12 posts tagged “apple”

To all Mac enthusiasts and curious by-passers, please be on your desktop/laptop with macrumorslive on your browser to follow almost real-time updates from the World Wide Developers Conference [WWDC] in San Francisco, where Steve Jobs will begin the keynote presentation at 10 a.m. GMT -7, which is 1 a.m. GMT +8 [Kuala Lumpur] today / tonight. 3G iPhone? Facelift for MacBooks and MacBook Pros? .Mac revamp? Steve Jobs in a different outfit?!

While waiting, I shall be finishing up the fourth part of 'My MacBook Pro'.

Update: Here's what the both of me think of WWDC. Don't take us too seriously.

A: Hi!
Q: Hello.

Q: So what did you think of the Apple event thing?
A: It was quite a wow thing, especially with the iPhone SDK, although I am not too keen on MobileMe.

Q: What's wrong with MobileMe?
A: For starters, the name and the design of the logo.

Q: It's in blue... and... it looks like a cloud.... and....
A: Yeah. It looks like Skype or something. Represents something fun and lively and... all those positivity.

A: It doesn't look like an Apple product. Blue is never an Apple colour.
Q: I don't remember the last time the colour blue represented Apple...

A: And it looks like it's designed for people who... loves life.
A: Who loves their family and friends, go hiking, post recipes of spinach quiche and lemongrass lemonade, keep lunch appointments... basically sounding like a fun-loving businessman on-the-go or sociable housewife. Or something.

Q: ...
A: ...

A: And it has completely replaced .Mac!!! I want a .mac as a part of my website's name!
Q: But you don't even have a .Mac site, other than that one time you took a trial and had your site named cathoderaytreason.

A: It still sounds better than a me.com! Me. All about me. All about my life. All about the dates I have, the things I need to get fixed, the meetings I have to attend, the lakes I want to boat, the list of Free Trade products I can buy from the grocer's...

Q: You sound like a non-person person.

A: I have all the right in the world to do so!

Q: No one cares.

A: Shut the hell up. Another thing I am not digging is that... what the hell does 'Push' mean?! Push e-mail, Push contacts, Push calendar...

Q: It means that anything [alerts, notifications, changes etc.] that comes into an  application will go up to the 'cloud' [server] and then pushed to any other device [iPhone, desktop, iPod Touch...] that is connected with me.com.

A: Stop sounding smarter than me.

A: Oh look. Me.com automatically directs to the Apple site. Before this it had a link to Snappville.

Q: I'm not listening.

A: Then I'll stop talking.

Q: Good.

...

A: I'm watching the WWDC keynote right now. Well, not really watching and more of hearing because the visual only updates like once a minute.
Q: That's really slow.

A: That's what you get using a mobile broadband modem.

A: Anyway, iPhone SDK seems to be a pretty big thing. It's like... the planet we live in. You have no idea how big it is.
A: Especially the part when the guy shows the medical stuff... shows that iPhone doesn't exist 'just for fun'.

Q: After this, no one will use a Blackberry.

A: But 2. megapixels camera? This isn't 2004!

A: I don't know why I am not convinced that the iPhone 3G is worth buying.
A: With all of those features and apps, I could be on the phone all day and not care about anything else. That's not how I want to live my life.

Q: Right.
A: Unless you're a scientist or someone who is really important and matter to everyone else, an iPhone is just an elaborate communicating device.

A: I'd rather have a brick phone.
Q: Say what you want but iPhone is better than you or anyone else, except Steve Jobs, of course.

Q: Steve Jobs looked skinnier than ever.
A: I want to be like him.

This post discusses the eccentricities of my MBP and my hopes for Apple in the future.

Odd characteristics.

