Happy Teacher's Day 2010!

Our school's teacher's day was held last Thursday. Prior to that day, all the teachers were asked to buy gifts to exchange among ourselves, with the minimum price of RM5.00. I bought a stationaries holder.



That morning, all of us gathered inside the school hall. The day started with speeches from the student's representative, our principal and the state's Education director.


Each of us teachers got a token of appreciation from the prefects.


The cake-cutting ceremony to mark the day.


Our students prepared some shows - poem recital.


Choir.


The it's our turn to sing the once-a-year song, Kami Guru Malaysia.


Then, the student's line up to shake hand with the teachers.

Now comes the interesting time of the day. Gifts exchange!


The gifts ready to be given out. Each of us took turns to pick a number from a box and received a gift according to that number.


Alvina got the longest gift.


Mine! I got some Cloud Nines and a glass set.


Hazmin looked ecstatic!


Solar-powered dancing tomato.


The funniest gift of all, a set of orange plastic plates.

SMK Sundar's first ever inter-uniform bodies marching competition

Finally, my school organised its first marching competition among the uniform bodies yesterday. A few of my colleagues and I are the advisor for the Kadet Remaja Sekolah(KRS) and we had been praticing for the past few weeks.


Our KRS team.

Some of the teachers cheering for their teams.








A bit of camwhoring.

Some of the bodies that participated.









So, how did we fare? We got the consolation prize. The winner goes to Fireman's cadet.




Lasung accepting the consolation hamper on behalf of KRS.


Bob won the best commandant.

Anyway, I think it's not too late to wish all the teachers out there, Happy Teachers Day! The school just celebrated it this morning and I will blog about it soon.

Sony NEX...possible second body?

Photos taken from www.quesabesde.com.

Finally, Sony's new camera is out with mixed reviews. People is skeptical about the looks of the camera. A small body with a new, bigger E-mount lens. An adapter is also available to mount Sony Alpha's and Minolta's lenses. Imagine NEX with the 70-400G. No need to imagine...here.


Photos taken from http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp.

The ISO performance is good. What I like most about this camera is the ability to capture HD videos and the gorgeous tilt LCD. Check out the video here taken with NEX lenses and the Zeiss STF lens. Yummy! I'm still waiting for it to reach Sony Centres and possibly the A700 replacement before deciding on my next haul.

more reviews here...
http://phototwist.com/sony-nex-3-review/
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readf ... d=35282707

Just another week...

What did I do during this past week? Went to the Cultural Show at KK museum last Saturday with fellow Alpha shooters but only for 10 minutes. Had to go out early to assist my housemate in 'pimping' his Persona.










Shuk with his IR A100.


Rina and Maha.

Brought out my cam this evening and shot these behind the house. I really need something interesting to shoot soon as I haven't upload photos in my facebook for weeks now.


Hey you. What are you doing there?




Trying the plugins in mystical lighting.


The new Lawas District Council building.

Lawas, development in progress

Phew. It's been a week since I last updated my blog. Not that I don't have the time, but rather I don't know what to shoot nowadays. Evening activities would always be playing futsal or just resting at home watching TV.

Today I picked up my camera, and went out to look for subjects. By the way, my Tamron is having problems with its focusing speed since late last year. It might be due to the impact it had when my camera and the lens slipped from my shoulders. Not once but twice! Good thing is, it's still sharp just that the focus motor acted erratically at times. Thinking of sending it for servicing soon.


The neighbour's dog.


My old car! Sadly I'm planning to sell it off soon.


Our futsal shoes being dried after a very wet futsal game last Monday.


The robust Toyota Hilux to go up Ba Kelalan.


Didn't managed to get the Twin Otter in the air before it landed.

While I was looking for more subjects and queuing to get fuel, I looked back at the past seven years of my life as a teacher in Lawas. If I'm not posted here in the first place, I wouldn't know about this small town and importantly, its people and cultures. I'm happy though to see more developments coming soon here. For instance, the one and only petrol session. During peak times, it would be a pain in the a** just to get some fuel. Because of its location and the size of it, you can't turn back once you entered the road going to it. Furthermore, a lot of pickup drivers from far villages would bring lots of plastic fuel containers to stock up fuel supply. Waiting for them to finish seems forever sometimes.


Queue here, queue there.


Not so peak hours in this shot.

Anyway, things will change soon.


The just completed Petronas station. It will be a much awaited blessing for Lawas town.


Spacious, and more fuel pumps to cater the ever-increasing cars here.

Besides that, soon, we will enjoy a new waterfront and a new hotel that is facing Lawas river.


Few months to go.


The Lawas waterfront under construction. Wish the view on the other side is nicer.


The soon to be completed Seri Malaysia Hotel.


It will be the tallest building in Lawas, but still way shorter than Limbang's Purnama Hotel.


Shangsan Hotel(left side) is the tallest building previously.