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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Family photo shoot at Hanafi's Studio


Last weekend aku dengan family pegi rumah Hanafi kat De'Tropicana Condo - nak checkout his new studio setup. Long story short, the studio is good. Lepas ni just need to do some promotions for friends and family to go and take their photos there. Alternatively outdoor shoot pun boleh.. more exciting kalau outdoor!

So masa kat sana, Shasha, Aisya and Aiman semua kena tangkap gambar, since everybody is already there..


Tuesday, July 07, 2009

On our way back home.

Hari ni kita orang bergerak balik ke Shah Alam. Obviously we had a great time through out the vacation. Spending time at Suhaimi's place was also a memorable thingy. The dishes both Izzy and Suhaimi for us was the best. I think they only serve big 'king size' fishes in Sabah!

The time now is nearly 6pm (yeah our flight is half an hour late). Nak buat macam mana.. I guess in few minutes time we will be taking off to KLIA. Insyallah bila ada rezeki lebih nanti kita datang Sabah lagi. I was counting with Suhaimi and Shasha that we will be back to climb mount Kinabalu when Aiman turns 12 years old. I'll be 43 by then. Insyallah..

Tiba di KLIA jam 8.20pm. Aku memang dah tahap mengantuk tak boleh handle punya. Dalam kepala dah ingat katil kat rumah je. Tapi sebelum sampai kat baggage claim conveyour tu, both Aisya and Shasha nak beli sweets and specs. So layankan aje la.

Dah sampai kat luar, 2 minutes after that Yong pun sampai nak jemput kita org. Alhamdulillah we all reached home at about 9.30pm. Aku plan nak pegi jumpa my orthopedic tomorrow nak cek apa masalah tulang coccsyx aku ni. Tapi esok keje la pulak.. Hmm mana satu nak buat dulu ni?
Shamsul Fariz Ramli

@ Suhaimi Inn

Kita orang check in at Suhaimi Inn semalam at about 6pm after we all went for puding kelapa di Tuaran (photos at Tuaran will be uploaded soon). Memang best puding kelapa tu. Infact aku tapau 2 biji makan kat rumah Suhaimi.

Bila sampai and settle down, Suhaimi and Izzy made us a wonderful dinner. Ikan kerapu dia Grade A and the size of the fish was huge! And it only cost Rm 15. Itu lah untungnya tinggal kat Sabah ni. The seafood here is very cheap! Not only that, Suhaimi buat udang goreng mentega siap dengan biji sawi lagi. Shasha pun tolong gorengkan sayur kobis for all of us yesterday night. Memang betul2 makan la malam tu.. Perghhh..

Hari ni kita org plan nak ke Jamilah @ Jln Sinsuran for pearls and Wisma Merdeka for Shasha's bracelet. Lepas tu baru off to the airport. Flight departure is 1730. So kena be on time la..

Shamsul Fariz Ramli

Hantar Parents ke Airport

We just finished our lunch date with Aunty Irene and Uncle Errol Flynn at Little Italy. Some the photos is in my dslr. So that part I'll upload them once we're back home.

Lepas ni back to the hotel and wait for Suhaimi to pick us up and check in at Suhaimi Inn.

Shamsul Fariz Ramli

Monday, July 06, 2009

4th day at Sabah - Reflexology

Hari ni kita org dah genap 4 hari ada kat Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Lepas breakfast kat hotel, aku & Shasha decided we go for reflexology at the same place babah & mama pegi semalam since dia org kat memang sedap.

So at 9am sharp kita org sampai kat Tanjung Aru Reflexology. While waiting for the tukang urut get his stuff ready, aku blog sat la kot. Based on result, both my parents cakap memang bagus sampaikan tido lena betul malam semalam. Infact kita org yg bangun awal dari dia org. So I thought this relexology must be very good sampaikan tido tak sedar diri! Hahahah..

