23rd National Day 2007 Series: The Wonderful Colours of National Day Part 2

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23rd National Day 2007 Series: The Wonderful Colours of National Day Part 1

23rd National Day 2007 Series: Young and Old Unite

Happy Chinese New Year - Gong Xi Fa Cai

I went down to BSB around 6 am to see the Chinese New Year celebration assuming that Bruneian, Anakbrunei and Ucingitam will be there too. I had to wait about two hours, went to check Jien Chiew but it was closed. I finally decided to stop by at Ignatius Stephen's cafe for breakfast. This was my first outing, a solo outing, after two weeks absence from the group and my first for Chinese New Year. When I arrived at the scene, I was not alone. They were scores of shutterbugs with big zoom lens, some I recognised, whom one of them was my wedding photographer three years ago. One shutterbug I spotted was holding a Hasselblad, a medium format camera. Now what happened when there were lots of us in one area? Everyone wants to take this angle, this shot and I tried my best to avoid that. Imagine this during a bigger event like the upcoming National Day. Anyway I will post up more pics in my slideshow in the next entry. Happy Chinese New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai !!

Kg.Ayer Series 2

I would love to tour Kg.Ayer again, maybe bring my family as well. These pictures are some wonderful sight you will see when you go around Kg.Ayer.

BSB from Kg.Ayer

Kg.Bolkiah houses

Traditional vs Modern Houses

I love this pic, view of the SOAS Mosque from Kg.Sumbiling.

To delete or not to delete

Shutterbug's worst case scenario, when you either run out of memory card or worst the battery, thats the case for going on a long outing.

Looking for the memory cards?? spare battery??

Kg Ayer Outing Series 2

Every houses we passed through, at least there would be people waving at us and the most excited are usually the children. I can feel there was a presence of warmth and friendliness within their smiles.

Kg Ayer Outing Series 1

This series shows the people of Kg.Ayer, the behind the scenes what goes along the Brunei river. This outing gave me a different perspective on Kg. Ayer, a close up look at the daily lives of its people.

A friendly wave from the Crab hunter

A typical "Merambat" scene

Left: Constructing the foundation of a new house.
Right: The Day's Catch

Left: Polishing up the boat.
Right: The Youth

Great Outing

First thing, thanks to Bruneian for giving us the opportunity to tour around Kg Ayer, it was sure a fun and memorable outing. This was my first time ever I went around Kg Ayer on a boat together with other photobloggers. We started off from Yayasan around 9 and finished at 1. I missed out on the Jinchu session because I had to help my wife first with the baby.

During the 4 hours tour, I had use all my memory cards, a total of 3 1/2 gb worth of RAW pics, thats more than 300 shots. I will upload some of the pics, still processing it. Also, this outing I met in person with Ber, Rezafaizal and joined by two ladies, one of whom was Anakbrunei's missus.

Updated:

Ok the long awaited pics are here, sorry guys for the delay. There are lots of pics to process since I have nearly 4 gb worth of pics and its hard to decide which one to upload.

The Boat Ride....nice and cosy

The Boat and The Captain....Roda Impian...where are the wheels??

The Shutterbugs Crew

Lago Azul

First stop of the outing last Tuesday with Anakbrunei, Bruneian, David Cheok, G-Ferro and Ucingitam. It was quite an unusual place but I was amazed by the colour of this lake. I didn't take long taking some pics of the lake. I spent too much time taking shots of the ground works nearby the lake.

Second Outing

I had my second outing last Wednesday with Anakbrunei, Gferro, David Cheok and Bruneian. We toured around parts of BSB which started off from Yayasan, then to Masjid SOAS, Tamu Kianggeh and Tambing.

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