The title of this post is not relevant. I'm not talking about real shopping. I'm talking about working with images I shot almost every night in Photoshop! I looked and searched into my old picture folder and post-processed every potentially editable photographs.
You might ask, "Woi, siao ah? What the hell happen to you? Why suddenly so bersemangat, rajin edit picture plak?"
It all started when I accidentally crash into some Dave Hill’s work. His photos make me go, "Oh my God!! His works are really f*cking awesome!" Click on his name to go to his personal website. You need to see it for yourself to understand why I went nuts over his works. Then while Googling, I came across works by Kukubesi. Again I’m stunned in awe. I swear I must at least achieve 1% of their work. Yes, 1% will do.
So I start searching for tutorials, but most of them are skipping steps; making the readers lost halfway through their guide. In the end, I tried to experiment from where I got lost and referring to many other guides as well. Then I got real lost. Terpesong. Instead of achieving the minimalism of the painted photo feel, I went all out to make my photographs look like real paintings instead.
I shoot this lonely duckling using D80 and this is the result of my post processing.
I’m partially satisfied with some of the pictures myself (though I know it’s incomparable with Dave's and Kukubesi's). I plan to get a good rest, shoot more pictures (maybe, tengok mood), and work on them in Photoshop again (definitely!)
Check out more of my photography works at my Flickr page by clicking at the link below http://www.flickr.com/photos/genecell/ (or you can also access my Flickr page through the badge I attached at this blog’s side bar). All comments and critics are welcomed.
Holiday begins today. Officially. Finally I’m done with everything! Done my packaging presentation, finished exam, and suddenly, I feel all eased up. Still worried about how I did in my exam also though. Information design totally sucked bad time. Shouldn’t have thought of that now that holiday is finally here!
The happy part of the holiday is that I’m going to head back to Melaka, and play all I want with Nana. Hang out with Eunice after her exam is over, and maybe hang out with some other friends as well. The downside is that I’m gonna leave Shah Alam, and might not come back until the 18th. That’ll mean I’m not getting to see my darling for a month or so. Argh.
Well... Holiday is supposed to be relaxing. You’re supposed to feel stress free, and relax all you want. It should be a happy moment, even if it’s temporary and you might have to work your ass again once it’s over.
But I know, to one particular individual, it’s just impossible. They’ll take their time, planning on how to make others feel miserable. She’ll be begging for pity from everyone around that still talks to her through Facebook, MSN, SMS or any other possible means. The story will be the same every single time: ‘The world is against her.’ To other people, they might say she’s always ‘EMO’. I think it’s ‘HOBBY’ la actually. Oh well. I guess people will still layan her and try to convince her anyhow. It’s so lucky to be her. Yea la. If not lucky, people she spat on won’t layan her also right?
Oh, and if she accidentally visited my blog, she might save it on a Word document and spread it among her friends. “See how Eugene mocked me. Yea la. Memang mocking you pun. It’s not like I’m making up stories also ryte? You behave exactly like what I said in my previous entry. It’s either I wrote it while looking at that face I now despise, or I had a silver-tongue and you behaved according to what I said. Argh. Don’t want to talk about these celaka story d anyway.
I’m quite happy la today (it’s 6:14a.m. now, so I might as well use the term ‘yesterday’). Sherlin brought us to a ‘Sushi-styled-steamboat’ at Puchong, and that place is really quite nice. For 28 bucks per pax, the food is actually quite nice. It’d been so long since all of us house-mates chill out together. The mess I had with Aj almost a month ago made me thought that a gathering like this is no longer possible. Glad that I was wrong. It turned out that we could actually talk nicely in peace. God really did heard my pleads.
I've been hanging at home for the past 2 weeks. Only go outs occasionally, and most of the time, even if I do get out, I'm just driving my family around, or fetch my sister to her tuition class. Memang bosan la~ In a blink of an eye, there goes 2 weeks of my holiday!
But it's fine lah just hanging around at home. Not like I don't like it. Haha.. Can teman mummy, babysit Nana, watch movie, online like usual... It's fine really. After all, it's my home sweet home.
