Yuzhno - October .. Malaysian + food..

A friend (malaysian) of our colleague(malaysian) invited us to his apartment for some simple malaysian food. So we decided to buy some food and help out a little at his place.


In front of Sapporo hotel.. his aparment is just behind Sapporo hotel.


Along Lenin st.


Some malaysian food..


Some malaysian snacks..


Class of .... ?

Decided to upload some pictures taken during other dinner times...

Some simple dinner at Ultraviolet...


@Bambu...


@Furusato..

Yuzhno - October .. Halloween party..

It was october 27, there was nothing to do after dinner in Furusato for the usual shrimp tempura, so a colleague suggested to check out the early halloween party at the in-hotel VIP club, The Duke.

So, we went straight down and found many nice living monsters that I thought must be captured, on camera. So my colleague suggested to ask the person who looked like the person-in-charge there if I could bring a camera. I went on to ask him if I could help them shoot some pictures for the night and he nodded.


This is a very good friend... at that party.


Posing with some friendly scary things.


The cat at the bar


These things made everyone drinks for the night..


A guest


Some guest sitting next to us.


This flers sitting on the other side of me.


Err...


Nice hair huh?


Who's that black guy?


They thanked me for helping them snap quite a few pictures..


Cats..


Maybe they are tigers..


Someone bleeding..


This fler trying to spoil other ppl's picture..


Ok, they wanted another picture..


This pic is taken without permission... oppss.. but I love candid shots..

In total took over 100 pictures within the 2 hour visit...

Yuzhno - October .. Autumn in Yuzhno

This is a saturday after some first snowfall after work hours the day before... October 13th 2007.. woke up at around 930am and decide to snap some pictures of.. autumn snow.


View from my room..


Lower left view


Right view


Where else? Gagarin park..


Inside Gagarin park..

Nice bridge with some reflections


Gagarin lake


Me and my photo buddy for the day...


Near the entrance of Gagarin park


The ferries wheel shot again.. with snow

Yuzhno - Sept 2007 - end of Summer, begining of Autumn

I get to 'revisit' some of the limited number of places that I have visited in Yuzhno when a colleague new to Yuzhno arrive end of September. Staying in the same hotel, I brought her around places to get some grocery, the Gagarin Park, the next door zoo and Lenin st. I'm happy I can start up my camera for some early autumn warm-up.


Gagarin park theme park section.


From across the lake, the Mega Palace hotel.


New addition to the zoo, wolves.


Everyone was in Russian, but I think this should be a wolf. Nice tail.


A flower I thought I should snap.


The allegator have grown a little since my last visit.


The iguana put on a little weight.

Yuzhno - September 2007

In September 2007... I got my lower right wisdom tooth removed in a local Russian dental hospital, and I am glad. The pain started as early as three weeks ago, and I have opt to take anti-biotics to avoid extraction for the last two weeks but nothing helped. The night I had it removed was also the night I could sleep through till the next morning without waking up in pain.

Here are some of the pictures of food I had during and after the extraction. I have alot more but considering I have uploaded too many pictures on food, I'll refrain from posting too many this trip.


Nice bread...


Fruits are good.. and all tree types of grapes were offered on the fruit plate.


The pancake and soup are part of the standard toothache meal too.


Yes, the hotel doesn't not have the proper ESPN and Start Sports and even the local tv REN-TV, that broadcast live or even delayed Formula 1... so I found a web site that allow me to stream live-F1 for a small amount of money. I am glad I found it, I never missed a race weekend since then. And I am also glad Kimi won this year's driver's title. Congratulations Kimi!.


This is the clock with alarm that came with the room. One of my three alarm clock that gets me up at 715am in the mornings. My other alarm clocks are my iPaq, and another spare SE mobile phone. Ok, was trying out my new Speedlite Sergey help me get from the US, so took this trial and error shot.

Yuzhno - Sept 2007 - Malaysian BBQ @ Zima

A malaysian friend invited myself and a colleage to another friend's place for BBQ @ Zima... so since I am free on that saturday, we went on to grab a few bottle of beers and waited at Rubin to meet another friend to pick up some stuff for the BBQ before we took a cab to Zima.


Nice green grass, only seen for 4-5 months a year.


This is Comrad's house in Zima.


Everyone help to start up fire, without any fire starter. I am really surprise we manage to start it up with dried grass and some twigs found surrounding the house.


Chicken wings, drumstick, pork ribs, etc.


Everyone try to do something.


Some beers and accessories..


Almost cooked.


Yes, we have scallops on the menu that day..


Here's the people Jeffrey Francis, Taran, myself, Paul(from Sg) and Comrad.. a few others came later.