Past-time picture-taker

Photography is something I enjoy doing. Capturing the memories as if saying "If its not in camera, it never happened". 

I used to take pictures almost everyday using the camera filter app in my phone. I would snap pictures of my friends eating, during classes, getting a flat tire, late night session in the studio, whatever moments that we're in and occasionally share it on social media. That was my world until it hit me.

Along the way, things happened that affected me personally and how I perceive reality, it was a big slapped in the face that I stopped taking pictures. I thought there weren’t a necessity to it. I started to wonder about other people's opinion. That was stupid. 

Things got worst after my phone got stolen/corrupted disk/laptop crashed and all of my precious pictures were gone. Just like that.

Some time later I managed to save a decent amount of money to buy myself a fairly decent camera.

Here I attached some amazing things I captured. That are okay lah ;)

I know what I did last Raya Korban

Hello blog! It’s been a while hasn’t it?

The story that made me come back here was our long, long, long journey back to Kedah.

As July passes and we enter the month of August, the weather slowly changes from the scornful hot to dark clouds and light rain. By the time we reached 10^th, we were shocked with the news of a storm (which later identified as ‘typhoon lekima’) that hit the north of Malaysia. Thunderstorm and strong wind knocked down trees and telephone lines, roofs are swept away. Alas, since we didn’t come during eid, it seems a must to come for eid-adha.

Our journey starts with eerie lightning as we stepped onto the Cik Timah and drove out of Salak Tinggi. My first thought was its going to be quite exciting but scary at the same time. I wonder what sort of obstacle that we’re going to face (I’m regretting this later). It was 3.45 am and layers of fog starts building up at the tollgate highway, gosh it feels like a haunted disaster movie by this time. We took the usual north-south expressway (through the usual Elite highway to Shah Alam & Subang) I sort of miss this road.

Welp, it seems like we’re literally walking into the storm.

By the time we stepped into the guthrie highway, the rain had stopped but the lightning follows. It was (so far) a smooth drive. But, I said it too soon.

The real nightmare starts when we approached the Selangor-Perak border (Tanjung Malim area) because that is when the wide three-lane highway becomes two-lanes and the long, long, long, long drive to Kedah actually started. Throughout the drive, trucks, lorries, busses and cars can be seen parked by the road side (we’re assuming those people are taking naps). The longer the journey, more cars joined the jam. Our initial plan was to make a rest-stop at Tapah RnR for Subuh, we ditched that plan when we saw the RnR entrance blocked with all type of vehicles (most likely aiming for toilet break). We actually stopped by the roadside ourselves and perform Subuh there and continue onwards and upwards (literally). The jam eased up a little after the Menora Tunnel but back to stop-go and the struggle to fight of the delirium that lasted for hours until sunrise, then slowly faded after midday. We stopped by Tapah RnR around 9 am for a quick rest. Abah was the real MVP, he drove solo until we reached Penang at to visit Arwah Yaie’s grave. We actually reached Kedah arounf 3 pm. WTF? (what-the-fish)

So. We spent roughly 10 hours on the road. Ppfftt.