I don't really like cats but..

Found a little kitten in my car porch, it was rather sick.. Managed to nurse it back to better health by giving it some food.

Games Carnival part 2

After the games carnival was declared open, participants were dismissed. The participants started warming up for their games. I went to the wms football team to visit my ex disciplinary teacher, Mr. Naresh. When I got there, he was really into pumping up the team to perform their best.

"Remember guys, when you are on the pitch, u must not run but fly.."

First game started off with WMS 1st team

I can't help but notice some people giving themselves funny names on their jersey. Probably its to distract the opponent.

Even Mr. Naresh played the same tactic.

After watching football for a while, I went over to the basketball court.

Su Zhen making a pass.

Some dude from Kuan Cheng. I gotta say that Kuan Cheng guys were really good at shooting three pointers which was the main cause that made MCKL team lost.

Headed to the table tennis area. Spotted Ruth doing her thing.

She was performing a smash and was looking excessively happy as well.

Later, headed back to the football field to support MCKL & WMS team.

Brian attempts to shoot from the middle after the match has started.

He was striving so hard that he got really bad cramps. His last words before he was substituted out were ," Mammi ah!"

Emcee Brian. He and Anthony were emceeing for basketball. Really funny duo.

Snapshots of football matches from the goal,

WMS 2nd Team

They emerged as champions after beating Sri Chempaka. Congrats guys!

My job is done.
Took a pic wif Alison who was leaving for Switzerland and Ying Ying.

Games Carnival part 1

Not going to blog much about games carnival today. But anyway, reyhan and I were the photographers of the event. So, I started off by going to the registration counters to take pictures of MCKL-ians hard at work. Most of the people in charge of the counter were girls.

After taking some photos, instantly triggered the cam whore frenzy amongst the girls. Whenever there wasn't any school coming to register. I suddenly would get nudged, " Zong Yuan! Zong Yuan! Come!" .Then, there the girls will be, close together smiling at me waiting for me to take the shot. Although, it sounds like i'm always complaining about people cam whoring but i'm actually not. Anyway, here are the photos.

Been busy this weekend. Watched 2 movies, Harry Potter and Taking of Pelham 123. Harry Potter was rather draggy for my liking and Taking of Pelham 123 was not great but good. Will blog more about games carnival soon. Stay tuned!

We are Spotted!

Picture found in manutd.com

Subject taken : Flowers

Last week, I went all the way to a place called Bukit Changgang in Dengkil to take pictures of Lotus and Orchids. Well, taking flowers may seem gay to some but it's a good way to learn good composition of photos.

My mentor - Mr. Lau lent me his lenses, how nice.. Macro lens and a reflex lens(expensive and rare stuff here). After we reached, Leanne and I started shooting away. Well, we met a few obstacles while shooting.. for instance, me and Leanne were stepping right on top of an ant colony while we were trying to shoot the lotus. When we realised it, the ants were all over our body.. too late! It wasn't the typical black ant, it was fire ants which gave us hell when they began to bite.

The following two pictures are taken with a reflex lens aka mirror lens.

Can u see the difference in the blur effect aka bokeh it produces compared to a normal lens?

Overall, I'm still not very satisfied with my composition.. Its plain boring.. but well, I've learnt many new interesting techniques from Mr. Lau. Thank you Mr. Lau for your guidance. I will experiment myself when I get a Macro lens I hope. I will not forget this experience because i brought home very nice local soveniers which were the ant bites on my body.

Manchester United Asia Tour

Friday: Manu's Training

After my last class have ended at 12.30pm, Wai Hoe and I met up with Saveen who was so excited and jumping about like a kid singing "Glory Glory Man United!", sharing his joy with everyone he walked past in college that he was about to meet his favourite team.

Went to Wai Hoe's house to chill out for a while.. Had lunch with Sheng Feng who lives near Wai Hoe's house. Then headed to Titiwangsa train station at 2pm. As we were sitting in the train, we were observing the people around us as we were pretty sure that a lot of MU fans will be going to the Bukit Jalil stadium at this time as well. We noticed a few guys with Manu jersey on and girls pulling their passes from their handbags but did not see many people with red jerseys as anticipated.

At at 2.30pm, we reached Bukit Jalil station. Upon exiting the train, we saw a swarm of reds coming out not only from our carriage of train, but the others as well. The crowded train suddenly became empty. And we thought we were the early ones.

We quickly went into the stadium and reserved many places for the rest that were yet to come. Although we were there like 2 hours early which managed to get us good seats, waiting there for 2 hours was like waiting for few minutes because of the excitement buried in our hearts to finally get to see the Manu players for real.

Note:
Quality of pictures of some are not so good as they are cropped out to ensure that readers can see the players better rather than tiny dots in the picture. Although the pictures are not top notch but the quality are still bearable. Sorry for the bad quality as I do not have big ass lens which will cost me a bum to shoot spectacular sports photos.

It's only the training and its this packed already.