Electric shocks.
This freakiness reminds me of my father's Titanium PowerBook [an RM 16 000 machine that doesn't even run on OS X] which zaps my wrists when it's in contact with the edge of the notebook. Didn't occur when I had my Glaucon Fortran. But now, it happens with my MBP. Whenever it is plugged to a power source for a battery charge, my wrists gets zapped, which can be annoyingly painful. It even extends to my legs, whenever they touch my steel drawer underneath my desk. Does anyone have a scientific explanation? It's sucky!

iSight fear.

Knowing that there are so many lunatics in this world who'd do anything just to lurk into other people's system for fun, I have applied a square of duct tape on my iSight. This surprisingly has limited my time on Photo Booth, especially during those midnight hours when the online life is the last thing I want to live in. But don't worry, I have exercised the method of de-stickifying the duct tape [like how you'd stick masking tape to your clothes several times to lose its adhesive factor before taping it on your tracing paper to draw over your plan (flashback to interior architecture classes)], before it covers my iSight.

Nooks and crevices of rubbish.
Even though I try to avoid eating cookies, tuna puffs, crisps or kaya toast near my MBP, it's impossible to stop crumbs of food / microscopic mites / dust bunnies / glitter accumulating underneath the keyboard, the narrow gap by the click pad, the latch catchers, speaker grille and ventilation ducts. I wish I could just suck them all out of there but, is it OK to use a household vacuum cleaner [no, that would just suck out the keys altogether]?

MagSafe and its disappearing act.
Those who are familiar with power cords that existed before MagSafe, remember the detachable tubular plastic thingie that covers the plug when not attached to the portable? And three weeks into usage, the tubular plastic thingie disappears into oblivion? Now with MagSafe, there's no more tubular plastic thingie to protect the plug, but a different plastic thingie in an indescribable shape. I lost it two weeks ago. "Even the power cord is a feature". Hah! How about making the cover for it a practical feature, too?

Hm, oddly enough, the tubular plastic thingie is still intact with Glaucon's power cord, which I still keep.

Caps Lock forever.
I use the shift key to enter shortcuts, commands and type in characters like !, @, #, $ and so on. But never for capital letters!!! I am diehard caps lock user. So when I came across the caps lock key lag on my MBP, I had no choice but to either type slower, or type as normal before realising that my sentences turn into this:

mACbOOK pRO FOR LIFE!

before deleting the typotic sentence and construct it the right way. It's frustrating. I don't type blazingly fast, even, so I don't know why my caps lock key behaves this way.

What I want from Apple.

- Thanks for including a suede-like cleaning cloth, but what's more important is a case/sleeve/envelope to go with the MBP. I mean, like an official one, with an understated embossed logo of Apple on the same spot where the one on the MBP is at. Or maybe in gauze, so that the logo peeps through.

- Bring back Classic OS!

- Better resolution for iSight [might be revised in the next fleet of MBPs]. A dual-sided iSight would be great for producing live broadcasts, but then it would wreck the minimalist facade and go one step closer to looking like a gross non-Mac laptop.

- No need to look for third party apps like Undercover to trace stolen MBPs. Apple should have their own department for handling those cases!

- Make .Mac free for all Mac users.

- And after we all get our free .Mac accounts, there would be an official website serving as a portal for all Mac users. I mean... let me explain it this way. When you meet someone new, you'll find things that both of you have in common. Using Macs can be one of them. But you can't say the same about Windows users, right? It just doesn't sound right when you hear, "Fanny and Manny both are Windows users". And if this portal idea thing comes through, the Mac-utilising community won't be so fragmented like how it is now. But... well, with every other person saying that they want to switch to Mac nowadays [with the enticing ads, better-than-everything-else industrial design, the 'cool' factor] Apple will soon have a larger slice of the market pie and... Macs won't be something to get excited about when you learn that your idol/crush/stalkee uses the same OS as you. Hm... I am dreaming of an advanced search engine with my query reading, "MacBook Pro user, male, 14-17, IQ 140+, interests: Fritz Lang, geothermal energy, charting maps..." [I could go on for hours on this].

Excessively-incredible features of my MBP, in the fourth part of 'My MacBook Pro'.

