Photomama Workshop with Saiful Nang

Posted by Mrs Imran on Jul 27, 2010
Filed Under Event, Photography | 26 comments

Saiful Nang

I attended a photography workshop last Sunday and mentor was none other than the famous Saiful Nang. This is my first time to join a photography workshop and I was pretty excited. I met many other bloggers who apparently share the same passion in photography.

This is Didee, she was sitting next to me and she is also one of my Usana downline (there were 5 of my Usana downlines attending the workshop). We met for the first time there.

When being ask, will I consider to make photography as a profession and be a professional photographer? I was speechless, to be honest I never asked myself such question before.

My comment on that would be no and yes (I answered the same during the workshop). Yes to be a professional but as a profession…hmm not quite yet (perhaps in future, but dunno lah) as I can’t see myself doing photography as profession. Firstly because I know quality of my picture and I feel that it isn’t fair to charge for it.

This is Munirah. Mothers of triplets plus one….err no! plus more and more. She’s one of my Usana downline also. Although she said that she looks like as if she “nk makan orang” dalam gambar ni, but somehow I like this pic. Therefore, putting it up here. Hihi.

I can’t get a nice shot of the baby, so I snap picture of the ladies taking the photo instead.

But selling pictures, yes. I did think about selling my pictures on stock photo website previously but haven’t got the chance and time to get it done. I came out with such idea, when I browsing through for photos on stock photo website (like 123rf.com) and was thinking that maybe one day I can be a contributor too. Saiful Nang also did mention similar idea about selling photos online during the workshop.

By selling your pictures / image on such website you need not to worry about how good or beautiful the photos are (but for some stock photos website , it has some requirements to meet before you can submit your photo), because people will only buy your photo if they like it. Indirectly means, if you want people to buy your photo amik lah gambar lawa-lawa yer. Ko hantar stok-stok gambar mcm taken from kamera rosak mmg buat penat jerlah.

One of my best shot ~ according to Saiful Nang yer, bukan saya pandai2 cakap (lucky me, at least manage to get one photo of the day..huhu) For this shot, 1-third and clean background rules applied.

And this one is pretty good too ~ again according to Saiful Nang. I purposely snap the photo in small frame to minimize the color of object appear in the photo, so that the subject (baby) will pop.

And this is my favourite shot! Fuhhh..

Sesi soal jawab bersama Didee. Hehe. Ni masa time rehat actually. Jua nasib baik tk kangkang besar lagi, if not have to censor this pic already. Heheh.

Group photo (ada lagi beberapa orang tk masuk gambar)

Ok why am so into photography?

I just hate ugly photos as I think beautiful photo is important for blog too because it can generate more interest of readers to your web content and make them come again for more. Bottom line it is all about how you want to portray yourself on blog. Your blog say it all about you.

So, do you love photography too?

Motorsport Division Soft Launching Event

Posted by Mr Imran on Jul 21, 2010
Filed Under Event | 12 comments

Never thought of having a co-author for this blog can be useful. Haha. It’s really hard for me to write something that am not really well-versed in, especially guys stuff. Hence, I will get my husband to write it then.

MSD logo. We got a t-shirt with this logo printed on front side and “Exclusive Blogger” printed on back side. Exclusive blogger? Wow since when eh kami naik pangkat jadi exclusive? Huhu.

Last saturday, we had an event invitation which was organised by blup-blup.com for a body kit, car accessories customizing shop which is called Motorsport Division a.k.a MSD. Location is in Sunway, so since its nearby our house, we decided to go there at precisely 3pm. Wanted to go earlier, but need to take care of Ichiro sweetheart first.

Neway, if you guys are really into this car accessories kind-of-thing, you should checkout this shop. From Hamann bodykit for Beemers down to Racing Seats of Porsche are available at this shop. Sport rims, mufflers and suspensions confirm ada.

Snap snap snap!

We got to park our Kancil jauh-jauh sikit dat day, as we didn’t want to attract unnecessary attention to it. Ehe. Those who interested to visit this shop, check out the address below;

Motorsport Division Sdn Bhd
No.38, Jalan PJS 11/7,
46150, Bandar Sunway,
Selangor Darul Ehsan.

Tel : 603-56358860
Fax : 603-56378860

Website : http://www.motorsportdivision.com/

p/s: to MSD and Blup-Blup thanks for inviting and for the t-shirt too!

