botanical garden

Dear Sumire,

Last week during the raya break, I promised Nana I'll bring her out 'jalan-jalan'. Previously I promised her to bring her to the zoo, but that didn't turn out well. Her fault also, not mine. Since shopping center are boring, we decided to go somewhere green! My sister was the one who suggested the Botanical Garden (formerly called Hutan Rekreasi), since she recently had her 'Treasure Hunt' there.

As usual, I'll let the picture do the talking. And btw, my mum shot most of the pictures here. I'm busy posing and carrying Nana around!

If you're interested to pay the botanical garden a visit, it's located at Ayer Keroh. It's not too far away from Wonderland Waterpark. Not too difficult to find. I think it's kinda fun with all the dino statues there, but other than that, I think it's one piece of thick jungle. Haha.. The sceneries are pretty nice, but the playgrounds and the pathway could used some cleaning. Not bad lah!

Signing off,

jin

chilling before exam!

Dear Sumire,

Previously on Wednesday, i went to Mid Valley with my darling Sze Mun to watch Iron Man 2. It iss an awesome movie! I brought my camera along so I had some fun shooting around! We had our lunch at Sweet Chat since I'd some promotional vouchers at my disposal anyway. I must admit I do love that place.

Darling's spicy spaghetti. I love the taste!

My curry noodles.

She with her lemon tea and my cappuchino!

After the movie ends, we hang out outside The Garden's fountain area, where we shot some portraits. My portrait was shot by my darling, of course. =)

A spontaneous shot after I call her name, and I love this shot a lot!

The love (bokeh) is in the air!

This might be a little off topic, but I'm trying to improve my photography skill. I feel I'm kinda weak. I could say i understand the theories, but practically I lack the practice. I'm not planning to get any new gears soon, but if I do, it's gonna be a D.I.Y project! I wish I could get some freelance outdoor portraiture photography or design job, but I really have no idea where to find my very first client. (So please, if you guys are interested, please contact me!)

Other then that, I planned to begin my own 365 Project. Well, it would mean I will produce a picture a day for 365 days continuously. I'm hoping by doing this, I could improve. But even if I don't, I believe that it wouldn't be a total waste. Right? I wish I could get my readers feedback on this. Thank you.

Please drop a comment?
jin

kuen's birthday

Dear Sumire,

So long no update. Haha.. Anyway, this is just some pictures I took during nenek's birthday. Running out of things to write. No idea. So this post, gambar saja lah!

Signing off,
jin

i aTtenDeD aaR coNcErt!!

I attended the All American Rejects concert in Bukit Jalil on the 31st of October! If I didn’t have Huilin accompanying me, maybe I won’t be there at all. And I’m super glad I was there! That concert rocks!

Also playing at the concert was Disagree, One Buck Short, and Pop Shuvit. I always think Pop Shuvit is a really cool band. I personally love it when Pop was playing Oh! Sizuka and Marabahaya. I don’t know the words to the songs (although I had listened to Marabahaya a few thousand times at least) and I wished I knew de lyrics so I can sing along! It was raining when they perform but the crowd was still crazily hype and jumping and jumping and shouting and singing along!

One Buck Short’s lead singer Mooky couldn’t make it to the concert, so some friends of the band covered for him. I don’t know their songs, but I love it when they sing Kelibat Korupsi. That hit memang terer lah!

After all our own local bands have done performing, the crowd impatiently waited for more than half an hour. They’re so bored they sing along when the organizers played some MTV by Lady Gaga and Black Eyed Peas and some other artistes. It’s kinda funny and fun really!

When AAR finally shows their faces, the crowd immediately went nuts! They’re great performers. When they did their well known singles like Dirty Little Secrets, I Wanna, and Gives You Hell, the entire crowd sang along. Really the ENTIRE crowd and screaming out the lyrics! The concert suddenly turns into Sesi Karaoke bersama All American Rejects! I’m sure the roaring can be heard from every corner of Bukit Jalil!

I’m just glad I was there. They rocks! AAR, Pop, Disagree and One Buck Short! They all rockz!!
Thanks to DiGi for being wicked and gives out free tickets!

sUrrOgatEs

Before I came back from Shah Alam, I had the opportunity to hang out and catch ‘Surrogates’ with Hui Lin. The funny thing about us is that we’d been SMS-ing a lot, but we’d never really talked much face to face. I really had a great time borak kosong with her. All our topics revolve around our assignments and movie critics.

After movie sempat go dinner some more. I was the one driving, but she’s the one bawa jalan. I wonder when only I’ll know my way around Klang Valley? I’m always doing the wrong turn here and there. Hilarious.

But what i wanted to share here is ‘Surrogates’.
This movie is set in a near future, where humans are actually interacting using humanoid machines that they control with much liberty on a control chair from their respective home. All aspect of life is done using these machines they call ‘Surrogates’.

I wonder why the Malaysia version of the poster is so damn ugly.
This version looks neat and nice.

The movie actually had a pretty nice, neat and easy to understand introduction. The technology used in Surrogates was invented in order to help those who are physically impaired. People who’d lost their limbs in accidents or any other means are given artificial machine limbs in which they can control at ease. Slowly, the technology expanded so much that full humanoid surrogates are created. It’s then commercialized and the government allows its use in daily social life. This action is said to be the first step to generate the crime-free society.

Bruce Willis stars in this futuristic science fiction as Tom Greer. He is a police detective that conducts his investigation using his own surrogate. It was until his machine was destroyed, he is forced to investigate the bizarre case of a few people who actually died, when their surrogates are ‘killed’.

