Lesson learned...

This post will not have any photos haha. I just feel like writing out something I learned while doing my management accounting assignment.

I had this really really confusing question for my assignment and my mistake was that I reread over and over again on the same old paragraph which does not answer my question for the past 1 week. Then I decided to look for some help from my aunt and my mother's friend and my mother's friend somehow answered my question which makes a lot more sense than my previous doubts.

Guess what was the mistake?

It's because I reread over and over again the same old paragraph and totally abandon something which is important in the beginning of the case study.. Thank god I still have time to complete my assignment and I am quite relieved at the moment until some other coursemates bring more doubt ( I hope not.. =P)

So... My first lesson learned throughout this semester: There's always a reason for every single word in it.

Sony Friends.

Let me introduce to you some of my Sony Alpha friends I have met at the Convention... Did not take many photos so mostly are taken from other people's camera one. so yeah.

During lunch...

we yam seng-ed with that tube thingy. forgotten what is it already.


Friends.


Smashpop. Donny. Jason. Chrysler. Me.


Me. Chrysler. Mr. White. Donny. Shunfa.


David. Smashpop. Hoc Mun.

ok. that's all. got to do assignment already. see u.

Convention Day 3

Yesterday I went for deeparaya celebration for the first time.. Deepavali open house in the afternoon and raya open house at night. hehe.

anyway let's continue with the day 3 convention. my group along with other groups had our session in the ballroom on the 3rd day..

me and my tag.

we had talks on fashion photography by Mr Mark Law, wedding photography in Malaysia by Mr Grant Corban, Architecture photography and life experience of a working photographer by Mr. Azrul K. Abdullah.


The grey shirt guy is Mr. Mark Law.

Besides that, I took a lot of photos of Ms. Monique haha. reallly many... Will post those photos in the next post. Also, we had a better lunch compared to the previous two days. The lunch buffet consist of various kinds of food.

The Chocolate fondue/fountain thingy.

After all the talks and stuff we then had the closing ceremony whereby the prizes were presented.


Jeng Jeng Jeng. Who will win those prize?




First up, the winners of the blog entries. The 1st prize was the A700 and 18-250 lens and the other 2 got bag I think.

Then it's time to present the prizes to the best participants and 10 person won the GPS thingy.

Mr Ted Adnan posing with the GPS thing. haha


Hanafi was one of the winners.

And lastly.....

The uncle who won the A900.

That's all for the whole convention. =D

p/s: will post more photos next time. ohyah. one more thing. I didnt have external flash so some of the photos were actually 'borrowed' by other people's flash here and there when they were taking those prize giving photos also.

ohhh noooo....

some keys on my keyboard just doesn't work.. crap! am using the on screen keyboard now..

anyway I need a favour from you guys who are taking accounting & finance course (if there is) to help me answer the following survey question for my assignment use..

Would you prefer to work in an accounting firm(such as the big 4) or commercial firms(finance dept of any firm of any industry) after graduation? Why?

for those who are not taking accounting & finance course can do me a favour by asking your friends? hehe. just drop me the answer at my email- chadgan@hotmail.com

oh i also have questions for people working in the accounting line. just let me know if you are one and I'll contact you.

Thanks ! =D

Convention Day 2

It's the day scheduled with talks by various photographers of different specialty/professionality or whatever you call it such as Ted Adnan on portraiture, Darren Chang on automative and Mr. Choen Lee on creativity sort of things and also talks by adobe and epson mainly on their products. Basically that's what my group had for Day 2.


Photos taken using the A900 and printed using Epson printer.

Then, we had lunch at the middle east restaurant again....


During Darren's session, he asked us to shoot the bike.


Some close-up of the bikes...




Ahh... then the model arrived and everyone got distracted and most cameras changed its direction.

Sony Alpha Convention 2008

Day 1

The convention organized by Sony Alpha was great. Learned really a lot of things as a beginner and glad to be 1 out of the 400 participants there. We had lunch at the middle east restaurant there before the opening ceremony of the convention and some model shooting with Ducati and Harley Davidson bikes.


Model #1


Model #2


Model #3 - Monique

There was a PS3 there also with the game called Afrika. It's a mission game thing where you have to capture images of animals.


The convention then started at about 3pm..


This is George, Sony Alpha's product manager.


