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M-YO BBQ

2012-02-05T06:47:00.000-08:00

Went to M-YO BBQ Party last nite at Dimi's place. Great food and learnt a few tricks from Dimi boss. Got a yoyo picture of myself from Ewin. Thanks!!!

* trapeze! *

Happy CNY

2012-02-05T06:39:00.000-08:00

Its still in season for CNY greetings yo! Got some snippets from our CNY this year, had good breakfast apart from just chilling at hoome.

*Brilliant homemade fruit cake courtesy of Auntie Jenn :D *

* Abundance of Cadbury chocolates! *

And a whole lots of zen and meditation at home hahaha. Its not that bad, when everyone is collecting ang pow I'm all hooked up at the almost-live stream EYYC 2012 that's happening in Prague during that weekend. Internet rawks!

*Yesh, i'm taking this post as a way of publishing my photos*

Oh and due careful considerations and the fact that they raised the fees of the color course that i was all hyped up about? I'm no longer taking the seminar, bummers. Maybe i should not talk about my plans so much, it tends to not happen when i say too much :P

*Mouth zipped*

Another video contest

2012-01-11T15:35:00.000-08:00

Here's my entry for YoYoRaven Video Contest. Just learnt underarm eli hop recently, the rest of the tricks are my usuals. Loving my CLYW Sasquatch! And thank you everybody for the subscribes!!! <3

Hey its 2012!

2012-01-01T20:29:00.000-08:00

Here's my entry for the first 2012 video contest by yoyoaddict. Misintepret the rules as "uncut", took me a few takes for this one shot... so mind the angry face, hehe.

The Quest for Worlds - Milord

2011-10-25T15:30:00.000-07:00

Every year, I plan to go somewhere. But planning never goes as planned all the time like this year itself I was forced to choose between going to Hong Kong for Hong Kong Kendo Open and Asia Pacific Yoyo Contest. Due to financial issues, i pulled out from going to Hong Kong and went to AP 2011 in Singapore. A year before that i chose to attend MYYC 2010 instead of the annual Kakuya Cup (thank goodness Kakuya cup isn't a big event, its just like Kendo Nationals but in a small scale as there isn't much competitors)

Back to the topic. I aim to participate in WKC 2012 at Novara, Italy next year. This is an event held every 3 years, its like the Olympics of Kendo. Been attending the WKC training on Sundays. Its gonna easily cost me somewhere around RM 5k with all the flights, accommodation and stuff. Its not easy though, I'll have to make sure i do well, attend the team selection and get selected before i can confirm my qualification. Its gonna be at the end of May 2012. Best part of this is we get to go Italy. I'm sure I'm not gonna win this but its more of like traveling to Italy with my Kendo friends and trying our best to have a good placing in the competition. Obviously, the Japanese are always the stronger Kendokas; hands down.

And, I aim to participate in WYYC 2012 at Orlando, Florida around early August 2012 too. I've been playing seriously (like really learning tricks and not half-assed) for 2 years now. Participated in MYYC 2010, AP 2011 and will participate in the coming MYYC 2011 too. The World yoyo contest is an annual event and a really really REALLY GRAND event. Players from all around the world come to compete and also hang out, have fun. Its not just about competing, its about meeting people, learning and sharing tricks, traveling and whole lot more. Its like a competition, yoyoing, making friends, travel, shopping, have fun thingy. This is gonna cost bomb too, this trip will easily cost me RM 10k as the flight to Orlando is really expensive. I really wanna go to WYYC 2012!!!!

So here's the tough part. In order to go WYYC, I'll have to save up and also participate in as many competition as I can do improve my skills. If can, I'll have to get top 3 in Nationals. This way, i can increase my chances of getting sponsored. (this is not a post of me wanting to get sponsored, its just a solution) Coz if a sponsored player were to attend WYYC, they will get at least a lil support in forms of flight tickets to Worlds for contest. That being said, I have to be really mad-like good and get some titles/achievements under my belt. Thus, MYYC and AP participation is a must as these are the major events that i need to excel in. That means, trip to Singapore in March for AP 2012 is a must too.

Then there's WKC, I'll needa perform well in trainings and make sure I attend team selection day. Pass my grading, and thorough consideration from senseis' only will I get selected. Then of course make sure I have money to bring my self there and back. Grawwrrr!

So first problem arises. MYYC 2012 preliminaries and WKC team selection falls on the same day. Which is 17th of December. Oh and guess what, Kakuya Cup (Kendo Nationals) is on the same day too, but that i can fore-go easily. I'm planning to attend both but its pretty hard to say... its like I'll end up not being able to do both.

Then there's the thought of the expenses to Italy and Orlando. How in the hell am I gonna afford them? Even with IOUs on credit card, we're toking bout 5 digits... pretty out of my mind. And from experience, i prolly need to settle plane tickets around Jan for WKC and March for WYYC. Unless i win the lottery, i can pay for both.

So how now? WKC 2012 vs WYYC 2012

- I wanna go WYYC 2012 more badly than WKC 2012 obviously
- I'll meet more friends in WYYC 2012 than WKC 2012
- I get to go Italy if I go WKC 2012
- I get to go Orlando if I go WYYC 2012
- People in WYYC 2012 is gonna be more fun than WKC 2012 coz yoyoing is a fun sport
- Obviously I wanna go WKC 2012 just because its in Italy and I wanna go Italy.
- I'm just average in skills for both sports right now
- I'm definitely not gonna be able to win WKC 2012 (I know my levels)
- I might be able to win some small ladder contest if i train like mad (god like determined, but mark the word "might")
- There's a lot more division to join in WYYC than WKC
- I think i can shop and travel more in Orlando than WKC
- I get to do some good in promoting my store in WYYC and restocking some special releases
- WYYC is like work and fun... WKC is like fun...
- I'm starting to get afraid in killing one of my participation after listing out my points... omg
- But i just ordered a dope looking Kendo Gi and Hakama from Japan, that cost me a bomb for special occasions like WKC :(

Yeah, been seriously thinking bout this since yesterday. Got me up at 3:30am and now I'm listing it out here. I think i sorta have some kinda scary rough conclusion... that I might drop out from WKC 2012. Not official yet but sorta figured it out... I can still do both only and ONLY if I get sponsored to WYYC 2012. That would mean i HAVE to WIN MYYC. And that would mean I will not attend team selections. And then if so happened to picked me to attend WKC, i would have to see if I"m sponsored by then and if not... i think i won't be going. So chances to go both is like a gamble. Coz I'm not sure i would get sponsored too, coz I'm too novice and too aged.

On the bright side if I dun go Italy, I'll get to save up more for Orlando. Still get to go Singapore though. And i get to save up on my PTOs. I'll just get a bit left out at my fellow kendoka's pictures in fb on May. I think that's pretty much it. Well I can attend ASEAN next year since its in Malaysia. Yeah i think i might 70% not be going to WKC unless the government fully sponsor us. (I'm yellow)

So what's the conclusion here? I'm not going WKC coz i can't afford it and coz it gets 2nd place compared to yoyo. (Omg, i wanna take back my words with Chris that priority is Kendo. Its so not!) So I think I'm not attending national team selection day. I'm still gonna attend Sunday trainings. Still having that 10% hope that if the government fully sponsor us *drools*. And to my fellow Kendo mates, i dare not go official about not going WKC yet. "I know I always backed out, please don't kill me. I'll make sure I pass my grading this coming January"

Alright, gotta go practice my yoyoing. Needa work like a hundred times harder to place top 3 in MYYC and a 20% chance of getting sponsored. (not much but its 10% more hope than kendo) Btw, again this is not a post of me wanting to get sponsored. It doesn't mean that i don't wanna get sponsored too. Its all about the budget to travel.

