Kosen Sai(College Fest) Day 1

took me a while to upload some pics.. seems like there's a problem with blogger or my com :P
college fest was definitely fun but tiring. lots of running up and down. very different from the usual fairs. there's rock concerts, dance performances,gei-nou jins(comdeians) wannabe and funnily whacky contests. most of the better stuff happened on the 2nd day, so i'll just post this up first :) enjoyy

1.last minute touch up 2.malaysian soto
3.rare pic of me. that's matsuo
4.oden seller!stall beside the foreign students. i just love oden
5.my class' product.. sold quite a few inc 600 whooping bottles of drinks :P
6.some japanese school girls coming to visit.
7.going solo
8.a fluke shot.
9.screaming his head off
10. a rockers signature.
i cant believe they allow songs with the words fucking or middle fingers flying around in the school compound. guess japanese think it's just COOL

day 2 will feature bmx performances,dance moves, men in bra and cross dressers!

Autumn and Kosen Sai(College Fest) preview

autumn's here but not everything's red yet. yet, i decided to take some shots. a bit of a warm up before i go kyoto on the 18of nov. i really thing i need a polarizer,too hard to do without.. bah.. my money!

1.3colors2.branches
3.almost bare
4.autmn's here5.autmn's here

college fest starts tom.. ! short preview.. dunno how it'll be..hopefully fun!

Movies,Dramas,cant get enough of them

i'm watching lake house at the moment and 10 mins into the show.. damn.. a remake of one of the best korean films ever,'il-mare' starring jeon ji-hyun of 'my sassy girl' fame. i loved il-mare alot. watchin this however is kinda diff..the chemistry is different between the 2 couples. in the korean version, jeon played such a quiet and thoughtful girl(a big contrast to my sassy girl) but sandra bullock here is slightly more cheerful. and one of the strong points of il-mare was the ending. i've not reached the ending for this movie yet but it'll be the same and it takes out some fun in it. anyways, it's still a recommended film for romance buffs. il-mare definitely edges lake house out though.

new japanese drama season is here! so many to watch,so little time... last season, top shows were my boss my hero and kekkon dekinai otoko. this season promising ones are nodame cantibile and 14 sai no haha. nodame is about a girl who's talented in piano and meets a guy who's damn talented in piano and violin but wanna be a conductor. taken st8 from the manga, it features whacky scences which unlike 'teppan shoujou akane (Maki Horikita)sun 9pm' isn't funnily weird. def recommended.. those here.. it's on mon nights 9pm.

14sai no haha.. as the title states is about a girl who gets pregnant at 14! highly dramatic and soapy. reminds me a little of 1l.o.t. interesting plot and the leads are pretty good too.wed nights 9pm!

other dramas i've watched is teppan and yakusha damashi. reason why i wanted to watch yakusha cos matsu takako was in it(love generation,hero,long vacation). a bit of a let down so far but hopefully will get better.tues 9pm

dramas tht i've not watched but comes with recommendations.. tatta hitosu no koi(erika of 1.lot and taiyou no uta) sat nights 9pm and sailor no fuku sth sth , sat nights 9pm

ive also started a new english drama,heroes..nise,your blardy fault! very interesting plots about genetics and the birth of super heroes.. somewhat it reminds me of x-men smallvile style. the star is this japanese guy who's so funny ! he speaks mostly in jap so far(ep 4) hehe

so much to watch.. new animes too...deathnote, d.gray man ,blablabla.. so screwed!

Iranian Traditional Outfit

the iran girl in my college asked me to take pics of her in a traditional costume. she needed to send the pics back home or sth like that. whatever the reasons, having the chance to do portrait photogrpahy is not a chance that comes by often(Technically,it's not portrait but more on her outfit :P) indoor photography can be challenging..low light..backgroundss.. stuff like that. i actually used my black futon cover for the bg but when shot,it showed lines and was dark black. pissed me off, so i took a black paint brush and painted it in photoshop :P lighting.. still needa learn more on this. i bought a spotlight for this but was slightly too bright too my liking and the yellow was pretty ugly. i tried to tone it down but covering it with a white shirt and it somewhat worked but at the end of the one hour session.. there was a black burnt mark on the cheap uniqlo t-shirt.(luckily, no rooms were burnt though..) i guess i still got lots to learn.. photography is so damn wide with so many subjects! i'm still searching for my forte.. hehe


1.her
2.her again
3.who else if not her
4.staring blanklessly
5.one of the few rare good natural smiles..she's not a model so i can't expect much and i'm no
pro enough to direct her!
6.more of her!
7.probably my favourite shot.. her hand!
8.bad case of editing.. the white balance is off..too bluish but too lazy to change
9.not her!costume,pretty nice design i guess..reminds me of kebaya
10.hand shot 2!
11.more designs.. 2 hair is a tad bit annoying
12.last but not least her!
that's it.. but i was shocked.. 120 photos in about an hour.. my limit is 178! how am i gonna survive kyoto...

next post, more pics of her but face close up n eyes!

