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Event photography for Fantasyland 2010 at Aloha

By Juesatta art, Photography

On the 2nd of January, Photonian organised an event shooting to a fashion show, The Fantasyland 2010 from Brush Up Academy at the Aloha fashion bar in Melaka. The fashion show was lovely with brilliant make-up artists and their art-work.  

The difficulty in this shooting was the lighting and smoke used in this event. Because it was in a club, the venue was dark and the show was flashed with spot lights and laser-like beams. From point to point, smoke effect was used to enhance the mysterious atmosphere, however gave us a little of difficulty to the sharpness and colors of our photos.

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Meet the young artists – Chinese calligraphy for Bachang St John’s Dialysis center

By Chinese calligraphy, Compassion, Juesatta art, Photography
The little eight year-old boy enjoying writing

The little eight year-old boy enjoying writing

With the permission of Mr. Liu, my chinese calligraphy teacher, I snapped some photos of the class and my friendly classmates who are mostly primary school students. Right now, most of the students are busy writting spring festival couplets for Chinese New Year. These couplets will be sold as charity fund for the Bachang St John’s Dialysis Center in Melaka.

According to Mr. Liu, Bachang St John’s Dailysis Center has about 100 patients. Each treatment is charged RM10 which is relatively cheap. By doing so, the center has to bare thousands of ringgit for the operation each year and thus, donation is collected to maintain the cost.

These young artists of the class (mostly primary school students) are doing their very best to write in order to help the dialysis patients. Every piece of the writings will be sold for charity and the fund collected is 100 percent donated to the  Bachang St John’s Dialysis Center.

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Happy birthday to Jason Tan

By Juesatta art, Photography

I would like to wish my best friend and also juesatta pianist Jason Tan happy birthday. Jason, here’s to another year of experience; you are not just a year older, but a year better and wiser. Hope your birthday blossoms into lots of dreams come true.

A flash back on Jason’s recent song-play of the famous Teresa Teng’s Chinese song, Yue Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xin (The moon represents my heart) which dedicated to all the loving couples.

Food photography for Skinny Yogurt

By Beautiful Melaka, Juesatta art, Photography
Fruitie yogurt

Fruitie frozen yogurt

I hadn’t tasted frozen yogurt before, until my friend, Danny invited me to shoot his frozen yogurt for his dessert shop which is opening next week, 23rd of January on the 2nd floor of  Dataran Pahlawan, Melaka (next to the old entrance of Carrefour).

When shooting the products, I had the chance too to taste the frozen yogurt with all the toppings available such as lemon, mango, peach, pineapple, kiwi fruit, hazelnut, peanuts, raisins, chocolate and many more.  Danny will be using high quality yogurt mix from overseas.

Though I am a yogurt love, I never tasted frozen yogurt before. When I had the first sip of the frozen yogurt given by Danny, I was immediately addicted to it. That very night, I had 5 cups of the frozen yogurts. It tasted sweet, a little bit of sour, chilling, and of course refreshing and yummy yogurt taste. It also went well with different topping combinations.

I would strongly recommend it to my friends and will definately be there during the opening of Danny’s shop, Skinny Yogurt to snap some photos and yum, try again the frozen yogurts. Below are some samples of my shoots for Danny:

Mango flow yogurt

Mango flow frozen yogurt

Cereal and nuts yogurt

Cereal and nuts frozen yogurt

Find out more about Danny’s Skinny Yogurt on Facebook.

Model photography – meet Yovi, Pohling, Crystal, and Agnes

By Juesatta art, Photography

Few weeks ago, I was lucky to be able to go for an outing with photonians together with four models, Yovi, Pohling, Crystal, and Agnes.

We went to a rubber estate in Krubong, where it took us about 30 minutes drive from the central town of Melaka. The road was tough but we managed to reach there by 3 MPVs. Every photographers had a chance to shoot with each of the models and we spent 3-4 hours over there shooting until the sunset. Everyone was exhausted.

I have to thank all the moderators from photonian.com to organise this great shooting event for the enthusiasts  and also the four sweet models who gave us full cooperation.

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Food photography for Snacks & Bites

By Beautiful Melaka, Juesatta art, Photography
Lekor - photography by CJ

Lekor nipis - photography by CJ

Rojak special - photography by CJ

Rojak special - photography by CJ

Ever tasted the delicious lekor (fish cracker) from Terengganu?

Ann, my good friend’s partner has setup a food stall (named Snacks & Bites) in Tesco, Melaka and I was requested to shoot two of the food she is selling: Lekor and rojak special.

Lekor is Terengganu most famous local food. It’s made primarily from a combination of dough (sago flour) and pounded fish mainly from mackerel and sardines, fried and served with hot chilli sauce. Basically there are few types of lekor Ann’s selling. One of those is lekor biji which round in shape, crispy outside and tasty inside. Another type is lekor nipis which is lekor cut into pieces and fried until it’s crispy (As photo above)

Rojak is a malay term for mixture, and it’s usually a fruit and vegetable sald dish commonly found in Malaysia. Rojak special Ann’s selling is the recipe from Ann’s mother, which is the mixture of fried tofu, fried fishball, fried tau kee (fried beancurd skin with minced fish filling), and a special chilli sauce mixed with ground peanuts and lime juice.   

If I were to rate these two dishes, I would give:

  • 9/10 for lekor, it tasted very much like those I had in Terengganu
  • 8/10 for rojak special, it’s delicious especially the mixture with the sauce added, however I am not a big fans of tofu so I always order without the fried tofu.

The hygiene of Ann’s stall is good. Cooking utensils, cooking oil, environment and workers are clean and tidy. One thing I suggested to Ann in order to improve would be replacing the polystyrene cups and plates she is using. Being an environmental lover too, she noticed that and would replace those soon.