port side

more conveyors

bon voyage reprise

Sailor from MV ADJ watching the MV Fu Tong pulling away under tow of the tugboats. MV Fu Tong will live to sail another day, being double hulled. MV ADJ however will not.

Papa needs a real wideangle...

Backed up all the way to the godown and Papa still can't fit half of what is happening into the frame.

dirt

conveyor to conveyor

woman in every port?

smoking blues

adios into history

Sailing off and never coming back. In the fading days of the year, it can still sail the seas but after 2009, no more. A single hull ship, 30 plus years old so it just can't sail on the open seas anymore

bon voyage fu tang

evergreen???

Papa stays near this hotel when in Kuantan. Near but not in.

slow lorries

small and cute.

alone in the godown...

All bound for Dubai.Wooden planks for construction. Going onboard a colourful ship.

dump it all!!

a strangely colourful ship

Papa asked to speak to you on the phone from yesterday. Mama won't answer, so Papa can't say hello for christmas. Papa has working pretty hard for the last two weeks. A picture for you- Papa was at the port again today watching the loading on the conveyor belts at the bulk terminal. A drab Sunday morning....

you smoke you die

Do not fall inside the hold

sense of scale

But then ships are big toys....

Red stars over kuantan

Well. Got bigger and newer ships from China in town. Fron the deck of MV ADJ Papa sees the bow of another ship which at 13000+ MT is slightly smaller than the AN Dong Jiang.

portside to port

Papa was at port yesterday ro meet a little ship, so Papa couldn't see you for the the weekend. The MV An Dong Jiang. She;s pretty beat-up and looks better than she really is, I suppose.

bw revisit

ep-1 b&w

Papa tries using an old 50mm manual focus nikkor mated to the ep-1. The little 50mm has a sticky focusing ring, and looks real beat-up. However it does show some promise, and Papa thinks it has more character than the kit zoom that comes with the pen-1. Papa wants to try some more shots with it....

sleep in the car

summer the clown

Papa bought a new flash

This is the salesman. Papa tortured him, it looks like....

cameras up to my eyeballs

Papa was at the camera shop when in comes a guy fresh from the window display. He's going to buy something for sure. At soon as he gets de-intoxicated....

coffee shop ex-estate

At a coffee-shop located in an ex-rubber estate (formerly Telemong estate now Sri Telemung) Now a new village of sorts, you can have your kopi with kaya bread and newpaper. But only chinese language papers are sold here. Just pick you choice of rag hanging off the clothes pegs. Everyone here is of retirement age and above.

kuantan blue mosque

On lazy sunday afternoons as a kid watching transformers cartoons...

pekan chinese people eating food shop

hair cut in pekan

summer screams

no ballet?

Papa finally asked Mama face to face (or rather from five feet away outside her car-safety precautions mah...no need to get beaten up unnecessarily). The answer is a heehawing -NO!

So back to the drawing board. Papa will have to use up part of the saturday quota of Papatime with you. Papa will have to sit down with you to decide.

Anyway Papa wants to tell you. In the last two months, Papa has had his spirits lifted as he can see a future away from Mama-madness. Papa wants to do all he can for you but Papa has to accept that Papa will never be able to get Mama to change. Papa thinks there is actually a prayer which goes on about "the grace to accept the things that we cannot change..."

Papa wants to tell you also that Papa has had some little kindnesses from people who in small little ways have gone out of their way to be nice. This is a pretty pointless post, but Papa wants to put down his thoughts so he can tell you one day when you are older. Papa wishes Papa can share his future with you, but if Papa cannot share it, then Papa hopes to reach out to you in some meaningful way.

just a tree

orange!!

feed the acolyte.

present for Mama

We must appease the goddess of the volcano. A small sacrifice is demanded.

chinese restaurant drummer

my girl

Papa tries portraiture with the pen.

yellow rabbit... I can't See!!!

wise old girl

Yes. Mama will scold you if you are late in getting back to Mama. Papa knows.

eat a slice of an orange

You are so cautious and careful. The last few weeks you keep telling Papa that Mama will scold you if you are late in going back to Mama- guess going out to see Papa is stressful for you too.

two piggies

Papa nearly didn't get to see you , in the end Mama let you meet Papa for Princess and the Frog. Today Papa found out you don't know what dim-sum is. In many things Papa is a total stranger to you-so right now Papa doesn't know how to feel, act or think. In the little things you tell Papa, Papa knows you don't have a proper childhood- but Mama is a brickwall.

Anyway, you took one of the piggies home.

made in china

ep-1 does candids.

sea the boat

man sea kite

watch the train...

You are Papa!

...and you are my princess.

bookshop trance

I'm awake!!!

Papa had to add just a bit of noise. Iso is 500. Papa is happy for now with the e-p1 and kit zoom combo- although it doesn't come close to the big nikon 24-70 f2.8 combos. Those are , in Summer's words, TOO BIG!!
So to stretch a good thing, Papa is going to scout for a fast small lens and then Papa is done shopping for cameras for the time being.

sniffles

Papa got more pictures of you, falling asleep while waiting for lunch. The iso is much more down to earth at 500. Papa thinks its not too bad for a small sensor camera, so no noise reduction was done.

more pen shots

iso 1000 I think.

papa got a new pen...

Papa went shopping for a camera , and he was looking for a d90 or d300 nikon. However on entering the camera shop, Papa spied an olympus e-p1, son (or rather grandson, considering how much older the original pen was). SHort story, Papa ended up buying it instead. It was err, too cute in the hands.

Ok so Papa shot a few photos of you around mid-valley. Verdict not out yet- colours are more muted and less contrasty than the equivalent nikons to Papa.

lanchang hijau