go Bio~!

the haus tv has gone kaput since this morning ...
as i got out from my room still groggy, i saw dad poking at the tv set's power switch.. to nil response. darn... this is not good. when house appliances go dead, it's always not a good sign. and it has had to be the television this time. of all things hur??...

fast forward 10 something in the office, mom called on the handset, she had just discovered the news of the day... "what would Yang be doing without the tv set?" she sounded kinda lost seriously.. "well, i cant like go out and buy a new tv right now can i??"... so it was set. she'd get the repairman to come over... most likely they'd haul the set back to some workshop filled with lots of black, peti televisyens... poor thing. i culd already foresee the 10 year old ending up there never coming back to our abode... :S

anyhow.... so now back at home, without the tv, and before the lappie, i brought out the good ol' radio to the living hall, winding down while reading my asian geographic mag. yup, the articles in there are a damn lot.. i havent quite finished reading 'em yet...
which brings upon tonite's muse... Bio..-everything...!
biofuels... bioplastics... and pretty soon it'd be bio-everything~! (fingers crossed...)

so, what is it with bioplastics?

apparently, bioplastics are plant-based eco-plastics, or simply, your Organic-plastics..
~ made from renewable vegetable sources (instead of petroleum), bioplastics are currently already being widely used for everything from shopping bags to kitchenware... (like how the Jusco green shopping bags crumble after some months...)
and by 'renewable vegetable sources', it's often from non-food agri-products.

check these out...


"food containers made from 'polyactic acid', derived from corn starch / sugar"
http://www.packaging-gateway.com/features/feature736/

< www.bioplastics24.com
"... how plastics are made from plants!"

www.treehugger.com >

"biodegradable packaging tapes developed"

www.ecoproducts.com

"food service/ food containers for sale..."


this is pretty enlightening indeed... to know that we are heading towards greener living...

perhaps they could further bring down the costs, so that the anehs and the uncles by the road sides would one day, serve using biodegradable food containers, especially for our bungkus too...

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another itch scratched...

transform, shall we?

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the real thing on display at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia

the same thing (the SR-71 Blackbird) brought to life as Jetfire, the Decepticon who 'jumped-grass' to join the Autobots... complete with 'janggut' and 'tongkat'... lol~!



... barely able to differentiate the logos of the Autobots and the Decepticons, i bumbled along to watch the latest installment of Transformers, this round ambitiously named, the Revenge of the Fallen.. and i thought the Fallen was the good guy... nope, turns out the Fallen was the grand-daddy of the Decepticons...

and so .. the movie had exposed me to some cool names of the robots... Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Sideswipe, and the not-so-tough Bumblebee... (sometimes Bee just for short.. aww... Not~!)
well, since i was never a fan of Transformers, these cool names somehow added to the joy of watching the full-length movie in cinema, all 2 and a half hours of it, complete with jaw-dropping effects like when they transform from normal looking means of transportations to mega-robots.... neat, i'd hav to say...
and the way the NEST team trashed Shanghai right at the start of the movie.. uh-hur, 'nuff said i guess... btw, is it just me or is Shanghai everywhere now?

and i'd hav to say, this being after all, a fantasy film of sort (i'm sure fans of megan fox would agree).. they cleverly made it all kinda believable too... heheh.... Like how Sam has to go to college even after all the shits... like how Jetfire was all the while retired at some museum which actually exists.... ok, maybe not this one...

overall the film was enjoyable. boy saving the world from evil robots with cool names like Starscream, together with equally cool, good robots with names like Optimus Prime, not to mention really good-looking men like Josh Duhamel.
.. plus, all those slick transformations and fast actions are bound to get to you either way.
sounds far-fetched, but it sure makes going to work 8-6 sucks... @.@
guess i just need to lighten' up more...

another itch scratched...

gone Artsy'...

... got the tickets @ Borders on Wed nite... it was the last 3 tickets they had at the Curve outlet... pheww.. we took a pair.. glad that i'd not gone there for nuthin'~!!
and so it was set, after weeks of thinkin' whether the fest' wuld be somethin' worth visiting.. wuz finally there with sis from 2pm to 3pm today... yup, it only took us that long an hour to finish browsing the grounds at KLPac, Sentul Park, KL... =)

it was indeed, a verry, hot! afternoon... nevertheless, given the thought of "i-dont-think-i'll-attempt-anymore-of-these" at least not in the near future, i managed to snap away with my trusty (non-zoom) Olympus...


the KLpac (performing arts centre) building @ Jalan Strachan, KL .. they hav lots of these bricks-bunker style buildings inside... which was interesting~

nice building architecture they hav there... kinda bare and simplistic.. screams Artsy~!

the cement pillars match the real bamboo-like trees around at the foyer...

these ... bunch of enthusiastic 'street-performers' ...

right at the entrance to klpac building... tiny fishies swimmin' about in some creative displays...

the crowd at 2pm ++ ... we saw lots of interesting ppl...

an LCD twitter board... guess you just cant ignore technology...

the exhibits... no, i do not understand 'em... but i do respect their views and interests...

view of the outside, from inside...

the lil' festival guide book...

the Cinescapes Stage... which we did not sit in, which explains the 1hour of browsing...

this is something neat: the 24hr KL Photography exhibition...

i went there thinkin' they'd be plastering all the prints all over the place, 'stead, they had this clever projection on simple white boards hung from the ceiling...

