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For those of you who are interested to buy prints, notes, note book, blank papers, business cards and other things, you can help me by opening my Printing Company's page and then ordering your needs there.  Our staff will be in touch with you soon!

For those of you who wanted to buy laser cutting, laser engraving machine, CNC router, textile machinery (Rapier Loom) and their spare parts (Rapier Head, Rapier Belt), you can help me by ordering them from our company PT. Golden Sun Indonesia.  Then I will contact you in person!

Please visit The Shop for my future online shop.  Today it was called The Shop, while I'm waiting for name suggestion from readers.  Currently the engine for The Shop is being written and hopefully finished soon.

What is new & update:

17^th July 2010,

I've added a new section in Photographing Dance Performance.   Also some new dancer picture, well, it is now the picture of a Bali Dance, taken in Bali pavilion in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah.

23^rd June 2010,

The BIG GUYS are here.  Pictures form Spider Gym body building and body contest :D Enjoy!  Videos are coming soon!

12^th June 2010,

Windows Live Photo Gallery now became my main tool for managing the images I've taken.  The Photo Gallery comes free with Windows Live suite, and I almost dumped Corel Photopaint unless I needed heavy editing.

The only weakness of WLPG is its speed: slow!  The JPEG rendering engine is not quite as fast as other paid software like ACDSee or others.  However, despite the weakness, the WLPG manages to improve my workflow speed by almost 50%.  And the best part, it is free!

These are my comparison of my new workflow versus my old work flow

As you can see, the WLPG saves me 2 steps from the 7 steps workflow, also the process of doing step 1, 2, 3 is faster too.  Therefore I can save as much as 50% of my time sorting and editing my images. 

Oh no-no, this site is not sponsored by Microsoft, and I solely write my own experience with the product.  What I wrote above is just an example of how the WLPG works.  The WLPG still have a lot of functionality which is really fun and I have not tried yet.

Sad news, my EF-S 18-55 mm is dying.  I've bought it back to Canon, and they said the optical body is damaged and should be replaced.  It costs around Rp 800.000,00 (USD 88) to fix the lens (the lens itself is worth around Rp 1.500.000,00 (USD 160)).  If I trade the old lens with newer EF-S 18-55 IS, I need to top around Rp 1.200.000,00 (USD 130).  This is a tough decision for me, to fix, trade in or leave it die.  As I don't really use the 18-55, so I don't want to waste money.  However I wanted to cover every millimetre from 10mm-250mm, which is unnecessary.  As one wide and one telephoto lens is enough for me.

In addition I've also tried the new Canon EOS 550D, and I wanted to sell my EOS 400D in an instant after I tried the 550D.  The only reason is the autofocus of 550D is much superior compared to the AF in 400D.  Why?  Simple, it tracks much more quickly and accurately.  And that's the only reason I wanted to get the EOS 550D.  But definitely not today!

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