Wednesday 25 March 2009

My Five Days MINI Birthday Celebration

Last Friday, 20 March was my birthday. Celebration-wise, nothing special really, spent the night with Alarm, Timo and Pris eating steamboat in Klang and Thye joined us for mamak later.

But March is a magical month. For work purpose, I was given a red with white top MINI Cooper for the weekend. The task was to lomograph the MINI in Putrajaya on Saturday, in conjunction with Malaysia first Hot Air Balloon Competition.

So obviously on Friday night, we went steamboat with the MINI. Ha ha.

For the task and to reward myself, on Saturday before the shoot in Putrajaya, I bought the Fisheye 2 Chrome edition in Mooks, the Gardens :D

The shoot in Putrajaya will be covered in another post. There was too much to tell.

At night, I went to the Negative Effect Promo Video Screening at NZX.



Watch it in HQ! Or visit the Facebook page, somehow it loads faster there.

The instant cam shown during the first minute was exactly the Lo-Fi one I used in Taipei, you can even spot me ‘begging’ for it in the video. LOL. I have a total of 2 seconds screen time without dialogue.

On Sunday, met up with a few lomographers in IKEA again and did a few more shoots in Shah Alam with the MINI. At night, Nico, Fuzz, Zoe and I hung out at Changkat Bukit Bintang to celebrate Zoe and my birthday.

The waitress gave us massage voucher worth RM200! Yippee~

My birthday wish? Learn how to enjoy my work, and plan it to be enjoyable. LOL.

On Monday, I returned the car to Cyberjaya and while on my way back to office, my Proton Saga's tyre was ripped off, literally. I have no idea how it happened, and how I survived it without crashing or skidding my car. As I stepped down from the car, a MEX's patrol truck pulled over and changed the tyre for me. Some luck I had.

The story didn’t end on Monday after I returned the car. More precious MINI experience ahead and that will be blogged separately too~

Saturday 7 March 2009

学画画

最近的周末都过得很宅,不外是看书看戏看电视。尤其是DVD,一个周末可以窝在床上看5片,然后晚上再去泡电影院。书也消化得很快。台湾买回来的九把刀,爱玉冰送的Black Swan Green,自己买的Beedle The Bard。

就只是部落格写得不够勤快。哈哈。别怪我啦,难道要我写今天九把刀读到第几页这种这么低能的题材吗?

九把刀和Black Swan Green无独有偶,题材皆环绕着成长时的故事。经常会挑起我小时候的记忆。

我七岁那年,记得有一天妈妈天还没亮就叫我起身。妈妈说要送我去学画画。哇,学画画,我要当画家了,好兴奋哦!忘了是搭巴士还是爸爸载,总之我背着书包,拿着画纸出现在教师办公室。

七岁时我才刚上一年级。下午班。一大早八点不到出现在教师办公室是很奇怪的事。因为那天根本就没有画画班(这是长大以后才发现的,画画班是星期六的课外活动)。

怎么办?总不能让我独个儿在校园闲晃。我才七岁也!

我被带到了一间很小很小的课室。课室很暗,只有从窗外照射进来的阳光。一名女老师给了我一张图让我跟着画。苯苯的我很听话地照做。我很努力地画。画啊画啊画啊。

我的小脑袋在想:“怎么只有我一个?这一定是特别画画班!哇,老师一定觉得我很厉害!”

老师看我那么乖,不会乱跑乱叫,就去给其他同学上课了。她后来成为我五年级时的英文老师,可惜没问他认不认得我。

我很笨地从八点画到十二点。间中老师会来看看我。我会很兴奋地让她看我的杰作。十二点时,下午班的同学陆续来上学,我被带到食堂去归队,结束疯狂的四小时画画。

那天上课时我还向隔壁的炫耀我今早上特别画画班呢!

后来一段很长的时间我都不明白那天到底是怎么一回事。因为之后的画画班有很多人,我也持续学到三年级。

而且现在想起来,那间很小很小的课室好像是贩卖部。