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Trying my hands on night capture of car and i say, it isn’t really easy without having the flash on.

One thing i realized that S5’s ISO 80 doesn’t really produce noiseless pictures, just that the noise is fairly visible. The noise becomes very apparent at pitch black or darken areas or unexposed places.

I tried to achieve that Chrome Desaturated effects that i see in most car catalogues and as you can see, i have failed T___T the glare was bad too, i guess i really need to learn my angles *cries*

I know that i should have go 2 step underexposed and compensate it with flash but because i didn’t wanted to use flash and i forgot to underexposed it by at least 2 steps down, the rear lights have been blown out and i have to desaturate them so that they do not appear overexposed and wipe out all the details.

I may have master daylight photography but night photography is really a pain in the ass and ironically, i am much more a fan of night photography than day. OH! Must i upgrade to a dSLR?

P/S : The last car wash was a month ago -.-

At Last, A Conclusion.

I don’t know how long have i been having McDonald’s for lunch during their lunch hour promotion just because i wanted to collect the Coca-Cola cups. In order to get the cup, you have to order their special meal which states that you must upgrade your meal to a large meal and then add on a Sundae Cup, flavour immaterial. The Sundae is the problem, i am not an ice-cream person so having one cup of Sundae by myself is shi- torture. To ice-cream lovers, the portion may be 2 spoonful but to me, it’s like a whole damn SYABAS water tank o_O!

… and no, i’m not being exaggerating T___T therefore having an extremely wonderful girlfriend who turns out to be an ice-cream lover and would from time to time buy McDonald’s Sundae cone for dessert, i am in luck. Every single time when McDonald’s releases a new cup color, go over and buy the damn meal and then force my lovely girlfriend to eat the Sundae (but of course, she eats a meal as well) until one fine day she decided that enough is enough, she told me she doesn’t want to eat the Sundae Cup no more and so from that day on, i ate it myself and thank gawd when i took over that torturous task, 2 colors were left yet to be released.

Yesterday, the Sparking White was released and i dragged my mom and bought that cup T___T

With this, it marks the end of my journey to collect them all. The pink is missing and it’s deliberate simply because i didn’t really favour the pink and plus, i didn’t want to summon an episodic dragon which will grant me one wish and then all my 7 cups will be scattered all around the world T___T

There’s this one particular lot in my condominium which owns hell loads of luxurious cars and i have always told myself to snap pictures of them and post it up here but never did so until yesterday when i went down to my car and fix a little something with the stereo, i brought my S5 down with me.

First off is this 2009 Nissan GTR priced at around RM800,000.00. Just the sight of it makes me tremble with fear *shivers*

No car reviews here but as you can see that the rear is not much different from its predecessors but just enough to make an impression whilst the front *fuuh* is just plain wicked. I have yet to see one driving on the road but it would be fun to see how it roars along the highway tailgating Kancils and Wajalutions. I still like the previous generation Skylines.

Next up, the F360 Ferrari Modena.

I don’t know the price of this stallion but have you ever heard of a Ferrari after the year 2000 is below the price of RM800,000.00? Even a 1998 Porsche Boxter is priced at RM810,000.00.

To be honest, i don’t know why a person with such a financial capability would want to stay in a condominium, he could have easily afford a dozen of bangalows in Bukit Tunku. However, there’s one thing that i don’t understand. All of his cars are so filthy that i think the dust covered the cars are at least an inch thick and i don’t think that i’ve seen the driver before safe for one time i looked out from my room window and saw the GTR drove into the nearby Petronas station.

To prove my point. Just look at the dust and by the way, this is a Rolls Royce. I don’t know what model or what year is it because i never liked Rolls Royce but i do know that they don’t come cheap as well, although i think that they are quite ugly, some recognized that word as “classic”. Beats the hell out of me.

I was slightly disappointed actually because the other known 3 cars are missing namely, the facelifted white 330i E90, black Volkwagen Toureg and a black 645i E64 Coupe. However, there is one really strange thing that i noticed about 2 of the cars that are parked here that night and that is the car registration number of the GTR and the Rolls Royce are of the same =O i mean, how is that possible. Whatever it is, i’m leaving it, it! No point getting my head into someone else’s business.

This Evo has a separate owner altogether and i have not seen the owner as well but i’m assuming that youngsters, availability not sure because one condominium lot is allocated 2 parking lots back to back or side to side each other and i’ve seen a red Evo, same model parked behind it. I don’t know why but i have a thing for this generation’s Evo compared to the “Helang” version -.-

Good Bye.

Dear Diary

While the Germans are getting drunk, eating pretzels and racing through the Autobahn with their M5 and X6, i am here keeping myself relatively busy preparing for my girlfriend’s 21st birthday surprise and also her gift because it’s her 21 and it must be an unusually cool stuff because we only get to be 21 only once. Actually, aren’t we only get to live for every other year only once o_O

You know, if there’s one advice that i would give to people who are about to express their undying love vows to the one that he believes is going to spent the rest of his life with, i say, timing is very important. By timing i don’t mean the “make sure you ascertain her feelings that she feels the same” crap. I’m talking about practical jargons here. What i meant is, pick the correct date to confess and never confess nearby any major celebrations for couples such as Valentines, especially birthdays =O

My girlfriend and i got together on the 9th, Valentine is on the 14th of February and her birthday is on October 15th. So, you get my point. For those who are already coupled up, please negotiate for a date change if it is possible. I tried with mine and i was given a big “NO” :T___T:

Having known that her birthday this year will be out of the unusual because it’s her 21st, we settled on the agreement that our October monthly-versary will be celebrated in a more subtle fashion compared to the previous months because most of the funds have been channeled to the birthday surprise. Never did much though on our 23rd month together, had a casual dinner but ordered something that i think i won’t normally ordered :rofl:

I forgot what the drinks are called but they looked colorful and happy and we needed something to cheers because i don’t think it is appropriate on any occasion to cheers with Teh Ais.

