Eid Mubarak 1430H/2009M

I haven't been blogging since July.. been really busy with work, photography events and life. And uploading photos to flickr is really killing me. An album of 10 photos, each less than 300kb took me 2-3 days and a maximum of a week to upload. So I'm gonna skip July, August and September *will probably blog them in future if I have the time*.

A month of ramadhan has passed and now it's Syawal... a festive season for all muslims... with that I would like to wish all muslims out there a Happy Eid.

Minal Aidin Walfaidzin Walmaqbulin WaKullu'amin

Wa Antum Bi Khaer Wa Uhanikum Bi Aidul Fitri

Taqabbalahu Minna Wa Minkum

Amin Ya Robb'al Al Amin

Sebulan Ramadhan telah berlalu, semoga puasa dan ibadah kita yang lain diterima oleh Allah S.W.T. Semoga kita bertemu lagi dengan Ramadhan yang akan datang. Amin...

Disini Peramba/Kaola/Saya menyusun sepuluh jari ingin meminta maaf sekiranya ada tersilap dan salah, terkasar bahasa secara sengaja atau tidak sengaja, secara tutur, lisan atau melalui blog. Harap halalkan jika ada termakan dan terminum, maafkan yang zahir maupun yang batin.

Peramba/Kaola/Saya ingin mengucapkan Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Minal Aidin Walfaidzin kepada seluruh umat Islam, Maaf Zahir Batin. Ikhlas daripada:

Pengiran Haji Hassan Pengiran Anak Hashim

Dayang Hajjah Asinash Haji Ahmad

Dayangku Rohhayati Pengiran Haji Hassan

Awangku Khairil Sapyri Pengiran Haji Hassan

Titi's Birthday - 12/07/09

After the photoshoot at Empire Hotel, I returned home and we had a small family gathering for the thanksiving doa for Titi's birthday. 12/07/09

More photos here.

The next day, we went to RMS Portview Fratini's for Pizza, again to celebrate Titi's birthday. 13/07/09

More photos here.

Then after I went out for the Pre-Worldwide Photowalk on the 15/07/09, the family went to Picollo Fratini's to celebrate Titi's birthday again.

More photos here.

The next day, again we celebrated Titi's birthday... this time at Excapade Sushi in Kiulap.

More photos here.

Hepburn Theme - 12/07/09

Went to Empire with the gf, the owner of S-Touch to do make-up do of a Audrey Hepburn theme. She did the make-ups while I shoot as she starts until the finishing touch-ups. And I say, she did a marvelous job on the model. I could barely recognize her. She looked more mature and prettier. No wonder she's booked even for a wedding in 2010 and 2011.

Since it was a Sunday and we skipped breakfast, we were really hungry by lunchtime. So we went to the nearest fast food available to eat.

Yummy!

Then we went back to Empire Hotel and Country Club to meet the model and the other photographers and did the photoshoot together. They were about to wrap up and was taking a break. But I managed to shoot a few shots.

lovely make-up do

Syazlie, the multi talented lady responsible for the fabulous make-up on the model.

The team behind the photo-shoot. The model, make-up artist and photographers

More photos here.

DIRGAHAYU KEBAWAH DULI TUAN PATIK - 15/07/09

Photos taken during His Majesty's birthday celebration 2008.

Me and my family sincerely wishes a Happy 63rd Birthday to our beloved monarch, ruler of our people, His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah Sultan And Yang Di-Pertuan Negara Brunei Darussalam.

May His Majesty rules with the blessings of ALLAH.

LONG LIVE HIS MAJESTY.

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Dengan ini patik dan keluarga ingin mengucapkan sembah kesyukuran dan setinggi -tinggi tahniah sempena menyambut hari keputeraan kepada Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Dan Yang DiPertuan Negara Brunei Darussalam yang ke 63 tahun.

Sama-samalah kita mendoakan semoga ALLAH melanjutkan usia Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah Sultan Dan Yang Di-Pertuan Negara Brunei Darussalam.

