fufu's story

Pic of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:32:00 +0000

Turtle from Cherating.

Penang Trip - 500 miles and more

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:09:00 +0000

Went for a short yet interesting trip to Penang.

;)

Decided to make a video out of it instead of photos and still pictures. A77 FTW.

Penang - Tanjung Bungah Beach Area

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:09:00 +0000

Pic A Day #1

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:25:00 +0000

Adelaide - Sunset towards Rundle Street Mall.

It was still Spring when I left Melbourne

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:18:00 +0000

Here am I now, back home in Malaysia. Jobless, unemployed, lazy-ing, bumming, you name it. It's about 4 months since I finished University and about 2 months since graduation. Man, I need a job or at least doing something. Haha.ANYWAY, here are some of the shots that I took at Tessalar Tulip Festival back in October when Mommy and Daddy came down for my graduation. :) Enjoy.

There are a bit more in my flickr.

Sydney City

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:41:00 +0000

Just came back from Sydney. Awesome Views, Good Foods, place with ferries and buses, extensive double decker train system, heavy traffic roads, plenty of type of asian people, shopping areas, sexy beaches and much more.

A view of the city, on the way to Manly by ferry.

Note the water (on the right), its been heavily copied and paste to remove those waves from the ferry. That's why its a bit out of portion :D

What's next after 2 months back at home?

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:48:00 +0000

I came back on the 14th of January, and today, March 2nd, I'm going back to Melbourne to finish my final semester as an undergraduate in Monash.

Flash back, in the past 2 months:

1. I played with my 2 new dogs

2. Celebrated Mom and Choong Wen's Birthday

3. Went for Ming Kim's Dad's birthday

4. Went to iCity with Yung, Min, Sam and Bibi.

5. Organized Baby's 21st along with the help of her friends

6. Chopped this 20kg+ chunk of home grown bananas

7. Met up with Current and Ex-Berwickians

8. Ate mum's cooking for CNY

9. Gambled and lost 55bucks in one night during CNY

10. Celebrated Jan, Mel. Law and Mel. Seo's Birthday at Bangsar.

11. Last farewell at Mid Valley

12. Took part in the Leo Musical Charity Concert

Ah, What's next now for me.

I'm definitely gonna miss home, looking forward to my graduation this year, looking to have a good time with my good friends at my new home in Clayton, waiting for more challenges ahead this year, and hoping for the best in everything.

Anyway, I wish all the best to my friends who have graduated and who are in the working field now. Not to forget those who are also still studying, jobless or looking for one or whatever you are doing.

Yadayada. Ciaoz. Will be blogging again when I have the time in Melbourne. Ciaoz.

Video Game earning billions, what about piracy?

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:44:00 +0000

I was watching TV the other day. I think was either CNN or CNBC. It was reporting some news on Activision Blizzard.And, I thought. Hey, isn't it Activision, the creator of Call of Duty?

And yea, I went browsing the net awhile ago.

1. They were announcing some news on their future and prospected games - StarCraft 2 ....
2. Profit Announcement - $2.5 bil for FOURTH QUARTER 2009.

And apparently, Activision is the parent company of BLIZZARD. WOAH! The creator of WarCraft 3, StarCraft and World of Warcraft. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzard. I was pretty surprise on that. I never thought Blizzard can be ever owned by any another game maker. And you know what, each of them are earning their share of billions on video games.

Activision Blizzard 2008 Annual Report from http://investor.activision.com/annuals.cfm

I went into Activision Blizzard's website to check on their annual report. 2008 Annual Report says that they had a revenue on 5 billion dollars in 2008. 5 BILLION dollars!!! That is a whole one big amount of revenue man. Say each video game is about $120 per game. That's like 40 million copies of COD sold man - don't play play.

The break down of that 5 billion dollars consist of Activision, $2.152 bil; Blizzard, $1.343 bil. The rest were distribution and segment revenues. Woah. It seems that Activision is much bigger than I thought so. Can you ever imagine selling Call of Duty and Guitar Heroes alone is enough to generate billions and not millions of dollars in revenue? Wah, this is good money man. I wonder if I ever franchised "Char Siew Pau" is enough to earn thousands or not.