WHY do Visual Effects Artists' have to suffer from low salary??? Especially we the yellow ones, cheap labour sucks!! *Not being racist here, just a personal public display of ORZ!!*

Series of Unfortunate Events

2011-10-09T07:01:00.000-07:00

Started with flu then sore throat version 1. Recovered, yay! After a week absent in training my next training had landed me with an injured big toe nail on my right foot (the foot that i use to do fumikomi). My opponent stepped on it and we were practicing 'ai-men'.
Crazy painful for the 1st three days, i'm taking day lapse picture of my beloved toe... maybe when it falls off and grow back i can complete my collection of animated gif of it. Counting my days down towards the goodwill match with the Singaporeans this weekend, my toe doesn't hurt that bad anymore and i tot i could spar nicely without worrying bout it. On Friday night, I've got caught up with sore throat version 2 and some fever. Goodwill outing? Cancelled. The End.

Next up. Series of Fortunate Events :)

Belated Birthday Post

2011-10-09T06:43:00.000-07:00

So this year, my birthday falls on the same day as my cousie's wedding. So we did it all in 1 day. Visited my cousie's house in the morning then attended the dinner at night. But we did have a some time to chill at the local restaurant in the city with some good jazz performance for lunch. I've got chocolate walnut brownie for birthday cake :D beat that!

* mama and her iphone obsession *

Amarin | Thai Cuisine Experience

2011-09-18T10:41:00.000-07:00

As a fresh new member of Citibank I now have privileges to selected places like I get free drinks in Coffee Bean and 20% discounts on their meals. Hang out with mama in the coffee shop to start the day.

Spend most of our time in the bookstores, shop a lil (a must have) then we visited Amarin heavenly Thai. Used my complimentary free meals for 2 from Citibank, even wanted to add on more sides to our order but glad we didn't as we couldn't even finish the free meals. Its so generous for them to give us so much free stuff! But the food here is really good, and I'm definitely coming back the next time to try out more of their dishes since my mom likes Thai food.

* so there's 2 pots of tea *

* a plate of spring rolls *

* the signature green curry chicken *

* TWO delicious pineapple fried rice *

* ONE satisfied and happy mom *

Well there's actually still dessert but we were just too full to have dessert, so we left without having dessert. Dessert was something like red ruby or waterchestnut if I'm not wrong. We parcel the other pineapple home, its just too much. Free meal and parcel, I starting to love Citibank. Put that aside, I highly recommend eating here, food is great!

Back on Sketch!

2011-09-09T07:09:00.000-07:00

Been sketching more often than before, check out my artblog. Tried out posemaniacs finally and I'm slowly liking it. Its a really helpful tool.

Warming up

2011-09-02T06:39:00.000-07:00

* thanks to James for this group pic *

So far its been 3 WKC trainings and last week was the Malaysian kendo camp 2011. We've been lucky to be trained by a group of high ranking Niigata senseis, truly honoured. Got to meet Ukisu sensei again, the first high ranking sensei that actually supported me in yoyo. I remembered he wished me luck in MYYC on my fb wall last year, that was my first ever competitive involvement. Hopefully the next time i see him again, i can converse in good japanese.

Been training more frequent than before, hopefully I can go Italy and surprise myself. Yup, my little big plan.

Was exposed to a few wise thoughts and people recently. I've just got myself a secret plan. Don't worry, I'm not planning to take over the world. Yall can chill and eat some strawberries. Ye~S!! I am planning to take over the WorLD!

- 'peas are good for you'

Back from Kendo

2011-08-14T06:27:00.000-07:00

Sloppy play today... thus, i'm looking forward to beat the 3rd WKC training in perfect form. Been busy with 28spin, my everyday job, practicing yoyos and just recently got back some time to practice my ollie.

Haven't been sketching much, have not been animating or making any CG work. But i just suddenly have the urge to do some, let's hope Lee Chong Wei wins the match tonite and everybody get's a day off and chill at home to do what they wanna do :D

Looking forward to the coming days, time to get eventful. Rest is for the weak, NEGU!

Stussy X Duncan: Round 1

2011-05-14T20:35:00.000-07:00

Went to Stussy X Duncan at KL yesterday. Learnt some tricks from some cool players. Great shop, great event, had fun! Oh, and that Delrin white "freebird" from Duncan rawks! I like Delrin :D

Thanks to Stussy and Duncan crew M'sia for organizing it. Looking forward to the next round :D

Bored of metal?

2011-05-14T20:21:00.000-07:00

Try some plastics! ( ´ ▽ ` )

What about my metals? They're fine, its just feels safer to play with plastic and some says i do better with plastic yoyos. Thus, i have let my metals to rest for some time until i'm way advanced. I've been playing with my northstar lately, got the other 2 colors and now i have orange, yellow and green :D

Still working on my tricks. But for fun and no particular reasons i felt like making some vids. Some of u might have seen it or not but here it is. Its not great, but i'll improve on getting less cuts and better tricks.

Pensive

2011-04-17T09:41:00.000-07:00

* clock's ticking away like tik tok tik tok *

Go to bed...

2011-03-20T10:41:00.000-07:00

"Go sleep mimi! wat r u doing at nite? ",

"playin yoyo...",

"when are u sleepin, there's work tmrw moron"

"until i feel like i played enuff? booyah"

"Happy oni..."

Hey Wazzaap!!!

2011-01-23T08:18:00.000-08:00

This shall be the post for the 1st month of 2011, the year of 20 peas'. Time passed so fast and last few months that it took me sometime to happy oni chillax.

Its been a great time, last month my aunt and cousies came over for a month. Hung out with them and we went to Singapore for a weekend Chirstmas holiday. Had loads of fun in Universal Singapore, would be much more fun if it didn't rained at nite. Nic brought us around and rawwrrrr we tried out rock climbing. Its a beginners climb, we tried it twice and got ourselves double the cert! Oh and what I liked best of the attraction was the special effects show. If i were to stand in the first row, i think my hair will get toast to ashes.

On New year's day, we went to Jordan's place for dinner and we played rag doll kung fu on the PS3. Its my favourite game on PS3 as of now, we laughed like a bunch of crazy monkeys until our cheeks got worn out. That's some real cheek training huh, or chic? Fatt mong lar lei...~

Guess tat's enuff highlights on the many missing post. Let's get current! Went for yoga yesterday and had 2 sessions, the hot one and the not hot one. There's so many names for the classes sometimes i couldn't really tell the difference, but maybe a few more visits would tell its difference. I personally like the hot one. I see lotsa bendy people, especially the tall girls. I wanna stretch like them and become as flexible as dalshim one day. Skipped kendo yesterday to finish up with the new years shopping. Guess who i bumped into at Esprit? Wan Sim!!! Its been a while since i met her, heard she's doing great in her job. She's one happy Wan Sim :D

And I'm all back on Kendo after the MIAs. So fun! Kendo is Fun! :D

Nic ar... join kendo, its fun :D "swift like a dragonfly~"

A bientot tout le monde,

Uncle Waja had a poor bladder

2010-11-21T23:58:00.001-08:00

Last friday on our way to skating session our car told us "I can't hold it anymore, psssssssssshhhhhhh"

It was all fine during the afternoon but as we drove over to the open air parking area to pick up jothan n the gang to the skatepark, we smelled shakira!The smell of petrol was so strong, uncle waja was pissing petrol so badly like it has not peed for the whole day. And within 2 minutes of drive 1bar of petrol was gone, trails of pee along the road.

We had to call the tow car to bring him home, and there goes friday nite skate last week. Check the car into ICU the next mornin, n its all fine now, a few broken arteries replaced and restock on oil.

I feel like an engineer suddenly.

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"We like shopping!"

2010-11-21T17:53:00.001-08:00

Last week mama and I went lepakin at MV n Gardens. Its been a while since we went on a shoppin spree. Christmas's around the corner, so are the promos. We bought lots from triumph, triumphant! XD

Oh and I got myself a new shoe, its a honey dunk low with tartan checkered analogous red in color, woohoooo. Love the colors! And guess what, it comes with a pairing jacket. Duh, its so nice, i get it as well. Life is good......mmmuahhh

Mama signed up for myoga as well. Gonna be active on Jan 2011. We went to check out the branch in Gardens, its not bad yo! Almost like Phillip Wain. Even i like it but i can't commit to the membership, maybe i'll just tag along once a while, i like their studio n halls, clean and spacious bathrooms.... so chillax~

Tried out pasta zanmai for the first time, yeah after so long of its existance, this is my first time. Didn't noe they have delicious thin crusted pizza, mmmmmmm. "mama umai!" ^ 3^

We had their specialty scallop pizza and some simple pasta.

