Last weekend was the 10th convocation for MMU and i was there busy kaypo-ing on the 1st and 2nd day. For the 1st day i was there to see Steven and on the 2nd day i was there to see Lih Ren. This time around, there were more soft toys and different flower vendors unlike previous years where it was all under one person.

With the current economy situation (though it’s getting better), people do tend to get something cheap but worth the money. Flowers are just overpriced.

But then again, it’s not going to change anything. This coming Saturday is Dolphin’s convo and i am definitely getting her flowers. Wouldn’t want to know what’s the after effect of not doing so.

Just after 12pm, graduates came gushing out from the Grand Hall and everyone was looking for someone. Phone calls, yelling, some with signboards …

The sweltering heat made finding friends or family member harder. But it’s definitely better than if it’s raining. The first day of convo saw less graduates and i assumed that’s because most graduates are from Faculty of Management.

Most of the time on the first day, i roamed around with Weng Choong and Corrine and occasionally bumped into Wendy.

More and more people were with DSLR

Speaking of DSLRs, yesterday night i was at the Ogawa function in the Pavillion and had the chance to use Nicole’s 500D. It was really nice lerrrrr T.T But there’s no way i am gonna jump from 400D to 500D, kinda ridiculous. To make matters worse, just before the function ended i got to know Casey and he showed his 50D T.T

Torture man. The 400D shall stay on until something else appears, like 60D lol.

Was suppose to be at the Curve for Digi’s Music Revolution then last minute changes with Yat and i was in Pavillion.

Back to the topic, after some hunting around i finally bumped into Steven and Jess. With so many things going on, we had to snap pictures fast cause everyone is constantly moving around. I also had the chance to meet Steven’s family and help them take a family photo

Congrats Steven!

Second day of convo started off the same, just that there were slightly more people. Flowers like the above were selling fast. It seemed to be the ‘in thing’ to give artificial flowers nowadays

After a few failed phone calls, i finally got through and found out where Lih Ren was waiting with his family. Seriously right, Lih Ren’s brother looked so much like him. Right down to the goaty !

When i got back that day, i was kinda bored and ended up with the picture below.

It’s not that perfect but it’s better than nothing

I did a few more with his family shots and it was quite easy to do since the original background was a white wall. Congrats Lih Ren !

You see the girl in yellow shirt ? I thought she looked like Li Wei

You see this girl above ? I thought she looked like Jess. LOL

Happy Birthday Jess

Didn’t really take much shots this time around. Getting lazier and lazier -_-”

Next year is my turn

I simply heart Penang food; Char Koay Teow, Laksa, Ais Kacang, Balik Pulau Durians …

It has been a while since i have updated my blog but trust me, i have tonnes to write and i am just waiting to get back to KL to do so. In Penang, i am always busy doing chores or busy sleeping >.<!

With Apple launching the new iPhone 3GS, Macbook Aluminium joins the MacBook Pro family and also Snow Leopard, my car too had an update. A safety update to be precise. After a few days without my car, i finally got the call from Perodua saying it’s finally ready !

This time around, i changed quite a number of things since it has just surpassed 180k km and the damage was slightly less than a thousand. On top of that, Perodua finally fitted my car with rear seatbelts

My car wasn’t fitted with rear seatbelts nor does it have points to fix them. So Perodua took slightly longer to get it done but it was definitely worth the wait since KL would take ages to get it done.

A sticker is placed in case police were to flag me down to check if it has been certified by Perodua

Upon getting my car, my parents told that within the 2 weeks i brought my car back, 3 people have offered to buy my car. All of them offered around the same amount which was about 28k and that’s more than half the amount we paid for my 7 year old car. Parents are contemplating to sell off and probably get something else, like maybe a Saga. Hmmmm

On the side note, my mum asked if my phone could be tracked down via gps and after experimenting with a few programs, this is what i got …

It shows the whereabouts of me today but i didn’t leave it on all the time as my battery was low. If not the speed of my car will even be registered and all this was viewable by one click on my iMac at home >.<! LOL

I know a few of you have been bugging with me for photos from Tenji …

… hehehe i will be posting them soon. Before this weekend hopefully

P/S: 2010 is gonna be one hectic year ! Plans just keep pouring in. Have to save save save.

Two more days to the dateline and here i am trying out ‘A moment with your Kakiis’. I should have done it quite some time back but because i have been away from my notebook most of the time, i finally have the chance to browse through the pictures that would be suitable for this entry.

I definitely had to post this picture up.

