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the initial plan was to go watch the MDG finals at 1 Utama, but i guess last night turned out to be much better than i expected as Eyeris told KY that he had some tickets for Iron Man screen. hehe.. i’m one lucky person kan? so i shall extend my utmost gratitude to them for giving me this wonderful opportunity.

The Plot

Tony Stark, son of an industrialist involved in manufacturing military weaponry, takes over Stark industries when he turns 21, and later on continues to prosper in war profiteering until one day he gets into trouble somewhere in Afghanistan (i think… i wonder why everytime there’s a movie with terrorist its always AFGHANS..bleh). During the ordeal, Stark was forced to built the terrorists some missiles and instead Iron Man was born. the plot thickens slightly, when there’s deception amongst tony starks circle….. and the rest you should watch it yourself

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr).

Robert Downey Jr did a marvelous job playing Tony Stark, who was a rich, cocky, womanising and remorseless SOB prior to his ordeal in Afghanistan, where he built the mark 1 suit out of junk. Downey’s performance erased any doubts i had about him being able to play a superhero.

bombshell Gwyneth Paltrow playing Pepper Potts, Starks’ sexatary and perhaps love interest?

Tony Stark in Afghanistan. i shall not elaborate further for fear of spoiling the movie. hehe

Iron Man’s nemesis. I shalln’t name the actor in the suit except for saying that his name has got ‘jambatan’ in it.

being a person who’s really interested in 3d animation, i would say that the visual effects used in the movie was top notch. the level of detail in the renderings of the iron man suit certainly awed me, and is a must see. Oh, the movie also has a few comedic touches in it, as seen in the interaction between Stark and his robots. Also not to forget, I think I saw Stan Lee making a cameo appearance as Hugh Hefner in the movie.

NOW I PROMISE WHATEVER I WROTE HERE ISN’T AS BORING AS THE MOVIE.. SO GO WATCH IT

lately i’ve been trying to play the guitar again, and if you probably seen the video i posted in the previous post, you’d agree that i can’t play the guitar and sing for nuts. heck… i don’t even know chords. but i shall try. the song that currently plays on my WMP everyday now happens to be The Space Between - by Dave Matthews Band . maybe the song has a slight significants to what i’m thinking about now, maybe it doesn’t but above it all its still a great listen. I’ve always been a fan of his songs and his voice. i guess one day i shall attempt to play the acoustic version of that song.

i guess i kinda miss my good friends who are currently in perth at the moment. they’re working there, not studying. haven’t seen them in months. i really do miss the times we used to spend in the jamming studio with all the arguments and what not. I remember when we were all still studying in limkokwing, kelana jaya. and played every thursday at waikiki. I’d have to rush out after autocad class which ended at 10pm and drive to Waikiki. We were newbies in the pub scene but we still tried our best to put on a good show. just me on vocals and my mate rueben on guitars. and later on jason raj joined in to play bass and that was how south saturn delta was created.

though there were many disputes between us, i think South Saturn Delta was probably the best band i’ve ever been in. with the raw talent of Mr Rueben John on guitars and the fantastic groovy sounds on bass by mr Jason Raj. More often then not, i felt as if i was letting the band down because i found myself unable to keep up with their level.

we still get together once a year to play and have fun. i get a certain kind of high when making music with the two of them. and i can barely wait till i have the chance to jam with them again.

before i sign off today, i’ll leave you with a sound check recording that South Saturn Delta made in the beginning of the year with Vishnu Byron Joseet on vocals, Rueben John Joseet on  Guitars, Jason Raj on Bass, and adry azad on the Harmonica. I might warn you that what we are playing in the recording isn’t even a song, but more like us just having fun, no lyrics no fixed rifts and no parts. we just ‘hantam’ everything. as for me, i think it was actually the first time i really played the harmonica to a song since i only started playing the harmonica a few weeks (months?) before.

Click here : South Saturn Delta

*i don’t know why but my myspace seems to come up in some foreign language… haha

watch and have a laugh. i can’t really play the guitar. ok maybe, i can’t play the guitar at all. but i was bored and i decided to do it anyway, but i’de prefer to have someone play the rhythm for me. any guitarists around? hehe

*don’t watch if you don’t want your ears to bleed

“when i grow up i want to be a pilot”

“karang bila aku dah besor aku nak jadik juruterbang”

perut aku besor siut.. dah start nampak macam kaki botol, padahal aku tak minum, untuk pengetahuan anda, orang india panggil kaki botol ‘kudhi karan kupe’.. cis, buncit betul. member aku cakap perut aku buncit pasal aku minum banyak sangat air. aku tak tau la sama ada apa yang dia kata tu betul ke tak. malas aku nak dok pikir. jiwa aku tak cukup tenteram skarang untuk pikir pasal benda cam tuh. nak meletup rasanya kepala aku. ISHK!!! angle gambo ni buat aku nampak pendek la. tapi.. aku memang pendek.. hehe

okay.. obviously thats no flight suit, and obviously i don’t even have the physique to be mistaken as one (hopefully that will change soon..heh). just got back from site (of which i shalln’t disclose the location) a few hours ago. and i’m not really in a very good place mentally at the moment. my thoughts are mostly out of sync. there’s still alot to do. i probably smoked more then 2 packs a day in the past few days, and thats a hard to reach number since we aren’t allowed to smoke on the premises. there were so many questions that i could not answer and some many decisions that i could not make. i only wish what i have said there and then were the right words to have been spoken. and i also hope that i don’t land in the hot seat in the next coming days.