Oh and I found 2 baby jolly white at hallmark, so cute. Nici toys are so fluffy, we molested the nicis there as we window shop, touch shop?

It was one long enjoyable day, been in MV for like...7-8 hours? Came home and watched yoyofactory's undeniable DVD while playin yoyo. Felt so inspired from Yuuki Spencer's play. We shall do a few yoyo vids, rawrrrrrr. Practice ppl practice!

A bientot~

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And the pages flip thru quickly as the wind blows...

2010-11-14T12:12:00.000-08:00

Last week passed by quickly and eventfully. At work stuff just doesn't seem to get the green light so i was working my eyeballs off. Same goes for 28, its slowly pacing up as December's closes in. And what's with all these kendo events? Hahaha we've got another get together event with the Honkies. It's the Msia - HK Goodwill '10.

We had 8th dan Inoue Sensei to guide us thru our training. Thought us some really important and useful basics that i find the last one was straight out of the box applicable. "Straight-balance posture", and if u go for life drawing session, which i went last week too... it just strikes me bout the clavicles. Try it urself with 2 different types of arc and see how it feels when u lift tat stick. And the "new to me" waza that i needa memorize for grading... and also, they had shipan training (judges training) while i had a mini timer training. Its great fun, and would be better if they would just give us some air conditioning :P

But not to forget, I've gotta thanks Seki for helpin out in the pickups on Sat morning. Thanks Nininegoh for the earphones and Eucalyptus, finally got it on Sat nite ^.^ Thanks Koko for sparing the car for the weekends.

Being all hectic the whole week has got me to a point where i said enuff is enuff, i need a fast mouse to speed up my work at home, so i asked my bro to get me a razer, "Razer Lachesis" he got me :D

Alrite, time to startup. Its 4 now, and I like it earleh!

"Today got life drawing session and i haven't buy my own layout paper and charcoal, rawrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!"

So how did it went?

2010-10-31T03:51:00.000-07:00

Last weekend was the 9th AKT at Singapore. Also known as the Asean Kendo Tournament, its held every 3 years and people from participating Asean countries would come and join in. This year, there's 6 countries: Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam and Indonesia. Its just one of those big Kendo events, where u get to spar with so many different seniors and senseis during the after match keikos.

* kudos nick, i see me in full gear! *

* before my first match *

So, the bad news is, i lost and we lost (for individuals and girls team B) "Rawwrrr!!!! I'll train hard for the next tournament and not let anyone down!!!" But the good news are, MAS men's individuals won, and one of each men's and women's team match got 3rd place, and best of all, everyone had fun!

* just when the men's team B got thru *

Its my first tournament apart from friendly matches at our place, and i kinda made a bunch of friends from sparring i guess. But this tournament sure hyped us up, if not us at least me. I'm itching for more kendo sesssion with my mates, addicted now? Yeen May said i've got a delayed addiction XD

p.s. "Hey but its not just me, someone got so keen in this sport suddenly.... *rolled eyes*"

Oh did i mention Jess did so well in her matches, she's so cool! And the less seen TV Wong hahahhaha (i dun think he watch as much TV) its TY lah! Well apart from all this sweaty stuff, we did enjoy Singapore a bit during the first day while the judges are rehearsing for their judging >:D

Rode the MRT around, walk, Mos Burger... spinworkx... sleep like pig. U noe? the cats in Singapore are so zen, I manage to get a great deal of cat shots while waiting for the bus.

Babi punya kucing.... makes me feel sleepy oni, kla ciaos!

Go Team Msia!

2010-10-21T09:32:00.000-07:00

We're coming! Happy oni!

Chocolate is now Bruno

2010-10-10T00:33:00.000-07:00

Continuing from the week i got chocolate aka "Bruno", we assembled the deck after work the following day and got it out for some test skate. Oh man, its so goood! Feels more solid and ollie is much more fun! Slightly broader but its good for landing.

As usual we skate mostly on our favourite launch pad. Up to a point i got unsynced from Bruno and fell into the mangkuk before i can say "to infinity and beyond". Mmmmm from wat i could remember is, it goes "Kapow!" on ma jaw... then... "oh shit mama's gonna kill me".... then i bit mah lips...then... balik la, dun need skate d. *Lips is bleeding* Liddat lor..... and i think i hit my wrist and knee too cause it hurts still.

*this is jolleh btw*

So yeah, skate activities have reduced lately coz right after my not so juicy lips healed i fell sick. Oh well, less skates, more negu time 8D. We went for the movies and watched Legends of the Guardians 3D. Its a good movie, nice fur and animation. Never underestimate the power of animation, it brings out so much live from what i taught to be serious looking owls. Lookin forward for more movie time :P

Oh oh! and my belated bday pressie arrived with a lil surprise! (its still was a lil surprise :P) Thanks nininegu for da 32gb iTouch, its so addictively awesome. Tried the facetime with nic, and its not tat bad with my sluggish connection at home. Even better when the connection is good. We went hunting for wi-fi place and had like iTouch frenzy time at Yuzu~ Love it! *till now, i'm still having it wherever i go, hipstamatic, the mill, flip it, facetime it goes on and rawwrrr new apps click click click!!!*

*chris in action!*

So after skipping 2 sessions of kendo, i'm back yesterday for the 2nd Asean Camp. Its only 2 weeks away from Asean at SG. I wouldn't say i'm good, in fact i'm not tat good... but i had fun sparring even though i got zero wins. Next week is the 3rd and final Asean Camp then we'll be off for some HoooRaaarrrr the following weekend at SG.

Orites, i go patch up my blister, time for kendo... may the handicapped prevails~

Happy oni!

Chocolate in da House!

2010-09-25T09:31:00.000-07:00

*i'm a year older than last year*

Last year i've got Taj Mahal, this year.... i've got the coolest pressie ever from my bro and lin! They got me a chocolate deck! Orange green broadway >: D Guess its time to replaced my chipped off season old toy machine deck.YAY!!!! Thank you everybodeh!

*a chocolate that will never be finished*

Happy Birthday 25/9ers. Nites~

RAWRRRR!!!!!

2010-09-16T23:36:00.000-07:00

Waarrghhhh chance! Chance! Rawwrrr >: D

* this is a personal uproar of excitement, i hold the rights to post it here *

A summary of the missing months

2010-09-14T12:11:00.000-07:00

Its been almost 3 months since my last post. Well i decided to update my blog again due to the fact that blogspot is still much more prefered over here than tumblr. So might as well i just update all, afterall there's been some memorable post here :)

We've been getting better in skating, although slow but there's still progress. Stopped taking lessons when we're asked to master switches. So instead we learn ollie ourselves coz switch is so tough, and we couldn't resist playing at the bowls. To date, our favourite spot would be the launch pad. *cheers*

Apart from skating, remember i said that I started a sketch journal. Well... i kinda stopped for 2 months, and now i picked it up again using it as a sketch book instead. I'm getting really bored at work, tracking and matchmove is a mundane job, well at least after a year of doing it, it just feels like some robotic work. So i kinda started sketching and did some simple animation exercises during my free time. Hopefully this could aid my anim skillset and maybe one day i could land myself an anim job in some cool company. You guys should check out my tumblr and if u're kind enough i'll really appreciate some feedbacks and critiques.

For some reason I'm really inspired by the Pixar guys that came to visit us during their seminar here in KL. I felt possible. And the next artist tat inspired me so much to keep sketching would be Pascal Campion! Oh man, i just stumble upon his artblog thru an artblog of somebodies artblog of somebodies artblog of somebodies (this is wat i do when i'm bored at work) You guys should really check out his artworks oh and also matthieu florichon too, they collab sometimes or before. Luv their styles, free and visuals over words.

I dunno but i just get episodes and episodes of inspiration lately, be it people, videos and/or books. And i thought that i could share some stuff, tat's why i revive my postings. Oh yeah, and i'm all into analogue cameras now. (Am still all into my DSLR too) Lomography rawks! Analogue Love! I've got a supersampler called "sheshe", she takes 4 frames of action photos and a Diana Mini called "mini", she on the other hand takes half and/or full square frame pictures. Then there's oktomatus and fishie, the 8 eyes and fisheye. All the point and shoot and adventures up the hills down to the hustle bustle city; its a negu thing, u've got to be a negist to understand.