Kegel with Poise Fair

Posted by Mrs Imran on Jun 2, 2010
Filed Under Event | 5 comments

I received an invitation for Kegel with Poise Fair last week straight from the agent. I thought the invitation was exclusive for selected people only and didn’t aware that I can actually invite my frens to the event too! But, when I saw Hanz publish the flyer on her blog, I was like hey why didn’t I blog about it too?

Then I checked email from the agent and reread it;

Check this out and pass this on! Every woman should learn how to Kegel. It’s effective, discreet and helps a woman regain important control of a body part critical to her feminity. It also increases self-confidence and is cost effective for the general well-being of any woman in the long run.

See…I didn’t read the email carefully, stated there “Check this out and pass this on!”. I thought that the flyer has all the information already , so I didn’t bother to read everything else in the email. Haihhh. Well, I’ve already signed up to join the event.Kinda curious to know what is Kegel and how actually we can control our bladder to help manage urinary leakage. Have we done it wrongly? I thot mcm tahan-tahan kencing macam biasa tu dah betul dah. So, if you wanna check out the proper method, come join the Kegel organised by Poise Fair. Oh there’s also a goodie bag worth RM100! Cool.

Usana, Fashion Illustration and Tourism Malaysia

Posted by Mrs Imran on May 19, 2010
Filed Under Event, My "The Brand" Story, Oh So Random, Sewing | 12 comments

I am supposed to update something here, but was too busy with Usana orders, packing orders, checking the address so that post office won’t get it mix up,that’s the most important thing. Baru-baru ni dah terkena sekali, package tertukar. It was such a nightmare for me, sbb normally bila customer order I will try my best to courier it immediately or at least in within 24-48 hours, most of the time 24hrs. I hate waiting and I believe I should treat others the same aight? But, when the package wrongly delivered and customer need to go through the hassle to return the package and yada yada, I felt terribly ashamed and guilty [even though it wasn't my fault at the first place] Haihhhhh..to aisyah and ila sorry banyak2 yer.

Oh yer, I chose to deliver the products/orders myself [using pos laju] sbb it is way faster than City Link. Of course pos laju postage fee is much higher compare to flat rate RM4 charged by City Link / Usana but at least I’ll have a peace in mind knowing that it will surely arrived within 1-2 days. By the way, am willingly to absorb the extra charge for pos laju, worry not ok:) My postage fee will always RM4 no matter how big your order is.

Oh fyi, I found a new hobby to keep me preoccupied so that I won’t think about food much. Huhu. I love colors, drawing and painting, even though I am not really good at producing such a great art let alone masterpiece, but sikit-sikit tu boleh lah kot. I bought some fabrics the other day and thinking to get my auntie to sew a dress and shirt for me. Since, I was in the mood to play with my color pencils and markers, so di pagi-pagi buta around 4 o’clock in the morning, I came out with my own fashion illustration. Haha. The pink dress was my first attempt to draw fashion illustration and the olive green obviously my second attempt. Yg hijau tu sajer2 jer lukis, since I was bit boring smlm. Nk update blog malas and nk buat apa2 pon malas, thus, decided to sketch the olive green dress. Ok tak my sketch tu? I main taram jer asal boleh.

Meanwhile, it’s rather hard for me to find a home base tailor that could sew dress that I want. Kalau tailor dekat kedai-kedai sgt la ridiculous the charge fabric plak mahal. For example fabric for the pink dress, is about RM60 per meter and I need around 4-5 meters. Mmg pengsan. So kalau hantar kt sebarang2 tailor, takut rosak pulak kain. Hmm dilemma betul. Kalau you guys tahu any tailor yg boleh jahit as my illustration above to feel free to contact me ok. Mana lah tahu, kalau jahit bagus harga bagus, maybe I can consider selling dress and casual wear for my Nilam Boutique. Ok ker?

Picture source: www.tourism.gov.my

Tomorrow I will attend a briefing session for homestay program in Malacca organized by Tourism Malaysia. My blog has been invited and shortlisted to join the program, I can’t thank god enough and hope there will more rezeki pouring in, insyallah I can’t believe that my humble blog yg tk seberapa ni got spotted by Tourism Malaysia [adakah mungkin sbb I dok bising nk pergi Tioman hari tu?] Huhu. If yes tak sia-sia riuh sekampung uuuu. Thank you Tourism Malaysia!

I have no idea what are the activities that awaits , looking forward for the briefing. Oh and the best thing is, Imran and Ichiro will join the program too! Awesome.