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Midnight At Taylor’s University Architectural Studio

I spent a few nights at the studio in my campus lately due to last minute work. Yeah yeah, I bet many of you also always do last minute work. Haha. It’s so last minute that I only get to go back and sleep for like an hour or 2 early in the morning, then go back in class, though the experience was fun, especially with a group of people, loud music in the silent campus and big studio room.

Building Construction’s project was the troublesome one which took so many of my precious energy and nights of sleep. Satisfaction reached, yet the quality not that good due to wrong method, but anyway, we learned the lesson.

I realised the good of Taylor’s University is that there’s place for people to use to do work. I and my team can’t be doing this at home because it will be very messy and we have to clean it ourselves, but in the studio, we can make it as messy it is, and someone will eventually come and clean it later.

To use the studio, we need to book it 3 days in advance, but then we didn’t. We just “borrowed” the room from our senior who booked it. The lousy thing about studio is that there’s no wifi service, which “Great, concentration” because that area is not covered in the hotspot and only one LAN connection port available.

However, the best part is the usage of projector and loud speaker. We played the music all night long.

Well, it would be great that there’s 24/7 cafe or food corner open in Taylor’s University, unfortunately, no. Though there’s plenty of vending machines around, yet they still doesn’t get on par with a plate of Maggi Goreng at the midnight mamak. Yes, we went out to hunt for food during our pauses.

I realised that the campus switch the air-conditioned to a warm temperature at a period of time in the midnight, as so it’s pretty warm sometimes. Luckily it was raining out there, which the rain drop accompanied us together with the music.

I actually brought a pillow, thinking that I would be sleeping in the studio and go to class in the morning, but I failed because I just couldn’t fall asleep, even how sleepy and tired I was. I just took a 5 minutes drive home and sleep. Even it’s just an hour of sleep, it’s still better than not sleeping.

Well, sometimes it’s funny when people just come to campus and that’s the time when I go back home. It’s almost sunrise, and I met a bunch of friends, came all the way from Sepang, 50km away to Taylor’s, early in the morning, to borrow the study room and read, before heading to breakfast. That’s the power and craziness of Penangites.

Well, don’t laugh. Bricks laying takes time. =D Not proud, but that’s the 2 sleepless night in studio.

May 17, 2011
The Big Apple’s Helium Balloon Is Down

Still remember the big helium balloon I showed in the iPad post? One fine midnight, I pulled it down and touched it and put it back up again. Haha.

Ok, how it happened was on one fine midnight when I was spending my night in campus to rush my assignment with Wesley, Steve, Jia Hui and others, we passed by the balloon place, then my itchy hand started pulling the rope that ties to the balloon. It was heavy a bit but it’s easy to be pulled.

Steve and Wesley helped to pull on the other side to balance it and in the end, we touched it for fun and let it go again. Haha. Very childish act, but fun, I like. =D

May 14, 2011
The Velvet Rabbit Musical On Easter’s Day

Very spontaneously, I went to see a musical in conjunction with last month’s Easter’s Day, many weeks back, last month, which happened to be in my campus, one of the lecture theaters. The musical drama is called The Velvet Rabbit by Harvest Generation Church.

How I actually came to this was that on the day before Easter, Arron called me and asked if I was in campus or not, I was not but then I was later because to met him up, they were going to see the musical actually and I just simply followed. That’s it, very spontaneous and unplanned.

Actually, this was my first time checking out a musical drama. Looking at their props, their live band background music, I think they are pretty cool, just that the singing off a bit, yet it’s entertaining. We can’t be expecting Broadways standard here anyhow.

So that afternoon, I went to find my Penang friend and high school mate Arron in my campus, they were studying, online and playing Monopoly Deal at the same time and I joined them. Since it’s a Saturday, I thought why should I stay in my room, moreover I have paid so much of resource fee for the school and so I have to use the resource and facilities to the max, money sucker Taylor’s University.

Well, the story is about a girl named Annie with a talking toy rabbit, ran away from home, met bad guys, and her dad dies, then the talking toy rabbit revive his dad, and lastly bad guy got caught and live happily ever after. =D

The end. Any nice musical drama coming soon? I come support support, provided it’s cheap, or FREE. The one I went was free by the way. Hehe.

May 14, 2011
Brought DID Friends To Penang’s Kuan Yin Temple

Well, last week, my classmate of Diploma In Interior Design (DID) from all over the places (KL, Indonesia, Muar, Sandakan) came to visit my hometown, unfortunately I could hardly spend time with them because my brother came back from Singapore recently and most of my time spent was with my family, and want to apologize for that matter. =) Anyway, did meet up with them in the middle of the night and also the last day of their trip.

