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Tutorial9 is having an awesome giveaway, which you can read about here. This is a community effort to raise money for the Save The Children Organization, and everyone has a shot at winning tons of great prizes along the way. Save the Children Organisation strives to create lasting positive changes for children in need in The USA and around the world.

Personally, I don’t think I’m capable of creating a post to be published on Tutorial9. According to them, “it can be a tutorial, a resource you’ve created, a roundup of your favorite design books, or an article related to one of our topics at Tutorial9. ” But I’m going to try anyway, and you should too!! “Simply share your experience and knowledge with our readers, win some awesome prizes, (and really, they are AWESOME! Wacom Tablet anyone??) and $100 is donated to charity.” Seriously, its that simple. for every emtry they receive, thats another $100 to charity, ever closer to the $5000 goal.

Added star factor, Actor Hugh Laurie of the Band From TV, has selected Save the Children as his personal charitable beneficiary and will direct to us his share of sales from the CD/DVD, “Hoggin’ All the Covers”, which has topped Amazon DVD Sales recently. Come on…you know you love them!!

So go on and do your bit in helping a worthy cause. Check out these links for further information.

Contest Landing Page

Contest Announcement page

Finally got out of the house yesterday, since my sister wanted to go see the exhibition at Central market about Palestine. It wasn’t much, but still worth checking out.

Things I saw that caught my fleeting attention:

Waiting (forever) for public transport in front of my house, a guy in a Manchester United shirt walks by. I started thumb wrestling with Muhsin, as I alsways do when I’m bored. The guy suddenly starts reading surah Al-Ikhlas in a really loud and deep voice, and then goes on saying how its not permissible to shake hands with someone who is not your mahram. Thanks dude, but he’s my little brother! Good that he had the courage to say that though. Later on we saw him smoking and were contemplating whether or not to go up to him and tell him smoking is Haram. We didn’t though.

A group of schoolgirls on the LRT acting as is they were high. seriously. Laughing wildly, singing out loud, etc. I wondered why. Later on my sister told me that SPM was over, so I assume thats what they were so giddy about.

Group of 3 people seated at a closed mamak stall at Central Market Annexe, and a 4th person joined them they all started signing! such animated conversations.So cool..!

A crow’s nest in the space frame structure at the KL KTMB station. Then the owner of the nest flew in and made itself comfortable…

Super long Cargo train with over 20 train cars attached, all labeled Lafarge Malaysian Cement.

Sugar glider at Pets Wonderland in Midvalley. so small and cute!

International Contemporary Art Exhibition at Midvalley. Very cool. International Artists were also present, some painting, some playing the harmonica, some being bored. definitely worth checking out. Ends 30th November though, so rush on over!!

I burned my tongue today, rushing upstairs because my sister was shouting at me to come and see something. What I saw horrified me, it was just so sad.

The TV was on, set at cartoon network. (yes I do still watch cartoons. a select few only)

But instead of the PPG I loved and expected, it was an atrocity, a new series called Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z, you can read about it came about here.

I was really horrified. Just to show you how bad it is, these are the girls, for you to compare.

No sugar, spice, or anything nice here…
*puke*

for more pictures of this blegh cartoon, check out this post

and also Craig McCracken has a dA account w00t!
and here is the Foster’s blog, though its not been updated since 2006. interesting look at character development

"Apparently, the more success you have, the better looking you get" Roger Federer, blushingly commenting on him being featured in People Magazine's List last year.

Omg my mom told me the most horrifying story! One of the teachers in the school, tr Zainab, went to the Mandarin Oriental for the Blake workshop, and while she was there she hung around with the kids who were waiting for roger to appear. They waited and waited and waited for him to appear so they could get autographs/pictures, but when he did come, it was the VIPs and family of VIPs who were allowed to get autographs and pictures. So as he was leaving, Tr. Zainab yelled out to him, to Roger, that these children have been waiting forever to meet you and yet the VIP’s who didn’t wait at all were the ones who got to!? And she yelled this across the room! Roger then slowly turned around to see who the heck was yelling at him, then beckoned her to come. She did and then took a picture with him. I find this too funny but at the same time, horrifying! But for those who know Tr. Zainab, you know that that’s just her way!

Later on roger was leaving the hotel and was in the car but the driver didn’t appear yet, and there were security guards blocking people from approaching the car. Somehow, tr Zainab managed to get through the blockade and marched up to the car, knocked on the window, pointed at a poster of roger and motioned for him to sign it! He rolled down the window and did just that, but I’m thinking he’s probably terrified of this fierce lady lol!

Just watched the Macau matches, missed the one between Borg and McEnroe, but then caught the rest. Found myself a bit jealous of the Macau people. The players were more in the mood, I guess KL warmed them up. Federer interacted with the crowd more, as did Blake. One funny moment in the doubles match was when McEnroe slammed down his racquet, then Blake copied him, and Federer pretended to as well! And then another time Federer imitated McEnroe wiping off his forehead with his arms…ahhh I love tennis….

Roger was a real champion with the crowds. While McEnroe couldn’t wait to get back to the locker room, Federer stayed back and signed tons of autographs for the hordes of fans, Blake did his bit too, but lets face it, its roger they really want. Unlike in KL, this time sweatbands (all players) and even shirts (McEnroe’s and Blake’s) were thrown into the stands…

Went on an observing spree today, here are some things I saw. Most I couldn’t take pictures of. In fact, I only have one interesting picture:

workers cleaning the exterior of Balai Seni Lukis Negara

other things I saw:

A guy breaking out into a trip-hoppy dance at the klcc lrt station.

