Pudu Wet Market with Pro

*Yellow *

Public holiday again! Whenever it is holiday or weekend, I'll get a chance to went shooting with Robin and Carmen. Today is none of the exception. Managed to hands on with Olympus 12-40mm f2.8 PRO lens. Sigh, felt my Olympus E-M1 just completed with the lens. Too bad I wouldn't need the lens nor going to buy it. At least not at this moment with my financial status. My 12mm and 45mm still served me well or I still have my Olympus 14-54mm f2.8-3.5 lens which is one of the reason I am buying E-M1 in the first place.

* Thinking.. *

* Chicken *

* Center of attraction *

* Baby *

* Red *

* Hammering *

So yea Pudu wet market. A market that located beside Jalan Pasar which I never realized it until today. It is a very very huge market! As Robin said, people around this market definitely the friendlies market we ever been. Some of them are pretty over friendly I must say. There are alot stuffs to get too at here which made me almost forgot my main objective this morning.

* Friendly people *

* Working *

* Photogenic smile *

* A patch of light *

The Olympus 12-40mm f2.8 was incredible awesome lens. Maybe, maybe just a not on par with those CaNikon 2470 f2.8 but I felt it was good enough. Solid quality built, weather and splash proof like the E-M1 body and most important is, the lens performed very very well with Olympus E-M1. I was shooting between f.28 and f4 with this lens for whole morning. I am satisfy with the sharpness! Well I guess no point by just saying. Hopefully my pics speak louder than my words here.

* Friendly owner *

* Super friendly *

* Reading *

* Giving out for free? *

* Posing *

* Lovely stranger *

* Reflection *

* Year of Horse *

The only things I probably dislike about the lens are the weight (but hey! It is full aluminium built!), lens size (but hey! It is f2.8 mid range zoom!) and the zoom ring a little bit tight for my liking. Oh well, it was personal based feeling anyway since I am sucker for smaller lens and overall portability. But I don't doubt myself will be getting the lens someday when the times come and I need it. It is really awesome lens that easily replace my 12mm and 45mm in terms of focal length coverage.

* Waiting *

* Boy or RM1.20? *

* Smoke *

* Close up Portrait again *

* Resting *

* Chatting *

* Spiderweb *

* Dark and Bright *

* Pork knuckle *

Great outing with the Robin and Carmen for shooting. Next, I wanna challenge Thaipusam!

The Country Pet Hotel - Cat Café @ Plaza Crystal Ville, Setapak

Ok this is something I delayed it on purpose. Because I just scratching my head on how to blog about this. As everyone know I am actually a dogs lover and I don't have any special feeling on cats. For me, dog are much cuter and much better being my companions. Cat are just bitch. Ok cat lover don't kill me k? :P

Nevertheless, claim to be Malaysia first cat cafe, The Country Pet Hotel located at Plaza Cristal Villa, Setapak or to be specific, Danau Kota. It located right behind the Columbia Hospital. The shop located right beside Pizza Hut, not easy to spot though. I have to make 2 rounds of turn before spotted it. So yea, I went the cafe together with deary, my sis, Ryan and Yeeing. Despite how much I bitch about cat, I am giving myself a chance to go near them.

Upon arrival, we been told each head will be charge for RM 14.90 and only allowed to stay for one hour. Uh well fair enough. Or else every cat lover just visit the cafe without paying nor ordering anything. Rm 14.90 charged, we get a free drinks from the menu. The drinks were huge disappointment. We were also required to sanitize our hands and also to change into slippers that were provided.

The moment I step in, the wtfbbqsauce moment came right into my mind. The layout of the cafe is small, smelly and dim. As Chinese proverb, "One eye see finish". Le sigh. There are total 6 cats in the room with 5 being same breed and another 1 long fur which I called it Cinaman because it's eye hardly open LOL

So what can you do in the cat cafe? You paid money go in, get a drinks and play with the cat. Well more like serving the cat in case if they are being passive LOL.. there are clothes and comb provided as well for the cat.

Overall, it is a huge disappointment on the cat cafe. I do think that I will have little interest on cat after went the cafe but guess I still love dogs more. Not to mentioned the cafe lack of quality drinks and also some minor facilities like a basin to wash hand after play with the cat? But of course, we are provided the same sanitizer when we were going out.

