Mushrooms

100mm f/2.8 Sony Macro Lens.
freaking expensive lens...

Did this with a wireless flash below it, 
F/11 , 1/250 sec , iso 100

These mushrooms are really really small, around the size of a 10c coin.

I like macro lah...

MIFC

Let's continue the shots from the Malaysia International Fireworks Competition 2008.
The weather was fine on that day, perfect wind and we found a suitable place to set up our tripods. There were so many people on the last day, it's the finals and it's a friday night, what do you expect.?

Again, it's my first time shooting, didn't have any shutter release cable with me.
Have to result on a 2 seconds timer which delayed 2 precious seconds of my long exposure.

Will definitely equip myself well next year.
A better and more stabil tripod as well.

Let's see the results


I like this the most, colour varieties.

Simple yet interesting

booooooom

p/s virtualmystic and tzewen, I thought I should be the last one posting the pictures?
Ended up me being the first one to post all. 

That's all. What's next?

MIFC

Just got back from MIFC.
Went there together with virtualmystic and tzywen.

Great experience.

First time for me, pardon my noob-ness.

1 picture for today, going to Sungai Congkak at 6am tomorrow.



nite.

Medals

Aiyaah, all those YoYo Championships pictures are not here yet.
Waiting for them to upload....
Anyway, my friend Keith bought his Alpha 200 yesterday in 1utama!
Accompanied him there to test it and taught him some basic stuffs.
It's only RM 1.7k - single lens, 4gb CF, tripod, bag, vest, watch, etc etc.

Lots of free gifts. Damn worth the price, it's a Sony.

So far 5 people have followed me into the Sony Alpha Photography world,
and I have to say that you guys will not regret buying them.

Sony, the choice of Champions.

in the mean time, I'll show you some medals.
hehe, not showing off k. Just that I really wanna post something on yoyos.
and I'm still waiting for the pictures....

Here it is, the medals that I've won during the Nationals 2008

and some wikid rare patches. awesome..

will be pretty busy these few days,
Fireworks shooting, Jungle tracking, Merdeka Countdown, yumcha sessions that I've turned down for xxx times, yoyo performances, catch up with the gang, wedding dinner, practice for regionals championship,

and the most important, I need to start studying for Module 3 - Generators, RCL circuits, Motors, etc etc. And there will be an oral test on Hydraulics. aaah... 

BaseBall

Just came back from batting in 1 utama.
First time doing it in a real batting cage, the feeling was awesome.
But kinda tiring although you only hit 15 balls.
FYI the pricing - 1 token = 15 balls = RM 6
quite affordable lah, an experience that is worth trying.

Went there at 9pm with Iskandar, QingWen and JunJie.
All of them are from Singapore! haha...
It was fun hitting the 40mph balls. Not easy though...
QingWen had 3 rounds - 40mph, 50mph and 60mph!
He was damn good in this.

It's me hitting! A future professional baseball player? haha

Us, damn fun sia.

Happy

Hello,

Sorry for the lack of updates/pictures. I have been busy for the past 3 days, it was the 4th National YoYo Open.

To sum it all up, I won in the Offstring Division. Yes first place, first time. I'm so happy.
It's really hard to win when you have strong opponent like Raymond and Jazli, their freestyles were awesome, pretty clean overall. And obviously there were other competitor like Aliff from Malacca which improved tremendously in his technical offstring freestyle with a flying panda. Damn scary at first when he finished his freestyle.

The finalists for the Offstring division
(FYI Offstring division is a different yoyo style of play where the yoyo is not attached to the string)

1 Ewin Ee (Petaling Jaya) 80.00
2 Raymond Thian (Kuala Lumpur) 71.80
3 Jazli Iqbal (Petaling Jaya) 58.10
4 Nik Daniel (Kuala Lumpur) 31.08
5 Ahmad Alif (Malacca) 27.09
6 Shakeel (Ampang) 24.81
7 Wong KJ (Ampang) 18.09
8 Haffez (Johor) 12.33

Besides winning the gold medal for the Offstring division, I was lucky enough on the double hand division as well as the freehand division, took home 2 bronze medals too, hehe.

Apart from that, there were new faces in the yoyoing community. People like Oscar started playing in just a few months yet he managed to get into the single hand division finals. Azmi from Kedah was also a big shock to everyone taking 4th in it, must be having some underground training in Kedah. Congratz to all other winners.

also, big thanks to Honvee, Faeez and KJ for being the yoyo cameraman through out the whole event. I did not bring my camera, too many things to bring during the competition. I'll upload the pictures as soon as I get them.

Very tired now, I have to regain my sleep deficit. Went to the event area in Time Square to help out the setting up on Friday, came back at 4.30am. On Saturday, I was there from 10am to 9pm. and again on Sunday, spent 14 hours there, 10am to 12am. siaoness....