One of the place I brought them was to the UNESCO site, the famous Penang’s Kuan Yin Temple on Pitt Street, to pray and to see. It’d been some time I didn’t go to pray already, so it’s a good opportunity too.

Surprisingly, they were kinda excited and interested while visiting the temple. I thought they would thought that temple is boring and dirty and blablabla, but no.

Well, want to let you guys know that the Kuan Yin’s Temple on Pitt Street is one of the must visit in Penang because it’s listed in one of the UNESCO Heritage Building list, so it’s cool. =D

It’s very very very hot day though. But then it’s raining now in Penang! =D I always keep track of what’s happening back home. Yay.

=) Birds.

May 14, 2011
Pre-Birthday Ice Cream Cake For Wanyi – The Tall Girl

Wanyi, the tall girl which I always called because she is tall, tallest in class, taller than me, I am short, stop. =D She’s the only Penang friend in my class, the same hometown people had her birthday celebrated early, which supposed to be falls on 15th May. =D

We decided to get her an ice cream cake from my school’s Baskin Robbins and let her blow the candle after class on Thursday.

Then we ate the cake together. Yums. Most importantly is, happy birthday tall girl! =D

May 14, 2011
i-City, Cool Light Garden And Park In Shah Alam

Not sure if you guys know about this place or not, I think it’s pretty new and I only knew about it recently when I passed by while going to Klang for Bak Kut Teh on one fine night. I saw the place filled with many LED lights trees, it’s like a park, like a garden and it’s called i-City, which is in Shah Alam.

One fine night, I went there with friends to check out the place with curiosity because I didn’t really know what’s the place is about cause I heard before we need to pay entrance fee, it’s just all light trees, nothing much. But after checking it out, I know what’s that.

Yes, we need to pay RM10 for parking per car. If walking into the place, you need to pay RM2 per person. Wow! Very expensive park, I am selfish, they shouldn’t charge and open for free to attract more and more and more visitor.

Well, if you go in the morning or before 7pm, it’s FREE. =D As long as the sky is not dark, you need not to pay. But you will see nothing when it’s bright. It’s actually all fake tree with LED as the leaves and petals. I thought it was LED on the real trip but actually it’s not.

Lai Quen.

Gary, my senior.

Lai Quen, Connie and Zhi Inn.

Although it’s just light, I think it’s pretty fun to walk around to take photo. Remember to bring a good wide aperture lens like 50mm f/1.8. Too bad I lend that lens to my brother and I only have my Tamron 17-50, shooting at 1600ISO. A steady hand is needed.

Then there’s some part of the i-City need to pay optional fee like there’s a mini animal park which is just animal sculpture in LED, you pay RM2. I didn’t go in. =D Then there’s also the reptile centre where you need to pay again, it’s real reptile though, like a super duper mini reptile zoo. There’s lots of snake and everything.

Quite many people taking photos and walking around at there. My friend told me that i-City serves as commercial office blocks in the morning and there’s a few restaurant where people can chill out at night. But the main attraction is the light park.

Well, do wear lightly, although it’s windy sometimes, but it’s still warm after all and perspiration beats out of our body.

Then at one side of the park, there’s a few games stall like in the fun fair and I saw a big outdoor LCD screen, it was playing CSI that time. I like the concept of the place, it’s like a new hang out place but they should reduce the parking and have more restaurants and cafe, and shopping too, then it’s perfect.

Yay, yay, bully. =D

Wei Kean and the Freako.

Went back at 12am after checking out the super duper mini reptile zoo. =D RM5 for student entrance. Haha. Very good.

iCity is a good visit. Want go again when I have a better camera gear, oh yeah!

April 22, 2011
Meet-Up With Penang’s Friends At Sunway Pyramid McDonald’s

Happy birthday to Chun Khai, the person in the photo below. He received a Fillet O Fish birthday cake with a candle stick on top. =D Haha.

Two weeks back, Min Xiang, a friend from Penang called me that he came to KL to play and shopping then ask me to meet him up at the Sunway Pyramid near to me. Since it’s so near to me, I went to find them. It’s so nice seeing people from the same hometown.

I met two new people, Chun Khai, the birthday boy and Theng Theng, who was already a friend in Plurk but only met that day.

Well, adapting to this place is not my favor thing, I think this is a awesome place, with some awesome people too, and awesome shopping malls, happenings and stuff, but then you know, home is still a home, we have to go back to our home because it’s the place where we grow up. I want to make my hometown a better place to live so I am so hommie. Penang rocks.

Jocelyn, me and Kah Sing.

We spent time walking in Sunway Pyramid and talking at McDonald’s, actually walking around shopping malls is a good thing to do to past time, window shopping takes a long time, it’s fun and it doesn’t require any money too. The time pass even faster if the mall is huge and you walk slowly, that’s what we did.

