Wednesday 19 November 2008

Bunch of Buffoonic Archers!

Just came back from so called 're-union' with Taskin and 'long gone disappeared' Carmen Lin. As previous post, juniors request for help, to teach and to coach.

Figure 1.1 : Clicker

We're exactly like barbarians, arrived and to play with everything! Yes, everything is bad in condition. The tool box I used to clean and to arrange, it's now a box filled with MANY useless things in it. I wonder why is 'used to be my bow's target aim in it? Don't they need it on the bow where they're actually using now? Nothing else that is useful in the box except the extra clicker(fig 1.1)


Figure 1.2 : Fletches (aka Feather)

Quite sad to see everything. Noticed some of them shooting arrows without fletches(fig 1.2). All I can say is 'CHUN!' Hit bulls eye also no use! For sure! Without fletches the arrow can't fly well and everything won't be as accurate as it seems. There are quite a number of arrows without nocks too! (fig 1.3)

Figure 1.3 : Nocks (Over nocks for Carbon arrows)

Even sad is they don't know the posture?!? Just 'main' shoot only? What the? How to represent the school? Two more months till tournament and alot of work to do! Oh dear god... Disassembling the Bow is also another issue!


Figure 1.4 : Disassemble a bow

To disassemble a bow after use, you use a stringer. Attach caps on both ends then by stepping on the stringer while pulling the bow upwards would tension the bow even more than the bow string. Hence it's easier to remove the bowstring from the bow as shown on figure 1.4

Their version : Four people manually push the bow downwards to perform the same effect, to add up the tension to the bow just to loosen the string.

One person to disassemble than four people! You decide! (bow stringer is there)

The teacher ordered them to pack up after we arrived shortly. We were checking the arrow conditions one by one and the teacher was like 'Sponsor la!....etc..Sudah order!...Sponsor la!' Dang! I heard the word 'Sponsor' for alot of times already! God! What happened to student's monthly fee? Can't you buy equipment from those fund?

Figure 1.5 : Teachers Playing Archery

After they've packed, the teacher told them to just leave one bow behind, and had his teacher friends around (males) waiting for chances to play with it! Dang! WHAT THE HELL?? (fig 1.5) So meaning you guys are the one destroying the bows n arrows? Come on! Fletches is expensive! By the way, you're paid to teach not play! You guys don't even know how to play archery in the right way!

I might check them out again tomorrow! Might...with the gang of course!

Monday 17 November 2008

Sweetness in coffee

"I'm outside your house now!" after phone rings

"You freaking serious?" while still gliding the mouse on the monitor screen.

"Yeah! I'm really outside your house now!" sounds like a prank...

"Yeah right!" still clicking on windows browsing through things with disbelief

"Come out now! I'm waiting here! Under the rain!" trying to convince

"Are you sure?" Doubted... "Wait! I go check now! I don't believe you..."

"I see there's three pairs of shoes at the doorstep" another evidence trying to convince while reaching for the keys to open the door to check.

"See! I told you I'm outside waiting! Now do you believe me?" that smart, proud, 'I told you so' face with a smile.

"OMG! What are you doing here? You said you're heading for dinner few minutes ago?"

"Yeah, dinner with you!"


That person would be either traumatized/fainted or jumped for joy for such way of dinner invitation. It's surely a surprise!

If it's were to me, I would LOVE to jumped up and down for it with a loud happy welcome but there's a glitch to it. Living in such a discreet neighborhood, I would be forced to control myself and to act cool.

If I were to shout out with joy, people around would peek through their window curtains to investigate and of course some lurking around would just stare?

Ifs......

I am happy and I am flattered...

Back to school...

Figure 1.1 Siok Cheng & Audrey (2005)

A call woke me up on Friday noon. I was being lazy and the ringtone happens to be annoying at the same time! It's Taskin. She told me how bad the situation is in school now regarding the archery gadgets.

