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Ariff's new ride!

Salam and hello everybody. This past two weeks has been quite a journey for me, and i do call it the highlight of my life. Everything was just bright starting from the beginning and it just going more brighter. Well its started when I really having this criminal and wonderful mind to get a new car for learning and modifying process. Previous car was Corolla KE70 and Myvi and i do think it is insufficient for me to learn all about drifting stuff as it was just a plain comfortable daily car (as for myvi).

Planning was to get a 2-door FR car as i was dreaming to own this type of car since 7-8 years ago. Been looking for a while to get the right one. With initial budgets like RM40k, I planned to get a Nissan Silvia S13 as a start, as i like the old sports car look. The best was I get an original Type X for that but god knows its hard to find it here in Malaysia.

Having a car-related discussion with my facebook friends and searching up some forum, i was crazily excited to know that the car was in my budget range, but only with certain contacts because to search it in Mudah or any web ads, the price was ridiculously high. So I went and look for a lot of car within my budget range...

Having to read Freedom-Spec posts about a car to choose, he wrote that its either A31 or JZX81. Can't find the links yet but if you search around you'll find it. He wrote about the pro's and con's of getting both two and it made up my mind. I love 'em both. Haha

Opting to find this type of car like the C33 Laurel is tough choice, because you can't get it in Malaysia. Tough to find. But on the bright side, it has the almost everything you can fit from A31 and R32. Since a lot of halfcut of those car in Malaysia are lying around in the shops, It made up my mind once more. Love to get the C33 too! HAHA

But then again, my hearts wholeheartedly attach to this 180sx. Sleek bodyline, almost timeless design, a lot of standard spare parts lying around, plus halfcut wasnt expensive either. I was in trippy condition to get which car to own for a first time.

JZX90 was good car to choose too. Almost timeless design, big and bulky, just the way i like it, on a car. Not on a girl. haha. So one day I made up my mind.. I opt to get what I want. But recently due to budget cuts, just having the budget range of only RM20k.. Once again i need to have a research and talks with my friends. So down they're you have it.. my 2 weeks plan in one single blogposts.

Today was a good day, blue sky, scorching hot sunny day, perfect day to runaround my hometown to look for a A31. But for deducting quite of time, I went for Mudah.My instead. Searching there was a lot easier but at the same time, pricey!

Went to look at this ads in Mudah... It has RB20DET in it, with a lot of ++ parts, so I decided to call the owner to talk about it...

The car looks more like this, but this belongs to my friends... Standard bodykit, GTT rims and RB20DET with coilovers all around.... Call the owner only to know that the car was sold.. DAMN!

So I decided to look for another cefiro in the Mudah and found this.. The price offered was RM17,000. Went to look for the condition before saying much about it.

It has the RB20DE powerplant, with a stock standard everything. Owned by small time kedai makan businessman, plans to sell it to renovate his shop (katanyalah).. Just plain simple and beautiful isn't it?

After a lot of talks about the car, it has some downside about it, the powerplant is NA and the transmission is Automatic. But the price offered was utterly low. After much consideration with the owner and advice from friends from facebook and asked a lot about of thought to my dad.....

Finally I'm the new owner of the car! YEAY! If you look closer, that is Mini ME! haha.

Going to update soon about the car in the next post!

Nunin.

Nunin. Pity her.

Photographer sekalian.

The bride's silhouette, Kuantan, April 2008

I was stumbled upon the the email message i received. It has brought to my attention that photographers nowadays tends to grow a bit lame and unoriginal. I did not write it here because i'm being cynical or what, but, its what people do nowadays. Writing about all the not 'ease-at-heart' thingy. Ok here we go again.

The message i'd received was about the seminar, the millionaire photographer, Saiful Nang gonna do it in one months time. Its all about Professional Photography costing. Yeah. Costing. This is one of main reason why people quit their job and start off as a Freelance/Part time photographer. This is what the message shows. Originally send to me from Pak Tarm from CandidSyndrome. You can also read it at saiful nang blog.

"Some fulltimers in photography industry were badly shocked with the flood of thousands of freelance / part time photographers in our local scene. They are partimers who earned RM2-4k a month and just take a photography assignment to make an extra money in the weekend. They don’t really mind about the charges. As for the full timers, they put their life and effort to focus in photography. That’s their bread and butter. More full timers now back to their old job…they started to work elsewhere again instead of being the player of the industry. They can’t afford to be a full timers that need to compete with a part timers who don’t have big overhead.

