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Everyone got their own story to tell, but tell me - how you need to tell a story about someone else, someone who is talented and already covered by someone...... www.selfmadehero.com im talking about Pablo Picasso. Published in 2015 under Self Made Hero publications, divided unto 4 issues, Julie Birmant and Clement Ouberie framed Picasso thru the eyes of his close friends and muse Fernande Olivier. Fernande This graphic novel covered sociological, situation and elements what made Picasso a Picasso. Its narrative is massive yet so focused especially when it comes to dealing complex relationship of Spaniard with poet Guillarme Appolinaire and Max Jacob. Of coz for the many, when people introduced to the Cubists, they will whisper to themselves that they able to do this. Weeping Woman Before Picasso found ways to compress time, multiple perspectives and space into a single frame, seduced/enticed by the raw powers of the African Aborigine primal masks - he too was painti

I always imagine i able to travel back in time and spend 5 or 10 minutes talking to Socrates. Yea sure, a philosopher doesn't work as he always lamenting on things, lets go see Napoleon ( sure he is busy conquering all territories. ) Better still lets head to warring states China and have some minutes talking to King Ming ( the influential greatest strategist in modern warfare ), what i can bring home? What is my take away? Now rather than dealing this fantasy meeting all these people who left a huge foot print/actions - an indelible mark in history, the bountiful universe grant me to spend some solid minutes with Tun. Our former 4th Prime Minister who steered the country for 22 years and now returned as the 7th Prime Minister. After 15 years in exile, observing his students crumpling everything what he built, he goes into the ring - round up all his critics, opposition members to throw out the crippling regime. tackling the horns of the disillusioned bull.  Rather than re-

A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.”                                                                                                                                          Monkey                                 Journey to the West  Kerana Mulut - Badan Binasa - Malay Proverb

  If a Bollywood film married with any one of those Ultraman TV Series - you will get Aquaman. oh i need to add - moral of the story, as a parents, make sure your kids speak to one another. oh yea - the octopus drummer - his name is TOPO. meet Topo     

hey teacher, leave the kids alone only all - we just another brick in the wall This classic legendary line, a reminder from Pink Floyd serves as a stark reminder that eventually we will be part of a larger - all consuming society, where we will consume whatever, whenever and whoever, sucked into a society where the free for all, who gives a damn ruled the day, where we simply seek opportunities to trample in the name of progress, buying more stuffs and finally succumb unto stress, depression and someone will bury us.  Or we can CHOOSE to refuse, go against the grain and trapping of these tempting material mechanisms, go all out defy societal structure and finally seek and live on HOW WE WANT TO LIVE our lives. The benefit and this unforeseen prospects is never embedded, taught or given a chance to see the light of the day.  Study harder, work harder, consume more and die faster. So after years and years of our local education structure is been imposed with vigorous exams

Netflix Narcos's hooked me immediately when i finished the first episode of ther first season itself. Im such a sucker for an engaging and beautifully wrapped story, Narcos packed another blow by their wonderful luscious visuals. Those wide angles, panoramic landscapes is a brilliant disguise for it's blood soaked, violent tales made of bullets, vicious deals and back stabbings between the patron or jefe's. As we know Pablo Escobar opened the curtain and steered us to the second season, The colorful corporate Cali Cartel took over - soon as Pedro Pascal look over the horizon, we are brought to dusty exotics of Mexican landscape. With patience and some slow burning time, we are introduced to a new game, a new mechanism and we got new addictive substance architects in the form of the Pencil Man Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo and Micheal Pena as DEA Agent Kiki Camarena. Just like any TV series - as we thought we are moving forward to another chapter, Eric Newman ( the s

if they dont cast Tobey Mcguire or Andrew Garfield- i will put my hard earned money for Jake Gyllenhall to play Spidey. Seriously he is one of the most versatile actors in the market and he can pull off any characters he wants. Burning the screen with Donnie Darko, this enigmatic actor magically hooked me with his materials. I was go pissed when he was snubbed by the Oscars for his brilliant opportunistic coyote bastard role in Nightwatch, he expanded his craft like Leo. But checking his wide catalogue, i have to choose End of Watch as one of his very best, supported the usual brilliant Michael Pena. This is the true David Ayer before he was tapped to direct the dumb Suicide Squad. He used this exact cop buddy formula, lessen the F bomb in Netflix's Bright.  End of Watch is one edgy knife with all its glossy curves, it cuts at the right spot and doesnt give any sweet apologies. "If you run away I will chase you.  If you fight me I will fight back.  If you shoot at me I

“And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself.”                                       - Khalil Gibran  - The Broken Wings.

every creation or works produced have their own consciousness. The universe is great and objective enough to reward and match you with deserving audiences when the intention is clear, directed and thoughtful .

itts not easy being a lecturer, you simply need to know what you need to share, to instruct, to guide - there are so many variables and methods to ensure your students know and most importantly able to apply it later. Its all not about projecting a power point slides, insert a standard commentary or worst - parroting the slides. I rather have a skype lecture.  Then you have two types of audience - the one who couldnt give a shit about the lesson and the ones who paid attention. Normally when exam/assessment comes, the ones who doesnt paid any attention will pay attention. Anyway im not talking about those language engineering subjects, here im talking about the creative studies subject where the qualitative, subjectivity and the questionable's running amok here. There is no formula, established rules or standard instruction kit to a subject that is free from any convention. Its like scouting and grooming the right football players to an elite Premiere League team. Its easier

Of coz we cant control what people will feel, its their right. But we CAN choose to accept their reaction or not.  Therefore it is IMPORTANT that your intention MUST be GOOD and RIGHT.  

people always look tangible stuffs while the REAL VALUE always appear in the INTANGIBLE form. 

