R.I.P. Yasmin Ahmad (1958-2009)

Yasmin Ahmad, a well-known Malaysian and advertising director has passed away on Saturday after collapsing from a stroke at a media presentation a day before. You might know her films and advertisement she directed before. Films like Cepet and Gubra, and most of the Petronas advertisements. Her way in presenting films and ads touched the Malaysian heart and bringing us some important messages that we sometimes didn't realise them. She had contributing a lot in bringing the multicultural nation together... well, I think she done more and done effectively in nation unity than our government. Her death is certainly a great loss for Malaysian. R.I.P. Yasmin Ahmad.

Here are some of her works,

Her recent interview...

MACC downfall parody...

Banksy vs Bristol Museum

After almost an hour of queueing, me & SC finally get into the exhibition by Banksy. Banksy is a well-known Bristolian graffiti artist. I'm always a big fan of his graffiti art which some you still can see in Bristol. His graffities are definitely cooler than any other you seen before. His art of graphic, political, message he wana brought to people kept really real.

A long queue outside Bristol museum...

He's once went to the Museum of London and post one of his artwork on the wall of the gallery. He just stood by and see people walking around and watch his bizzare artwork on the wall. After an hour the artwork dropped on the floor and everybody freak out and thought there was a robbery. The authority of museum eventually shut the entire building down and found out it was Banksy who is behind all these. LOL... Now he can legally display any of his art, pictures, and animatronics inside the Bristol museum.

It is worth the wait. I was suprised that there are old people came along and watch this exhibition. Inside the museum, I saw an old woman taking pictures and laughing while looking at one of the Banksy's works. It's nice that everything exhibited in the museum can be shared by everyone from different age. What is interesting about the exhibition is he subverting most of the famous art and making a comment on society. He changed a boring museum into an attractive one... by displaying his art forms which are creative and filled with playfulness. We're certainly enjoyed ourself "visually" of what he had delivered. Well this would probably be the busiest period the museum would ever had, who would've thought... a museum vandalised by a graffiti artist? Below are some of his works...

Jean-Francois Millet's The Gleaners (1857) with subtitle-agency work...

An armed-police riding on a "horse"...

"Angel"...

Make-up rabbit...

Little girl with a gas mask...

Tweety...

Armed dairy girl...

Want some eggs?

Trailer of Banksy vs Bristol Museum

On the news... inside d museum...

Justice for Teoh Beng Hock!

Malaysian had felt severe pain after we known about the tragic death of Teoh Beng Hock, aged 30, reportedly to have fallen from the 14th floor of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commissions(MACC) building. By that time, he was assisting in an investigation in that building. Questions has been raised by us on what had happened between the time he was last seen sleeping on a sofa at 6am, slightly more than 2 hours after he was released from questioning. His body was found dead in a pool of blood on the 5th floor of the building around 1pm. His death remain a mystery as there's no CCTV in this particular building. A highly secured building of MACC without CCTV?

This poor guy was getting registered for marriage with his pregnant soon-to-be wife if he still alive and not found dead near the MACC building. It's a tragic death! How could some authorities said he might jump out off the building? he's gonna be a husband, a father and having a family, how he could leave his family alone...?

We learnt a lot from these kind of things... understand about our government and political body... The nation should ashmaed of its government which could not protect its citizens with fundamental safety assurance. Malaysia is not safe anymore, not secure...

Reading the news and blogs these few days, really felt unfair and unnecessary of what happened to him. Along with many others, Royal Commission of Inquiry is needed to investigate this case transparently. I am already thinking of getting back to Malaysia soon, maybe I'll change my mind. Malaysian politic changed a lot in just two years time. If Malaysia is that insecure, why should I go back? and also thought coming out, thinking that will there be another politician becoming the next prey?

Hundreds of protesters outside MACC building in Shah Alam

Rubik Invasion...

