the observatory

damn Andy.....kau jenis patah rotan...... The term patah rotan is breaking the cane. Cane is made out from bamboo. One of the hardest to break and yes i am the type that "patah rotan" patah rotan is the breaking away from the people who is rude, inferior and emotionally unstable or worst they doesnt know what they are doing.  This act is done and treated objectively. anything to do with emotional states is messy. For example, an argument or misunderstanding requires listening coz we have the absolute power to listen or not to. What is worst is when people raising ( screaming ) their voice in the pre-text of making people listen to them which always fail. Throwing words and whatever mental vomits is simply nothing except NOISE. NOISE is like those incomprehensible annoyance you get when you in the mamak shop, i simply cant hear what im chewing as everyone speaks and the same time the TV is blasting full volume. i dont need to look back or even extend a room in my ...

remember what you speak, share, utter, criticize, comment or whenever you opened your mouth.....coz it will get back to you.

The family circle has widened. The whirlpool of information fathered by electric media...far surpasses any possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character is no longer shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage. The wheel is an extension of the foot the book is an extension of the eye clothing is an extension of the skin electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system....media by altering the environment, evoke in us unique ratios of sense perceptions. the extensions of any one sense alters the way how we THINK and ACT - the way we perceive the world. When these ratios change....... men change.   

we live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

67 pages, published in 2005, became a surprise bestseller.  one of the salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.  everyone knows this. each of us contribute his share. but we tend to take the situation for granted. most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. so the phenomena has not aroused much deliberate concern, nor attracted much sustained inquiry . in consequence, we have NO clear understanding of what bullshit is,  why there is so much of it  or what functions it serves - Harry Frankfurt.

it is better for you to be free of fear and lying in the bed of straw rather than to own a couch of gold and lavish table and yet have no peace of mind does not believe in an afterlife, achieving happiness on earth is better, more practical.  so choose your heaven......or choose your hell. 

....remember when we flipped the comic books ( i always have soft spots for the angry Hulk ), our favourite characters making an appearance....NOW we going to experiencing it in a big screen. This worth MYR 20 bucks man. repeated viewings? oh yes.

“Up to now, most scientists have been too occupied with the development of new theories that describe what the universe is to ask the question why. On the other hand, the people whose business it is to ask why, the philosophers, have not been able to keep up with the advance of scientific theories. In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, 'The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. ' What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant! However, if we do discover a complete theory, it should in t...

kalau takat beli Hilux, pasang tayar besar - mcm showroom lepas tu ronda town, baik beli Myvi ok. A 4X4 is meant for off-road, going to sites and meant to be punished.  Let me show you a beast...Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG, its not 4x4, it's 6x6, developed initially for the Australian army. This is a freaking six-wheel drive running on 5.5L, 536-hp, 561-lb-ft twin-turbo DOHC 32-valve V-8 AMG engine. The G63 AMG 6×6 is fitted with Mercedes' 7G-tronic 7 speed automatic transmission.Launched in early 2013. The company decided to stop sales of the car and declared the model completely sold out in early 2015 to maintain the model's exclusivity.  Price RM 3 freaking million Malaysian Ringgit. Here check out The Hamster Hammond reviewed this beast!!! Phew....and yes im having an orgasm.

International Women's Day - the day reminded me that WOMEN have a superhero ability which is carrying a baby for 9 months, 9 days. Mind you, the responsibility goes on to another 18 years of cooking, feeding, nurturing and whatever needed for the kid. an impossible task and seriously i owe this to my mum, i cant repay back what she did until i kick the bucket. with all this me too and times up movement going on,James Cameron got criticized when he mentioned that Wonder Woman a step backwards - it's funny - well let me remind everyone that his films ( Aliens and Terminator ) feature woman armed with balls of steel which can blow Jenkin's lame Princess Diana away in any given time. Remember when and how Sarah Connor took care of John Connor like a lioness? Remember how Ripley kicked the Alien Queen's ass? Here are few notable ones.  Shosanna and The Bride.  and yes.....who can forget these bad ass in Mad Max: Fury Road...a woman who is capable...

every political party can write their own manifesto right? Its what they can offer IF they WIN in the upcoming general election. The problem is OFFER and DOING is two separate thing. I think its almost years i dont believe in then word Offer, as OFFER is FREE. The concept of Offer can be placed like SEMBANG. ( cheap talk ) and mind you, most of the time, people forget Acting Upon the Offer after someone took it. So let's see what the opposition party is offering if they happened to be governing the people for the next 4 years. The manifesto have 60 pledges in 200 pages. and can we expect them to act upon 60 pledges in 4 years = 48 months. Hmmmm that alot of accomplish in 48 months right? Most people not doing alot when they are still alive. 1. abolishing the GST, so what is going to happen to the GST collected ? 2. so someone monopolizing Bernas and Astro....wow....we are living in the age of Netflix. 3. Reduce Excise duties for 1.6cc cars. - are we going ...

