Great success! #2

I was thinking of making this ‘Great success!’ column (phrase inspired by Borat) some sort of permanent column that I write every time I achieve some sort of milestone in photography. The first time I wrote bout this was when my photo was used as a banner ad for a boutique in a shopping mall. [...]

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Design

I was tasked by my friend, Chih Wen, who happens to be the hall’s sepak takraw captain to take a photo for his team’s recruitment poster. What he had in mind was the photo of the takraw ball on the floor in sharp focus while throwing the background of the players in ready position out [...]

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Japanese Garden, Ipoh

Went to the Japanese Garden along Jalan Tambun last Saturday with Ban. Not much to say about the place as it is really quite poorly maintained. The flowers are dying (not that there’s a lot to begin with) and the water in the pond is murky.
Anyway, the whole point of visiting the place was to [...]

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Evolution

Besides imparting me with his words of wisdom, my cousin also gave me these old photography magazines of his.

And when I say old, I really do mean old.

Reading through some of the magazines, I am sure that if I were to be born 10 years earlier I probably would have never ventured into photography. Before [...]

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Paranoia

Of the many things that Singapore is different from Ipoh (or Malaysia to be specific), there is one thing which I am most aware of within myself. That one thing which I feel uneasy and uncomfortable with every time I come home. That one thing is the lack of a sense of security. Back in [...]

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