It's really sad to hear such things and when we left, we did make sure everything is in perfect condition and really hope they will take care of it. Unfortunately after a few graduates, everything is now in bad condition.

Juniors actually asked for help, to teach and to coach! Since Taskin requested to go back together and to have a look at it, why not?

Fingers cross and hope I don't expect too much...Tell me it's not critical?

Sunday 16 November 2008

Tabloids on Concerts! Read all about it!

Some has high profiles, some has low ones.

It's basically just like a grand concert stage. The high ones are on the stage being viewed and recognized from everyone below the stage while the low profile ones are the audience who came for the concert, 2 senses, to view and to listen. In other words, high profiles are on stage performing while low profiles watching and listening.

Of course when an audience went up the stage just by standing there would not make that person a high profile because standing there doing nothing would not attract people's attention! Unless people get interested to dig out everything about the 'new' one on stage otherwise it's just another ghostly figure being a 'tree' on stage.

Seems like the concert is overflowing with audience and it's too impossible for the performers to know each and everyone below the stage. Which turned the audience into anonymous crowd of people. The performers became famous and to be known to everyone then gossips and everything starts.

But it doesn't define entirely that whereby a performer wouldn't know a single audience too! Maybe some of the audiences are friends and family members or someone from their past.

You and your friend were in a concert while bumping into another friend who knows someone performing on stage or maybe not just someone? More than that? No matter what, it will still trace back to you which who relates to who. The concert can be long lasting if could but the question is...

Will the audience be bored of it?

There are some low profiles are not audience because they don't attend concerts instead they have other interest which made them not an 'audience' to the concert. Unless they hold their own concert and have their own audiences?

Me? Occasionally, I do attend concerts but I'm just another anonymous audience and I do acknowledge the performers art work!

Maybe the concert started to be boring? Maybe the performer sucks at performing? Maybe they don't have what it takes to be on stage? Maybe they are not meant to be there but still insist on being a thick face to go up there?

Look, If you don't want to be a performer then don't perform! Don't go up the stage and perform and tell people I don't like to be a performer. If you don't perform, people will not even notice you. Unless you like to perform on stage then you have to acknowledge what ever consequences up ahead even if you don't like it! That is the reality

(wow, at first I wanted to portray whoever performer you start to know, other performers can still be traced back to you. I think I don't know how to explain that.. But now, it's summarized in another meaning...
Maybe I'm too emotionally attached to the situation...^^)

P.S: Hope you understand the statement I have made...

Friday 14 November 2008

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head~



The sky started to down pour droplets of water,
As expected somehow,
To run as fast as could to avoid getting wet.
End up wet anyways.

Sitting in the car,
Lying down to the lowered seat while staring upwards.
Listening to the droplets of rain hitting the wind screen,
Staring at how the droplets hitting onto the wind screen,
While tasting and sniffing the humidity.

It was quite an evening.
Being quiet and alone,
relax and free.

Hearing and observing the exhale of breath,
It's time to notice the tiny bits of details.
Reminds me of Joy, Laughter, Sadness and Proud!


Was suppose to go for Winter Collection shopping today! Ended up waiting for 2 hours! Went to Gardens to get them and bought only 1 which is the winter jacket. I wish to be Zara instead and suggestions to Marks and Spencers too! Not bad for their fleece sleeves and leather jackets.

Sis finally got her Vaio from Sonystyle KLCC. My old working place. Another round of buying things from that place. The whole scenario is quite scary, lack of staff and no manager. Seriously it's chaotic but I bet when the chief returns, everything would be back to normal I guess? Under her lead, I bet its quite ok?

Anyways, another round of free Starbucks! This time is from Sis! Thanks for the Chocolate Cream Chip Frap! ^^

For once, I actually understands what they are trying to sell and me standing on both the customer and worker's shoe. Hard for them to work and hard for me to choose. It's best not to know too much of procedures or it would burry you alive when you buy stuff.

Signing off~

Thursday 13 November 2008

Queen of my heart...


