Anyway, I know i’ve neglected this blog for quite a while but just right after my last post, i started on a ’summer’ semester which was a lot shorter with more lectures and assignments in between. I’ve also been picking up pace at work because of increased orders and new equipments arriving at our doorstep, all brought on by the recovering economy. Then there were the Christmas and new year holidays. I only had time to sit down and take a breather after my 3rd semester’s final exam ended a week ago.

So, I did some changes to my blog layout as i got kinda bored with the old black theme. It felt dark and gloomy and brought on a sense of a sad, emo blog (i guess it was one but…oh well nvm). Hence the very white theme now. Sometimes change is good because it freshen things up although to be honest i don’t really know whether there would be anyone reading my blog anymore, thinking that ‘it’ has passed on :P

Anyhoo, this will be a short entry just to signify the return of my blog. Yeah there have been certain positive changes to my life since the end of last year in terms of my outlook on life and a career change that i would blog the next time around. I’m also running out of time because it’s Chinese New Year and i’m gonna be late for reunion dinner.

So Happy Chinese New Year everyone!! Have a blessed Tiger year. And no, don’t have any Chinese NEW YEAR resolutions ;)

Anyway, i’ll just sum up the last few weeks here, writing what i remember la and throwing random pictures. Actually im supposed to be studying but i figured i might not have time to blog anymore until after my exams which is in about…3 weeks time, so i’ll do one post.

Cant remember when but it was a wednesday la, went to my ex-colleague’s house for a farewell bbq. I met him during the interview and we ended up joining the company at the same time. Recently he got an offer from the marine police and so he’s off to Kuantan for training. Last i know was of him getting a head shave when he text me few weeks after he left. Anyway, i wished him good luck and asked him not to forget to share the confiscated stuff he gets while on duty.

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Three

Great bbq food but too bad i had to leave earlier to pick up my dog, Spike from the vet. He was there to get neutered after a lengthy lengthy decision making process that took months. It’s been 2 weeks now and i think he’s still the same, not gay or anything…i think.

Iron chef

Siburan community hall

Bride, groom and the usual people

Also attended one of my fellow colleague’s wedding at Siburan. I didnt really know where it was so i had to call my friend up every 2-3 minutes to make sure i wont miss the turning. They had free flow of beers but i decided not to take any because i was driving. Useless effort because after that, i met my friends for JD. All those ‘holding back’ and saying ‘no’ to my friends at the wedding for nothing.

Mr. Daniel

Chee-vas

Then on one of the weekends, my friends from Penang came back for the graduation. It was exciting because it meant i was gonna get my long waited early Christmas present, and of course because it was great to catch up with old friends again. That weekend, we went to one of the clubs in town and drank our asses off. The Core wasnt that bad la, and the crowd was not too bad either but maybe because Soho is still closed for reno. Music was good too, we had Boom Boom Pow, I Gotta a Feeling, Right Round, Sugar, Hatin on the Club and classics like Low, Dangerous, RIGHT NOWW NA NA NANANANANAANANANAN!!!!!!, KRAZYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY, BOOM SHAKE DROPPPP!!!!!! (*shrieks*) *Ahem* Not only that, we were krazy crazy enough to go back a second time the following weekend.

Gang

A new friend...

and the old ones

It was real great fun and it made me missed December 08 a lot and those crazy internship days and all my intern bradas and gang. Till this day i think that period was one of the most insanely sad and happy moment of my life. I also dunno how to describe also. Now everyone’s sort of all over the place so things cannot be as it used to be but oh boy, there wont be a moment i’ll ever forget. Anyway, also thanks to my friends that night, The Core gang, because u guys…hahahaha…love you guys! :P I bet i’ll regret so so badly if i didnt turn up that night.

It’s been almost a year since officially step out of Swinburne for good but i missed the last graduation so i had to wait almost 365 freaking days for this year’s. To be honest it felt a bit, how to say…potong steam already because we waited so long…but it was a once in a lifetime thingy so wtheck la. I had to take the day off and that means using up my very precious and limited annual leave >< After the graduation, i had to rush off to the studio for a family and personal portrait shoot with the all so famous fake book shelf backdrop. lol SO LAME

THEN, i went for my first street shoot with Louis and Allen. I felt so damn awkward at first holding a camera and take pictures but good thing i had those two shooting veterans and i settled in quite quickly. It was packed with people so take pictures was a challange…had to dodge ppl’s smelly heads and armpits. Although ironically, it’s those things that gives the place the atmosphere…hahaha. So far I found that like shooting people/humans more. My camera has also been great, even though like i said i still havent got the time to read the manual. Learn as i go lah! Really really happy with it but it’s quite a wallet cum bank account destroyer. I got a few more accessories few days ago and told myself this is where i should shop spending on my camera before i get declared a bankrupt. Anyone who is reading this, just send me a email if you have any photo shooting gatherings ok. Thanks!