... the 'Sunset Disco' ... some bands were playin some neat music... of corz, it wasnt sunset yet...

the exterior of the building... some pretty neat courtyard overlooking the lake and the Japanese restaurant...

... steps leading to the 'koi pond' ...

no longer able to withstand the afternoon heat, we left at 3something ... me with some pretty nice shots, sis with some pretty nice bargain at the Marketplace.... =)

www.urbanscapes.com.my ... this, part of my endeavour to try somethin' different each weekend...

another itch scratched...

the passin' of an Icon..

"... i'm starting with the man in the mirror..
i'm asking him to change his ways...
and no message could have been any clearer,
if you wanna make the world a better place,
take a look at yourself, and then make a Change..."

Michael Jackson is seen in file pictures from top left, 1971, 1977, 1979, and bottom left, 1983, 1987, and 1990. Jackson has died in Los Angeles at age 50 on Thursday, June 25, 2009. (AP Photo)
... this, courtesy of www.thestar.com.my ...

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another itch scratched...

fed-up.. (and then but..)

... attitude at the workplace had gone sky-dived lately...
much to the extent of how free-fall machines would work...
urm... nothin' new there, .. knew it well enuff that wild-thots shud remain as just that... wild thoughts.
of cuz, sis was around to give that ever so prominent kick in the arse..!

late nights at the office aside.. (or should i say 'early'?)
- i'd done 10PMs, 2AMs, 3AMs, 5AMs, and that one record-breaking 21hours straight tender-marathon... :S
there are still, time for some R&R... good food, just chill & chat...
this round, Steven treated us to some good 'ol seafood steamboat at Damansara Village Steamboat (purportedly owned by local celeb & blogger mr Patrick teoh...)...



the place~ some 'resort-themed' establishment.. clever...

the 'tender-marathon' kakis: mr (and mrs) steven chai seen here...

... maam' audrey 'kao-tim' all the crabs that nite...


... ~the FOOD~ ... prawns were great, so were the mussels and the clams... :)





life's such... i guess....

another itch scratched...

double whammy day..

it's that time of the year again... where we show 'xtra' appreciations to our dear parents..

and this year, dad's day and mom's birthday falls on the same day.. today.. 21st June.. :)
and as per recent years, not much need to be said,.. me and sis will automatically arrange for separate makan sessions with each of them... :S

and, as per usual practice, ... to beat the crowd of parents-luvin' people out there, we held/ hold the makan sessions on anyday BUT today. mom's birthday was celebrated with a simple Crab dinner at Menjalara on Friday... dear Yang has the most to say on his t-shirt, and we all agreed ... it says it all...



as for dad's day... upon his request of feasting on japanese buffet with Haagen Daz ice-cream, we promptly made bookings at Tenji's for 5 on next Friday... :)

and today, waking up at 5.30am (..barely 3 hours from last nite's merry-making with the gang... which started innocently at Sagano but ended up at Hana's..) blurry-eyed, i joined dad & sis, driving to the nearby 'Taman Metropolitan Kepong' for this...

to dad: Happy father's day... this was waht we culd do to show u our 'enthusiasm' (or lack of) in the sports-field... =P
to sis: let's hope this'll be the beginning to better (and fitter) days ahead ya? hehehehh....

another itch scratched...

our luv-hates..

i suppose we all know and recognise by now, the many
"luv-hate" 'relationships' that we personally carry around in this life and times of ours (regardless of whether we consciously made a choice to, or somehow indirectly got linked to 'it') ...

and tonight, for me, these are the few that plays in my mind...

1. my job.
Yes, to me it's nothing more than a job; a means where i work to get paid, paid to pay bills, bills that keep the things in my life running:- just to name a few, transportation (my car), security (insurance), communication (my internet and mobile lines), sheer pleasure! (food and shopping) and god knows what else...

"There are a lucky few in the world who actually get to make a living doing something they “love”" so wrote Mr A Asohan some Sundays ago in the Star papers.

the article spoke of some 'compromised callings', doing something you were 'meant to do'.
i'd say: .. and then there are the unlucky few who actually don't know what their 'passion' are at all... let alone their 'calling'... but then again, what we warrant as passion, is but only, what we think are our passions .. sometimes we think we know something, but things end up giving you a lil' slap on the face.. you might as well stick to how things are! why move the cheese?
okey, i shall give the case its due rest here...


2. our country's leaders.
Yes, i'd been and will be, eternally grateful for having our dear Tun M as our PM for more than 20 years since i was born. in a way, shrewd or by any other way to call it, he sure had his way in bringing us to where we are today... for all of the good and the bad of it.

i was a lil' intrigued with what he had to say, on the MM of our neighbour down south visiting our shores recently,.. all these, can be accessed at http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/
apparently, the luv-hate shows evidently from the many responds and comments he gets from readers, .. some local, some from across the straits.
some were still full of awe and admiration; some were gung-ho about the (old) water issue; while, some .. plainly told him, in other words, to shut-up and move on.

the antics of our politicians... sigh, too 'kelakar' at times, you dont really want to have a say in it. with this, i rest my case too..

and so... in my attempt to list down my luv-hates here,.. well, i thought i could easily come up with more than a few, given how life's easily contradicting these days..... but i guess, these are all that i can manage to cook up tonight... after a day of E.L., the mind's not as erratic and provoked as it would be after a day of woes... i mean work.

another itch scratched...