nikon d80 debut appearance

a few experimental shots.. some shaky ones as my hands detects a sudden shift in weight from the nifty *icKle Canon S3 IS to the robust Nikon D80.. please bear with me and do feel free to C&C... ten Qs.

do clicky for larger clearer images
light & flower offerings at temple in Kepong on Mooncake Festival

Buddha's altar laden with fruit, MoonCookies, waterbowls & pretty Chrysanthemum arrangements

way to the chambers........

t o k i d o k i

has a thorough week at The Company after just 2.5weeks..workload's piling by the seconds, bearing heavier responsibilities day by day, insufficient time to breakdown the details, digest, absorb.. reminding myself "this IS getting myself quickly adapting to the waythings are done here as soon as possible so my workflow will be smoother....."

anyway.. i left office considerably early today , 8 pm as previous weeks i been continuously reaching home by 9 - 10pm, which kinda boggles mum because she will be asleep on the couch by then and every morning the conversation starts off figuratively like this : -

"what time you'd reach home last nite?"
or
"why i didn't notice that you were back?"

thats prolly the only time we're be able to catch up on weekdays as she will religiously send me to the lrt station everymorning and the ride barely last up to 5 mins if the traffic's smooth....with audible "ummms" and "yeahs"along the way... :P

had a lovely time with the gurls, Est & Wen tonite. we are all quite tangled & troubled with problems of our own but nothing beats spending some quality time with the girls after 2 weeks of insanity! wen seemed preoccupied & troubled though, it was very unlike of her to behave that way. nonetheless the tension soon melted away as we chatted away munching on slices of Izzi's Clive's pizza. (wish i'd taken a few pics... but was too hungry to notice!) all in all, i'd had a great time with the girls.. and hope we will meet soon when they are less caught up with papers and work for another round of baking, hopefully with Waiyee along this time!
who has a fab tiramisu recipe to offer?! :)

on another note...

have you come across something robust, poky and tubby and so uber adorable u wanna hug it?!

i lurvvvve these lil cacti pups from t o k i d o k i so much!!! :) consists of a gazillion many other cutesy characters, so do go check it out here!

awwww! wanna hug *em all esp the tiny green one!! so poky like fuzzy's cactus!! *chuckles*

Dagri Rinpoche at LDC

here is the posting as promised on the "Hayagriva Vajrapani Garuda" initiation at LDC held on the 21st of August 2008!

clickies on images for a larger view!
the unrelated blue bloom again. we used this for blessing for one part of the initiation...

the initiation begins with an introduction by the two Anilas , our interpreters for the night

Dagri Rinpoche

a close up of Dagri Rinpoche. This respectable guru smiles every now and then and injects lil amusing anecdotes throughout the initiation and teaching....

more pics of this Guru in the next pose. stay tuned! *hugs*

a lil note......

a u r o r a b o r e a l i s

to Chun, Lim, Angela, Mei Jih.. thanks for Making my 2nd day bearable for as of today! :D :D *really needed that to keep my sanity intact*

more on LDC's Seminar piccies

here's a follow up of yesterdays posting. +on my first day at The Company, i cant say nothing much. Its too early to tell as i'm merely a week old there! nonetheless The Colleagues are not bad, albeit I was disappointed to find more young designers instead of seniors.

well without further ado, here's introducing Mighty Jourdan! smiles, Laughter and fun in this lil boy! do not underestimate his size! he's got enough under his cheeky smile to bring the rainbow out of the gloomy skies! :) :D

and boy, he sure does love to read!

& the Giant Gilded Prayer Wheel

playing a short clip i'd missed to watch, but it was definitely on "Dying"

my sister and her latest poster boy! :P

i found a pixie hidden in my garden! and i spotted it in between the wispy folds of this lil fuchsia bloom! can you spot it?! :)

Seminar on "Dying" at LDC by Geshe Tenzin Zopa

I'd mentioned a week ago that I would post some piccies taken during the "Hayagriva Vajrapani Garuda" initiation at LDC, but before i get to that, let me post some of the pics which were taken at the seminar held on the 2nd August 2008@LDC discussing on the topic "Dying". Basically its a talk on preparatory steps, the dos & don'ts before, during and after someone's death (asides from preparing a will, getting a tuft up some location with a picturesque hilltop scenery or selecting the box u wanna be sleeping in after u've heaved ur last breath?)

not something you get everyday, the talk of dying as for some cultures out there, it may even be regarded as a taboo. Nonetheless there was a huge turnup and I was one of the very few equipped with a camera... so here i go shooting whilst something's really serious being discussed there....

