tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1688705727816239622011-11-27T16:08:46.472-08:00The Art of Being ThereAzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08409997647045618893noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168870572781623962.post-26297065961697055502010-04-10T19:57:00.000-07:002010-06-28T23:45:56.075-07:00

I've been reconsidering cycling for quite sometime now. I'm not really sure why but the most appealing factor of cycling is to promote a healthy life style. I used to crank the old Shimano road bike that weighted almost 11kg everyday back in my student years. I also read some local mountain bikers blogs and watched some thrilling off-road cycling videos over the Youtube. The sense of freedom in

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I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year of 2009. Some said that this is going to be a tough and challenging year.

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View Larger MapIt's been a while since my last bike convoys with my Eleganet buddies. So tomorrow we will set of for a little adventure trip to Kuantan riding our Modenas Elegan bike. I estimate the whole journey will take at least 644km. I hope my bike could cope with top speed abuse in this trip.For a record, for a single rider, the Elegan 150 stock standard could reach the maximum speed at

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It's my 32nd birthday today, since the fuel, food price even the bus fare is sky rocketed so I decided not to celebrate. Besides, since Obi (Dahyatul Qalbi - in photo) arrived in our live, we've been very busy. Having Obi is like managing a twin kids, twice the weight plus prone to fall (he's started to stands and climbs the stairs)I used to organized a small party among my family, threat my

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Beijing China Abre Olimpicos 8.08.2008 Olympic Games Opening, originally uploaded by Informando. Did you catch the opening ceremony of Olympic 2008? It was one of the most spectacular Olympic opening ceremony I ever seen.

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It seems like I'm getting busy with Eleganeers member this last few weeks. Even though it is just for a sip of late night coffee after some bowling game or simply hang out at our regular late night stall. And as for today, we had a unique agenda, out of ordinary, a "Defensive Riding" class. We've been riding Elegan for a year and a half now but this is our only opportunity to properly learn how

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We organized a friendly bowling match among our members last Friday. It's my 1st bowling game in almost 4 years time and I'm totally suck that night.Since I was one of the player that night, I did not totally covering the whole action. Anyway this is my chance to try out the comic effect using Photoshop CS3 and post it on Issuu.com. Check this out.Get your own - Open publication

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Last Friday I manage to set a side a time for my photography activity which is very rare now a days due to hectic life as a family man. So I decided to go to Laman 2008 festival. This festival were also hosted on 2006 if I can recall it back. The event took place at Perdana Lake Garden.My friends once visited the same event during night time and I find the decoration lighting at park is more

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While browsing my old snapshot, I realize that everything look the same (at least to my eye). So I thought why not apply some effect on those kind of snapshots. Then I saw an application called Comic Life from Plasq. Basically the application creates comic borders, pages, and some dialogue balloons automatically from their template. All you have to do is just add the photo that you want. The best

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JIJOI is my nickname during my childhood. But when I entered university, no one call me by that name anymore. Then Shazman suddenly called me that during our journey to MDeC mimicking a radio ads, "Dapatkan produk terbaru dari Jijoi JPEG". Sound catchy & funny at the same time.And today all the sudden, my colleague design that logo. WohahahahaWhat should I do with this logo guys? I don't have any

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I notice that I didn't update anything on this blog for nearly 1 year. Wohohoho, that long. The last post was about our angka..sawan. Dr SMS landed back to earth already but no update on my photo blog. There are lots of thing happening surround me but I've been busy lah.I got Streamyx (that's Malaysian Broadband ISP) connection at home now, but I'm starting to wonder if I had time to fully

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I saw our first angkasawan (cosmonaut) blasting off to the ISS during the Hari Raya shopping at the Giant hypermarket. My feeling were a mixture of exited, proud, jealous, nervous and relief. I never took a serious attention about our space mission but once I saw it blast off, I took a look on www.angkasawan.com.my and other reading material about Soyuz space craft and the International Space