Theme: Cotton Buds

yeap, cotton buds. someone asked me whether i was incredibly bored or high while i took this. maybe it was boredom but i wanted to shoot something and i couldn't think of anything until i saw it! enjoy.







i think it's an interesting idea.. so i think there's gonna be a part 2 :P

BBQ

had bbq yesterday. some rich family treat the foreign students in my college every year. kinda fun.. food was great. try have shitake mushrooms bbqed.. i like it. they had ayu, it's a type of river fish.. caught during summer and early autumn. usually salted, very niced bbqed. and oh the scallops or shells (dunno what they were) was just rockin.not much to say la but i had a great time and plan to go next yr as well.(not becoz there's a free meal )

p.s:the girl sitting beside me got into toukou dai..wow..

Yourou Part 2

went to yourou again yesterday.. much better results this time :D i'm actually pretty pleased . the weather was just horrible yesterday. strong winds and pretty cold( all i had on was a t-shirt:P )but good for photos anyway.. they wasnt that much sun.. enabling to soot at 15secs shutters! i psed this ones.. added a cooling filter(blue) and got rid of dirt n dust. havent sorted out the rest yet but enjoy!

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A New Semester

It's been about a week into the new semester.. new subjects,mainly thermodynamics and mechanical experiments while my programming and moulding/welding subjects have ended for now at least. having another experiment class(other than my machine workshop) means more reports to hand up and this is like 1 per week unlike 1 per 5 weeks for machine workshop.

due to my kinda bad end to my last semester, i'm somewhat renewed with vigour to tackle at least this half sem. experiments, other than writing the reports would be interesting and i get to see what i've learned for the past 6 months here. needa study harder for some subjects.. like strength of materials and mechanical drafting. big leap in mech drafting.. gears and crap , the whole last sem was just basics needed for this sem... needa work hard for it.

oh,oh.. i had my first judo lesson! as i guy who has never practiced any self defence martial arts, it was pretty fun. kinda tiring and i couldnt really write properly(cause u grip alot) after the session.

kousen sai(college day) is coming at the end of the month.. thinking of what photos to show for my club. thinking of going back to yourou this weekend to take more pics.. hope it rains or sth.. i wanted a cooler effect for the pic but i didn't get it last time.

autumn's here too.. means to kyoto in nov! tentatively 18nov.. hehe.. i just can't wait for it. foliage.maple leaves.. if cherry blossoms=spring, foliage=autumn in japan. thinking of going kobe in dec(after my mid sem exams).. luminarie! i can watch it.. problem is $$$$ of course. that lead me to think that i should baito(work part time) here.. should i? if i do well for my mid sems, i might.. save up enough points to counter any screw ups for the 2nd half.

no pics today.

ciao.

Cycling to Gifu Koen and Nano Skirts

i went with fuji n yamamura(my buchou) to gifu last sat by bike. just like the oogaki trip, took us around an hour, it actually wasn't as tiring as i thought it would be. however, we did hike up kinkazan at gifu koen(gifu castle is up there) and down so i was pretty tired when i got back.

1.this is gifu.shot was taken from gifu castle..dang, i didn't know they opened until night.. the night view would have been great and u can see nagara river.. nice place for hanabi!2.at the bottom of the park is one of the 3 buddhas of japan(kamakura,nara n gifu)
3.gifu castle
ok.. it was about 1 when we finished all of this and we decided to head for lunch. somewhere in the city we found a cheap place to eat. before i continue i must state my stance on mini or micro skirts. while it's good to see, not everyone can wear them.. especially girls with big legs and stuff, not everyone's a model u know. if u don't have the goods u shouldn't show them, that's my motto! so seeing 1 good pair of legs and 10 non good ones just doesnt quite add up does it. however, that soon changed on my fateful lunch. 3 girls walked in wearing the sexiest outfits ever(all were the same, so i'm asuming it's a uniform of some sort) their skirts were shorter than ever, hence the nano skirts! and they definitely had the legs to show it. but what happened next nearly made every guy's ( mind u, they were all watching) noses bleed. while picking what to eat, the bent over to reveal their pink,red panties to the whole blardy world. that's a first in my life. it was just.. urm undescribable. call me a perv,echi, hentai, what ever but i'm a guy and no guys refuses to free shows.

Buka Puasa

i had buka puasa(not that i fasted) with the malay guys last friday, partly cause i already paid for it. turned out much better than i expected. they had banana cake! been so long since i had one and the prawn fritters were just awesome. luckily or unluckily i brought my cam there... lucky cause there were alot of kids and made nice subjects. unluckily cause the kids were there! during prayer, i (more like my cam) was harassed by them! it was mad i tell u, everyone wanted to hold it and they pressed the shutter like hell.. it'll definitely shorten by cam's lifespan by abit but i was pretty upset that they just touched the lens ..luckily i had a filter on it! or the kids would definitely be crying. they even opened the flash by force! argh.. i was so damn scared when a girl took the cam around..so scared that she would drop it.. i can't scold her cause she's not my child.. i cant take it away from her as the guys were praying and she would scream like mad and that's just not good.. kids are kids anyway..here's the pics!

1.group pic.. see me? i think i put on weight.. sigh..
2.hide n seek
3.boo!
4.sticking her face out.
5.the guy
6.family pic(btw i was pretty shocked when the guy gave me his name card cause he wanted me to send him photos. it stated that he's working at gifu dai and even more cool was that he graduated from tokyo dai!)
7.siblings
8.innocence
9.sticking the tongue out
next post would be cycling trip to gifu koen(park)! not many pics but there was an incident that made me change my opinion about mini skirts culture in japan.