I just got myself free Manfrotto Monopod. Technically it is not free but by considering I break even, so I just assumed it is free :). I subscribe to PhotoPlus Magazine and as a welcome gift, I have picked a monopod. I always dream to have a monopod because it easy to carry around and also good addition to my current camera accessories collection. However, the term to get this welcome gift is I need to pay for a year subscription. By the way that is not a big deal because I used Topcashback and managed to get cash back of £6. This mean I paid less than the actual fees. So everyone this is a great opportunity to have good stuff at reasonable price plus free monopod. :) Lastly, check out my video!

What is Photography mean to me.

These days I could see a lot of people own a DSLR camera. I did owned one; a Canon 500D and were really satisfied with the images it produced. It has an 18M resolution and capable to work under a low light condition. Here one of the picture taken using the camera..

I started to involve seriously in photography a year ago and now I got hooked to it and totally addicted. I love to flip through pictures uploaded on Flickr and share ideas with other people of this similar enthusiasm. The main reason I love photography is because I could capture special moments and store them. Like the picture below, you could see an endless happiness of the boy's smile..

There are times, however, when I felt cumbersome to carry around a DSLR so I then decided to get a compact camera. I later bought a Leica Dlux-4 and I am quite impressed with the quality of pictures it produces. Although its relatively expensive price let me down a bit but that did not stop me from owning one. I know the camera model is the same as LX3 but the hefty price tag represents its distinguished brand. I believe everyone wants to have an M9 but not everyone can afford it. At the moment, I am also trying to save a sum of money as much as possible and hopefully one day I could have M9. :) Here is one of the among the earliest pictures I captured using D-lux 4. This simple image managed to attract more than 200 viewers on Flickr and counting.

Recently I also purchased a ten-weeks photography course organised by CreativeLive, the course talks about the fundamental principle of digital photography with John Greengo as the speaker. I am really pleased to join this course because it opens up my mind about photography and teaches me a lot on how to become a better photographer by means of mastering my equipment. I highly recommend this course to all the photographers, especially the beginners. Here, the website creativelive, you can purchase a lot of courses from here.

Last but not least, I also want to share about my favourite magazine called PhotoPlus. Unfortunately, this magazine is dedicated only to Canon users. The best part is when they give away some welcome gifts such as mono pod, camera bag and many more when one subscribes the mag for a year. I love this magazine because the editor manages to provide relevant topics on photography and not being bias when making comments or reviews on equipments, for instance lens, camera and others. Furthermore, the mag also provides a photoshop tutorial on how to edit or improvise digital picture by showing step-by-step editing process. Overall, I love this mag and glad to be a Canon user. Alrighty folks, I have shared my photography knowledge, hope you guys enjoy it and have a nice week ahead!