And now, for number four. Guess That Trashcan!
The first person to answer correctly will be pimped in my next blog entry, with at least one paragraph. It’s practically a free and easy pimping.
Of course, if you want a more elaborate pimping, complete with custom-designed blog header and pimpage, you could always go join smashpOp‘s contest.
And now, in continuation to Motorshow Pictures Part 1, from the KL International Motorshow 2006 at Putra World Trade Center.
This time around, old cars, like this Porsche-headlight-like Jaguar.
Jaguar V12. Rawr.
And for more Jaguars…
…and Jaguars.
Crank it up, Morris Garages!
This MG might be missing a few parts.
A car named Rover. Woof.
Motorcycles. Go doggie chase them!
Aston Martin from the front.
Even the back is sexy.
That is a Rolls Royce, boys.
Mercedes Benz, super wide.
I was hoping to see a Thunderbird, or a retro pony car/muscle car at least. Ah well.
Today, I braved my fears.
I took the test.
I now knew for sure my fate.
I was once at high risk of getting diabetes. The doctor told me to drink plenty of water, ask for kurang manis (less sweetened) drinks, and to come back in a week to check my blood sugar levels again.
I did not come back.
I was scared.
However, I did resolve to reduce my sweet, sweet blood (kinda explains why I attract mosquitoes!)
Original Coca-Cola was my enemy.
Today, a Coca-Cola fan dragged me to a clinic. I did the test. One finger prick. 4.8. In the safe zone. Normal blood sugar levels on an empty stomach.
Normal blood sugar levels.
A prick for freedom!
I felt like a free man. I was normal, without any debilitating health problems!
Ah, good old friend, the one who has accompanied me many mornings. Teh Tarik. Tea with condensed milk.
I still think Coca-Cola is too sweet; it feels like drinking liquid sugar.
Anyone up for candy floss, chocolate fondue or lemon cheesecake?
It’s that time of the year again, for the big, chaotic walkabout gig that is known as the Fete De La Musique!
As always, I’m going, to catch some musical acts while bumping into people from the scene. (It’s not so much about the acts, really, because the Fete has always been chaotic, with timetables being shuffled around, performers coming to empty stages with no sound systems, etc.)
This year around, it’s not around Bintang Walk.
What: Fete De La Musique 2006 (at Alliance Francaise)
Who: Heaps of bands; opera, heavy metal, jazz, acoustic, African reggae; Y2K, Xcited Screamers, Triple6Poser, Sei Hon, Broken Scar, Dragon Red, Imam, Peter Brown, 2 Sides Of The Story, Brainhead, Troubagangers, Ning Baizura, etc.
Where: The Alliance Francaise, 15, Jalan Gurney, left off Jalan Semarak which is left off Jalan Tun Razak (coming from the North)
How much: Free again; just stand around.
When: 11am to 11pm, 17th June 2006
I hear that there may be uh… samplings of liquified fermented fruits and plants of the fine variety, but don’t get your hopes up.
Also:
What: Fete De La Musique 2006 (at Bangsar)
Who: Heaps of bands; Vespertine, Frequency Cannon, One Buck Short, Soft Touch
Where: Jalan Telawi, Bangsar and The Outback, Bangsar
How much: Free! Just stand around.
When: 5pm to midnight, 17th June 2006
I’ll be at the Alliance Francaise first, and hitch a ride with whoever’s up for hopping over to Bangsar.
I also blogged about the previous events:
Fete De La Musique 2005
Fete De La Musique 2004
(I don’t think I blogged about Fete De La Musique 2003)
Portions of this blog entry have been shamelessly ripped off the Lemang newsletter.
So I went to the KL International Motorshow 2006 at Putra World Trade Center, and as usual I took loads of pictures.
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And now, for the luxury cars.
Man, if this came in white, I’d drive it while wearing a storm trooper suit.
Lamborghini Gallardo.
This looks like something Maskman or those Japanese masked superhero shows would ride.
Dig the Ducati…
…and the mini Modenas.
Ford has seriously chunky SUVs…
…that are still able to retain sexiness.
I was really looking forward to seeing a lot more variation; I hoped to see American muscle cars, like the Ford Mustang GT, but found none. 🙁 Also, a Toyota Scion xB (a hugely popular modded pimping vehicle in the US) would be nice. They didn’t have Subaru; how odd, since Imprezas were quite staple car show material. Or maybe I just wanted to see the Transformer Alternators that I had in real life.
Ah, who does not remember crossing the road from Berjaya Times Square to… the rest of Bintang Walk?
Sure, there’s the monorail bridge, but who’d walk up there?
We’d cross the road, braving the speeding jammed up cars.
Then they built fences in the middle, under the monorail.
Of course, there was always a hole; in front of Imbi Plaza, there was a gap between a pillar and fence, where we’d see people professionally walk sideways through and continue their mad dash. A slightly bigger gap could be found down the road.
