This has to be one of the most tiring weeks ever. Been going out almost everyday near morning, and returning home at night.

One of those days is where I am playing tennis with Fett and Gin, after a long day, a nice shower and a moment to settle down is heavenly. Until.... "Hey, let's game!" - Says one of the gaming kaki.

Haha, so yes, very tiring indeed. Because of this I sleep quite "early", around 2~3am. At least it ain't as bad as last time where I sleep at 7~9am. Really become vampire adi. o.o

On the 13th of Apr, I wanna thank Fett, Gin, Spannar Elites[Calvin and Vince, even though Wen San and Johann couldn't make it =(], KY, Shereendar, Mimi and Marianne. =) I enjoyed myself, and I hope you did too. Haha. Ended it with Jason, Friday the 13th movie.

Well, I think it was on that day itself when my handphone leveled up to become Godlike, whereas the battery indication would never drop from 100%. I think I don't have to charge it anymore. =)
If only that was true, went to Zitron at Berjaya Plaza today to see whether can claim warranty, seems that it is voided already, batt warranty only 6 months, the phone is 1 year old adi. =( New battery would cost RM80, but heck, I don't need it cause this battery is still usable.

Just that I have to charge everyday la, can't tell whether batt power is low or not, though that is what I do anyway. xD
What's the point of getting a new battery if the same thing is gonna happen again? Might as well use this till really really cannot use then only buy another one. =) Not like I'm someone who talks on the phone for hours. =)

Other than that well, can't believe bus ticket to Kenyir rose, to like, from RM36 > RM44. I mean, petrol prices drop adi lo, why don't drop your prices also, that's like extra RM8 man.

Well, I'll end this post with a picture Mimi drew for me. It's really sweet. =)



Link source : http://megane.deviantart.com/art/ptysiePAUL-for-SHON-119359170

Thanks Mimi. ^^

Damn I'm dead tired.

Just got back from PC fair, helped my friend Ben to photograph the event, and took quite an amount of pictures of booth babes. Lol, this was particularly for Surfloft. Afterthat helped Calvin to buy his PS3, lol, got a good bargain. xD

Haven't fiddled with my camera for so long, lost my touch. =/

Anyway, here are the pictures, edited and cropped by Ben. I just passed the files to him, too lazy to do it myself sorry.




















I will update the link of the event as soon as Surfloft updates it. :D

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Edit : Hehe, link finally up.

http://www.surfloft.com/review/2009/04/pikom-pc-fair-2009-more-pics.html


Since I'm feeling less tired now and more refreshed, I'll share my experience during the PC fair event.

First of all, as you all may have noticed, I am not particularly good when taking event pictures or human models. I'm more of a product / still life guy when it comes to photography. Perhaps it is because with objects I can take as long as I want to get the best composition, without causing any inconsideration or what-so-ever.

However when it comes to a human model, you can't take your sweet time, esp when the model is not being paid[as in particularly for your photography purposes]. And to make them hold that pose / stance for a even a minute is without doubt absurd in most cases.

Secondly, I cannot stress how much I lack a flashgun, I think I'll stressed alot about it in my cousin's wedding post. Events, esp PIKOM PC fair, are most of the time indoors. I had to increase my ISO to 800 during the event, and it wasn't good enough! o.o

Then there's some of the moment where there is strong backlight, the models will usually be underexposed, whereas if adjusted properly even, the backlight will get overexposed. >.>

I hate using the camera's flash, the light is too harsh. Gah!

But still, I enjoyed this session with my camera, haven't touched for a long time since last term with photography classes. Damn sad, lost my touch adi. Haha, during the PC Fair quite funny though, go up to the booth girls, ask them for permission to take their pictures. xD

One of them requested that I send her the pictures via email. Lol.

Regardless, there'll be a Kenyir trip soon, can't wait, gonna be snapping nature. Eeeek!

Done with my Demo Reel for 3D advanced modeling. Woot.

Here's the link to youtube : Youtube Grant Lucious Demo Reel

Or

Deviantart : Deviantart Grant Lucious' Demo Reel

Enjoy. ^^

So it was Mimi's birthday on the 17th of March, celebrated her birthday in Yuen Steamboat restaurant. She's been craving for their tomyam so yeah, haha. At the same time got her this Sony earphones as her present, Calvin and Shereenda chipped in too. :D

Here are some pics on that night. The girls were cam-whoring with my phone, sorry for the poor qualty as its only 2MP. =(








Didn't bring my DSLR as I am already burdened with my laptop and other stuff cause we were gonna overnight in the college's 3d lab.