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Last week, me and my Elegan buddies were successful completing a coastal cruising bike trip all the way to Port Dickson, Melaka and back to KL. I thought I'm too old for this kind of activity, but I'm not alone.More trip photo here

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Most people do not decide to make a big change out of the blue. As for me I never thought that I will ever ride a motorcycle again after the last accident 4 years ago (in 2003). At that time my wife was 4 months in pregnancy. Luckily the fall was not that bad, my wife and our baby unharmed.But early this month we decided to ride a bike again due to some changes in our work place. We sold our old

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This is my long awaited event that I'd plan for month. It was really grand. The ceremony was held in Putrajaya at the front of Palace of Justice, Persiarana Putra street. I never had a chance to really take photo shoot in any parade before. I missed the launch of "Eye on Malaysia" and VMY 2007 so I can't afford to miss this one.There are few things that I'd learn from this event photo shot. I

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Wow, I actually had time to wander around Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) and take several shots of the Sultan Abdul Samad building. I always admire the building since my early childhood. It stood there long before I even born into this world.It was designed by A.C. Norman and built in 1894-1896 to house several important government departments during the British administration. A.C. Norman

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Bandar HilirIt’s school holiday again. We plan to take our kids to some cool places. After all I can’t remember when was our last “out of the state” family trip. We list out some places that we think might be suitable for a family activity.Now what are family activities? Kids love to play and discover new experience. So we just need to find any playground and they would be happy enough. Or

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If you visit flickr regularly, you've probably noticed that a lot of High Dynamic Range, or HDR, stuff posted these days. Even if you don't, you've likely seen HDR photos all around the net as photographers both pro and amateur experiment with this emerging artistic format.In Wikipedia definition - High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allow a far greater dynamic range of

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Soekarno-Hatta International AirportIt was a really short trip but worth every penny or should I say worth every Rupiah. Jakarta reported to had a visit by George Bush and university students having several picket sessions. But when I arrived, everything seems calm and the road is busy, I mean really really busy. Twice as much busier than Kuala Lumpur.I manage to check in to Santika Hotel located

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I was searching for a special container for my camera kits and I realized that I can make my own with far cheaper. All you have to do is go to the nearest hypermarket and get this item.What you need is a container box (mine Toyogo brand – RM9) and a bag of dehumidifying bag (Ele brand, 4 bags – RM3). Put a bag of dehumidifying stuff in your container and it will last 3 month or more. You can

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Unless you are living in the hot and dry area, you shouldn’t be worrying about fungus. But if you live in high humidity places like Malaysia, the chances of fungus developing in your camera body or even inside your precious lens are pretty high.Once it’s in there, nothing much you can do. It’s either you send it for a cleaning service at the professional service centre or of course you can do it

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While surveying for the Nikon D50 last week, non of the camera store that I visited has a stock. The D50 must be extinct, I said to my wife. At that moment my selection is down to Nikon D70/s or the new D80 which is far over my budget. What should I do.As we walk through all the camera store in Sg Wang and BB plaza, we end up to a store, the last store of the day, and we ask for the D50. Of

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Stoneth, one of my flickr's contact has excellent black & white (B&W) photo set that I admire. I did wondered how he does that, as no exif data available in all his B&W photo. So I thought it must be post processing.So I look for the best way to produce a B&W photo on the internet. Through all my reading, there is no exact answer for this but basically there are two ways to achieve this.Camera

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I keep asking myself how to prepare myself when I need to travel overseas and interstate. I need to be well prepared as the opportunity might be limited. So I research a bit and here are the check list that I put together, for now.Basic knowledge of the place you are visitingGet yourself a map. It might be your best companion. Or perhaps you might want to get a local tour guide. Get to know the

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I'm transforming this blog completely into my travel & photography blog. I'm gonna set another blog to satisfy my interest on the web technology. Okay I already did that. It's called Azo Web Sphere. Which is should be more frequent update.The Blue Planet Explorer was meant for traveling blog and it is a good idea to have a speacialze blog rather than putting everything in it. It's proven. The

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