1 Day Trip to Johor Bahru #3

Now I am at the Hindu temple in Johor after visiting Glass Temple. It is located in the center of Johor town also quite near to the City Square Mall. In the late afternoon, the temple is crowded with a lot of prayers. 

There are a lot of flower stalls and India good stalls near the temple area.

1 Day Trip to Johor Bahru #2

This is the glass temple in Johor Bahru. I think it is a famous temple because I met a few groups of people from different parts of Malaysia. I have to say that it is a very colorful temple. There is a small fee for camera tax.

Christmas Night at Orchard Road

 

Today I was at Orchard Road again. I don't want to shoot Christmas Decoration, as everyone will shoot the same thing and get same photos. In order to be unique, I tried to do more street photos because there were so many people from around the world in Orchard road. You can shoot until your memory card full but don't make it too obvious. Your hand have to be very quick. ;)

1 Day Trip to Johor Bahru #1

 

On 28 of July 2012, I visited one day trip to Johor Bahru. I left Singapore about 7 am as it was Saturdays so the immigration could be busy. Normally, I visited Johor to go to City Square Mall where I enjoyed watching movie, eating and shopping. But this time, it was quite different. I joined a local guy who was kind enough to show us around the town by driving. He is also a photography enthusiastic about photography.

Our first destination of the day was to visit wet market. At first, I dared not take photo of the people in the market. I worried that I made them uncomfortable. However, that local guy knew some of the vendors and kept shooting in front of us. He made me more comfortable to shoot  and I got more photos than as I expected. Unlucky, I brought my compact camera on that days. It was really help because some of them didn't know that I was taking their photos. :)

Portrait Photography #4

  

I tested off-camera flash for this portrait session. However, I still don't know how to use properly. It is hard to get the right setting between camera and flash. I have to play with exposure from the camera and light power from the flash. I need to take a lot of photos to test. Some worked quite well but some didn't. Please leave a comment and criticize my photos so that I can improve. :)

Orchard Road Christmas Decoration 2012

Every year in November & December, the Orchard road is decorated with beautiful lights and Christmas trees.  It is really beautiful and gives us holiday feeling. The decoration is not the same for each year. This year is more on red and white color. I have been shooting this event for 3 consecutive years. Even thought it means not much for me, I hope people from other countries will like to see how Singapore welcome Christmas and Happy New Year.

Nan Gyi Toke

This Nan Gyi Toke was cooked last week Friday. The actual recipe uses chicken curry, but I used fish ball curry to make this. Mont Ti (rice noodle) is cheap and easy to buy in Singapore. You can buy it at any supermarket in Singapore. Compared to Burmese Mont Ti, Singapore Mont Ti is a bit hard so you need to boil it with hot water for a while.