June Vacation

Okay lets talk about a vacation. Memang dah jadi lumrah, kita lebih suka pergi bercuti, berlibur dan berjalan-jalan daripada bekerja di office so untuk bulan June kali ini, i chose east coast and Terengganu as my destination. Sebenarny ini adalah part of my goal to travel each place in a month. Start dari, January - China, Feb - Bali, March - Batu Pahat, April - Singapore, May - kL (have to say that i went  to KLCC bout 4 times in a week, thnx to the free parking!! haha) and finally June - T'ganu. 

Trip to Terengganu adalah di antara trip yang agak best sebab i went to Pulau Kapas and end up staying at the best chalet ever called QIMI CHALET. I've to say that i'd fell in love with the chalet, the deco, the beach, the peoples and last is the pondok wahh!! sangat bes untuk tido di waktu siang sambil ditemani angin2 yang bertiup kencang tapi masih still sopan haha.. 

erkk!! ape lagi yer... ermmm

Alamak! i dun have any idea to write lagi... dats all folks! so untuk tidak menghampakan i post some photos from Pulau Kapas here.. so enjoy!

                         Qimi Chalet Pulau Kapas, Terengganu.

                       Pulau Kapas lightened by the lightning.

Festival of Lights - Wesak Day

More than 10,000 devotees accompanied by decorated floats, took part in a street parade during the Wesak Day celebration in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 9 May 2009. Wesak Day commemorates birth, enlightenment and passing of Lord Buddha. (Adli Ghazali / Malaysia)

Rocky Mountain News: A sad ending for an award winning newspaper

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

Fifty-five-days shy of turning 150 years old, the Rocky Mountain News printed its last edition on February 27, 2009. Falling to the victim of the US economic downturn, Rocky Mountain News owner, Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group, had finally decided that the award winning paper had to go after being put up for sale since December 2008 but without success. The paper and the website showed nothing but first class reporting and design and are sources of inspiration for all of us at Panna Institute.

I had the pleasure of meeting photographer Todd Heisler in Amsterdam who in 2006 had won the 1st prize story in the World Press Photo contest by following a deceased Marine returning home to Colorado and to his wife. An excellent photo story for such an important event and one that is the signature of the editorial team at Rocky Mountain News.

We are all saddened by this great lost. We wish all of the former staff of the Rocky Mountain News farewell and our prayers and thoughts are with all of you.
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Burma Film Documentary

While i googl-ing a news from the other country agency, i found a documentary movie from Burma (Myanmar). For those who are remember a story 'bout a photojournalist from Japan that been shot by a junta soldier u might want to watch this. The best thing bout this is that they dont even need a high tech video recorder nor a darn pretty actress but as its a documentary it will tell everything. Enjoy!





Burma Film About Underground Reporters Captures Top Honors

A film about underground reporters who risk their lives to document political repression in Burma has turned out to be the big winner at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in the southeastern U.S. state of North Carolina.
Burma VJ, which was directed by Andreas Ostergaard, captured the "Grand Jury Award." The film also won the "Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award" and the "Full Frame/Working Films Award" at the three-day festival that ended on April 5.

Link Burma VJ

Earth Hour 2009

Malaysian celebrate Earth Hour 2009 by switching off lights and using candle to light up the earth in CapSquare Kuala Lumpur March 28, 2009. (Adli Ghazali)

Holi or Festival of Colors

Hindu devotees celebrate Holi or Festival of Colors by smearing or throwing coloured powder at each other at Shree Lakshmi Narayan Temple in Kuala Lumpur March 22 2009. 

Photos by Adli Ghazali

The Bang Bang Club

Another must see movie for photojournalist out there....

Malin Akerman, Ryan Phillippe and Taylor Kitsch – soon to be seen as Gambit in the forthcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine – have signed on to star in the indie drama, The Bang Bang Club.

The Bang Bang Club was a group of four South African combat photographers who became renowned for their stark depictions of violence during the last days of apartheid.

The photographers were Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek, Greg Marinovich, and Joao Silva. Only Marinovich and Silva are still alive today – Oosterbroek was killed by friendly fire in 1994, while Carter committed suicide in July of that same year, shortly after receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

In fact, Marinovich and Silva wrote the memoir, on which The Bang Bang Club will be based, with South African documentarian Steven Silver writing and directing. Filming will start next month on location in and around Johannesburg.

Phillippe will play Marinovich, while Kitsch will play Carter, who was, of course, the subject of a song on the Manic Street Preachers’ 1996 album,Everything Must Go (“Hi, Time Magazine/Hi, Pulitzer Prize…”).

Akerman, commendably going down the indie route when she could reasonably be expected to nab another blockbuster after Watchmen’s success, will play a photo editor who dealt with the Club.

We have to say that this sounds very intriguing, and could be a dark horse for Oscar when the time comes. For more on The Bang Bang Club, the memoir – full title, The Bang Bang Club: Snapshots From A Hidden War – is available online. 

sources from here