Fac Nite 09

I have nothin much to blog bout, so i guess i'll just talk a lil bout fac nite.

Faculty nite is somethin like a course nite in UKM and in an underground manner. My first complain will be, why the heck its called fac nite when it doesn't even consist of the entire faculty but only our economics department?? Trust me, its the same thing for other courses/facs.

Which reminds me, there's another term used in UKM:
'stayin comm' or 'stayin com'
It means staying in hostel/kolej. Com?? Its not even close to any abbreviation i can think of. Community hostel is the closest i can get, but doesn't make much sense. Probably someone derive the word from kamsis...'stayin kam' and it evolved became stayin com.

Kinda like tiger show. A colleague of mine mentioned that is a misconception where its actually called 'thai girl show'. I bet some of u didnt know tht :D

Enough of rambling. Back to fac nite 09. No photos uploaded here or to my flickr since i sent everything to facebook. Anyway the crappy old olympus compact cam died after 50 shots...talk bout battery life. DSLR is too heavy to lug around.

The nite was pretty alrite, except the fact tht the PA system kinda screwed up during the dancing session. Poor juniors, cant party much.
I dunno whatelse i shud say, all my opinions are rather harsh and critical sometimes. lol. better not piss anyone off.

So yeah, we 3rd year fellas (the old farts) went to poppy as an after party event. 33 ppl, 6 cars. Can u even imagine that happening? Its like a friggin sch trip. lol.
Its a decent club, its very hot and crowded since its partially open-aired and friday nite is a party nite.

Its a crazy nite. Most of them went wild...whether on the dance floor, on the booze or on their own coursemates. Oops, did i mentioned somethin? At some point it was rather embarrassing as there were ppl staring at us for all the screaming, ice throwing and whatnot.

I wonder who gulped most of the booze, as 5 3/4 out of the 6 bacardi was emptied when i came back from the dance floor. Thanks for leaving some for us (literally)

So yeah, they were making fun attacks on me coz of me dancing with another coursemate. Bastards, lol. This how u repay me after organising a clubbing outing? How bout the others who were groping each other as well? Haha. Wackiness.

First Outdoor Portraiture

Thanks to Michelle Chan! As mentioned in my facebook album, she's a friend whom i knew back in form 6 although she transferred to another school. So yeah, very first guinea pig :D

Was alternating between my tamron 17-50 and nikkor 55-200. Taken at Desa Park City, quite an empty urbanized park. Sunlight was pretty harsh that time although it was around 10.30am. Still need some time to understand fill light by using the speedlight.

Rest In Peace

My friend from primary school has passed away earlier this week due to a shocking accident from the Adidas King Of The Road 09 at Shah Alam stadium.
I would not elaborate further with the details as everything seemed very vague, even from the press itself.

Gary Leon Robert was a nice, friendly and joyful guy. Great with sports, great with studies and great with people. Like others said, he was an all-rounder with a bright future ahead.

It was a shocking news and event for me for the entire week. Even till now, the event itself flashes thru my head every once and then.

My condolences to his family. He will be missed dearly and always be in our memories.

Goodbye my friend

M.Y.T.C @ Kinarut, Sabah

Supposely to title it as 'Communication Programme In Monfort Youth Training Centre' then i realised i shoudln't (nope, its not because the titile is too long). Simply as i didn't snap any pics during the programme itself. Was too busy helping out with it.

So yeah, only tht very evening was the only time we get to chill for a while at Jesus Hut. Don't ask, just accept the name of that hut.

Anyway, it was a very successful workshop as we're able to make an impact to the boys (not physically), might not be all of them, but even half is as good.

This programme was led by commandant/head chef Ju-eng, chief cymbals Debbie, tai ka cheh "tepi-lah" Phui Yee, laughing gas Sonia, park ranger Adrian and the most-used 'kelefeh' O.K.U Miux.

Details and programme outline are strictly kept confidential and only known to facilitators,observers and participants. This is mainly because I can't recall much as the 3 days programme seemed so packed and hyped up.

Bukit Panorama @ Sungai Lembing

Its been quite long since my hike with hwa hwa and su, so i cant remember much of the details. But yeah, it was an early morning drive (very very early if you have to know). Probably bout 2.30-3am we left PJ, stopped by at mcD (breakfast not even available during tht hour yet) and a straight drive to sungai lembing.

Apart from the long, dark and sleepy drive, it wasnt that bad driving at such hour. The road is clear, not much worry on speedtraps (it was a weekday) and its easier to drive on highways using both roads (same flow of course).

The hike up panorama hill took us bout 45 mins. I heard old folks used to hike up every morning as exercise, i guess they can really race us up. Yeah, we kinda sucked big time when it comes to stamina.

Pity that it was rather cloudy and drizzle a little. So no sunrise for us, did i mention that our initial idea was to watch the sunrise?

Anyway, we came down, had breakfast and explore the small lil town. We came across this ruins/remaining of what we believed to be an old factory. Kinda like those Tomb Raider settings.

Oh yeah, we went to have a look at the mining area as well, where sg lembing was once famed for. Ever played any RPG games where u need to get in for a dungeon raid? Yeah, thats how the entrance looks like.