Well, we didn't really sleep, even though I said overnight, most of us were too busy working on our 3d advanced modeling. Haha, except Marianne who's facebooking / chatting / blogging and etc. o.o

Well, at least I managed to more or less render everything in the lab. Now all that's left is the compilation. =)

Just finished working on the Concept art environments, A and B. A might still need abit of refining, but I'll work on it later. Here are they. =)





Last but not least, my cousin smsed me this afternoon, regarding meeting up and discussing some stuff about making some extra money. I have already guessed that it's somewhat regarding the pyramid / MLM system. Yes, we all know the evil that it possesses.

But you know, this one is a little different, it doesn't sell any product nor advertise. It's like sharing / circulating the money. There is this 8 generation rule, whereas unlike the pyramid the fellar on top will not stay there forever, instead they'll be kicked out when they reach the 8th generation and is replaced with someone else. This will keep repeating itself so everyone has their fair share of sitting on the top.

Surprisingly, Pos Laju is collaborating with this company, the company's name is Eight August Resources btw. You can find their "half cooked" website here : http://kutupintar.net/index.html

So regardless of this company going bankrupt, there's always Pos Laju as standby. I was convinced cause most of my cousins has already joined, and they had their fair share and were victims of the MLM system last time. This was kind of new to them, as it is also legal.

I think you just needa take out RM121, you need not pay it to your introducer, but to the Pos Laju office to get your package thingie. RM121 is all you need to get going, so I don't see much to lose here. =)

My cousin made the calculations, if you could introduce this to 2 of your friends, and your friends intro their friends x2 each, let's say it just keeps going x2 x2 x2, at the end of your 8th generation you'll earn about RM5.1k+.

If you're interested you could contact me via e-mail : xiven_nevezen@hotmail.com or call / sms 012-2686682.

I'll tell you more in detailed. Oh, only in Malaysia though. :D

Haha, if you've read your e-mails, I'm sure you've received this notice regarding Suftloft.com and helping me win some cash. :D Weee~

Well, I actually won the lucky draw, RM300, wahahah!

Check it out!

Surfloft Contets Results


Wanna give my thanks to everyone who registered, and of course Keat[owner of Surfloft].




Well, let me talk a little about the web site, more or less it updates you on the latest trends and technology and etc happening around us. The site is pretty straight forward with news and mostly are summarized for bite size reading. In short, it's for lazy people like myself. xD

Catching up to the latest trends has never been easier here. xD

Well, I've mostly been active in the forums / discussion area, pretty fun with friendly members. There is also an SOS section where if you can send out distress signals when you are facing issues like computer breakdowns or so.

Anyway, I don't wanna blab too much about it, why don't you go have a look yourself?

http://www.surfloft.com/

Update : Well, today was kinda sucky, first not only did my mom not pay our phone bill[my number is under her, that's why], I got hit by a BMW. It all happened when that guy up there is taking a big piss on earth, it was so heavy that the highway was flooded.

At that faithful moment when paying toll via smart tag, this BM in front of me happened to have an error with her tag and decided to reverse, predicting something bad was about the happened, I honked, she did not stop.

And bang. There goes my car. Well, not really, the dmg wasn't that THAT bad, but yeah, so happened she was living around my area, so she lead me to this workshop that her brother owned.

Well yeah, kinda dangerous I know, but, I could not contact anyone. Sucks.

So well, we settled stuff over at the workshop, I managed to borrow her phone to contact my dad, passed the phone to her brother and so I'll be sending my car back there on Sat, and get it repaired FOC.

Ugh, I was supposed to buy the Acer Aspire One lappie for my dad some more today. Sien.






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Well, addicted to Gintama and finished 2 animes, Ghosthunt and Towards the Terra, pretty interesting animes, and addictive. Haha.

Anyway, short update, term break soon! 2 pics from concept art 2.

Finally found some time to update I guess. Pretty much busy as hell, lecturers are still bombarding and rushing us to finish our projects asap.