Parking was a bomb, total damage for 3 days - RM 30.
Petrol also cost me a bomb, 150km total.

Big thanks to the Singaporeans who came over to support the event too.
People like Colin, Iskandar, QingWen, JunJie, Ian and Melvin.
It would not be as fun as it was without you guys.!
Sorry about Colin's big haversack though, got stolen in Starbucks near to GSC.
Imagine people can steal the 70 litre bag which was right beside us when we were having our discussion and we didn't even notice it until the very end. Really sorry about it, I was quite near to the bag and yet I didn't even notice it being dragged away.
omg. A really bad impression for Malaysia. Haih....

Bad people Bad karma.
Ok, bad things go away.

So I'll be competing in the Asia Pacific YoYo Competition in November.
It will be held in Singapore this time!
It would be my first time getting seed in the finals representing Malaysia!
haha so happy, first time mar....

Last but not least, thanks to Kong Ray Dimi and all other committees for making this event a success!

Finals

YAY I WON

Preliminaries

Preliminaries results were overwhelming.
Did pretty well in the qualifying stage.

Offstring Division
1 Ewin 100.00 
2 Jazli 88.01 
3 Shakeel 71.54 
4 Wong KJ 66.96 
5 Nik Daniel 63.13 
6 Raymond 63.13 
7 Ahmad Alif 60.83 
8 Haffez Hussain 54.68 
9 Syed Faeez 49.24 
10 Norain 40.42

Finals tomorrow.
Will do my best yo!

“There can never be an achievement without a challenge”

Qualifying Round

Today will be the Qualifying Round!

lets do it baby!!!

14 hours!

It's 14 hours more to the 4th Malaysian YoYo Championship!
I will not post much these few days, have to concentrate more on the competition..

Big thing for me. Wish me luck guys.. Thanks.

Give you guys see 1 picture.
An aircraft...

Vintage-ish..

MacDuDe

2 days!

Yes 2 days to the most important thing!
Really looking forward to it..


Anyway check out this guy,
Emo-ish MacDude spotted in Sunway Pyramid.

1 picture for today..

Look Out Point

This is an outdated post.

Went to Look Out Point exactly a month ago with a couple of friends.
Took our dinner as well in Gasoline Restaurant.
The environment was very cool up there, happening yet peaceful. hahaaa

The thing about this trip was, I forgot to bring my 4 AA batteries for my external flash.
Messed up! wasted, no choice had to use the body flash instead. aaaaah!!!

Here are the pictures,
No picture of the city view because I've posted it before. hehe

Friends

The gang @ LOP - Jas Jan Han Me

WeiJheng Lawrence and me!

Yung Ling, Choong Fu and me...

Look at the bokeh behind. Damn nice..
Will bring the Heart Shape Bokeh Filter next time if I'm going up again.!


and all of us!

Throw Duncan!

Took this a month back in Stadium KL.
I was doing a show with Dimi.

Both of us were throwing duncan and wearing duncan shirts!

Throw Duncan!

for your info - Duncan is a world class yoyo company.

Dimi with his awesome looking pose!

and I was very reluctant to put that yellow cone on my head.
lol. Dimi felt the pain. haha

4 days to the most important day!

Liu Lian

E w i n . P h o t o g r a p h y 

brings you a tutorial on

How to open a durian fruit with your hands.

Totally random, saw this guy with his durian skills.

1st step : Find the weak point. 
There will be a zigzag line where a durian will naturally split apart between sections.
LOL

2nd step : Concentrate, bring all your energy up to your face and strike the weak point with your hands! hahaha

3rd and final step : Make sure you enjoy your durian fruit. Yummy

p/s - use a big sharp knife or a parang laaah... hahahhaa easier...

5 more days! I'm so excited....

Let's do this!

Just came back from Charity Bazaar in Summit USJ.
I had a charity yoyo performance there together with the team.
The show I did was way better than yesterday's. Indoor, no wind - that explains.
Nice crowd, nice people, gave us RM10 voucher each to spend. .

Will upload the pictures once I get it.

6 more days!

Will not post so many pictures this week.
Will be busy training!
Gambateh....

I love kit kat! Those are imported...

This is a ballast, can be found in a fluorescent lamp.
It is a device to limit the amount of current in an electric circuit.
hehehe, so virtualmystic, I opened a fluorescent lamp..
more pics next time..

7 more days.

It's 7 more days till the real competition.
I'm really nervous. Hope I will do good on that day.

Woke up at 7am, went to METC for activities and took time off at 11am.

Went to Inti College for a yoyo performance.

Performance started at 1pm. sooo late....
2pm -Lunch in Asia Cafe.
2.30pm - Headed to Dimi's house for practice.
5pm - Decided to go to Sunway Pyramid, more yoyo playing.
9.30pm - Home. more yoyo.
12am - now blogging.


