First of all, the building itself is visually pleasing. Lots of metal, glass and wood combination. I like!

A mixture of modern coldness with the warmth of wood. Nice mix!

Some of us making out way down to their… erm… function area? That’s a water feature that goes round the area.

Hmm.. free flow premium coffee? I like!!

That’s what digi people call the Reload. Basically it’s their makan place. See the umbrellas and tables/chairs. You can have your meetings and discussions there as well. If you do not mind the heat. :p BTW.. the rock feature on the right, there’s some interesting feature there. Wanna know? Pay them a visit.

Our friendly guide into Digi explaining their work concept. Pretty interesting. There’s no permanent place for you. Your desk is practically anywhere where no one is sitting at that moment. Pretty cool eh?

They were pretty good hosts as well.

They fed us well!!

These are very nice otak otak!

There’s wine tasting…

Chocolate tasting..

And coffee tasting as well..

Plus they threw in some entertainment for us..

You can putt

You can PS3

Get online and update your statuses.

Or if you want, have some make up as well

Of cos.. you can also sweat it out with their Wii!!

Oh.. one interesting note. See that building across the car park and it’s green feature? That’s not paint. That’s REAL grass.

Thanks to DiGi and their “I AM CURIOUS” campaign.

After reaching the Southern most tip of Western Australia, we began our journey back up North to Perth. The drive was long. Good thing we had 3 drivers. We took turns to drive. Ensuring maximum alertness.

Seriously, I should have kept track of where we went. I am not able to remember the names of the towns we visited :S But the view was spectacular. This photo above was taken during sunset, or when the sun was setting. Marvellous!

Our accommodation was at this little guest house situated on a hill.

We rented something like a suite. Not bad. Simple yet cosy.

It has a little patio, something like a little balcony with table and chairs.

And the view out was simply stunning.

This was taken in the morning.

There’s some garden table and chairs out on the gorgeous grass with a BBQ pit and wash basin should you want to BBQ.

After checking in, we drove a little bit to get to a very nice place to view the sunset.

Dem.. even a shot from the parking lot looks great!

The place had some sort of rocks formation or something like that. there’s a nice little path for the casual tourist to walk through the rocks. But the younger ones.. or at least the young ones at heart tends to take the path less taken. hahaha.

It’s very nice actually. Not THAT dangerous.

Have to pose a bit. Bottom up angle not very flattering. :p

The sun set… nice! Takes much longer to set over there.

Stunning eh?

And there… a little CLS to bring out the people

The next morning.. we had a nice breakfast out on the patio.

No worries about the sun. It was cool enough I miss the cool weather. Anyways, we packed up, then continued our journey. The next stop? A wine yard for some wine tasting and lunch on another balcony/patio overlooking the beautiful wineyard and blue skies.

Our first stop was a wineyard… but here we were looking out for some nice coffee beans.

… and maybe some crocodiles?

Anyways.. we continued on to several wine yards, the more notable ones.

The wine yards were all like a huge mansion! with beautiful gardens. Check out the grass!!

Can roll around like in bollywood movies

Most, if not all of them, have a nice restaurant inside. You can have your wonderously juicy steak paired with a red. Nice!!

And during wine tasting, they have a spittoon there for you. Lucky I know what’s it for. Another group of visitors were asking the lady there what’s that for :p  you would not want to get drunk on your first wine yard stop.

This particular wineyard has got it’s own artsy thingy. It’s labels are a collection of arts.

So naturally they have their own art gallery.

We took one of their tours. Here our lovely tour guide began the tour by introducing to us the history of the wine yard and the estate.

Then she showed lead us through the wine making process. Contrary to the believe that red wine are made from red grapes while white wine are made from green grapes, both red and white wine are pressed from the same red grapes. The color in the red wine comes from the skin which are added to the mix later on in the process. Interesting.

Massive containers containing the wine. Or rather, juices which would become wine.

