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  • Brother’s Commencement @ NUS University Cultural Centre

    Brother’s Commencement @ NUS University Cultural Centre – My big brother is now a real big brother! He has finally graduated from National University Of Singapore as of 2012 and he is now a truely professional working adult. I am so proud of him. It had been so many years that he went for studies in Singapore, more than 10 years already and time flies. I still remembered when I was still a little kid, following parents and him to Singapore for the first time long time ago.

    Singapore, is now not stranger to us. I have visited Singapore for more than 10 times and it’s another familiar place to me. I went to his graduation ceremony few weeks back in one of the top university in Singapore and Asia – National University of Singapore. They called it Commencement (American-style) instead of convocation (British-style), it’s like a commencement to a new journey of life. Sounds cool. I was his personal photographer on that day, following him around to take photos of him with his friends.

    At Universtiy Cultural Centre where the ceremony took place, it’s a sea of graduates in academical regalia, it invokes a feeling in me to study hard to wear on one in the future. Diploma is not enough for me, I shall go on to Honours Degree. =) Being knowledgeable and smart is just so cool!


    Brother and his girlfriend from the same school and course.

    Few more years for my turn but for now, study hard, live hard. Congratulates to my brother, Yikhung. =)

     

  • Almost Sunset At Taylor’s University

    Almost Sunset At Taylor’s University

    Almost Sunset At Taylor’s University – I am now back to the big city of Klang Valley (or common to others Kuala Lumpur), I don’t really get to see nice sunrise and sunset by the beach like I get to when I was in Penang. You know Klang Valley is a valley, the nearest shore with sandy beach is an hour away, Sepang Gold Coast, that’s far!

    Almost Sunset At Taylor's University

    Well, the sunrise and sunset seeing is now in the city. Recently, I just got back my Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 lens from the service centre, to try out this very-long-didn’t-use lens, I took my tripod and went to the highest floor at Taylor’s University to take photos of the sunset. It was not near to dusk yet, it’s almost sunset.

    Almost Sunset At Taylor's University

    At the hall way of Block E, level 8.

    Nice clear blue sky after some super heavy rain which caused the Klang flood, but then the clear sky didn’t result in a round egg yolk style sunset, I realised round egg yolk sun only visible during hazy day. Nevertheless, those few shots were satisfying, I’m gonna go discover more nice location to see sunrise and sunset.

    Almost Sunset At Taylor's University
    Crane at Taylor’s University, heard there’s a construction of multistory carpark is on going.

    Almost Sunset At Taylor's University
    What a nice sky and sun.

    Please introduce me too, perhaps go to Port Dickson for sunset watching. =D

  • Taylor’s BARIO Leave A Mark Charity Event

    Taylor’s BARIO Leave A Mark Charity Event

    The BARIO Project at Taylor’s University is a charity project that is about providing education to poor children in Sabah. Recently they have a charity event call “Leave A Mark” where you can leave a mark then do donation to the project. I passed by the event area in campus and with curiosity, I went to check it out. Haha.

     

    It’s nice to see charity stuff around Taylor’s. I took part in the Leave A Mark thing. It’s actually stamping your palm on a cloth, letting the children know that we know about their existence and care for them. =)

     

    This thing is organized by the International Student group and best part of all is that they give free Ribena. Really quenched my thirst that noon.

    But of course, I did make some donation as well and help them reach the target of palm stamping.

    First you pick a hand.

    Then y0u pick a colour. Sorry, black was fully stamped and it’s yellow left.


    Mellysa and Wanyi.

    Then you be ready to stamp.

     

    Helper were very kind to help you to stamp.

    And I left a mark, somewhere on the left. =)

  • Some Old Photos At Taylor’s Hostel

    Some Old Photos At Taylor’s Hostel


    Me. HAHAHA. V.

    Dug up some old photos in my archive which I think I haven’t post it up here on my blog. I am back to Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Bandar Sunway or whichever name you comfortable with. Haha. But then I am not staying in Taylor’s Hostel / Taylor’s Residence already because they suck, staying slightly further out of campus, about like 1KM away. =)


    My housemate last time, Moh Wei Ding. Long time no contact already.


    Stupid expensive lousy in-campus hostel.


    Stupid security system where they want each resident close the door and scan the card one by one. Sucks. Might as well replace with some gate instead of fire door.