A tough, mafia looking guy wearing a “MEDIA” tag (his name was Robert Charles O’Hare), stuffing a pink towel into his messenger bag.

Quartz precision thermo hygrograph. while others were looking at art in BSLN I was looking at this contraption on the floor.

Bus driver with funky curly mustache.

Awesome exhibition at Galeri Petronas by Mazen Kerbaj – Blog Drawings from Beirut. Seriously people, go check it out. very humorous and dark and wonderful. Its in the back though. I especially like the freedom flags series.

Cute drawings by Josip Generalic on level 3 of BSLN. story-book like.

Got home with a pounding headache.

Muhsin took this picture, on the way back from Khair’s Lab. We are blessed with many glorious sunsets here in batu caves (and muhsin’s photography skills. he told me to say that)

Is what I have to do this holiday. Was watching an episode of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends a while back and that line came on. Basically means make do of the free time you have.

Today started like any other day, woke up, and surfed the net for a while. Then got bored.
Sat down at my now clean desk and made a card, for no one in particular. Just felt like making one. Then after a while I rummaged through my drawers and came up with my stash of letters from friends, and it was such fun to read all the nonsense we sent each other. So I sat down and wrote two letters, one for myself (if you know me well you know what that one’s for) and one for my friend. Then I decided that it would be kinda boring just giving a letter so I made her some stuff. Found my stash of unfantastic pictures so I used them to draw on. Here is an example. Its super fun to do.This was taken at some military air show thing in Richmond, but obviously the airplanes were in the sky and tiny. So I ended up with a load of sky pictures, perfect for drawing on.

I had some questions I was going to post but I totally forgot what they were.

I miss having TechTV on Astro. It’s amazing seeing the development of some people throughout, like Kevin Rose for example. Here is someone who was passionate about something, and worked at it not caring what others thought, and look where it got him now. From background tech support guy to Hosting that show to founder if one of the biggest social bookmarking sites, Digg. Reading about all these successful people kinda makes me sad. Wondering if I’ll ever be successful and happy with what I do. But I guess you can only be successful if you have goals, which I don’t seem to have.

Sigh.

Wrong approach Maryam! You’re supposed to be inspired, not depressed!

Anyways, Insha’Allah, orchid garden with Sumeyra tomorrow for a photo shoot. Of the flowers, not of us!

Had my last one just now, and it went quite well besides the horrible fact that I totally didn't see one of the questions. A 10 mark question, which I knew the answer to. I don't know how come I didn't see it..! There goes my A, flying out the window. Also, got my studio marks today. not surprisingly, but still dissaopintingly, i got a B+. For some reason some people thought i might be one of the four who got an A-, so that got me slightly hopeful. but as always my studio marks remain firmly resolute not to move up. at least they don't move down, I know…

In the CAD lab now, trying to finish off my assignment. Holidays are here. weehoo. how come i don't feel excited?

also, prop8 passed in cali, as it should be. why are people then upset over it, those who by all means, shouldn't be? they say its bigotry. don't know much about it so i'm gonna keep my mouth shut. but all the same, i'm happy it was passed. at least some ppl in the world are still sane.

twitter is fun-ny. not haha funny, but FUN-ny. especially when no one cares lol

—
Maryam Hamzah

While studying I find myself straying from the actual subject and reading about the most random things online. I was studying about landscape architecture and somehow felt urged to look up “The Coronation of Napoleon”, the painting by Jacques-Louis David. But none of the pictures online did the painting any justice, seeing in real life is a must, if only to study the exquisite details on the dresses of Josephine and her sisters in law. (The painting, which covers almost an entire wall, is housed in the Palace of Versailles)

It’s actually quite amazing how realistic these paintings are. In the national gallery in London I remember looking, no, staring at this one painting, the skin that was painted looked so, so realistic, as if, were you to touch it, you would actually feel its warmth and you would detect the faint pulse somewhere in that 2-dimensional world.

if you get any weird messages from me, my google account somehow got hacked into or something. it wasn’t me!

This happened yesterday on the 24th of September, 2008,at around 9.05 p.m.

—–

Twas a chilly, starless autumn night,
Not a stirring person was in sight,
When, out of the corner of my little eye,
The strangest, most curious sight did I spy,
A procession of five, all walking in line,
It seemed as though their hands and feet were in a bind,
And at the head of the parade, pulling the thread,
The Grim Reaper himself, resplendent in red,
Brooding and hooded, scythe slicing by his side,
He led the captives along for a ride,
I thought to myself, "This must be a joke!"
It seemed so unreal, it must be a hoax,
For everyone knows, even the plainest old Jack,
That grim never ever wears anything but black!

Here’s how it works. Everyone sits in a circle making sure you don’t touch your neighbors. There is a game master guess; he’s the one who will instruct everyone on what to do. So the circle represents a village, and everyone is a villager. First all the villagers must close their eyes. Then the games master will randomly select 3 people out of the villagers to be mafia, by quietly tapping them on their shoulder. After he has done this, he will announce, mafia, wake up, and the three chosen mafia will open their eyes. Then the each mafia points at one villager that they want to kill. The games master will then quietly place a rock/marker in front of the targets. Then he instructs the mafia to go to sleep. After that he announces, everybody wake up. Everyone opens their eyes and the three targets are out of the game. Now the interesting part. The remaining villagers have to reach a consensus on who they think the three mafias are, so after discussing they nominate three people they suspects to be mafia and these 3 have to stand up. They then have a chance to defend themselves. After that only the villagers vote on the one person they want to eliminate. The person voted out will then reveal if he is a villager who was wrongly accused or really a mafia. The game continues in rounds until all the mafias are revealed or if the mafia outnumber the villagers, in which case the mafia would have won.