a mixture of white chalk and hidden laughters.

did anyone say holidays?

2009-06-26T17:35:00.001+08:00

so its the holidays now.

whats happening?

EVERYTHING!!

-out-

its here!!

2009-05-04T14:08:00.001+08:00

whee!!! i finally got the yashica

new but not so new

2009-04-16T22:41:00.001+08:00

well seeing as i hardly make any post pictures here anymore. ill give you guys 2 links where i post my pictures.

firstly there is http://fotologue.jp/noelemma this is where i post pictures which i think are better. there are less pictures here.

next there is http://www.flickr.com/noelemma this is where i post up all the pictures which i want to upload onto the net. so you can find all sorts of junk in there from good pictures to real crappy ones from my lomo.

do enjoy and leave my some comments :D

Another new one!!

2009-04-05T12:53:00.004+08:00

looks like im on a buying spree.

here is what my next camera looks like.

its the Yashica Electro 35 GSN rangefinder!! it was made in the 70s. finally ive got myself a rangefinder. whats cool is that it has a f1.7 aperture, thats fast! it uses film too!! oh and its also vintage :D

south park's season 13!!

2009-03-11T00:44:00.003+08:00

yes, as the title says it, south park season 13 is coming out in 1 day time.

FINALLY!! after 3 months oh no new south park episodes!

i think ive already watched every single south park episode ever made.

so anyway here is a preview of the new episode.

there are 2 places where you can watch south park.

1. mrtwig.net - a great place if you want to download the episodes.

2. south park studios - for the times when you are away from your personal computer and have nothing better to do. you can stream the episodes here. and its pretty quick too :D

well hope i get more people to watch south park this way :D

if you look carefully, you can actually see the prophet muhamad in it. you can also see jesus, satan, mecha-strisan, budha and all the other cool south park characters!!

so i finally got it

2009-02-24T23:52:00.004+08:00

i know its been an uber long time since i last made a blog entry. blogging doesnt seem to appeal to me that much anymore.

many things has happened, holidays are over, new semmester has started, and life goes on as usual.

so here is what this blog entry is all about.

i finally got the LC-A+!!

all thanks to the combined effort between my sister and i in monetary terms to purchase the camera.

so here is what it looks like.

now just to let you guys know what this camera does. its an old school film camera.

yes it uses that little rolls of photographic film. no silicon sensors in this camera. you even have to manually wind the film after each photo is taken, and once you've spent all the pictures, you gotta manually rewind it back into the roll too!

besides that, this camera has a minitar 1 32mm f2.8 lens. this lens suposedly gives super high saturation and contrast, which i have no idea how true that is. the lever on the right of the lens is the manual focus setting. this camera has 4 zones for focusing which are 0.8m, 1.5m, 3m and infinity.

the LC-A+ also has a hotshoe, so you are able to attach an external flash onto it.

some of the things that makes the LC-A+ different from the original LC-A is that it doesnt have an aperture setting and the LC-A+ has an added lever for chreating multiple exposures on one frame.

oh and it also has an expanded ASA setting to 1600 and can take the wire release and some other acessories like the fisheye adaptor.

all in all its quite a cool camera. it was originally a russian camera created by the soviet union. well actually it was a copy of a japanese camera, the cosina CX-1. but now production has been moved to china becuase the LOMO company in russia shut down their camera division a number of years ago.

so this camera like all cameras being sold by the lomographic society international, has super inflated prices.

anyway i think you guys are super confused and dont understand what im thinking. if you want to know more, look up LOMO LC-A+ on google.

btw, i would show you some of the shots that i took, but i'd have to get the film scanned into the computer, which costs money, so forget that.

cya

19 going on 18

2008-12-27T18:26:00.001+08:00

well its the 27th of december which basicly means that on paper im 20 years and 2 days old.

gone are the days when i can still be called a teenager,
gone are the days when the age group i belong in would be an explanation of crazy stupid things i do,
gone are the days when responsiblity is just another word in the dictionary,
and gone are the days when i can still think of what to put in this senseless rant which would cause it to become a super long senseless rant which looks ultimately cool becuase it makes my blog look like ive got loads to talk about.

but you know what i think, im still 18 dammit! 18!!

18 is the age when highschool was over (well for me, being born late in the year, i was still 17 then),
18 is the age when all i basicly did for 6 months after finishing highschool was work and climb,
18 is the age when i had a carefree time,
and i cant think of anything else anymore to put in here as im 20 and 3 days on paper.

but i mean think about it, when everyone was younger, i bet you always had this thing in the back of your mind saying "if only i was older". i mean why not be older? when you are older, you can do so much things that other younggens cant.

but when you do get older, reality kicks in. you start to realise that you arent as energetic as before. you are able to do everything that you arent able to do when you were younger but are probably sick of doing it as you have done it so many times that it has started to become a bore. this is when you finally start to think of "if only i was younger".

i mena think about it, when you were younger, even though you are not able to do certian things or go to certian places, you still try your best to do things that you arent supposed to, and when you accomplish it you would be like hell yeah that was fun.

gone are the days when i used to be kicked out of bars and clubs and what-ever-you-call-its becuase i looked young. gone are the days when being able to beat the system was a fun thing to do as teenage rebelion was a fun thing. but not anymore.

its kinda boring now.

but oh well. life goes on. meet new people, try new things, see new places.

go listen to 18 till i die by bryan adams.

out.

2008-12-23T03:13:00.001+08:00

looks like this christmas is going to be another boring one.... off to johor again this year. nuff said...

Moonshine 3rd Aniversary

2008-12-11T21:46:00.004+08:00

so something totally unrelated to the post title. looks like ive finished moving into my new place. there are boxes everywhere, my room still looks like a store room as there are boxes lying around. still waiting for new furniture to put my things in them. oh, and i just got the internet connection yesterday. so no more going up to the balcony to steal the wifi from the neighbours :D

anyway, back to the title. went for moonshine's 3rd aniversary in laundry almost a month ago. and as i do in most gigs i attend, i got some pictures. here are what i took. ill start with the mono tone pictures first.

this one if a guitarist from forty winks. i think they are a cool band. they have trumpets!!

this one is from tempered mental i think.

this is tempered mental.

and yet another one.

oh the concentration.

i have no idea what else to put as a caption.

he looks like he is enjoying it.

now on to the shots with colour!

this one is one of my favourites from the session. i like how only the hand is in focus and everything else is a blur. but then again, it could still be better.

i kinda like this one too. alittle editing with one of my lightroom presets to make the picture look better.

decided to try something new this time with my shots. that explains the headless musicians.

not sure if this silhouette worked.

another headless picture.

this ones not too bad too.

a violinist!

and lastly.

two artist at work. well thats if you classify photography as art.

well thats it for this set.

if you wanna look at a bigger picture, do click on the picture and you should be able to view a larger one. sometimes i hate it when i upload pictures from flickr onto blogger. like the second picture, everything becomes pixelated. gahhh!! oh well. till next time.

christmas is around the corner :D

the big move

2008-11-23T18:00:00.002+08:00

well im busy moving house now. the old house which i am currently in, is in a huge mess. everything is everywhere!!

whats worst is that there is only another 7 days more before we have to hand over this house to the land owner.

that means we have about 5 days to move!!! GAHH!! good thing im moving about 50 meters away :D

2008-11-09T18:49:00.002+08:00

it just struck me.

christmas is just around the corner!

the day that i look forward to every year. not only because its my birthday, but because its just christmas. so hang on thight, christmas carrols and christmas trees will be heard and seen soon :D

An Article

2008-11-06T18:06:00.005+08:00

no idea if i have posted it before, but this is an article which was writen quite a while ago in the star newspaper. me and boss jeremy took some of the camp5 memebrs for climbing, i took some photos and they were used in the article. quite crappy photos if you ask me. anyway here goes.

Saturday July 12, 2008
Climbing at Batu Caves
By LEONG SIOK HUI

Bored of the climbing gym? Go for nature’s own at Batu Caves.

Clammy, my hand thrashes desperately about to find a hold. The other one is jammed into a crack and clinging on for dear life, and my legs are beginning to wobble like jelly on the tiny ledge.

Suddenly, I lose my balance and — whoa!— I’m airborne and falling.

Luckily, I am tethered. Sitting on my harness and swinging like a pendulum, I take in the hills yonder which are like dots on the horizon. Yeah, it’s great to be outdoors again.

My friends and I are at the Nyamuk climbing site near Batu Caves, Selangor. Camp5, the largest climbing gym in Asia, runs an outdoor climb every third Sunday of the month for members.

Regular Camp5 climbers at Nyamuk climbing site.

A mere 15 minutes’ drive from the city centre will take you to these craggy limestone hills in Kg Melayu Wira Damai, Gombak. On weekends, you’ll see human spiders clinging onto the rock faces 30m high. The cliffs are popular with local and Singaporean climbers.

Camp5 director Jeremy Peet and staff Noel Yung set up the routes for us on the day of our climb. Today, there are 11 climbers, most of whom are familiar faces from the gym. It is like a picnic outing with time enough for socialising and lunch breaks in between climbing.

There are more than 60 climbing routes in Nyamuk, ranging from beginner-friendly 5B to expert-level 8A — the hardest route found in West Malaysia. This is based on the French grading system, which starts at 4 (beginner’s level) to 9B+, currently the world’s most difficult routes, located in Spain and Mexico.

The Camp5 pioneers make it a point to preserve the rocks and natural environment as well as respect the rocks’ natural lines. That was why we had to scramble over rocks and lush vegetation just to get to the climbing site.

Nyamuk’s long, steep routes vary between 12m and 33m. You get a good blend of jagged edges, cracks, overhangs and big rock slabs.

“The outdoor climb is an extension of Camp5 and gives our members an opportunity to enjoy the natural climbing sites in KL,” says Peet, 35, a climbing instructor and outdoor guide from New Zealand.

The climb here is free for term members while “casual” members pay RM24 a day (general entrance rate at Camp5).

“It’s more like a social club’s atmosphere as opposed to an instructional course or guided climb. We expect the climbers to have the prerequisite skills to look after themselves,” says Peet.

Since Camp5 opened about three years ago, the gym has trained thousands of beginner climbers.

Jeremy Peet, operations director of Camp5.

“You get a more well-rounded climbing ability by combining indoor and outdoor climbing,” explains Peet, who has more than a decade of mountaineering experience behind him.

“The techniques differ. For indoor walls, the holds stick out from the wall. On an outdoor rock face, it’s the opposite — the crack or ledge goes into the wall. You can easily tell if a person is an indoor or outdoor climber from his climbing style.’’

If the popularity of the outdoor climb increases, Peet says, Camp5 will consider doing it a couple of times a month.

A family affair

On our climb, we meet a family of Dutch expatriates, the Latours. Though the family are regulars at Camp5, this is the first outdoor climb for Marc, 13, his sister, Sophie, 11 and their mom, Ineke. Father, Henk, is an experienced climber who has scaled Mont Blanc in France.

“It’s a pity there weren’t many children climbing, it would have been more encouraging for our kids,” says Ineke, 48.

“Yeah, it’s boring because I had no one to talk to,” Marc agrees. Despite his first time on a rock wall, Marc found it “pretty easy.”

“You don’t always have to find the same colour footholds (like in a climbing wall); you can choose from hundreds of possibilities,” says Marc who also surfs, scuba-dives, plays golf, baseball, soccer and softball.

“It challenges you to do more with your strength and tactics. I have to find the easiest ways to get to the top without tiring myself out. I guess you have to have the right people in the group to make it fun, but overall I like it because I get to be very strong,” he adds.

“It was tricky finding the holds and scary to climb a real rock,” his mother chips in. “But I felt safe because the route was set up by Camp5 staff, and my husband was belaying me.”

Yup, for those of us who have yet to learn lead climbing and how to set up our own routes, Camp5’s outdoor jaunt is the next best thing for now.

o Camp5’s next outdoor climb is on July 20. Early reservation is advised as space is limited to 20 people.

-End-

kinda sucky that they didnt credit me. damn...

just some pictures

2008-11-06T00:53:00.002+08:00

well since ive got no idea what to blog about and actually feel quite lazy but bored, im going to entertain you guys with some pictures...

with comments of course. :D

so some of the photos i might have uploaded it before, or maybe its new on the blog, i dont know. this computer doesnt have the software to properly edit new photos and im actually feeling quite lazy to do so right now. but anyway i just picked them out from an already edited library of photos, or photos which are unedited and look good as it is.

ok la, actually its not that they have to be edited, its just that they are in the wrong format, and i cant convert them on this computer. so anyway back to the pictures.

gahhh!! ok so those that i tried to upload didnt managed to get uploaded onto flickr. oh well.

so this one was taken during the summit climbing gyms last competition titled "the last summit" it was also the last day that they would be open. quite a sad thing to happen for the first climbing gym to ever open in malaysia.

this one is of the well missed mr thomas deiny. the crazy french dude that proved to us that french people in general are pretty crazy people. this photo was taken of him in the summit competition.

this one was taken quite a while ago from the huge glass enclosure of camp5. this was probably taken during my first few months with my new olympus E 510 DSLR camera. i quite like this shot. click on the photo if you want to view a bigger picture, same goes for the other photos too.

i have a feeling that i've posted this before, but oh well. this picture was taken during a walkabout around petaling street. happened to pass by this dude with the crutches, so i just snapped a picture. i feel that this picture would look better if it was converted to B&W to reduce the distractions and also maybe add some vignetting. will experiment with that some time.

oh i think thats it. enjoy

hmm...

2008-11-03T19:26:00.003+08:00

its been a while hasn't it?

well let me try to sum up everything that has been happening lately.

so just last night i had an all-nighter with a take home test. gahhh!! only got like 3 hours sleep and i cant believe that im still awake 12 hours later. anyway, semmester is ending :D only have 3 more papers to sit for before im free till february.

hmm lets see, what else... ohh!! ohh!!! i've suddenly got into the crazy of wanting a LOMO camera! all thanks to sister christobel which got me to do some reasearch on them.

so lets see, the camera which i want is the LOMO LC-A+

looks like a crap camera doesn't it? but its just so freaking cool!! dont know if i can afford one of these. searched online and the price for one is about 900 ringgit. crap... gonna go to wondermilk some time soon to check out the price for this camera and other LOMO cameras that they have.

so if you guys are thinking of what kinda present to get me for my birthday, a LOMO LC-A+ would be great. my birthday is on christmas btw, loads of time to save up cash :D

hmmm... lets see... oh yeah, my new abode is almost ready. will be moving in at the end of nov. shitty thing is that we have to move out of the current house by the 30th of nov. thats cause the new tenants are moving in on the 1st. well thats not that shitty part yet. shitty thing is that the house isnt even ready yet. and by the looks of it it will only be ready around the 20th or later of november. so that leaves us with very little time to move out.

so if anyone wants some free junk which my house seems to have plenty of, you can come help me with the move. there is sure to be something interesting for you to take home as my home is filled with things in the store room.

ok i think im bored now. bye!

the cut

2008-10-14T18:19:00.003+08:00

guess what.... yours trully has finally got a hair cut after 3 freggin years!!

i chopped off so much hair that i think i feel dizzy now. blog about this when i feel better or have the time too.

looks like i've got some free time.

