i had a 10hr photoshoot yesterday. and oh did i mention solo photoshoot? after it ended at 12 midnight last night i told myself that i'm gonna sleep in the next day. And probably a body massage later in the afternoon. (oh i'm so needing it now!). Got home around 1am and i made a practice no matter how tired i can be, i will still have to transfer my photos first before i crash to bed. Ok, it took about an hr for me to freshen up after a whole day of sweat from the photoshoot and to allow 10GB of data to complete. (that's why i hate shooting RAW, but it saves my ass so many times!!!). 2am yay! finally i set myself free from work and sleep. Told myself..."don't wake up till noon! the body needs it!".
zzZZzzzz..
ZZzzzzZZZ..
the next day:
7am i was already wide awake. The body hesitated to rise but my brain forced my eyes wide open and i couldn't sleep no more. That is me. Its 9am, everyone except mom is still rolling in their warm blanket enjoying their sunday but here i am writing a blog and rambling about "how tired i am yet body refused to rest", before i launch my adobe bridge and photoshop CS3 and resume my routine. Am i a geek? or shall i say a cool arty geek? hehheheh.
mom's curry smells good from the kitchen.
have a good sunday, peeps!!!
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
back in action.
Ok, where do i begin. I guess i just don't know how to blog about personal life anymore. Everything is just about work. After the robbery, I had not been shooting that much. Being cameraless was such a pain! I really hoped i didn't lost my eye for photography.
Got myself new gears and forked out my savings to start all over and pick bits and pieces along the way. One thing i bear in mind, things happen for a reason. Maybe thats a payback for things i did wrong in the past. Well, enough said.
My trip to singapore was an enjoying one. A bit tired as it wasn't totally leisure trip as i was on wedding assignment but it felt good to finally be in singapore again after ages!
Here's some shots from the session.
Got myself new gears and forked out my savings to start all over and pick bits and pieces along the way. One thing i bear in mind, things happen for a reason. Maybe thats a payback for things i did wrong in the past. Well, enough said.
My trip to singapore was an enjoying one. A bit tired as it wasn't totally leisure trip as i was on wedding assignment but it felt good to finally be in singapore again after ages!
Here's some shots from the session.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
my DUMB day.
darn! my $200 flew outa my pocket today for something very unnecessary. I've been trying to login to my streamyx account for few months and it failed me every time. I thought it was my router faulty since the adsl light wasn't blinking. I did some tests and diagnose (a skill that i don't have anymore - troubleshooting) but it still fails me. Then i decided to get a new router because the line i used to curi (from one of my generous neighbors which has no WEP) was no longer detectable.. ahh.
I got myself a nice sleek solid black linksys cisco router with built-in antenna. Since i'm not that techy anymore, i did a shortcut by asking the salesman to install the setting to my router (so i can just plug and play when i reach home) gosh, i'm a big fan of 'plug and play'.. then i took it back home and hope high as mountain and EXTRA confident i could see the google logo when i click on my mozilla browser. Bummer!!!!! same problem showed up...
I called streamyx call center and after few minutes of diagnostic and troubleshooting guided by the technical person.. hehehhehe... the password was wrong all this while!!!! i feel DUMB.
I got myself a nice sleek solid black linksys cisco router with built-in antenna. Since i'm not that techy anymore, i did a shortcut by asking the salesman to install the setting to my router (so i can just plug and play when i reach home) gosh, i'm a big fan of 'plug and play'.. then i took it back home and hope high as mountain and EXTRA confident i could see the google logo when i click on my mozilla browser. Bummer!!!!! same problem showed up...
I called streamyx call center and after few minutes of diagnostic and troubleshooting guided by the technical person.. hehehhehe... the password was wrong all this while!!!! i feel DUMB.
Monday, October 27, 2008
hair day
i am in a good mood today eventhough my head is burdened with issue and problems.
a friend told me how his hair could affect his day. his whole day routine. completely. i didn't quite give a damn about that. well i thought its only gals and their bad hair days.. well i felt so relieved today after having a haircut. After a disastrous so called transformation at a salon couple months ago, i've been keeping this dead-locks in a bun whole day, everyday.. until today. I did chop off about 4 inches today and surprised how free and easy i feel now..
thats how hair can give impact to your mood.
a friend told me how his hair could affect his day. his whole day routine. completely. i didn't quite give a damn about that. well i thought its only gals and their bad hair days.. well i felt so relieved today after having a haircut. After a disastrous so called transformation at a salon couple months ago, i've been keeping this dead-locks in a bun whole day, everyday.. until today. I did chop off about 4 inches today and surprised how free and easy i feel now..
thats how hair can give impact to your mood.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
traumatic experience
The experience I am about to blog today is my worst experience i've ever encountered. I decided to blog it out rather than telling the whole story again and again for the nth times. Yes we are traumatized and hope you will take extra cautions whenever and wherever you are.
