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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Another great Music Monday, for another great song. I have a great karaoke session last Saturday with Choul and my two sisters. It was my sis' birthday the day after and she's quite a good singer so, what better way to celebrate a pre-birthday than by singing out loud in a small, dark room. What remind me of this song? My sis was asked, well, pranked to sing this song and she actually did it quite well, and we all laughed quite hard while singing along too.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This song has always been catchy and I'm always moving my head subconsciously to the beat. I'm sure almost everyone has heard of this song. I wanted to embed the cool ink effect video but it embedding is disabled. Go check out the video &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Enjoy the song!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;If you like cats, you'll like this video. If you like kittens, you'll like this video. If you like cute things, you'll like this video. If you don't like any of those, watch it anyway. Ultra Cuteness FTW!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Surprise, surprise, a Music Monday post from me! I found this song while checking out my clearing out my MP3 files. Pretty good beats and I like the tune. I have no idea who Shaun Escoffery is but I think the songs great. Well, Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/_egTYJ0TUEs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/_egTYJ0TUEs/mm-shaun-escoffery-space-rider.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/11/mm-shaun-escoffery-space-rider.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-3141009360317430413</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-30T15:03:50.477+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Events</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Shocking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Annoying</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cats</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Activities</category><title>Raya at LadyJava's Place</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ljraya-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;During the Raya celebration month, blogger extraordinaire, &lt;a href="http://ladyjava.javaura.com/"&gt;LadyJava&lt;/a&gt; invited me and Choul to her place. Of course, she invited the other allstars of the blogging circle but me and Choul were fortunate enough to make it that day. It was fortunate too that we had another friend's place to visit that day which was close to her home. Thanks to the power of Google, I made it to LJ's place without getting lost. No u-turns, no asking around. We just made it there with the address LJ gave, and thats quite a feat for me since I get lost easily huhuhuhu.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ljraya-9.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The view from above&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Saying we were a bit nervous is an understatement since we didn't know LJ that much. I mean sure, me and LJ exchanged comments and tweets, but I never really annoyed LJ that much. I get more annoying when I'm comfortable, so if you're getting more and more annoyed, that means I'm getting friendlier hahahaha. Ask my wife, she knows better huhuhuhu.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As we arrive there, which is pretty cool, literally, since her place is at a hillside, we were sent to the visitor parking which we couldn't find, so we did an illegal parking like any true Malaysian would do huhuhu. We reached LJ's house about 5 minutes after that, and we were both nervous. I mean c'mon, I don't even know how LJ looks like and we were practically strangers. We could even be greeting the wrong person since it was Raya and everyone's inviting everyone. LJ was nice enough to make fun of that fact, as soon as we greeted at the front door, she was giggling at our awkwardness.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;LJ was very warm and friendly to welcome us to her home. The first thing that caught me was the beautiful view of the city skyline from her house. I knew then how she get so inspired to write in her several hundred blogs (slight exaggeration haha). I wish I could handle the amount of blogs she has, I mean I can't even be consistent with one blog and I have two! Even this post is WAY WAY WAY overdue, and I'm currently trying to cut through my writer's block like a warm knife through butter.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ljraya-7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The generous food cooked for her Raya visitors.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Posing with the food, since the hosts are anonymous LOL&lt;br /&gt;
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She prepared a lot of food, and one of the most notable dish were the sambal goreng, which is a dish from Singapore. I'm not good with labelling dishes, but I do remember I tried the rendang and nasi impit too. Delicious food, thanks to LJ. Besides, she said I have to claim its delicious even if its not. Fortunately LJ, your dishes are great and we both enjoyed it very much.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ljraya-2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Smokey at the top of the bunk bed, Aggie Waggy with the neck bandage. I have no idea who's at the bottom. A little help LJ?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ljraya-4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Is this Minnie? Only LJ can help.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It didn't take too long before I asked LJ, "Where are your cats?", and she gladly showed me the Cat Apartment where all of her beloved cats are lounging. In case you didn't know, LJ is a cat owner too, cats in fact, and she has her own cat blog called &lt;a href="http://www.bloggercats.com/"&gt;Blogger Cats&lt;/a&gt;. Go and check it out when you have time. Looking at the four cats she has truly made me reminisce the good ol' days of me having cats as pets. Her cats, Awan, Aggie, Smokey, Minne and Nina were damn adorable, though the only one that paid attention to me was Awan, and so she's my favourite cat! Ahahaha. Awan was such a cutey, she played with my camera's strap and even when under Choul's baju kurung. Freaking cute! I want Awan!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ljraya-6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Awan practically begging me to take her home with me&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Awan playing hide and seek under Choul's baju kurung. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ljraya-3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Awan just being cute. Like I said, I like Awan!&lt;br /&gt;
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After that we talked to LJ about blogs generally, and she gave me tips on how to make income from blogs. Interesting stuff, its like building your own business so effort is key. We also "gossiped" about the other bloggers hahahaha.&lt;br /&gt;
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As we were about to leave, we finally managed to meet up her husband, A who is equally a warm person. I truly enjoyed the short but fun Raya visit at LJ's. Thanks to both of you, LJ and A.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ljraya-10.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A lonely monkey doing what it does best.&lt;br /&gt;
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Oh after that we went to Jibb and Su's house in Setiawangsa. It took us 40 minutes to reach there for a trip that can be 15 minutes since Setiawangsa was closeby LJ's home. It was a challenge for me trying to get to Setiawangsa, as the road signs were so confusing! Yes, it is not my fault! Anyway, It was a short visit, as actually, he's my sis' friend, so me and Soul were her representative. Feeling awkward was an understatement, but we still enjoyed the visit, though we felt like a couple of complete strangers. Nothing wrong on the host's hospitality either, since I do know they are a very friendly couple. Its just that I didn't know what to talk about since I didn't really know them. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ljraya-11.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Beautiful apartments&lt;br /&gt;
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Their place was luxurious to say the least, full security, very serene (which was amazing since its in the middle of the city), and the pool was gorgeous. Peaceful? Probably, if there weren't a trio of middle eastern origin (maybe) jumping from a roof to the pool. The other pool-goers were obviously irritated by their behaviour. They even hid themselves from the security guards by laying face down on the roof while they were searching for them. Cheeky. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ljraya-12.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here's the roof I'm talking about&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And here they are hiding. Sorry for the bad focus.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Seeing them doing their acrobatics just reminded me of a video of another middle eastern guy jumping from a bridge to the sea, for kicks of course, but ended up missing the sea and hitting the concrete floor just beside it. He lived but the next scene of the video was showing how doctors were trying to sew up his face that split open, LITERALLY. Scary shit that.&lt;br /&gt;
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I guess that's it for me here. Thanks again to LJ!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-3141009360317430413?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/pbMjpnLvxI8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/pbMjpnLvxI8/during-raya-celebration-month-blogger.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/10/during-raya-celebration-month-blogger.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-2840983720949771345</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-19T01:54:14.402+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Interesting</category><title>Unexpectedly Colourful</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Just a couple of hours ago, an unexpected visitor came to visit us at the front door. As my brother was parking his car, he saw something flew at the ceiling of the garage and upon failing to leave, fall back down to the floor. It was a bird. A colourful bird, really really beautiful colours. Unfortunately, it couldn't fly, its like its injured or ran out of energy. A cat was eyeing the bird so he took the bird into one of the cages for safety. The whole family were looking at the bird as if its a rare exhibit or a celebrity on red carpet. We took a number of shots of it, with multiple cameras. I mean, its a rare visit by a rare bird after all. This IS something interesting right? I was armed with an iPod Touch in front, googling what species of bird this colourful visitor is.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The iPod was too small to make a comparison or a guide with, and googling "yellow breasted bird" wasn't good enough, so I thought I should tweet the pic up, preferably to a bird specialist. Choul tweeted faster, she put the pic up and a friend of hers identified it as a Pitta Moluccensis. True enough, after googling the that in name under image search, you see the exact same colors at the exact same position.