People may think…less is better, less competition. But for me…you will run faster if others are chasing u. Thank God, I’m not so much affected by that phenomena, but I’m really sad looking at some good and talented photographers start to starve. They are jobless due to the freelancers around that really don’t know how to charge appropriate amount. Appropriate means…a fair price. Not too expensive and not too cheap. By charging appropriate amount, they can grow-up their career and at the same time…not killing others’ life (career).

It’s a good thing to happen if you’re thinking in a clients’ shoes. However, in the long run…you’ll find the good and talented photographers will slowly faded. They’ll be out of the scenes anymore. They can’t afford to take photography as their bread and butter. Then…we’ll be just like what we used to be 10 years ago. The time we have to import good photographers from Australia, Thailand, Indonesia and even from USA and pay them USD10-20k just because you want the quality.

Now, they (fulltime professional) have the quality but they need a full focus doing nothing else then photography. By that, they can grow their artistic skills, quality services and more that will please you.

Please ask yourself…what do you really want now. A cheap and bad quality or slightly more expensive but come with quality and commitment? This workshop is to educate more people the right way to do costing so they will not OVERCHARGE (good news for clients) and in the other hand…not to UNDERCHARGED (bad news to us). But getting it in a good balance…it’s fair for all people. Fair for me and fair for you."

Hope you read it. And understand what do people do nowadays, which is, sometimes, we as a regular human being, forgot what we do, and we tend to hurt others. In this case, some people overcharged their job and to tell you the truth, i've seen things very ugly, but this unparticular photographer's work are a LOT uglier.

Some were even my friend's friend's friend, some are the totally typical myspacers,and one guy used to be my idol. Lucky me, its stay only for a while. A while!. ha ha. and often i surf the internet, i've seen godawful wedding picture. I know there is no right for me to judge the photographer but clearly, you can see difference between the 'do for money and get paid a lot' and the 'do for passion for arts and get a lot'.

I've seen people shoot beautiful photograph and there was a lot of nice comment like "oh, nice!" and "OMG, speechless" and whatnot. Found out that beautiful photograph was not properly composed, and just because they used big-named camera like, Nikon D700 or Canon 5D and big-named lens like nikon/canon 50mm f1.2 and 70-200 L lens, doesn't mean they are properly composed picture. And just because there were a massive beautiful bokeh in the back of subject, this photo was agreed to be "Beautiful".

Oh come on brotha! Do learn all about Photography ideology and it will show you the 'beautiful' that you mean. Not the typical 'beautiful' or B-E-A -"UTIFUL". Bla bla bla.

Im writing this in RED just to remind you. I'm not really good at photography but after a quite sometime hanging out with the Pros, and spend most of my time on searching the greatest wedding or anything photograph, i'd found out how to see and compared the differences between the good and the not good picture. All right then.

A lot of things happened after the DSLR getting cheaper. If you asked me, yes, its good for Nikon and Canon or whatsoever but the thing is, this DSLR will often lead you to disaster. You see, what the worst thing could happen in Malaysia is, everybody going to have a DSLR. And then, something familliar happen, all people will shoot all people. And there will have a lot of cheaper, low quality photography accesories. And this will lead to the uncommon things like we used to see, become common; and typical.

As a regular human being, i was self-taught myself and my family about being uncommon rather than being the different person, same personality. This problem will cause myself to self distructing. You can't even stand to see that huge crowd wears the same thing that you wear did you?, so that what would happen to me. Think again my friend.

nunin.

"Hai blrrrpppppp"

Hai nama saya Nunin. Saya baru beberapa bulan. Belakang tu abang baru saya. Dia dah tua dah. Tapi belum sweeet 16 lagi. Dia suka pijak saya kalau dia geram. Mata dia biru. Mata saya kuning. Saya tak reti langsung duduk diam. Lihat lidah saya :P

Awak all nak tau satu rahsia abang saya tak?. Dia dah 8 tahun tinggal kat rumah tuan dia, tapi seekor tikus pun tak pernah tangkap. Burung ada la banyakbanyak sikit. Tapi kan, haritu, baru seminggu saya tinggal kat rumah dia, dah tangkap satu ekor tikus muncung playar tirus. Best kan.

lagi satu kan, abang saya tu, dia sombong gila ngan orang tapi jinak. bila orang panggil dia buat taktau je. Dia tengok orang tu pastu dia jilat tangan dia. Tuan dia yang hensem tu rasa nak lempang je si abang ni.

Ok itu saja. Saya baru berat 1 kilo lebih. Merasa lah saya sebab Tuan baru saya dua orang baru kahwin and besar2 gedabak macam train. ok bye bye