*analogue urbaine*

This is wat happens when u neglect ur postings. The next time u repost, it gets so long winded. But yeah, imma be reviving my artblog too and please do check out my tumblr once a while and drop some encouraging critiques. I'll really appreciate it :)

http://turtleclicks.tumblr.com
http://mimiartblog.blogspot.com

Of skates and flyin monkeys

2010-06-13T09:35:00.000-07:00

Recently, we've been skating at the ramps and slopes. Paid a visit to wheel love and got home with a set of new 52mm element wheels and a brand new set of 80 ringgit bearings. Now my deck feels brand new, taller, softer, faster, quiter :D No more rusted bearings, weeeeeeeeee. Oh my and bert just got himself a new caster board. I'm itching to play with it tmrw! *shake shake shake*

* 100% caster board goodness *

And after a full one year, i've finally had my chance to go skytrekking. It was so much fun, no regrets going for the extreme challenge. Looking forward for the next visit, i wanna try both extreme and big thrill togethere :D Missed the chance of snapping nice photos at treetops. We were screaming like monkeys up there. Nature rawks! For those who haven't been to skytrex... its not as bad as u think, the height was nothing... the toughest part is getting up, that's the most challenging part.

I'm just having so much fun..... imma baddddddd sister i missed my bro's bday dinner, :P

Nites~

Feeling Lethargic?

2010-06-06T08:35:00.000-07:00

Nothings better than having coffee with a sketch journal @ Delicious on a lazy Sunday morning. Started my first sketch and i'm commited to finish the book :)

And I promised Teo will look pretty at the last few pages :D

Haroshi Skateboard Art

2010-05-23T10:00:00.000-07:00

It's been KL Design Week lately... and don't really keep track to it though. But this time, i got a lil bit more into the functions tat were installed. Like I didn't realise David Oreilly came to KL!!!! O0O" until i read his blog.

So today after finishing some shows at KLCC and Sogo, we got back to KLCC. KJ was telling bout something cool in the gallery. I didn't show signs of interest, coz i'm was so tired until he told me its the skateboard art and i remember seeing it in wheel love's blog post. Next thing i noe, I'm speeding up the escalator, haha!

* mario with diced up skateboard pieces *

Haroshi's Skateboard Art is now on display at Galeri Petronas, Suria KLCC. Haroshi aka Ito Hiroshi is well known for his wooden sculptures using glued up old and broken skateboard decks. For once, i get to see the real thing rather than those in picture. U'll be amazed by this workmanship and the amount of hardwork, effort and time he spent in making those scultures all by using used old and broken skateboard decks.

The teddy bear looks alot niced in real life than in picture. Then there were this pixel looking flat pieces of mario. And I'm pretty sure, its alot of hardwork sorting out the right colors too. My second fave, the mario head, uwaahh.... gotta check out how they did the eyes, and finishing... u won't believe its made of skateboard until u sees the making video and description. And if u check out the big moose head at different different angle, gosh... its like how u model in 3D, they're smoooooooooooooth. Mebe i too jakun ledi, ignore me :P

Didn't snap any pics inside, as I'm not sure if its allowed.... not even the receptionist was sure bout it :( These are just pics online, thanks to the web. Oh and if any of u are interested, this exhibition is gonna last till july, still plenty of time to check it out :D

Nites~

Stuffy Update

2010-05-17T08:27:00.000-07:00

Aight, i shall update with my stuffy nose on recent events. I've been slacking Kendo a while.... i feel dat, need more practice and some still doubt my kiai. Its so loud it knocked a side of my ear coucou a bit, i noe it doesn't send shivers to the opponent = =, I'll try.... I hope. Thankfully... summer camps around the corner, hope i can get back in track 8D

Skating wise, we're so in it, RnH skateboard team grew to a member of 6, 7 once a while. But its been raining too much. No worries, we're practicing how to skate the rain away.

Work wise.... omg i can't explain how lazy I am. I feel bad sometimes.

Yoyo... hmmm I see lotsa beautiful yoyos lately. Had my first few shows, hope its ok :) Nice teaching kids in workshop.

Got myself my very own new camera. So happy oni! Canon D550, all thanks to Ming for borrowin me his camera to play for almost a day. Bought the exact same cam and lens as his the next day... thank goodness to those who invented installments. Now many things are possible :)

Stay tuned for the next post... and.... dua puluh lapan Happy Oni!

Bowl indulgence

2010-04-30T10:44:00.000-07:00

For once, I felt satisfied with the skating session that we had just now. Coz normally we'll be practicing or taking lessons on flat ground. Today was different, we played at the flat ground but can't help to realise the bowl area was quite empty. So we went to play at the bowls. Started off on the shallowest and slowly we move on. Nah, we didn't conquer any, we just play with it like swinging pendulums. But it was so FUN!!!

I fell a few times. But for some reason the hardest fall was the one i had on the flat ground. My bontot still sakit from tat day's fall, sheeeeesh! Oh oh oh, and i tried droppin in one of the shallowest bowl i can find. Damn cheecake, but its quite achievable, with some fall also XD

Our instructor kinda warn us not to go on bowls yet. Hehe, but its so tempting. Next session we'll practice on flat ground again. Be like botak, so obedient, didn't play in bowl.

Ciao~

Fakie

2010-04-29T09:14:00.000-07:00

Woohooo! just now we went for our 2nd skating lessons. This time, we learnt how to do Fakie. Its skating forward but backwards and then to improvise it, we kinda do a switch back to regular stance, with a 180 degree tic tac. Back side was easy to get, but front side is difficult. So fun, too bad the skatepark closes early on Thursdays as well. Will go train again tmrw.

woohooo~

First skate lessons!

2010-04-26T09:25:00.000-07:00

Woohoo, had so much fun just now. We went to the skatepark at prestinct 5 for our first skateboading lessons from Mariss. Learnt skateboard anatomy, balancing and tic tac. Wanted to skate more but its closes early on Mondays and Tuesdays. Can't wait to go practice tmrw, skateboarding is getting more and more addictive!!! Especially when there's a group of ppl skating together gether XD seronok!

I wanna go skate again, feels like "Leona Lewis - I see you theme from Avatar" when cruising on the board fast.

Nites~

Malam Certificate!

2010-04-24T20:27:00.000-07:00

* glimpse of their grad stage *

Tonite Oh Non went for batch 68 and 71's graduation nite at Sunway Hotel. My gosh, their graduation venue's so grand and beautiful, much + much more better than our old venue at Sheraton. Grand entrance, nice ceilings, great washrooms and delicious meals.

* glimpse of the food served, better than Sheraton :D *

DG 51 pretty much swept most of the awards for animation (Telatoli vaccuumed 3 awards), maybe not la, but just like to make it sounds like it :D

Its nice getting together after some time. We should do this more often.

Skates in da house!

2010-04-23T20:26:00.000-07:00

* got the helmet and deck *

Yesterday, my skates came home. It was as easy as i thought, mom support us bout the whole skating thingy ^3^. Plus, the skateboarding crew blossomed into a member of 4 when nick and vince bought their skates last nite at wheel love. Its the same design as mine and Jothan's. Prolly its time for me to buy a spray paint and have a deck make over. I'm thinking of pastel red or something.Can't wait to start our first trial lessons from legend. I enjoy the bowls like everyone else.

* will change the deck look soon *

Happy Oni~

Hohohoho

2010-04-21T07:56:00.000-07:00

Its been a while again. Lately, we've been trying to form an X-sport gang to go for skating session. All of us will start of as noobies. Many were interested, some of them are into fixies, some into inlines and some skateboards.

So then last week, after going thru some survey on the net and thru frens, we went to wheel love to get our equipments. My bro bought an XSJado inlines, where as me and Jothan got ourselves a complete deck. Some of the other guys got their fixies ahead of us. Hmmm... but somehow it feels like its only the 3 of us that has been skating. My bro and I went to visit the skatepark near our workarea at Putrajaya pristinct 5, it looks fun, but as a newbie, we just played at a corner, so that we dun hurt ourselves and block the other guys.