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Whatever it is, its staying in the cage tonight, there are a lot of predator cats around my neighbourhood, cats that like to make my house a rest area. My home is like an R&amp;amp;R or a motel for cats, cats come and go as they please, sometimes leaving brown jewels on the grass or my car roof.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anyone got anymore information on this bird? Like, why is it lost and why ain't it flying?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Update:&lt;/b&gt; Some additional info on this &lt;a href="http://www.wildlife.gov.my/printed_material/kbdAviClist/Blue_winged_pitta.pdf"&gt;Burung Pacat&lt;/a&gt; by the government in BM. Apparently its a protected species. It may be someone's pet. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/oNQTUpS-1IA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/oNQTUpS-1IA/unexpectedly-colourful.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/10/unexpectedly-colourful.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-1034391616780048516</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-17T22:58:44.595+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Life</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Emo</category><title>When your head goes numb</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Recently, I have been having this strange feeling on my head, the feeling of your head being numb. Last week was a stressful week for me. I had so many things running in my mind, thinking about the present and the future, and eventually, my head started feeling numb, starting from the upper head to the back of head and sometimes, a part of my face gets numb. I googled this and surprisingly most people who have the same feeling of numbness comes from major stress or anxiety. I went to the doctors, and it seemed that my blood pressure is a bit high, running to regions of high blood pressure (HBP) in fact. And I thought that was it. Well, I still think its contributing to it.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I now have to go monitor my pressure every two days for six days just to make sure I don't have high blood pressure. Most have said I'm pretty young to have high blood pressure. I guess so, but what can you &lt;b style="color: orange;"&gt;do&lt;/b&gt; if it happens right? The second reading was, thankfully, a normal reading. It was a reading below hypertension level and that made me happy. I probably don't have HBP , lets hope I don't, insyaAllah, cause I know you have to take non-stop meds for the rest of your life. The doctor gave me something for the numbness and nerves. Hope that helps enough for me to pass the HBP test.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The thing thats troubling me is that the numbness is still there, in fact, I still have it while typing this, however, I found something new thanks to Mr.G again. It seems that it has something to do with the nerves at my neck, its probably not letting blood flow freely. The person (from the solution I found) suggested this,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Just up on the meaty part of your upper shoulders, press down quite hard with your fingers and see if this numbness goes away. Don't forget to try it on both sides. Also use the flat of your fingers and press firmly up the base of your neck. If the numbness subsides, you have a neck problem. If this is the case and you can afford to go to a massage therapist please do. If you can't afford it get someone to massage your neck or put some heat on it and take a break for a bit. Be sure your pillow on your bed is a good one and craddles your neck area. If it doesn't you can buy a sponge pillow with the neck support quite cheap or you can go to a drug store and ask if they sell the sponge roll to put inside your pillow case just below your original pillow. I use the roll and find I have gotten rid of a lot of numbness and neck pain.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And so, I did try and press down quite hard with my fingers and true enough the numbness subsided. I hope so.&amp;nbsp; Apparently, this also happens to people who twist their neck in an awkward position when asleep and thus, the blood circulation is reduced. What I need now is a good massage therapy on the back of my neck.&amp;nbsp; Would you believe that I've never went to any massage therapist? They're probably gonna have a field day considering how tense I am all the time.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On a side note, I'm really thankful that we live in the age of Internet. You can find plenty of solutions, or even if you don't, you sure as hell get closer to it.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I know this is a boring post, but it worries me to no end. Anyone ever had this kind of experience? Oh, and wish me luck.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/y6dDv3PXZB0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/y6dDv3PXZB0/when-your-head-goes-numb.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-your-head-goes-numb.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-7470664765337359348</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-16T11:39:20.843+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Events</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Activities</category><title>Jogging, Earthquake and Ekiden Run 2009</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ekiden-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rumble at the Park&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I intended to make a post about making my jogging comeback earlier, but I guess I'll just merge the posts. After all, if I miss out one, I have no idea when I'll post the other one, judging from my blogging track record recently haha. So, how did I get back to jogging. To cut the story short, and you know its not gonna be that short, Azwan, my good friend and ex-neighbour, persuaded me to join a marathon. Why would I join? I mean c'mon, I'm in no shape to run 15-20kms, though I wish I am. The dealbreaker for me was its a 3km relay marathon for a team of five and its called the Ekiden Run. Also. it didn't help that I was in the mood to lose weight at the time (that was way back in August I think) and October 4 seemed so far away.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Unfortunately, time caught up on me, Raya celebrations was over and the marathon date was closer. I needed to get new shoes, since all of my running shoes have a bit of tongue action going on (note: sole coming apart) particularly because they're more than 3 years old. I mean, I do have other shoes, but they're not made for running, rather for style. I needed to invest on good running shoes, and therefore, Petaling Street was not an option. I don't want to risk ruining my feet to save a few bucks. From my experience, Adidas and Fila have great design, but they just didn't feel right on my feet, but they do look good. I had Nike futsal shoes for a gift and I thought they worked really well with my foot. Veteran joggers swear by New Balance and Saucony shoes, and I checked that out too. I ended up making a decision of getting Nikes particularly because they have Nike+ which can track your running by just putting a sensor in the insole of your shoe. My iPod Touch is compatible with the Nike+ sensor, so I don't have to buy a separate iPod or Nike+ watch in the future.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Good plan. One thing though, Nike+ shoes are expensive. All of them start at RM250 and above, and the cheaper ones are not visually appealing at all hahaha. I was really keen on getting the Nike Lunarglides which was recently launched but at a minimum price of RM389, I knew it was something I couldn't afford at the moment. Fortunately, I came across a good deal after shopping around, and I got my outgoing Nike Air Pegasus+ for less than RM250, which is good, since I budgeted to get something around RM200 anyway and its a bonus that I got a Nike+ enabled shoe too.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Man, I'm starting to sound like a Nike ad. My sincerest apologies. I must have been suckered into the brand consumption trap. Annnywayyy, enough of that, two days later, after not being able to try out the shoes on the previous day because of rain, I finally get to try out my shoes and see if they work well.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;They did. In a way.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I managed to jog about 4 laps which is around 3.5 to 4kms. Well, not really, its more like 2 laps of jogging and 2 laps of walking. Definitely worse than the days of jogging before my big engagement. The lack of exercise has shown. Even though I had the will to jog, my body wasn't really up to my mind's standard yet. The shoes were okay, it fitted my feet really well. The only problem is that my right foot is a bit sore, and that also hindered me from jogging/running more aside from me catching out of breath. That worried me, since I just dropped a lot of cash to get these shoes.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As I finished the run to catch a breath, I grab my Gatorade from the car and sit in front of my car while enjoying the drink. Its been awhile since I've jogged so I was really catching my breath, when suddenly, while glancing at my car, I see it vibrating, ever so slightly. Not really vibrating, but small little movements that stationary parked cars do NOT make. I really focused on the car now, and yes, it seems like the car was shaking, no, make it, shivering. I must be damn tired, I thought to myself.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Needless to say, I found out later that it was an earthquake when Choul called me up. I'm sure it was just a coincidence that when I start jogging again, an earthquake rumbles.Well, nothing to joke about, more than 800 people died in Padang. Must have been a traumatic situation.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ekiden Run&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Me and Choul left the house by 6.05am, so the roads were still dark as ever. We did a convoy with Azwan's dad and sis. Azwan has the benefit of living in Putrajaya, so he didn't have to be in a rush like us. The briefing was 6.45am so we had to reach there in half an hour. Which we did, give or take a few minutes. Uncle A, a marathon veteran, was already pumped up and warming up by jogging towards the event central. Me? I was just nervous since this is my first mini-marathon event. I didn't warm-up, just took a leisurely stroll with Choul towards the reporting station. The parking place was a good five minute walk away so I didn't want to warm up too soon haha.&lt;br /&gt;
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The thumbs up of success (or anxiety)&lt;br /&gt;
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Emma and Choul&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Over there, I see the number of people around me and I was quite in awe. Plenty of people, from the beginners to the experts, young and old, were all fired up to go running. The sun was just showing its face but it was all hustle and bustle over here. I got a bit overwhelmed, especially looking at the obvious veterans, with their fit physique and professional gear. Choul even saw a couple of familiar faces from her school and university. I just said to my team that I apologise beforehand since I know I'm gonna take at least 2 hours to run 3km. It was a joke of course, but it cushions the blow if you ran slow hahaha.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Palace of Justice. Where it all begins.&lt;br /&gt;
