FFF

Dudes done english test and wanted to go out for a movie. LOL no need go into details.

Watched Fast and Furious 4. Not too bad actually. Personally preferred the first 3 installment. Guess I'll have to watch this again to appreciate the muscle in it.

O'Connor picked 3 GTRs and they only featured one R34. DAMN... Raced were nice though, but hated the involvement of nitrous. Damn put it down to skills lar...

Tunnel races were awesome.

Brought out the LX3 in my pocket. Quite pocketable, except the fact that the protruding lens keeps getting into the way when taking out and putting into the pocket. And strap isn't helping much either. Pull the wrong side and it'll get stuck in a horizontal position. LOL.


Urgh shaky hands ruined it again. Not that obvious from this size la. SOOC though.


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Look on the bright side, huh?

Not trying to sound emo, but heck that's one hellova few weeks after the break. So many things goin on, so many things will be going on and damn, so many things that will have to be taken care of.

Was doin revision today while blastin music thru my phone (not that often if you ask me, the phone blasting thing). Coincidentally I was thinkin about some stuff (ada je lah...) and the track 'Always Look On The Bright Side of Life' came up. Was like WTF LOL.



The video's supposed to be an irony of life and death.

Lookin on the bright side has never worked out for me. Perhaps coz the bright side rarely sided wit me? EMO!!! (calling myself emo is the only way to get me stop being an emo, I betcha')

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

If life seems jolly rotten
There's something you've forgotten
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps
Don't be silly chumps
Just purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing.

And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life...

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin
Enjoy it - it's your last chance anyhow.

So always look on the bright side of death
Just before you draw your terminal breath

Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.

And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...

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Ferrari/Maserati Showroom

Went to visit the Naza World showroom off Federal Highway after tuition wit dudes. Things we do on Saturdays... LOL. I'll let the pics to do talking.




First thing we saw was this F430. Gorgeous beauty.


Leather interiors. Utmost luzury.











Engine start button on the steering wheel.


Then came the Enzo Ferrari, with it's doors all opened up.





Look at the muscle this car has.





You know this car is fast when it says '240' at the halfway mark. Most cars would struggle to even hit 150...


Steering wheel. Power at your fingertips.





Tyre pressure instructions. Every detail counts towards the performance.


Is this wall-paper worthy?


Side view. Simply gorgeous. Ngam ngam fit into the frame only...


After a while the staff closed the doors and revealed it's on-road beauty.





Artistic attempt on the Ferrari word.


Ferrari's.


A little bit of a show-off, isn't it?


Upstairs is the Maserati showroom. Only a few cars there. This one is one GT racing car i think.



The people at the Ferrari/Maserati showroom were kind enough to let us take pics (well i asked la). The boss (i guess person in charge) even helped us take a groupie!

The same couldn't be said about the Naza World ppl. I mean it wasn't as if they dun let us take pics la, but they said we couldn't take pics openly (again i asked). So we had to curi-curi take pics. Didn't take much in that way.

I guess CK wasn't contented with the Lamborghini's in the showroom (a pathetic 2 only). MY said there's a Lambo showroom at Sunway. Guess we're dropping by there sometime in the future.

Was supposed to see the Nissan GTR R35 there. But looked around the whole showroom also dun have. Mana tau after asking the staff said it was transferred to TTDI branch this morning. WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
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More Soong Kee

Went to Soong Kee again. Dudes haven't had lunch coz we rushed to KL for tuition, only to be slowed down by a massive traffic jam. Well it's crawling la... And we reached the tuition place wit 1 hour left. LOL.

Hrmm... One of the few portrait shots I make. Need to make more of them.

The first thing you see on the tables is this beer glass of chilli paste. Never liked adding sauses to my food so I dunno wut it tastes like. Ask MY la. He 'drinks' it.

Then the noodles came. The unmistakable aroma of nicely cooked minced beef makes you salivate 3 feet long (chinese proverb, in case yer wondering).

The beefballs are so succulent it brings back the memories of watching '食神' wit the 'pissing beefballs'. Eating them after anhilating the noodles is just as satisfying.

Before

After. The soup actually tastes better to me after I've finished everything.

I guess the 2 recurring food on this blog is going to be the Soong Kee beefnoodles and the Old Lim currypuffs. Damn they are so good they are like the only food we eat in when we go down.

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So this Earth Hour thingy...

Initially I wasn't sold to the idea of turning off the lights. Yes I know it seems absurd that for someone like me wouldn't be sold the idea. Yea. I thought that turning off the lights wouldn't mean a thing. Yes it means you 'Voted Earth' but then what have you done to 'support Earth'? It's like voting for PR and keep quiet when you're asked to bribe. No point.

Well then my mum saw the ad and asked wanna join or not. Of coz when the parent asked den you say yes la. Takkan say no when they are showing effort?

Come 8.30pm and I prepared to take a walk wit my cam snapping the darkness.

Well my living room was dark, that's a good thing.

But where were my parents? LOL they went out to some place for dinner.

Ok no prob for me. Turned off the computer and everything else in my room. Hooked up the tripod to the cam and went out. It was just hitting 8.30 and lights are still on at the nearby 'temple' and community hall. Mamak stall seemed bright. Went to look for an indicator:

Before (during E.H, to be exact)

You might wanna check out the 'after' pics in the later part of the post.

