took things for granted

elo. we meet again :) i guess i've probably lost almost 99% of my blog readers (coz i dont have much to start with). sigh. haha. give me a chance to do this again k?

so what's up?

• it's the 1st day of Ramadhan today. Happy Fasting everyone. may we continue doing the good deeds we used to, but with additions during this Holy month.
• it has been 114 days i've worked with ExxonMobil. to be honest, i'm still not able to stabilize my life up till now. i guess that's the point of working over there, to always feel uncomfortable.
• hence, becoming one of the source of discontentment i'm having right now. it's not like i have been content ever since, but, it has gotten worse :(
• trust me, working life is hard. the money is good, the status is even better. but the freedom to choose u get, is really gonna make u miserable. freedom to choose: u can literally pave ur own way in life in whatever way u desire. men are naturally greedy, never satisfied with what they have. note: men = human being, bukan lelaki only. :P
• it's such a big world out there, endless discovery - but what goes around comes around, no matter how hard we tried to escape cliches, we'll end up in one. and u'll get to know people in the most impossible way possible.
• hence, the world is actually small.
  
• i've realized that i've not been buying gadgets since i started working.
• current gadget crave: HTC Hero (screw iPhone)
  

• oh besarnye gambar di atas. but yeah, that is as far as my gadget hunger goes. nothing else :|
• i went to the MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia. my 1st concert since i was, 9 years old or something. back then it was KRU. hahaha. it was kinda nice, coz i get to scream my lungs out, let go off everything.
  
• wish i could be that carefree all the time, but life's like this, it cant get any better - at least i thought of it that way, i dont care if u dont. it will get better, but when? i might die tomorrow, so it wont get better la then. huhu
• oh, life (damn, been getting around life for now, someone's gonna hit me back with this. haha). ok, lets continue. oh, life in KL is making me impatient. the traffic jams, the long queues, the amount of people - what you call living life in the fast lane. affected my driving attitude as well. fast. lane. must. speed. accelerate. reduce. braking. sigh.
• i rarely have time for myself.
  
• i guess i dont love myself enough.
  
• i have a new bad habit.
• i'm afraid of consequences. i'm afraid to give myself reasons to deviate, even for my own good.
  
• i took things for granted.

people took me for granted previously. i guess it's affecting me now. i tend to not care much bout things and when i did that, i tend to care too much on a single thing. No matter what it is, i dont wanna care what's the consequence gonna be.

i did take things for granted, consciously. but i know i'm making up for it consciously too. i hope that i'll turn out to be a better person along Ramadhan.

for that, I apologize to everyone affected. its a conscious decision, but forced to do so by situations. i'm not perfect, so forgive my humanly weaknesses.

to everyone, lets not take this month for granted, as what we did last year. we never know if we're gonna be in this month again. so be grateful! ;)

enough rants for today. will be resumed some time later next week. hopefully with good news and brighter outlook on my side.

welcoming myself back with a brand new look.

last but not least, these are the previous collection of photos that i'm supposed to post 3 months ago i think? haha. i would wanna take more photos in the short future. hope for the best!

to you: this aint gonna be easy. but no matter how hard it is, how complicated the path i'm taking to make this happen, i'll hold on to it. my prayers with this.

my first wedding job: Saiful Nizam & Siti Rohaida

hoh, i think this is the biggest post of photos i've ever posted. hehe

weehoo, after quite some time, waited for my flickr quota to reset, post processing of these photos and also the purchase of flickr pro account (yes! i'm a pro user now :D), i can finally upload my, uh, so-called, portfolio for my first wedding job. heee...

uhh. a lot has happened up to this point:

• i bought myself a speedlite (an investment for the wedding). a third party, Nissin Di622. and this marks the completion of my photography equipments. not entirely, but enough to make myself a photographer ;)
• bought myself a proper camera bag to store my equipments, bla3
  
• had my 1st wedding job done, wayyyy at Safira Country Club, Penang. hehe. paid ok! :D
  
