{"id":1564,"date":"2011-11-07T06:17:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T06:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2011-11-07T06:17:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T06:17:31","slug":"urbanscapes-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"Urbanscapes 2011!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n16th July 2011: Urbanscapes 2011, down at Padang Astaka!<\/p>\n


\nBumped into ex-colleague Sook Rong…<\/p>\n


\n…and her friend. Ultra-wide perspectives from the Sigma 12-24mm F4.5-5.6 EX DG on the full-frame Sony Alpha 900.<\/p>\n


\nThis makes for real easy camwhoring…<\/p>\n


\n…and random grab shots.<\/p>\n


\nIt was muddy all over. Reza Salleh smartly came in boots!<\/p>\n


\nJon YKT<\/a>, from the back!<\/p>\n


\nLiyana Fizi<\/b>, from the front!<\/p>\n


\nThe weather was nice for a picnic.<\/p>\n


\nDeejays.<\/p>\n


\nWater-conducted beats.<\/p>\n


\nMore deco for Publika, a new, very artsy shopping mall in Solaris Dutamas.<\/p>\n


\nCable rolls have a second life.<\/p>\n


\nThe sun was unrelenting.<\/p>\n


\nSheena! She was spitting rhymes and spoken word. First time I’d seen her do this!<\/p>\n


\nNearby, you could register to vote. Which you should, anyway.<\/p>\n


\nThe original Polaroid SX-70?<\/p>\n


\nOne of the few air-conditioned places. This was notably different from KL Performing Arts Center, where you could retreat into the air-conditioned halls and freshen up in the toilets. Instead, at Padang Astaka, we got portable toilets, nowhere as comfortable.<\/p>\n


\nReza Salleh performing on stage!<\/p>\n


\nPerhaps, suntan tattoos are in.<\/p>\n


\nThe Moonshine booth.<\/p>\n


\nA collection of Moonshine posters.<\/p>\n


\nMalaysian records, sold at the Moonshine booth.<\/p>\n


\nGraffiti artists and fans.<\/p>\n


\nSo yeah I was saying, picnic…<\/p>\n


\nWhich, ironically, Guitar Hero was not. I played against two different people in two different booths, at Hard difficulty.<\/p>\n

Now I admit that I do play Expert difficulty most of the time except for extremely technical metal songs… so I was expecting to win both rounds. Instead, I found myself neck-to-neck with my contenders, often trading first and second place! (I ultimately lost both.)<\/p>\n

This made me happy somewhat, to know that the level of Guitar Hero-ship has greatly improved.<\/p>\n


\nSheena, one such secret champion. She admitted to playing Expert, sometimes. Good game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

16th July 2011: Urbanscapes 2011, down at Padang Astaka! Bumped into ex-colleague Sook Rong… …and her friend. Ultra-wide perspectives from the Sigma 12-24mm F4.5-5.6 EX DG on the full-frame Sony Alpha 900. This makes for real easy camwhoring… …and random grab shots. It was muddy all over. Reza Salleh smartly came in boots! Jon YKT, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}