2008-10-08T00:00:00.004+08:00

well i've recently managed to go through some photos that were taken recently. here is one of the pictures which i thought looked good. changed to B&W.

changed it to B&W cause i thought that the colours from all the holds on the wall was kinda distracting.

yes, i do still climb, tho not as often as i used to. oh, one thing i realised from this picture, I HAVE REALLY LONG HAIR!!!! too bad its getting cut within the next 2 weeks.

assignment season

2008-10-06T19:58:00.002+08:00

well it seems like this month is assignment season. 4 huge deadlines within the first 2 weeks of this month. lucky thing im going to perhentian to let loose some steam :D

freedom!

2008-09-22T23:47:00.002+08:00

dont you just feel like leaving your current life to head to a paradise beach and just bum around without a care in the world?

well it would be great fun it that could happen. hmmm... when can i go for my next holiday...

its been a while

2008-09-09T20:49:00.004+08:00

yes it definetly has. when was the last time i made a post? 1 month ago? heck its ages ago.

well things are getting bussier everyday. or maybe its just becuase i seem to find everything to do but sit in front of the computer to type out a blog entry. i mean there is so much to see outside of the computer screen!

recently i learn't how to snakeboard. what is a snake board you ask? well its simillar to a skate board, but the wheels can turn.

yes thats a snake board. how does it move? well it works like the same principle as how snakes moves. in a 'S' shape fashion. takes some time to master, but its fun. i now use this to go to work, instead of using a car. much more environmentaly friendly :D

besides the snakeboard, i also recently accuired something new.

yes, i got myself a freggin slackline!! yeah!! now i dont need to wait for every wed, fri, or sundays to slackline in camp5. i can do it in any park that has trees! so if you guys wanna try out this ever so cool sport, do let me know. ill come over and set it up if i have the time. for more information on how slacklining goes, go to youtube and search up slackline.

so anyway, enough of random pictures taken off the net. its time to post up some photos that ive developed.

these are a few photos which i have no idea if i have posted it up before, but anyway, its of a local band, seven collar t-shirt. taken in laundry.

ok, i think thats it for now. lets hope that my next post would be much much sooner.

just a picture

2008-08-10T12:51:00.003+08:00

this is just a picture.

took this quite a while ago.

besides the picture, im heading off to summit climbing gym for the roxx competition. its going to be the last day the gym will be open and after today they will be closing down... sigh... now we have only one gym to go to in kl...

shit...

2008-07-30T22:00:00.001+08:00

one of the shitiest thing that can ever happen to a photographer just happened to me.

no, i didnt drop my camera onto a busy highway which caused it to be run over by 3 cars, 1 van and a HUGE ass lorry, which would eventually turn the camera into a useless piece of scrap.

this is something way worst than that!!!

i lost ALL the pictures from my phuket trip!!!

NOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOooooOOOOOoooOO!!!!

there were still so many pictures which i havent looked through yet. damn. i think i lost it when i was reformating my computer. must have forgotten to back it up. anyone have an idea of how to back up massive amounts of pictures without burning it onto a CD everytime?

please leave a comment if you do. cause i dont think i can take loosing another set of pictures again.

kuching!

2008-07-25T18:50:00.005+08:00

this is just something to fill in the time. decided to go through some of my pictures from kuching. so here are some photos of the rainfirest world music festival 2008 and other pictures from running around kuching.

there are 2 batches of pics. one from the first half of my trip when my sister was there and the other half when she left. these pics are those of the second half which also contains the rainforest world music festival pics. the first half are yet to be uploaded.

firstly the one and only group picture in this post.

from left to right. me, ayu, denise, cletus, sid and lorraine.

i mostly hung out with ayu, cletus and lorraine during the rainforest event.

this one is a picture of the kuching waterfront. it was supposed to be a panorama shot, but i was too lazy to stitch it together. stay tuned for the full panorama picture.

this next picture is taken on the beach of damai puri resort. this is the resort which i "sort of" stayed at during the rainforest event.

here is a random shot i took. on the right side would be some rocks which would lead down to the beach. i had to crop it out as when i took the picture the horizon wasn't straight, and it looked awefull.

so from here on the pictures are from the rainforest world music festival 2008.

this is the main stage where most of the better music comes from during the night.

as you can see, the grass is all nice and green. little would you know that on that exact same night, it would eventually become a mud hole.

this is a photo of a dude making a sape. i think that the white partition board on the left of the picture really ruined the shot. dammit....

this is the view from the same house i took the picture of the man making the sape. what a great view.

and this here is the picture of the house i was on when i took the photo of the man making the sape which i afterwards took the photo of the great view. i know, i'm trying to confuse you on purpose.

this is of a totem pole. carved out of a tree and it was about 7 meters high. sadly it was plagued with a few nails popping out from its side. had to photoshop it out. can you spot the changes?

quite hard i think...

this band is one of the coolest bands in the whole festival. each member can play about 3 instruments. coolest stuff and most fun music.

more pictures of the band. i think its called bezentine or something like that.

i quite like this one. i even cought the broken hair of the bow.

yet again, another editing mistake. the colours of the picture doesnt seem that nice. i forgot to bump up the colours after changing the white balance. was kinda in a hurry when i was editing them.

this band was kinda cool. their first song went "SMOKE WEED EVERY DAY!"

this is one of a sape player.

yeah man!! electric sape!!! behold how modern technology has effected traditional instruments. then again, isn't all instruments so called traditional to a certian culture?

oh well...

anyway, if you would like to see a bigger version of the photo, just click on them. more should be yet to come.

last week end i went down to singapore. why? well its cause my dear sister was heading over to the land of the roos. what is a roo? its a kangaroo.

so looks like its me the oldest kido in the house now. sigh....

more on kuching when i have the time.

2 articles

2008-07-16T13:59:00.002+08:00

well im back from kuching. i had a really great time there. met alot of new people and ate all sorts of food!

anyway more on that in a later post.

i stumbled upon one of the articles in the star which had my photos in it. it was one of camp5's outdoor days and i took some pictures. click here to read it.

the article was writen by one of the members in the gym and the photos are taken by me.

next is another article that i found on the latest climbing gym in malaysia! well it isn't really a climbing gym, but more of a competition wall. it is called the challenge park, which is located in putra jaya. this climbing wall boasts the largest competition wall in the world, if im not mistaken. there will also be a mountain bike track and skate park. click here to read the article on routesetter.com.

haven't visited the gym yet, but i would love to check it out some time soon. when i do, i'll post the pictures of the place.

over and out.

rainforest!!

2008-07-10T17:01:00.002+08:00

well the time for the rainforest world music festival 2008 is almost at hand!

tomorrow ill be heading down to the cultural village which is in damai for the event. whats cool is that there are actually a few people that i know from KL thats attending the event.

so enough about the damn concert. bet you are wondering about kuching.

been in kuching for a little more then a week now, and how is it you ask? well its actually not bad. its great to be away from the hustle and bustle of the freggin city. it only takes 10 minutes to get anywhere! im not kidding. no traffic jams, no serious noise polution, and also no light polution. that means that you can actually see the stars when you are in the middle of the city!

how cool is that?!

more of the trip when i get home.

noel out...

Slack Line and Cats

2008-07-03T02:40:00.002+08:00

as said in a post before, camp5 now has a slackline!

here are some pictures taken yesterday.

here is one of me.

this is one of kammy

and a last one of andrew

cool eh? it isn't as easy as it looks. actually takes loads of practice. the pros can even do summersaults and land right on the slackline. but sadly noone in camp5 has reached that level yet. its only been what? a week since it was first set up?

for those of you who are interested in trying out the slackline, camp5 sets them up around the end of the day if people want to do it. but they will soon set up a set time when they will set it up.

next up, is about cats. well more of kuching. i leave for kuching in another 6 hours time. and will only be back on the 15th of july.

i'll be going for the rainforest world music festival!!

besides the music festival, ill also be going to kuching to visit people and get intouch with my roots... lol! i like the sound of that. well its cuase i haven't been back in like what? 7 years? around that i think. so its about time i went back for a visit. for those of you who didnt know, i was born in kuching and lived there for about 6 years before i moved to KL.

anyway, im also hoping to do some climbing there. managed to get a contact from a friend of a climber in kuching. hope all goes well and i can go climbing.

gotta start packing now. till the next time i post! hopefully with more pictures and more photos.

p.s. my sister will be leaving for perth on the 20th of july. she will be the first bird leaving the nest. hope all goes well...

bored?

2008-07-01T14:49:00.001+08:00

no idea why, but i seem to feel really bored lately. all i did yesterday was just sit in front of the computer playing flight simulator. HOW LAME IS THAT?!

whats even better was that i didnt have a joystick, so it made flying an airplane even harder. i think i crashed about 20 planes yesterday.

anyway im going to buy my fingerboard today! dont know what a finger board is?

well its something like a pull up bar but even better. it not only works out your biceps, but also your fingers. its a tool some people use to better their climbing skills.

ok this is just a post to waste some time.

out...

the incubus pics

2008-06-29T15:31:00.006+08:00

here are the final set of pictures from the sunburst music festival. but before i go into the pictures of incubus, i'll post some of the leftover pictures that i missed out.

here is one of incognito.

next up i have a picture of john legend. it isn't really a good picture, because i wasn't really interested in his music. i think its more for the girls. anyway, here is quite a gay picture of him dancing with some 'not so attractive' chick.

alright, so here are the long awaited pictures of the incubus bands. a few ppl have been bugging me to post these up, especially this girl who keeps coming up to me asking "where is the brandon boyd?!"

so here goes!

this is one of the first shots of em that i got.

this is one for the brandon boyd fans, taken at the press conference.

i kinda like this one. had to do some editing to remove those darn red hairband horns that ppl were waving in the air.

here is a new version of one of the boyd pics that i posted up a while back. and now the pics will not be centered cause im really bad at HTML and i cant seem to put it so. plus it takes so long to upload the pic onto blogger. so im just grabbin it off flickr.

here is another one with a wide view of the stage.

more boyd pics.

marxha says that the guitar doesn't suit him...

another reedited new version of a previously posted picture. i like the shadows on this one. but i feel that the screen killed the picture.

another "light shining on the guitarist" picture.

another new version of a previously uploaded picture. note, the really irritating red horn head bands.

a "spotlight on the vocalist" picture

this was one of those photos that looked really good on the camera LCD, but when i uploaded it onto the computer, i was extremely disappointed. there were ppl's hands sticking out from the crowd and stuff. looks like i need to buy a ladder for taking shots in concerts.

this one is alittle blurry. had to crop the picture to get a tight composition. yet again this picture was also plagued with the hands waving in the air and sorts.

this was one of incubus' last songs. aqueous transmission if i'm not mistaken.

more boyd...

i think i posted this up in my previous post too.

looks like thats all.

gotta go meet the marxha for climbing now, and im late...

oh btw, camp5 has a slack line now. only set up on some days :D

just a post

2008-06-26T20:27:00.003+08:00

im currently testing this new windows sidebar gadget that i downloaded a few days ago. its quite cool actually. i am able to blog without opening a browser.

so i wonder.... will this gadget enable to make more frequent blog entries?

oh well, we'll have to wait and see.

its dinner time!

Sunburst Music Festival

2008-06-26T14:55:00.011+08:00

finally i've forced myself to post some pictures from the sunburst music festival.

it took a while because i was lazy to post up the pictures. but after that i realised that i needed to edit the pictures alittle, so now with a newly reformated PC, a nice bunch of newly bought ram, and a few new photo editing programs (which i have yet to learn how to use), the photos are finally ready!

so i was mostly playing around with lightroom, hence the wierd effects on most of the photos. but some of them are mostly unedited as i was too lazy and the pictures didn't look so bad straight out of the camera.

all of the pictures were taken with my olympus ZD 70-300 f4-5.6

it was raining, and i only had the option of bringing one lens, so i decided on the tele lens. good thing i took the tele instead of the ZD 14-54 f2.8-3.4 or i wouldn't have been able to get the close ups. i didnt have a press pass, so i was basicly sneaking around the place and most of the time im qutie far away from the action. so im happy i took a tele :D

anyway, here goes!

here is one of one buck short.

for those of you that were there, you probably would have seen the bassists guitar flying across the stage. here is a picture i got a second before that happened.

and for those of you who wasn't there, i bet you can put the pieces together.

so what does a bassist without a guitar do?

he jumps around the stage and goes crowd surfing, or at least he tried to.

next up is tempered mental.

don't ask me why i didn't get pictures of the other band members. cause i have no idea why they are all missing from the frame.

next up would be most of the interenational bands. i was at the festival alittle late, therefore i missed out on most of the local gigs. plus it rained when i got there, so running around in the rain with a camera wouldn't really be so much fun.

here is some of the roots

i kinda like the mono tone ones. i feel like it gives a nice effect to concerts. i especially like the one above. the colour gives it a nice mood.

next is a "sort of" local artise, Che nelle.

only have one photo of her. i can't remember which band was playing at the same time as her, so i decided to watch the other band instead... :P

next up is Incognito! it was the first time i heard their music, and i must say, it was excelent! sadly i wasn't able to enjoy much of their music as i had to run off for incubus' press confrence. ARGH!!

ok, i think ive posted way to many pictures. blogger is starting to go haywire on me. more of incubus on the next post.

schools out!

2008-06-12T15:22:00.002+08:00

finally im done with my exams. so all i have to look forward to is my holidays!

besides that holidays, my computer is long over due to be reformatted. something screwie with the software, and im to lazy to find out that, so im just going to reformat it.

as for the holidays, its about half a month of being in kl doing what ever (more climbing i hope). and after i'm off to kuching for half a month (hopefully i can do some climbing there), and lastly back in kl for another half a month before my next semester begins.

i hope its going to be an exciting holiday. well maybe not. firstly i need sleep desperately.

off i go to bed then.

this post is also my 100th post! whee!! celebrations and balloons and party streamers and stuff.

4 minus 2 equals 2

2008-06-10T20:45:00.004+08:00

yeah!! 2 down and 2 more to go!

exams are almost over, and the holidays are creeping ever closer...

here is a picture of my new desktop wallpaper. took it in bukit melawati a few months back.

and the prices go up

2008-06-06T13:11:00.003+08:00

now look, the petrol prices has just recently gone up by 78 freggin cents!!!

what does that mean?

well it means that we now pay a whooping two ringgit and seventy cents for one freggin litre of pertol. thats about a forty percent increase in price of petrol.

what has the world come to.

now i have to think twice before i even think of driving anywhere.

damn government....

i miss the old prices of one ringgit and ninety two cents per liter.

lightning!