Anyway, there's also another thing in the report that kinda make me LOL big time!

As you can see, the breakdown of the revenue from 3 different regions: North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. And Asia Pacific is only contributing 7% of the revenue. LOL! I hope so you know why am I emphasizing this 7%. Asia Pacific consists of China, Korea, Japan, South East Asia and Australia. And 7% is seriously low because the population of gamers in Asia Pacific alone is greater than North America and Europe.

Well, we can all blame PIRACY. If you support Piracy, thus it explains the 7%. Hahahaha. (I know I'm one of them)

The sad thing is that PIRACY is killing the industry's revenue. Even though it may earn billions in revenue, there are actually net losses for them too. I'm sure you don't want to see the last of the best games for the year are Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

So for once, if you don't BUY them, at least TRY to think ORIGINAL.

Dandenong Ranges

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:26:00 +0000

When Daddy was here in Melbourne, we took a trip to the Dandenong Ranges. I think its one of the forest reserves nearest to the city. At the peak, you see the city, the surrounding suburbs and also Port Phillips Bay.

Anyway, we joined this day -tour which costs us about 60AUD per person, I think.

So, the tour bus took us right into the heart of the Dandenong Ranges. There was this visitor area for tourist bus.

FYI, the whole entire place was actually Bush-Fire Prone. There are even few charred trees around because of the bush fires throughout the years.

Wildlife - birds. These are one of the few birds that are common here. And we had the chance to feed them.

I call this bird the "YODA-BIRD". The white fur is the gown, the yellow hair behind its head is the ninja-headband thingy. "FUuuuuuuuuuuuiiiiiyaaaaaaa~~~~~"

Pink Dandenong Bird

I have no idea what are the names of the bird. I think the white one was a Cockatoo. And, The green one is GREEN BIRD, and the Pink one is PINKISH BIRD. LOL.

Me and Dad, conquered "part" of Dandenong Ranges. =D =D

Pancakes on The Rocks

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:17:00 +0000

I present to you "Pancakes on the Rocks" at the rocks.

It's yummy , even though some of my friends said that Pancake Parlor was better.

Harry's de Wheels Pies - George St, Sydney

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:46:00 +0000

The pies were yummy. Worth trying if you're really really hungry.

Sydney, New South Wales

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:35:00 +0000

We took this picture up at Blue Mountain!

Arthurs Seat

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:57:00 +0000

Random

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000

Revoltech Danboard from Amazon.co.jp

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:18:00 +0000

I present to you my new "toy"!!

DANBOARD aka Danbo.

Some facts about it:
1. Bought it from ebay
2. It can only be bought at Amazon.co.jp which is from Japan
3. It's Japanese
4. It's kinda plasticky cheap
5. It's smaller than my hand
6. It's a box figure from Revoltech

Aint he cute? :p

More about it next time.

Creating your own Passport Photo

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:31:00 +0000

The other day, my friend came up to me asking me to take her a picture for her passport photo. At first, I hesitated because I had limited knowledge and tools of doing such a thing. Then, I decided to take up as a challenge because I wanted to try something new. And after everything was done, it turned out good apart from the minor flaws because of my limited knowledge.

Here's my humble tutorial.

What you need?
1 x Camera
1 x External Flash (optional) - to properly strobe on the subject face
1 x Adobe Photoshop Editing

STEPS
1. Take a picture of your SUBJECT

- The main objective here is to take a picture of your subject.
COMPOSURE:
- First, compose your subject. Either move them around or simply ask them to pose. But, it was my first time, my subject "naturally" posed for me - which was good.
- You may want to take a whole body with the entire background. This is because it gives you option to edit the photos later on a PC.
LIGHTINGS:
- Second, what I learned that day was that you have to carefully light up your subject carefully (i.e. the face, body, shoulder and also the background).
- Either having more lights above, below and beside your subject will help to bring out the subject's feature A LOT.
- However, as you can see from the picture above, it's not really that "CLEAN" because you still see shadow under the chin.
- Oh yea, the background is important as well. Try not to have too much shadow behind on the background. Because we want to remove the background later.