While waiting, cam whoring helped to make time past faster..

Initially we thought that Malaysia team was going to train after Manu have trained. Apparently not, as Malaysia team came out earlier. Probably, this was to avoid people for not watching them train after Manu have finished training. How smart.. Well, we were pretty impressed with what our national team could do.

After the Malaysian team have finished their exhibition training session, the crowd waits patiently for the red devils to make their grand entrance.

The first player that entered the field was Paul Scholes. He started kicking the ball which triggered audience to go wild!

We Malaysians gave them a warm welcome by doing a Mexican Wave..

Pretty impressive to see M'sians really work together so well for the first time.. Well, for Manu.. anything is Bole!

They started off their training session by jogging around the field,

Followed by their stretching exercises,

After that, they played one touch. It is a game where a circle is formed by players and two players will be in the centre, the players forming the circle can only pass to each other with only one touch while the two players in the centre of the circle will try to intercept the pass. It's a training of speed and anticipation. No pictures of this as players will training quite far away from where we were sitting. No point taking pictures of them as it would be impossible to see.

Later, they were divided to 2 separate groups to play a mini soccer game. It was amazing to watch them displaying their impeccable skills of maneuvering the ball. The difference of skills between Manu players and Malaysian players could be seen clearly. Though the training only lasted for an hour but it was an exhilarating experience.

Although Manu had won our hearts but it caused us to loose our voices..

Saturday : D - Day

left the house at 2pm... Went wif Dad and a friend, Choong. Did not bring my camera because I wanted to fully concentrate on the match and taking good pictures of the players was clearly impossible for me.

Reached there around 2.30pm. The lines outside the stadium are long as expected. The whole place was flooded with reds which shows how much M'sians support our national football team.

However, me being such a good and patriotic M'sian citizen definitely will choose to support our national team Malaysia larr! This was what I wore to the match to show my support.

We managed to get good seats which were the 3rd row from the front. However, being so near to the field caused us to sacrifice our shelter from the sun. We were sweating like dogs while waiting for nearly 2 hours.

Waiting for the game was quite entertaining, because we were observing our surroundings a lot. People entering the stadium were mostly wearing Manu jersey. However there were some who decided to be funny by wearing a liverpool and chelsea jersey to the match which resulted in getting a loud BOO from the crowd.

I was also reading a lot of the signs brought by the hardcore Manu fans. There were signs like:

Evra > Cristiano Ronaldo

How's the Nasi Lemak Fergie?

Tevez? Cristiano who? It's Manchester United!

Harimau Malaysia

Take me home Rio!
(sign held by a guy.. how gay)

The match was pretty intense as the Malaysian team gave quite a fight. We, the M'sian crowd were like freaking hypocrites. We were cheering for both teams.. but more for Manu of course.

Everyone was pretty excited to watch Michael Owen playing as a Manu player. Although he was given free to Manu but he proved himself worthy by scoring a goal few minutes before the final whistle was blown giving Manu a slender victory.

Final score:


Manu (3) - Malaysia (2)

Kudos to the Malaysian players who played hard to give Manu players a good fight and also entertaining us well!

MCKL-ians + DSLR = CAMWHORE

I had been bringing my DSLR to college this whole week to take pictures of the July batch in their orientation week every morning before college starts.

After I'm done with this boring job every morning.. My camera will be abducted by the MCKL-ians. Then my camera had to endure the constant molestation from criminals of itchy hands. Poor Camera :(

Criminal Master mind - Leanne Lau.

Couldn't get a better solo picture of her because she was behind the camera most of the time..

A lot of pictures were taken which I've uploaded to facebook.. Lz post to all here..

Colin


See Yau

Aiyoo, people eating also wanna take.. swt.. lol

Well, Leanne wasn't the only one behind all these criminal acts. She had accomplices..

From left to right : Brian Aaron, Wai Hoe, Saveen

Saveen :P

Here comes the part where the criminal really becomes trigger happy when they discover my camera can take multiple shots quickly..

What a brutal murder,

The victim, Edward was shot in the face multiple times.

This is Alvin..

Forget the introduction.. The picture says it all

After 2 girls from the July batch came over to have a little chit chat, Alvin mimic the flirty facial expressions of one of the girls.

Prolly this will give u a better picture,

The criminals meddled around with my camera a lot..

BUT

there was one shot that I found was not bad...
(PS : the shot is good not solely because of the subjects taken)

Nice sunlight behind the subjects highlighting the hair.. Giving a more dynamic effect..

However something was still missing from the picture..

After some photoshopping,

Increased the shadows and highlights..

Added blur effect so that the skin looks smooth.. just the way girls love it.. lol

After one week of multiple camera abduction cases, I've to become more wary of my surroundings when i go to college with my camera. There were many victims who were "shot" in this week. Therefore, I apologise to the everyone for bringing such a seducing weapon to college.

However, the biggest victim is ME.. I've to sit at home looking thru the hundreds of pictures taken.. Poor me..