Continue or Stop?

As a university student of business school, I learnt few things that it surprises me. Eavesdropping or not, nowadays people are so reluctant to study once they are mentally weak or unprepared to face the failure. What are they thinking? Is it all about certificate they worry? Is it all about who graduate faster the matter?

Put everything aside, I myself once thought of giving up studying because I believe myself I can make more money if I take that tuition fees to fund my business plan. I have told my parents before and I really push my time and effort to work on the business plan. However, I changed my mind after some lecture from my uncle. I learnt something that I never thought of and it drive me to continue my studies till now. The question is not how good you can score in your studies, but do you have set of skills that can offer to the world. I believe skills do not refer to knowledge only but experience as well.

To be truth, I learnt more about myself and my surrounding better than the business course I studying right now. I not sure if this applied to engineer or other courses but in my case it does. The most important thing that I can learn beside the course I took is about dealing with people. Let’s just say you have group assignment, how you will do about it? What role you will you take? A leader? A Follower? A Motivator? The most important, how do you adapt to the environment you never been before? How do you deal with difficult people? Do you ever think of your own behavior can affect the outcome of the group performance?

Are all the above questions important to me? I will say YES! Can you learn from book? If not, where can you learn yet you can be forgiven if you perform poorly? There is no better answer than in University. Think of two situations! Trial/test and Real Life situation. Trial is meant to be forgiven and you can attempt over and over but it is different case if it is in real life situation.

As long you work in a group, either in presentation or writing report. How do you make the decision? How to reach consensus if there are certain arguments? Does everyone happy with your leadership or roles you took? I took a leadership role before, five members, four to be from different city, one is foreigner and we been ups and downs together, and I gained lots of experience from it. Significant event are when I have to make decisions and get everyone to reach a consensus. It is not an easy task for me as it is my first time; I have to take many responsibilities and take account of everyone involved. It is not about me, but WE as a Group.

To answers all above questions, you have to ask your teammates/group mates to give feedback about your contribution to the group and observe how they behave to you in return. There is one characteristic that will be dislike by most people, which is Arrogant. Everyone have strengths and weaknesses and I believe its hurt to accept the truth about your own weakness. In my case, I am glad to know my own weaknesses because I can work on it.

The best moment is when you shine. Everyone will notice you. Focus on your strength; acknowledge your own weakness and put attention to it, you may turn your weakness into strength.

Photo sharing websites

Good day everyone, as a photographer, I love to share my pictures and view on them anytime I want. Year ago, I registered account in each photo sharing website such as photobucket, imageshack, picasa, flickr and others that I can’t remember the name.

As a user of photo sharing online, none of them are more user friendly than Flickr. I still can’t forget the moment I register Flickr and play with it. It’s just so easy to set up and upload, what’s more! It’s had a large community and groups to join. With its interface, I fall in love with it until I reach the maximum limit of free account. I feel kind of angry with it because it limits my photos not more than 200 pictures, anything beyond will be unseen.

After few days of thoughts and experiments which photo sharing website should I purchase as my portfolio, without a doubt I choose Flickr.

My Flickr Account, bought it @ USD24.99 for 1 Year, no regret ever!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/david900924/

My new gear !! Strobist!

Hi guys, it’s been a long time I didn't update my blog due to my unplanned schedule and assignments that rush me all day long. I want to introduce my new gear that will change the way the photo looks and it is also the hardest tools to master. In photography terms, it is called strobist, which also mean off-camera flash.

Do you have problems with the harsh light or very flat photo when you shoot with your camera phone's LED or on-camera flash? Do you hate taking photo when the sunlight is too bright until the subject have too much shadow?. Well, it’s not a matter anymore if you can master the off-camera flash techniques with the right setting.



I bought this from a nice gentleman who turns up to be a secondary school teacher, part time lecturer on weekend and also a photographer with experience of 7 years. He taught me a lot of techniques I can achieve when I enter to the strobist photography world.


Off-camera flash photo.


Ok. I will lets the pictures do the talk. I run 2 tests for it.