Performing in Inti College. 
Performance was not good due to strong wind -outdoor, offstring-light yoyos.

Oh and Ryan came down from Kuching, he's here for the Nationals next week.
Good luck bro. From top left, Faeez-Faris-Ryan-WooiMing-Ewin-Jonathan

Canadian Pizza

Finally after waiting for 2 hours, uploaded my pictures into photobucket.
Don't really know what happened to the server, always Server IO error.
Or maybe it's my slow internet connection..

Anyway, after shooting spiders/tarantulas, we went to Canadian Pizza in Taman Tun for dinner. The pizzas were okaay, quite nice actually. 2 large pizzas for the price of 1 and surprisingly it was quite fast too. I enjoyed.. 

Canadian Pizza.

Barbeque Chicken toppings. sedapnyer

There was 1 more pizza but I was too hungry, so Makan laaah.

Spiderman!

Ewin Photography brings you wild life with Tarantula..

Did some spidergraphy last week with my cousin.
These tarantulas are Not cheap, they can go up to a few thousand ringgit.

Of course they were moving here and there, capturing them in a good position was not an easy task.

Very dangerous.
Don't try this at home, poisonous tarantulas, you can become Spiderman if you get bitten by them.

This will be my favourite tarantula.! 

This one a bit different, took it from the top.

This is nice too..

and the last one...



I want a Macro Lens!

MYYC 10 days

Yes, the 4th Malaysian YoYo Championship is in 10 days time.
Please do come and support the event.
I will be competing too. Wish me luck.

Please lock up your dates, it's on the 23rd and 24th of August.  
Berjaya Time Square, 3rd floor central stage.

and...


Remember to watch Wall.E.
The movie was amazing, can say that it's the best movie I've watched this year.Overall 10/10   -   A ++
Maybe I've over rated it, but I really like the movie.
Very touching and romantic.
The best thing is, there were so little dialogues.
You'll only be hearing Waaaaaall-eee... Evveee-aa..
Definitely a must watch movie of the year!

Best Pixar film.

Seriously go watch it as soon as possible.
Thanks to advertlets for the wonderful movie screening 3 days before the actual release date.


watch it in the cinema, no downloading please!. haha

Alpha Seminar

Last. Part 3

So I hope to join the Sony Alpha Convention in October.
A must go!
and maybe I'll get a battery/vertical grip by then! haha. so expensive eh.. 

The potato balls. Middle East lunch we had.

Participant Ewin Ee, Jason Goh. hehe  
How come the flash was so harsh? Thought i bounced it up?

ahtsong, david, ahmike and ianho

Seminar finished at 7pm.
Went for a TT session with ahmike and albert.
Learned about tungsten flash + 2800 kelvin white balance.

Woooot! damn nice.

2800 Kelvin white balance. This is Albert. The master for Sony Alpha.

ok done.
wuts next?

woot

Look what I wore to college today!

An all new Sony Alpha watch!
Going out now, short post for today.

Enjoy the watch.

Alpha Seminar

Part 2.

The seminar was held in Le Meridien Hotel, KL.
It was fun, got to know lots of Alphanatics! haha.

Plenty of refreshments, Ted Adnan and Darren Chang gave some really good tips on photography.

Announcement by George Wong, the product manager of Sony Alpha!

Hung Wei. Nice to meet you.


John Tan, Ewin Ee, Chua and AhMike.

Donny A300.To be continued.

Alpha!

I love Sony Alpha.

Glad to be in the Top 100.
Survival kit for Sony Alpha was awesome. Nice stuffs. Really good.

Ewin Photography | Sony AlphaThanks to Donny for taking this picture!

Ted Adnan with his Portraiture presentation.

The Alphanatics. 


More pictures tomorrow!

080808

It's 08/08/08
A very lucky day for everyone, fatt fatt fatt.
Once in a thousand years. 

The beginning of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games!

Watching the opening ceremony.....
Won't be a long post.

Let's enjoy 1 picture I took in Look Out Point, KL.


Beautiful isn't it?
Went there with some friends, didn't have enough time to shoot.
Will go there again next time with photogs!

Deal or No deal?

2 more days till you see the new vest!
Can't wait for the vest, you'll get to see it soon...

Planning to get a tele photo lens, but my budget is kinda constraint, less than RM500.
That's quite low for a tele photo lens =(

Maybe a Sony 55-200mm f/3.5 - 5.6...
or a Minolta 100 - 300mm f/3.5 - 5.6..

Hopefully I'll be able to get a 70-200 f/2.8 G lens when I establish as a licensed aircraft engineer.
Work hard! Gambaateehhh..! 

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Deal Or No deal?

Have you watched it in NTV7?
It is now live in nenebubuchacha.blogspot.com

with some lovely Revlon girls....hahahhaa

Presenting.....


The line up...

Revlon beauties...


and moreee..


The RM 1 suitcase.