I did the craziest thing yesterday, or at least I feel that way. I only had 1 hour and 30 minutes of sleep, woke up at 7am, went to college, and stayed in class for about 5 hours, ended at 2pm. Then I went for tennis with Fett and Gin, we were at the club for about 6 hours to 7 hours, and yup, just playing tennis, but for my case I did take a dip in the pool too.

Unluckily for me, I kena hamstring, halfway swimming. >.> Lucky I can swim, or else drown and die adi. First time I got hamstring, kinda weird and scary, can feel the muscle popping out like that and damn hard somemore. O.O And can feel like got very deep bump at one part.

Well, even with that injury, I still continued swimming for abit, and went on with practicing tennis. Though I didn't run as much. =x It still hurts even now. Though my whole body is almost in pain. Yay for TOA students who exercises their hands / wrists only.

Later at night went out to makan bak kut teh, then when driving home I think I saw glimpses of white shining light. Oh wait, that's just me falling asleep while driving. =x
Bugger, I keep swaying to another lane, lucky there weren't any cars.

Back home, tired as someone who had 2 hours of sleep but still wants to go on and on with daily activities which includes everything stated above. I died on my bed for 2 hours, woke up, and continued 3d animation. [Yes, bloody sad!]

And well, after all that here I am typing this entry.

Seems that my youtube is taking forever to upload the helicopter animation. Lol. Regardless, here's what I did for CA2, backround kinda last minute, while took like 5 minutes of randomly painting with a few texture brushes.



Is still modeling this dude in Advanced 3d modeling, the armor is kinda killing me regardless of how Chong Hing[tutor] said that it's easy as pie. Or maybe it's cause there is no proper timeslot for modeling armor, props and weapons, so yeah, kinda being pushed.

Oh, cool, the vid just finished uploading. Well then here's the Helicopter animation on youtube :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG1PhVcen40


Oh yeah, you might be wondering, "Busy as hell? Bugger you're playing tennis and swimming and eating bak kut teh, what's up with that?"
Lol, that's cause I finished all my assignments early ma, regardless, I have the feeling that I needa get out more, I think I'll go nuts if I don't loosen up. Moreover, it's healthy. =D

And painful.

Well, after so long, I finally could spare some time to write another entry.


On someone

Well, let's start off with this certain someone, who wants to make a small matter seem like the end of the world. Being the one who left the bread crumbs and doesn't want to be blamed for, but neither did you put the blame on him.

Regardless, if you are reading this, what the hell are you trying to prove? That because 'they' called you to question you, and that puts you in a "grave" situation and makes you an important person that we, your friends must bow down and listen to you?

And if you fail, you'll rat on us and put the blame on us just because you don't want to eat this shit?

Talk about being selfish. No one forced you to do anything, but you had to, and not only that, you left the bread crumbs behind. And regardless of that, we didn't even say it was your fault. But yet you take us for granted, put the blame on us for starting it.

You know, it sounds like we bring in the drugs, and ask whether you want it or not? And you accept it, we did not force you, and you being the smart guy, left some bread crumbs behind and now you don't want to take blame for it, at all.

If the world works like how your mindset works, that'd be great but no, it doesnt.

You can talk, but you can't walk. What ever happened to those boastful moments when you can tell it in our faces that you stood up against your discipline teacher and those brave stuff to prove yourself back in high school?

And when I said it was a small matter, you dare answer back saying that of course I'm not stressed, it is because I'm not gonna face the shit on 'that' day? I'll say it again, if by any miracle I can take your place on that day, I will do it, I would HAPPILY do it. You heard me? HAPPILY, GLADFULLY. And I will take half the blame for it too.

As most SSGians and hengdai-s who knows me, I don't just talk shit and boast like an empty can. I perform it, and when it comes back to hunt me, I take responsibility for it. Not run away from it. Especially when my friends are involved. Die then die together, if you know you're at fault, even with the slightest contribution.

F**king coward.

Regardless, you can go emo, run and hide from all these, why should you care? You weren't involved, all you did was that you just left the bread crumbs behind. It's not your fault, why should you give a shit. Go on, rat out on us.

It's such a small matter that I couldn't even give a shit, it is not even a police case. And I've been through a few police cases myself, and I can tell you how puny this matter is. Don't be a drama queen, don't make it seem like you're going the jail. It is as minor as a 5 year old kid breaking a glass of milk.

