September 12, 2010

not so grown up. teenagers afterall.

VMA 2010. I couldn't believe i woke up late and by the time i switched on the television it has already passed more than half. Still, lucky enough to catch some hightlights: Lady Gaga won 8 awards! Draws tie with A-ha (1986) as the most award wins in a single night; Justin Bieber's voice has turned deep; And Taylor Swift, sang Innocent pinpointing Kanye West on last year's incident.

I have no right of speaking, of course, but comm'on, it has been a year, why can't you just get over it and grow up, just like your lyric suggests?

The following photos are taken from www.idolator.com





And yes, the dress is made of meat.





The following articles are taken from www.cbsnews.com


Lady Gaga Wins Top Honors at VMAs


(Credit: AP Photo/Matt Sayles) NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Updated 12:46 a.m. EST


Lady Gaga swept the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night, winning eight trophies, including the Video of the Year award for "Bad Romance."

The singer picked up the biggest prize of the night wearing a dress and hat that appeared to be made of cuts of meat.

Cher - an over-the-top diva from a different era - presented Gaga her award and noted she had been raising eyebrows while Lady Gaga "was still Baby Gaga."

Gaga was teary-eyed when accepting her awards, and sang the title of her new album as she accepted the last Moonman: "Born This Way."
Her eight wins ties with A-ha's "Take on Me" in 1986 for the 2nd highest number of wins in one night. MTV officials had initially told backstage media Gaga's sweep was a record.

The show's most anticipated moment of the night came when Taylor Swift absolved Kanye West of his sins with a somber song.

The 20-year-old took to the stage - uninterrupted - and delivered a poignant ode about West at Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. Her performance began with a video montage of last year's debacle and then she went on to sing about last year's VMAs incident, when he hijacked her awards acceptance speech to announce that fellow nominee Beyonce should have won.

The song's lyrics included the line: "Who you are is not what you did." She also said: "32 is still growing up now ... you're still an innocent."

"Everyone of us has messed up, too," she sang. "I hope you remember today is never too late to be brand new."

West closed the show on Sunday night, beating himself up once again over his misbehavior

While he didn't address the trophy-gate incident directly onstage, he rapped and sang a song that mocked the boorish behavior that has upstaged his music.

"I always find something wrong; you've been putting up with my (expletive) for too long," he said, before launching into an unprintable chorus, which included the line: "Let's have a toast to scumbags."

Compared to the pathos of Swift and West, there were few other highlights, despite performances from Usher, Eminem and Rihanna, Justin Bieber and Linkin Park, and appearances by Nicki Minaj and the cast of MTV's own "Jersey Shore."

Eminem opened the awards with "Not Afraid" before being joined by Rihanna for their dark duet "Love the Way You Lie."

The show also featured Lindsay Lohan's first post-jail and rehab appearance.

A pre-taped portion of host Chelsea Handler's opening featured the comedienne getting spanked multiple times by show participants in a backstage hallway before running into the recently-freed Lohan, who also gave her a swat and demanded to know if the host had been drinking.

"Do you think anyone wants to work with a drunk?" she exclaimed. "Take it from me - they don't!"

Handler made her entrance by descending from the ceiling in a Gaga-like, over-the-top dress with a model house on her head. In her opening monologue, she noted that the last time a woman had hosted the VMAs, "Justin Bieber's mom had just given birth to her 401k plan" and encouraged the attendees to be on their worst behavior.

"I want to turn this mother out," she said. "Get your tongues ready because I want those tongues shoved in places they're not supposed to be."

Lady Gaga's eight awards included: Video of the Year, Best Collaboration, Best Female Video, Best Pop Video, Best Dance Video, Best Direction, Best Editing and Best Choreography.

Eminem picked up two awards for "Not Afraid" (Best Male Video and Best Hip-Hop Video), while awards also went to 30 Seconds to Mars (Best Rock Video), Justin Bieber (Best New Artist), Florence and the Machine (Art Direction), Jay Z and Alicia Keys (Cinematography), Muse (Special Effects) and The Black Keys (Breakthrough Video).
But overall, it was a relatively tame night - perhaps, given West's antics last year, the stars had learned a lesson.





