Pictures

these were what i was trying to do in the videos.

we should do this sometimes

Take time to notice things around us..

Something To Think About.....



Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.


4 minutes later:
The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

6 minutes:
A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his wa tch and started to walk again.

10 minutes:
A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.

45 minutes:
The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

1 hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people's priorities.

The questions raised:
*In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?
*Do we stop to appreciate it?
*Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made.

How many other things are we missing?

The Stuff and Capitalism

I found these videos and it's interesting, so i want to share.

The Stuff



Capitalism
Here's a link to it. It's rather long, so if The Stuff didn't interest you, then don't watch this.
http://www.vidics.com/watch/2349/Capitalism--A-Love-Story-2009.php

BANGKOK TRIP - Day 1

Journey to the airport and flight to Bangkok were uneventful. No terrorists. No snakes on the plane. Haha…

The journey was so bored, I fell asleep.

Reached Suvarnabhumi Airport.

Met our trip guide, J, who is a representative from the Kasetsart University (KU). He is the person who will be taking care of us during our stay in Bangkok. A very polite man, and as I got to know him better, turned out to also be someone who loves to partaayyy… (He was the one who introduced us to the crème de la crème of Bangkok’s nightlife) J

After a short briefing, we were brought to our hostel. 

The Bansabai Hostel.

Nama je hostel, but inside……

My room...

The very comfortable beds

There are over 80 TV channels provided to us. Crazy right?

All the above for only 300 baht (about RM30) per person per night. It's really cheap!

After putting our stuffs, we were whisked off to KU. On our way, we saw these colourful taxis:

And these are views of their highways:

Traffic jam. Just like KL :(

We were told that there’s a simple dinner awaiting us, and during the dinner, we’ll be introduced to the Faculty of Agro-Industry’s Dean, lecturers and a few of their students.

The university is so cool, they have an entire building just for parking cars.

While waiting for dinner to be served, we mingled around with the students and learnt some simple Thai words and phrases. Most of my friends were asking for translation for a few of these phrases:

-       

    “How much is this?”

-       “Too expensive. Can it be cheaper?”

-       “Can I get a discount?”

All were busy planning ahead for shopping trips, which to my surprise, were actually part of the itinerary. We were being paid by our university to go shopping in Bangkok. How cool was that?! Haha…

In my mind, however, were a few phrases which are totally different from the ones stated above. Instead of the above, I was thinking of these:

-       

     “Hi. My name is…”

-       “What’s your name?”

-       “Can I have your Facebook address? MSN too?”

Okay, most of you will now think that I’m desperate or something, but with girls, 

and guys like these:

Eh, silap. This guy is from UPM :p

I don’t believe you are not even a wee bit interested. :p

Haha. No la. Actually, my motive was to know more people and make more friends. Serious……………….  :p

After a wonderful dinner, we were brought back to our hostels so that we can have a good rest and be ready for more leng luis activities the following day. J

Notice anything weird about this picture? All the guys are on the left hand-side of the picture. I guess you know the reason why. Hahaha... :p

To be continued....

TRIP TO BANGKOK - The Days Before

As I was adjusting back to my daily life after my mini escapade to Sabah (which I’ll blog about once I received the pictures from my friends), I got a phone call from my faculty.

“Tai Boon, awak telah dipilih untuk menyertai Program Mobility Pelajar ke Thailand.”

At first, I was skeptical. Is this for real? Hold on, maybe this is one of the Hitz.fm Gotcha call. But in the end, it turned out to be the real deal after all. :)

Great! An all-expenses paid trip to Thailand! 

Soon, phone calls from seniors and friends came pouring in, some asking for travel trips (as if I’m a seasoned traveler. Haha) But mostly, the calls were from seniors who self-elected themselves to be the leaders of this trip and started delegating jobs.

A trip, which I initially presumed to be a fun and simple trip, turned out to be an educational/ cultural exchange kinda trip. Me and my wishful thinking. There is no free lunch in this world, of course there would be something for us to do in exchange for our paid trip! Haiz….

So, after plenty of e-mails and phone calls from my seniors, I was made to understand that we are supposed to carry out the role of ambassadors.

“Wakil UPM dan juga wakil Malaysia”, as the kakak from my faculty’s administration office informed us. Hahaha… What a title.

Then, came the part I dreaded the most. Found out that I was in charge of a cultural presentation. I have to give a 10-minute presentation on Malaysian cuisine. Not that I hate giving presentations or being lazy (okay, maybe a little), but 10 minutes on Malaysian cuisine?!

Where do I start? Chinese, Indian, Malay  and Baba & Nyonya cuisine? Appetizers, main courses, desserts and drinks? 
Mana cukup masa weiii……..

Furthermore, if we Malaysians know all about the tom yams and mango kerabus, what makes you think that the Thais are ignorant about our nasi lemaks and teh tariks? Just Google or Wiki and they will have tons of information lah…..   

So, I decided to tell my leader.

Me: (stating all the reasons above, hoping to be given another task, or maybe another topic to present on)

Friend of mine: True true. I agree with Tai Boon. Why don’t we do a cultural dance performance instead? I can be in charge of it.

Leader: Great idea. Okay, we’ll do a cultural dance performance.

Me: (in my mind) YES!!! Then I wouldn’t have to be in charge of anything anymore. Hahaha…

Leader: And Tai Boon, you will still be presenting on Malaysian cuisine. So, we will have a presentation AND a performance. Very good, very good.