I would recommend this movie. Not 5 star la. Maybe 3 star the best. The special effects are really cool, but the plot, it is somehow too predictable. Still, it’s an enjoyable movie.
You might like it. ;-)

O-liDay

Holiday begins today. Officially. Finally I’m done with everything! Done my packaging presentation, finished exam, and suddenly, I feel all eased up. Still worried about how I did in my exam also though. Information design totally sucked bad time. Shouldn’t have thought of that now that holiday is finally here!

The happy part of the holiday is that I’m going to head back to Melaka, and play all I want with Nana. Hang out with Eunice after her exam is over, and maybe hang out with some other friends as well. The downside is that I’m gonna leave Shah Alam, and might not come back until the 18th. That’ll mean I’m not getting to see my darling for a month or so. Argh.

Well... Holiday is supposed to be relaxing. You’re supposed to feel stress free, and relax all you want. It should be a happy moment, even if it’s temporary and you might have to work your ass again once it’s over.

But I know, to one particular individual, it’s just impossible. They’ll take their time, planning on how to make others feel miserable. She’ll be begging for pity from everyone around that still talks to her through Facebook, MSN, SMS or any other possible means. The story will be the same every single time: ‘The world is against her.’ To other people, they might say she’s always ‘EMO’. I think it’s ‘HOBBY’ la actually. Oh well. I guess people will still layan her and try to convince her anyhow. It’s so lucky to be her. Yea la. If not lucky, people she spat on won’t layan her also right?

Oh, and if she accidentally visited my blog, she might save it on a Word document and spread it among her friends. “See how Eugene mocked me. Yea la. Memang mocking you pun. It’s not like I’m making up stories also ryte? You behave exactly like what I said in my previous entry. It’s either I wrote it while looking at that face I now despise, or I had a silver-tongue and you behaved according to what I said. Argh. Don’t want to talk about these celaka story d anyway.

I’m quite happy la today (it’s 6:14a.m. now, so I might as well use the term ‘yesterday’). Sherlin brought us to a ‘Sushi-styled-steamboat’ at Puchong, and that place is really quite nice. For 28 bucks per pax, the food is actually quite nice. It’d been so long since all of us house-mates chill out together. The mess I had with Aj almost a month ago made me thought that a gathering like this is no longer possible. Glad that I was wrong. It turned out that we could actually talk nicely in peace. God really did heard my pleads.

Here’s the picture we took when we dine! Uploaded it on Facebook, so it’s all there. =D

iT's a nEw day

Saturday morning. Everyone left for their early morning classes. I’m left sitting alone here in front of my laptop. I don’t like the feeling of being alone, but today might be a good chance to just sit down and relax a little.

Life had been spinning 360 since the last few weeks. There’re moments of confusion, surprise, fear, happiness, despair and bitterness. But it’s all over now, I want to start anew. I want to get back on track.

I’ll just keep this post short. Need to pack. Need to head back to Melaka!!


:-D

anTi thefT sysTem

I've been hanging at home for the past 2 weeks. Only go outs occasionally, and most of the time, even if I do get out, I'm just driving my family around, or fetch my sister to her tuition class. Memang bosan la~ In a blink of an eye, there goes 2 weeks of my holiday!

But it's fine lah just hanging around at home. Not like I don't like it. Haha.. Can teman mummy, babysit Nana, watch movie, online like usual... It's fine really. After all, it's my home sweet home.

That's not the main topic yet. On Sunday, my sister bought a pair of jeans at Bintang. Well, we paid for the jeans and bungkus back home lo ryte? And guess what my mum discovered the next day when she wanted to wash the new bought jeans?

THIS!!
Yes, the anti theft system thing!!

The cashier did not remove this thing after we pay for it! But the thing is there's no alarm whatsoever when we moved away from the counter. maybe Bintang's security and anti theft system are all bullshits after all.

My mum said we should just get the pants back to Bintang, show them the receipt and have it removed for us. But I'm excited and I was eager to remove the thing myself! After some discussing, my mother allow me to have some fun, as long as I don't make any holes in the pants.

I saw a small metal material that connects the two plastic pieces. I try to bend that thing using my hand, but to no avail. I thought I need some kinda tools.

And so I start digging my dad's toolbox, and I tried to cut it using this plier.

My dad's pliers are weary and blunt, again, to no avail. If you zoom in, all you can see some tiny dents to the metal. Nothing more than that.

So, in my frustration, I resorted to 'violence'. I tried to use a hammer to break the plastic cover.

You know what? Wah-lao-eh!! The plastic cover must be made of some heavy duty plastic or some kinda super heavy duty material that looks like plastic! I tried to hammer it numerous time, and there's not even a dent on it.

After some time, I thought it's kinda useless trying to break the big piece of plastic cover. So I switched my attention to the smaller piece of semi sphere plastic on the other end. This is how I do it. Lol..

At last, some results can be seen! Hahaha.. In the end the plastic piece is torn in pieces. and it came off really easily. So much for the hammer and all. So next time if you steal a jeans from supermarket face a careless cashier who forget to remove this anti theft thingy from your jeans, break the smaller piece of the plastic using two pliers, dun hammer them. Lol!

Tadaaa... End of this post! I know it's kinda stupid posting this kinda shit and all, but I thought it could really be some kinda stupid and foolish blogging material. Haha.. After all, many friends said my blog are getting too emo. Lol.

I hope you enjoyed reading about this stupid post~
And yea... I forgot to mention, besides getting that thing off my sister's jeans, I also made a hole there. Hahaha..

Oh by the way, I would like to credit some individuals for making this blog entry possible. As you can see, I used both my hands in the process. All the pictures in this post is taken by my mum! And also, thanks to the careless cashier in Bintang.