Puchong Hungry Ghost Festival
So last Saturday (14 August 2010) I pass by nearby shop lots seeing some kind of a festival. It turns out to be the Hungry Ghost Festival. It’s an annual festival held by Chinese – all around the world, I guess – to celebrate ghosts coming to human world.
Why celebrate, you say? Instead of run away scared to hell? Well, it’s more of a respect rather than celebrate. Chinese held this festival to respect those ghosts who might be someone they knew. Dead uncle, long gone grandma, and so on. So there is no need to be scared because there is no ghost it’s just a festival.
According to the legend, they were “released” from hell into our world exactly mid of 7th month of lunar calendar so that they can “enjoy” our offerings, which is a luxury in the underworld. You can imagine the joy, literally. After one full month, they will “return” to the underworld.
My Convocation
Behold !! This is Robin Ferianto, Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons) Software Engineering. LOL.
1st of August, the day I’m officially not a student anymore. Yay !! Waking up early morning on one fine Sunday I, along with my parents and brother, head down to Cyberjaya. It’s freaking 6+ AM. The invitation says students need to be there at least 30 minutes for registration and stuff. Which turns out to be not even 30 minutes in reality. FML.
My brother takes all the pics, of course, since I’m the subject this time. He bring 2 cams: my Sony A200 with 18-70mm and my sister’s Canon 1000D with 50mm. He used mostly 18-70mm as 50mm wasn’t so convenient to use in such crowded place. Good shots, anyway. Thumbs up for my bro.
Okay now let’s get to the shots.
Raub Photowalk
Okay let’s face it my last post was in March. That was quite a long time if you’re a blogger. Now let’s get things warmed up here. I got several photoshoot events next month, so I’ll start with this month’s event.
It was a trip to Raub (Pahang, Malaysia) organized by a friend of mine, Mandy Leong. First stop is peanut factory, and then to tauhu (tofu) factory, and lastly to the infamous Chamang Waterfall. The trip itself was on 3 July 2010.
I have been to several photoshoot trips before, but this time only I realized my pics were not telling the story of the trip. I was so focused on pics that I forgot about people. You will know after you saw my pics, that there are (almost) no people from my shots. Note to self: gotta do better next time.
Why DRM doesn’t work
This pretty much explain it all.
Source: bradcolbow
Warning: 10 Deadly Post Processing Sins
Let’s start this month’s post with a photography post. I’ve found a good one on my ever beloved photography blog and I’ll share it with my readers. Enjoy.
First of all, I have to thank Darren, and this wonderful DPS community for supporting our family through the illness and death of our son. We are deeply and profoundly grateful to each of you. THANK YOU. Not really a way to segue from that. I won’t try.
This post is all in the name of good fun. These are over the top SNL esque examples. Please don’t be offended. … continue reading.
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