     

  • MSID 5Belas Interior Design Student Saturday at Taylor’s University

    MSID 5Belas Interior Design Student Saturday at Taylor’s University

    Yo people, this is kinda belated post where this happened last month. I have been lazy, sleepy and blablabla reason, but guess you guys don’t wanna hear my crap. Haha. So I’ll talk about MSID 5Belas Interior Design Student’s Saturday OK? =0

    So as you know I am a Interior Design student right now at Taylor’s University, just done one semester there and I am so grateful that I got a chance to join the MSID 5Belas ID Student’s Saturday, this is actually an annual event by MSID (Malaysia Society of Interior Designers) for the college and university to get-together, join competition, have fun and interact, and also make friends. This year, the host and organizing school is my school, Taylor’s University.

    I am not part of any worker, some asked me to be the photographer, but I rather to be free and easy, I joined a competition at there and that’s Amazing Race.

    It’s a Saturday and the whole thing starts as early as 9am until closing and prize giving ceremony at 12.30am. Yeah, it’s a long more than 12 hours event. Really tiring that day, but still a good experience for me. Many, many, many people were there and there were 15 participating institution. Got UCSI, UiTM Perak, UiTM Shah Alam, Saito College, Limkokwing, KBU, Alfa and I don’t remind already. Haha. I wonder why Penang’s Equator Academy of Art was not there and also the famous One Academy, why?

    Morning was like opening ceremony, then some random workshop and afternoon was like competitions and at night also competition plus performance. Almost everything was competition.

    Initially I wanted to join the short film and the theme was “BIOSPHERE”, but then I’ve lost my inspiration so I quit. OMG. Some ask me to join again this year. I’ll see. Hehe. What I like about that day was not participating in Amazing Race, I tell you the game sucks, but the fun thing was it’s ALL FREE. Haha. Free food, lousy a bit but I finally had a moneyless day in Kuala Lumpur.

    I’ll list some competition here: Montage Design, Short Film, Sony Videologue, Banting Design, Residential Design, Commercial Design, Fashion Design, Amazing Race, Graffiti Art, Furniture Design, Lighting Design, Installation. Yeah, it’s all about design, sometimes I wonder what’s fashion design have to do with Interior Design, but afterall we are design student, we design almost everything. =D

    Well, Amazing Race is something that you think it’s fun but it’s not! You actually turned out panting, gasping for extra air and want to rest more because it’s about running all the time. Marathon from place to place. It started with running here and there to look for a key to unlock the padlock for the next clue. After running to and flo for many times, the next stop was to the library to look for A book.

    The book-looking was a easy task and after that we have to run off campus to a temple which is like 15-20 minutes walk away under the super hot sun to get the next clue. We should have drove there. Then we need to go to Sunway Pyramid which is not in a walking distance, so we took 2 cab as we have 8 members in our team. One thing, we were given RM50 per team for the game which is the fun part.

    At Sunway Pyramid, we searched for the pickled cucumber, bought it and eat all of it. It tasted good at first but it got disgusting later. Though successfully finish it up.

    Last task was to play the archery. Not easy as holding the bow with left hand because I am a righty. Need a lot of strength but still manage to aim and shoot. This was fun and should go and play some other time. Steady hand and sharp eyes are needed. Well, taxi back campus and pitstop. Started last, but ended team 10. Not bad already.

    The fu
    nny part of the day was the Fashion Design competition. The day’s theme was BIOSPHERE, I have no idea what that mean until now. It’s something environment, recycle and green stuff. Looking at the model’s make up and the creativity of their designer, I felt halloween. Haha.

    But I did see some simplicity and minimalist nice. However, since people more like into complicated stuff, an underwater zombie won that day.

    Other highlights for the rest of the days was just taking look at some lighting design and enjoy the Talent Time performance at night. Each institution came up with their performing team and perform. Simple as that and we enjoy the show. Woo.

    I don’t know why my school didn’t really get many prizes that day, was it because that we were the organizer or ? Hmm. We’ll see on the next MSID 16 this year. =D

  • Discussion Room and Random Stuffs at Taylor’s University

    Discussion Room and Random Stuffs at Taylor’s University

    Feel like sharing photos tonight so it’s some quite random stuff here. Pictures speak now and a little bit of caption. By the way, semester one is coming to an end and I have so many assignment due dates coming. OMG, sleepless and stressful night coming to me and Happy Halloween. =D

    Really hardworking doing discussion and ignore the face at the back.

    Keep on ignore the hands at the back. LOL.

    o.O MacBook Pro!

