The hedge-wizard Sedgewick gets fairy-fingered.

The ex-ex-prime minister will be on campus tomorrow to receive his Honorary Doctorate award,… the entire campus is undergoing upheavals and I can’t wait for the dust to settle.

Note to self,

Paintball = painful thighs.

Decided to put up this little game us lads at GMD have made for a recent ACGC event.

Introducing Hentai Usagi Toss.. where ACGC Chan tosses the perverted pink bunny across the exhibition hall. Don’t ask me why… its just something that happens.

Go and play it already! http://portal.acgc.com.my/arcade/play_28/

Buzz did the coding in Flash and I prepared the visuals,.. can’t say very much about the UI though. Live and Learn,.. live and learn.

A lot of times, we’ve planned to do stuff but never really got around to it. Today in a burst of spontaneity, we packed some gear and went off to Genting Highlands for a day trip. Its been long overdue and I think it was important for us to break free from the borders of Petaling Jaya for once.

Off we goooo!

The bus… bus 2,..

Being someone that would usually drive up Genting, I never knew about the really affordable rates they had. For a meager RM8.50 (one way) you could get a trip up to Gentings inclusive of a cable car ride! We opted for the travel package which came with free tickets to all the parks,.. indoor, outdoor, etc,..

Shitloads of people waiting for the cable car. The bus trip took 45 minutes as we managed to get a lunatic for a bus driver. Waiting for the cable car took 1 hour… and the cable car ride itself was about 20 minutes or so. We timed all this because we wanted to make sure we made it back to the bus station on time.

We finally made it up! with the tickets we bought, we could have went for a buffet lunch but WHO TRAVELS THAT FAR FOR A BUFFET? Some of the rides weren’t functional. I’m glad to say Genting Highlands is still cold and breezy. I stupidly wore shorts there which was bearable.

Pissing midgets

RM3.00 to feed the fish? The fish were fat enough as it were.

If you’re going to walk the entire park,.. DO NOT get on the paddle-boats. DO NOT race with other paddle-boats and DO NOT try to reverse into the jetty.

All in all, a good FIRST trip!… Planning for a next one soon.

Ignorant or Indifferent.

How else can can you explain making it compulsory for staff to attend a six-hour corporate talk on a saturday?

This is the first ‘demotivational talk’ I’m attending.

Its difficult to decide if Mat-Rempits are truly the embodiment of evil or just a misguided bunch of dumb people. If they are naturally evil, then the best method of removing the stain of their presence would be their immediate culling especially if a person has been intentionally hurt by them.

During my own research methodology classes, a colleague/class-mate posed this question to our professor, “If someone caused the death of a member of your family, would you want them dead?”

My professor, an Italian Buddhist, replied in the negative.To her, it isn’t our place to judge and sentence another sentient being.

Now I’ve always felt that wishing evil upon another is similar to the act of evil itself but despite that, my response to that question would be,”Yes. I would exact revenge from anyone that hurts my family whether intentionally or by deliberate inactivity.”

I would see that person dead.

I wonder what sort of person does that make me?

Back to the topic of Mat Rempits. If any one of them even blinks at you funny, lock your windows and mow as many of them down. Think of it as doing your civic duty for the environment and society.

This is a snippet from a forum

“SnOw kAn kLu dEr lIpAs kAt tOiLeT PoN SnOw sAnGgUp SiMpAn jA SaMpAi soK Pg.. tRuK KaN.. NiH LaGiK KaTaK.. EIIiiIi.. X BuLeH LAa.. sNoW TakOt sUmE SeRaNgGa.. hUhUuU.. kUmBaNg yG TeCIk pOn sNoW TaKoT.. WaKaKaKAA..”

I didn’t understand what that was about.

Why the big issue on teaching Science and Math in English when the Malay language is being mangled from within? I didn’t even realize there were still people who refered to themselves in the third-person. The writer also seems to have ShiFty-FiNgEr-sYndRoMe.

It just doesn’t do with all the politicizing of every single damn thing in the country.

Viva English for Science and Math!!

Oh my god, haha Joon Han has ’sold-out’…

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=yeo+joon+han

It’s all here on the website http://www.amokfilms.com

Great stuff…

The Year is almost out,.. Xmerz has come and gone, I have yet to:

• own a house
• be obscenely rich
• discover a decent internet service provider.. (wimax where art thou?)
• convince someone to name their firstborn after me
• go on vacation

I now have the entire 2009 to work on that. For the things that HAVE happened this year…

• My grandparents recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary recently. That’s like really amazing.
• My buddy Ah Na, just got married to his long-time love, Jo. Congratulations! Name your kid after me!
• A whole bunch of friends have tied the knot or at least comitted themselves to tying the knot
• Changed my job. I’m now in Cyberjaya
• played Fallout 3

In case I’m not around and someone wanders onto the site,… I wish you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Nanyang Edu Fair 2008

Having just wrapped up our booth at the Nanyang Education Fair 2008, I’m back at office and it feels like the weekend. =_=. It was heckuva tiring but it was worth it. Over at the fair, I and Gianne were supposed to do demonstrations with an industry concept artist. His work reminded me of how much further I’ve got to go before even reaching the first rest-stop.

He left a few pointers which really made sense so here’s a quicksketch session to put what he showed me to practice. I realize a big difference with watching an online tutorial and being told in person is, I usually don’t grasp what the online tutorial shows me. At times, after watching and assuming I’ve figured out the concept behind the technique, I revert back to my old ways after awhile.

Here I’m trying to put what I learned from the concept artist together with my usual style. I guess I can’t do it fully his way so I’ll just have to improvise.

Demon Monkey-God

I also learned the difference between Concept Art and Production Art, where Concept Art has to be fast and used to explore ideas and variations. Production Art however is a more finished work of art for the production team to work from. I guess the next step after that would be the Promotional Art, where its just gotta look good to sell.

Of course this is just my opinion.

Also congratulations to two of my students for winning consolation prizes in the above 18 category of the Gimli Character Concept Competition. Good job!