Hmm… one of the olden pressing machine? Probably a machine which replaced people stomping on grapes in a barrel. Hmm… would be interesting to try it out grape stomping I mean.

More gigantic barrels. Notice these are iced up. I was not paying much attention. I think it had to do with quality or something like that.

And.. finally, the storage. These barrels are not cheap! If I am not wrong, it’s in the 5-figure region.. Aussie Dollar!! Apparently, lower cost wine yards buy these barrels used.

So, after the tour, off we went to another wine yard our lunch.

Nice glass facade…

.. with an even nicer view!! See the building on the left, there’s like a balcony overhanging the yards? That’s where we had our lunch.

The view from our lunch table.

And.. the other view.

I think this is lamb..

This is my prime aussie ribeye.. medium and slightly charred on the outside. Served with a nice big glass of red nicely paired by the friendly staff. Delicious!

And this… hmmm… it’s duck. I think it’s almost raw!

It was a wonderful lunch. Nice weather. Sunny yet cold. Bright blue skies.. taking it all in on a ledge over hanging the wine yards. Pricey, but ok lar. Worth the experience.

After lunch? Photo taking session. Note the photo-taking stance? hehehe

There’s one thing you gotta love down under : The deep blue skies.

It’s extremely blue!!

Really really blue!

Our final stop was Busselton Jetty.. stretching 2km out into the sea.. it’s the longest jetty in the southern hemisphere!

Almost the same view, but love the flare.. hehehe.

Notice the blue blue skies? Check out the ocean as well. Nice clear.. inviting! But also note the darkish clouds looming on the right?

And there’s the dark clouds again far in the background.

And another view of the jetty.. and the deep blue skies.. Too bad it was under construction then :S

aha!! another photo-taking stance.

Oh.. almost missed this photo. I love this. It’s not night, just that I exposed this photo this way to catch the glitters.

And finally, we made the long drive back to Perth. On the way, we managed to catch up to the dark skies.

More like fiery skies to me.

Ok folks. After detouring off the road to take these shots of the fire skies, I was beat!

I hope I will be able to update more on my stay in Perth soon. There’s BBQ and a visit to the Aqua Centre in Perth

These are some random shots on the way to the kelong…

Dun be so surprised la. We like to be photographed as much as we like to take photos.

Who needs light stands???

A view of the bunk beds and living quarters. Yes.. it is opened air.

Valarie and Xylia..

Our dining area. In the background is the living area. Also there, but not visible at the background are the karaoke area and playstation area.

One the main activities at the kelong… fishing

You can fish ‘inside’.. or ‘outside’

And the various views of the kelong..

Oh. missed one additional view of our bunk beds… with cow…

This is Cow. See how happy he looks? Just a few minutes ago. This was how he looked like.

Fuah… such dedicated concentration.

Then he was shown his new toy. Wow!! See how it lights up his whole face?

Test test test test.

The new toy…

The proud new owner. Hmmm… not so nice.. got the finger.

Nah.. this one more gaya.

Airtrek club

RX-8 Club..

“That tree suddenly jumped right in front of me!!!”

“Hmm.. this car quite small la the interior”

“Ok.. believe in yourself. Pace yourself, but do not pace to slow ah.. bla bla bla..”

“Fuah.. beh tahan your bad breath le…”

“BRB”

“Ok.. let me get this right… first, I go all the way straight, then turn right, then immediate left, then a long right hander…”

Since I finally got the photos up. Just beware lar. There will be quite a number of photos

It was very early in the morning, earlier than my usual weekday. I got up and go through my usual stuff, brush teeth, berak, shower and such. Then I realised that I have not really packed up for the day. Demmit! Batteries all not charged up and all that. Good thing I had with my spare AA batteries for my flash. As for the rechargable batteries for my camera, I brought along my charger, just in case.

Anyways, it was early. Very early in the morning. Some of us were not really awake when met up at the meeting point.

Alan, who graciously picked me up for the day. Not too awake I guess.

