The power of Photoshop

During this Christmas holiday, I spent some time trying to edit some of my photos using Adobe Photoshop. I was lucky that Gray had showed some of the basic post production skills 2 weeks ago. Gray is very talented in photo editing. Although I can't remember all that he taught but I'm slowly trying to understand more photoshop skills. Photoshop is really a powerful tool for all photographers. Thank you, Gray & Kate. Merry Christmas & Happy 2010.

After Post Processing in Photoshop

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Kuching Pullman & Batang Ai Resort

This is the second visit to Kuching for this year. A newly opened 5 stars hotel called pullman hotel has a promotional rate of RM188++ from Nov till Jan 2009. It's modern and beautifully designed. After 2 nights in Kuching, we drove to Batang Ai Resort. The resort is built beside a big lake. It can only be reached by ferry so we leave our car in the compound monitored by the hotel staff. There's not much activities at the hotel beside swimming, fishing & jungle walk to a suspension bridge. We came back to Sibu after 1 night stay at the resort which is managed by Hilton.

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Dora in Beijing

Sitting at the park behind Forbidden City is so relaxing

Snapshot at Great Wall

Old Classmate Reunion

One of my best friends, Hii Siang Hui, Gray came back to Sibu from San Francisco, USA on 3rd December, 2009. This is the first time he come back to Malaysia after his graduation 20 years ago. As a host, I brought him to visit some of our old classmates, playing golf and badminton. We had dinner together with some old classmates including Sia Derg, who is a lawyer in Bintulu, Wong Teck Luen, Chiong Wee Pui and Clement Yong. It was truly memorable to met again after 20 years.

The Catholic Church in Tianjin

We took a mid-night train from Chengde to Tianjin. Train departed Chengde station at 22:50. Since we booked the 2nd class bed seat which costs 69 Yuan, we could comfortably sleep in the train with pillow and blanket provided. The weather was cold outside, around 15 degree Celsius below zero. After a few stops, at 06:05, our train arrived at YangLiuQing station, where we took a bus that cost 3 Yuan each person for an hour drive to Tianjin City. Tianjin is the 3rd largest city in the Northern China, but not much places of attraction. Beside visiting the Ancient culture street and South City Foods Street, we visited 2 historic Catholic Churches.

Chengde

Chengde is about 230 KM north east of Beijing. The train left Beijing train station at 6:30am and arrived at Chengde station after 4 hours 18 minutes. Chengde, originally called Rehe was once the summer resort capital of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The only attractions are the Mountain Resort and the Eight Outer Temples as a world cultural heritage site, listed byUNESCO in 1994.


Street of Chengde



Mountain Resort



Puning Temple

Baby Potala Palace

Random Snaps in Northern China

Some of my personal favorite snaps for this Northern China Trips (15-22 Nov 2009).