Yes I am here now in Penang attending the Charge Up 2009 Conference and this time not as a participant but rather as one of the coaches for the Photography Stream. Every year Livewire Media organizes a conference for the AV folks and this year it is held at the Penang Christian Centre (PCC). There are 3 available streams for all conference delegates, video, audio and photography and all of these streams are taught by experts from the industry themselves.

Here is Choon Ean giving her opening speech about how she fractured her fibula while trying to take photos while paragliding. I won't say what that gesture was ;)



Ps. Victor Wong is our pastor who will be preaching during all the Power Up sessions.



Every day after the Power up sessions in the morning, we will all proceed to individual workshops. Here is Grace teaching the first workshop on exposure.





Ke Wynn who is our head honcho for the photography stream teaches about posing and portraiture as well as lighting.





Ke Wynn was awesome and he is really down to earth. Each time to constantly reminds the participants that you don't need great gear to take great photos. It takes great photographers to take great photos.

Of course during the course of the workshop, Ian decides to have some fun with Joseph's funky stuff.



Here are some of the participants being shot and shooting with a technique using video lights.



My group which I am helping out with on their practical shoot and trying to practice what they have learned in the earlier workshops.



Joseph assisting the rest with the video light and reflector.



And of course, a quick candid of our wonderful bag seller, Jonathan. Jonathan has the most outstanding portfolio that I have seen I am still trying to get him to share with me his thoughts and thinking process behind his shoots.



Ok, I got to get back to class and begin to capture more photos of the participants.

Actually, there isn't one today because I totally forgot about it. Quick one today, I am on my way to Penang for the Charge Up conference and am currently eating in Ipoh at the moment and blogging using my iPhone.

More updates to come!

Yes, this is just another rant but surprisingly when I typed in "Streamyx Sucks" in Google, I was rather surprised by the number of returns I got. Looks like I am not the only one complaining about their slow Streamyx speeds because I just can't access certain websites without constantly refreshing the site. praying that it will somehow work. Check out this site on what may be the cause of the slow speeds, but I am very very inclined to sign up with Packet One at the moment.

On another note, I recently subscribed to Maxis' 3G service and I am still rather dissapointed with it's slow download speeds. It is so slow that I constantly have to find a spot where there is a decent signal and most of the time I get bad connection speeds such as being downgraded to the EDGE line or the GPRS line. This is rather disturbing to me.

Over the past week I had a huge scare when I tried updating this blog and I also gotten a new 1TB hard disk thanks to munZ. I installed it into my PC at home and only realised that I removed the wrong SATA cable and now one of my older hard disks is disconnected. Once the new hard disks are formatted, I will attempt to reconnect back the other SATA cable as well as try to tidy up the mess that is inside my PC.

• New Pocket Wizards are out in the form of the MiniTT1 and the FlexTT5. At the moment, Canon users get it first as these new Pocket Wizards offer TTL technology to users (what Radio Poppers did for Nikon's TTL). Check out a copy of the press statement here.


• If you are unaware, WPPI is currently on at the moment in Las Vegas. Wished that I was there!


• Radio poppers have released new poppers which can fire away flashes and strobes at 1/8000 of a second. Talk about pure awesomeness!


• Check out the full teaser trailer of the upcoming Transformers 2 movie.


• The ChargeUp! 2009 conference is less than 2 weeks away!


• Turn off your lights for an hour for EarthHour. Everyone is going to combat global warming. What will you do?


• Here are sample images taken with Nikon's new 35mm f/1.8 DX lens.


• Wired.com reader's top 10 iPhone games list here.

Been looking at options to update my blog layout as well as a full redesign. Can't seem to find the time to sit down and look through all of the codings. Might need to setup another test blog before moving over.