However we had too much time at there and we didn’t know where to go, end up sitting in McDonald’s, playing Fruit Ninja.

Min Xiang, me, Theng Theng and Chun Khai.

End up the high score of Fruit Ninja on my iPhone and iPad got pwned by them. Really very pro. Haha.

April 12, 2011
Overnight at Taylor’s Study Room 24/7 for IBS Project

Wesley Low and Low Jia Hui.

Till now, I still haven’t try not sleeping for whole night and continue work for another day. Seriously, the minimum hour I slept in my life is 30 minutes, which is 2 days ago. =D But the feeling and the fun of doing the work together till late was fun, for that day only.

Kevin To of Vietnam. Blur look.

Interior Behaviour Study and Malaysian Studies, two project due at the same time and our last minute worms in our body made us stayed up in the campus’ 24/7 study room for the whole night, accompany by cold air-con, Internet, Red Bull, quietness and sleepyness.

Wanyi and Steve.

I was there from 7pm until 730am the next morning, oh yeah. Cutting, writing, pasting, modelling, idea-ing, that’s what I did.

People told me that Red Bull can help us stay awake and it’s indeed true, and the drinks is delicious too, but it’s only functioned for about 2-3 hours for me. Haha. I still felt tired and sleepy after having one in the midnight. Food from the vending machine accompanied me too.

Arvin in the background, looking sleepy.

By the time I went back home to freshen up, it’s 7.00am where sun was already rising. I took a short sleep for half an hour then I went back to school for lecture and presentation.

The road started to jam early in the morning, now I only knew about that as I thought that road was supposed to be smooth in the morning. Haha.

=) Work of Arvin, Kevin and Nicholas.

Later that morning, I had two presentation, one for Malaysian Studies and another for Interior Behaviour Studies, did good, and still power. But my battery went low in the afternoon went I lied on the bed, straight away slept till night and felt reborn after that. Haha.

I personally feel that works and assignments are good because I paid a big amount to study, I don’t want to pay for nothing. =) But not too over assignments, lah. Haha.

April 8, 2011
To Pavilion with Arvin, Wanyi, Lai Quen, Zhi Inn, Connie and Nita

It’s a title full of names because I don’t know what title to write for this post already. Hahaha. Talking about the names, they are my classmate, school mate, friends in Kuala Lumpur. Tall, short, cute, kid, handsome, pretty, pro, fun, funny and noisy are the adjective describing them.

On don’t know which Friday, I think it’s the 2 Fridays ago, we went to Pavilion together by LRT. We are a bunch of kiam-siap (selfish) people that we parked our car at Taman Bahagia’s housing area because it’s free then walked to Taman Bahagia’s LRT station. Hahaha.

Actually my plan was go walk around Pavilion because it had been quite some time I didn’t go downtown and want to spend times with friends instead of just sitting in room, looking at the computer screen, then one of my subject require us to take photos of retail shop, so went to take photos too and also walk.

What a hot day that we alighted at KLCC station and walked to Pavilion. I actually like Pavilion more than any other mall because of the nice interior design, but not the price of the items and food. =D

You know I did not eat any breakfast that morning and we reached Pavilion around 3pm, really hungry die me that afternoon and we went to food court straight away because food court has the cheapest food? NOT.

Lai Quen of Kepong, Connie of Sandakan, Zhi Inn of Muar, Arvin of Medan, Wanyi of Penang and Nita of Penang. It’s so everywhere of us.

Shockingly, Pavilion was quiet in a Friday’s afternoon, it’s so not like Singapore or Hong Kong where people are everywhere in the mall, where are the freaking Malaysian?

Went to check out Uniqlo for a while, sadly there’s no sale and summer season clothing are not here yet, aduhainya. Then we went back after that, by LRT again.

April 8, 2011
Wesley Low at Malaysian Studies of LT6, Taylor’s University

He is Wesley Low, my classmate, from Seremban and he is a mix Filipino and Chinese. He came to the Lecture Theater 6 or known as LT6 and found out that there’s no lecturer or student inside and he decided to be the lecturer, and give a lecture.

The only student or listener to Wesley’s lecture was Farah Izzati. She did concentrating-ly listened to him.

And another student Steve Pang came, and took photos of Wesley.

Hahaha. Very lame of me. Actually that day was Malaysian Studies class and you know I know everyone dislike Malaysian Studies, it’s not the subject sucks or lecturer sucks, it’s just that it’s a waste of time when we have already study related stuff during high school history and civic education, it’s all about Malaysian history, just that Malaysian Studies is the same stuff convert into English language. It’s just a waste of time, but then we still went. =D

That day was early but in fact almost time but no one was there except us, very weird, perhaps lazy people. Haha.

April 8, 2011

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