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Questions and Answers

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it can be extremely hard and at times taxing when you do alot of stuffs at the same time. Alot of people asked me what ive been up to, i dont know where to begin. Due to this, i realized my patience is getting shorter for people who tend to waste my time. So detaching and cutting them off need to be clean, precise, sharp and objective like a samurai. I can get money but i cant get my TIME back. and i seriously need my space and sleep. For the ones who attended the show, im sorry if i cant join you, i hope you enjoyed it as much as i do.

Museum

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.....and soon all of us will be a museum artefact.  To be gazed upon. Entombed by labels and glass cases To be adored. my hundred years of culture is glanced thru by an entrance ticket

Land before Time

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found images 2018

The Weasel

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Perfect

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you must have everything first then only you can contribute to others. Donating cash is not the answer for everything. Everyone seeks what they dont have. why we tend to buy the stuffs that we dont want? why we tend to have wastage?

Crazy Rich Asians

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A Boat and a Jet

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this fler took "someone's" money to buy himself a yacht.  This fler went to hiding, so the govt took the yacht back. It costs RM3 million to maintain!!!  Apparently this fler bought a freaking JET, parked in Singapore,who is now charging RM3 million for its parking bills.  Now the question is who is going to pay all of this?  The government right? and mind you, who is paying the government? It's WE.  Moral of the story - rich people dont use their money, they used other people's money as their money.

Respecting your audience.

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AMC did it again. They produced The Terror. Remixing true historical facts, unsolved mysteries, creativity rules the day as they seep, steered us to a 10 solid episodes, filling us freaking chills witnessing the soldier's doomed fate. This is one of the rare production where you can see every worth of the producer's penny poured in every shot. My eyes hurts and aches. You kept muttering swear words when the credit rolls and hell its for cable TV, not a film. Its the waiting, battling the elements of nature, intense pressure resulting to conflict and yes the unseen freaking Tuunbaaq gave me goosebumps. .................and i am speechless. bowed down in complete awe, shaking your head while scrambling for words to sum this up. The reward for being a selective recluse.  

Context

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at times i can be annoyed when people asked me "subtext" and mentioned other related academic terms, for me an exhibit should be simple, enjoyable and at the same time, opening up their perspectives and finally bring back "something" home. what irritates me is people love to drop fancy terms in their FB criticism of a film or an exhibition - while people who read it will get the wrong summary, see their fb comments. First of all, its easy to criticize or write a scathing reviews. Grow some concrete balls and do it. subtext noun an underlying and often distinct theme in a piece of writing or conversation. "in any biography the relationship of author to subject forms a haunting subtext" any academic terms or whatever fancy words should be put aside, save it for conference or whatever dry moderations. But since everyone wants to know "context or subtext" of the A Place Called Home, fine, im sharing it here. Each human

Colorful Language

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so the govt released a list of swear words. the top table shows all the terminologies of private parts and sexual intercourse used by Malaysians. being multi-racial means we have lots of variations. so how parents going to answer to their kid where they come from? you came out from TONTON or POPONG. Tonton in Bahasa Malaysia means watching. no meaning can be found from POPONG. dont ask me how a bowl is used to describe stupidity . the word Natang  taken from the word binatang ( animal ) , what is wrong with that? We see so many people behaving worst than animals. anyway the word BABI ( pig )  is the favorite. a nasi lemak worth 50 cents is used to describe the breast size - this came thru a 2010 local movie entitled Cuti Cuti Cinta. Apparently parents figuring out how to explain to their kids. Mak Ko Hijau - your mother is green.......... seriously i dont know if this is a statement, a curse word, a praise or whatever. Go figure.  Swear words are color

OKU and LGBT Issue

ok, local social media buzzing with LGBT and transgender issues. A Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister Department ( sounds handful ) mentioned that transgender can use the OKU ( disabled ) toilet. what? as usual everyone go berserk.  anyway im not going to elaborate on this. I googled thru and found out there are many types and categories besides transgender. Now we have transracial.  Facebook introduced dozens of options for users to identify their gender today - and although the social media giant said it would not be releasing a comprehensive list, ABC News has found at least 58 so far. Agender Androgyne Androgynous Bigender Cis Cisgender Cis Female Cis Male Cis Man Cis Woman Cisgender Female Cisgender Male Cisgender Man Cisgender Woman Female to Male FTM Gender Fluid Gender Nonconforming Gender Questioning Gender Variant Genderqueer Intersex Male to Female MTF Neither Neutrois Non-binary Other Pangender Trans Trans* Trans Female Trans* Fem

Inflation

your 1000 bucks is not going to worth 1000 bucks next year.  the unbeatable system  inflation rates. 

Durian ( A Visual Inter - Text Essay )

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DL-44

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after spending weeks coming in and out, finally i got my hands on the DL-44 from Adely. What the hell is DL-44? It;s Solo's blaster. The one who takes Greedo out. Shoot first, talk later. All of us want to be Solo rather than Luke, we want a blaster, a loyal furry friend and take no prisoner attitude and yes, winning the Princess is a bonus. what else you want? The arrival of 3D Printers too added layers of dimension and possibilities to creativity. Plus users contributed their inputs and gave away all those files for free. God bless you all. So, download, print you can do whatever you want. I added few embellishments to make it realistic. This is when Lego parts come in handy. The Scope needs to be lowered and yes lots of super glue. and finally weathering. yeeehaaaaa............

Disability

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Intellectual disability known as mental retardation, characterized by below-average intelligence or mental ability and a lack of skills necessary for day-to-day living. People with intellectual disabilities can and do learn new skills such as being elected democratically, but they learn them more slowly ( averaging 10 years ) I wish The Ministry of Health able to supply these to the speakers. 

Reality ( A Semi Haiku )

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im in denial. after a week soaking myself with Thai hospitality, good food and clean streets of Bangkok - im back in the country. made a mistake when i log into my FB  newsfeed is flooded with nonsensical local news, democratically elected speakers firing expletives -  Musang King durian plantation owners going head to head with the Temiar's as their ancestral land is under the threat of durian.  Corrupted leaders still hogging in the media spotlight. endless illegal logging, lands cleared to fuel the never ending desires, quenching the desires and the thirst of  Musang King and D27.  Bear in mind  illegal logging is one of the culprit for the flood disaster 3 years ago in Kelantan. Nevermind.......lets watch Edge of Tomorrow again.

Django

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How you want to top yourself when you won Cannes Festival - the Palm D’Or, Pulp Fiction broke new ways to tell a story visually, forced the audience to watch the film again to make it sensible and understandable. Then you put all homages from East, go crazy with every available visual languages in Kill Bill. Telling everyone that you will only produce 10 films to cement your legacy, Quentin leveled up in his own standards not the industry by giving us Django Unchained. Django is 100 times better than the Hateful Eight. Both are Western, with Django, we get to see an illiterate slave to assassin while the Hateful Eight is putting all the bad guys in a single location. It’s a single act. Reservoir Dogs in a Western format.  For me Django takes the prize, the masterpiece, a complete hero’s journey. With Marvel, we have complete hero but a weak villain, in Quentin’s universe, we have asymmetrical hero, mentor face to face with an intelligent justified bad guy.