watching, reading and appreciating a film is tricky, MIND YOU - its separate 3 different entity. The director of photography is responsible to design the visuals and realize the director's vision. Its all bout SHOW - DONT TELL. just mute the volume and see how and where the visuals lead you.  The experience is like you standing in front of the huge painting. It doesnt swallow you, but welcoming, entice you. A participative process. I still remember i almost threw up when i watched Hunger Games. That DOP is a big shitty turd. Most of the time in my film classes, students are encouraged to view, gaze and contemplate on selective image chosen weekly. Such as Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World. you cant go wrong with any Carravagio's chiaroscuro work. Again, being selective, knowing what you want is a rewarding process/catharsis. again, it takes tremendous effort to be subtle, thoughtful and sensible to be simple ok. You simply cant go wrong with Chivo ( Emma...

Today is International Women’s day, nestled in the midst of #Me Too and and Times Up – I’m going to review one of those bad ass female icon albeit hyper sexualized Lara Croft, played by Academy Award winners namely Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander. hello Brad Alicia Vikander now is the new spunky, punky believable Lara, is grittier and closer to home compared to hyper-glamorized, over the top Angelina’s version. With someone narrating the legend of Queen Yamatai who is blessed with a deadly touch, buried in a tomb located in a terrible anti-social island, then off we go - seeing Lara, who grew up, didn’t go to any university, disillusioned and struggling to cope growing up without her dad, her idol, her mentor, her Obi Wan, her reference – " Lord" Richard Croft. Then Richard goes missing dealing/searching  Himiko, the mythical Queen of Yamatai who was said to command the power over life and death.   For 7 freaking years. So everyone got bored find...

Q - Andy, what you been up to lately? A - alot of stuffs man.... Q- such as? Its funny, after all these years, with lego bricks i built Castle Grayskull - one of those pesky playset that eluded me when i was a kid. He-Man : Master of the Universe is a lovable cartoon where we have moral take-away in every episode, but what is memorable is the villains - name Skeletor....he is hilarious. then we have Prince Adam ( who wears Pink!! ) have cowardly pet tiger who turns to Battle Cat. I dont know what they are smoking in Mattel but hey - it works and manage to sell millions of toys. We grew up weekly with Orko, Man-EFaces, Evil-Lyn and the rest. Watch the documentary produced by Netflix is brilliant entitled https://www.netflix.com/my/title/80161497 The original playset is not proportionate, back those days, who cares as we are kids...we play with them, not keeping them MISB. ( Mint in Box ) here look below. so thanks to google, time and liberty of finding the right...

VINCENT Want some bacon? JULES Naw, man, I don't eat pork. VINCENT Are you Jewish? JULES I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all. VINCENT Why not? JULES Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals. VINCENT Yeah, but bacon tastes good. Pork chops taste good. JULES Hey, a sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie. But I'll never know 'cause I Wouldn't eat the filthy motherfuckers. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's A filthy animal. I ain't need nothin' that ain't got sense enough to Disregard its own feces. VINCENT How about a dog? Dog eats its own feces. JULES I don't eat dog either. VINCENT Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal? JULES I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy, but they're definitely dirty. But a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way. VINCENT So by that rationale,...

this is a detail of the La Sagrada ( The Cathedral of the Poor ) a personal project given to Antonio Gaudi which he dedicated himself - continuing design and building it until he die. Mind you it's still incomplete.  “On arriving in Barcelona, “I found that all the churches were closed and there was not a priest to be seen.” That was a typical piece of English understatement. The priests had been shot. Bodies of nuns had been exhumed and displayed in the street. Almost all of the city’s 58 churches were burned and many demolished. Barcelona’s medieval cathedral, set in the heart of the city, only survived by coming under the direct protection of local government. - WH Auden, 1937 “My client is not in a hurry,” he famously insisted. His client, of course, was God. In his world, the poor were an object of prayer and not a subject for politics, especially not revolutionary politics. Indeed, it was a sin to threaten the established order. One sculpture on the Sagrada ...

Hi men! I'm korg , this he's miek. We gonna jump on this ship and get out of here. You wanna come?

....besides having to answer or putting a mighty effort in provide answers of magical questions such as "what's for lunch", we also need to deal with this......

so US got her hands on Jho Low's the Equanimity boat, Switzerland got her hands on the paintings. what we (Malaysian) get?