#Johor Photographer

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Fishing In The Rain

A floating fish farm preparing to meet the coming rain in the Johor Strait. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

Moments after this was taken, we had to hurry off for cover as the rain descended on the coast.

[yokecyansim]

Malaysia | 2023

Johor Bahru

[scrapbuuk]

Muzium Sultan Johor, Johor - Feb 2009.

[josefang]

大头啦啦煲 Dai Tao Lala Pot, Taman Mount Austin, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

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Syed Abdullah and Family, Graduation Family Portrait Photos

Thanks for choosing us for your photography need, looking forward to see you again. Thank you. Daniel Ooi Fine Art Gallerythe most unique photo studio in town since 2011 http://www.danielooigallery.cominfo@danielooigallery.com

[herpsandbirds]

Scarlet-breasted Flowerpecker (Prionochilus thoracicus), family Dicaeidae, order Passeriformes, Johor, Malaysia

photograph by Teo SoonHaur (@soon_haur)

[stirringwinds]

tagged by @oumaheroes to post a WIP! so here’s one I have centred on the collapse of Australian and British/other Commonwealth forces to the Japanese during the Fall of Singapore in February 1942:

“You know—” Jack takes a shaky, shuddering breath, and it looks to Zee as though he’s going to fall apart. But then, it comes out, a vivid torrent, “the very last time we spoke, it was February 1st— at the Municipal Building. Right after Pop’s engineers blew up the causeway to Malaya to try and stall those fuckers. Whole place in total bedlam, people running up and down, the air raid sirens blaring on and off, and he was with the Governor, General Percival and a bunch of the other brass. All of them in this room with a gigantic map of the island, the telephone ringing off the hook, everybody cussin’ me out in relief, askin’ where the bloody hell I’d been, sayin’ they thought I got captured up in Johor.” 

Jack’s stare is faraway. “And for some godforsaken reason—I say don’t worry, everything’s gonna be just fine. I say all that steamin’ horseshit, all those lies, right after we got chased down from the top of Malaya back to Singapore in four weeks. That me and my blokes are here—that it won’t be like what happened to Leon. That the wily old fart may be stuck in London, but he has a plan. And he just looks at me in silence; he’s worried, tense. Says that he hopes so, ‘cuz those vindictive bastards know many of his people have been sending money to the resistance in China since the ‘30s, and they’re just itching to settle the score.” 

Jack runs a hand through his hair roughly. He continues. “I could’ve shut my goddamn mouth then—but I don’t. I say hell naw, it won’t, mate. That when this nonsense is over, I’ll buy a round for everyone at the Raffles Hotel bar; he kinda chuckles faintly, says he’ll hold me to it, and that next time, he’ll show me that good satay place. We shake hands on it—and then I’m off.” Her brother’s jaw is taut. “Off to send my men to be cut to pieces again for King and Empire, with not a bloody thing to show for it except—” His voice breaks off, but he doesn’t have to say more. 

Zee’s tongue feels leaden, useless. Her stomach twists. 

They’re ugly words, unconditional surrender. 

It’s still in her mind’s eye, the two-week-old newspaper the clerk at the airfield had dug up, placed in her hands earlier. It’d been ironic that they, who’d been so close to it all, hadn’t seen its full aftermath immortalised in black-and-white, the way millions across the world had—until now.  Underneath the blaring headlines—Father’s men, all of them blurry and out of focus, their backs to the camera, seated across a wooden table from a stern-faced Japanese general, still in his battle dress. The latter, in turn flanked by his staff officers, all of their expressions ranging from calm nonchalance to barely-concealed impatience, the white sheets of paper that constituted the instrument of surrender between them and Father’s men. 

A single, bloodless photograph, that nonetheless embodied how the elder nation that was Father’s once-ally had— with clinical and deliberate precision—rubbed Father’s face and the empty boast of British power into the shattered rubble of Singapore and Malaya before the eyes of the whole world.

anyone else who wants to share writing WIPs, take this as an invitation to do so! ✒️

[lonestarbattleship]

"A cluster of bombs from a Boeing B-29 Superfortress falls toward [the damaged Japanese Cruiser Myōkō (妙高, Mount Myōkō)], in Johore Strait, off the Naval Base at Singapore, Malay Peninsula."

Photographed on February 1, 1945.

Note: the ship's missing stern. This was damaged while en route to Japan for repairs from the torpedo damage she sustained during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She made a stop at Cam Ranh Bay and torpedo was USS Bergall (SS-320) on December 13, 1944, which blew off part of her stern. She became a floating AA platform in Singapore due to lack of materials to repair her enough to continue to Japan.

