PHOTOS 1

More than 500 photos were taken using up 1.37 GB of the memory card.  Obviously these would have to be screened and any bluirred ones would be deleted. And obviously I couldn't post all of the photos . So only selected ones would be posted in stages. So keep looking out for them !

 

Never the release poise, its the score that matters !

ANOTHER SUNNYSIDEUP PRODUCTION SUCCESS !

I would  like to thank all for contributing to the success of this tournament.  The sporting spirit displayed was exemplary. Of course there were breaches of etiquette on bowlers but i put that down to ignorance. Maybe in the next tournament , the rules could be be motre detailed to cover certain aspects of 'what is , and what is not  a distraction to a bowler before he bowls. Anyway I figured this tournament is the best ever in terms of duration, participation and crowd !

I would like to give a  special thanks to those who are already working and , those  on OJTs - thanks a million foe coming and participating. I was touched when I see you guys.  I do not need to mention names . You know who you are ! ( Congratulation to sicko for achieving what he wanted --- to be the biggest loser ---in weights, that is ! Well done bro ! ). It was damn good to see you guys again !

Thanks to Leas and Sheila for all the help. They were and have been  been my pillars of strength with all the help and encouragement they had given.  

Here's the results. Check this blog later for the actual print-out from Cosmic Bowl. Photos will also follow. But for now, I am absolutely knocked out !

Most Stylish Bowler --------- Haq

Most Stylish Bowler (2) ------Saifullah

Longkang Princess ---------Ayumi (132 pins)

Longkang Queen --------Ida (125 pins )

Longkang Prince -----------Peter ( 223 pins )

Longkang King------------Rizman ( 177 pins )

Male Team Champion ------ Tarbiyah Smugglers (724 pins )

Male Team Runner-up----------Letak Aje ( 697 pins )

Female Team Champion ----------I & J ( 541 pins )

Female Team Runner-up-----------She ( 513 pins )

Mixed Team Champion -----------Sunnysideup ( 671 pins )

Mixed Team Runner-up-----------Wood ( 644 pins )

Female Champion ---- Iris ( 349 pins )

Male Champion -----------Sunnysideup/Mus ( 434 pins )

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(I would like to add here that I was terribly disappointed with these teams who did not turn up. They are 1) Team Later - Zeti and Imran  (2) Team Whatever - Faizal / Raihana (3) Bantai Lah - (4) Kumang Bajik - Inui/Maureen (paid)

On Friday I had to reject three teams because there were no more vacancies. I could have given the slots to those other teams.  ....and the above three teams hadn't paid the fees too---which made it even worse !!!!!!)

ITS ALL SET !!!

OK---the stage is set for tomorrow ! 

hint hint ! LOOK OUT FOR A MEN'S TEAM WHO WILL COME IN A COSTUME YOU WILL NEVER NEVER EVER BELIEVE TO BE TRUE !!!

ITS OUTRAGEOUS ! 

ITS CRAZY !

ITS DARING !

ITS UNBELIEVABLE !

ITS YABBA DABBA DOOO !

LOOK OUT FOR THEM !!!!

IF THEY DO LIKE WHAT THEY TOLD ME THEY WOULD,

I WOULD GIVE THEM THE SPECIAL AWARD !!

TRY GUESSING WHAT THAT COSTUME IS !!! I KNOW WHAT IT IS---BUT I'M NOT TELLING .

TO THESE GUYS ---I SALUTE YOU IF YOU KEEP YOUR WORDS !!!

REMINDER !

DATE OF COMPETITION : 20th. FEBRUARY 2010

VENUE: COSMIC BOWL, MID-VALLEY.

TIME : 10.00 am

TOURNAMENT IN TWO SESSIONS

SESSION 1 EXPECTED TO BEGIN AT 10.30 am

SESSION 2 EXPECTED TO BEGIN BETWEEN 11.30 - 12.00 pm.

BE EARLY SO THAT YOU WON'T HOLD UP THE GAME!


MOST OF ALL : HAVE FUN !!