Actually dulu dah pernah buat relexology ni kat Jakarta. Dia punya sakit tu Allah aje la yg tahun. Lepas tu mmg aku tak nak buat lagi dah benda ni sampaila bini pujuk. =)

Masyallah! Dia punya sakit tu memang toksah cakap la. Memang banyak sakit aku ni. Air suam mesti banyakkan, gula tinggi - kurangkan makanan manis, lada kena kurangkan, masin kena kurangkan, kencing jangan tahan, makan jangan tunggu sampai dah lapar sangat baru nak makan, mata dan telinga kena jaga, hati pun mesti mau kena cek, excercise mesti regular, tonsil ada indication of problem so kena banyak minum air.. Those are the things yang the massager bagi tau.

Alhamdulillah semuanya dah selesai. Aku punya mengerang memang dasyat tapi Shasha relax je. Senang cerita, you checkout the photos and you know how I went thru the damn thing..

Shamsul Fariz Ramli

Test blogging via mobile

First time blogging guna mobile phone. Tak tau la benda ni jadi ke tidak but I manage to register my hone to blog directly to my current account at blogspot.com. Hooray!!

Shamsul Fariz Ramli

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Whiteroom Shots

This picture was taken last Saturday at my friends studio. Masa tu convo adik aku. Lepas tu everybody wanted to take photo at a studio. So aku pun apa lagi.. promote member punya studio la.. So this is some of the shots taken that date. Model dia tak lain tak bukan.. anak & bini aku la.. life long model.. hehehe



Friday, May 09, 2008

A day at Shah Alam Park..

There you go.. so suddenly I've broken my record of not posting an article once per year. ehehehe.. This picture was taken on 1 day out with my immediate family. Bawak my daughter jalan2 at the park. Wifey snapped this photo.. so saya 'abadikan' di sini lah.. =)


Another picture yang aku rasa priceless, even though aisya (my daughter) baru kena some serious scolding by her mother, she managed to kept it inside and not showing abit to others.. even though to the camera.. all i can say that she's as strong as the mother..

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

First posting in 2008


Wow.. I really take my time to post my stuff here. From the pattern, you can say I'll be updating this blog once a year.. perghhh..

Well remember I said photography is my hobby?? It still is, cuma my video cam got stolen. Some dum f*c* broke into my house and sapu all the good stuff. After a long time of mourning, recently I got my self a DSLR. Now only starting to activate those creative side of me and start taking pictures.

Recently, went back to Johor for my mother inlaw tahlil. After that, the family and i went to Istana Negara to shoot some photos. Just for the fun of it.

<-- Wifey and brother inlaw.. accidentally in the same pose. So saya abadikan dalam gambar ni.. perghhh.. 'abadikan' yang tak tahan tu. Ahahaha








Saje try take some pics with commercial value.. ahahah.. who knows, some people might be interested in using these pics for their A&P purposes. =)

Sunday, January 01, 2006


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Got Kaki to play your favourite game with?

I know must of us have the time and the interest to play our favourite games. But how often can you play? Bila sampai saja masa nak main, ada saja benda lain that needs your attention. Normally this will come either from the mrs. (opppsss, I'm finished when she knows about this.. :) ) And when you finally have the time to play, you got know kaki to play with. Betul tak? I know because this happens to me all the time.

You know its frustrating to call your friends for around of badminton or such and knowing that mostly they're not able to play due to other committments. So I recently got my solution to this. I was just browsing through some articles about my favourite games when I stumble across this site. http://www.sportskaki.com. Not bad huh.. After registering myself as a member, now I'm waiting for a postings or invitation from other members for around of badminton. You can set your available time for the game and broadcast to the target audience that you intend. For bachelors, you can also broadcast to those female members. Who knows?? You might get lucky .. Hahahaha..

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Stress.. most people like myself have this

The opposite of relaxation.. Yes! you're damn right it is..STRESS.. is a medical term for a wide rage of strong stimuli, both physiological and psychological, which can cause a physiological response called the general adaptation syndrome, first described in 1936 by Hans Selye in the journal Nature.

