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At present I am retired and spending my time mostly on fishing and photography. I bought my first SLR way back in 1982. It was a Minolta XG1. My last film camera was the Maxxum 9000. When the fantastic Sony Alpha 100 was launched, I changed over to the digital system. My Alpha 580 was acquired followed closely by my Alpha 77.

My main interest in photography is lifestyles, sports, sceneries, nature, birds and macro shots. Lately, I have spend more time on bird and nature shooting. As a regular contributer to some fishing magazines, I shoot quite a lot of photographs of anglers too....hence my photography blog is named 'SHOOT THE HOOKER'.



Having grown up near the confluence of two, the Kangsar and the Perak Rivers, it is not surprising that one of my main interest is fishing. My younger days were spent swimming and fishing.... with a bamboo pole, line and small hooks.Now while fishing, my friends and I do take a lot of photographs of anglers in action. The anglers must be careful so as not to accidentally hook on to a photographer. So I think as a reminder, I would like to name my fishing blog as 'HOOK THE SHOOTER'.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

WESAK DAY IN MALAYSIA.

Wesak Day is a day observed by Buddhists all over the world. It is celebrated by all the different sects of Buddhism as the birthday, enlightenment and  the passing away of Gautama Buddha. Buddhists will gather at their respective temples before dawn to offer hymns, flowers and candles in prayers. Devotees are also called to avoid all kinds of killing and to eat vegetarian food. The following photographs showed some of the celebrations and practices at the Enlightened Heart Buddhist Centre (a Malaysian Tibetan Buddhist temple) at Ampang, Ipoh, Perak.
The sunning (to draw power from the sun)
 of the 60m X 12m giant thanka (painting)
 of the Sakyamurni Buddha at the
Buddhist Enlightened Heart Buddhist
 Center near Ampang, Ipoh.

The beginning of reversing
the position of the giant thanka.

At the end of reversing.

Everybody helps to return the
 giant thanka back to the temple.

Bathing the Buddha.

Devotees seeking blessings.

A devotee seeking
blessing for her family.

Devotees carrying an image
of a Tibetan deity during
circumambulation ritual to seek blessings.

Devotees signing on tiles
as donations to the temple building fun.
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