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  • A Site Visit To Menara Binjai

    A Site Visit To Menara Binjai

    A Site Visit To Menara Binjai – Actually it’s kinda cool for studying interior design as I get to visit many nice building located right at the heart of the city centre. Just a month ago, I went to check out a new Grade A office block located just right across of KLCC – Menara Binjai as part of my assignment requirement. I don’t really get any chance to own or work in a office in the city core just because I am not a corporate person. Have you ever came across any interior design firm with a strategic view of the city centre? I don’t think so.
    But then visiting the place and designing a space at these office would be even more interesting to me somehow, rather than working at there, Nevertheless, check out Menara Binjai. KL should have more of these high-rise building to dense up the cityscape like Hong Kong, Chicago, Singapore. Yeah?
  • Visit To Point 92, Damansara Perdana

    Visit To Point 92, Damansara Perdana

    Visit To Point 92, Damansara Perdana – It was a site visit organized by Project Management lecturer – Ms Annette. Point 92 is a very cool building located at a new suburban township – Damansara Perdana and most of the buildings at there are still under-construction.

    This Point 92 has a very cool exterior features, interesting arranged windows and a large void space at the center.

    Unfortunately, it was not a nice visit, instead it was just plain chit-chatting, walking around the lobby, and even shouted by some lansi contractor at there ‘tak boleh! tak boleh! tak boleh’. He was shouting to us cause he thought we were going to take photos. At that time, lecturer has not arrived yet and he has no idea why we were there. Afterall, we were actually allowed to snap around. So why there’s nothing much to see?

    Cause what’s cool is the exterior, the interior is only the lobby part only. Then that’s all. We were supposed to go to the void space – the balcony to check it out but then person-in-charge was busy, so… it’s bye bye!

    By the way, I believe that Damansara Perdana will be very beautiful when all of the buildings are completed. It’s so cool leh! If you’ve got nothing to do, go there and see see then you will know what I mean.

  • KLPAC, Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre At Sentul Park

    I am having a holiday right now. Say yeah! It’s very good to take some times off but I have some Internet stuff to run throughout the holiday just like updating this blog for some nice photo content to share with you guys.

    Well, before the semester ended, my whole class of Diploma In Interior Design of Taylor’s University went to a site visit to KLPAC (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre) at Sentul Park to check out the site and architecture stuff.

    Actually I have been hearing about how nice how nice about this place and finally I get a chance to visit it, thanks to my lecturer of Design Theory, Miss Veronica Ng who arranged the trip to us go and see, feel and learn.

    The KLPAC is located near Jalan Ipoh, in a park call the Sentul Park and it’s pretty far from where I am residing at, the Bandar Sunway. It takes about half an hour drive from our campus to there. We went there by our school bus which we have to pay RM10 for the bus fare.

    The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, simply and commonly known as the KLPAC is situated in an old railway warehouse building. Looking very artistic with the cool red bricks and a little bit of heritage and ‘back-to-the-days-retro- feel, it senses sensory cell of the artistic side of me.

    It was a morning and I was told that it even look better when the lighting are on during the art. Can’t wait to check out some show at there during the night. =)

    We have a guide who brought us around the place and tell us about the architecture and some story behind the building. Miss Veronica brought along her cute little son too, Ethan!

    Actually, there’s not much in there, it’s all the studio and 2 theater halls, then a little reception area and that’s all. We were only brought to the main theater hall that they call it the Pentas, known as stage in the local Malay language.

    Upon entering the Pentas, it gives me a very raw and open feel because of the building material used around the place, yet the colourful seats cheer me up and makes the raw feel turns to something freshy, energetic and happy.

    Some interesting facts about the KLPAC is all the shows have no specific dress code to enter the theater, which means you can wear singlet, shorts and slippers.

    On the other hand, there’s no VIP zone as they want the theater to be a theater for everyone, same class level, no racism. And the cool stuff is that the first row is on the same row as the stage.


    Colorful seats!


    Raw material on the side wall for acoustic function.


    Aida, Fanah and Hanan.


    Kent Tan and Kevin To playing with the piano. Please ignore Kevin’s expression. LOL.


    Just a random shot about the male’s.

    Spent quite some times in the Pentas, enjoying the show of nothing on the stage and act like enjoying the show. After that, we went outside to the park. Yeah, there’s a nice park and little lakeside for people to chill and relax. It’s so nature and feels like it’s somewhere so-not in the city, but in fact this is almost in the middle of Kuala Lumpur city.

    The Picnic

    In fact, we had picnic outside, an idea by our lecturer of Design Theory, Miss Veronica Ng. She suggested of bringing food and share with friends and I want to apologize for not bringing any food there but I and my friends did contribute a few big bottle of mineral water. =D

    There’s a nice lake of the view and some greens to see but unfortunately sun shines and there’s not much breeze around the place, it’s pretty warm and hot at that time.

    Vincent Lee brought a guitar along and there’s music. For your information, the whole park was filled with voices and cheering of us as there’s no other people use. =D


    They played balls, for a while.


    Cute little Ethan.

    The best part of the day was the food eating session in the outdoor, the PICNIC! There’s some tid bits, bread, nugget, macaroni and cheese and cake. They all so awesome, made by my classmate.

    See below and you will see everyone was so happy with the food.

    Spent about an hour plus eating and playing guitar and singing and shooting around and we took a group shot, after that we went back to campus. It was a nice site visit trip, in fact the best and funnest. Yay! See you guys Diploma In Interior Design in Semester 3, coming August! Happy holiday people.

