Good Luck!

I’ve been into Super Junior a 13 members Korean boy band lately even though I stopped with whatever Korean stuffs some years ago haha
and one of their song called Good Luck which is in my playlist for a week by now (or 2 weeks?) – thus the title; random isn’t it? hehe

Talking about luck, just by chance I saw rainbow from my window a few weeks/days ago
Crappy photo, I know

The lyric has nothing to do with me because it’s about.. good luck in relationship haha, but.. hrmmm I could relate myself to the title GOOD LUCK WITH THE PROJECT, INTERIM AND ENTERPRISE MGMT REPORTS!! I’m in need of luck. SO THAT EVERYTHING WILL GO WELL! Amen!

Anyway, I haven’t been playing much with my camera lately; stress? HELL YES! It’s not only me, a lot of my friends are too. Such busy time these days
Supposedly, I’m going to another devMeet on Saturday the 5th, but I didn’t go in the end
Too much things to do as deadlines are getting closer haha
meh! it should be fun to go out and chill a few weeks to go before Christmas break! w00t!

I only had the opportunity to take some photos during my sis birthday last week but it takes forever to post process the photos

Not the best photos I could do, but, hrmm.. pretty decent, I guess?
I’M SO GOING TO GO ALL OUT WITH PHOTOGRAPHY ONCE I’M DONE WITH PROJECT + EXAMS! super geram!! haha
until then.. I need to slow down and concentrate on what important first

You guys have a great day
Do have fun on my behalf

Honey, I’m BACK!

what a cheesy title haha

I’ve been gone for nearly 2 weeks due to.. well an exam and it really stressed me out
So, I stayed away from blogging, bloghopping and also from my beloved camera
That was really hard as I had to keep myself from doing things that I enjoy the most
I’m glad that it’s over now! but it’s still busy as busy as ever!
I’ve been spending my time on my project work which was nearly on schedule last week, but I’m at total lost as I’m writing this I need to catch up!

BRAIN! WORK PLEASE! *shot self*

A few weeks to go before the semester ends; which means, a lot of deadlines soon *faints*
well, I have 2 deadlines to be exact, 2 reports to hand in in another 2 weeks
I only wrote the draft.. which might ended up left as scrap – meaning, need to rewrite the whole thing again *shot self again*

Anyway, I could rant forever~ haha too much things to do, to little time
thinking takes time! doing things? it takes FOREVER!

First of all, Eid Mubarak everyone! Hopefully you guys had a blast celebrating Eid Adha savouring those yummy food!

I went for eid prayer at High Commission of Malaysia with my sis and her friend as I only had class at 12pm haha (I finally went out! after 2 weeks going to uni-home!)
and.. Tun Mahathir Mohamad and his wife, Tun Siti Hasmah were there!
That was totally unexpected!
Well, I didn’t hear anything about Tun being in London, so that was like… WHA? FOR REAAAL?

Right after the prayer ended, we went home as I need to catch my class haha
I didn’t do much during eid

Anyway, enjoy some photos
2 weeks not using the camera, it feels awkward taking photos now!
That totally made me feel like I’d like to go out, snap more photos instead of pulling my hair out figuring ways to do my project haha – I do enjoy doing my project btw It only gets annoying when I can’t figure things out lol. Totally made me feel worse!

It’s been a while since I last bloghopping
So, how are you guys?
Anything new that I missed out?
Do let me know

Food? *drools*

No photos from last week, been extremely busy with my fyp – I’m 3 weeks behind from my plan.. that is worrying but I can’t seems to finish it on time even though I stay up every single day doing/trying to figure out the best solutions. So yeah, I’m in extremely foul mood I need to get this thing done!!

Here’s what I’ve been up to, this is my 4th draft.. I might redo again but as for now, this is the solution I’m trying to build on It’s frustrating when you know what you want to do, but not being able to figure out how to make it work.. meh~

Anyway, something to update my blog.. haha
I’ll talk about food!!

