Balinese Statue

In Bali, You can almost see statue everywhere and they have different shape as well as size. Interestingly, there are more than hundreds of variation of the statue and there are few that gigantic, that they put in the middle of roundabout, to the smallest that they can put inside your bedroom.

Bali Statue 1 480x318 Balinese StatueThis statue I notice lie outside temple. Bali has hundreds of temple and there are few outstanding one, most common one that you can found is the temple at Tanah Lot. I like this statue, it is like giving feeling of welcoming. It is most common gesture for Balinese people to welcome and even to say hello, if you have been travel to Thailand, they also do the same gesture.

Bali Statue 2 239x360 Balinese StatueThe statue that has elephant nose, is at the entrance of my hotel. It is likely they worship this statue every morning as I can see many flower trace that found near the statue. Although Bali famous with their sunrise and sunset landscape, their statue also bring strong interest to some group of religious that come mostly from India, Thailand, Cambodia and even Indonesia itself.

I love Bali and next few post are still related to Bali.

Tanah Lot Sunset Bali

I love Bali, I have been there many times and yet I still love to go there again and again. Every visit in Bali I have different experience and this time not only visiting beach and mountain in Bali, but also I visit superb underwater life in Bali. It is indeed memorable holiday and really refreshing and also superb relax time in Bali. The island is famous for the beauty of the beach as well as mountain. One of hot destination for tourism internationally.

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Tanah Lot

If you have visit Bali or googling place in Bali, Tanah Lot is among the highest recommendation for you to go to visit for their sunset. This is the place where many people send their honeymoon trip, proposing, as well as favorite wedding photo. The place is really beautiful with reddish sky and sometimes you can see bright golden color.

Every time I go to Tanah Lot, I do seeing different sky color and even in this trip, I went twice and seeing two different color of sky as well as I am not bored by the beauty of the place. Sunset is really beautiful and it is indeed superb place to visit.

Chilling Fraser Hill

I just come back from Fraser Hill, which need to drive roughly two hours from Kuala Lumpur to the north. I seldom heard about Fraser hill compare with Cameroon Highland, or  Genting Highland, or even Bukit tinggi. These are places that really wellknown in Malaysia for their chill environment as well as many attraction.

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I manage to take this great photo that required me to wake up around 7 am and then go outside from my hotel room, and I have prayer group with few brothers before I took this picture. I love the environment and also the temperature over there. The weather is really wet and it rains often so it is pretty dangerous when bring DSLR camera without water proof bag.

Taking picture of landscape in this condition is pretty easy, I always put my focus on nearest land, which is the trees area, and I increase my f-number to gain sharpness of my background, and I wants to get ‘blue’ feeling in my skies, so I increase my shuttle speed which force me to increase my ISO to make the exposure correct.

High ISO makes my photo looks grainy, which the effect that I do really looking for, and set my white balance around 5k area to make it ‘cold’ effect. Thus with this technique I manage to obtain the picture above, and with little correction in saturation in the lightroom (decreasing it around -2) and wallahhhh… My photo is achieve the effect in my mind.

The Sea is Calling

It has been months since my last post in this blog, been really miss a lot writing thoughts as well as the memories that I collect for these past months. I can tell that so many things happen, good things as well as bad things. There are periods where I do feel really sad about life and I tried my best to make myself busy with work, events, and also tasks so that I really wish by doing these things it can take away my time for being sad. Few factors that make me sad but there are more things that makes me excited about life.

I am still keeping my memory about my last trip to Tioman, to get my diving license and also to enjoy the nature underwater. I have so much fun with the gang that I went with, the instructor is really kind and funny, as well the amusement when I see the beauty of underwater, which makes me addicted to go dive again and again.

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Few precious things that I learn during this trip are:

1. No need to worry much.

it is pretty common where we are overwhelming with so many things, especially if you stay in Kuala Lumpur or major metropolitan anywhere in the world. Our life is so full of schedule, tasks, events, appointment, and responsibility that really often took a lot of your time and energy. Worry begin creeping in and stress level increase a lot which makes people feel easily tired or always tired mentally. I have many experience mentally tired and it really took almost two weeks to really clear it, and before I manage to clear it, a new things are constantly happen.

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It is why in this holiday, I do not make any busy schedule, and we just easy-go-lucky style. No need to rushing, pushing something to get things that you want. admire the life style of cat. They just  freely go to anywhere and relax, the things that I do really need so much to recharge.

2. Enjoying Friendship.

Going trips with friends is something that I do really looking forward, no matter it is big group or small group, even two person going to trip is indeed something makes me excited. Traveling is my second highest enjoyment in my life, right after drinking coffee in the rainy weather.

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This diving trip, I have planned it from the start of 2011, which initial members are around 14 people. Many are interested to join and enjoy the fun, and slowly when it is closer to the month itself, one by one pulling out and left only two person above who said confirm during early 2011. Turn out, the trip really super duper fun and we really enjoy.

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It is really our luck to have friendly diving instructor, he is really good in make things simple and really patience teaching us. There is a time where he ask to wear our equipment on top of water, we keep failed to do, especially me where I keep asking him to repeat the move again and again, carefully watch him to do the demo until we all manage to do and pass the exam.

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Even after so many months that I have left the island, I really miss diving, how the sea waves sound, as well as the beauty of underwater. It is really true when you dive the first time, you will get addicted and you will looking forward to dive more and more. Good thing that this month I will go to Bali to dive over there and really looking forward for the trip as well as the good holiday.

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So cheers, I will upload more about the photo in Bali.

 

PS: the last photo that I upload is natural ones, without any edit at all. Just put your camera and lens inside air-con room with 16 degree, and next morning your lens will be foggy.