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Damn, how I wish I could have this cake for my birthday. I would eat it with my bare hands!

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Things You Can See in UCSI's SSLA (Now With Pictures!)

Attended the SSLA club AGM recently and left with a couple of souvenirs =)
I did end up with a post in the committee - designer - what are the odds


Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Rap!


The Chicken Dance courtesy of my lecturer, Mr Ken


Prakash is everywhere in UCSI - with Michelle


Did I mention Prakash is everywhere in UCSI? - with Eva


The they-are-going-to-get-together-somehow friends - Lawal and Cherry


This is how Nick won the Presidency! (Nick, if you read this, don't kill me)


ha? ha? ha? What did I tell you~

iPod Video 30GB (Black) Unboxing Pictures!

Came back from the Kit Kat 'Break for the Better' Competition prize giving ceremony a few days back and looky here, I have me a new iPod to add to the collection. I kinda broke the rules this time by naming it. I usually am not like that, but somehow I felt compelled this time. Its the latest genaration iPod Video 30GB - Meet Dark Chocolate.

The Story
We stepped into a medium sized room that looked like those conference rooms you would see in hotels, nice red carpet with chairs arranged to face the front. Couple of those rectangle long tables with snacks (guess what kind of snacks), and the projector showing every winning entry on the big screen.

We were second to arrive and was greeted warmly. Just before the ceremony started, had a little conversation with one of the top bosses, Mr Andrew, and he was damn eager to share with me a story about my entry.

'...You know, we had some regional managers recently, the big shots, and we had been having serious meetings one after another. So we decided to show some of the videos of the final 8. We showed yours just after the last meeting and when you came out screaming, everyone laughed! They were really amused! Totally original stuff you had there...'

The Review
Had the 60GB all this while, so when holding this baby, it does feel significantly thinner. I am trying my best to take care of this one now, hoping to keep it smudge-free/scratch-free. So far, its suppose to be brighter and has a longer battery life compared to my 1st gen iPod Video, but honestly, I can't feel the difference as yet. Maybe the screen is a little bit brighter. Everything else is identical. And definitely the black has this wonderful aura about it, just sexeh

This Sunday

Moments before dinner with my family. It has kind of become a weekly thing where she and I go for dinner with my parents and lil' sister. Maybe steamboat? She has taken her once-in-four-months hair cut. Bowling was kind of nice just now, accept that my whole lane didn't even bother to play properly -_-"

iPhoto Tip Number #9,789

If your iPhoto seems to be malfunctioning - thumbnails missing, sluggish performance when scrolling etc etc, try this little tip out courtesy of Apple's Support.

Hold down command + option when clicking on the iPhoto application. This will bring up a menu where you can rebuild the icons, database or just the whole library.

If you've been manually deleting files in your iPhoto folder to get it to rebuild the library, then this tip is going to be schweet~

A Certain Kind of Story

I have a soft spot for a good love story. I don't know why, under all the artsy fartsyness of me, myself, I am able to be sympathize with the characters, especially when it doesn't work out and the ending is a massive letdown. I'm a sucker for depressing situations I guess. I think I have a problem with feeling happy, rather, being happy. I struggle with this on a daily basis. You know, being happy just because...

A certain Malaysian film made me think about what I really love recently. Do I really love to love and to be able to love forever? or do I love to love and have that same love not work out eventually? You see, you can't be heart broken, if you don't put it on the line in the first place.

This reminds me of something someone said about me - why is he so complicated?

Die MSN Die! [UPDATE]

I've been using Skype recently and now that the Mac and Windows versions work with each other so well, I'm beginning to like it very much.

Normal chat, video Chat, audio Chat, clean interface by default, unlike the stupid MSN messenger that the whole of asia seems to love so much. I used to video chat with she, and it was a horrendous experience... You know they've gone too far when you have even ads in your contact list! and don't get me started on how cluttered and ugly the chat window is...

Well, if you use Windows, and never heard of Skype before, please go and try it out. If you already have a skype account (I most probably don't have yours), please give it to me somehow.

My dream is for all of us to just stop using MSN and start using real quality chatting programs like Skype! I have 2 words for all of you that are still not sure about it... COOOME OOON~~! nyehnyehnyehnyehnyehnyeh

[UPDATE] Ok everyone, I think I have to make myself clearer. I'm still using MSN, but if you guys have a Skype account, do let me know, or search for Joshua Chay. My Skype contact list is quite empty =P

Take It Like A Big Girl!

I have a friend who loves making faces, loves the color green and who I personally suspect her mom for reading too much Peanuts while pregnant with her. Cause you know what the Chinese like to believe - if you look too much at a certain thing while pregnant, your kid would turn out something like that. So lets say you like dogs a lot, your kid would turn out a little doggy, if you like pigs, he/she would turn out a little piggy. So I can't really imagine if Peggy was pregnant cause she loves both... hmmm...

So I have a friend who recently discovered she's a little peppermint pattish. So this is my letter to she.



To my dear friend in denial,

This is your fate, just accept it.

Your honest friend,
Joshua



I just thank God that I don't have my medium length hair anymore, if not I'll look like this every time I walk beside her

A Dog I Once Knew (not really)

Me and Prakash Prakash and I saw this very ummm beautiful dog opposite The Thong's home. Isn't it just flappily pretty? She's just so lucky that she can wake up to this every morning...

fugly dog, fugly dog,
where is your bitch?
oh fugly dog, fugly dog,
i forgot you are gey

Happy 21st Birthday Chris!