looking at my picture i suddenly think of what it would have been like if i was a pilot instead. i’ve seen planes taking-off up close, and every time the landing gear lifts off the ground, i find myself awestruck-ed. how can something so hefty and huge fly off so gently as if weightless in to space? yes, i’m amazed by the feats of people, and appreciate the laws of physics, but in that moment, i feel that there definately a supreme being looking down on us. okay, that was pretty unrelated, but hell i just feel like writing.

we stayed in a resort by the sea, a little run down but, it wasn’t all that bad either. had some awesome food. for two nights straight i had tom yam and rice. yeah, i love rice, perhaps thats why i’m just THAT fat anyhow. i got a parking fine while stopping at a hardware store to buy some supplies. i didn’t know that i needed to use parking coupons on a saturday in that state. bah.. such luck. to make matters worse, someone tried prying into my car boot. if found out after trying to open the boot with my car keys and all i managed to do was spin the lock in place, and the next thing i knew, the lock just popped out of the hole. thank god, they didn’t take anything, perhaps we walked to the car in the nick of time, as my colleagues and I saw a duo walking away from the car when we appeared.

oh, and i think i got a speeding ticket. haha. i was trying to chase down this toyota hatchback on the highway while heading home. i’ve never seen that model here in Malaysia before, and the dude was driving pretty fast. when i finally got beside him, i glanced to the right and saw the policeman pointing his radar gun at me. SIEN.

right now i wish i could whisk her away to somewhere quiet and lay beside her and do nothing, just enjoy the company. thats what i want, but just like what the rolling stones sang..”you can’t always get what you want”.

while i was out of town, i thought about writing about semantics (read design semantics), but i can’t seem to recall the example that i wanted to use.

as the title says, this shall be the first installment of our trip to bangkok. i don’t think i took any FANTASTIC shots, frankly because half the time i didn’t know what i was shooting at nor did i know why i was taking a picture. so the bottom line is i think i have a lot of pointless photographs. I wish i had a longer reach lens, perhaps then i could take more obscure pictures without disturbing the moment. i didn’t want to take frontal pictures of people at temples as i feared that it might make them feel uncomfortable while speaking to ‘god’.

i particularly like the way the light fell on her

cowboy lost in the midst of chatuchak weekend market’s madness

view of a riversider at a temple

golden gateway

a hawker riding his bike

a monk with his phone

child divers, diving for creatures to sell

amulet fanaticism

my first tuk tuk ride

ky tryign to march

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rows of gold

casualties of war

solace?

stark contrast

feminine warior statue?

please do check Ky and Terenceg’s sites to see their view on the trip.

i wrote once how i was in ikea and i took out my wallet and wanted to scan my card to open the door to the smoking room. something really similar happened today. perhaps it was the exhaustion from the bangkok trip, perhaps it was the lack of sleep because i stayed up to watch the liverpool / arsenal match. i don’t know.

i was at my table in the office today, when i had the sudden urge to take a piss. so off to the loo i went. I stood outside the toilet door, and pressed the switch, but i found myself standing at the door waiting for the sound of a beep. Took me a while to realize that i DIDN’T HAVE TO PRESS THE DOOR RELEASE BUTTON to go in the toilet…

i laughed at my stupidity and walked in to relieve myself.

anyway, vacation is over and its back to some serious work. gotta get my head into it or else i’ll fall behind. i’ve yet to find the time to finish going through the photographs from the bangkok trip. i’m not even half done in fact. but they shall come. sooner or later

i’m back from the land of smiles. nope i didn’t really have the time to go through all the pictures i took as of now. but i’m going to put up a post on one of the few memorable moments we had in bangkok.

as previously said, KY , Terenceg and I went to bangkok from the 2nd of April to the 7th of April. We were huddled up in a hotel room quite some distance from town. One night, i guess terence just got bored and said..

“Hey, have you seen how Kim Jung Il’s (i think thats the name he said lahhh) wife’s headgear is made? Come i show you…”

you need a face towel

divide into three and fold to overlap

fold the ends in

repeat 2 - 3 times

repeat the same at the other end. Part the middle and wear it on your head. Its perfect for some camwhoring shots

Here’s KY in his ever fashionable headgear

Ky again

terenceg and the ky

urh… thats me.. lol

who would have thought that 3 guys could do such things.. i know i was shocked. DAMN.. now i’m embarrassed that you’ve seen these pictures.

as of 2220hrs tuesday wednesday night, adryazad shall leave Malaysia and head to Bangkok for a long awaited holiday. A well needed break from the computer, internet and people i suppose. I don’t know what to expect whilst there, but since i’ll be traveling with ky and terenceg, i would say that i can expect some good times. hehe. anyway i still got tonnes of things to prepare. Hope my next post will bare the fruits of our adventure. till then, see you on the 9th of april!