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Finishing line which is also the Starting Line&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The participants were separated to 5 groups, labeled A to E, and each runner had to register themselves at their respective clearly labeled stations. I was the first runner, and team Decepticon (don't ask) was number 25. So, my number was 25A. Runners B, C, D and E will be transported to their stations scattered along the 15km route. Obviously, I didn't have to since I'm the first runner and I begin at the starting line. All I needed to do was run 3kms, and by the time I reach the other station, I have to pass the sash I'm wearing to Azwan, who's runner number two a.k.a 25B. Every runner runs 3km or so, passing the sash, and ends up back at the starting line to finish the race for the team. That's the concept of Ekiden, its a form of relay marathon. Instead of passing a baton, you pass a sash.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Sash&lt;br /&gt;
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Cops all set for the main event&lt;br /&gt;
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The starting line&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Seems easy and straight to the point. 3km is not that much, considering I run more at the park when I jog. Well, back when I used to. But the thing is, when I jog in the park, I don't jog in a competitive environment and I can take my own sweet time. The tip from Azwan was just to run or jog like I usually do and ignore the people who run fast at the starting line. Cool, I thought, that should be a piece of cake. It was around 7am by that time, and the race starts at 8am. I was already warming up. Heck, I warmed up with light stretches and jogging the whole hour, and since I sweat easily, its like I was in another marathon before the marathon even started hahaha.&lt;br /&gt;
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The organizer interviewing the runners&lt;br /&gt;
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Youth and Sports Minister, Shabery Cheek making an appearance&lt;br /&gt;
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All the runners were anxious to start the race&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A few minutes before the race, the Youth and Sports Minister, Shabery Cheek, made an appearance to greet the runners at the starting line. I only noticed one thing though. He was wearing the RM399 pair of Nike Lunarglides that I wanted, but then again, I'm no Youth and Sports Minister so I'm happy with the deal I got with my current shoes. The minister took some photos with the runners after that. The race was starting. I was nervous, of course, thats why I distracted myself by warming up.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Warming up so fast, I became a blur.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The pistol was fired at the air, signalling the start of the race. Sure enough, there were PLENTY of people bolting fast, away from the starting line. I kept it cool. Its ok, I just had to maintain my own pace so that I don't catch out of breath too soon. That's what I told myself, then I realised I was in second last place, seeing only one lady behind me. I had to move slightly faster! It was too late to catch up with the rest of the pack though, so I just had to wait for the early bolters to catch out of breath. In the end, I did manage to pass some runners, but compared to the others, I was still way back. I managed to reach there around 15-20 minutes, which is not too bad, for someone who isn't a veteran, and most importantly, for someone who just tried running in a marathon.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ekiden-20.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt; That's me enjoying my free hot dog, ignoring my surroundings&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/ekiden-22.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt; The cheerleaders drumming beats for the runners at the final stretch&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In the end, it was all good fun, healthy good fun that is. It wasn't that tiring, since it was 3km, I felt good, just felt that I could have done better for the team, but then again, I'm not a marathon runner! We were number 90 in the mixed group. I know I know, not a good number, I probably contributed to it heheh.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Oh well, maybe I should run more. I know I will, since I just got the Nike+ sensor, and my first run logged was not bad at all. I'll blog about Nike+ and iPod probably.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/yKU81kkKFeE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/yKU81kkKFeE/jogging-earthquake-and-ekiden-run-2009.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/10/jogging-earthquake-and-ekiden-run-2009.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-1037550635302179576</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-20T04:19:44.135+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Interesting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Events</category><title>Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri 2009 / Eid Mubarak 2009</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This post is dedicated to all my Muslim friends and visitors, Selamat Hari Raya (Eid Mubarak) and Maaf Zahir Batin to you. First and foremost, I would like to apologise for all the wrongs I've did, and for all the annoyance I've dished, to everyone, Muslim or non-Muslims. Thousand apologies! Secondly, I hope you have a blessed and joyful Aidilfitri with your loved ones. Thirdly, all of us are pretty impatient in jams, I know, I'm Malaysian, but please oh please be alert and careful while driving back to your hometown. There's enough road tragedies going around so lets not be part of the statistics.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/rayatart_jpg.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, I thought of putting in a quick Raya related sketch, so I did this to give you some food for thought (or tart, wow major punnage there). What do you think? Raya enough? Heheh.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This year's Hari Raya marks the first year I get to celebrate it with a wife by my side. I'm quite excited and flattered to have Choul with me, and can't wait to be celebrating Raya with her. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;An interesting coincidence happened earlier on, a friend gave me a Hari Raya greeting via Facebook attached with a graphic. What's funny is that its the Hari Raya graphic I did back in 2005. Big dejavu for me. What goes around comes around? Is that the right time to use this? I then googled "Selamat Hari Raya" and lo and behold, I see my illustration in the 2nd spot for suggested images. I'm quite flattered hahaha. Here's the illustration I'm talking about...&lt;br /&gt;
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Again, on behalf of me and my wife, Suliza a.ka Soulie, Selamat Hari Raya &amp;amp; Maaf Zahir Batin!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-1037550635302179576?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/Y3jIwCP8D0A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/Y3jIwCP8D0A/selamat-hari-raya-aidilfitri-2009-eid.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/09/selamat-hari-raya-aidilfitri-2009-eid.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-4625437023815290846</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-18T15:00:02.443+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cute</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Design</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Funny</category><title>DBH Halloweek 3 Contest Entry - Bam-Boo!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Firstly, sorry for the cross-post, I need all the votes I can get :D&lt;br /&gt;
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Hello again. I know I haven't updated much, so I'm making up for it with this contest entry. I would say its one of my best illustrations ever, not technically, but for its idea. Well, I'd like to think so. Its my 2nd attempt in DBH, but this time I designed it specifically for t-shirts, using the t-shirt dimensions as a canvas. Here's the design and placement on t-shirt,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/bamboo_tshirt.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Support my t-shirt design, vote for me &lt;a href="http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/63042"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Description:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="artist_description"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As you all may know, pandas eat bamboos. A lot of bamboos. What if the bamboo trees had souls, and decides to come back and haunt the pandas. This particular design illustrates how a bamboo can actually, be spooky and scare an unknowing panda.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Premise of the design is, the soul leaves the bamboo shell and goes around the back of the t-shirt, only to come back just beside the wearers neck to proceed with its devilish deed.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Here's a slightly closer look at my design,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/bamboo_illo.png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Support my t-shirt design, vote for me &lt;a href="http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/63042"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;If you like it, please support my design and vote for me &lt;a href="http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/63042"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;. I really hope I can get this printed because I myself want to try wearing it. Talk about self-promotion. Thanks for viewing and thanks in advance for voting!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;To all who have voted for me, I thank you too!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/szLNLLWejyM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/szLNLLWejyM/dbh-halloweek-3-contest-entry-bam-boo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/09/dbh-halloweek-3-contest-entry-bam-boo.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-5593079623244292239</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-14T06:22:14.552+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Events</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Activities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Travel</category><title>A Trip to Port Dickson - Part 2</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-34.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The chronicles of the crab hunter, more like. Crazy la, one month only comes out Part 2. Blame procrastination, will you? Cut me some slack hahaha.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Part 2 of the trip to Port Dickson is mainly about the crab pictures I snapped, but of course I'll insert some other interesting snippets about the rest of the journey (If I can still remember LOL). Anyway, back to the crab session (pun not intended). Hunting crabs was fun, they make for excellent photo subjects. Of course, I'm talking about the small fry crabs, not the typical crabs that you have for dinner in a seafood restaurant. Initially, I snapped pics of them on their homeground, the burrowed sand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img  src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-16.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;That's me waiting for crabs to come out and play&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
