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Flood Missions : Kampung Setulu

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with Team Bravo, finished distributing tons of gas tanks and cookers to Kampung Setulu, Kuala Krai. Distance from Base Camp to their village ( 440 km ) They didnt know how they hell we got there.Came back at 4am and we got this - a honest appreciative hug from the ketua kampung. Worth more than any currency,gold or diamonds. with Boy

Books

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Sexy 

Zen Master No 7 - Rafiki

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 “It means you’re a baboon and I’m not.” Don’t take life so seriously. Embrace your weirdness.

Zen Master No 9 - Baloo

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alot of "adults" need to watch Disney's Jungle Book again if they want to find purpose in the life. Most of the time, they are busy chasing stuffs they want - forgetting what they had. Subsequently, they forgot how to live their life - becoming assholes and pricks. Look for the bare necessities The simple bare necessities Forget about your worries and your strife I mean the bare necessities Old Mother Nature's recipes That brings the bare necessities of life Wherever I wander, wherever I roam I couldn't be fonder of my big home The bees are buzzin' in the tree To make some honey just for me When you look under the rocks and plants And take a glance at the fancy ants Then maybe try a few The bare necessities of life will come to you They'll come to you! Look for the bare necessities The simple bare necessities Forget about your worries and your strife I mean the bare necessities That's why a...

Politicians Are......

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bad actors. someone got RM2.6 Billion bucks donation from a royal Arab family, the whole country goes bonkers and now he gave it back. His goons kept feeding the nation idiotic advice regarding high costs of living and other rubbish. Well tell you guys..........put yourself in our shoes and try living as a normal citizen for a month. Strip all your shit titles, salaries, allowances, privileged and all other related shits and we give you the same shitty advice that you give us.

Visual Storytelling : An Ordinary Needle 2010

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I always design and conceptualize the visuals first before i start any of my film or documentaries. Here is are few of the concept sketches from An Ordinary Needle - that won something in the Festival of Photos, Documentary in Hanoi, Vietnam back in 2010. Man...that is 5 years ago. As you guys can see, there are tons of notes, scribbles on it - evident of creative process, few frames even got deleted in the final cut. Most people i got to know - they dont spend time in the pre-production process, resulting in jarring visuals and badly cut narratives. and here is how the animation looks like in the documentary.....beautiful...

Pierre Brassau

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After World War II, art took a turn for the abstract, a movement that featured artists like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. For normal person, these paintings were strange and nonsensical, but art critics loved them.Noticing this strange trend, Swedish journalist Ã…ke “Dacke” Axelsson went to a local zoo to find an artist. He found a 4 year old chimpanzee, provided him with some oil paints and let him do whatever he wanted and renamed him - Pierre Brassau. This is one of his "avant-garde" works - critics loved it and found out the hoax. "Pierre Brassau paints with powerful strokes, but also with clear determination. His brush strokes twist with furious fastidiousness. Pierre is an artist who performs with the delicacy of a ballet dancer." - Rolf Anderberg Pierre at work, 1964 One of the main reason i dont attend any exhibitions, keeping any pompously written exhibition catalogues anymore. Click here for another brilliant prank on these "hi...

Contextual Notes No 3 - Autotelic

After tons of people asking me why the hell i did short film, documentaries, paintings, drawings and anything that sounds "fun" and "unorthodox" - i managed to dig a substantial secondary research and got a guy explaining this academically. People now loves feedback and pressing the freaking "LIKE" button. For me, i enjoy the challenge and process bringing something up and sharing substantial stuffs, things that made me inspired. "An AUTOTELIC person needs few material possessions and little entertainment, comfort, power, or fame because so much of what he or she DOES is already rewarding. Because such persons experience flow in work, in family life, when interacting with people, when eating, even when alone with nothing to do, they are less dependent on the external rewards that keep others motivated to go on with a life composed of routines. They are more autonomous and independent because they cannot be as easily manipulated with threats...

Brilliant Notes : Superman

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I'm avoiding/shunning/unfollow/hiding all political related posts in my country......rather than reading them, sharing all the nonsense in the social media, i rather spread brilliant stuffs...... like this...mashing these powerful stunning images with Public Enemy's brilliant track Harder Than You Think, man....this 2012 Paralympic ad in London is a classic.

