Attacks on Vacations

...er..?

It's day three of the so-called mid semester break and I'm not even feeling on hiatus. As Archiday is approaching less than two weeks' time (with ugly expected submissions along the way) we're busy spending our left time to sort out things right for the upcoming (read: important) event. In fact, we're expecting ourselves to be back in Seri Iskandar by Tuesday, five days earlier before the break ends.

Well, maybe we're not that early, as our studio will be holding a trip to Malacca from Friday til Sunday. That'll sure eat up our preparation time.

And the montages for Archiday... oh the montages.

I guess it is becoming a cliche for me to say 'a lot of things has happened recently' in my posts, particularly the ones involving updates and stuffs like that. Yeah I guess it's a lame phrase, no less. But... you know... just a lot of things has happened recently.

Lots of things equal to lots of pictures, but sadly, ample time was not around. Works are literally stacked here and there, with my bloody external hard disk infected by viruses and what is more stressful, my BlueCube won't work on my own laptop (yes, it works on others swiftly).

And the car.... damn it, the car!

(takes deep breath)

Anyway the photos are a sneak peak of a supposedly Flickr update, 1) is Mak Nyah Nik with my Opah. They were chit-chatting on a very hot evening at Mak Nyah Nik's place in Bota, a smooth 10-minute drive from Seri Iskandar. Mak Nyah Nik is Opah's cousin. Our excursion to Bota that day also included Abang Alil, my cousin who studies at the UTP, and... lots of durian.

2) Crawling in the crummy passages of Gua Tempurung. I risked my camera (together with flash) and went inside carrying (while crawling.. lurking.. sliding..) the 2kg-monster, and survived. I never regretted my decision, hell yeah!

3) Pre't jumping around at the Ipoh Train Station. Nothing much.

4) Ah, the mighty protest! We shall save this one for later... (I had the option of going back to sleep than 'demonstrating' under the blazing sun anyway)

5) So..uh, everybody loves the UTP Mosque, right?

6) Quite an outdated picture, John Mayer caught performing in Hyde Park, London during Hard Rock Calling end of June. Still the best concert of 2008 -- surpassing last March's Sunburst -- until the next best concert arrives. Will there be any?

7) The Tower Bridge, with the Gherkin designed by Sir Norman Foster (incidentally, the same guy who designed UTP) at the left side.

There's no update at Flickr yet, sorry.

So the Archiday's blog is still undergoing refurbishments, with the Archiday email already being set up together with its Facebook Events page. Of course, any other updates will be notified, if there are any.

If I succeeded in figuring out how to convert the HD videos, maybe the videos of the protests will be up as well (and maybe.. montage-making process will go on smoothly). But yeah, I always blow hot air. Puff. Puff.

Anyway, meet the new baby!

a Sony HDR-SR12E!

That's it for now. Anyway, do choose your news wisely and try to make little use of the brain, if not a lot when analysing your news because things might be a little bit tricky nowadays, no? Practice your rights as a rakyat lah, because we have more rights that are left out none other by ourselves. People will bully you when you're not aware of your rights. You'll be cheated.

So, yeah. Think!

"Don't hate the media, be the media." -- Anonymous.

Photos are all from Nikon D50. June - August 2008. Plagiarism and stealing sucks. People who meddle around when you're snapping pictures or recording videos also sucks. Know your rights, go here (though most advices are applicable most in the UK)