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Great Music @ Xpax Xplay Party Kuching 2010

seth — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:52:05 +0000

18th June 2010 – Xpay Xplay Party @ Paragon Kuching

Party started off pretty quite till bout 9.45pm when more people started to turn up despite watching the World Cup… Crowd was awesome…. I was pretty amazed to see how things was very well organised. Thanks to DJ Monkey (playing the electro/techno mixes) and DJ Funkzu (playing the RnB mixes) who really made the crowd enjoyed the night. There was also this guy called Shawn Lee who was just awesome doing his beat-boxing performance. Damn! They really rock the place.

I did manage to take the chance to get to know some new people and ask their opinion bout the party. 9 out of 10 says “This is the best party I’ve ever been to in Kuching” and the other one just said “dude, are you kidding me? I didn’t expect this party to be this awesome. It’s beyond my thoughts that it was this great”.

Anyway everything went well and we all hope that the next party will be even much greater than this….

Thanks to Xpax.

Photo shoot 17th April 2010

seth — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:01:01 +0000

Last week a friend of mine called me and ask if I’d like to shoot some photo’s with him, and these are the results….

Very Touching

seth — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:35:56 +0000

Finally… I did it again.

seth — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:41:49 +0000

After all these time thinking and wondering on which design, I made up my mind. Decided on what tattoo to be put on my back.
It was a very painful experience. Not like the other tattoo that i had. Anyway, Love the design so much. Thanks to Jeremy from Monkey Tattoo.

Boring…

seth — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:02:22 +0000

It’s been a really bad month this month, since I’ve not gone out shooting and I was so much missing my outdoor shoot, i decided to do some experiment at home.

Just shoot my own pics… ;p
Me, Myself, My Camera & Tripod

Wild Weekend

seth — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:51:41 +0000

Last weekend really had a great time with the OZ boyz. They were so crazy at the beginning of the trip but when we reach the outskirts of Kuching, they were stunned. I never seen anyone would rub soiled rocks on their body, posed in the river like a warrior, and best of all, being more crazy then they have been since they came 3 weeks ago.

Here are some photo’s of them at Ana Rais Village…

Hope to have more outing with these guys again. Perhaps this time stay a night in the jungle.

Coins…

seth — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:25:06 +0000

I just found out that eating out and paying with coins makes the shop or stall owner very happy. Couple of weeks back i ran out of money. So I started to collect my coins in my room. It was here and there.

So i started to roll them in total of RM4 or RM5 a roll. And eventually I manage to collect bout RM134. WOW!!! That’s a lot of money. Anyway, my friend and I went out for dinner and use the coins to pay our meal. And there was a really Big Smile on the face of the stall owner.

After we finnish our meal, she came back to me and said:”Do you have more coins to change with me? Next time when you come please bring more coins. Thanks.”

Well, now on, will try my best to use coins just to make everyone happy….

Worth RM80

Mr. Chili Man a.k.a Dion

seth — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:44:52 +0000

This guy i know is pretty funny. 1st day i met him he was kind of like a guy who dun talk a lot. But, when we met the second time, he showed his true colors. He just somehow loves chili… at first we went to Ruai Bar, had a couple of Tuak (rice wine), then he came to me and said “cheers”. And he was holding a sauce place full with chili sauce (home made style) which was kind of spicy.

Later that night we went to grab some food, and he saw this huge chili, i saw a BIG SMILE on his face. He looks kind of happy. Seems to enjoy it but eventually everything got out later when he got home.

Two days ago we had BBQ at his place and i offered him “cili padi” which is kind of like one of the spiciest chili you could find here. This time his face looked funny after the 1st bite.

Damn Dion! You’re 1 sick Australian I’ve ever met. Isn’t there any chili’s back home???

Dion enjoying his big chili

Cili Padi (The Spicy Chili)

Surfing In Batang Lupar River 16th October 2009

seth — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:02:40 +0000

Every river has its legends, and the local legend which personifies the creation of the Batang Lupar benak is as imaginative as any, highlighting the conflict between the boatman and the great natural phenomenon.

It has only been as a result of the Komori report of 1979, for the Malaysia Drainage and Irrigation department, that the four Sarawak benaks have been documented. However, much earlier, in 1949, the British writer, Somerset Maugham actually experienced the benak on the Batang Lupar, and narrowly avoided drowning.

A tidal bore, locally known as “Benak”, usually occurs during the third day and eighteenth day of the Chinese Lunar calendar month and when the high tide is rushing up the Batang Lupar.

The tidal bore is created when the force of the tide water rush up the river causes the river to reverse its flow. The height of the tidal bore depends on the time of the year, wather adn phase of the moon. The tidal action is significant for the speed in which a large volume of water fills the rive channel.

The tidal bore in the Batang Lupar reaches its height at the river in front of the Sri Aman Town, which is about 28 kilometres from its mouth. The tidal bore travels further up river for another 30 kilometres to reach Engkilili, a total of 68 kilometres from the sea.

