as strong as happy (children at Paralympic Malaysia 2010)

An early grEEtings in December to our fellow friends. It’s the month of celebration. School holiday, Awal Muharram (Islamic New Year), Christmas and 2011 New Year eve fall on this month. Besides, congratulation to our friends, Stephy Chan and Danny Lim, Cheryl and Chee-Fong, Cheng-Thiam and Li-Ling, Annabelle and Max Goh, who are getting married this month and on the first day of 2011.

It’s also a year anniversary for juesatta and the journEEy is still far away. We must keep on taking a step at a time and the joy is found not in finishing but in doing it. It reminds me of a quote from Alex Noble, “success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.” Therefore we have to keep on the task in helping others less fortunate and share our happiness with others.

May all beings be happy and may you find serenity in juesatta.

These were the shots taken last month in Melaka.

milestone

adorable

dream

"would you set me free?"

dew

high rise

Negaraku

sharing

to the top

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"Hi there. May I take your order please?"

It had been a while since I had an outing with photonian. Two weeks ago on a Sunday, Max invited me to join a street photography outing at the Jonker Street of Melaka. There were 15 of us taking part in this event and each was required to shoot with only 50mm lens which was a challenge to shoot with a fixed range lens.

Angel Wee (left) and Angela Gan - street photography outing

We started at 4pm, a hot afternoon and spent about 3 hours at Jonker Street and the other streets near to it, such as Tukang Besi Street, Heeren Street, Tokong Street and others. It was amazing and interesting to see how fellow friends could use a variety of different angles of a subject and created unique and creative pictures. Everyone could be a teacher for me.

This photography outing was a great fun experience seeing that we had spent a precious time together and could share our photography experience with each other. Some of the shots I took of the photonians:

Angela Gan in a library at Jonker Street

"Dude, look! Someone's here! Hide!"

the two angels: Angel Wee (left) and Angela Gan

chopsticks with chinese horoscopes

handicraft wooden masks

a window

a cool girl stood at the street

"Caught you stalking, Chau-Kian!"

~dazzling

marriage = handicapped?

little lanterns

a dummy of the Orangutan House at Tukang Besi Street

"Jom! Let's go shooting" (Hanne Lim)

Hanne Lim was shooting traffic signs

Andrew Gan was sharing the shots he took with Hanne Lim

an uncle staying at the Tukang Besi Street was reading a Chinese newspaper

Fred in the bush

after squabble: Angel Wee (left) and Angela Gan

Chinese offerings in a shop at Tokong Street

Paper-man, a decoration of paper offerings

souvenir magnets of traditional Chinese clogs

souvenir magnets of Chinese opera masks

picture of a flower of clogs which Angel Wee took

white beard friendly uncle sitting at Jonker Street

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