A Visit to Sekinchan - Part 2

Fishing Village at Sekinchan is equally famous as compare to the paddy fields, many residents at Sekinchan started as fishermen, over the years, from a small fishing village slowly turned into a larger township. This place is famous with quality seafood due to the freshness. I believe many people willing to travel miles to enjoy the food here especially weekend.

I think the above restaurant is famous because at least I see this guy poster here, Ah Sien, a famous TV host who always recommend good food in Malaysia. Will he be the quality assurance? I am not so sure but at least he is the "San Chew Pai" now for the restaurant .... hahaha

Well, we were not sure what food to eat, so we asked the owner to recommend a few famous dishes. For me, I thought the food was good, however, not as good as I expected. 

Until I tried the stir fried shrimp with sambal which was super tasty. Emm ... yummy, but the only complaint was the small portion.

I think sometime, food is not the critical factor for happiness, but rather a good company having lunch together is the best. We were like a bunch of hungry ghosts, within a short period of time, we wallop all food on the table .... 

Second part of our journey began after a heavy lunch, It was just a short walk from the restaurant. When we walked along the river bank, we spotted many fishing boats were parked at the wooden jetty. Some fishermen gathering there to relax but some were busy fixing their fishing nets. The weather was hot and feeling sleepy but it was awesome site for photo shooting ... shutter sounds were clicking away to capture the authentic scenery of a quiet and harmonious fishing village.

 

Wow, everyone there was so relax. The folks were friendly and approachable. They are not camera shy and won't mind us taking their photos. 

Before we went back to Kuala Lumpur, we went to nearby beach. To be honest, Sekinchan beach is not fantastic, in fact is rather dirty and muddy. I didn't see anyone swimming. The ocean wave went very far during low tide. It was kind of dirty when the seabed surface from the water. 

We found an unique double story tree house at the beach. The tree house is very unique, many netting were fixed in between tree branches, so it was great to lay down and enjoy the windy breeze from the sea .... 

Look how enjoy I am seated on the nets to have a short relaxation ..... wow ... like heaven woh ..

We saw a few kids playing at the beach ...... My friends went down to "kacau" (disturb) them and to take their photo, luckily they are friendly enough and did not treat us as "strange uncle （怪叔叔）" and freed away.

hahahaha ...

run run ... quickly run, behind got 怪叔叔 (strange uncle) ... run for your life  .....  wakakakaka (evil laughing )

hahaha ... but at the end, we are the one who are runaway from those kids because of their over whelming curiosity and hospitality, the kids kept surrounding us to check out our camera gears ... uncle ... uncle  ... what is this? ..... uncle uncle .... can you take a photo of me .... uncle, uncle ....  can I touch your camera .... uncle ........ oh .. run !!

Photo taken by Koon Yik

Before we leave the place, we saw a married couple taking outdoor photo shooting ... our Wedding Photographer Robin Wong, quickly took his camera to check on what his competitor was doing ....

 

  

No matter how fun is it, toward the end, time to say farewell  .... it was a fun trip for me. It was tough for me to follow my friends who used to travel to many places on Saturday for photo shooting due to my work commitment. Well, whenever timing is right, I will try my best of not letting go the opportunity to go out with them. 

They are simply awesome group, fun to hand around with and stress free group of people. .....

Good bye Sekinchan, time to go home ..... Home sweet home ...... I will come back to visit you again :)

A Visit to Sekinchan - Part 1

Wow, let me see .... I think my latest (and first) visit to Sekinchan was last year December 2011. I always wanted to write a blog about Sekinchan and to share some photos taken during the trip ... because of my bad habit - procrastination, waited until now I still haven't start ....

Well, "better late then never" .... I guess it is right. At least I am not like somebody else just talk only but no action. (hahaha, who is this somebody ? If you want to match the seat go ahead ( 对号入座。。。) hee hee hee !!

It was an early sunny Saturday, a group of friends car pooling to drive to Sekinchan, it was a pleasant journey, we chit chat and gossiping about everything and the most talked about was not girls but our favorite topic..... camera and photography.

