重回歐洲 Return to Europe

能夠重回這片離開了十年的土地，很期待也很興奮。
都快一點鐘了，沒睡意。很想看看十年後的英國是怎麼樣子的。
眼前那充滿挑戰的工作暫時把它著於腦後。。
盡量珍惜那短暫的相聚。。 見招坼招吧！

Looking forword to the opportunity to touch the soil of Europe again after missing her for 10 years！
Is Glasgow still like the Glasgow I knew before ?
Let me put aside my challenging work ahead now and prepare for my short stay there !

忠孝東路走第四遍

與強颱面對面 ！

忠孝東路走三遍

安全抵達後，除了在海關那有點狀況外其他的一切都蠻順利的。
這還是第一次護照被海關人員異常詳細的檢查，差點被認為是假護照。

連續幾天的雨水把這我曾經熟悉的臺北市弄的有點凄美.
仿佛默默的在等著我重新的認識.

去了一些沒去過的地方，吃了一些之前沒嘗過的東西.
再次激起了對臺北的那份鐘愛.
期望這份熱情能一直延續下去.

Safely arrived in Taipei. Everything was fine except having some problem at the imigration counter.
This is the first time my passport being check in such details. Fake passport suspicious ! Mayb my face is too fake ??

The rain in Taipei has brought me new feels abt this familiar city.
Everything are so familiar and can't wait to bring back my good memories in Taipei.

This time I went to some new places, tried new foods and knowing new frens...
The never ending discovery will continue to imprint the good memories into my harddisk :)

Touch down safely

飛機·起飛了
颱風一直在我腦里旋轉
心想該給點信心這 747-400 的機師吧!

友人說飛機不是設計來應付颱風的
說得也蠻有道理。這使到焦慮指數不斷的攀升。

接近臺灣海域，夜間的窗外白茫茫一片
漸漸的逼近了颱風的那股殺氣，
莫大的機身慢慢的開始搖晃得像大浪中的小舟一樣
小孩的哭聲，昏暗的機艙加上電視熒幕不停的在閃動著.
這種種幾乎和 discovery channel 那 Seconds before crash 的節目情節像似,
手心也開始冒汗了。

搖晃了大約45分鐘,窗外開始出現了陸上的燈火
等一等，那不就是淡水漁人碼頭的情人橋嗎 ！
能見到那清晰的海岸線，能見度的問題不存在了，感覺上雨水也不多。
這下可好了。
機輪觸地的那一剎那終于可以放下心頭的焦慮了！

多謝上天的保佑和友人的祝福，讓颱風也避開了我。
接下來的一切挑戰就要靠自己了。加油 ！加油 ！

0230 19.09.07 Taipei

Challenge !

出差的前夕得到一個糟糕的消息： 颱風來擊！
200km/h 的超級颱風將會在臺北迎接著我們的飛機.
接著航班在 KLIA delay一個小時.

一直在機場考慮要不要換去明天的班機,
結果最後還是接受這個挑戰
迎面追擊這超級大颱風！

聽天由命吧!
希望可以很的安全抵達臺北機場！

Got a bad news a day before departure to Taipei, Typhon attack !
The 200 km/h typhoon expected to hit Taipei exactly at the time of my arrival !!

The flight has been delayed for one hour and I was struggling whether to change my flight to next day at KLIA since arrival.

But I have decided to take this challenge and face to face with the super typhoon now.
Hope the plane will land in Taipei safely and timely later.

God blees me !

1600 KLIA 18/09/2007

KLPF - 吉隆玻攝影節

盼了好久的年度的吉隆玻攝影節終于在這個周末重臨了。




每年的攝影節都能夠和一些很久沒見的朋友相聚，
認識一些志同道合的新朋友，
血拼一些忍了很久都沒下手買的東西，
出席場場爆滿的精彩講座會，
還有參與那永遠都那麼受歡迎的魔豆攝影比賽。

今年也不例外，換了個場地人潮也多了許多。
我還特地提早出席了星期六早上那簡單而隆重的開幕典禮，
敲籮打鼓的好不熱鬧哦！
之後都一直的在抓緊時間和朋友見面談天，
聽講座會，和一眾男人爭拍魔豆，
忙忙碌碌的過了一個周末。

不過這次也蠻大收獲的。
最開心的當然是可以和朋友見面，
買了一些我打算要買的東西(和一些沒打算要買的東西)，
還有糊理糊塗的拿了一個安慰獎。

感謝攝影人每年都會把全世界聚集在一起！
希望明年會辦的更好！！

Ayam Bag

嗨！因為電腦出現種種問題，相隔了一段很長很長的時間沒上來了。
現在終于又再有機會回到我的部落格天地。

自從西藏回來之後就一直忙到現在.
忙著西藏的slide show,
忙著重新安裝我的電腦,
忙著一宗大 project 的一切一切.