Me: Crap……………………………………..

So there I was, on my 22^nd birthday, alone at my rented house in Serdang, preparing my presentation. What a way to celebrate my birthday :( 

** But then I received a call from Cat, and got to know that DC is celebrating Wong, Ee Kai and my birthday. Only I was not there. But at least I got a song and an MMS of my cake.

Thanks guys!!! :) :) :)

There's Spiderman on the cake! :)

To be continued…

logan logan logan

BOO!
sorry to scare you with that creature on your left.

Hope this picture will make it all better -

TAAAAAA DAHHH!

ps:// I still love you bro :) it's okay if you're retarded.
I'll accept you for who you are.
*evil laughter
Eekai, Wong and I went to Sunway and Eekai had his lunch in good ol' Sakae Sushi while Im actually a supporter of Sushi King. Lol*

look who's into Tap Tap?

ps:// his food was left untouched for about 10 minutes.

*cantonese
"Tai meh tai? Mei kin go leng zhai ah?"
"Tai lei meh? Tai game lahhhh"

Lol*

I was stalking the boys from the other table.
Damn they eat alot.

Eekai and Wong : SEE! They didnt take red plate wan! Confirm CHEAPOs! Hahahahah!

Hahaha. Our "plate incident".
Wong stole the next table's plates and we found out it was Su Lyn (Im not sure if it's the correct spelling)
EPIC.

Then, met up with Yap, his brother and Alex for Percy Jackson.
Im telling you, that movie is crap.
Storyline sucks and there are some illogical events that made me and Eekai laughed cos of its stupidity.
Overall, a good movie to just waste your money on since it's CNY. Haha.
Graphic's kinda good though ;) Love it.

And Logan Lerman is to die for....

signing off now. Not many pictures today :(

I MISS SAM CHONG!

Our second jamming session of the song entitled "It Ends Tonight"

Tak berani listen to the song yet.. i just upload

:P:P

This is the final one.. right before we went back that day...:P:P

You all dengar d only comment lah.. tak berani buka speak and listen at home..:P:P

Man .. upload so long wan..

Bok Bok Bok

Bok Tower

Bok's DIL's Piano i believe

Kitchen a.k.a. Willy Wonka room


Bamboos

Top part of Bok's Tower

Trails to .........

Emo Room a.k.a. Eekai's bedroom

MY room a.k.a. Master Bok's room

Library

Dining Hall

Bok was a man who came to florida long ago and settled on the highest peak in florida.

So True yet so often we forget

A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:

'This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package.'

He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.

'She got this the first time we went to New York , 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on , was saving it for a special occasion.
Well, I guess this is it.
He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died.
He turned to me and said:

'Never save something for a special occasion.
Every day in your life is a special occasion'.

I still think those words changed my life.

Now I read more and clean less.

I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.

I spend more time with my family, and less at work.

I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through.
I no longer keep anything...
I use crystal glasses every day...
I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it.

I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to.
The words 'Someday...' and ' One Day....' are fading away from my dictionary.
If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now....
I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. A
I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.
She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels.
I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food.
It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come..

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.
Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one.

Ee Kai's pre-birthday celeb.

Hi guys,

Been millions of years since i posted anything so i guess it's about time...haha

Well since everyone is posting about New Year, ill bring you guys back to december last year.

The title says it all and well...i think Ee Kai is freaking out reading this....hehe

Well, early in december, myself, Rachel, eekai, sam and rachel's friend went to Red Fm's party at G hotel's G spot sport bar with the theme "Love Classified". It's a party held specially for "BACHELORS" and "BACHELORETTE", sort of like a match making kinda party althought most people that went are not single, myself for instance.

Before party picture.

Picture with Red FM's DJ and Nisha

Group picture of the entire Love Classified cast.

After the party at Gspot hotel, the after party is held in City bayview hotel where Jazz festival is held. Before going to the after party, we went to Hard Rock Cafe and it's Eekai's shining moment.

That's all from me at the moment.

Take care and cya all...

Signing off!

New Year!!

Hi guy!!!
Haven't been blogging for so so long..
Time really do flies don't they..
Is already 2010 and well guys HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
May blessings from above rain on every single one us..

2009 have been great.. was like a roller coaster ride and i got emotionally unstable all the time..
Sorry to the Gang if i cause any one to be unhappy!!
Special thanks to Sam for his "money loaning" during my very own economy meltdown!! lol..
But above all these it was still a great year, and i hv great frens who stood by me thru it all..
What more can i ask for right??

Well now in the new year all i can see is tat all the bad things hd come to pass BUT all the good things of 2009 still remain!! DC are still together and strong!!
And
I'm doing my intern now in a prestigious company and things can only get better from now on!

All right enuff of the emo-ing before WONG started to cry!
So CATHERINE & VISHAL ( green symbolize ur still an indian :P ) If you guys wonder what we did on new years day!
Here it is..

Found myself in QB for the 5th time in a week..
AND we
CAM WHORED ( so not the the DCs thing but when we do it we always do it best ) hahha



I love this one!! classic!! and i like sam's expression in every pictures!!



This batman is cheeky, I punched him and he was like "DO IT AGAIN"
and he.. HURT me!! haha



Thats 5 jokers for you!! haha
Y so serious!!




SAM!! wait there are more!



Pervert!!!



And the HAPPY PERVZZ..

Chao!! HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS
God bless All of you..
Cheers ^^


4/Jan/2010
we love you Alex