A WORD OF CAUTION

To gentlemen-bowlers, just a word of caution. For this tournament, you are allowed to use your own ball/s.  however , the organizer and the bowling centre will not be responsible for the loss of , or damage to your ball/s.  polishing or wiping rags will not be provided , so if you want to wipe your ball/s , please bring your own cloth.  TO BOWLERS WITHOUT PERSONAL BALL/S , PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH BALL/S BELONGING TO OTHERS SO AS TO AVOID ANY MISUNDERSTANDING AS BALLS CAN BE VERY EXPENSIVE !!

Finally, it is understandable if you are proud of your  ball/s, but please refrain from showing and gloating over them. Thank you for your understanding.  I also realized that male bowlers would be asking why this caution only to the males. The answer is because , so far , no female has approached the organizer about bringing their own ball/s.

Thank you .

SESSIONS AND LANES SCHEDULE

SESSION 1

LANE 1	LANE 2	LANE 3	LANE 4	LANE 5
PAPA ROCK ZAMIL/YAZID	APA APA AJE AIIN/SULIANA	SHE SALAWATI/NUBILAH	SUNNYSIDEUP MUS/LEAS	WOOD HAZMAN/ROHANI
BANTAI LAH SYED/MAISA	D & D DEENA/DYANA	THE LIVING LEGEND ROHANI/AZIMA	CHAPLES HASHIM/SYAKIRA	LATER IMRAN/ZETI

 

LANE 6	LANE 7	LANE 8	LANE 9	LANE 10
CUTTER SYAFEFEI/ZUBIR	SOUTHERN SMUGGLERS FAHME/FAIZAL	RELAX KACANG QURATUL/NURUL	PRINCESS GIRLS SALMAH/FITRIANI	LANE SEBELAH RETURNS SHAMSUL/AFIQ
PAKTAM SMUGGLERS INNOCENT/AZRIN	DUO LADIES RIZKI/DEKA	JUMPER BOWL EZAM/SHAFIQ	WILL KNOW SOON NIZAM/ ……….	PLACE STILL AVAILABLE

 

 

SESSION 2

LANE 1	LANE 2	LANE 3	LANE 4	LANE 5
KUMANG BAJIK INUI/MAUREEN	UTARA SMUGGLERS SIVA/SABIDI	I & J IRIS/JANICE	NEW ENCOUNTER HELAS/AIDA	NOT YET ASHRAF/RODHI
PAHET MANES AYUNI/FAZLEENI	COMEBACK SALINA/IDA	BOWLALAING NAZREIN/AZLAN	WINNER WANNABE WAN/ATIE	CHOCKOOLATEE FADLI/KIM

 

LANE 6	LANE 7	LANE 8	LANE 9	LANE 10
LETAK AJE AMIN/AZHAR	STRIKERS FAIZAL/IRWAN	BLOCK SMUGGLERS NURANFENDI/AHMAD	A & A ATIF/ANYS	AVATAR SURESH / PARAMAYAN
MEXICAN SMUGGLERS MD HAQ/SAIFULLAH	WHATEVER FAIZAL/RAIHANA	SUPER PINS ZAINAL/NORDIN	TEAN SAYUR THAI SONG RIZMAN/PETER	BOWLYWOOD VANKATA/SATISH

Lane Schedule !

Last night I received some requests from competitors to be put together with friends . Thus you noticed the grouping has been done to accommodate this request after all it is a tournament and also a gathering of friends , old and new to be together .eg . Class 23-24 and 25 as example.

So---don't worry---there is nothing sinister about the arrangements . After all there will always be someone plying beside your lane. heheheh !

BOWLING TOURNAMENT

 

ONLY THREE PLACES  LEFT !!

COME AND GET IT !

KONG XI FATT CHAI

WISHING ALL

A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 

NEW YEAR OF THE TIGER !

A silver lining behind the clouds !

Today, at about 6.40pm, I was driving towards PV6 along Jalan Wangsa Maju heading towards Jln Genting Klang. Today has been extraordinarily HOT ! The air is so clear, the visibility is so clear, and bright white clouds were floating in the bright sky.

