Busy...

Wow... I just realize how busy I'm going to be this holiday. Got several things I need to settle by next semester...or at least try to get it done within the holiday.

1. Work with David Ngui on his short films.
2. Help out Drama Club with props for Tell-Tale Heart play.
3. Football Club's Street Soccer Competition in August.
4. Finish up assignments for 'expected-to-repeat' subjects.
5. Photomedia Club's Greeting Card Design Competition.
6. Astro-MSC ICT Competition.
7. Remake a video project for its 2 Year Anniversary.

All that within July itself... Man... I'm so not gonna have any social life during that time. But I just realize I wont have any to begin with... since all of my outstation friends all ready went back to their respective towns by today.

No futsal and Movie Day for me.

Hmm....

FREEDOM!

Yeah!

Finish my exams... Now I can concentrate on my final year project thesis and the dvd.

Hopefully I could find some work to do during the holidays. Really need some cash... need new futsal shoes...

Actually I all ready got offered to be the 'boom-man' for some local film production. 'Boom-man' are those people who hold those furry things and hold them high in the air to capture the sounds of the actors and actress lines.

Yeah... I've alway wanted to start from below. Learn every thing from scratch.

This crappy Uni of mine did taught me what I needed to know.

I'll update more tomorrow.

Now really need some rest.

Selamat Pesta Menuai!

First of June came again…. Its time for the Gawai celebration. I’ve been waiting for this day since I went for last year’s Gawai. Wanna know why? Two words…'rumah panjang'.

One of my Dayak friends always celebrates Gawai at his kampong which happens to be a 'rumah panjang'. It’s a preety cool experience as I’ve never been to one. Last year was my first…now my second.

With Mr. Kee Kieng on the way to Tim's

This kampong happens to be an hour drive from Kuching city, that is if you’re using the shorter route. Last year we used a farther one and it took us more than 2 hour just to reach the place.

Arrival at Tim's kampong featuring Awang

Tim’s rumah panjang is kinda cool. Coz it’s one of those which have not been transformed into the modern rumah panjang which is made from bricks. Tims’ was all naturale… the bamboo floors…wooden walls… Last time there use to be a tree trunk stair but now it’s been replaced with a typical staircase.

Going up the long house

A different world...

Tim’s long house as Gawai as it can be. People dancing…Iban music playing at the background… the foods.

Group pic with Iban dancers and Tim(yellow shirt)

The foods served at Tim's (halal k...)

We went to 3 houses on the long house and another of Tim’s uncle on the way out of the village.

Reach town at around 9pm.

Tim’s was actually the 3^rd visiting place we went to as earlier that day all of us went to Eve’s village some where in Kota Samarahan and then Anna’s house in Batu Kawa.

Earlier on at Anna's house

The one in MIAMI…

Had another performance on last Tuesday the 27th. Went down in a club called Miami. It was behind Hilton. It was supposed to be some local band thing on Tuesday and a friend managed to get some slots to play there. We were going to do tracks we’ve performed before like ‘Old Skoll Rocka’(DanceSport Party 2008) and ‘Journey’(Swinburne Carnival 2006) both by Pop Shuvit, so we didn’t really have to practice much. Just did one on Monday and another the day of the show. Another friend was performing for that gig and one of the friend’s friend too. I went first.

Mr. Dell n Mr. Bono during jamming

Jewl ma' man!

Jane!

Yeap....

I did manage to loose interest while waiting for our turn to go ‘on stage (there’s none…it was just a floor). We were supposed to be the 3^rd but then since we were nobody we were put as the last to perform. Worse part was that we were put after some ‘big guns’ for the underground scene…like the Sarawakian all girl band from last year Blast Off, XO and a girl named Sheryl sum tin’…

Great, just what we need…performing after some well established band. I guest they performed around 10 songs…before we get our turn. By then I didn’t care much about the thing, just wanted to do my thing as fast as I could and go home. Finished everything around 12.45am. Went off with Kee Kieng and drop him off in campus where he park his car.

It was a better performance for both songs. I didn’t miss a single word from the songs like last time... : )

Had fun too since I thought I wouldn’t have another chance of playing with my all time drummer… ; )

100 days dah…

Sigh…its been a hundred days since Apeet pass away. Last Monday(26th May) was Allahyarham, so called by the Malays as ‘makan seratus’. There were more friends coming for this one compared to the 'makan 40'.

For those who didn’t know, Allahyarham Apeet pass away on 17th February due to severe injuries from an accident he was involve in while going back from a futsal game some where in the Demak area. It was told that he was avoiding what he thought to be a motorcyclist lying on the pavement of the road after falling down due to being intoxicated. However it was only the motorcycle was on the road and the rider was already on the road side. As he was trying to avoid the motorcycle…his car swerves and hits a tree on the side of the road. The tree hit him directly on his right side…

Apeet's car...

Me and Apeet wasn’t that close…but I still felt his absence due to the fact that he was suppose to be the President of the Football Club this year, and I have never play a game with him. He was my junior in Green Road but even back then we weren’t well acquainted with each other. It was when he started coming to Swinburne after finishing PoliTek that I started to mingle with him.

