After dunno-how-many years, I have re-visited Langkawi island under company’s team building trip last Friday. It was a 2 days 1 night trip inclusive of all the traveling required from/to Penang. I met up with my colleagues around 530am at McD Sungai Dua. Idiotic enough, we need to board the ferry from Kuala Perlis and not from Penang itself. Things got a little ’sui’ although not on me when one of the participants got into road accident when he was on his way driving to the assembly point, at the factory. He was fine though, from what I heard. Except the pity Kelisa.

Not getting enough of the bad incident, our bus broke down at the side of the highway just after it got out from the tol plaza near Sungai Dua. There, we have waited patiently inside the bus for around an hour. What happened? I was told by the driver that the one of the 8 bola (ball alike thingy I suppose that has something to do with hydraulic ) was not functioning therefore the suspension wasn’t working making our ride very bumpy when traveling at high speed.

After an hour or so, bus’s company sent a mechanic over and made some tuning/tweaking to the bus and magically it recovered almost in no time! Lucky enough! And we have made the ferry waited for us probably due to our large number, they were urged to wait. The air-con inside the ferry was awful. It’s merely good for ventilation and not cooling us down at all. Their seats are scrapped, damaged and broken. Awful!

45 minutes later, we made it, finally, to the land of eagles.

After so many years, its wings still spreading wide. But, how come it’s not flying yet, still?

(Pics credit to SeeMun, Liang and many others)

to be continued…. I need to pangkang now… have a good weekend folks!

Tada~~~ I went to Kerachut again for the second time this year. This time, I went with my colleagues from Motolala.

SJLee, Adrian, Ricky, Hugo and ChoonYi and…

Joyce from Motolala also. Nice to meet you for the first time.

I couldn’t catch my breath and got muscle cramp on the way back and It was worse than last time. I think I need to exercise more given my limited little stamina in my body. On the way back Joyce and ChoonYi were the two that are leading the pack and pulled away at steady rate. By the time I reached I can see them practicing dancing. Just imagine how slow I was. Ahahha.. man… I’m weak

Had a great time hiking and sweating. That’s the spirit! Let’s do it again some time in the future!

Ahem, Here’s some good shots taken during the trip. The rest of the photos can be found in the album page link below. Comments are welcomedddddd

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Kerachut Suspension Bridge HDR

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Penang Pearl of Orient Panorama City Skyline

Ahem… may I get your attention please…

This is my latest panoramic masterpiece of my beloved Hugo Penang Island. It is taken using Canon 10-22mm at 10mm 1/250s F/10 handheld.

And here’s the location where I composed this shot.

Yes, if you see it correctly, I took it from Prangin Mall’s carpark.

ahahaha.. yes yes… make no mistake.. I took this from carpark. In fact this is my second time doing so.

Here’s the first panorama taken at the very same spot few years back in 2004 using Nikon 5700 prosumer camera.

The wide angle shot above is made possible after stitching using software. It was taken using Sigma 18-200 at 18mm with 4 exposures taken vertically.

That was my only visit to Starhill gallery so far and I actually went for Jogoya that time. I tried to take some photos on the restaurant’s environment but was stopped by the staff there. Therefore, these are all I got for Jogoya. Read the rest of this entry »

These shots are taken in a restaurant while we escape from the raining weather during our visit to Look Out Point (Hulu Langat). I was trying out the effects of flash(es) shooting into the lens! We can see some glare or flare or some spiral effects which can be a quite an interesting creative art if used properly.

Note: All shots taken using Canon 10-22mm with Multi-coated filter on. Click on each photo to view its EXIF settings.

This is probably the best place you can find in Penang with lots of green, far away from the hustle bustle of the big city like Georgetown. Gosh, Balik Pulau just got its first traffic light about 2 years ago. See how traffic-free it is .

Geographically, it is located on the south west part of the Penang island. Most of the people here often commute to work at other places like in the industrial area in Bayan Lepas, at the south east part of the island.

These shots are taken at the top of the hill along Jalan Tun Sardon. This is the major link connecting Balik Pulau to the rest of the island.

Head on to Wiki to find out more about my beloved hometown, Balik Pulau

Map shown below shows the spot where I took all the shots! Enjoy!

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Redang Kalong Resort

Please, let me impress you, click on the photo above.

Title: Redang Kalong Resort Panorama

Dimension: 6175 x 899 pixels

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Description: It’s taken late in the morning when I was about to leave the Island. It is taken with a series of 8 consecutive pictures with around 40% over overlapping between each frame. This shot did not go too well as I was taking on a floating platform as you can see at the center of the picture. That’s the “jetty” of the resort.

I have actually taken a 360 degrees shot that time but two frames failed to join properly to the rest of the set so I settled for this result for the time being. Enjoy!

Oh ya, be patient, the full resolution size here is over 1MB, it may takes a little while to load it.

The map below shows where I was when composing this photo.

Kerachut Pier. This shot is taken using Canon 10-22mm at 10 o’clock in the morning! Merged using 3 exposures.