March « 2009 « smashin’ pOpstar

Faces in Contrast

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Now that we’ve seen some bokeh shots…. lets have a look at some high contrast face shots.. ahha

These photos were taken at Bumbu Bali, Puchong during Peifeng’s farewell lunch.

Please note that your eyes will hurt a bit bit after viewing these fotos.. cos damn contrasty. lol

First up… a very crazy girl who keeps laughing non stop.

Then we have here… a very hemsem guy… lol

The girl who left us… and the guy that talks non stop (in a good way ok)

Then the bollywood poser…

… and another crazy lady who loves to sing while working…

I like this photo.. dono why…. pro photographer.. heh

… and last but not least… the genius among us…

MORE TOMORROW! FOOD FOOD FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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12.03.2009 Lunch 19 Comments

Grabbing Bokeh with Kelvin

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Some time ago, I met up with Kelvin, my Alpha buddy for dinner at KimGary, Sunway Pyramid.

He wanted to test my wide lens(11-18mm) and I wanted to test his baby beercan.

Kelvin with his A200

Me with my A700

We talked cameras all the way while eating… oh I ordered this.. one of my favourite food at Kim Gary.

Damn nice wannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

After dinner we went to shoot lights… ahahaha

See how my hands got submerged into the bokeh.. ahhaa

My domokun also wanted to play ahaha.. ROARRR

… and lastly.. how can I not take a photo with lights like this..

3rd Preview of what’s coming this month.

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10.03.2009 Food, Photography 20 Comments

We were trapped

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Finale post for SG trip!

We checked out from Keong Saik hotel at about 12 and bid goodbye to Chinatown.

… and took a cab to the railway station (yes we took the train back to KL)

This KTM station damn old d… which means.. nice to take photo of.

We arrived at the station around 1pm… 1 hour before the departure time which was 2pm….

We found some seats at the hall and waited patiently for 2pm to come…

Suddenly…..

Something bad happened…..

Something that I have never wanted to happen…

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Malaysia memang boleh… this means I have to sit there for nearly 4 hours and do nothing!!!

In other words… we were trapped.

I then started noticing the change of expressions of the people there.

Those who brought along food were lucky… some of them were very kamjiong when they found out about the postponement…

some had totally nothing to do… the games on their mobile phones were probably not fun to play with.. lol and some couples were argueuing… “i told you we should’ve taken the plane!!!”..”aiya… how i know this will happen???!”

Finally… after 4 hours of trying to sleep, taking photos of anything, playing games on the phone until battery died and suffering in the hot and humid KTM station, we were finally able to board the train at 530pm.

PHEWWWWWWWWWWW….

09.03.2009 Travel 14 Comments

Breakfast at Chinatown

Monday, March 9th, 2009

This is the 2nd last post from my SG trip!

So the next day we had breakkie at one of the kopitiams nearby the hotel.

Very light breakfast.. heh

We only had some toasts and milo.

We then walked around the area and I took some photos of the place.

I actually kinda like this one.

.. and I found Ebay and Paypal Sg office?

09.03.2009 Travel 8 Comments

I’m on Stuff Magazine!

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

One of Britney’s song “If You Seek Amy” has a hidden meaning. Read it quickly and it becomes “f u c ….. me”. That’s one good CRAP!

POPCRAP 1

I’m on the latest issue of Stuff magazine! lol

POPCRAP 2

I watched Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li & Watchmen today.

STREET FIGHTER
I had very very very low expectation of this movie and it turned out better than expected. (Although it still is not very very good)

Characters from the game and the real life version of them.

I felt satisfied when I see Chunli in the movie did her signature helicopter kick and shadow kick…. also she did tie her hair like in the game…

Bison did not look much like the one in the game but at least he did one of his punch.. the very powerful one..forgot if it has a name. Watch out for these.

I rate it 6.5/10.

WATCHMEN

This is just my opinion ok.. since I have not read the comic before. I think the movie is confusing and very draggy. Very similar the The spirit (the movie that made me walked out of the cinema 10 minutes after the movie started)

Characters from the comic and the real life version of them.