I'm totally crazy for this Malaysian born female chinese singer! Jasmine/Fish Leong, 梁静茹. I dare to declare her the Queen of all mandarin love songs. Well not just my statement, alot out there do think so too~! It all started from my mom, a crazy fan for her songs though I once heard it during my high school years. She started to buy and buy all her CD's and concert DVD's. Whenever I'm in a mood, a typical mood, I would choose her! She first started her career in Malaysia and all you Malaysians out there clearly knows that it won't work in Malaysian market back then. So she went to Taiwan to further her career. All we can see now is she's doing great.

Her voice wins hearts of many people. Sweet and stable. She just released her album recently and it is still up to my standard!

Never watched her videos due to lack of TV times and the chances of broadcasting mandarin music videos on local television networks and Astro is included.

This is Nuan Nuan, 暖暖. Not so new song, just found it on Youtube, it's really sweet!




This is Chong Bai, 崇拜. A new song from her latest album. Still loving her video 'cz' this has Church on the water by Tadao Ando in it! Her video is well delivered too! I rate it 10 out of 10 excluding the 'crow' part.


Wednesday 12 November 2008

Bahasa Melayu??!?!

What's my misery? My studio house. I've been trying to search for a new form and to further develop! Seems like it's always stuck! Ended up renovating the current one and after seeing our dear Ar. Fadzwin, I am certain of my design and to continue with what I've started.

I'm glad I talked to her instead of Lecturer Hong who really didn't help much than to just give you the 'I'm expecting more' type of face and it's discouraging!

I feel alot better after the two days of struggle with my house design and now, I shall work towards that!

Was forced to wake up early yesterday just to fetch sis to school. Oh okok! It's voluntarily done! Anyways, I didn't regret much because of Hitz.fm really made my morning till I don't want to get off the car!

It was the first day of SPM with Bahasa Melayu as the first paper. Hitz.fm crew decided to theme it Bahasa Melayu for the day! If you were listening to it, I bet you would agree with me that is really funny for the whole time!

*Bagi saya 'chan chan la~'*

*Sekarang kita main...er how do you say edition?....ah! Edisi special*

*Ya, Tidak, Umm, Ahh!*

*Oleh kerana hari ini adalah paper Bahasa Melayu, Kami akan bertutur dalam Bahasa Melayu yang salah!*

I was seriously laughing all out loud. Well it was funny! Bet 'I come in peace' dorky geeks would laugh too eventhough some of them believe in alien existance!

Well, nothing much for the day as I felt lazy and getting lazy! Arh! Where and how to dispose the fats then?

Leona Lewis! When was the last time you see her on Live International telecast? The last I saw her was the China Closing Olympics ceremony and I liked her performance! It's really amazing to see her being so lucky! She is! A new singer coming out to the charts not too long and to perform on a closing ceremony for the Olympics? That's really an achievement! While with the title 'representing' London. That's something!

Her story is quite sad to hear about where she was kicked out from a group singers called...erm..nevermind! What I'm trying to say is, AHA! In your faces BITCHES! That's for kicking her out! Who's in the success line now? International wise?

Anyways, with her famous tracks which one of it 'Bleeding Love' written by Jesse McCartney and 'Better In Time'. Now 'Forgive Me'? I listened to her album 'Spirit' and it is good! Worth the money! As for the current chart popping song 'Forgive Me', try to listen to the harmonica section during the chorus part. I find it easing and calming! Do you?

Monday 10 November 2008

Hot....Cold....n?

(Click to enlarge)

Something caught me! Shen wanted to talk about someone hot. and while MS wanted to talk about cold weather. Me? I just wanted to talk about Hot n Cold by Katy Perry! (Please be informed that all these are done by coincidental)

Was trying to work out my model during the noon and Katy Perry totally strike me hard! Here goes the lyrics and it made my mood to 'annoyed' of something.

