the observatory

its brilliant when a simple brick can go to multi-formats....building these can take many hours - forgetting everything around us.....( which is good as i dont need to tolerate nonsense ). So i decided to build myself my Christmas present this year ( why not ), for many years i've been wanting a Cat's Lair ( that's Thundercats headquarters - mind you ). Maintaining the blocky, simplistic 80's design....this goes thru several design phases ( esp the cat's head ) - there goes my weekend... The Mars Rover ( i got turned off seeing the price in the secondary market ) - i need to see this in my lifetime,  what sort of tyres they used man coz this guy travelled Mars for god's sake... and yes.....TQ Internet - with so many brilliant people uploading hi-res Lego instructions....now i can have multiple versions of the Time Machine. based on my fan-drawing last year next - we have the third version - the amped up Time Machine All these are m

Lego made me drool when they released UCS sets. ( UCS stands for Ultimate Collector Series ) a bigger set - which is so mahal and annoying. Few people can only afford it and as usual "berlagak" la....fast forward to 10 years after, sneaky China brought them back - and it's much cheaper....wahahahahah, best giler!!!! Gua caya sama lu Lepin!!!! star union?!! who cares man, its the imperial shuttle from ROTJ These sort of sets can easily cost ranging from RM1200 - RM 1500....so most people driven by greed, they will purchase 3 sets for "investments" as the prices will skyrocket two to three fold when Lego decide to retire the sets.   Your mind will go thru several assessment stages if you want to part that sort of serious hard-earned cash............I kept it to myself and asked cmon....it would be nicer if it would be affordable...Lepin made thousands of people and myself happy...hehehehhe......wahahahahahh.... got bombed twice - an achievement.

It's can be interesting when it comes to having conversations with the Orang Asal guys, few of them - you need a pinch of salt and few - worst where you dont know if they are pulling your leg or telling the truth ... Example No 1 - all of us are hungry like mad, and i asked one - where is the nearest shop?, they pointed it out and said it's near. Our definition of near is within 5 minutes. It took us 40 mins to the shop. Example No 2 - one guy told me that he need to feed his chickens...I asked if he has alot? Not many - he confidently replied...I asked - how many you have? he replied...300 seriously these guys can contest in future elections. anyway its pretty fun adventure in building sustainable shelters for the deserving ones.

My dearest padawans ( artist in the making ), this note is simply a reminder, use it well and accordingly ok. First of all - you guys have another 2 more semesters to graduate, therefore you guys are not full time artist.  When you guys choose Fine Art as a major - 1. you are subjected to many classes in order to understand, expose and train your skills, your visual language and vocabs and most importantly to identify what you LIKE and what you dont LIKE. In the end of the day, your understanding and application of what you have learned is important. 2. You guys took almost 3 years to obtain your diploma , so that sets you apart from all these "amateur" artist wannabe - and the ones who think that they are an artist but they are working as a banker, a secretary who doodles in their past time. That is a big difference ok. The need of sketches, drawings and notes  Its vital for you guys to have a diary or a sketchbook of sorts where you can keep all the thoughts, ideati

to all demonstrators ( red, yellow and now orange pulak ), if you guys able to bring down the cooking oil price down 10% - you are osem. Takat memekak non-stop, pointing fingers, giving media and public to flood my newsfeed with idiocy and antics without any solution is just not cool ok... Thank god i have Metallica go all plastic Enter Sandman.....TA Jimmy Fallon. 

....with all these endless Trump political posts ( guess it will go on for the next 4 years ), looks like we going to be in the loop where same endless news like those whiny parents complaint about their kids sat on the road, rising petrol prices, political figures press statements and acts, another Bersih demo and so on - Question is what are WE going to "DO" about this?

“We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.” 

.......so my friend decided to bring few old folks for a road trip, few of them havent even seen KLCC before, so they were amazed....few of them uttered "wah!!!", dont know how open the car door and so-on. They had so fun. So it's time to go back, one of them hugged my pal - he was surprised. He asked "why?"...the old man said " i dont know when we will see each other again..bye-bye"....my pal stopped his car at the road side - hugged the nearest tree and CRIED.

See this painting behind us, it's remarkable- this piece painted by late Jeganathan Ramachandran reminds me of indigenous folk Mexican art, Brightly colored,primal symbolism and goes beyond the subject of any shallow categories of race,religion and the ever pathetic political issues.  https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/culture/2021/02/23/malaysian-artist-jeganathan-ramachandram-known-for-his-spiritual-works-dies-aged-59

Selective ignorance can be blissful at times, lately Malaysians filling their FB posts with political posts - again attracting negative comments and not so brilliant comments.I just dont get it - as if we post that - we will have them resigning...but what is nice is - with this sort of parasitic environment, we can see true blue angels and good deeds appearing. US will either have another Clinton or Trump...Unbelievable. ( i find it hard to fathom that a party able to put Trump in this position )  Prices will rise - yet we can see people getting new i-phones, people will spend....period.  complaining non-stop, enabling - making others angry is something i cant fathom - seriously it's taxing. I choose happiness, i choose to be in heaven. I rather have- seek - hunt quietness/stillness rather than being involved into a sea of noise that doesn't contribute anything except more noise and echoes.  I choose this. 

is knowing that your actions doesn't make others suffer, waiting in vain. But making one feel good, appreciated and cared. We no longer have this attitude and practice. Especially in the service line - food related industry -in business ( where smiles and good attentive services are hard to get ). Not to forget - banks, where people need to WAIT for their cheque to go thru a freaking "floating process" to get their OWN money.