Another during pic. At first only my home was dark. Second time i walked past it was dark. Well at least the ones you see in the pics are. (screwed up WB. Damn... Worst part is I was shooting in JPG)

One thing that disappoints me is that people are actually driving out to escape from the heat of turning off their fan and stuff.

What difference are you making when you turn off your lights to 'conserve energy and reduce CO2 emissions' but drive out? Mind you these are houses that are blacked out. The CO2 you pump into the air is more than the CO2 you offset in that 1 hour. Mother Earth is gonna thank you for that.

And I see more and more cars leaving their blacked-out houses deeper into 'Earth Hour'.

Get the message straight. Convince the government to invest in renewable energy. It's a whole field, a whole economy by its own. In this economical downturn, the field of renewable energy actually creates jobs.

Enough of those stuff. You can know more from wiki and Al Gore.

Another thing is the way companies are promoting it.


Look at the menu for a dinner organised by a local company. Zoom in on 'organic salmon'. No matter how organic the salmon is, flying it across the pacific ocean juz to get it on someone's plate is just as green as turning off your lights and driving out. If wanna be green, BE green. Dun say that the dinner has it's lights off and entertains you wit acoustic instrument that it's green. Unless that salmon is caught on our country's shores. Than it's a diff story.

And yes, my camera is probably charged by fossil-fuel derived electricity. I could've ran on a hamsterwheel to generate electricity for it though. LOL.

Hrmm... Let's end this post fast, shall we? Some 'after' pics:

See any difference? Screwed up the WB for this as well. Beyond repair.

Saddest part of the whole hour is that as soon as it strikes 9.30pm, my parents reached home. And in a minute all the lights in the house were lit, along wit a shout of 'EARTH HOUR IS OVER'. No doubt I felt embarrassed by that. It's like they feel liberated by the forces of nature and are now re-conquering nature. *Did I juz sounded like a hippie in that last sentence?* LOL I dunno, never had the idea of preaching to my parents. I tried to ask my mom to segregate her rubbish, she did it for one day, and forgot about it the next. LOL.

And the place they went didn't turn off their lights. So much for suggesting the idea of turning lights off.

A pic I took during the walk:

Unknown significance. Juz felt like posting. 8 seconds exposure though.

So how many dinosaurs did you save from flying into the air yesterday night?

Oh yea, pics were taken wit the LX3 but felt that it wasn't worth the space on my flickr. Badly taken, aren't they?

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Old style tidbits/biscuit store

Pics taken on the same day as the previous post.


Pork knuckles w/ rice. Damn tasty! But not for the health-conscious. *insert bad stuff* will shoot thru the roof.


Gramdma doin wut she does for the last 50+ years, sellin biscuits.


Rack of chocolate-coated wafers in red packaging.


Retrieving containers of biscuits.

Seriously, it's rare to see shops selling tidbits/biscuits like this anymore. Most of them are self-service style in supermarkets. Even that also the variety is not a lot.

Dunno wut will happen to the store when my grandparents decide to retire. Currently no plans to do so though.

Muz be reading too much DannyChoo.com. Too much one-liners in recent posts.

Hrmm... Everytime there's something bothering me, I wished I had my cam wit me. The surroudings seemed so beautiful. Le Chatelier's principle applying to life? When you're sober or down, nature tries to lighten you up by making it look beautiful.

Damn... It's like Torro Rosso trying to win Ferrari. Ferrari is destined to win no matter wut. Unless Ferrari screws up, or else Torro Rosso has got no chance of winning, of which was proven when Sebastien Vettel did win a GP when Ferrari screwed up. Wut are the chances man...
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Qing Ming

Went Qing Ming ler. Did it earlier than everyone coz grandma passed away last year. According to customs need to do earlier this year.



Heard from friend the F2.0 of a P&S is no where near the F2.0 of a DSLR in terms of the blurring effect. The physical size of the aperture, I guess?



Is there's a 'lifeless-ness' feel to the pic? Dried plant is the foreground for a grave-visiting ceremony.



This one really tried to have a lifelessness feel coz it's a frame of dried plants.



Check out this ant. There are other smaller ants beside it. The tankers of the colony? DAMN big ok?



Burning incenses. Dunno how to capture smokes ler.

C&C please~~
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The Portugese Kenny Rogers'

Went to Nando's the other day, mom's treat. I mean, it's juz dinner la. First time woi. Thought got wat so special. Mana tau it's juz a Kenny Rogers repackaged.


Tried the Lemon and Herb seasoning. LOL at the flag thingy.

WTF la, right?

As usual dun wanna get conned into getting a 6 dollar bottomless soft drink. Hey you pay 6 bucks and wan to drink how many rounds? You drink 1 cup you also full until wanna explode already la. 6 bucks. Gila ka? That's why I always order plain water. Most of the time it's FOC

But not in Nando's.

I ordered 'plain water', and they gave me this:

I thought their 'plain water' got so good come to you bottled, but no, you can find it in the menu for Rm3.80. And it's not called 'plain water', it comes w/ a fancy name called 'Peri Aid'. Wut's so special about 'Peri Aid - beat the heat'?


It comes from an underground source in Kedah. Did it beat the heat? Drink a real plain water and the effects are the same.

Mom ordered something else:

Some naan break brushed w/ butter. Not bad la, but quite plain and bland. Did I juz contradicted my own statement within one statement?

Lesson learnt. Always ask if you need to pay for that plain 'plain water' before confirming your order. Better still, drink something else.
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