再過兩天就要出差了, 那幾千張的西藏照片還在默默的等待著我的妙手回春，
等待著重見天日的一天。

出差回來後可能還會有一堆新的照片需要處理 ！
沒完沒了的，可能下來的幾個周末都要在家對著Photoshop過了 :S

Hi, AyamBag !

After facing countless of problems with my computer and harddisk, I finally return to this blog again !

Since returning from the heaven, I have been engaged with various of activities.

For the Tibet slide show,

for restoring all the system in my new hard disk again and again,

for involving in all the activities in a big project....

I will be leaving for a business trip in 2 days time.

The few thousands pictures from my Tibet trip has no date to be reveil again !

More over, there should be some more new pictures after my business trip....

A never ending story :S

Back from Heaven

Jus back from my Tibet trip yestrerday. Got low land sickness now, still blur blur :)

Got to reinstall all my programs on my notebook... will take a lot of time for this fussy work :(
But all my related data have gone with the wind.....

Everything start from square one now :(

Harddisk crashed !!

Disaster strikes me again !!
I have just crashed my notebook hard disk in my client office in Manila.
Very hard for me to survive without my notebook when I am on assignment but I cant do anything abt it !!

For sure I have lost all of my valueble data which I have not backup since long and also some life memories that stores in the harddrive :'(

The only good thing is I can use my blog again when I have finished reinstall everything in the new harddisk !
Other than this, I have a big task ahead to restore everything in to order and it might took me sometimes !

God bless me !

Out of blog

Due to some problem with my PC, I am not able to login to this Blog since a month ago till I solve the login issue.

I am posting my blog to http://kinhoong33.multiply.com till I can login to this blog again.
C u there !

Internet broadband

等了無數個夜晚終于捨得在家裝個無綫寬頻網路,

以後就不必再愁沒法子在家上網了.

雖然月費還是貴了點, 只能說是付錢買個方便, 希望足不出戶也能把我的视野更進一步的廣大. 還可以和朋友保持更多的連係.何為不樂呢!

真的不知道一要等到幾時我們才可以享有高速和廉宜的網絡...
這只有天曉得 !

Happy Father's Day

祝天下所有的父親 父親節快樂！
沒有父親的栽培那有今天的我呀.

謝謝你爸爸 !
希望你健健康康 永遠快快樂樂 !

Books

最近不知怎麽的明明知道自己沒什麽時間閱讀，還是非要去買些書和雜誌，堆到房裏一堆堆待看的書。
但心裏是開心的因爲看越多的書就越可以滿足我貪得無厭的求知欲.

愛買書不一定就會博學多才. 愛看書也不一定會明白很多道理.

只怪小弟的記憶力特別的差, 左腦進右腦出.
但這也阻止不了我愛買書愛看書的習慣.

只是期望有一天會捨得把看過的書送出去, 不然再多兩閒書房也不夠放了 !

Penang again

說過要重游 Penang 想不到這麽快又回來了.

這次還帶了家人一起出遊. 讓他們嘗嘗當地的美食,

看看當地的情况. 呼吸一下北馬的空氣.

找了间舊舊的旅馆下榻。旅馆的陳設,傢具和工人都是舊舊的. 有點兒陰森.

還好价錢還算便宜, 房間又大. 多住幾個人也可以.

三天兩夜的遊蕩在George Town的街上為美食而寻寻覓覓。

來來回回的走了许多冤枉路，但也讓我認識了那幾條主要的街道。
找到了我想要的小食與豆沙餅。:)

還有多謝攝影前輩宋仁德先生的関照, 才有機會嘗試一下拍龍舟賽當中的苦與樂.

我熟悉的天天天藍已經沒有了.
反而那雨水一直跟著我們的腳步在徘徊。反復無常的天氣打亂了我們的計劃。

也讓我們在雨中的回程上塞了一個多小時的車.

現在記憶有了，下次就不會再迷迷糊糊了。

More photos at http://kinhoong33.multiply.com

French Movies Festival

法國電影節終于落幕了。

經過朋友恩妮的介绍, 選了幾部好看的支持一下非好莱坞主流的電影

By the Pricking of My Thumbs
(Mon petit doigt m’a dit)

There’s an elderly woman who disappears. A village that, behind all its gossip, hides a dark secret, a house split in half, tombs that are better left untouched, a doll that reappears from the past, a terrifying lawyer who wears a death mask. It will take some doing for Prudence and Bélisaire Beresford, who have Hercule Poirot’s patience and Agatha Christie’s humour, to uncover the astounding truth. “By the Pricking of My Thumbs” is the last in a series of four adventures of the duo invented by Agatha Christie.