2008-06-04T16:15:00.008+08:00

last week end i was at PD. stayed at this resort called avillion.or something like that. cant really remember the exact spelling.

anyway, the hotel and all was a really nice place. they had challets over the sea and the place was just spectacular. my whole family was there including uncles, aunties, cousins and some friends to celebrate my sisters 21st birthday!

so my family got the vila, and it was absolutly cooL!! it had 2 balconies, 2 bed rooms, 2 toilets and one of it had an open air shower, 2 beds that werealmost boxed in by windows and some other stuff which i cant remember. it was absolutly cool!

anyway enough about the hotel, on the last night, i decided to take some photos of star trails, but sadly my cameras settings didnt allow me to. for those of you who are fimiliar with camera stuff you can read on, those of you who arent, can skip to the next paragraph. so my camera's bulb mode only allowed me to go for a maximum of 8 minutes of exposure. and i needed at least 30 minutes of exposure in order to get some nice light trails. so this was the closest i managed to get.

so it might not look so obvious, but you can actually see the stars in the picture above. damn lightning got in the way too.

then i next got this picture. then only i realized that tehre was a storm coming up, and decided to shift my attention to the storm. the storm was starting brewing out at sea. probably about 5-10 kilometers offshore. i got some really nice pictures. here goes.

i personally like the second lightning one the most. taking these photos wasnt easy. it was extreamly dark, so the only time i could see what i was taking was when the lightning struck. therefore it took a while for me to adjust the focus. i used the bulb mode again, and just waited for some nice lightning shots to strike then i stoped the exposure. so good thing it was really dark, if not i would have to keep shooting hoping i get lucking catching a lightning.

ok i think thats it.

i might be back

2008-05-29T22:36:00.002+08:00

well today i had my first long climbing session since i started to slack off in december.

finally i managed to bring myself to keep climbing. managed a 5 hour day today. i even managed to finish 2 of my project routes. well only one actually, i didn't clean the other one.

anyway, it feel really god to be climbing again. at first i started the day with just taking some climbing photos (like what i normally do), but because i didn't have the bosun's chair, it got really uncomfortable sitting in the rope. so i decided to stop taking pictures and started climbing.

so right now, the joints on my middle finger hurts, cause i've had such a hard days climb.

it really amazes me that im still able to climb. even tho i never climb consistently anymore, which is like hardly once in two weeks, i am still able to pick up from where i left off a few months ago when i was still hardcore climbing. only thing now is that i dont seem to have the super stamina anymore. looks like its time to train up :D

so anyway time to talk about something else.

hmmm... lets see...

ah yes! my brother inigo found this huge stack of DVDs outside someones house the other day. they were all original and it was a mixture of moveis and other shows like lost. coolest thing is that there was the whole trilogy of the lord of the rings!! not only that, its the extended version!! looks like i'm going to be spending alot of time watching is.

besides all that,i'm now currently blogging from the comfort of my bed. how? well my sister got a lap top the recent PC fair, and i'm using it. its such a nice thing to have, your own lap top comuter which you can take anywhere.

ok i guess thats all for this edition of a mixture of white chalk and hidden laughters. i'm off to watch somelord of the rings :D

hopefully i'll post some pictures soon. maybe from sunburst or maybe the left overs from phuket.

cant think of anything

2008-05-21T20:52:00.002+08:00

i was going to make some sort of emo blog just now, but suddenly i got distracted by loocking for a new template for this blog. sadly i didn't find one, and also you guys won't get to hear my rant about some emo stuff.

anyways, looks like my busy period is just almost over. tomorrow will be the last day of the deadlines. then after that, it will just be the final exams that will be in the way.

ever thought about how pointless life seems to get sometimes?

well its starting to become quite pointless right now. why can't life be filled with thrill and excitement like those you see in the movies. i mean i do my best to make things as exciting and thrilling as i can, but sometimes it just takes too much effort.

oh the wonderous thing we call a life....

some pictures from sunburst

2008-05-20T18:17:00.004+08:00

ok, yet again its been a while. i think its about time i made a post.

here is just a short summary of whats been happening this part week.

lately ive been extreamly busy with school work. YES! for the very first time in noel's short life he is bummed out with school work. well i bet the amount of work i have isn't really that much, but in my terms it is quite alot. worst of all, all these work actually carries a percentage of marks which contribute to my finals. crazy shit rite?

anyway, i'm about half way done with my deadlines. still have another 2 more presentations to finish up. besides that, its all boring.

anyway, as the title says, here are some photos of incubus at sunburst. requested by marxha

ok it might look alittle gay posting up pictures of half naked guys, but marxha wanted it. she is a brandon boyd fan.

so to compensate for the excess of guys, here is one of fiqa shot at the finals of malaysian dream girl.

and another from one of my street shoots in KL.

its been a while

2008-05-04T11:43:00.002+08:00

greetings!

well it seems that its been more than half a month since my last post. been really busy lately.

among some of the things i've been doing is working, studying for exams (yes i actually did some studying), and taking more pictures.

here is a picture that i took yesterday at the fashion show in 1 utama. more would be on its way.

a climbers story?

2008-04-15T22:44:00.004+08:00

i was looking through my blog today, and know what i realized.

there is hardly anything about climbing in my blog nowadays. gone were the days when all i would talk about was climbing. gone were the days when climbing was my number 1 passion!

now it seems that my main passion is photography, followed next by climbing. this sucks... know why?

it's cause i would have to think of another slogan for my blog. which would take me a long time. a really long time to think up.

haha, i think i'll just stick with the old one. i kinda like the name "a mixture of white chalk and hidden laughters, a climbers story with a little bit of life in between". but not it seems more like a lifers story with a little bit of climbing in between. hahaha! if there is even such a thing as lifer.

but i think i would have to change the picture in the heading. its starting to get a little old...

so yeah, i know i'm supposed to post up the sean kingston pics. but looks like i ain't going to today. didn't really think i was going to make a post today either.

last night, i had the longest reading session EVER!!$@#!

i was reading the novel "the journeyer" at 1230 in the morning last night, and only maneged to put it down 5 freaking hours later!! i mean i seriously couldn't put the book down. i did try to put the book down at around 3am, but after a few minutes of staring into the blankness of the dark, not able to sleep, i decided i should continue reading.

knowing me, i love to take my time reading my novels. can you guess how long i've been reading this novel?

5 FREAKING MONTHS!!

and its still not finished yet. i'm currently on page 724.

ok la, one of the reasons why it takes me so long to finish the book is because i only read it before i go to bed. its like my bedtime story. i love the fact that the writer describes everything in full detail, therefore i am able to jump right into the story.

don't you guys just love a good story?

woah!

2008-04-14T12:01:00.003+08:00

mann... its been a while since i last posted.

why?

well its because i've been super uber busy with work and exams this past week.

just imagine, i had exams through the week, and inbetween those exams, i had to rush to work to run some courses. as for the weekend, it was 2 courses on 2 days which had no less than 22 ppl. was kida crazy la. but good practice for me.

oh! before i forget, i went to see sean kingston at zouk this friday. just incase you are wondering, no i didn't pay to enter. PFFT! i mean its freaking sean kingston. who in the right mind would pay for it? so yeah, here is the story.

after work on friday, i rushed over to KL convension centre for the PF fair, wanted to check out the new zuiko digital 25mm f2.8 pancake lens. it was cool. real small. anyway, ted called me up and said that sean kingston was in zouk. so since i was in the area, i waled over from KL convension centre to zouk. on the way to zouk, i found this small pocket of skaters. not that i'm interested in skating, but i was thinking that some time i would stop by and take some pics. so anyway off i went to sean kingston.

well anyway, got into zouk's main hall, and the place was quite packed. not extreamly packed, but just packed. so me and ted met up and decided to find a place to shoot. it was super crowded, so finding a spot wasn't easy. but luckly the management allowed us to barge our way towards the front of the stage. so me and ted faught our way through loads of screaming fans and finally managed to get a spot in front.

so we waited and waited and waited. and finally, this big fatty came out!!!

hahaha!! i'll post the pictures of sean kingston when i have time. probably in the next post.

untill then!

a new light

2008-04-08T18:37:00.008+08:00

here is some cool news.

well it might not be such great a news to some of you guys, but it is really great to me!

so wondering what the news it?

i guess i'll just talk about nothing before i actually tell you guys what it is.

so this week has been quite a hectic week for me. well maybe not such a hectic week. its just hectic at times, because i tend to push all the important things i have to do to the last minute.

so i just finished my law exam. accounts exam was on tuesday. reason why it has been hectic is i kept procrastinating. was supposed to study early but only started studying for my accounts paper about 12 hours before the paper started. as for the law paper, i was scheduled to start studying it at least 24 hours before, but only ended studying it 5 freaking hours before the exam!

thank god there are the past year questions, and the exams were only MCQs. that really saved my butt.

so besides all the exams and stuff, i'm back to running courses again in camp5. finally have the chance to continue practicing my running the courses, which would eventually lead to me getting approved as an all out instructor. there is a course tonight, tomorrow night, thursday night, saturday morning, and sunday morning!

whoopee! its going to be absolutely fun....

ok so here is the cool news.

i finally got myself an external flash for my camera.

this model is called the FL-36. reason why is because at iso 100, this flash can light up a subject 36 meters away. it has an AF assist lamp, which totally helps with focusing in the dark. the head can be turned, so now i can bounce the flash, and its just cool la.

now i can finally shoot gigs properly.

here is some photos of one buck short's event at the loft. it was their album launch and i just stopped by to get some shots and party a little.

before i begin, this is a picture of ted. a really bad picture of him...

just see how many times you can spot ted in the pics. i think besides the performers, he was one of those that was photographed the most. with my camera.

so anyway, on with the pictures.

this is one buck short. without the drummer. spot ted!

and more pics.

and some more. see if you can spot ted again.

alright, enough of the band, here are pics of the ppl at the event.

this is thomas, a new addition to camp5. he comes from france.

this is wan, with a chick which i can't recall her name. wan is a colleague of mine from camp5

a picture of the crowd. see of you can spot thomas.

and lastly, the 2 white guys with really wierd hair styles. can you spot them? the one with the black leather jacket, and the one in purple. they look like they came out of an austin powers movie.

a trip to the jungle

2008-04-05T18:07:00.005+08:00

some time ago i went along with some of the guys from camp5 to sungai chilling, which is in kuala kubu baru. the reason we were there was because we were going to bring some kids from the alice smith school for a trip.

so off we went in the car. there were 4 of us, me, zak, andy and aqmal. on the way to sungai chilling, something happened. it involves a lorry, a rock and our car. to sum it up, here is what happened.

had to switch the picture to b&w, because it was overexposed. i accidentally took the photo in the wrong settings. here is another, with colour!

when we got out of the car, we could hear the glass cracking. and it continued to do so. in the end we decided that we had to kick the windshield out. JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES!!

but sadly, it isn't as easy to kick it out like in the movies. in the movies, when they kick the windshield out, it comes out as one nice piece.

ours came out in pieces.... damn those movie directors, giving us false hope of an easy way out.

so anyway, we cleaned up the mess and went on with the show.

sungai chilling or otherwise knows as chilling river, is a really cool place. its a trek along the river with 6 river crossings before you reach the waterfall at the end.

so we headed there and briefed the kids on the safety and stuff. it was pretty cool watching 20 or so kids with huge backpacks walking into the jungle and crossing the rivers.

here are some of the river crossings

as you can see, the kids are quite small, and the current quite strong at some areas, therefore we have to make a human wall to keep them from being swept away. oh btw, when i walked into the water for the first time, my balls literally shrank!

the water is COLD! but its fun la. loads of fish in the water too.

so the trek each way is about 30 minutes. after all that hard walking, you finally get rewarded with a nice waterfall!

next, is a picture of the crew, minus aqmal. he decided to take a nap on a rock.

just a note, i didn't bring my remote for the camera then. so i had to put the camera on timer. only had a few seconds to scramble up some rocks and climb up that log before the camera took the picture. i was really proud of myself! lol!

with so much rocks and boulders lying around, what do you think a climber would do?

i went bouldering! found this killer route near the waterfall. good thing i brought my shoes along.

so after playing in the water and having our lunch, we headed back down stream. it was a really funny trip, cause at every river crossing, there would be at least 5 kids that would fall over and take a plunge into the cold water. there was even this girl megan, she carried this bag, and because she fell into the river so many times, the bag was practically full of water. so she actually carried the bag full of water and stuff all the way down stream. really hilarious.

anyway, here is a group photo.

great trip. i would definitely want to go back there again.

after we left the kids, we headed down to the nearby town to get our car vacuumed as there were glass everywhere!

the town seems to be a really old town. there are buildings from the colonial days when the british ruled us.

so yeah, it was quite cool.

after we got the car cleaned, we headed back home. its so cool to have a car without a windshield, because there is no need for air conditioning, everything you look at seems to have more colour, and its just the IN thing you know.

so anyway here was the picture of the day. hope you like it.

left to right: Zak, Noel, Aqmal, Andy.

ads ads ads... pfft

2008-04-02T16:46:00.002+08:00

have you guys ever wondered why is it that people place ads on their blogs?

well its probably cause they want to earn some money from the amount hits they get.

but do you think that its worth it?

well i remember when i first started blogging, i think it was about 5 years ago, you actually HAVE TO PAY to get the ads out of your blog. how ironic is that? now you get paid to put ads on your blog. but little do they know that they only get paid peanuts. i mean common, how many percent of bloggers actually manage to cash out on their hits? i think its probably a really small number of 0.5% out of the entire population.

anyway, i've decided to get rid of any form of ads on my blog now. i mean why fill my blog up with useless stuff that probably only makes my blog look more congested than it already is.

so guys, just have a think about if the ads are actually helping you, or are the corporate giants just leeching on our blogs. if you find that you have not recieved any money at all, then why not take the ads down, cuase chances are that you probably won't ever get a cent from them. on the other hand, if you find that you are earning something from the ads, then heck keep them on cuase it is helping you.

just some thoughts. some pics should be coming soon.

so it begins..... again...

2008-04-01T17:07:00.002+08:00

alright, so its now the first of april.

first of april = to april fools day.

weird thing is that today, i have not encountered one single april fools joke/prank. i guess growing up makes you forget about all these useless nonsense. but speaking about nonsense, doesn't these childishness actually help us release some stress and at the same time relax our mind when we make someone else smile and at the same time making ourself smile.

hahaha, ok enough of this long time beating around the bush stuff.

so lets see what i did today. i would say it was a pretty boring day. i bet i can sum it up in less than 20 words.

woke up late, went for classes, ate lunch inbetween, went home, came on the computer and thats it.

real boring day huh?

hmmm... lets see.. pictures. well i guess that this post won't be having any pictures.

why?

well its becuase i feel that this blog is starting to look like some picture blog, where people just post pictures and say " i'll let the pictures do the talking"

so i think its about time i posted an entry that has way more words than it has pictures.

besides all this other stuff, i just recently found out that the long time operations manager of camp5 is going to be leaving to his home land of australia for good. its quite sad actually. but at least there is going to be a huge leaving party come birthday for him.

ok i think i'll end this post here. more on some camera gear and events on my next post.

lets hope i can keep up my one post every 2 days track.

a come back

2008-03-13T01:01:00.002+08:00

know what, i think ive decided that i'll get back to my usual frequent blogging again by the start of next month.

i know its a really long time from now, but that would probably give me time to get things organised and also to get the inspiration back to blog :D

well untill then...

oh, btw... I'M GOING TO WATCH INCUBUS!!

yup, thats right. i'll be going for sunburst, which is a music festival thing. there will be loads of other bands too. but i'm mainly going for incubus.

reason why i HAVE to go this time, is becuase i missed them the last time they came down, which was about 3-4 years ago. so i decided that i really should go this time, if not probably the next time they come down they would probably be a bunch of old farts singing on stage...

anyway its late, good night!

look!! its my first panorama

2008-03-04T22:24:00.003+08:00

click on it to enlarge the picture.

ok... i know this is a really crappy post. im still kinda not finding the time to blog. it seems that ive become so freaking lazy.

argh!!!

so here is an update on school.

started a week ago, currently its the 5th day of uni, and so far the friends that i've made, in my semmester that is, only amounts to 6. can you freaking believe that?!

i'm starting to become really anti-social. hhahaha!!

ok now at least i have put something in this blog that is almost worth reading. i think this is the first post in a long long time that has more words than pictures. but then again, a picture tells a thousand words, and ive got a panorama which i have stitched like 10 pictures together. does that mean that there is still more pictures than words?

ahhh what the heck.

over and out.

guess what...

