Kemasul (13/07/2007) [7 Photos]

Few photos taken from my site visit to Kemasul's Latex Timber Clone (LTC) forest replanting; thousands of hectares of timber forest area, which is apparently awarded and managed by a Bumiputera concession company, that in future, could be probably my fruitful and prospect business client.

..didn't plan the shoots to represent arts, rather than sharing off my full of dirts and dusties 4WD tracking experience.. syiok wa cakap lue!

'the decepticon' ..one of them

..fourty-five degrees

Zainuddin, my coursemate at UMCCed Plantation Management, peacefully pampering his machine before it could be transformed into quite a protective 'autobot' on earth.. 'The Zainobot!'

..and a little excerpt from the Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities (MPIC) about the photos..

"..In 2005, the industry had contributed RM21 billion, of which RM 12 billion was derived from the furniture and plywood industries. These industries ultimately depend on the ready and sustainable supply of local timber. The Government is therefore committed to ensure the growth of these industries. Apart from preventing the indiscriminate destruction of our forests, we are fully committed to support the sustainable development of our forest plantation.."

~MPIC, 04th December 2006.

Thinking of uploading more pics afterward! Tunggu...

The 7th Royal Thoroughbred RMC 86-90 Brotherhood 2007 Gathering Part 2 (24th February 2007) [3 Photos]

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The Official Photo

On 29th December 2006, two months before this mega reunion, I received an SMS from OP Zuflin (Kutik). He was asking me and my family to reserve the date of 24th February 2007 for our presence on the 7th Royal Thoroughbred RMC 8690 gathering. He and few other committed OPs [OP Alvin (Fernandez), OP Asfani (Upak), OP Selwyn (Chi Chong), OP Hairil, OP Azmizam (Art), OP Adlee (Chipok) and OP Kadir (Bapak)] were organizing the most awaited reunion ever to many of us, RMC 8690 OPs. We had had few gatherings before, but this was the first attempt to get hold all the OPs only within our batch.

Same'Ol Situation

The gathering that took place at the Old Putera Association (OPA) Building, Subang, was fantastically organized. The delicious meals, the DJ, the clown, the fatigue soldiers, the gifts to everybody, the lucky draws etc., were many of the countless efforts brought-out by the organizers.

As a result, since our passing-out parade from the RMC by end 1990, this gathering happened to be as the most successful one.

The Best Medicine

The feedbacks were tremendously encouraging. Just look at few of the excerpts below;

Well done everyone. Great gathering after so many years and hope we can meet again someday soon. Kalau bole mau lepak lama2 lagi tak puas beb!
~ OP Aref Zaharin

Aku amat berbesar hati kerana dapat berjumpa kembali dengan kawan2 semua. Ada yang muka tak berubah langsung. Ada yang makin kurus, tapi banyak yang lebih boroi. Cuma aku rasa kita patut ada lebih banyak time untuk mengenali family kawan2 and memulakan NETWORKING kita. Ramai yang dah berjawatan dan mempunyai kepakaran dan skill yang tertentu. Mesti boleh lagi gempak kita punya batch kalau boleh bekerjasama untuk memajukan diri. Committee akan compile semua details untuk distribute kepada semua. Stay tuned. Thanks my friends. I had a great time.
~ OP Asfani Musa

Malam tu memang terbaik. Tahniah, terima kasih, well done, dan TERBAIK dari aku buat semua AJK Besar (Kutiq, Art, Hairil, Upak, Chipok, Kadir, Chichong) dan semua OP yang hadir. My wife dan anak-anak rasa terkejut dan seronok tengok 'friendship' kita semua. Begitu AKRAB. Aku setuju cadangan Upak, kita kena eratkan NETWORKING sesama kita untuk kebaikan bersama. OK, SYABAS semua. Wassalam.
~ OP Saifullizan

It was an excellent and superb reunion. Congrats to all and especially the commitee members for all the hard work in ensuring everything goes well. Tak sangka we can gather that many OPs and family after 17 years. Sedih aku bila terkenang semula, but cos ada yang mula nangis (anak), nak dokong and nak susu, nak tidur tak dapat berbual lama itu yang terkilan sikit. Hope we can keep in touch.
~ OP Ahmad Fahmi