Its been barely a week, I skate twice. I'm craving for more!!! Manage to ask for lessons from an experience guy, but i'm still deciding when to start. I haven't let my parents noe of this!!! Gotta find the right time to rhyme in. Maybe i could call to my parents attention and sing them bout the skates. Glee style!!

Oh and talking bout Glee!!! Nick Pitera auditioned for Glee!!!! I SO HOPE he gets in. I have high hopes in 'im

April だから...

2010-04-02T10:07:00.000-07:00

Haven't posted anything for sometime. It's April now, let's see.... April FOools! Enjoy scaring my buddies with clowns. Glee season 2 is coming out this month, can't wait. VGL next week, awesome!

Just got my "donut" this morning. It's a DreadnoughtG, this monster weights 72 gm and its gigantic. Can't stop playing with it the whole day. Its amazing how short the axle is, it's almost flat. Love it! I'll make sure i could pull a freestyle out of it XD

* This is Donut *

Glee is nice

2010-02-19T10:37:00.000-08:00

Fuuu.... Finally started on production lately, its tiring. Everytime after work my brain feels like a heated up machine. Been watching Glee season 1 lately during the CNY. I have to say i'm addicted to both the series and soundtrack, haha. That "Kurt" character reminded me of adam lambert and for some reason Jothan pops up in my mind when Howard appears, hahaha. And that black girl is nasty, XD luv her attitude. Hope they faster come out with season 2 on April, I only have left 3 more episode to finish for season 1 :P

Musical

2010-02-04T05:06:00.000-08:00

Aller hop! Wazza.... time for some blogpost,

Lately been getting a bit more musical. Fired off the music session with some new members from bg prep. Hafeez and Wan had been real spontaneous. Had fun jammin with em. The first gig was still the best, we played some music spontaneously, in fact, i think we successfully played 2 new songs (but next time we really needa write em down, played so much until we fergot wat we played). 2nd session... hmmm we've gonna make it better next week, hope the acousticas will come support us XD

Since music session's on wednesday, i just tag along my bro's jamming session later at night, same day. Still trying to stir in some violin tunes... trying tooooooooooooo~ ~ ~ , very kelefeh now XD
But its great fun!

Oh, and I bought myself an acoustic guitar, hehe. Been practicing last sunday until i skipped kendo. It's not as easy as it seems, there's still lots to learn. :P

Happy oni~

Tanamera Paintball 2nd trip

2010-01-16T06:29:00.000-08:00

This round, I went paintball at Tanamera with colleagues and a bunch of other frens.

It was so much more fun, we played like 7 rounds of matches all in the terrains as the speed ball was not setup. Got hit mostly in the head this time. First match i manage to kill 2 XD YEA!!!! but then got friend-fire on the back of the head. Dang, Happy oni tat fella... on the spot one mountain grows on my head.

Crazy bugger, paintball is so fun!

Saw monkeys and toads. Then collin fell into the bunker and broke his pants! Collin fell...again and again...laughed at nelly's headshot then got backshot on the neck when laughing, scold the fellars at the back tat shot us, then more pellets came backfiring at us, forcing us to surrender in pain, haha! Steve went in the house of flying pellets solo... *salutes* then matthew who got shot by a rain of pellets down like a starfish! XD

Looking forward to the next paintball outing XD *doof* *doof* *doof* >:P

A bientot

Happy New Year!

2009-12-31T09:14:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year 2010!!!

Its been a great year, I've enjoyed it so much. Great experience, met lots of awesome people and friends. (yeah so many friends, I even made a beggar friend XD) Had an amazing experience in India, and I can't imagine i made it to my first wonder of the world, Taj Mahal!!!

There's one thing that i brought over from 2009 to 2010. This freaking thorn (95% i think its a thorn) is still stuck in the depths of my toe's skin. Wish i could remove soon, *thorn oh thorn please fall off when i wake up*

Hope this year my achievements could be as great of better, mucho Happy Oni!

Nites

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-29T06:31:00.000-08:00

What have i been up to lately... hmmmm? Bought myself a new shoe. After a long wait and search of a fun and colorful superstar, i failed to find one that attracts me enuff to get it. This time i bought a Nike dunk instead. Behold..... *(awww crazy bugger, animated gif not playin... gonna fix this someday)

*the glittery Noel dunk as i would call it XD*

Went to Penang for the 3rd Kakuya cup i suppose, 3 days 2 nites over the weekends. Epic phail... kena tapau at the very first match by a fresh junior. He is teh pro, he is teh new jedi master. Further details, i rather not go into it :P

Toured a bit of Penang for the first time in broad daylight, my last time was pretty dark. On popular demand from the seniors, we landed in many temples. I guess its the only place to visit in Penang.... no comment.

Got back from Penang and went straight to Avatar!!! Great movie, loved the environment and the rendering whoaaa.... the effects, i like the part when they interact with the environment, its just amazing how they could do such wonderful work. I wish i could do a movie like this for once at least T_T

Next day, went for animation seminar and astro cheque presentation on the same day. Oooo i met Chibi and Elaine too, its been a while since we met. Hung out with Juss and Russ, Juss just got back from the States. Watch a horrible movie called Bodyguards and Assasins, Leon Lai!!! U is the best, u woke us up and gave us a great laugh, haahhhahaa. Pity tat fellar, he's like cropped out and put to the extreme side of the poster, and his airtime is hilariously sad... oh and he got amazing hair style, long straight silky black hair, Haha!

*it's the beggar!!!!*

Donnie Yen.... sorry Teo but he died horribly sad. Somehow the director planned to get rid of him in less than a second. I see blockings of Danny and Poof! his out of 'da screen XD Overall, its a good movie if u understand the history according to Ashley, i personally thinks its a movie to be watch at home rather in the cinema.

Next day, attended Kyle Balda's masterclass. He's a real good and experienced animator. Learned a lot. Great session and i'm lookin forward to another session of talk series / masterclass. Got an autograph from the master himself too, yay!

Saturday, had Christmas x Birthday x WARterballoon party at Nelly's house. It was a potluck party, gathered for some food and water-balloon fight. Unfortunately we easily finished up the balloons, and under desperate situation, we had a water fight. Great get together, had so much fun.

Sunday, watched Sherlock Holmes with Nelly and the gang. Love it! Love the style and direction of the film, the classic touch of detective story. I like the part when Holmes in the boxing ring, analyizing and summarizing his actions. Robert Downey Jr. is the best! XD

Lastly was the Chipmunks Squekuel yesterday in Alamanda. Very nice animation, they were so lively and entertaining, highly recommended to watch for the animation! Felt so proud that we did some of the training shots from alvin2. Its like coffee beans, u brew them so long and u drink it in less than a minute.

till then....

Nites'

Rain

2009-12-04T06:02:00.000-08:00

This mornin it was raining when i reached office. As i got down from the car with an umbrella, i saw 2 birds drenched in rain. They're jumping around no where to run under the heavy rain. I tried to walk over so tat my umbrella could give em some shades, but as i walk closer they go further away from me. Why~~~

Sad event MCO!

2009-11-28T07:00:00.000-08:00

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhhh... went to Malaysian Cube Open 2009 today in UniKL. DaMn freakin boring weh tat event. Felt like i wasted half day waiting for my turn to come soooooooooo (fill in the blanks)!

Dashed off to dojo and got some reality back.

I still love playing rubiks but i won't join any challenge related to it, its so freakin boring. Felt like some kinda quite and serious IQ crazed peeps challenge than a fun and happening thing. * bluek! *

Will do more fun stuff tomorrow, dang today!

I love Disney figurines

2009-11-22T05:08:00.000-08:00

Recently i've been browsing some disney puzzles. I love puzzles, unfortunately there's no where to hang up a puzzle once its done, meh~

Oh and i spotted some disney x square enix figurines. They were magnificent, the crafts are great and every tiny bit of the mini figurine looks just like it. Not just disney, i personally liked the snoopy set. Its the cheapest there, Rm 180 for a set of 5.