2008-02-26T15:09:00.000+08:00

the bum is finally back in school again...

ok so i missed out the food part...

2008-02-01T20:55:00.000+08:00

alright, so i missed out about the food part.

so here is the story of the day out with jolene, jox, jiameei and shahpur.

at first we ate at marche which was in the curve. and us, being really short of money and in an expensive restaurant (maybe not so expensive, but we were short of cash), had to order super cheap food.

here is a picture of the sun which brightened our day at marche.

thats jiameei on the left and jolene on the right.

and this is one of me, jox and shahpur. shahpur looks like he is having an orgasm or something...

so after hanging out at marche for a while, we decided to head over to 1 utama to visit the batting cages.

so here is another one of us at the batting cages.

need i put a caption on this picture?

man... yet again i feel really lazy to type out an entry, so ill let the pictures do the talking, with me placing some captions and stuff...

jocelyn and jolene posing for the camera. come to think of it, i have no idea why people, including myself, strike up a pose whenever a camera is pointed their way....

alright this picture seriously looks like a family portrait.

shahpur's version of a kikapoo advert. the criteria was that we had to look like we were real happy! i think he over did it.

and this is mine. i think shahpur did better than me.

this photo pf shahpur looks really wrong..... can you spot why?

more posing for the camera.

and here is another one of the girls.

and yet another one. argh!!! when will it stop!

jolene takes safety really seriously... but come to think of it, wearing a helmet which is used for rental really sucks... everyones sweat and germs are on it!!

yet more posing...

then finally it was time for us to hit some balls. shahpur dances in rejoice.

so the next few pictures are just the best shots i could get of each person while batting. except jox, cause i have no idea why there are none of her photos.

this is jiameei. if you look carefully, the ball is coming right at her but she is still adjusting her hair.

this is shahpur. i like incubus, do you?

this is jolene. she doesn't like wearing shoes.

this is noel. he looks like he is about to chop some imaginary person in half.

this was the bestest shot i got.

shahpur gets blown by the wind.

noel gets blown by the wind too...

don't ask me why i'm referring to myself in the third person... cuase i have no idea why.

so after all that playing around, we decided to take some portraits.

alright, i'll just spare you guys the parkour pictures for now as i think there is already alot of pictures in this post. so i'll just post up the parkour pics in another entry.

but... i have just one more picture to post...

can you guess whats new?

more on that in the next post :D

base ball and parkour!

2008-01-30T20:11:00.000+08:00

well today i went to the batting cages with jolene, shahpur, jiameei, jocelyn and me!

damn... ok i just got a call and it seems that i have to go to work...

argh!!

here is a teaser.

some shots

2008-01-25T19:46:00.000+08:00

ok, so yet again it has been a long time since i last posted.

but oh well... i have still yet to finnish the phuket post.

but in the mean time, here are some shots of some old cameras that i have. i was playing around with this technique of photographing items where the background is totally white. so here are the results of my expetimentations.

this is an olympus OM10. a film camera of mine that has long gone unused.

next is my mums old kodak camera that we brought back from my grand mothers place in terengganu. this camera uses some sort of different film which is different from those normally used today. so i doubt that i would ever get this camera to work again...

so yeah, its really easy to set up this white background thing (cant remember what this technique is called). all you have to do is get a few pieces of white paper, and put it at the base of the camera and also at the back of the camera, carefully hiding away the gaps between the pieces of paper. take the photo and then you got your shot!

this last photo was taken when i was walking around my park. managed to get this OK only sun set shot.

jon boodvile says that it represents hope!

whee!!

you want tuk tuk?

2008-01-13T18:23:00.000+08:00

so this post has been pretty much outdated.

does it even matter?

i dont think so.

anyway, i don't quite fancy typing so much anymore, so i'm just going to post more pictures.

here are some pictures that i took when i went to phuket before christmas.

this is a picture that i took while sitting on patong beach having a beer. the thai people here seem to love having dogs, and they take them everywhere!

this is a picture of bangla road in patong. yes, you read it right, its called bangla. its quite a cool place at night. this is the street where all the bars are located, lady man and pole dancers live. there is even a muai thai (kick boxing) stadium at the end of the street. at night they close this street off to traffic, thats why there is a huge amount of people on this street.

this is just some random picture that i took while walking around the area.

phuket is so cool, that they even sell guns in the open!!

hahah, you wish. those are BB guns. but they have a real good variety of real looking guns there.

a club that is located right opposite patong beach.

there are loads of these signs everywhere! at least we know where to go when there is a tsunami.

this is a picture of the gay street of phuket. loads of gay people there. went there by accident becuase the tuk tuk that was taking us back to the hotel was dropping some other people at this street. sorry the pics aren't that good, as i was taking the pictures in the wrong setting and was in quite a hurry while the tuk tuk drove along this street.

can you guess what you are looking at in the above picture?

how about this one?

still can't figure it out?

well you are actually looking at a balcony full of thai guys dressed up in skimpy black leather outfits. whats worst is that they were freaking dancing with all the spot lights right on them!!

this is a picture of 2 jeeps that look like army jeeps. it was the first time i saw one up close.

now this is a picture of a fishing boat.

when we were on a boat on the way to phi phi island, this green fishing boat passed us, and there was this thai guy which was so damn funny on that fishing boat. as their boat was passing by mine, he carried out this really long pole with fish or something hanging on both ends and did some weight lifting while giving that ARGH!!! sound.

it was one of those " you had to be there to see it for yourself" kinda things.

so next up, pictures of phi phi island!

when i do decide to make another post that is :D

new years eve party!

2008-01-04T14:49:00.000+08:00

ok, its been a really long time, but finally i have found time to make a post.

this post is going to be on what i did on the new years eve. phuket pics will be posted soon.

anyway, 5 hours from midnight on newyears eve, i gave min ern a call to see if he had anything planned. so i got invited to his girlfriends place in damansara heights for the new years party.

im mostly going to post pics as now i've got a new camera but seem to have never posted pics since i have got it.

so here goes.

but sadly its going to be a short one.

at the house i met his minern's girlfriend for the second time, but i didn't remember meeting her before. so anyway her name is jill. really cool girl. her mum is from kuching and they had sarawak laksa!! whee!!

for those of you who don't know what sarawak laksa is, you are missing out. its a laksa food thinggy that is from sarawak, and its damn good!

so yeah, had sarawak laksa and after we had drinking games. the usual stuff.

here are some photos.

a wave the hand infront of the camera pic by jia wei.

i seriously have no idea what is wrong with min ern.

minern's ugly face.

jia wei's scarry face, which looks so much like the mask from V for Vendetta.

after the drinks, we played this cool game called rock band!

how the game goes?

well its played on the xbox 360. its somewhat like guitar hero, but even better! this time you get to PLAY AS A BAND!! you can actually choose to be a bassist or guitarist, vocalist, and drummer! but sadly they didn't have the drum set yet, jill only had 2 guitars and the mic. such a cool game right?

whats better is that i spotted as many as 4 video consoles at jill's place. there was the nintendo wii, and old dreamcast, a ps2, and the xbox 360. it was some cool shit! plus they had loads of drinks :D

so we pretty much played rock band through the night. only left jill's place at about 5 i think. all in all it was a fun party.

ok, now i'm just adding random stuff as i am still waiting for some pictures to be uploaded before i can finnish posting up this post. ARGH!! its taking so freaking long!

ok, here is the guys playing rock star from another angle.

another wave the hand in front of the camera pic by bernerd.

and for the final and funniest pic. which would probably get me killed.

bernerd puking into the drain.

i got this pic in the car while waiting for him to puke. :D

**note all pictures were taken while under the influence of alcohol, pictures may turn out blur and shaky.

and so the holiday begins

2007-12-18T13:01:00.000+08:00

so today is tuesday. its just like any ordinary tuesday, only thing different is that its in december and that makes it another day closer to Christmas!

whats on the itinerary today?

today i'm going to watch i am legend for the SECOND TIME!!!

its such a freaking good movie man! every part of the movie i'm in suspense, wanting to know what happens next.

after the movie there would be more caroling!

and after caroling, its back home to start packing for phuket!

yes, i am leaving for a holiday for almost a week to phuket. will only be back on christmas eve. sigh... its actually quite sad. won't be able to spend christmas with friends.

oh btw, i got a new lens! its a zuiko 14-54mm f2.8-3.5, if you don't know what i mean with all those numbers, then you should just ignore it :D

so anyway will be back on christmas day!

i love decembers

2007-12-05T02:10:00.000+08:00

well i think its about time i made a post. after an uber long time away.

as always i will be giving the excuse that i was really extreamly busy. truth is, i just couldn't find the time to fit the blogging activity into my "lazing around and doing nothing on the computer" schedule.

but enough about me not blogging, its december! the month of the year that i am most happy.

why?

well its becuase it only means that christmas is just around the corner. its always a season thats full of fun and excitement. most of all christmas decorations and carroling!

yes, you heard me right, i do go carroling. its really fun to go to peoples houses carroling and spreading the spirit of christmas.

ok, i guess thats all i can talk about for now. its late and i hear my bed calling me. but as always, before i go to bed i always read a novel and gobble up some chocolates. lately i've been having a chocolate craze. its like chocolates EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

good night.

aj hackett gig.

2007-11-09T11:40:00.000+08:00

ok, so its been about 3 weeks since the rave, and its finally about time that i posted about it.

but since i'm actually quite short of time, ill just mostly post pictures and let you paint a picture for yourselves of what happened.

a picture that sandra took, she was pretty proud of it too.

the guys setting up the bungy cage. sadly the bungy didn't go through, cuase there was a problem with the crane. what a bummer.

the person in the cage is johnny. he is this white dude who manages the AJ hackett bungy in bali. coolest thing about him is he speaks freaking fluent indonesian. he even has the indonesian accent. its sometimes weird because he speaks to you in english, then all of a sudden he would just switch to indonesian. the first time i actually heard him speak indonesian was when he was giving instructions to the crane operator. and he was going on and on and on and on. i was totally stunned!

this is how high the bungy was supposed to be. too bad it was canceled. everyone was looking forward to jumping. thats about 45 meters up.

they had to dump loads and loads of sand to cover up all the mud and horse shit that littered the place. the smell of horse shit was so bad that we could even smell it before we set foot on the field.

a random shot of sandra.

me and lok when we were being strapped up on the g-force X. the cool thing about being part of the crew, was that we could sit on the rides as many times as we wanted.

this one is of sandra and me on the g-force X.

a picture of the only air conditioned tent. this was when it was all empty before the party started.
me, lok and sandra, posing on the balcony of out apartment. one thing i just realised about this shot is that we all had one leg up against the railing. only odd one out is sandra. *note* Sandra, why didn't you just go with the trend like the rest of us?!*

some more group shots.

on the night before the rave, we had this weird photography session with the other crew that lived in the next door apartment. they climbed over into our side from the balcony.

now here are some shots of people.

this is lok, he just slapped a huge bunch of sun block on his face. i don't think he even knew that his face was all white.

ok now i'm quite lazy to write captions.

next up is the swing. how it goes is that there are 2 cranes. one crane which holds the swing and suspends it 2 meters off the ground, and another which would pull the swing and bring it to a height of 40 meters. once the swing is at the wanted height, one of the people on the swing would have to pull a trigger to release the swing and all 3 people would come down in a huge swing.

this is a picture of me, sandra and lok getting geared up. i was even able to strap my video camera onto my hand. i'll post up the video when i have the time. then you guys would be able to feel how is it like to sit on it too!

this is when the crane was pulling us up.

this is one of us swinging.

ok, looks like i've wasted enough time posting pictures. i'm late for an appointment with some old friends now. looks like i'm going to be 30 minutes late. as usual...

i know, i know!

2007-11-07T23:43:00.000+08:00

yes, it HAS been really really long since i last updated.

i have so much to blog about, but just don't have the time!

time, something everyone wants but never seem to have enough of. i really hate it when i don't have the time to just laze around in front of the computer, reading random stuff off the net, watching movies downloaded off the net, and most of all just plain doing nothing.

lately i've been playing around alot with me new olympus E-510. i'm getting used to it now. but i think i would need to get a new lense. i really hate it when i need a zoom lense and only brought my wide lense along. it pisses me off! so thats why i've set my eyes on a 18mm-180mm lens :D

getting that lense and a new speed light would make me really really happy.

2 days ago, i suddenly decided to climb up onto the roof of my house to take some photos. it was a hard climb. stepping on those tiles on the roof are freaking scarry. plus i was pretty high up. just think about it, i live in a 3 storey house, and i climbed up onto the top most top of the house to take my photos. it was really windy, there wasn't much sun shine, and it was really really high up. i think i was about 15 meters off the ground. good think i'm a climber, so heights isn't much of a problem for me.

but now you guys must be thinking, what in the hell would make noel climb up onto the roof just to take photos?

well here is what i took photos of.

yes i know, the power cables really spoils the shot. but i guess i can't do anything about it. unless i buy some C4 explosives and detonate it at the base of that tower. but then again if i do that, i wouldn't have any electricity.

yes, my first sunset shot. it was actually quite cool. i can see 1 utama, the curve, and some other places from my roof top. i also am able to get a good shot of a sun rise. well i guess i'll only be taking a shot of that when i finally decide to wake up uber early in the morning one fine day.

well in my next upcoming post i'll post some pictures from the recharge revelation, global gathering. it was freaking hell muddy. plus everyone was practically walking in horse shit, as they actually use that field for the horses to graze.

besides that, i would also post pics from the camp5's promo wall in 1 utama. it was a cool wall, also it gave us a chance to tell the people of malaysia that camp5 does exist and lives on the 5th floor of 1 utama.

untill the next post! good bye!

party on!

2007-10-24T12:22:00.000+08:00

well this week end i'll be heading over to melacca for a party.

what party is it you ask?

well its none other than the

well i'm actually not one to go far raves, but this one is an exception.

why?

well its because i'll be helping out to operate the rides set up by AJ Hackett.

what kinda rides?

well its rides like bungee, some swing thinggy and some other ball sling shot ride. it would be fun. anyway, if anyone of you are heading over to melacca this week end, gimme a call. ill be there on friday :D

more cars from the neighbour

2007-10-21T22:58:00.001+08:00

once again i was shocked when i came back from work.

as i opened the gate of my house, walked into the driveway, 2 objects caught my eye. i looked right and i saw these 2 beautiful cars, again owned by me neighbour.

i mean how many other cars does he have hidden in some garage somewhere?

here is a picture of one of 2 of the minis that my neighbour owns.

besides that, he also has a poshe

now here is a picture of both the cars.

can you stand this guy? he has loads of freaking cars!

looks like i'm turning into a stalker... HAHAHA!!

the jog.

