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

Flah-werrr~

Edit: WOHOOO!!! it’s SUNNY!! even though it’s a bit cloudy at time (envying the people whom enjoying the sun from the library window while I need to finish up with stuffs)

I’m feeling a bit better right now, so I’ll try not to bore you with my depressing talk haha
To tell the truth, things aren’t looking that good I’m still struggling with my project, coursework and obviously to catch up with my lectures. At one time, I feel like I can do this; but at other time.. it’s so depressing! It’s much depressing when I thought that I understood it but it turned out that it wasn’t that expected.. to make it worse.. when there’s someone out there who’s better than me and got everything right haha *yes yes it’s envy!*
That’s like.. kena pijak sampai penyek right at that spot! ouchiieeeee!!

Well.. there’s nothing else that I can do apart from just go all out and try my best!
I managed to survive before, why not do it again?
So with that, I guess I’m backing up from joining my uni photography society and also from some expo/meet up that I wanted to go – I’m still thinking if I’m going for the London devMeet on the 31st.. I think? hehe I’m giving up on going for Anime Convention

I need more time for myself; so that I can enjoy what I’m doing

Just for the lolz, a few days? weeks? ago I changed my ym display picture again and the response? got me laughing hard! – well, I do look super blur in the pic haha
but the main thing is.. look at the background ain’t that a pretty place?

tw: asal pic ko sume nk muka masam
tw: kasik la pic senyuman

AA: ceyez nya muka
AA: takut

fz: amboi akak garang la

*giggles* I’m making my sour face as my trademark because.. well, I feel weird when I smile
or.. maybe I’m just revealing my so-called dark side haha yeah right

Anyway, I know that I’ve been rambling the same thing in a lot of my posts lately hehe
Whoopsie~ the stress is getting to me; seriously!
Bear with me, or if not.. well just enjoy the photos that I took I will include photos in my entry

Photography is my source of happiness… well for a bit, yeah haha
I went to my uni last Sunday I think.. just because the evening was lovely! The sun was out, the weather was just nice! (apart from it was a bit cold *shrugs*)

#!/bin/sh
echo “London is always raining!”
echo “On $(date) it rained AGAIN!”

I guess I got that right haha. Unix, anyone?
I’ve been trying to feed myself with ns2, labVIEW, tcl, awk, unix, matLAB and might go for sql or access if I have too
It’s sort of a bit too much to handle at a time haha but then… I’ll survive through this! <3
Interesting stuffs, seriously!

Anyway, some macro photos that I took in uni
I’ve gotten rusty in taking flower pictures haha
as usual, these photos are in my facebook album: Macro

I like the last one even though it’s far from perfection
There are a few roses near my uni library.. maybe gonna take photos of it during the weekend

p/s: urgh I’m not looking forward to winter it’s already cold enough winter means rain. bleeehh~

Cuti2 Alor Star~

… I’m a bit off today, so just enjoy the photos

This was written during the weekend
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Remember I wrote in my entry before that I went to Alor Star Tower the day of my flight back to London? well, I finally finished editing the photos haha – the photos are already up on facebook album: Jalan2 Alor Star

About the tower… well, the ticket is pretty cheap I suppose; RM6 for adult, RM3 for children. I went there with my bro hehe. Kagum plak he can put up with me, because I obviously tawaf that tower 3-4 times, pretty much a few hours la jugak I spent there hehe

It’s pretty crappy inside; with way too much grills which makes it hard to get nice photos. If you just want to enjoy the scenery and burn it inside your mind, it’s fine

But seriously.. the grills are really annoying – well, I understand that they don’t want to risk another person committing suicide from that height. I still feel disappointed as it was hard to get decent photo. The window.. or whatever you call it as, it’s blurry and yellowish – macam tak penah tukar sejak menara ni ada

Kedah Maju 2010? hrrrmmmmm~
better try and maintain what they already have now rather than do something new and let the old one look rusty and such. Personally, I’d say that it’s not attractive at all inside the tower

Here are some panoramic photos that I took
Too bad I missed some spots, thus I can’t combine all photos or make it 360 degrees of Alor Star
oh well, next time la

p/s: I might want to do 360 degrees of London from the Monument – *cough* 70-300mm lens would be awesome
oh well, I sure will go around London again like a tourist during summer as I don’t think I’m going back to Malaysia after my exams… might be back in middle/end of July. Well.. that would depend
There are a few places/buildings that I want to go and take photos of but not anytime soon as it’s getting busier these days

Malaysia got it’s own charm and so does London

Here goes some photos hehe. These photos are heavily edited (some aren’t) – I changed it to HDR, combining several photos to make a good panorama photo, and tweak in photoshop to get the fisheye effect using wrap tool hehe

Snap snap awaaaaay~

First of all, Happy Diwali! hantar la maruku to London ehe~
Secondly.. well, it feels like forever since I last write an entry.. or even blog hopping. It seems like I mostly can do so once a week; during weekend as I’m trying to concentrate more on my studies

…I’ll stop ranting as I can go on and on if I start now haha. Let’s just say.. final year is hard
It’s tough and totally different than before. It’s more of.. do it yourself and nobody give a damn if you don’t want to do it – but you’re so gonna regret it later on

Anyway here are some group photoshoot that I took yesterday
I’m not in the pictures as I’m so tense aka always have the nyanyi negaraku pose hehe

[edit] lookie it’s ME! haha – thanks Aaron!

