Monday, February 21, 2011

Lembeh Strait

Lembeh strait is the muck diving capital in the world, name it "the World no.1".
Located in North Celebes, is easy to access, and offer a really good macro diving. THe best and strange fish and animals in the water.




That just the few..Lembeh still offer thousand of them..Lets get wet and make bubbles..

" Wisata Bahari " Manado : Cullinary chapter

Manado is a beautiful beach city, with an amazing Bunaken, Lembeh strait and Minahasa Highlands. This city offer a perfect place to have a wonderful vacation, for a ocean lover specially.

The Food is also gorgeos, lets talk about there awesome food :

1. Sea Food : Wisata Bahari, City Extra, Bandar, Ria Rio, D'Terrace offer a tastefull and very rich herbs from manado in sea food.


2. Minahasan Food : Heng Mien, Tinoor Jaya, at Tugu Sate Kawangkoan offer daily Minahasan Food, but not " Halal ", this is the place where you can find bat, pork, dog, snails and much more. be carefull its extremely "hot", try local spirit "saguer".

3. Daily Food, last but not least : Sate kambing Paal2, Sate Ayam Sario, Rusuk Ba Ko Petrus, Lontong Cap Gomeh Kitawaya, Soto Betawi Banjer, Batagor Tomohon, Ragey at Bethesda, Mie Medan 99, Kios Baru at Samrat, Pempek Ampera, and many more.

So Manado is a great place for cullinary and also great gateaway from your daily life. Visit Manado.

Friday, October 8, 2010

School of life part 15 : Diving

Living when bunaken around is really awesome..it's legendary..First before you could enjoy underwater you should prepared with licence (discovery is not awesome..), many institution offer diving licence, such as POSSI CMAS, PADI, SSI, ADSI, and many more..the price range offered is different. You can learn in Navy too..its free if you join the squad.
Basicly Diving licence is divided into classes :

1. Open water diver
2. Advanced diver
3. Rescue diver
4. Dive master

Just like in school, but this time you are fish schooling.

In manado you can contact local dive center, they will explain you more about the course. If you wan't the cheaper one, you should try Possi cmas, ask for the coach in Jaya Dive, located at Jl Sam Ratulangi, before Gramedia. In bunaken each dive resort offer the course from 300 Euro to 400 euro for Open Water diver. For SSI they offer 200 -300 Euro. Why in Euro?yeah it's sucks when local people have to face foreign money in their own country.

Maybe just like any outdoor activity, here's my word :

Never dive alone, touch nothing, leave nothing, and kill nothing.

Coz the corals are living organism. Love it, its legendary..

Sunday, September 19, 2010

School of life part14 : You Learn

You grieve you learn
You choke you learn
You laugh you learn
You choose you learn
You pray you learn
You ask you learn
You live you learn

You learn every single second, from walking, talking, cheating, lying, laughing, and everything.
Don't assume you enough to learn. Every day is a new day and you learn more.




School of life part 13 : Photograph part 1 Composing your Photo

Photograph are not defined from your gear, every photo is photograph. Even with your camera, Blackberry, Compact digital camera or Digital SLR. This is an art, and your imagination is a concept. There is satisfaction when you can capture golden moment, wonderful scenery, beautiful face, if you have such feeling and this is your hobby :D. I'm start with composing your photo.
Focus
Most photograph needs a focus, subject(s) you like to photo.
Most interest part your eye sees is the blossom tulip in the pond.
Rule of Thirds
Foreground, object and background are 3 things human eyes sees naturally. Divided a picture into three parts (imaginary lines) both vertically and horizontally. This makes your picture more alive. Usually dominant object (you decide what dominant) takes two thirds of the pics.

One thirds bottom is the grass represent foreground, the chapel in the middle and the sky+mountains take three thirds left. Diagonal lines also add interest to the photo.
Depth of Field
DoF shows how much focus (blur) in your pictures, why do you want some blur?
Usually portrait (human or object) use less depth of fields. And Landscape photo use more Depth of Fields.
The duck are less DoF (sharp on object) and the River Depth of Fields are more depth (sharp on foreground and background).
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