Another Day In Pain-dise

Final day in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Well, we had only a few hours in Phnom Penh. Plenty of food I haven't try, it's kind of sad. This day was a painful one. Painful stories, painful bus trip, lunchless pain. My first time having that much bread in just a few days. That should explain the title.

I love the weather there. That morning, I woke up to a really loud music around 5:00a.m. "What the heck?!", I thought. Then later found out that there's a wedding right opposite our hotel.


This image is blurred due to the zooming during the rather slow-shutter shot. I turned the lens by accident, but like this shot more than the normal one.

And then we were off to see the wiz... No, uh, to the Genocidal Museum.



Whatever happened there was very bad, inhuman. What some people would do to others for anything, sometimes I just don't understand.

This room had its own story. There are a few buildings, loads of stories to be told. A rather depressing place.

Right after that, we visited the Genocidal Center.


It's a beautiful place, but more sad stories. Mass killing graves everywhere.

The many skulls inside the building. The number of skulls in this image is like, maybe only 2% of all the skulls you can find inside this building.

A few weeks back, around the time I came back from this Cambodia trip, I saw a news. "Killing Fields" trial to start 30 years after the fall of Pol Pot.

Enough of sad stories for now. Left the sad place, rented a "tuk-tuk" to scout for lunch.


Despite being a tourism spot, these guys gave me a feeling that they're not very used to tourists. I wonder why. Or maybe it's just weird to shoot at anything.


Even in Cambodia, can find Klang Bah Kut Teh. We didn't eat that, we never had anything for lunch that day. Scouting fail.

And then, we said bye-bye to Phnom Penh and headed to our next destination, Siam Reap. A truly awesome place.
Of course, that will be in the next update. lol~
AaronWoolala out!

The Cambodia Story

Chinese New Year is almost over now. This year's holiday is rather boring, no? You know how people like to gather and play card games during Chinese New Year. I hate card games, but to some, Chinese New Year is all about playing card games, so instead of going to people's place and watch them play, I stayed home. And, since I have nothing much to do at home, I ate like no one's business. Strange though, I did not put on any extra weight.

I went on a trip to Cambodia with a bunch of friends, just before Chinese New Year. It's very much different from what I had expected, especially the weather. It's always cooling there. Their traffic system, is different from ours. I took a while to adjust to their left-hand side driving. Traffic is chaotic, and they really just cross the roads, and the number of honks one driver do in a day, is more than the number of honks I did since I 1st touched a car, and I think more than I would ever do in a lifetime. They honk at almost every car. Perhaps it's like a greeting? Or it's to alert the others of their presence?

Pictures time! Just a few that I shot during Day One of the trip - Phnom Penh.

What do the clouds look like to you?

Cheapest transportation you can get in Cambodia. They call it "tuk-tuk", known to us as auto rickshaw. Click on that link for more info on tuk-tuk.

Our first meal in Cambodia, is Khmer food, in a rather expensive shop - Khmer Saravan if not mistaken.

Angkor Beer, it's better than Skol, I think. lol~ At least the Angkor Wat logo looks nicer.

Plain white rice.

Amok Fish. Amok is a very tasty curry-type food. I love curry!

Sour Soup. What's in it? I think you can roughly guess from the picture.
It's a fish soup, so it tastes like the teo-chew-steamed-fish's sauce.

After dinner, we walked around town and shot pictures of almost everything. Also during this time, five out of seven of us complained about the cold temperature.

The Royal Palace. One out of many shots.

While our photo-shooting session, we noticed many people staring at us. It got worse when we lined up the cameras and flashes to shoot a group photo. Maybe it's because all 7 of us carried DSLRs.

And then, it was snack-time. What kind of snacks do they have? We spotted a shop and went to check it out.


Oh yeah! They sell quite a lot of stuff, sea-crawlers, creepy-crawlies.


This is a Tarantula spider, fried? It tastes better than I thought, kind of like dried meat. Click on the link for more info on dried meat.

We also ate crickets. I forgot to try their snakes, couldn't find scorpions. What a waste. Anyway, this blog-post ends here. Until the next update, have a good day!

Woolala~

Jingle all the way~

Tomorrow is Christmas! So I'm going to fill my blog with some Xmas mood. :D
A little something I shot in One Utama and The Curve with Firewire.