All this changed, however, when I suppose, one day the big guys at Berjaya built another pedestrian bridge.
Awesomeness. Perfect to attract the crowds were escalators, and it led right into Berjaya Times Square where the elevators were. It was even air-conditioned! There were iron curtains, to signify shoplots. Smart business decision, this.
Now this is for people who have been tormented by York ceiling-mounted air-conditioning units. If you’ve ever froze in an office, you’d look up and see a York. In fact, you’d only see York as far as ceiling air-cond units went. Heck, you could probably smell York. So when I saw this, a different brand, I was overjoyed. It also smelt different, and very nice. Very nice and fresh.
Did anything happen on 06–06–06? Y’know, 6th June 2006?
Yes, the devil stole the soul of my unknown brand 17″ CRT monitor.
Before this, it was either a normal screen, frequently shrinking to the bottom half (in this picture, it shrinks to the top half). I had to rock the monitor upwards and apply pressure to get the power cable to be tilted correctly.
Violence is not recommended.
Don’t worry, I still have an extra monitor, my good old Samsung Syncmaster 750s. Screw LCDs, for the price and gamer satisfaction, I’d need to pay to get above 1280×1024 resolution, I could get a new 19″ CRT or 4 refurbished 21″ CRTs arranged in a square, totalling 42″ in size. :O
And now, for pictures from the Moonshine gig, 1st of June 2006.
A fountain in between The Curve and the newly opened Cineleisure.
The inside of Cineleisure goes on and on in vivid colors.
The cinema floor!
I imagine a senator from Star Wars addressing the Senate here.
Damansara Cineleisure. The only occupant at the moment being Cathay Cinemas, sadly.
Fazri, Yi Jian and I ended up meeting Paul and stim-girl at Thai Express, where I had yellow curry rice. Or was it rice with yellow curry?
Fast-forward to the huge Laundry Bar, with rock and roll band Qings & Kueens starting the set. Left to right: girl thinking, “ooo cute geeky guitarist“, cute geeky guitarist, expressionful vocalist and bass player bowing.
The sound console.
Mia Palencia (usually of jazz/blues/soul acoustic duo Double Take), plays guitar! I’d never seen her play guitar, and she was good on it, playing the blues, accompanied by Zalila Lee on guitar and Hardesh Singh on percussion.
I don’t like the colored lighting near the fountain; it makes it look less like a mafia family house (right-side picture).
When I came back from the search for the loo, Couple was playing, with Hana of Lucy In The Loo on guitar.
Look ma, I can play my guitar upside-down!
More distractions! Like these lights.
Reza Salleh faces the crowd.
I seriously wonder where all these people came from. I could not imagine all these people fitting in No Black Tie or La Bodega KL! And these aren’t strangers either; I recognized a lot of them! Maybe this gig was coincidentally when they would all come.
Stephanie drums the beat to Reza’s songs.
Hanafi of Estranged and Melina of Tempered Mental play guitar and bass respectively, and Reza now has a rock band!
Ywenna of Rhapsody is too famous. See? She’s overexposed.
Rhapsody gets funkier in this lineup. Left to right: Ywenna, Nicole and featuring Kevin the bass player of Qings & Kueens. Jimmy of Tempered Mental is further to the right, beyond the picture, playing drums.
Xfresh TV Season 4 hosts are first up on open mike, singing a cover of Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive. It’s the finale so they aren’t going to be voted out.
Broken Scar appears solo after a long time. There is something about his acoustic guitar and him that just sounds more like the way I’m used to hearing the songs played back in my head.
Some dude; I did not catch his name.
Lezel (Khai-Lee‘s friend) sings well, with haunting melodies.
Sad Angry Babies with ballads.
Plush Velvet. At this point I managed to secure a ride so uh yeah, no pictures of the next band, Estrella, or whoever came after that.
Happy (belated) birthday Nazrul! On the road leading to Hartamas we saw this:
And now, for random reviews:
The Fastest Clock In The Universe
Gavin Yap stars as a shirtless, brooding, smoking drinking 30-year old who celebrates each birthday as if he was 19. Paedophilia, homosexuality, all the roles you girls wanted to see him in, including shirtless, are in! No holds barred, none of the self-censorship you’d expect.
…for the guys, it has an interesting storyline, too, especially the second half. Loads of fun; the last time I saw Ari Ratos was in Julius Caesar, and everyone was dead serious (and eventually dead) but he played comic relief here. A lot more straightforward than The Homecoming, too, and perhaps more appealing for those who don’t wish to read too deeply into the play.
I wish I took a sneak picture of Gavin’s worked-out-abs-and-pectorals (as opposed to my I’m-skinny-that’s-how-I-got-abs) to further encourage ticket sales to the show. In the meantime Jasiminne has an artist’s impression of him.
