back to jakarta

just came back last night, not really a good flight, didn't get the new plane... and i'm missing steph so much already... argh... and the worst thing is i copy most of my data to my external harddisk, but i actually forgot to move all the temporary folders (all unprocessed pictures) so have to do all the unprocessed pictures when i get back to adelaide.... so sad.. hahahaha

i'm bored

i love my girlfriend...

Maha's Photo Session

Sorry for very late update... Been busy these days, assignments & exam really took my time... Anyway on 15th October 2006, William Mahaputra (Maha) came to my place to take his pictures, he wants to update his resume as a model.. So I just helped him out =)

Thanks to Steph for (again) lending me her camera... The photo session took me around 2 hours, and editing the pictures.. well quite some time... hehehe.. Anyway for full gallery just follow to this link:
http://www.pbase.com/gantengx/william_mahaputras_photo_session__october_2006

SAOC Appeal Dinner 2006

Finally an update, okay I know this is not a professional way to do this. Since the photo was taken on 4th August and I just finished it yesterday (15 September) but it just can't be helped... I had heaps of assignments to due, and I got another 5 coming out... Ah well, back to the pictures

I was so lucky, Fabian, Steph's friend works for South Australia Olympic Council and needed photographers for the fundraising dinner. He asked Steph to be the photographer and Steph asked whether I could be a photographer as well. But then it makes me think, I only have my Sony DSC-P100 and Nikon F3 (bad for fast stuff, manual focus is just not the way) then luckily Michael Wong lend me his camera! Hooooo!

The fundraising dinner is held to assist athletes in South Australia.

Human Nature rehearsing for the event. They performs very well

New Toyota Camry for the lucky draw. Black & white and the real color version

Her Excellency Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, AC, CVO, MBE governor of South Australia. She was well known for her participation of sports

Robert Gerard AO from Gerard Corporation, he is also a chairman and managing director for Quarter Club.

John Conomos, executive chairman of Toyota Australia giving speech

Me & Steph just can't believe this. Both of us so busy and when we took a break we saw this on the table... Just can't believe how free those volunteers are until they can play monopoly... Haha

Interviewing with the ex-olympiad

Human Nature performs

The auction starts. Some of the participant is quite funny. While there's no initial price set some of them just suddenly shout $10,000 and so on...

One of the auction participant

Volunteers. BankSA provided all the equipments there.

Matt Hetherington Band

This is where people paying for the auction items

Well that's the pictures for now, more information about SAOC is at http://www.olympics.com.au/sa and for more pictures http://www.pbase.com/gantengx/south_australian_olympic_council__games_appeal_dinner_2006

And for Sydney pictures, should be up soon, I promise. I hate when my Temp folder is full... So I should finish it by this holiday hehehe.. And I'm quite enjoying using linux now, not for pictures but for other stuff, like listening to my music, to do my assignments, ah... I'm thinking of installing it but I've already paid for my photoshop...Ah well.... And yah, iTunes 7.0 rocks! Haha

Protest Against Israel July 2006

Finally an update for the blog. After came back from Sydney, I had to edit around 600 pictures, and still haven't finished all of it yet. And there was a protest against Israel in front of Adelaide's Parliament House. The protest is about Israel's attack to Lebanon.. Aside from that, during one of my lecture I was so sleepy, and then Steph surprised me by giving me the latest Eskimo Joe's album. I was so surprised yet so happy... I wanted the CD but haven't got time to buy it yet.. And she bought it for me... And then she cooked me dinner, and it was so good! Then we watched The Lake House. It's a really good movie, a bit confusing but the storyline was very good, lighting & colour is just awesome! Okay enough about my personal life, otherwise I'll irritate everyone by keep talking about Steph the whole time haha.

Back to the protest, I was lucky, when me & Masa went out for dinner, he saw a very small poster on the traffic light about the protest. And then he showed me and I ended up went for the protest. It was a peaceful protest held by http://www.nowar-sa.net/ on 22nd of July.

This is the Parliament House, where the protest being held. I went there when they still preparing for the protest.

People started to come and join

Israel: Shamefully Really An Evil Land... I can't say this is wrong, especially if you know what they actually did. Yes, the Lebanon terrorist group did evil stuff. But what Israel did to "protect" themself by killing all the innocent people is not an act of protection rather an act of destruction.

For people who don't know, Agent Orange is a very dangerous chemical used during the Vietnam War which kills a lot of people and increased risk of various type of cancer.

Picture edited by Steph

The MC. I remembered one of the speaker said that if you want to defend yourself, you have to defend it in the right measure. If someone slap your face it doesn't mean you can kill the person and the person's family as an act of your "defense".

The little girl let the bird to fly as a sign of peaceful protest. But the bird didn't end up flying to the top, it just went down.

An innocent look by a child

I wonder if this kind of view a child should see. A child supposed to have a beautiful and peaceful childhood. Not exposed to wars and protests. They shouldn't know what war in the first place I think...

Children shouldn't be a victim of the war..

A lady claps after listening to the speech

An activist showed the newspaper

An activist passed over the newspaper

For a full gallery just visit my photo gallery http://www.pbase.com/gantengx/protest_against_israel_july_2006.