Day 71-73

in the class, we learned that there are 2 ways of controlling your exposure with fill-in flash.

1: fixed aperture, just change your shutter speed

2: fixed shutter speed, just change your aperture

you will see that your subject will change in terms of exposure but your background's exposure remains the same & vice versa. remember to change it 1 stop at the time to see the effect. try it guys!

Tiffany trying out Terry's(Sabahan) D300. shot at ISO1600 .... no noise!siok!she beh tahan wana buy di.

my classmates, during the exposure practiceself potrait using the dustbin's reflexion [me, Tiffany(mid) & Terry(with cap)]

yesterday was day 1 of my new PT job,3-11pm. i like the job very much:the boss is nice,menu is in English, i know the food well(m'sian food wat), get to eat free after working & the pay is higher than that dimsum job.

today, i skipped dimsum and went to practice.

1) i hate being absent for practice as the performance is just 3 weeks away. last minute i have to change from trumpet 2 to trumpet 1 for one of songs. have to relearn all the fingurings.

2) i might be called for work on sunday(indeed the boss called). don't wana tired my arm muscles and screw up my performance at the new job.

3) it is too cold, windy and raining to walk 30min to work. moreover i have to change to a longer route,try to avoid crossing the hospital area because of the pig flu.

Day 68-70

New Assignment!!!

after handing in my Food Photography assignment, we received a new one. its about taking potraits with limited lighting. basically, we have to find 3-5 models to post. we can only use street lights, candle lights, laptop/mobile phone lights or flourescent/bulb. interesting huh? wait till i finish shooting, i'll post it here. the school gave us lotsa Premium Glossy Photographic Paper to print out assignments. cool leh ..... today i went to Tiffany's house 'the paparazi'. she was struggling with her previous assignment as she don't really understand English. since i have finished mine & i do not have to work, so i volunteered to help her out so that she can pass up by this week. if not you will be fined $20! she was nice to provide me lunch & sent me home after we finished because it will cost me $5 to get a bus ride.

my good fortunes are coming in slowly. 1st, i of course found a job which i mentioned earlier. then, my classmate & YWD leader keep giving me food when im in hunger. so so so happy!sunday Seiko san gave fried chicken, yesterday Tiffany gave me 'thong sui' ~ read bean soup. today, i received spaggheti from Seiko san & lotsa fruits from Tiffany. lucky leh?!

one of my reader requested me to take some 'autumn' photo.ok! here you go:)

the usual autumn maple tree

near my schoolnear my houseat my school nearby's park. were suppost to do white balance practice together with classmates :P just can't resist not taking these beautiful flowersred bean soup

Day 64 - 67

Day 65 - i accomplished 1 1/2 hour daimoku. chanted for i could get a job asap where i can cover my expenses and most important thing is that i will have time for kosen rufu & homework of course.

Day 66 - yesterday Head Chef Nigel summoned me to his house for dinner. hahhaha .... it was yummy! we had herbal soup chicken & vege. thanx Chef! its really a warm dinner!

Day 67 - our lovely YWD chief Seiko san gave me & Nigel some fried chicken & fruits for dinner. she was worried when she heard about our diet (ok .... its me only ... everytime she ask me what i had for dinner for that day, i would say instant noodles,coincidently i had). so sweet & thoughtful of her. thank you so much.

oh ya ... i found a job! yahoo ..... i calculated if i can have this M'sian restaurant job for 4-5 days + my saturday dim sum job, its enough to cover my expenses. i might have $50 saving too. ooo .... must thank Gohonzon tonight.

one of the band members treated us this

princess, this is your birthday donut from me. its PINK!

its Stuart's (S.Korean) birthday too!생일 축하합니다!Takuya san(trumpet)'s son. how cute....

