life resumes

FINALLY got around to do almost everything ive been wanting to do but had to put on hold for a number of reasons .. biggest one would be pure unadulterated LAZINESS .. managed to wrap up a few things at work after ages of working on it – or at least it felt like it ..

anyhoo – completed my resume .. so this week ill be somewhat busy applying away for jobs .. so .. things is tho when i did my resume i realised that i had so much things to add in there – i mean 3 years of stuff compiled into a page so i had to leave most stuff out .. but just writing my resume made me realise that altho i hated my job – i still managed to get quite a bit done .. take the last project for example – i was so against getting the job and was in such a shite mood and was fighting tooth and nail trying not to get it – why? – cos its a super fast track project .. no one in their sane mind wants that .. but still at the end – we completed the project on time and didnt even loose money in it – initially we thought we would be at the rate my boss was slashing the prices .. so anyway – point is – i DO realise that it is a learning curve and as much as i hate the job .. i do learn a lot from it and it does gives me valuable experience ..

but of course life cant be easy cos now my im presented with an even bigger challenge with this new assignment .. ah well .. its gonna be a nightmarish 2 weeks .. u know before the whole things starts u sort of have an idea of how bad things are going to be and ud wonder how ure gonna get through it .. those late nights – the thousand of things to get done – the constant pressure from your superior .. but somehow at the end u just kinda forget about everything – how bad it was .. until u get your next assignment that it

anyway – this is what we call useless random shorts

right vs not-so-wrong cos its cool

aaarrrrgghhh!! .. to quote liz lemon from 30 rock  – “I WANNA GO TO THERE!”

 

leica leica

am slightly in a better mood this week .. well .. not counting this morning .. heh

when i have oodles of moolahs .. like usd 4000 – ima get myself a shiny camera just like this ..

i have to admit that i like pretty and cool things … i mean i dont do camera talk – but reading the reviews and taking from whatever things that i understand from it (which mean very minimal) – its not that good a camera compared to whatever other dslrs but for the life of me – how can you say no to that classic look ..  yes i just really LOVE the look of this camera – heh

 which reminds me .. i love LUBITEL .. also one of my must haves .. NOT a digi cam but i still love it .. of course mostly cos of the look

 

which would also take us to the next camera that id get giddy all over .. ladies and gentlemen – i present to you – the horizon

because why settle for a normal sized imperfect photo … when you can have a whole panoramic view of imperfect photo

anyway .. enough of this nasty camera talk

all revved up and ready to go

sara bereilles has such a superb sound .. el superbo .. pretty day to choose to sing outdoors tho .. too much mentioning of the word ‘love’ that its almost inappropriate to stick it in this post

posted something like ‘running on batt mode today cos someone pulled the energy plug out’ on my status on facebook today .. not trying to be all vague and gay or anything but seriously thats what it feels like right now .. i feel so dead like one of the zombies in shaun of the dead .. well id say 28 days later but those zombies are crazy .. and rabid ..

i dunno – suddenly i just feel so damn sick of my shit job .. not that i wasnt before – its just that it has reached to a level that i just dont give a fuck AT ALL what happens .. i am soo freaking tired of fucking slaving away on an intense fast track shit projects .. its like one after another – and im just basically worn out .. after 4 projects – everything just switched off i guess .. i have totally lost interest in everything .. and i kinda feel guilty about it – cos i feel like its unfair to my boss – but what the hey rite – its that u pay peanuts u get monkeys thing u know .. yes im the monkey .. and i kinda feel bad for the ppl i work with – but i just cant freaking cope anymore .. its prolly like an anxiety attack – you just shut off ..

anyway – i want a new job now ..

bleh – mr mraz will cheer me up  .. for now .. mr mraz and a good cookie .. yeaaaaaaaaah .. that would be nice .. or mr mraz ON a good cookie .. heh

hey ho! lets go!

trent feat. sellouts

for the record, i STILL do think that facebook makes you too connected .. and yes there is such a thing as being too connected .. well for me at least .. and i think im like 1 out of 10 ppl who doesnt believe in facebook .. and yet i have an account – yes i know – but the ppl in there are limited and most of the time id think twice about adding ppl in .. i dunno – just do not like being too open i guess

and dont get me started on twitter .. i think that is just pointless .. and unless youre a celebrity or my boyfriend – why the hell would i be even remotely interested in what ure doing  every single minute? .. pointless i tell ya .. ok im semi-kidding about the having to know my b/fs every move thing .. heh .. half kid .. plus i do not and am not following any celebrity on twitter .. well cept that one time during that lohan/ronson break-up thing .. heh .. that was some desperate shite (them .. not me .. eh) .. heh .. that was purely for the fun factor .. for a lil laugh

so anyway .. lets talk nine inch nails now ..