You change your mind
Like a girl changes clothes
Yeah, you PMS like a bitch
I would know

'Cause you're hot then you're cold
You're yes then you're no
You're in and you're out
You're up and you're down
You're wrong when it's right
It's black and it's white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up

You, you don't really wanna stay, no
You, but you don't really wanna go, oh


If you're the person I want you to hear it, I hope you really do get the message from the song lyric! I really do mean it and I realize I got annoyed of everything! (I really hope you know it's you!)

Glimpse of an eye...


Looked familiar? Yep, It's my necklace. The necklace you always see me wearing it. Finally I got it back after 2 weeks! For the first time I missed it! I really do! Never had 'miss' feelings on things before and yes, it's really the first!

This ring has been with me for a total of FOUR years. It has been with me every time I go out. Rarely forgotten to wear it. I just do so and it became a routine! Must not leave home without it.

The ring is now rusty in some parts of it. Some edges are scrapped off....etc Overall it's still okay, but the color of the scrapped off parts can be seen obviously. A different tone between the 'scrapped' and the 'un-scrapped'.

Something strucked me on my birthday. Audrey said she wanted to get me a new necklace to replace this. A doubtful thought appears whether should I just drop it and change another? Or should I stick to it?

Timothy couldn't suggest me much because he said it's precious and continue with the years! But judging the condition of it, maybe I really do need to change it?


Dear Father Justin, I've committed a sin. I've stolen someone's ring with that person's acknowledgment! Haha! Well, it's a suggestion for me to change the ring.


Should I? Really?


Well, it does looked good on picture I have to admit. Arh! Should I really abandon that 4 years old ring of mine and replace with someone's? or Should I just continue the years?!!?!

Sunday 9 November 2008

It's All About Movies!

It's complicated... It started with news of 'Lets go watch Double-O-7!' Immediately responded 'Lets go!'

5th November
Quite foolish you see. I have Building Construction II research paper to hand in the next day while this promised event happened since last week!
As you learn that I had troubles looking for sites. Ended up analyzing all monorail stations. It was quite cool about how the roof is and to actually think how they make it.


After compiling, I took a break off to Quantum Of Solace. I still prefer the first instead this though I'm not a fan nor looking forward with any intention to watch it. It was the premiere and I got invited to attend it. So why not? It's free! The movie was quite disappointing for me. The cameramen and all the angles created the whole disaster! But overall the story line was okay, not bad. and I got inspired for my House assignment.

and YES! I handed in my research paper in time with no regrets.

7th November
Another round of free movie! This time it's horror! I've warned saying I might destroy the show and the mood. I did!

It's The Coffin! Karen Mok is the main character, in a Thai Horror Movie!! What is it about? For you to figure out!



The disaster? I laughed non-stop! They were so into the mood of horror and I destroyed it with all my laughters. Sad eh? I don't know! Just can't hold on to it! It's funny! My point of view for horror movie is funny! I don't know why. I just do! Sorry people! If you want to watch horror movies with me? I think you should pass!


9th November




Finally! The day has come! Finally I watched it after sometime being released in cinema. I first saw the trailer on a bus trip back home. It was so tempting and I wanted to watch it straight away! But I kept dragging/delaying it till now for some reasons not to be exposed/explained. I was right! It is a nice movie! It's worth watching it! Really worth the money to watch it! The movie is called 犬と私の10の約束 (Reads: inu to watashi no juu no yakusoku), 10 promises to my dog!

Yes! It's a Japanese movie and my opnion towards japanese movies/ drama is they always create master pieces! Most of them strikes our hearts and grab them at their weakest point. It simply just touches me badly. Trust me, my tears was dripping droplets by droplets in the cinema.

I did not regret watching this movie among all movies in the past few months except Eagle Eye and I am truly happy for the japanese how they produce master pieces! By the way, this is an International Film. Meaning it's a representative from Japan among other japanese movies.

For now? I just work on my assignment! The house assignment!

JonJon signing off~