blog'in bak soon!!

its time for me blog again.... need time 2 change all the old layout n hav a fresh start!!!

Bangkok - Taipei

update soon

jolin - choco party

9 Dec 2006

Jolin chai’s fans no offence, I used to hate her sooooo much, y? Because she’s a copycat, she copy…. Er.. follows (sounds better) every single thing tat Japan’s Ayumi Hamasaki did. She wore the same clothing tat ayumi did, not only same style but almost identical dress or some accessories. Han Seng a huge fan of ayumi, influence me to listen to ayumi everyday few years back and told me about how crappie jolin was. Jolin’s Music sucks big time during her 1^st few years in music industry and she don’t even know how 2 dance. But my perception towards her changes after I went to her concert in PJ. I dint think of going at 1^st (since I hate her so much, it doesn’t cross my mind at all!) but after knowing that I have no plans for tat night, my sis, cousin going and teong going for the concert , so I bought the ticket last minute, 5 hours b4 the concert start. Everything almost sold out, except 2 seats on vvip for 300bucks each and those seats way behind n corner…..so I bought the vvip ticket for a singer that I hate and sitting alone in the middle of crazy fans. I know it’s gonna be a hard time there.

my cous, sis n me after the concert; my sis's friend

From the start, nothing special (boring), she sang some of her not tat well known songs (so bored till teong and me was sms’ing each other), but my mood started when she sang those catchy song of hers, ye man yu si…etc la not bad la… her dancing improved a lot, the song tat she sang wit Wesley (I like his music) very well done. And the one caught my attention the most was the song Tian Kong, I can notice her, singing with all her heart and emotions. After all, I felt tat paying 300 buck is not worth it, cos she still can’t convince me 2 be her fan, anyway it was a good concert.

13 Dec 2006
chocolate party

theres nothing much to do during my holidays and my usual gathering with my buddies (u know who u are) would be at cafes or pubs, this time i want something different, a small choco party at the balcony - my place la....we dip almost anything edible into the fountain.. wooola.. nicessss (like mr borat)
from the pic above u can notice that feiling is getting her strawberry,pretending to be slow, dont want me 2 snap some terrible image of her eating or getting the food. while huay pin look satisfying with what she have (she ate nonstop from start n she ate the most) and geoksoon quickly wipe off his saliva after notice i took out the camera...mohgee n swoon banned me for taking their ugly eating photos :p ... i knew u guys have a bad habit in eating... lol, jwei as usual came late - about 1-2 hours... n he is not in the pic, sheryee came as well, after work, which is around 10.30pm. we all had a good chat after finishing almost 5kg of margeret river chocolate factory's chocolate...

happy customers.....

2006 KL International Buskers Festival - 2nd dec 2006

A few days after I landed in KL, I was invited to join a voluntary performance for the 1st 2006 KL International Buskers Festival Street Parade at Kuala Lumpur’s famous landmark – Sultan Abdul Aziz Building aka high court. So guess wart am I performing? Not a flower, not those with the fire thingi, not a clown, but a crowd instigator (I think tat a correct word). Yup… it’s a person who instigate the crowd to join in the parade (be a part of the parade) and have fun!

me n pin - ready for the nite ; the crowd instigator with kids in green

my groupie seems 2 enjoy themselves with other performers.. ; look at them (the yellow shirts) tats wart im doin as well for 2 hours dancing around

I was stationed at the road (stage) right in front of seated audience beside the VIPS the whole night just to entertain and bring the crowd to get in the mood. But, Malaysian crowd are sad, very sad I should say, they were just seated down quietly and staring bluntly at us, where we are trying so hard to keep them get involve. Hard work u know, jumping up and down, dancing, screaming, running around the road, acting stupidly in front of thousand of ppl and on national TV for 2 hours, but I did enjoyed my job. A wonderful and unforgettable experience tat I ever had. - Not many people in the world can have the chance to do tat, thank you Soka Gakai Malaysia and huay pin for getting me involve in this festival.

me.. on the stage, still performing at that time; the ng sisters...

end of year architecture exhibition 2006

silim, jessie, 'leng che' angeline, kelantanese ling, 'tat korean' jennifer, bass and me

korean, kelantan gal, pris,everlyn and elaine

me, sara & evan ; wayne with his final work

penang fella - ben ; with wanny

this is my boss and simon's fav kid - evan ; jenni,ling,evan,ben,aik n me

Congratulation to all the 5th years (name highlighted blue) finally they won the final battle… all the best!

b'day 2006

Thanks to all my architecture friends who celebrated my birthday… thanks for this lovely bear model painted by the 5th years… I think those ppl in the studio (ling, leewun, tan-tan, evan and aik) painted it, saw some paint tubes in the studio the other day, lol, anyway I really appreciate all your company and help throughout the year. Wishing all of u, the very best in the future.

after dinner at fuji jap restaurant vic park

angeline, jenni, kelantanese ling, and my sis jessie

design work

Below are some of my semester works for architectural design. It meant to be simple, because it’s a final sem folio, where we have to compile works that we have done the whole sem. Bloody hard work especially towards the end of semester, that’s why I haven’t been updating my blog… anyway im flying off later at afternoon back to Malaysia… im glad that can say I have done quite well back in uni. Well, have to admit I will miss Perth, cos this sem i made lots of new friends, enjoy most of my time here especially with those fifth years… they really make my sem great! Will miss them… im already missing Alicia.. ahahaha damm…

Bluescope steel competition



Final semester design folio
Developing a theoretical practice






Documentation

While Malaysia fiddles, its opportunities are running dry

hey friends... read this article…. this is sooo true about the current sick “malaysia boleh” syndrome

by Michael Backman
November 15, 2006
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/while-malaysia-fiddles-its-opportunities-are-running-dry/2006/11/14/1163266550487.html

MALAYSIA'S been at it again, arguing about what proportion of the economy each of its two main races — the Malays and the Chinese — owns. It's an argument that's been running for 40 years. That wealth and race are not synonymous is important for national cohesion, but really it's time Malaysia grew up.

