Sunday, May 6, 2007

Aquaria KLCC ( part 1 )

Tu hari, dah lama jugak, aku gi Aquaria KLCC.Nari baru sempat tampal gambo. Dia cam aquarium besar, cam Underwater World gitu. Melayu panggil apa eh? kolam ikan gergasi kot. Best, harga tiket pada aku berbaloi. Korang perasan tak? rasa2 tempat lain dalam dunia kalo ada underwater world, selalu dekat ngan sumber air laut jugak kot?, ni kat KLCC, susah nak maintenance ye. Jaws aka ikan jerung ada la berapa ekor.

Kalo korang nengok gambar atas ni kan, actually shark tu kan, lagi 30% lagi besar cuma pasal gelas kaca dia tebal kot, tu pasal nampak kecik sikit. Tapi besar giler dah tu ek.
Aku dengar ceta ni tempat dia order garam, then campur air jarang, so kasi combination cam air laut gitu. dengar cam gitu la ceta dia.
So sapa yang tak pernah pegi lagi, atau rasa nak pegi tapi turn off by the ticket price, aku rasa korang pegi la. Worth it. So meh layan gambo.(click to make bigger)


pamplet

cd pack korang dapat

entrance

ikan2 pari kat entrance

ikan pari kat entrace jugak

touch display gitu, sini korang bleh pegang2 ikan

starfish

penyu ada dorang nye exhibit sendiri, banyak jugak la pasal penyu

kura2 displays, cam2 kura, lawa2 lak tu.

kura2 close up, aku nengok ni Aquaria eh, well maintained sey.

katak, macam2 katak, ni besar siak.

ni katak alien gitu, basah2 gitu, cam lembek gitu.

ular pun ada, macam2 jugak. ni yang lidi2 gitu kaler hijau.

iguana kan ni, aku rembat je.

macam2 kumbang pun ada. kat sini, kumbang bukan seekor huhuhuhuhu.

ni antara deretan pameran, walau nama tempat Aquaria tapi its much more than that.

spider aka labah-labah pun banyak. brutal2 lak tu.

spider lain lak

ni pun cam solo2 exhibit gitu

apa nama eh, kiut2 gitu, cam koala tapi bukan la, aku snap gambo tak bleh clear lak, jadi la gini.

ni kawasan lain, tempat ni besar tau.

apa kura2 ni ngah pikir eh, kesepian gitu..

ni tempat abuse ah, penderaan kat binatang, kat sini ikan, kura2 smua happy2 swimming eh, then pengunjung, tak smua, sebahagian la, saje je tekan2 ikan2 tu ngan kura2 tu semua...
aku rasa ek, bila Aquaria ni dah close for the day kan, ikan2 & kura2 kat bahagian ni semua blue black lebam2 asyik kena tekan2 jek

salah satu mangsa yang asyik kena tekan2 hehee. Stress agaknye ek.

aku split le topik ni, part 1 la kira yang ni, part 2 aku buat lepas ni tampal gambar2 jaws lak.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Lat's Kampung Boy / Budak Kampung - original vs present comparison

Lama sey wa tak update -
Anyway, ni posting memang dah lama aku berangan nak buat dan akhirnye aku nye dream come true -
Perbezaan atau comparison between Lat's original Kampung Boy ( Budak Kampung ) ( 1st print February 1977 ) & the later versions of the Kampung Boy. Bedek sini kalo sapa2 tak kenal Lat, atau fikir Lat tu takde benda. Dia legend siot.

Korang mesti tahu Kampung Boy ni is one of the best cartoon books ever produced by Lat dan maybe in the world. Check out Matt Groening nye comment tu, dan kalo pencipta The Simpsons bleh cakap cam gitu, memang world la buku katun ni.

Atas ni ialah perbandingan muka depan antara cetakan 1979 ( aku bongkar jumpa dalam almari hehehe ) dan jugak 1st print untuk pasaran Amerika , September 2006 ( aku pinjam dari lebrari ).
So plus minus - dari Feb 1977 to Sept 2006, dah nak 30 tahun.
Bila aku cek2 merata tempat, macam aku nengok takde orang ada buat perbandingan terutama gunakan artwork2 sebelah menyebelah untuk kasi lagi jelas beza dulu dan skarang ( sorry Melayu aku berterabur harap korang paham apa aku bebual ).

Kita mulakan ngan tulisan dia, lain sikit, aku lagi suka dulu nye pasal cam nampak sah tulisan tangan yang senget2 dan comot, baru nye ada nampak lurus sikit.