That's not the main topic yet. On Sunday, my sister bought a pair of jeans at Bintang. Well, we paid for the jeans and bungkus back home lo ryte? And guess what my mum discovered the next day when she wanted to wash the new bought jeans?
THIS!! Yes, the anti theft system thing!!
The cashier did not remove this thing after we pay for it! But the thing is there's no alarm whatsoever when we moved away from the counter. maybe Bintang's security and anti theft system are all bullshits after all.
My mum said we should just get the pants back to Bintang, show them the receipt and have it removed for us. But I'm excited and I was eager to remove the thing myself! After some discussing, my mother allow me to have some fun, as long as I don't make any holes in the pants.
I saw a small metal material that connects the two plastic pieces. I try to bend that thing using my hand, but to no avail. I thought I need some kinda tools.
And so I start digging my dad's toolbox, and I tried to cut it using this plier.
My dad's pliers are weary and blunt, again, to no avail. If you zoom in, all you can see some tiny dents to the metal. Nothing more than that.
So, in my frustration, I resorted to 'violence'. I tried to use a hammer to break the plastic cover.
You know what? Wah-lao-eh!! The plastic cover must be made of some heavy duty plastic or some kinda super heavy duty material that looks like plastic! I tried to hammer it numerous time, and there's not even a dent on it.
After some time, I thought it's kinda useless trying to break the big piece of plastic cover. So I switched my attention to the smaller piece of semi sphere plastic on the other end. This is how I do it. Lol..
At last, some results can be seen! Hahaha.. In the end the plastic piece is torn in pieces. and it came off really easily. So much for the hammer and all. So next time if you steal a jeans from supermarket face a careless cashier who forget to remove this anti theft thingy from your jeans, break the smaller piece of the plastic using two pliers, dun hammer them. Lol!
Tadaaa... End of this post! I know it's kinda stupid posting this kinda shit and all, but I thought it could really be some kinda stupid and foolish blogging material. Haha.. After all, many friends said my blog are getting too emo. Lol.
I hope you enjoyed reading about this stupid post~ And yea... I forgot to mention, besides getting that thing off my sister's jeans, I also made a hole there. Hahaha..
Oh by the way, I would like to credit some individuals for making this blog entry possible. As you can see, I used both my hands in the process. All the pictures in this post is taken by my mum! And also, thanks to the careless cashier in Bintang.
My hard disc is a gone case. Can't even load the stupid Windows Vista. So, now I'm using my sister's desktop to wish all of you a happy golden bull's year. Harap-harap korang jangan berlagak macam lembu k?
I supposed everything is gonna be new. Shirts, pants, hats, lingeries. And I bet many would buy red ones.
Before starting a new entry, I want to wish all my readers a Happy New Year 2009! I hereby wish all my readers a happy, healthy and prosperous year ahead! Sorry for the late wish though!
In this entry, I would like to share how I spent the rest of the 2008 after my Christmas, and how I celebrated New Year. On the 26th, I paid a visit to Genting with my dear cousins. It’d been so long since I spent some quality time with them. So long that I din realize all of them are besar panjang already. Andrew had even developed a very coarse voice. It’s actually scary that he’s getting this tall. Maybe the next time I see him, he’ll even be taller than me.
They're all like brothers and sisters to me!
(Clockwise starting from me) Andrew, Jasmine, Jocelyn, Eunice, Janice, Dominic.
I just hope Andrew don't grow any taller than the clown.
I don’t know whether it’s my luck or what, but it always rains when I visit Uncle Lim’s empire. So, as usual, I ends up all wet. They should really change the tagline from “It’s fun at the Peak!” to “It’s raining at the Peak!” But being wet once in a while is fun nevertheless.
Prepare your umbrella if you're going to Genting Highland during December.
But one thing I really hate about Genting Highlands is the price and the taste of the food. They don’t taste nice, and they are hell expensive. When I say they don’t taste nice, I mean the foods are really tasteless. Really tasteless to the level where you’re complaining from the moment you start to consume the food until you finish the food. It’s actually like they’re out of salt or something. Duh, how I hate bad food. Luckily, my aunt sponsored me my dinner. If I 'd to pay that much for lousy food, i think I'd be cursing nonstop. I do heard people saying that there are good foods at Goh Tong Jaya. But then again, I heard it’s even more expensive. Hmph…
This stupid ugly tasteless "Taiwanese Beef Noodles" cost my aunt RM19.90. Luckily got people belanja.