Dirgahayu Baginda Sultan, Selamat Puja Usia dan semoga Baginda kekal qarar memerintah Negara Brunei Darussalam.

DAULAT KEBAWAH DULI TUAN PATIK.

Dari patik serta keluarga:

Pengiran Haji Hassan Bin Pengiran Anak Hashim
Dayang Hajjah Asinash Binte Haji Ahmad
Dayangku Rohhayati Binte Pengiran Haji Hassan
Awangku Khairil Sapyri Bin Pengiran Haji Hassan

Fire at Madewa - 10/07/09

In my previous post, I had to cut short my light trail outing with the other BFF Crews as we saw very thick smoke nearby and saw police cars and fire engines pass and heard sirens. We know there's fire and that is news stuff.

Me and Spacemonkey went to the scene, Spacey wanted to take silhouettes and I wanted to take good photos and a very good chance to practice photojournalism.

Fire fighters trying their best to control and if possible to put the fire out. We stayed behind them as we snapped photos of the incident. It was blazing hot. We were around 80-100 meters away but we can feel the heat and I was sweating bullets.

The neighbors coming out of their houses to watch the incident.

We left after maybe around half an hour... it was too hot. ;p

The onlookers.. People actually stopped their cars at the side of the road to watch a burnig building.

The onlookers at the other side of the road.

The police had to be there to control the crowd.... and traffic. Too many cars slowed down to watch the fire and not looking front. ;p

More photos here.

This photo of mine was used for the paper the next day... by Media Permata. Front page!! Click here to read about it. ;)

BFF Bunut Passover Light Trail Outing - 10/07/09

My 2nd outing of July, 2 days after my first one, we, the BFF crews, had another light trail outing this time at Bunut pedestrian passover. But I didn't stay long due to an incident. We saw very thick smoke at Madewa. The story will continue in my next post. ;)

More photos here.

BFF Menglait Passover Light Trail Outing - 08/07/09

My first outing in July, went outing with BFF to the Menglait pedestrian pass-over to capture beautiful light trails of cars passing by.

After the outing all of us was to meet at Blue Eden but I made a non planned stop at Kiulap round-a-bout and shot this light trail of cars passing by and showing the HM's Birthday celebration arch in the middle of the round-a-bout and also showed the Jame' Asri Mosque.

More photos here.

Updates... of June 2009 ;)

Okay, updates... for June 2009.. I really need to try to update my blog as soon as I update my flickr. For now, this will make do... so here goes...

06/06/09 - Went to the 2nd Q-Lap Bike Show at Tutong with the gf and snapped some photos. More photos here.

07/06/09 - BFF Outing Competition to Kg. Tamoi. More photos here.

10/06/09 - BFF Strobist Outing/Model/Sharing Session. Photo showing Jimmy Jo explaining about flash using snoot. More photos here.

12/06/09 - Went to Ranoadidas.com's 6th anniversary bash at i-Centre in Anggerek Desa. I was using manual focus the night before and forgot to turn it back on, so some photos were blur until I found out why and turned the auto-focus back on. *Oh my!* More photos here.

12/06/09 - BFF Outing Competition Prize presentation. More photos here.

14/06/09 - BFF Film Outing @ BSB. The gf using Nikon F3 and I used Leica R4s. We go film and manual focus all the way. More photos here.

25/06/09 - The gf joined the Laneige Photogenic Competition @ The Mall... and

I ended up doing more photoshoots of her

at my own make-shift studio.. More photos here.

25/06/09 - Baby Ariana's 1st birthday. More photos here.

27/06/09 - Brought Titi, Wida and Puri to the 4th Comsumer Fair at ICC. More photos here.

28/06/09 - Muris and Lush's wedding, but me and the gf took photos at home. More photos here.

Sending off Puri and Wida back to Jakarta. Both are from Jakarta softball team and Puri being the Indonesian National Squad 1st pitcher played for Pasadena for the 10 day MB Invitational Cup 2009. They will be missed. More photos here. Softball photos are at my softball site.

End of June 2009 updates. ;)