Seterus nye, ada scene semayang Magrib, parents Lat ngah semayang Magrib berjemaah, Lat ngan adik dia ngah tunggu,
Beza dia korang nengok lukisan dulu Lat ngan adik dia relak tapi yang ni adik dia cam bukak tudung saji nak bedal dulu, dan lebih ketara, korang cek out Lat nye bapak, nengok dia cam tak pakai baju eh? ( klik the photo to enlarge it ), mungkin Lat tertinggal nak outline lengan pakaian bapak dia, also, mak dia sebagai makmum kat belah kiri.
So kat lukisan baru tu, bapak lat siap berbaju kurung, dan mak dia makmum kat belah kanan.



the next two scenes ni cam kontroversi kot? brutal abis, mungkin tak sesuai, atau tak politically correct kot.
Ntah eh, setakat mak bapak bantai anak tu ok je la kot tapi mungkin ni brutal sangat. Kena tempeling sampai tergolek jatuh tangga, mau koma siot kena bantai gitu macam.


Lagi satu masa Lat balik dari tin mining tu pun ada beza jugak sikit, tak tampal sini ah...
Thats about it la, hopefully korang enjoy tentang benda comparison ni pasal aku rasa " not a lot of people knows about it ".


p.s anyway korang tahu band Savatage tak? Ntah apsal aku suka betul album Gutter Ballet tu jam release tahun 1988, aku ada kaset, lepas tu siap upgrade CD, pasal aku suka giler tu album, lagipun ada lagu keramat When The Crowds Are Gone,
so ada lagu Summer Rain kan? lagu tak logik pasal terselit satu love song kat album brutal giler wakakaka.
Anyway, last year Jon Oliva ( penyanyi Savatage ) ngan band dia Jon Oliva's Pain perform lagu ni, dahsyat siot, best la eh Savatage, aku suka siak, tapi sayang eh gitaris dorang Criss Oliva mati eksiden kereta, ntah bini dia apa jadi, survive kot tak tahu dah recover fully ke tak. So Jon ni adik dia...gemuk siot skarang, tapi whatever, suara best bleh pekik2 lagik wakaka. ni dia youtube dia perform Summer Rain last year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKcQ3qo44p4

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Dragonforce is coming

Tu hari,
hari rabu lepas - Kumpulan Malex & Joe ( penyanyi kumpulan Rockers ) nye gig kat Old Parliment House " Mat Rock Returns ", aku tak pegi. Ntah apa ceta kot?
hari ahad lepas - Amuk nye gig, aku tak pegi.
Takpe, Malex nanti bulan 5 ada lagi satu gig tak salah kat Gashaus, tu maybe pegi kalo free.
tapi...

Whatever it is, Dragonforce is coming!!
20hb May ( hari ahad ) kat Pasir Ris Downtown, takde peral, aku nak kena pegi..hehehe. Ikut time duration, 2 jam setengah dorang nak perform. Best.

tiket cek kat sini - http://www.ticketcharge.com.sg/eventsinfo.asp?idx=108

ni poster dia...


Wednesday, March 28, 2007

stereotaip

Mumbling jumbling pagi2 buta...


cek this out, gambo Brian May ( Queen ) dan Bruce Dickinson ( Iron Maiden ).

Dari aku kecik2, late 70s, early 80s time darjah satu darjah dua, sampai sekolah menengah, in fact sampai skarang, aku heran kalo lagu heavy rock ke metal ke mesti kena cemuh ngan some circle of people, termasuk some penulis2 kat sokkabar ke hapa ke yang aku ingat, walaupun dorang tak la bijak mana pun, tapi their education level should make them realise their opinions are obnoxious.
Nasib baik mak aku tak pernah bising dia nampak kaset2 metal aku time aku budak2, tapi luar dari rumah biasa ah, rock dan metal tu relate ngan orang hisap dadah ke, orang jahat ke, budak lepak bawah blok ke dan whatsover yang very idiotic dan of course stereotaip. Lagi teruk, zaman tu, Metal ni kena siap chop Satanic hehehe. Skarang ok sikit, takde la sikit2 " wah, u listen Satanic Songs " ekekekee. Fools!!.

Well, aku suka actually, pasal pada aku being a metal fan, is being a part of a lucky exclusive group of people.
Walaupun aku tak intelligent, aku dah pernah lalui zaman " berhenti sekolah tanpa bilang mak bapak dulu, lepas berenti baru cakap ", dan setakat zaman " repeat student " tu no big deal, ni satu artikel yang aku bleh relate hehehehe.

Tapi apa pun, thanks to metal especially Iron Maiden, motivate aku suka belajar cakap English, baca sokkabar hari2 untuk general knowledge, history, literature, religions comparison, social/current issues, politics, warfare, human pschology ( betul ke spelling ), dan apa pun la... Up the Irons.

