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Date: July 2nd, 2009
Cate: Daily Diary, Rantings, Thoughts
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Horrifying Dentist Experience!

PS: College starts tomorrow and I haven’t prepared anything!

I have been visiting the dentist 3 times for the past 4 days, and frankly, that wasn’t a good sign indeed. At the height of these H1N1, visiting dentist for treatment is something stupid but be rest assured that I didn’t go for the wrong doctor. I ain’t infected any H1N1 but was about to put on braces for myself. I’ve been contemplating this option for long, taking into consideration of a lot of factors before finally decided that I need the braces for god sake.

My teeth wasn’t aligned and it kinda looked ugly under some circumstances no thanks to my thumb-sucking routine till I was Standard 3. You heard me and yea, I’m very much embarrassed to admit that I actually sucked my thumb till that late. And that’s why Immigration always hold me for thumb-print, simply because I have no thumb print on my right thumb! My saliva actually dissolved it!

And so Mrs.Kee decided that it’s gonna be the time to get on a braces. It’s a very big thingy in my opinion as it involves teeth extracting, injections, and bending etc! But in real, it actually got worse than what I had expected.

Two consecutive days I had 4 teeth of mine brutally extracted by the dentist using one hell of a farking big spanar. It was so horror that I couldn’t sleep, for what I will always picture him with his farking big spanar and starts taking out my teeth. Frankly, it wasn’t a great experience to me. I was injected 12 farking times of injections to make my lips numb. I wasn’t paranoid to injections till that, and that was real pain in the ass.

Thinking of it simply makes me shiver.

But I’m glad that I made it without dropping a single tear. Though now I’m really afraid to see the dentist.

Braces in Sunday. omgwtf!

Date: June 30th, 2009
Cate: Events, Rantings
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Akon Concert Postponed

PS: Still drafting Penang post, processing loads of pictures. Ops! And munching chocolates.

Just got to know that Malaysia government has decided to postpone Akon Freedom Beach Party that was scheduled to be held on the 2nd of July, this coming Thursday at Sunway Lagoon due to so-called ‘unforeseen circumstances’.

After I did a search, I found out that Chivas, an alcoholic brand was specifically blamed for this postponement as Akon is a born Muslim, and the government does not advocate drinking especially for Muslims. They are going to give free T-Shirts for concert-goer because being a topless guy in a beach party is pure wrong.

Earlier, Datuk Mohammad Mohammad Daud, deputy secretary-general of the Information, Communications and Culture Ministry held a closed-door meeting with the show promoter over the ministry’s concern that a prominent liquor brand was the official sponsor for Akon, who was born a Muslim.

“We expect every show promoter in this country to abide by our rules and regulations,” said Mohammad Daud. “We have not relaxed our restrictions on cigarette and liquor sponsorship for public events like concerts.”

The concert promoter for Akon has given an assurance that it would adhere to the ministry’s rules. “With the new date, we’ve managed to find a new sponsor,” said the spokesman.

“We’re also planning to give out T-shirts to concert goers who do not observe the dress code. It may be a beach party, but we do not want people to be skimpily dressed.”

Frankly, I think our country are nowhere to success if this kind of third-world mentality continues to linger within our authorities. This mind set will forever be third world if we’re going to worry about the F word being said in a 18+ movie or rate a movie 18SX because they lip kissed. If we’re going to make this a damn multi-racial country and expect me to respect your culture, please respect mine too.

Date: June 29th, 2009
Cate: Thoughts
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RIP King of POP

PS: Back from intense photo-shooting for 3 consecutive days. And now mountains of pictures waiting to be processed.

King of POP

This is overdue.

A news broke off on Thursday evening on celebrity site TMZ.com ran riot across continents, spreading itself like a never-ending wildfire, and shocked people worldwide. It’s the news of the death of the King of POP, Michael Jackson whom himself was a music genius, albeit surrounded by scandals and rumours.