Bought the peter pan set for Rm 238 as a pressie for my aunt. She loves tinkerbell so much :P

There's this kingdom heart set too, Rm 300 for a set of 8. But they looked hideous, maybe its me. I only especially liked the goofy, gah~~~ but its not for sell individually.

I'm gonna collect some disney figurines, they looked great :D Carrot shake jake and bossy bear's in my list too

Inspired

2009-11-15T07:01:00.000-08:00

Lately or maybe after comin back from India, I've been very inspired. I wanna make something XD

Back in Msia!

2009-11-04T06:23:00.000-08:00

Been back in Msia for 3 weeks now. Feel's strange at first, misses India. Adapting to KL now, loving it again :D

*all the best to the new bg prep peeps*

Graduation of MM Apprenticeship Batch 2!!!

2009-10-19T00:56:00.000-07:00

Last 2 weeks in India, we went on a shopping spree around Hyderabad and Secunderabad lead by Sireesha and gang. Bought so much in one day time. Cricket in the morning with Sanjay then fiddled some tunes in Samik's place.

* waiting for sudhakar*

And on our last nite in Malaysian Township, we manage to join in the Diwali fever with some fireworks by Aparna and gang.

* a ride on siddharth's chopper *

* fire crackers subway with UFO and sumo bombs seeded *

Graduation day was crazily fun, we had to wear traditional clothes. Partied in the screening room. Can't do work at all, everyone lost mood XD. Holiday mood dominates >8D

* char pow chey! *

* Rangesh is doing it again! take coVER!!! *

* how to make yogurt *

* yoga master *

* sabby balik kampung *

* stop motion *

* its closed, so no light but VOILA!!! EA games *

And finally on the last day, we bit farewell to RnH India~

Slumber weekend in India

2009-10-10T20:14:00.000-07:00

Got back from the taj mahal trip last weekend and most of us are kind of broke. Followed buy a frequent rain fall that cause flood in southern andra pradesh, we've stayed indoors most of the time.

Stayed at home on Friday as the rest went to KFC and shilparamam. I'm broke so i stayed back and jaga the house cause someone is fixing the ac. At nite we went out for dinner at celebrations with samik, sheetal and rangesh. Had some bengali food, "non veg thali". I like the fish and puri. Sweet curd was the only curd i can accept in india, tasted something like cheesecake mousse. mmmmm.....

Saturday it rained the whole day, cancelled my plan to go office. Slumber at home and watch some movies. Nelly came over to cook lunch for us. Had pumpkin mixed veg soup and some rice.

Sunday we had lunch at nelly's place with aparna and azam. Aparna cooked some chole (as ordered by teo). Ate it with bread. Then azam bought some biryani as well. So good of them to cook and buy us food.

* atu is teh best *

*sheetal's pet, goats*

*samik's pet, the angry buff*

After that, me, yonhui and G went to samik's place for music. Had dinner in a kabab shop. Ate grilled chicken with roti that looked like tissue (they call it the handkerchief roti). Great food, cheap and filling. I feel so manly eating there. Coz i dun see any girls eating there, as we stand and eat on a bar with our hands. XD

Taj Mahal Trip

2009-10-07T10:14:00.000-07:00

Yeap, time for the golden triangle post. On my birthday, we went on a trip to Jaipur -Agra -Delhi. It was a four days trip. Took PTO on Friday while Monday itself was a public holiday in India, Daseera festival.

Friday, 25th Sep

Departed from Hyderabad at 10:30am via SpiceJet (India's spiciest airplane with spicy blast off and landing)

Arrived at Jaipur near 1pm. Checked into the guesthouse, Pawas Palace with the guide of Wilmer (the host), we went on a half day full Jaipur tour Amazing race style. Not bad, we didn't missed much apart from being late for Amber fort as it's closed and the queue into the temple was so long.

Visited the Jantar Mantar. An astrology park built by Maharaja Sawai Jaisingh II, astrologer of the biggy sundial. Basically, all the stuff in the park are tools of measuring time, hour, minutes, seconds, zodiac, degree, month and everything else related via cast shadows on the rulers. Massive tools with accurate readings ^ 3^

snake charm

After tat we moved on to city palace, looked at maharaja and maharani stuffs. One of the highlights was the Maharaja Sawai Madhosinghi, who was said to be like a giant elephant, super tall weighing at 270 kg. According to Wilmer, 3 of his wives died kamasutra with him. I dunno how but i heard also that some of the maharanis' weight like 170 kg, and yeah some of them are like his size i can say. Jaipur has the craziest Maharajaranis O_O

Oh and before i forget, a brief description of Jaipur. Its the first well-planned city in India. Surrounded by walls and 8 gates. During the maharaja times, the gates closed and opened at a given time. People in Jaipur mostly practice yoga and meditation. So they dun really depend much on doctors and clinics. Thus, the layout of the city is built in a way tat no any other building's shadow should cast over the road cause proper sun bath is required for yoga practitioners.

So don't expect to find a cure for cancer if u're in Jaipur, they prolly ask u to meditate under the sun XD

Had dinner in a Punjabi resto with music and dance shows. Later on drag to dance along and followed by a wonderful feast of the best Jaipur food we had. My fav was mutton sagwala (spinach mutton). Really really indianize anene birthday XD

Saturday, 26th Sep

Woke up by the cold ac and fan and missing blanky. Lepak around Jaipur in the morning. I like Jaipur, its so nice to lepak out, proper pedestrian and vehicle roads. People there are more laid back than Hyderabad and are more kind as they dun "potong" u with rainbow price. Atu's there are clean, spacious and reasonably priced.

Took the bus in the afternoon from Jaipur to Agra. 6 hours of non ac bus ride. All teams board the bus at the same time heading to the same direction. Team michelle and teo manage to sleep their way thru the dreadful 6 hours bus ride. Whereas team matthew and kokweng stayed up looking into space for 6 hours. My team mate, Daniel on the other hand was enjoying 6 hours of breezy windy japanese salty feet ride.

6 hours later, we reached Agra and checked into the bestest hotel in our golden triangle trip, Hotel Mandakini.

Sunday, 27th Sep

All of us woke up super early around 4-5am and left for Taj Mahal at 5:30am. Taj is just 300m away from our Hotel. Taj Mahal is speechlessly magnificent, incredible, awesome and beautiful.

Taj Mahal

* i is teh noob *

* he is teh pro *

We then visited Agra fort. The guy who built Taj Mahal was locked up here last time for wanting to build another identical Taj Mahal using black marble.

this is AGRA!!!!

Tiring and satisfied, we rent a cab from Agra to Delhi, another 4 hours ride. Delhi was like KL, we were all so happy to see Delhi as we pass by with the cab. Unfortunately, the sight of where we were staying freaked us out as we reach there at nite as well. Streets where pitifully small like a one way road and the lots are filled with neon light hotels and shops. The sight of the night scene was enuff to make us stay inside until the next day.

our humble hotel entrance

Monday, 28th Sep

Delhi streets looked so much more welcoming in the morning. Too bad we came out late. Met Kabir and he helped us to hire a cab. Left to Delhi airport to take our flight back to Hyderabad.

* time flies *

Flight back was like peanut after the 6 hours bus ride. And for once we really appreciate the winds of Hyderabad.

As we got back from our trip, we found out tat we're leaving on the 16th instead of the 24th. So in less than 2 weeks from now, we're heading back to KL. Gonna miss India~

The court is OURS!

2009-09-18T16:23:00.000-07:00

Yesh, for once the badminton court is ours!

No regrets waking up just now. Played from midnight till almost 4. Creating a great bond with my 26 ringgit Jonex and the fun is priceless~

Nites

5th week in Hyderabad

2009-09-12T21:30:00.000-07:00

Mock pro begins, at first it was like growing cancer from work but after a few tries and rahul's blood vomit repeats and recaps, I'm getting the hang of it.