Taylor Swift VMAs 2010: "Innocent" Lyrics Reflect on Kanye West Incident

(Credit: AP Photo/Matt Sayles) NEW YORK (CBS/AP)

Taylor Swift took to the stage at Sunday's Video Music Awards with something to say - and this time, no one interrupted her.

The 20-year-old delivered a poignant ode that referenced her run-in with Kanye West at last year's show.

Her performance began with a video montage of the debacle and then she went on to sing about last year's incident, when he hijacked her VMA acceptance speech to announce that fellow nominee Beyonce should have won.

The song's lyrics included the line: "Who you are is not what you did." She also said: "32 is still growing up now ... you're still an innocent."

"Everyone of us has messed up, too," she sang. "I hope you remember today is never too late to be brand new."

The song, titled "Innocent," will appear on her upcoming album, "Speak," due in October.

West also performed on Sunday night. While he didn't address the trophy-gate incident directly, he rapped and sang a song that mocked the boorish behavior that has upstaged his music.

"I always find something wrong; you've been putting up with my (expletive) for too long," he said, before launching into the unprintable chorus, which included the line, "Let's have a toast to scumbags."

August 27, 2010

It's not an umbrella. It's a bumbershoot.

A very very very big THANK YOU! MUAX! to our very very dear Nic Siew for the super awesome possum Adobe Photoshop CS5! I can now finally play around with HDR! Attempting now!

THE POWER IS IN MY HAND!
 MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!


I love classic muscles, not a dirty, greasy, dusty, 15 years old Peugeot 405 with inner parts dropping off. A full tank causes rm120 (WTF!!!) and the meter starts dropping after 20km. A secondhand Myvi could have been a much better choice, but what can you do when your parents see the price tag writing rm5k?

Fairy tales don't exist. Please wake up, friend. There are reasons why it is not called human tales.

Oh yes, Step Up 3D is finally in Malaysia! Who wants to go watch together? Cant wait to see Madd Chadd!!! :D

I accidentally dropped my camerabag having Charmaine inside from the car approximately a metre from ground. The first few test shots white balance was off!!! Oh my gosh, i feel like crying now. What should i do???    :'(

Lots of people not updating their blogs anymore. Is it because of busy schedules? Losing blogging mojo? Or because they have grown up and there are things given priorities? I dont know, because im slowly becoming one of them.

Bruno Mars- Talking To The Moon. Love his voice, but when you sing high notes in every single song and didnt realise you have gone pitchy, it's annoying.

Yes. I miss the place. I miss the breeze. I miss the cricket singings. I miss the soda biscuits. I miss the laughters. I miss the smile. I always wonder when can i see them again.

I must grow up.

August 15, 2010

study or food?

Homestyle Grilled Honey Chicken Breast with Apple Sauce



Nothing fancy? Yea sure, it's my first attempt.   :)
Taste good though.

August 3, 2010

Cheddarrr..

Bye bye July. It has been a crazy month. Now i'm reminded how much time left before WACE. Damn it.

Prize of 2nd place in Ausmat-FIA Talent Time: a 100 note with some unknown soy sauce-like stain on it, given in an envelope with a shoeprint on it. Do they come with it or what?

Barry Marshall was sure inspiring enough. Contributing to humanity... now that's my dream. Of course it can be done in other ways instead of glopping down a petri dish of bacterias and get Nobel prize award.

Sometimes, i wish i can ask you: why left so early? Not sure whether your life now is great, but here its pretty awesome.

Bunny Suicide. Introduced by our Psychology teacher. So cuuuute! Its about a bunny trying all ways to commit suicide. I super like the innocent look of the rabbit and the still motion technique used by Andy Riley. Hot issues are sometime incorporated in the comic.












July 13, 2010

Johannesburg, Vuvuzela, Jabulani & Takoyaki

Yeap, FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa was sure an interesting one: nice musics, all new champion, and the ever more spittings.


