Back from Holiday!

Wow, it has being such a great holiday. Climbing up the highest mountain in Southeast Asia, Mt Kinabalu was an enjoyable one. Anyone can climb this mountain, at age of 50 or even young primary school kids have no problem at all. Just make sure you are healthy and have no serious health problem. Enjoy the photos! The rest I will upload them to my online album.


My first time to board a budget airline.






Night scene of Kota Kinabalu city from Signal Hill


Street Stall - Fried Carrot Cake.


I had forgotten when I took this shot but it should be near the Mt Kinabalu Park HQ.


One of the many rest shelter along the way up the mountain.

Pitcher Plant, there are more bigger size pitcher plant around the locality. Can be as big as my open palm.


My tired legs taking a rest along the way up.


Reaching Pana Laban Lodges!


The beautiful sunset outside my lodge.


Next morning we start climbing up to the peak at 2.30am to catch the sunrise.


On top of Low’s Peak. The wind is so strong that I cannot smile properly. My hair is so long n I looked so weird My hand is blocking the word Kinabalu!




A steep climb.


South Peak.




Left – Ugly Sister Peak, Right – Donkey Ears Peak. There are some other peaks but I do not remember their names :P


St John Peak


Descending down the peak.

The entrance to climb up to the peak.

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A Snap Shot

A Snap Shot

Spotted a red Sun Bird in SBG the other day. Wanted to get more snap shots of it but I am too slow, or should I say my lens is slow. Bu the time I wanted to snap more, it flew away. I only managed to capture one photo, and it is only the body without its head… sad…



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Another morning in SBG

Another outing organized by some friends from ClubSNAP to Singapore Botanic Gardens. This time, it’s organized by Minolta user group. I see many kind of lenses. Macro lens are wonderful! I do not have a macro lens though. I think I am quite bad at taking macro photos.

At last, this time my bird photos are more presentable as I am using a monopod while shooting. Or else with my shaky hands, the images will be quite blur.









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At Last!

After 2 years and 2 months of waiting and serving the Singapore Arm Forces, today, I collected back my Pink IC! The time I had waited for had finally arrived and I can officially say I am now slacking at home.



I am so happy that I do not know what to say. Next week I will be also flying off to Saba to climb Mt. Kinabalu. Time for enjoyment!

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Sian Sian Sian… …

I felt so sian today. Whole day I do not feel very well at all. Evening, I went for a buffet dinner with my BMT mates at Ang Mo Kio. Eat until quite full. Later, I went to MS Color to buy my 49mm filter. I get to know the director there and she of course got give abit of discount to me. Then we chatted and she told me, I can sell my camera system in Australia and come back to Singapore and change a new system, Nikon or Canon.

That struck me. Change system? Minolta is actually a very good camera. It is so good that there are some features which outshine Canon and Nikon. But one down side of Minolta cameras, hard to find lens. If I were to choose between Canon and Nikon, what will I choose? I got am in no where. I like Canon technology which Nikon is still quite lagging behind, but I like Nikon lens which is quite good. I like Minolta because of its good technology and lens, especially legendary lenses people are holding onto.

I will still hold onto my Minolta for a while first until Sony comes out with my 7D replacement, and I shall see what I will decide. And maybe wait even longer for a Dynax 9 digital to surface. Minolta is acquired by Sony but it is still using Minolta system. Many people thinks, Sony, no good. But, do you know CCDs in many other brands camera are made by Sony? Wait wait, I shall wait and see how Sony makes its next step towards DSLR market.

I feel sick… I think I am going to fall sick soon.

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Portfolio

At last, after 2 days of struggling with my own portfolio album, with the help of 2 great friends, Dearnantiya and Abby, I had finally solve all the scripts problem and the page is in working condition. Viewed best in IE6 or later. Firefox, Netscape or any other browsers might have some problems in viewing.

y o k e c h y e p i c t o g r a p h is my temporary site until I found a better server.

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Haunted Hospital

Last morning, I went out with a group of Woodlanders for a photo shoot outing at an old Hospital. Some areas were quite eerie I must say. Not recommended to be viewed for those who have weak heart. Be prepared to have Goosebumps! No la… my photos are not that scary actually.

Very ambitious of me to load so many photos in my blog last time. Check it out in here.

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Mooncake Festival Fireworks at Clarke Quay

This evening, Yiling, Janet, Ash and me met up for dinner at Brewerkz. Along the way, we saw canisters of fireworks along the river near ORD Bridge. Weird, they called it the ORD Bridge. It’s the steel bridge behind Liang Court. Tonight, the weather was very hazy, can’t see clearly Swissôtel and UOB building. Visibility on the road is like only 400m. Haze + fireworks smoke = terrible.









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Happy Shooting II

Here are the Photos which I took with my film SLR. They are scanned from negatives. That’s the reason the photo does not look very nice. Very lazy to do much photoshop too. If you want to look at the nicer colored photos come to my house and look at my album loh. :P























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Happy Shooting I

Today, went to City Development at Republic Plaza 36th floor to collect 3 books of complimentary To Singapore with Love photo book for Ash, Laney and myself. I never expected it to be so thick and heavy. Hard cover somemore. Carry until my shoulder ache :s

Since I am in the CBD, I might as well make use of the time to shoot some photos before I meet Carol for dinner. At last, I can try out my film SLR, Minolta Dynax 7. I love full frame camera. My 17-35mm lens works wonder! I can see more and it is an advantage to shoot in tight areas and at the same time need wide angle to capture everything. I was shooting and smiling all the way. I will post some scanned photos after the photos are developed. I hope they will look presentable :P it is my first time shooting alone without digital aids and cannot preview if I had capture with correct exposures.

So nice of Carol to treat me for a belated birthday dinner. I told her I wanted to eat bak chor mee but she insisted that I should eat something better. Oh well, I had to obliged to her since she is the one paying. :P

I think I felt a bit feverish now. Dunno what happened. Maybe is due to the haze or the weather today. I better get to sleep soon or else tomorrow I really fall sick.

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