They're quite cute animals too, since they hide when you come close, but if you don't move they'll be like checking out the surroundings and walking, sideways, in parallel. Too cool. I had to stay still to snap them on the sand, else they'll be hiding in one of the several thousand burrows available there. On to the pics!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-12.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Well, what do we have here?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-13.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This crab was posing for the camera, pretty cool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-26.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Trying to blend with the sand. Not much camo going on there heheh.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-28.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Crabs running for their lives, from a mad cameraman.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-30.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;In a close-up, they look pretty scary.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img  src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-31.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ultra close-up. I love the textures on their shells.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
By then, I decided that I'll try and grab one crab to put on my hand for added awesomeness. Being small fry crabs, its easier to grab them on put your hands since they feel just like other insects on your palm (eg. beetles, ants, cockroaches) albeit hard-shelled. They're like plastic insects.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-14.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;My hand looks monstrous!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-15.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cute little bugger, this crab. I didn't grab the bigger orangey crabs though.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-32.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Trying to get away from my hands.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-33.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Looks comfortable. Maybe it wanted to be my ring.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And that ends the camera roll of crab pics. I could have snapped more, but I was sweating like crazy thanks to the spontaneous intense heat that came in a flash. We came across some shells too, and they look really beautiful, although they're pretty minuscule. I accidentally stepped on a bunch of these shells while trying to snap another bunch. Luckily the sand was soft, so no shells was hurt in this incident (hopefully).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img  src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-20.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Seaside shells. Minuscule but beautiful.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Oh, and we did snap a few pics of children playing at the beach. I think they were friends, or they could be brothers. Whatever it is, they were really enjoying the beach. How carefree. I feel old LOL.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-25.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Looks like he found oil. He's gonna be rich.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-24.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This duo were digging for something. Not sure what exactly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;After that, we rendezvous back at the house to grab some stuff to go to our other destination, PNB Ilham Resort. The place was empty, save for a few people. Its probably because its a Sunday and everyone's gone back. I never really had the opportunity to check out Ilham, even if I was pretty close by. The rooms were quite spacious. It has a living room, a kitchen, and two bedrooms if I recall correctly, which makes it a perfect place for a family getaway or gathering. I didn't grab too many pictures at Ilham. The pool looked quite nice, it was a shame I didn't have any other clothes, else I'd jump inside the pool to cool down! The balcony was connected straight to the pool section too. It couldn't be easier to access the poolside, oh well, my loss. Some pics below:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-38.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Choul posing with her nephews, niece and her young relatives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, there we have it, that's the end of my part 2, hope you guys and gals enjoy this blog post on the trip I made to Port Dickson. I got a headache now, and its pretty late! But at least I managed to post my part 2, eh Choul?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Over and out!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-5593079623244292239?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Thanks again to all the dropaholics. I appreciate it!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-4257879223445770165?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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News Flash, my dear Indonesians, Discovery gave an apology, and even displayed it on their channel, and our Culture Minister, Rais Yatim even sent an apology, for something that has nothing to do with the Malaysian government. And guess what, it was rejected by your emotional minister. It was so freaking clear that it was Discovery at fault, yet, your minister whom I couldn't be bothered with the name claims that it is still Malaysia's fault. Well done.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ok fine, you guys are patriotic, that's logical, that's natural. Sure. But where is your common sense? Is it really worth it going to the this war or words that could lead to violence if it isn't contained? Don't we have enough similarities that sometimes, we have things that may look the same but different? Don't we have enough of each of our people living in each other countries, helping each other's economy with the business that we share?&lt;br /&gt;
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Do you like war so much? Just to claim your Rasa Sayang, your Tari Pendet and other f***ing things that I don't even give a shit about? Please, claim it, take it, put it in your book of records or histories. Be proud of it. Patent it. F*** if I care. But what I care about is peace, and most importantly, COMMON SENSE you dumbasses.&lt;br /&gt;
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Just please stop ridiculous nonsense like this comment on my artwork:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;yeah, very similar with my country (indonesia)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;but please... don't stole my country culture such as reog ponorogo, angklung, and tari pendet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;But I like your drawing, I wish our country become peace&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I mean, seriously, I was like. Who's instigating who here? I don't know how or why this is related to my artwork. People like this really pisses me off.&lt;br /&gt;
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Oh and before I get shot down for attacking ALL Indonesians, no I'm not, I have nothing against Indonesians. But I'm pretty sure I'm pissed off with IGNORANT and MALINFORMED Indonesians who would kill for this cultural issue. Stop being so ignorant la for f***'s sake. Think of your actions, think of the impact it will create.&lt;br /&gt;
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I usually don't like anything to do with politics, I don't read them neither do I write about them. But this issue is getting out of hand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/nKwJlB7DyZw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/nKwJlB7DyZw/yours-is-yours-ours-is-ours-nobodys.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/09/yours-is-yours-ours-is-ours-nobodys.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-128117442273951390</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-17T16:12:12.713+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Shocking</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Contests</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Rant</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Videos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Funny</category><title>The Foldees Entry That Didn't Happen</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I guess this will be a boring unillustrated post. Just yesterday,  I was about to do one of my special habits, sending in my contest entries at the last minute, and this time its for &lt;a href="http://foldees.com/"&gt;Foldees.&lt;/a&gt; Well, its too bad really since I usually get ideas at the very last minute. So on Saturday I was sketching out my idea, that I obtained during the late evening. Its probably not a winner, but there's no harm creating more cards for my portfolio. By 5am, I said, no, I don't think I can make it, since I was already burnt out and sleepy, and besides I was supposed to visit my FIL and MIL's grave before Ramadhan. I decided to give up then and there and hit the sack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next morning, due to both of us waking up slightly later than intended, and some other circumstances, I had the chance to stay home and continue with the Foldees entry. I fired up my PC and started to continue doing my entry. And surprisingly, I was moving quite fast and I was positive that I can make it before 4 PM. Unfortunately, just before 3PM, a storm was brewing in the background. Thunder was roaring at the back, practically saying "Bow down before me and shut off your Internet and PC!". It was an "oh shit" moment for me, and only 1 hour to go, I just had to do the center of the card, which was meant to be simple anyway. I took out the phone cable from the modem, just to be safe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Choul was warning me that the lightnings were starting to be more frequent. I was about to transfer the files to my laptop but I wanted to do a quick drawing of the leg on my big monitor since its easier. As soon as I did that, I went to the laptop and grabbed the file from my PC so that I can continue on the laptop. Halfway thru the file transfer, a thunderous pop was heard, accompanied with the sound of broken pieces hitting the floor. Yup, something definitely exploded. The house instantly went into blackout. And there was definitely a scent of something burnt in my room. Thats it, no more Foldees for me. It was divine intervention that instantly forced me to quit entering this contest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon observing my PC desk, I was thankful to know that it wasn't my PC, monitor, tv or xbox that exploded. It wasn't my voltage regulator either, as I would have thought that would