-clicky on the images for a larger view-
Introducing the person who introduces us to the introduction of the above-mentioned topic, our dearest Guru :- Geshe Tenzin Zopa!


effectively expressing the "Grasping" expression using hand gestures during the talk!


students listening attentively at the Gompa..spot Ken Ken in the background (lols)


lotus flower in focus with the beautiful Green Tara in the background


Green Tara flanked by beautifully painted mural, cherry blossoms, food offerings and such!


Devoted students :- from left - right, Aunty Candy's hubby, Mrs.Gan & Mr.Chua

there' re more pictures in my pc which i'd like to share, but i'll leave that for another day's posting since its freaking too early to stay online, not to mention... i'd need my snoozies for a fresh start tomorrow! keep u guys posted next few days with pics.

toodles now. bLwekk. hopefully battery doesn't kong by 11am tomorrow!!

(its my first day at The Company tomorrow so all i'd gotta tell myself is... "break a Leg"!)

nites buddies! <3>

Borobudur Trip - Cancelled

yes yes, the latest update and the much-most-very-looked-forward-to Borobudur trip's been called off.

i'm let-downed,

dissapointed,

& feeling much distressed, but life goes on. & i am picking up pieces of my life which i have been missing and meaning to do all this while (given the excuses of *Busy* or *Occupied* or *Tired* even *Lazy* inapplicable during this unemployed state..)

just back from LDC from a very long initiation and here's a teaser of what i am going to post,
(thought its taken during but not related really to the initiation)

(clicky to enlarge)

More piccies taken at LDC tomorrow, its too early now and i need to rest my heavy bulbous head. yoga & core classes are giving me muscle aches everywhere!!!

nitezZzZz.....

Endless Waiting...

well, its finally August!i haven't posted anything here for ages now as there's still a bunch'a unedited photographs from prev. vacations/excursions.

(not to mention i still owe Ming some pics from previous vacation trip we went during June!) *chews nails*

its about 2 weeks from now till we'll see more postings here! i have been stuck since Bali'06, *gasp* so much for procastinating!!!!!

in short, this year's been a slow torturous rollercoaster ride for me, you feel like u wanna sit back and enjoy the ride, but u wait endlessly for the sudden jerk of a turn, or the big dip upfront, the triple loop u'll like so much to scream ur necks off for it.

then i thought, hell like i'll wait.. i'll catch another rollercoaster!

look forward to see Borobudur by this months' end and a brand new beginning afterward! the pilgrimage should bring a good start if not a very promising one.

toodles!

Red Devil

this ickle devil wouldn't stop fluttering about when i was trying to get a shot of it!!!

Merry Christmas To You!!

Bongsen by SI Design

i miss my viet cold vermicelli!!!!!!! tried this one at Bongsen@KLCC on Friday night after a long day@work. Packed with an assortment of carrots,cucumber,pickle carrot in sweet-ish vinegar,fragrant ground peanuts, fresh beansprout, thinly sliced lettuce strips, arranged neatly in lil turfs on a bed of cold rice vermicelli, topped with lemongrass grilled chicken strips,this meal packs freshness into a (HUGE!) bowl! (pricily priced at approx RM 16!). at the end of dinner, my puny belly bloated to about 3 times its usual size! (my dinner portions are usually ONe-third!)

tmrw is friDay! wanna go midvalley to have my salad noodle (as how fuz calls it)!!!! yummy yums! & time to sleep now, just completed a portion of my drawings. head to my snoozLes now.

the day i came back to blog.

i logged in my blog a week ago and find my layout incomplete with images as broken links. sObs* how'd that happened while i am away? gRr. will have to stick with a template from blogger's in the meantime. im back the the photography scene, at least for these few weeks. get honed for the bali trip we'd been planning for late sept! and many concurrent events here and there at LDC. sadly i am going to miss the Thousand Light Offering (again) for the 2nd year straight! how dreadful. wish i could convince the exco-s to resched or sth, lols! or even hope the dates in tibetan calendar shuffles (almost too miraculously to be happening, even Buddha cant help much in this!)

