Elephant ride - Yes or No?

The fact that riding them is already a torture, in what sense of human thinking are you in that you will consider riding them is an ultimate sense of achievement and stand as a prove that you've been to South East Asia, to Thailand? 

Scientifically and foremost, elephants' back are not meant to support human weight given the giant size, unbelievable but it's true. Next up, inhumane trainings are forced, not given to the baby elephants, isolated from the mother which in their nature, supposedly to live in a herd. Once separated from mother, baby elephants are cramped to restraint the movement, starves for days till months and enormous amount of pain infliction to become an entertainment in human's world, as a painter, and the list goes on.

How riding an elephant can make you feel closer to one when you are indirectly killing them? Read about the elephant that died because of carrying tourists for jungle trekking? Lack of water, high-rise temperature but because to fulfil our greed and satisfy our need, they sacrifices and mourn in a forceful manner that remain silent in our world. 

Elephant's sanctuary provide a better-off option is it not right? Naturally gentle being is treated with love, volunteers can take care of them, live with them, sprinkle water all over (elephant's favourite) and feed them. Aren't all recommended above sounded more significant and meaningful in preserving it? Let them be who they are, understanding never meant for slaughtering their rights. 

Tourists shouldn't be blame completely as they themselves are unaware of this escalating issue. It is indeed our demand that causes more harm to these gentle and lovely being. As my points of view do not represent the whole humanity, it's up for one with conscience to ponder. Also I respect everyone as we practices different moral and ethical values. 

Regards,
Edwin

Photos on iPhone taking up a lot of storage? Here's probably one reason why!

So iPhone has the undoubtedly best mobile camera in the market and people even make a career out of it just by using the iPhone!

Now you may wonder why are the photos taking up lots of storage.Averagely each photo is 2-3mb and double if it's on iPhone 6s with Live Mode enabled. For every photo you've taken and decided to send them to trash, remember to check on the Deleted Photos album right after you've done so and make sure you delete it again from there, doing this, the picture is totally gone and will free up some space.

Well, if you like to keep all the photos as memory and not wanting to delete them use cloud drives! Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, all these are pretty great in storing you photos, and you can easily access them through your phone with apps dedicated or PC/Mac that has access to the web!

Do send me any enquiries and I will do my best to get them resolve!

Have a good day and Happy Chinese New Year.

Make Your own ringtone for iPhone

So, many iPhones' users have no absolute clue how easy it would be to actually have their own custom made ringtones instead of those that comes with it. So today I'm gonna guide you through step by step and make your phone live the moment longer!

The core is you need to have latest iTunes installed and running on your computer regardless of what OS whether is Windows 7, 8 and 10 or Mac OS Mavericks, OS X Yosemite and OS X El Capitan. Make sure the software is up to date. To install, kindly visit the link provided to Download the official software released by Apple.

1. Now to kick it off, launch your iTunes and make sure you have had medias on your iTunes. You should be interacting with interface like this:

I'm using OS X but it shouldn't have much difference on Windows.

2. Select any song of your choice and right click it, where in my case, I've chosen Blank Space to demonstrate the procedure, move your selection to "Get Info"

3. Click it and this should appear, go to the Options Tab, where you get to set the starting time and end time of the songs you have chosen. In example, a song is 3 minutes, you set the start time as 2:20 and end time as 2:50, and save it. Then when you re-play the song it will only play the part selected. Note: To make it as ringtone, part selected shouldn't exceed 30 seconds.  

Mark on the Start and Stop start and key in the timeframe you preferred.

Remember not to exceed 30 seconds. 

My selected length is 20 seconds so it will work just fine. 

4. And try playing the music you chosen to make sure it only plays the part you framed earlier. Then now, right click again to move your cursor to "Create AAC Version". Give it a few seconds for it to process and you should see a same song name but it only has the length you selected. 

5. Once the AAC file is created, drag the newly created shorter length song  to your desktop and delete the one on your iTunes. Once you have delete the AAC version, go back to the original song of your choice, right click, Get info, go to the Options Tab and uncheck the Start and End box so that your song can play properly for your future needs or else it will just stays at the frame you selected. 

6. So we are done with iTunes. Moving the attention on the file we dragged to our desktop. What you gotta do is just rename it from m4a to m4r. A warning will pop out but you just need to ignore it and choose use .m4r

7. Once it has been converted to .m4r, now what you need to do is just drag it into iTunes and place it into the Tones's section symbolised by a bell, connect your iPhone and sync it! Enjoy the ever favourite song of yours anytime anywhere! Note if you drag it into Music tab on iTunes it wont show up on your iPhone.