A very humorous movie. The actress uses the name Mrs Livingstone to begin her investigation on the dark secret and risk her life many times to unveil the truth with her detective thinking.

You are so beautiful
(Je vous trouve très beau)

Aymé’s wife recently died in an accident at the farm. Soon after he realizes that he must find another wife to help handling the farm work. As it is not such an easy task in his village, he decides to seek help from a marriage bureau. Understanding that his search is spurred by practical rather than emotional reasons, the bureau’s director sends him to Romania, where numerous women seem to be willing to get married with foreigners to leave their economic condition. Aymé’s encounter with Elena will change his life....

A very simple and true to life touching comedy. Ayme fly all the way to Romania and interview all the potential wife canditates himself. At the end of the interview they all says 'You are so handsome!' to this bald and middle age man. That's where the name of this movie comes from :)

Priceless
(Hors de prix)

Irène, a conniving adventuress, is under the impression that Jean, a timid waiter at a chic hotel, is a millionaire. When she discovers what he really is, she immediately ditches him. But Jean, in love, sets out in pursuit of her and finds her on the Côte d'Azur. He quickly goes broke, ends up adopting the lifestyle of the woman he loves and becomes an escort in a magnificent palace. This new situation brings him closer to Irène, who finally deigns to acknowledge his existence. She then starts giving him advice and, without realizing it, becomes more and more attached to him.

A very Hollywood style French movie. Lots of branded clothing and luxury lifestyle surrounding both Irene and Jean.

My best friend
(Mon Meilleur Ami)

An art dealer takes a bet: he's got ten days to find a best friend. He throws himself into a frenetic series of auditions, to finally set his heart on a voluble and friendly cab driver: he’ll charm him so as to win his bet. But can you cheat at friendship?

Pity the dealer who has no friends and do not know the meaning of socializing, trying to find the formula of making frens but in a desperate way. The ending part is really drifting the audiance into the show.

My French movies marathon ended with this great movie. Hope to see more international movies showing locally.
They always promise some surprises to me !

晚霞

已經很久沒有在太陽還沒下山前回家了。
已經很久沒有在公司的窗口望見夕陽和彩霞了。
最後一次見到神魂顛倒的彩霞已經是很久以前的事了。

忙碌的工作使得私人時間一天比一天的少了。
老闆還威脅說以後的周末可能都要回公司上班。
回家后可能還要回電郵！
對此感到万二分的不願意!

今天的彩霞是在朋友的通知下出去透透氣時拍攝的。
雖然只有短短一刹那的光輝，卻達到了舒解我心情的目的。

這一刻值得珍惜。

穦紛色彩大馬

已經主辦了九年的’穦紛色彩的大馬’節目第一次移師到PutraJaya城。

為了吸引游客政府每年都會很慷慨的燒錢在這盛會。而每年都沒有讓我們的游客失望。
今年換了個外國的主辦單位，場面龐大。觀衆席可容納比往年多一倍的人數！

可惜的是沒有了各州屬本身的表演，少了很多多元化的特色。
取代的是非常重的馬來文化表演，沒有特色的服裝和一些不知所謂的舞蹈。

在外國人的眼中可能還看到表演者色彩的穦紛。而我們所見到的是咱們剛納的稅變成五顔六色的紙幣，漫無目的得在場上舞動着，隨著燦爛的煙火消逝得無影無蹤。

觀衆與舞者的距離因爲場地的關係而變得沒那麽的親切。還好最後的壓軸場面混亂觀衆全都下來與舞者共舞。氣氛蠻開心的！

外國的月亮未必圓。明年還是用囘本地的主辦單位吧。

Colors of Malaysia


The CitraWarna celebration has reached its 9th year mark this year.

The government has spent millions of dollars on this event to attract tourist and create awareness of our country in the international podium.

This year the event held its first time at our new governmental city, PutraJaya.
And for the first time organize by a foreign event company.

The spacious PutraJaya has facilitated more audience and biggest ever stage for the performers.
Unfortunately this also creates a distance between the players and the audience.
What we have missed this year not only the variety of culture and representation from different states in Malaysia, as I can see the originality of the culture as well.

Also the costume has no surprises but rather boring!

Anyway as long as the audiences are happy, the organizer is happy, we have no reason not to happy too. We all just hope that it will be better next year.

