Guys! great news!!!!

My baby has officially been born, as of today!!

Presenting to you, the new website of ClicKapture Studio....


you guys should see it and don't forget to leave me a comment or two, okay? ;)

visit : ClicKapture Studio

Hi guys and welcome back to a new and exciting post from tombakgoyangblog and here are some updates on the latest project by me and my father.

1st prototype of swivel arm

The 50% completed stabilizer.

Hello guys and welcome back to a new exciting post from tombakgoyangblog.

Have you ever heard the word Glidecam?
If you are in the film or television production industry, maybe you've heard it.
It is a simple thingamajig that balance a camera on the operator's hand, eliminating the shaking movement of the hand, thus giving the video, a sense of 'flying' through the air.

Here's the picture:
It's pretty neat gear i tell you, and being a film enthusiast, i am longing to have one...
it'll improve my composition.

but...sadly, it comes with a high price tag...

USD 499

approximately RM 1900+-

yeah... i had that 'errkkk!!!' moment too when i saw the price..

Then, i tried googled for a homemade Glidecam, and the result was astonishing!
there are more than hundred different designs of homemade glidecam and stabilizer!
and the fun part is that,
all of them are HOMEMADE!!

i said to myself, why paying RM 1900
when i can have something similar like it for a much lesser price?

so, with that notion up in my head, showed the design to my father, and now we are halfway in completing our very own homemade stabilizer that will hold my Canon XL1s.

My stabilizer will be based on the picture below:

right now, we have finished making the swivel arm, and will proceed to making the metal plated support vest and the slider. I will post some pics of our homemade stabilizer soon.

Hope to be able to use this thingamajig at my best friend's wedding this 2nd of May.

The 'Frog Firecracker' Incident.
(Tribute to Janie aka Aniely)


Much of my interesting experiences back when i was a child fell on the two auspicious months in the Islamic calendar, the Ramadhan (fasting month) and the Syawal (Eidul Fitr). This was probably because every year during these two months, my house will be like the 'kampung' for the nearest relatives from my mother's part. They will come to my house 3 to 4 days early before the Eidul Fitr Eve, and help us with the preparations.

I still remember, the women will gather around our kitchen, preparing all the 'kuih-muih's like 'tat nenas', 'cokelat cip', 'kueh gunting', etc. and they will be talking and laughing and talking and laughing some more... If you guys were there, you could surely feel the merriness that we had when we were children. The men will be around the house, either 'mesen rumput' or 'cuci dinding' and 'longkang'...

I personally like to see and to 'help' my brother making 'pelita' out of several bamboos. Until now we still have his homemade 'pelita' in our store. This past several years, i reuse the 'pelita' that he made..

At night, usually after praying 'tarawikh' at the nearest mosque, we would gather in front of the telly and watch movies together.

And then there was this night...

Playing with firecrackers was a compulsory activity back then. Me and several of my cousins would 'invest' our money to buy the perfect firecrackers... the ones that were very enticing and probably beautiful when lit.

That Raya, i had a little extra money that i managed to gather for our investment, and with the addition from my other cousins, we walked to the nearest shop which sells firecrackers at that time. (nowadays no more.. because of the prohibition)..

We handpicked several of the firecrackers including the metal-stick'bunga api'-with-cat's eye wrapper-thingy, the throw-onto-the-floor-or-onto-people-pop-thingy, the white-red-stipes-bunga api thingy, the 'mercun cili padi' thingy, the 'mercun gasing', the 'mercun roket' and last but not the least, the 'mercun lipat-lipat' thingy that eventually be called 'mercun katak' (you will be enlighten on the reason of the naming).

So when we were back at my house, we were very much pleased with the 'hasil tangkapan' for that day. We knew, that night would be a fiesta for us.

Everybody grinned...



and so the night came... it was actually the Eidul Fitr Eve...
after the 'takbir raya' session, we the kids ran quickly outside to the gate, where my brother tied his homemade 'pelita'. We took out our stash... Our eyes were gleaming to see the many colours of 'joy' that were inside the red plastic bag... and so then began the fiesta of firecrackers...


lalalalala~

we were so happy... playing with bright colourful fire...

we played most of the firecrackers that we bought, leaving the crooked 'mercun katak' to the very last... This was because at that time, we have never played a 'mercun katak' before and judging by the physical look of the 'mercun', we decided to save it for the last...

