Jimin Lai A few words here and there..+6012-656-3535
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Stories from my Journeys
Landscapes, Escapades & a 360 Panorama
I recently did a three-day assignment for one of my clients and it included a few landscape shots. Thought I’d share just a few of my favourites here. The first one is the Masjid Tengku Tengah Zaharah or aptly called the “Floating Mosque” in Kuala Terengganu because it’s located next to a lake which casts [...]
KLCC at twilight..
I’m doing a new project for a website and one of the shots I need to do is the usual Petronas Twin Towers shot. I’ve noticed lately that the sun has been setting quite late nowadays and it only gets dark close to 8pm. I’ve also noticed that if it doesn’t rain, sun has been [...]
Historical Malacca
I’m in Malacca to continue my assignment after Penang and JB. I’ve never visited this famous Portuguese ship before until now and what can I say, it’s a huge and beautiful ship. After a long week in Penang with my dad passing away and having to finish this assignment, I’m actually quite drained but there [...]
Disappointing location..
So everyone talks about the Kek Lok Si temple in Penang and I wanted to get something nice from this location but guess what.. they were doing some renovation.. and this is like the 4th place that I went to and there were renovations going on. So here I am standing in front of this [...]
Hanging out with my dad
My dad has been living in Penang for some years now after his retirement. I hardly see him and the last time I met up with him here in Penang was almost 2 years ago. And I can’t even remember when was the last time I had a picture taken with him.. maybe it was [...]
One stormy night..
It was so windy, I had my car windows down, I decided to stop nearby because I saw something I wanted to shoot. After shooting it, and walking back towards my car, the wind was really blowing strong and then as I was about to open the door, I saw this in front of me [...]
From Penang with love..!
I’m now in Penang on my long shoot, 10 days here and after this 10 days in Johor.. Unfortunately I can’t post up the work I’m doing here because I’ve signed a confidentiality agreement with the client not to reveal any info. The bad news is I can only release my pictures 8 months later!!! [...]
Day 6 – Last day in Beverly Hills
The next day, Rob took us shopping in Beverly Hills.. I repeat, shopping in Beverly Hills.. The moment we walked into the shop owner greeted Rob like they were old friends.. The had really nice suits in this shop. The rest of our team followed the bus tour to Disneyland and we had decided that [...]
Day 5 – Los Angeles, California
I’ve just recovered from jet lag… and KL is so hot..! Anyway here’s some pictures I made after our convention. We flew out of Salt Lake City at 7 in the morning and arrived in LA at about 9am. Headed down to Santa Monica beach for a short walk. LA is one of the smoggiest [...]
Day 4 – Last day of convention
This was the last day of our Agel World convention and we attended some fantastic training sessions. I am so inspired by the Portugese Diamond Directors who just exploded their market in a few months and achieved Diamond in 3-4 months each! A Diamond Director earns roughly around 30k US Dollars a month! It was [...]
Back in Asia..
I’m on transit for an hour in Hong Kong International airport now. It’s 8am, my flight to KL departs at 9am. I managed to catch some sleep on the plane and also watched Iron Man the movie but I fell asleep before it ended..
Day 3 – AGEL WORLD – A worldwide phenomenon
I’m sitting in Los Angeles airport or LAX waiting for my flight to take off.. I’ve been so busy the last few days my schedule was so packed and I didn’t have time to go online at all. I’ll be home by Thursday afternoon, but anyways I’m gonna blog about my days in the US, [...]
A day around Salt Lake City
It’s just the day before the convention starts and we have some time to look around the city. I’ve had a long day and feeling just so tired now. The important day is tomorrow as the conference starts in the morning for 2 full day sessions. But here’s where we went today: Capitol Hill of [...]
A very short transit in San Francisco then to Salt Lake City
My flight left KL at about 9.30am on Wednesday and then transit in Hong Kong to quickly change flights.. didn’t even have enough time to enjoy a cigarette. From Hong Kong it was a 12 hour flight to San Francisco. I slept most of the way which was my intention because I never enjoyed long [...]
Stories from my journeys: Ruins of Kabul
It was a quiet day in Kabul back in 2001/2002 and I had nothing to shoot for the day. So as usual I’d ask Siddiq, my driver, who was also my guide and translater to drive me around the city looking for standalone features to accompany the big story of the hunt for Osama. On [...]
SFMJ series/1: Stock Market
Many photographers have shot this place many times and sometimes it’s not easy to come up with something great because there’s only so much you can do with a static room. The only variables that can be changed or moved is the human subject, and yourself, and your composition. So I decided to do something [...]
New series – Stories from my Journeys
From time to time, I will be going through my archives to pull out a couple of pictures and tell the stories of my experiences, and how I shot the picture. I’m doing this so that I have a written journal of my travels and the things I have seen. If not it will just [...]
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