So the Raya Haji went as expected. Pak Lambak korban-ed a cow and as usual I was one of the guys that helped with the ‘necessary’. Melapah is not 1 of my talents. So pak mertua ku did most of that with abang Pit; a family friend. The melapah session was attended mostly by Pak Lambak’s son’s. Aku tolong at the packaging area. Hahahah.

On Thursday, the kids and I with Shasha keluar cari barang and stuff plus ‘pistol’ utk Aiman, Izahin and Aisya. Asyik berebut pistol aje and 1 end up crying not getting to play with the pistol, aku belik sekali tiga. Tembak la korang puas2! Tak cukup lagi 30 aku boleh beli ehem ehem.. Mcm arwah Ahmad Nisfu use to say.. Hahaha that night we all went out to Orkid Steamboat restaurant at Taman Daya JB. They offer a RM18 buffet all you can eat setup. Good deal indeed as we ate for I can’t remember how long but it was plenty of eating night that time. Kenyang siut! Must go if you’re in JB. I fully recommend.

Friday pulak was lite and easy. Man with family and mine went to Mak Tijah’s place – ziarah time Raya Haji ni. Makan toksah cakap la. Tak pernah putus suap. We left for Tebrau City in search of Creme Brule drink at about 6pm. Traffic was bad as it was rainy and after office hour. Dekat sejam jugak la aku drive. Sampai sana, we drank, ate and enjoyed ourselves at the arcade at the place. Sakit pinggang siut main basket ball shoot kat situ lelama. I’m getting old.. Sigh.

Saturday is a half day as we need to leave for Shah Alam at about noon. That morning Uda took us for good breakfast at Hwa Mui Kopitiam at Jalan Dhoby. Sedap yarabbi.. Again, another place I would definitely recommend. Unfortunately its not a midnight lepak place as they only operate up to 6pm daily. But if you’re an early bird, give it a go whenever you’re in JB.

Pictures? I upload them once I reach Shah Alam today insya’Allah. Got some good ones and some of them are taken by Aisya herself! Dasyat..

Fariz Ramli
Kg Melayu Majidee, 20 Nov 2010 @ 13:45.

My backup photographer

Aisya with her usual pose at Tok Ayah’s place

Aiman racing against time at Tebrau City Arcade

It was my first experience sending Aisya to her ballet session at Studio 18. This is her 2nd class. I was away attending the “Herman & Awan Model Shoot” outing at Lake Garden during Aisya’s first session. So this time I made it a point to be in Aisya’s class so that I can shoot her practicing.

To my surprise, there’s quite a number of turn up. And the kids are genuinely interested in ballet. I thought its just a thing that you send your kids to have fun for an hour and then go back as if sending them to a playground. But in actual fact, its sort of an exercise, discipline and focus involve in the routine. If you ask me, I wouldn’t last half an hour in the class given the choice to participate. No sir, not me.

We arrive at the studio bout 10 minutes before Aisya’s session starts. Before she went in, they need to put on their little ballet shoes and then they’re off to the dancing floor picking up all the things that the instructor teaches.

I on the other hand, wink at the teacher and got my self a spot at the far end of the dance floor and started shooting the lovely little angels. Try pointing your toes most of the time and see how it feels. Sorry, not my kind of stuff but Aisya really love it. I guess my daughter is out right different from what I love to do.

I think I can safely say this is the last photoshoot event I wanted to go before Ramadhan comes. Tojoe and I were very excited to join in this event as Tojoe is very new to photography and recently took up interest in it. Both of us got to know about the event when Awan posted this on FB. The number of turn ups confirmed in the FB site was about 200 over head counts but in actual fact, the number was 50% lesser. Its a good thing also. Can’t imagine how the rotation would be like if all 200 over had turned up that day.

So were we asked to line up in groups of 10 men. And Awan then assigned a model to each group. We got the lovely Ais Rashid, a professional model I would say. And we were lucky to have Nasrul to join us for the rest of the shoot after the grouping settled. During this outing, manage to gain new inputs from brother Nasrul – a fellow photo enthusiast who had been in the field for quite a number of years (A CIMB staff).

Some of my best photos capture during the event. Cheers!

Fariz Ramli

So we reached the location at about 2pm. The place is called the Meninjau Chalet. Friends and families arrived latest by 5pm that day and we all had fun at the sungai near by (and I do mean very near) our chalet followed by abundance of BBQ food with Karaoke and jokes with fellow friend. Enough said, see the photos to believe.

Zaharin & Mel Serenading us after the lovely dinner

Shima dan anaknya.

Basheer ensuring all is "well done" - Rasa macam dah kat Pasar Ramadhan pun ada.

Am not much of a cook, luckily these guys are!

Mmmmm... yum yum..

Nak masak juga katanya..

Cheers,

Fariz Ramli

Hari ni aku memang free, so I decided to bring my kids to the park untuk release kan segala excessive energy yang tak terkeluar dari badan budak-budak tu. Tempat pilihan, padang kat depan Muzium Shah Alam at Seksyen 10 (or is it 11..). Anyway, aku kasi both Aiman & Aisya lari puas-puas kat situ sampai dada kembang kempis la keletihan. Aku and Shasha macam biasa la, duduk at 1 corner and starting taking photos of them in action. Got few pretty good ones. 1 of it made it to Pa&Ma magazine cover.. (joking..)