I wasn’t much of a fan of MJ. I never hear his songs. Didn’t know that Moonwalk was inspired by him. Forgive me for my shallow knowledge. And all I ever known about MJ was his stunning transformation from a Black to White, and his fondness for children.

Frankly, he hasn’t hold much of an important position in my heart. Yet, this post is a tribute to the King of POP, who had inspired people of his generation, whom himself left a great legacy behind for the people. He is a legend indeed, though not in living now, but his existence will be conveyed through his chart-topping musics.
And as I’m listening to his ‘You are not alone’, I truly believe that his spirit and enthusiasms continues to flow through his musics. Perhaps forever.

Rest in peace.

Date: June 26th, 2009
Cate: Events, Shootings
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Redang Day 3

Initial plan for Day 3 was to hire a big boat to get us to the nearby Pulau Perhentian, also famous for its snorkeling activities. But the surcharge to charter a boat there reached up to RM 1800?! I might as well use the money to get myself the Tokina 12-24 f/4mm (a camera lens for photo noobie :p). That was so expensive that my dad decided to turn it down immediately. It’s just not worth to pay so much when Tony Fernandes was reducing airfare! Mind you, it’s now cheaper to fly a plane instead of hopping on a boat! Wat fark?

Since we were so tired, and our place was virtually isolated (private beach), the whole family actually decided to hang out inside the beach resort. It was fun to go search around hidden places, see chics sun-tanning themselves on the sands. I brought along my zoom lens, the super zoom typo! But just didn’t have enough courage to snap them with her beside me. Not yet. Just not yet.

And I settled landscaping photography instead.

Scenery around

I must credit whoever that did the landscaping job at the beach. Everything was so beautifully put into place and carefully decorated that they really brought out the ‘beach feeling’ out of me.

Stepping stones

Basically I was just walking around sight seeing along with her. Feels great to have your companion around and together we toured beside the beach. Holding hands, sun shining upon us, sea breeze greeted us. It’s just so damn romantic while she lies on your shoulder along the way.:D

Me & Her

Aloha!

When the night fell, stars were scattered all over the tiny-veiled sky, and it was perfect for a date. She was looking at me as far as I remember, and her eyes were telling me something. She was expecting something from me. Some quote. Some words from the bottom of my heart. And all I did was…

to sing ‘twinkle twinkle little star’. I know. I screwed it. I know.

Date: June 24th, 2009
Cate: Events, Shootings
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Redang Day 2

Second day at Redang was the BIG DAY for us as we were heading for snorkeling the whole day. After all, we came to Redang to explore its rich marine life and beautiful corals foundation!

Spot the corals down!

It was awesome to be swamped by loads of fishes around you-despite the hefty boat ride fees we were being charged-they all came in all sorts of colours that you couldn’t even imagine about it. Red, blue, yellow, orange, you name it! It’s like so fake to see all sorts of colourful fishes, as though they were being coloured by colouring droplets.

I’m not so a ‘marine’ guy in my life, never been intrigued by fishes, albeit some colourful one, but this trip down to the sea really amazed me. I regretted for not spending the extra money to get myself an underwater camera, I couldn’t make them into permanent memories, but just plain, photographic memories.

That's me snorkeling!

The corals underneath were awesome as well! They came in big and small, fat and thin and their sizes really tell their age. Some may be even older than my great grandfather and still kicking strong (at the sea bed la! )

But seriously it’s saddening to see these corals dying at such a fast rate, it’s estimated that within 10 years, all the corals here will be wiped out, and we will have nothing to see except sand, plain sand.

That's her snorkeling!

I was lucky to spot a few turtles too! Heck, they may look like slowpoke, but their swimming ain’t slow at all! It took me quite some time to catch a sight on them and god, they really gigantic.

We stopped by Laguna Beach to have our lunch and sight seeing as well. The shores used to have lots of baby sharks lurking around with people feeding them. Be rest assured, that as of date, they were harmless to people. But due to the influx of foreigners to the island, the locals speculate that they actually caught all these sharks for their daily meals, and hence? We have no more baby sharks here! God damn those uneducated foreigners!