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A Week In Taylor’s University #2

#1: Friends who were in the filming of Ah Niu’s latest movie.

A Week In Taylor’s University #2 – It’s another week in Taylor’s. The week was packed, wet, saw some cool stuff in school, but afterall, it’s just another week in Taylor’s. Monday was pretty surprised for us as we came across with another film shooting in our campus featuring the local director/actor/singer – Ah Niu. It’s Ah Niu’s latest film and I’ve no idea what it is, and he came to shoot the scene here.

#2: Spotted Ah Niu in white tee sitting.

#3: This is what the filming crew eat for lunch.

#4: Part of the filming. Security guard shooting. For your technical information, they actually used the RED brand camera to shoot the film.

A few friends actually join the temporary actor but the bad news is that they only received RM11 for buying food for two days. No pay. So lousy. Luckily I did not join them. I thought they were gonna get paid like maybe RM50? =D

#5: Ah Niu in weird hair.

#6: Another scene.

#7: Ah Niu in white shirt.

We were actually having lunch then my friend told me to look across the lake, only then I see they were doing the shooting. We wanted to go check it out but was in a rush to class. What’s great and lucky was, our classroom was just right above the film shooting scene where we could see some live action down there. Ah Niu was dressing very weird. I wonder what the movie will like when it’s on the screen. =D

#8: Busy with work.

#9: Lots of discussion going on.

#10: Our in house magician, Zhi Sheng from 6 Of Spade.

The days went on with the mind thinking about assignment due dates. We’ve got lots of assignment due dates coming soon, just din one last week and more to come. Weekend will not be like a holiday anymore. Weekends are busy right now.

#11: Overnight in school.

#12: Rain, I wore shorts which result in a wet feet.

#13: Super heavy rain.

#14: Raindrops falling of the sky,

#15: Rain.

The weather have been kinda crazy right now, sometimes very hot, sometimes very cold. It rained a lot lately, it’s not just drizzling off the sky, it’s huge, it’s loud, accompany by the roaring thunder.

#16: Setting up stage for the Share The Love concert.

#17: Spent some time at the Study Room.

#18: Working at night.

#19: Entertainment during work.

#20: Testing all the technical stuff for the concert.

#21: Photography during midnight.

Spent a few nights in the campus, saw a mini concert in the campus, worked on assignments, and that’s my week in Taylor’s University.

October 15, 2011
PPS.tv Now Available On Mac

#1: PPS.tv’s download page.

PPS.tv Now Available On Mac – After the long wait, PPS.tv, the famous Chinese movie streaming software is now available on the Apple’s Macintosh OS. The software is a P2P movie streaming software which features lots of Asian and International’s movies and drama which can be watched on-demand.

#2: Screenshot of the application.

It’d been a heat on the Windows. Previously, I watched PPS through Parallel Windows on my Mac but now I have no reason to boot Windows on my Mac to watch it. The whole experience is just the same as the one on Windows if you have used it before. If you haven’t, you should try it out if you can read Chinese.

#3: Icon on the dock.

#4: Installation is simple as ABC.

Setup is pretty easy, just drag and drop into the Application folder from the *.dmg package. You need not to set anything to display Chinese font and no add-on software, it’s so much easier than on the Windows.

Enjoy your PPS on Mac now, head over here to download now.

October 15, 2011
Overnight In Studio, Classroom And See Sunrise

#1: Jia Hui’s playing my MacBook.

Overnight In Studio, Classroom And See Sunrise – Last weekend was a really tiring weekend to me and my team because that we were rushing for the submission of an assignment and we spend 3 nights in school. We stayed overnight for 2 nights and a night till late night. It was a good experience, it was fun, it was like camping in Taylor’s University. Haha, but I do not want more because the total sleeping hour for the 3 days was not more than 10 hours.

#2: The studio that we were in.

#3:What a mess, the dark area at the back is where we lay back and take a rest.

It was really unhealthy for sleeping so less. I didn’t want to, we didn’t want to, we wanted to sleep, but work forced us to sleep less. It’s a group project, we couldn’t do it else where or at someone’s home because it will be very messy and dirty. The good on doing it in school is that we got free house keeping, we have a big place for us to move around, provided a projector screen and a decent good stereo speaker for some in-house entertainment – music and video.

