13th Dog gathering

Received an email saying that there'll be doggie's gathering at Paradise hotel, so me and the usual gang went over for some photoshoot.

Initially a few of us are skeptical about the event cos none of us bringing any dogs over! hahahahha, "what if they dun let us in?", "what if this.. what if that?" to me.. well, what's there to loose? except petrol and time to get there.. :p

It's a nice event for me to get close to some dogs and puppies, I love them... so.. I snapped a few of them as my collection and boy, dogs are quite hard to be framed cos a few of them are very active. They'll go around and interact with other doggies... mostly they just smell each other's backside.. =_=!!!

Anyway, here's the pics. Enjoy~


P/S: Do you like dogs? do you own any? :)

Floral Exhibition 08

There's the floral exhibition held at Penang's Botanical Garden started since last week. Last week was too lazy after the saturday outing that we didn't even wanna go there but a quick check at the date saids it's still going on till today so here goes...

Went with the usual gang with Felicia and Jimmy zhai tagging along this time to make it merrier :)

I think this is suppose to call monk?

Since the previous outing to Botanical Garden was not long ago, this time I only focus on the section of the exhibition where a lot of competition plant including Bonzai were placed. Some even competing rocks!

Still getting a hang of shooting flowers with my prime lens. :) enjoy...

Hope a few shots of the flower would brighten up your days. :)

ASIMO at Queensbay Mall - Nov 2008

ASIMO stands for Advanced Step in Innovative MObility. When I first hear this name a few years ago, I knew its a creation of Japanese. Probably cos of the SI and the MO sound. :p

ASIMO is on a roadshow here in Penang's Queensbay mall and me and the usual gang of friends went to witness it.
Reached there quite early in the morning as we're suppose to go shoot sunset nearby but failed cos its cloudy and it drizzled.

There's quite a crowd gathered around the stage and also around the center court area 2, 3 levels above as well. Most of them were children accompanied by their parents. We're not children, at least I know my main purpose is here to 'shoot' ASIMO with my D60.


ASIMO was being introduced by the host and later on received and performed some moves as instructed by the host. This includes, walk, run, run faster (6km/h), kicks a ball, carry water cup in a tray, dance to the crowd, balance on 1 leg.

I must say that ASIMO's motion is surprisingly smooth, not those jerky transition movement you would expect from some real life robot, absolutely no pause when he's making a turn when walking. I am impressed!

Some of us were given a paper mockup project to assemble ASIMO and the lucky 5 'family' will get a chance to shoot photo alongside with ASIMO!

We failed miserably but with Shang Yih's help, we got in to join one of his friend who happened to win! yay! we are family~, hahahahhahaha.. I handed them my camera cos we're not allowed to take the photos ourselves.

Some of us managed to buy some gifts from the merchandise booth next to the stage. Overall a fun experience.


Honda, truely meant 'the power of dreams!' when they created this robot! way to go! May your dreams take you further!

match

A while ago I heard a short story on the radio, its worth a sharing. It goes like this ...

A match stick worth only a few cents, probably not even 1 cent.
However, a house or a building is probably worth a few thousand over.

But a match stick that light up could potentially destroy the building that worth a few hundred thousand times more than it.

Put it this way, no matter how talented or good a person is... if he failed just once to control himself and said out hurtful words or did regrettable actions... his image will be forever tarnished.

Everyone of us has a kind of match sticks... can you control yours?

Penang Bridge Run 08

Went to the Penang Bridge Run on 17th Nov 2008 with my fren. This was one of the more exhausting excercise I've ever did in recent years...

My previous participation was 7 years ago.. wow. time flies! I have some extra 'challenge' on the day of the event partly becos :-

1) I slept for 3 hours only prior to the run, registration time ends at 4:15am, I slept at 12am after I fetch my mum back

2) I brought my DLSR with me (naturally) hehehehe...

3) I found out that I left my sport shoes at work and I wore sandals.... zzz =_=!!!

Its a very very very exhausting and tiring race... I'm still plastering myself with medical pain relief pads all over my body... haih...

There was a lot of people that turned out for the event.. a much much much larger crowd, all my other frens joined fun run (in orange shirt).

Well, I joined half run.. (25km) but only managed to finished it in 4 hours (3.5 hours was the maximum given time)....uuuhh..

I am soooooooooooo glad when I see this sign

so when I reached the finishing line.. I found out that there were no medals.. (no surprise here).. but no cert of participation as well!!.. what the ?!??!.. uuuhh

Its not mine...

Yeah... my consolation prize was 1 can of 100Plus and its not even chilled

I must admit, riding in one of this was really tempting at certain times when my legs were cramping on the bridge

Participant reaching for refreshment

But at least I've got these... heheheheheheh...

I think I managed to snap some of my favourite shots here... so no regrets for me for carrying the camera and bag along... hope you guys like it!

peace... :)