Second post for the month of May and I am NOT DONE with my MacBook Pro, just yet. If I could write about the recent general elections for three posts long, I could probably write ten posts just on my MacBook Pro. It's better than young freckled Caucasian school boys, the colour green, Henrik Preutz's designs for IKEA, Tunku Abdul Rahman [not really]..... the only thing that's better than a MacBook Pro is [are] two MacBook Pros.

I have my Stickies open all the time to write in whatever I feel about my MBP since day one. This is the first essay:

First of all I would like to apologise to myself for not beginning my ownership of a MacBook Pro with an unboxing ceremony. I know it is the most crucial moment in an MBP's life, but it was spoilt by my own ignorance. You see, I thought that there would be a lengthy process of installing Mac OS X, like how it was when I got my Glaucon Fortran. I was too afraid to do it by myself [a regret] so I decided to unbox it half-heartedly at the store.

My mind was really furious, Q saying, "What the hell are you doing? Why are you introducing the MBP to the world in a lifeless shop like this? Shouldn't you and only you be the one to greet it in your own room? You'll lose the factory-fresh scent, you won't have the right to cut the sticker that seals the non-weave envelope which holds the MBP, you'll have other people's fingerprints on everything....." but A was in charge at that time. "I can always pretend that it didn't happen and stage a second unboxing ceremony in my room later". Q shouted, "It wouldn't be the same!!!" but its mouth was quickly duct taped.

So I let that store guy unravel my gift. I got to open the lid and press the power button, and soon, a pleasant montage of the word 'welcome' flew by in all sorts of languages. When it ended, I immediately ask the store guy if it is possible to start all over again. He blankly said, "No, it only comes by once. Another way to see the 'welcome thing' is when you reformat the whole machine and that would take a very long time". I stare at the space between a display of iPod accessories and me, with the duct tape on Q's mouth peeling off, hearing it go, "You suck at life". Almost immediately, A went, "I'll make sure I have my own private unboxing ceremony the next time I get a Mac".

After that, there was no fun at all. I registered my details and saw the first glimpse of my desktop. Then, it went back to its packaging. This was nothing like December 2004. The man [named Hisyam, if I remember] who sold a 15-inch PowerBook G4 to me delivered to my house and helped me installed the OS and we had a Q & A session. At that time, the price of that said notebook was at least RM 2 000 more expensive than the cheapest MBP model today. Not including the price of an Adobe CS software, adding a thousand plus Ringgit. When I received it, I felt that life was unbelievable. I waited for this machine for a year, and even hung PowerBook G4 pamphlets all over my bookshelf to welcome this machine. I named it Glaucon Fortran.

More than three years apart.

But on Sunday the 13th of April, 2008, I felt nearly nothing. It is like... you know, life goes on. It's just a Mac. I'm going to use it to play music, store digital images, write notes on Stickies, proof-reading my VOX posts, watch DVDs in very rare cases... the things I can do on my iMac. So the latest mystery in my life would be: where's the excitement?

Though, figuring out that mystery is pointless, so I started to have fun with my MBP.

Speaking of 'pointless' and 'fun', the first thing I thought of downloading is MacSaber. Finally! I heard of this hilarious application around the time when the earliest MBP [or was it the latest version of the PowerBook] models are equipped with Sudden Motion Sensor technology [it works to protect the hard disk from getting damaged from falls and knocks]. Some person developed MacSaber, which works with that technology, so that those with nothing better to do  are able to have a lightsaber fight by swinging their MBPs around, creating the crazy hums, clashes and 'wwweeuunnggg!!!' sounds a lightsaber would make. This was very very fun and entertaining for the first 2 minutes, before I realised that I am putting my MBP in danger, and it gets boring when I have no one to play it with.

