Petronas Malaysian Formula 1 Grand Prix (3-5 April 2009) – The Result

Salam and hello all. I know this is quite a late entry but anyway, I want to write a little bit about it because I went to this event, I mean ya, I went to Sepang International Circuit on 5 April 2009 to watch this Petronas Malaysian Formula 1 Grand Prix. Even though the ticket that I have bought is valid for two days which are qualifying and race day, but since one of my housemate who also the one who should accompany me to this event had his last exam paper on Saturday, so I decided to go on Sunday.

My housemate and I have bought the ticket for the Hillstand C2 at student rate. Hoho, the best thing to be a student is you’ll get a lower price of ticket up to 75% off! Isn’t it great? Haha.

Without further ado, for those who yet know about the result, I’ll tell about it now. I’m expecting some of you might not care about it, but whatever it is, here is the result.

1. Jenson Button (Brawn-Mercedes)
2. Nick Heidfeld (BMW Sauber)
3. Timo Glock (Toyota)
4. Jarno Trulli (Toyota)
5. Rubens Barrichello (Brawn-Mercedes)
6. Mark Webber (RBR-Renault)
7. Lewis Hamilton (McLaren Mercedes)
8. Nico Rosberg (Williams-Toyota)

Source: www.formula1.com

If you watch the race last Sunday on television or you watch it lives at SIC, I guess you should know already what actually happened. I know the result was quite controversial since the race was completed only with 33 laps, but I think the decision that has been taken was the best since the rain was quite heavy on that day plus the race has started late, about 5pm and the race has stopped due to safety issue at 6pm and it was impossible for the race to be continued after the rain has stopped about 6.45pm. During that time, it was already dark at SIC. Moreover, SIC is not ready for night race like in Singapore.

One of my friends said that, I should claim back half of my money that I have paid for the ticket since the race was not completed completely, but I don’t think it is a big deal since it was an interesting race and I enjoy it. If you are the one who paid for the ticket, do you really think that you should claim back your money? Haha. Give me your opinion then.

I’ll stop here for now. Wait for my next entry for more photos during the race of Petronas Malaysian Formula 1 Grand Prix and at the SIC. I’ll post more pictures in the next entry. So, stay tuned ya! Till next entry, bye!

1st Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2009 – Photoshots Part 2

Salam and hello all. Continue from last entry. Here are some more pictures from the first Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2009. I won’t say much, enjoy the pictures then. Hope you don’t mind waiting since there are many photos inside.

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1st Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2009 – Photoshots Part 1

Salam and hello all. As I have promised before in my previous entry, I’ll share some pictures and photos that I have taken from the first Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta that was held on 19-22 March 2009. So, I don’t want to elaborate more, here are the pictures and photos that I think are the best from hundreds of pictures that I have taken on 21 March 2009. Please be patient while waiting the pictures to be loaded completely, I know even if you use broadband connection, you still have to wait. That’s what Malaysia’s broadband is. So, please wait ya!

I’ve divided the pictures into 2 parts and this is the part 1 from 2 parts. In this part, I’ll share the pictures of the hot air balloon, which is the main subject in this event. So, enjoy the pictures below and proceed your reading. All these pictures have been taken in the morning around 8 am till 9 am on 21 March 2009. So, you’ll notice the sky in my pictures was not as blue as it should be and the cloud was not really attractive enough. Well, it was a morning sky. Anyway, enjoy the pictures!

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Photos/Pictures of Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta : 19-22 March 2009

Salam and hello all. How your life? I hope you’re always in good condition. Straight to the point, this entry is dedicated to an event that will ends today (22 March 2009), Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon 2009. Some of you might already know about this event and for your information, this is the first time for this event been held in Malaysia. Anyway, those who are looking for photos or pictures for Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2009 from this blog, I hope you can wait for my next entry. I’ll post more photos from this event soon. So, stay tuned ya!

I went to this event yesterday, early in the morning. Not so early actually, it was about 7.30 am when I went out from my house with my housemate. Actually we had planned to get there as early as 7.30 am, but because we have overslept, we reached there about 8.00 am, with hope that we still can get the ticket to ride on the hot air balloon. But it was disappointed when we reached there, it was totally sold out and tickets for today (22 March 2009) are only for charity. We have heard that, 70 limited tickets for yesterday were sold out in 10 minutes! Which sound impossible for us to get the ticket because the ticket counter started selling the ticket at 7.00 am, which at that time we were still in dream mode.

Anyway, we managed to get few shots from the event and we were quite satisfied with the shots that we got yesterday. In the evening, we tried to get another few shots from another spot but little disappointed because the hot air balloon were not coming toward the spot we expect the hot air balloon to come! Wasted about 2 hours waiting the hot air balloon to come, we changed our spot one more time and get some few random shots around Putrajaya.

Anyway, that’s all for now. I’ll post more photos or pictures for Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2009 as soon as possible in my next entry. Since my final exam week start this Monday, so I’ve to concentrate on it first. Hope you don’t mind. Anyway, you can subscribe to my RSS so that you’ll be notified when I have posted the pictures for the event later.

Till next entry, bye!

p/s: Is there anyone of you go to this event? What do you think about this event?

Photos/Pictures of Palace of Justice, Putrajaya, Malaysia in HDR

Salam and hello all. Huh, by posted this post doesn’t mean that I already have internet connection at home, actually, I at my cousin’s house at Ara Damansara, Subang and used Maxis Broadband connection to write and post this entry. I yet received any calls from TM for Streamyx matters since last week and have no idea when the connection will be available. Haih, TM please do it fast!

Before I start, some of you might wondering what is HDR means? Here I quoted some part of text from Wikipedia, for details explanation you can proceed here.

In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.

So, in this entry I want to share some photoshop edited pictures of Palace of Justice (Istana Kehakiman), Putrajaya, Malaysia. Actually, it were not totally photoshop edited, but I also used another important software to produce these HDR photos of Palace of Justice, which is Photomatix Pro 3.1. These HDR photos were generated from single RAW shot exposure then, converted into 3 multiple exposures using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended and finally merged into HDR photo using Photomatix Pro 3.1. The final stage which is tone mapping and some basic editing was done using Photoshop CS3. So, enjoy the photos and do leave your comments for me to improve my skills. Oh, forget to tell you guys, these HDR photos are my first attempt on HDR imaging hence do give some tips for me to improve it. I’m still learning.

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