Invader's masterpieces

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1st and 2nd workpiece from the video...

sound of silence: flower in the rifle barrel

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence

Sound of Silence- Simon & Garfunkel

A photograph of Jan Rose Kasmir(center) standing in front of a troop of 2,500 rifle-wielding soldiers was taken in 1967 by Marc Riboud. In this picture, she was in an anti-Vietnam war protest with a crowd of 100,000 outside of the Pentagon, "placing a flower in the barrel of a soldier's rifle." This picture resemble a war-violence armed force and a flower child innocence which soon became a symbolic picture of antiwar movement. It become famous as shown an effort of people talk to the soldiers and convince them to throw down their guns and join them.

More than 30 years later, Riboud reunited with Kasmir when her picture of protesting Iraq War in London was taken by Riboud once again.

I always think that blogger putting song lyrics on their blog is a stupid idea. But not at the moment(ha!), as this song's lyrics is like a poem written beautifully, a meaningful address to war and peace. The song is sang by Simon & Grafunkel. The lyrics refer to silence as a cancer, and if people are honest and not afraid to voice out and talk, war can be prevented. Just like Jan Rose Kasmir, she influnce millions of people including a man putting flowers in the rifle barrel on the 2nd day of the Vietnam War protest(first pic). Simon & Garfunkel did not write this about the vietnam war, but when it became popular, the war was on and people think it's a powerful statement as an anti-war song.

Stay or Go...?

My store manager, Steve got a mental breakdown last week because of having too much stress in his work in the past few years... in the end, he quits his job which eventually shock us all.... =.=

Well, too much stress on his back to make every important decisions every single day certainly makes him leave his job... we were shocked as he always laugh and joke around and we never thought he'll have a mental breakdown at all... In this moment of time, I realised how worse he felt now...

I'm still deciding to either move to London or stay in Bristol... I thought I will cross the bridge when I come to it... things'll be alright by the time we face it...

hmmm... No.... As time goes by, really doesn't feel right bout this...

Need a peace of mind...

and make my decision now...

Should I stay or should I go?

Think......

Think...

Think.........

sigh... Headache!!!

Best Freak Ever

spoiled angry american youth... very funny, this guy freak out after his mom cancelled his world of warcraft game account...

The Watchmen

I just watched a movie called Watchmen at home yesterday night. It was a long, extremely violent, and smartly made movie. It was unlike any other superheroes movies, it tells superheroes stories but in another way. Probably one of the best comic book adaptation ever made.

This movie was in cinema 4 months ago... everyone is talking about it that time, I've watched the trailers, and read people's reviews about the comic books and movies... most of the reviews were positive and some of them said it's better than The Dark Knight. (no way...) So it does make you feel "can't wait to watch it in cinema" but instead I watched it yesterday in front of my laptop...

You may think the watchmen is something typical superheroes movie fighting against a bunch of villians. Well it's actually more than that. I never read the book before but what I watched in the film amazed me. Everytime it makes me wonder what is gonna happen next. The movie has a well-designed storyline tells about a group of somewhat retired custome heroes trying to find out who's might be out there to kill them after one of their members was killed. Meanwhile the coldwar and nuclear threat is at is highest. Some of the Watchmen try to end this war by... (not telling it all). Its genre is to demonstrate the differences between heroes and villians, which there's no difference between them. Even heroes can have different ideology about peace, war, humanity and justice.

There're a lot of great classic songs, Simon and Grafunkel's "Sound of Silence", Jimi Hendrix's "all along the watchtower" & Bob Dylan's "the times they're a changin" and many others... the musics were rock!!! There's one character in this movie called Rorschach, one of my favourite... his ability is to use anything around him available at the time and transfrom it into a weapon. He has been using cooking oil, tray and toilet bowl. He's really cool and cruel!!! I get a goosebump watching him killin'... damn he's good! One of his notable line is " I'm not locked in here with you, You're locked in here with ME!" (don't understand, watch it...)

"Who watches the Watchmen?" I hope everyone do watch it. A great movie it is in sum.

The Beatles Rockband

Found this video randomly yesterday...

the Beatles band in animated form...

a very good piece of animated work...

btw it's an advertisement for the Beatles rockband game...