2. Have fun Photoshop!

- There are a lot of tutorials on Youtube teaching you how to use photoshop. Keywords: "REMOVE BACKGROUND", "GRADIENT TINT" AND "LAYER MASKING".
- That were the three methods I used.
- First, CROP the picture. (Half Body, Full Body, or whatever you like).
- Second, REMOVE the background by using the LASSO tool to SELECT then DELETE.
- Third, ADD another LAYER. Then GRADIENT TOOL it with one of the BLUE COLOUR that is similar to a passport photo background.
- Forth, minor touchup, such as AUTO CONTRAST and COLOUR and you are done.

Few Tips:
1. Keep practicing your photoshop skills.
2. There are a lot of tutorials online (i.e. Youtube).

Anyway, your comments and criticism are greatly appreciated as I'm still learning to improve on my Photoshop skill. Cheers.

Melbourne Weather Forecast: HOT and DRY.

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:19:00 +0000

Title: Melbourne's Weather Forecast
Date: November 7th 2009
Subject: Hot and Dry Weather

Source: MELBOURNE.COM.AU
URL: http://www.weather.com.au/vic/melbourne

Everheart

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:51:00 +0000

I love indo mee..

Gonna add one more small toy figure in collection. It's gonna box figure from Japan. Will post it when it arrives.

My name is Everheart

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:46:00 +0000

Hello, my name is Everheart and I love posing.

More tomorrow.

Bokeh Study with a Vintage Minolta 50mm

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:53:00 +0000

1. f1.7

2. f2.2

Now, what about f2?

after the jump~

ISN'T IT JUST MAGNIFICENT?

Barossa Valley - Wineries in Adelaide

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:37:00 +0000

There are 2 things that I enjoyed going to Barossa Valley.
1. The scenery is AWESOME. Driving there with a CAR - Love it the most.
2. The amount free Wines to be taste - 90% the wine tasting is FREE! Drink till you drop!

The Vineyard and the BLUE SKY!

But the weather that day was kinda playing with us. It shined, then rained, then drizzled. :/

1. Chateau Barossa

2. Chateau Yaldara

3. Jacobs' Creek

4. Grant Burge

5. Pensfold

:D

Cakes and Seafood at St Kilda!

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:39:00 +0000

To continue from one of my previous posts - Penguins... ST KILDA...

The seafood here was AWESOME! YUMMY...

We went to this seafood restaurant recommended by my good friend Ken Neth, Chan (Thanks man).

We ate this "Stuffed Calamari with Scallops and Spinach" coupled with a Pinot Noir for each one of us. AWESOME-NESS!

I can tell you maan. This is the first time in my life trying something "EROTICALLY EXOTIC". That dish was SUPERB man. Damn nice. *THUMBS UP!!!!*

Anyway, in St Kilda, along Acland Street, the cakes were awesome too. Standing outside in any of those shops was like a "Watery Mouth Dripping Experience". The cakes lit up with the effect of the Warm Day Lighting made those cakes looked "SEXY". And just staring at them made my eyes go Sweeter. It bulged out bigger each time I name out the name of every single cake that look delicious.

*FUIIIIIYOOOO*

So, we went into one of them.

Acland Cakes

We had two slices of cakes. I can tell you that its just that GOOD. The atmosphere is oldy-moldy 80-90s, the cake were sweet and sexy..

IT'S JUST YUMMY-YUMMY RUMBLING UP MY TUMMY!!

Donation Button by Paypal

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:23:00 +0000

As you can see, I've added this Button:

So I'm accepting donation. Come donate to me so I can get my own domain. :D

Caption-ed Adelaide Portraits

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:30:00 +0000

We were at the Bus stop waiting for our bus to go to Hanndorf, the German Village.

And We did quite a lot of stupid things there.

Like first, we talked about hair.

Then, I showed them my hair...

Then some one acted cute...

This fella....

And this fella....

Sworn-brothers?

and ONE emo Henn Drik..

But it was worth while waiting..

BECAUSE in the end....

WE ATE THIS:

AND, DRANK THIS

WAAAAAAAAh....

SIIII BEEEEH GAAAO LAAT!

Frozen Moments

noreply@blogger.com (Choong Fu) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:12:00 +0000

some Frozen moments from the Adelaide series. All Post-processed.