Ahfook's Story

The name of ‘Broga Hill’ gets famous lately, especially after few of my friends (Afoi, Clive, Seng Kit, Nicky, Swee Ching…) went there took photos, their photos are just great. So when my photography friend Victor asked me whether interested to go visit Broga Hill at Labor Day, I confirmed my attendance to him instantly.

7 of us met up at Petronas petrol station opposite of Phoenix Plaza at around 5am morning then continued our journey to Broga Hill which is located in Semenyih, Kajang. I was surpised that some of Victor’s friends are my collegemates, what a small world. We reached at the Broga Hill’s entrance around 6am. It’s opposite of a rabbit farm. It was dark, we need to used torch lights to walk up to the hill.

After 45 min to 1 hour, we reach at the middle of the hill, at there we could already see the sun rise and the “cloud sea”.

Dawn at Broga Hill

After resting for a while, we continued walked up to higher peak, when we reached there, there were already a lot of people there. Whole peak was full of people, like having some kind of carnival there.

Crowd at Broga Hill

 We spent around 3 hours there to take photos. Met with few friends there including Chee Hong and Chester. Here are some photos taken:

Broga Hill

Song Yen, Mei Yen and Clayvon

Broga Hill

We went down from Broga Hill at noon time, and went to Kayu Jati Restaurant near Broga Hill to have our lunch. The dishes are normal, the fishes are a bit salty, the soup was full of pepper/monosodium glutamate (MSG). The boss was quite rude. Not recommended unless you are too hungry.

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I took part in Canon Photomarathon Asia (Kuala Lumpur) 2008, last Saturday, with Rachel. This was our first time took part in photography contest, we were there to gain experience while meeting up friends.

We reached Berjaya Times Square around 7:30am, the queues for registration were so long, big ‘U’ shape queue stretched from registration booth until edge of the Times Square and back to booth again. We’ve been queued up for around 40 minutes only managed to get registered. We were given official T shirts, refreshment, breakfast, map and schedule. Not bad for a free event, huh?

The first theme was “Indulge Metropolitan”. This theme has confused most of the contestants, we took out our phones, either check the dictionary, or call up friends to ask the meaning of “indulge”, and we got different answers, where we couldn’t linked them up properly. So this is my work for first theme, and I don’t think it make any sense with the theme XD

Then we went to Pavilion, the brand new shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, to get our second theme, “Mess In Rules” from Canon shop. So on the way to Suria KLCC (the third pit stop), I have snapped this for the second theme, too bad the focus spot was incorrect:

After having our lunch at Suria KLCC food court,  we met Clive, he just took the third theme from Canon shop. The third theme was “Goes Green”. We went to Kinokuniya book store to get some idea, however we have no luck to get any. Then we decided to go Petaling Street to try some luck.

We went to Petaling Street with LRT, walking around, including Lee Lum Thye Market, the street with prostitution service (they working at day time, too), Jalan HS Lee and other parts of Petaling Street area, then I got this for “Goes Green” theme, bad composition:

After getting the photos we wanted, we walked to Maharajalela Monorail station to get back to Berjaya Times Square. We loaded our works into the PC there, then get our lunch (for free) from the organizer. We left after meeting up with friends around there around 4pm.

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Another Chinese Cari Forum’s portrait session yesterday, at Lake Garden, Kuala Lumpur. This time is the biggest session ever held, with 41 people in total participated in the session. Whole session taken with Sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 HSM OS lens on Canon EOS 350D.

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I am glad that invited by Ah Tat to join the Dong Tai Du photography session last Sunday, I have a great chance to snap with SengKit, Ricky and Sui Gor. There were around 30 musicians took part in the session, to demonstrate the action and spirit of Dong Tai Du (动态度). Each of them were requested to jump or do some tricky actions to be captured at a compound of a flat. SengKit and Ricky were the main photographers, while I responsible in recording the whole process, together with Sui Gor. The photos taken will be stitched up and form a panorama photo. Then we moved to Sungai Wang plan to have a street pogo and distribute the gig flyers, but due to lack of crowd at that time, we decided to postpone the second plan to another evening.

Thanks everyone who worked hard to make this session a success and a fun one.

More photos coming soon Photos ready!

Read more:
Photo Pintu – 动态度摄影活动
DongTaiDu – 辛苦拍来自在型！
SengKit – 動也要有態度﹗
Ricky Sow – 动态度-拍攝活動
Sui Gor – 动！可是起不来 …
Snow X White 1 – 动态度拍摄场所–龙甘威的六楼后座
Snow X White 2 – 摆明是开一张post blog衰你 :p
Snow X White 3 – 我是有姿势，没实际的女主唱
Blue Glory – 动太度，我们一起动~!!!

Rachel and I were invited by Stella and Wilson as their wedding photographers, at Wilson’s hometown, which is Malacca. Last weekend, after casting our votes in General Election, we drove down to Malacca, and FM988 was the source we received the General Election results.

Wilson has reserved 1 room for us at Malacca, staying in King Apartment with Stella’s family. Stella’s family members are warm and kind, we had a great time there. The next day, Sunday, was the wedding day for the couple. We woke up early in the morning the shot for the wedding ceremony, as well as the wedding dinner at the night.

That was a very precious experience for Rachel and I, thanks Stella and Wilson given us a good chance to experience a wonderful wedding, and meeting wonderful people especially their friendly family members.