Planned to watch district 9 this weekend, unfortunately its not up yet here in Hyderabad, only certain places in India. Some of the guys are planning to watch Final Destination 4. Guess i'll be spending my 5th week on badminton XD

Air tickets to Jaipur bought! We're flying on the 25th Sep weeeeeee.... to see pink city Jaipur, Taj Mahal at Agra and New Delhi. Just hope that we get to book the train tickets tomorrow, or we're stuck with the bus ride.

- A bientot

4th week in Hyderabad

2009-09-12T21:21:00.001-07:00

Let's see, 4th week we was like our last week of class training. Fast forward to the weekends, we went to the zoo, "Nehru Zoological Park". Not that great, but still alot more bigger and better than malaysian zoo.

Amazingly we did managed to spent like 6 hours in the zoo. Took the train ride, walk around the whole place, lion safari ride and stuff. The safari ride was dissapointing and pointless...

Lazed around on sunday, celebrated nelly's and yonhui's birthday in the evening at the clubhouse... flavors. Cakes and hotchips from aparna and gang. Happy oni~

Nigger

2009-09-06T09:35:00.000-07:00

Hope nigger didn't offended anyone today. Some of my indian friends were asking bout its name.

Missing Ganesh Celebration

2009-09-03T10:22:00.000-07:00

Today we were supposed to go to praveen's house to celebrate ganesh, time to immersed it into water. Supposed to be a great event all nite, but it was cancelled due to an upcoming social riot.

One of the CM (chief minister) of Andra Pradesh (so huge, he must be damn powerful) past away in a helicopter crash together with 5 other men. They went missing last nite and the crashed helicopter was found this morning and the CM confirmed dead.

Last nites jam was terrible, prolly its related. We got to leave abit earlier today, most of the shops and workers closed and left around afternoon to avoid the jam. On our way back to malaysian township, we saw burning tyres at most of the junctions. Not too sure if we're going to work tomolo...

3rd week in Hyderabad

2009-09-02T18:43:00.000-07:00

This is by far the best weekend yet. Furthered on the many many different ways of tracking and xxxxxx is such a great tool (although sometimes it likes to play tricks on me). It was Amit's last week here and we had a lunch gathering at Kansani GR hotel, its a normal lunch buffet delicious tomato soup.

*Au revoir Amit*

Saturday, 29th Aug (Happy B'day Mama!)
Fast forwards to the awesome weekend again, its like the highlight of the week. We went back to RnH to practice on wat we learnt. Around 2pm we left to take the train. All of us were invited to Praveen's house at Necklace road.

Praveen waited us at the station and lead us to his awesome home somewhere just infront of the station. The view of the lake and sky was awesome and breathtaking. Wonderful colours, great view and spacious, all of us just couldn't stop snapping pics here.

*necklace station*

*nice train*

*obstacle course to the mansion*

*lift to the mansion*

Had some samosa (indian currypuff) and indian tea (i like this). Hang out, chill and chat. Then around sunset we headed to the nearby park along the Hussein Sagar Lake. Chill out, snap more pics and as nite falls, we played with torchlights XD

new yoyo division, "torchlight 6A"

For dinner, Praveen and Lakshmi brought us to this super mega awesome restaurant called Ohri's. Its somewhat similar to Planet Hollywood in Malaysia, just at this is like planet Bollywood. We had dinner buffet there. This is by far the most satisfying and delicious meal i've ever had in India. It cost us 290 rps per person.

The mushroom pizza was delicious, i like the pizza, the salad nicoise, fish (this is so rare in india, lucky me), mini crabs, pineapples, tomatoes. So much good food. Couldn't eat on, i missed the ice cream and dessert round :P

*happy people who had their ice creams*

And to compensate my 290 rps, I've walked around snapping pics of the great food around. Can't wait to come back here next time, this place is just awesome!!!

Here are some pics at Ohri's:

Later in the nite, we walked back all the way to the station. Took the train back again. One of the awesomemess weekend ever. Ohri's and Praveen's sky view made our day full of smilies XD

Till then, stay tuned for next week as we planned to visit the zoo

A bientot

I want a LX3

2009-08-31T20:06:00.000-07:00

I want to buy the Lumix DMC-LX3!

2nd week in Hyderabad

2009-08-30T06:46:00.000-07:00

Woohoo, 2nd week lets see... learnt more on new softwares, and the basics of matchmoving and tracking. Got used to the things around studio more. Anyways, lets just fast forward to the weekends XD

Saturday, 22nd Aug
We're on our own as the Bg Prep guys are going back to studio for some work. In order to avoid rotting at home, I've got a little adventurous and took on the map and travel guide. As a tour guide of the week, I've decided to go to the Birla Mandir temple. Here goes...

Hi-tec City Trainstation

G and David

Took atus from malaysian township to nearby station, Hi-tec city train station. From there we took the train to Begumpet. Our very first time on India train. There's so many types of compartments, ladies, general, disables (i think i saw one) and first class. But nah, they dun really follow it all the time, sometimes u see some guys in the ladies compartment.

And crossing of railway tracks are very common in India. No biggie, we do tat all the time to get to another street. But the government do have some morale videos advising the citizens to not cross the tracks. Those videos are hilarious, bollywood tollywood style XD

posers XD

At Begumpet, we changed train from Secunderabad line to Hyderabad line and then took our stop at Khairatabad. Planned to walk from this station to Birla Mandir temple at Hill Fort, and as we walk cluelessly for the main road, lucky us we met a kind and helpful guy who then guide us all the way to the temple. It was really far, and if it wouldn't for him, we would never find the main road as most of them doesn't even look like one XD

our guide in white

Unfortunately as we reach Birla Mandir, its closed for lunch break from 12pm to 2pm. At 1pm, and no where to go, we had no choice but to visit the amazing Birla Planetarium which according to the travel guide, "the most modern in the country and is even ranked better than the planetariums in the developed countries".

Unfortunately... its also closed for lunch break =__=

No worries, we then visited the amazing Birla Science Museum, woohoo!!!! Gosh its so Amazing!!! The moment we stepped in its like we've walked into a really old skool children's arcade and playground. At the basements are displays of god statues... hmmm it was amazingly boring though. Oh and the amazing dinosaurium upstairs, unlike Jurassic Park where they have the T-Rex and ferocious dinos, they only have the tame vegetarian Kotasaurus. "This explains why there's so many vegetarians in India" - Nelaton

image taken on the net, the "Kotasaurus"

We then walked out to the street from Hill Fort for lunch at the British Library area.

*saw this on our way to lunch*

As we restart our journey back to the amazing Birla Mandir temple, its starts to rain. In the end we took atus straight to GVK one mall.

Operation Birla Mandir : Failed

Sunday, 23rd Aug
Today is so much more awesome. Amit together with Jateen and Anil booked a bus for us. We're off for a full day travel around Hyderabad/Secunderabad. We picked up the Bg prep guys on our way too.

Jateen, Anil and Amit (tour guide of the day)

First stop, Salar Jung Museum. No cameras allowed, or they'll shoot ur heads off before u can say "AHHH!!" XD This museum is way much bigger, classy and awesome than the amazing Birla Science Museum. I liked the weapons, ivory sculptures and clock collection section. Its quite big, took us quite sometime to finish touring the whole museum.

Salarjung Museum

group photo at salarjung

ganesha parading the streets

Oh and coincidently its the first day of Ganesha Chaturthi. Its a festival tat last for around 10 days where ppl have their ganeshas made before the festival. During the festival they'll bring em around, pray and celebrate. On the last day of the festival, they will immerse them in water. I guess its like a festival and parade to bring all ganesha for a public bath, hahaha. Happy oni~

2nd stop, Chowmahalla Palace. Royal palace for the nizam's during the olden days. Rich people XD

*awesome*

look

pearl harbour!

yay

group photo at chowmahalla

Finally, the Charminar!!! This is Hyderabad's most famous hotspots.Its so hard to snap pics here, u'll get bang by the cars, bikes, atus, camel, ganesha, watever u can find on the road if u're not careful coz this charminar thing here is located in the middle of the busiest street u can ever find in Hyderabad. (I hope i''m right :P)

Charminar!!!

at the top

*happy indian muslims*

view from top

another view from top

The entrace to the top of charminar cost only 2 rps, gosh so cheap tat's like 20 cents, c'mon let's go!!! Amazing, i'm non-Indian, so i have to pay 100 rps. I think tat's why only 4 of us went in, me, teo, godwing and matt. Oh, Amit and Anil too.