trent have somehow always been good in my books .. i like the anti-social, depressed and very dark image that he has (without being labelled as goth or death metal) .. musicwise tho – some i can accept and some to me is just white noise with machine beats .. i like the vocals tho .. he makes tortured soul sound sexy ..

anyway – nin is coming to singapore in august .. and i kinda have mixed feelings about this – i wanna go – cos i like a few songs and i wanna experience them live .. i have a feeling they will be different than all other bands ive seen – so thats nice .. on the other hand tho – i know jack shit about the new album – which theyll be promoting .. so that sucks .. AAAND more importantly – its at fort freaking canning park .. uugh .. i hate open aired, sweaty armpits and all sorts of nauseous smell kinda concert .. i mean after experiencing the police and coldplay at the indoor stadium – i feel like ALL concerts should be held there .. yes all .. i mean its air-conditioned, the acoustics is AMAZING – even the smallest f chimes can be heard in the stadium .. and the whole concert was distrubingly organized .. heh .. even the crowd was very well behaved .. heh .. ok actually i dont really mind open air – but its one of those free standing type of concert – u know where everyone gets dumped into one big moshpit .. yea so – and from experience – 80% of concert crowds in singapore are all non-singaporean ex-pats who are tall and huge .. so unless i claw my way to the front (which i will never do) or my whole nin concert experience will be hearing white noise while watching someones back .. not cool .. anyway ill sleep on it and decide later .. theres still time

ok so another thing that makes trent reznor so cool .. he did this april fool joke – posting on his website that hes releasing an album called ’strobelight’ .. he even has a track listing – which is hilarious .. and even named a few guest artistes on it – which i assume he considers as sellouts – but chris martin and bonos in it which is weird cos coldplay and u2 are mainstream .. so .. nevermind .. anyway apparently this joke is sposed to be aimed at chris cornell who has an album out called “scream” and hes collaborating with timbaland .. heh .. theres just so much wrong in there that i just dunno where to begin – but ill sum it up with a quote from a comment by TK on pajiba ..  “I certainly won’t condemn anyone for liking Scream- each their own and whatnot. But as a hardcore Soundgarden fan, listening to it makes me want to slash my throat with my copy of Badmotorfinger” .. my sentiments exactly

so now that were talking bout sellouts .. saw a piece of non-cool trent news yesterday on perezhilton nonetheless ..hes apparently engaged to some singer – who used to pose for playboy .. and hes walking those red carpets shit … i mean .. heh .. whatever happened to the dark, sullen anti-social trent? .. ok having a g/f is fine – but not one of those types .. u know what i mean – shes in a non-famous band so shes dating trent to get famous .. yes those type .. plus i dont trust her face – heh .. and apparently nin fans arent too happy about this .. but i guess whatever – trent should prolly take back whatever jokes he had about chris cornell .. at least im not seeing him walking red carpets with less-than-2 weeks old g/f and announcing their engagement to the whole world .. heh seriously what the hell happend trent? .. april fools over – enough with the jokes …

jason mraz, malls and independence

jason mentioned malaysia in his blog .. he even put a pic of stadium negara there .. nice pic – he is rocking his fisheye of late – i noticed .. heh .. pretty soon i shall be rocking my sis fisheye too … heh .. just gotta get some films first .. anyway – yay for the stadium negara pic – now it shall be famous – so padan muka to all you mega malls developers who originally wanted to bring that building down .. shame on you .. im sorry did jason mraz put a pic of ‘the pavilion’ or ‘midvalley bloody megamall’ in his blog? .. I DONT THINK SO .. its like a dime a dozen and its the same everywhere .. so eff u guys .. down with the malls and demolishing of historical buildings!