Selye was able to separate the physical effects of stress from other physical symptoms suffered by patients through his research. He observed that patients suffered physical effects not caused directly by their disease or by their medical condition.

Selye described the general adaptation syndrome as having three stages:

  • alarm reaction, where the body detects the external stimulus
  • adaptation, where the body engages defensive countermeasures against the stressor
  • exhaustion, where the body begins to run out of defenses

There are two types of stress: eustress ("positive stress") and distress ("negative stress"), roughly meaning challenge and overload. Both types may be the result of negative or positive events. If a person both wins the lottery and has a beloved relative die on the same day, one event does not cancel the other — both are stressful events. Eustress is essential to life, like exercise to a muscle, however distress can cause disease. (Note that what causes distress for one person may cause eustress for another, depending upon each individual's life perception.) When the word stress is used alone, typically it is referring to distress. Serenity is defined as a state in which an individual is disposition-free or largely free from the negative effects of stress, and in some cultures it is considered a state that can be cultivated by various practices, such as meditation, and other forms of training.

Stress can directly and indirectly contribute to general or specific disorders of body and mind. Stress can have a major impact on the physical functioning of the human body. Such stress raises the level of adrenaline and corticosterone in the body, which in turn increases the heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure and puts more physical stress on bodily organs. Long-term stress can be a contributing factor in heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and other illnesses.

The Japanese phenomenon of karoshi, or death from overwork, is believed to be due to heart attack and stroke caused by high levels of stress.

The link between emotions and physical health is further supported by this paragraph from James A. Duke's The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook about the research of Dean Ornish, M.D:

Dr. Ornish tells about a group of rabbits that added an unexpected tidbit to the research on heart disease. Kept in a laboratory under research conditions, the rabbits were genetically similar, and all received the same food and got the same amount of exercise, yet one group had 60 percent fewer heart attacks than the others. What was the difference? It turned out that the healthier rabbits were the ones kept in the lower cages, and the short person who fed the rabbits could reach the lower animals and pet them when feeding them. Love, it seems, is a life preserver.

Coping with stress

Individuals can respond very differently to the same stressor; any given situation can cause eustress in one person and distress in another. This happens because of differences in physiology and life circumstances, as well as different methods of stress management. Methods of coping that work well in childhood situations often become ingrained and habitual, and often follow the child into adulthood. In the adult world, these skills can be quite inappropriate, and stress heightens as the person clings to obsolete behaviors. However, new skills can be learned, and poor coping methods replaced. There are currently many classes, books, and seminars available to help people develop better habits of managing stress.

Other approaches to dealing with stress include The Alexander Technique, Shiatsu, T'ai Chi Ch'uan, yoga and meditation. For example, when Selye reviewed the physiological changes measured in practitioners of transcendental meditation (TM), he concluded that such changes were the opposite of the body's reaction to stress. The therapeutic effect of TM was most distinct in people whose coping skills were poorly adapted to the stress of daily life.


Folklore of stress

About the time of Selye's work, the gradual realization dawned that such concepts as anxiety, conflict, tiredness, frustration, distress, overwork, pre-menstrual tension, over-focusing, confusion, mourning and fear could all come together in a general broadening of the meaning of the term stress. The popular use of the term in modern folklore expanded rapidly, spawning an industry of pop psychology, self-help, personal counselling, and sometimes quackery.

The use of the term stress in serious recognized cases such as those of post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosomatic illness has scarcely helped clear analysis of the generalized 'stress' phenomenon. Nonetheless, some varieties of stress from negative life events, or distress, and from positive life events, or eustress, can clearly have a serious physical impact distinct from the troubles of what psychotherapists call the "worried well".


First posting... Give me a break will ya..


Me and my camcorder at Haikal's place at Tmn Tenaga