Unfortunately for all of us, Maradona did not get a chance to run naked around the field :(
Sure enough, his helping hands for the out-balls and excited jumping short figure were extra points to see Argentina's match other than Messi.


FIFA should come out with a manual Basic Manners & Ethics On Football Matches For Dummies. Some people find it entertaining, but i think it shows uncivilization and disgrace to one's country.


Lots of complaints on referees' mistakes and one-sidedness. Since technology has advanced into such stage, they should allow instant replays on giant screens placed in the stadiums, so that referees can view replays and carry out fair decisions.


North Koreans were definitely worth respecting. Being in a communist country, this was their first time opening themselves to the World Cup and managed to score a goal in the match against Brazil (who expected that??!!). They played with skills, honours, and ethics. For sure, next season they will be the tidebringers.


Best of all: the biggest star of the Game wasn't even a human.



I really don't get it. Why did people want to kill him when he predicted unpleasant results? He is just a cute little invertebrate who does predictions, not writing future. The games were still played by humans, the scores were made by players, so theres no point to throw him into shark pool and eat his species. Fishermen did make more income though.


And guess what?





that is, if we are still around.

July 10, 2010

rolling marbles

July intake has come in and the college has become overcrowded. More ex-CHSians are now here. Whats happened was that Pauline from HELP has come into AusMat with her JPA scholarship along with Kah Yung (OBML). Coincidentally, i became their tour guide around the campus, Pauline said 'You look familiar, but I CANT REMEMBER YOU'              :'(


I survived a situation that Bear Grylls has never been into: Parents & Lecturers Day.


Her best days will be some of my worst
She finally met a man that's gonna put her first
While I'm wide awake she's no trouble sleeping
'Cause when a heart breaks, no it don't breakeven, no         -The Script


'A decent tripod' has been added into my wish list.


Career Exploration Week was not inspiring at all. Business and Nutrition talks dozed audiences off; trip to MSCIC was supposed to be fun as it was labelled as Media Trip, but all we got was a half an hour talk of drop dead boring talks about pre-work programmes, contributions, software engineerin~, IT su~, zzzz........ until the supposed-to-be-fun part, which was Virtual Reality of a foreign movie trailer, a crucial button of the control room suddenly burned off, something never happened before, an so the trip finished 1 hour plus earlier than expected with nothing gained; talks by speakers were okay but not practical, and the games organizd by SSD was, nothing good at all. In short, it could be better.


Dance is to express, not to impress.
But sometimes we do unintentionally impress others while expressing. - Infectious


Second semester has now started, and yea, time to bulk up and do what should be done. Its for my own good, said by everyone, but i dont see any.

All girls are crazy over Twilight. urgh. Do they actually know that their boyfriends are super mad when they keep saying how cool Edward Cullen is and Jacob Black is super duper hawt?


I hate Twilight.




July 5, 2010

el ninos




Slick. Neat. Strong. Smooth. Expressive.
The lyric is about him telling a girl to be loyal to him when he isn't. Seems like total meaningless.


So what? His dance is all i care.




(scream*)

June 28, 2010

because Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman havent tried it before (Final)

The Myth was:





This was the fist part of the experiment.



This was the second part.





It is obvious that the myth has been proven fake since moulds had started growing on the fries. The smells got stronger each day until few days ago the part-time maid couldnt reisist and threw it away without my notice. Another possible explanation is she doesnt know how to read the word 'DO NOT TOUCH' on top of the container. Unfortunately, no photos of the dreaded mini rain forest were taken. :(






Conclusion: The myth is busted. But this doesnt mean you are encouraged to eat more fries. It is bad for health though :)




However, there are certain factors that may have caused differences between the video and this experiment:

  • The surrounding temperature: it might be winter during the recording of the video, or since the experiment was conducted in the guy's office, it might have air-conditioner turned on all the time. The experiment was conducted in a enviroment of approximately 26 degree celcius.
  • The humidity of surrounding
  • The different preparation method of the fries: i doubt so, but who knows?
  • the video might be a fake: im not sure, but this experiment is definitely a real thing.






So, Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman, whataya guys think??? :)