#4: Xiami’s website on the screen.

#5: Another studio that we were in. This one was not a good place to rest as it was bright when sun rises, there’s no curtain.

There’s also the drafting table for us to do our drawing which the table at our home is not really suitable.

#6: Our stuffs.

#7: Good morning! It was about 9am.

Well, the bad of doing it in school is that you don’t get to sleep, even if you do, it will not be comfortable, you don’t get to bath, there’s no bathroom in the campus, and there’s nothing to eat in the midnight, only vending machine food.

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#9.

#10: View from the window.

#11: Back to another studio.

#12: Something that we did.

It was a pretty fun experience in campus. Chatting all along, singing, screaming, shouting, as well as sleeping on connected chair.

#13: The screen again.

#14: Fana.

I believe there will be more overnight session in the campus. But I will try to sleep more. I don’t want to die early because there’s a research saying that people who sleeps less than 6 hours per day will reduce 5 years of his/her total lifespan.

#15: Arvin.

#16: Wesley and Steve.

I like that the school provides such service to us. In Penang, many of my friends work out their project at 24 hours McDonald’s mostly.

#17: Midnight, at about 6am.

One more thing, on one morning in campus, I saw sunrise and it was really nice. I didn’t wait until the sun came out, I was just photographing the sky as the colour was very nice.

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#18.

Good morning. =)

October 15, 2011
Quiet Midnight In Taylor’s University

#1: The roundabout that has no car.

Quiet Midnight In Taylor’s University – On a one fine night, at about 1.30am. I was about to go home but I found a tripod in the car and I brought my Panasonic Lumix LX5, so I went for a short walk around the campus before going home. I took photos on the quiet night. It was not totally quiet, I could still hear the chattering of the students, foot steps of security guard walking around, and also the silence of the night.

#2: The quiet road.

#3: The walkway that connects students into the school.

I was sleepy, I gave myself about 15 minutes to take photos. I didn’t want to shoot long, I didn’t plan for it, if I plan, it would be a few hours of shooting walking around the school. It would be fun, perhaps next time, with my DSLR.

#4: Somewhere, in the campus.

In the morning, it’s so noisy, students and staffs are everywhere, but when comes to this wee hour early in the morning, there’s no one.

#5: A running water that no one was using.

#6: One of the walkway in the campus.

#7: The vending machines that operate 24/7.

#8: In the dark.

#9: Light’s still on at some of the hostel room.

#10: The campus.

#11

#12: Outside Starbucks Coffee.

#13: Syopz – the commercial zone of the campus.

#14: Taylor’s University at night.

Good night.

October 15, 2011
Nine Emperor Gods Festival At Ampang

#1: On the way to Ampang, and saw the city of Kuala Lumpur from the car. The skyline looks quite nice at night.

Nine Emperor Gods Festival At Ampang – Two weeks ago, I went to Ampang with my friends from Penang – Arron and Tee Jin to go check out the Nine Emperor Gods Festival here in Kuala Lumpur and also to pray. In Penang, it’s a very happenings festival which attracts lots of tourist and devotees to join the procession and praying and I would like to see how the festival is celebrated here.

#2: Looks like pasar malam and the temple is ahead.

The location of the temple is at Ampang and it’s the place I know that’s famous for this Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Kuala Lumpur. GPS was our guide to the location it took about half an hour from Kelana Jaya to there. Traffic was pretty smooth that night. Everything went smooth.

#3: Burning ground for burning gold paper for the god.

The temple is located in a Chinese village, and it’s kinda cool that there’s still village located so close to city.

#4: The stall says that he know your surname and your luck, sort of like fortune teller, but after checking out how he did it, it’s actually works like a formula. He shows people a series of card with a number of Chinese’ surname in it, you will be asked with question of whether your surname is in the card or not. After a few times of asking, he will then tell you your surname. Then he will pass you a paper writing your fortune. HAHAHA. RM10 for per “game”.

#5: A Toaist sifu giving a sort of like a talk show, telling people to see some number and stuff, but after 5 minutes of seeing him, I have no idea what he was trying to sell.

#6: Arron on the left. It’s like night market in there, just like a carnival, instead of a festival like in Penang.

