Prayers… How many are answered?

So many prayers to be answered

Have you ever wondered, are all prayers answered?

I am sure that everyone has different wishes and wanted God to help out as much as He could.

For me, most of the time, my prayers are answered. I don’t ask for much, just wanting my family and my closest friends to be safe and healthy. Even though occasionally they might fall sick, most of the time they are sound and fine. So I guess, in one way, my prayers are always answered. Are yours?

Now, trying to be a bit more greedy, I want to ask for more. I have a wish, a wish that I really hope God will listen and help me out. It seemed very much impossible to achieve, but none the less it is worth a try.

I know I should be happy with what I have, but being human, is hard to avoid being greedy some time. God, maybe I pray harder, you would help me out? Just for this time…

There are no miracles, there is no such thing as fate, nothing is meant to be.

Love? Luck, or fate?

These are some random clovers found in front of my house in Malaysia.

Frankly, I was trying my luck to look for any 4-leaf clover around the front yard. I guess my luck proved me wrong, and I couldn’t find any of the so called luck-bringing 4-leaf clover.

But instead, I found these, which I think were kinda cute. 3 clovers, with 3 love-shaped leaves, with nothing distracting around them.

Looking back at this photo reminds me that I am kinda desperate for love sometimes. Maybe I need some luck in finding my “perfect someone”?

I am someone who always believe in love, fate, and love in first sight. But interestingly, I had just watched a movie recommend by a friend, called “500 Days of Summer”. In this comedy/love movie, boy meets girl, boy falls in love with the girl, but the girl doesn’t. One memorable phrase that I couldn’t get it out of my mind is this: There are no miracles, there is no such thing as fate, nothing is meant to be.

Do you really think so? Does fairy tale love story only happen in movies and dramas? I hope not.

Maybe, I do really need some luck in this.

Worried about someone.

The door to loneliness

Have you ever worry about someone that you cannot concentrate on the things you do? Have you ever worry about someone until your head aches?

How would you react when someone you love, someone close to you, suddenly stop replying your messages and never pick up your phone calls, without any particular reasons?

For me, I would worry sick about them. Thinking something bad might happen to them. Maybe they were involved in an accident? Could anyone be so busy that they couldn’t even reply a simple sms?

I felt really lonely suddenly when this kind of situation happens. I couldn’t figure out what really happened here.

I hope they are fine, and always save and sound. That is what I hope for the most.

Be safe.

Wedding Matters, Part I

Looking back at the posts that I had made for the past few weeks, everything seems a bit too personal, with only meaningless monologue and thoughts of mine.

Now I shall share with all of you some of the photos I shot during my brother’s wedding which was held 3 months ago. Too bad that I couldn’t get the permission to put up potraits of people that I shot during the wedding. The most I can share, is the stuff that you can generally see in a Malaysian-Chinese wedding.

I hope you enjoy.

"Heart to heart" decorative lamps

New bedsheets for the new couple

Just having a sweet kiss

On the Altar

Offerings to the Heaven, morning prayers

Joss stick offerings

As you can see, those shown in the photos are just some decorative objects used in the room of the groom and the bride, and also the things offered on the altar for the morning prayer on the day of the wedding ceremony.

More photos will come next time. Stay tune.

The fire is still burning…

If there's a burning fire, there would be light, and shadow.

It has been sometime since I last posted something over here. I don’t think I yet to have any regular fans in my blog yet, but if there’s someone who regularly visit my site, sorry for not updating this blog as regular as possible.

An update to all, now I am currently back in Muar, my hometown in Malaysia for my final winter vacation. I will be graduating this coming February, and will begin to work on early March in S. Korea.

I had been very busy during this vacation, and had been very active in photography too! Even I am busy right now, I enjoy the time spent doing everything with family and friends.

First of all, my elder brother had just gotten married, and I was busy running errands here and there. Actually, I’m kinda disappointed since I didn’t really help out much with my brother’s wedding. But I do help them took some amazing photos during the wedding ceremony and wedding dinner. I spent most of my time doing editing on the photos I took, and will be developing the photos in the next few days.

