Health do not come cheap in this city

I simply love jogging compared to any other forms of exercises, for the fact that jogging is one of the sport where you dont compete with others but with your own mind. You are constantly pushing your own limit to the higher level compared to last session. You would find peace in mind when all your blood is busy concentrating to pushing oxygen to your legs, arms, heart and eyes, on a predictable standard pattern and rhythm...

jogging also reduce stress, improve lungs capacity and strenghthen your heart, etc.

I finally decided to renew my membership with Club Olympus, on the 1st night session, found out that my Trainers is 'laughing' at me:

Last minute shoping at Grace One at CPS, I got this...

My first Air Max 360 degree...

I just love Air on Nike...

This thing is gonna feel a bit hard on the treadmill...

*All photos taken with Blackberry Bold 9000 with built in xenon flash

What I am listening to lately?

Do I like it?

Nope. Sorry. It's just too plain.

I only like one song for one single reason, for it is the song I heard live from Ritchell. And by hearing it again and again, it bring me back to that day when I was touched...

Hello Earth, Hello World, Hello People

I am going to Church this morning, just feel like it...

And I am going to be humble to everyone around me (it's not like I have been an ASS for everyone before this, ok?) because we are all human, seeking for the comfort zone that we are happy to be in.

And I am going to say hi to everyone around me, thanking them for being here, and we finally meet on earth (and you may think it's easy to meet a particular person on Earth? I were...).

And I will thank Dr Mega and his wife Dr Mano, for their continuous effort to let me feel the love they want to pass on to me. I have received it.

And I am gonna wish (not pray) to THE GOD (whichever GOD) that I will have the power and energy to realise my Life Plan for 2009~

And I am gonna assess (sorry I can't find another proper word) again the Power Of God, I will let it shower me in this morning.

Hello Earth, Hello World and Hello People.

I am new here, I hope I enjoy my stay with you and I hope you would, too!

Have a GREAT DAY with lots of Love,

Edwar

I mentioned about re-igniting my Healthy Lifestyle Action for 2009 at my Facebook...

Ok, this is what I am gonna to do in 2009, very practically:

1. Drink at least 3 litres of fresh water per day.
2. Eat 'enough' vegetable per meal.
3. Cut down on rice. Except Brown Rice.
4. Went totally sugar-free for Tea Tarik, Nescafe, etc. (Well, at least 3 out of 7 days per week.)
5. Renew my Gym Membership.
6. If there is traffic jam, there I will be at the Gym.
7. Build 'some' Muscles before I am 38. (hehehe~)
8. Sleep before 10:30pm. (for a start)
9. No meals after 9pm.
10. Wake up around 8am. (My client only free after 9am anyway)
11. errrr....... let me think further.

Did I just TOUCH BY YOU... or you?

You can say it is due to obligation to a (sort of) high value Client, who has given me his trust in me on managing his money since the beginning. I was invited by a Friend (who used to be a client) to his X'mas Church Service this morning at the Magelan Sutera Ballroom. And I went, on time (rarely), with lot of coincidences:

1. Few days into Christmas, I have this funny sentimental mood which made me missing my friends at England, they are friends whom I have not been contacting for more than 10 years.
2. Few days into Christmas, I have not been feeling well, so I was taking rest at home most of the time, and realising how much less time I have spend with my love ones at home since I started a business.
3. When I get the invitation by my friend on the phone, I agreed on the spot without the usual hesitation.

If you know me for more than 5 years, please don't be shocked by what I said in the next few sentences ok?

I arrived on time, in my mind this is kinda just another entertainment job I GOT TO DO like usual, I expect to kill about 2 hours here just to keep my friend (client) happy.

So as usual the session started by singing part (woshiping songs, etc) and all the songs are with words like 'Father', 'Lord', 'My Child' (the believer), etc. I used to dislike and totally unagreeable with all these.

What is not usual is this, I started to feel really sorry about something, pictures of my mum working hard at the old kitchen pop up ( you heard me right, I was really puzzled), pictures of my parents getting old was flying around my mind, I felt even more sad. Worse than that, I saw children dancing to the song, I was so proud of them, like they are my own children. (gosh~ am I going nuts?) There is even a notion in my mind that I want to send my children (when I finally have one) for church activity, because it looks like the church is doing a great effort in educating them.

I cross my arms to go into defensive mode, and I took a few deep breath, thinking that will stop my watery eyes from getting worse... (Oh dear~) Then there is a break, and they announce that the next perfromer is a girl, aged 13, named Ritchell Lim, all the way from Perth Australia.

Ritchell Lim is visually impaired, and she was playing piano and sing at the same time...

When she sing the part that goes like this:

'Hear my prayer oh Lord

Please give ear to my voice

Answer me in Your faithfulness

Hear my prayer oh Lord

Please give ear to my voice

Answer me in Your righteousness

Only You who gives sight to the blind

Only You who heals all the sickness

Only You who takes away the suffering...'

I was shivering and I totally lost control of the drainage of both my eyes... (this is embarrassing) Luckily it is still dark in the room. I wipe my face a few times and wondering what is happening to me for a few minutes and at the same time enjoying the moment. Frankly speaking, the sense of peacefulness is in my heart.

