On the Road Again

I had to travel to Penang as today would be the last kenduri at my late Grandmother - Dadi's - house in Penang. The lot would be sold later this year and would be developed. This would be a goodbye kenduri for us lot and I just had to be there.

I decided against taking a flight. Traveling by road allowed me to take my parents along. And when I arrived at Bukit Antarabangsa to pick them up this morning, my sister was there and I offered her to come along. It looks like it would be a full house. Luckily I brought the van, and a driver! No need for driving again.

But, I had to stop at Subang first for my Sunday Morning round. That should give some time for my Dad to catch some breakfast.

Saturday

Heavy rain this morning and the journey to work was made interesting with me having to see a patient at Park City as well. I decided to head to Park City first before going over to Subang to start clinic there.

Luckily being Saturday, traffic was very light, but slow due to the wet road. It also meant that the turn out at the clinic was lower than expected. Managed to finish work before 1 pm.

I initially planned to attend a wedding during lunch but it started to rain again. I didn't manage to get out of Subang before the traffic built up. Decided to turn back and had some lunch in Bangsar before heading home.

Wet Start

I was woken up by the sound of loud thunder at 5 this morning. And that was just before the rain poured down. And it was heavy. I couldn't get back to sleep.

I decided to get up early and set off to work as I was worried that there might be flash flooding and the subsequent traffic jam.

A quick breakfast since it was still awfully earlyAnd then, a bit of newsLuckily by the time I got into the car, the rain had stopped. It was nice and sunny when I finished my ward rounds and headed for breakfast. Looked like it would be above day today ....

Litely Impressive

I read on the net about a new photography app on the iOS called Litely. Similar to VSCO to be honest, a filter to enhance your photo, to make them less digital, embracing that hipster feel, but not to the extend of lomographic fidelity which oftentimes may appear fake.

The filter were more subtle. In fact, it was kore like using different film emulation from the pre-digital days. The enhancement were impressive and the fact that there weren't that many dials to mess around with, using it was more straight forward.

This was snapped in very low light .... managed to keep the noise down pretty wellThere were a few problems though as the GPS location was not embedded into the JPEG files, necessitating some post-uploading changes on Flickr if you're into those kind of stuff - which I do.

I use the app to snap, do the enhancement and exported the JPEG files staring into camera+ app for cropping and addition of border. I then used Flickit Pro to upload to Flickr. Tedious but it appeared to be sound.

Quite literally in complete darknessCertainly the results appeared better compared to doing filtration on the computer as part of post-production when it came to effect. I ended up paying for the in-app enhancements for extra filters. The main app - downloaded for free only contain less than 10 filters. You could then purchase three batches of a dozen filter at around 2 USD to complete the collection. Trust me, they were worth it!

Would definitely be using the app in the coming weeks. GPS embedding would be a welcomed change. You can read more review on the app here.

A Tad Early

I tried hard each morning to beat the traffic but for some reason, I noticed that the traffic wasn't that heavy since the beginning of the week. As a result, I arrived at work well before 8.

It turned out that I have only a couple of inpatients cases this morning, and by the time I was done, it had just turned 8. Time for breakfast. A long one ...