the observatory

How I wish the lady in red look back and wink to the audience. Any subtle gestural movement will make it interesting. This thought run in my mind back in 2002 when I stand and contemplated upon Hoessein Enas’s Memetik Daun Tembakau. Hoessein Enas's Memetik Daun Tembakau Then in 2008, when I flipped Susurmasa’s catalog, Zabas wrote something that strikes me - Art history, production and experience that we want to conceive significantly must be approached broadly, taking into consideration whatever could be related to and connected with them (audience) – wherever possible [1] . The audience and the artwork must be connected, just like how we line up for cinema tickets, popcorn and transported from the grim reality to the celluloid fantasy for good one hour or two.         Looking back it can be same reason or motivation why we attend any “ART” exhibition. The problem is, we don’t pay anything to attend an art exhibit, but we invest TIME in attending it.

choose between commenting, criticizing or act upon it. Which one is hard to do? It's the the act of doing something. Commenting, criticizing or saying something only requires someone to open their mouth, nothing more, nothing less. when someone doing something, you help them. For example, if they produced a show, published a book, buy a copy, a ticket - attend it, dont la mintak free complimentary ticket or products or worst - comments or criticism.  Kalau "free" pulak, excuses such as "busy", sorry,cant make it appeared. Lepas tu tekan like kat fb. Ada paham? You see, attending a free show also requires tremendous effort such as facing the traffic and investing time to experience the show. The time we invested upon it, we can never get it back.  Our life is way too short to deal with this perangai bangang. Its an unexplainable and contagious disease. I had enough of this.  Anyway Andrea gave me this photo, she mentioned that a mother took some t

1. drivers who doesnt give turn signal 2. main whatsapp, see google map who got lost eventually 3. drivers who doesnt know their engine capabilities 4. slow drivers hogging the middle lane 5. slower drivers hogs the left lane 6. drivers who think they are F1 Drivers. 7. drivers who scared of rain and thunderstorms. 8. drivers who slowed down and see accidents like paintings. 9. blinding headlights. 10. one headlights and doesnt have brake lights. 11. lorry drivers who cant even wash their vehicles and their loads. 12. who takes 5 minutes to shift their gear from N to D 13. drivers who have kids on their lap and pretending to be driving instructors. 14. average to bad drivers who watch Top Gear.

when you hit 40, you bound to look back at your surroundings, elements that form you today. I realized that Uchuk Raver is a disease.A disease that maybe this youngsters being fed too much with chemicals. The problem is you dont feel old. Age is simply numbers and fingers and i am so fortunate to be surrounded with alot of people who doesnt behave like their age. We have no time for regrets or basking in past achievements. We keep on doing what we need to do. The clearest example is our new Prime Minister, The Tun, 93 year old who still read, write, drives and now managing and steering our country from nowhere to somewhere and to nowhere here and somewhere again. Rather than seeing the sunset with Siti Hasmah, he went straight in and showed what he made of. Proving himself and rest to the world again and again.  Becoming an elder is important too as all our actions, thoughts and yes importantly our ACT will somehow leave a mark to the younger ones. Here are the two teachers who

normally i dont blame the kids as i always mention that the adults is responsible to groom or shape the kid. Everyone need to know their family roots and origin, it's vital. Coz the apple wont fall far from the tree. Lets take Star Wars for example. Kylo Ren - whiny and killed his own father Han Solo. Solo left Kylo's mum (Leia), leaving Kylo to uncle Luke Skywalker. Luke's dad - Vader pulak fall in love with an older princess, married her secretly and eventually strangled her, not knowing his wife is pregnant with Luke and his sis (Leia). Luke pulak almost fall in love, kissed his twin sister coz he didnt knew about it.  Now who's fault? It's Obi Wan.  Obi Wan and Yoda need to hide Luke and Leia as they are afraid the Emperor or Vader will hunt them down. It would be nice if Obi Wan explain everything to Luke all of this in A New Hope rather than bamboozling Luke all the way to Empire Strikes Back. 

“ Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it . Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders . Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” Siddhartha Gautama

Hafiz Raslin's wife Su and with their newborn Umar.

we Peranakans will use certain terminologies to express something. These sort of symbolical phrase to sum up something. While deep inside the jungle, someone send me a photo of this. Your tiredness, numbness goes away instantly, these kids pose in front of Che Ali. In Southeast Asia tradition, before we step into any home, we need to greet the elders first. So in this exhibit, the el kapitan, the chief is Che Ali. Aziim's kids. Hafiz, Su and Umar Me and Dr Najib  Sejuk Hati means you are happy, elated and ecstatic at the same time. In this exhibit we encouraged people to take whatever photos, videos they want in this exhibit. So.........lets leave something to people to appreciate, experience and whatever they want. We need to know that whatever efforts we put or invested upon, we have no power to influence the outcome, simply need to leave to the universe.  The exhibit will be until 31 August in Balai Seni Negara. Sincerely Yours Pengkalan Tereh, Jo