Artikel atas ni keluar kat sokkabar Telegraph, United Kingdom pada March 23 2007 lepas.

Heavy metal 'a comfort for the bright child'
By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent

Metal's bark is far worse than its bite
Brains in the bands
Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research.

The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest five per cent of young people will come as relief to parents whose offspring, usually long-haired, are devotees of Iron Maiden, AC/DC and their musical descendants.

Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.

Stuart Cadwallader, a psychologist at the University of Warwick, will present the findings at the British Psychological Society conference in York today.

He said: "There is a perception of gifted and talented students as being into classical music and spending a lot of time reading. I think that is an inaccurate stereotype. There is literature that links heavy metal to poor academic performance and delinquency but we found a group that contradicts that.

"We are looking at a group with lower than average self-esteem that does not feel quite as well adjusted. They feel more stressed out and turn to heavy metal as a way of relieving that stress.

"Participants said they appreciated the complex and sometimes political themes of heavy metal music more than perhaps the average pop song. It has a tendency to worry adults a bit but I think it is just a cathartic thing. It does not indicate problems."

The researchers surveyed 1,057 members of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth - a body whose 120,000 student members are within the top five per cent academically in the 11-19 age range.

Asked for their favourite type of music, 39 per cent said rock, 18 per cent R&B and 14 per cent pop. Six per cent said heavy metal and a third rated it in their top five genres.

The heavy metal fans in the study had lower self-esteem and more difficulties in family relationships and friendships.

Mr Cadwallader then held an online discussion involving 19 members of the academy, 17 of whom were heavy metal fans. They spoke of listening to bands including System of a Down, Slipknot, Tool, Dragon Force, Forward Russia and In Flames when they were in a bad mood and using it to work off frustrations and anger.

One student said: "It helps me with stress. It's the general thrashiness of it. You can't really jump your anger into the floor and listen to your music at the same time with other types of music."

Mr Cadwallader added: "Perhaps gifted people experience more pressure than their peers and use the music to purge this negativity."

Dan Silver, assistant editor of the music magazine NME who has worked for Kerrang! and Metal Hammer, said: "Many themes of heavy metal are about alienation. If you have these kinds of feelings there is a lot you can get out of the music and the community of fans who are into it."

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Brains in the bands
Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of Iron Maiden, is a history graduate, an international fencer and flies Boeing 757s.

He studied at Queen Mary College, University of London, where he was active in student politics as a member of the Conservative Party.

As well as his musical activities, he works as a first officer for the British airline Astraeus and is a published novelist.


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Bryan Holland, a founder member of The Offspring, is universally known as Dexter, American slang for a brainy nerd.

He has a degree in biology, and a Master's in molecular biology, both from the University of Southern California.

He turned down a chance to do a PhD to concentrate on his career with The Offspring.

He once flew solo around the world in 10 days.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Be Quick Or Be Dead

fast game punye update kejap.. Happy and sad news.

1) Is Heaven And Hell coming soon?
Tu hari aku dengar ceta kawan aku cakap Ronnie James Dio nak datang Spore, so aku just assume its possible with the Heaven And Hell ( Black Sabbath Dio Years ) nye line up. Kadang2 rumours dan berita2 angin gini betul, cam tu hari cakap Slayer & Loudness tapi at last Slayer je sampai.
So then aku gi lauretta Allabon nye website, dia punye myspace tengah buat poll Heaven And Hell. Aku got a feeling, Heaven And Hell is coming, pasal myspace LAMC Productions ngah main lagu Sign of the Southern Cross.. \m/
Gi sini dan vote ...http://www.lamcproductions.com/servlets/sfs;jsessionid=3E4E47A3C6AF42ADC3384322B39A85B7?s=xhX7VQVYL1wwVL85Vw&t=/contentManager/selectCatalog&i=1098152946568&b=1098152946568&l=0&e=UTF-8&ParentID=1161654281415&intro=1&CustomerID=0&startRow=0&active=no

Ni current setlist untuk opening shows kat Kanada skarang.
'E5150',
'After All (The Dead)',
'The Mob Rules',
'Children Of The Sea',
'Lady Evil',
'Ear In The Wall',
'I',
'The Sign Of The Southern Cross',
'Voodoo',
'The Devil Cried',
Vinny Appice Solo,
'Computer God',
'Falling Off The Edge Of The World',
'Shadow of The Wind',
'Die Young',
'Heaven & Hell.
Encore:
'Lonely Is The Word',
'Neon Knights'.

