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First Day In P. Pinang

There is a long time I dint go to P.Pinang since I was standard 6. Today, again..I'm there to do my site analysis for my studio project.

We have departed at 6.30am morning. Urgh...Jimmy left his car's key in his car before we waiting the bus in our faculty.
There are my course mates, Yuveelai, Ujang, Balut and Ryan. Honestly,there are only 8 peoples in this large UTM bus and this is my most comfortable trip.
See, my course mates are in a sweet dream along the whole journey.

Of course, Pulau Pinang is nice place, full with chinese heritage elements, harmony and unique.
One of my course mate-Chin Keng, as a tour guide will show us where is the interesting places in Penang. Jimmy-as a mapper will guide us all the location of the places.

Before we go to penang, Jimmy has did some of the research about the accommodation. Finally, we all decided and sacrify my first night in BANANA GUEST HOUSE in Chulia Street.
OMG....this is my first time stay in guest house..not bad actually...jz
a little bit smelly in the room...
no toilet in tha room....
no TV...
and facing the main road....
Never mind....because it is cheap and the most important is I can online in the room. Yippi.
A classic timber louvers with the pigeon...just enhance the whole environment.

A view outside the window...Seriously, I hate the noise from Kedai Cermin Nam Kee.
Eeeeee..Eeeeeeee.cutting the glass...

Jimmy, chin keng and I walked around the place and tried to capture some nice photo. Even though I dint appear in the photo because I believe the photo can speak itself. One of the temple at the junction. Full with decoration...amazing..

Not only that, the back lane between two houses is so neat and clean..
This will be never happen in my home town..KL
Try to imagine the KL rubbish lane.....urgh...

Some softcapes and hardcapes create a ideal combination in architecture urban design.
How come I dint see this in Pudu Raya?...sad.

There are many shophouses houses in Buckingham street and Pintal Tali road.

Somehow, I found some interesting decoration in the corner of the temple.

This is my first day trip.... Tomorrow, I will be going to the site and do the analysis..
Have to sleep now...

10 Reasons Y U should leave office

1. Employment letter stated that working hour finish at 6.00pm.
2. Work is a never-ending process even you stay until next morning. You will never finish it.
3.Human are not robots even robot/ machines have to rest or else it will facing breakdown problems.
4. You love your career, but your family is even more important in your life.
5. If you failed in your life, your boss is not going to be the one who gives you a helping hand whereas your family would definitely offer help.
6. You do not want to screw up or make your life miserable because of your job.
7. Monthly salary= Work from 9am- 6.00pm
If 6.30pm= $0.00+ 0 bonus+ 0 Ang pau+ 0 appreciation + Bad Health + Bad Social Life +
Poor Family Relationship.
Equal To: Unproductive Employee + Performance Drop + Company Reputation Drops +
Retrenchment Rate Increase + Resignation Rate Increase
8. You don't give a damn if your boss fires you.
9. Dong ka Umm Da, Da Sai Ka
10. So? You still want to stay back meh? Ciao lor.....

My Assignment

This is staircase modeling for my previous project that I did in Negeri Sembilan.
The staircase is more than 90++ years and the aesthetic value is priceless.

This are some of the tiles on the staircase and hopefully this pattern can become the logo of our group.

This is my favourite pattern so far


Next post will be my model making.

Stupid Internet Explorer

Today, I saw some bloggers have complained about the stupid IE:

-So apparently, this template is all wonky in Explorer on Windows, with text disappearing into the margins etc, even though it looks fine in every other f***king browser. I only discovered this when viewing it from a PC on campus.

-IE suffers quite a bit from the tendency to notify the users of various things via an OK-button-only MessageBox. Even worse, many of those dialogs have clunky messages, no help links, and "Never show me this again" checkboxes.

-Microsoft unvelied today their plans to include anti-malware protection on their IE8 browser.

This should sound like good news but when you give it a little bit more thought, thinkgs are not as pleasing. Let’s begin with that the appreance of such a vast array of malware is probabbly Micorosft’s fault since they have always developed software with incredible security holes and then take enormous amount of time to create patches to fix them.

But as you keep reading this article courtesy of Cnet, you realize that all they are doing is adding more warnings when you try to do stuff. This means that I will have to click twice, three times or even more just to get the computer to download something or to perform an action I want it to do just as they have been doing with Vista.

Seriously Micrososft, coming up with a Security measure that mainly focus on the user clicking on a yes button is pretty lame
-I've had a worse problem than this in the past - with Internet Explorer refusing to load at all on a live web server, as it had been updated and the machine had not been rebooted - rather an issue when most of the monitoring and configuration tools on the server are browser hosted...

So am I,

Having serious problem in IE is not a new topic. I'm so surprise when I saw my layout in IE where firefox doesn't show any problem with that.. Is it because IE cannot support my layout or my layout's html fault?
My layout's left column is totally disappear and all my posts are hide at the down part of my blog.. Are you shy to show off youself?