Open house Ad..

Open House aku...

Peace bro...

Good singer…excellent skateboarder….great friend…

Awang Abdul Hafidz…

Al – Fatihah..

No. 1!

Last Saturday, April the 24^th, my campus had its Swinburne Night 2008…kinda like a mini Prom. It went down in the Auditorium. I’ve been practicing for this event since the week before. Performing ‘Superstar’ by Lupe Fiasco and ‘Stronger’ by Kanye West, I was the second performer after a band named The Simpsons.

I was really nervous actually…coz I dind’t had any proper rehearsal or sound check before the event and through out all my practices I keep forgetting lyrics here and there. And it’s almost been a year since I performed, not including the Dance Sport Party last month. Plus the fact that I had to go back home twice after going down to campus due to the fact that I forgotten my tickets and the second time was because I forgot my shades…can’t perform without them…too nervous.

Plus I was suppose to buy a pair of white pants at Spring before the rehearsal but it turn out that the pants was to translucent. So the second trip to home was also to pick up my older pants. Still looks cool though.

During the performance, everything went well till Mr. Kee Kieng cut off half of my 2^nd verse for ‘Superstar’ coz he thought his chorus is in. I had to go behind him and tell him to repeat the chorus again to cover up the

time gap. Heh…this is what lack of rehearsal give you. When its time for ‘Stronger’, it was smooth sailing all the way till the end. One of the Bboys did his thing for me too….cool lah!

Then its time for dinner. I saved my foods prior to my performance coz didn’t want to throw every thing up on stage. Our table was next to the buffet table so it was kinda easy for us to get the foods. It was easy for the freeloader too… : )

Got some other pretty good performer too…there’s the 3 Anime girls… Koh’s very own band… Guest performance like Alda, the Bboys, Eika’s group and Farra, as always blew away the audiences.

Koh Band(as stated on the cards)

By the way, Alda was crowned as Swin King 2008. That girl Naomi is the Queen. Can you see how happy they are? : )

Swinburne Nite King & Queen...

And finally..the moment of truth… time to know who’ll be awarded Best Performance.

The guy who got 1st prize...

Im not sure who got which one but between the 3^rd and 2^nd was the DanceSport Club’s President and the band that performed the Japanese song….all I know…

I got FIRST PLACE!

Hah haa…..after performing for this event for 2 years I finally bag the 1^st place home.

Thank you to the voters…

Won RM200…

Fame and recognition…

Group pic wit Mr. & Mrs. Pery, and Soul Higher

Another last performance after that. Decided to do ‘Stronger’ only. After the thing me and my friends fooled around the cafeteria… climb up the outdoor dining roofs… took pictures here and there… Then off to Mc D.

Group pic wit the gang... Mr. Rez as cool as always.. ; )

The ones below...

And the ones on top...

Don't ask me what they're doing..

Don't ask me why he fell..

Heh..even though they didn’t voted for me and went crazy for the 50¢ per Pussy dude instead…still bought them Choco Tops.. : )

Up next...Prom Nite..

Very Cultural Indeed

Last nite I went to the Swinburne International Cultural Night at the Auditorium. It was not as I expect it to be..

Before entering the Audi I was "greeted" by the Indian rice art on the Lobby's floor. Then once entering the Audi...I could see students from the African countries as well as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are all dressed up in their traditional attire...cool lah.

Its started with some performances...well the whole night was about performances and slide presentation about these countries presented by the students from each countries... Owh..there was this fashion show during the first hour of the event. And there was also this drama thing about how the Indians, Pakistans and Bangladeshis were divided by the Brits and how they gain thier indipendence. There was also this an Iban dance by a couple of girls which was the only non-international act last night. Perhaps if they're having it again next semester I could do my Zapin thingy with some old school friends. Heh...the good ol' days.

Any ways after that things start to be boring....as usual where every Swinburne event would end up being boring after some time. But...things started to turn around when there was this two Tanzanian dudes performing some Tanzanian rap songs on the stage. Hip Hop...food for my soul.. : )

The songs pretty catchy even though we didn't understand them. It got some "tukü tukü" ride thing in it... Quite entertaining. Owh...by this time Apis, Adi and Koh was there...later joined by Jerry, Awang and Syam.

Then Abdul and a friend went on stage and performed some other Hip Hop songs that, even though we didn't understand it, was still entertaining.

Lastly there was this guy who freestyled on the DJ's track. Sick man...pretty sick rhymes.. Everyone was entertained by him. Wish I could free style like him. He was freestylin' bout how he came to Swinburne and his experinces here.. Cool...

We ended our day by watching Koh changing the flat tire of his Kancil.... emphasize on the word "watching"... : )

Conclusion; I realize that theHip Hop community in Swinbunre has grown... so it seems like I could carry on with my plan which I've cook up since a couple of Sems ago... Maybe I could realize it next Semester.

Yeah...

First time ever in Swinburne...