Happy Birthday Chris!

We took it all! Through all the discipline actions, through all the terrible teachers, through all the relationships - we had fun and we had no regrets.

Though you've finally reached 21, we all know that you're definitely beyond your years =)

Looks like you've gotten all your presents way before your birthday, so alls that left to say is...

Huzzahh for the man of the day!!!

p.s. not sure if your email add that I have is the current one, so might as well open a special post for you since you're all the way over there. enjoy eh?

She

She's at Australia now with her family for her sister's graduation and its been almost 4 days without seeing her or having her around. Keeping in contact has been bearable, sms being only $0.20 for Malaysian to Australian numbers. She's been letting me know all the places they've been to so far and its all posh. Weather is really cold there, its winter down under. Its pretty cold here too since she left.

Decepticons Fight Back! with the amazing power of MP3

Some of you fellow Transformers fans would realize that the latest Michael Bay movie doesn't really do justice to the Transformers universe. There are not just 5 Autobots or Decepticons, Megatron is not that easy to kill and Optimus Prime is not that wimpy!

Anyway... remember the Decepticon, Sound Wave? The dude with the tape player for a chest and could spurt out 2 mini Decepticons that would transform into a wolf and another a bird? He was like the undercover guy that would be able to infiltrate the Autobots and find out what they were up to, like if Prime was having a major headache.

Okok... whats the whole point of this post? Its to say a big dumb-blond-OMG to this new MP3 player that, dare I say, kicks all of my iPods assess! Its Sound Wave, instead of the tapes, he plays MP3s now. You can put an SD Card into his chest for all the music, and best of all, he still transforms. If I could get one, I would. Clicky

Break For Better Competition Winner Announced!

Don't gelabah first, it isn't me.

I think the winning video deserves it. Very nice idea and great effort in putting together the video. So thanks for voting for me if you did and for entertaining my little 15 seconds of fame in the process. I never knew that you guys would go through all the trouble, so for that, I owe you guys. Any of you need my voting for anything next time, just let me know... ahahaha..

Girlfriend

Girlfriends are always such a pain. They complain too much, they cling too tight, they demand the impossible and sometimes they are just plain unbearable. Sometimes I wonder why we even bother. But what can we guys do? We can't live with them, we can't live without them. Thats my thought for the day. Thank you.
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Huh, why you looking at me...? Oh, you mean Joyce? Isn't she my girlfriend I hear you ask?
Nah, she's the total opposite of all those things - so how to call her my girlfriend? =)

Benevolent Irrelevance

How do you know when you've become irrelevant?

Is is when people don't seem to want to be with you anymore? Is it when all the chatter is directed all around you but never to you? Is it when you start to think that you can never have a real relationship with someone? A kind of comfort next to you, knowing that you can pour out your soul, and it would be caught?

We spend our life finding for a place to belong - the fortunate find permanence, the rest of us are considered lucky if we could even get a glimpse of where to go

Introducing Another Friend, A Real Friend - Petrina!

I think this is a perfect picture to help me introduce to you my fellow UCSI inmate, Petrina! Enjoying our cuppa at ye'Old Town Kopitiam outside UCSI, I decided to do some photoboothing with ms patooties and the kash. Notice her huge tongue and big front teets. Not forgetting her tiny eyes, nothing compared to mine! Love the nose job Prakash.

If you're wondering to yourself there, is life that great at UCSI?
YES! if you're comparing to my past life in KDU...

Let Me Introduce To You A Friend Of Mine - Gestalt

So this is the assignment that I finished early. Its about the Gestalt Principles - Similarity, Proximity, Closure and Continuation. I decided to whip out the camera and finish up my assignment with it. I came up with 4 final pictures that fit those principles nicely. Lecturer was happy (read: impressed) and I could move on to other work early. Works both ways.

All in all this assignment has a value of more than $4,000 counting the iPods and Walkman. Fruits cost me $5. Toothpicks and stapler, both $0. Below each picture I've include all the bulls**t rationale (that we have to provide with our work) for any interested soul, itching to see the innards of a Visual Communication project.


Proximity
"Move Over Grandpa"
I wanted to depict how mp3 players have taken over portable cassette players and what better way than to put a couple of iPods and line them up facing away from a Walkman? This principle is shown by the iPods standing together as well as the distance between them and the Walkman.


Similarity
“A building made of sticks”
My intention was to bring your eyes to see a big picture that was formed by small, seemingly insignificant objects, in this case, it would be the toothpicks forming a fragile building. There are no other elements for the viewer, just the toothpicks and how in all its mundane repetition, a bigger, more significant picture can be seen.


Closure
“Froots”
Closure is all about leaving something to the imagination, it is all about having an image so incomplete that it seemingly doesn’t make any sense until you realize that it does resembles something, and then it all makes sense. I chose fruits because I wanted something natural, something that would offset the other pictures in terms of the feelings that it gives. There’s something about fruits and I think it is a good choice to represent this principle. It is something that everyone would know and be able to relate to. And that is what this principle is all about, being able to see the picture through the eyes of familiarity and experience.


Continuation
“Damn Staples”
Follow the staples and you’ll see that it comes from a stapler. Lame? But point proven! It is a simple illustration of following something till it reaches the point of origin. It could’ve been applied to many situations, bread crumbs leading to the slice of bread, cookie crumbs leading to the cookie, biscuit crumbs leading to biscuits, but I decided staples would just be easier to clean up.