The incident happened last Tuesday (7th October 2008) at around 0820 at my very own resident in subang jaya.
To be exact i was still rolling in my blanket in my PJ smsing a friend feeling so lazy to hit the shower. Mom was at the kitchen and dad was outside about to go to work. I heard someone at the door knob trying to open my door. It is a routine that my mom usually wants to use my bathroom to shower. Without any suspects and doubt i approach the door and open. My vision was still blurry, i saw a figure of a guy i don't know infront of my door. In split seconds he turned his back and saw me. I quickly shut my door and locked it. He forced to open, I was breathing heavily. My mind couldn't focus and compute what's going on at that time. My hp was still in my grip. Things happened so fast and my door was kicked from outside and with 2 kicks it was opened. An indian guy (mid 20s, medium sized about 5'5" height) entered aggresively with a rambo knife pointed at me. With a lisp malay language he meant well to ask me not to move, and squad down. He took my hp from my hand. I don't remember anything but I was shaking and crying. i dared not look. I did not know what happened to mom and dad downstairs but i heard them uttering. I knew he was not alone. After a while mom went up to me and hugged me. Mom was trying to talk to him but i know at that time when they say something they mean well. He sweared to my mom. I heard the word p****mak strongly uttered to my mom. At that time he became more aggressive and start taking out his pistol. I didn't know he had a gun, it was hidden in his shirt. God knows how i felt at that time. I told my mom to obey before he decided to harm us. Another chinese guy entered my room with a gun and start digging and messing the room. After few minutes, they took out bunch of stuffs from my room and locked us in my bathroom. As it is an attached bathroom we managed to go out via other door after making sure they were not around. After a while, we came down and saw my dad unharmed (alhamdulillah).
He threatened my dad not to make a contact with the police for half an hour else there will be a 2nd trip. They took my dad's car and the house keys and go. Fortunately they didn't take my car. The car keys were just right on the sofa but as i'm only driving myVi, they only interested in my dad's brandnew camry. So i brought my parents straight to the police station and lodge a report.
According to my dad, he was in his car warming up the engine with the gate open before he was approached by a gang of 4 with guns and knives. He was helplessly asked to unlock my house. They talked nicely and slowly to my dad to make it less suspicious. My dad went back into my house with the gang before calling mom who was currently in the kitchen. The gang were smartly dressed that mom couldn't tell they were bad people before seeing pistols and knives pointed at my dad. One chinese guy stood by the main door, 2 other chinese guarding my parents while 1 indian went up to my room.
Wondering what are the total losts ?
My dad's Toyota Camry 2.4
Mom's jewelleries (the one she inherits from grandma). She's very sad about it.. and i feel so sorry for that.
My stuffs :
-macbook
-d80 + 85mm f1.8
-d300 + 17-55 f2.8
-sb800
-sb600
-my watches
-sony ericsson hp
I basically have nothing left as a photographer. All was stolen and the sad thing is i don't even have my stuffs insured. It seems like the whole office was robbed. I am now picking bits and pieces to start my life back.. i leave it all to the police to arrest the culprits. I hope they will enforce tighter rules and punishments and conduct regular patrols to guard the area.
But we are thankful that no life is harmed, yet we are still traumatized with the incident. We are currently not staying at the house for the time being untill we gain our confidence and feel safe again.
According to the police, car rob cases is quite common in my area, but encountering gangs with pistols is something quite new here. I am sad to say that people are becoming more daring these days. Robbing is becoming one of the way to survive as what the robber told my mom.. "makcik, kita juga mau carik makan.. kalau makcik duduk diam diam, keluarga makcik selamat.." while pointing a gun at my mom.
To friends and families, neighbors that i never bothered to say hi.. thank you for your support. Seeing news everyday makes me feel even unsafe. Crimes can happen anywhere, anytime during broad day light even a place you so called .. home sweet home..
The incident happened last Tuesday (7th October 2008) at around 0820 at my very own resident in subang jaya.