    Taylor’s recently opens a new bakery, Bread Story at the commercial block. One problem is the air con in the shop is too cold and the bread get cold lately. Hmm. I hope Rotiboy will come here. =D

    Finally, a bookstore will be opening soon in campus but unfortunately, then name so EMO.

     

    Volkswagen Polo Rocks event in campus. The really very happy, having the event by the road, open air. Luckily it’s not hot.

  • Building Materials Class Visit To Ikano Power Centre and Ikea

    Building Materials Class Visit To Ikano Power Centre and Ikea


    Siao lalas.

    My lecturer, Mr CK Foo loves to call Ikano Power Centre as Ikeano, it’s the combination of Ikano and Ikea. Really funny of him. So somewhere last month, we went to visit to Ikeano, no it’s Ikano for a study research trip. Our task was, shopping which was one of it and another one was look for a space and examine the building material. Sounds fun right? Not really.

    It’s a group work thingy and I found my group member and they were Arvin, Anastasia, Nita and Wanyi. Unfortunately, Wanyi couldn’t join us that day.


    Zhi Sheng.

    What we actually did at there is just walk walk, shoot shoot, touch touch the floor, the wall, the ceiling and wait the security come and chase us away. Yes, we did get the security come and chase us away when we were taking photographs at the bridge, they just don’t bother us as students from college. I have no idea why photograph are not allow. Not interested in planning a bomb also, even if I do, I just drop it anywhere without planning, BOMB.


    Arvin and Anna. =D


    Anastasia and Nita.

    We were given 4 hours there but we already finished our stuff in an hour time. So we spent another hour eating and an hour talking and another hour walking around a.k.a. shopping.


    Connie.


    Damn ugly doll.


    Kevin.

    Ikea, Ikano, The Curve was so so so quiet during the weekdays. The one who make it happenings was like us.


    Steve.


    Zhi Sheng and Aseel.

    =D

  • A Monday In Taylor’s University and Street Market

    A Monday In Taylor’s University and Street Market

    Here’s another update about my university life. My typical Monday’s class is English class from 10-12 and Introduction to Design class from 1-3.

    It’s all 2 hours class and I pretty dislike English class because it made me feel like going back to high school. Not saying that I hate high school, I love it a lot, it just that I don’t like going to English lesson again. Haha. Ok, my English sucks by the way, especially on the grammar part and word usage. Anyway, I can read and write. =)

    Uni is pretty happenings this week as there’s something like street market, selling cloths, food, game stall and stuff. I have no idea what even has going on and we just keep calling it the “pasar pagi” or morning market.


    Kebab!

    I saw a booth where there’s many replica made out of recyclable item like newspaper and stuff. It seems very cool and I thought they were selling it.

    But actually it’s some sort of model search, or they call it as G&H Faces Search. Free photo taking with any frame there and get a free print and magazine of Faces. Then you will be part of the search. =D


    Mine, Zhiinn’s and Lai Quen’s. =D

    I was not really interested in the search, but what I more interested was getting the free print of my photo. Haha. That’s all.


    Wesley from Seremban, Steve from Pahang. I call them Shuai Shuai. Haha.

    Then I went to Student Life Centre, a place where students hang out or relax, there’s board game there, piano, pool, guitar, foosball, and I played Chinese chess with Wesley and Steve. Haven’t play it for quite some times already. Fun indeed!

  • Foo CK’s Building Material Project 2 Presentation

    Foo CK’s Building Material Project 2 Presentation

    Foo CK is my lecturer for Building Material class. Frankly speaking, this class is not very wonderful because there’s many theory and research work to do. Though, this is college, many stuff will not be liken and I still have to accept it. It’s ok, it’s alright. I don’t really complain a lot. It’s life people.

    University, college, is not much different from high school in my opinion. Just stuff get more serious. Presentation became cooler and more professional than before. I love presentation, I like talking in front, my idol keynote presenter is Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc! That’s why I always follow his keynote all the time. Rocks.

    Just sharing here are some photos, taken during the presentation about building materials. Photos are taken by my lecturer, Mr Foo. =D He borrowed my LX5 to snap the photos.

    This presentation is about research of two material we have picked during our Ikano Power Centre site visit few weeks ago. We reviewed, researched and have to write up all the stuff on mounting board, at same time also prepared powerpoint slides. I felt I didn’t do so well but thankfully, I got pretty good result fo this. Oh yeah.


    My group. Good job people.


    My group’s board 1.


    My group’s board 2.

    =) Do you like to present?

  • 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.

     

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