Sekinchan is a photographer's heaven, if you type Sekinchan in Google search, you would probably get hundreds thousands of photo about this place. Sekinchan is well known with paddy fields. I believe the paddy fields have the best advance farming methods in Malaysia because of the high quality and high yield of rice per sq ft as compare to many places in Malaysia. It is easy for outsiders like us to drive around because of its complete inner tar road in the paddy field. We can easily access to the heart of field.

Photo taken using Yeow's Film Camera, he is trying to poison me to get film camera  ... hahahaha

When we arrived, I was stunned by its breathtaking scenery .. wow, it was simply awesome ... with wide and large view of greenery paddy field connected to the clear blue sky ... there were no high rise buildings around, you could see from far ....

The greenery is very relaxing and smoothing to our eyes .. this is a great place for relaxation and De-stress, it washed away all stress and headache in the city life.

In month of December, the paddy almost ripe and started to turn yellow ....  According to local folks said, it will take few more weeks, harvesting will begin.

Rice is the staple food for all Malaysian .. It's the daily grain that we eat most since we are young. Some even can't live without rice.... Look how healthy of these paddies .... it will soon turning into a month full of delicious hot rice...

Thank to my friends, i have many nice shots, some were very creative. Just one single pose, a few shots with difference angles being captured at the same time ... Thanks to my friends. We were having great time. Many surprise photos were shared after the trip.

Photo taken by Yeow

Photo taken by Mun Keat

Photo taken by Alvin Lau

Photo taken by Robin Wong

We were really enjoyed ourselves there ... we took our sweet time to snap snap snap ....

Everyone is looking around to find the best spot for photo shooting :)

Photo taken by Mun Keat

Photo taken by Mun Keat

...and the best shot of the day is ........ hahahahaha ......

  

Wow ... really fun when you went out with a group of good buddies .... We truly enjoy ourselves .. we let down our hairs and be totally relaxed, we acted like small kids despite the facts some of us are professional in various fields ....  big bosses, engineer, architect and many more ...

Using Olympus Pen - Art Filter Dynamic Range

Emmm ... I need to split the blog into two parts ....this blog post is getting very long for just to cover the paddy fields ... 

Sekinchan is not only has beautiful paddy fields, it is also famous with fishing village. After all the happening in the paddy fields, we were hungry and we drove to the nearby fishing village to look for seafood. .... Time for lunch.

... to be continue

Be positive to make the world a better place to live

Today radio station channel 988 asked, are we having more negative posts or positive posts in our facebook? Well, generally people are more negative than positive, but sometime leaving grouches or grumbles feedback in the facebook would release some inner stress from our body and also allowing our friends to know our state of mind so that they can cheer us up or console us. That what's friends are for ... isn't it?

But today, I spotted a forum that I would called beyond negative. The forum focuses on a friend, Robin Wong as the target for criticism at his recent blog post on the review of the newly launch camera - Olympus OM-D EM5. The forum is with the title "The Robin strikes again ...", the forum started with an extreme opening,   "Robin's review is up again. I'll wait for you guys to decipher / criticize what he has mentioned." Off course, subsequent posts were over whelming by so called expert in criticism ... ops, sorry i mean expert in photography, started posting bad remarks on Robin....

Olympus OM-D EM-5

Wow, after reading all these remarks, I "memang beh tahan" (in English, it means I can not stand it), so I spontaneously register myself to give my 2 cents worth of comment-lah. Sound like the Robin Hood saving the poor Robin ... hahahaha....

For all the friends who are k-poh (busy body), you may visit the forum post here, or let me cut and paste my response from the forum so that you can read easily.... 