explode in a power surge. It wasn't my Astro decoder either since I always unplug my Astro when not using. It was the telephone line box (no idea what its called) and my ADSL modem filter. Both had a big burn mark accompanied by pieces of burnt plastic. Never have I experienced this type of lightning mayhem. All this for a late entry of Foldees. I wonder if thats a sign that maybe I should stop trying heheh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After the power was on again, I found out that my PC was not fully safe. Somehow the electric shock on the telephone box, which was just behind my pc, caused a USB port to die on my PC. My monitor's built in card reader, 4 port USB hub died as well. My monitor's DVI port is wacko too, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Its sad, really, since I use the hub and card reader on a daily basis. Around the house, I find that my mom's room had the worst attack, as the cables caught fire at the back of her TV system. There's a spot of burn mark on the floor. Alhamdulillah, the curtains weren't nearby. I shudder to think what would happen if there was. My bro's Astro decoder, home theatre set and TV were all victims, and this was WITH a lightning arrester. Apparently, it struck the Astro dish AND the telephone line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only highlight of the day (or night) was watching District 9, which couldn't be avoided since we've bought the tickets earlier online. Its a great action movie, very unique, captured like a documentary, slightly Cloverfield-ish. It doesn't have bells and whistles like all the other Hollywood blockbusters but I truly enjoyed it, especially when reaching the end of the movie. Its really something different. If you enjoy movies with aliens and/or action and/or sci-fi then watch it. Recommended at 8/10. Kudos to Peter Jackson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anyway, I'll end my pose with a totally random road safety ad I watched while waiting to claim the movie tix. Its funny yet serious. 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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/JF4QcVDRznE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/JF4QcVDRznE/foldees-entry-that-didnt-happen.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/08/foldees-entry-that-didnt-happen.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-9113369357839443874</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-12T02:46:10.182+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Entrecard</category><title>July Top Droppers</title><description>As promised, for the month of July I tracked my top EC droppers :) The 1st three gets 1000 EC, 500 EC and 250 EC respectively. Thank you very much for dropping in my humble blog!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SfvTSRqGF6I/AAAAAAAAAik/PthIOCbFCNo/s800/PictureToPeople.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.picturetopeople.org/blog/blog.html"&gt;Picture to People&lt;/a&gt;      (1000 EC)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SfvTmAeWRxI/AAAAAAAAAi0/TU2c18tZ3Fg/WOAFS.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mymariuca.com/"&gt;Wishing On A Falling Star&lt;/a&gt; (500 EC)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SfvU4rrC9VI/AAAAAAAAAj0/tSN-P3gvnrs/Lisgold.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lisgold.com/"&gt;Lisgold &lt;/a&gt;    (250 EC)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SoG6L9vF4fI/AAAAAAAAAnU/WCRTbBVm7Mk/s800/superficialgallery.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.superficialgallery.com/index.php"&gt;Superficial Gallery&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SoG6L3EFQ3I/AAAAAAAAAnY/wyFzOP6Lz_c/s800/danjhel.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dharkanjhel.com/"&gt;D Anjhel Scraps Of Life&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SljwWeUr3OI/AAAAAAAAAmc/VtwjjY2090E/s128/mumblings.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/"&gt;Mumblings&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SljwV8-nDcI/AAAAAAAAAmM/NH_L775uKk0/s128/meowdiaries.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.meowdiaries.com/"&gt;Meow Diaries&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SljwWA8ZSKI/AAAAAAAAAmY/xu08NhVtSGU/s128/spiff.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pacemanspiff.blogspot.com/"&gt;Spiff, The Spaceman&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SoG6MISGj1I/AAAAAAAAAnc/4zZ19Oh2Cac/s800/secondaryroads.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://k8ch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Secondary Roads&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SoG6MB7W3fI/AAAAAAAAAng/7BN_1xbVD7k/s800/speedroute88.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.speedroute88.com/"&gt;Speed Route88 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to drop again :D&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-9113369357839443874?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/Hw8kyysL5wA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/Hw8kyysL5wA/july-top-droppers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SfvTSRqGF6I/AAAAAAAAAik/PthIOCbFCNo/s72-c/PictureToPeople.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/08/july-top-droppers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-2363578593469582279</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-03T15:13:05.993+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Interesting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Videos</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Funny</category><title>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="405" width="500"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/00E_LVo_aTo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999&amp;amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/00E_LVo_aTo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999&amp;amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="405" width="500"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;You know the phrase, now watch it being demonstrated literally. Hahahah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The video amuses me even if it IS just a video of a quick brown fox jumping over a lazy dog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just thought I'd share :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-2363578593469582279?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/Tbc09jLj-Bg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/Tbc09jLj-Bg/quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-lazy-dog.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/08/quick-brown-fox-jumps-over-lazy-dog.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-8814645891873642832</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-03T03:13:14.853+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Events</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Activities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Travel</category><title>A Trip To Port Dickson - Part 1</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-10.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Early July, me and Choul took a day trip to Port Dickson (PD) to celebrate her bro-in-law's and nephew's birthday at a resort called Ilham. The resort is located at Tanjung Tuan, near a lighthouse and very close to Casa Rachado which is coincidentally, right beside the PLKN camp. I'm pretty used to staying in Casa Rachado since I've been there a number of times for training programmes held by the company I work for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;We didn't go straight to the resort, as we made a rendezvous at Choul's bro-in-law's parents' (phew) house which is located about 10-20 mins from the resort. All the family member's gathered there for a quick breakfast. I remember that it was a cool, breezy morning. Totally different from the PD I know, which is usually tan-talizing if you get what I mean. If you didn't, what I meant was that PD is usually really really hot and I'm talking about the weather.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" id="fullpost"&gt;Spot the crow. Choul took this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;After the quick breakfast, we lazed around in the house for a bit and decided to go take a look at the beach, since PD is all about the beaches. By that time it was approaching noon, and the cool breeze gradually changed into toasty breeze, which didn't help with our intention, to get great pictures of the beach. Why? because I should be an Eskimo because I sweat at the slightest sign of heat, and slippery hands do not work well with photoshoots, especially when you want to be emulate being a tripod.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-9.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-23.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" id="fullpost"&gt;The Photographers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;We eventually made our way on to the beach after finding a great spot to park the car. There were a number people out there, its the weekend after all, way less than what I expected though. Families and couples were having picnics and generally enjoying themselves, having a relaxing weekend I suppose. Some even brought their own mini-barbeque grill. That's what I call taking the extra mile to relax.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" id="fullpost"&gt;Choul took a great photo of me. Couldn't resist editing this. :D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-21.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" id="fullpost"&gt;Whatcha lookin' at?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-17.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Choul automatically becomes energetic when it comes to beaches.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;Armed with the G7 and 350D, we gleefully started taking pictures of ourselves as subjects, only to be haltered by a group of insects, much like a crossbreed of flies and bees, flying in a flurry towards me and particularly, Choul. I have no idea what attracted them, but with my excellent skills of deduction, I take it that they're attracted to sweetness, as Choul is quite sweet (aicehhhhh). The insects bothered us, but it didn't stop this couple from running away to another spot to take more pictures! It wasn't really THE most photogenic part of the beach, so as I walk pass the muddy beaches, I can't help but notice the number of crabs that are running around. Needless to say, it was crab photoshoot time for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-18.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Me, just being my typical annoying self&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-19.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" id="fullpost"&gt;That's what you get for traversing muddy beaches&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-11.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" id="fullpost"&gt;The Crab Hunter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, waiting for its prey.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;Since I'm already spamming you all with so many photos, please stay tuned for part 2 of this entry where you get to SEE the actual pics of the crab I took. Before I go, I leave you with a pic of a cute little ladybug that landed on my back. Great capture by Choul...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/PDouting-22.