Full House

The expression on Mr Leong’s face is definitely the reason why this picture is on top of the pile This outing with my Kakiis was significant. Why ? Cause we were all out to celebrate Mr Leong’s birthday as well as Miss Tan’s farewell but their food never arrived. In fact Aaron had 2 rounds and yet their food was no where to be seen. It was more than 2 hours until the waiter brought it over. Talk about service -_-! LOL

The picture above was taken while waiting. We found these black frame specs for sale and decided to take a couple of photos with it just to buy time

I could carry on posting tonnes of pictures but i decided to put a handful so ease my beloved bandwidth, LOL.

Now if you are wondering why these pictures appeared out of the blue, well because i was browsing thru nuffnang’s blog and realized that there’s a competition going on whereby you post up a picture of your kakiis. So what is Kakiis all about ? It’s a local social networking site whereby you can stay connected to your friends via the net as well as mobile phone.

Kakiis.com

Besides that you can even share photos and video thru PC and phone. Nowadays sites like this are definitely making it easier for all of us to communicate with one another anytime any where.

I took this opportunity to actually dig out and post all my old and recent outings with my Kakiis LOL.

Sushi King outing

For the rest of the Kakiis pictures, click ‘read more’

Chillis

Changing tyre

Shout Out Birthday Bash

Nipple Island

Annual Dinner @ E&O

So last weekend was MMU’s convocation and i was there to help photograph for William. I reached the Grand Hall close to 12.30pm which was when the graduates will be allowed to leave. The place wasn’t as pack as previous years where part of the buildings surrounding the Grand Hall wasn’t fully completed.

I met so many people, those who have graduated years back and those who are still in MMU.

For the first time, i tried editing using photoshop. Previously i have only used photoshop to watermark and resize my pictures. Since William and David had been telling me how they have used PS (photoshop in short) to edit their photos, i thought of giving it a try. I didn’t do much except play around with the filter to get the effect of the first picture you see in this entry.

Back to the convocation, as much as i wanted to snap a lot of pictures i returned with a disappointing amount. Neverthesless, i i think it’s more than enough to have an entry written.

William and Harry

As i was browsing thru my pictures, i stumbled upon this and noticed someone familiar. The graduate on the left is Sim’s brother if i am not mistaken

Other than Valentines Day, Convocation is the other day where flowers are overpriced -_-”

…. and also soft toys -_-” LOL

This is a common scene in any convocation. When i was at UM’s convocation last Thursday, a lot of graduates got thrown into the air

Jonathan was kind enough to help me snap a few pictures of me and my fellow friends, thanks man

Pik Jian and Jessie. Last week while i was waiting at a TM Net center in Bayan Baru, Jessie actually stood beside me and called me a few times but i was too busy daydreaming into space until i got nudged from my mum -_-” LOL thousand apologies Jessie

Sue Anne was also there. Lingster and her MGS girls were all there for Sue Anne

William, Calvin and KingYu

For once William was in need of a stool

JinBoone was also there with his *coughs* D80. aiseh. LOL

The Ever Ready Aun Pein

Finally everyone is ready WengChoong and Bernard M.I.A -_-”

William was saying how can he not take a photo with his photographer, lol

That was for the first day of convocation which consisted of Engineering and Management students. The next day i dropped by for a while to see Jess who was graduating from the IT faculty. Sunday was meant for Engineering students from the Melaka side and IT students from Cyberjaya campus.

Steven and Jess

Alvin and Satwinder over at the DJ-booth

Sue Anne and her sis were there too

Steven – in the middle of everything, lol.

I was barely there for 20mins before i had to leave. So sad. If not i would have had gone round taking more pictures.

To those who have graduated recently, from both UM and MMU – congratulations

MMU Enchanted Night 2008 @ Marriot Putrajaya was quite disappointing @_@ That’s the only thing that i can say about last Sunday’s prom night. The food was terrible, the deco was out and somehow i felt there was no flow in terms of the program. As i was talking to Chee Way, we both agreed that last year’s Prom Nite was much better, i mean REALLY BETTER.

Thank God for the crowd and luckily my table kept cracking jokes if not i would have bored myself to death.

