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Dona Nobis Pacem

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:34:00 +0000

It's been a long time since my last post. Doesn't quite get a free time to post anymore. But i'll never miss this.."Dona Nobis Pacem" a BlogBlast For Peace founded by Mimi Lennox. Let's us talk about it in this day, all around the world...for...PEACE....

Skywatch Friday #16

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:13:00 +0000

A Tone Mapping was applied to this photo, it's not the original shot.

Wordless Wednesday #11

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:51:00 +0000

What goes through your mind when someone says "Let's go for a drink"?

Please click the image to enlarge.

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Music Monday: Angry Again by Megadeth

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:32:00 +0000

It's time for me to "angry again" to my internet service provider for giving me a very bad connection for the past week. I'm unable to complete my 300 EC drop nor downloading my favorite new TV series. Before this, my connection transfer rate was 180kbps but now it's only at 16kbps. Thanks a lot to slow Streamyx, you're the greatest ISP in Malaysia. Now lets hear my favorite song during my teenage years.

Angry Again - Lyrics

The more of you that I inspect
The more of me I see reflect
The more I try to read your lips
The more the mask youre wearing rips

But when I seek out your voice
My ears are overcome with noise
You show and tell with greatest ease
Raving impossibilities

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry ow

And when the story takes a twist
If folds like a contortionist
Slight of hand and quick exchange
The old tricks have been rearranged

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry

The searing of the sinew
My body fights for air
The ripping of the tissue
My lungs begin to tear
Gravitys got my bones
It pulls my flesh away

The steam finally dissipates
I make out my sweaty face

Association that I choose
Game I inevitably lose
Governed by laws set up by me
Fracture its jaw to let me be
A cut-out cardboard condo maze
Filled with an insubordinate race
Irrational youths stop to stare
As music rubber hosed the air

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry again
And again and again, again

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry ow

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Skywatch Friday #15

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:22:00 +0000

A view from Senawang Town heading to my workplace at Kuala Pilah. I'm already late to work when the sun was at this position and it takes another 40 minutes journey from this photo shooting point to my workplace. I'm really late to work on this day, luckily, nobody noticed bout it...

Macro Monday: Wildgrass's Seed

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:05:00 +0000

Wild grass at my backyard have grown it seed and waiting to be spread to other places. Still couldn't find a time to destroy it.

Scenic Sunday: Petronas Twin Towers

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:11:00 +0000

The Petronas Twin Towers (also known as the Petronas Towers or just Twin Towers),Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were the world's tallest buildings, before being surpassed by Taipei 101. It were the world's tallest buildings from 1998 to 2004. However, the towers are still the tallest twin buildings in the world and it is one of Malaysia's most popular tourist destinations.

Valentine's Love

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:19:00 +0000

There's two arrow have struck my heart already. The first one came from Jean at A Great Pleasure and the other one was shot by Monica at Turn-U-Off. Now I'm gonna retaliate and spread this broken arrow and tagging

LadyJava Mariuca gengen EastCoastLife uncleawang Shinade Babette bluecrystaldude Tabib Ane Falarme magiceye Rozella lina chrome3d Guy D Criz Lai jams o donnell luna miranda eam Hootin' Anni Gypsy at heart Victor Kiu Fickleminded JyLnC Mrs Mecomber Heart of Rachel Shemah Angelika and everybody else...

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Rules:

1) Once you're tagged, install the corner banner at your blog as a third party html code. (The corner banner need to stay at your blog for at least 2 weeks).
2) Post about this meme, Valentine's Love.
3) Add your blog/s with link/s to the Valentine's Lovers list and leave a comment at this post HERE.
3) Tag all your special friends.
4) Please remember to update your list regularly so that you would not miss out anyone in your Valentine's Lovers list.

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p/s: The wordings on this banner with automatically changed to 'Tagged with Love! xoxo' on Feb 15.

Please get the code for the corner banner from Jean's blog.

Valentine's Lovers

1.A Great Pleasure 2.Time Goes By 3.Listen With Your Heart 4.Glossalicious 5. Wishing on a Falling Star 6. Mariuca's Perfume Gallery 7. Simply Shinade 8. A Simple Life 9. Mommy's Little Corner 10. Ramblings of the Phat 11. 0007 Undercover TAGMEMAWARD CAT 12. Notes by Marvic 13. Maiylah's Snippets 14. Picture Clusters 15. This is a Miracle 16. purplefrogcat 17. Also Mommy 18. Both Sides Now 19. illusionaire 20. Candles, Crafts and Whatnot 21. The Brainy Bimbo 22. Sweet Nothings 23. Turn-u-Off 24. Chopsticks 25. My Views On My So Called Life 26. Gagay 27. Empty Streets 1027 28. Life According To Me 29. Yummy-as-can-be 30. Mom...Check Nyo 31. Everything Under the Sun 32. My Sweet Escape 33. Never Enough Stuff 34. Windmill on the Hill 35. Snapshot 36. You're next.....

