NBLFC's best moments captured on camera..as Red Devils were dealt a 2-0 defeat by Liverpool

North Borneo Liverpool Fan Club (NBLFC) organised a supporters/fan outing at Eclipse cafe to witness the epic Liverpool vs Manchester United battle last Saturday play out on the big projector screen with serious speakers/sound systems. NBLFC president Danny sponsored a 2L bottle of JW Black Label specially for the event and there was beer as well-Carlsberg of course..lol.
The pub served up pipping hot fried chicken wings and fries to go with the drinks..perfect for a footie match for hungry supporters
Being appointed the club photographer for the event, I pretty much positioned myself in a good spot and was lucky to succesfully capture the die hard supporter's interesting antics and the memorable key moments on camera..
Half the time i was using my 50mm f1.8 and 10-20mm f4-5.6 sans flash (hence the blurs when someone moves to much as the camera is shooting in a pretty low light environment)..to avoid using too much flash as I doubt they'd appreciate me going paparazzi on em and blinding em during a key moment..lol
All in all it was a fun shoot for me and a really great night for the members as u can see. I hope to be able to do more match outings for them in the future..it seems I will never be shooting alone either then. Lol

Johnnydick & Manmeet's Wedding in Kuala Penyu.

Here is a selection of some of the wedding photos from Johnnydick & Manmeet's wedding shot on the 26 Sept in Kuala Penyu (Turtle Bay), Sabah at the local Catholic church with the brides reception on the same day at her residence and the groom reception the week after (3rd October) at his dad's residence.

Its one of my first outstation assignments so it was a pretty interesting one for me at least.
The groom is my cousin's brother in law and I was hired to shoot for the grooms side. There was another photographer that the bride's side hired from Penampang for their side and to top it all up it was a double wedding in the church with another couple also being married at the same time as well.
Suffice to say there was more than your average number of camera-men & video-men running around that church that day..

Anyway one interesting element of the Kadazan Dusun Kuala Penyu style of wedding is the custom of the bride/groom offering relatives & guests a drink of local rice spirits (similar to the Chinese tea ceremony) at some point during the reception. This is where the bride and groom sit in circle with and MC and trade toasts with their parents relatives and guests.

My very own little vine yard..Growing grapes in Borneo

I always wondered last time wheter you can grow grapes in Sabah and how nice it would be to have your very own grape farm..lol..well yes you can..

Grapes vines easily thrive in our Malaysian climate..and they're also being grown in West Malaysia on a large scale.

So my mom planted a few vines cuttings we rescued from an aunts townhouse in town being cleared up and in a few months they started to grow into this wonderful shady leafy roof in one corner of our garden next to the car porch..soon they started bearing small white flowers on stems which developed into grapes as u can see in picture.

Each of these grapes are bundled in a net stocking to prevent bird attacks on them as when they mature and turn ruby red, the pesky birds will try to feast on them.

They can taste sourish if you eat them before they fully ripen but if you let them mature until they are dark red..they taste can as sweet as the store bought ones.

In the end, I guess the novelty of the idea of just being able to wander under the leafy shade in your garden and just pluck your own grown grapes hanging straight down from the vine is fun and a pretty satisfying thought..lol

Having fun at Eclipse- Liverpool fan club gathering.

Yep photos of that great time at Eclipse ..

This are some of my photos from the official Sabah Liverpool football club fan club gathering..
yep we had great time that night even if it was storm and the rain poured buckets outside, out came a bottle ..or three.. hehe..

We cracked open a bottle of Jacks, Chivas and a Tequila and special guest stars present include up and coming local KDM singer Connie Micheal Jangki..
Other highlights include some cool coyote ugly routines by the band girls on the bar counter.

Yep the place was rocking.. as they say with this group that night 'you'll never dance alone'..Ting!..TM!! Lol

Kursus Kontraktor Jalan Raya KPSKTM 10-14/08

Last week I was busy attending the KPSKTM road works contractor course at Wisma Bandaraya lasting for 5 days from 10-14 August. I booked my place more than 3 months earlier..

Althought I was told the maximum targeted no. was 40 people, in then end such was the demand to join the course, that up to 60+ people were registered for the course..Encik AhMing one of the KPSKTM managers explained that they pitied some of these people who came from outstation to attend the course, so they try to stuff as many as they can...

Initially one the first day there was a sort of H1N1 scare with some people coughing (flu? Haze?)..so our lecturer En. Norazman of Iman Consultants explained that it be wiser for us to mask up for everybody's sake(but as usual many didnt really took it seriously)..anyway with 60+ people, I guess u can say it was a pretty high risk area..so i took upon myself to mask up..but after the 1st day seeing as ther was nobody around my immediate seating area who was actually coughing their lungs out, by the 3rd day I kinda relaxed my bio-hazard safeguard standards and generally didnt mask up unless i went to the toilets..you know enclosed moist area...just in case..lol

Anyway I found it an interesting and err..stimulating course with most of participants being generally mostly women..hmm ..and the participants of varying ages -even from the looks of it some retired people..and there were of course some fair amount of calculations involved and practical class and group excercises as well.
I of course took the event as an good oppourtunity to snap away and polish my events photography skills especially candid and the official group sessions.
In the end I'm pretty sure now given the knowledge I have now and if provided the right equipment and materials, I could probably construct/lay my own highway now to Malaysian Public Works Dept (PWD) standards..lol
Now for building construction and bridges..woo woo