woah!

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

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.

new years eve party!

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.

aj hackett gig.

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...

party on!

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

fun time

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!

a night out.

well on saturday, it was gary the magician's birthday.

where did he have his birthday? well it was held at the MTR (magic theatre restaurant) which is located at sunway piramid.

yeah, so as the name says, it has a stage where at certain times, on certain days, the magicians will come out and perform.

and also apparently, every one of the staff that serves you is actually supposed to show you a trick. but sadly none of them did. the quality of this restaurant is really starting to go down. i mean why give out false information to people when none of what they say is actually true. its not that i don't like this place, its really nice and all, but i just really hate it when people who open businesses sacrifice quality for efficiency. i mean whats the of coming to eat at this so called magic restaurant when there is actually no magic at all?

but anyway back to that night, as usual i was uber late for the party, but never the less the party was going. gary performed a few tricks and stuff and my brother did some too. the place was quite nice, there was some games to keep us occupied, but best of all, we had to pay for our own food! whee!! isn't that just so great?

hahaha... ok i sound really bad. but it was cool. among the games we had to play was to build a tower out of cards.
ok, well it didn't really get that high. we ran out of time when we finally came up with a really good idea of how to stack up the cards.

so here are a few pics of the party.
this is stephenie(i hope i spelled her name right) and laila!

and next we have paul and megan!

in this pic its me, regina, florence, and some other weird waitress girl that wants to be cool by sneaking into my picture.

this here is sheyna and primo.

this is jacq, i think the tiger logo looks cool cause it looks like its floating beside her.

and finally not forgetting the birthday boy. this is gary, the magic man.

anyway the party was like any normal party. there was people everywhere, people talking, people laughing, people eating. but the thing that made this party different from another, was that we met

CHOWIE!

ok so her name ain't really chowie, its alicia. but i call her chowie anyway. chowie was my band slave once. we had a gig and she was the one who carried all our gear. but now it seems that she gave up with show biz to get into the restaurant business. she was one of the waitresses there.

ok so she just does it part time. but yeah, its always cool to see an old familiar face in a place where you wouldn't think you would find one.

so this concludes the broadcast for today.

the end.

Productive day?

*radio turns on*

a man lay in bed, doing his best to keep asleep despite the noise of the radio.

**BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP**

the man reached over to the bedside table to hit the snooze button.

**BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP**

the man hit the snooze button again. this continued for about 3 more times.

finally,

**BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP**

the man reached over for the clock and looked at the time. he finally said "OH SHIT! time to get up"

well this is how my morning began.

i got out of bed and did my normal morning routine of cleaning myself. after the shower, i got changed. the thing that was different today was that i was wearing this black t-shirt with a a logo that said 'Adam Khoo Learning Technology Group.'

most of you would be thinking what is that weird name when spelled with the first letters of every word spelled out AKLTG? well AKLTG is a company that conducts motivational training and stuff to people. i help the company out as a coach for their programs. when im free that is.

after getting all dressed up and ready to go, i headed over to my trusty old van. took a drive all the way down to Taylor's Uni College. despite the heavy jam, i managed to arrive there 20 minutes late! yes i was still late. anyway, that day i decided to park in the old market site, since the parking there was closer to the college and was free anyway. being in a hurry, i quickly got out of the car and rushed over to the MPH, which stands for multi-purpose hall, to help the rest of the team to set up.

while most, or probably all, of the students of taylor's college got the day off, why was i entering a college that i did not study at?

well the answer is, that there was a training program for whole taylor's college faculty. YES, so for all you talorians, i got to see your lecturers jump around, act like kids, do really dumb kiddy stuff, and also like all seminars/trainings, i got to see them sitting down on their asses listening to talks. real interesting don't you think?

after setting up, i heard from some of the coaches that i could park in the college. so i went with joey to the market place to move my car and park it into the great taylor's parking lot. wieh we got the my car, i realised that i didn't have my keys with me. then it struck me, i must have left my keys in the car AGAIN! but thanks to my great strategy and skill, i managed to get the keys out yet again.

bet you guys are wondering how right? well here is the secret. i always leave my windows wound down a little to ensure that the heat in the car ain't to much. what i do is i squeeze my hand through the gap and pull out the key. the last time it happened sandra stuffed her hand it there. my forearms were too huge to fit through it. for some unknown reason, i managed to squeeze it through this time.

so anyway, after getting a nice sweet parking place in the taylor's car park, i was appointed as the camera man for the entire training session. so all i had to do was sit at the back and control the camera while the training was going on. sounds like an easy task right? well you are wrong. i had to sit in really awkward possitions in order to be able to control the camera and stuff. it was a normal handheld dvd recorder mounted on a tripod which was placed on the table, so that it could shoot above the participants heads.

after all this, i took a drive back home and then changed and went to one utama to meet up with some of the other AKLTG coaches. BECAUSE, its Alvin's birthday! the venue of the bitrhday dinner was Italianis!

yes everyone, this is alvin. note the newly pierced lip. also present for the dinner was:










Kimberly!












Joey, who left even before the food arrived.














and finally nik!








the best thing was that because we didn't think that a few people wouldn't turn up, or LEAVE EARLY, we over ordered. we had some fried squid thing, which i can't recall the name, the italianis roasted chicken thing, and finally spaghetti and meat balls. believe you me, it was a real pain to consume all that food. plus, i ordered a bottomless cup of ice lemon tea. so i practically filled my tummy full of water. before the food arrived, i already was on my 4th refill. so i had to force myself to eat.

anyway, the weird thing about today was that there was so many people from DU that i knew. to name a few, there was





mr. yeo ming li,
















mr.augustine mah,













and finally mr. loo calvin.









they were there with some other people too, but i can't remember who they were.

well after that great heavy meal, i headed over to Camp5 for some climbing!



since i was so extremely full with food, i only did a few lead routes on the sentinal wall. only the easy ones too tho. after getting my regular dose of climbing, i decided to head home before the gym closed for the day.

all in all, this day was a really packed full day, filled with things to do. haven't really been so packed full in a while. but this week end it going to be a busy one.


well until next time, here is a picture that you can look at in anticipation of the next post.