The Life of Vikna: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Lens

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Navarathiri 2011 - Kolu and Ponggal 2012

Hi All,
These photos were taking during the Navarathiri prayers that lasts for 10 days.This was actually taken last year but I was a bit lazy to write up about that. Just thought today might be the right day to do it. (Well, the truth is I don't have anything special to write up for the new few weeks. Just dug up my old photos and decided to post this.)
During this time there will be a "kolu" setup in the house where you can display all kinds of doll, mainly deities. To know more about "kolu", checkout this Wikipedia link here.
I just took these pictures using the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens. Just to test power of its capabilities as close up.
Take a look and do tell me how it looks. Do you like it? Do let me know in the comments section.

The second section was some photos that I took early this year during Ponggal 2012. I just realized that I have mistakenly watermarked the photos as Ponggal 2011 instead of 2012. Apologies for that.

I just took some photos of the pot and the delicious food that my wife cooked after that.

To get a full feel of the ponggal or the recipe or event the banana leaf meal that my wife prepared for that day checkout my wife blog at ShiniesKitchenDiary

How was your ponggal?? Haha..I know.. I know..a question that is way too late to ask. But, nevertheless do let us know how was your Ponggal 2012.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

PUTRAJAYA : Flower & Garden Festival 2011 Part 1

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Today, 9th July 2011 is the most memorable day in the history of Malaysia (for some, it is the worst day). Bersih 2.0 rally made history......well, I am not going to blog about that since there is already many videos, photos and blogs available everywhere...I just want to mark it in my blog to remember this day forever.

!! HIDUP BERSIH 2.0!!

OK,as I said this blog is not about Bersih 2.0 because I could not attend the event as I was on-call during the weekend and actually had some server issue that need to be solved during the evening. Since, I was quite free in the morning, we decided to go to Putrajaya Floria 2011. A journey that normally takes 25 minutes to reach Precint 2, Putrajaya actually took us 1 hour plus due to the unnecessary roadblock set up near the Shell petrol station after the Sg.Ramal Toll.

This event is quite memorable to me since I first started blogging with this event that was held last year. Check out the posts here : Floria 2010.

Looks like its my blog's 1st year birthday!! Coincidently, this post comes exactly one year after the first post (11th July 2010). Pretty proud of myself..hehehe.

We only managed to go the indoor garden as time was quite short for me...Remember, I am on-call.. hehehe... Got to admit, that the decoration inside were marvelous and we really enjoyed the creativity of the creators. All the photos were taken using Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Lens.

After taking a few snaps inside, decided to call it quits and went to the bazaar. My wife wanted to purchase some Orchids to keep at home and ended up purchasing 4 types of orchids and got one for free..hehehe..

Enjoyable day but need to go another day to cover the outdoor garden.