Now, Chinese New Year is around the corner too. Strangely, this year I don’t really feel the new year mood and spirit yet; maybe I’m too carried away with thoughts about my future work and other plannings. Oh yes, I will be bringing my family to S. Korea during this new year holiday for a 9-day-trip, while attending my graduation. Countless hours were spent on planning this trip, and until now, the plan has yet to be completed. Really, worrying won’t get me far I guess, not until I started to really deal with the plans. Anyhow, I need to speed up everything and get things done so that I can get ready to party during this new year!

There are many things that I want to share with all of you, and plenty of photos to showcase, but limited time and resources (blame on the “superb” internet service in Malaysia) had restricted me from sharing.

One thing for sure, I’m back in photography, and the spirit of photography in me is in its highest peak! The fire is still burning, and I believe I will keep this fire from ever dying out!

Even so, from time to time, I would feel worried about everything in the near future. Pretty hard to refrain myself from thinking too much. Even though I had just secure myself with a job in S. Korea, I still couldn’t stop thinking about everything negative about working over there. Maybe hopes is just like a burning fire: creating light, and shadows at the same time. I hope the shadow is as beautiful as the photo above: a burning water lily shaped candle, used during the black-out I had in my hometown.

Anyways, I promise to continue sharing with all of you once I have settle everything down in March.

Lets keep our dreams burning! With this fire, I wish everyone all the best and stay healthy!

Lomography?

Lomography, the digital way

Hmm… What do you think when you first see this photo?

This is lomography done in digital style, well, by software of course. Not so sure how many people know about lomography, but I myself never tried one before. In fact, I don’t know much about lomography at all.

But one of my friends in Malaysia showed her first lomography work at facebook once. I kinda like it, the way how people shoot lomo. Everything is impromptu, casual, and lighthearted.  But what a waste since she never do any more of her lomography after that. I guess she’s too caught up with her work.

Wish to shoot lomo with her, to take a look at the world with her with a different perspective. I never tell her that I wish to do photography with her. It’s pretty strange that I kinda look up to her. Hmm…

Well, all I know is to replicate the feeling of lomo in this digital world. It’s pretty different I would say, compare to real world lomo. When can I have the chance, to do this with you?

Blue Skies

Naked blue skies

This photo was shot 2 days ago just in front of my home. Nothing spectacular about the scenery of the street in front of my house, just how much I love the blue skies above me on this lovely day. This super wide-angle shot was made possible with the combination of my Pentax 18-55 kit lens together with my Digital King wide conversion lens mounted in the filter tread in front of the lens bayonet.

You get summer all year long in Malaysia, and lots of rain during the monsoon seasons too. Even though it is summer in Korea right now, I bet it’s pretty hard to get blue skies like this in the City of Seoul, which has serious air pollution making a hazy look most of the time. We had our share of polluted air in the form of haze created by forest burning from our neighbor in Indonesia, and also our local ones. But that was weeks ago, and now, sunny blue skies are back. Too bad there aren’t any clouds to decorate this lovely blue sky. Bear in mind, it’s pretty warm out there (hot in fact!) during the time I took this photo, as you can see the sun is right at the top me.

How often do you look up to the sky, and savor on what nature had brought us?

Blue skies, to me, are like some kind of confidence boosting element. I feel down when I look gray skies with no clouds. It makes me feel lonely, and tired too. Blue skies, on the other hand, is just like how a great day should feel. Makes me feel wanna put a smile on my face the whole time, giving me confidence, getting me ready to face any challenges in my life. Blue skies with clouds is another thing I appreciate, as that put in some contrast, adding a tiny touch of “imagination” to something which is already beautiful on its own. I can gaze at them for hours and day dream all the way thinking about fluffy clouds and feeling it’s fuzziness and warmth under the basking sun shadow of a tree. It’s such a powerful element to me, and I bet only a few people around would appreciate something like these. You know, I really envy those who live in the Europe, because they get sunny days with blue skies during the summer, which makes it a perfect time to have fun with friends.

Does blue sky do any impact in your life?