Pics around charminar road, the busy street:

market on the street

*busy busy street*

While waiting in the bus on our way back, we saw many ganesha passing by, most of the time they're either light blue, grey or white. So then Ashley was like sceaming from the other end, "Hey Look Black Ganesha!", all of us turn our heads to the back and just as it passed by... a camel appeared following at the back!!! All of us were like cowboys trying to reach for our cameras as fast as we could but we missed it!!!!!! CAMEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mosque

atu and mini train?

One of the best weekend, we went so many places XD all these just cost 160 rps of bus fare per person, thanks Amit and gang!

To end this post, here are some of the pictures taken in the bus:

Operation Charminar : Success!!!

Will be posting on the awesome mega 3rd week! Not to be missed, stay tuned...

A bientot

1st week in Hyderabad

2009-08-26T17:32:00.000-07:00

Left msia on the 9th of august, nite flight from KLIA to Shamshabad airport, Hyderabad. Around 4 hours of flight and 2.5 hours difference of time. By the time we squeeze through all the check ups, customs and luggage collection its around midnite and the drivers fetch us to our stay in malaysian township.

40 minutes of thrilling rollercoaster ride in the van, these are wat happened in the dark road:
- bumps and drifts (this is too much i'm exxagerating)
- almost bang 2 ppl
- almost blinded 2-3 times by hi-lights flashing in the opposite direction
- repeating waves of honking
- almost no street lights, only luna road lights
- speeeeeeeeeeeeed (so chee-cake XD)

But we reach malaysian township safe and sound. Then was the small orientation in one of the guy's apartment, divide the keys, phone card, numbers and a stash of money. We've got room 301 at block 18, a three-roomed apartment.

my bedroom

michelle's bedroom

teo and ashley's bedroom

living room

equipped with washing machine and dryer

at the balcony with michelle

clubhouse 1, place where we wait for the driver

Its almost 3am by the time we settle down, and with the condition of my room, i had to mop the floor and clean the toilet. Finally, I get to sleep at 5am. Lucky us, we are allowed to reach at 10 on the first day of work. Its not far from our place, maybe like 15 minutes ride to the studio at Hitec City. 1st week was ok, just mostly understanding how to get around things and stuff. Introduced myself to so many ppl and so many times O_O, swallowing so many indian names and some just tongue twist u *_*, the studio is awesome, the works they do are awesome, ppl here are friendly, I'm loving linux more than PC, and dun worry Mac i still love u :D

waiting for the driver to fetch us home

15th August 15th of August is the independence day of India. Woke up by the heavily beats of indian song coming out of my toilet bowl continuously from 6am to 12pm WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHH!!! anaaananeeneneh~!!!

We met the bg prep guys here too, on our first weekend we joined them for lunch at KFC after a thunderous independence bang that woke me up early in the mornin.

peace!

ashley, teo and ashes at KFC

And after that, we walked to the nearby Shilparamam, Craftsvillage. Its near the roundabout entrance to Hitec City. Lots of crafts stuff for sell, arts like henna, culture village tour, lakes, amphitheatre, bollywood fields and gardens. (they must have one of these at every hotspots, feels like anytime u can catch a live bollywood scene)

entrance to shilparamam

this pic shows how exciting shilparamam is

stalls at the craftsvillage

*tinkles~*

stop by the house to snap pics XD

everyone says his my long lost sibling O_O"

my housemates!

my fave, dum dum and his gum gums

nice fair and lovely buffalos XD

unfortunately, we have to leave, this fella here is sad

Then on sunday we went to Golkonda Fort. This is my most favourite place of all. Its so huge so high up, u can run here and there and hike up if u don't like the stairs XD. I'm planning to go one more time as 2 guys were left out and we haven't visit the Qutub Shahi Tombs beside it. (perhaps after our first paychecks? >:P)

arrive at golkonda fort with our atus

poser XD

man at the window

clapping portico

golkonda fort

cricket in the fort

stairway to heaven XD

*snap snap*

on top

group photo XD

Will post more on the 2nd week, i'm now at the 3rd week hahaaa~

p.s: more pics on facebook

A bientot~

2009 I'm back!!

2009-08-25T21:13:00.000-07:00

Wow I'm back, it's 2009 and half way thru the year. Its been a long time since i posted anything, will be posting soon.

I'm currently in Hyderabad, India going through an apprenticeship training for 2 and a half months. India is awesome, visited many places and met many indians.

A bientot~

p.s: nigger is crippled and healthy :D

::DeePaPaintBall::

2008-10-29T06:44:00.001-07:00

This deepavali, we played paintball in Tanamera, Sungai Buloh. It's my first time playing and its awesome!!

We get to play in the jungle, with hills, lake, bushes and rubber tree plantations. There's also speedball where i did most of my bollywood moves.

Even though playing it for the first time and against the regulars, we did manage to win a match of capture the house. (too bad i wasn't there to see ah beh running his guts out to touch "da house")

paintball 101:
1) "its not as colorful as u think, its like teh tarik"
2) "they just dun like to shoot the vest"
3) "they shoot u more when u surrender"
4) " do not trust them when they say they'll cover u"
5) " beware of sam and the guy in orange"
6) "if u're bald, go get a wig"

Daruma Post

2008-10-13T21:45:00.000-07:00

This little cute bulat here is called a Daruma, he once got arms and legs but have then withered off from his body because of his long period medition. As for the eyelids? He got so freaking tired after meditating for so long, he just cuts and rips em' off~

But anyways, this cute lil toy here symbolises preseverence and some say good luck. This is how it works, when u make a wish, u paint one side of the eye. When ur wish is granted, u paint the other side of the eye.

This one here got 5 more chibi darumas... mebe this is for those who wanna make 6 wishes? dang, so cute!

haha, i found this pic also. Some darumas are heavily weighted on the bottom, so that when u push it, it will get back up? No wonder so hard for them to jump and eat M&M's XD

Nah this is not daruma, its a kokeshi. Found it when searching for daruma... but the head looks like xiaowen, so cute XD

*daruma usavich?*
they just came out new episode!

Toy Nigga

2008-10-08T18:37:00.000-07:00

Eugene sent me a link to some toys, and i found this toy nigga so cute. Would be nice to have one.

"Look its SpongeNibob!"

Bukit Tabur (East)

2008-09-28T22:02:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I went hiking with the guys in bukit tabur again, this time its the east part. The routes a bit more rough and harder than the west, not much of a nice scene from the top though. The west part's more beautiful, got lotsa green velvety moss. There's like a 5-storey 80 degree climb towards the peak with a rope though, this is the only nice part of east tabur apart from the view of klang gates i guess. The peak of west tabur is like a mini garden, very cooling and beautiful, alot of pokok renek. But this east one is botak. When i went up have to cover my head with towel like terrorist to avoid sunburn. You can see this pic up there, the further peak is west, covered with trees. Overall roughly to and fro its takes 3-4 hours with free ganguro treatment on the peak while waiting for turns to go up and down the one way climb.

After that we waited for the others to come down then head over to makan in wangsa maju, since its so near taman melawati. This time shin brought us to makan pan mee and also introduce us this very famous "ICE" in wangsa maju. (Its some kinda popsicle like ice kacang but without kacang just ice.... "ICE")

Picture not taken by me though, i just grab from google. But anyways, this ICE so nice. Got all fruit juices flavour and some with chunks of fruit in it. Shin and the others mix dragon fruit with mango and some other flavour. I took the honey dew flavour, yummy~ Then ar... went home take bath and watch "money no enough 2" Sad ending for the mother. Alzheimer disease part damn funny, haha

Attend kendo in the evening, kena belasah again. Come home then aiya habis ledi lo weekend... have to kerja again = =

*dun have pics yet, i'm not the one having the cam"

I saw something!

2008-09-02T14:34:00.000-07:00

That monday i woke up and saw something outside my window. Tadaa... its a new basketball court! YESH!!!! one more basket and some lines on the ground, it should be ready by this week. Lalalalalala~