Mmmm... Coffee...

I love coffee. Especially in a cold winter’s day, sitting with someone to talk to, or just all by myself, enjoying some of the warm caffeine goodness…

It’s funny that in the Korean culture, it’s impossible to sit and talk with friends for hours without alcohol. Not to say something bad about Koreans or what, but only talking about the personal stuffs with friends after like, a few bottles of soju isn’t something what I call sincerity. By the way, soju is a kind of alcohol,  the choice of alcohol of all Koreans since it’s so CHEAP and widely available everywhere. Are they trying hide something, or just that they need alcohol to drain down their ego first? Just my personal thoughts…

But for some of us, talking with friends, and I do mean not only 1 or 2, but a bunch of friends, it’s a fairly simple task, especially with the company of coffee or teh-tarik(try google for the photo and you get the idea) of our choice. That’s why in Malaysia, we have kopitiam (that’s coffee shop in our local slang), and mamak shops and stalls (mamak points to Hindu-Muslim people in Malaysia, and it’s not a racist remark as far as I know). Being a Muslim country with scorching hot climate, the beverage of choice would be less related to alcohol most of the time. Not to say there is no coffee shops in S. Korea, nor saying that no one goes to Starbucks or Coffee-bean over here, but the culture seams different to me. And don’t get me wrong, I love booze and you can get all the alcohol you want in Malaysia pretty easily too.

Non-Muslims in Malaysia do enjoy a cold beer from time to time too. But to associate alcohol with EVERY outings with friends or colleague is pretty outrageous for me. Must you get drunk at EVERY gathering? Can you have some variety in life?

Anyways, back to coffee. Just love how it can keep me awake in the morning, and the fragrant of freshly brewed coffee.

The above photo was taken with my latest addition in my arsenal, my Samsung WB2000. Strangely, it exhibit a very purple tint under some circumstances that I still couldn’t really figure out. Right now, all I can see is when the camera is shooting under some special lighting conditions, there would be a very strong purple tint on parts which is black in color. I love this camera since it has features such as RAW shooting, a bright lens, full HD video, high speed shooting and a back illuminated sensor.  It’s still a point and shoot, and cannot be compared with those better featured LX5(Lumix) and S95(Canon), since they are in very different price points.

Anyways, if anyone of you who own this camera who has the same problem, maybe we can discuss this? Hope it’s not a fault on my camera, and would be fix by future release of the firmware.

Would you accept my love?

Silhouette of love and passion

This would be my dream come true, if I could confess my love to that very special someone, so romantically, passionately, under the moonlight of an autumn night.

A silhouette which simply gives out the feeling of burning love and passion…

I guess a picture really says a thousand words, and I really couldn’t find any more words I can use to describe this special photo.

This photo was taken with Nikon’s D5000, shot in jpeg, courtesy of my friend who lent me his camera.

Photography

Photo frames, hanging by, stopping time, gathering dust...

Since I have some extra time right now, I had the chance to rearrange my photos, while picking some to re-edit and then upload it since it has really been SOMETIME since i last uploaded somethings.

Looking back at the photos I have taken, I realized I really lack the skills of photo taking. Maybe I need more practice, but seems like life is prohibiting me to do so. Anyways, I also need to sharpen my photo editing skills too. So after sorting some photos, I had chosen some to re-edit.  Here’s one that I had chosen to post over here. Nothing much i did to this photo, since i like the dark and moody style of it. Kinda emphasize on the dark moments there. Really missed photographing friends and family, and anything and everything around me. Really missed my Pentax K10d that i left in Malaysia. My brother is taking up dslr, so I had decided to let him use my K10.