Saturday, October 30, 2010

Photography Exhibition in WuZhou

Quite some days back, my boss was here. My staffs in China would like to have a taste on Bubur Cha Cha. So, my boss and I joint hand to cook and let them taste.

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Yesterday night I received a call. It was from a President of a local Photography Society. He invited me to go and have a look at the opening ceremony of their photography exhibition. And so, I promised him to go.
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Like usual, I am always early and the ceremony started about 28 minutes late from the told time. I am not too sure if it's their first exhibition, because from what I see, only a few pictures are really good out of the gallery. The rest basically are not-that-well-composed OR, highly PP-ed. It's quite a big disappointment to me.

Some good pictures got only 3rd or 5th prize, while the highly-lousily-PP-ed shots got first. Judges must be bias. OR, blind.

Below are a few lousy shots of mine.
4. Charlie's Angels in the olden days

5. Hey, is that my hair stucked to the hat? 

6. An old man observing one of the pictures

7. Now, this guy is one of the VIPs and he's giving a talk to many people here. I was thinking that he might be some famous photographers around.

8. Deputy Mayor of WuZhou

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10. I knew I've gotta shoot this

11. Until I see this. Broad daylight and the group of people who are posing about 5 metres away from him, he shot with pop-up flash. I tell myself, "Think again." 

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Well, that's all for today.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

From Flying Protons to Warisan Merdeka

From Flying Protons to Warisan Merdeka
Since Najib and his cabinets decided to put this mega tower into the 2011 Budget, they had decided to go against the peoples' will and hence, the downfall of their empire.

Back in the 1990s. Our 4th Prime Minister came out with "Wawasan 2020" with the vision of flying Protons and well-developed light railway transit. Year 2020 is barely about another 10 years away. And Proton has YET to solve the power windows problem. Flying Protons? Hey, great dreams you have there. You know, people often say "it's good to have dreams as motivations, BUT, keep it close to reality".

Oh, did I told you that our 4th Prime Minister, the one who came up with "Wawasan 2020" had withdrew his words? Hmmmm....


Where's the Bolehland's Spirit?
Spending RM 5 billions on one tower that is expected to be completed upon year 2020, I'm pretty sure it's a big, sweet dream. I dare not say 100%, but based on my primary instinct, I'm pretty sure that it's gonna costs more than RM 5 billions at the end of the day.

Now, my my.... What happened to the "Malaysia Boleh" spirit? Come on! By year 2020 and you're only going to make a 100-storey building? Where's your fighting spirit? At least make a 450-storey building and beat the shit out of Dubai!

100-storey building is no Bolehland's spirit!


Uprising Awareness
Too many white elephants had started to keep all Malaysians closer together 'in response' to the "1Malaysia" slogan. Recently there's a group named "1M Malaysians Reject 100-storey Mega Tower" Facebook page had started to circulate actively among the Malaysians.

In just a few days after the group was created, it had hit 152,248 "Likes" on the page at this hour. Massive comments were posted on the wall of the page in objection to the 100-storey tower. Comments from the 1Malaysia's people. Voices of the people.

I strongly urge you all to join this page and voice out your opinion. At the same time, share out the page to your friends and relatives and create this awareness among all. You might ask, "Why should I?"

Here's why.

Since "Wawasan 2020", we had YET to see and effective public transport system. Look at China. Wait, just let us look at Singapore. "I don't have a car, but I can reach to every single corner in Singapore". You might disagree that because Singapore is small. Let's scale down to KL itself. Can we reach out to the whole KL with Monorail? No. We need LRT as well. Why is there 2 systems? And THAT, is not complete yet. 

This is certainly logically, and economically true! What you can generate from that RM 5 billions spent? Just about that amount of economy activity you can generate. But getting a Disneyland here, we can actually continuously generating a great amount of income EVERY SINGLE YEAR

Ah, back to square one. 

I don't know what the Tamil translation below but the English words up there and the left down corner, is exactly what the People wants to say

Perhaps the late Tunku Abdul Rahman should climb out from his grave and give some knocking on our government's head.

This is one legendary poster. 


So, did you get the "why" sorted out already?