Test 1:

This is normal exposure without flash. (look how bright is the light in the sky until the upper part of the plastic bottle color over exposed)


This is manual setting with off-camera flash. the colour just right


Test 2:




Both of this photos are without flash...look how under exposed is the subject when sunlight is in front of me.




This is using off-camera flash... I know it might not have good lighting but this is to show that sun light is not the limitation for portrait outdoor photo shoot :D
If you compare, this 2 have light on wall n subject while the above 2 actually Not.

Light Trail

Hi guys,I took all these shots from pedestrian bridge.. you will find each pic with distracting bright light..or it might appear to be attractive to some1 perhaps? I edit all the pics in lightroom with blackness n exposure. Might take this photos again when I can meet the dusk.

Composing a badminton related video

Composing multiple videos into this 9 minutes length video clip. Actually I did this for my friend's friend's friend..yeah .The best part of making this is recognize my own wrongdoing while learning n improve at same time.

Self-serving bias

Self-serving bias. What does it mean? It’s mean “the common human tendency to attribute one’s successes to personal characteristics, and one’s failures to factors beyond one’s control. The reason people tend to personalize success is because it helps their self-esteem levels. Most people demonstrate this behavior on a regular basis. It is human nature to take credit for things like an A on a test or a job well done at work. It is also human nature to avoid responsibility entirely for mistakes or problems”.(quote from http://psychcentral.com/encyclopedia/2009/self-serving-bias/)

I realized that this is more common to happen around us. For example, as a student, when you get low expectation mark, you have tendency to blame your lecturer teaching skills or blame the subject for been difficult than your own understanding of the subject you took.

The term "self-serving bias" is most often used to describe a pattern of biased causal inference, in which praise or blame depend on whether success or failure was achieved. For example, a student who gets a good grade on an exam might say, "I got an A because I am intelligent and I studied hard!" whereas a student who does poorly on an exam might say, "The teacher gave me an F because he does not like me!" When someone strategically strives to facilitate external causes for their poor performance (so that they will subsequently have a means to avoid blaming themselves for failure), it may be labeled self-handicapping (Wikipedia)

What is self-handicapping?

Self-handicapping is described as an action or choice which prevents a person from being responsible for failure. Self-handicapping behaviour allows individuals to externalise failures but internalise success; accepting credit for achievements, but allowing excuses for failings. Self-handicapping can be seen as a method of preserving self-esteem but it can also be used for self-enhancement. People may self-handicap to manage the impressions of others, or of themselves.
For example, if you weak in Mathematic subject, you will tell yourself you can’t get any better even if you put much effort on it. So before the day of your examination, you have tendency to play rather than studying.

How does self-handicapping happen?

Relation to Mood

Previous research has looked at the consequences of self-handicapping and have suggested that self-handicapping leads to a more positive mood (at least in the short term).However, based on past evidence that positive mood motivates self-protective attributions for success and failure and increases the avoidance of negative feedback, recent research has focused on mood as an antecedent to self-handicapping; expecting positive mood to increase self-handicapping behaviour. Results have shown that people who are in positive mood are more likely to engage in self-handicapping, even at the cost of jeopardizing future performance (Wikipedia).
This is true; we always wanted to stay in our own comfort zone if possible. There’s why we give lots of reasons to avoid anything that will discomfort us.

What is illusory superiority?

According to Wikipedia, the effects of illusory superiority have also been found to be strongest when people rate themselves on abilities at which they are totally incompetent. These subjects have the greatest disparity between their actual performance (at the low end of the distribution) and their self-rating (placing themselves above average). This Dunning–Kruger effect is interpreted as a lack of metacognitive ability to recognize their own incompetence.

Now what is metacognitive?

