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

Dwen makes the famous Bubur Lambuk Mesjid Kg Baru KL

Seeing as Puasa month is almost over, in keeping with the flava of the month, I decided oh well time to make Bubur Lambuk yesterday but wait a minit.. ahh its not any ole bubur lambuk..its tha famous original recipe Bubur Mesjid Kg Baru KL one.

What is that u ask? Well this bubur (rice porrige) is a porrige with beef that has been made traditionally at the Kg Baru mosque in KL since the 1950s(?) every puasa time to be handed out to the public for them to break fast. However its not only those Malays who can partake of it but also all the other races are also welcomed to try.. so u can see Chinese and Indians also queing up for a plastic bag the free delicious bubur. But knowing Malaysians the word free is probably good enuff.. haha
BTW There are also many other types of bubur lambuk recipes with some like in Kelantan or Trengganu IIRC using fish instead of beef..
So I made it and it was not bad... delicious..well my mom and cousin commented it was..my bro just nyom nyom makan only..lol
I brought some to Dinoza's big birthday party yesterday,but since there was so many food on the table, and we were using paper plates, only Edgar tasted it in the the end..the rest only realised it the next day..in the CSP forums.
Don worry folks maybe I'll make again next time..

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

A Fun Island shoot with local KDM singer Connie Michael Jangki

     

Here are some pictures of my Pulau 3-Island "holiday" off Kuala Penyu (KP) with local artist Connie and her crew shooting her latest upcoming music video album..I became de documentary camera man lar.. :)

On da 1st day morning we drove all the way to KP, took us about 2 1/2 hrs..then arrive in KP sampat lagi go shopping at the market n shops for supplies while the speedboats got ready to ferry us over.. on arrival at the island after about a 15min? trip, we unpacked our gear had lunch and after dat then zzzzz like phytons in the rooms, while I went to meet up with my old island resort colleagues...then towards 3-ish the weather started to become quite windy already when we wanted to start shooting..

So anyway to cut it short on the 1st day we managed to shoot the video at the parks jetty and later on during dinner time we shot at the clubhouse, obviously delighting the tourists there-they even took pictures with our group, then one err dutch tourist guy even did his own dance routine ikut2 (facepalm)...then off we went to the beach for the night campfire shot with a roaring bonfire after dinner..

Out came the syrup,the bottle of rum, limes/lemons and Coke and it was a surreal but memorable experience having rum-cokes and daiquries by the beach with a roaring fire, gale strong winds and eating bbq'ed chicken wings and shooting pics .. while trying to prevent the plastic cups from flying off the table thanks to the strong winds lashing the island..didnt dare do much shooting with my camera ,scared just in case got nasty flying sand..errgh.

I even brought my fishing gear hoping to fish for squid off the docks but waves and wind was too strong..drat..wasted oppourtunity.. Never mind I still have me rum..arr me mateys..yohoho and me bottle of rum :P

Anyway next day it was calm day and we shot some scenes on the seaside with hammocks not far from our rooms under the coconut trees..then the rest went off to the mud volcano for a mud bath like buffalos..lol while I squared off with my old nemesis the todaks (long toms) at the jetty with my rod and trusty sabiki set for bait gathering..sadly they were crafty as always or maybe I got my gear setup wrong..grr I'll get u next time with my..at least i got loads of baitfish for my notty puddy tats at home..lol.

Then after a late check out, had lunch for those not fasting and back on the boat to KP..then after lining up for the ferry, we had a lil miscommunication on the next shoot location and ended up doing a crazy high speedrun (the Stig and Mike Schumacher would have been proud) all the way to Beaufort before it became dark where we shot a bit more of Connie singing and leading the gang wandering around in the Beaufort's vege n fruits market to the amusement of the market vendors..
and after dat since it was close to breaking of the fast time, we joined those of our crew of the moslemic faith who fasted at the local pasar makan (food bazaar) for 'sungkai'-time (breakin of the fast)...then our tummies filled with fewd, we again turbo drove all the back to KK ..lol... phew..tiring but so much Fun!