冬至

小时候，冬至总是让我充满期待，期待的是可以吃汤圆及长大，因为每搓一次汤圆就代表长大了一岁。。。。。



不知不觉已二十一岁了，冬至对现在的我而言并虽然没如往般期待， 但搓汤圆却是一项每年必备的活动。。。。



虽然已有售卖现成的汤圆，但总觉得亲手做的较有意义及滋味，没办法，反正已经习惯了，就让传统继续延续下去吧。。。。.


冬至快乐，圣诞节快乐，新年快乐。。。。。

RX8 Gathering

This event was held on 13 Dec 2009, and I was there as a photographer for Pro-tuners magazine.

Log on to www.pro-tuners.com for more information.

Location: Sunway, Putrajaya

DSLR sharing....

DSLR, which stands for Digital Single-Lens Reflex Camera, is a digital camera that uses a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens to an optical viewfinder on the back of the camera.

Recently I just bought a Nikon D60 DSLR, which is an user-friendly entry-level DSLR line with 10 megapixel DX format CCD sensor, 3.0fps continuous shooting, 2.5" 230,000 pixel LCD monitor, ISO sensitivity range 100-1600 plus HI 1(3200 equiv.), and of course, equipped with a AF-S DX 18-55 mm VR kit lens. One disadvantage for D60 is that it doesn't have an built-in focus drive motor, which means that you must have a AF-S or AF-I lenses which have their own drive motor to make use of the Auto Focus feature. Do remember to choose a VR lens, which stands for Vibration Reduction as it helps alot to prevent blur on your shooting due to hand shake.

What really makes me in love with D60 would be it's weight.... Only about 522 g and this is very light especially when u need to hold it long for event shooting... Equipped with EN-EL9 1000mAh battery, it could shoot up to 300 pictures or more depends on your settings.... Of course, with pop-up flash enabled the battery might only last for 150 pictures...

Here is how the D60 looks like:

Of course, due to some event shooting I just bought a flash gun, Nissin Di622 instead of SB600 from Nikon... Both flash gun performs almost d same but Nissin is much more cheaper although without the LCD indicator...

Up to now I'm quite satisfied with the performance from this flash gun together with my D60.... Gotta train more and shoot on more events to get more familiar with this flash gun....

Here are some of the sample picture: -

Marco setting, zoom in to 55mm, f/5.6, 1/13 shutter, ISO 200

Pop-up flash shooting in d club, 18mm, f/5, 1/10 shutter, ISO 400

With Nissin Di622 flash gun, 18mm, f/3.5, 1/15 shutter, ISO 800

and here are some arts perform by using flash gun:

Will post more in the future, and since I'm still beginner to DSLR, please forgive me on the high noise level in some of my pictures.... Posted this up jz to share with u all on my DSLR... thx anyway....

MOM's Birthday

Hmm, today is my mother's birthday and i just finished our dinner at Puchong. Decided to go for western food and overall the food is Nice, priced around RM30 - RM 50 and I would say that the food is worth the price!!

Steak Out would be the name of the Steakhouse and it's located next to Giant Bandar Putri, Puchong.

So this would be the looking from the outside, and the entrance is the kind of cowboy style steak house.

The interior design is not bad overall, quite a nice place for couple to hang out!!

So about the food, variety of choices consisting of Beef, Lamb, Chicken, Pork, Seafood, Pasta and some snack are presented in the menu.... It's really a tough choice and I had chosen Pork Riblion for my meal.

Look nice yea?

My mom's meal was the mixture of chicken and lamb, and it looks something like satay... haha...

So here's how it looks like:

So this would be the appetizer for my combo meal, garlic bread and mushroom soup with cheese...

Below is the lamb rack and it tastes good as well....

For those who doesn't like Steak, spaghetti would be another choice as well....

and this would be the fruit punch i ordered:

In the end, overall it cost us roughly about RM185 and it's worth by considering the food served and the environment over there....

Last but not least.... Happy Birthday mom...

Industrial Training Period

It is the 3rd day for my Internship program in Tractors Malaysia, and finally today I gotta chance to get on hands job training on Overhauling engines. Well, this seems like suppose to be done by a trained mechanics, but I bet mostly those termed "Engineers" would never experienced it before...

So, my first job was to clean up this Cylinder Head by using sand paper together with grease. It was a good experience though I ended up with greasy, oily and smelly hand... haha... So the work is easy, jz clean up those carbon stick on it, those rusting, then clean it up all over with water and dry it with a high pressure air. So, just put it back to the place and I'll update next time when they combine the whole engine into 1 piece...

Up next, Pistons....

So, first of all gotta dissemble those piston head from its connecting rod, by removing the piston pins. This is how the piston pins look like:

Up next, when the piston head is seperated, take out the piston rings from it by using a special tools, forgot what it called :-).... Erm... each piston will have 3 rings if not mistaken, so gotta measure it's dimensions to determine the effect of fatigue stress and friction....

So, the piston head we gotta clean it up as well, using the sand paper with grease, to make the surface smooth and clean.... However, this is the training engine and I realized that there were some cracks on the pistons and few burnt spot... Although this is not allowed in real application, but since this is only a dummy set, so as long as it can start and let the trainee see how it operates then should be ok... haha...

Below are the pistons in place after cleaning... Wait another day to assemble it again coz their training module is different... lolx...

End of the day jz managed to take few pictures on the engines, and this would be the diesel marine engine.... Although the training module is for the Tractors Academy student, I'm glad to join them as part of it to learn more on hands training job which would be useful in my future...

So, I'll just end here with the last picture posted above, which I was holding a piston head and Camshaft... Just for fun!! haha...