Smua dari album2 Heaven & Hell, Mob Rules dan Dehumanizer plus tiga lagu baru.
Mau nangis siot kalo dapat nengok ni line up live, ( maybe teardrops wa fall masa Children Of The Sea, hohoho! ) aku rasa front row tickets la kena tangkap muahahahaha. Start kumpul...now, just in case dorang betul2 datang.


2) Setlist Maiden baru..
Tu hari 17/3, Maiden kat India, aku tak boleh nak masuk sey website2 Maiden pasal smua tengah tunjuk2 dan cerita2 pasal the historic visit of Maiden gi India, takpe sapa tau ada rezeki lain kali bleh nengok Maiden somewhere out there, tapi tak dapat pun takpe, ni benda2 duniawi je kan, sigh. Anyway ni setlist baru dorang untuk empat shows bulan March ni. Lepas ni rest sampai June nanti baru sambung European festivals.
1. Different World
2. These Colours Don't Run
3. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
4. Wrathchild
5. The Trooper
6. The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
7. For The Greater Good of God
8. The Number of The Beast
9. Fear of The Dark
10. Run To The Hills
11. Iron Maiden
----- Encores: -----
12. 2 Minutes To Midnight
13. The Evil That Men Do
14. Hallowed Be Thy Name


Anyway, untuk Athens nye gig, apa aku dengar, Bruce Dickinson nyanyi " Alexander The Great " nye korus dua kali, satu masa intro Run To The Hills, ngan lagi satu masa break between songs.

3) Deep Purple nye setlist baru untuk present tour, ntah apsal ni tour " Rapture Of The Deep " belum sampai Singapore ke Malaysia? Padahal last three worlds tours sampai sini?

Pictures Of Home
Things I Never Said
The Battle Rages On
Strange Kind Of A Woman
Rapture Of The Deep
Fireball
Wrong Man
Steve Morse Solo
The Well Dressed Guitar
When A Blind Man Cries
Lazy
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Don Airey Solo
Perfect Strangers
Space Truckin’
Highway Star
Smoke On The Water

Encore:
Hush (with Ian Paice solo)
Black Night
In the “options list” were “Into The Fire”, “Ted The Mechanic” and “Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming”, but they weren’t played at this gig.



4) 25th Anniversary Randy Rhoads meninggal dunia.
Dari 1982 eh dia dah takde.
Blizzard Of Ozz , Diary Of A Madman & Tribute. Ni tiga album Randy Rhoads ngan Ozzy Osbourne ialah lagu2 yang aku grow up with dari kecik sampai skarang dah tua...
Dari zaman kaset masuk zaman cd masuk zaman mp3.
Apa kabar eh si mak Randy Rhoads ni, Delores Rhoads? ntah hidup lagi kot? tapi mesti dah tua sangat la eh...

Goodbye To Romance

Yesterday has been and gone
Tomorrow will I find the sun
Or will it rain?
Everybody's having fun
Except me I'm the lonely one
I live in shame

Chorus:
I said Goodbye to romance, Yeah!
Goodbye to friends, I'll tell ya!!
Goodbye to all the past
I guess that we'll meet,
We'll meet in the end

I've been the king, I've been the clown
Now broken wings can't hold me down
I'm free again
The jester with the broken crown
It's won't be me this time around
To love in vain

Chorus:
I said Goodbye to romance, Yeah!
Goodbye to friends, I tell ya!!
Goodbye to all the past
I guess that we'll meet,
We'll meet in the end

Bridge:
And I feel the time is right
Although I know that you just might
Say to me
Whatcha gonna do
Whatcha gonna do

'Cause I have to take this chance
Goodbye to friends and too romance
And to all of you
And to all of you
Come on now!!!!

Solo

Chorus:
I said Goodbye to romance, yeah!
Goodbye to friends, I tell ya!!
Goodbye to all the past
I guess that we'll meet,
We'll meet in the end

And the weather's looking fine
And I think the sun will shine again
And I feel I've cleared my mind
All the past is left behind again

Chorus:
I said Goodbye to romance, yeah!
Goodbye to friends, I tell ya!!
Goodbye to all the past
I guess that we'll meet,
We'll meet in the end.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

sound selepas banjir

some sounds from the Selepas Banjir gig.
1) Setelah Hujan - solo Joe Wings/Hillary
2) Fenomena with intro - All solo Hillary
3) MMDUT - All solo Hillary

Listeners of fans recordings of live performance, hope you like it.
For those who dont appreciate the value of fans live recordings, please dont bother. Its all noise anyway LOL!
Thanks.

http://deaf4ever.multiply.com/music