Well, upon arriving, I got to say, it looked totally different from the festival in Penang. There’s many people, it’s very happening at there, people kept flocking in, there’s people praying in the temple, but what’s difference is it’s like a night market, there’s many stall selling stuff like DVDs, cloth, street food (vegetarian), toys, collectibles and more! It’s more like a carnival to me.

#7: Selling vegetarian street food.

#8: Mini auction selling collectible, all started from RM5. It’s an eye opening day because I never see this kind of auction before and the seller claim that their collectible worth few hundred bucks which I don’t really believe, I think it’s just another “MIC (Made In China)” stuff.

The night market thingy had been there for nine days and it was the last day. In Penang, you will only see yellow banner vegetarian food stalls for nine days and all the Nine Emperor Gods Temple lighted up for nine days, but you won’t find carnival stalls like this at there.

#9: Another auction stall at there. This one started at RM2 with smaller item and I think there’s people of them hiding themselves among the public to try to raise the price. We did try to raise our hand for fun with the maximum bid of RM10 for 3 of us. And we actually bought ourselves a mini Fu Lu Shou. HAHA.

#10: There’s cute cartoon balloons too!

#11: Penang’s Muar Chee. It’s good to see the word “Penang” at there which makes me think about home.

#12: You can even find bubble tea there too!

We traveled through the seas of people to check out what’s there. Quite many street food in vegetarian style, there’s toys, there’s pirated DVD, there’s fortune teller, there’s clothing, there’s Chinese opera, and there’s lots of people.

#13: There’s a performing stage for Chinese Opera.

#14: The three Penangites – Tee Jin, Me and Arron wandering around the temple in Ampang, Selangor.

#15: Somewhere within the temple. Two beautiful pagodas can be seen here. Lighted up too.

After checking out the “pasar malam”, we went to the temple area to pray. We was actually waiting for procession but I wondered where could the procession goes. Normally, at this time of time, about 10pm, in Penang, there would be a procession of sending the Nine Emperor Gods back to the sea, but at this place, Ampang, sea is so far away.

#16: It’s quite warm at here because of the burning, but luckily it rained before we came so the temperature around wasn’t that warm at there.

So we asked the people around and found out that there’s no sending the god back to the sea, but there’s actually sending the god back, at about midnight 3am, which we didn’t really get to see.

#17: One of the pagoda.

#18: Ceiling in the temple. Filled with beautiful Chinese ornaments and decoration. It reflects the grandness of the god with the blend of golden and red colour.

#19: In the temple, it’s very crowded and smoky with all the smoke of the joss stick filling the air. It’s quite irritating for eyes.

We bought the set of joss stick and candles and we prayed. It was really crowded, the smoke was really very heavy, it’s not easy to walk around the temple, it’s best to wear a goggles around.

#20: The sifus working out at the altar area.

#21: Lighting up the joss stick for praying and serving to the Nine Emperor Gods.

#22: The luck paper.

#23: Praying.

#24: More people lighting up the joss sticks.

#25: More praying.

#26: More praying.

#27: Photo at the road sign before we went home.

After praying, we went back. I’ve got to say, the festival of Nine Emperor Gods in Ampang and Penang are totally two different thing. At Ampang, you stuck on one place, you only buy and pray, whereas in Penang, you follow the procession, you snap photograph, you see the Chinese-style Thaipusam and you walk. You should check out my post on the Penang’s one and you will see the difference. Weeeeee.

October 15, 2011
Share The Love Concert At Taylor’s University

#1: Nice Taylor’s University at night.

Share The Love Concert At Taylor’s University – I went to school last Saturday night to camp in school to do assignment. I wore simple clothing, a t-shirt and a pair of shorts, with slippers on, feeling free and easy and arrived in school happily. Then I heard loud voices of people singing, and the school’s lights were turn on brightly. There’s a concert going on in the campus – Share The Love.

#2: The Julie’s balloon. Julie’s is a brand of biscuit.

I almost forgot about it until I reached school that Saturday night. Share The Love is actually a charity concert which promotes friendship and solidarity through music. The concert is actually a singing contest which the winner wins RM5000 cash prize for themselves as well as another RM5000 which to be donated to the Taylor’s World Food Day on behalf of them. Cool right?

#3: The bunting.