So when most of us have played with the other firecrackers, we began the ceremony of lighting the first 'mercun katak'. Everybody was eager to know, how this little fella lights up. Will it be brighter than any other firecrackers that we have played so far? Will it be beautiful?
Everybody was questioning the credibility of the 'mercun katak' when my cousin tried to lit one.

and when the 'sumbu' was lit, every eye that was on the courtyard that historical night was watching closely as if it was examining the xylem cell of a plant on a microscope.

and then...


BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!

everybody was screaming! that 'mercun katak' blew with a really loud bang!
we could see clearly that the 'mercun katak' leaped several times...

So that's why people call them 'Mercun Katak'... they leap man!


and then there was Janie... my cousin...
she was merrily playing with the 'bunga api' in her hand when the second 'mercun katak' was lit.
Much to her dismay,
the 'mercun katak' leaped several times towards her!
I could swear that the 'mercun katak' was like chasing her!
Seeing the approaching 'mercun katak', she threw away her 'bunga api' and ran!
She ran like it was not tomorrow for her.... with an AAAAAARRRRRGGHHHH!!!! scream from the back of her throat... poor Janie..

As what she recalls:

"what I rememebr y part kene kejar mercun katak tuh sampai kene panjat-panjat diding pendek tuh ..hahah tuh tak tahan .."

*this is a true story... it happened not to a friend of a friend of mine, but to a cousin of mine....

Kimi n Iman...

Phish!~

Akeeel!~

Gumbiranya diaaa...

Kek Kimi 2 tahun~

Kimi! Tiop cpat! ppuuffhh...~

Kimi..! senyum sket!~

Kimi dan Mamanya....~

Episode 4: The Burning of the bush...


Hye guys, I'm back with my childhood series "My Childhood Xperiences" with another story that was surely happened back then when i was a child. (daa~)

I have to admit, when i was a kid, i didn't have much friends among boys. Maybe because they usually bully me. Being a small kid those days were not really a good thing... But its not a bad thing either. So much so, my preference of a friend was those who did not make me an object of abuse amusement.

So i choose to be friends a lil bit more with the girls... (Hey, they didn't bully me!)
And being with the girls, you know how and what they usually play...

Masak-masak...
Kawen-kawen....
Main anak patung...
Masak-masak again....


You think it is stupid right?
But if you were a child, and participated in the masak-masak session...
you will be amazed on how a bucket of pasir can turned into mee goreng mamak....
a bunch of dried leaves can be turned into laksa penang
etc.

So, it is a norm (back then la..) to play masak-masak with my female cousins.
Everytime they came to my house, we would all gone to the back of my house, sneaking into kitchen to take the matches, gathered some dried leaves and 'cook' anything out of our imagination...

And then there was this day... I think it was probably near the Hari Raya Aidilfitri (dunno which year was it).
My cousins and i managed to sneak out from my house and off to the abandoned lot in front of my house. There, we positioned our 'stuff' including a broken vase to be the cooking pot, dried leaves as the 'kayu api', some 'pasir' to be the 'nasi', and some green leaves to be the 'ingredients'...

My cousin took out from his pocket a plastic toy and said
"kita bakar ni nak tak?"

and so we did..

Happily 'cooking' our meal, we did not realize that the plastic toy we burnt did not easily be extinguished. And it was highly flammable. To add in the contributing factor, the wind started to increase in speed... FYI, that fasting month was the driest month of the year, so the 'lalang' around us was a lil bit dried up because of the high temperature.

When a sudden wind came gushing into out 'kitchen', the flame went bezzerk!
We were shocked by the sudden changes of the flame, and i, being a smart ass, kicked the flame, in order to extinguish the fire...
But, much to my surprise,
my powerful kick made the burning plastic toy shot into the air and diving straight into the dried 'lalang' nearby.

"Buuffff!"
The fire stated to engulf the bush....

Panicked, we all ran into our house and once inside, we peeked outside to see the damages that we have done from the windows of my house. The combination of dried bushes and speedy wind made the flame a fiesta of the year. The fire 'ate' almost all of the bushes in front of our house, including those around the 'penghulu's" house. Luckily, at that time, the 'penghulu' was not at home.

"eh, macam mana boleh terbakar tu?" my father asked us, while watching the fire from the window that we peeked.

As if there was an orchestra conductor in front of us, we replied...

"ntah?"

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