Sakura

Very random updates.  I m too lazy to write or post any photos currently as it's only 2 days away from my long awaited holiday to the land of Lord of the Rings. Yup, I am actually flying off the New Zealand on my birthday, so that is considered my best birthday gift for myself. Just dread the long transit hours in Melbourne though. Gotta camp at the airport for 6 hours in the wee hours of the morning. Looks like I need to 'borrow' pillows and blankets from the plane.  Anyway I have booked for a trip to Kyoto next April to see the...

PHD for a day

Digging through my albums for photobook and manage to find these. I think I have not posted them on my blog before. So there, I was a PHD graduate for a day..'Dr.' Wong.   ...

The Monkey Temple, Kathmandu

The eye Or otherwise known as Swayambunath. I only found out the name of the temple when I was busy doing my photobook for my Nepal trip. All I can recalled from the trip was that the temple is on top of a hill and full of monkeys, hence the other name as Monkey Temple. I am not going to dwell much on the history and stuff like that as wikipedia is available. As we followed a tour, I have no idea how to get there as well, just that it's highly...

My Favourite Market

Is located in Barcelona. Seriously I can't stop looking at the fruits, candies and the ever so colourful stuff sold here. And we stumbled upon this by accident while walking along La Rambla. ...

Abu Simbel, Egypt

Why I love Abu Simbel more than the Pyramids? Abu Simbel is more exotic and it's been a place I wanted to see and go after watching the relocation of the temple due to the construction of the Aswan dam in National Geographic. It's more exotic because of the I had to sit through 4 hours of jeep accompany by military convoy from Cairo to Nubia coupled with waking up at 2am to do so. Very much exotic. Compare that to the Pyramid which is right in the...

Portrait Shooting at Sekinchan

Truthfully speaking, I was quite nervous when a friend of mine asked me whether I can shoot some portraits for her sister and brother in law. I had never done this so called 'engagement' shots before and was quite stress that I would not be able to deliver the best photos for them. And the fact that I had not actually touched my camera for quite some time! The couple choose to have their shooting at Sekinchan, the paddy fields located at Kuala...

Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

I believe the building itself worth a blogpost. I won't go on explaining the history and stuff about it but all I can say that, the building was constructed since 1882 and still under construction up until today, masterpiece by Antoni Gaudi.  Although my trip to Barcelona was 4 years ago, this building remained the most memorable one, as it was expensive to get in and I can just stare at the interior and exterior of the building all day and...

Silent Blogger again!

Sigh, in a blink of eye, a month had passed since I last blogged. Again, I had fallen into the silent blogger trap. Not that I have nothing to blog, but I just could not find the time and energy to do it. The past few weeks were spend doing photobooks for two of my trips, Tibet and Bhutan and another one for my brother's wedding guest book. It was last weekend and I was majorly involved in the preparation of the wedding from decoration to running around like mad woman trying to solve problems, haha. Now that it's over, and trips to look forward...

How to Deal with Altitude Sickness

I won't say I am the expert on this but having been to 3 places with high altitude, I would say I am quite exposed to the experience of altitude sickness. Altitude sickness is usually associated with effect of high altitude on the human bodies. It usually hits when you are above 2,400 metres above sea level. Out of the 3 experience I had with high altitude, 2 of which I suffered from minor altitude sickness, one in Peru and another time in Tibet. Funny thing is I was not hit with the symptom when I first arrived at the high altitude in Arequipa,...

Barkhor street @ Lhasa Tibet

After we have arrived in Lhasa, we were transported to our hotel to rest for the day as it is vital to acclimatise to the high altitude. Will blog something on how to deal with altitude sickness later on (at least that's what I do usually). We spend the rest of the day loitering around our hotel and the next day headed straight to Barkhor street, one of the major street in Lhasa where most of the temples and tourist spots are located, or in this...