Solo Portraiture

Kota Tinggi - Desaru, Johor.

This was a solo portraiture of my old friend, Fitriyana (a.k.a ET). As usual, for every post that I make, there's a story behind it. So, the story behind this photo shoot basically brought me through things that are unfortunate for me on that day.

My friend here, ET, invited me to come over to here house for a very important and special occasion (which I'm not gonna tell y'all directly, or maybe I won't tell at all. haha..). It was Sunday and usually I play badminton with Habib and Ayu (and some other friends) early in the morning, but we didn't because Habib's hand was injured (don't know how though). So, I agreed on her invitation, and eventually came over to her house.

But before arriving to her home, I faced through lots of ordeals. The story goes like this:

She lives in Kota Tinggi; to reach there via highway would take about 45 minutes. The "special occasion" starts at 10am, so I took off from JB at 8.30am. At that time my phone's battery had 3 bars, so I thought that should be enough for a day. Once I was on my way, my dad called. During the conversation, my phone alarmed me with a low battery tone. I knew I can't turn back, so I continued driving, changed the profile to silent and switch to power saver. As I was traveling on the highway, I took the exit to Kota Tinggi. Basically, it was the wrong exit. She told me that I was supposed to take the Desaru exit. I had no choice but to stick with the path I was on. From Kota Tinggi to her house at Desaru would take more than 45 minutes, at that time it was already 9.15am. She told me to head to Desaru and search for a white mosque on the right and turn right from there. I drove very fast just to catch the time left. Then, without realizing, I had passed the mosque. Even though I didn't notice it, I still headed straight and still searched for the mosque till I reached Mersing. Only then I realized I was really lost. By that time it was already 10.45am. I knew I was in deep s***t. I turned back, had to travel 140km to Desaru. Damn! I called her, used the GPS, then end up with a dead battery. Damn! I did stopped by a near petrol station just to charge my battery for a while. When the battery went dead again, I had to stopped somewhere just to charge it. Then eventually, after calling and texting several times, I reached her house. Obviously, the "occasion" already ended, and I arrived very very late. It was 2 pm when I arrived. I felt very ashamed with myself and with her family and other people that were there. I didn't know where to put my face.

Just imagine, lost for 6 hours. Its the same amount of time to travel to Perak (kot!). >_<
I had to make it up for ET, so I continued with the original plan, which was to take photos of her. So, here are my shots.

P/s: I am very and truly sorry ET! huhu

Aidilfitri 2011 - Kakak Ina

Skudai, Johor.

This post was supposed to be posted during the month of Syawal, but somehow I forgot about it. haha.. So, what the heck. This is Kak Ina, she was my dad's former masters student. She's now married and have two wonderful identical sons (twins). She's a close friend to my family. She paid a visit to our house during the month of Syawal. It had been a while since the last time she came. She was supposed to come with her husband, but somehow her husband was busy with something at UTM. So she came alone. While she was visiting, my mom asked me to snap some photos.

So, here are the shots. (not much though) ^^,

Guitars

Cheras - Kuala Lumpur.

On my previous post, I wrote about the post-graduation photo shoot and in that post I mentioned that I was gonna go to KL with my family that afternoon. So, this is a continuity post from that previous one. My family and I reached Mak Uteh's house before midnight. The next morning, my dad realized that there was a guitar kapuk in the living room. Then (somehow) one of my cousin brought out his electric guitar. I've never knew that electric guitar could be so loud to play. haha.. So I thought it would interesting to shoot at. ^^,

Here are some shots, but click the link to check out more, but there's not much though, I only took several shots. ^^,

Post-Graduation Photo Shoot

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Skudai), Johor.

This was an unplanned photo shoot actually. The original plan was to meet Anis at 11am to transfer photos that were taken during Bak and Ida Kenduri Kahwin. Basically, last night I slept late and didn't have much rest, so I took the time before 11am to cover it. But then Anis called me approximately at 10am, asked me if I could take some post-graduation photos of her. Surely she was gonna pay me, so I said yeah why not. But before that I wanted to fix my car's alignment at a Proton's workshop as I was planning to go to KL with my family that afternoon. It was Friday, so I had to make much of the time before Jumaat's Prayer. It was kind of a rush, but fortunately everything went pretty well.

After my car's alignment was fixed, I headed straight to UTM and met with Anis and Abg Syahrul. Then transferred the pictures, then immediately headed to our shooting locations. We had three places to shoot at; the first one was at the UTM's main lake, the second one was at the UTM's main entrance and the last one was at the side yard of UTM's mosque.

Then after settling all the shootings, Anis bought me and Abg Syahrul some nasi beryani for lunch. Alhamdulillah, I felt very thankful. ^^,

Here are the shots. ^^,