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Anyway, during our trip there, I managed to spend some time photographing some part of the streets in Hong Kong. I was out during early in the morning and late at night. During the day, we were out going to places we have planned and I managed to get some of good picture too. We were not on tour group / package, so our time are flexible.

I’ve selected some of the photographs that best represent what I felt about our trip to Hong Kong at that time. I never been to Hong Kong, but I grew up watching Hong Kong movies. Trust me I was very excited to go around the town taking pictures of everything that could remind and connect me to those movies and dramas.

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Few years gone – priorities in life has changed.

On my way back after celebrating 1 Syawal in Sandakan, a few days in Kota Kinabalu – now I am on board this vessel.

Maybe 10 years from now I will just compile these images and print it for my personal collection.

Taken with Asus Zenfone 5, processed with Snapseed App.

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Along the way, walking past the black soil, probably from the bushfire that frequently happeed during the El Nino. Still, the area was quite, filled with our voices talking about anything that crossed our mind.

We haven’t gather for many months now and it is really good to see them. Weekend well spent.

Images taken with iPhone4s, edited in Snapseed.

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Since the last updates of my trips to Hong Kong with family, I am occupied with a lot of things. The so-called updates on sharing my experience in Hong Kong was halted. After all, when I read the previous post, I guess it is good enough to anyone looking for information about travelling to Hong Kong (from Malaysia at least). The only thing I did after returning from Hong Kong is separating the family pictures with the street photos. I won’t post it anywhere. Yet.

I also limited my activity in social media. I completely left Facebook (so far) and not regret anything that I missed. My life is much better without knowing anyone opinions and problems. I will enjoy the real life, with my real friends and families. I still update my Instagram @saifulrizan maybe once a month. The account followers were less than 50 I think. The only reason is because of the people I followed in Instagram are inspiring, creative and positive. It is the complete opposite of the atmosphere in Facebook. My friends in Facebook are great people. Those photographer friends, those inspiring youngsters expressing opinions, ideas in music, those thinkers and of course, my family. It is only of how Facebook works that I am not keen of scrolling down the timeline.

There is not much travelling after the trip to Hong Kong. I thought that I will visit Japan this year, but looking at the air tickets for the whole family is just expensive for now. Maybe I will visit Japan in future. And to know that Japan Tourism has developed Halal tourism kind of thing there is very convincing. As of now, I will just keep studying Japanese language. Just in case.

So, what else? I have started learning SWIFT and Xcode. SWIFT is the programming language introduced by Apple for developing iOS apps. It really is a much simplified, user friendly programming language. Xcode is the SDK for developing an iOS app. I have no experience and background of doing this. I believe I can do this as long as I never stop doing it. I kind of get the idea of writing a SWIFT codes now. Learning programming really is challenging, however it does trained you to solve a problem, up to the root of the problem. Like looking at lines of codes that won’t execute because you type “:” instead of “;”. At the moment I have the Android SDK as well, but I will focus on the iOS first. As of today, I have wireframe my first app that help tourist in Labuan. The only thing left is to find media and text for design. There is no rush. I am not doing this for the money. Eventually, it will come anyway.

A lot of things happened. Work, friends. Good things, bad things. Happy, sad, in between, mixed feeling. Everything a normal human being will experience. I will just go with it. Time will tell and I am not rushing.

There are a lot of things I want to write now. My return to this blog means I will always try to update and write something new at least once a week. I will write about LiVR, my interest in developing an app, an Arduino project and about my life.

Until then. Best regards.

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We visited the “Gedung Ubat”, a building made to store ammunition back in the days of World War II. Although it was called “Gedung Ubat”, this were no pharmacy. Locals called a bullet / ammunition as “ubat” (translated : medicine), and it ends up being called “Gedung UBat”.

A Muqtadir Halim standing in front of the “Gedung Ubat”

The weather was excellent since Friday, but thick clouds seemed to rolled in heading East as we continued trekking.

“Gedung Ubat”

We continued to another tunnel located about 100m from where we started. It is still a work in progress, although the signboard shows the restoration project should have completed September 2013. After a few minutes of brisk walk, we ended our trekking with breakfast.

We will come again next time to the correct location.

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