7 days to final exam. I should be studying or at least arrange my notes to get ready to study. But no, paikia had other plan, he woke up at 7.50am got ready and left to KL, Ampwalk at Jalan Ampang. Studio 807 to be exact. His friend studio, had breakfast and left to Batu Arang town in Selangor for a photo walk.
Batu Arang town was a significant mining town long time ago, contributing coal for the railway systems in Peninsula Malaysia and economic in Selangor. It also produce high quality bricks. some info here.
Reach around 12pm, had a teh ping in the only kopitiam available. It was really busy with Chinese and Indians having their lunch. While having our drink we chatted with the local penduduk about the mining town. The local had a really amazing story about a flying object with red and blue light that wasn't a plane flying in the sky last weekend. a UFO maybe??
the place now, have a few military installations. So it quite weird in a way. An almost ghost town with military present?? sound fishy. Area 51?? X-files?? lolx. SME ordinance (manufacturing Arms), Tenaga Kimia (some chemical manufacturing facility) and a military research center. Sound high tech and super scary right?? with the UFO sighting from the local some more.
after the kopitiam, we when to visit the old quarters for the mining workers, a black color lake (how cool is that? its really black), an open mining area that now fill with water making it a big lake, outside of a brick factory( they were taking it down so we didn't get in.) =( and the entrance of the military installations.
the old quarters, some of them were falling apart.it was really small with only 1 room and had names of the occupant in the down too. The black lake was really scary, it had fast or big under current so its really dangerous and had weird ripple coming from the middle of it (pumping waste into it??). Open mining area was the a big lake with a path of land leading right into the middle, so we manage to walk right to the middle of the lake. Brick factory was saddening, my friend manage to take photos before this and it was really nice. but now they are tearing it down, I don't have the chance to take photos. Military installations was normal I guess, don't know what they doing inside though, it really secretive. The arms manufacturing facility had underground bunker or something I think, cause I saw shelters with ventilation systems.
after that we left for the studio, my friend taught me some really cool stuff in converting B&W photos in photoshop and I became a model again. we tried some shot with white back ground. Felt like I was doing some CK advertisement. lolx drug addict shots, with my bamboo/kayu like body.
What an exciting day. Thank God. Suppose to pick a friend up at Pudu today, but...
some photos, the rest are in my flickr
on the way...
the kopitiam.
the quarters...
...chair
the amazing black lake...
to the middle of the mining lake.
the mining lake...
give us a chance, give me a chance show how much i love you and care...
5 *inspire me*:
well, u were supposed to pick her up at port klang,not pudu,haha...
yup yup..but i was still supposed to pick her up.
the last two photos "to the middle of the mining lake" and "the mining lake" looked familiar, i've seen these place in a S'pore movie(but shoot in Msia)~~
oh..cool. remember the movie title?
Homerun by Jack Neo..
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