2007-10-19T12:35:00.000+08:00

so today was the jog day.

i was late as usual, went to pick sandra up then met up with soon seng, jeremy, pam, and zak at the park.

here are the pics.

sandra, jeremy, pam, and zak.

soon seng, sandra, and zak. pam and jeremy were heading back home.

the track.

a look at the park from the top of the stairs.

after all that jogging, we all headed home.

zak was driving in front of us (me and sandra) and at the trafic light he decided to become friendly.

a better point of view

2007-10-19T01:22:00.001+08:00

alright, remember when i said i went to KL with jox and sandra but didn't have a camera for photos?

well now sandra has the photos and im feeling too tired to repost the post. so im just going to post a link to sandra's blog post. this post not only has pictures, it even has a better point of view of the trip.

have fun!

on btw, tomorrow morning is camp5's first staff jogging outing trip thinggy. its supposed to get some of those lazy not so fit people out of the office and into the jogging track. ill bring my camera along and document the event. hopefully i can get it up soon.

cya!

TIME!!!

2007-10-18T00:25:00.000+08:00

have been extreamly busy lately. don't seem to have the time to do anything.

tomorrow im getting tested on my instructor basic rescue. the bosses are finally pushing me to quickly finnish up my instructor training cause one of the instructors are going on a one month holiday early november. that gives me about 2 weeks to be ready. man im dead...

besides that, its father mitchel's birthday tomorrow, and the church is trowing him a dinner. us youths are going to be singing some songs from the witness musical. more on these after the dinner and when i finally find time to upload the pics.

about jeremy's birthday, i already uploaded the pics in the computer (finally), but always seem to be too busy to go through them and make a blog post. hopefully i'll be able to get it all done this week.

besides that, i also see a new car in my neighbour's driveway. im going to go over there and snap a photo and it would be up soon :D

fun time

2007-10-15T01:18:00.000+08:00

well its 1:19 am and i just got back from camp5 after dropping sandra home.

it was jeremy's birthday today, so there was a party. this time it wasn't on such a big scale as last time. it was mostly only camp5 staff that were there.

but anyway i'm feeling alittle high on beer and cocktails and also feel alittle sleepy, so i'll make a full post when i upload pictures from my new olympus E-510. i'm finally starting to get a hang of the camera.

untill then. cya!

finally my search is over

2007-10-13T16:02:00.001+08:00

well i finally got the camera.

2 days ago i went over to KL with jocelyn and sandra in search of a camera for a good price.

we started kinda late, cause ms. sandra chan didn't want to wake up earlier than 11am. so we left at about 12 ish...

**i'm going to keep this short, as i do not seem to be in the mood for blogging right now.

we had a quick mamak lunch and i went to the bank to get some cash for the camera and off we went to busy kuala lumpur!

first stop was pudu plaza. since we didn't know where it was, other than it being somewhere in pudu, it took us about an hour ti find the place. reason why we went there was because ted said that they sell cameras at good prices. but sadly, there was only 2 freaking shops there and they both didn't sell the camera i wanted.

pudu plaza was a freaking scary place. you could see old people walking around as if they were going to beat someone up, the whole place smelled of insence, and it was full of "La La" people.

so we got out of there as soon as we could.

then we headed over to sungai wang, and that was where i finally bought it.

the winner of my never ending decision of my fickle minded brain.

the olympus E-510.

its quite a cool camera.

here are some of the specs:

built in image stabilisation
some really good dust reduction system
live view (like those you have in your typical point and shoots)
10mp (like you cant tell from the picture)
uses the four thirds system
what ever lens you put on it, the focal range is x2

i bought the twin kit lens, so i have 2 lenses with a focal range of 28-300!!

it still has more stuff. but i'm not in the mood to post it up.

anyway we bargained and stuff. but thanks to the 2 girls that came along with me, i was able to get a better price. if i were alone i would have probably paid a bomb. thanks san and jox :D

after all that buying, we went over to some place which was having a warehouse sale clearance thinggy. the girls went to buy their stuff, while i just hung around the place not able to buy anything as most of the mens clothes were already gone.

next stop was pavilion!

the girls had this fabulous idea if walking from one end to the other on each floor! it wouldn't be so bad if it was a short building, but this building had about 7 storeys! my legs almost dropped off. every time they entered a shop i looked for a chair and just sat down. seriously should never go shopping with girls man. they will be able to beat even the toughest athletes when it comes to shopping.

anyway this is the cool new shopping mall that has opened in bintang walk. its freaking huge, has really high ceilings, looks all nice and "new age" according to san, and most of all it has J FREAKING CO!!

i first had J.CO doughnuts when i went to jakarta. and it was freaking good! weird thing was that everyone that was working there seem to be from indonesia too. they must have brought a bunch of them from indo to start up the franchise in kl.

so anyway, we bought 2 dozen doughnuts, ate half of it there and the other half was for me to bring back home.

after all that doughnuts, our next stop was to get back to sungai wang. went there, and it was back to more shopping again. this time there was less walking aroung, cause everyone was starting to get tired.

we headed home at about 9. i was so happy to be able to sit down and just drive. could finally rest my legs.

sent jox home, then went to camp5 with san to discuss with soon seng what we were going to do for our bosses upcoming party, and after we went to eckywooby for super.

went home after.

ok, didn't have that much pics, as my trusty sanyo ran outa battrie, and my new camera needed to be charged before it could be used.

anyway, will post more on boss jeremy's party soon!! its on sunday!

freaking cool car!

2007-10-07T17:49:00.000+08:00

ok, its been a while since i last posted again.

seem to be really busy lately. but anyway here comes another one.

about a month back, i came home from work at about 930pm, all tired and just wanting to get home and get some rest.

i opened the gate walked into the driveway and then i saw something from the corner of my eye.

i turned right and this is what i saw.

i mean what the hell!

this isn't the first one of these cars that he has. he has 2 of them. the other one is in orange! this car has those windshield flaps, super cool seats, and yes, even curtains!

here are a few pictures of the hippie bus in the daylight.

besides the 2 hippie buses, he has like 4 hondas, 3 mercedes, 1 posche, 2 mini coopers (the old ones), a freaking huge 4 wheel drive which he keeps parked outside the house all the time, and god knows how many more cars which he keeps in his main house.

for your information, the house beside mine is one of my neighbour's spare houses.

but among all the cars that he has, the hippie bus is still the best.

why?

its my freaking dream car!
its the coolest car in the world
you can practically live in it
as for number 4, look below.

it's been a while

2007-09-30T13:27:00.000+08:00

oh mannnn.... its been like so freaking long since i last made a damn post here.

want to know why i have't been updating?

it's alittle stupid, but the answer is becuase i've been spending most of my time on the computer looking at reviews on dSLR cameras.

ITS SO FREAKING HARD TO DECIDE WHICH CAMERA TO GET!!! ARGH!! i feel like pulling my hair out!

so here is an update on what has happened recently.

recently i've finally got off my crutches.
recently i've been super busy with work
recently i've not had enough sleep
recently i've changed my mind like 5 thousand times on which camera i wanna get.
recently i am starting to get really itchy as i am not able to climb

and i think thats it.

festival tang long

2007-09-26T17:48:00.000+08:00

ok, so yesterday was the lentern festival. quite a boring festival if you just sit at home and not do anything. but if you do go out, you could have some fun.

just incase you guys didn't know, carroling practice also started yesterday. so for those of you who should be coming **cough** sandra** cough**, you better come.

practice times are as bellow.

hope you guys like me very beautiful handwriting. btw, i purposely spelled caroling with a double 'r'.

so yeah, yesterday i went for caroling practice last night. it was really nice to be able to sing the christmas carols again. always loved singing, especially during christmas.

so anyway, after all that singing, and stuff, me and ted went over to meet sandra and slim at some park in BU. it was supposed to be a lantern festival, but we had no lanterns, only candles and sparklets and firecrackers that scared the hell outa me.

so here are some stuff that we did with the sparklets (stolen from sandra's blog)

a star!

ok, you know girls, them and their hearts and stuff. this are all such unmanly stuff to be posting on my blog.

are you starting to get hypnotised?

ok, after all that we dropped slim back home, then the rest of us headed over to TTDI Plaza. its actually quite a cool place. i think i'm going to start hanging around there more often.

so anyway, we went to this place called

and you know what? it's actually being ran by an old classmate of mine.

SHALINA!!

so anyway, it was a good chill out place. only bad thing was that they only sell beer from bottles. urgh...

so here are pics of us.

TED

me and sandra

and lastly
a poser shot of sandra.... wahHhhahaa!

little things in life

2007-09-20T11:01:00.000+08:00

here is a really interesting question that i came across recently.

when was the last time you enjoyed the little things in life?

when i see a question like this, i start to think, what exactly are the little things in my life?

the little things that matters to one person might not be the same compared to others. thats because everyone has their own life experiences and different point of views.

next time some a-hole cuts you off while driving and you feel like it's your duty to run him off the road and end his miserable existence... pause; take a breath; realize "ya know, i'm alive, and in good health" ... resume driving responsibly, because small twits on the road aren't worth big hassles.

when you're sitting on a bench with your friends or family and one of them can't keep from twitching their leg non-stop (restless leg syndrome), instead of fussing at them, just smile to yourself and think that it's damn good to have friends like them around even if their annoying habits piss you off once in a while.

ever looked up at the sky at night and think about how small we are in the vastness of space? have you ever just looked up and stared at the clouds for a few minutes just to enjoy the view and relax? when was the last time that you just sat down in front of a busy street, with people walking by, and thinking to your self "how lucky i am to be able to just sit and watch people and time go by" ... when was the last time you sat at the dinner table with your family and was just thankfull that everyone is safe and just enjoying the time together?

so when was the last time YOU enjoyed the little things in life?

dSLR cameras

2007-09-18T19:07:00.000+08:00

lately i've been cracking my head deciding which dSLR camera to get.

i've narowed it down to 3 brands, nikon, olympus, and canon.

from nikon, i was thinking of getting the nikon D40x

from olympus, i was thinking of getting the E-510

and lastly from cannon, i was thinking of the EOS 400D or Digital Rebel XTI

so what do you guys think?

good bye friends

2007-09-17T14:38:00.000+08:00

well just recently, there have been 2 friends of mine that are leaving for the uk to further their studies.

jasmine just left for the uk 2 days ago, and caroline, whose flight leaves in about an hours time.

for jasmine.

its been really great knowing you. for all the times you hung out with me when everyone else was way to busy to go out with me. for all the lame jokes that you come up with. for all the times you did things that were so freaking lame and funny. for all the times we went to hartamas for shisha. for all the times you got angry at me for being too irritating. for inviting me to your prom when my social life was practically dead. for the times you brightened up my day by doing something really random. most of all for being a really great friend.

i would like to say THANK YOU!

have a great time in the uk. study hard, play hard, and most of all have the time of your life.

i'm going to miss having you around.

for caroline.

ok that was the closest picture i had with almost only the 2 of us in it.

again, it has been really great knowing you. i remember when you were climbing at camp5, one day you walked in with a freaking mohawk! i mean that was freaking cool!

for all the times that we went waltzing over to baskin robins for an ice cream. for the times when we would argue over me not allowing you to go for breaks, and you saying that you don't have to listen because you are a duty marshall too. for the time we went for cosmic funk expresses last performance. for recommending me the world class chocolate flavour. for the times when you would correct my grammar mistakes. for the ice cream that you got for me when i was stuck at home with a sprained foot. for those random drawings that you would make when you were bored. most of all for bring a friend.

again, i would like to say THANK YOU!

have fun learning about where we came from and what people believe in. get wasted, make loads of friends, and most of all enjoy yourself.

going to miss having you around. see you next year in KRABI!!!

Nutrilite Double X Challenge

2007-09-16T21:33:00.000+08:00

this is a little outdated.

last week, i competed in the finals of the nutrilite double x challenge.

here is sandra's post of the event, and here is my previous post from the preliminaries.

this competition comprised of 4 main challenges, with an additional 3-6 mini challenges within each main challenge.

this was no easy task. i would elaborate more on what was in each challenge, but i seem to be too addicted to watching the history channel about rome. it is really cool to watch. they had documentaries of the great architectural structures of rome, and who built them. you guys should watch it some time, its really good to know.

anyway back to the challenges. what i will tell you is that the challenges involved a lot of running, pulling, team work and brains. the last challenge was an obstacle course.

so we headed over to the saujana, for our 2 night complimentary stay. when we arrived at the hotel, there was this banner to greet us.

after settling in, we sat in for the briefing of the challenges that we were about to undertake the next day. it was real long, full of questions and quite boring actually, because everyone wanted to be absolutely sure about what was supposed to happen. if the main prize wasn't 20k, i probably would have just nodded off.

next up was some welcome dinner. as there were people from all around malaysia, namely KL, kuantan, penang, johor, and miri, they had to make us all feel comfortable. so there were loads of food, games and lucky draws.

one this irritating about the dinner, was that the MC was this real emo lady. i mean i wouldn't really mind if she was hot, but she was quite fat and shitty looking. the jokes she came up with were also really dumb and lame.

one example of a really emo moment was when they had this game, which each table competes with another. the challenge was to blow up a balloon until it bursts. once all the balloons on the table bursts, the table wins. thing is, she said that we have to use team work! so what we did was we blew it a little and just used our hands to burst the balloons. when we did this, she got so red like a tomato and really emo. so our table got disqualified for doing that. but i mean WTH?! she said use team work. how can it be team work if everyone blows their own balloon?

after all that drama, had some lucky draws and i won a bum watch which i gave to my brother. next we drew lots to see which team would go first etc. our team was number 9. so out of 10 teams, we were the last group to compete. the 10th team was the other team from KL. good for us, as we can watch other teams perform the tasks.

so anyway, after dinner we went back, planned our strategy. on our way back, we stumbled upon this huge poster in the next room.

i find it really cool, cuase its actually a 60th birthday party poster from this family to their dad. seems that their dad used to be a pilot. its all in those little pictures around that big picture. its like a big poster that tells the life story of the birthday boy.

after all that, we planned out strategy and went to bed as we would need our strength.

so anyway, our team name was elite 4, and the team comprised of me, dhayang, jonathan, and primo.

the next day we were transported to padang timur, which was the field opposite amcorp mall, by bus. there, we were joined by our supporters megan, sandra, sheyna, kristy, shery mae. these girls braved the hot burning sun and stayed practically the whole day from morning till evening to support us. thanks girls. oh, chee seng was there too.

so we had to wait super long for our turn to come up, as we were the last group. in the mean time, we had some warm up session by some dance instructor lady, there were the dynamites from DJ which were there to perform and liven up the event.

here are a few pictures of the event. the camera was mostly with sandra, so there was loads of cam whoring. be warned!

a cool morning shot of the skyline at the field.

a big TV!!

sheyna and sandra

sandra and megan

mae posing. well no idea if she is actually. could be some random candid shot.

picture of the field from ground level.

picture of field on paper. F1, F2, F3, F4 represents the different areas each challenges are taking place. the whole length of the field is about 200m

all the teams lined up.

the dancing/warm up part.

primo and jonathan after we finished all the challenges.

me with my retarded hair.

me and primo. we were not so in love that we were walking around like that. i had an injured foot. more on that later.

a picture with all the participants. spot me!

the winners of the competition. i've got a retarded look here.

so here are a 2 videos of one of the challenges.

i'm kinda lazy to explain whats going on in the videos. but one thing is for certain, the girls were cheering really loudly!

so yeah, we came in second and won 12k. so thats 3k each. really depressing tho. second place is so close to first place. first place prize was 20k. that would equal to 5k a person!