I installed iWork '08 with ease and thought, "I can now make slideshows..... I mean Keynotes, that look better than anyone else's in the world". Then I downloaded Firefox, because I can't accept Safari just yet. I tried out iPhoto by importing some pictures of my latest I Got Shot post and snickered to the coolness of 'pinching', 'sweeping' and other finger movements that my Multi Touch trackpad can detect. After that, I made my first VOX post on the MBP.

Now, march on to Part III!

My MacBook Pro is very photogenic. Here are some vanity shots of my favourite object in the world.

I couldn't contain myself.

No more teaser trailer-esque pictures appearing throughout the week.

Mac fans, you know what will happen tonight [or this morning, depending on where you reside]. Somewhere in San Francisco, Steve Jobs and his friends will be introducing several new things like... I'm not sure what they will be this time, but the most anticipated announcement shall be the release of the so-called MacBook Air [which I will own by the middle of this year (I hope!)].

When will it happen? The time is 9 a.m. PST [plus sixteen/fifteen hours for those in GMT+8]. That should be around midnight. Where to check it out? Naturally, everyone will be hanging out at macrumorslive for almost real-time updates [pictures included, I believe]. Be sure to have the Apple site open, too, and refresh it once in a while to confirm that the existence of this 'MacBook Air' is real.

Update: MacBook Air is for real.

Initial responses, first impressions and comments [so far]:

• How the hell is it so confoundingly thin?! Will it crack easily?
• Glossy screen? Not my cup of tea. Glare is rarely my cup of tea.
• Where are the speakers? No speaker at all? It says in the Tech Specs page that there is a built-in mono speaker, but where is it located? Could the little holes beside the iSight serve as the speaker and the microphone?
• No optical drive. OK, great, I rarely stick in CDs into my computer. This won't do well in Malaysia because we don't have an iTunes store, so we can't buy any music and download / rent movies. And even if we did have an iTunes store, it would take hours to download a movie, thanks to the amazing broadband speed we have.
• About the whole 'access another Mac or PC wirelessly / install a programme from it' feature. That's only possible when both computers have wireless capabilities, right? Like which regular desktop PC have a built-in wireless card?!

Conclusion: It's a beautiful machine, more soft curves, or should I say, slopes. In my opinion, its future might be like the Titanium PowerBook because the design will be more polished eg. the keys will be in silver colour, improved hinges. Will I get it? No, not really. It's more of a want than a need. A MacBook Pro is better for me because I still need the ports and optical drive.

A little odd note: I've noticed that the PC guy from the Apple ads have slimmed down [judging by the latest ads], just like a MacBook Air. Nevertheless, I am amazed by both of them.

And just to add a little relevant additive to this post, check out this visual commentary based on observations of an amazing illustrator called Peter Arkle [his latest design for graniph is high on my wishlist, currently].

Not to forget, my visit to the alleged three-storey Apple store in Lot 10 [it's just two-storey; the third level empty]. Machines wasn't quite open yet, but I think by the time this post is published, they have sold dozens of Nanos and some Mac Pros.

OK. One thing I don't fancy at all. Why are they using the Arial typeface for the shop's name?! Machines have been using the standard Myriad for the rest of their stores. I hope that these are just a stand-in while the Myriad ones are still in the making.

Another sad sight. Why are the 'i's capitalised?!

Now that Machines will be the most-visited shop in Lot 10 [its entrance is right after the mall's entrance], they should keep their visitors in the store for as long as possible by not having the WiFi turned off or Safari on block.

Photography class was unexpectedly postponed. Now I am at Bangsar Village II, just woke up from sleeping at Starbucks for more than a half hour. Woke up and saw something from a nearby store. The new iMac!!!

Edit: Now that I am back on Firefox, here are the pictures of the new iMac and keyboard with me in it [for scaling purposes].

With all the 'stress' that's coming from the work I get in school, it just makes me want to get involve in more exploration and surveying the suburban that's slowly turning into its own city. One fine afternoon, I decided to tour the upper-middle class neighbourhood called Kampung Tunku. Among its residents are politicians who school their daughters in Sri Aman Secondary, Datoks, taikos, ghosts and pipe-smoking civil servants. There were many lots that were either for lease, or renovated into contemporary angular homes. I shot many good examples and so far I have about 60 pictures of residential buildings. The special post will appear soon!

