When Canon released the original Speedlite 580EX flash, it represented a huge leap in engineering improvement over the old flagship Speedlite 550EX. So when Canon announced the 580EX-II most of us were a little sceptical with improvements such as improved dust and water resistance, 20% shorter recycling time and improved communication reliability through its direct [...]
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Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Celebrations, Corporate, Food, Photography, tagged brian wang lu jiang, chinese new year, Corporate, event photography, hsbc, lion dance, mediacorp artiste, premier customers, spring on February 28, 2008 | 16 Comments »
It’s almost like a favourite personal past time for me having a go at interesting words or names that I come across. When I first met HSBC CEO, Tareq Muhmood, in person for an Asia Inc interview I couldn’t help working the name into some meaningful and useful puns—Teh Tareq was one that is so rare yet [...]
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Do we really need more food photos seeing how there are more food blogs than we can digest? Food critics aka the women seem insatiable when it comes to the one thing that make the world go round—FOOD! As I confine myself to my studio for a few days now recovering from sinusitis (happens when [...]
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Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Corporate, Food, Photography, tagged Brunei Shell Petroleum, corporate photography, excapade sushi, Kuala Belait, microsoft, product photography on February 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What does a popular and successful Japanese restaurant have in common with a global computer software giant?
Without a doubt, Excapade Sushi is Brunei’s leading Japanese restaurant when it comes to popularity and affordability. Microsoft on the other hand dominates the world operating system by a wide margin and continues to gain market share. Two household names Excapade [...]
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So on this day of Chap Goh Mei, the 15th and last day of Chinese New Year, we celebrated the morning with a lion dance at the primary school my kids attend. The remaining daylight hours were spent at home with the kids killing time before dinner at my in-laws, a 1+ hour commute. Right [...]
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… the lion danced for the last time this year! Like bees to honey, the kids at Chung Ching primary school in Seria got all buzzed up this last day of the Chinese New Year celebration. The lions performed in one classroom after another to the echoes of the drum downstairs.
© Jan Shim Photography
As soon as [...]
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In the motorsports world, speed is everything! To get speed you need hardware— lots of hardware and sometimes really big and costly hardware—but that’s just the nature of the sport. You could spend upwards of $10,000 just to get a full second in quarter mile times. Yes, you read right .. a full ONE SECOND!
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Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Corporate, Food, Health, Motoring, Photography, Travel, tagged coffee, eat, Food, fun, hsbc premier, noodles, play, weekend, weekly commute, work, WTF! on February 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A flat battery on an extremely wet morning and seeing two badly smashed cars yesterday on my way to a Microsoft shoot, the year of the rat once again took its tolls on the road including a certain parked vehicle whose owner (me) left the headlights on for the entire time I was at work till lunch. After [...]
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