• purchased a flickr pro account, to serve as my online safebox for my artsy2 photos
• passed my pre-employment medical checkup!
• andddd, i'll be working anytime soon which may range from few days from now till end of the month

hmm. doesnt seem much la plak. but anyway, that's considered A LOT to me. coz i'm jobLESS. haha

these are the best photos that i've picked for display out of the best photos which will be printed for the couple. if you saw the rest of the photos, they dont look as uh, as good as these kot :P but hey, its my 1st job, gimme a break k? hehe. anyway, critics and comments are very welcomed. i would like to know if you think i'm capable of continuing this job :)

huhu, and i'm gonna start working already, hopefully i'm still able to spend some time doing this as a part time job, as i've started to enjoy this :D

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anddddd...please gimme some support wokey, dont say that i'm gonna forget bout you guys (or girls) out there once i've started working. i know i suck at keeping in touch, or even maintaining contacts. but trust me, i'm not gonna be that cruel :P hehe. dont worry la, i'll be around in Shah Alam till i dunno when pun.

its been quite some time that i've not been this happy. i know this will be temporary, but i'm enjoying them while they still last :) there has been series of "jiwa kacau" moments in my life previously, and i'm in dire need of getting rid of them quickly. hence, i am really really really looking forward to start working. so that i can deviate my attention towards other things.

sometimes i wonder, should i give up? or should i just keep chasing pavements.

High Dynamic Range (HDR) post processed photos

i already ran out of flickr upload quota and i thought of waiting for the quota to be reset before i post a new entry, but seeing my blog not updated for too long made me anxious. hehe. so here are my latest obsession/specialization/craze collection of the infamous post-processing technique: HDR. head to the link for further explanation :D

it has been quite some time that i didnt post pictures of landscapes and i hope to continue taking landscape photos :) i'm not motivated enuf to go to places alone to take picturessss. haha

i dont know what else to write here. been admitted to the hospital last week, sucks. but getting the news of being called upon for a pre-employment medical checkup during discharge day was sumthing good, really good to hear. so basically life's in balance. :) and i'm grateful for that.

life seems brighter ahead. i hope it will be.

oh oh, and i got myself a job as a wedding photographer! who would've imagined that i'll venture into this arena of photography...huhu. its gonna be a very good experience :D and if all goes well, i hope to continue this as a part time job ;P

till then~

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i'm still lost and blind.

botanic gardens - flowers galore (updated)

Nyphamaea caerulea - "Blue Lotus of Egypt"

EXIF:

• Camera: Canon EOS 30D
• Shutter: 1/2000
• Aperture: f1.8
• ISO: 100
• Focal length: 50 mm
• Mode: Aperture Priority
• Post-processing: Lens vignette, saturation and details enhancement - Adobe Camera Raw

the above picture was taken at the Amazon Waterlily Pavilion of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. attempted to capture a symmetry-ish picture, tapi takdela skema sgt kan. aaa, i suck at flowers, so i dont really know what to write bout this. haha. to appreciate this: it's quite a nice looking flower ;P

Pink flower with a yellow centre surrounded by 5 red spots (haha, i didnt pay attention to the flower labelling back then, so sape2 yg tau, sile inform ;P)

EXIF:

• Camera: Canon EOS 30D
• Shutter: 1/90
  
• Aperture: f9.5
  
• ISO: 100
• Focal length: 50 mm
• Mode: Aperture Priority
• Post-processing: Lens vignette, saturation and details enhancement - Adobe Lightroom 2 (yay! damn awesome software!)

ok, i didnt pay attention to the labels given for these flowers. the first flower pun i stumbled upon the label in one of the pics i took. hence the scientific name written in the caption. and the second one, I DONT KNOW. so anyone, please tell me if u know. haha. so, these are among the flowers in the botanic gardens of Adelaide. there were more interesting flowers over there and also from other occasions, but i'm so lazy to browse through all of my pics (now almost reached 8000+ excluding last year's collection of another 4000+), so i'll just upload the recent ones i took. aaa, people, please give me some support! why am i soooo lazy...... :|

suddenly i felt like playing boardgames plak. i wanna play Monopoly and also the utmost urge of playing Cluedo! what am i gonna do until the grad day! aaaaaaaaaaa...

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up till now, i still cant accept the reality. i kept running, trying to defy my own belief. i wear facades, to avoid people from questioning me of my own reality...

...i think i'm getting tired...things happen, unpredictable things happened. to whom it may concern: i'm sorry for everything. i'll try to stay strong. i'll try to hold on. change is inexorable. but only time will decide, time will choose the change.

memories last forever...time will choose...