  • Site Visit To Tune Studio At Klang

    Site Visit To Tune Studio At Klang

    Recently just been to a site visit with the Interior Behaviour Study class people to the Tune Studio at Klang. It’s kinda new and my lecturer told us the interior design of the studio is pretty cool so we went to check it out. One thing I dislike about the school is they are charging us RM10 per trip for a return bus fare which increased RM5 from the previous RM5 fare.

    What the hell are they bus company doing to the school. It’s just not reasonable, not relevant also. Sucks.

    Forget about it and let’s talk about Tune Studio. This is actually a music production studio that available to rent for people who want to make their own music or jam at there and it’s pretty new.

    Located in the also quite new Harbour Place Mall in Klang on the 2nd floor, it’s not open to public yet. I am so glad that I am some first visit to the place, not to record a CD but to check out the interior design and stuff.

    The journey from Taylor’s University to Tune Studio was like about 25-30 minutes. We had a tour guide that day and she’s Veronica, head of marketing for the Tune Studio too. It’s nice to have a tour guide but I prefer moving around the place myself. Lighting was pretty dim so it’s pretty hard to take a good shot, I need ISO 320o or ISO 6400 now! Haha.

    I think it’s pretty cool. Musical instrument are available during rental and so bad that I couldn’t play any music. I would like to learn to play guitar and piano. It’s seems so cool and so fun to play. Will it be hard to learn? =)

    I feel it’s quite a nice place to take photo, if I have a wider lens and wider aperture one, then it would be awesome. =D Daddy please buy me a new camera. *finger cross*

     


    MJ sketching the place.


    Nice map on wall.

     

    Group shot.

    Spent about an hour plus inside then back to school. The place is quite small, but I feel it’s awesome. The design uses more on wood material which gives a warm feeling and cosy too. Nice.

  • Site Visit to KLCC

    Site Visit to KLCC

    I don’t know should I categorize my school life as college life or university life because my school, recently upgraded their status from Taylor’s University College to Taylor’s University. Though, I am only taking Diploma courses in this private university. Haha. Pretending to be a real university student.

    Hi, by the way. I am back again. Stupid Taylor’s Residence promised Internet will be ready by September but it’s already October and it’s still not ready. Really bad service I tell you guys.

    One of my subject is Introduction to Design. I don’t know want how to tell you about what is it about but then part or classes will be outside and we called it site visit, something like a field trip, going to the places to take some photograph, do some sketches, look around and play. =D

    Our first site visit was to KLCC or also known as the Petronas Twin Towers. Part of the photos here you see will also be seen in my Journal for the subject. =D


    Everyone was like so excited.

    Everyone knows about this places but wondering why we still need to go to check out KLCC right? Actually we were researching about the architect behind the towers and the park and now I know, Ceasar Pelli designed the towers and Roberto Burle Marx designed the KLCC park. Haha.


    MJ from Iran. Our class rep giving instruction.


    Hello everyone.


    Arvin from Medan, Indonesia.


    Wanyi, friend from the same hometown, Penang.


    Connie from Sandakan, Sabah.


    Aseel from Palestine, resides in Saudi Arabia, so basically she’s from Saudi Arabia but born in Palestine.

    We were given only an hour time to take as many photos about the building and the area as much as we can. I was thinking about buying Rotiboy this and that but the time for taking photograph was like so not sufficient. The weather was so hot and I sweated a lot although it’s not sunny. The atmosphere was just, warm.


    Anastasia from Belarus, and Nita from Indonesia. Many international students in my class. Rocks.

    In and out. Unfortunately there’s no blue sky and it’s pretty difficult to look for blue sky to take photos with the KLCC in the middle of a concrete city in a tropical hot country.

    Beautiful, wonderful, bombastic. Good morning. Haha.

     

  • At Taylor’s Library Before Going to KLCC Site Visit

    At Taylor’s Library Before Going to KLCC Site Visit

    It was two weeks ago, on a Wednesday where the Sem 1 July 2010 intake student of Diploma in Interior Design went on a site visit to KLCC. It’s part of the module, Introduction To Design where we get to go on site visit and then take photos and talk about the place eg. architecture, the landscape, the interior design and stuff. Fun.

    So before going to KLCC, we spent time in the library after lunch. There’s like 2 hours and we didn’t know what to do and go. Library in Taylor’s University is so nice so we went there. Everyone was like playing with cameras because we were required to photograph stuff at the site visit and later put into a journal.


    Zhi Sheng the magician guy in class trying to con Connie with some tricks. =D


    Cher Huey.

    I am starting to hate my Canon 400D. It’s so freaking ugly because I am a very hardcore user and I guess I have reach the limit already. I need a new camera badly, 60D, 3D? Hehe. My feel to photograph stuff has lessen already and I think it will only come back when I get a new camera. Saving and saving!


    Anastasia and Nita hiding from the camera. Hehe.

    I was pretty excited for my first visit because I haven’t been downtown for like two weeks after I came here. I am living somewhere outside town, it’s not as hectic as busy as colourful as town and I love downtown Kuala Lumpur a lot, where there’s many nice shopping malls and shops.


    Wanyii, my classmate from Penang. Penang rocks! I miss Penang a lot.


    Rasyid looked so tired.

    That day was also first day of Ramadhan Month, the fasting month. So happy fasting to all the Muslim people.

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