Pulp Fiction : The Gimp

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Cultural Studies Notes No 7 - Pink Millionaire

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a millionaire here sponsored a football team - they need to use PINK jerseys and she wanted to paint the whole stadium PINK too. Not this PINK   here's the millionaire - goes by the name of Datuk Vida. Earn tons of money selling those herbal stuffs. Here's the football squad Here's the proposed stadium, besides the team had to fulfilled another 33 wishes too in the deal.... soon the whole Kelantanese will sing this classic Aerosmith's Pink

Courtesy Notes No 2 : Rejection

Here's another classic courteous rejection email. The organizers take effort in addressing each of one of the participants - which is Commendable. Dear Anderson , ( rather than DIRECTORS ) Thank you for giving us the opportunity to preview  "Hero "  for ( put your festival name ) and  ( year ). After careful consideration, we are unable to include your   film in our selection this year. With limited venues and available slots in which to showcase outstanding films, there are many interesting films which cannot be invited. ( the name of your festival ) takes place annually and we hope to continue receiving news about your future films. Please check out our website ( put your link ) from ( dates of your festival ) onwards for our full programme. Thank you again for your understanding and support for our film festival. Warmest regards, ( put your freaking name here ) On behalf of  ( the stressful event organizers and comm...

Tell Me......

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Ecto 1

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weeoooooooooo!!!!!!

Courtesy Notes : Rejection

It seems now there are so many fringe festivals involving art, film and etc......dont worry, im aware that the event organizers will have trouble evaluating those submissions. But what is important here is the painstaking effort of replying to the participants. It's commendable - painstaking effort - but it's IMPORTANT. What annoys me are the ones who couldn't spend time and effort of replying.......at least send something ok Here is the latest i got..... Dear Director(s),  Greetings from the event organizers.  On behalf of the event  sponsored by ( insert your sponsors ) we thank you for your submission to this year's project. We had a huge number of excellent submissions this year and selection was very tough.  Your documentary was considered but unfortunately not selected as a finalist.  We thank you for participating and hope you don't mind if we add your email address to our mailing list. We will hold t...

Awesome Bowie Notes No 1.

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William Boyd collaborated with David Bowie - published this book as a hoax, presented as a real biography. "Nat Tate" is a combination of the names of two London art galleries, the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery. Boyd and his conspirators set about convincing the New York glitterati (social elites) that the reputation of this influential abstract expressionist needed to be re-evaluated. Bowie held a launch party on April Fool's Day eve, 1998 and read extracts from the book, while someone talked about Tate's friendships with both Picasso and Braque. About a week later, journalist David Lister,said that no one he spoke to claimed to know Tate well, but no one claimed not to have heard of him. In reality, it appears that few were fooled and most of the big names in the arts world (including artists, collectors, art historian, art dealers, New York based writers like Paul Auster, and editors of literary journals) quickly realized that Nat Tate ...

Goodbye Nana Hamdan

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Life is Short Notes No 19 - for anyone who purchased my Do Good cards, the designer Nana who painstakingly trace all my lousy lines and made it presentable, who helped me scouting for papers for the card finally bade goodbye after months of battling the idiotic cancer and the dumbass chemo Nana.....im just glad having you to be in this project....You sure gelak-kan me from the heavens now kan.... Rest well Nana, you deserve it, please drink all the coffees you want to now, your kids will be well, im sure of it. You no longer abide to all the worldly sufferings already. We will meet again one day.....laughing, kutuk someone else and yes have more conversations. alas, yes i have to admit that universe's grand plan is perfect - but this is mentioned by Buddha, that this is suffering, suffering mentally and physically....Im a human after all. Getting these news just jolt my system as im recovering from a bad shit fever - the weather is fucked up at it's best. ...

Orang Jahat lands in KL

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i always avoid those stuffy gallery settings, avoiding all those pretentious ceremonial speeches, rituals and set up. Anyway got myself a nice unpretentious settings to host all the bad boys. Located upstairs of Jeff's place, this place reminds me of all those grounded - humble - most importantly not "hipster shit" art cafes found in Bandung. So finally able to call out all of my close friends to gather - and yes, eating burgers courtesy of Faizal and we have a open air screening of Pulp Fiction. Lots of conversations rather than instagramming photos......

Genius

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God, please bless this guy seriously.....his name is Pakalu Papito. Never fail to make me laugh so hard.

TR - 8R

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Pahang

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no need to go far if Ridley Scott wants to direct the Martian sequel.....they can go to Pahang.

Life Notes : My Handphone

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Life Notes No 5 - someone asked my pal "apasal Andy got no whatsapp....", then i appeared, joining them - put down my car keys, ciggies and finally my trusty lightsabre.....both look at it - my pal said to him - "kan aku dah cakap - you tak percaya, andy orang gila ( andy is a mad )" Even a Bangladeshi pump attendant laughed at me seeing me texting with this artefact. Assholes. Wahahahhahah....anyway there is no people will bug me,wasting my fucking data-plan and etc. It does bug me when people used smartphones asking for directions - as i will tell them off...... "your phone have a google map assholes"

Macho Moments No 9

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Walt, pencil on paper, 2015 Walt cooked the best product, flooding the market, he appeared from the shadows - explaining them chain of events and asking one of the meth dealers "say my name"......