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I was walking with my dad at 6.45am yesterday down the streets of my neighbourhood towards the bus hub of USJ 8, and the entire town was deathly quiet. Chirrups of the crickets. The sound of dull rapid footsteps from the few who were jogging at that hour. And there weren’t any unnatural sounds of motor vehicles zooming past by – just a sleeping neighbourhood illuminated by the yellow lights of the street lamps.

It was a morning at peace.

We went together down to KL where I was participating in a “Photoshoot for Newbies” as what it was called, while my dad was to attend to some of his own agenda. We ate a breakfast of beef noodles, then my dad lingered for a while at the designated meeting point of Pasar Seni’s carpark until the rest of the photographers and the organiser arrived (the organiser was late by 15 minutes >_>, because of a model who took ages to prepare herself).

We had two models, Evon Tan (who looked like Amber Chia) <3 and Sara Ayumi (probably just a glamour name I suppose).

Long story short I learned a fair bit of how model photo shoots were like: that we had to use reflectors (or you know, those car sunscreens) to reflect light on the models’ faces; it was my first time shooting entirely in RAW; and I liked Evon a lot (in a model-photographer relationship) because she’s very professional – at least from my point of view as a newbie photographer wtf.

We divided our group of 8 into two groups, and took turns to shoot each model. The reason why I found Evon to be so professional was because even though we had quite a number of photographers wanting to shoot her at the same time, she would linger her eyes into the lens of each camera to allow each of us to have a fair chance to shoot her. And I liked that.

And there was this one time when passers-by were curiously looking at what a bunch of people holding expensive-looking cameras + one pretty model were doing, we heard a loud honk and apparently we caused a traffic jam when cars stopped to look at us LOL.

Not much to say really, except that I was a little quiet most of the time and chatted a lot with a fellow newbie (who was Chinese-ed) who had an amazing 70-300mm L lens (second hand, ~RM3,500). The shoot ended about 1pm as we roamed around near Petaling Street and Central Market, and after that most of us had lunch together at the famous wantan mee restaurant at Petaling Street – minus Evon and two other photographers who went back right after the photo shoot session.

Hitched another bus back and reached home at about 3pm.

Heng dropped by my house for a bit, then we went out to have dinner at McDonald’s, then went back again to my house to wait for Ding to pick us up at 9.30pm to go to Shawn’s house for our usual Japanese homework session. And at about 12.30am we watched How I Met Your Mother Season 1 (Episodes 9 to 15) that I burned.

And in the middle of episode 9 I suffered a massive pain in my stomach yet again that was reminiscent of the food poisoning I encountered recently, although slightly less severe. The same laosai crap and stomach spasms – and I couldn’t take it anymore and had the guys send me to to the USJ 4 clinic where a doctor who looked like a quack attended to me.

Why I said he looked like a quack was because he wasn’t dressed professionally in the universal white uniform, he was telling me that I was supposed to have headaches, ringing in the ears etc WTF like he was trying to prove a point in his ridiculous diagnosis, and then he was educating me on the biological systems of the stomach region.

He eventually injected my butt with something that was supposed to stop my stomach spasms and it worked, and proceeded to give me medication to remove the gas in my stomach that was supposedly causing irritation to my stomach that caused the spasms.

This sucks royally. I’m going to the gastroenterologist tomorrow again at SJMC and have an endoscope performed on me (where they stick a tube down my throat to see what the fuck is wrong with my stomach, hopefully while I’m still under general anaesthesia).

I have no time to organise and post-process all 700 pics I’ve snapped during the photo shoot (which ate up the entire 8GB and 2GB memory cards I brought along), so here are two teasers that I liked thus far (both are clickable to enlarge):