Thanks guys! I had fun

MBO, The Spring

Also we went to Spring’s new cinema twice but unfortunately the two movies we watch kinda suck. The cinema was really something different though. And and…My Restaurant’s food is really good…drool.

Porky's Ribs

Slow Roasted Porky

So i think that pretty much sums up my last few weeks, now it’s back to normal again with my friends gone and me back to work without any public holidays until…i dunno when. Like i mentioned before, my exams are not round the corner but straight in front of me T.T so it’ll be revision revision revision until November. Oh ya im still scratching my head over Christmas because i’ll be off from 24 till 27 and im looking for something or somewhere to do/go.

I’ve posted more pictures on my facebook profile. GTG now. Cheerio!

You were there when I first cried.

You were there for my first step.

You were there when I swallow my first fish-bone.

You were there for my first day at playschool,

until my very last day at university.

Always there for me…

I know we sometimes don’t see eye to eye.

I know we sometimes have our arguments,

and I know sometimes I get pissed off because of that.

Stupidly blinded when your only intentions are what’s best for me.

You say you might be wrong,

but I might be wrong too.

Because as humans, reading the future is out of our reach.

So it’s ok.

I know sometimes I say and do the things that I shouldn’t.

I know sometimes I don’t say or do the things I should.

For that, I am sorry.

Thanks Dad for everything how big or small that you’ve done for me.

No matter how similar or different we may be,

I still love you.

Because that’s just exactly how a father son relationship should be…

beautifully imperfect =)

Me, Dad & Bro

Singapore '88

Therefore it only make sense that my first official pay check, the very first official dollar i earn by myself, goes to chipping in for your gift this father’s day. Happy snapping and happy father’s day :)

Just like how i mentioned in my previous post, photos like these bring back memories that might otherwise be just forgotten. Another one of my favorite picture,

Two monkeys & Me (Hahaha...)

Might not be the most suitable song but i love the lyrics

In this second video, i feel that it does relate to me, well sometimes la. *unfortunately :(

I hope the videos touched your heart, just like what it did to mine. Kudos to Yasmin Ahmad!

Procedure over, im still alive.

Slumdog Millionaire

The movie that won eight academy awards did not disappoint. It was a story of a boy from the slums of Dharavi, how he overcame the odds to survive as a young orphan with his elder brother. Hardship that saw him covered in feces, witnessing his mother being killed, staying in the dumps, kidnapped and almost forced into beggary, lost his best friend Latika who eventually became his lover…and yet all these gave him everything he needed to know to win 20 million rupees.

Young Jamal

The movie gave an insight on the extreme ends of poverty and also richness in India. However, what i liked most about the movie was how the two young brothers relied on each other to survive, always there to cover each others ass. Although there was a period when Jamal’s brother, Salim made the wrong choices and went against Jamal but in the end, he made up for his mistakes and sacrificed his life for Jamal.

Fairy tale ending

Of course the fairy tale ending of Jamal and Latika earned the movie extra marks too :P And although Slumdog Millionaire was just a movie i still do believe in miracles and fairy tale endings, that sometimes we do get lucky in life if it’s our destiny, if it was written for us. Anyway, only complain I have of the movie is that Jamal practically had only ‘one face expression’ throughout the movie. Then again what can i expect from a guy with such a bitter past.

…reminds me of my brother.

Bro & I at Reservior Park

I admit we were never the closest pair of siblings there is out there but we went through a lot together.

I remember how much we used to fight and me being the younger brother, was always the one who ’started it first’. Mostly i was the one who will be snatching or stealing things from him and yet there was one time i got so angry a threw his pillow into the drain outside our house :) So bad rite? I also remember those moments where our pillow fights on my parents bed would turn ugly and we end up fighting with our fists. Then of course my parents would blame the older sibling for not giving in. Haha! Advantage of being the youngest. Yeah i have to say at times i hated him and wanted him dead but don’t we all do at certain points of our lives?

With Mr. Funny pants in front of Hilton

But then I also remember the moments where he would look after me like an elder brother. Times where he would fetch me back from tuition, bring me on bicycle rides, playing basketball, football and badminton, play computer games with me, share his stuff, listen to my crap, teach me what a older brother should and of course buying things for me :)

It’s true when people say that you miss them most when they are not around. Haha. It sucks that i’m the only sibling here and i can’t talk to him about gadgets, movies or cars etc but it’s ok. We don’t need to be the most perfect or closest pair of brothers or win any ‘best brothers award’, what matters is that we were brothers all along and will always be, just like Jamal and Salim, Athos and Porthos, even till the end, will cover your arse.

I know it would be impossible to choose who you get as a brother but i’m damn glad it was you. *even though u pissed me off sometimes*

1998 at studio

I guess after all…it is written for us.