The Legend of the Benak

A local legend states that once upon a time, Benak, his wife and their son were strolling along the Batang Lupar, in the Sri Aman division of Sarawak, when they accidentally hit and capsized a native, spilling him into the Batang Lupar. Angered by this, the native, a local Iban man, vowed to avenge his misfortue and kill Benak and his family. The next morning, the Iban man hid himself on the Batang Lupar to await the arrival of Benak and his family. Unaware that he was waiting for them, Benak and his family were unexpectedly attacked by the local, and Benak was slain. But, his wife and child managed to escape, and every day since they stroll the Batang Lupar with great ferocity, and no compassion for the local boatmen that frequent the waters.

Anyway, The article im gonna post here is taken from someone’s blog about this guy surfing in this river which is well known for being infested by CROCODILE…

First Surf Attempt

Taken from http://www.nadai.name

Antony was all set to surf the Batang Lupar Tidal Bore or popularly known as Benak in Sarawak. It also goes by the name of Ben in Nadai Nama Nama. It was Antony’s first attempt on 16th October 2009. The Benak was expected to come at 3:00 pm and we were already assembled at the Sri Aman Wharf, near the Chinese Temple.

One of Antony’s worry was the presence of crocodiles which was aplenty on the banks of Batang Lupar River. He came across this one (above in the picture) during his recce along the river on 15th October 2009 at Sekera, Sri Aman. One of the questions he asked me was the statistics of fatal crocodile attacks here so that he can be more careful in identifying which areas have crocs during the recce. Yikes! I thought….here was someone who would change my perspective of crocodiles in Batang Lupar. He says if he know a certain area is populated by the creature he would just avoid surfing in the area. To me, just a sight of that creature would make me scurry a hundred miles away from the river.

Cruising along the river waiting for the Benak along the Batang Lupar River was not as simple as it seems. Reason being some areas are just knee deep and the boat tends to get stuck. The only way to fix this was to get off the boat and push…..that’s the fear factor part….where you hope to feel sand underneath and nothing else. Anything that looks like or feels different- say a log, just jump into the boat as quick as you can.

So as the Benak approached Antony waited for a good wave and quickly jumped out of the boat, shouting “YEEHAAA” into the raging waters. It was his first taste of Batang Lupar water and he never looked back as he rose and surfed making it look easy. I was watching history in the making as this is the first time that someone is attempting to surf the Benak on a surf board. Sacre Bleu…the French will say.

In deeper section of the river the Benak sinks and the force of the wave is lost, only to resurface again in shallower areas. So there was Antony, surfing and when the Benak disappear for a while, he would go back on the other boat and chase the Benak again and when it emerges again he would jump in. Our main worry at first was that when he loses the wave and momentum he would fall behind and we would have to quickly pull him out of the water. That’s the dicey part as the remnant waves of the actual Benak is risky for our boat. There were times when we almost overturned.

There was a stretch along the Batang Lupar which saw the Benak travelling quite a distance and Antony was there again to conquer that stretch. The people of Sri Aman had gathered along the Batang Lupar Tidal Bore Observation Station and Riverine Park to watch this courageous Frenchman as they clapped their hands and cheered him on.

Below are some clearer photos taken from Antony’s camera which shows him surfing the Benak wave. Yeehaa! He wants me to show this in this Blog to show that Benak surfing can be done. Its like Kacang (eating peanuts).

About A Girl I Used To Know

seth — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:20:38 +0000

Couple of months back I met this girl named “A”. She was rather cute, sweet and a nice girl. Maybe it’s because I just met her. But time tells us how much people can change and be mean or rude or whatever you want to say it.

Anyway, she and I had a whole lot of things that we like and dislike. But, unfortunately one day, something bad happen. Real bad (REAL BAD), in her “dictionary”. And hey, I’m Innocent! There was nothing special between us yet! She described herself as open minded, happy-go-lucky type of person. But instead she is the type that likes to pined point fingers, say nasty things and claim things that are not right.

I was really surprise when on one of our conversation turn out to be really nasty. Never in my life have I talked to someone without a single word of swearing, but she was like a machine gun. Shooting all the things that was not inappropriate. Maybe she thinks she’s an Australian (sorry to my Australian friends, but I realize that u guys swear a lot but in a good way…).

The best part was she mention something that makes others think that she’s a BITCH. She was comparing herself as a better one then the others. HEY! LOOK AT UR SELF IN THE MIRROR BEFORE JUDGING OTHERS!!!!!

Well, in this life, no one is perfect! If you want to find a full perfection in someone, hmmm… hehehe… THERE IS NONE EXCEPT GOD!!!!

All I can say to you is, Grow Up!!! Open your eyes wide!!! You are just like a little bird that just hatched out of its shell. You have much to learn. Don’t destroy your own life. And all the best for your own future…

Guys… Dun trust them that much yet till you really know that SHE is the ONE!!!!