Our Gurkas by Zakaria Zainal

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Invisible Photographer Asia has put up a photo essay by Zakaria Zainal about the retired members of the Gurka Contingent who are living in Nepal.

The Gurkas for me has always been a sort of mysterious group, in Singapore you see them mainly guarding vital installations, checkpoints and important people’s home. The other only time i see them is when they are jogging around the Mount Vernon area near where they are staying in Singapore.

I still remember when I was still in the Navy and one of my fellow officer was doing the Navy Biathalon. He commented that he heard them coming from behind him with a “he he he” breathing sound, then they passed and disappeared in front of him. Considering that he was quite fit i guess thats a testimony to how physically fit they are.

Enjoy Zakaria’s Photos, it’s still a work in progress but i think it will be interesting to watch for it considering that the Gurkhas have first hand involvement in almost all the major disturbances during our early years of independence.

Link to photo essay http://invisiblephotographer.asia/2011/09/28/photoessay-ourgurkhas-zakariazainal/

Zakria Zainal Homepage.

Wikipedia Entry on the Gurkha Contingent in Singapore

 

Your most interesting photos- dopiaza.org

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I have been reading Thomas Leuthard’s Going Candid free ebook. I recommend all who are exploring street photography to go read that. And and in that he talks about Dopiaza a flickr application that can generate a set containing your 20 (or what ever number you choose) most interesting photos.

These are some of my 20 most interesting photos as generated by Dopiaza.

Rush Hour

 

Esplanade

Family

Stop!

Three things to do on a train ride

Smiling

HP and Fireworks

For the rest of my top 20 pictures please visit my Flickr set – My Most Interesting Photos.

Developing film again.

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Finally manage to develop my 2 rolls of film which have been lying around for at least half a year or more (Most likely more :) ). They are HP5Plus and Trix, develop them both in DDX. Whenever i develop old films you always get a surprise at what you get since you can’t remember what’s on each roll of film. Anyway for those who are into developing film, TRIX in DDX is fantastic, i did 6 minutes @ 23 C.

haha seen here is her struggling against my sis. Its quite hard to take a picture together with her properly even now. Probably between 6 months to a year old.
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Just pass one year old I think, playing around with handphones is one of the things she picked up quite early one. she will pick a handphone up and put it to her ear imitating us, now she can hear the phone ring and run over to pick up the pho ne and sometimes say “Hello”. Now she will imitate us especially in talking quite well, she will hear something new and repeat it quite accurately. Like my wife one day say “MY GOD !” and the next thing you know she was saying “MY GOD !” too. Gotta be careful nowadays about how we speak.
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She has develop an interest in books, her favorite is a nursery rhymes book and her favorite rhyme in that book in “Humpty Dumpty”, when ever we get to the “have a a big fall”, she will imitate falling down and make a  ”pom” sound like that of hitting the floor. 

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My First Post – A Walk along Robertson Quay

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This is my first post (Duh!), anyway you can read more about me here and how i really got started. Before this blog was started I was already using my main blog to document down my photography together with other stuff but then i decided to focus and start a new blog just focusing on photography and the projects that I am doing and maybe do some reviews for the stuff that I buy.

So to start off these are some of my images from walking around The Robertson Quay and Clarke Quay area while waiting for my wife to celebrate her birthday last month.

Waiting

Saw this guy just lonely sitting there around lunch time.

Yellow

A group of ladies wearing Yellow shirts. I guess they must be supporting the Australian Netball team who was in town that week.

Don't Run

This photo reminds me somewhat of childhood where the parents always wants to take pictures of their children. It’s the same with me now and my daughter, i always try to take pictures of her. I wonder how long can I do that When they are older and have their own lives, parent and child tends to drift apart.

A ride?

Colorful Chairs

You can see more of this series by clicking on my Gallery or going to my Flickr account.