The night ended with no blast =D

14th October 2009
After spending one whole freaking day rotting at her university trying to finished up whatever assignments that are due, she came to my home just so that she could count down to her 21st birthday with me. Took her out to the mamak nearby and constantly checking on the clock to make sure none of us overshot the midnight mark. 0000hrs hit and i wished her “Happy 21st Birthday” over the night sky where not even one star is visible, faint smell of cigarettes from the people around and the sounds of profanity emitted from the movie “Wanted” showing on the projection television the mamak has. Drove to the nearby Shell station and have my car pumped up full tank with RON95.

Went back home and we watched the television but before that, we turned it on because otherwise we will be staring at a black screen. That is not sane. Cooked her a packet of Maggi Curry and then asked her if she wanted me to unveil her 21st birthday gift that night or tomorrow at dinner. Indecisive at first but later decided to have it that night itself. Went into my room, unlocked the cabinet shelves and took our her gift.

Bought her a Burberry|Summer perfume, the fragrant that she told me she liked few months back but didn’t buy it because of the obvious. I didn’t wanted her to know where and how much i bought it but yesterday when we were dating at Leisure Mall, she walked into the shop because she know that shop has it and discovered how much it is. I was then bitten by her aggressively.

I wanted to buy more gifts for her but i was rather financially constricted and so i decided to go old fashioned way, what last time Chinese people would do on birthdays.

Some still keep the tradition but not nobody likes the idea anymore. The original color was red but girlfriend wanted blue and so i made her blue and since i got red and blue coloring, why not make purple hence purple was made. Initially, i wanted to do an egg shell souvenir but i don’t remember how anymore. All i remember was poke 2 holes on the egg with a pin needle and let all the egg flow out but i think to myself, what if the egg yolk doesn’t want to come out and if i leave it in there and gifted it to my girlfriend then one fine day, the egg yolk will rot and my girlfriend’s room will smell like… o_O!

Cracked the red one and it looked alright, something like what we expected.

Cracked the blue one next and let’s just say, it’s quite unique.

Cracked the purple one. Let’s just leave it there, shall we ._. whatever it is, we finally understand why Chinese only make red eggs and not other colors *sobs*

15th October 2009
Girlfriend left for class in the morning and i left 2 hours later. Both our class are supposed to end at 1200hrs but miracle happened and girlfriend’s class did not end until 1400hrs. Trying to be an hero, took the Sg. Besi highway which i have never traveled alone because if properly drove through, it is relatively near compared to the other alternative route. As a result of my brilliance, i missed the exit which i am supposed to take and with no choice, i headed straight but nonetheless, i reached Bukit Jalil but detouring through Sg. Chua, Kajang and Cheras -.-

Other than collecting munny to maintain the highways which never seemed to be maintained, tolls are also there to indicate that route that you’re currently on is shorter in distance compared to whatever alternative there is but to me, paying that 3 tolls on that exalted afternoon, never felt better. Drove with only one expression which is exactly this —> ._. until i reached my destination.

Reserved a table for 2 at Restaurant Sri Angkasa, KL Tower because i thought that it would be fair to give her a different dining experience altogether and having a ‘revolving’ buffet dinner at 280metres high is really something. It’s quite a treat to have seen the skylines of Kuala Lumpur at night. No pictures that night other than the few that was taken with my N78 because the day before, i was so prepared that i charged up the batteries for my S5 and loaded them in and threw my S5 in the bag only to realized that the memory card was stashed in my drawer *hitwall*

This is my girlfriend, she is a female and she is 21 and this is the birthday cake that i ordered for. Well, i did ordered but the flavor depends on the “chef’s choice” so technically speaking, i asked for a cake and not ordered.

The irony of things is this, i thought that the KL Tower restaurant would be a rather exquisite or if not, close to it because of the pricing and the locality but turns out that i was over expected. Like Mr. Kevin said, don’t assume because when you do, you make an “Ass” out of “U” and “Me” =D geddit geddit?

Of course having planned everything 2 weeks before, you sorta have that expectations that it will be a perfect night and your girlfriend will shine like the northern star because you are about to put your girlfriend on the spotlight when the waiter start singing the birthday song and pushing out the cake in a cart. I was eager to see how my girlfriend would react to the birthday surprise but about 30 minutes into dining, the pianist started to make a birthday announcement.

“So, there’s someone else celebrating their birthday today here as well” i thought to myself.

10minutes later, another birthday announcement and soon after, the announcements became a joke that my girlfriend and i laughed about because all of a sudden, everyone is celebrating their birthdays and the announcements came non-stop. I don’t want my girlfriend’s birthday surprise to be a joke T____T that would be memorable in the wrong way *waaaaaaa* at that moment, i am no longer enthusiastic.

Had an idea, went over to the Cashier’s counter and told them to bring in my girlfriend’s cake 30minutes before they close at 2300hrs. If she can’t be the only one celebrating her birthday there that night then let the announcement be the last, right when everyone left leaving just her and me. At the very least that is something worth remembering.

I made the pianist say out loud my girlfriend’s nickname too ^^! “Sui Bi”.

The End.