Day 60-63

On Monday, it was my first day of work(trial), im so pissed off with my colleague. For those who have known me for long time, I don’t usually get angry easily. At home, maybe(coz we’re too close, we don’t mind scolding each other coz the next moment we’ll be ok). I don’t complain much or talk behind colleagues. We have to work professionally. Im a nice girl, don’t you think?hahahaha ....!just kidding!
This girl acted as a senior in front of me although she’s also a part-timer only. OK, fine!it’s my 1st day & i should be listening to others. Maybe because i looked younger than her, she thinks she can take advantage at me, ordering me to do this & that. OK,fine!then, there was a order that we made together(i wasn’t sure about the ala carte menu), it was a ‘take away’.im pretty sure she heard what i yelled to the kitchen, but the kitchen made the dish for ‘having here’.the boss was not angry but what made me mad was she just stood aside, pretend to look somewhere else & didn’t defend me.as if i made that mistake!she asked me to collect payment, i said i don’t know how to use the cashier machine yet. She was like ‘laughing’, then she asked me to watch her do it once. As i expected, she was doing it as quick as a lightning. Damn!was she teaching or boosting that she knows how to use it!then, there was 1 guy who can only speak Cantonese, she attended to it & after that she was boosting about her speaking in Cantonese to the chefs. I was grinning in my heart, although i can speak but i don’t boost around because i know im not good enough. The funny thing is when she found out that im from Malaysia from other colleague, her face suddenly changed. Maybe she thinks that all Malaysian speak Cantonese & she just fooled herself in front of me.
Ok.i have to stop complaining. I don’t want to accumulate bad karma, complaining only eradicates your good fortune. I did not get the call from the boss yesterday which means I did not get the job! nvm ... i'll look for others.

ooo .... i was the Emcee for tonight's discussion meet. today's topic is 'spreading happiness'. im very blessed to be alive and i will enjoy my days as a human!this video cheered me up. how cute!btw, 'ma yi' refers to me. he cannot pronounce my name properly so he keeps calling me ma yi(ant-mandarin)

wedding cont.....

now that i realised that i did not have any permission to post the photos anywhere, i had to avoid showing the bride & bridegroom's faces. well, never mind, i have some other cool photos to share esp. FOOD which of course i ate. kekeke ...... because it's buffet style, the restaurant manager approached us and say that photographers HAVE TO PAY for their meal. walau eh ...... Tiffany was of course pissed off. this is the 1s time she was asked to pay for a meal. not that the meal was so delicious (most of it are cold!) & it's left overs. in the end, the issue was solved.

he looks like Lex Luthor in Smallville

Day 57-59

yesterday Tiffany, my classmate, brought me to shoot a western+polynesian style wedding. its my 1st time shooting a western style. i had fun and morever i get to travel for free leh! huahahaha ...... its about half hour drive from my house. i borrowed her my SB-800 so i shot the whole wedding with just the royal 50mm. here are some highlights of it. i'll continue to post more after getting some rest.
Because i just came back work! i think i made some mistake in ticking the price list whenever you deliver a dim sum. hahaha ..... jus couldn't remember which food goes with which price. the chinese name of the dimsum is killing me. can't pronounce it properly, if serving mat salleh somore must translate to english. i don't even know the ingredient, just bombard.its pork!its shrimp!its beef!

the couple's daughters. children so big di only marry....cool huh!
potrait session outside the house

Tiffany in action. She's born in China but has spent half of her life in Japan.Holds a Bac in Photography. i just got to know that she's a paparazzi for the most famous entertainment magazine in Japan! so cool! it's great to learn from her.she's married to a kiwi & he's such a nice guy.

awesome flower car!Chrysler!

the drivers for the rental cars! the one with sunglasses is so so so handsome! i nearly fainted!REALLY!

more coming up!

BRITAINS GOT TALENT 2009 SUSAN BOYLE

guys, you MUST watch this! i cried watching her sing. sorry couldn't show the video here coz there's no embedding link.

its never too late to realise your dream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0h1NNk1Ik