Metacognition refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them, e.g., the learning-relevant properties of information or data. For example, I am engaging in metacognition if I notice that I am having more trouble learning A than B; if it strikes me that I should double check C before accepting it as fact. (J. H. Flavell 1976, p. 232)

Back to the topic, people who are Self-serving bias tendency to be have more hatred in them. Why? For example, when you did something wrong and your superior advice you and you found it disinterested you and in fact you hate him/her after that incident happened. This is because you reject to accept the fact and you blame the people who discipline you. You want to twist the fact that you did nothing wrong to make yourself feel better. Now, ask yourself, how you learn to improve in life or what do you learn from that kind of attitude? Again, what does comment/feedback and critiques means to you? How you take it?

“who are you?”

I have been thinking this question in my head for couples of months since my lecture ask me to think about it during our class activity. Instantly, I get excited to dig up my past.

Reflecting back what I loved to do as a child, I love to see people happy with what I doing and involving earning money. That’s one of the reason I always give away what I have in exchange for their friendship. Their smiles and compliments are the reason I want to live for another day. Even as now, I still helping my friends solving sort of problems. When I was young, I am total failure when it’s come to academic no matter how much effort I put in, I just fail over and over for many years. I have been trauma by my failures back then; it’s hard for me to get my confidence back. O coz I'm different now than before.

I don’t believe in myself even when my friends compliment me. I never took it seriously because I thought they just purposely want to cheer me up with those encouraging words. But what if there are same compliments more than 5 times, and from different people? Seriously I shed tears of happiness when one of my friend talk how capable I am in certain areas for more than a minute during our outing with his friend that I not known that day.

I find myself pondering, am I that good? I love what my passion lead me to, I can never get bored or tired over it as long my passion burn inside me. For the first time ever in my life, I get out from my comfort zone just for the love of photography. Why? Because I go where my passion flow, that’s how I get my inspiration.

Most people around me give me a simple question yet difficult at the same time. Some of the questions were asked was “why accounting and not computer science, “I thought u taking business but accounting? and “are you taking the right course”? I always answer them right away “why I need to take a course for business/cook/photography when managing money is the most important thing to do to achieve self-actualization. The saddest part of me choosing the accounting path is that, everyone aspect me to walk into audit firm to work after graduate. I never set that in my mind, that’s why I can’t answer where I will work. Perhaps I should consider to walk into audit firm, but still.. l wondering do I have choices or options to choose?

Random post #2

I realized that studying in University is not all about been profession in one significant subject but rather the journey. Such as handling different kinds of people, and utilize the available resources to the max.

I admit that I am inexperience in working world but the three weeks internship, make me realize of my misconception in my early days, I always presume that people who pursuit their study in their course or job because of their interest in that field, but it’s not. It’s all about money in the first place. I never thought of taking auditor job in the first place after I graduate, I always thought of mastering the money flow and to improve my abilities, but do I have a choice? It is hard to say.

In the modernize world, everything get competitive and tough to survive. It’s like living as a modern soldier, where wisdom is your weapon. I believe everyone who is healthy is born natural knowing nothing and they might inherit some talent. You don’t tell me you are dumb at memorizing because of other reasons. I presume reasons are just a wall around you; you put a limit to yourself. Why? Basically I think it is because of past bad experience. Else, tell me why you can read and write?

I once attend a seminar, they told me passion is what you need to have and you have to love at what you doing. I am strongly agreed, because only passion can truly motivate a person and their enthusiasm will be notice. But is this been practice? No, why? Because of money again, from what I experience from my peers, they are force to make the passion out of what they doing, even though they are not happy but they have no choice. For example, some people who like drawing but been advised by their parents to take accountancy path. If money is not the factor, will that even been happen? I believe the answer is NO.. after all, it is about been employ in the firm that they concern the most.

False passion, fake motivation, and you will see some people who posting at facebook about why they dislike Monday.

But the question is what money actually gives? There’s no doubt, its mean a lots such as security, status, and power and its sacrifice everything in exchange for it (That’s life; you have to sacrifice in order to gain). I have seen it and experience it sadly that’s how most people abuse and visions it. We are given two choices, find happiness within ourselves, and find happiness in possession.

God Bless Humanity.

Random post

Nowadays, most people are just getting careless about money; inflation does not affect much on these people. They are moving to the other way, what I try to say is that inflation should be change the lifestyle of household by saving or control expenses, but in this current society, it’s does not affect teenagers at all. What happen? Based on my observation, the only suitable answer is “hipster”.

