balloons!

Dear Sumire,

I heard about the 2nd Putrajaya International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta 2010 from Lan and we decided to go together. After all my assignments and exam, I was really extremely tired , but then I thought, this might be fun. I haven’t been shooting for quite some times now, so this may be my chance. Thus it’s proven my skill karat-ed d.

Instead of going with Lan, I went with Sze Mun, Arep and his girlfriend. Lan and his twin brother took off earlier with their aunt. In the end, we didn’t even get to get a glance of them at the event.

Arep dan bininya.

Before I reached that place, I thought I’d see many floating balloons on the sky or something like that. I know now that I’m too naive because when I reach that place at 3pm, the sky was empty. All I saw was a glider floating around.

Do you notice there's no landing gear on dis glider?

Yep. There’s no landing gear for this glider! The ‘pilot’ will need to catch this thing bare handed! He did it in three attempts. It must have taken loads of training to achieve a skill like that.

The first two attempt to catch it failed. 3rd attempt, and GOTCHA!

Then they introduced us something I’d never seen before in this life. It’s basically an RC Chopper unit, but it’s much more sophisticated than just that. It’s called 3D Extreme Helicopter. OMG. It should be called Extreme Bouncing Helicopter instead. It flies and bounce around, like there’re a million invisible wall around it. Really cool. You'll see that the chopper is sometimes upside down, flying sideways, diving down, and a lot more stunt that I can't explain with words!

This is how the 3D Helicopter look like.

That's the pilot and his chopper! I made this panorama by stitching three pictures together.

And THIS is how it MOVES. You just can't predict it's movement!

Then they present us with the Paramotor. I thought it was funny when my gf linked Paramotor with Paralimpik. Especially when one of the pilots came out like this:

Lol. No offense to the pilot, but it really look like a wheelchair to me.

By the moment they try to fly this Paramotor, I was feeling dehydrated already. All I can think of at the moment was "Water... water... coke... coke...". I was afraid that if I go off to buy a drink, I would miss the opportunity to see how they fly this wheelchair Paramotor. They took quite sometime before they get to fly it due to the constant change of wind direction.

The frustrated pilot and his land crew.

Hehe... I bought our drinks at last!

Took-off at last!

Notice the difference between this paramotor and the previous one?

If you haven't, this paramotor had no wheels. The pilot of this unit had to run during take-offs and landings. We're also told by the MC that this paramotor engine is self made by the pilot. They didn't last long in the sky. The weather turn bad, and they had to land!

This kid couldn't take her eyes away from the floating objects!

After the Paramotors, the ain't much to see, so we wander off to the booths. They're so some games that you can participate if you're willing to pay a sum of money.

For example, you can drift like this kiddo if you pay 15 bucks if I remember correctly.

Then come the interesting part! The balloons! I'd never seen any balloon up-close so I was really excited. =D They're colorful, and they're many other design other then the conventional ones! There's one with Darth Vader's head as the design, but i never got to shoot it.

Now guess what design this hot air balloon had?


It's a lion! My biebie took this video!

There's even orange!

Another video from my biebie's phone!

And even Levi's pants hot air balloon. =D

This gurl is continuously saying "bye-bye" to the speckie balloon.

There're lots of them, and i can't squeeze them all into one photo!

So that's all from me. Actually I haven't fully recover from all the fatigue and still feel sleepy from time to time. That's why this post came slow. =)

Going back to my sleeping chamber,

jin