On the 31st of Dec, we planned to go lepak somewhere, and the plan is to plan while we’re on the way. You know how planning on the way is so ineffective. So, we went over to fetch Sze Mun at Bandar Tun Razak, then due to the traffic jam all over KL, we went over to Kajang to have some satay. Although we chose Kajang because we’re trying to avoid the whole traffic jam thing, the route to Kajang is stuck as well.
I have no idea why Kajang’s satay is so damn popular. Seriously! What happened to the succulent juicy Kajang satay I’d heard of before? Been there twice, and I still think it sucks. Their satay daging’s had an elastic texture. So feels so elastic that you might think you’re chewing some kind of cheap-made-in-china-bubblegum. Its taste sucks badly. The only thing is there to save the famous Kajang’s Satay is its kuah kacang. If it wasn’t for the kuah, I would’ve been pissed off by bad food again.
I guess Kajang Satay wanna join the Christmas fun by making Christmas-tree-shaped-satay!
After satay at Kajang, we went over to Sunway for countdown. Hmm… We did not purchase the pass to the New Year party there, so we just hung out outside Sunway Pyramid, where the entrance to Sunway Lagoon is visible. From where we were, we only get to see some nice fireworks when the clock strikes 12. That mark the end of year 2008, and a whole new year begins! 2009, here we come!
Fireworks at Sunway! Happy New Year y'all!
I ended up drunk that night. Too much Martell, too much beer and too little satay. Crap, I basically drank the liquor with an empty stomach. It’s really embarrassing. I did not have any recollection of what I did the next morning when I woke up. Phew… No more liquor for me. At least not with an empty stomach anymore.
Let’s skip that part. I don’t want to tell you what I did when I wasn’t conscious. Hahaha… So, let’s continue at somewhere interesting. On the New Year’s evening, I spent my time at One Utama with Aj and Sze Mun. We’re there because we couldn’t decide on where to go for a nice ‘New Year Dinner’. So, I suggested that we go over to Dave’s Pizza Pasta Vino. It’s not like I dine there before, I just read about them at Kenny Sia’s blog. Kenny is saying that their non-halal pizza and pork belly kicked ass and everything so I thought “Why not give it a try?”
We’d a hard time deciding upon the menu, and in the end it was really Aj that make the decisions. I enjoyed my meal there. The 4-cheese-pizza is a little ordinary, but overall it’s satisfactory. I won’t border you with the details of the food, but if you intend to read more about them, I suggest you read Kenny’s blog. It’s the reason why I paid Dave a visit anyway.
I felt full and satisfied. My taste buds are finally satisfied. You really have to try the turkey yourself. It’s succulent, and juicy. Not like the ordinary dry and hard turkey we always have. The turkey is my favorite dish of the night. Even blogging about it makes my mouth watery.
What we ordered? Quadro Pizza, Turkey and Pork Belly. Sweet!
The food at Dave's is so nice that you might wanna go to bed as soon as you finish them!
Also, the very same night, I watched Bedtime Stories. At first I thought “Adam Sandler and Disney??? That's a weird combination!”
Still I watched it because Chanel said it’s quite nice. Then it crossed my mind that even The Rock and Disney turns out fine in The Game Plan, so i gave it a green light. It turns out to be really nice, although it doesn’t make sense in some part. But hey, which comedy makes sense anyway? Yes Man doesn’t make sense at all, so yes, and watch it!
I guess this is already a very long post, so I'll stop here. Happy New Year again!
geNeceLL is a personal blog. you might read all sorta materials from this blog. the author had no clear concept of what he wants to post here (therefore most of the time you'll be reading his rubbish, which is normal since this is just another personal blog).
a future graphic designer (hopefully). a lazy slacker. a lazy blogger (only blogged only once in a blue moon). loves photography. loves badminton. loves fooling around with family and friends.