To be exact i was still rolling in my blanket in my PJ smsing a friend feeling so lazy to hit the shower. Mom was at the kitchen and dad was outside about to go to work. I heard someone at the door knob trying to open my door. It is a routine that my mom usually wants to use my bathroom to shower. Without any suspects and doubt i approach the door and open. My vision was still blurry, i saw a figure of a guy i don't know infront of my door. In split seconds he turned his back and saw me. I quickly shut my door and locked it. He forced to open, I was breathing heavily. My mind couldn't focus and compute what's going on at that time. My hp was still in my grip. Things happened so fast and my door was kicked from outside and with 2 kicks it was opened. An indian guy (mid 20s, medium sized about 5'5" height) entered aggresively with a rambo knife pointed at me. With a lisp malay language he meant well to ask me not to move, and squad down. He took my hp from my hand. I don't remember anything but I was shaking and crying. i dared not look. I did not know what happened to mom and dad downstairs but i heard them uttering. I knew he was not alone. After a while mom went up to me and hugged me. Mom was trying to talk to him but i know at that time when they say something they mean well. He sweared to my mom. I heard the word p****mak strongly uttered to my mom. At that time he became more aggressive and start taking out his pistol. I didn't know he had a gun, it was hidden in his shirt. God knows how i felt at that time. I told my mom to obey before he decided to harm us. Another chinese guy entered my room with a gun and start digging and messing the room. After few minutes, they took out bunch of stuffs from my room and locked us in my bathroom. As it is an attached bathroom we managed to go out via other door after making sure they were not around. After a while, we came down and saw my dad unharmed (alhamdulillah).
He threatened my dad not to make a contact with the police for half an hour else there will be a 2nd trip. They took my dad's car and the house keys and go. Fortunately they didn't take my car. The car keys were just right on the sofa but as i'm only driving myVi, they only interested in my dad's brandnew camry. So i brought my parents straight to the police station and lodge a report.
According to my dad, he was in his car warming up the engine with the gate open before he was approached by a gang of 4 with guns and knives. He was helplessly asked to unlock my house. They talked nicely and slowly to my dad to make it less suspicious. My dad went back into my house with the gang before calling mom who was currently in the kitchen. The gang were smartly dressed that mom couldn't tell they were bad people before seeing pistols and knives pointed at my dad. One chinese guy stood by the main door, 2 other chinese guarding my parents while 1 indian went up to my room.
Wondering what are the total losts ?
My dad's Toyota Camry 2.4
Mom's jewelleries (the one she inherits from grandma). She's very sad about it.. and i feel so sorry for that.
My stuffs :
-macbook
-d80 + 85mm f1.8
-d300 + 17-55 f2.8
-sb800
-sb600
-my watches
-sony ericsson hp
I basically have nothing left as a photographer. All was stolen and the sad thing is i don't even have my stuffs insured. It seems like the whole office was robbed. I am now picking bits and pieces to start my life back.. i leave it all to the police to arrest the culprits. I hope they will enforce tighter rules and punishments and conduct regular patrols to guard the area.
But we are thankful that no life is harmed, yet we are still traumatized with the incident. We are currently not staying at the house for the time being untill we gain our confidence and feel safe again.
According to the police, car rob cases is quite common in my area, but encountering gangs with pistols is something quite new here. I am sad to say that people are becoming more daring these days. Robbing is becoming one of the way to survive as what the robber told my mom.. "makcik, kita juga mau carik makan.. kalau makcik duduk diam diam, keluarga makcik selamat.." while pointing a gun at my mom.
To friends and families, neighbors that i never bothered to say hi.. thank you for your support. Seeing news everyday makes me feel even unsafe. Crimes can happen anywhere, anytime during broad day light even a place you so called .. home sweet home..
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
the sinful image.
i decided to take a time off from my work and show off some skills. I'm kinda bored with the same old menus for berbuka. Chicken, beef.. nahh! Not today.. This special sambal from the inhouse chef (moi) definitely gonna be the main attack for break fast and sahur..
Wokay, enough bragging.. But I am hungry now :P
Selamat Berbuka Puasa!
Sunday, July 27, 2008
updating life
Its been a while.. oh well its been ages since i put something here months ago. Well, am not hiding.. still around but a lil bit busy capturing life. I was travelling quite a bit.. tiring but enjoying every miles of it. Am losing weight (i hate it!!) due to my scope of work. Less sleep, social life, entertainment and love :( But lets make other people happy first, i know my time will come very soon. I am not complaining but i know GOD is fair. I feel blessed to being able to channel my creativity with the skills HE mould in me.. I may not be the best recipe.. but am improving my own mixture to become better and better..
I won't be updating here as frequent as before.. let say last time i did blog 2-3 times a day.. (used to) but now it may be 1 every 3 months?? Hmm..Time flies.. and i wonder where do the minute and hour go? Well, i guess it goes to here.
These are from a nice night out with some friends at the Sunrise Jazz & Rythm Fest tonight. Its been a while since the last time i went to any live performances.