Have you ever heard of a dessert called simia?
I’m not sure of the spelling, but it sounds something like that haha
I was first introduced to this dessert 3 years ago by my sis flatmate whom, which I recall, said that simia is a traditional dessert from Pakistan uh.. maybe?
I’m not sure of the facts; I tried googling about this before, but couldn’t get any exact answer
maybe because I got the wrong spelling or something hehe but I’m pretty sure it’s an Asian dessert

Anyway, here are the ways which I was taught to prepare this dessert
If you haven’t had this before, I totally recommend it! especially if you love milk!
I totally love milk! especially hot fresh milk yumm!!

SIMIA

Ingredients:
Roasted vermicelli
Milk
Sugar
Peanut/almond

Steps:
Pour in some milk into the pot, put in the roasted vermicelli and pour more milk until it covers the vermicelli.
Add in some sugar and almond, let it boil. Keep on stirring it all the time. It’s ready to be served after 5-7 mins. Add raisins if you want

I like it when it’s hot but it tastes good as well if you put it in the fridge for a while
It doesn’t look that tempting, I know but heck! it suits my taste anyway haha, plus it’s easy to make
I was making this at 10pm hahaha! – yes I know, I eat at random time according to my mood

Extra~

BUBUR KACANG

Ingredients:
Mung beans
Brown sugar
Coconut milk
Tapioca
Water

Steps:
Wash the beans several time, add some water and boil the beans for 10-20 minutes, slowly. I sometimes let it boil for more than 30 minutes haha. Add more water if the beans are still crunchy
While waiting for the beans, on separate bowl, put some tapioca in, not too much as you don’t want a really thick bubur kacang and add hot water in it. Cover the bowl with something and let it be for 5-10 minutes.

Now, back to the beans. Add coconut milk; the more the better haha and add some sugar (5-7 tablespoon in my case) Stir it and let it be for 2-3 minutes and add in tapioca (without the water)
Stir a bit and let it boil for 10-15 minutes. Do not stir it; once of twice is fine as you don’t want to spoil the tapioca.
And.. yeah you’re done

Yep, that’s all for MASAK BERSAMA ADILA haha
Anyone want to cook the main dish? I can do the dessert part.. HAHAHA!!

I’ve never tried making bubur pulut hitam yet
Maybe soon I need to ask mom how to make it hehe

p/s: it’s hard to explain the steps in English.. seriously! haha

Foto ding dinggg~

I still find it weird that facebook translated wall photos as foto dinding

Anyway, here are some old photos which I nearly forgotten haha
all about walls (dinding.. not DING DINGGG~)
I’m hoping I could get new photos this weekend

I need new inspiration!
any links/photographers/galleries you’d recommend me to take a peek at?

I might go for architecture/interior design photos this week as BBC is saying it might rain during the weekend haha rain.. rain.. go away, come again another day….

I still want to do portraiture as I don’t think I’ve improve at all

p/s: gah! I want a polarizer filter! how come I find it very expensive? nearly GBP30! hopefully there’s Christmas sale for filters soon.. ehe~

Fire!!! Kaboom!!

Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Fireworks Night or Bonfire Night) is an annual celebration on the evening of 5 November. It marks the downfall of the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605, in which a number of Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, attempted to destroy the Houses of Parliament, in London, United Kingdom.