It was indeed, marvellous yet awesome gathering. One thing we miss, maybe kita bleh panggil guiness book of record for the biggest ratio of turnout. Those yang turun dr jauh, aku rasa emang berbaloi. Still regrett those yg tak dapat hadir. Tahniah skali lagi mereka yang merangka dan melaksanakan event haritu. We are the best!
~ OP Fadzri

Terima kasih to kutik and all the commitee. Hopefully, kita boleh try lagi next year.
~ OP Najid

Bros. Happy days. Thanks alot to ALL the committee members including putera sarjans yg worked ever so hard, yang datang dari jauh, yang selama ni hilang tapi tetiba sanggup muncul, family members yang sanggup teman suami / bapak, askar2 and badut, cookhaus, semua la if nak mention tak kan habis bro. Happy daysss. Thanks for the friendship bro, hopefully it'll last forever..
~ OP Zahrill

Brothers, Without the commitment & effort from all, none of this could have happened. Kutik, thank you for 'driving' us and making our dinner gathering a success. You really meet the "Serve To Lead" motto. Betul kata Art, kalau hang tak push, sure tak jalan punya. Major Kadir, u really save the day by providing us the logistics plus the manpower. Kalau tak dak hang, 'masak' jugak. Sure our budget burst punya. To the organising committee (Kutik, Alvin, Upak, Kadir, Art, Chipok, Chichong & not forgetting Shikin), it was an honour working with u guys. Aku pun sungguh seronok dapat jumpa kengkawan lama. Ada yang aku tak pernah jumpa sejak 1990 ie. Topek, Hasnal, Cicak, Peller, Fahmi (just naming a few). To the rest of our batch mates, stay in touch & thanks for supporting this event. Kalau ada yang terkurang, mintak maaf atas kekurangan tersebut. But I guess most of us (if not all) were really happy & enjoyed ourselves among our 'brotherhood' that night. Looking forward to our next event. Cheers & best regards
~ OP Hairil Razlan Hayata

As for myself, I also would like to take this opportunity to salute and congratulate the organizers, as well as to all RMC 8690 OPs who managed to make this gathering happened. It has been so meaningful to me and my wife. Words are just not enough to describe of how I felt.

Therefore, I hope this journal would represent a little of my thousands appreciations towards what have been carried-out by the organizers.

Serve To Lead

Regards

OP Din, Foxtrot

The 7th Royal Thoroughbred RMC 86-90 Brotherhood 2007 Gathering Part 1 (24th February 2007) [8 Photos]

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Putrajaya TNE (Trial & Error) [4 Photos]

You know what..
These are what the family guys did when they asked their wives' permission for an outing midnight. The photos speak for itself. Did I tell you that we are a bunch of nice thrustworthy guys? Trust us. We really are.. " )

Mr. Awea shoots above towers.
Look at the lens flare. Perghh!! Not bad huh?.. " )
Dude, go get your VR Nikkor 200mm lense fast!
Hehehe..

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A Moment on the Cruise of Nightmare..
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This photo was taken some times during my shooting alone at the nearest beach around. The interior of this old boat was quite scary. But somehow I noticed the attractive view and snapping it would be interesting, I thought. I didn’t want to spend much of my time. I jumped out of the boat soonest as I finished the shoot. In other words, I didn’t really focus of my photo outcome instead of snap and ‘cabut’. Arrived home, I was frustrated because it was overexposed! Nothing but high white light had came out from the windows.

But I still love the view.

At first I thought I wanted to work on the title of ‘memoirs of a fisherman’s poor abstinence..”. My idea changed when I play around with the color saturation. I noticed of those spooky feelings again.

I worked this on the background of another poor cloudy sunset photo, shot off the same day.