Anyway , on the way back, I stopped the car by the roadside , just befor the Jln Genting Klang junction just to snap these.

The almost perpendicular ray of lights is just amazing !

 

  

 

Those silver lining was a gem to me !

Then behind PV6, at about 6.50pm. , again , my two companions pointed out to me the next scene. It was simply amazing and too good to miss. Again I stopped the car, wound down the window and simply took the following without even leaving the car ! How lucky is that ha !!

 

How dramatic can you get ?

BOWLING TOURNAMENT ROLL-CALL !

I'M STILL WAITING  FOR

SICKO

KETAM

ASHRAF

KIM

HAFIZI

NAZREIN

SALINA

AND THOSE I DIDN'T MENTION HERE BUT YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.)

JUST SEND YOUR TEAM'S NAME AND TEAM MEMBER 'S NAME THROUGH THE COMMENT SECTION . PAYMENT CAN BE MADE ON THE DAY ITSELF FOR THE SENIORS !!!

AND ALL THE OTHERS FROM CCSS, CCNS, CDDS, CBDS !

What talent !

Someone gave me the link to this vid of two young lads and ..what talent  ! I particularly picked this a capella for its arrangement  ( Leas...I think , you'll love this , if not the song , at least the harmomony !). Their medley of Lady Gaga's hits is also a reflection of the talent these lads are blessed with ! Check out their other vids.

Smell a rat !

Today a student asked me, " Other than a rodent, what is the meaning of 'rat' ? " She said that it was used in a movie when someone refers the word to a person.  According to dictionary.com..

Main Entry:	rat
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	informer
Synonyms:	backstabber, betrayer, blabbermouth, canary, deep throat, double-crosser, fink, informant, sneak, snitch, source, squealer, stool pigeon, stoolie, tattler, tattletale, turncoat, whistle-blower, dirty dog

The above is clear enough. Talking about 'rats' ( not the rodent) this species could be anywhere. Rats would stab a knife and betray anybody for any rewards.  Anything from a simple school-boy group to life in an office to international espionage ! In any movie ( or even real life) this species of human is always regarded as the lowest dirt-bag or scum   and especially in stories of gangsterism,  suspected 'rats' would die a terrible death.

So I hope that explains it !

A sight to behold in all its glory --- the sunrise !

This time we did it ! The weather was kind to us . All we wanted was to capture the sunrise from atop Genting Highland ! ...and did we 'capture' it !  I left my house at 5.40am , and by 6.50 am, I was sitting on my stool with my two friends and with our cameras all set-up.There were other photo or sun-rise enthusiasts as well.

It was pretty chilly but that only adds  to the excitement, mood and ambiance.  A friend even  had to put on two jackets to keep warm and it was a good thing that I had a spare one in the car-boot. I would normally be able to take the cold quite easily. In fact I only had a t-shirt and normal shirt over it. But this time , my hands were as cold as ice ( well all our hands ) and finally gave in and put on my jacket! I was also lucky that I had my mono-pod, so the support helped to lessen the camera-shake from the shivering ! But I'd do it all over again !

Yessir.....sunnysideup it is !!

I have put the photos in chronological order to show the stages of the sun-rise !

STAGE 1

 

The first two shots did not show much of the yellowish hue of the sun.  Looks more like an UFO movie ! 

 STAGE 2

 

The sun is slowly getting visible. Clouds are clearer and the deep blue sky is getting brighter.

STAGE 3 

At this stage, the sun slowly appeared and gets bigger ...and....sigh... I wish I could be here again tomorrow morning !!

ALL THE ABOVE PHOTOS HAVE NOT BEEN EDITED OTHER THAN REDUCING ITS SIZE ! 

UPDATE TO "NEW MOON" POSTING

PLEASE VISIT THE POSTING ON 'NEW MOON' AS I HAVE DONE AN UPDATE ON IT !

THANKS ! 

....of days gone by....