There are a lot more shots, but these are the nicer ones, I think.
Merry Christmas everyone! And happy new year! :D
Woolala~

Combo Party

Nowadays busy with film photography. It's very much different if compared to digital. Everything takes a lot longer, and you have to go through the whole chemical process for a single photo. Phew~

There was a small gathering last Wednesday, to celebrate William's birthday, and it was also a small farewell party for Angeline. She will be leaving KL for her hometown, she's graduating soon. *claps* Kita orangs mesti ingat lu!

William & Angeline

It took place in Niu Ze Xui (NZX), Ara Damansara. There's this Fullhouse place there that is rather nice.

Inside NZX

Fullhouse, Lifestyle Store and Cafe

The cute menu. Very cartooney.

Chocolate Ice-Blended

Chicken Chop. Not my order, but it looks good to me.

Rib-Eye Steak with Thyme Sauce. It tasted good, only, a bit too cooked.

It's a good place, but I'm not sure if they messed up the order or missed it out. They sent out all our food, except those of the two VIPs of the night. Poor them, waited for almost 2 hours. I don't think they are ever going back to that place. LoL~

Woolala~

Goody Food

Ho! I'm hungry~ It's been a long time since I last went food hunting. Life's getting tougher by the day. No matter, photos time! Since I'm hungry, I wanna make you hungry too. Heh~


This is errr.. TGIF's Bluey-drink. OK I obviously forgot the name of the drink. Not bad, sweet and sour.

This is TGIF's Chicken-combo set thingy, I think. Comes with a dessert, although I didn't get to shoot it before it melted and its shape went off.


About this photo, the depth of field is too shallow, but you can still clearly see it's beef, so I think it's OK :P
Oh and yeah, it's good.


This one is not TGIF's, but a buffet restaurant in Le Meridian, KL. I have no idea what it is. lol~


Finally, the best waffle, Waffle World's Triple Nutz! It's crunchy and tasty, very nutty. For those who don't like nuts, well they have other stuff too. Maybe next round I try and let you know.

Woolala~

One Night In Genting

There's nothing much to write about Genting, so I'll be posting only photos.

This is the final week to my holiday. No more lazing around. I have a new goal to set, and I need more money!
Woolala~

Kaboomey Art

Here is a little something I've been delaying, Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC) is a nice building, especially at night with lights. But I was rushing to the highlight of the night, so I didn't shoot the building.



Malaysia International Fireworks Competition (MIFC) finale. I enjoyed the fireworks a lot. Here are 2 firework photos I shot.




It was my first time shooting fireworks, and the smoke gets in the way all the time. Nevertheless, a fun experience! More photo-shoot!

I need more practice.
Woolala~

Woolalaaa~

I need an island trip!

Thanks to William's camera and Lasker's shooting.
Woolala~

10082008 Day Out

The post title is actually a date. It was a Sunday, had something planned but somehow something went wrong and we had to go somewhere else.
Original plan was, meet up with Shouters at Berjaya Times Square for makan session, then join the Kbox people for karaoke session, then Jogoya for dinner.
What really happened, waited for the Shouters for a long while, and took photos of a fashion show while waiting. Decided to have lunch at Gasoline after walking around aimlessly for a short while. And then joined in the karaoke session one hour later than planned time. Jogoya was canceled due to a sad reason. Left the gang to join another gang for Korean food instead.

Who's behind the menu?

Gasoline's food were OK, very thick sauce with heavy flavouring, I think. Their drinks were good though.

And then the Kbox people at Redbox. My first, real group shot with them.

Since the much anticipated Jogoya dinner was canceled, I left earlier with Daniel to meet up with Jane and David for Korean food instead. Don't know exactly where the place is situated, but it was around Ampang. The whole place was full of Korean shops and restaurants, and well, Koreans.

My first time really eating Korean food, learned a few things about Koreans and how to eat Korean food, Korean style. The side dishes were all free of charge, we only had to pay for our beers, the meat and beef soup thingy? Yeah. It was quite fun. Food was good, and thanks to the beer we got pretty full in little time.

When are we going again?
And I still want that Jogoya dinner. Anybody?
Woolala~