Then, the A900 was launched.

George introducing the model for the A900 advertisement and Mr. Choen Lee, the photographer for the ad.

First session by Mr. Kris LeBoutiller.

He was holding the Alpha stickers and those who collected it will win prize and the one who collected the most won an A900 !

After 2 hours of everything in the ballroom, I continued shooting the models. =P

As you can see the bottom left photo, the model was tired that's why she sat down and posed like that. That's what I assume la. haha

Sushi King RM2 Bonanza

Yesterday after class at 10am, we had our usual break for few hours and we went to Soho KL for sushi as they have their membership promo again. The shop has not opened when we went there so we berlepak outside and had some drinks in a kopitiam nearby. Soho looks like a nice place to hang out at night... yes, no? I duno. haha. first time there only.. =P


oh. elena was there to take photo for us. That's my groupmate for 2 assignments. haha. All photos taken using 2 different model of Samsung phone which I don't know what model they are.

And that day, my sis told me there's rainbow so I grabbed my camera and try shooting it but somehow failed... I duno how to shoot rainbow and I stood on one position only. hehe. My mom told me there was 2 rainbows but I did not see it so don't have a shot of it lor. Kinz captured one though.

The rainbow after editing using Photoscape. C&C welcome.. Im still a noob. hehe

Gotta go. Ciaoz..

Sungai Congkak Outing

The next day after shooting fireworks at Putrajaya, I went for an outing by Sony with other Alphanatics members to Sg. Congkak for shooting. It was quite an tiring day because I had only a few hours of sleep as we had to gather at Mid Valley around 7.30am.

As I was browsing through the folder, I am not satisfied with the photos I took that time which I was really proud of it then... Hmm... Maybe I've improved? LOL... well anyway, I only have a few photos to post including those I have posted before last time. Enjoy.

The first 3 photos are the one I submitted for the contest thingy after every outing.


ants.


look like heart shape?


Dragon Beard.


Dragon Beard again..


Alpha Family.

Sony Alpha Convention 2008

The 3 days convention by Sony ended yesterday. It was really good seriously. We had free lunch buffet, freebies, models and bikes to shoot, talks from various speakers who are quite great photographers. Most importantly, A900 was launched and Sony lenses has new pricing now. Price has dropped quite a lot. well.. not much difference for me as a student as I still can't afford them anyway. haha. anyway, quoted from David's blog, Sony really knows how to make man happy. hahaha


The ad in Kl sentral.


One of the room was at Kl Sentral.


Me and Alpha logo.


Ahhhh... the models and bikes.


The lucky man who won the A900.

That's it. Will update furthermore next day.

My α Journey: Road to Convention

In this post, I am going to post on where my camera have been with me all this while since I bought my a300.


Of course, it has always been at home with me.


Then I brought it to Singapore but unfortunately, we managed to see only the Merlion's ass.


Besides that, my camera was blessed too. =D


It gets to go bermakan-makan with me also.


It has seen fireworks at putrajaya, view of pd, Lake Gardens and also chicks in Sunway. =P


Lastly, it has been to one Sony Alpha Basic Course and one outing at Sg. Congkak.

Where will it go to next?

jeng jeng jeng...

Tomorrow my a300 will meet another 399 brothers/sisters and also a newborn a900.

Yes. I will be attending a Sony Alpha Seminar at Le Meridien Hotel for the weekend and I am very excited now... hehehe

My α Journey: Faces

Another fun thing I love to do with my Alpha is capturing the expression of people I come about.

There are many different expressions which people(from the young to the old) show and usually we will forget the next day or probably in few hours.

With my Alpha, I am able to capture them (with luck of course sometimes) and get to browse them through once in a while when I'm bored. It's quite fun actually. haha. It makes you think back what happened during that moment.

Below are some photos I captured since I own this Alpha.


Me love shooting people who shoot me. hehe.


Cute?


Above are Dagri Rinpoche, my grandparents and Venerable Sonam.


Above: Caught them staring at each other. =P jkjk
Below: Stone and nothing else better to do.


ahh.. what I like most. Happiness. =D

Lastly, who says we can only take portrait of human.. We shall not forget about the other sentient being around us..

Goose...

p/s: Sony Alpha Convention in 3 days time. weeee... excited..