.............Bad Times at the El Royal and its like having a chicken salad for starters, steak as the main dish and you finish this with a chocolate shake. The background music is from Depp Purple................sounds heavy but its ok.

avoid dealing with anyone who likes to repeat themselves unconsciously. We have a peranakan term for these sort of people - we called it " radio rosak", in other words " a broken record", the player who plays the same record/tune again - again and again. Its unfortunate we cant find the on/off button for these people.

seperti anjung menyalak ke bukit, takkan runtuh. its a Malay proverb - loosely translated as the dog kept barking to the hill, it wont collapse. same goes with public opinion, social media comments, anonymous feedback forms. when you know what you are doing, intentions set - actions taken - there will be people who couldnt be bothered.  the most important thing is we act upon it.  why we need to change ONLY after we got comments or those cheap ass criticisms and commentary? people dont have opportunities to grow some balls, expand their perception and unable to accept the truth so rather than focusing on these sort of low life form, we impart some good well wishes to them.

always offer solutions, possibilities and reasons to help rather than asking for it.

lets focus on our NEEDS rather than our WANTS ok.

Friendship according to Buddha - the ones gives what is HARD to give, does what is hard to DO, endures what is hard and when misfortune strikes, they DOESNT look down on you. We have many "friends" who loves to give others a HARD time sharing HARD tales and UNFORTUNATE tales always does the EASY stuffs LEAVE during HAPPY moments ASSUMING fuck up tales in their HEADS all these encounters or exxperience dealing with others will determine your VALUES and your WORTH. I have low tolerance for messy, unrefined Emotions, Irrationals whinings and such as usual the endless SELF ENTITLEMENT issues and so on - so forth so lets reflect what is the hardest stuffs or effort we offer to others?

alot of people wants to be rich - the problem is being RICH doesnt conform or confined unto the sense of material - most notably money. Of coz having money can buy you alot of stufs, but can happiness - health can be quantified? Desire, Craving and Wanting are mechanisms that cant be quantified , its limitless boundless capabilities have nothing except misery. That is why people lived in DEBT. Constantly paying their DEBT, fueled by monthly interest - disguised as LUXURY or whatsoever you call it in order to have something tangible. Funny right? Your perception will change dramatically when you are alone. Material doesnt last neither able to bring any comfort in the long run. I find it weird when people prefer to live with so many stuffs rather than lesser or not having any stuffs at all - mind you, when you pass on, who will own those stuffs? They will simply put away, discarded or to be sold away. So lets figure out something what we can do, accumulate and can pass unto ben

alot of people will take the easiest of all three act - which is prayers. The problem is when you dont have the right intention or the right actions - you will never get those results. The problem about most people is blaming someone, this and all that jazz included - while not moving their freaking ass.

today is pretty interesting as we can see all the goons ( former politicians from the ruling govt now turned to be an inefficient opposition ) gather "thanking" to the current government for not signing the ICERD. The ones who behind this are the ones who took all the country's resources during their tenure. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination so we going to have one who go support and the ones who go against demonstration. It's funny, all of these happened during school holidays, where our ringgit is so weak until they cant go overseas.   Talking about the word Convention - convention is a like those annual event, where people come all over to a place and share something, presenting key notes and what not. More hotel buffets and long flights and more airport security checks. Adopted in 1963, went to a draft in 1964 and finally approved in 1965. ICERD listed so many criteria - forming an ideal structure. It

The Asian region is one long buffet table meal, everything is produced from the same ingredients which made the Europeans sailed the waves to get spices, cinnamons, pepper and whatever that made their dishes look and smell better. One of those benefit when we have only torrentous rain and punishing sun all over the year. Now add durian and haze to make it 4 season.  Inter - Cross boundaries, jumping one place to another to find better avenues,where Myanmar's cooking Wan Tan Mee, the Indonesians no longer being a maid, but as a spouse, going greener greens is easy, inter-marriages turned cool - hip, culture is fused together, works wonderfully - differential only to accents, slangs and terminologies. Singapore - The glorified hotel lobby, the place where chewing gum is banned and if you are a smoker, you are subjected and treated like a prisoner while at the same time contribute to all nation's GDP. The well connected - clockwork island where they imported water from us,

Our consumption changed in the 21st century. We no longer have patience to wait weekly - we download the whole package and binge at one go, like how we consume Pringles, content shelf life now turn shorter, periodically, any monthly content materials is now over.......OVER. News getting shorter, we now consume information like crazy and i wonder what sort of data remained - retained in our consciousness? The quest of taking own sweet time now is a freaking luxury while everyone ran faster in the rat race and subsequently get sick and yes die faster. Therefore every industry, the importance of re-inventing is important and i need to highlight the importance of CONTENT. In the 80's we have so many ideas churned out from left to right - ranging from an archeologist to space wars, cybernetic cop not forgetting monsters and various blood thirsty monsters. Sunday cartoons with bears spewing heart shaped powers to alien family of cats and the battery powered Ultraman. Now, all propert