If anyone asks me if I would recommend this, I’ll definitely tell them “DontWatchMen“. lol

I rate it 3/10.

POPCRAP 3

This is the 2nd preview of what’s coming this month.

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08.03.2009 Popcrap 20 Comments

Supper at Haagen Daaz

Friday, March 6th, 2009

… and we’re back to our Singapore photos!

Here’s the very last Xmas lights I shot when I was in Sg during Christmas month.

This one was outside Paragon Mall.

… and erm… nice recycle bins.. haha..

When I was shooting these lights, I actually called up my SG friends and planned a meet up later that night.

Wilson drove Patrick and I to Holland Village and we had Haagen Daaz there.

Choc fondue… Wilson and Huimin ordered this.

This was mine… looks good!

We chatted til midnight and before leaving, we took photos together.

Wilson then drove us all back. heh… Thanks buddy!

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06.03.2009 Outings, Travel 8 Comments

Back from Sony Skinny-T Launch

Friday, March 6th, 2009

All photos below were taken using the Carl Zeiss 16-35 f2.8 lens.

Hi all…. Singapore photos will continue tomorrow ok.

I just came back from Luna Bar, to take photos of the Sony Skinny-T Cybershot launch event.

As usual…. a few photos for now… the rest will be blogged again in… June.

The new Skinny T comes in 5 colours… Black, Silver, Blue, Pink and Bronze…. and the key features are smile shutter, intelligent scene recognition and HD movie recording.

Here are some faces.

A lot of people from the media industry were invited to witness this event just now…

Got lengluis also!

That’s Chin(front), the Cybershot Skinny T ambassador artiste from Thailand. There was a fashion show before that and the models were the ones standing around Chin, holding the new Cybershots.

Chin also acted in a drama series featuring the Skinny T which will be aired on TV soon. These are his friends..

This is me and the beautiful and cheeky Daphne Iking. I was one of the official photographer for the event along with Ari… that’s why I was wearing the Cybershot tshirt. hehhehehe…

StonepOp

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

More Christmas lights! hehe

Patrick captured light in his photo taking machine. Wow.

More lights…. TANGS were very bright cos it was covered with lights like this.

Suddenly bumped into Chantelle.. ahaha she was in Sg for 3 days.

More more more moreee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Operation: Attention Grabber. Failed… cos no one bothered to look.

Let’s take a break from all those lights…..

The real countdown might just begin anytime now….

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04.03.2009 Travel 13 Comments

The Spinning Tree

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

After dinner, Patrick and I walked around looking for nice Christmas lights…

We saw this spinning tree…. it was spinning so fast if you put your hand there sure break and blood will fly all over.. no la im just crapping.

We then sat there watching the tree… mesmerised by the lights and probably were hypnotized.

I thought it would be better if i just take car light trails.. lol

I was standing at the side of the road taking this photo… when I spotted 2 person walking across the road pointing at me…

I stare back at them… and I saw the girl whispering to the guy “smashpOp… smashpOp“…. so I smiled and they smiled back.

The guy then approached me and asked “You’re smashpOp right?” I nodded.

After some chit chat, they wanted to take a jump shot with me.. so we did it.

Thanks Nathalia and Henry for jumping with me. Nice meeting both of you. Thanks Patrick for taking this photo.

The lights at Isetan….

Here’s a video of a group of guys and girls caroling at Orchard road…. Patrick and I joined them.. .ahahaha funny shit. Watch ok.

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04.03.2009 Outings, smashpOp Jump, Travel 8 Comments

Chinatown Jump

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

I nearly forgot that I jumped at one of the walkways at Chinatown ahha.

Another great jump added to the ultimate collection of smashpOp Jumps.

I then went back to the hotel, showered, changed… and went out to meet up with a KL friend now studying in SG.

I was at an MRT station when I saw this…

Ahhhhhh finally! Free Internet!!! After getting disconnected from the Internet for 1 day (since roaming data charges costs a bomb)… I quickly sat there and surffedddd!!!!

I sat there for 30 minutes… dono how many MRT went passed me already.. ahaha (thanks to the girl sitting nearby for taking this photo of me… whom.. I have obtained her namecard )