Later the senior pastor deliver his preaching, unknowingly I was noding my head to agree on many of the things that he said. (what is this?)

When I leave the service, I feel peaceful like I have never been for a long time, I felt empowered by unknown force, I felt like I just wanted to go home and help out my parents on the things which I wanted to do but was procastinated for a long time. I felt I just wanted to flip through my old phones book and call those friend who helped me in the past and say hi and sorry for not manged to keep in touch for a long time... Wow~ I felt like I was given a new life!!

Now, I know this is sort of a dangerous question to ask here (because it may stir up a storm of argument), if you are a good Christian or Religion people. Can you tell me what is going on here?

*All photos were taken by Blackberry Bold 9000.

**ps. I have to state this again, I am not a Christian, the above statements are not an indication of my future religion taste.

Sarah Connors - Christmas In My Heart

Have you had your M.O.N.A.V.I.E. ?

One of my friends on Facebook is passionately promoting a new MLM health drink named sounds like the above. He finally got my curiousity to work and I called him up for a meet to find out more about the drink.

And I drank it.

And I am gonna order about 6 bottles tomorrow.

And it will cost me around RM1,400.

And I will keep you posted on this blogsite how I find out more about it.

For the time being, find out more here, here or here. And many more if you YouTube it~

~Merry X'mas~

I was lucky that I had a chance to live in a country (for 5 years) which has a X'mas Magic every year in December. I understand what Christmas Magic really is, but somehow I always feel that this is a 'foreign' festival and it has something, but nothing so important, to do with me. I mean I celebrate it with friends, but not really having a Christmas Tree decoration or Caroling with any church buddies.

This year, I think I finally understand what it is. I can feel the Magic in my heart, I have got so many people to thanks and forgive.

First of all, I thank you my Parents, for the unlimited love that you gave me, sometimes I misunderstood it as burden and control. Without you who am I? Thank you for bringing me to this earth and guide me along the way with your experience and hard work. Thank you for the numberous patient you have given me during the growing pain, for the food you bring to the table and the blood money you contrubute to my higher education study. I love you and I wish life continue to treat you kind in terms of health and happiness. I will be here when you need me as always.

Secondly I thank you my friends, especially Lenard for the (almost) unconditional Care they you exhibit to, not only me, but most of your friends around you. I mean we still annoyed each other from time to time, but hey, without us, who else can improve our negotiation skills? hehe~ It is you my friends, who build what it is in me today, without your influence and encouragement, I would not be where I am today.

Thank you Ranjith, for your continuous moral support when I was living 'alone' as the only asian together with a bunch of 'foreigners', you are the only closest 'race' that I can related to when I was down and feeling lonely. Your silence support is easy for me to comprehence. The winter Christmas in England can not be bearable without your warm welcome to your family member. i wish we can travel around the world with our camera together sometime in the future!

To all my friends who I spend part of my living years with,  Amy Davies, Katie Wragg, James Toplis, Sharon Lau and others at England. Have a Merry Merry Christmas, I really love you guys for the memory you contribute to this weird Malaysian boy. Although I would love to meet up with you Sharon, but I still can not find you anywhere near Kuching.

Thank you for all my teachers who ever beaten me on my palms, for that I know you care about my future undertaking and take it so personally.

Thank you Jerome, for bringing into my life for the first time the belief that my life is in my hand and it is myself that can decide changes to be done. For the time and energy spend on a boy that did not show much chance to be more successful than he was.

Thank you for all the people who I used to work with and couldn get a long too well with, it is you that make me a better person and I understand now that it is not you who I dislike but simply it is the setting of the work place that put us in a conflicting situation.

Thank you for those who contribute to my memory as a happy teenagers during my secondary school life, the mountains which we climbed and the sea we used to swim in are unforgetable moments that bring smiles on my face. I can still feel the morning breeze and the sea salt when I turn the pages of our youth. Thank you Anthony for always being the driver at night for our 'Happy Hour'. Thank you 

For those who already left us, I misses you during this season.

For those friends who are still around us, I cheerish your surrounding and I will try my best to spend more time with you guys at each and every seasons.

Have a very Merry Christmas~

Edward Wong

Lots of LOVE

20081220: Another great photoshoot outing~

This is Esther's, our model cum make-up artist work place~ Just like her, compact and cute...

This is a 'after' shoot, Bianca & Esther...

We shoot at a remote debris site near Tanjung Aru. We only have 2 speelite, 2 camera, a few black cloth and white cloth, a reflector, 2 tripods and a great model.

Zero is having a great time!

Group photo. For more photo please follow the links below:

http://studios43.blogspot.com

Bye bye SLR! Welcome High End DSLR!~

http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/nikon-counting-on-high-end-digital-slr-cameras

Got my Blackberry replaced today, finally~

The Branch Manager Mr Dennis has been real professional in handling 'Difficult Customer' like myself, I really salute him. I got my brand new set of Bold 9000 and together with a FREE Blackberry Service for 3 months.