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Happily married. And fight happily...

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:01:00 +0000

I just wanna share some laugh on this Valentine's Day eve.. :D

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My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels.
She asked, ‘What’s on TV?’

I said, ‘Dust.’

And then the fight started…

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My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.
She said, ‘I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.’

I bought her a scale.

And then the fight started…

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When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive… So, I took her to a gas station.

And then the fight started…

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After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security.
The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver’s license to verify my age.
I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home.
I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.

The woman said, ‘Unbutton your shirt’.
So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair.
She said, ‘That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me’ and she processed my Social Security application.

When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office.

She said, ‘You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too.’

And then the fight started…

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My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.

My wife asked, ‘Do you know her?’

‘Yes,’ I sighed, ‘She’s my old girlfriend.
I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn’t been sober since.’

‘My God!’ says my wife, ‘who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?’

And then the fight started…

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I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.

“I’ll have the strip steak, medium rare, please.”

He said, “Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?”"

Nah, she can order for herself.”

And then the fight started…

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A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror.
She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband,
‘I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly.
I really need you to pay me a compliment.’

The husband replies, ‘Your eyesight’s damn near perfect.’

And then the fight started…..

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My wife asked me if a certain dress made her butt look big.
I told her not as much as the dress she wore yesterday

and then the fight started…..

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A man and a woman were asleep like two innocent babies.

Suddenly, at 3 o’clock in the morning, a loud noise came from outside.

The woman, bewildered, jumped up from the bed and yelled at the man
‘Holy crap. That must be my husband!’

So the man jumped out of the bed; scared and naked jumped out the window.
He smashed himself on the ground, ran through a thorn bush and to his car as fast as he could go.

A few minutes later he returned and went up to the bedroom and screamed at the woman,
‘I AM your husband!’

The woman yelled back, ‘Yeah, then why were you running?’

And then the fight started…..

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Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, and slipped quietly into the garage.

I hooked up the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour.

The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all day.

I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed.

I cuddled up to my wife’s back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, ‘The weather out there is terrible.’

My loving wife of 10 years replied,
‘Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?’

And then the fight started …

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I asked my wife, “Where do you want to go for our anniversary?”

It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation.
“Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!” she said.

So I suggested, “How about the kitchen?”

And that’s when the fight started….

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My wife and I are watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed.
I turned to her and said, “Do you want to have sex?”

“No,” she answered.

I then said, “Is that your final answer?”

She didn’t even look at me this time, simply saying
“Yes.”

So I said, “Then I’d like to phone a friend.”

And that’s when the fight started….
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When our lawn mower broke and wouldn’t run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed. But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first: the truck, the car, e-mail, fishing, always something more important to me.

Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point.

When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors.

I watched silently for a short time and then went into the house. I was gone only a few minutes. When I came out again I handed her a toothbrush.

‘When you finish cutting the grass,’ I said,
‘you might as well sweep the driveway.’

and then the fight started…

Skywatch Friday #14

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:03:00 +0000

Wordless Wednesday #10

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:03:00 +0000

Combining this three images with a different exposure value; EV: -2.0, 0.0 , +2.0 respectively.

And it became this image

Oh! I'm so into HDR photography right now...

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Macro Monday: Flower's Bud

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:10:00 +0000

Music Monday: Hurry Up by Che'nelle

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:03:00 +0000

Che'nelle or Cheryline Lim, she's a Malaysian, born in Kota Kinabalu Sabah, who live abroad. Released her first album "Things Happen for a Reason" on September 25, 2007 in Japan and October 29, 2007 in Australia. You can find more about her biography on her's official myspace. This song must be on my playlist while I'm driving. Especially while I'm driving to my work place.

Photohunt: Bridge(s)

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:51:00 +0000

This London Bridge is just perfect for this week Photohunt's theme. Taken in December 2006 during my short visit to London City. You can view a different angle for this bridge at my previous post here.

Close-up shot with a pseudo-HDR post processing.

Find more photo with the same theme at PhotoHunt 148: Bridge(s)
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My New Project Site

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:43:00 +0000

It's a new project site again and it's my sixth projects. This time I'm assigned to Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan project site. It's located 100km away from my home and takes two hours driving time. If you're familiar with Google Earth, you'll find the location of this town at bearing 2°44’00.10’’N , 102°15’00.17’’E. I've never step my foot in Kuala Pilah before and I can't imagine how I may live in this small town with a bad broadband connection for another 30 months. Urghh! I really felt like I'm living in the 80's.