Readers, don't misunderstand that this is a rant on the situation, it is about the but the person. Like I said, the situation is as small as breaking a glass of milk by accident, the person is the one making it seem like all hell is going to break loose.

If you want to prove yourself to be a 'hero', you can start out by thinking straight and using some common sense.

[I have to filter for those younger readers, but sorry for stating the obvious]


On Maya

At the same time, I can't believe I screwed up my first Maya animation assignment. The first ever step was left out, the adjustment of the frames per second, in the end it looks like shit and ended up being critiqued in front of the whole class. How embarrassing. I guess one must fall to learn. =(


On Photography

I feel bad, remember the great job I was so anticipated about? I quitted it. =(

Yes, I quitted even before I could start, I'm so sorry Young[the employer]. I noticed that this term was way cramped, lecturers were bombarding us with assignments and I'm still having sleepless nights.

I also noticed that if I were to somehow cramp this job into my schedule, someday when I couldn't take the stress, I'd have to quit, which will cause the company inconvenience to find another photographer to replace me. so I reckon it's better that I quit now since there is still time for them to find another. =)

Again, sorry. I can't even find the time to update mah blog.


Overall

What a week, I really don't understand some people. I believe myself to be like my dad sometimes, my dad always helps and gives, without asking anything in return.

My dad used to tell me, if your friends no money to buy food, never mind, buy it for them, belanja them, as long as it is not drugs and smoke, it is okay.

I believed that I've treated some people to lunch / dinner sometimes, especially when they are really broke. I believe that I've helped some people by driving them to a certain area because they have no transport. I believe I've been a delivery boy and a middle man because of some arguement between two people. I believe that I've helped those who asked for it in almost any form, or without even asking I willingly give my time to them to help out.

And throughout all those moments, I've rarely asked for anything in return, yes, perhaps I may have asked for a treat to lunch or dinner, but only when I feel that I've deserved it.

But still, I feel underappreciated, it is like when I am of use to you, you treat me good, when I am not, you treat me like shit. I just want to thank you all out there who does this.

Simple things, like eating out, everytime you are maybe perhaps, unexpected. I welcome you with all my heart to join us. But when I am the unexpected one, and when I want to join you, I feel that unwelcomed aura, like you're asking me to f**k off. You didn't even ask me to take a seat and continue to show your black faces.

I really thank you all for that. And you know what, I've grown sick and tired, and all I have for you is this.

Go F**k Yourselves. kthxbai.


PS : Dear readers, please do not get the slightest thought in your head that I'm emoing and lonely and shit like that and that I've blocked all means of communication just to be alone and turn the music freaking damn loud.

I don't do emo, I solve problems and continue moving forward in life. I don't usually keep these meaningless things in heart and remember it forever, sooner or later I'll forgive and forget and top it off with a sorry on my part. But for now, let the flames die down.


Edit / Update

I'M LOVING MY DUAL MONITOR SCREENS!!!



Makes my life so much easier, one screen draw another view reference, or chat. xD

Gah! NEW TERM! GAH! Sangat cepat!

After 2 days of fiddling around with mah pocket PC, I think I finally got the hang of it. :D Wee, happy happy joy joy.

Alright, as promised, a few pictures from my cousin's Wedding.











It's overexposed thanks to some other photographer's flash, but I like it.




The three pigs!


Yam seng dengan ni, until the 2 fellar at the btm face red adi. :D


Drunk fellars. xD


On the photographic part, what I've learn is that even with the smallest f/ no. that you can get for a prime lens, it still can't beat a flashgun when it comes to this fast paced occasion.

Everyone's moving around, swinging their arms, turning their heads and everything. It all happens so fast, that without a flashgun you'll end up with rather blurry pictures. It is either that, or pop out your camera's flash, which will result to ugly harsh lighting.

Being the stubborn bastard, I switched between using my camera's flash and setting a very high ISO, 1600 and setting the aperture to the max of f/1.4. Knowing Pentax, at ISO 1600, details are kept, but the grain/noise is really really bad.

And to top it off, another problem arises, focusing in low light. It is such a pain, autofocus either works too slow or can't recognize the subject[camera confused], manual focusing is the way to go, but even the human eye isn't that powerful in low light.