now here is the story for the last challenge. in all the previous challenges, we ran and ran so much that my legs couldn't take it anymore that they started cramping up. it was so bad that i totally couldn't walk. if i straightened my legs, it would just lock up, stiff and straight. so the remedy was to use loads and loads of deep heat. i think i probably finished up like 2 whole tubes of deep heat.

so anyway, i had to push myself and actually wanted to die from the cramps. but still, had to push on man!

so on the last obstacle in the obstacle course, we had this 2 meter high vertical wall with a platform at the top. we had to get everyone on it by pushing, pulling or throwing. after we got on it, we had to swing from a trapeze and land on freaking lousy mattresses. when i swung, i didn't land properly and hurt my ankle. had to crawl to the finishing line so they could stop the timer.

bear in mind, that i did the obstacle course while i had real bad cramps. that means i could hardly walk at all. thanks to the team, i made it through.

all in all it was not bad. we only paid 20 ringgit and we got repaid back like 2000 X more that what we paid. the 20 ringgit paid for all the free buffet food in the hotel, 2 night stay in a 5 star hotel, transportation costs, and some other stuff which i can't remember.

ok this post is getting too long.

over and out.

last night in langkawi

2007-09-13T17:42:00.000+08:00

today, i was finally able to get out of the house after being cooped up at home for 3 and a half freaking days!

so yeah, it was jazli and sam's birthday today. happy birthday guys!

oh btw, not that you guys are interested to know, but my foot is really swollen.

so back to my final part of the langkawi trip.

after having a great time listening to the music, having a couple of drinks, and chilling out, we headed back to the room for our final and last night of drinking!

this night we finally opened the keg of Heineken beer that we got on the first day. had to cool it in the sink with ice, cuase our room didn't have a fridge.

so yeah, we had our drinking session with the rest of the group. this was the night that i was supposed to get pissed drunk, as i hardly drank the night before due to having too much fun laughing at the others and getting them drunk, but sadly, we ran outa booze. so i only ended up a little tipsy.

after everyone went to bed, me, min ern, mabel, and the sam from penang, went to take a walk on the beach towards casa del mar. this hotel was some really cool hotel man. we sneaked in there, jumped into their pool, and didn't want to come out as it was freaking cold. eventually we stole some dinner hankies thinggy and used it as blankets, and made our way back. it was really funny tho, as me and min ern went there while we were still tipsy, but the alcohol wore out eventually.

the next day, we all woke up freaking late and had to rush to the duty free shop, then to the jetty. the penangites car ran outa petrol, so we kinda got cut off from them as we were in a hurry. but they managed to get a lift to the petrol station eventually.

on the last kilometer to the jetty there was this really steep bridge, min ern was driving, and the car stopped right on the slope! this was a funny sight. min ern tried to get the car going again but couldn't. after about 5 minutes of trying, and causing a huge jam behind us, i switched with him and drove the car over the slope towards the jetty.

here is the sucky part. as we were in a freaking hurry, i didn't bother to put on my seat belt and was speeding all the way. about 500 meters before the jetty, there was a road block!

i mean the the hell! of all the times to have a road block, they had it when we were rushing to catch our boat. in the end the typical lines came up, "macam mana kamu nak settle?". this line is probably the most well used line by police officers! so the bargaining began. but since we were in a freaking hurry, we just gave in.

when we arrived at the jetty, we were already late for the boat. so we had to wait another hour for the next boat to get us. just enough time to catch the bus which leaves 10 minutes after we land in kuala perlis.

here are some pictures of us on the boat.
everyone was all tired out after rushing so much.

good bye langkawi!

when we arrived in kl, kealeng's dad picked us up and brought us for some well needed chicken rice dinner. finally it was time to say good bye and we all got home.

for kealeng, one of the reasons this trip was planned out. have a good time in the USA. don't study too hard, have loads of fun, and most importantly do remember to come back. SCROTUM!!

for min ern, i've known you for too freaking long man. love the jokes, the fun times irritating you and all that other shit that happens. don't forget to eat your veggies. SCRATCH!!

for samantha, it was great meeting you. fun times playing taboo with the others, in front of starbucks in the jetty in langkawi, which is in malaysia, which is located in asia, which is on a planet called earth, in the milkyway galaxy. hmmm... what else? SMILE!

here is to the good times, the really bad lame jokes that we had to take, the weird drunken accents that we had a good laugh about, the loads and loads of chocolates eaten, the fun times on the beach body surfing, the prancing and skipping of a drunken person around the resort, and all the other stuff that shouldn't be said.

here is to friendship and all that other bull crap that people say when they want to close up a good story/speech.

FUN ALL THE WAY GUYS!

Langkawi, langkawi, langkawi...

2007-09-11T17:16:00.000+08:00

well, before i continue on with my langkawi post, im going to post an update on the double x challenge.

WE GOT FREAKING SECOND PLACE!!!!

Thats 12k in our pockets!

its not 20k, but at least its as close as it gets. BUT ITS FREAKING SHITTY MAN! second place is sooooo close to first place! but what the heck.

oh btw i also got a free sprained ankle out of this competition. not bad eh?

so for those of you who didn't come support me and my team, you don't get ice cream. as for those of you who were there, come see me to get your ice cream.

more on the nutrilite double x challenge later on.

now back to the lake.

when we arrived at the lake, we were greeted by monkeys just hanging around the floating platforms which were the make shift land area on the lake. the floating platforms even comes together with a built in food store cum boat rental shop.

anyway, there was this little monkey which didn't seem to be scared of us humans. i managed to take it for a small walk holding its hands. hahaha! gosh, it sounds quite wrong.

i was even really tempted to push that little monkey over board into the lake. that would really be a funny sight. but i would probably need to jump in and save that little creature.

so anyway, besides taking little monkeys on walks, we took a dip in the lake. for your information, this is no ordinary lake. this lake looks like this:

so yeah, it was basically a super steep drop from where the water starts. min ern said he once tried to find the bottom, he swam down and down. after a while , he still had not found the bottom, and could not even see it. it was pitch black. finally he decided that even if he found it, he might nit like what he would find. i mean there could be monsters or even dead people down there!

so yeah, its that deep...

pretty scary actually. i never dared to put my head into the water and look down into the abyss. always had a fear of something coming out of dark places, especially water.

anyway! after awhile we decided it was time to rent some boats to go around the lake. everyone rented those slow solar powered leg paddler boats, while me and the other sam, samantha scully (there was 2 samanthas on our holiday) got a canoe.

after paddling awhile, me and sam met up with min ern's slow boat right i the middle of the lake. guess what min ern did. he jumped out of his boat, into the lake, swam to our canoe and sat at the back of the canoe.

this is what it looked like.

looks pretty funny. and he just sat there for hours as we took our tour around the lake.

so after playing around with the boats, we decided to head back. all that rowing in the huge lake was starting to get really boring.

but never the less, it was a really great place. a really great place to sit and just relax and enjoy nature. the lake was even surrounded by loads of limestone cliffs there that definitely has potential to be developed as a climbing site.

i await the day when people would start climbing at the lake.

anyway, we got onto the boat and set course for home. in other words the hotel!

after we got back, me, kea leng, min ern, and samantha(the one that came with us from KL) went to take a walk on cenang beach, which was the beach right opposite our hotel.

then we stumbled upon this really cool bar called chill out cafe. it was a hot day, and all of us desperately needed some cold beer and some shade. this place had everything we needed, a hammock, cool beer, and nice relaxing music from the 80s and 90s.

so yeah, we had nice cold beer and actually just sat and lazed around for about 2 hours and practically did nothing at all.

ok, so the name might be chill out cafe. i cant remember. notice the hut with a coconut tree growing out of it?

here are some picture of the place from my nice little hammock point of view.

so after our nice chill out time at chill out cafe/bar, me and kea leng went to do some body surfing! while min ern and sam took a nap. the waves weren't that big, but if you catch the right one at the right time, you can ride it. so i spent like 4 hours in the evening till it was dark body surfing. it was fun, especially when you manage to catch a wave. so anyway, after a while kea leng got tired of body surfing, so she left and i was joined by the others from penang shortly after. since i lived in a city which has no beaches nearby, i didn't mind swimming in the sea for a long time.

so after it got too dark to swim, i headed back to the room to get changed and the 4 of us from kl headed over to the reggae cafe for a drink.

it was a really cool place. it environment was real nice, the music was not really what i would listen to on a regular basis, but it was nevertheless relaxing.

here is a few pics of the place.

main entrance

the band that played reggae music. the guy on percussion, has freaking long dreads. its up to his knees!

can you spot anything unusual about the bar?

look again...

yes, what you see at the back of the bar is a notice board with bras stuck on to it. and on the top left hand corner there is a sign saying "let your breast breathe"

an australian flag, with a really weird caption saying "malaysia, australia jadi contoh toleransi masyarakat majmuk." i mean what the hell?! what kind of bull crap is that?

me and min ern having some drinks.

all of us. kea leng, sam, noel, and min ern.

so yeah, we had a really good time. seeing as this would be the last holiday that kealeng would be able to spend with us before she leaves for the US, it was good!

well this was one real long post. more on what happened after the reggae cafe on my next post.

here is a picture of kealeng for you to look at while you wait.

double x challenge!

2007-09-08T13:49:00.000+08:00

alright. this week end is the finals for the double x challenge.

its going to be in the padang timur starting at 8am till around 1pm. for those of you who don't know where the padang timur is, its the field right opposite amcorp mall. and for those of you who doesn't know where amcorp mall is, then go look at the map.

so anyway, its 20 freaking K if we win.

well, i'm already late now. have to pick up the rest and head over to the hotel. come support us! if you do, and we win, i'll buy you ice cream!

Sun, Sand and i don't surf...

2007-09-07T22:39:00.000+08:00

so the answer to the question

What did the gang do after they settled in?

sadly, we did not start drinking straight away.

we went straight to the beach!

WHEE!! i love the beach!

so anyway, we hung around the place just chilling and practically doing nothing **what else are holidays for?**

here are a few pics of the whole group during dinner.

min ern, sam, kea leng, noel.

part of the other bunch of people from penang.

well after dinner, with our tummies all filled with food, we headed back to the rooms to start our fun drinking sessions.

*note: kea leng is totally wasted and taking a nap on the bed.

ok, there wasn't much photos. but i wasn't really in the mood to get wasted that day, so i had some fun pouring drinks for the rest and getting them drunk as hell.

min ern was one of them. when he gets high, he does this really weird impersonation of capt jack sparrow.

plus everything that comes out of his mouth doesn't seem to make any sense.

here is a video of one of those weird moments when everything he does and says doesn't seem to make any sense at all.

so anyways, after all that laughing and taking care of people who are totally wasted, we all just went to bed.

the next day we were all forced to wake up early and take a trip down to some small jetty which was close to awana porto malai.

so we hopped into the small boat and was on our way island hopping!

so the island hopping wasn't that great. actually let me rephrase that. IT TOTALLY SUCKED!!

i mean the places they brought us to was:

1. a place which was famous for its white sands
- i have no idea what was so famous about that place. the only thing there was to see was white rough sands, which totally sucked. when you walk into the water, its so painful to walk there because there were so much sharp broken shells on the ground. there were no fishes and there were no corals. only thing we could see there was monkeys humping each other. i mean seriously. we had to just burn 45 minutes of our time just to wait for the boat man to come pick us up and save us from that place.

**i was 5 seconds late. if i were just a little earlier, you would see 2 monkeys connected at the hip on that small mound right where that little tree is. instead you see 2 monkeys walking away after a great 10 seconds of pleasure.

2. pulau singa to watch eagles
- this is the place where people go to see the eagles that live on langkawi. the boatman would just stop in the middle of a cove, then throw some chicken guts into the sea to attract the eagles. sitting on the boat just watching the eagles was way more entertaining than the first place.

3. we went to tasik dayang bunting.
- this was basicly the highlight of the whole trip. there is some legend behind the lake, search it up if you want to know more about it. special thing about this lake is that its a fresh water lake which is located just 10 meters or less from the sea. and this lake is DEEP! like seriously deep. i would hate to jump into the water in the middle of the lake.

so anyways, on the way to the lake, we stopped by a point where we could see the mountains which was in the shape of a pregnant lady person lying down.

can you spot the pregnant lady?

see it now?

so we landed on dry land again. this time, we had to climb a long flight of stairs before we arrived at the lake.

so in the next post.

What happens at the lake?

did someone drown?

were we attacked by monkeys?

was there a sea monster in the lake?

all that would be revealed on my next post. in the mean time here is a picture of a monkey for you to look at.

oh btw, i forgot to mention. we came up with a nickname for kea leng. it was scro-tum. we even wanted to make little beer cups and label it with that nick name.

in the land of duty free rum

2007-09-05T22:12:00.000+08:00

well the answer to the question is...

A FLYING MONKEY!!!!

hahaha... ok, thats just lame.

well here is the answer.

after finally being able to set foot on land after a super long voyage which took 2 super uber long hours, we walked around the jetty place because we had to wait for some friends who were going to join us from penang.

so we walked around and finally stumbled upon the infamous giant eagle which lives just 50 meters away from the jetty building in langkawi.

what did i do?

ok, i climbed the eagle...

yeah, so thats the answer to your question.

anyway, after getting a few shots with the giant eagle under the freaking hot sun, the four of us decided to head back to the cool of the jetty building.

we had to wait four hours for the penangites to arrive. so we walked, played taboo in coffee bean, went to the arcade and sat around allot. suddenly, i realised that i didn't have a pair of flip flops. the only foot wear i brought there was my really ugly yellow crocs.

i have no idea why i even wear them. maybe its because its the only slipper that i own.

so anyway, i made my way over to a shop in the jetty building, and decided to look for the cheapest pair of flip flops that i could find. guess what i found...

a freaking pair of chippo flip flops!

i mean what the hell! it was just what i was looking for, a pair of cheap flip flops which is so cheap that even the brand says that its cheap. but never the less this pair of flip flops do look good. well besides the fact that the printings tend to come out when you wear it. it was still good.

here is the bad part about this really cool pair of chippos. when i decided to put it on to go to the beach, i only took a really short 7 seconds for it to break....

i seriously kid you not. it was so cheap that it broke within less than 10 seconds. i mean what the hell?! if you want to make a slipper, at least make one that would last long enough for at least a one way trip to the beach.

ok, going a little off track there. now i'm going to confuse you guys with which part of the story we are at now. so anyway we are still at the jetty waiting for the penang char kuey teow eating people to arrive.

so yeah, when they finally arrived we got introduced, because they were all samantha's friends, and we had never met them before. there were about 8 of them i think, so that made our group swell to a whopping twelve people!

so after the introductions, we all trotted down to the car rental place and got 2 proton sagas. when i looked at the receipt that i got, it was so funny.

look at what it says at the bottom. the booze must be really cheap here huh...

anyway, we had lunch, bought our supply of freaking cheap booze and chocolates, then headed over to the hotel which was situated at the great chenang beach!

i was so relieved to finally be able to see the beach. finally the holiday began! as we were walking to our rooms, some fat malay lady told us to look up. so being the tourist that we are, wanting to see everything, we looked up.

want to know what we saw?

was it an aeroplane?
was it a helicopter?
was it a bird?
or was it superman flying in the sky nude?

well what we saw was the SUN!

but this was no ordinary sun, this sun had a ring around it.

whats better was it isn't some ordinary ring, it was a ring made out of rainbows!

still cant picture that in your mind? well here is what it looked like.

apparently its some really rare phenomenon which i could not be bothered to find out what its called.

so yeah, we all saw a huge ring around the sun. it was so huge, that it couldn't fit in my camera.

well this is where this entry is going to end. next up,

what did the gang do after they settled in?

more of that in the next entry.

finally the langkawi post.