While I was nearly done circling Kampung Tunku, I spotted this two-storey bungalow which had a red Apple sign on its door. I went in to see the house and found out that it's an office for the company Midstream Online, selling various hardware and software and specialising in Apple products.

There were also these old-school computers lying around, and outdated Apple advertisements stuck on the walls. It really felt like I was back in 1998. I asked the salesperson if there were any old posters for me to take, citing that I'm doing a graphic design research. Unfortunately the good Apple posters are the ones on the walls, and they didn't have any that's lying around.

Then I spotted this nostalgic PowerBook 140 with a very hilarious card sitting on top of it. At least make it believable by turning the laptop on and show a little podcast widget, if it insists on making a ridiculous claim like that!

In a different afternoon, I was itching to go to Bangsar to spend some time window-shopping, now that that area is an upcoming shopping destination, with the posh Bangsar Village II overlooking the Jalan Telawis, which houses small boutiques and several yuppie-friendly eateries. About five years ago, Bangsar was the top place to enjoy the nightlife. Nowadays, the action happens at Asian Heritage Row in the city centre.

I parked at Bangsar Village II and went to this shoe shop called Sole Lovely, which sells trendy but not fad-like shoes at the price of a weeks' supply of grocery of an average household. I had my eyes on this particular t-bar heels and thought, "That shall be my first pair of high heels". Alas, I didn't carry much money with me so I had it reserved for me.

Soon I was out on the street, surveying the small shops that are usually located on the upper ground level of the shophouses. Some of the well-known boutiques were Baci, Cat's Whiskers, Sew & Soul, Gossips and other not-so-fashionable shops. Clothes are quite cheap most of the time; prices are usually half of what you'd pay at bigger stores like TOPSHOP. I tried on several nice skirts and blouses but didn't buy anything.

As I walked on, I spotted a staircase which were flooded with bouquets of flowers. You know, the kind that usually sits in front of a newly-opened store. It lead me to a big space upstairs. This is a new shop called Mooie [it means 'beautiful' in Dutch, but you probably think they named it just because it sounds cute].

The interiors were nicely underdone, meaning that it's not furnished with fancy furniture or lighting. And the shop looks big, thanks to the ceiling-mounted clothes racks, white walls and lots of natural lighting.

There were quite a number of people in the shop, almost sounding like a mall store. Probably because it's their opening day or something, judging by how fresh the flowers were.

The fashion they sell are not too flashy. The shapes were different and each clothing has its own special detail. Good thing was that I didn't spot a single footless tight on sale. I suspect that the clothes come from Korea by looking at their labels. Also, one small but special feature about Mooie is that the clothes have price tags with funny sayings, as if the clothes were trying to talk to its buyer ["buy me and I'll be nice to the rest of your wardrobe" and "with a price of RM 79, I'm a steal"].

After that I was back on ground level and continued my stroll down Jalan Telawi 3 when I saw a tiny smart roadster parked on the side.

Nearby, there was a boutique called gallo, which sells chic clothings designed by their in-house team. I didn't check on the price, though, because I was checking out their NYLON magazine collection. I looked around and saw these people who operate the shop and took a candid picture.

Before walking out, the guy above gave me a catalogue of their collection, which had international-looking models posing near the French riviera.

It was near dusk by then, and I drove back home by 7 p.m.

Now, on to Sunday. I drove to Bangsar Village II to buy the shoes I had on reserved. RM 250. I've never seen so much money going out of my wallet since October last year, when I bought my Freitag. Do you find it very Hel-Looks?

Then I had a date with my best high school mates, Ashanya, Aliaa and Hasbe, at The Curve. I joined them for lunch at Vivo and ate free pizza. We planned on watching a free movie at Laundry Bar [it's a little event called Popcorn & Soda], and on that day they were showing a local movie called Goodbye Boys.

