Nikon D90!!

St David's 2 Development

(Photo taken on 11 March 2008)


(Photo taken Today)

Scheme Summary

£675 million investment in Cardiff city centre, 967,500 sq ft (89,891 sq m), retail-led mixed-use development to include:

1. A major John Lewis 4 storey department store of 260,000 sq ft
2. Over 100 new stores
3. 300 Luxury roof top apartments
4. 3000 car parking spaces
5. 21 Catering units, including cafes, restaurants and bars of circa 65,000 sq ft
6. New public facilities, public art and enhanced public spaces
7. Contemporary and relaxing shopping environment with facilities for shopmobility, families and security
8. A state-of-the-art Central Library of 55,000 sq ft
9. Modernisation and refurbishment of existing St David's Shopping Centre

The project will:

1. Create 4,000 permanent new retail jobs upon completion
2. Create 1,000 construction jobs
3. Attract more than £250 million of new spending to Cardiff city centre every year
4. Establish Cardiff as one of the top retail destinations in Europe
5. Proposed date of opening - 2009

Info from: http://www.stdavids2.com
More info at: http://www.stdavids-shopping.co.uk/

(A view of how it will look like, photo from http://www.stdavids-shopping.co.uk/)

(A view of how the interior will look like, photo from http://www.stdavids-shopping.co.uk/)

MADPaintball 2K9

Poster by Zaim Zairi, University of Salford

Date: 21st February 2009
Time: 08 30 - 17 00 hours
Location: Cosford Paintball Site, United Kingdom, TF11 8PN
Format: 12-people team with 4 subs (per team 12 Min - 16 Max)
Fees: GBP 480 per team

Busy!!!

Wow!! It's been ahwile since I last updated this blog. I really do apologise about that, been really busy lately. I've got projects due soon and I recently had an exam on Architectural Conservation. It's been quite hectic these past weeks. I haven't really held my camera in while and I'm not feeling that inspired yet, hopefully I will soon. I'm thinking of going out tomorrow and taking few shots in town and probably drop by and check out the progress of the new shopping complex, St. David's 2. I might aswell drop by Jessops or Cameraland too and have a look at the Nikon D90.

Asda Trip

If I'm not mistaken, I think it's been 3 years plus since I last went to Asda. It was sometime in November 2005, went there with Amin, Pman and Jip to get supplies for our Hari Raya open house. I'm not sure wether it's cheaper to buy groceries at Asda or Tesco, but I know that Asda has a variety of Halal meat products. Went there yesterday with Amir and Zemah.

"Zemah and Amir"

Sigma and Nikon Lens

Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 EX DG Macro Lens

"This large aperture standard zoom lens provides superior performance both for Digital SLR Cameras and 35mm Film SLR Cameras. To achieve an F2.8 aperture at all focal lengths, it employs three aspherical Lens to provide optimum aberration compensation. Two Special Low Dispersion (SLD) glass elements are provided for colour aberration compensation, to assure high image quality."

Nikon 50mm f1.4 AF-S Lens

"The Nikon AF-S 50mm f/1.4G lens is a fast, fixed focal-length lens that incorporates the built-in Silent Wave Motor (SWM) enabling smooth and quiet autofocus with Nikon DSLR's including the D40, D40x and D60. The improved optical system delivers fantastic image quality minimising both flare and chromatic aberration while the use of a circular aperture diaphragm means out of focus background blur appears more natural. During focusing all the lens groups shift but the front element and filter mount do not rotate and the barrel length does not change, making it an ideal lens for close-up photography or when using SB-R200 Wireless Remote Speedlight units. The lens has has two focus modes, M/A (manual-priority autofocus) and M (manual focus). When mounted on a DX-format SLR, the picture angle is equivalent to a focal length of about 75mm in 35mm format."

More info at: http://www.warehouseexpress.com/home/default.aspx

Memories of 2008

"New Year 2008, miss you beh - January"


"Cardiff New Year 2008 - January"
(I'm not sure if anyone realised but I changed the two pictures above koz apparently the previous photos were from New Year 2007, OopS - tenk q Beh for noticing).


"Guitar Hero Tourny - January"


"Brunei Welsh Guards Paintball Team, MDP 2k8 - February"


"BDSSW Annual Cultural Day, Dirgahayu Darussalam - March"


"Roath Park Chill - April"


"Lunch at Cafe Aroma - May"


"Rome and Paris Trip - June"


"Visiting family in Tehran, Iran - July"


"Mall of Emirates, Dubai - August"


"Summer outing in Brunei with cousins - September"


"Sungkai at Restaurant Aiana with the Cardiff gang - September"


"Bowling with my Bebeh - September"


"Architectural Design and Technology France trip - October"


"New Housemates - November"


"Start of a healthy diet - December"

Happy New Year 2009

"Homer Simpson on Ipod"

Hello Hello 2009! 2008 is over and so much has been done, time passes by so quickly these days. 2008 has been such a busy year for me and I'm sure 2009 will be more hectic. I've got a few projects to submit and prepare for my exams. A lot of things to be done this year but I'm really looking forward to it.

Last night the Bruneians of Cardiff celebrated their New Year countdown in Cardiff City Centre. Earlier we drop by to the BDSSW president's house to hang out before we all head off to town. Since we had a few hours to kill, some of us joined the guys playing Call of Duty World at World. I haven't actullay played the solo missions yet, we were more eager to play the Zombie missions. I've been playing Call of Duty Modern Warefare on online multiplayer lately. I'm not really good at it but I've already reached the level where I have most of the weapons I enjoyed using.

Enough about that, we all had our dinner there. Thanks for the food guys, I really like the chicken. It's really been ahwile since I've eating 'actual' chicken and what I mean by 'actual', lately I've been eating Quorn products, basically artificial chicken.

"Mycoprotein is the ingredient common to all Quorn products.

Mycoprotein is a healthy, meat-free form of high quality protein and is also a good source of dietary fibre."

More info at: http://www.quorn.co.uk/

"Lina, Nuar and Pman"






"Few more minutes till the countdown."


"and heres Farid doing his hand stand"



Happy New Year everyone!!