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Reaching for the sky

Yep...the sky is the limit...

How often do we look up and just enjoy the sight? I plan to do just that, to randomly look up, and take whatever that comes to my eye...err...lens. I shall start it soon, and hope the pictures can actually mean something. Haha

The Divide

The newspaper...I only read the following sections. Comics, Sports, and mainly Star Two. Yes, I read The Star everyday, and while I love reading the newspaper, I dislike how the news are shared.

I'm talking about politics.

Why is it that every single problem of a party is always highlighted, while the other party doesn't seem to have any problems. Internally and externally.

Why is it that every good thing a party does, gets reported...but only the "negative" things that the other party gets reported, even if what it did was good initially, but almost always twisted by none other than the local newspaper.

It doesn't take rocket science to discover that it's always one-sided, favoring one party, by drawing up negative perceptions of the other party. Personally, I don't find that professional, and sometimes, quite amusing not because of the content, but the ideology that readers are stupid to actually believe all that is reported.

Plus, political-party-owned-newspaper is probably one of the stupidest move in the publishing industry.

We just don't sit here anymore

How often do we actually visit a park, have a sit on the wooden bench, and read a book? I personally do not think it's a good idea. If the weather doesn't kill you, the mosquitoes will. If they both don't kill you, then the dangerous people will. We are just not accustomed to spending time in the parks, and therefore...they are left in a sorry state of neglect.

I was having my 2 days off, and drove down to Putrajaya to see its parks. While it was nice in a whole, there is nothing specific to be proud of. Yes, there are greens, yes there are sounds of birds and bees, yes there are flowers...but something doesn't seem right. People. You can hardly find anyone walking the parks and that is very dangerous. Oh...yes, there are mosquitoes as well.

Time

I must complain, because I don't have quality time to spend with my camera. I want to go snap some close up shots at One Utama's Secret Garden, but I have not find time for it yet.

So I just got a new 55-300mm lens, and have not put it to good use. I'm also waiting for my Neutral Density 8 filter to arrive, along with experimental Macro filters to arrive. With that, I hope that I can take real good close up shots, or macro even with my kit.

I just don't have enough time to do so.

Tower?!

Do we really need a tower? Why must we always try to outdo other nations, but ignoring the common folks that tries to make ends meet? It will be just another tower. I certainly do not think that it is necessary to build towers after towers to prove to other nations, and to prove to the local people that we are heading somewhere.

I do not care if it's being built by the Government or the Opposition, because that doesn't make any difference. If building towers to symbolize a developed nation, I think we are heading there the wrong way. The project is estimated to cost how much, 5 billion? We can't even get the Port Klang Free Trade Zone to function effectively, after wasting so much money on mega-projects, now another tower is being built.

RM5 billion is a lot of money. RM5 billion can create a lot of opportunities. It is said that money can't buy happiness, but I am sure the person that said it did not have RM5 billion to make the common folk happy, by improving the current conditions that we, the common people are faced with.

Do you not see the frustration of the common people? Just do the right thing. Just do it.

Learn and relearn

Was about to have a meal at Old-Town, but noticed this and decided to take many...many photos of it. The lens I am using does not have auto focus...so it's difficult to get a crisp photo.