Concerts and Chaos

Maybe I'm getting old, but somehow I am losing touch on how and why youngsters love certain things. Attending concerts for example. While it is good fun and all, but there are really a lot of things that can ruin your enjoyment. This is the place where people:

*Shove at each other. I don't get it. Why the hell people do that? This leads to some people:

*Squeeze their way in front. Sorry, it sucks to be short. But if you want to be front and centre, arrive to the venue EARLY, like an hour early (The place fills up like mad once the gates are open).

*Smoke amongst the crowd. Really? Don't you know not everyone prefers to inhale tobacco unlike you? At least bear it for a while until the show is over. Or move away to light up. Also, there ARE minors there.

*Endure the rain, sweat and suffocation. Also, people jumping all over and step on your feet. Think really hard before you come.

Well I went to the All-American Rejects concert on Halloween. The show was worth the wait, let just say the experience could be better. On the positive note, the songs they perform are pretty good. From usual crowd pleasing "Dirty Little Secret", "Swing, Swing", "My Paper Heart", "Move Along" and "It Ends Tonight", and also the songs from their recent album: "Gives You Hell", "The Wind Blows", "I Wanna" and more. Tyson the lead singer is a hoot, entertaining and funny.

Working on ideas... in a holiday noless

Ever since I have been studying for a degree, my mind wanders on what I would be in the future. I doubt it would be an animator or a 3D designer... because there are people out there outclass me in any way possible. What I was sure about was to do something about the media, be it PR or advertising, broadcast or print.

So after my internship is over and I returned to campus and everything has settled for the holidays, I have my goals set for the first time in 3 years: writing.

Writing for TV/movies specifically.

For those are wondering why, here's why: I had always had a knack of writing stories and creating stories, since high school. Every essay choices during exams I picked is ALWAYS narrative, because it is not very restricting, the words flow much easier compared to writing a factual/descriptive/reflective. Most of all, you NEVER need to worry about being under the word count (Though you need to watch out the time restrictions, because you know, it is a test after all). Which is WHY I ventured Film & Animation, because that's the only majoring that is anything remotely related to storytelling.

So there are two ideas I am tinkering right now:
-FYP idea. Our theme is about "Rhythm", so I need some associations about this particular word. No cliched music-driven animation (Though it would be after all that), so it is about music, rhythmic patterns in life.

Possibly would be done in Motion Graphics and some green screening (Not going to call it a VFX because it isn't).

-Writing my first TV script. I meant it to be pitched somewhere (I doubt it would be here. Possibly in the US). This is fo sho, y'all! I drafted the story outline in a short story form to check out any flaws and fix it before it would be turned into a script.

I sent the story out to some of my friends and got pretty mixed reviews... Not bad for a first timer but I still need some fine tuning to make it appealing.

That's all for now. Signing off.

Can You Hear the Birds Sing?

I just set up a profile in Twitter and... I have no idea WHAT to do with it.

I pretty slow in picking up the latest web fads. I used to be such, and I still am. I only started blogging at 2005 when everyone already typed tons of posts in their blogs, adding friendster, myspace and facebook only after multiple attempts of my friends persuasions and prodding and now this.

It looks kinda of convenient for me, like just type in whatever you want to say in short little blurbs. I kinda looks like the status update in facebook, only shorter.

If anyone whats to follow me, please do so by clicking the link at the side column.

Tweet away, folks!

Earth Hour

Well I really did my part. Though my mom doesn't really see the point of doing it anyway.

I'm no stranger to just merely turn off the lights, cause in my area power failures are becoming a norm already. So I'm pretty cool with that.

Being this part of the activism forces me to think a little about my forgetful self. I tend to leave some electric appliances left on for hours. Lights, fan, computer etc. Guess I have to knock my big head to ALWAYS remember to turn it off after use.

Of course this energy conserving thing is not suppose to be a one off, cause not applying it in your everyday life just makes it redundant. Cheers

Christmas 2008 Decors

Christmas decorations of various shopping complexes.

Yoga Banned?

Shocked? Me too.

Of al things that are posing threats to the society at large, our government body determines to ban this ancient, meditating, healthy exercise for Muslims.

This is absurd. Why not ban drugs that are dangerous and potentially life-threatening? Now THAT'S something that's useful.

Whatever, Governing body. You always makes surprising decisions that makes the whole world to laugh about.

Yes, I also vividly remember the whole street name changing fiasco suggested by the city council.

Of Halloweens and Beers

It's late of October and two things are happening:

Halloween: Nothing fancy going on but I just happened to watch a whole lot of TV shows are doing their Halloween special. Some are downright scary, but others are taking the lighter tone of the festival.

Oktoberfest: If there's a festival that means a lot of drinking, I'm up for that.

Didn't expect 2008 flew by that fast, somehow I don't seem to be ready for 2009. Heh.

Tying the Knot

I attended my cousins wedding yesterday, and boy it was a ritual filled event, with all the subtle gestures and the games some of the guest played on the groom in order to welcome the bride. As it is a traditional Chinese wedding, there is also a tea ceremony to the older generation.

After all the rituals are done , it's time to get ready to attend the banquet dinner. THe dinner is fine and all. But the highlight of the night for me is -- I met my high school CLASSMATE on my way back! I can't believe my eyes! But I did say hi to him.