Another thing about using really wide apertures, the DOF is way to shallow, to the extent of for example, taking 2 people in a picture, if you focus on one of them, the other one might end up blur thanks to the DOF. To solve this, it's either to increase the f/no. to f/2.8 or f/3.5, or even better f/5.6. But the problem, low lighting + no flashgun. D:

I'm not sure whether if the focusing would help in this case, like focusing in the middle of the 2 people, or something like that. Hmm.

Regardless, I used aperture f/2.8 for most of the portrait shots and couple shots since many complained that below that f/ for the f/1.4 Pentax prime lens it is not very sharp.

Okay, that's about it for today, got class tomorrow at 9am, jeez. Sesat class again, the rest of the classes are in the evening or afternoon again. I wanna watch movie though, can't decide what. D:

Well, goodbye 2008 and welcome 2009. :D

This new year's celebration is kind of different, not only was it the New Year, but also my cousin Eugene's wedding. I can't stress how difficult it was trying to photograph pictures on this day.

On the 31st of Dec, my family and I went over to Eugene's place for dinner, or the catering. Later onwards I joined the rest of the Spannar who were already in Sunway to watch the best thing that happened to us in 2009, The Spirit. :D

Horrible movie, do not watch it, period.

After the movie, Vince and Calvin went over to Wen San's place to overnight, I would have gone to, if it wasn't for my cousin's wedding, had to wake up early too to help him take come pictures. Hardly had any sleep since I came back home pretty late, but heck, I'm so used to it, it doesn't even bother me anymore. Hor hor, students of TOA. xD

So with 1 or 2 hours of sufficient sleep, at about 8:30am I find myself in my Eugene's house, fiddling with my camera and lenses, thinking very hard whether to use prime lens or a zoom lens. I wanted to challenge myself, and the shots were going to be indoors, so I put on my prime lens and the moment we reached his fiancee's house... OMG SO DARK! Just made my life alot more harder since I do not own a flashgun. =(

But still, I have to thank my cousin and his wife for the experience, now I know I won't take up wedding photography as a job anymore. xD

It's really tough, and you're not the only one with the camera, there are those other family members or relatives with cameras too, blocking your view by stuffing their hands through since they are using PnS cameras[really small] or they'll just completely get in your way with their whole body. o.o

I sweated like a pig through out the entire morning to afternoon helping my cousin take pictures with his brother Ernest and another professional photograher. I swear to god I'm not doing this again, unless I have a flashgun, but then again I don't think I'll be jumping into this sort of assignment except during special occasions such as these. I'm sticking to inanimate objects and shooting models.

At least later in the evening during the dinner, there was more space to move around and take pictures. This time I enjoyed taking pictures which mostly are posed by family members and are portraits. Prime lens really do well here, especially with that lovely bokeh to bring out the subjects.

The food was really good, our table sapued everything on the plate so fast, and hungrily. But there was enough for everyone, since the other tables[parents and relatives] were donating some food to us, probably it is because they can't finish I guess.

After dinner, and during dinner, I was sipping wine, but after dinner, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMM SENG brandy till all sot adi, I really can't drink it mixed with water, taste like crap, and so hard to swallow it down. I'd rather drink it raw or pure. Woo, drink till abit woozy when we were there. After it all, it was home sweet home, and the effects just got worse, felt drowsy, but still I took liberty of watching the latest episode of One Piece and then K.O-ed on mah bed till now. Woke up at 6am, K.O-ed at 1am, dunno why can't sleep, I think it's cause of the slight hangover. I feel like if I slept somemore it'd just make it worse, so here I am blogging about it.

I forgot to mention that I bought myself the LG KS20 for RM860. It's a really nice phone, but it gets sluggish once in a while, I'm gonna try to upgrade it to windows 6.1, it's version 6.0 now. According to people and what I've read, version 6.1 is much more stable and the programs are optimized to minimize usage of RAM, a.k.a. less laggier and less sluggish in the long run. :D

With this it's impossible to sms while driving adi, haha. But I shouldn't even be doing that. =x

Will add some pictures of the wedding later, I'm gonna stone here for a while or go back to sleep, can't decide. Or maybe I'll just go play Fallout 3. >.> COLLEGE GONNA COMMENCE SOON!

HAPPI NU YER and may all your new year's resolution come true. :D


P/S : I missed how we celebrated our new year back then with CD75-1. =(