About me? First and foremost, I simply adore my little girl. Other then that, I’m a trained mechanical engineer, I’ve climbed up flare stacks, scaffolding 7 stories high, stayed awake till wee mornings because my engineering solutions crashed and had to rewrite the programs, got sick in heli flights because i absolutely hate diesel fumes, jumped 3 stories high into a training pool in coveralls and got dunked several times in chopper training simulations and made millions of powerpoint viewgraphs for bosses and not to mention wrote gazillions of end of year appraisals …great life!
But I decided to take a break from all that.
Other fond memories are pouring bottles of Axe brand oil (minyak kapak) on leaches on my leg and tummy, wearing panty hose under my hiking pants, pitching tents and counting the number of moths that’s making shadows on my tent as I lay awake in the depths of the Borneon rainforests, watching monkeys stripped off their skin and cooked, and on the other extreme, tasting nasi lemak after its been sitting in my tummy for 60 minutes because I forgot to pop in sea sick pills, patting a giant grouper like a puppy, dropping my BCD, regs and tank which cost me a wodge of money to repair, getting narc’ in 42 meters, seeing my bubbles go down instead of up & I wasn’t ascending (go figure!), seeing a WWII wreck suddenly appear out of the blue, diving with a whaleshark on my sweet 16th dive, getting proposed underwater and nursing rope burn on my hand from my first sail on board Endurance (then it was Patience, sailing yacht)…and oh tagging and collecting leatherback turtle eggs and moving it to a safer place and picking bug poo on the forest floor in Costa Rica which ironically enough, I thoroughly enjoyed!
Today, I still do some of those things but most of the time my adventures (or hilarious misadventures) are on or in the sea. And would love the chance of seeing another leatherback turtle alive again and diving with whalesharks but not excited about bug poo anymore… however most of the time, I just love taking and experimenting on photos.
And to complement the fact that I just love taking photos, I’m also starting up and working on rawBorneo which will allow me to sharpen my photography skills and use my pent up creative energies, check it out here. http://www.rawborneo.com/
A little bit more about my photography. Obviously being trained an engineer and follow up courses in the technical and business arena most of my life, has left me with little time to do any formal training in photography but it has also given me the discipline to approach photography in a technical way before converging into the artistic aspect. I’ve studied the camera and the light mechanics like an engineer, tearing it apart and scrutinizing my photos with a magnifying glass. I still have an album full of photos marked with a marker pen all over.
I started with a film slr in the late nineties as Nikon F80 was my first ever SLR so I don’t really have a flowery history am afraid. But film and slides were a bother to develop especially here in Miri where people just don’t seem to value the quality of colors and they are never consistent either. One time I’ll get a perfect print the next time it has a blue cast on it! So digital I went along with my own printers where I could only blame me.
I started with landscape and nature photography, my favorite photographer was Galen Rowell. I studied and treated his books like a bible! LOL… then he died 
I also love the the work of Steve McCurry as well as he shoots portraits that depict real life, that unguarded moment. I wanted to be ..like him! LOL
Today, I still aspire to be one of ‘them’ folks. 
My husband says I have an irritating talent with art, whether it be photos, painting or composition. LOL! We’ll see.
Verms
may I sum that up with “your baby finally awaken the baby in you” ?