Goodbye Boys [directed by Gol & Gincu mastermind Bernard Chauly] is a story about a bunch of boy scouts travelling for 100 km to earn a medal. They came upon many obstacles like worrying about prom night getting cancelled, friendship and trust, getting drowned in a tin-mining lake, living on very little supplies and worrying about school exams. I find it quite fascinating to watch a bunch of 17-year-old-acting men talking in that kind of way, joking in that kind of manner, having that kind of thoughts occupying their minds and walking through abandoned tin mines of Kinta Valley [to quote the movie, "once the richest tin deposit in the world", which is a true fact]. If you ask me which character I favour the most, it has to be Ah Xiao [played by Daniel Henry], the awkward-looking four-eyed softie.

After the movie, I voluntarily got myself interviewed on a TV camera [is that what it's called?], talking about the movie and how I found out about the event [couldn't say that I heard it from Ashanya (who works at KLue) so I said that I heard it from the magazine itself].

The four of us did some 'flea market' stall-browsing. Hasbe has new friends now. She bought a pair of hermit crabs as pets. Ashanya continues her usual shopping routine after buying a pair of sunglasses by purchasing a pair of drainpipes at MNG. Aliaa and I didn't buy anything [I spent two weeks' worth of allowance on the shoes]. I spotted a new sign at the shoplot beside TGIF [as a matter-of-fact, it is the most profitable TGIF outlet in the world].

I wonder what will come up beyond those partitions. Judging by the font used, it could turn out to be some swanky, 'in' concept bar and restaurant which will continue to promote the prosperity of The Curve.

The next day on Monday, after Digital Application class, I headed to Victoria Music at Amcorp Mall to buy the much-delayed release of Linkin Park's newest album, Minutes To Midnight [which is playing repeatedly right now]. I shall write a little about the album in my next post, along with notes from school and other things that are significant to Linolumixa's life. See you later!

Welcome to the fifth month of the year 2007. Time has been sprinting right before us, eh? Let's get to my week in review.

On Wednesday the third, I decided to go to CZip Lee bookstore in Bangsar to buy the Penguin book I've been looking for everywhere else. It's called I Count and it teaches you to be environmentally-aware by cutting down carbon-inducing acts such as driving, buying imported produce, creating more trash and other things which will leave you cringing.

I will cover more on this topic in my next post, but before we move on, I'd like to share a little link:

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/agreenerapple

After purchasing my little guidebook, I drove off to KL city centre to find a nice place for a luncheon. As I was moving slowly along the road which leads to Medan Pasar, I immediately though of Capital Cafe, which was in the area so I took a left turn to enter Jalan Raja Laut [and noticed the city hall looking snazzy, with a new fountain square]. I parked at Sogo and headed to Capital Cafe for a meal of Meehoon. I know I have posted a picture like this before, but this time it is a more detailed picture of the noodles.

I sat with these Mak Ciks, who were talking about some who lived in Sungai Besi and had problems with their family. It's so nice to be eavesdropping.

After finishing everything that was on the plate except the vegetables, I SMSed JK that I want to return his iPod, and he told me to send it to him at KLCC. So I immediately left Jalan TAR for KLCC. I circled the area as I waited for his response, and snuck around Jalan Eaton to check out the new luxury condominium developments in that area, one of them known as Dua Residency [something to consider if you can pay RM 1.7 million for a unit]. I will include pictures of that and other buildings in a future architecture post.

Not wanting to wait any longer, I called JK if he wants to meet me or to just retrieve his iPod, and he ordered me to scoop him away from KLCC, which I did. We circled around KL to see if there are any places to visit. We went through a street at the back of The Weld and passed by an abandoned school known as St. Mary's. JK thought of exploring the site, but was wary of potential drug addict residents so we crossed Jalan P. Ramlee to go up a road which is the entrance to KL Tower. Opposite the entrance is a building called Menara PanGlobal. I suggested that we should check this famous bar called Luna Bar, located on the 34th level. We went into the parking lot and parked beside a very very dusty and tacky sunglasses lens-coloured TVR.