They had the bonfire night on Saturday, 7 November. There was one near the park which I always go, but then, I got lazy to go out haha. It’s getting colder these days I want to keep myself warm
Anyway, since it was near, I still could see the firework from my window

I think, I posted some photos of firework last year before my blog (adila.com.my) gone for good. Well, that was when I was using Canon IXUS, pretty much what I took  was, crappy photos
err not that I’ve mastered ways to take firework photos now haha; I totally didn’t prepare anything for the firework shot since I didn’t plan to shot any this year
oh well, hopefully there’s next time

I’ve just gone through some tutorials on capturing fireworks; and I must say, I totally did things the other way round lol
I handheld it, obviously I set the shutter speed to fast (I like sharp and crisp photos) and high ISO 1600(how I wish I could take 5 photos per second instead of just 3 haha) 3 shots is the limit for Nikon d60.
That was how I took my photos; the advice from magazines are.. use low ISO 200, lower the shutter speed (make sense.. you want the trail of the firework!) and use a tripod! too bad that I only read those after the event hehe oh well~

Anyway, here are some photos I wish I could get the timing right. Next time, next time.. hehe
More photos can be seen from my facebook album: Random
I took like.. around 100+ photos haha; I had a hard time choosing a few of my best shots lol – ceit! tak keluar rumah pun ter’accidentally took tons of photos

London devMeet WHEEEEE~

I went for London devMeet (deviant Art, an online art community meet up) at Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf last Saturday.. yes yes on Halloween! oh wait.. Halloween is on the 31st was it? anyway, that doesn’t matter haha I saw a lot of people dressing up in Halloween costumes along the way pretty cool

Photo by flavio

Anyway, devMeet… remember the one that I went before, back in June? DevMeet from My Lens That was super bombastic! HUNDREDS people turned up! haha the one that I went during the weekend was smaller, around 22 people turned up. Not bad eyh?

Photo by cei – June devMeet with the people from the headquarter

The devMeet was fun. It felt good to just chill and do nothing
I met new people which I didn’t talk to during the first devMeet hehe

A lot of photographers!
Funky people, fun people, crazy people
I had a really great afternoon hanging out with these guys

Here are photos from my camera (can also be seen, individual photos in my facebook album: London devMEET

Photo by wojteq2

Photo by l33tc4k30fd00m

Photo by medlilove

Photos by flavio – it’s written..

deviantART LONDON Oct’09

 

Photo by sherazon

Photo by sonicsaturn

THE MASCOT!

p/s: This is my 2nd time going to London devMeet There’s going to be another one in December.. and Feb/March/April? haha cool stuffs! Now.. why haven’t I been to any Malaysian devMeet yet? cuz it’s always in KL! haha I’m not a KLian
Let’s have bloggerMeet next time. What do you say?

I’m in the 1940s era! *gasp*

A lot of my classes were canceled last week (going to have those classes in week 7 which is next week – oh noes! no reading week ) So, I was in the library most of the time – since I always move back and forth to the kitchen haha or slump on the floor of my room. Obviously, no work could finish if I’m at home!

I remember showing the photos of 2 of the libraries which are part of my university. Oh, actually just one which is the church looking library I haven’t taken a photo of the library that I always go, it’s pretty modern and.. boring lol
I’ll remember to take along my camera next time

Anyway, last week I went to this library which is inside St Barts hospital – err I might get the facts wrong, oh well

Just for the lolz, here’s me in the library, trying to act cute which PHAIL BIG TAIM! -oh look I smiled!

It’s a small library, but, when I first step in I was like… “OMG!! HARRY POTTER’S LIBRARY!!” hehe it looks classic, classy and so comfortable! thus the title of this post. Why 40s? don’t ask, it’s just some random year I could think of haha

The library is really amazing! it’s interior look is so…. WOW!
Did I mention it’s so comfortable in there? hehe
oh the thing about that library is.. well since it’s old, I hardly find seats which look out of the window and have socket to charge my laptop haha
I had to totally bend the plug to fit it into the socket =.= because it’s situated way too low at the shelves 0_0 – that doesn’t make sense, right? oh well, ignore me then~

but all in all, I love that library! If I’m free again, I’d like to go there! to study not taking photos of course! haha
It’s a bit far (not that far) but there’s one library which is just 3 mins away from my place haha
This one.. well I need to take the public transport hehe

Anyway, a few photos!

Stick the POSTER up!