Thank you very much!

**Updates:

20081217 - 9am

1. First failure to send sms with this Brand New Bold 9000 occurred, with my Digi sim card.

2. Now swapping with my Maxis sim card and test.

20081218 - 6:10pm

1. So far no failure of sms sending by Maxis sim card.

2. But why not Digi?

My 1st Tyre Change (by myself)

I came down to the Underground Car Park to find my tyre is flat, wanted to call AAM, but then I thought, everyone who held a Driving License for the pass few years learned how to change tyre, but in my era, passing the Driving Test only take RM300 Kopi-O~ Changing tyre has never come cross my mind.

So I decided to change it myself.

Thats my spare tyre.

I sweat like I did a 25 minutes Treadmill twice on a row...

There is a hole to release the Spare Tyre.

If you turn this pole clockwise...

Ok, if I can clean this pants later...

Maybe I should try one of the Detergent Brand advertised on TV and put it to challenge..

Later rush to the workshop to sort out my problem.

Ah like brand new again~

*All photos taken with iPhone 8Gb

Passion. Have you found yours?

This is 5am in a sunday morning. I can actually count how many time I wake up in the morning at this time in my whole life. I am going for a photo shoot out with a bunch of friends to a remote town. My paretns would say something like: 'Shoot shoot shoot, got profit meh?' My girl friends would say something like: 'You love your camera more than me ar?' and my other friends would probebly said: 'Crazy liao~'

But this has once again proven the old saying:

'For Passion, Everything Go'

I am so lucky to have a bunch of 'kaki' who held the same belief as me, the joy of us pursuing our passion together has been unlimited. Don't believe me? Check out Mr Zero's latest video:

Will update you guys when I am back and if I get any good photos you would, as usual, found them on my 'Photography Blog'.

20081027: Photo Session with TARRA Club

Hello guys, sorry forgot to post this series of Event Log, here it comes:

Can you guess what they are trying to do next?

What is soooo secrecy ohhh??

Front also need to cover meh?

Hey Yong, what are you doing there?

Like I want to peek you there~ Aiyo...

Models are ready...

Ohhh... this is a 'mobile changing room' ar? Cheh~

This model look familier?

ok let's get started~

The Winning Season has just started~

Just got my December Digital Camera through the post...

And guess what I found? Zero's photo is featured by HotShot!! I felt so excited as if I was the one featured~ ;-) Mr. Zero, this is your 1st photo featured here? It will definitely not the last one, so kets get winning every month from now on!

I want this~

http://nikonrumors.com/2008/12/10/nikon-d400-specs.aspx

'I am not interested!'

Why should a wanabe Wedding Photographer become a Unit Trust Consultant?

The same question can be asked from the other side: Why should I become a Unit Trust Consultant when my passion is not selling Unit Trust but Photography?

Myself, and most of my friends from our generation has the same incorrect perspective towards these two things:

1. Passion
   
2. Career
   

You see my friend, there is a common thing between the two, that is they both involve money. Infact, money is also the paradox at the same time, because money is also the differences between the two. Let me explain in simple put.

1. Passion is where you should spent your money on.
2. Career is where you should earn your money from.

Photography happens to be one of the more expensive hobby on this planet, photographer are glass collector, they love carrying heavy lens and bags, just to freeze something that our eyes can see. They are also better known as an Artist who create beatiful Photos that catches 'wow' when people look at them.

Photography is one of the many popular expressive art around the market. To express the emotion or feeling the photographer wanted to initially, they somtimes need some very expensive lens o do it. And for many amateur photographers, this expensive lens and equipments are at the same time 'obstacles' for the 'artist' photographer to express themselves in FULL POTENTIAL.

After years of struggl to create a balance between the two, I gave up, no... actually I changed. Because 'To Get What You Have Never Had, You Must Do What You Have Never DONE'

So I sort of become smarter in both spending money on my Passion and also earning money from my Career. This is what I do:

1. When spending money on my passion, I ask little question about affordablity, there is not such thing as affordable or not in spending money on your REAL passion, only question about how much you love that piece of equipment or device relating to your passion.
2. When earning money from my career, I always, and always ask for the career that can earn me MOST money in the SHORTEST time frame and at the same time, LONG LASTING, LEGAl and SIMPLE.

Since changing the concept in handling my Passion and Career. I never have problem in balancing my life around the these two elements - Work and Play. I worked hard at the same time, play hard, too.

And I really think that you should reserch more into this area, my friends. ;-) If you have the same issue that I have 4 years ago. Have a great day!

Please feel free to checkout my Photography Works at http://studios43.blogspot.com/

You can also find me at Facebook.

Job Fair Kerjaya 2008

Booth #1

Ku, Tan and Joseph.

Booth #2 Adeline

I think Booth #2 is at the better location.

I am telling you my friend, there are tons of Graduates looking for a job now, a degree is not a Job Security Cert anymore, RM3,000 a month can only merely survie through the month, why bother climbing the Career Ladder? It's not like you have no choice?

As I said before: 'There is no security on this earth - only opportunity'