It's a tough world out there and there can be little sympathy for a country that prefers to argue about how to divide wealth rather than get on with the job of creating it.
The long-held aim is for 30 per cent of corporate equity to be in Malay hands, but the figure that the Government uses to justify handing over huge swathes of public companies to Malays but not to other races is absurd. It bases its figure on equity valued, not at market value, but at par value.

Many shares have a par value of say $1 but a market value of $12. And so the Government figure (18.9 per cent is the most recent figure) is a gross underestimate. Last month a paper by a researcher at a local think-tank came up with a figure of 45 per cent based on actual stock prices. All hell broke loose. The paper was withdrawn and the researcher resigned in protest. Part of the problem is that he is Chinese.

"Malaysia boleh!" is Malaysia's national catch cry. It translates to "Malaysia can!" and Malaysia certainly can. Few countries are as good at wasting money. It is richly endowed with natural resources and the national obsession seems to be to extract these, sell them off and then collectively spray the proceeds up against the wall.

This all happens in the context of Malaysia's grossly inflated sense of its place in the world.
Most Malaysians are convinced that the eyes of the world are on their country and that their leaders are world figures. This is thanks to Malaysia's tame media and the bravado of former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. The truth is, few people on the streets of London or New York could point to Malaysia on a map much less name its prime minister or capital city.
As if to make this point, a recent episode of The Simpsons features a newsreader trying to announce that a tidal wave had hit some place called Kuala Lumpur. He couldn't pronounce the city's name and so made up one, as if no-one cared anyway. But the joke was on the script writers — Kuala Lumpur is inland.

Petronas, the national oil company is well run, particularly when compared to the disaster that passes for a national oil company in neighbouring Indonesia. But in some respects, this is Malaysia's problem. The very success of Petronas means that it is used to underwrite all manner of excess.

The KLCC development in central Kuala Lumpur is an example. It includes the Twin Towers, the tallest buildings in the world when they were built, which was their point.
It certainly wasn't that there was an office shortage in Kuala Lumpur — there wasn't.
Malaysians are very proud of these towers. Goodness knows why. They had little to do with them. The money for them came out of the ground and the engineering was contracted out to South Korean companies.

They don't even run the shopping centre that's beneath them. That's handled by Australia's Westfield.

Next year, a Malaysian astronaut will go into space aboard a Russian rocket — the first Malay in space. And the cost? $RM95 million ($A34.3 million), to be footed by Malaysian taxpayers. The Science and Technology Minister has said that a moon landing in 2020 is the next target, aboard a US flight. There's no indication of what the Americans will charge for this, assuming there's even a chance that they will consider it. But what is Malaysia getting by using the space programs of others as a taxi service? There are no obvious technical benefits, but no doubt Malaysians will be told once again, that they are "boleh". The trouble is, they're not. It's not their space program.

Back in July, the Government announced that it would spend $RM490 million on a sports complex near the London Olympics site so that Malaysian athletes can train there and "get used to cold weather".

But the summer Olympics are held in the summer.
So what is the complex's real purpose? The dozens of goodwill missions by ministers and bureaucrats to London to check on the centre's construction and then on the athletes while they train might provide a clue.

Bank bale outs, a formula one racing track, an entire new capital city — Petronas has paid for them all. It's been an orgy of nonsense that Malaysia can ill afford.
Why? Because Malaysia's oil will run out in about 19 years. As it is, Malaysia will become a net oil importer in 2011 — that's just five years
away.

So it's in this context that the latest debate about race and wealth is so sad.
It is time to move on, time to prepare the economy for life after oil. But, like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, the Malaysian Government is more interested in stunts like sending a Malaysian into space when Malaysia's inadequate schools could have done with the cash, and arguing about wealth distribution using transparently ridiculous statistics.
That's not Malaysia "boleh", that's Malaysia "bodoh" (stupid).

What a break!!!! (part two)

Arrived at Melbourne Tullamarine airport from KL late evening on the 7th July 2006 together with Ian, basically MEL is just another aussie airport, where every passengers need to pass by their slow immigration and quarantine. The queue for both of the immigration and quarantine is worse than the international airport back in Perth. At lease for now im glad for the shorter queue back in Perth but still have to wait for quite long. Looking at the time, 6pm outside Melbourne airport, not forgetting I got an appointment with Phin at 6 in her hotel at Crown. I manage to get to her at 7.15pm after checking in my hotel. Manage to catch up for 15 minutes before she leave the hotel with her “Singapore Girls” colleague to the airport for a flight.


Later on we met evan and aik who came to melbourne a week earlier for a drink. clubs in melbourne are pretty same to those back in KL. The music and the crowd (except no ah bengs n ah lians) are similar to those in Velvet or poppy. The best thing about it, we can buy bottles of alcohol in the club n u get vip seats!!! (This will never happen in perth clubs) I felt as if I am back clubing at P.Ramlee street downtown KL….lol.. everlyn flew in from perth to join us the next morning.