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Happy 42nd NDP '07! Monday, August 13, 2007 |

They gave fans with spinning light decked with a national day msg... freakin' cool...


Happy Birthday Singapore... So its says...

What's NDP w/o the National Anthem...


Me in my all red attire and patriotic cap to support the parade.


Wad's that? A spain soccer jersey? :) haha...

Last but not least, the finale of the show...

Crane Flies Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |

From the insect identifier...

"Congratulations. If your specimen has only one set of wings, then it has to be a Diptera. This order includes the true flies, crane flies, midges, and mosquitoes. These insects have one pair of membranous wings. Their hind wings are modified to form halteres. They have sucking mouthparts, usually forming a proboscis, that are sometimes adapted for piercing. Ouch! "

And of course, these are crane flies... And they have some really weird alias names as well. Beat these!

"daddy longlegs, mosquito hawks, mosquito eaters (or skeeter eaters), gallinippers, and jimmy spinners!"

From the names, you can tell they have really long slender legs!

Pictures courtesy of dom since i didn't take these... Super Clear Pics! Kudos!

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And well now you know... you can call them daddy longlegs! and they are also called jenny longlegs in Scotland!

Day 3 & 4 of KL Trip... Thursday, January 11, 2007 |

We visited the school of HARD KNOCKS at the royal selangor... basically a pewter factory... and after returning to singapore i realised that there's plenty of their stores here as well...

We paid about S$22 for a short session of their pewter craft hands-on there where we were clothed in a school of HARD KNOCKS apron and armed with a mallet, as well as other tools.

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Not knocking my fingers in the pic but on a flat pewter sheet that gradually took the shape of the hollow as you knock into it. HARD labour really!

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And after a job well done, you get THIS! and with my mis-aligned and jumpy initials imprinted on... And placed in a store to sell for RM4455 thereafter. AMazing isn't it? ...

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...and it also happened to be the price tag which the LOTR chess set is retailing at! Freak that's EX!

So after having our S$22 conned for a useless piece of pewter bowl we went to have a picture at the biggest BEER MUG made in PEWTER (recorded by Guinness). Hur.

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There were many museums we went to. But this one on the islamic stuffs, some of us didn't and we loitered outside in their souvenir shop and the areas around it.

The beforemath of being CAUGHT...!

The climbing and scaling of the heights of the non-working fountain in the middle of the complex...

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When i climbed all the way to the top and stood up, a security guard at the third level saw us! Oh DAMN!!

So i quickly scrambled down and posed for a picture with Luke...

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Got reprimanded in malay which only yeevon could understand, and so we ended up playing spastic games at the benches there before it rained and had to scramble to shelter...

MEMORABLE! LOL!

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Following on we had a visit to an architect's personal working studio/home where much of his house is designed by himself... Pretty impressive esp considering how much time he obviously needed to spend on them... and how he basks in a personal self satisfaction and aura of self-glorification...

Perhaps his house is most unique from the very start... in welcoming visitors such as us or his clients through a black cage which he could easily direct them up to... walking up steps of concrete that seemingly float but are firmly secured by thick iron into the brick wall... up the cage which acted as support when opened and security to outsiders when closed which were absolutely practical purposes.

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After a long but insightful talk by him, he brought us to another of his friend's place...

Another surprise entrance for us. This time the front of the house is presented as shown in the pics below...

They had this shelter of plants with incredibly long roots for the car which provided a good shade and at the same time facilitated privacy within by obscuring outsider's view into the house.

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The house contained many exhibits and we spent quite awhile there taking pictures. The owner was away though.

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A sculpture of complexity and detail, placed behind a scissors of commodity and simpleness. Deliberate?

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A nice chain of insects that formed behind the table. Very nice...

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The male's toilet... as depicted by a graffiti on the doors... The guy's shitting obviously...

And inside the toilet was a mirror facing the toilet and a portrait the person doing his business is forced to scrutinise daily. Freaky!

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The following is quite unique i feel, where the pool by the entrance depicts 2 completely opposite sides. So while sitting on a physically heavy and solid looking chair he would be looking at one completely made out of wire and with a leaves-filled wired backrest.

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We left for more museums /exhibits...

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Here's one with a twist... and inspired none other than by Oliver Twist. =)

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Pretty cool graphic shoes...

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...or an entire roll of toilet paper typewritten with a whole poem.

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And i wonder how they made this. It's movable some more! Incredibly detailed!

And finally... some last miscellaneous photos...

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Another one at Putrajaya...

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and Cockroach attack no. 3!!

All in all, a memorable trip that happened to be financed totally by the department... so it doesn't get better than that...

Day 2 of KL... Putra & Cyber Jayas... Tuesday, January 09, 2007 |

Day 2 and after a night's stay, we finally left Malacca for KL... We headed straight to Putra Jaya and Cyber Jaya for our first stops...

Maybe just a short intro...

Putrajaya, well, is something like a showcase city but acts as a federal administrative capital for malaysia. It's more beautiful than most of sg is as u can see in the pictures. But it is probably at the cost of some very extravagant expenditure and not forgetting everywhere else is a backdrop of a poorer malaysia.

Well, next to Putrajaya is Cyberjaya. And it is something like a Silicon Valley of Malaysia according to the tour guide. Its main aim is to attract all the high tech companies, but other than that everyone else aka the residents number only as much as 10,000!

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Along the way there were tons of sculptural street lights everywhere and they looked really nice and so i snapped them all while on the bus...

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Some nice architecture also and here we have the imposing looking Ministry of Finance building in full glory.

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Guess what this is? =)

It's a cute little god'damn dustbin for heaven's sake!! So pretty. I loved them.
And there were thinner ones lined up like the dustbins all along the road as well. At first glance i thought what-the-heck for so MANY dustbins!!!! But it turns out the rest weren't.. so oh well. HUr. Blur me.

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Walking around taking pictures could never be as DANGEROUS@!
cos the above you see is a HIGHWAY!!!! which merges with everything else around. SO MUCH that i really wonder if there's any fatal accidents around this region man... So a car zooming past halfway whl taking a rubbish bin and dying ain't not worth it at all. And it doesnt help that there isnt much traffic and you get fooled even more...

Next we have the gorgeous wavy shelters that really goes well with all the man made beauty all around. Makes one cool and happy at the same time. Not too bad...

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The flowers here are so colourful and nice... Helps when the sky is so blue and nice too on the day as well. Makes for really good photos... PiCTURE PerFECT!

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The Seri Wawasan Bridge(hope i got the name correct) is by some quite well known architect if im not wrong, not too sure though. I love bridges; they are always of amazing architecture and built to such perfection.

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Couldn't have turned out any nicer than i had hoped. The sky's so beautiful!! And especially in the hands of a good photographer... *cough* ... none other than me... *cough*

They weren't posing by the way... it's a snapshot!!

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Forgot what this is already... But all i rem is that the strucure is made entirely out of metal and it looked incredible again... especially from a closeup...

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The most beautiful mosque in malaysia i feel.... the Putra mosque... And it's just next to the sea... Breathtaking view while worshipping! How thoughtful...

Some more group photos... Before we depart this lovely place...

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After we went to some mosque which i forgot the name... The tour guide had a big argue here with the ppl there... So we slacked outside for quite a while.

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Took some pictures of the mosque while we weren't allowed to enter... i liked this picture cos of how it showed the reflection of the nice geometric patterns in the water.

Indecency meant anything from excessive exposure like wearing short skirts and pants below knee caps... so they gave out robes for those wanting to enter... And so, a grp of BLUE riding hoods....

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And its end of Day 2 after a freaking long traffic jam...

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