As what I'm presenting is for readers running on OS X, Windows will work just as likely, not much difference. If you have any doubts, please leave a comment below or send me an email! 

Enjoy!

Regards. 

Mi’s 10000mAh and 16000mAh’s PowerBank Review

Good day readers, Mi has been hitting the market recently like a storm with its outstanding build quality, specs and really affordable price. When it announced that is has restock the PowerBank all by 5000 units, it sold out within 9 minutes. As in Malaysia, a regular built quality with 10000mAh powerbank will commonly cost around MYR80-120 but with Mi, it’s unbelievably low cost with premium quality. So today I got myself two units of powerbank each with 10000mAh and 16000mAh. These powerbanks are assembled with Lithium-ion rechargeable cell.

 Clearly see that the shorter brother is the 10000mAh version and the taller one is 16000mAh, to imagine the size in your palm, little brother is a size of a business card and big brother is like a TV’s Remote Control. To say it feels really good in your hand with its curvy design and its light weight with 207g for little bro and 350g for elder one doesn't give you that extra weight-carrying exercise even with daily frequent usage. 

So what comes in the box? 

- 10000mAh Gold Colour Powerbank (available in Silver, Limited Gold and Red)

-USB Cable

-User's Manual Guide

-Selling Price on Mi's Website: MYR59 for Silver and MYR65 for Red and Gold

- 16000mAh Silver Colour Powerbank (only in silver)

-USB Cable 

-User's Manual Guide

-Selling Price on Mi's Website: MYR89

The performance has been really good so far after using is for almost a week, per full charge cycle on the 10000mAh's could juice up my fully dead iPhone 5s for 3 times and the 16000mAh's almost twice up the performance of the younger brother.  It is really handy and convenient to carry around to classes, or works. I will personally recommend them for daily use. If these two is still a little overpower for you, Mi also have another edition with 5000mAh. Please visit Mi's Website for more interesting products.

For your own personal review if needed:
Every genuine item from Mi should have this sticker on their package and there's a sticker where you can scratch for security code and key it on their specialised website for verification.

The paddy's scent ride along the wind and blow onto your face, life should be this simple,

peace and easy. Reality is, nothing is easy, even these paddies gone through a tough time, raindrops like bullets hitting on them, only the strong one get to survive. 

How to be a good Photographer

So being a decent photographer is not as  hard as you'd ever imagine after going through these steps.

First, get yourself a camera. It doesn't need to be brand-new and very advanced, you can get a used one with cheaper prices yet you can practice and acquire the fundamental skills and knowledges needed. Sites such as http://www.mudah.com, http://www.lelong.com.my, eBay offers really great deals but remember to be caution as scammers are everywhere! Ask for a meet up and check for the device before making your decision. Be smart!

Secondly, no one pays for photography tutorial classes or attending to College or University for a certificate to prove that you are a good photographer. It doesn't work that way, all you need is giving in efforts and you can be as successful as late Brian Duffy! Free tutorials are all over the internet exclusively YouTube, articles and photos posted by some website such as Digital Camera World are good for educating yourself but videos significantly enhance the after-effects. Good tutorials can be from YouTubers as below:

1. https://www.youtube.com/user/CamCrunch and personal favourite is...
2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB-YBCCPeGa03cH0YV6EcGQ 

Then we proceed with the people you surrounds with. So it's very logical that discussing about photography with a group who has the absolute wonderful hobby as yours and want to develop it as a profession will be more efficacious than surrounding yourself with a group of people who loves barbie dolls. So go on and search for a local community, join the free workshop, volunteer yourself at any events and learn from the pros and don't be shy, asking is better than having the doubt but not voicing it out. Attitude is one of the key to success.

Last but not least, get readable materials such as magazines by Digital Camera World is very efficient too! Also, check out some photographer pages on Facebook will really keeps your eyes wide open too! If you personally has an obsession in human portrait, you gotta check out https://www.facebook.com/stevengohphotography.fans/?fref=ts, man named Steven Goh captures really unique, distinctive and wonderful photos.

To be successful, you take a step at one time, once you did it, remember to give it back to the community, without them, you are nothing but a photographer that owns professional camera to take awesome SELFIE.

Yours Truly,
Edwin Tan Chuan Seng

Birthday Celebration - December 2014

Shots from a birthday party of my buddy's brother! 

I do freelance photography for any minor events like a wedding or birthday or any types of event that 

requires photographer! Reach me at 016 - 605 7983 or email me @ edwintcs@hotmail.com. Can look at my portfolio at the side too for more infos!