#4

The crowds were not really big, about 200 or more people can be see, sitting on the checkered floor, some lying and enjoying the concert. It was quite relaxing and nice to see a concert stage was set up in the school.

#5: The stage and people on the floor.

I imagined what if some other famous artist has their mini concert here, it will be really very awesome, given a good view of the campus. I would like to see Taiwan’s artist here, but I don’t think it’s possible because it’s an English speaking school. HAHA.

#6: From the side of the stage.

#7: The people.

#8: Camera man.

#9: The host is talking on the ramp.

Share The Love. I spend less than 30 minutes then and off I went to do assignment with my group mates. I didn’t really enjoy those Indie band because I don’t know the music and songs they were singing. But one cool thing was, they were giving out free little food like cup cakes to the people by answering a few question.

October 13, 2011
A Morning Walk At Pulau Tikus Market

#1: Pasar Pulau Tikus – Pulau Tikus Market

A Morning Walk At Pulau Tikus Market – Pulau Tikus Market is one of the market that’s close to my place and mom is a frequent visitor of that market. On a fine Saturday morning two weeks back, I went there with mom for breakfast and accompany her to buy some stuff. I never know that there’s a hidden hawker stalls located at the back of the market and has a variety of local Penang food.

#2: The hawker stalls area.

#3: Old lady operating her Wan Tan Noodle stall.

It’s not a big one but then, it’s enough to cater daily market visitor and I had Hokkien And Lor Mixed Noodle for breakfast. Simply delicious and good. Then it’s started to rain, which makes eating breakfast chilling and nice. Mom said it’s pretty hot on normal day at there.

#4: Cheap textiles at the market.

#5: Customer looking for textile.

After breakfast, mom wanted to buy some stuff and so I followed along, turned on my camera and put my finger on the shutter button, and started snapping away. It was late morning and there’s stall started to pack up for the day and go home to get some rest after a long morning of work. On the other hand, there’s still people coming in to do some last minute buying of vegetable and meat before lunch time arrives.

#6: A lady standing.

#7: A man asking for prices.

It’d been raining quite a lot in Penang for the past few weeks and it’s still raining much now. Though, in Klang Valley here is quite humid and hot lately.

#8: Funny car plate, the WTF, from Kuala Lumpur.

#9: Packing already.

#10

If were to compare this to other more famous market like the Chowrasta Market and the Cecil Street Market, the Pulau Tikus Market is indeed smaller in size, but somehow, it’s still serves the local around the area that with you can find almost everything you need at there.

#11: Selling fruits in the alley.

#12: A girl waiting.

#13: The coffee shop that’s suppose to fill with people did not open on that day.

#14: Couple walking along the road.

There’s also quite a few numbers of coffee shop around the area too!

October 13, 2011
Remembering Steve Jobs 1955-2011

(image from Apple)

Remembering Steve Jobs 1955-2011 – It’s a very sad morning for today, 5th October 2011 (Malaysia: 6th October 2011) as the great founder and leader of Apple Inc – Steve Jobs has passed away. Steve Jobs was and is always my idol. The reason I love Apple, I be a Apple’s fanboy is because of him. He is great not just making awesome products like MacBook, iPhone, iPod and others, it’s the way he create it, the way he shows it to the world, the way he vision the products to be in the future, the way he leads Apple to today’s success.

I knew Apple product when I was 9 years old (2002), it was eMac, lamp shape iMac back then as well as the scroll wheel iPod, then I knew about Steve Jobs like in 2007 when he introduced the first iPhone 2G (I bet many of you might not scene it before because it was not available in Malaysia). I saw the keynote, I saw the iPhone, although hardware wasn’t that great, yet it did it well, it became the world’s phone today.

I followed every of his keynote in the past, I read about him, I just felt that he was not simple, he was a great leader, he just is like the God in the technology world. He became an idol in my heart, just like how people obsessed football player or singer, actress, I obssess Steve Jobs. Think, Sony made Walkman but it took them so long for everyone to know about the name “Walkman”, Apple made “iPod”, but just a year or two, it’d becomes everyone’s name in the mouth for MP3 player. iMac’s design was weird, un-standard with the computer design of that time, yet it looks pretty, minimalist, designer’s feel. iBook, eBook was cute and comes the MacBook Pro (PowerBook) where aluminum laptop design comes in.