Moral of photography:
Appreciate your effort even though it has came up to debris in results.
A few changes you made could be much worthy to the eyes of 'the others'..

uhuk uhuk. " )

Chiang Mai Part 4 (12 ~ 15/11/2006) [6 Photos]

Chiang Mai Part 3 (12 ~ 15/11/2006) [8 Photos]

Chiang Mai Part 2 (12 ~ 15/11/2006) [5 Photos]

Chiang Mai Part 1 (12 ~ 15/11/2006) [6 Photos]

Teh Tarik Session Before 1427 Hijrah Eid (20/10/2006)

In The Spirit of Camaraderies

We were about to have our one whole week holiday when Mr. Zubair had wished us for a Teh Tarik session about a week before. He is currently working in the UK with a global IT company, and there are quite a number of us who are working and further studying aboard. And of course, that do not count of those who are always travelling overseas for their jobs or business trips outstation. (see also Mr. Dwi Indra here)

All these highlighted were not for bragging purposes however, but just to convey my gratitude in my journal to some achievements made by my friends that graduated from my former local university. Never meant to underrate anybody being my respectful friends and I hope that everybody would get it all right at the first place.

In the spirit of camaraderies, as well as the excitement for the long awaited Eid celebration, many had turned up for this gathering.

For records, after this gathering, Mr. Faizal was flying off to Marseille, France from 24/10/2006 until 11/11/2006, and he had celebrated his first day of Eid on the airplane, of course " )! On the 12/11/2006, I took my turn for my job trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand and hope to share my experiences and photos with you, by-passers soon.

In addition, on behalf of those who had presented this gathering; Many thanks to Mr. Awea and Mr. Shahrunizan a.k.a GQ for settling the bills.

Ramadan Breaking Fast at Danau Golf Club, UKM Bangi (15/10/2006)

Organizer's e-mail to the egroups dated Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:31 pm

Assalamualaikum ...

Alhamdulillah, majlis berbuka puasa yang kita rancangkan telah selamat diadakan
pada 15/10/2006. Antara yang hadir ke majlis tersebut adalah:

1. Ahmad Rithauddin (Ara)
2. Anas Salehuddin
3. Anisurahman (Aney), Wife & Baby
4. Asyrul Hakim (Hakim Jr)
5. Azhar Omar
6. Bad Lalih, Wife & 3 Kids
7. Black Cat, Wife & 4 Kids
8. Blek Dwi Indra
9. Bob BDU, Wife & Baby
10. Capah, Effa & Son
11. Dato’ Pieq
12. Hairil & Wife
13. Hakim (Jaafar)
14. Jalaque
15. Mahmood
16. Nooran, Rafeah & Son
17. Shuhaimy (Abon)
18. Taqi Mohamed Osman
19. Tobak, Wife & Kid
20. Ucop

Hujan lebat yang turut sekitar jam 6:00 pm menyebabkan beberapa agenda yang
dirancang tidak dapat dilaksanakan termasuklah majlis tahlil.

Kita pun sepatutnya makan kat dalam ruang makan yang bertutup tapi last minute
Danau alihkan tempat coz ada majlis buka puasa staff UKM ngan VC depa kat situ.

Tempat makan kat luar tu pun basah coz hujan lebat earlier, so terpaksalah kita
makan kat depan bilik TV tu. Kebetulan plak bekalan air ada problem plak.

So, dengan penuh rendah diri aku mohon maaf atas sebarang kesulitan & masalah yang timbul.

Apa pun, terima kasih sekali lagi pada yang hadir. Korang memang sporting habis.
Yang lain yg tak dapat hadir TQ gak for your support. Maybe we could arrange
another session pada lain waktu & tempat.

Sekali lagi, terima kasih pada semua.

Salam Aidil Fitri daripada aku (Azhar Omar) & family (Normeeza Sahidin Acct UUM
serta anak-anak).

Blog owner reply that represents all;

Atok! For us, it's not a big deal at all! Your effort is much worth than everything.
It's been a while we haven't met and we have had our good times flocking together.
We already finished the delicious meals. The rest; spending quality time with each others are the most expensive matters.

We thank you for allocating your time organizing the gratifying event.

(I wouldn't noticed all that until you forwarded this email, though! hehehe!)