i blogged this day, and today and no other day because i want to remember today as the day i was given a reminder. something to keep my head occupied with a difficult decision to make. sumthing that definitely confirms the existence of my doubts and uncertainty.
hearing it from a 3rd party confirms that.
it was in the back of my head all along.
but i needed that lil prodding
that lil.reminder..

the lil.sth that confirmed my fear.
fear of negligence.
fear of being substituted.
fear of being disposed of.
fear of being dismissed.

confirms i need to pull up my socks.

otherwise. confirm neglected. confirm substituted, confirmed disposed and confirmed dismissed. and confirm die.die.

lethargic.

so its almost the end of the 2week long celebration for cny.
gone rounder? very much!!!
all from the excessive makan sessions at fren's place, relative's,our own reunion new year's eve (a MUST every year!- and we play host) - thats about 24 hours straight ofsteamboat's worth!

not to mention feeling so bad for threwing up my lunches two days backs in a row, they could have gone to much hungrier tummies. festive seasons oways an excuse for wastage, thrwoing unfinished food and such. and i hate mamak! im gonna ignore mamak for as long as i remember having my head half buried in the bowl painstakingly emptying my bowel. i felt like a drab. sourish after-taste in my tongue. i remembered it like its still on my tongue! yikey!

will be posting my post(or pre-)nauseating pics soon (when i was in Tioman with colleagues and were well fed and seasoned - yes note my new tanned tint!)

waking early to watch Charlotte's Web tmrw with fuz. sitting next to piggy watching another! whoops. speaking of the year of the oiNk, im determined to work my way out of my piGgy state -its hurting my ego that fuz is starting to workout at gym while im dreamily wishing the spare tyres to roll away by themselves one fine sunny day! whaM*! back to reality!

but i gotta be heading to pig now, its almost 3am! nitesy!

Fire Me Up! im bored!

*clicky on image for full size*

lazy to post! have only the energy to post one pic! awaiting me are the annual dinner pics i helped photographed on Friday 22nd nite. i wonder if i needed to ask for permisssion shud i wish to post a few here.. mmmm

parents were back from jiuzhaigou, and bangkok lately. and my life's been short of everything except interesting. Life's updates = Zilch.

i should prolly look forward to photoblogging about my parents' trips, but getting to kickstart with editing is just ENOUGH to kill my enthusiasm. *yikeys*

more updates by friday the latest i hope! i cant wait for Saturday cos its Sze Thein's wedding!! she's the first in the Chin's family to be married actually! :):)

>.<>.<

a visit to LDC :)

been a long time since i actually had time to read blogs, lest update my own! i have been to places though, met people, get involved in activities but when i finally got home to my home sweet home, the only energy left was to brush my teeth, wash up my grimy face and tuck myself in bed. at times i get dreams, and those were the times when i wake up huffing puffing, as though i had chased myself in the perimeters of my room, other times i woke up with a jolt, like dodging the monster under my bed! went to the Losang Dragpa Centre in SS17 last Sunday to witness the Buddha Relics myself, have heard Khan numerous times on how miraculous it is. havent got the pics to show u what i meant but do read up more on it at the Centre's official webbie, more here & here!!!!

(click pics if u need a clearer view)

pretty butter candle offerings, they smell almost too delicious, they can be eaten! :P these are found in abundance at the altar or offering tables. can be bought at RM 10 each and all funds raised are proceeded to the centre :) i prayed for safety, health and happiness for my family and my loved ones. Nice nice smelling caNdles!

these comes with the candle and flowers! and too pretty i HAD to take a shot of it, though i reckon its rude to be snapping near the altar, (thats why i refrained from getting myself and my lense too near to the relics!)
the golden stupa! to be frank i wasnt sure what this is for, but i recall it houses the 10 (or isit 10,000k) powerful mantras? (well,if someone who noes,just correct me oRites :P) i dropped by the centre a few times now, but havent gotten so familiarised yet. its great fun there tho, staying to help whenever i can and meeting new people. the funny thing about meeting people in an environment as this, it leaves me a warm and fuzzy feeling. the sense of belonging. the sense of being together, and the sense of able to connect even through a simple smile :) good things do CErtainly doesnt need to come oin big packages! :P

these days, i have hardly the luxury to smile wistfully at myself thinking back the contented times, those frens, those places, those occasions. the laughters that still ring in ur head, the smiles thats etched in the back of ur mind, the things we were used to doing, that now we arent, it feels like ages ago, yet it was just a year back.

by making an effort to visit the centre once a week, maybe there's hope after all. brings light back to my dull, work-worn life .