Being Selective

It was Sunday morning yesterday where I managed to join Robin, Carmen and Tom who came all the way from US for some shutter therapy session at Petaling Street. Oh God it was such a burden to woke up early and riding the demotivated LRT. We managed to meet up on time and had a breakfast in one of the famous porridge and Chu Cheong Fan in Petaling Street. Forgot the name of the shop though. Was it call Hong Kee?

* Chinese lantern everywhere in Petaling Street *

* Cleaner *

* Teddy! *

Chinese New Year decoration can be seen everywhere in Petaling Street. Not to mentioned they blast the music loudly along the street. One can never deny CNY is coming near. Is time to loose some weight and also gain it back during the celebration LOL.. Anyway we drop by at Chinese and Indian temple nearby after breakfast.

I am telling myself not to shoot too much everytime when I head to street. I am choosing being selective. Selective on my subjects, selective on the moments, selective on my shots and so on. This is just to force myself being more aware on my composition and think out of the box. Turn out I shots 52 photos only yesterday. But mehhhh.. I am not sure am I doing the right things.

* HDR 1 in my camera *

* Newspaper *

* Cautious *

* Photogenic *

* Sibling *

Honestly I am fond to my Olympus 45mm f1.8 more and more nowdays. Gosh which genius actually invented 45mm (90mm in 35mm equivalent) focal length! It just not too close yet too far. Perfect for me though deep in my heart I actually wanted Olympus 75mm f1.8 as well for concert shooting *grin*..

* Bad day? *

* Anticipating *

* Sleeveless *

I don't edit much my photos most of the times (unless it is some model or product shooting) but something struck me last night when editing those photos and I decided to be daring in doing some unusual post processing that I would do. Hopefully it doesn't turn out as ugly as I thought. C&C are welcome!

* Waiting *

* Working hard *

* Stranger *

Oh it seem like Robin is asking you all guess what camera and lens combination he was using to shoot on his weekend :P Sorry I couldn't reveal it eventhough there was a photo of me holding it.

Wild guess of the camera anyone? :P It is Olympus Stylus 1! Mini OMD EM-5 look alike with 28-300mm f2.8 zoom on 1/1.7" sensor! Go check out Robin blog now for 1st part review and some awesome shots with this compact camera ;)

2014

Opss it is new year already. My blog are growing fungus and spider web day by day. Motivation ada, material and stuff to blog tarak. Hence, lack of update. Most my random stuff are available daily in Dayre though. Anyway, here some short, compilation and things happened to me this few days.

* The trio *

Celebrate my mum and Auntie birthday last 2 sat. For those who dunno, they 3 are twins with my mum being the youngest in the family. I guess it has been time since they celebrate birthday together.

* My family :) *

* Me and mum. How long since we take pic together? *

Guess I don't look much like my mum (I look more like my dad) but doesnt matter. I am still the son of my mum :)
Hope she manage to win the cancer and get well soon!
So how's everyone celebrate New Year Eve? I as usual attended Samuel New Year Eve gathering that held annually. He prepared lamb for us this time. Awesome!

* His precious *

Glad I attended the gathering. Manage to meet up with friends who havent met for long and get casual drinking and chit chatting.

* Testing ISO 1600 in my Z1 *

* Jack Daniels as starter *

* With Yeeing *

* Yeeing & Ryan *

* Shining & Jeffro *

* Yeeing, Ryan & Xiang *

* Ok us again *

* The beauty.. of Olympus lens :P Not Simon *

* Group photo. Should have use flash *

On the new year itself, bought presents for my parent. A MP3 player, Sony E385 - 16GB storage that can store in dunno how many thousands song for mum and also Nokia Asha 210 for dad coz his current phone abit not convenience to use and he refuse to change.

I am surprise such low end phone support Whatsapp, twitter and Facebook :P Guess time to teach him use that. Not getting him any Android since he still prefer simple and basic phone. Almost get him Nokia 515 though coz the design is so classic and nice finishing! Too bad no wifi and price are ridiculously high.

It is the beginning of new year. Hopefully everything went smoothly especially things that happened around everyone and me. Things are pretty much settle down now and what's left time will tell. Let's hope this Sunday I manage to go out and do some street shooting with Robin.