窗外有藍天

今天的天空異常的藍！

不知道是不是因爲喜歡攝影的闗係，對天空特別的敏感

每當清晨掙開眼睛見到一片藍天時都會特別的興奮 :)

最近幾個星期的早晨天空都特別的乾淨。万哩無云，

乾淨得差點可以看透宇宙 ！

就這樣按兵不動了無數個早晨終于在今天出兵了。
在緊稠的上班途中停下腳步，對著藍藍的天隨意的拍攝。

一片深幽幽的藍，只有CCD上的幾棵塵埃點綴，顯得異常的寧靜。

不知道身在遠方的你，是否也在看著同樣的一片天空呢 ？

Discovery Penang

再次与久违的槟城相会.

對我這吉隆玻人來說，槟城有一种似曾相识又有点陌生的感觉.

曾经几次匆匆的一游, 除了饱受了塞车之苦和不敢恭违的驾驶态度之外,
还品尝了道地的佳肴美食,对周围的环境印象确实還蠻好的.

多年以后再次的到访, 高楼叠起,感觉上有点像新加坡.

多谢Nikon和PCP的撮合,才让我从新发现槟城的美.
短短的一聚将会带来下一次更长的相聚.

槟城! 约定你!

It has been long since my last visit to Penang.

My memory of Penang stop at delicious food and the very frustrated traffic jam.

Today, the rapid developing Penang looks like a mini Singapore to me with all the households start paying higher to live higher n higher from the ground.

Thanks for the PCP Nikon workshop, this short trip has effectively triggered my fall to Penang !

I will definitely set my next schedule for Penang to discover more of its beauty !

收信

每天回家之后最开心的除了是见到家人之外, 最想见到的就是有一堆的信等着我去开.

平时除了会收到一些叫我付钱的信之外, 最高兴的莫过于收到定期订阅的杂志和朋友从远方寄来的信.
每期的新杂志总会让我翻阅到三更半夜. 朋友的信常会让我感到窝心的一刻. 很有冲动的立即想回信!

科技的发达把距离都拉近了, 但也把以前亲笔写信的习惯给消灭了. 取而代之的是sms, email, e-card 之类的, 连笔也省了. 所以非常珍惜朋友的亲笔信.

今天非常开心的收到一个期待已久的包裹. 里面包扎着五百张网上冲洗的照片.
很久没冲印那么多的照片了. 所以非常的期待.

虽然晚上停电, 我还是拿着蜡烛慢慢的在床上分照片.

回味与分享着照片里的每一刻, 迟迟不欲入睡.

母亲节快乐

亲爱的妈妈, 母亲节快乐！

最近有个广告说：　母亲是第一个给你喂奶的人 !
说实在第一个喂奶给你的人可能是那位印度护士姐姐呢 !

哈哈 !

无论如何母亲是把我们打大的人.. opps ! 是养大我们的人．

趁着还有机会报答母亲的时候就应该孝顺母亲，给她最好的 ！

当你做爸爸或妈妈的时候就知到为人父母的难咯！

Manila Diary 4 and the last

After a week of dry hot weather, finally the rain has come !

Rains on the last night of my stay in Manila makes me feel like missing a part.

In general, Manila has given me some surprises to remember... maybe I din expect anything from Manila and only worrying my safety before my arrival to this city.

When most of the worries have gone and started to experience the city, there is when all the surprises come.

I am so shame that we are having a big vision to become an advance country by the year 2020 but as what I can see now, we are even lacking behind Manila !

Maybe in Manila they do not have the greatest airport, the tallest towers, the cheapest fuel in this region and blar blar blarrrrr… but they have an efficient and relatively cheap public transport system, delicious and varieties of food, some advance and very rich business districts, one of the top 10 richest person in the world and most of all, the virgin beaches in the thousand islands country yet to be explored !


Tourism is one of the main income of the country and most of the cases they do not have to promote a lot. People just come and enjoy their life here !

So Manila, I will be back !

Manila Diary 3

Finally Sunday is here !

I have planned a trip with a driver to the World’s Lowest Volcano at Taal Lake, about 2 hours journey by car from Manila. Departed in the morning and started to see the different face of Philippines after leaving Manila. The street scene back to poor but busy with activities.

We reached Tagaytay city and from here went to some view points of the lake. Unfortunately the weather was too hazy, the volcano can hardly be seen. Due to the hilly area the weather is not so harsh as in Manila and of course more green here.

Hang around there for the whole morning and headed back to Manila in the afternoon. We drove through the massy and crowded China Town. Shops closed on Sunday and I was Surprised to found some familiar scene from Hong Kong where they hang the Chinese written sign boards exactly like in HK.

