Dragon-Y

Calvin welcomes all to Dragon-Y

Today we finally went to Dragon-Y restaurant at Suntech Cybercity to have our lunch. Received email a while ago regarding this and the first thing that reminded me of Dragon-Y is the Dragon-i restaurant in QB which I have never been to b4.

Its Hong Kong based restaurant that offers a variety of Hong Kong food, resembles Kim Gary but in a cheaper scale.

2nd Floor of the restaurant, there's 1 row of seats beside the staircase

The restaurant has 2 floors, the ground floor is quite small, only managed to house 2 to 3 tables and so we proceeded upstairs. Surprisingly, the whole venue seemed cramped to me. Table was square in design and it barely able to accomodate our food and drinks. I had to carry my camera bag on my lap.

One of the few lanterns hanging from the ceiling

Menu, the mascot seemed cute

Some of the gang waiting for their food while others started digging in

They even have 1 LCD TV playing MTV at a far end of the place

Design is modern like, with some wallpaper and lantern ligting hanging from the ceiling. It was almost full house during lunch hour and judging from the menu, the price they charged seemed reasonable for this type of restaurant. I've ordered Sour vege pork with rice set that comes with a soya bean milk and also 1 desert cup that costs RM8.90 only without tax. It tastes good too, and btw... its not those vege pork that they serve for vegetarian, its sliced mushrooms with sliced pork topped with sour sauce.

Sour Vege Pork

The rice, nice bowl shape with some sesame

The soya bean and desert cup

Honey Chicken

Anyone who liked Hong Kong food can have a try there. Suntech Cybercity is just beside Sunshine Square.

P/S: The place is so small that, instead of having the waitor/waitress carrying the food from kitchen at ground floor all the way up thru the staircase, they have 1 mini elevator which will send the food and drinks upward so that the waitor/ waitress can put them onto a tray and serve them to patrons directly. Smart thinking! :)

PENANG - Heritage Sites

Well, Calvin and I thought about having a photography session with the gang and this would be my long awaited outing with them. Last time I didn't join as I have yet to acquire my camera, so naturally... I agreed with both hands up in the air~

Breaking fast...

We had our breakfast at dim sum restaurant opposite of KDU but it was a brief one as we're suppose to meet up at 8am but ended up late for 10mins. oops~

The day was 18th October 2008, the sun was shinning for us and we gathered around Masjid Kapitan Keling. Right when Ah Teng parked his car and we lobbed some coins into the parking meter (note: it only accepts till RM4 and not more, I inserted 40cents more but the counter didn't increased... =_=!) so lasted us for 4 hours. hahahaha.

Meet up with Felicia and Jimmy zhai and all of us got out our image capturing devices and started snapping away at the Masjid.

Made our way passed Kuan Yin Temple, St. George's, Church of Assumptions, The Magistrate court, Esplanade, City Hall and finally along Fort Cornwallis. Applied sun block in the middle of the journey before the sun really gets hot. :p


It was an exhausting but fun and fulfilling event! Here's a few photos for sharing.










Btw, shot a very nice sky scenery up in the light house at Fort Cornwallis~

Train station photography

Ah.. what would Penang be without the famous ferry?

As I've mentioned yesterday, today I will be and already did joined the shutterbugs for 2nd outing. The agenda today will be to wait in front of the QE2 besides Penang Jetty and ferry over to Butterworth's Trainstation where the main shooting venue will be.

I reached there around 7:50am, I saw a bunch of people with cameras in front of QE2 (well the port to be precise) so naturally I walked in and joined them. I didn't see any familiar faces such as those from yesterday's outing so I thought some of them are from ShutterAsia.com probably. I remembered Kevin told me he's not coming but he said "you'll see a bunch of guys there in front". Okay, later on.. .guess what.. those are from a totally different group of people... omg.. lol.. 'or tau'.

The 'real' group... :p

Soon I saw those 'real' shutterbugs and then we moved out.

Walked towards the upper floor of the ferry port and shot a few shots here and there. Funny, the ferry seemed to arrive quite fast or perhaps am I too preoccupied with my shooting. :p

Shot the interior of the ferry, stuck my head and held my camera outside the windows and snap here and there while enjoying the morning breeze. "Perfect outing again..." I told myself.

You see, 1 guy shooting auntie, another guy caught him shooting and shot him while I framed the whole thing... (no, no one shot behind me :p)

Well, soon as we've landed. Followed the group and walked a bit to reach the station not far off from the ferry. I've never been to the station nor ride the train b4. hahahha... so looked around and snapped quite a number of photos and the rest is just as usual.

Went and held my camera near track level for this shot. first time shooting at train station, I actually looked left and right (scare of incoming train...)

What would train station visit be without a photo of a train? This one is actually out of commission one.. hahahahhahaha

An activator to switch tracks

This is where the track begins... at Zero

Fueling pump beside a working train... I ran down the tracks and cross over to the other side for this photo

Again, a bright sunny and clear blue sky. Thank you sky!

See Komtar?

Streetphotography @ Georgetown

Good morning sunshine!

All readied, let's move out

I've decided to join shutterbugs for their outing this week. Guess what, my prayers were answered! Its clear blue skies baby! Their last outing last week were hit by rain so they had to end the shooting prematurely around Gama area.

Shot this while waiting for the rest to come

So this week I joined them where they left off last week, started off at the street opposite of Gama and walked a few blocks there.

A lot of them are geared up with dSLRs with some really nice lens (zoom I presume with the lens hood in front) and certainly some with prosumer and not sure anyone went with pns camera or not. Followed them along the trails as everyone starting shooting away.

Some of the flags from a Chinese temple high up in the clear sky

The faithful companion (actually not his pet)

Meeooowww...

The roof top of the coffee shop, somehow it blends well with the skies

Half way around the blocks we stopped at a coffee shop to have a drinks as it was quite hot around 10am. The shoot continued on till 10:45am and ends.

Had a drink at coffee shop to cool down

Overall quite nice experience. You might have live near your neighborhood for a few decades but its a whole level of difference when you actually travel with your own foot and paid attention to your surrounding objects to shoot not to mention angles are important as well.

Postbox

Tiles at the Indian temple

A good photographer keeps a eye for specific objects and linked them together and compose the shots at a certain angle that would produce an excellent picture. That's something I'm learning along the way and hopefully improve my photography.

Cracks

Some hello kitty fans

A shutterbug was snapping this k9 at close range

There's 1 more shooting tomorrow. Check back for more updates!

Composition

small cute donkey on top of my monitor

Well, been having holidays for 5 days straight. With my first camera on hand and plenty of time to spare... what should I do? snapping of course! Actually been asking Calvin to go along new Jelutong Express way to snap some sun rise picture but our plan has so far been thwarted by bad weather and also time constraint as some of the day I need to fetch my mum to work in the morning.

Never mind, we'll have some more time hopefully on Sunday morning. 1 thing I notice that I need to learn to handle is the composition of a photo. So far a lot of my photos looked like snapshots, composition is needed to bring style to a picture, to show more expression in an artistic way. I'll work on that more... checking our more photos on blogs.

Really, there's a lot of talented ppl out there...