Posted by rfcheah | 16 Apr, 2007, 16:33
Well this is my first fashion show photos, and it happened at One Utama Shopping Complex New Wing. MS told me about this event few days back and I was thinking whether to go take some photos, but decided against it initially as I hated the always-packed car park during the weekend. While I was driving back home after the Saturday morning workout at Fitness First (The Curve), Tiew called and said he was at One Utama and asked me to join him. OK OK... so I made a U Turn at Taman Megah and zoomed back to OneU, and I am glad that I brought my camera gear along (it is almost always in my car!). I am happy that I went to there as I got another chance to practise the indoor shooting and to get familiar with the photographers crowd. In fact it was so fun that I went back again on the next day (Sunday).
The show starts hourly for about 10-15mins from 1pm (up to 8pm I think), showcasing fashions from different shops in 1U (Padini, Elle, Phemomenal, Island Shop etc), as well as eye wears (Better Vision, Focus Point).
Much more photos for the event: http://travelgaia.com/gallery/FashionOn1/
All of the photos taken were using Canon 70-200mm F4L in M mode, handheld, 1/200s, with 430EX and mostly ISO800 (only a few taken at ISO400 and they were a bit underexposed). F-stop ranging from F4-7.1, but mainly F5.6 and F6.3. I was tempted to use F4.0 more but last week's bad experience (i.e. relatively unsharp photos at F4.0) at Sepang F1 track made me think twice. Well to be fair to the lens (and to me), I have a couple of fashion show photos that are tack sharp at F4.
The event continues to next weekend actually, so for those of you that want to see the fashion show, head to 1U on 21st and 22nd Apr'07!
Posted by rfcheah | 10 Apr, 2007, 16:38
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Alonso's 2 Thumbs Up - Catch me if you can
| Denso's Lucy-Liu Look-alike |
My buddy Hiu got 2 Mall Area tickets at Ruby section for RM150 each on Saturday and off we went to F1 Sepang just before 2:30pm. The qualifying was already going on since 2pm and we managed to catch the actions of the 2nd half of the hour. We were happy to see Massa grabbed the pole position, trailed by Alonso, Raikkonen and Hamilton, and thought Ferrari will have a great Sunday. How wrong can we be!
F1 Sepang 2007 Photos (included some Miss F1 photos took place on 5th Apr at Berjaya Times Square):
http://travelgaia.com/gallery/F1_LR/
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Posted by rfcheah | 9 Apr, 2007, 16:42
I joined the company treasure hunt with 3 other guys (Gan, CW, KP), it was a no-brainer decision as it costs only RM50/person for the event, which includes the treasure hunt (from PJ to Simpang Pulai R&R Area), a night at Equatorial Cameron Highlands (twin sharing), a dinner and a breakfast. It was my car again for the trip. I've just done the 20k km service and changed the 2 rear tyres 2 days ago (costs me RM1140 
) as both tyres are getting 'botak'.
More photos from Cameron Highlands: http://travelgaia.com/gallery/Cameron/
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Posted by rfcheah | 4 Apr, 2007, 16:59
Breakdown of Cost of the trip: (I've wanted to do this for all my trips but laziness managed to fail me everytime. I am gonna pick up the slack from now on and get my act together... I hope!)
- Petrol: ~RM150 (from Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Besut and back)
- Toll : ~RM40 (Genting Toll, Kuantan Highway Toll)
- Overnight at Dungun (Mayang Resort, 5km from UITM): RM140 for 2 rooms
- Kuala Besut Parking (3D2N, with cover): RM15
- Boat to Perhentian Island: RM60/person, 2 way.
- D'Ayumni House on Perhentian Besar: RM160/room for 2 nights - 2 double beds, aircond and shower but electricity runs only at night.
- Dive with Universal Diver: RM250 for 4 dives (I did 5, Hiu did 3, so all balanced out)
- A super-duper expensive dinner at the New Coconut Hut: RM107!
- And some drinks/breakfast/lunch at Nia Cafe: ~RM50-100 for 4 persons total
- A BBQ dinner by Universal Diver: Free (thanks guys)
That's about it. Averaged out about RM470/person for the whole trip - probably one of the cheapest trips that I've had! And we all have great fun! And lastly, borrowing a phrase from MasterCard,
A Dive Trip with a few buddies on Perhentian Island: Priceless.
More trip photos:
HTML: http://travelgaia.com/gallery/perhentian_html/
Flash: http://travelgaia.com/gallery/perhentian/
This is Ayumni, the cute little girl of D'Ayumni House ->
