Lapas balik keraja tadi, me..sacred-vision & disconinja singgah ke Taman Jublee di Puas Ulak kan snap few picture. Managed to gambar sunset sikit and other stuff disana. Then ke Yayasan bali screen protector and tarus tah snap few shot di kawasan tugu di ambing Yayasan.

Masa duduk - duduk mendangar presentation dari Mr Calvin *photographer Istana Sabah, Tourism Malaysia photograher* atu, aku tu sambil cerita - cerita sama sacred-vision jua pasal cameranya and about my order Canon 450D atu. Sekali dalam perbualan kami tu terpikir tia ku kan betanya arah Mr Han about Canon 400D *400D ani was actually my second choice when things comes to worst*. Since Mr Han ada becakap arah disconinja yang right now stock Canon 450D di Malaysia semuanya habis. *KL to be specific**I guess masa ani people are changing may be from 350D or may be 400D to 450D*. So I SMS Mr Han and ask about Canon 400D punya stock. Tunggu punya tunggu he didn't reply my SMS. So malas lah ku kan memajal balik - balik betanya.

Before balik atu, sempat la aku & sacred-vision bercerita with 2 members dari BruneiForeverForum (BFF), who is God's Gift and nz.juushici *memang sudah kenal poon*. Kami bercerita pengalaman masing - masing with Mr Han punya services *especially in-term of ordering the camera stuff & price difference dengan other shop*. As what God's Gift mention, kadangnya if you are lucky, you'll get your ordered stuff within 3 days or else it would take more than a week or up to a month. Makin tia ku susah hati memikirkan pasal camera ku because my pre-ordered Sigma 18-200mm lens sudah sampai *ooh lupa gtau...took the lens before dinner with my family tadi*. So macam mana nie?? Camera was ordered 3 days earlier than the lens but somehow the lens plang dulu sampai. Kan di pasang ke kacamata kali lens ah...hehehe, kalah cyclop dari X-Men tu.

Sedang kami bejalan menuju ke bawah kan keluar dari Hua Ho atu, I checked my fone. Suprise suprise....Mr Han replied my SMS. In the SMS was written macam ani "Selamat malam. Stock ada. 400D kit BND$1000+. Han" 2nd SMS "Esok pagi 10am hantar kedai. 400D kit ada, tapi 450D kit belum ada. Han".

Without pikir banyak lagi masa tu, tarus tah ku call Mr Han. Ku pikir tah what he said atu was like 450D yg with kit lens nada but without kit lens is available. Rupanya maksudnya atu was 450D stock memang not available. So pikir punya pikir, its better tah ku ambil saja the 400D *bukan nya apa..takut if ku tunggu jua 450D atu, last - last until 31st May ani pun inda datang. Alamat duduk rumah saja ku inda ikut outing ke Temburong*.

So selepas berfikir for few minutes masa dalam perjalanan balik kerumah & discussion with nz.juushici masa tengah menunggu her baby *Mr Fz* datang and discussion with my laupo, Ive decided to take the Canon 400D. So karang pagi at 8am Mr Han suruh aku datang ke Tutong and take the camera. Alhamdulillah, got budget belabih sikit...now I can get the Canon 50mm potrait lens, dry cabinet & UV lens filter tarus pagi karang...To be continue *tidur dulu*.

Oooh..by the way, I got this idea kan outing di Limbang on my next trip kesana. Ada 1 place attracts my attention tadi. Banyak activity on that spot with bermacam ragam, umur & jantina...wanna know di mana? Tunggu dan liat saja hasilnya nanti *mun suksess jua tu LOL*. - The end -

Called Mr Han tadi petang around 4.00pm just to get confirmation from him bila exactly my our camera sampai. He mention that our camera is now actually di Kuala Lumpur sudah. Normally once the camera reach KL, the people there would directly send to Brunei tarus. But somehow this batch tergendala tia lagi disana..dunno whats the actual reason.