We then went on the elevator which can only bring us to the lobby. Then we took another elevator to reach the 22nd [?] floor, where we came across a swanky Thai restaurant called Soi [which we have never heard of, but apparently it has won awards by Malaysian Tatler]. From there we took the stairs which led us to yet another set of elevators [to be precise, I don't remember how many times we had to change elevators] to go up the 33rd floor. We saw an automatic sliding glass door which finally led us to Luna Bar. Here comes the surprise...

If you dismiss the fact that I am terrible in producing panoramic pictures, Luna Bar has the most amazing view of Kuala Lumpur I have ever seen. OMGF. Seriously. You just have to be there to enjoy the view. As you can see on the far right of the picture, the only thing that separates the people in the seating area and the 100+ metre drop is a sheet of glass. It might be terrifying at first, but realising that you are higher than so many buildings makes you feel... fearless?

Luna Bar is only alive and kicking at night; during the day, the pool is used by the hotel guests. The food and drinks that they serve are overpriced, and we didn't really check out the bar, because everything was about the view. I might go there again during sunset and take better panoramic pictures. It's totally free to enter Luna Bar during daytime, and the only thing we paid for was the RM 3 parking fee.

After a wonderful experience at Luna Bar, we tried to get back to the parking lot. And we realised that it wasn't an easy task. We again went through numerous elevators, car park exits but did not discover the floor where I parked the car. After asking the security guard, we were told that we have parked in level 7, which is the level where the carpark entrance near KL Tower is. So seriously confusing. After we got into the car, we had to drive seven levels down to exit the carpark. Then we had trouble with the ticket machine, which refused to accept our ticket. In the end, we had to call the security guard to let us through. I guess that's what one has to go through in order to enjoy something [but in this case, it was totally worth it].

JK wanted to eat, so we wandered around KL, thinking of a place to eat. He suggested this restaurant in Pudu called Purple Cane Tea House. Pudu's a dodgy area, full of suspicious shophouses and Third World-esque planning. We parked by the street and headed to the eatery, housed within dead shopping mall Shaw Parade [I think].

We got ourselves seated upon this angular dining furniture, which JK exclaimed "It's so De Stijl". He ordered a bowl of noodles, and I didn't eat anything because none of the food in the menu interested me [weirded out, yes], and I was still full from my Meehoon meal.

As JK ate his noodles, he let me draw in his little diary where he records his expenses and other daily occurrences. The day was looking like night by the time he finished his meal, and we got back to the car and drove off for home. I sent JK back to his HQ, after doing a little snack-shopping at the 7-Eleven at his place. Then I immediately headed back to my house.

Drats. I really should return to my house before sunset from now on.

The next day on Thursday, I went to Khairul's class, where we did our t-shirt design thing. My design wasn't planned at all, and it was composed right on that moment. I only had my Sportswear International magazine as a reference. The theme of the t-shirt is 'Adventure in Colours', so I went crazy with my marker pen collection and miscolouring my drawings. Here is the end result:

Note the box lid on the right, which has little pictures of the PowerBook and iBook stuck upon it [I made it three years ago, when I dreamt of owning the PowerBook all the time].

On Friday, my brother asked me to send him to Assunta Hospital because he has a little fracture in the neck from an accident which happened a day earlier. I don't know a lot about it, but now he's wearing a neck brace. And to be totaly random, I am including pictures of what the sky looked like on Friday.

As you can see, my night mode is *ahem* shit; I really need a new camera.

Thank you for reading my post, and I shall see you on my next post [hopefully it's about better things].

Crepes, it's nearly the end of the month and I've only got eight posts? I must do something about this!

So now I'll write what happened last week, without dates and days in German. I'm not