2007-09-03T17:35:00.000+08:00

well finally after a long time of not being in the mood to blog, i have finally got around to do it.

i recently just got back from a trip to the east coast. it was a really educational trip, went to meet loads of old relatives, visited old family mansion homes, and of course some climbing. but this post ain't about all that. this post is about my long delayed langkawi post.

our plan was to take a bus to kuala perlis, then take a ferry to langkawi. but guess what, being the teenagers we are, we did not arrange for transport to the bus station up till the last minute. so we called in a favour from an old friend.

ROBIN!

and also being the teenagers that we are, we also lost our way and almost missed the bus. had we been 5 minutes later, we would have totally missed the bus. so anyway the bus trip took around 7 hours!

FREAKING LONG RITE! next time i'll fly there.

anyway, the bus was cold, and the seats were on lah.

as usual we had to take a few shots to document the whole trip.

after the freaking long bus ride, we were dropped off at a bus station 5 minutes away from the jetty. funny thing was that when we got off the bus, we were all blur and stuff, this man came to the entrance asking "siapa pergi ke langkawi?" and min ern just came to him and said "ya saya pergi ke langkawi"

it turned out that this guy was some agent that people go to when they want to go for a holiday. we sat down and talked about which hotel to stay at, how much would it be to rent a car, island hopping, etc. funny thing was, we already had made arrangements with a guy called azlan. he booked the hotels for us and stuff. when i got out of the bus, all blur and sleepy, i actually thought that this guy was azlan. so we sat and chatted discussing the prices and was almost convinced to follow this agent.

then suddenly, azlan called me. and i was like "oh shit! its azlan!" and was contemplating if i should pick up the phone. eventually when i did, it turned out that azlan was at that same bus terminal. he was wondering where we were, and when he found out that we were the people sitting on the table right across the terminal, he got pissed.

so he came walking towards us shouting at the other agent saying "mana boleh macam ni?! sayasudah buat booking dengan hotel" etc. eventually we decided heck, lets forget about the fat impostor and just stick with azlan.

after discussing the prices for the trip, we headed off to the jetty and got a boat to the beautiful duty free island of langkawi!

the boat trip took us about 2 hours. and the boat was moving really slow. after awhile we decided to move to the front of the boat to get a better view and also for some fresh air.

after the 2 hours we finally arrived at the jetty in langkawi!

in my next post, i'll tell you what happened in langkawi.

while waiting, here is a teaser.

what happenes when you put

and

together?

excuses...

2007-08-26T00:13:00.000+08:00

well... i've been ultimately busy this month, thats why i haven't been able to blog as often.

anyway, there are a few things that i have yet to blog about, which are langkawi trip, akltg camp, climbing competition.

hopefully i will have the time to get it done soon.

i'm so scared to even look through the photos i took from langkawi! cuase i know there are like 5000 photos...

south park?

2007-08-14T13:10:00.000+08:00

well i had nothing better to do today, so i was looking through a few blogs. i came upon jonming's blog. he made a post with one of those home made south park characters.

since i was such a south park fan, i decided to make a few of my own.

this is probably how i would look like in an everyday attire. the burger says it all. the smile too.

after making this, i decided to make more since i was already making one.

this is if i was a homeless hippie.

this one here is if i was at the beach. couldn't find a beach ball or something. not even a surf board. lol!! as if i surf.

and lastly...

if i were a taliban!

a long lost femiliar face

2007-08-12T01:31:00.000+08:00

today as i sat down in front of my computer getting my earth 2025 country ready for war, i got an IM from an old friend, min ern. he said he was bored and shit and he wanted to go out for a beer. so he suggested that we go out with daniella.

who is daniella you say?

well daniella is my great friend! she is the bestest best friend anyone can ever have. she is so nice. whats better is that she has good manners, and she even smells great! not like some stinky person who hasnt showerd in days...

ok, she asked me to say that. but seriously, she is a really long lost friend of mine. havent seen her in about 2 years! used to hang out allot with her in high school.

but oh well, time plays its part and thats why we havent seen each other in a while.

anyway, we went over to some place near friendster cafe (i think thats what its called) becuase friendster was full. so we had a drink and caught up on the last 2 years. not only that, we also made a plan to go to thailand! no idea if that trip would work out tho, but what the hell! im going to thailand!

anyway it was great to see you again dan.

-out-

look, its a video!

2007-08-10T14:37:00.000+08:00

this is a video of the nutrilite double x challenge that i competed in about a month ago. try and spot me!

i'm back!

2007-08-09T00:24:00.000+08:00

whee! i'm back from langkawi!

had a really good time there. loads of time to relax and all.

but now, since i just got back, i'm gonna go to bed, cause i've got my instructor course coming up tomorrow at 9am.

ill post pics and the story of the trip when i have the time.

till then! good bye!

im off!

2007-08-05T22:07:00.000+08:00

alright guys, my bus leavs at 11 and im at home now.

my good old friend robin has agreed to drop us off at the bus station. he is on his way now, so i probably have like 2 minutes to get ready.

cya!

langkawi plans

2007-08-03T01:02:00.000+08:00

well this seems weird, but i'm actually going for another holiday!

1 week after i get back from tambun, i'm off to the island with the huge bird, langkawi!

so the plan is like this,

on sunday, i'm working till 10, then i have 1 hour to catch the bus which leaves at 11.

7 hour bus ride to kuala perlis, then a dunno how long boat ride to langkawi.

arrive at langkawi, get our rental cars, drive to hotel, run to the beach, and go streaking!

hahaha, no la... probably just jump in the water and fart in it thats all.

im staying at this hotel.

looks pretty crappy, but its cheap and in a good location. lets just see how the place turns out to be.

im hoping to be able to rent a scooter!

which would be so cool!

just imagine crusing along the beach on a scooter. better yet, traveling around the palce, or maybe everywhere on a scooter. that would be the ultimate! just imagine if all 10 of us that are going got scooters! that would be even cooler!

it would be like a scooter gang! hahah!

well, lets just hope that the trip goes according to plan. i'll be back on wednesday night. going there for 3 days 2 nights.

you guys try to have fun while im having fun ok?

The trip up north

2007-07-31T12:09:00.000+08:00

so i already got the pictures from hannes.

well the day started with us needing to wake up like super uber early, 5am, to meet up at central park by 6am. met up with brad and company, but they were late. like freaking 20 minutes late! argh!!

anyway we went on our way. the drive to ipoh was really boring. my butt actually became really numb after a while. all i saw during the drive there was this.

when we arrived in ipoh, the first thing we did was to look for a place to eat.

guess what we had?

we had dim sum!

it was real cool. there were loads of us, so we could afford to try allot of dishes.

after the really satisfying breakfast, we headed over to a motel that is located really close to the water park. its called sun inns. after we checked in, checked out the rooms, jumped around a bit, we were off to the water park for some climbing!

we took a group photo right before we entered the park.

person missing, marrianne.

the usual entry fee if you want to go climbing is 26.90 ringgit, and thats freaking hell expensive man! but lucky for us, we were camp5 members. so we get a 5 ringgit discount. all we paid was 21.90 ringgit, which was still FREAKING EXPENSIVE!

come to think about it, why is the lost world of tambun charging climbers so much, when they did not even contribute any money to the bolting of the routes?

but never the less, they were quite nice. we pay the same price that every other people who wants to go to the water park, but we get a free can of 100 plus. not bad huh?

but still pretty expensive.

anyway, we walked till we saw the infamous needle of tambun.

marrianne and hannes took a really cool picture.

click it to enlarge it. it looks so cool! okay, its just cool, not so cool. i exaggerated a little.

so anyways, we set up base on some benches, but decided to move them because they were out in the open, in the sun.

hannes and marrianne decided to go do some lead climbing, and me and the other guys went to go bouldering.

there is this huge cave which has boulders and stuff round it. some really cool problems there.

so yeah we went bouldering.

and bouldering some more.

this was quite a cool problem. loads of under clings, slopers, and crimps.

after alittle climbing, i decided to head over to base and take a nap. when i woke up, it was climbing time!

guess what, i on sighted a 6c+.

thats the route i climbed.

don't know what an on sight is?

an on sight means climbing the route and finishing it without resting on the rope, and without any prior knowledge of how the route goes.

after my climb it started to rain, so we decided to head back to the water park. had alittle food there and just hung around while deciding what to do.

because eujinn, jordan, and chee khan was heading home that night, they decided to jump into the water for a swim. what did me, brad, hannes and marrianne do?

well we sat around and decided to head back to the hotel for a nap.

i don't know why, but time seems to pass by really slowly in ipoh. since the curtains were close, and it was all dark, i thought we overslept or something.

anyway, after the nap we headed over to brad's grand aunties place. she was a really nice talkative lady. she took us out for dinner and all.

after dinner we headed back to the hotel and lazed around abit. me and brad decided to head over the RUM JUNGLE, which was a club that has a jungle theme. it was just right beside the lost world of tambun.

when we got there it was around 1015. there didn't seem to be many people there. so we thought that maybe ipoh was a really dead place. so we sat down, got some drinks and waited. then suddenly, around 1100, a surge of people came in. the band started playing and it was actually quite nice. there was loads of people there.

i think one of the reasons that there are allot of people there is because in ipoh, there isn't many places to go party at night. so thats why everyone comes to the rum jungle to party. i think the whole of ipoh was there. we could see old people, young people, middle aged people, and yes, even old white men that smokes cigars hanging out at the bar all alone checking out girls.

after a while we got bored of sitting down and decided to take a look around the place. it was actually really nicely done up. they have about 4 bars there, loads of space, tons of sofas for groups, and it has 2 levels. i didn't bring my camera with me, so there aren't any photos. after awhile we decided to call it a day. headed back round 12 or so.

the next day, we woke up and had some mamak food. the service there was the ultimate slow and messy kind of thing. they can never get your order, and it seems like they don't want your business. when taking our orders, they just leave even before we finish giving our orders.

such bastards.

anyway, went climbing later on.

on our way to the entrance, i spotted a crash pad that has hands and legs.

the highlight of this day was that, I DID MY FIRST MULTI PITCH!

don't know what a multi pitch is? search it online.

here are some pics of me and hannes multi pitching.

this picture is when i decided to take a crap on the wall.

hahaha... yeah rite...

ok, so it doesn't look like we were multi pitching. but we did it. climbed half way and all of a sudden we lost the route which we were supposed to climb and decided to bail.

while we were climbing multi pitch, marianne decided to take some weird photos.

ok so i'm lazy to type. this is taking way way too long.

after the climb, we headed to the water park, stole some people's tubes, and went on the lazy river, and also some of the slides.

after the swim we got changed and went to meet brads grand auntie for dinner.

she brought us to this cool place which had really cheap food. she also gave us a fish, which we ate at the restaurant.

see the fish? it was deep fried and all. it was so krispy!

then later on, we sent her home and it was back on the highway again.

this time it wasn't so bad, becuase hannes and brad kept me awake by chatting me up.

ok so i'm lazy to type already.

this trip was mostly attended by

Marrianne!

Johannes!

Noel!@#$

Brad!

and lastly,

The Orange Butterfly!

here is our small group photo!

and now here are some random pics.

ok looks like this is it.

next trip, LANGKAWI!

which will be this coming week end!

2007-07-29T23:24:00.000+08:00

Whee!! i'm back!

climbing in tambun was great!

the people was fun.

food was good.

i know where all the ipoh chicks party at.

the drive there was long.

and most of all, i just got back from ipoh, so i'm really tired.

so more on the trip when i get the pictures from johannes and once i've gotten some rest.

want to build a fly plane?

2007-07-27T13:12:00.001+08:00

have you guys ever wanted to build a plane that would fly using natural energy?

its kinda easy actually.

all you need is

some matchsticks
a blade
some glue
a jar
a fridge
some warm breath (you could borrow this from a friend or use your own)
some flies.

next follow the instructions bellow.

ok, so the picture comes out all crappy. just click on the picture to see the full view.

real easy ain't it?

well the only hard part would be to catch the flies. other than that it shouldn't be a problem.

why is it hard to catch flies you ask?

well its only because flies have like seven thousand eyes! they can practically see everything! plus, their eyes pick up light faster than ours do, so that means that if you are moving any slower than a fly swatter, the fly will be able to see you.

so if any of you decide to build your very own fly powered plane, please let me know and send me some pics!

besides the plane, i have news!

i'm going to tambun for the weekend!

so the main agenda for this trip is to climb. but since i'm going to be in ipoh, i might as well get some food to eat!

more on this when i get back.

the toothbrush fix.

2007-07-25T11:38:00.000+08:00

has there been a time when you put your hand on your doorknob, wanting to enter your room, then when you turn the doorknob, instead of the door opening, the doorknob breaks?

well here is a picture of a door.

do you see anything unusual about that door?

look again...

yeah, its a freaking tooth brush which is doing the job of our oh so beloved doorknobs.

so yeah, here is your answer for the question what to do when you loose your doorknob.

you replace it with a freaking toothbrush.

but wait, i know what are you all thinking. you guys are probably thinking, does this actually work? is it just some stupid prank that noel is playing on us?should i actually think of using a tooth brush if my doorknob breaks?

well if you don't believe me that this works, take a look at this picture.

it actually opens the door!

sweet ey?

so yeah, it really does work. it even looks super stylish! better yet, you don't even need a specific key to open the door if you were accidentally locked out of your room. all you have to do it pop the toothbrush out, take any random key, slot it in the key hole, and turn it!

its so freaking easy!

so do tell me if by some miracle, your doorknob breaks and you decide to use the "toothbrush fix" to fix your problem.

well this happened to my parents bedroom door recently. well i think more like a month, not so recent. after all that time, i finally managed to make the time to replace the doorknob.

so now it looks like this!

yeah, all spanking nice and new!

so i know what you are thinking. you are probably thinking, what do i do with the toothbrush, now that i don't have a use for it anymore?

well you use the toothbrush for how it was really made to be used.

as a toothbrush

woah!