on a semi-related note .. malaysia is so weird .. several years ago all these money faced developers were fighting their ass off to bring down stadium negara and stadium merdeka .. STADIUM MERDEKA can u believe it?? .. i mean come on .. and in exchange of what? .. another mall? .. another tesco? .. another hi-rise exclusive ridiculously priced condos? .. for fucks sake man .. have an identity will ya  .. sheesh .. it would suck for u if ud have to list out shitty malls as part of your countrys architectural history .. and these ppl (and by that i mean ppl in the ministry) dont think do they .. theyd go ‘ooh were rich in cultural heritage .. bla bla bla’ .. and your evidence to support that is ‘the biggest mall in ASIA’? .. ‘the tallest twin tower in ASIA’ .. eh .. im sorry – thats just stupid .. so anyway .. back to my point – so NOW – recently i guess .. victoria’s institution received that national heritage award thing – and its just a stones throw away from those two stadiums .. i mean – wtf? .. first u want to kill the most important building in history .. but next minute youre celebrating it and all the buildings around it .. i dont get that .. i mean dont get me wrong – it IS the right move (for once) .. it is just extremely weird thats all

ppl dont pay enough attention to restoration of historical buildings here .. and that is just sad .. i for one – think that stadium negara should be more well kept and more .. how should i put it .. ‘celebrated’ and ‘proud of’ than klcc .. i mean it has a history man .. u can build great buildings but u cant buy history .. so i know its nowhere near the grandeur of lets say the coliseum .. but still – it is of great historical importance to us .. and its just sad that its left in an unkept state .. and only used for concerts or footballs matches and stuff like that .. anyway – in short – money hungry- mega mall building – two face politician/whoever in the government who gets 10 million for approving to demolish historical buildings to make way for megamalls/condos should all go back to the ‘japanese occupation’ era and get tortured their balls off AND THEN they should be asked ’so is a place where we declare INDEPENDENCE important?’

 

 

yea .. i dunno whered this patriotic bug came from either .. highly perplexing

jason mraz in kl, malaysia – concert setlist

k this will be a swift post .. heh .. will give a long post for my mraz concert later  when i am not freaking dumped by shitload of shit work .. ok caaalllm .. life is wonderful .. heh

one thing i was pissed off about yesterday was the lack of info on the bloody setlist that jason played for his asian concerts .. sheesh .. so now here goes (altho not in order – i was too excited and enjoying myself to take note of the songs and i have a short term memory)

Jason Mraz in Kuala Lumpur  – 4th March, 2009

SET-FREAKING-LIST

1. Make it mine
2. The remedy / wonderwall (oasis)
3. You and I both
4. Live High
5. Life is wonderful
6. Geek in the pink
7. If it kills me
8. A beautiful mess
9. The dynamo of volition (at superspeed)
10. I’m yours / Dont worry about a thing (Bob marley)
11. Lucky (encore) / Invisible gum song (extremely cute dance)
12. i have no idea what this song is here but it was nice
13. Butterfly

ok if i have to sum it up in a few words  – here it is :

jason – cute, superb singer, great crowd interactor, likes to get jiggy, fun, that is one mothereffing talented boy, and buffed???

toca – cute, great voice, bongos, great percussionist

horn section – cute, also likes to get jiggy, fun, talented, majulah sukan untuk negara!

crowd – not bad for mostly fedora wearing kids crowd (heh), very responsive – thats good

songs – wanted wordplay but i guess its not meant to be, love the other songs and hearing jason play them live was unbelievable, i want more of course, and no coyotes?

me – throat – hoarse, i would like to apologize to my seat neighbours for all the ‘WOOOO!’s and the ‘AAAAAAAAAAA!’s, feels like everythings gonna be alright

whole concert – two words – EL SUPERBO!

out

mraz and co – it was worth the wait

air is pretty clear today

ok so time for some serious speculation .. of coldplay concert in malaysia .. heh

so its no secret that i dont have any faith at all with malaysian concert scene – when it comes to international artistes of course .. i mean why would i go otherwise .. heh

ok so what we have on one hand is this idiotic ’sunburst kl’ so called music fest .. i dont know why but it is fast getting on my nerves .. first of all there is that ‘are they coming’ ‘are they not coming’ rumors bullcrap .. and then theres that stupid silent press conference crap at the pavillion where they announced lacklustre acts (additional gripe – what the FISH is “silent” press conference – NO SUCH THING in my book .. press conference is press conference .. if you want it to be silent – then shut the fish up .. NEXT – coldplay TBC – again this belongs in the ‘what the FISH??!’ category .. cos i dunno what mind games theyre trying to play here but its working – IM PISSED OFF .. and it doesnt help that this pineapple events have a bad rep – theyre the ones who wanted to bring tennis aces fedex and nadal but cancelled at the very last minute without any official notice in fact – not good .. not good at all ..

so weighing all that info that i have – i deduced that coldplay will be a no show in malaysia ..