Ive request from him untuk cepatkan the camera arrival plang sudah, so hopefully by this monday ada tah kali sampai tu. If masih belum ada jua, looks like I have to wait lah, but harap - harap la before 31st May ani sudah ada di tangan. Mun belum ada sampai, inda tah ku jadi ikut ke Kuala Belalong jua tu...hehehe. So lets see if the camera datang this monday or not :P

I just came back dari the Nikon Presentation. Actually banyak perkara yang aku inda berapa paham during the talk. Almaklum saja lah, baru pernah mendangar all those camera specific words hehehehe. But there are some good tips during that presentation. You can ask question related with photography there.

Besok, there will be another talk jua but ada tambahan mengenai wedding photography. So anyone yang berminat with wedding photography, datang la ke presentation atu. Mana tau ada some more tips beguna untuk your hobby..who knows kan. We'll see besok whats this wedding photography will be about, tips and so on.....To be continue.

Tips (dari the presentation): If your dont have a dry cabinet, you can just put your camera on a safe place like atas almari or rack. As what he said, just put your camera where the air can circulate in your room. For better result, usahakanlah untuk dapatkan your own dry cabinet.

Gara - gara luan kanyat - kanyat menunggu camera sampai tah yang membuatkan aku gatal ati kan mencek tripod sama monopod di malam. Di malam atu kes kebaruan kan memakai monopod inda tau muat kah inda camera arah monopod ah..liat - liat macam basar bah screw arah monopod ah. Was - was ku tarus tadi. Skali tadi pagi ceta - ceta tah sama disconinja about this manfrotto tripod and monopod. Ia tekajut plang tripod & monopod Manfrotto atu ada bejual di Yayasan. So tadi lunch time ke Yayasan tah kami mencek and thats the second time ku mencek monopod atu. Cek punya cek rupa - rupanya ngam arah 450D..hahaha. Ketara bah kebaruan aku tu kn becamera LOL. Then tadi patang, gatal tia ati atu kan membali monopod Manfortto atu. Balik saja dari keraja, tarus zoom ke Yayasan. "Thanx to my kingkong :p for the support" hehehe.


Oh yaa....back to cerita pasal di bag...Got it sudah "gift from my laupo..thanx hehe" But too bad, banarnya kan cancel sudah bali that sling bag kan tukar ke backpack balik. But wat to do, nya c Bai atu "sorry sir cannot cancel your booking already", so paksa tah stick saja with the sling, but OK jua la at least bag atu ada lots of spaces.


Ohh by the way...ada bad news and good news. Good news is Mr Han ada text sudah saying our camera sudah ada. Bad news is the camera usul - usulnya masih lagi terdampar di KB. Harap - harap besok ada tah sudah sampai di Tutong.....So we'll see how things goes besok..."makin ampir ari makin kanyat - kanyat, yatah rasa ku sama rasa sacred-vision masa ani ni...hahaha"....To be continue.

Today I went to Rose Photo sama my hunneh, disconinja & sacred mind to order my baby 450D and sacred punya Olympus Evolt e-510. We jalan dari rumah at around 3.30pm and sampai d Rose photo at around 4.15pm. Once sampai di Rose photo, rupanya Mr Han ani keluar mengambar orang kawin tia jua. So kami decide untuk menunggu saja disana since d lady bagitau he wont be long pasal he's been out since 2pm.

Tunggu punya tunggu Mr Han tak timbul - timbul so kami decide untuk lepak minum dulu d pekan Tutong and end up makan nasi ayam, sotong kangkong, cucur udang & cucur keladi di Lee Loi Fatt Tutong *hint hint* pada sesiapa yang suka kan cuci mata tu berkunjung tah kesana, alai saja bah..haha*. OK enuff...back to d story.

After masing masing kekenyangan sudah, diliat jam ani baru kan pukul 6pm. So kami jalan jalan la dulu di pekan Tutong atu. Sambil - sambil bejalan atu terfikir tah ku, "if ku tinggal di sini kepisan mati akal ku...suuunyi" hehehe. Sangal udah bejalan di pekan Tutong atu, makanan dalam parut pun tuhus sudah sikit rasanya kami decide jalan ke pantai Tutong, manalah tau ada chance untuk disconinja kan mengambar sunset di sana + jam pun kan masuk 6 lalu sudah. Sampai saja di pantai Tutong, nasib kami kurang baik pasal matahari tu tepampan oleh awan awan. Makin di tunggu bukan nya makin nampak, makin tepampan tia lagi so kami pun pergi dengan hampa sambil menuju semula ke Rose photo.