The show runs until the 11th of June 2006. Details here.
Walk The Line
Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny Cash in this love story. I was hoping to geek out more, musically (and guitar-geekly, though the only cringes are when they spin double-basses like they’re cheap) but I found myself attracted to the cinematography. I especially dig how, when they shift manual focus from one character to another, the lens moves slightly too (quite like an SLR’s, making it seem like I was watching the movie through one). Asyraf what do you call that effect? Also, every scene is brightly lit; every face is always lit, sometimes artificially bright to produce clean, sharp faces.
…so I was expecting a rock show but got a love story instead. A rather draggy one, like Brokeback Mountain.
Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster (the documentary)
…so I expected the making of the album, but I got emotional drama, with the interesting psychological play between funnyman Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield. At least they had enough bits to geek out at, and the second DVD with extra scenes have hilarious scenes, like when Swiss Beatz come in with Ja Rule to steal some Metallica riffs.
Very fun, very confrontational, engaging, and makes you want to communicate.
Sin City
It’s always more fun to watch a movie without getting a clue what it’s about. Fantastic colorization or lack thereof. Four stories melded together.
Kevin (played by Elijah Wood) was the stuff of nightmares. Yeah, the stuff of my nightmares. A bespectacled geek with glowing glasses, a preppy sweater, and lightning reflexes.
…kinda explains why I am not a fan of Harry Potter.
Failure To Launch
Whoa, this was way back, so all I remember was that Sarah Jessica Parker is horribly botox-ed. She looks a lot like Jennifer Aniston, except Jennifer doesn’t have those fake sculpted cheeks.
And now, for some randomness!
I met Paul Tan at the Moonshine gig at Laundry Bar, The Curve, and he was sporting a kickass goatee which ran all the way thickly up to his ears. I regret not taking a picture of it then, but I stole a picture from Sherve anyway. 😀 This is a rare picture indeed for he rarely smiles, even with bottled objects of his affection.
To celebrate the new links I am adding, I shall also try to throw in a paragraph.
Raymond was just a Gundam modeller before he bought a Canon Powershot A610, and suddenly he found his true calling in life – he was the macro man. That’s right, macro man. Man, you gotta see what macro man can do with macro. I sure as heck didn’t think of those, and my camera’s 5 cm macro range stops me from being anywhere close to macro man. And hey, he’s not shooting flowers flowers flowers!
Lainie is the coolest lesbian ever. Makes you wanna be one just because she’s cool. She’s got her eye on events that are revelant to making you sound relevant. No idea what to blog about? Just hop over, go to one of the many gigs she promotes, take some pictures and viola! You are credibly cultured. And uh, don’t believe her disclaimers that her information is inaccurate – has anybody came a day early or late due to her site?
While Cheng Sim switches colors every two paragraphs, she manages to do so without hurting my eyes. Yes, Jolene, I didn’t read your blog for years because of your chameleon-like text syndrome. Thank goodness somebody knocked you on your head with… I don’t know what, but it sure as heck worked, and I’d like to buy one so I can knock some bloggers on the head with it too.
Jasiminne is a good return to camwhoring, similiar to the way it was in 1999. Remember envy.nu? All the mysterious webcam shots of yore, with bra in frame? The emo poetry when Glassjaw was emocore? The Paint Shop Pro users? Livejournal usernames like xxredvixenxx (you gotta have xx on both sides.) Girls invented some 1337speak too. <3 Fast-forward to now, and we have a endangered species. Bodicea is sharp and slays philosophers. She had allure and mysteriousness in those pictures (you ain’t fooling me, I met you in real life first!)
Matthew comments enough on my blog. And look at his picture! He has a face mask! Isn’t that like Counter-Strike? Man, oh man! Counter-Strike was like, 2000 man! Yes, I am a sucker for all things nostalgic.
Slinky is uh… slinky. Tan Yee Hou blogs with a touch of scientific geekiness, which I miss reading, in this mainstream age where everyone is trying to be the next Kenny Sia. Hell, I read my archives to be reminded of how much more geekier I used to write!
Fird has an interesting layout and good solid geek-styleposts. While he does have an interestingly-placed spot for ads, his site does not have the horrid clutter of ads and links and comment lists that befall eager beavers on WordPress.
Bernard sat next to me for one whole year in Secondary School, and I’d like to thank him for further cultivating the geek in me. We made a website called Certified Maniacs, and called it our geeky way of geeking chicks. I mean, uh, getting chicks. 6 years later, we meet again, him still the skinny fart, me still the skinny fart, and we geeked out about cameras.
Asyraf Lee is a professional photographer, with some reckoning on the dark side, and some knowledge beyond the visible light spectrum. 😉 Peek in his archives for an interesting wordy read.
Finally, uh… Steph has amazing skills and trashes everyone at spotting trashcans.