I won't be updating here as frequent as before.. let say last time i did blog 2-3 times a day.. (used to) but now it may be 1 every 3 months?? Hmm..Time flies.. and i wonder where do the minute and hour go? Well, i guess it goes to here.
These are from a nice night out with some friends at the Sunrise Jazz & Rythm Fest tonight. Its been a while since the last time i went to any live performances.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
..and my photo flew to jakarta!
I am not actually a big fan of financial report, stock market and banking magazines. But now, it can sit beside my favourite genre of magazines.. 'Preferred' the collaboration magazine of CIMB Malaysia and Bank Niaga Indonesia can now sit beside my Digital Camera magazines collection :)
3 of my gamelan collections were featured in a section of this premiere issue 2008. It was no big deal.. but the DHL package i received this morning made me smile..
The same photo also featured in a French magazine couple of months ago. Check this out :) I don't know what is so special about the photo :) but i'm blessed...
here's a link to my gamelan photo.
Friday, February 15, 2008
what the........?
i was doing my late night assignment. Nothing interesting on tv. Mom was watching drama after another. I just need the sound of tv to keep me awake. Its 12 midnight, I was too lazy to go upstairs to switch chanels on astro. So there i was on 9tv watching the horniest lame classical movie.
I am a HUGE fan of P Ramlee's movie. But this movie drove me nutsss!!! This is the worst P Ramlee's movie I've ever watched. Sorry Tan Sri, I can totally accept your jokes in your comedy... but this is definitely a NO-GO. Sarimah were made to look kinky and horny in an innocent way. Tell me which malay movies show ladies in just panty and bra or sheer nighties walking in a room with horny dialogues?
It was all Dr Rusdi's fault that made me watch till the end.. say, no kudos for Dr Rusdi but thanks for making me stay awake!! lol.
I am a HUGE fan of P Ramlee's movie. But this movie drove me nutsss!!! This is the worst P Ramlee's movie I've ever watched. Sorry Tan Sri, I can totally accept your jokes in your comedy... but this is definitely a NO-GO. Sarimah were made to look kinky and horny in an innocent way. Tell me which malay movies show ladies in just panty and bra or sheer nighties walking in a room with horny dialogues?
It was all Dr Rusdi's fault that made me watch till the end.. say, no kudos for Dr Rusdi but thanks for making me stay awake!! lol.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
i need a dose of...
ooh.. its been ages and ages since i posted any good mind stimulating blog. Yes, my previous post navigate you to my new blog so called blog.fatiniz.com. But i guess its mainly for business and show offs. hehhehhe... I can't be writing about who i hooked and make out with last night at the.. erm.. shall i disclose it here? hmm...
Life has been pretty hectic. I have basically no entertainment as i normally work my ass off during the weekends. And I do go out for movies if i don't have any jobs on weekends. I have less friends now.. i guess everyone seems to be complaining about it.. especially the single ones like me. My good, better, best, bestest friends are all married, with kids or atleast pregnant!
So i guess its time for us singles to flirt. ahahah... its been ages since i've been actively flirting. Did I? oh well.. so i guess its not wrong to flirt rather than concentrating too much on work and relationship matters.. sometimes. No?
Life has been pretty hectic. I have basically no entertainment as i normally work my ass off during the weekends. And I do go out for movies if i don't have any jobs on weekends. I have less friends now.. i guess everyone seems to be complaining about it.. especially the single ones like me. My good, better, best, bestest friends are all married, with kids or atleast pregnant!
So i guess its time for us singles to flirt. ahahah... its been ages since i've been actively flirting. Did I? oh well.. so i guess its not wrong to flirt rather than concentrating too much on work and relationship matters.. sometimes. No?
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
lil hideout
Backpacking alone is not bad at all. Especially when you are a young single lady like moi! Why? hmm.. you'll know later. Well there's pros and cons but travelling alone is about meeting new faces and mingle around. When i decided to pack my bag, i had a very limited money, energy and zero expectation. I brought no food, no camping gear.. just a few clothes to keep me dry for a few days. Its more like go-with-the-flow kinda trip. So the best thing to do is to bring no other. just me! I need to be closer to the nature after a quite some time leaving my steps in a jungle. And Taman negara is a place i always wanted to go. So i guess i just have to trust my gut feelings and go.But too bad, I am too tired to blog about this lil adventure of my journey now. More stories and photos coming soon. I need some manicure/pedicure and a massage now!
Sunday, January 06, 2008
my neck needs a new yellow strap
i usually have a list of wish when the new year comes. And i do have a non-stoping list for 2008 too. But to keep it short for now.. I WANT D300!!! I HAVE to buy it by this year. I repeat. D300.
whats yours? *wink*wink
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