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| Last Comment by kayes - Posted Date: May 18, 2012 7:26am | [ Post a Comment ] |
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I reckon a Mac User like you would have heard of NBM. And thanks for reminding me that the NBM office/showroom was near to McDonald's. I have met the sister before at the office and I think the family name is Aboobakar. The last time I saw Nasser was in 2000 when he delivered an iMac to my house in Penang. After that I lost touch with him until a couple of months ago when he sent me an email telling me he is now in Singapore. And you are right to say this family ran the Apple business with a personal touch like Nasser delivering the Macs to me personally even though I told him to send them by courier. He told me he enjoys driving to Penang or Ipoh as he (as well as his wife) likes the food. |
| Photo Details: "The Mac & Ipoh" by kayes - Posted Date: May 16, 2012 - Rating: n/a |
| Last Comment by Orange - Posted Date: May 18, 2012 6:16am | [ Post a Comment ] |
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With clever use of software, we can have black and white pic. at this age and time. Brilliant! This adds to the nostalgia. Thanks Kayes for this lovely pic. Not sure about the crane but we saw two backhoes clearing the river in front of the hotel when we were there few weeks ago. |
| Photo Details: "Redevelopment of Waller Court" by kayes - Posted Date: July 30, 2010 - Rating: n/a |
| Last Comment by Orange - Posted Date: May 18, 2012 6:10am | [ Post a Comment ] |
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SMI going green! 
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| Photo Details: "SMI" by kayes - Posted Date: July 15, 2008 - Rating: n/a |
| Last Comment by Orange - Posted Date: May 17, 2012 10:39pm | [ Post a Comment ] |
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Kayes, anyone can take pictures!  With your professional photography skills, your pics. are always the first choice when buying pictures. Composition, sharpness, colours are excellently superb. Most importantly, there is art in your pics. Congrats!It is true about GOOD PHOTOGRAPH before editing. It's just like a chef needs good ingredients for a great meal! We can see you are an expert for all those expensive photography software. Well done!! NBM Computers is no longer there. I had been there once. That old bungalow is somewhere opposite McD, Jalan Pahang. A battery replacement was urgently needed for our Apple PowerPC. Sapura's after-sales service in Section 14, PJ (before it was shifted to their HQ in Mines Resort City) didn't have ready stock and they needed few days to have it couriered from S'pore. We couldn't wait as the completed artwork for a journal was in that PowerPC. So we went to NBM Computers. There was a fair and quite chubby lady in NBM and she was very efficient and helpful. I think she must be Nasser's sister as she told us she worked for her brother. NBM had their own technicians. She asked one of her technicians to take the battery from the Apple PowerPC which was on displayed in NBM Computers showroom and loaned it to us while waiting for the new battery. Other than Sapura, EAC and Votra were also Apple agents during that time. This friendly lady gave personal touch to customer service which we appreciated very much. It's very frustrating when we have to use phrase like: "Can we see someone who can make decision on the spot?" when dealing with big establishments and things got to be done urgently! |
| Photo Details: "The Mac & Ipoh" by kayes - Posted Date: May 16, 2012 - Rating: n/a |
| Last Comment by kayes - Posted Date: May 17, 2012 8:15pm | [ Post a Comment ] |
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Spot the Ipoh City Hotel?
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| Photo Details: "Ipoh City Hotel" by kayes - Posted Date: July 16, 2008 - Rating: n/a |
| Last Comment by kayes - Posted Date: May 17, 2012 7:51pm | [ Post a Comment ] |
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Is that crane tearing down Waller Court?
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| Photo Details: "Redevelopment of Waller Court" by kayes - Posted Date: July 30, 2010 - Rating: n/a |
| Last Comment by kayes - Posted Date: May 17, 2012 7:35pm | [ Post a Comment ] |
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A side view of the school from the Riverfront Hotel.
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| Photo Details: "SMI" by kayes - Posted Date: July 15, 2008 - Rating: n/a |
| Last Comment by kayes - Posted Date: May 17, 2012 8:13am | [ Post a Comment ] |
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Orange, I wonder whether you have heard of NBM Computers who used to be located in an old bungalow in Jalan Pahang, KL in the 80s/90s. They were one of the very first Apple resellers when the main Apple agent was Sapura. The company was run by two brothers and the elder guy, Nasser usually dealt with me. I bought several Macs from them (including a couple of those Apple Laserwriter printers) and Nasser used to deliver them to me either in Ipoh or Penang. I dabbled with Pagemaker and Illustrator and it was fun. But nowadays I am only into photography software. I use Aperture with a host of plugins costing thousands of ringgit. Digital photography presents limitless possibilities BUT you still need a GOOD PHOTOGRAPH before you start editing it Bad photos remain bad photos no matter what kind of software you use!
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| Photo Details: "The Mac & Ipoh" by kayes - Posted Date: May 16, 2012 - Rating: n/a |
| Last Comment by Orange - Posted Date: May 17, 2012 7:01am | [ Post a Comment ] |
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Surprised that Ariff Bookstore in Canning was the first agent for MacFORMAT magazine in Malaysia. Even in KL, not many people used Mac during those earlier days. It was difficult to find film maker (for pre-press) to output artworks that were produced using Mac. Now, most if not all CTP (Computer to Plate for printing) use Mac. When I first "inherited" my hand-me-down Mac SE-30, I attended courses like Page Maker, Adobe and Illustrator offered by Apple. There were several graphic artists attended the course. The Mac instructor told them to equip themselves with DTP skills as quickly as possible as artworks were no longer done using NT cutter to cut & paste, set squares and cow gum. He showed us how fast it was to do page layout using Page Maker. A book of 100+ pages used to take weeks to complete but by using Page Maker, it took only few days - including editing, proof reading, correction and page layout. He even demonstrated how to draw a car using Illustrator. We were indeed very impressed! Now, we have QuarkXPress, InDesign and cow gum is nowhere to be seen now! But I still believe books are here to stay, Kayes!
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| Photo Details: "The Mac & Ipoh" by kayes - Posted Date: May 16, 2012 - Rating: n/a |
| Last Comment by kayes - Posted Date: May 16, 2012 10:56pm | [ Post a Comment ] |
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| Photo Details: "A Rare Filming Opportunity" by kayes - Posted Date: March 19, 2010 - Rating: n/a |
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