I went to MSoc Freshers’/Raya Dinner yesterday and did the photoshoot there as I haven’t been touching.. I mean playing with my Niko during the weekdays – sangat gian!! hahahaha!!

It was my first ever group photoshoot
Usually I do individual photoshoot; it sure is tough taking group photos as I’m pretty bad is social skills aka communication skills as well lol
A few more practices I might be able to do things better Do bear with me and my tak reti nak direct people atm~ and owh, my uni sure is a pretty place A lot of places to take photos at

More photos can be seen here: facebook album: Dr. Models kyaaa~ photogenic people

Second location.. hehe seems like there’s gonna be a lot of pictures~

p/s: I don’t like taking indoor pictures haha too high ISO = noise. In these, mostly it’s either 800, 1600 or Hi. Ridiculous noise at 1600/Hi. Need to find noise remover! Any advice? or tips? Any settings you’d like to share? I’m such a beginner in this

Oh, I still don’t mind taking indoor photos A good practice nevertheless (if only can try external flash *hint hint*) hahahaha!

World of MY OWN

It’s already the 4th week since my classes started
I’m still been busy with my project; reading reading and more reading
well, I sort of was at my edge yesterday; the stress had totally taken over me but phew I’m now back on my feet and I am glad that I didn’t do anything stupid either haha

Oh well… I need to deal with this and hopefully I’ll get through this year just fine, insyaAllah

I went out to Central London earlier (after going to just uni-home for the past 3 weeks) to find some books at Foyles but unlucky me, none of the books that I wanted are in stock Then, I went to HMV as I’ve been wanting a headphone since last year
I googled a bit before, and wanted to get Skullcandy recruit mix but the colour that I wanted wasn’t available to I got myself a Philips shl 8800

I do want a customize headphone, but.. well, it’s expensive! If I ever lose my mind one day and go for it, I’d like to order from Bobsmade
Do check her works out! I totally adore her stuffs!

But anyway, I love my new headphone It’s the lurrrrve! Totally giving out the world of my own effect! haha – if that make sense, if not.. well ignore this. I’ve gotten insane

Seriously.. it’s the coolest thing ever! It sounds awesome!! and it looks good as well! haha even though it’s a bit over my budget lol
I totally recommend it!
Anyway, that put a smile on my face after I nearly cry my heart out the day before haha – yes I am such an emo kid I’m bad in dealing with stress
I’m back being happy for now (or so I think)

I pretty much been looking like that whenever I’m in the library. Err emo?

Aaaanyway, since I wasted some time going out, obviously I took my Niko with me – half day is gone doing nothing much but at least that lifted up my spirit yay!

A few shots of the day And again.. I’m still trying out portraiture

I’ve come to realize that photography has become part of me
I was crazy over photoshop before this (mainly digital art) but now, whenever I feel a bit off, a few hours fooling around with my camera could bring me back to my senses haha

And finally.. last photo
3 different locations (sort of) but I’m combining all of it into 1 post haha

Now, back to study stuffs! Play2 is during next weekend pulak Playtime for this week is over!

p/s: I sure can write hundreds of words in my blog; but it’s hard to write a few lines in my Project Specification report! *faint*

YOU!!!! *censored*

p/s: I’m not mad to anyone nor did I curse at anyone… lately haha so the title of this post is just a gimmick lol

I was chatting with my mom earlier and I told her that I’m meeting my project supervisor today (because I got some confusion by now regarding my project haha) and my mom was saying..

mom: nanti bila cakap, cakap jgn garang sgt
mom: jgn marah supervisor tu pulak
mom: tu ingatkan cik……
mom: kut nanti cik hot kat supervisor tu pulak

Then, I was chatting with a friend of my on ym and he was sort of saying the same thing:

flava zahrul: wey
flava zahrul: soalan cepumas
flava zahrul: ko still garang mcm dulu ek

and maza
maza: hang kan panas baran gak.. sat lagi terlebih minyak kat muka ka, kat lengan ka.. habis rentung satu bilik tu kang.. dgn hang dan org yg hang dok marah sekali jadi hitam legam.. berjelaga

I’m guilty as said! haha
I got a really bad temper; especially as I’m pretty much not in the best mood lately (gotten a bit too stress!) – but as far as I’m concerned, I haven’t blew it up on anyone… err yet hehe
but hey, to be told that 3 times in a day… hrmmmm~ haha not that I feel offended or anything
It’s just that.. it got me wonder, are you afraid of me? I mean, afraid of upsetting me, maybe?
So.. am I that fierce? lol

Pretty interesting to know what do you think of me
Anyone would like to voice out their thoughts? hehe

Anyway, here are some photos of flowers which I took a few days before.. raya maybe? hehe I can’t recall. I still haven’t finish post processing photos that I took of Alor Star from Alor Star Tower on the day of my flight back to London

There are no new photos that I took lately. It’s been raining like crazy in London for the past few days, so I can’t really go out taking photos of flower.. in which, there are these beautiful flowers in my uni which caught my attention earlier as I was passing by to go to my classes earlier haha sempat lagi pulak nak usya bunga time nak kejar2 gi class

Let see if it’s going to be sunny this weekend If so, I might have a chance taking photos of those absolutely stunning flowers

Anyway here goes some photos