BUT – TODAY i came upon some extremely exciting news – heh – coldplay is coming to Singapore .. as in a FULL ON CONCERT .. as in they will play more than 40 MINUTES .. as in NO SHITEOUS LOCAL ACTS (well maybe 1 opening act – but who listens to opening bands anyway) .. as in ALL THEIR GREAT SONGS WILL BE PLAYED

so i am once again a happy bunny .. heh .. and am now checking them flight tickets .. i dont care if its on monday – IM NOT GONNA MISS IT THIS TIME .. i have been carrying this BIG regret since 2006 when they came to singapore and for some weird reason i DID NOT go and made this shit mistake of reading the concert review in the star newspaper .. and by the time the writer said he had goosebumps when he heard the whole stadium sang to Fix You – i VOWED to myself – never EVER to miss a coldplay concert if i can help it ..

so tis time to keep to that vow  .. heh

so anyway – whatever happens in malaysia – i wouldnt even give a rats ass .. pineapple events can play all the games that they want and they do all kinds of gimmick or whatever crap it is that they want … i dont care – im off to singapore .. cos even if coldplay lands here – it will be like 40 mins only .. and the ticket price is more or less the same .. AND i dont like any other bands that theyre offering .. AND theres a good chance that this might get cancelled ..

BUT theres a very good chance that coldplay will be coming to malaysia tho – cos their last gig in NZ is on the 19th and the next gig is in Singapore on the 23rd .. sunburst is on the 21st .. so ..

on the other side the grass is greener

i am damn ANXIOUS – seriously .. tickets for jason mraz’s concert in malaysia have YET to be on sale .. whereas tickets for OTHER places is already out there and is getting sold out by the minute .. tix for singapores concert which opened yesterday has only limited seats left TODAY .. so

i SERIOUSLY have NO FAITH whatsoever on malaysian sponsors n what not .. be it small companies or big companies .. reputable or not .. they have a reputation for cancelling even the most popular events and even with sold out tickets – like what happened to that fed-ex vs whoever tennis match .. bamm! cancelled at the very last minute .. by experienced sponsors even .. shameful i tell ya .. so of course now – i think theyre at it again – being so late in selling the tickets .. and of course the website for the organizer is under construction .. how great is that .. if that doesnt install faith back into malaysian organisers i dont know what will ..

so i am seriously going to get the singapore tickets – id rather have 2 tickets than NONE .. cos seriously i am NOT going to miss this

seriously .. heh

air well airwells

i am right now drooling at the latest house sneak peek in design*sponge .. it features eliza jane curtis’ house in buenos aires ..  it looks great, love how she uses color and how rustic everything looks ..

the ceiling and the floor is to die for! so much character .. the room is small and yet so cozy – one thing that i love most of all is that it looks airy – big open windows .. ventilation is a must for me

you can check out all her other rooms from the link .. but my favorite room would have to be her dining area

“This is our diningroom. It was once an open courtyard but now it has a glass roof. There are still old tree stumps embedded in the poured concrete floor. I love how many older buildings in Buenos Aires blur the lines between indoor space and outdoor space.”

i love it too!! .. well not in buenos aires – but i love that concept too .. ive always wanted an indoor garden or creepers like the moneyplant to dress up a feature wall – stuff like that .. to me it gives that fresh feeling .. and i love what she had here – its not really inside and its not really outside .. LOVEs it !.. saw something similar in melaka too – with the old portuguese houses along jonker street – apart from it being beautiful to look at – i like the whole concept of it .. most of the houses are long and narrow like shotgun houses so they would have like an airwell in the middle of the house in order to have some form of ventilation .. and it looks great .. anyway – my point is that the indoor garden kinda blurs the whole indoor outdoor area thing .. which is of course why i love it so much

pic above is not from one of the melaka houses – its the cheong fatt tze in penang .. but the concept of the indoor garden is similar .. maybe not as intricate and beautiful – heh .. this house is one of a kind