2007-07-20T21:36:00.000+08:00

i just realized something today.

todays date is

20.07.2007!

pretty cool eh?

well besides that, today was pretty normal. work was normal, except that i partially caused brendon to hit himself in the mouth with his knee. it started to bleed and i was really worried that his tooth might fall out. but thankfully all was good.

well thats all for today. my next entry will be on

What to do when you lose your door knob.

nothing to blog about

2007-07-19T23:45:00.000+08:00

it seems that life is starting to get really stale lately.

like a loaf of bread that has been left out in the open for a while. all hard and icky, never nice to bite on.

i have no idea what to blog about, or its probably that nothing has happened that is worth blogging about.

since i have nothing to say, ill just tell you what i see right in front of me.

i see a piece dried up gravy stuck in between my keyboard keys. this really bothers me, cuase i always wonder, how much food is actually under my keyboard keys? i mean after all the times i eat in front of my computer, there should be like loads of food in it.

besides that, i see speakers, a aircon remote, 2 cups to my right, cds on top of my pc, and pieces of paper lying around. kinda messy eh?

ok, enough of my desktop. now here is a picture that i found in my picture library.

this is a picture of my band, illusion avenue, after recording our 5 songs. this recording session was fun, we were racing against time, so that we wouldn't have to pay the damn studio more money for the recording. they charged 80 bucks an hour! recordings didn't turn out that good neither.

but anyway i think that that is quite a good picture.

besides that band pictures, i also found something else that was actually quite cool. these were taken in my last year of high school. this pictures ere used in the school year book, which each class had their own personal section to paste what ever they wanted.

this picture here spells V MERBAU, which was the name of my class.

man i miss those days. days when you could walk around the school and do what ever you wanted. days when going against the school rules and getting away with it was real fun. days when you got to see your friends and hang with them all day. days when all you did during class was sleep...

well i think thats about it. this post took longer than expected.

here is a shout out to samuel, who will be leaving for the land of the kangaroos in the morning. have a nice trip, eat loads, drink loads, and most importantly, go get laid!

the whole story at the polo field

2007-07-17T13:05:00.000+08:00

so the day started out with us having to meet up at primo's house at 545 in the morning.

what time did i wake up?

i woke up at 535am and only arrived at primo's at 550.

but anyway we managed to get to bukit kiara equestrian by 607. our registration time was at 615. when we got there, it was so freaking hell cold. so imagine walking across the big huge open polo field, being exposed to the wind and all.

so anyways we took our seats and waited. me being all sleepy and sitting there with an empty stomach, really wanted to go back home and continue sleeping and also to get something to eat. all of a sudden, a familiar face appeared, well 2 faces actually.

the people sitting right behind us were the toughest group you could ever find. these people are so strong and buff that there was nobody else as tough as these guys. these people are gym instructors and people who always win adventure races.

the two familiar faces was soon, and jonathan gabriel. don't know them? well just imagine 2 guys, so buff and all that they wear tights, and are basically people who frequent a work out gym every single day. these 2 people used to do some climbing at camp5 until a few months ago where they must have lost interest. but never the less they still do climb and are quite good at it. whats worst was that their 2 other team mates, which were girls, are also as buff and fit as soon and jonathan. they were so buff and all that i seriously thought that one of em was a guy! plus it was at like 6am in the morning, so the lights were not that bright. seriously took me a while to realize that they were girls.

when we saw these other team, we were like, "ok they are probably going to be our number 1 competitor"

anyways, the day went on with us going for the briefing on what activities were going to take place, then finally we had to do some really gay stretches before we started the challenges.

here are the challenges for the first elimination round

1. transfer weighted sacks over to the weighing scale. when the weighing scale reaches 20kg, then you can stop the timer. 20 second penalty of you go over 20kg

2. walk across the beam and hang flags on the flag hangers at the side of the beam. timer will be stopped once all the team members have finished the challenge.

3. the team leader collects an envelop which has a picture inside. when the timer starts, team leader opens the envelop to find out which picture his team has to assemble. 6 cubes from the other side of the field has to be transfered over to the other side, and assemble the puzzle in the frame.

for our information, the one with the cubes, is really really hard. the pictures you get are all so much of the same colour that it is really hard to tell which goes where. what makes it worst, is that these cubes are freakin huge and heavy! the size is about 1 cubic meter.

anyway, we were told that we were quite fast. even though we were like the second batch of people who did the challenges.

so anyway, after our turn was up, we headed home, cuase there was still another 142 more teams that had to go through the challenges. my team number was A06. A is the batch number, and 06 is the turn number. so basically we were the 6th team to register. the challenges were done 4 teams at a time. so we were the second group to undergo the challenges.

what did i do when i went home? well i went back to sleep. later on i woke up to go to church at 1015am. after church, i went back home, and went back to sleep.

somehow, we knew that we were going to get into the top 10. so even though the winners of the top 10 was going to receive a call at 230, we all decided to meet at primo's place at 230.

as usual, i was late. when it was 235, while i was about to leave my house, i gave dhayang a call to ask him if he has gotten the call yet. he said they haven't contacted him yet.

jeng jeng jeng!!

what the hell!!

so anyway by the time i got to primo's place, it was already 250. i asked dhayang again, have they called? he said no they didn't call. so we comforted ourselves by saying that "it was raining just now, so things might have been delayed"

then we waited and waited.... still no call.

255, still no call.

300 still no call.

suddenly, at 301, dhayangs phone started to ring.

it was his mother.

302, the phone starts ringing again!

this was what we have all been waiting for. the call that told us we would be in the regional top10.

as dhayang was talking to the lady, who was telling us that we got into the top 10 yada yada, i asked him to tell her that she was late...

so we made our way, and this was what we saw on the score board.

well, now im starting to get quite lazy to type. so im going to make this short.

went to the briefing tent, to be briefed on our next 3 challenges, and we had time to plan our strategy.

at this time, it was drizzling, and has been drizzling for a few hours now. so all the props were wet. never the less, the event still went on.

we had to draw lots to know our turns. we got the 8 turn.

this gave us loads of time to watch the other teams and plan our strategy.

this time, the challenges were longer, harder, needed more running, thinking, and most of all speed!

among some of the things we had to do was an obstacle course, which had to be done individually and i took one that had climbing involved, transferring smooth pebbles into a bucket using chopsticks, searching for an allen key in a tank full of maggots, assembling and disassembling a clothes hanger, searching for a towel in a tank full of other towels and ice cold water, and of course, loads of running.

jonathan b. in the tank full of maggots.

jonathan b. , primo, me, and dhayang waiting for our turn on the second challenge.

the competition was really tight. the team of malay dudes from UM that was doing the challenges at the same time as us, was really freakin fast! and our scores were really close. they partially contributed to us pushing ourselves to pick up the pace.

after our challenges were over, we sat and waited for the results to be announced. at this time we were counting our time to see if we actually managed to enter the top 2. it was really close. it was either us or the malay dudes from UM.

suddenly, as we were getting really nervous, there was a rainbow in the sky, and the rainbow was freakin huge! this seems funny, but we actually took it as a sign from god that we would get into the top 2. plus our team comprises of people from church, so why else shouldn't we have the support of god! hahaha!

the rainbow in the sky, the picture ain't that good, cuase the light was really dim.

after a while this lady walked up to the board, and started writing down the placings, from the 10th place onwards. as she got to the 3rd place, as soon as we saw that it was not our number, we jumped and shouted for joy!

we beat those malay dudes from UM by a very slim 7 seconds!

so we got our "passports to the finals", and we posed for the press and stuff. got interviewed by ntv7, and its going to come out in the morning breakfast show on wed 830am. so go watch it if you are ever bothered to wake up that early in the morning. i know i am not bothered to wake up that early.

oh, the news paper people came to us and asked for our names, and if our team had a name. guess what name we gave them. JC's quartet! hahaha! if you don't know what JC means then go ask someone.

so anyway, if you guys want to watch the finals and support us, go to kelana jaya stadium on the 9th of september, where we will battle the other 9 teams from all over malaysia for the grand prize of 20k!

as you can notice in all the photos, i stayed away from jonathan b. know why?

cuase he has got the chicken pox.

whats to great about that? well i haven't got it yet.

after the competition, we went to the pasar malam in taman tun to get some fast quick food, and headed over to KL near stadium merdeka, at the dang wangi police station. there was a candle light rally to call for the release of a friend who was taken into custody by the police under the OSA. some crap bullshit la. anyway, we went there to shop our support and all. FREE NAT! or BEBASKAN NAT!

the polo field

2007-07-15T22:55:00.000+08:00

well i am back from the polo field!

after a whole day!

want to know the results?

well im going to tell you the results tomorrow when i get the pics into the comp.

btw, don't forget to check out the news papers.

off to the polo field!

2007-07-15T13:34:00.000+08:00

well today i went for the nutrilite double X chellenge.

its some competition which has a grand prize of 20k!

so they are conducting regional competitions around malaysia. all together there are 5 places including KL. from each region, only 2 teams will be chosen to compete in the finals.

today i woke up at 530am to get to bukit kiara equestrian's polo field. in the regeonal competitions, there are 2 rounds, first round to narrow down the top 10, then finally the top 2.

guess how many teams joined the KL competition.

one hundred and fifty teams!

and in each team there are 4 participants.

that makes it 600 freaking participants!

but know what, my team is getting to the top 2.

my team comprises of me, dhayang, jonathan b. , and primo.

its lunch time and we are waiting for them to announce the top 10 teams.

more on these when i have won the competition.

wow...

2007-07-14T11:43:00.000+08:00

yesterday i was at working, minding my own business, then suddenly a femiliar face appeared.

it was non other than jocelyn!

jocelyn walked in without saying anything, and as she was getting closer, i realised that there were a pair of hands on her shoulder!

and i was like what the hell is that!

then all of a sudden, this head popped out from behind her.

and it was sandra!

and guess what, she cut her hair. when i saw her i was like **blink**blink**

stunned...

at first when i saw her i realized that there was something different, but i just couldn't figure out what.

then suddenly it hit me, she cut her hair!! its like freakin short now.

how cool is that?

go check out her entry.

just imagine if i went for a hair cut!

and i chopped off ALLL my hair!

that would really be a shocker.

it would be like changing from

back to

but oh well.. thats another story...

holiday plans

2007-07-12T23:43:00.000+08:00

finally the time has come.

ever since a year ago, well it was more like right after spm, i had always wanted to go for a holiday. after a really long wait, that time has finally come!

well almost...

anyway, there has finally been plans to go for a climbing trip, and also a beach holiday! unlike most of the other trips that i had actually planned, it sure looks like these two trips will really work out.

what makes a beach holiday work out?

well you need

a group of friends who are totally sick of life in the city and needs some time away from it.
someone who has loads of connections and is able to get good deals for the trip.
anyone other than yourself planning the trip.
to be really really really sick of your everyday routine
friends who are crazy enough to cramp 10 people in 1 small room.
friends who think that having fun is jumping into a swimming pool and creating yellow clouds of toxic water
a pure heart and a bottle of booze

ok, looks like the pure hear part is something that you wouldn't need. but you really do need a bottle of booze!

besides that, my climbing trips normally never work out.

so here are what you need in order to have a successful outstation climbing trip.

you will need

a friend who owns a house in the other state
friends who are so crazy about climbing that it becomes as natural as breathing
friends that think a jug is a really good hand hold
someone that says "my girlfriend has a great rack", and is not referring to boobs
people who give advice by saying "you gotta finger it!" and is not referring to anything sexual
friends who think that a dino is jumping from one end of the wall to another. (dino spelled as dyno)

this are what makes holiday trips work out.

off to the land of the hornbills.

2007-07-11T11:44:00.000+08:00

well my sister christobel left this morning to kuching. had to send her all the way to kl central at like 4.30 in the morning! grrr!

well she is there on her annual visit to kuching where she meets friends, crash cars, eat, buy some dum sum home, and also travel around.

this time she is going down there for the rainforest festival too!

well have fun there sister belle person lady.

today the pigs fly!

2007-07-11T11:26:00.000+08:00

yes ladies and gents, today, or actually 2 days ago, there were pigs flying about.

why?

well its because 2 days ago was the day the ex-pro climber, sandra chan, returned to the climbing scene after a seven thousand year absence.

where did she go?

well she went to become one of those ever smiley girls which jump around holding pom poms!

so here are a picture to commemorate this "oh so rare" event.

we were also joined by one of sandra's cheer/gymnastics friends named siew wai. goes what, he climbs quite well, so i plan to steal him away from the ever busy life of a cheerleader to become my apprentice.

so this is how it goes, (darth vader breathing noises) "siew wai, come with me and join the dark side! it is your destiny! together we can rule the boulder cave and lead walls of camp5 and pick on puny little kids!"

so anyway he has still to decide if the dark side is for him or not...

here are a couple of group pictures

AHH! who is that lady in the scarf, trying to steal a spot in our photo?!

can't see us properly? here is a close up shot.

well i'm really lazy to blog about the little details of the climb. for more infomation you can always check out sandra's blog.

the shoot! part 2

2007-07-09T11:46:00.000+08:00

well this is the second day of the corporate video shoot for pertonas.

sorry its kinda super uber delayed. i actually do have a life.

the second day started with us all needing to meet up at batu caves. this was the day which they needed our rock climbing skills. so we met up in the infamous BHP petrol station. only thing different about today was that we were joined by caroline, john-son, and shams, which were hired to be our belay slaves and bag/gear carrying bitches!

hahha!

well it was really good money for them. they got paid 300 bucks for just sitting down and carrying things around, and belaying me, shahpur, and fida.

i had to go up first, as i had to set up the anchor for the cameraman 15 meters up on the wall, and let me tell you, it was so freaking hell hot! i had to stay in the sun for like 1 hour. this is what i had to do on the wall.

had to climb up there, set up the anchor
wait for the cameraman to climb/get pulled up the wall
then fix the cameraman onto the anchor
haul the camera 15 meters up the wall to where the cameraman was
then finally i was able to go down.

after all the things were set up, i had to put on my smelly shirt which was already full of sweat from the previous day and climb up the wall.

filming is really so funny, i had to pretend that the route i was doing was really hard by making really weird facial expressions. anyway, had to stay on the wall another 2 hours or so before i was able to get down.

i was practically the one who was in charge of the cameramans safety, so i couldn't get down until the cameraman was safely on the ground.

after the shoot on the wall, we did a few shoots while bouldering.

by 4pm, we were pretty late for our next destination. so we rushed to the next place. we headed over to bagain lalang(i think i spelled it wrongly). this place is near sepang. its some kampung beach side place which has a nice sunset. as weird as it sounds, our last shooting location was supposed to be the first scene in the video. by this time we were all tired and shit. so it was pretty funny. the sunset was really cool tho.

here are a few pics from the whole trip.

me doing a hand stand on a boulder in genting.

some cool scenic shot in genting.

a small waterfall in genting.

another cool shot which i quite like. taken in genting.

now this is cool! how often do you see these plants? i found this while walking around in genting.

me and shahpur climbed this tree while waiting at the beach for the sun to set. had to wait for about an hour.

i bet you can't spot me.

a shot of shahpur on the beach.

here is one of me.

these are tiny sand balls that were all over the beach!

close up view of the huge tiny sand balls!

spot the crab.

this would be a really cool beer advertisment. shahpur drinking under the sun.

the reflection of the sunset form the back of fidas car.

a shot of fida and shahpur.

this picture was taken when we were practically chasing to take photos before the sun went down. i could actually see it move. it moved pretty quick too.

this was when the sun went down and disappeared behind the horizon.

finally the time you all have been waiting for. the picture of the casts!

fida and me.

shahpur!

well i still have more cool pics, but im lazy to upload them. i might upload them some other time. cya!

cosmic funk!

2007-07-06T01:22:00.000+08:00

well remember a couple of weeks ago when i went to watch cosmic funk perform?

well i said i had a picture that i was supposed to post with the lead guitarist of cosmic funk express.

so here it is!

hahahaha... i kinda like this picture. i think its really funny. i seriously kid you not, that there is the super cool lead guitarist of cosmic funk express. he is korean, but he looks alittle japanese with his eyes closed like that... hahaha!

oh well, my next post will be about the last day of the video shoot. ive got loads of cool pictures that would be really nice to see :D

untill then! good day!