Base on my logic thinking, it is quite acceptable on what Robin had written. Just like you see a pretty woman and you think she is the most beautiful woman you ever seen and you tell everyone about it. But later, when you meet another woman who is even more pretty than the earlier one .... what should you said? Is it wrong to say you saw the most beautiful woman when you have said the same thing on somebody else already? I guess E5 is good at the point of time if without comparison, but after new technology and improvement come out ... an experience photographer would sense some differences in the improvement, it is "normal" to quote one is better than another one despite the facts the earlier it was best at that time.Robin write up is more on his own users point of view and it is unfair to expect him to criticize the weakness of the camera. He also qualified himself earlier this is non professional review and I guess finding bone in an egg would be asking for too much. Just like criticize he did not comparing with other manufacture's camera.Tell you the true, I am a fan of robin's blog and a friend too (I just register for the sake of this post and he didn't even know it) ..... I guess you would think I am bias on my comment because we are friend. It is already "disqualified" here ... hahahah. Anyway, I am not boarder, I believe constructive criticism is good and pointed out for improvement, but unfortunately I could not find constructive here but just criticism after criticism ....Well, I guess it is the freedom for anyone to comment or to criticize, we can't force people to like us, right? .... but I choose to be positive and to give good compliments because it made me feel good. Sorry, Raist3d, I disagreed with you.  Bye. 

Hahah as of the time I write this blog, so far there is no response yet from others.. (I hope the so called expert will have mercy on my response post and not firing at me ...... )

Ahyo! The world is so big, so got different types of people. We can't please everyone in the world, right? As long as our conscious are clear and no wicked thinking, I guess we are living life in a correct manner. Be positive, be happy is my tagline, although I too will be negative sometime, but at least self control a bit lah. We are what we think. If you always think about bad things ... hatred will be accumulated in our body and many things you see will be bad or no good. Some more toxic will be formed in our body that cause health problem. We have the choice to choose how we feel even when we are in adverse situation. I believe happiness is contagious, let spread happiness to many people so that it will make the world a better living place. 

World Peace !!

 

Oh, My Blog

It was a long times I did't touch you. I think you miss me, right ? I am sorry that I neglected you. In beginning of the year, I didn't even spend time on you, until today, I only wrote one blog post, I guess I am too engross with many new toys. First, i got my beloved ipad, then, i got another new toy - Sansung Galaxy Note. 

Don't worry, not only you, you are not alone, I also neglected my beloved EPL2 camera which now lay aside to collect dust.

Well, these new toys are so cool, they are like time-suck vacuum cleaner and they took my attention from you. I am so sorry.

My dear blog, please bear with me, I promise to update you more often in future. 

hehehehe...

However, for time being, let me have some extra times to play with my new love first- the Galaxy Note... Please don't be jealous as it is still new in the family... I need to get familiar with it, if possible, I want to test the Note on the function of uploading blog, if I am successful, I believe both of you can be good friends. Each can accompany one another....

So, my dear blog, you just need to be patience.

Product Preview - Olympus OM-D

Finally I have seen the Olympus OM-D  the most talk about camera by my Photography buddies lately. The OM-D is a new mirrorless digital interchangeable lens camera, another micro forth third camera beside the PEN Series. Thank to Olympus Malaysia organizing a product preview session on this camera for its die-hard fans on 18 February 2012 at Fullhouse, Sunway Geza Mall.  Everyone were on time and eagerly wanted to "molest" this new camera. The OM-D are smaller than I thought. the size is like PEN EP3 with slightly taller as the top mounted with electronic view finder.   

OM-D has the best size that we want. Generally, we love PEN Series camera because of the light and compact body. The camera is easy to be carried around especially during trip or street shooting. 

The design of the OM-D remains the retro look, just like its parent or great grand parents camera, the retro look is one of my preference, my blood pressure and heart pumping faster when looking at those beautiful camera ....

Wow !!... Aren't they simply look gorgeous  !!

The key features of the OM-D are fantastic, I love the fastest auto focus, it is important for me when I capture street shooting, the touch screen just like EP3 where you can just touch on the  areas on the screen that you want to focus, the camera immediately capture the photo. Beside the fast auto focus, build in EVF in the camera is a cool thing that do, that what I want  ... 

I was told that the OM-D will only reach Malaysia in the end of March or beginning April .. some of my Pen Lovers who are eagerly wanting to buy have to wait for this camera loh. They have been talking about it even more, look like it is going to be many sleepless nights for certain people ...... til the product hits the market ... Ha Ha Ha!!~~

For time being, we can embrace the miniature OM-D that Olympus had given us as door gift .... maybe it would help to make you sleep better .... hahahaha

Door Gift - Miniature OM Camera with two lenses

The end.