Why are people chasing technology? As in buying the latest gadgets such as iphone, upgrade computer parts yet they know they have limited money and many other alternative thing to spend? Why choose to be poor by buying because of hipster when you can stay wealth by avoid this bandwagon?

The question is why finding happiness in an object rather than inner self?

How far can you explain the word “happy” in your life?

There’s actually different between rich and poor people, rich people can buy because they can and they still rich. Whereas, poor people have to go through installments, loan to join the bandwagon. What are the differences? Rich people buy because they can, and poor people buy because they want to obtain “rich status”. By common sense, why you sell your land in order to obtain something that will change other people impression on you but that “something” will depreciate in long term? Dumb?
Most rural area or small town are not affecting strongly by this hipster trend but gradually WILL in slow pace.

At the end of the day, every people have their own interest, if a person prefer phone, then he/she will spend more on that, if a person prefer car, he will spend more on that, unlike them, I love to have these baby in future..my dream lens, omg I am so poison by it :D:D yea, that was my interest.

Going to cut my daily expenses for this drooling glass baby

DIY “DryBox”

Electronic Moisture Absorber + HYGROMETER + Airtight container

Today I got my octopus moisture absorber for RM70 at lowyat.net, this is budget style of keeping DSLR in good condition from fungus.

Good thing about this product is rechargeable, save money in long term, and no need to buy those “thirsty hippo” thingy.

Because of its portability, you can even use for traveling by putting it in your camera bag, how convenience :)



(the silica gel in the middle)Red color indicate the need to recharge, only blue color is ready to use.

updated

Sup guys, I have been away from blogging for a long time because there are so many things happening every week. At first, I realize that most call, sms and emails mostly related to academic assignment.. Sleepless for many nights, even have to wake up at 3am for several days. But the truth is that I always mess up with my time, heck I don’t even plan what I going to do an hour later… I always want to do a schedule but I don’t feel like doing it.

The best moment happen yesterday was that all my presentations in this semester are over!! Yeaaaaah!! Now can concentrate on my last assignment and revise for my 2 final papers…

After final can go enjoy and take pictures :D in Singapore..can’t wait to enter universal studios Singapore.fuhh
Last but not least, going to watch Harry Potter TOMOLO n ala carte buffet!!

Does culture affect us?

Often, when I login into my facebook, I see lots of my friends express displeasure on their assignments and exams due to time constraint or uncooperative team members. It is understandable because I myself have been gone through those tough times.

I believe it is my country that screws up the education teaching styles. Thinking back, I can lay back during the primary and secondary school. But now, university is totally reverse from what I experience back then.

I finally understand a bit why some local students went abroad for future studies rather than doing it locally. Malaysia culture can affect us mentally and physically, which is on the disadvantage side. Why culture so important? Because we grown by how we brought up and not to forget school is our second home where we spend hours on it. Ever wonder why some people like to take work home? According to au news, generation Y is the cause; further read :http://www.news.com.au/business/were-cutting-our-hours-but-taking-work-home-thanks-to-generation-y-influence/story-e6frfm1i-1225929733368

Living in slow pace country really suffers us in the future. It is better not to follow them but it is difficult to change too.. However it is possible as long we know what best for us.

Badminton racquet's

My friend Han bought a new badminton racquet last week. It cost him RM220+ include grip and string. (li ning HC1000A, Yonex BG65 titanium). He is so crazy with his obsession to the badminton sports. Keep bugging me for few days about the stencil ink. To be true, even yonex distributor in Malaysia doesn’t sell it and only can get in Singapore or UK/US.



Before the yonex stencil ink


After the ink

But that doesn’t stop my friend’s persistent. Moreover, he told me that badminton racquet is like a life to him. Luckily I came out with an idea by replacing the stencil ink with permanent marker. Lolz.. I don’t know it will shorten the life span of the string but as long he is happy, I will be glad.

What the Fish!?!

