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Photowalk to Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves [Part 3]: Shave & Shower

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Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves - Shave & Shower Happy CNY to you guys who still celebrating it especially "Bai Ti Gong" this Thursday. I still remember I can see a lot of huge fireworks that day. Okie this is the continuation of my Thaipusam 2015 @ Batu Caves photo post and this time I would like to feature moments captured at the riverside. Where you see people taking shower after shaved their head and get blessing from the god before carry a barrel of milk and going up hill to Batu Caves. Photos are captured using Nikon D800 and paired with Nikkor 85mm F1.8 or my #TCFisheye lens for the wide view~

9 Unanimous Thoughts When You Celebrate Chinese New Year In Melaka

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Happy Chinese New Year 2015!! Hey guys I would like to wish you all Happy Chinese New Year before the busy days start ahead. The internet speed in Melaka is kinda slow and I really miss Unifi now. Even when I watching the TV how I wish I can fast forward the 15 minutes long advertisement on 8TV. I guess this is a sign of getting used to convenient technologies for too long already. Luckily currently I have 2Mbps StreamyX at home now so streaming YouTube still won't be a problem. 

Photowalk to Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves [Part 2]: 272 steps to the top

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Photowalk to Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves [Part 2]: Kid's gorgeous big eyes If you haven't read my first post about Thaipusam @ Batu Caves 2015 , go read it now as these photo stories are connected. To get to the top of Batu Caves, everyone need to queue up in the jam-packed crowd and trying not to fall down or being suffocated (especially kids who join the queue). I believe we've spent at least an hour in the crowd just to reach the starting of the stairs. Apparently there are three rows of queue but only two passage available to go up. Therefore some of them shouted and complain as there were a few devotees who can't stand it and pass out. That was the time people around get even angrier and shout out even louder. That was the time the queue started to move a little bit faster. Since we were stuck among packed crowd, there was nothing much to shoot as your eye view will be about people's head and it was hard to switch lenses. This time I use mainly the 8 m

Photowalk to Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves [Part 1]: Sit Female Coach for the first time

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Thaipusam 2015 Batu Caves Malaysia celebrate Thaipusam every year and it is always a grand festival in Batu Caves. Honestly, we ourselves as a Malaysian should go there at least once in a lifetime because tourist from oversea came all the way for this!! Since I am staying not that far from Batu Caves, so why shouldn't I go? That's what I was thinking when Robin and friend asked if I wanna join the photowalk. Although it wasn't comfortable when you were stuck between the mountain of people, it was a great experience for me to understand more about Thaipusam and the culture in a very close distance. We meet at KTM Tasik Selatan as early as 3am to avoid crowd and KTM service was available specially for Thaipusam season. The counter was closed and the gate was open, so we just went in the station without paying tickets for the first time. That was our first time sitting in the KTM female coach without worry of being starred or chased away by the ladies haha.