Just as i was getting ready for the night, i realized:

1) I brought a short sleeve shirt instead of long sleeve -_-”

2) I brought the wrong pants for my coat -_-”

3) I brought white socks instead of black socks -_-”

Probably by now most of you would have skipped what i have said and zoomed into the pictures @_@ I barely took any pictures in the ballroom because 90% of the time, my cam was hijacked by Leau @_@ Yeah hijacked, not even kidnapped. So i had to resort to using my handphone to snap pictures @_@ Our table had a great laugh because Leau basically went to any group of girls and snapped their pictures. He was so adamant in getting it that he even shoved a girl to the side who was about to take a picture of her friends and instead he went up and said Cheese ! Snap ! LOL

So Leau ! Thanks for being the cameraman most of the time, hehehe. And as requested i never deleted any of your shots, LOL

Obviously by running around and snapping, a lot of pictures didn’t turn out well. Further more with me not having my flash, it just made matters worst @_@

I won’t be writing much and i’ll fill the entry with pictures instead

Leau, Adrian, Fabian, Me, Tharan

Just because i didn’t wear my coat throughout the night, i was given nicknames for how i looked @.@. Here are a few of them: The Librarian @_@ Convent boy @_@ The one …. with short sleeves @_@ …. potong stim -_-”

The Prom King

The Prom Queen

I was so busy yesterday that i didn’t bother cropping nor editing the pictures @_@ i resorted to using batch work from photoshop to resize and watermark the pictures -_-”

Adrian and Meisan

My picture with Mei San was kinda bad @_@ Mei San send me your version of the picture @_@ Leau stood too near and picture also kena butchered @_@ Btw, why ler you come up to me and ask in front of Yit Meng if i knew him, LOL. I have bugged him a couple of times while he was the IT Soc president and i was in EngSoc. So Mei San, now you know

Me and Printha

Murali and I. Lighting also koyak @_@

Cavi and I. As requested those pics aren’t in my blog, hahaha. And let me make it clear that i wasn’t the one who snapped you and Tharan dancing -_-”

Yen and I

When we left the ballroom, everyone started posing around for pictures and when i started taking Hsiu Fuh’s portrait, the rest followed suit @_@

Hsiu Fuh

Datuk Lim Boon Chew, Man of the Year nominee.

Datuk Adrian

Datuk Tharan

Datuk Fabian

Then it was my turn. I requested for a full body shot and this is what i got @_@ LOL

Before leaving we went to the ground floor and goofed around. And when i say goof, i mean really goofed around ! The next 3 pictures could be disturbing, ROFLMAO !

This was definitely done on purpose

LOL this looks soooo wrong and this was moments before Adrian lost his car keys which we eventually found it tucked at the side of the sofa

@_@ Tharan dropped something i think and Fabian posed ? I also dunno ler, ROFLMAO. Tharan gone case ler, agagagaga.

Even the phones weren’t left out …..

Fabian said that while posing with the phone, the operator actually spoke to him @_@ He said he was using the phone to pose and he hung up, LOL.

I was asked to revive my Coppermine gallery again to have the remaining pictures stored there. So after doing some clean up, here it is again

::: REMAINING PICTURES :::

I was walking towards the bank to withdraw money for the week and i got a shock on how the whole campus was invaded by Celcom advertisements. Every where the head turns there’s definitely an ad of Celcom.

The zebra crossing had a makeover too.

Previously there’s one or two hotlink ads here but now it’s taken over by Celcom’s and if that’s not enough, they even have a booth directly in front of the library.

Even faculty and admin buildings weren’t left out. Any strategic place that’s available, there’s an ad I didn’t bother to put up more pictures because i think you would get my point by now. Thank God the toilet bowls are left alone, if not they would have replaced that frog sign with the phrase ‘Shoot Me’ with their X logo with the phrase ‘X marks the spot’.

After all, this is a TM university

A: Where are you studying ?
B: CU
A: -_-” See you ? where you going ?
B: It’s Celcom University
A: …

I really had a hard time looking for a picture that resembles anything close to dirty. The awful state of my old digital camera was perfect but then i have already written about it in the beginning of the week. Then just a few days back, right after my class, i realized how awful the white board looked after my lecturer derived a formula. The picture taken wasn’t that clear cause i had trouble focusing -_-” If i had only brought my Lumix along, i would have taken a snap shot of the whole board.

So here’s my take on the theme ‘dirty‘. It’s a dirty board with useful formulas

Have a great weekend everybody and to all Malaysians, Happy 50th Independence Day !

Happy is the theme for this week and the first thing i dug was this group picture taken a few months back in front of the admin building of my university. It wasn’t easy capturing a perfect photo with these bunch of people Half of the time, they would just burst into laughter for no good reason. One good example is like the picture below :

This was taken immediately after i snapped the previous one. See what i meant earlier ? But the main point here is, it’s really nice to capture moments like this where you can see everyone is having fun and they definitely look HAPPY !

Have a great weekend everyone …