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cute eh? Til Part 2.&lt;br /&gt;To be continued&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-8814645891873642832?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/90Snv0hUIaw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/90Snv0hUIaw/trip-to-port-dickson-part-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/07/trip-to-port-dickson-part-1.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-8603785570993971988</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-12T14:28:07.128+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Entrecard</category><title>May Top Droppers</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I'm really sorry for month old entry, as I've been quite busy. That's one thing, the other thing I apologise for is that I didn't keep track of who's the top dropper for June, and therefore I must skip June's post. For May's top droppers, I'm giving 1000 ECs each for 1st and 2nd top dropper for compensation (LOL).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are the top 9 droppers for May:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SfvU5OYpOqI/AAAAAAAAAkM/j6Ks5Xx8pms/MPG.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mariucasperfume.com/"&gt;Mariuca's Perfume Gallery&lt;/a&gt; (1000 EC)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SljwWeUr3OI/AAAAAAAAAmc/VtwjjY2090E/s128/mumblings.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nessa-mumblings.com/"&gt;Mumblings&lt;/a&gt; (1000 EC)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SljwV8-nDcI/AAAAAAAAAmM/NH_L775uKk0/s128/meowdiaries.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.meowdiaries.com/"&gt;Meow Diaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SfvTmAeWRxI/AAAAAAAAAi0/TU2c18tZ3Fg/WOAFS.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mymariuca.com/"&gt;Wishing On A Falling Star&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SfvU4rrC9VI/AAAAAAAAAj0/tSN-P3gvnrs/Lisgold.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lisgold.com/"&gt;Lisgold&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SljwWA8ZSKI/AAAAAAAAAmY/xu08NhVtSGU/s128/spiff.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pacemanspiff.blogspot.com/"&gt;Spiff, The Spaceman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SfvTmJVpfAI/AAAAAAAAAis/S3YucmczbqU/MakesYouLaugh.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.makesyoulaugh.net/"&gt;MakesYouLaugh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SljwVzX5InI/AAAAAAAAAmQ/sIioSEFVu14/s128/bizboink.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bizboink.com/"&gt;Biz Boink&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_bP3mAWbRZZQ/SlmAdDOaVdI/AAAAAAAAAm4/h3bM5LivLi8/woodworker.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.isetehtud.pri.ee/blog/"&gt;Woodworker blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why nine? Well, I can't find one of the droppers while googling or searching Entrecard. Anyway, big thanks to everyone who has been dropping here. July's top dropper will be acknowledged hopefully :).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ciao!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-8603785570993971988?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/xdF5FmrMCx8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/xdF5FmrMCx8/may-top-droppers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/07/may-top-droppers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-7409704984649584971</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-11T12:59:35.710+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dining</category><title>Time to Dim Sum, Affordably</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Guy at the back looks like he's really enjoying himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Last week, Choul had an off-day, and she proposed to have dim sum at a place she knows in KL. Well, my experience with dim sum is easy, they're delicious and they're expensive. I've went to a restaurant in Mandarin Oriental and another one in Star Hill. Both are great, but I wasn't the one paying LOL. The place Choul recommended we had early lunch is Minmax, which she says is halal and affordable, perfect combo :D.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-12.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Not the best shot, but you should get a general idea of Minmax's ambience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I really don't know how to review food, as I'm a pretty tolerant guy when eating. I wouldn't know if the taste is off or not up to standards unless its extremely different (eg. chicken chop tasting like durian, or pizza tasting like chocolate, therefore I'll let the pictures do the talking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whats on the menu? Check out the snapshots of the menu:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we ate:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-10.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Honey-roasted Cashews of Utter Addiction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Steamed Har Kau&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Steamed Shark's Fin Dumpling&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-13.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Deep Fried Water Prawn Roll with Cheese&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-11.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Deep Fried Soft Crab Special&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pan Fried Shanghai Dumpling&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Pan Fried Rice Noodles with Shrimps in Soya Sauce&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-9.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Obligatory dips, soy and chilli sauce? Probably.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-14.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;What you see on the table&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So, did I make you hungry? I am extremely hungry after posting this entry with an empty stomach. Dang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yeah, I forgot, I should comment something about the food. Well, its actually quite good. I thought I'd like totally know the difference in quality but I couldn't tell, as I was enjoying myself. I order more fried dishes, and I regretted that since I just realised while eating that day that I prefer steamed dim sum dishes. The only dish I didn't like was the Deep Fried Soft Crab Special. To me, it tasted like I was eating bite-sized sea-flavoured pastry. Such a huge difference from Sushi King's Soft Crab sushi. Speaking about sushi, the prices resemble sushi restaurants, where they count per type of dish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/dimsum-5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ahhh, good times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Overall, its a good place to get affordable dim sum, and times of sudden cravings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-7409704984649584971?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/x-8DMgFB2rs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/x-8DMgFB2rs/time-for-dim-sum-affordably.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/07/time-for-dim-sum-affordably.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-6024320232031999387</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-08T20:41:37.651+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Events</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Activities</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Design</category><title>Urbanscapes 2009 - No tix, but still enjoyable</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Urbanscapes 2009 was the talk of the town. It was THE place to be if you're cool and hip (maybe slight sarcasm). All the creative people were meeting up here, displaying their arts, crafts and works, showcasing their talents and selling their products. And I didn't know about it, until Choul mentioned it to me and asked me to go there on the 27th. That was early June, so you know how eager she was. I was enthusiastic myself since I want to see what Malaysians have to offer, especially in the design arena.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="fullpost"&gt;Urbanscapes was hosted by KLue in KL Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) and it was way over there in Sentul. The last time I went to Sentul was to watch Nokia's Starlight Cinema, and even then, I was driven there, so I had no idea how to go there. Until Google Maps helped me. Thank god for that. I did get lost a bit but got back in the right track by asking directions from a taxicab driver in a hurry at a nearby petrol station. We planned to go earlier but we ended up arriving at the place around 6pm, as we had to attend a neighbour's wedding. Lucky for us though, as we heard after that the afternoon heat was intense that day. Some even felt the heat creep under their skin (eg. Rames).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We parked close to the entrance of KLPac, the first parking space we saw. I heard that there weren't lots of parking spaces available so I rushed to grab any space I see. Turns out, the place we parked was quite a walk from Urbanscapes. On the way, we stopped to see some "ruins" and we took the opportunity to do our own photoshoot there. There were other people taking pictures there too, since it was too cool to resist. There was even a band singing there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-14.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Next, we walked further inside to arrive at our intended destination, the X-Marketplace. Why X? Well that's because its sponsored by Celcom, and Celcom likes to X everything they organise in similar fashion to their product, X-Pak or X-Pac. I wouldn't know since I got the yellow guy to back me up at times of need (or not).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-20.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-21.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;What can I say, there were plenty of tents, inside them, small makeshift stores for the up and coming local designers and creatives to pimp out their works of art. Setting up the shop must have been a challenge as well, since you're in a contest of trying to be most eye-catching so that people stop over long enough to check out their products and perhaps have some people take photos of them (guilty as charged :P).  Lets just say, there were lots of tents as there were three different sections, well maybe, two and a half, since about half of them were food and beverage stalls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-22.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-23.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;What I didn't like was having alcohol served openly in the area. While I don't really care if people consume alcohol, this place was not suitable, in my opinion. Firstly, its an environment where the young and old can come and check out designs, not drunks and empty beer bottles, and secondly, I think I saw young, minor people in there drinking. Somehow it didn't feel right. Just my 2 cents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-5.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-9.