*back to my snoozles, and miND i NEED it so much*

don expect me to update so often now, may be a bi-monthly thing i foresee.

butterfly, bee oR butteRbee!?

pretentious eh? :P

had a long day toDay, to be continued tomorow. gonna be a random post ( and dont whine that i dIDn't WARN u)

wishIng for aQuaMariNe sKies agaiN! :>

posting this pic of the blue aquamarin-sh flower i shot at penang for slurp! but he's like missing in action, off for holiDay! bahagia sungguh! :P prev posts on Penang trip included a macro shot of this flower, click here.

havent the time to snHapps pix these days, been up at work most of the hours of the day, and further to that, the weather simply doesnt allow it either! pray for blUe skIes again,, i miss my morning walks, im slowly acquiring the spare tyRe around the existing one Oredy!!!! *poke*poke* no feel wan..saturated liaos

its moNday tomorow, dread again (blImey!*)

have a gOod Week people! :>

::: refresh :::

when ur eyes tire from looking at the bleak flatness around u, look out for greens! (not outdoors ofcos!) :> i refresh each time by looking at my desktop, its there as my wallpaper :D :D :P have a goOd weekend peeps!!! :>

Motion Blur (not HAZE blur!) ;P

since the city's been shrouded in haze recently, and my camera's been under the sheets for few darn weeks. an ex-colleague of mine just called and asked me if i m interested to join him for shotting tomorrow at Bkt. Jalil,and i had to decline him because im catching the movies tomorow! im going shooting next week hopefully, and i hope the weather's finer by then! i hate bleak, grey, depthless quality pictures.

pictures are taken sumtime last month before the haze craze, inspiRed by Motion! :)

a lantern festival event held at Puay Chai Primary School. Parents, kids throng in with lanterns!

testing my night taking shots here, i didnt realise someone running across till i edited the text earlier! i was standing very still taking this shot, with a very slow shutter speed~!

younger sis blocking her face from view, she;s camera shy By Nature!

blocking her face again with her favourIte stuffed Smurf! can u tell if its sHrinking or ExpandiNg?

a Car captured speeding past, leaving a trail of taillight behind! :)

@Prince Cafe :>

pics were taken last satuRday ( at a newly opened Prince Cafe in Ss2 ) maybe not so new, but since i am slowpaced, and not in tuned with my changing surroundings, i'd take it as new, siNce me and wen havent tried that place yet.

its my 1st time meeting wen siNce the prev time before i started work! we were at f.r.i.e.n.d.z cafe that time, with tyuen and jkhan.

we'd decided to make it a girl's nite since those guys been goin out but'd not bothered to ring us up as well

the place turn out to be very much like hyped-Hongkie type of cafes. the food was not bad, better than i had expected. as it was oredy past 9,we sampled on a serving of the Pork Chop burger, which is one of the top ten topsellers, (but unforch, the pics had not turned out well, so i'd rather not post em*)



i like wen's smoothie! the taste of strawberry is so fresh, yet tangy, yet not tasting like the concentrate type thats either too sweet or too sour.

yummy! and thats my Mango & Passionfruit Smoothie, the two flavours blends up to be a very nice chilling combination! the texture is fine-blended, and doesnt clump in icebergs. JuIcy! definitely not for the brain-freezers! i thoroughly enjoyed it, every Sip! :>

i havent been to places for so long, and i would normally shun places like Wongkok cos' its too noisy, this place is just right, wit the right ambience, lighting and decor wise.

we headed back home after ta pau-ing the Pork and Vege Dumpling Soup Noodle for my sis. its quite like the very famed Ramen in Dragon-i but the taste lacks in this aspect, bland tasting. im in for full flavours, with a certain ooooMPh or kick*! that is a no -no for me. my sis on the other hand find it okay and slurped it all up in a few bites!

i want so much to update Bali,but my photoshop has turned Cranky for now! it keeps hanging when i wanna edit my image sizes! Bali will be up as soon as photoshop's fixed! till then, hang on in there guys! :P:P see ya in a jiffy and a great weekend to y'all!*muakz*!