I did a lot of posters during my 2nd year in uni
Want to see it? probably you don’t want to

As time goes by, I guess that I’m not really into it as much as I did before. Well, it’s more like.. I have no idea what to make a poster of haha
I still like digital art up till now It’s one of the best thing I ever came across!
I only stick to text art these days and here are some of the new one that I did
There are a few spelling mistakes in the blue text art too lazy to upload the edited version up haha

Anyway, during summer, I was all in for a poster that I did for a friend of mine; for a PASS Mentoring Scheme. Something like.. seniors mentoring the 1st years
I remember attending the PASS when I was in my 1st year haha
awww that made me feel old

here are the draft versions of the posters

and.. last week I got a text (sms) from my friend asking if I’ve seen the poster yet in the computer lab. I went to the lab during the weekend just to see it haha
and…. OH GOSH IT’S HUGE!

That’s one of the “proper” poster I ever done! go me!
I wanted to post another entry up, about London devMeet which I went during the weekend.. but.. the proper photo are not out yet So I’ll wait till the photos are up for grab! hehe

Soccer.. GOALLL!

Soccer? Football? I’d say football instead of soccer
That reminds me.. I’ve never watch American Football – apart from the anime version lol

Anyway, yesterday I went for a photoshoot of the Malaysian Society in my uni football club
I used to take sports photography before, (FootBOLA) so I’m alright with it (err I guess?) Yesterday was my 2nd time in it haha sports photography is pretty interesting even though I don’t play any sports

Anyway, some photos
As usual, it’s in my facebook album : QMMSoc FC
Most of the photos were taken using my 70-300mm lens, it is scary as when I zoom in to snap, it seems like the ball is rolling towards me HAHAHAHA!!

A Tourist once AGAIN!

Would you rather listen.. I mean read my rant or see a lot of photos?
I bet you’ll choose the later

Anyway, as Uncle Lee suggested, I went out today, Sunday, as things gone worse yesterday
I couldn’t complete any of my work; there’s always something that won’t work right; ie some error in my tcl script, I can’t install LabSQL, it can’t find winVNC, I can’t try out database, etc etc It is so frustrating!

As the weather was so lovely today, sis and I went for markets tour
We only went to 2 markets, Petticoat Lane Market and Spitalfield Market; only remembered about Brick Lane Market when we were on our way home lol – too late anyway hehe

We also went to Kings Cross/St Pancras station to find the Harry Potter uhh.. platform? whatever it was, it has been ages since I last watch Harry Potter hehe – too bad we didn’t find it as we went there without googling the exact place where it would be lol. Maybe next time

And.. we were around Paddington for a bit (yes yes photoshoot!) because there’s this Malaysian restaurant – Bonda that I’ve been wanting to go for Malaysian food hehe

But anyway, our main plan was to go to those markets

Well.. to put it simple, those markets are like.. pasar tani back in Malaysia hehe – without the fishes, meat sections they sell cheap clothes, rejected clothes(?) I guess as they were saying those clothes are from House of Fraser, New Look, Selfridges, etc.. those kind of brands

Anyway, there’s always something special about those markets than normal pasar tani Like.. at Petticoat Lane, there are a lot of laces well.. those laces are a bit different than what I have in mind. It’s like.. super heavy lace? I mean the fabric is heavy and it looks like tablecloth hehe – no offense intended

Since it was kind of packed and I’m not sure if it’s okay to take photos of the public, I had my camera around my neck and snap these photos without looking through the viewfinder haha
I randomly pressed on the shutter release button when I feel like it ehe~
Not bad eyh?

So, here goes some photos of Petticoat Lane Market

And finally.. the only photo of Spitalfield Market hehe

We’ve just started daylight savings time fall back today; which means we have an hour extra (not really); so I should really be doing my work now as I had fun going out
Photoshoot pictures will be posted in the next entry

Going out sure was the right thing to do
At least, I don’t feel as depressed as I was before lol