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Next up, we went to check out the main hall where the aircond was godsend since I was sweating the evening away. There were some other stores and props, including a display of small fishes in colourful bowls and an artwork which resembles hundres of Slurpee cups mashed together. I have no idea what's the purpose but hey, whatever floats the design boat. I felt a bit out of place since we didn't have the armband to show that we have tix. Everyone had them except for us haha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-10.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-12.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-19.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We saw an LCD screen displaying a line of text. That made us curious and as we got closer to the screen, we found out that its a big tweet board. Whatever you tweet, as long as it includes the word "urbanscapes" will be displayed on the screen. Needless to say, I was there for quite awhile waiting for my tweet to show on it. Just fired up Opera on my mobile and tweeted. Choul tried it but unfortunately, her tweet was never showed. We even double and triple checked. Her tweet just didn't show on the screen. Poor her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-11.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-13.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-15.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we were heading back only to be awed by a group of firedancers showing off their fiery acrobatics. It was fun and all but what excited me was how this would like in camera if I tried that slow shutter speed technique. I had a fair number of shots and even with my shaky hands, I did get some cool pics. Then, we walked back to our car, which we then realise how far a walk it was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-16.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-17.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-18.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Overall, a pleasant experience, I always enjoy something new to check out. Thanks to Choul for pointing me in the direction of Urbanscapes 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/uscapes-7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-6024320232031999387?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/kYZUmzxxDe4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/kYZUmzxxDe4/urbanscapes-2009-no-tix-but-still.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/07/urbanscapes-2009-no-tix-but-still.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-7255989144317702070</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-29T00:03:51.855+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Music Monday</category><title>MM - The Real Thing - You To Me Are Everything</title><description>I never actually knew who sung this song, but I always enjoy listening to it whenever I hear it playing, and the lyrics are great too. That's why I dedicated it to Soul :) I'm sure most people will know about this song. If you don't, play it a few times, you'll know how the chorus will stick in your head. Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="500" height="405"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yT1iDKkZNYU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999&amp;amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yT1iDKkZNYU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;amp;color2=0x999999&amp;amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="405"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ladyjava.org/2008/09/music-monday-just-take-my-heart-when.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo122/LJMisc/MM.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Come join Music Monday and share your songs with us. One simple rule, leave &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ONLY&lt;/span&gt; the actual post link here. You can grab this code at &lt;a href="http://ladyjava.javaura.com/"&gt;LJL&lt;/a&gt; Please note these links are &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;STRICTLY&lt;/span&gt; for Music Monday participants only. All others will be deleted without prejudice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/links.php?owner=ladyjava&amp;postid=27Jun2009&amp;meme=1850"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/graphic.php?owner=ladyjava&amp;postid=27Jun2009&amp;meme=1850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-7255989144317702070?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/D0rsaP9OxDw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/D0rsaP9OxDw/mm-real-thing-you-to-me-are-everything.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/06/mm-real-thing-you-to-me-are-everything.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-8135898065315719202</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-28T23:41:45.140+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blogger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Events</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Milestones</category><title>Spontaneously 5 Years</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/bem69/blog/SI5YO.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time flies. Seriously. Just checked out my archives recently and I found out that today is the 5th birthday for Spontaneous Insignificancy. Officially, I opened this blog with a "hello" post in 2004. But I only really started posting in my blog in mid-2005. But hey, it doesn't matter. All that matter is that Spontaneous Insignificancy got me into the blogosphere in 2004. It wasn't called Spontaneous Insignicancy originally, but I can't for the life of me recall the original name. I think it was called Angst Sanctuary or something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lot have happened over 5 years, I've even changed my style of blogging as a sign of "maturing" so I don't rant as much, or curse as much, since I want to keep things clean here. My blog hasn't had the best traffic but it was a great place to just spontaneously write whatever I want to write about. I didn't really open up my blog to public so I didn't care about the traffic that much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently, I registered for Entrecard and that helped me gain a LOT of new friends that frequent my blog, and my traffic is better now. I still don't earn anything from this blog though, since my traffic is still "insignicant", but getting interaction and comments really make it all worth it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to all the readers, frequenters, friends and the EC droppers. Thanks for bringing life to this humble blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's see if I'll still be blogging in another 5 years to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy 5th Birthday, Spontaneous Insignificancy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-8135898065315719202?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/wP3haeKZjCM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/wP3haeKZjCM/spontaneously-5-years.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/06/spontaneously-5-years.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-530540031388572768</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-02T11:47:14.506+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Memes</category><title>We are the world! - Tagged by Emila and Marzie</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hey hey hey, its another tag for me, and this time its created by none other than Emila of &lt;a href="http://emilayusof.com/"&gt;Emila's Illustrated Blog&lt;/a&gt;. Objective of the tag is to gather as many bloggers into this so we can unite and introduce ourselves to each other! By the end of the tag, you tag as many people as you want. Thanks to &lt;a href="http://emilayusof.com/"&gt;Emila&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://mymariuca.com/"&gt;Marzie&lt;/a&gt; for tagging me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here goes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://emilayusof.com/?p=8021" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="we are the world dollies" src="http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq205/emilayusof/wearetheworlddollies.jpg" alt="we are the world dollies" height="250" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*Start Copy Here*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You do not have to be tagged to play along. The game is simple and so are the rules. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;1. Copy from *Start Copy Here* through *End Copy Here*&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;2. Add your site(s) to the list. Just be sure to post at each site you add.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;3. Tag as many bloggers as you like so the list keeps on growing.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;4. Let me know your blog’s name and url by leaving me a comment&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;a href="http://emilayusof.com/?p=8021"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I will add you to the master list.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;5. Come back and copy the master list back to your site, often. This process will allow late-comers to get as much link benefit as the first ones in.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We Are The World Bloggers Master List:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;1. &lt;a href="http://emilayusof.com/"&gt;Emila Yusof&lt;/a&gt; 2. &lt;a href="http://emilayusof.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Other Side of Emila&lt;/a&gt; 3. &lt;a href="http://www.mymariuca.com/"&gt;Mariuca&lt;/a&gt; 4. &lt;a href="http://www.mariucasperfume.com/"&gt;Mariuca’s Perfume Gallery&lt;/a&gt; 5. &lt;a href="http://meowdiaries.com/"&gt;Meow Diaries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://unlistedone.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;11. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://unlistedone.blogspot.com/"&gt;Unlisted One&lt;/a&gt; 7. &lt;a href="http://pacemanspiff.blogspot.com/"&gt;Spiff, the Spaceman&lt;/a&gt; 8. &lt;a href="http://nazshemah.com/"&gt;My Sweet Escape&lt;/a&gt; 9. &lt;a href="http://notanurul.blogspot.com/"&gt;Nota Nurul&lt;/a&gt; 10. &lt;a href="http://lifes-tapestry.blogspot.com/"&gt;Life’s Tapestry&lt;/a&gt; 11. &lt;a href="http://bem69.blogspot.com/"&gt;Spontaneous Insignificancy&lt;/a&gt; 12. &lt;a href="http://ladyjava.javaura.com/"&gt;LadyJava&lt;/a&gt; 13. &lt;a href="http://missigorota.blogspot.com/"&gt;Miss Igorota&lt;/a&gt; 14. &lt;a href="http://piperkingdom.blogspot.com/"&gt;AnnyBoo&lt;/a&gt; 15. &lt;a href="http://yoonsee.blogspot.com/"&gt;Yoon See&lt;/a&gt; 16. &lt;a href="http://jia-life.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jia’s Life&lt;/a&gt; 17.  &lt;a href="http://nessa-mumblings.com/"&gt;Nessa’s Mumblings&lt;/a&gt; 18. &lt;a href="http://alsomommy.blogspot.com/"&gt;Also Mommy &lt;/a&gt;19. &lt;a href="http://jangbokjae.com/"&gt;The Walk of Life&lt;/a&gt; 20.&lt;a href="http://prettyfirefly.com/"&gt;Pretty Firefly&lt;/a&gt; 21. &lt;a href="http://untouchableearth.blogspot.com/"&gt;Untouchable EARTH&lt;/a&gt; 22. &lt;a href="http://baterya.com/"&gt;Baterya&lt;/a&gt; 23. &lt;a href="http://comedyplus.blogspot.com/"&gt;Comedy Plus&lt;/a&gt; 24. &lt;a href="http://www.baincardin.com/"&gt;Bain Cardin&lt;/a&gt; 25. &lt;a href="http://nurulbalqis.blogspot.com/"&gt;Strawberry Milkshake &lt;/a&gt;26. &lt;a href="http://turn-u-off.blogspot.com/"&gt;Turn-U-Off&lt;/a&gt; 27. &lt;a href="http://jomhebohblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jom Heboh Di Sini&lt;/a&gt; 28. &lt;a href="http://notesbymarvic.blogspot.com/"&gt;Notes by Marvic&lt;/a&gt; 29. &lt;a href="http://mezblack.blogspot.com/"&gt;Memoir Mez&lt;/a&gt; 30.