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Pada suatu hari seorang ayah dan anak hendak bepergian ke negara nun jauh disana. Karena perjalanan yang mereka harus tempuh sangat jauh, maka mereka pun membawa satu-satunya unta yang mereka miliki. Di tengah perjalanan sang ayah melihat anaknya terlihat sangat lelah sekali karena sudah berjalan jauh. Maka si ayah pun menyuruh anaknya untuk menaiki sang unta, sementara si ayah berjalan menuntun unta tersebut. Mereka pun melewati sebuah desa. Penduduk di desa itu berkomentar: “Kurang ajar kalii tuh anak, masa bapaknya yang sudah bangkotan gitu disuruh jalan. Dianya enak-enakan duduk di atas unta!”. Sang ayah mendengar ucapan penduduk di desa itu, maka setelah melewati desa itu sang ayah pun meminta anaknya untuk turun dari unta dan berjalan kaki bersamanya. Mereka pun melewati desa kedua. Penduduk desa itu pun berkata: “bujug buneng!, tolol kali mereka. Unta segede itu kagak dimangfaatin ama sekali!”. Si ayah mendengar percakapan penduduk desa itu, lalu ia pun menaiki sang unta dan menyuruh anaknya untuk duduk bersamanya di atas unta tersebut. Mereka pun melanjutkan perjalanannya. Akhirnya mereka tiba di desa ketiga. Penduduk di desa itupun berkata: “wong edan! Sungguh tidak berkehewanian tuh bapak dan anak. Unta dah tua gitu masa dinaikin berdua!”. Sang ayah, anak dan unta pun lalu berkata: “cape deeeeeh!”.

Moral dari cerpen ini adalah kita tidak bisa membahagiakan semua orang karena setiap orang memiliki persepsi yang berbeda. Just be yourself and smile :) .

Pohon vs Binatang

Pada suatu hari ada sebuah pohon besar yang sangat subur. Pohon itu sangat tinggi, memiliki ranting yang panjang dan daun yang sangat lebat sehingga para binatang senang sekali berteduh dibawahnya. Singa, beruang, dan binatang buas lainnya berterima kasih kepada sang pohon karena selalu memberikan keteduhan dibawah teriknya matahari. Suatu ketika sang pohon berpikir: saya selalu menolong mereka (binatang); saya memberikan keteduhan, kenyamanan dan tempat nongkrong untuk mereka, tapi apakah saya pernah diberi pertolongan oleh mereka?. Sang pohon pun bertanya kepada binatang: “hey singa, beruang, selama ini saya telah memberikan banyak pertolongan kepada kalian, tapi apa imbalannya buat saya, pertolongan apa yang bisa kalian berikan kepadaku?”. Para binatang pun tidak bisa menjawab. Sang pohon pun lalu mengusir para binatang karena dianggap tidak bisa membalas pertolongan yang ia beri. Keesokan harinya, seorang penebang kayu melewati pohon itu. Ia pun lalu berkata pada dirinya: “Wah ini hari keberuntunganku, sudah lama aku ingin menebang pohon ini tetapi selalu ada hewan buas yang menjaganya. Ini saat yang tepat buatku untuk menebangnya”. Penebang itu pun lalu mengeluarkan kapaknya dan mulai menebang pohon itu. Sang pohon pun menjerit kesakitan dan merengek: “Singaaa…. Beruaaaang… Tolonglah dirikuuu”. Sayangnya binatang-binatang itu sudah jauh meninggalkan sang pohon karena telah diusir olehnya. Sang pohon pun akhirnya tumbang.

Moral yang bisa diambil dari cerpen ini adalah, janganlah kalian pamrih bila memberi pertolongan karena menolong orang lain berarti menolong dirimu sendiri.

*diambil dari cerita seorang ustad :D .

Day (40) of 365

Can you see the that little baldy spot on Aqilah’s forehead? I shall explain coz I don’t think that I have. In Islam, there is this religious doings for newborn baby called Aqiqah. It basically means to celebrate for the newborn baby by slaughtering lambs or cows and then to shave the baby’s head clean. Now what happened was that the one that was supposed to shave my niece’s hair was a religious man who happened to be old. As he was cutting the hair, we could see that the hand was trembling!… we could not let anything happen to the baby so we stopped it and thought that it should be done later :D .

It is pretty difficult to have my niece look directly into the camera so candid is the way to go!. I always experiment with many angles and see which one looks more natural and distinctive.

Camera settings: ISO 800 | 24-105@105mm | f/4.0 | 1/30 sec.

Day (39) of 365

I am pretty sure that Aqilah is trying to say: “What up, Uncle!”. She is getting chubbier by days, how cute.

She does not actually look as chubby real life, maybe it is the camera effect because I zoom in to close to her face. But it looks cute though… Babies are supposed to be chubby, otherwise adults like myself cannot pinch their chubby cheek :D .

Camera settings: ISO 800 | 24-105@105mm | f/4.0 | 1/80 sec.

Day (38) of 365

Sometimes I wonder what under 6 month babies think about everyday. Aqilah seems to have a lot in her mind already. I am sure that she will be a smart girl when she’s grown up!.

The toys on the bouncy chair makes a great foreground. I experimented with different angles; took one with Aqilah’s face inside the circle too but it kinda squeezed the face a bit too much. This one is just right as it isolated the face inside the toys.

Camera info: ISO 800 | 24-105@60mm | f/4.0 | 1/25 sec.

Day (37) of 365

BLUR WARNING! Most of the time I delete blurry pictures right on the camera. But this time, I am glad that I decided to do otherwise. Aqila does not smile often and when she does the picture is blurry… ouch!. What matters is the moment though, and thats the first rule of photography: “Capture the moment”. I should really upgrade my camera to one with much higher ISO (mine is maxed out at 1600). If you have unused one, Canon DSLR that is that can go beyond ISO 1600, fell free to send it to my house :D . Happy to pay the delivery :D . Anyways, I am gonna cheat a little here :P . The next 3 pictures are taken from 8th February. Did not take any photographs between 5th and 8th.

Took the picture inside. Could have used ISO 1600 but am prety sure the image would have came out blurry too.

Camera info: ISO 800 | 24-105@45mm | f/4.0 | 1/20 sec.

Day (36) of 365

WOW! I am 3 week behind project. Time really did fly quickly. It’s hard to believe that I am actually studying Global Project Management this semester, and yet my own projet is under a serious delay hahaha. Oh well, time to recover. I am thinking that I should maybe upload 3 – 5 images per day to get back on track. The mid-semester exam is coming up this week too, woohoo. It is time to apply my project management knowledge :D . Had a religious gathering on 5th February as a celebration of the newborn baby. Many people came so had a chance to photograph lots of things. I took a series of shots of people with my camera on a tripod. Attached the wireless remote so all I had to do was pressing the shutter from a distance while sitting somewhere 10 metres away. Great. Anyway, today’s picture is the Asma’ul Husna. In Islam, it represents 99 names and characteristic of Allah.

The paper was lying around on the carpet. Thought it would make a great object so used high aperture to focus on the name Asma’ul Husna and blur the rest. Should have made the rest of the writings un-blurred though.

Camera info: ISO 800 | 24-105@105mm | f/4.0 | 1/50 sec.

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