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I had some passion over photography, although I do not call my self an Amateur or Professional, but it certainly get me to do something special once a while.

A few weeks back I did a photo shooting session to obtain some portrait shots of my self, useful for many purpose.

I am doing this under fully DIY and improvised style, alone. I do not have the right stands, tripod, Reflector, lighting equipment, camera, even appropraite chair. The only good thing that I had is a 8′x8′ wall painted with bright orange.

This is my first time attempting it after reading much of the lighting tutorial from the Internet. The key goal of this session is to understand the lighting placement and effect.

In my house I had alot of florecent lamp tube, I took 3 of those and intended to position it into 3 point lighting configuration, but unfortunately I can’t figure out a way to position the backlight. I move along without the backlight and took over 500 shots, experimenting the positioning of the key and fill light.

As for the review:

• The background appeared to be too bright, it fails to feature the subject out very well.
• Orange color as the background seems to merge the subject skin color tone, making it uninteresting.
• My camera Fuji Finepix E550 does not give me sufficient control range of DOF, I just unsatisfied with the result.
• The light altitude are too low, resulting the subject seems to be unnatural.
• Backlight is very important to feature the hair and shoulder of the subject from the background which I am did not able to achieve it this time.
• Subject makeup, I believe the subject “Me” would looks better if I had ever place some effort to control the tone and the weight of facial elements such as eyebrows.

So dear reader, I am not an expert, I do not know many details, but do me a favor and I need your help, please comment to me how can I improve the shots, which area should pay more attention into. And thank you very much!

It has been months and months of waiting for the completion of my house renovation. Finally it is completed, it tooks me another 4 weeks to unpack my stuff and move in into the new room. The experience of stying inside a partial renovated house was horrible and barely workable, that is why I had tons of unfinished workload piling up.

Have a brief look at my new room, I am responsible of selecting the paint colour for exterior, interior & my room.

So what do you think? how do you rate my house interior from scale 0-10.

My 25th birthday is coming soon! Yeppy! The time seems to move faster as I grew older. I remembered my 24th birthday not very long ago, and I received a table lamp from my family.

Moving forward is essential, moving forward fast are competitively critical! To compete againts the time, life is short!. My 24th is an interesting year as I accomplished a lot more than I initially had expected.

Quick accomplishment review for the past one year.

I learned the business perspective
I learned the business value
I learned the fundamental of economics
I learned the market trading
I learned fundamental & technical analysis
I learned to identify options & opportunities
I learned to sistematically compare options quickly
I learned strategic negotiation
I learned risk management
I had a plan for capital gain & investment
I learned to hunt property!
I learned to master my emotion
I learned to master my learned skills
I understand me
I learned large scale PHP development
I learned CSS
I learned AJAX
I learned JSON
I learned PHP OO Design
I learned JS OO Design
I understand the process of software development
I learned photography (3 point lightning)
I saved 10k in my savings account
I came out 4 interesting project
I learned about golf

Things that I’ll never do again:
Running in hamster wheel
Spending poorly
Stop learning
Stop venturing
Spamming SERP

Wishes & Goals for the 25th!
Global economy goes back on track by 2009
Changes in Malaysia Government Policy
More business opportunity
More interesting project, venture!
More same minded friends!
Success of current project!
Saving 40K
Improve English writing
Improve Chinese reading
Improve Malay speaking
Be iPhone software developer
Own a business
Own a home
Own a wife
Own a healthy life!

One of my secondary schoolmate participated Nescafe Kick Start competition and manage to make her way into the final! As a sign of support, me and my friends will be attending the live broadcast of the final episode of Nescafe Kick Start Season 4! We decided to sit togather and make a banner!

Idea & Prototype:

We do feel like doing something like doing school’s group project. We are all tired…….

Everyday, I spent on average of 2 hours driving my girl friend to and back from office, and traffic conguestion is the number one hated event that everyone could understand. I always wanted to have a GPS device and a DVD Player in my car to solve my boredm, but those device are usually expendsive, and it doesn’t gives me that much of VALUE. Last week I came out with an brilliant idea of adding more fun to driving time.

Here is what I bought:
- FM Transmiter RM 35
- Phone holder that cost RM 15
- and IPhone

Shave/trim one end of the head phone jack to make it fit into your IPhone.

Place the phone infront of your screen and plug in the audio cable.

Find a clear frequency 89.90Mhz, tune in and we are live!!!

[Picture On the road! (1.5mb)]

Here is a video in action!

From today onwards I’ll be watching various movie ranging from TVB, DL.TV, Revision3, MSNBC, Google TechTalk & Youtube (via Edge)! With a phone rings in, I can even put them into the super loud speakers for all my pessenger to talk conference with

Another worth mentioning is about Audiobooks, I spent more time then any other activity to pickup new material while driving. This includes anything from real estate investment strategy, financial planning & strategy, personal development material and some other creativity interesting podcast.

I showed to some of my friend with this setup, some commented that it makes me look cheap. Oh well, yes it does… But Hey! it works! and it works very well!

After owning an iPhone, Steve Jobs has became one of my most admired leader. Today I bought an very expendsive super thin Fortune Magazine that talks about Jobs. The last time I read Fortune is about Google and this time Apple Inc.

This issue has an interesting section that talks about how Apple team works and how they deal with problems. The single and most favorable piece of information that I’ve got:
You can’t just ask people what they want, Instated ask them what they hate!

It is kinda surprised as I see changes towards my self morphing into diffrent kind of personality that cares about diffrent kind of “issue” than I used to care about before…