This time, I'm building a nursing college, a Kuala Pilah Nursing College. Generally, this project is to replace the existing old nursing college that was build during the colonial era sometimes in 1930's. All of the existing buildings will be demolish and replace with a new modern building. And we are at that demolishing stage right now. I'll share a journey of this project with you all progressively. If I could find the time..tsk.

An old Surau (muslim's place to perform a prayer) partially demolished

A far view of the project site that I've messed it up with HDR process

Jan 2009 EC Top Dropper & Top Commenters

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:29:00 +0000

And here we go again..my Top 10 EC Dropper for January 2009...

400 EC went to each of their account

And my Top 5 Commenters for January 2009 are...

Kuching Daily Photo by Awang

500 EC went to each of them...
except Kuching Daily Photo which is not an Entrecard members, how unlucky ;)

keep dropping and commenting :)

Photohunt: Furry

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:20:00 +0000

I don't know a specific name of this columnar cacti, all I knew is, it's furry.

Find more photo with the same theme at PhotoHunt 147: Furry
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Skywatch Friday #13

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:05:00 +0000

HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography is the process of taking multiple photo exposures and merging them together into a single 32 bit image. I've seen a lots of this amazing HDR image on the net and I would love to learn more about it. So, I'm googling around with a keyword "create HDR image", and I've found a simplest and very useful tutorial at Backing Winds that help me create this HDR image for this week Sky Watch Friday. Look what I've done to this dull and uninteresting photo (below)..isn't awesome ;). I knew it doesn't perfect yet, as this is just my first attempt on HDR image.

ABC Wednesday - Barbecue

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:05:00 +0000

This is my first entry on ABC Wednesday hosted by Mrs. Nesbitt and Friends which already on round four. Supposed I join this fun meme from the beginning, but I've missed it. So I start with this week letter "B" for barbecue.

I got a big family, my brothers and sisters are living in a different part of the country and we are rarely meet. But, when we get together, this chicken barbecue is a must thing to have.

My World: Sunset at Port Dickson

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:43:00 +0000

Port Dickson or fondly referred to as ‘PD’ located 80 km away from Kuala Lumpur. Which is only about an hour’s drive and makes it a very accessible sea-side destination, nearer than other beaches from my place of living.

Port Dickson can easily be reached by car, cab or bus from Kuala Lumpur via the North-South Expressway. At the Seremban turn-off, a separate expressway links the main highway to Port Dickson, which enables you to reach the town in a matter of minutes. Alternatively, you can take the trunk road from Seremban which will allow you to see many country-side sights.

Beaches are Port Dickson’s highlight, and virtually the whole town lives out the tourism industry centered on their wide, expansive and beautiful beaches. Besides swimming and sunbathing, you can engage in water sports such as skiing, canoeing as well as fishing.

Music Monday: Oh-oh-oh by China Dolls

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:33:00 +0000

When I first step my foot in construction industry, I was assigned to a project site near a Malaysia-Thailand border for a period of thirty six months. During that period, I was introduced by one of the Siamese labour who worked there to this Thai dance song and get hooked into it since then. Couldn't find any translation for this song on the net, sorry :).

Photohunt: Chipped

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:10:00 +0000

Chipped sweet potato left to dry under a direct sunlight.

Find more photo with the same theme at PhotoHunt 146: Chipped
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Skywatch Friday #12

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:37:00 +0000

Good News Everyone...

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:37:00 +0000

You're one of a genius people on earth if you read my blog post and understand it..LOL!!!

Ruby Tuesday #04

noreply@blogger.com (Fadzil Zainal) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:29:00 +0000

There is only a little ruby or red color on Rajah Brooke's body and it is a red hollow triangular mark on its neck. Whereas, the wood where it landed indeed suitable for this Ruby Tuesday..lol.

Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing (Troides brookiana albescens) can rival the most beautiful species from other parts of the world, some says it's a King of Butterflies. This birdwing was discovered by famous British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace during one of his expeditions to Borneo in 1855. He named it in honor of his friend Sir James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak.

Rajah Brooke is so easy to recognize. All the wings on the upperside were of a uniform jet-black color. On each forewing, with a wingspan about 15-17cm, which was extremely long than wide, there were altogether seven luminous green triangles, each with a faint black line bisecting it horizontally. Of the seven, the two triangles nearest the dorsum, or the horizontal part of the forewing, were joined. On each of the very much smaller hindwings the green pattern became a broad band near the wing bases, broken up only by the black veins that radiated from the wing cell.
Source: Malaysian Nature Society