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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Chinese New Year 2009: Year of the Earth Ox
Well, this year my family decided to go somewhere else: Ipoh. It's a place one of my cousins live in, and we're pretty excited to celebrate this new year with somewhere different.
First off: Ipoh does have it's charm of its mountainous geographical area. (Seriously, it really feels really good with the hills reaching the clouds and my parents are literally excited about the sallow caves they spotted). We went to a cave temple there, and it was a Buddhist version of Batu Caves. And yes, It was crowded even for the new year's day where people supposed to be at home celebrating. Yea, my family included.
I can't believe I'm so damn freaking tired when I'm driving back, I'm overcoming it with loud music and humming them. Too bad, i had to pull up at the nearest R&R stop to ask my sister to continue the rest of the journey. So, Ipoh is farther than I thought it would be.
All in all, it was a great experience.
First off: Ipoh does have it's charm of its mountainous geographical area. (Seriously, it really feels really good with the hills reaching the clouds and my parents are literally excited about the sallow caves they spotted). We went to a cave temple there, and it was a Buddhist version of Batu Caves. And yes, It was crowded even for the new year's day where people supposed to be at home celebrating. Yea, my family included.
I can't believe I'm so damn freaking tired when I'm driving back, I'm overcoming it with loud music and humming them. Too bad, i had to pull up at the nearest R&R stop to ask my sister to continue the rest of the journey. So, Ipoh is farther than I thought it would be.
All in all, it was a great experience.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Internship: Week 0
The reason I name it week 0 because it's not really my official internship period yet.
So I got my internship placement in Motiofixo, located in Cyberjaya. It's great news that is near my place. So no fuss, traffic jams or something stupid while traveling to work.
So far the big guy is just showing some of the ropes in the place. My first impression: Very laidback and casual, but it's still business and work. Hopefully my actual job have an environment as such.
And yes, there's a gaming console at the lobby! But it's only allowed after office hours.
More updates soon.
So I got my internship placement in Motiofixo, located in Cyberjaya. It's great news that is near my place. So no fuss, traffic jams or something stupid while traveling to work.
So far the big guy is just showing some of the ropes in the place. My first impression: Very laidback and casual, but it's still business and work. Hopefully my actual job have an environment as such.
And yes, there's a gaming console at the lobby! But it's only allowed after office hours.
More updates soon.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Monday, January 05, 2009
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Switch the Channel
I remember the last time I did blog about the music nowadays being such a crap fest that people will just listen to without even considering that the particular song even make any sense. I think television is quickly following to sunk its quality.
Back in the day when TV is pretty much a staple entertainment in most families, there were pretty good shows that is surely suit someone's tastes. Comedies are cleverly written and are actually funny, some intrigued story lines for dramas and some really, really good sci-fi and adventure TV shows. I think that stopped around early 2000s.
What happened? Reality TV. I admit, I am a sucker in some of the show in this genre. Some reality shows are really crappy (watch the ones in MTV), some just drag people out from their everyday lives and put them into a competition, or just in a house with cameras. Boy, some people did just anything for the camera. I mean ANYTHING.
What about the wholesome ones? Well there are still new dramas/sitcoms and actual scripted shows featuring REAL actors, unfortunately they weren't as popular as they used to be. No, not because they suck, but people just prefer to watch either-the run-of-the-mill spin offs of the same genre (I can even tell you which one are these: Cops, hospitals and lawyers). Or the reality crap as described above.
Furthermore, I am pretty pissed that there are already 3 shows in the same network had been canceled. All of them are pretty new TV shows and all of them are pretty different than the rest. I'm refering to ABC's decision to yank off Eli Stone, Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money. 2 of them I just started to appreciated.
Ah well, it seems to be there is no future of creative writing in TV shows. One can only hope it will be better in the future, once people realize there are better shows on DVD than the ones currently showing on TV.
Back in the day when TV is pretty much a staple entertainment in most families, there were pretty good shows that is surely suit someone's tastes. Comedies are cleverly written and are actually funny, some intrigued story lines for dramas and some really, really good sci-fi and adventure TV shows. I think that stopped around early 2000s.
What happened? Reality TV. I admit, I am a sucker in some of the show in this genre. Some reality shows are really crappy (watch the ones in MTV), some just drag people out from their everyday lives and put them into a competition, or just in a house with cameras. Boy, some people did just anything for the camera. I mean ANYTHING.
What about the wholesome ones? Well there are still new dramas/sitcoms and actual scripted shows featuring REAL actors, unfortunately they weren't as popular as they used to be. No, not because they suck, but people just prefer to watch either-the run-of-the-mill spin offs of the same genre (I can even tell you which one are these: Cops, hospitals and lawyers). Or the reality crap as described above.
Furthermore, I am pretty pissed that there are already 3 shows in the same network had been canceled. All of them are pretty new TV shows and all of them are pretty different than the rest. I'm refering to ABC's decision to yank off Eli Stone, Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money. 2 of them I just started to appreciated.
Ah well, it seems to be there is no future of creative writing in TV shows. One can only hope it will be better in the future, once people realize there are better shows on DVD than the ones currently showing on TV.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
New Year.... 2009
Woah 3 days past in 2009 already. And my head is still set in 2008.
Some things just move too fast, others move too slow to me. Guess things just move at their own pace of their liking, never at the pace that I want. Hmmph!
Last month is the usual PC fair, and boy the crowd is still massive as ever. (the promoters are even more, I dunno why they need 80 promoters to gather at the end of their booth to pass flyers). I got myself some RAM. Storage devices (External Hard Disks, Thumb drives) are ridiculously cheap (I should have got them anyways).
Anyways, no blurb at Ireland Worlds about MMU, or even a single Malaysian team, or even an Asian team... On the other hand, Oxford Union is going strong with 3 teams in semi-finals, along with Monash, Queensland, Victoria Wellington, Manchester and Harvard. Barely know anyone of them in the teams except the guys from Monash, possibly Queensland (the Aussies are a great and friendly bunch one you get to know them)
And then there were 362 days left in 2009.
Some things just move too fast, others move too slow to me. Guess things just move at their own pace of their liking, never at the pace that I want. Hmmph!
Last month is the usual PC fair, and boy the crowd is still massive as ever. (the promoters are even more, I dunno why they need 80 promoters to gather at the end of their booth to pass flyers). I got myself some RAM. Storage devices (External Hard Disks, Thumb drives) are ridiculously cheap (I should have got them anyways).
Anyways, no blurb at Ireland Worlds about MMU, or even a single Malaysian team, or even an Asian team... On the other hand, Oxford Union is going strong with 3 teams in semi-finals, along with Monash, Queensland, Victoria Wellington, Manchester and Harvard. Barely know anyone of them in the teams except the guys from Monash, possibly Queensland (the Aussies are a great and friendly bunch one you get to know them)
And then there were 362 days left in 2009.
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