&lt;a href="http://origena.blogspot.com/"&gt;Origena&lt;/a&gt; 31.&lt;a href="http://walkingnewspaper.blogspot.com/"&gt;Walking Newspaper&lt;/a&gt; 32. &lt;a href="http://qilazam.blogspot.com/"&gt;Nurul Aqilah&lt;/a&gt; 33. &lt;a href="http://www.bluedreamer27.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bluedreamer&lt;/a&gt; 34. &lt;a href="http://www.breaking-the-boundaries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Breaking the Boundaries&lt;/a&gt; 35.You’re next&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*End Copy Here*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;There are just too many for me to tag, considering the magnitude of this tag. So, I invite ALL of my readers to join this meme and make this tag HUGE! And don't forget to constantly update your list so we all have our share of linky moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bloggers! Its time to let yourself go wild and tag EVERYONE! Go go go!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7460491-530540031388572768?l=bem69.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpontInsig/~4/zvZNtR1grqw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpontInsig/~3/zvZNtR1grqw/we-are-world-tagged-by-emila-and-marzie.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (bem69)</author><feedburner:origLink>http://bem69.blogspot.com/2009/06/we-are-world-tagged-by-emila-and-marzie.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460491.post-4833212662023447230</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-28T22:25:42.793+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Memes</category><title>Tag Bahasa Malaysia Yang Unggul</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;nother tag to complete and this time its from &lt;a href="http://nessa-mumblings.com/"&gt;Nessa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; and again I'm slightly late, but at least I'm doing it. To all the readers who read only in English, I apologise. Don't mind this entry since this tag is all about Bahasa Malaysia, the national Malaysian language. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baiklah, saya akan cuba menyiapkan peperiksaan Bahasa Malaysia ini.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mari menjawab soalan dalam Bahasa Malaysia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;! Yahuu!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;TAG 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Bekas kekasih saya adalah : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;digunakan untuk menyimpan barang-barang perhiasannya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya sedang mendengar : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;orang bercakap dalam cerita First of The Class yang sedang disiarkan di HBO.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Mungkin saya patut: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;tidur kerana sudah pukul 4 pagi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya suka : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;bergurau senda dengan isteri saya, Suliza, dimana dia pasti ketawa kerana saya sangat lucu. Betul. Tak tipu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Sahabat-sahabat baik saya :&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;selalu menolong saya pada saat-saat genting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya tak paham : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;walaupun anda paham.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya kehilangan :&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;wang berjumlah 20sen dibawah kerusi kereta saya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Ramai yang berkata : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;saya ini seorang yang mengelirukan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Makna nama saya : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;mengikut pencarian Google saya, adalah orang yang amat dihormati. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Cinta itu adalah : &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;satu perkataan dan bukan dua perkataan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Di suatu tempat, seseorang sedang : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;tidur kerana ia sudah pukul 4 pagi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya akan cuba : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;menjadi seorang jutawan melalui bisnes rekaciptanya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Ayat SELAMANYA membawa maksud : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;yang besar dalam siri berjudul, Bersama Selamanya, yang amat popular dalam komik Ujang.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Telefon bimbit saya : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;bukan Apple iPhone atau Nokia N97 tetapi kalau sesiapa nak beri saya antara satu daripada itu, percuma, saya terima dengan rela hati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Bila saya terjaga dari tidur : &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;saya akan mengeluarkan expresi muka yang menakjubkan, berdasarkan kata-kata isteri tersayang saya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya paling meluat apabila : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;orang bercakap besar dan berlagak riak.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Pesta/Parti adalah : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;kesukaan ramai kerana anda dapat bersukaria sambil berjoget kononnya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Haiwan yang paling comel yang saya pernah temui ialah : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Panda, walaupun saya tidak pernah bersemuka dengannya, tetapi ia tetap comel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Peringkat umur yang paling menyeronokkan bagi saya ialah : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;masa anda budak-budak dimana anda dapat buat apa-apa dengan riang ria tanpa halangan minda kecuali jeritan ibu bapa apabila saya terlalu nakal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Hari ini : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;saya akan cuba siapkan kerja rekacipta saya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Malam ini saya akan : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;tidur.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Esok pula saya akan : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;tidur pada waktu malam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya betul-betul inginkan :&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;tidur sekarang.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Ketika anda lihat wajah anda di hadapan cermin pagi ini : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;saya terkejut dengan ketampanan muka saya. Ha ha ha. Bergurau sahaja.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Pusat membeli-belah atau arked permainan : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Arked permainan, kerana saya memang minat bermain permainan video.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Makanan Barat atau Jepun : &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Makanan Jepun kerana saya suka sushi yang dicicah bersama wasabi. Oh indah rasanya sampai keluar airmata.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Bilik yang terang atau gelap: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;terang bila buat kerja, dan gelap bila tidur.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Makanan segera adalah : &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;tidak begitu elok untuk kesihatan tetapi saya makan juga. Begitulah kedegilan diri saya.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Ayat terakhir yang anda katakan pada seseorang? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jumpa lagi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;TAG2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Apakah perasaan anda sekarang? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mengantuk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya nak makan? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;tapi dah lambat nanti perut buncit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya tak suka? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;lagu dangdut.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Impian saya? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Menjadi seorang usahawan berjaya dan tidak mempunyai masalah kewangan selamanya. Dengan itu, dapatlah saya membeli kereta sport idaman saya, iaitu Lamborghini Murcielago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Haiwan yang saya tak suka? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lipas. Serangga kan haiwan juga.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya harapkan? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Saya dan keluarga saya murah rezeki.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Jika boleh putarkan masa? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Saya nak tidur pukul 12am tadi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya pada 10 tahun akan datang? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lelaki berjaya, dari segi kerjaya dan kekeluargaan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Handphone saya adalah sebuah? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;SonyEricsson K850i hitam dengan jalur perak.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saya pernah bercinta sebanyak? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mana yang anda boleh teka.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Kawan-kawan saya? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Adalah kawan-kawan sayalah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Pernah dikhianati? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hmm, mungkin tidak pernah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Apa yang hendak anda lakukan terhadap orang yang mengkhianati anda? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Putuskan apa-apa hubungan dengan orang itu. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Siapa yang anda nak Tag? &lt;a href="http://isoulde.blogspot.com/"&gt;Choul&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blisskat.blogspot.com/"&gt;Blisskat&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/milkberry.blogspot.com"&gt;Ikin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://stillwahdi.blogspot.com/"&gt;Wahdi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://mymariuca.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marzie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://nazshemah.com/"&gt;Shemah&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ladyjava.javaura.com/"&gt;LadyJava&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.phat-woman.com/"&gt;Debbs, Rizal&lt;/a&gt; dan sesiapa yang hendak mencuba kuasa penggunaan Bahasa Malaysianya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Sekian, terima kasih.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phew! 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