In 2007, comes the iPhone, the device that changed the people look at phone. Touchscreen wasn’t a new thing at that time, but then many failed to promote a touch screen device. It’s Apple who shows the world the true capability of touchscreen. Multi-touch gesture came to us. Then other company started to produce touchscreen device to compete – HTC, Samsung, Nokia and so-on. Because of Apple, everyone is releasing touchscreen mobile phone now.

iPad in 2010 was a great product. Tablet computing was not famous back then yet it existed like many years ago. It was using a stylus and running Windows. They were not sensitive, they were slow and not user-friendly, yet the release of the Apple iPad tablet changed the world of tablet computing. Everyone bought it. Everyone like it. Then comes the rival company producing the samething – Acer Iconia Tab, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Motorola Zoom.

Steve Jobs and the company – Apple had created many great product to us. He was a great presenter, I like the way he gives the keynote, the way he conduct it, the way he talk. It’s just became my guide in doing a presentation. No doubt he is the great presenter of all time to me.

I love my iPod Nano 2G (2006), iPod Shuffle 2G (2007), iPod touch 1G (2007), iPhone 3GS (2009), MacBook (2010), Apple iPad 1G (2010), MacBook Pro (2011).

(image from Gizmodo)

No more Steve’s awesome keynote now, no more “boom”, no more “one more thing”, no more “extraordinary”, no more long sleeve, turtle neck and Levi’s jeans, no more Apple old man. He’s gone. RIP Steve Jobs. Remember you always.

October 6, 2011
No iPhone 5, It’s Apple iPhone 4S

“It’s the most amazing iPhone yet.”

No iPhone 5, It’s Apple iPhone 4S – Apple 4th October 2011 “Let’s Talk iPhone” event is now over and disappointingly there’s no iPhone 5 announced, it’s just a change of hardware in the current Apple iPhone 4 and they called it the iPhone 4S, just like the iPhone 3gS update 2 years ago.

It’s 100% identical with the current iPhone 4, but in the inner part, the hardware is equip with the same processor that powers the Apple iPad 2 – Apple A5 Dual-core CPU, which enables 7x faster graphic performance, the camera is now upgraded to 8megapixel camera on par with other smartphone, sporting a new optics with backlight illuminating sensor which means capturing clearer picture in low light, f2.4 aperture lens. On the other hand, Apple has fixed the “antennagate” problem which the phone is also a “World Phone”, supporting both GSM and CDMA network. No 4G though.

Another thing is – Siri Assistant, a voice guide on the phone that talks to you is included, which is just another app to promote the iPhone 4S. No words mention that Siri Assistant will be available on other device besides the Apple iPhone 4S, it might be the premium app for the 4S.

So in short, it’s just better CPU, improved camera, “World Phone”, iOS5 equipped and no redesign. I was and believes many were hoping for a bigger screen iPhone, a redesigned, bigger battery capacity (though Apple claims iPhone 4S has better battery life with the same capacity), as well as NFC or 4G-equiped. Unfortunately, not.

No news about Malaysia’s availability and price. Our closest nation, Singapore will get it on 28th October 2011.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFfm2uQbaLM&w=640&h=360]

What do you think?

October 5, 2011
Nine Emperor Gods Festival And Temple Location

Nine Emperor Gods Festival And Temple Location – Since I’ll be visiting the Nine Emperor Gods Festival at the Nine Emperor Gods Temple in Ampang, so I would like to share with you the location of the temple in Ampang so you can visit it too! It’s my first time going there, so I don’t really know the way, GPS will be my guide that night. I will also share with you the location in Penang where you can check out the happenings Nine Emperors (Kau Ong Yah) Festival too!

Ampang / Kuala Lumpur (Selangor)

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Address: Nine Emperor Gods Temple, Jalan Merdeka, Ampang New Village, 68000 Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia.

GPS Coordinates: N3 08.493 E101 45.888

Penang Island (Penang)

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Location: Carnavon Street

GPS Coordinates: N5 24.863 E100 20.034 (Famous Koay Teow Thng shop, but it’s just right in front of it)

Raja Uda, Butterworth (Penang)

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Location: Tow Boo Kong, Jalan Raja Uda, 12300 Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.

GPS Coordinates: N 5 44.125 E100 38.552

October 4, 2011

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