Sampai saja kami di Rose photo around 6.45pm Mr Han sudah ada di sana sambil melayan customer kan membali camera Nikon. Tunggu punya tunggu akhirnya Mr Han mengaga disconinja sambil menunjukan battrey grip for 450D which cost around BND$260 then he came to us & betanya kabar then we replied and tarus tah kami membagitau we want to order 450D and si sacred punya Olympus 510. Tanya punya tanya, he said 20hb May ani baru dapat order & probably the camera datang on the 23rd or 24th May ani.

So harap harap la our camera atu sudah ada on 23rd or 24th atu. Sekurang kurangnya sempat la nanti di bawa outing ke Belalong, mun inda rugi tu turun tangan kosong. That would be the 1st outing and the begining of our hobby.

Sambil sambil menunggu the time to get the camera ani (harap budget ngam to get Canon 450D), so Ive decided to write something here. Let me start macam mana this hobby boleh timbul. Actually semuanya bermula dari zaman masih study di MTSSR, that was tahun 2001 kalau inda silap. The instructor was Cigu Hj Morshidi & Mr Aftab. Me and my best buddy CiBui (http://www.cpsbrunei.com), Rae128 (http://rae128.blogspot.com) and Din joined the photography club as our ECA. Kami sempat masuk few classes masa tu and sempat snap few pictures masa ada new intake joined MTSSR. The best one was masa the orientation day, time dorang jarih jarih kena ragging by the senior atu tah kami sempat capture those memorable moments for them. After that day tah jua kami kena marah not because of a big mistakes plang, its just that we waste alot of "Kodaks" pasal kami mengambar a potrait picture (dulu dulu atu camera SLR pakai Kodak saja, yatah mbarinya kana marahi. Mun digital mana kana marahi tu..hehehe).

*Tips: Jgn mengambar org masa orientation bila dorang kena ragging meniup tapung. Hancus camera karang (Rae128 will always remember this moment)

I remember what cigu kami said. "Siapa tah kan membali ni gambar kamu ani?pasal lawa I admit memang lawa walaupun kamu beginners, but remember this is a big function and bukan mcm gambar org kawin. So if kamu mengambar potrait saja its just a waste of money menyuci gambar pasal if kamu mengambar gambar beramai, ramai yang membali gambar ani and we earn money untuk kamu membali Kodak and menyuci Kodak".

Since that day kami berhati-hati mengambar tapi adala masa untuk curi curi mengambar potrait especially bila ada aweks aweks yang cun...hahaha *zaman muda lah katakan*. Selepas beberapa class, we have to stop our classes pasal cigu kami ni terpaksa berpindah ke ITB. So thats where everything ends.

This is where semua minat ani bermula balik. One of my ofis mate *u know who ur* hehehe yang baru berkecimpung dalam dunia photography ani I think awal January membali Canon 400D then baru-baru ani bertukar ke Canon 450D. Bila meliat gambar gambar yang di ambilnya atu, timbul semula minat on photography. Tapi masa tu alum lagi katik katik rasanya kan start plus masa tu budget pun kanyat kanyat sudah. Until one day, my other friend *u know who you are* bebunyi tia jua kan membali camera. Bila di tanya bila kan membali, he replied to me "ni bonus ani ku kan membali yo". Lapas lapas atu tah terfikir tia jua kan start over balik with this hobby.

I admit hobby ani memang hobby mahal. Tapi bila di fikir balik, hobby mana jua yang inda pernah mengeluarkan modal, ryte?. Plus in this hobby if you are good you might as well earn something from it. Di sini tah jua someone dapat meluahkan kreativity & buah fikiran nya and lastly iatah masanya untuk kitani melihat, menikmati & mensyukuri ciptaan Allah.

Canon 450D / Rebel XSi