After that we dropped by Intramuros, the Spanish fort with some preserved old churches to have some photos.



I was lucky to meet few wedding couples having their life time event in 2 of the famous churches, San Agustin Church and Plaza de Roma, the Manila Cathedral.




For sure I did not let go this opportunity to shot their wedding ceremony. Having their wedding witness by these heritage churches is the dream of all couples !




After Intramuros, the driver dropped his family at the Makati area, another big city in the metropolitan of Manila. This area is where all the high rise buildings are and is the richest business district in metro Manila. Makati city reminds me of Singapore’s Raffles Place. It’s clean and organized. There are many other areas in this district to be developed to some upper class business and residential area.


The economy is booming in these areas but there are still a lot of poor people living alongside the polluted river at the suburb. That’s a very huge contrast.

Manila Diary 2

Makati Business Districts view from my office

The fifth day, seafood dinner again but this time is fresh seafood. The crab and the prawn are all first class fresh, surpass our seafood market dinner two days ago !

The restaurant is near the US embassy seaside, called SeaWalf.

As promise, we headed to Makati city after the dinner. It is the business district of Manila where dominated by high rise buildings. The journey to Makati is a painful one. The short 10KM took us more than 40min due to the peak hour traffic.

The traffic jam at Makati city

However it is worth the effort because we got the chance to see the other busy part of Manila.
Makati city looks more like a metropolitan than other place of Manila. Many 5 Stars hotels and high class residential apartments occupying the area. We stopped at the Greenbelt malls and spent our time at one of the open air dining café.

We were lucky to witness the famous ‘Side A’ band performs at an open stage. I can tell you the main singer showing here has one of the best solid voice that I ever heard from a live band !

I love the live bands here !!!

Manila Diary 1

It is summer now in Manila. The temperature can rise up to as high as 38c at noon !

Despite the busy working schedule, our host brought us to some of the famous restaurants to enjoy the varieties of meals.

There are more fast food stores than any other places that I have ever visited !
Restaurants and fast food shops can be found easily everywhere we step.

On the third day, we had our dinner just besides a market filled with fresh and live seafood. We bought a fish, a kilo of prawn and some very fresh squid and passed it to the restaurant to cook them in style ! They charge the cooking by the size and type of the seafood. The price is reasonable but the taste is terrific !

I have long lost the memory of very fresh seafood but I’ve found it back here in this unique and non-fishy seafood market restaurant !

The after dinner walk completed our day in a delightful way ! We headed to Roxas Boulevard
and walked along the Manila Bay accompanied with hundreds of people. Open air cafés and live bands dominating the street and people just love to stay late for that.

We had a couple of beers at the front view of a famous band ‘Anthology’, showered by the wonderful rhythm and jokes, never realize that the clock was ticking so fast !

It is not hard to imagine how attractive are all these live bands enliven the night to a rare visiter like me in Manila.

More to come….

Manila mari

Manila Bay

终于又再出差了.这回到了一个我不曾想过要去的国家:

菲律宾 !

临行前朋友和同事一再叮嘱不要独自一个人在街上溜达, 因为华人常常会成为绑架的目标!!
带着不安的心情着陆马尼拉.第一印象有点像十年前的怡保市. 旧旧的感觉.

但不久后发觉这里人们的生活气息 比起我国任何的一个城市更显得生机勃勃！
感觉上这里的城市人在忙碌中更懂得享受生活, 也比我想象中的热情.

之前的不安抹去了一大半.

希望在我忙碌的工作行程里能够挤出一些时间来体检一下这城市热情！

Manila here I come !
Warnings and precaution advices from frens and family bother me a bit before my departure.

However all the worries have gone half when I realised that the people and atmosphere here is very much lively and friendly then expected !

In general the Pilipino enjoying their life much better than other metropolitan citizen do !
Singing, eating out and spending times with frens along the Manila Bay at night is their way of appreciation of life.

I wish I can squeeze some times from my tight schedule to experience that.

整理

最近一直都在忙着整理东西

整理一年给政府多少的花红,
整理着出差用的文件,
整理一大堆等着上网和拷贝的照片,
整理越堆越多的杂志与书籍,
整理房间里那久未整理过的角落,

整理了那么多东西竟然忘了整理一下自己.

等着我整理的事情还滿多的呢….
整理和调整未来几年要走的方向,
整理/整顿一下面对工作,感情与生活的态度,
还要整理一下那越来越不像样的身材!

好! 下班后先从整理头发开始,
至少明天可以更整齐的见人 :)