When I asked who is he related to, he said he's the groom's distant relative. (I assume he's the groom's second cousin or something). So what are we then? He shrugged his shoulders. I too have no idea what kind of relation we have until I had to figure it out myself. (2nd cousin in law? Depends how "distant" relative to my cousin in law.)

The world is really small, you know. And I started to believe the theory of everyone is 6 degrees separated is true.

LEE CHONG WEI IS GETTING A MEDAL FOR MALAYSIA!!!

Sorry... just HAVE to caps the title... :)

Congratulations to Lee Chong Wei! You made Malaysia proud. WHOOHOO!!!

It has been 12 years Malaysia didn't have a single medal in the Olympics. This year there will be a change. I was literally rejoicing when this dude won the semi-finals in the men's single badminton event.

Look at him... so exhausted from the semi-finals against the Korean shuttler.

We'll see the finals unfold on Sunday when he will compete against Lin Dan from China. Good luck to him.

For trivia lovers, Malaysia only won a silver and 2 bronzes in 1992 and 1996 Olympics. All of them in badminton. Yea, that's it.

On the other note, there is so much controversies going on during the course of the Olympics. One of them if the age of the gymnasts from China (seriously, 16? Those girls look like they are 13 for goodness sake) and also the failure of dope tests that seem to happen every single time.

And oh, Yahoo! Sports, STOP trying to put USA on the top of the medal tally just because they got the most medals. It's pretty annoying. Place them when they actually get the most GOLD medals (which they most likely to), like the other sites do. Gah!

Beijing Olympics... Whooo!

It's here, Olympics 2008 is happening in Beijing right now and the opening ceremony is AMAZING!!! I would like to show some pictures if I have them...

The whole event is just fantastic.... Especially the fireworks display, pretty blinding your eyes even if you watch it on TV (I wonder how people cope with all the glare in the stadium)

AND... not forget the whole sporting event that are happening right now...

Night of Chocolate Fondue

My friends had organized some lovely night to showcase their work to their peers and lecturers. To top it off they are serving something which is one of their favorite, which is CHOCOLATE! Lots of chocolate served with multiple tidbits such as marshmallows, fruits and crackers.

I just love the chocolate fountain. The last time I saw one is in a mall in Thailand.

I really enjoyed the night. Thanks a lot guys!

P.S: I did drank a full cup of molten chocolate. And too much of a good thing is never really good at all.

Turned 21 on the 21st

Woohoo! An adult! =P Heck I still act like a child sometimes...

I had a fun time for the whole day, well some family outing sort of. The last time we had that kind of outing was quite a long time ago... (okay, it was 2 weeks).

We went to the hot springs in Hulu Tamu, which is somewhere near Genting Highlands. Water there was really HOT (well duh!), I have yet to soak my feet to the water for a long period of time unlike my dad.

Let's see, it's my first time to the Batu Caves (yea, surprising). We climbed 272 steps to the top of the cave and it is not easy feat. Wonder why we went there the first place.

My mom told me that she went there before years ago, and things are not the same as it used to. There are a lot of stalls, shops, kiosks selling snacks, souvenirs and loads of stuff there to cater the tourists there now, compared to just a flight of stairs leading to the cave and some temples. There are also monkeys who are joining in the visiting crowd too. =)

To cap it off, there is a simple but nice birthday cake, streams of facebook scrawlings on my wall and receiving SMSes from my friends.

Elections

Our General Elections are finally over and there is a rave discussion over the results so far....

Five State Assemblies have been taken over by the Opposition, something unprecedented in the past 50 years, namely Kedah, Penang, Perak, Selangor and the usual Kelantan.

Shocking, isn't it?

Maybe it is high time BN has to change their policies that cater to the general public.

Flying to Bangkok

For those who fly often, this flying experience thing is nothing new to you. For me this is the first time flying. It's a really cool experience; and an exiciting one too.

First of all, i have to check in EXTREMELY EARLY for the flight scheduled. the flight is at 10.40 and i have to start moving at about 6.30am! After all the procedures are done, there's still time to hangout for a while.

LCCT entrance

A little busy cafe at the airport. Expensive as hell but heck i was hungry for anything.

30 minutes before take-off, it's time to board the plane. You know what, people already lining up at the front gate for ages to board the plane, it sort of reminds me of people queuing up for buses and people scrambling in to board the flights. The best part is the moment we actually take off. It's a great view from above. =)

Land at Bangkok, everyone has to take a bus designated for the flight to the airport. Funny thing is there are no seats in the bus (maybe it is to cater more people in one trip), so everyone has to stand throughout the journey. Fair enough...

See you guys soon for more updates!

Of Rights and Freedoms

Well, there is no doubt that Malaysia is a place like no other. Multiracial ethics from all walks of life can live together in peace and harmony (this is so cliche as it's always been mentioned in every National Day ads...)

But the thing is, within our peaceful exterior we have our own grave problems. We are still segregate ourselves according to who we are. Honestly, we are still not a united country to me.

Don't believe me? Then ask yourself these questions:
1. List 15 of your best friends. Any of them other than your own race?
2. When was the last time you have meals with your friends of other ethicity?
3. Do you visit open houses during festivities of other cultures?
4. Do you tend to stereotype people of other ethicity?
5. Who do you tend to sit beside them?

Shocking, isn't it? To be honest, not many people can be proud to say they are the "true" Malaysian that has a diverse circle of friends.

Lately there was a demonstration regarding racial discrimination in KL (regarding the affrimative action and all). To me, it's time to make changes, time to move on and treat people the same, regardless of who they are.