I need some expert to help me......ahh..so frustrated...

My sketch

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Now what?.. Waiting for approval and get pay. You can do this in your home, school or even in your nice vacation.

I found this opportunity in one of the blogger post. How nice with this great deal since my blog is worth nothing. This is my pleasure to share this great news to all my friends and my blog’s visitor.

At first, just login to payperpost website, follow the simple steps, get the code and start you own blogging adventure. You can set your minimum payment for your each post as well.

Don't disturb me now..ok? I'm doing my latest post and earn money for my next semester.

Do you know what?This post worth $20. Sounds interesting?
You know what have to do now….

word of mouth ethics

Ugly Cookies....Yeah

This is a wonderful saturday. I went to Tesco, Kajang with my mother as usual. And this is what I bought today..Butter Cookies Mix.
I love bakery, but the problem is I hate to buy the ingredients like baking powder, Soda, Bicarbonate and Starch...Blar blar....Adjust the ratio of each ingredient some more(-....-).
Fortunately, I have instant cookies powder..save time and the taste also not bad.
This time, most of the cookies is made for my course mate that helped me a lot...
( Jm, Jy, Hc, Nacy, Jean, Wc...)

Here is my mother's oven...I think some of the people never see this robot before...
For your information, this machine is older than me..20++..
Even though this machine quite lousy and not advance as modern brand , but the special of this machine is- each cookies will taste lovely and memorable.. ( a taste of my childhood where my mother always use this machine to bake sponge cake).

This time, i try to use some 'weapon' to produce a better appearance. This is due to the last cookies that I made during Chinese New Year...look like 'Shit'.. Anyway, this is a great experience that I can make a better cookies with my girl friend next time..hehe

Ingredients for the cookies this time:
Nona instant baking powder,
butter,
2 eggs,
peanut..and
heart..

Here is the peanut..

First, mix the eggs with 150g soften butter.

Add the cookie powder in the mixture slowly and stir it until all the ingredients mix well.

Ok, now start to modeling..Omg....bad design... Make sure all the cookies look similar.
Seriously, I failed.. Anyway, better than last time..

My 'beautiful' cookies will take 20 minutes and turn to golden brown in the preheated robot.
200 degrees Celsius is needed.

Yeah, some of the weird cookies..haha..
Honestly, the cookies really taste nice....my friends, is time for you to proof it.. I will bring a lot lot of cookies to UTM on this coming sunday..

Now what? Clean all the stuff...
Great...thanks mum...

Enjoy a tea time with me..perhaps?
My favorites combination, cocktail and cookies...
Can't wait? Be my girl friend..Ceh...

Rotating Skyscaper

Have you wonder what is the feeling if you live in a rotating skyscraper?
The ’tower in motion’ is a revolutionary project based on “Dynamic Architecture”, a new concept introduced by Florentine architect David Fisher. The project has generated considerable interest all over the world even before its launch, as a trend-setting architecture.

Dubai will be home to this revolutionary architecture in all sense as the pre-fabricated units for the tower will be produced in a facility set up in Jebel Ali. These units will then be shipped to 11 other major cities including Moscow, Milan, New York and Tokyo where similar towers will come up following Dubai.

Each floor of the tower will consist of 12 modules that will arrive at the job site completely finished and with electrical, plumbing as well as air-conditioning systems ready for use. The modules will then be mechanically assembled at the rate of one floor every seven days.

But that's not all. The tower is also a “green” building that generates electricity for itself and five other equivalent buildings. The secret is 48 wind turbines mounted horizontally between one floor and the next, and the photovoltaic cells located on the roofs of the individual apartments. Never before has a building been designed to produce so much more energy than it consumes.

Since such features calls for a high level of integration between concept, design, planning, manufacturing of components and construction, many of the world’s leading companies and professionals have been contracted for this project. Some of these companies, though globally renowned and trusted in their core area of expertise, are working in a construction-related project, and that too an integrated one, for the first time, since they are aware that this is going to be the future of architecture.

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Amazing Glass Ball

Have you wonder how to do a glass ball in photoshop? I saw a nice wallpaper in Flickr recently and most of the wallpaper is done by photoshop and that is really amazing.

Here is the original wallpaper that I found from google search.

Here is the tutorial....

1. Open this picture in photoshop CS3
2. Select rectangular marquee and set the aspect ratio to fixed: 1 to 1

3. Apply the filter Polar Coordinates- Filter> Distort> Polar Coordinates (Polar to Rectangular)

4. Rotate the selection 180 degrees- Edit> Transform> Rotate 180 degrees

5. Apply filter Polar Coordinates again- Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates (Rectangular to Polar)


6. Crop your picture

7. Save and upload to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/groups/amazingcircles/

This technique is created by Kamome
Try it now..

Here are some of the amazing balls in different scene and feeling...

Try to add some additional effect in order to fix the glass ball nicely.