NARA: 204835381

[rubyfire777]

Sanrio Hello Kitty Town at Malaysia Johor Bahru photographed in 2013 by Monice Cheung. More photos from various archived versions on the Wayback Machine:

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.4 (after 1930)

1939 – World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940. 1942 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends. 1943 – World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile. 1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States. 1945 – By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.) 1948 – Chinese Civil War: The SS Kiangya, carrying Nationalist refugees from Shanghai, explodes in the Huangpu River. 1949 – Sir Duncan George Stewart, governor of the Crown Colony of Sarawak, was fatally stabbed by a member of the Rukun 13. 1950 – Korean War: Jesse L. Brown (the 1st African-American Naval aviator) is killed in action during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. 1950 – Korean War: Associated Press photographer Max Desfor photographs hundreds of Korean refugees crossing a downed bridge in the Taedong River: 1951 Pulitzer Prize winner Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea. 1956 – The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time. 1964 – Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property. 1965 – Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A. 1971 – The PNS Ghazi, a Pakistan Navy submarine, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971. 1971 – During a concert by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at the Montreux Casino, an audience member fires a flare gun into the ceiling, causing a fire that destroys the venue. 1974 – Martinair Flight 138 crashes into the Saptha Kanya mountain range in Maskeliya, Sri Lanka, killing 191. 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire. 1977 – Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100. 1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor. 1979 – The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee. 1981 – South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa). 1982 – The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution. 1983 – US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. One American pilot is killed, one is rescued, and one is captured. 1984 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar. 1986 – The MV Amazon Venture oil tanker begins leaking oil while at the port of Savannah in the United States, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 L). 1991 – Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut; he is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon. 1991 – Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years. 1998 – The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. 2005 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage. 2021 – Semeru on the Indonesian island of Java erupts, killing at least 68 people.

[whattheabcxyz]

2023-06-23

Singapore

270 cases of dengue reported in just 1 week; Toa Payoh cluster grows to 139 cases

Singaporean man taught at Indonesian university for 12 years with fake citizenship documents - he was finally caught when the Indonesian immigration office noticed some irregularities when the man made arrangements to go abroad

Youth charged with having sex with 15-year-old girl & instigating her to bury body of baby

Huge spike in phishing cases here last year - more than 80% spoofed a bank or financial service

Internet

Group-IB discovers 100K+ compromised ChatGPT accounts on dark web marketplaces - Asia-Pacific region tops the list

Entertainment

Singapore: Chan Chun Sing issues reply to Taylor Swift fans who requested a school holiday on dates she’s due to perform here - essentially: ask stupid questions, get stupid answers... Gen Z is more braindead than I thought

Economy

Malaysians cut back on imported goods as ringgit weakens - thing is, will the ringgit ever stop weakening?!

Environment

Gas stoves emit more carcinogenic benzene than expected - & yet our stupid government here still promotes them

Transport

EV fire cases rise with growing adoption of such cars

Pets

Isopods are the latest pet craze in Singapore

Finance

Singaporean man says his card was fraudulently charged $7K while he was in Bali - what makes this case unusual is that, while the man claims his card must have been cloned for this to have happened, the bank says this is impossible as the card is an EMV chip card which is difficult to tamper with, & the supposed fraudulent transaction must have been made in-person with the original card present

Travel

Johor chief minister pledges to resolve issues at 2 border crossings with Singapore by September - *yawn* anyone believe him?!

Maritime

^ 5 Titan sub passengers presumed dead - US Coast Guard confirmed that an ROV discovered debris 1,600 ft from the bough of the tailbone of the sub’s wreckage on the sea floor; this debris was consistent with the catastrophic loss of pressure in the sub’s chamber... & more on why the pressure would’ve killed them instantly here

Nature

Monitor lizard photographed feasting on cat’s carcass @ Tampines Eco Green - they are mostly scavengers & have no qualms about feasting on the already-dead, & as such play an important role in helping break down stuff in our ecosystem!

Singapore: 1st supermoon of the year will be on 3 Jul

[the-asia-press]

Johor Bahru's 10 Best Spots for Photography

Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johor%E2%80%93Singapore_Causeway Whether you’re a passionate photographer or simply love capturing beautiful moments, Johor Bahru has an abundance of breathtaking locations to explore. From lively streets bursting with life to awe-inspiring architectural wonders, this city is a haven for shutterbugs. Join us as we delve into the top ten spots for photography…

[yokecyansim]

Malaysia | 2023

Johor Bahru

Thrift shop

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Johor - Feb 16, 2009

[kayedomingo]

Legoland

Johor Bahru, Malaysia

[danielooifineartgallery]

Thum Family, Casual Family Portrait

Thanks for choosing us for your photography need, looking forward to see you again. Thank you. Daniel Ooi Fine Art Gallerythe most unique photography studio in town since 2011http://www.danielooigallery.cominfo@danielooigallery.com