So today is 13th and 15th of August will be a farewell day to Sibu and Welcome back to Kuching again. Before leaving Sibu, we had our last meal together in café-café again, we order the usual food which was delicious, the best mee mamak and side dish.


Plum sauce chicken


Mushroom soup


Mango Ice cream

After that we go catch fish, or tadpole because I myself can’t differential it. But 1 thing I know, we look stupid with dustpan and big scissor to catch fishes.

WTF are they holding?



Do you know dustpan can use for this too?


This what we do next..

more spot to catch haha..but mostly all small size only.


filter the fish out from the water. so that we can transfer them into new water. I know its look kinda fail lolz. no offense to fish lover.

closer view lolz.


yea new home, but sadly some dead in the filter process.

Taman Rimba Bukit Lima

The entrance taken from inside


Welcome board

This morning my father and I went out to the reserve forest park located in Sibu. It is difficult to reach as there no much signboard but somehow we manage to find it. Most of the people went there to exercise coz you can feel and breathe the nature surrounding, what can you expect from forest?

Well, when I keep moving on, I kind of feel like finish the track for once without questioning myself how far it is. As I keep moving, I can feel it is never end, there’s no arrow pointing, but luckily theres number mark on the wood. Unfortunately, it is mark how far have you walk, not how far before you reach the exit. Anyway it is a good exercise for my legs after sitting at home for so long. I finish the track and I can assume it is 6km.


A long journey


along the way


Trying to do macro shot


Rainbow on the bottom haha :D theres no editing in this pic except saturation color.


Global warming!!

more pictures click here

Another day of my life

So the wait for the bag have ended, been waiting for a week, every email that I request for a simple thing, they keep reply me “we will do our best”. All I want to ask is tracking number, nothing else and they can’t answer my simple request due to the fact that it is supplier who sends it to me, not the seller.

front view

view from the top

the comfortable straps

Human do mistake, so do my seller who have some kind of “mistake” which she suppose to send out my parcel on Monday but delay till Thursday. What I want to say is that we can’t expect anything to be arrived on time, and we need lots of patient to deal with robot’s reply.

During the evening time, Kuok Han and I go find some mee mamak to eat but sadly none of the restaurant we went open at 2pm. However that didn’t stop our hunger for food, so we go to supermarket and buy some uncooked food to be cook.

Nowadays, it is easy to make a cake with this

using 1/3 of the mixed flour. thats y its look very thin.


Hot and Spicy chickenz


So, today Kuok Han and I do cooking in the kitchen. We have fried chickens, friend fries, and coffee cake. All for less than RM20. Enjoice very much.

The impact of Iphone

Iphone, What the worse thing about it is that you can see the haters all around the forum nowadays.

What the iphone user said:

-when you want to book a table in a fancy restaurant, you can book it thru your iPhone.
-when you want to check in your flight, you can check in using you iPhone.
-when you want to read a magazine, you can read em thru your iPhone.
-the possibilities are endless with the iPhone capabilities.
-iPhone is thruly a winrar phone. have you gotten your iPhone today?
-the android platform is an imitation of the apple's. apple is the leader who leads the innovation, others are all just followers.
-iPhone is for educated people who appreciate good stuff in life. If u always careless, don't bother.

-I seriously don't get the appeal of blackberries (in the consumer space). They are OUTCLASSED by everything from iphone/Andriod/Palm. I get it, with the business space (security, work issued, mandatory etc). But I know A LOT of people that have them as personal phones. I'd say more than half of status updates are tagged from a blackberry. And I have no idea why.

-I think they sell for two reasons, A) Ignorant non professional folks who THINK that by having a blackberry makes them look grown up and PROFESSIONAL. B) Those same non professional people who crave to look professional are on a shoe string budget and like the idea of free messaging with BBM.

-Oh yeah, you're a BB user aren't you? You can throw that piece of crap out of your window now.

What the haters said about it:

-android phones also can.

Yeah, it is to say iphone is superior gadget, with the saying goes ”There's an app for that too”. The question is will you hoop into bandwagon also.