One of my greatest regrets is not keeping all the cameras that my late Abah and I used to have. I guess moving house too many times in your life has its disadvantage ---- you keep losing/breaking/throwing things everytime you move house.

In a way, I was influenced by my late Abah.  The first camera that I remembered he used ( and which I used to play with---and I don't mean 'play' as taking photograph ) was an Agfa camera.  This camera used a foldable bellow between the lens and the film. I used to enjoy pressing the release button and watching the bellow opened up. The old photos which ASH posted in her blog were taken by this camera. And it dates back to way back when.

Then the Kodak Brownies camera. For a man in the early 1950s to have interests on photography (and music and record players - or gramaphones ) , speaks volumes of him.  The Brownies or box cameras were wonderful cameras. A simple box and there are two view-finders ---one potrait, and the other landscape.  The baby Brownies has a view-finder like those on old rifles., where you release two stands with different sized rectangular holes and aim the subject through these rectangular holes.

When I was in College, I took photography as a core subject. This involed developing photos in dark rooms. Of course , following my Abah's foot-step, I got to have my own dark room at home. Then my involvement spread to enlargers, chemicals - the various tyoes and the effects, and the types of papers - the matte, the glossy, the normal , the bromide and the various sizes, the exposure meters for the the enlargers.

Class lectures include all of the above, the eposure methods of the camers ( Auto was unheard of ) , the shutter speed, the type of shutters, the aperture,the co-relation between the shutter-speed and aperture, the ttl ( through the lens) metering, the mounting of the lenses- screw-mount or bayonets, the compositions, depth of field, types of light source, the types and effects of coloured filters , 'B' exposures and getting the feel and instinct of how long to open the shutter, the effects and uses of the different ISO/ASA, the types of flash systems and its effect, potrait/landscape/etc photography, time-lapse photography  and etc etc etc.

At this stage I was introduced to the 'reflex system' ( indeed a step-up from the 35mm rangefinders ,the like of the excellent Cannonet).-  the single lens reflex and the twin lens reflex system. The SLRs big name from Asia  then were the Nikon F, Nikonmat, Asahi Pentax, Yashica was more known for the Twin Lens Reflex System with its 120 type of film which was really good for enlargements.

Somewhere along the line, my interest in photography sort of waned, and its only recently that I started all over again.

The photos below are all taken from the internet but its the same brand and model that we used to have.

 

the agfa. The bellow can be folded and snapped shut in the camera . Pressing a releasing button will open it as can be seen above. This one used the 120 type of film.

  

the baby Brownie-- note the view finder. Had a good laugh looking at this again ! Oh, the shutter release is that little lever below the lens.

  

the box Brownie - landscape viewfinder on the side and potrait on the top (oh....those are the little rectangular glasses )

  

the Canonet rangefinder-it used photo-cells ( surrounding the lens housing)to power its gadgets and it could produce some good crisp photographs with its electronic exposure meters. The beginning of electronic and auto era.

  

my first SLR, the Praktica Nova--a robust camera. Note the shutter-button on the front.

  

My next, China's first heavy and solid SLR...the Seagull. The lever to the right of the lens is the self-timer mechanism where you 'wind- it up before snapping your photo. This camera was made to be man-handled ! I dropped it more than a couple of times and it always worked after that. Note the basic traingular hook for the straps on its sides !

  

the 200 mm Soligor I used to own. Lenses have this depth-of-field gauge on the lens for user's guide.

  

a basic enlarger ...a must have in the dark-room, where I used to spend many hours every week .

  

the Yashicaflex --a twin lens reflex camera. At that time a famous TLR  camera was the Rolleiflex - thus the 'flex' at the end of the Yashica name.

Of course these cameras used film.  And they come in different formats. The 120 , the 35mm and so on. The 35mm were available in different range of ASA or ISO.. There were the ASA 100, 200, 400 and 800s with exposures ranging from 24 to 36 shots,

...and it cost a bomb as a hobby , unlike now where I can take 1000 shots without a pain in my pocket , we used to think twice and again, before taking that shot because the only way to see the result is to develop the film. Oh well.... still, if only I still have all the above with me......