Vientiane, a "fisherman town"

I went to Vientiane, Laos last week.

Our initial plan was Luang Prabang. However, we only manage to book a 4 days 3 nights flight ticket, and due to the road condition of Laos, from Vientiane to Laos, actually take about 8-10 hours drive. We were shocked, and thought that it is not that practical to go to Luang Prabang, since we only have around 3 days total.

When we reach Vientiane, the first impression was, look at the wire....:p

This is called That Dam. Its like a round about in the city.

Tuk-Tuks everywhere.

Patuxai - the victory monument.

Monk at Patuxai.

Some tourist, i guess its from Thailand.

The main road in Vientiane. The end of this road, is the president's mansion.

A relax afternoon.

Some souvenier sold in Patuxai.

This is taken from the top floor of Patuxai. I thought its nice.

The Lao style Salad. Something like the Thai Papaya Salad.

We were walking to another temple called That Luang, and pass by the Malaysia Embassy.

The entrance of That Luang .

That Luang Temple.

A white "temple" outside That Luang Temple. But we can't enter.

Someone selling pirated CD and VCD.

Relaxing at the Patuxai square. We too sat here and rest for a while, when we were walking back to town, passing Patuxai again.

Dinner alone the Mekong River. Not to be missed Beer Lao.

End of day one in Loa. We slept really well after a long walk. (To be continue)

New Year

I was still under the Sequelae of getting the new lens, when we count down.
I decided, will post at least a piece of photo every~~~~week.
For a start, i just walk out my apartment and seach for something interesting.

It was raining, and i could only try some shots on the leaves in the flower pot.

My new toy

Finally, I bought my dream lens, Canon EF-S 18-200mm F3.5-5.6 IS.

Also UV and CPL lens.

Initially I did not intend to buy this lens so early.

I just casually walk in to a camera shop and check the price. Casually, I pick up the lens, and mount it on my camera, and test it out. I snap these 2 photo. Which I like it very much, and its something my Kit Lens cannot perform.

After negotiating, I decided to take out my credit card, and pay for it.
Adding one lens to my collection.

House Warming and Christmas Celebration

My best friend move in to a new house in Taman Desa. To congratulate her, we bought her some nice cupcakes. Its a hand made cakes.


Its a House Warming celebration, there is a little house on the cup cakes.

Since its was christmas day also, so there is also Santa on it.

Congratulations to my friend...

Macro

I bought some flowers for my part time course assignment. After the assignment, i took the apportunity to try snap some photo.

This 2 look a bit weird to me. Perhaps the first one is due to the background, and the second one, just not right. I adjust a little, and got another better shot.

This is the one.. looks better.

The Purple Chrysanthemum. I feel also disrupted by the background.

Adjust a bit, and this is better.

Black and White version. Its the same shot, i just put it in Picasa and make it Black and White. Looks different and not bad.

The comparison between the coloured and Black and white. Each potraits their own beauty.