Jason, whose alarm clock decided to go dead on him thought I was joking when I told him the actual time. Nevertheless, he made it to the location in record time!

Khai, enjoying his breakfast

Michelle… probably doing some last minute checking on her make up and stuff. She’s one of the two models for that day.

We were ambitious that day. We wanted someone we had not done before. My photos came out… well.. not that great lar. But still ok. Maybe at a later date I shall post them up after I am done processing them. We had ourselves a little room to place our stuff, get ready and more importantly for our models and the make up team to prepare.

The room ain’t too big, but it was sufficient. Not like we needed a suite or something like that.

The make up team sprung to work…. as we prepared our gear. Plus of cos, when we go out on an outing or a photoshoot, we camwhored.

Some of the outfits for the day.

Tommy preparing his stuff. He had a whole car load of stuff. Stands, tripods, camera gear, lighting equipment.. etc etc..

Who says making up is not fun? hehehe.. cute or not?

Tommy going old school…

Old school camera did not have sophisticated metering system, so had to rely on a lightmeter.

And he continued with his old school medium format camera.

While ’someone’ whipped out his trusty digicam…

I had a very simple setup. One camera body, one wide angle lens and a standard 50mm lens. And so without much preparations, I was already prepared. And while waiting for the make up to be done, i did some practise on wedding shots..

This is Dawn. Tall… seductive… scary at first, but really she is a very friendly person

Dunno why but a lot of wedding photographers take the number of the room. To buy 4D later maybe. But mostly I think it is because the wedding couple would like to look at the photo and reminiscent the day.

anyways.. continue on the wedding shot practise..

This is Michelle. Some of you may remember her from our previous shoot. A very friend and easy to work with model.

No… this is not one of the models. We had a lot of time on our hands as the models prepared. So.. hehe

Jason, our chief photographer… no idea what he is doing, probably reporting in..

Once the models were ready, we started work. Phew.. I tell you, not an easy job. Holding this prop, adjust that light, positioning the models. It was hard work.

By the end of the day…

Knocked out…

but then… this fella still finds energy to shoot some photos

Fuah.. Khai.. you look good with an SLR…

See or not? ehehehehe

Anyways… check back soon for some photos from myself….. if I manage to find any worth posting MUAAAAHAHAHHA

First up, some friends and I went to have seafood dinner somewhere near the old Subang Airport. While tucking into glorious Ham Tan Hai, and delicious noodles, I passed the phone round for all to take a test drive.

Steven, a rescue diver

Alan and Kim, obviously very excited about the Symbian-powered Samsung i450

Kelvin

Eric doing a kawaii…

Jason Wong… did not need to stop eating to check out the phone.

The lovely couple giving the thumbs up to the i450

Jessbabe of Flippingskirt. Some how she looks very ‘si-man‘ here. WAHAHAHA.. ok ok .. joking joking. Jess is a very nice lady like girl..

Khai.. event fella. Anything you need on printing, lights and sound or anything under the sun. He is the guy to look for. keke. He quite excited over the camera.

Next day we had a scuba tryout session. Yeah.. we went for the second round. Third round is coming up soon

Tommy… it was kind of early on a weekend.. hence the blur expression and half-baked smile which he had to muster all caffeine from the two cups of kopi-kao to make.

Sherry… apparently more awake than Tommy. Must go ask her what is her secret.

Poh Im.. with the new Samsung i450.. and apparent a new hair do as well!!

Dizzy… erm.. trying to strike a commercial pose with the phone? BTW.. he is now a brand new Samsung phone user. hehehe

Mee Fong..

It was a good thing I kept the phone nicely and secretly. I did not want to test if the phone works underwater. The rest wanted to.

After that it was off to the studio…… to see to some photoshoots.

The models and the little model wanna be.

Michele.. you can envy her.. she eats as much as I do but can still stay so slim

The two upcoming models

Three taikors..

Three ladies..

This one a bit shy..

Barry and Kenix

After I took this photo…

Two more wanted in….. camwhores.. wahaha.