Land below the wind

I'm off to Cameron Highlands this weekend to pursue my passion of photographing old houses.

Meanwhile I'll leave you with a video I took in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.




We were walking down Tanjung Aru beach to pass the time before departure when we happened to catch a dance troupe at their rehearsals.

The bamboo dance is native to this region and there is a similar dance in the Philipines. The Sabahan variety uses 2 beats while the Filipino one use 3.
I think Sabahan dance is much faster by far.

Random conversations around the office

Amber Dives
Amber Chia, the darling of the Malaysian modeling scene is about to skydive at the Malaysia Skydive 2006 showcase in July.

What happens if she freezes??

RL suggests a follow up headline ..

Amber Kia

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My Da Vinci Code review is up

Lighten up, it’s OK … just OK

I had confessed to RL earlier that I was intimidated by DA's review Brake the Code. To which he answered, "it's ok .. nothing you ever write will be comparable to the Great DA." Hence the title and format.

Another colleague suggested another cool title "Opie's Dei Out" but I somehow couldn't work the review around that theme since I didn't think he ( Opie) "outed" anything at all. Sorry CT.

Check it out.

why this blog exist

I've been thinking of setting this place up for ages. Thinking that there needs to be another place to deposit my random thoughts and photoes. Also to allow some of my non crafty friends to catch up on my life without their eyes being too glazed by the knitting or other craft related posts in that other place.

What really spurred this on is this blog post on The Star's Citizen Blog. The Citizen's blog is an outlet for malaysians to post about, well, everything. It is fast becoming a complaint station, an ethics calssroom and an outlet for victims of road rage and assinine behaviour by Malaysian drivers. Amid the earnest and serious post about malaysian mentality, Mother's day and father's day musings and various relentless "ciri -ciri kewarganegaraan" ( Reader beware= I have been known to make up words as I go along), here is an incongruous post about the dangers of poking oneself with a keyring.

if I may paraphrase

"..
Whenever I accidentally hit my thumb to something or touch something whether it’s my towel or books, there is this indescribable PAIN. I felt it till my whole body tremble and I can’t help screaming,” PAIN! PAIN! VERY PAIN!” It has been two weeks now and there are still no improvement after applying few types of ointment. .."

OUCH!!
literally.