*All images above were re-directed from 1M Malaysians Reject 100-storey Mega Tower page.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

An open letter to AirAsia & Mr Tony Fernandes


Dear Officer/Mr Tony Fernandes,

I had been flying a few times with AirAsia and it had been a pleasure and I’m proud to be boarding on a Malaysian aircraft.  I have a few suggestions and I do hope you all take a little bit of time to take a look at it.

First and foremost, it’s a mixture of complaint and suggestion. Serving the meals. Now, we had been told online that we will be served first if we book the meal online. We were served first, IF and only if we are sitting at the front rows. If you really take a look at it, it’s already about ONE hour since the aircraft took off and we who are at row 20s are still not having things on our trays when we book online. The funny thing is, people who did not order the food online had already purchased and finished eating while those who ordered online but sit at the back, had yet to take a bite on anything at all.

I have this bad experience just last week when I flew in from Guangzhou to KL, not only the flight is delayed, the food also served very slow. I was tired and hungry due to the transits and I did not take anything before boarding the flight, thinking that I’ll be served quick enough. I was very wrong. Just to keep this in mind of yours, “a hungry man is an angry man”. Learn it by heart.

So, what do we see from here? Efficiency. There’s almost none in this case I must say. So what am I suggesting? Have the pre-booked meal separated into two carts, deliver from the front and back simultaneously. You guys will be able to “serve those who book first” like it claimed on your website. Then, fall back to front and back, replenish your supplies and then only you start selling to those who did not order their meals online. Now, there’s another problem. You guys ALREADY have a list of who booked the meals online. HOW CAN YOU STILL MISSED? I shall leave this one for you to sort it out.

Secondly, we all know that where our flights are heading to. China, India, Russia, Japan, whatever. And we know that our crew members don’t know 27 languages on their tongues, each. A lot of times, the crew members just keep on speaking in English or BM and leave the passengers in total confusion. I am suggesting, if you can have a card or something with basic conversation needs like “kindly hold on until we start selling the souvenirs”, “kindly wait until we served those who booked online first”.

It might sound really really inconvenient but hey, we are trying to do our best to serve our passengers better, right? Maybe by improving little things like this, we could have, and might have touched people hearts and they will fly more with us the next time?

How do I know what kind of questions or answers I should put on that card? Go run a survey among your crew members. They know better.

The reason why I wrote this in is because, it had happened too many times, and it’s still happening. I hope there’s a change in near future and let’s make Malaysians proud with AirAsia!


Signing off,
Kenny Yeoh
AK 80 25C, 09th October 2010.

All I can say is....

I'm gonna miss home a lot... again.

Friday, October 08, 2010

Dad's & Beng's birthday celebration

Yesterday, went out and celebrated Dad's birthday in Sakae, then we moved on to have dessert in Lucky Jelly =D

1. Dad and me in Sakae

After makan-ing with family, I marathon-ed to another one celebrating Kam's birthday in Sherpado in Centro Klang. I quite like the lighting there. Lovely. Hahaha.

2. Ah Pau

3. Ah Beng

4. Simmy

5. Mei Ching

6. See Wah

7. Ling Wei

8. Ngiam aka Tomm Kruise

9. Li-Wei

10. Love the bokehs at the back! 

11. Mei Ching

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14. I like how the Tobasco sauces arranged in this way

15. I like how this hand coming in and squeeze the lemon while the chicken nuggets stay still on the plate

16. Couple of the night

17. Make a wish *wink*

18. Group Shot

19. Fillers LOL

20. The picture says it all

Once I post this, I still have about another 11 hours before I leave Klang and head towards WuZhou, again.

Thursday, October 07, 2010

A short gathering with camera kaki from Klang

A short session in Secret Recipe Aeon Bukit Tinggi...

Met CK, Carriene and Jess! We are holding M5DII, 500D, D5000 and A350 respectively XD


1. While shooting half way... Maomao jumped out!

2. Jess & Me

3. Group shot!

4. See the smile on Carriene's face... 

5. Jess

6. CK

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8. 50mm prime from Canon, Nikon and Minolta

9. Jess have something with the Minolta 50mm.. she loves it it seems. XD

10. 5000D with Green Tea Frappucino

11. Gathering of the kind.... 50mm prime lenses

It's not easy to get gathering like this too... I hope I can really make it for the one in KL in this coming CNY...
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