Iteration

First of all, thank you for arriving into my blog. Whether you will arrive in Kota Kinabalu by an airplane (Terminal 1 or Terminal 2), sea or land, I would like to welcome you to Sabah Below the Wind and also welcome to Kundasang, the home for Sabah vegetables and Mount Kinabalu. I know my page is not really informative but hopefully can benefit to you. My blog receives quite many references from search engines looking for "Kundasang map", "peta kundasang", "how to go to Kundasang from KK" and some other similar keywords. Thus, I will try as possible to briefly explain how to go to Kundasang from Kota Kinabalu. It’s a bit sad actually that Sabah’s public transport is not yet fully developed to integrate all important destinations at the moment. However, I’m hoping that the Sabah Government will work out on this issue as soon as possible to provide better public transport links to popular destinations especially Kundasang. Normally, when friends ask...

Sabah has the most active 4x4 challenge held locally every year apart form big event such as Borneo Safari.  In fact, there are more challenges to be organized in months to come. The year 2011 for this extreme sport, Tamparuli Adventist 4 Wheel Drive Club (TA4XDC) starts the heat of the challenge with Hardcore 4x4 competition at Kampung Bawang, Tamparuli on 16 January 2011. Personally, this is my 3rd year shooting 4x4 event just for fun and at the same time promoting what we have especially the challenge to the world to know. The roaring power of even standard vehicle or heavily modified with more powerful engine with 13BT, 15BT, 1J, 2J, and QD32 are really the music to the ears. The sweat, mud, technique and skill of each competitor are the entertainment for the eyes. In my 3rd year shooting 4x4 event, I have gained some photography insight of what to look for in such action packed competition. I'm not taking photo for something else but for fun and hobby instead. In each even...

With suitable distance and open background, one can get pretty good bokeh in the background. This photo was taken at Tanjung Aru for simple birding. Olympus E-1 @ f/5.6 300mm

Announced Olympus XZ-1 is indeed an exciting camera from Olympus. My first digital camera was the Olympus mju400 which bought in 2004. It was a great experience with the camera until I discovered that I need a better compact camera. My second digital camera is the little bit higher spec camera, Panasonic FZ30. The mju400 was still with me  but it died in  2008. Then, I bought cheap Samsung S760 compact camera. After few years with Samsung S760 for my P&S going everywhere camera, I think I need a good new point and shoot camera. In fact, the S760 already started to make weird  fault. As usual,  I have to wait for the camera to be available at the camera shop for testing, while friend with easy access and well known by Olympus Malaysia have the opportunity to test the camera directly from the company.  Having an e-system camera, this XZ-1 surely compliments the need for a backup camera. I'm on my saving (hopefully) to own this camera. Equipped with Zuiko Dig...

The recent upgrade of this SJ410, not much but slowly will transform into semi offroad vehicle in the future.