Videography

You've seen the photos of the Tua Pek Kong Parade, here is the video.

Please pardon the bad videography, image quality and the 5-minute editing, but hey - at least I got video from what was supposed to be a digital still camera. (My Olympus SP 550uz - now you know why I didn't go for an SLR, especially shooting for low resolution web). Utility is more important to me.

Caught on video. Mat rempit causing a ruckus at the town center, almost knocking traffic and blocking half the roads.

'Mat Rempits' is a Malaysian term for 'an individual who participates in illegal street racing', usually involving underbone motorcycles (colloquially known as Kapcai "Cub子") or scooters. [Source: Wikipedia]

Commonly thought to be only a problem in West Malaysia, these hooligans are becoming more and more of a problem here in East Malaysia as well.

Make sure to watch till the end for the hilarious finale.

Video highlights of the 2008 Gong Xi Bazaar so you will know what to expect! If you haven't been there, I'd suggest for you to go check it out. There will a Dragon Dance performance and some other performances every single night until Chinese New Year's Eve.

Here's a video (refer to the other post)

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I made this video from a collection of all my photos and videos that I took at the popular recreation beach, Taman Selera beach at Tanjung Lobang, Miri.

All this while you're just looking at the beach through pictures on the site, I thought I might make it more lively to view through.

A popular hobby people do is flying kites there.

My first major attempt at video editing. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.

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I took a video while driving over Miri's first flyover - opened just a few days ago.

My camera is attached to a tripod mounted on my car - so rest assured I wasn't holding onto thre camera while driving.

>My observations:

1. There's absolutely no margin for error. You skid, you fly. A car breaks down, half of the flyover is blocked. A bad accident occurs the bridge is pretty much out. There's no emergency lanes and sufficient space to swerve. That's pretty much it. You can see all this in the video.

2. Headed toward Pujut, there was a rather unsettling bump coming down on the turn. Coincidentially (or maybe not) it was at a high speed turn coming off. You can also notice this in the video I uploaded.

3. Traffic joining after coming down from the flyover is excruciatingly slow due to the nature of that corner. When going down, it is advisable to keep right unless you also go slow, otherwise you might rear-end some car that decides to swerve into your lane from there.

4. People drive fast on it! Notice the car ahead of me accelerating ahead. It may not look like it, but I was going near the limit - 90kph. The car ahead me must've gone much faster - 120kph at least.

This is the video I took this (since it's past midnight, yesterday) evening. Notice that right from the start you can already see a car swerve onto the flyover at the last minute probably the driver wasn't aware of it. To use the flyover, keep to the right 2 lanes as you head straight down to Pujut. The two left lanes are to go to do your shopping at Boulevard.

Otherwise, it's a pretty good feeling because there will no longer be any jams along that area. Until you reach the other roundabout, that is.