Expensive Wan Tan Mee.

Took the family to Sunway today...and had one of the most expensive wanton noodle in our lives so far. Otherwise, the two precious enjoyed themselves during the outing, particularly Dylan, who walked all over the places (like bird being release from the cage).

15Malaysia.

Today is the 52nd anniversary of Merdeka. And here are some selections from the 1P Malaysian Filmmakers Showcase special collection of fifteen shorts called 15Malaysia. For the rest and more, visit their website http://15malaysia.com/

Ho Yuhang ~ Potong Saga, starring local rapper Namewee.



Yasmin Ahmad ~ Chocolate.



Linus Chung ~ House.



Amir Muhammad ~ The Tree, featuring Tuan Guru Dato' Haji Nik Abdul Aziz, PAS Spiritual Leader.



Liew Seng Tat ~ Halal, starring one of my favourite actress, Abidah Noor.

Desmond Ng ~ The Son.



Kamal Sabran ~ Lumpur.

Chloe and Mickey Mouse stickers.

Nothing fancy, but I kinda surprise at Chloe's ingenuity of applying the sticker on the bedside lamp which is kinda nice...until she promptly took it off and stick it somewhere else. Chloe has developed a taste for stickers where she would immediately took everything and stick on anything, including my forehead whilst I am asleep...

Chloe and tortoise.

Chloe and Suetch, as well as Dylan (not pictured), had an opportunity to get acquainted with a Sulcata tortoise.

Chet Baker.

Chet Baker (December 23, 1929 ~ May 13, 1988) is perhaps the most leng chye West Coast, cool jazz trumpeter and singer ever. His most interesting output is when he was with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, circa 1952, which gave us the amazingly relaxed yet with tinge of melancholy version of Rodgers and Harts, My Funny Valentine. Subsequently, his drug addiction would spiral out of control, indirectly led to the "scarring" of his leng chye-ness for the later part of his life, as well as his demise by falling down from his second-story hotel room in Amsterdam.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet ~ Take Five.

Admittedly, some jazz purists recommended albums are kinda "difficult" at times. Cos they are sort of "turbulent" like, up and down feel, like "waves". As such, almost obligatory re-listening is required for most time in order to "understand" the superb work presented. Jazz ain't melodious. At least not the muzak-like, elevator type music which mainstream pop radios churned out back in the 80s and 90s. That is, until I heard this album by this quartet. The Dave Brubeck Quartet is a West Coast cool jazz quartet featuring founder and pianist Dave Brubeck, saxophonist Paul Desmond, Bob Bates on double bass and Joe Dodge on drums. Within their breakthrough, unconventional time signatures applied album, Time Out, contain perhaps one of the most recognisable and melodic jazz tune of all time, called Take Five, which is composed by Desmond and named after the unusual quintuple (5/4) time.

Busy Days Ahead...

For the past few days, had been attending product trainings, going in and out of government offices for licensing related matters, managing and sorting out the contractors on shop renovations and payments, liaising with the building management on what to be done and what couldn't, argh!!! Basically I am so exhausted that I slept throughout the evening and woke up only late night...Esther is not pleased at all, for missing out spending time with her, Chloe and Dylan.

Gundam Fix Figuration.

...and the rest of the collection, sans the yet to be assembled "Deep Striker" and "GP03S Stamen" (one of these days, maybe). Some parts are missing in action (I just love to tinker with them), mostly their Star Wars like light sabres. Back then, I foolishly embarked on a journey in trying to collect an archive of these releases, strictly based on the Universal Century (UC) timeline as well as the "involvement" of the primary protagonists/antagonists from the original series (namely Amuro Ray and Char Aznable), to "trace" the evolution or advancement of the Mobile Suits. I couldn't...partly because of cost but mostly due too many variants. Thus what I eventually owned in the end would be MS Gundam ver. Ka, Mk II, Z Gundam, ZZ Gundam, ν Gundam, Hyaku Shiki (百式), and finally, Ξ Gundam. Like all Fix Figuration line up, usually one can assemble two variants from each set, thus I ended "experimenting" the accessories on each final assembled version.