Cheers,

Fariz Ramli

Aku dikenalkan kepada pasangan pengantin Fairoza and Fauzi oleh seorang mak andam yang baru aku kenali – Kak Lily. Alhamdulillah, rezeki dari Allah. Kak Lily memberi kepercayaan kepada aku untuk mengabadikan hari pernikahan pasangan pengantin ini hanya dengan 1 perjumpaan pada 1 petang yang mana aku sempat menunjukkan hasil kerja aku setakat ini.

Kak Lily memang seorang “business woman” – a risk taker. The higher the risk, the bigger the losses and the bigger the profit, either way. Although its a risk to Kak Lily, I’m all out to make it a difference to her. Alhamdulillah, bakat yang hanya sekerat yang ada pada aku ini, dapat aku hasilkan gambar-gambar pernikahan berikut. Aku belum tahu lagi apa kata-kata Kak Lily. Adakah dia akan terus memanggil aku untuk gambar-gambar pernikahan pelanggannya yang lain? Aku percaya pada rezeki Allah.. Insyallah..

Last 4 Dec 2009, there was this advert at Saiful Nang’s fan page on apprenticeship. So I thought I’d just try my luck and see if I’m candid syndrome material or otherwise. To my suprise, last Tuesday 15 Dec 2009, I receive a call from a fellow CS staff Salha confirming my interview with the man himself at 2pm at their HQ office in Puchong.

From then onwards, it has been just talks about CS from the office  till I reach home (even on the bed while waiting to dozz off.. funny huh). Of course Shasha was the one who’s very excited bout the whole thing. And we’ve been talking about it ever since I first got the call.

Well to cut things short, I finally reached CS HQ at Puchong on the 17 Dec 2009, Thursday at 1.30 pm. My interview suppose to start at 2 pm. Better be early than keeping the man waiting. The office setup was nice with their fine pictures hung everywhere. Sad it didn’t bring my camera to snap few photos and put them here in the blog. Well, maybe next time if there’s anymore meet up with CS (lets hope so hehehe)

The interview started at about 2.20 pm as the boss; En Saiful Nang, wanted to make sure that those that were called up for today’s interview show up. Exactly at 2.20 pm, we all went into his office along with Mashelmy, Khairul Hazwan and Fuad Topa. All of them started of as an apprentice and they went all the way right to being junior / senior photographers of CS. Inspiration I would say..

Then the man; Saiful Nang, came into the room and we all started to chat. He’s a relax, down to earth and fun gentleman I would say. Being in the same room and interacting with him is like 1 of my dreams come true. To have these wonderful people to go into my humble blog, reading the texts I’ve wrote and looking at the pictures I took and later concluding that “hey.. this guy might be something, lets give him a try” is an accomplishment to me already. At least 1 level up than before. Alhamdulillah.. praise to the almighty.

We all talk bout our experience, what drive us in photography especially weddings and why CS and not any other company. When given the chance, I poured my heart out on this one. And there’s no holding back. I certainly hope its not too much of my babbling =)

Tried to post up a 15 sec video of me and the man; En Saiful Nang – but YouTube is giving me problem. I’ll post it up once problem’s gone. For the mean time,  I’ve made it this far.

Hari ni anak Pak Taib bertunang. Siti ni kira pangkat sepupu Shasha. So we’re family. Kita orang sampai kat rumah Pak Taib few minutes before Asar. Majlis ikutkan perancangan dilaksanakan selepas solat Isya’. Nak pendek cerita, rombongan tiba lepas Isya’ and semuanya berjalan seperti yang dirancangkan. Alhamdulillah, Siti sekarang dah jadi tunangan orang. Dengar kata tunang Siti ni seorang cikgu mengajar di Sabah.

Below are the shots captured during the event. Tahniah Pak Taib nak dapat menantu tak lama lagi, Insyallah.

Adik aku Fazri tak lama lagi nak jadi suami orang. Sepanjang hidup aku dengan adik beradik, jarang sekali aku buat sesuatu untuk adik beradik aku. Maybe some small stuff tu ada la, but its unusual for me to always do something with my brothers. Selalunya adik-adik lelaki aku (Fazri and Fazir) yang buat plan sesama dia orang. Aku normally will do my own plans. Lone ranger la katakan.

But since Fazri is getting married, aku rasa I have to do something for him as token from a bother. Jadi last Saturday, the entire gang (adik beradik aku la and our loved ones) went down to Bukit Cherakah which is now known as Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam (yang nyaris-nyaris nak dijadikan kawasan perumahan dulu by you know wh0?? – kalau tak kenal, lepas result PRU-12, cuba tengok kat tepi jalan ada sorang ni yang berambut putih,  perasan handsome and pegang penyapu jalan-jalan kat area Shah Alam. go figure.. ahahahaha)

Ok, back to the original story. Nadia adalah gadis periang pilihan adik aku. Mana dia jumpa? Dont ask me.. I’m lousy with all this sort of details. Alhamdulillah adik dah bertemu jodoh. The shoot went absolutely well despite having my kids present at the location. Dasyat beb, amik gambar sambil bawak budak2 kecik. Not a very easy thing to do, but we manage. Our Jamal and Amelina was also adaptable to the situation – ye la dah anak sedara sendiri!! akakaka

Ok la enough said, check out the clip below. Semoga berkekalan, murah rezeki and sejahtera lah hendaknya. From me to you adik. Selamat pengantin baru in advance.